New Arrival!
Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Paralyzed kitten from Ohio finds home in Ringoes Tabby's Place looks forward to kitten's arrival Saturday By ANGELA TOWNSEND, Tabby's Place
A cat sanctuary dedicated to rescuing cats from hopeless situations is taking in its second paraplegic feline, in a tale that spans three states.
Just three months after finding an adoptive home for Bagheera, a large black cat others considered "unadoptable" for his paraplegia and incontinence, Tabby's Place: a Cat Sanctuary is providing a haven for Tashi, a paralyzed and incontinent kitten.
Fearing that Tashi would be euthanized at most shelters, volunteers from Cat Welfare who discovered him in an Ohio feral cat colony partnered with Colony Cats, another Columbus, OH-based group, to contact Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah for help. While Best Friends' own "Incontinental Suite" had no vacancies, its members offered high praise for Tabby's Place in the Ringoes section of East Amwell, a no-kill, cage-free, 7,000 square foot sanctuary for cats in desperate circumstances. And so Tashi's journey ultimately led over 400 miles east, to Ringoes.
Like every cat at Tabby's Place, Tashi will have a home for life at the sanctuary if he is not adopted. However, the August 2008 adoption of "Bags" (the sanctuary's nickname for Bagheera) leads Tabby's Place Founder and Executive Director Jonathan Rosenberg to declare, "anything is possible." Having provided three years of loving, labor-intensive care for Bagheera, Tabby's Place is grateful to have the skilled team and facilities required to care for another disabled cat.
Tashi is scheduled to arrive at Tabby's Place with one of his devoted Ohio caretakers on Saturday, Nov. 1. Once at the sanctuary, he will receive highly specialized care, hydrotherapy to support any remaining motility in his rear legs, and abundant love from Tabby's Place's staff and volunteers, who all eagerly await the arrival of this "Baby Bags."
New Jersey grants Garden State Offshore Energy to build wind farm off Avalon By DEREK HARPER Statehouse Bureau
NEWARK - Windmills could start sprouting off New Jersey's coast as soon as 2010 after the state Board of Public Utilities signed off on a proposal at its meeting Friday morning.
The board unanimously approved granting $4 million to Garden State Offshore Energy over four competitors to build a wind farm, while strongly hinting this would be just the beginning of the state's foray into wind power.
"This project is one that will keep New Jersey on the cutting edge of renewable energy," BPU Commissioner Joseph L. Fiordaliso said during the meeting.
The company, a joint effort by PSEG Renewable Generation and Deepwater Wind, proposed to generate 345.6 megawatts from 96 wind turbines in a 3.5-by-5.5-mile grid to be built about 20 miles east of Avalon.
The proposal was the farthest offshore of the five projects the board reviewed and would sit in water about 110 feet deep. The $1.07 billion project would connect to the electrical grid through a cable coming ashore in Ocean City and connected to a substation at Beesleys Point. Continue Reading...
