September 15, 2025 • 30 mins
“Not only is it the largest festival for dogs and their humans on the East Coast, it was voted "Simply the Best" charity and community event by Harrisburg Magazine! Get all fun details for the 20th annual Woofstock, which happens on Sunday, September 28th at Riverfront Park!” centralpennanimalalliance.org
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Sylvia Moss. This is in Sight, a presentation
of iHeartMedia where we really do care about our local
communities and all our listeners who live here. With all
the serious issues going on in the world that worry
us and just about drive us crazy, most of them
we can't do anything about. I thought it was time
for you to hear about something that's just plain fun,
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something you could go to that made you feel good,
while at the same time helping to make it help,
allowing you to make a difference. At this something that
I've been referencing. The whole family's invited, and when I
say every member of the family, I mean that this
is an event where not only mom and dad and
the kids can come. You can bring your dog with you.
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Where can you do that. It's sponsored by the Central
Pennsylvania Animal Alliance and it's voted as simply the best
charity and community event by Harrisburg Magazine. It's the twentieth
annual Wolfstock on Sunday, September twenty eighth, from eleven to five,
and like other years, it's on rain or shine at
Riverfront Park and the Best Park. It is free. The
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major reason that Wolfstock has been growing in leaps and
bounds over the last couple of decks, decades is because
of the efforts of a huge the huge heart of
the woman who many described as being tiny, but mighty boy,
I'll tell you she sure is with us. As the
founder and executive director of the Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance,
Zella Anderson, what's going on at Wolfstock this year, what
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it's been like to keep this largest festival for dogs
and their humans on the East Coast growing, and an
incredible program that turns things around for certain individuals in
our local community communities. Those are a couple of things
we're gonna hear about from Zella today, and you're also
gonna want to hear about Wolfstock's MC. First thing that
you should know is that this guy is, without a doubt,
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the Baltimore Orioles number one fan. He's been a major
part of WHB five eighties family for over thirty years,
having been the former producer of Ken Matthews Show and
Durkin's producer for a lot of those years. He is
currently the assistant program director for WHP II eighty and
Fox Sports fourteen sixty. Every fall and hear him annow
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Is Bishop mcdeviitt High School's football games on HP and
Fox Sports fourteen sixty. In addition to hanging out with
the Rivers Glenn Hamilton at the Orioles Games, Art and
his wife Becky had used their farm in Halifax as
a refuge for lost and abused animals. And boy, oh boy,
every time I come in here, God bless him, he
has talking about one of his animals, Like, Hey, Art,
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I remember the time with the little kitten that the
eye popped out. Remember that that was so sad. And
I'll tell you one other thing about Art. If it
weren't for Art Selby, this show would never hit the
air each week. Let's start as Zelle that you've been
doing this for twenty years, God bless you. I'm just
gonna there's so much work. I know that because I've
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been there several times. What keeps you doing it? Well?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We do it for the animals, okay, Livestock. We originally
started back in two thousand and five as a way
to bring all rescues together for one day in one place,
so that we could get exposure for the animals that
they had available for adoption and raise awareness for what
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rescue is. What we do the other important parts of rescue,
spain neater, fostering, adopting. It's just that's what the reason
Whipstock began is we wanted to really promote rescue because
it's so important to adopt a homeless animal as opposed
to buying one from a pet store, a puppy miller breeder.
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And so that was the reason that we started Whopstock
twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I don't know anybody who's not impacted by animals. I
mean every time I see that commercial as public service
announcement where you see those poor animals who are skinny
and they have got all these everything on them, and
it's like I have to change out because that got
all failed up. And a lot of that does go on,
and thank god there are rescues because dead animals all
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over the place. And you are you're all for no kill,
that's bottom line, right, we are.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean, you know, no kill is a nice goal
to have, but you know, it takes a lot of
moving parts to make it happen, and rescue is a
large part of that. But because of the pet over
population being so severe there, because people don't stay in
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near their dogs and cats no matter how many rescues
we have, we really can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And that is a really sad reality. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I see the posts on Facebook, not just from our
own state, but from Texas, Connecticut, you know, to especially
bad states for the animals, and rescues are overwhelmed. We
don't have the funding we need to help. We don't
have foster homes, we don't have resource is to help
the number of the animals out there that really need
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our help. So my hope is has always been that
woofstock will will get people incentive eesed to step up
and help in some way, whether it's fostering, adoption, volunteering,
you know, donating, you can everybody. I always say that
everybody can do something absolutely to help an animal and need.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well, you know, sometimes I think about people and they
go out and they get these fancy dogs, they buy
them for their kids for Christmas and everything, and I think,
just like some people shouldn't have children, some people shouldn't
have pets. Right, That's exactly right, because they end up
going back. You know, it's not fair to the animal,
It isn't.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Pets are a huge responsibility, just like children, and if
you're not willing to take that on, then chances are
you probably shouldn't be a pet.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's right, that's right, all right, he's across the room
from across the glass. You don't know. Maybe you don't
know that. But when you come in here, or when
I come in here and you start to tell me
about the different animals, I'm scott to go home and
on ball and so not got the heck off? No,
but serious, it's serious. I'm serious about this. The all
the animals that you have helped up in your your
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farm in Halifax, and there are all kinds of animals
up there, but I was especially touched about that little kitten.
But let me ask you how you got involved with
the Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, Zella heard me on the radio. I was producing
Ken Matthews show, and Zello's big fan of Ken's, so
that's kind of how we came together. And Ken always
called me the animal trainer on his show back in.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The day, Animal Whisper, how about it?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
He called me a trainer. So, although I think my
wife's probably a better trainer than I am, but I'm
an animal lover too, I mean you are, I had
I grew up with cats and dogs as my brothers
and sisters, and they're my children. So I take care
of them like children, and you know, I love them
and spend a lot of time with them and do
everything I can for them. And people know that. So
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through the years, will drop off cats or you know,
different animals on the farm, and you know, we try
and take care of them mom as best as we can,
and you know, they're part of our family. Now I'm one,
and if I'm driving home, like late at night and
I see a possum that's still live alongside the road,
I'll I'll try and take it to a nature center,
like like Red Red Creek up in the school Kill County.
