Featured Volunteer
Violet Clermont
What AARCS Has to Say
Violet is our eldest volunteer of 89 years. Violet came along for a rescue ride about 3 years ago. As you can tell from the photo, the joy racing through her body as we handed her 2 puppies to care for. A nice gentlemen named George phoned from the O’Chese First Nation Community asking to come and get a litter of six he wanted to surrender, sadly when we arrived only 2 were still there, Booker & Barker got their ‘ticket to ride’ and would never find themselves being hungry or alone.
Well this was the start of new adventures for Violet and she has been instrumental in some difficult rescues, one would be Minna on a cold, stormy winter day (see Minna’s adoption story in 09, it’s a good read), through Vi instinctual nature we were able to get every last puppy to come out from under a shed.
When we travel out volunteers call her Grandma, she’s always right out of the truck with food to feed resident animals, petting each dog, no matter what size they might be, and Grandma is a hit with the First Nation people, as they have a strong bond with their elders.
Vi goes around to second hand stores picking up quilts, cutting and sewing them into blankets for kennels, or beds for the doghouses we provide to the community, she always keeps an eye out for items like second hand kennels, AARCS always needs those. Violet attended an adopt-a-thon caring for dogs while other volunteers talked to them about adoption. She’s an amazing volunteer
A Few Words from the Volunteer
A Message from the Family of Violet.
Violet, our Mom and Grandma and Great Grandma has always been a hardworking individual, we grew up on a mixed farm, where is cared for the animals, milked cows, gathered eggs, and tended the land right alongside our Dad. Life was difficult, but she always kept going, and still does everyday. What needs to be done, gets done. Joining rescue has added so much to her daily life, when visiting she enjoys telling her ‘rescue stories’, she’s seen the worst of what rescue has and experienced the best of what rescue is all about, thank you to AARCS volunteers who have worked alongside Vi to helped dogs in such need, from this ‘all’ have benefited.
