Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Dog Park News (September 15, 2011)


CSBarks offers festival of fun for Fido
Chicago Daily Herald: By Christopher Placek A new 3-acre dog parkto be called Bark Park, is opening this fall at the northwest corner of North Avenue and Kuhn Road. Park district officials have said the park is the result of community surveys that indicated residents had ...
SPCA Dog Jog at Centennial Park Sunday
CanadaEast.com: Kafer Langwald, an animal attendant at the Moncton SPCA, plays with five-year-old Sheba in the dog park beside the shelter. The SPCA holds its annual Dog Jog on Sunday. "We get hundreds of dogs and families each year," says SPCA shelter manager Nanette ...
Dog park initiative moving forward
Mohave Valley News: By NEIL YOUNG/The Daily News BULLHEAD CITY — Undeterred by coming up short in the Bark For Your Park contest, the Bullhead City Dog Park Committee is forging ahead with its effort to open a park in October. Aug. 5, it was announced Bullhead City came ...
MDOG hosts fourth annual Dog Festival
Reminder Newspapers: And this means hundreds of dollars were raised for construction of a Manchester dog park, the primary project of the Manchester Dog Owners Group. The event also brought business owners and civic groups that provide services for dogs face-to-face with ...

Jamison Park off-leash dog park popular, but at a cost
Cumberland Courier Newspapers: THIRSTY dogs - and owners - will have more places to drink with the installation of more bubblers at the off-leash dog park at Jamison Park. Due to the significant increase in numbers since the installation of a fence at the site, Penrith Council will ...

Top Seattle places for singles
Seattle Post Intelligencer: (Matt Hagen photo/courtesy Underdog Sports Leagues) Bring a dog to a Seattle dog park. There are usually lots of other dog owners there you can chat with, and animals are a great conversation starter (especially puppies). Don't have a dog? ...

Man burned in chemical attack
Cincinnati.com: Great American Ball Park turns into a dog park tonight when Bark in the Park number 2 kicks off before the 7:10pm Reds game. This fun dog friendly event... 
New site suggested for dog park in south Minneapolis
Minneapolis Star Tribune: More than six months after the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board rejected a proposal to build a controversial off-leash dog park in Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, a citizens advisory committee is recommending an alternative. ...

County facilities appear undamaged in park wildfire
Houston Chronicle: The park, in Radack's Precinct 3, is home to an 11-mile walking path, sporting fields, a 15-acre dog park, an equestrian trail, a site for flying model airplanes and a 564-acre shooting range, among other amenities. “It went the perfect direction,” ...

Why can't Stroud have a dog park?
Pocono Record: On Feb 22. of this year, I appeared before the Stroud Township Parks and Recreation Board to request consideration for a fenced dog park in Stroud Township. One of the reasons given by the board denying my request was that Stroud Township was a rural ...
City health board rejects dog beach proposal
Journal Times: RACINE -- The city's health officials on Tuesday recommended rejecting a resident's proposal for a dog park just north of Zoo beach and went one step further to ban it from any other city beaches. The proposed dog park north of Zoo Beach would likely ...
Out and About: Shreveport City Council gets dogs, toy ones, that is
Shreveport Times: Certainly that was true this summer when Cynthia Keith, Shreveport Dog Park Alliance guru who was forever lobbying for a local dog park, appeared at council once again. It was time for a vote and the council passed the ordinance 6 to 1 which allows dog ...
Off-leash dog park takes step forward
CJDC: Amanda Wilms made a presentation to Fort St. John City Council at Monday's meeting, urging them to look into the development of an off-leash dog park. Councillor Dan Davies said he would make use of such a park, if it is approved, and that many ...
Whiz Kids, Dogs, Diaries
Patch: Ocean City Dog Park 1. Will we hit 90 degrees today? If we do, it will be the 90th day of 90 degrees or above temps this summer. The National Weather Service says it will be sunny with a high near 89. Tonight will be partly cloudy, with a low around 62 ...
Jonathan Takiff: KEEP YOUR PET ON YOUR RADAR | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011 ...
Philadelphia Daily News: It won't send alerts but it still tracks the animal's movements to assist if, say, the pet is let off leash and ungratefully runs away at the dog park. Tagg is water-resistant, in case your pet's a water lover. And when the battery is low, ...
Saturday stargazing event planned in Ridgefield
Danbury News Times: Park in the Bark Park (dog park) lot and walk up the hill at the far end (south). For a map and directions, visit http://www.starpark.org/park/map.html The program is free for members and $7 for others. For more information or reservations, ...
Moraga's Council To Discuss Its Noise Ordinance - And Spatial Separation For Dogs
Patch: A dog park for human companions eager to let the little guy run? Possibly. Will everyone be happy with the outcome? Probably not. By JD O'Connor Moraga's Town Council meets Wednesday night and continued discussions about noise and whether there will be ...
Rosita's renaissance: Renovated park boasts an array of upgrades
Los Altos Town Crier: The city's Capital Improvement Projects fund, park-in-lieu fees and the postponement of a dog-park project covered the expenditures, McCarthy said. Sept. 3, 1996, the city council at a special meeting voted unanimously to pay $6.385 million for the ...
Team spirit delivers success
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader: They include the Community Guard, the Dog Park and Earth Camp. “We've tried not to become programmers because it is so demanding. At some point it will have to be managed by an employee. We've spend a great deal of time developing a master plan, ...
BUSINESS Focus on Rogers Park
Windy City Times: Mesok also has a strong commitment to his community and has been successful working with other Roger Park citizens to create a new dog park, which is scheduled to open in October. Bark Place—where pets play and stay, as the logo says—offers ...