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I've taken animals to there. We ran over a turtle
one time that was out in the field with a
tractor accidentally, and we took that to a red Creek,
so we we you know, I do everything I can
for animals. It's it's a hard world out there and
they depend upon us to take care of them, and
you know that's that's what I try and do.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And you know what else, people I've had arguments with
people about animals not having souls. How can an animal
not have a soul?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Come on, Yeah, when I look at my dog's face,
you know, it's you tough for me to say that
they don't.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Absolutely Well, I want to ask you talk to you
were talking about the different rescues that are that are
going to be there. Where do they And often I've
seen you on Facebook go put a a picture of
a dog and they're gonna put it. Somebody's gonna put
it down. If they don't, somebody doesn't rescue it soon.
But typically where did the dogs come from? And all
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these rescues are they found on the street or is
it they come from everywhere?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
A lot of rescues will pull dogs that are slated
to be killed from shelters. Some of the rescues in
Pennsylvania pull from the Philly Act Shelter, which is a
relatively high kill shelter. So any shelter in Pennsylvania that
has animals that need to get out, rescues pull from there.
We also take owners surrenders, you know, people who no
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longer want their animals.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
A lot of them are.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Comic strays, abuse tases, So it's really from a variety
of areas.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh my god, that breaks just the thought of that
breaks my heart. You're big into also into fostering. Tell
us about that.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, fostering really is the lifeblood of rescue because very
few rescues have a facility, meaning that we don't don't
have a shelter where we can take animals in and
house them. So we rely on people stepping up to
quote foster an animal and need And basically it's opening
your heart and home to give the animal a safe
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place to be inside with love and care and food
and a warm you know, environment, and bed, and the
rescue pays all the expenses. So the rescue pays for
all food supplies, vet care while the animal is in
foster care, and the animal stays in foster care until
it finds it's forever home. So what we ask of
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the foster parents is that they be willing to obviously
care properly for the animal, take them to ved appointments
if needed, and to bring them to events like Wolfstock
to help give them exposure to find their forever home.
So we're always in need of foster's.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Okay, so here's a big question that I've always wanted
because I thought about this too. You have that dog
for how long?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do you know? What?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Questions coming to how do you talk to people when
it's time to go to a forever home and they
got to let that dog you go. It's not easy.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'm a foster fail several times over, so that does happen,
but it makes it a little easier. When you find
a great home for the animal and you know that
that animal is going to be so loved and so
well taken care of, it's easier to let it go.
And then it opens up another space that you can
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help another. And I think that's the big thing for
me is if we keep every animal that we foster,
then how do we help another one?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So it is difficult. I won't lie to you.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I mean I think of the guys in our Hope
program who have the dogs and they have to say goodbye.
They don't have the option to keep them, and they
allow their hearts to be broken every single day when
those dogs leave. And what saves them is that they
get another dog to help.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Hey, I'm glad you brought that up because that was
my next question. You started the Hope Program twenty years
ago thousand five.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, it's the twentieth anniversary for Woodstock and for the
Hope Program.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Tell Us what it's about and how it works, who
benefits by it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
The HOPE program stands for Hounds of Prison Education and
for that program, CPA partners with the State Correctional Institution
at Camp Hill. It's a maximum security, all male prison
on Lisbonn Road. We have eight inmate handlers who participate
in the program. They're very carefully screened men who actually
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have to apply to participate. They go through a very
rigorous application and interview process, not only with our HOPE team,
but with the prison itself. They get chosen for the program.
They all reside on J Block at the prison. So
all of the men eight who participate or on the
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same cell block, same side of J Block, and each
of them get a dog from either CPAA that we
have rescued or one of the rescues that we work with.
The dog goes into the prison, lives with its handler
twenty four to seven and then the handler is responsible
for all care and training of that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Dog and then what happens to the dog.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Well, the dog stays in the prison until it gets adopted.
We have our professional trainer, Lindsay Cranford, goes into the
prison every Friday morning. She works alongside the dogs and
the guys. But even though Lindsay's only there on Fridays,
those guys work with those dogs every single day. So
when you adopt a dog from the Hope program, you
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are getting a fully obedience trained dog, a fully socialized dog,
and that dog comes with free lifetime training support with Lindsay.
So it's a really amazing program, not just for the dogs,
but for the indie. Oh yeah, I can imagine what
that does for them. It is it's purpose, it's phenomenal.
We've had four of our handlers paroled since twenty eighteen
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and they are our best volunteers. No kaid, they are
amazing guys.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Wow, I'll tell you what. It's time to talk about
that big event coming on as I said, and both
you guys jumping in any time. The twentieth My god,
I can't believe that twentieth annual Wolfstock again Sunday. That's
only in a couple of weeks September the twenty eighth,
eleven to five, and it's last couple of years. Like
zael I said, it's rain, but people still come. How
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about it? They do because it's wonderful, it's free. First
thing I want to ask you when I was down
at though, is there place to park? There is? There's
on Sunday Street.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Parking in Harrisburg is free, so if you can find
a meter, you can park there for free. You can
also park on City Island for free and walk across
the bridge over to Riverfront. And then we have a
partnership with the Market Square Parking garage and they are
offering a ten dollars all day rate.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That's not better.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, so that's that's not bad either. So those are
really the three options.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
What was I mentioned the top of the program. You
can bring your puppy. You can, but there are some
rules you gotta follow. What are they?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, we don't allow retractable leashes. For one, they're incredibly
dangerous because you really don't have control of your dog. Well,
and with as many dogs as will be at Woopstock
there will be thousands, you don't want them on a
retractable leak.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
We also don't want dogs there that are dog aggressive,
obviously because there are going to be thousands of dogs there,
So you have to use good judgment. If it's super hot,
you don't want to bring your dog. If it's a
smushed nosed dog, like, for example, a French dog or
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I'm trying to think of another breed that has the
swush nose. But I think people will know what I mean. Yeah,
because when the weather is hot, it's more difficult for
them to breathe. So you have to use common sense
in weather or not to bring your dog. You know,
if it's especially hot, it's going to be hard on
any dog. We do have water bowls all throughout Riverfront
Park for the day, so dogs can take advantage of
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those to keep hydrated, and a lot of the vendors
will have snacks for the dogs as well as water
bowls out as well.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh they got cool stuff down there. I mean, I
want to talk about the vendors of course, But another
thing I think we need to mention is you got
to clean up your own poop. Yes, yes, and people
don't always do that. We do.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We do have extra poop bags at the welcome boosts
that people can take advantage of, and there are trash
cans all throughout river Front to dispose of that, so
we're asking that people do that as well.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Let's talk about all this stuff. Let's start with you.
