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Nuts for Mutts – The Walk & Festival 2010, Sunday, April 18 in Calabasas, Features Project Dogway, Hollywood Pet Tricks & More!
March 18th, 2010
(Los Angeles, Calif…March 16, 2010) Nuts for Mutts – The Walk & Festival is set for Sunday, April 18, 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center in Calabasas. Benefiting animal rescue New Leash on Life, the Calabasas Rotary and the Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center, Nuts for Mutts – The Walk & Festival has added several new post-walk attractions for 2010.
This fun-filled family fundraiser, now in its sixth year, as always will feature a 5K walk-a-thon, for the first time through the crystal clear rolling hills of Calabasas. Route highlights will include “pawzstations” with plenty of water, food and fun for pets of all kinds and their human companions. To register and start signing up your walk sponsors, visit www.nutsformutts.org or call 818-880-2993.
But you don’t have to take part in the walk – or own a dog, for that matter – to attend and enjoy this rollicking event.
The Nuts for Mutts Festival will feature live music, celebrity appearances, great food, a Beer Garden presented by the Calabasas Chamber of Commerce, the Kid’s Fun Zone, pet adoption, a silent auction and over 40 vendors. Celebrities & judges will include Joel David Moore (Avatar), Mark Thompson (Fox 11 News), Tia Maria Torres (Animal Planet’s Pit Bulls and Parolees) Peter Mensah (Spartacus: Blood and Sand & Avatar) and more (subject to availability.)
Two new special competitions require advance registration via the Nuts for Mutts website, www.nutsformutts.org.
Are you the top canine fashion designer? Then by all means, sign up for Project Dogway! Nuts for Mutts attendees will applaud carefully coiffed canines strutting their stuff in custom creations whipped up by their gifted humans. Awards will be offered for top designers in categories such as Evening, Sport, Everyday Casual, Resort and Couture.
Does your pet have what it takes to be a Hollywood star? Sign up for Hollywood Pet Tricks and let industry professionals be the judge as you show off your pet’s special talent.
Nuts for Mutts – The Walk & Festival 2010 media sponsors are KTTV FOX 11, KCOP My13, KABC-AM 790 and 95.5 KLOS-FM. Admission to the Nuts for Mutts Festival is free. The Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center is located at 27040 Malibu Hills Road, Calabasas.
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About New Leash on Life: New Leash on Life, www.newleash.org, founded in 1997, has been responsible for the spaying and neutering of thousands of pets and the rescuing and placement of over 3,000 dogs. In addition, they provide free educational seminars at local shelters and schools, set shelter rescue priorities on “hard to place” animals requiring medical or special care, founded the Lend A Paw Program which rescues dogs from shelters, rehabilitates them and transforms them into Assistance and Therapy dogs, founded the P.E.T.’s program (Pet Educational Trainers) and co-founded Partners for Life, which saved hundreds at the East Valley Animal Shelter.
About Calabasas Rotary: The Calabasas Rotary Club www.calabasasrotary.org is dedicated to providing humanitarian services, encouraging high ethical standards in all vocations, and helping to build goodwill and peace by contributing time and resources to others in the local community and throughout the world. Funds raised at The Walk help support the Foundation to administer a variety of programs including the Annual Thanksgiving Dinner which feeds over 600 seniors, Quarterly Food Drive for the West Valley Food Pantry, Neighbors In Need program in partnership with the City of Calabasas, Water Purification Project, Casa de Paz Orphanage in Baja, Mexico and many other life altering projects.
About The Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center: The Agoura Hills / Calabasas Community Center www.ahccc.org is dedicated to providing recreational, social and educational services and opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to enhance the quality of life of the individual and the community. Funds raised at The Walk help support the programs and operations of the Center, including our after school teen program, The Underground. The Underground provides after school activities, homework time and social interaction to middle school students in the area in a positive and fun atmosphere. This program and others are instrumental in the growth and nourishment of the entire community. Through Parks and Recreation….the benefits are endless!
Media Contact: Mary Anderson-Harris (818) 731-3971 aharrism@pacbell.net