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A moment of you time. If I may.
High River Times: My oposition to the location of this dog park is not because I "hate dogs",As I was a dog owner for many years. And I would not want to begrudge a responsible dog owner the opportunity to use a new park. But rather that I have some questions about it. ...
Community Spirit: Mpls. High School Asking Everyone to Read the Same Book
KSTP.com: The effort launched Tuesday morning with 65 senior students at South High, city and school leaders Skype-ing with Norris about her book. City and school officials say they came up with the idea after a controversy over a Minneapolis dog park so ...

TripAdvisor names Top 10 pet-friendly hotels
Baltimore Sun: Custom pet beds, an off-leash dog park for a backyard, nearby hiking trails and homemade treats. Rates from $135 to $255. Carmel Country Inn, Carmel, California. A bed and breakfast that claims "an unlimited supply" of biscuits for pups. ...

Coming Up
The Suffolk Times: 24, 1-3 pm at Southold Dog Park behind Southold Town Recreation Center, Peconic Lane, Peconic. Monthly themed gathering for town residents. Admission free. Event rescheduled to next day, Sunday, in case of inclement weather...
Sound off! (Sept. 14)
Silver City Sun News: The dog lovers demanded that we get a dog park so they would have a place to walk their dogs. They got it and we paid for it and its upkeep. Now please walk your dogs there and not at the Farmers Market. I am calling about the person who talked about ...
Hey LCFPD, Take a Hint From Openlands
Patch: In the 2011 LCFPD Capital Budget, the only expenditures in the towns of Highland Park or Lake Forest is $100000 to pave the parking lot at the Prairie Wolf Dog Park. LCFPD operates no other real facilities in Highland Park or Lake Forest--a couple of ...
RH Line calls printed Sept. 13
ReporterHerald.com: "An earlier caller commented that we have only one dog park in Loveland. I would go further and add that we have little in the way of public facilities in Loveland, but we sure do have low taxes." "I'm calling to extend our thanks to the very generous ...
New kennel stresses homey touches
Toledo Blade: He also plans an off-leash dog park outside his 11000-square-foot custom-built building. Mr. DeLeeuw has applied for a job-creation grant from Sylvania, according to Bill Sanford, the city's administrator and economic development official. ...

4 Council Members, Each With $1 Million, Will Let Public Decide How It's Spent
New York Times: The projects financed so far, he said, included a community garden, a dog park and murals under train underpasses. In New York, Mr. Lander has pushed the effort, saying he was impressed by the efforts that some of Mr. Moore's constituents had ...
Explaining OTR's Messy Mound
Cincinnati CityBeat: They will include a playground area, water features, a performance stage, event plaza, dog park and an underground garage with space for 450 vehicles. The project will cost $47.3 million, and is expected to take 18 months to complete. ...

Pledges sought with latest millage election
Leelanau Enterprise: Now the township is straining to find funds to develop the park into a tennis complex with eight courts, soccer complex, covered “multi-use plaza” with a hockey rink and space for a farmers market, Frisbee golf, dog park, gazebo and pavilion ...