You know, well, you just let it spew Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, the thing I love most about Wolfstock is a
Zella was talking about, is seeing all the different dogs,
even in the rain the last couple of years that
the people were still out walking around with their dogs
and the dogs don't care that it's raining and they're
happy to be out there with throwners and walking down
the park. So for me, that's that's the coolest thing,
just seeing all the dogs. And of course we have
the pet costume contest at three o'clock at Cunkle Plaza.
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That's where I'm usually hanging out. That is so cool
seeing all the different outfits the dogs have on and
our friend Nancy Ryan is always there to judge that.
So that's that's a cool thing. And as you mentioned,
there's lots of music too. When when you think of Wolfstock,
you think of music, and we have different musicians throughout
the day. We have Rebecca Jones, Carrie Edwards, Blake, Sousaw
Wing Victory, and a band named Fierce at four o'clock
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and all those guys are great. So you can come
to Councle Plaza. Of course you have the costume contest,
you have music. You know, if you're a doggunner. I mean,
come down, you can walk around if your dog. There's
all sorts of food vendors. I mean you can find
anything to eat. And the vendors themselves are just awesome.
I mean there's all sorts of pet theme vendors down there,
and I mean you can you can find all sorts
of neat stuff. Last year I bought a couple things
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for my dogs, have like a Chihuahua and a Corgie
and a Miniossi plaque that I got from the one
vendor and have them hanging on the wall at home.
And now there's just all sorts of neat stuff like that.
You have a low cost vaccine and micro chipping clinic.
You glad you have that on. Yeah, that's awesome. I'm
a massage therapy so if you need a massage or whatever,
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you can come down to that. I'm in a lower
course down there as well. That all. We can talk
about that a little more.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
The lower course is super fun. It's it's a course
that's set up kind of in a circle or maybe
more of a rectangle down by the Civic Club, and
we have barriers out so the dogs can't get out
of the course. It's self, but they chase It's almost
like a birdie in badminton. They chase it around on
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a rope. So for dogs who love to chase, it
is so much fun to watch. And it's going to
be run by Christopher Darhauer who runs off leash Canine
dog training and he is a riot. He is so
good with the dogs. It is so it is just
so funny to watch. I can't even.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Begin to tell you. See what time is that RK
that actually goes all day? It goes checked that out.
I hear a lot of people, as we've said before,
about about the costume contest, and I remember you guys
talking a couple of years ago about somebody was it?
Was it a Volkswagen Beetle or I did? That's stuck
in my mind. We get these ideas. It's people are
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so creative with the costumes. They really are.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It was actually a VW bus that had and they
had different dogs like in the windows. They actually picked
a van the bus on top off of the dogs.
It was so incredible, it sounds adorable. It was adorable.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Who judges it?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We have I think what we did last year and
we'll probably do it this year. We just did it
by applause. Oh okay, that's great. Whoever got the most applause?
And we do have really nice prizes for first, second,
and third place. It's twenty dollars registration fee and people
if they'd like to enter their dogs, they can get
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the entry forms that the Kunkle Plaza Welcome booth and
pay the twenty dollars there.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Well, you know, we talked about a lot and there's
really cool fun things and it's all. It's a great
place to go to if you have a dog or
if you know someone has a dog. It's not a
Christmas presents. You can get there for the dog. I mean,
just off the top of my head, all the things
I saw and you know what else that really impressed
me the last time, I wish I could remember. These
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people had these beautiful white like they look like Samoya mice.
I call them samoya am I saying it right, okay,
white fluffy dogs and they were blo.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I'm wondering if that was the rescue Keller's cause it was. Yes, yes,
they have special needs dogs who are deaf and also blinde.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And people don't think of dogs as being special needs.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yes, there are a lot of special needs dogs out there.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yes, there's a lot of other things other than being
able to buy real cool stuff. As you said, there's
dog trainers that are going to be there. There's a
lot of rescue. So you can come out. You can't
actually adopt that day, Ken, you can start the process
right now.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's actually illegal to adopt that day, but you can
start the process. You can get the adoption application from
the rescue, pick up information about the rescue and the
dog to start the process, and of course meeting the
dogs there is really key to starting that process.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I wanted to ask you also when we're kind of
going back a little bit about the Hope Dogs. How
long have you been doing that for twenty years? Let
me ask you this over the years, and I know
how you were like a dog. Is there anything that
sticks out in your mind that you think, oh my gosh,
something really impressed you or moved you over these long,
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long years. I mean, you do so many wonderful things
with the organization, especially with this with this event, But
think back on how about you, tourt Well, for.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Me, it's not really an isolated incident. I think it's
really just the overall impact of the Hope Program, the
program itself being able to help so many dogs, with
more than four hundred dogs have passed through the program
in the past twenty years.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
But just like the bond that the inmates have with
these dogs, I so wish that everybody could have the
opportunity to go into the prison and watch on Fridays
because it is so moving to watch these guys with
these animals. You know, one of the inmates, former inmates
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who is now paroled, and he's just an amazing guy.
He said to me, You know, people think that we
are saving these dogs, but in reality, the dogs are
saving us, And that just sums up the program so
well from the standpoint of the handlers. So the whole
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Hope Program for me is really just so moving on
really a daily basis for what it does for the
dogs and the handlers.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Somebody needs to do a documentary for you, wouldn't that
be nice?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Well, actually, ABC twenty seven did. They came into the
prison in February of twenty twenty four and did a
story on the Hope Program, which actually won I believe
a journalism award, probably was, I'm not sure which one
it was, but it was a wonderful, wonderful story.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah it was. It was great.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
But we obviously to increase awareness about the program because
even though it's been around for twenty years, a lot
of people still don't even know about it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, Art or what we were gonna tell me.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I was gonna say. We actually did a podcast too
that it's you can actually listen to it still on
taking Care of Business on w HP. And we had
three of the handlers in there, and three amazing guys,
and they all had great stories to tell about you know,
the dogs, you know, sleep sleeping with them at night
and and you know, letting the dogs out early in
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the morning, and and you know, just like Zella said,
you know they they felt the dogs save them. They
weren't saving the dogs. And I've gotten to spend a
little bit of time with these guys and they're just
they're just great gentlemen. And it's it's an awesome story
if you get time to go out and listen to it.
