$25K grant headed to Hall Co. Animal Shelter

HALL COUNTY NEWS RELEASE:

“Hall County Animal Shelter (HCAS) is set to receive a $25,000 grant investment from national nonprofit Petco Love…

“This lifesaving investment will help us reach and treat more pets in our community by providing funding for lifesaving medical support and necessary vaccines to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our pet population and members of our community,” said Stephanie Maloch, Hall County Animal Shelter supervisor.

The Hall County Animal Shelter is a nonprofit organization that provides second chances, love, and care for pets throughout Hall County. From 2020 to 2023, the Hall County Animal Shelter helped over 11,000 pets find homes through private adoptions and rescue partnerships.

“Our investment in the Hall County Animal Shelter is part of more than $15 million in investments recently announced by Petco Love to power local organizations across the country as part of our commitment to create a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” said Susanne Kogut, president of Petco Love. “Our local investments are only part of our strategy to empower animal lovers to drive lifesaving change right alongside us. We launched Petco Love Lost, a national lost and found database that uses patented image-recognition technology to simplify the search for lost pets.”

Petco Love is a national nonprofit leading change for pets by harnessing the power of love to make communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since its founding in 1999, Petco Love has invested $375 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. And Petco Love helps find loving homes for pets in partnership with Petco and more than 4,000 organizations — like ours — across North America, with 6.75 million pets adopted and counting.

“Petco Love has been a wonderful partner in helping us change lives for the pets in our community, and this lifesaving investment will make it possible for us to assist even more pets in Hall County,” said Maloch.

For more information about Hall County Animal Shelter, visit HallCounty.org. Learn more about Petco Love here: petcolove.org.”

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Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.