I was blown away by by all three guys when
when we did that podcast, and and the whole program
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is just amazing. Oh yeah, yeah, it's it's a great thing.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
And you can hear that on w HP on Michael
Parks taking care of Business.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
It's it's out on his his website. Okay, I can
repost it too, but yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, Zella, you need volunteers. I know you desperately need volunteers.
Who doesn't want that? Come on? It's a day full
of dogs and fun and laughing. And what are you
looking for? Is there an age group you wan? Or
I mean, what a particular volunteer? What are the volunteers
going to do? Give me some ease.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
We actually have a volunteer link on our website. It's
actually on the hope page. The website is Central Paanimal
alignce dot org and then if you click on the
lift stock tab, the volunteer link is also under that
tab as well. But I actually just posted on Facebook
last night the areas where we need volunteers. We need
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volunteers to help park the vendors. It's super important that
parking goes smoothly. It's not difficult, but I need I
think at least ten more parking volunteers for the twenty eighth.
We also need I think one shift from three to
five at the Foster, Adopt and Spain Needer booth I
need people for the welcome booth at Concho Plaza. I
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need people at the welcome booth at the Walnut Street
Bridge entrance. And I also need people to help with
the lower course. There's a couple slots open for registration
to register people and also collect payment. And I also
need help with setting up the lower course and tearing
down at the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You mean you're not doing all that yourself. I am not.
People may think I am. Oh, yeah, I am not,
but you do almost. I mean, come on, it's amazing
what you do, even just to put the whole thing together,
I mean, logistically is amazing. You You mentioned your website,
and I'm glad you did. Tell us where it is
and people can actually see adoptable animals and a lot,
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a whole lot of other You have resources which people
right away. People will call and say, even me, knowing
that I do this program, do you know anybody this
with animals? Yeah, Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance. Tell us what's
on your website?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, we have our homepage, which is just a general
information about CPA. We have the Wolfstock tab, which talks
about everything Wolfstock. There's a drop down. We have an
event tab with any upcoming events that we have. We
have Fostering, which gives information with the foster application of
people are interested in applying to foster. We have a
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Hope tab as well, which gives all the information about
the Hope program. One of the other cool things about
Hope is that the inmates actually keep weekly journals of
their dogs that they turn into us every Friday, and
then those are placed not only on the website, but
on our Hope Dog's Facebook page, so people can chart
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the progress of the dog from the very first week
it goes into the prison every week until it gets adopted.
So the journals that the guys keep, first of all,
they're really usually pretty humorous.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And we really don't care. We really don't change much.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Sometimes like if the grammar's off, will change that, But
for most, for the most part, they're very accurate of
what they write.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But it gives you.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
A good feel for whether the dog is going to
be a good fit for your family, So that's great.
But yeah, the Hope the Hope tab has so much
good information. We have a CPAA store where you can
purchase apparel. We have our other dogs that are available
for adoption that are not in the Hope Program, And
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we have resources like stay need to resources if you
need help with your VET bills for your pet, things
like that, training resources. We have a happy endings which
you know shows pictures of some of the dogs that
have gotten adopted, and of course a donation link if
if people would like to to make a donation to
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CPA and the Hope Program.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Another thing that I wanted to ask you about because
I was checking out your sete, your load of with sponsors.
You still't do you need anymore?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Our sponsor deadline is gone. Is everything closed September first?
And to be honest, we are filled to the gills
at Wopstock. I can't fit anybody in. I mean I
would literally have to put them in the Susquehanna, and
I think I don't think they want that, So we
are full.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
No, we can't take any more. That's amazing, isn't it.
I just can't. And I know you that you know
this is one of the highlights of your life, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I do look forward to it, and I want to
mention why we have Zella on here. She does another
big fundraiser in the spring called Denim and diamonds. Oh,
let her talk about that a little please.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
We did this fundraiser called Denim, Diamonds and Dogs. It's
basically like a blue jean gala. It's a dress down.
You can wear your blue jeans, tawboy boots, cowboy hats.
We have it at this location called Farm eighteen forty
in Mechanicsburg. It's an old barn that was refurbished. It's
absolutely beautiful and we have a photo booth, we have
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a DJ, we have a silent auction, we have eat food.
It's just a super fun evening and that's kind of
laid back and it benefits CPAA and the Hope Program.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I didn't even know that Art.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It's awesome. It's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Oh my gosh, I'm thrilled. You know, I'm like Art. Well,
I don't say I'm like Art, but it's always something
fun for me to look forward to when you guys,
and of course Art, Art's my bud, you know, and
I just he's got such a huge, huge heart, except
he follows those Baldemorre you know.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
But anyway, no nobody hates the Oriols. No.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I know you and Glenn lived there, But what do
you want people to know right now you need volunteers.
You're welcome to donations because it takes a lot to
put together. Oh you know what we didn't mention. There's
a lot of nonprofit organizations like the shelters and the
rescues and stuff like that that are going to be there.
So you have a whole lot of all kinds of
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different dogs there. But we didn't talk about food, the
food vendors, the trucks and stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
And the food vendors. We have actually a lot of
food vendors. I'm just trying to pull them up so
that I remember everybody.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Well, don't wait too long, because we're running out of time, kiddof.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We've got mad Dash, Madeline Sweets and Savories, Quinn's Coffee Bar,
Noel's Cafe, Milkshakes, Brickers Fries, Dose and Narrows Doughnut, n
V and RNA Cafe, and they will be interspersed all
throughout Riverfront Park.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Awesome again? Or when is this event? What is this event?
Take it art?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
It's September twenty eighth, from eleven to five Riverfront Park
in Harrisburg, Rainershine.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Awesome. It's called Wolfstock. Remember you can catch Insight every
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I love you. I'm Sylvia Moss. This has been insight.
Thanks so much for listening. See you next week.
Hi, I'm Sylvia Moss. This is in Sight, a presentation
of iHeartMedia where we really do care about our local
communities and all our listeners who live here. With all
the serious issues going on in the world that worry
us and just about drive us crazy, most of them
we can't do anything about. I thought it was time
for you to hear about something that's just plain fun,
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something you could go to that made you feel good,
while at the same time helping to make it help,
allowing you to make a difference. At this something that
I've been referencing. The whole family's invited, and when I
say every member of the family, I mean that this
is an event where not only mom and dad and
the kids can come. You can bring your dog with you.
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Where can you do that. It's sponsored by the Central
Pennsylvania Animal Alliance and it's voted as simply the best
charity and community event by Harrisburg Magazine. It's the twentieth
annual Wolfstock on Sunday, September twenty eighth, from eleven to five,
and like other years, it's on rain or shine at
Riverfront Park and the Best Park. It is free. The
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major reason that Wolfstock has been growing in leaps and
bounds over the last couple of decks, decades is because
of the efforts of a huge the huge heart of
the woman who many described as being tiny, but mighty boy,
I'll tell you she sure is with us. As the
founder and executive director of the Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance,
Zella Anderson, what's going on at Wolfstock this year, what
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it's been like to keep this largest festival for dogs
and their humans on the East Coast growing, and an
incredible program that turns things around for certain individuals in
our local community communities. Those are a couple of things
we're gonna hear about from Zella today, and you're also
gonna want to hear about Wolfstock's MC. First thing that
you should know is that this guy is, without a doubt,
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the Baltimore Orioles number one fan. He's been a major
part of WHB five eighties family for over thirty years,
having been the former producer of Ken Matthews Show and
Durkin's producer for a lot of those years. He is
currently the assistant program director for WHP II eighty and
Fox Sports fourteen sixty. Every fall and hear him annow
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Is Bishop mcdeviitt High School's football games on HP and
Fox Sports fourteen sixty. In addition to hanging out with
the Rivers Glenn Hamilton at the Orioles Games, Art and
his wife Becky had used their farm in Halifax as
a refuge for lost and abused animals. And boy, oh boy,
every time I come in here, God bless him, he
has talking about one of his animals, Like, Hey, Art,
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I remember the time with the little kitten that the
eye popped out. Remember that that was so sad. And
I'll tell you one other thing about Art. If it
weren't for Art Selby, this show would never hit the
air each week. Let's start as Zelle that you've been
doing this for twenty years, God bless you. I'm just
gonna there's so much work. I know that because I've
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been there several times. What keeps you doing it? Well?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
We do it for the animals, okay, Livestock. We originally
started back in two thousand and five as a way
to bring all rescues together for one day in one place,
so that we could get exposure for the animals that
they had available for adoption and raise awareness for what
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rescue is. What we do the other important parts of rescue,
spain neater, fostering, adopting. It's just that's what the reason
Whipstock began is we wanted to really promote rescue because
it's so important to adopt a homeless animal as opposed
to buying one from a pet store, a puppy miller breeder.
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And so that was the reason that we started Whopstock
twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I don't know anybody who's not impacted by animals. I
mean every time I see that commercial as public service
announcement where you see those poor animals who are skinny
and they have got all these everything on them, and
it's like I have to change out because that got
all failed up. And a lot of that does go on,
and thank god there are rescues because dead animals all
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over the place. And you are you're all for no kill,
that's bottom line, right, we are.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I mean, you know, no kill is a nice goal
to have, but you know, it takes a lot of
moving parts to make it happen, and rescue is a
large part of that. But because of the pet over
population being so severe there, because people don't stay in
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near their dogs and cats no matter how many rescues
we have, we really can't keep up.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And that is a really sad reality. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I see the posts on Facebook, not just from our
own state, but from Texas, Connecticut, you know, to especially
bad states for the animals, and rescues are overwhelmed. We
don't have the funding we need to help. We don't
have foster homes, we don't have resource is to help
the number of the animals out there that really need
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our help. So my hope is has always been that
woofstock will will get people incentive eesed to step up
and help in some way, whether it's fostering, adoption, volunteering,
you know, donating, you can everybody. I always say that
everybody can do something absolutely to help an animal and need.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well, you know, sometimes I think about people and they
go out and they get these fancy dogs, they buy
them for their kids for Christmas and everything, and I think,
just like some people shouldn't have children, some people shouldn't
have pets. Right, That's exactly right, because they end up
going back. You know, it's not fair to the animal,
It isn't.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Pets are a huge responsibility, just like children, and if
you're not willing to take that on, then chances are
you probably shouldn't be a pet.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's right, that's right, all right, he's across the room
from across the glass. You don't know. Maybe you don't
know that. But when you come in here, or when
I come in here and you start to tell me
about the different animals, I'm scott to go home and
on ball and so not got the heck off? No,
but serious, it's serious. I'm serious about this. The all
the animals that you have helped up in your your
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farm in Halifax, and there are all kinds of animals
up there, but I was especially touched about that little kitten.
But let me ask you how you got involved with
the Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Well, Zella heard me on the radio. I was producing
Ken Matthews show, and Zello's big fan of Ken's, so
that's kind of how we came together. And Ken always
called me the animal trainer on his show back in.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
The day, Animal Whisper, how about it?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
He called me a trainer. So, although I think my
wife's probably a better trainer than I am, but I'm
an animal lover too, I mean you are, I had
I grew up with cats and dogs as my brothers
and sisters, and they're my children. So I take care
of them like children, and you know, I love them
and spend a lot of time with them and do
everything I can for them. And people know that. So
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through the years, will drop off cats or you know,
different animals on the farm, and you know, we try
and take care of them mom as best as we can,
and you know, they're part of our family. Now I'm one,
and if I'm driving home, like late at night and
I see a possum that's still live alongside the road,
I'll I'll try and take it to a nature center,
like like Red Red Creek up in the school Kill County.
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I've taken animals to there. We ran over a turtle
one time that was out in the field with a
tractor accidentally, and we took that to a red Creek,
so we we you know, I do everything I can
for animals. It's it's a hard world out there and
they depend upon us to take care of them, and
you know that's that's what I try and do.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And you know what else, people I've had arguments with
people about animals not having souls. How can an animal
not have a soul?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Come on, Yeah, when I look at my dog's face,
you know, it's you tough for me to say that
they don't.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Absolutely Well, I want to ask you talk to you
were talking about the different rescues that are that are
going to be there. Where do they And often I've
seen you on Facebook go put a a picture of
a dog and they're gonna put it. Somebody's gonna put
it down. If they don't, somebody doesn't rescue it soon.
But typically where did the dogs come from? And all
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these rescues are they found on the street or is
it they come from everywhere?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
A lot of rescues will pull dogs that are slated
to be killed from shelters. Some of the rescues in
Pennsylvania pull from the Philly Act Shelter, which is a
relatively high kill shelter. So any shelter in Pennsylvania that
has animals that need to get out, rescues pull from there.
We also take owners surrenders, you know, people who no
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longer want their animals.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
A lot of them are.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Comic strays, abuse tases, So it's really from a variety
of areas.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh my god, that breaks just the thought of that
breaks my heart. You're big into also into fostering. Tell
us about that.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Well, fostering really is the lifeblood of rescue because very
few rescues have a facility, meaning that we don't don't
have a shelter where we can take animals in and
house them. So we rely on people stepping up to
quote foster an animal and need And basically it's opening
your heart and home to give the animal a safe
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place to be inside with love and care and food
and a warm you know, environment, and bed, and the
rescue pays all the expenses. So the rescue pays for
all food supplies, vet care while the animal is in
foster care, and the animal stays in foster care until
it finds it's forever home. So what we ask of
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the foster parents is that they be willing to obviously
care properly for the animal, take them to ved appointments
if needed, and to bring them to events like Wolfstock
to help give them exposure to find their forever home.
So we're always in need of foster's.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Okay, so here's a big question that I've always wanted
because I thought about this too. You have that dog
for how long?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Do you know? What?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Questions coming to how do you talk to people when
it's time to go to a forever home and they
got to let that dog you go. It's not easy.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'm a foster fail several times over, so that does happen,
but it makes it a little easier. When you find
a great home for the animal and you know that
that animal is going to be so loved and so
well taken care of, it's easier to let it go.
And then it opens up another space that you can
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help another. And I think that's the big thing for
me is if we keep every animal that we foster,
then how do we help another one?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
So it is difficult. I won't lie to you.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I mean I think of the guys in our Hope
program who have the dogs and they have to say goodbye.
They don't have the option to keep them, and they
allow their hearts to be broken every single day when
those dogs leave. And what saves them is that they
get another dog to help.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Hey, I'm glad you brought that up because that was
my next question. You started the Hope Program twenty years
ago thousand five.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, it's the twentieth anniversary for Woodstock and for the
Hope Program.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Tell Us what it's about and how it works, who
benefits by it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
The HOPE program stands for Hounds of Prison Education and
for that program, CPA partners with the State Correctional Institution
at Camp Hill. It's a maximum security, all male prison
on Lisbonn Road. We have eight inmate handlers who participate
in the program. They're very carefully screened men who actually
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have to apply to participate. They go through a very
rigorous application and interview process, not only with our HOPE team,
but with the prison itself. They get chosen for the program.
They all reside on J Block at the prison. So
all of the men eight who participate or on the
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same cell block, same side of J Block, and each
of them get a dog from either CPAA that we
have rescued or one of the rescues that we work with.
The dog goes into the prison, lives with its handler
twenty four to seven and then the handler is responsible
for all care and training of that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Dog and then what happens to the dog.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Well, the dog stays in the prison until it gets adopted.
We have our professional trainer, Lindsay Cranford, goes into the
prison every Friday morning. She works alongside the dogs and
the guys. But even though Lindsay's only there on Fridays,
those guys work with those dogs every single day. So
when you adopt a dog from the Hope program, you
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are getting a fully obedience trained dog, a fully socialized dog,
and that dog comes with free lifetime training support with Lindsay.
So it's a really amazing program, not just for the dogs,
but for the indie. Oh yeah, I can imagine what
that does for them. It is it's purpose, it's phenomenal.
We've had four of our handlers paroled since twenty eighteen
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and they are our best volunteers. No kaid, they are
amazing guys.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Wow, I'll tell you what. It's time to talk about
that big event coming on as I said, and both
you guys jumping in any time. The twentieth My god,
I can't believe that twentieth annual Wolfstock again Sunday. That's
only in a couple of weeks September the twenty eighth,
eleven to five, and it's last couple of years. Like
zael I said, it's rain, but people still come. How
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about it? They do because it's wonderful, it's free. First
thing I want to ask you when I was down
at though, is there place to park? There is? There's
on Sunday Street.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Parking in Harrisburg is free, so if you can find
a meter, you can park there for free. You can
also park on City Island for free and walk across
the bridge over to Riverfront. And then we have a
partnership with the Market Square Parking garage and they are
offering a ten dollars all day rate.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
That's not better.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, so that's that's not bad either. So those are
really the three options.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
What was I mentioned the top of the program. You
can bring your puppy. You can, but there are some
rules you gotta follow. What are they?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, we don't allow retractable leashes. For one, they're incredibly
dangerous because you really don't have control of your dog. Well,
and with as many dogs as will be at Woopstock
there will be thousands, you don't want them on a
retractable leak.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
We also don't want dogs there that are dog aggressive,
obviously because there are going to be thousands of dogs there,
So you have to use good judgment. If it's super hot,
you don't want to bring your dog. If it's a
smushed nosed dog, like, for example, a French dog or
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I'm trying to think of another breed that has the
swush nose. But I think people will know what I mean. Yeah,
because when the weather is hot, it's more difficult for
them to breathe. So you have to use common sense
in weather or not to bring your dog. You know,
if it's especially hot, it's going to be hard on
any dog. We do have water bowls all throughout Riverfront
Park for the day, so dogs can take advantage of
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those to keep hydrated, and a lot of the vendors
will have snacks for the dogs as well as water
bowls out as well.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh they got cool stuff down there. I mean, I
want to talk about the vendors of course, But another
thing I think we need to mention is you got
to clean up your own poop. Yes, yes, and people
don't always do that. We do.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
We do have extra poop bags at the welcome boosts
that people can take advantage of, and there are trash
cans all throughout river Front to dispose of that, so
we're asking that people do that as well.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Let's talk about all this stuff. Let's start with you.
You know, well, you just let it spew Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, the thing I love most about Wolfstock is a
Zella was talking about, is seeing all the different dogs,
even in the rain the last couple of years that
the people were still out walking around with their dogs
and the dogs don't care that it's raining and they're
happy to be out there with throwners and walking down
the park. So for me, that's that's the coolest thing,
just seeing all the dogs. And of course we have
the pet costume contest at three o'clock at Cunkle Plaza.
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That's where I'm usually hanging out. That is so cool
seeing all the different outfits the dogs have on and
our friend Nancy Ryan is always there to judge that.
So that's that's a cool thing. And as you mentioned,
there's lots of music too. When when you think of Wolfstock,
you think of music, and we have different musicians throughout
the day. We have Rebecca Jones, Carrie Edwards, Blake, Sousaw
Wing Victory, and a band named Fierce at four o'clock
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and all those guys are great. So you can come
to Councle Plaza. Of course you have the costume contest,
you have music. You know, if you're a doggunner. I mean,
come down, you can walk around if your dog. There's
all sorts of food vendors. I mean you can find
anything to eat. And the vendors themselves are just awesome.
I mean there's all sorts of pet theme vendors down there,
and I mean you can you can find all sorts
of neat stuff. Last year I bought a couple things
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for my dogs, have like a Chihuahua and a Corgie
and a Miniossi plaque that I got from the one
vendor and have them hanging on the wall at home.
And now there's just all sorts of neat stuff like that.
You have a low cost vaccine and micro chipping clinic.
You glad you have that on. Yeah, that's awesome. I'm
a massage therapy so if you need a massage or whatever,
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you can come down to that. I'm in a lower
course down there as well. That all. We can talk
about that a little more.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
The lower course is super fun. It's it's a course
that's set up kind of in a circle or maybe
more of a rectangle down by the Civic Club, and
we have barriers out so the dogs can't get out
of the course. It's self, but they chase It's almost
like a birdie in badminton. They chase it around on
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a rope. So for dogs who love to chase, it
is so much fun to watch. And it's going to
be run by Christopher Darhauer who runs off leash Canine
dog training and he is a riot. He is so
good with the dogs. It is so it is just
so funny to watch. I can't even.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Begin to tell you. See what time is that RK
that actually goes all day? It goes checked that out.
I hear a lot of people, as we've said before,
about about the costume contest, and I remember you guys
talking a couple of years ago about somebody was it?
Was it a Volkswagen Beetle or I did? That's stuck
in my mind. We get these ideas. It's people are
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so creative with the costumes. They really are.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It was actually a VW bus that had and they
had different dogs like in the windows. They actually picked
a van the bus on top off of the dogs.
It was so incredible, it sounds adorable. It was adorable.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Who judges it?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We have I think what we did last year and
we'll probably do it this year. We just did it
by applause. Oh okay, that's great. Whoever got the most applause?
And we do have really nice prizes for first, second,
and third place. It's twenty dollars registration fee and people
if they'd like to enter their dogs, they can get
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the entry forms that the Kunkle Plaza Welcome booth and
pay the twenty dollars there.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Well, you know, we talked about a lot and there's
really cool fun things and it's all. It's a great
place to go to if you have a dog or
if you know someone has a dog. It's not a
Christmas presents. You can get there for the dog. I mean,
just off the top of my head, all the things
I saw and you know what else that really impressed
me the last time, I wish I could remember. These
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people had these beautiful white like they look like Samoya mice.
I call them samoya am I saying it right, okay,
white fluffy dogs and they were blo.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
I'm wondering if that was the rescue Keller's cause it was. Yes, yes,
they have special needs dogs who are deaf and also blinde.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And people don't think of dogs as being special needs.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yes, there are a lot of special needs dogs out there.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yes, there's a lot of other things other than being
able to buy real cool stuff. As you said, there's
dog trainers that are going to be there. There's a
lot of rescue. So you can come out. You can't
actually adopt that day, Ken, you can start the process
right now.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's actually illegal to adopt that day, but you can
start the process. You can get the adoption application from
the rescue, pick up information about the rescue and the
dog to start the process, and of course meeting the
dogs there is really key to starting that process.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I wanted to ask you also when we're kind of
going back a little bit about the Hope Dogs. How
long have you been doing that for twenty years? Let
me ask you this over the years, and I know
how you were like a dog. Is there anything that
sticks out in your mind that you think, oh my gosh,
something really impressed you or moved you over these long,
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long years. I mean, you do so many wonderful things
with the organization, especially with this with this event, But
think back on how about you, tourt Well, for.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Me, it's not really an isolated incident. I think it's
really just the overall impact of the Hope Program, the
program itself being able to help so many dogs, with
more than four hundred dogs have passed through the program
in the past twenty years.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
But just like the bond that the inmates have with
these dogs, I so wish that everybody could have the
opportunity to go into the prison and watch on Fridays
because it is so moving to watch these guys with
these animals. You know, one of the inmates, former inmates
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who is now paroled, and he's just an amazing guy.
He said to me, You know, people think that we
are saving these dogs, but in reality, the dogs are
saving us, And that just sums up the program so
well from the standpoint of the handlers. So the whole
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Hope Program for me is really just so moving on
really a daily basis for what it does for the
dogs and the handlers.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Somebody needs to do a documentary for you, wouldn't that
be nice?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Well, actually, ABC twenty seven did. They came into the
prison in February of twenty twenty four and did a
story on the Hope Program, which actually won I believe
a journalism award, probably was, I'm not sure which one
it was, but it was a wonderful, wonderful story.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yeah it was. It was great.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
But we obviously to increase awareness about the program because
even though it's been around for twenty years, a lot
of people still don't even know about it.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Yeah, Art or what we were gonna tell me.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I was gonna say. We actually did a podcast too
that it's you can actually listen to it still on
taking Care of Business on w HP. And we had
three of the handlers in there, and three amazing guys,
and they all had great stories to tell about you know,
the dogs, you know, sleep sleeping with them at night
and and you know, letting the dogs out early in
(23:30):
the morning, and and you know, just like Zella said,
you know they they felt the dogs save them. They
weren't saving the dogs. And I've gotten to spend a
little bit of time with these guys and they're just
they're just great gentlemen. And it's it's an awesome story
if you get time to go out and listen to it.
I was blown away by by all three guys when
when we did that podcast, and and the whole program
(23:51):
is just amazing. Oh yeah, yeah, it's it's a great thing.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
And you can hear that on w HP on Michael
Parks taking care of Business.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
It's it's out on his his website. Okay, I can
repost it too, but yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, Zella, you need volunteers. I know you desperately need volunteers.
Who doesn't want that? Come on? It's a day full
of dogs and fun and laughing. And what are you
looking for? Is there an age group you wan? Or
I mean, what a particular volunteer? What are the volunteers
going to do? Give me some ease.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
We actually have a volunteer link on our website. It's
actually on the hope page. The website is Central Paanimal
alignce dot org and then if you click on the
lift stock tab, the volunteer link is also under that
tab as well. But I actually just posted on Facebook
last night the areas where we need volunteers. We need
(24:44):
volunteers to help park the vendors. It's super important that
parking goes smoothly. It's not difficult, but I need I
think at least ten more parking volunteers for the twenty eighth.
We also need I think one shift from three to
five at the Foster, Adopt and Spain Needer booth I
need people for the welcome booth at Concho Plaza. I
(25:06):
need people at the welcome booth at the Walnut Street
Bridge entrance. And I also need people to help with
the lower course. There's a couple slots open for registration
to register people and also collect payment. And I also
need help with setting up the lower course and tearing
down at the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You mean you're not doing all that yourself. I am not.
People may think I am. Oh, yeah, I am not,
but you do almost. I mean, come on, it's amazing
what you do, even just to put the whole thing together,
I mean, logistically is amazing. You You mentioned your website,
and I'm glad you did. Tell us where it is
and people can actually see adoptable animals and a lot,
(25:47):
a whole lot of other You have resources which people
right away. People will call and say, even me, knowing
that I do this program, do you know anybody this
with animals? Yeah, Central Pennsylvania Animal Alliance. Tell us what's
on your website?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, we have our homepage, which is just a general
information about CPA. We have the Wolfstock tab, which talks
about everything Wolfstock. There's a drop down. We have an
event tab with any upcoming events that we have. We
have Fostering, which gives information with the foster application of
people are interested in applying to foster. We have a
(26:23):
Hope tab as well, which gives all the information about
the Hope program. One of the other cool things about
Hope is that the inmates actually keep weekly journals of
their dogs that they turn into us every Friday, and
then those are placed not only on the website, but
on our Hope Dog's Facebook page, so people can chart
(26:44):
the progress of the dog from the very first week
it goes into the prison every week until it gets adopted.
So the journals that the guys keep, first of all,
they're really usually pretty humorous.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
And we really don't care. We really don't change much.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Sometimes like if the grammar's off, will change that, But
for most, for the most part, they're very accurate of
what they write.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
But it gives you.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
A good feel for whether the dog is going to
be a good fit for your family, So that's great.
But yeah, the Hope the Hope tab has so much
good information. We have a CPAA store where you can
purchase apparel. We have our other dogs that are available
for adoption that are not in the Hope Program, And
(27:28):
we have resources like stay need to resources if you
need help with your VET bills for your pet, things
like that, training resources. We have a happy endings which
you know shows pictures of some of the dogs that
have gotten adopted, and of course a donation link if
if people would like to to make a donation to
(27:50):
CPA and the Hope Program.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Another thing that I wanted to ask you about because
I was checking out your sete, your load of with sponsors.
You still't do you need anymore?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Our sponsor deadline is gone. Is everything closed September first?
And to be honest, we are filled to the gills
at Wopstock. I can't fit anybody in. I mean I
would literally have to put them in the Susquehanna, and
I think I don't think they want that, So we
are full.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
No, we can't take any more. That's amazing, isn't it.
I just can't. And I know you that you know
this is one of the highlights of your life, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I do look forward to it, and I want to
mention why we have Zella on here. She does another
big fundraiser in the spring called Denim and diamonds. Oh,
let her talk about that a little please.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
We did this fundraiser called Denim, Diamonds and Dogs. It's
basically like a blue jean gala. It's a dress down.
You can wear your blue jeans, tawboy boots, cowboy hats.
We have it at this location called Farm eighteen forty
in Mechanicsburg. It's an old barn that was refurbished. It's
absolutely beautiful and we have a photo booth, we have
(28:57):
a DJ, we have a silent auction, we have eat food.
It's just a super fun evening and that's kind of
laid back and it benefits CPAA and the Hope Program.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I didn't even know that Art.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It's awesome. It's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Oh my gosh, I'm thrilled. You know, I'm like Art. Well,
I don't say I'm like Art, but it's always something
fun for me to look forward to when you guys,
and of course Art, Art's my bud, you know, and
I just he's got such a huge, huge heart, except
he follows those Baldemorre you know.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
But anyway, no nobody hates the Oriols. No.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I know you and Glenn lived there, But what do
you want people to know right now you need volunteers.
You're welcome to donations because it takes a lot to
put together. Oh you know what we didn't mention. There's
a lot of nonprofit organizations like the shelters and the
rescues and stuff like that that are going to be there.
So you have a whole lot of all kinds of
(29:51):
different dogs there. But we didn't talk about food, the
food vendors, the trucks and stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
And the food vendors. We have actually a lot of
food vendors. I'm just trying to pull them up so
that I remember everybody.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Well, don't wait too long, because we're running out of time, kiddof.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We've got mad Dash, Madeline Sweets and Savories, Quinn's Coffee Bar,
Noel's Cafe, Milkshakes, Brickers Fries, Dose and Narrows Doughnut, n
V and RNA Cafe, and they will be interspersed all
throughout Riverfront Park.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Awesome again? Or when is this event? What is this event?
Take it art?
Speaker 3 (30:29):
It's September twenty eighth, from eleven to five Riverfront Park
in Harrisburg, Rainershine.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Awesome. It's called Wolfstock. Remember you can catch Insight every
Sunday on one of your R ten I at her
Arts stations, or anytime on your favorite podcast at Thanks guys,
I love you. I'm Sylvia Moss. This has been insight.
Thanks so much for listening. See you next week.
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