NEWS:
Puppy raiser becomes recipient of her good deed
- San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, February 3, 2010
When experienced puppy raiser Linda Austin agreed to train another pup for the nonprofit organization Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, the Palo Alto resident had no idea that the adorable black Labrador would turn out to be a service dog for her...I started to have trouble hearing. I was diagnosed with progressive hearing loss and fitted with hearing aids. I also signed up for lip-reading and sign-language classes and joined the Association of Late-Deafened Adults.
Read the entire article at SFGate.com...
Don't Miss Our Puppy Love Fundraising Parties
We have three fun and exciting 'drag show' fundraisers coming up in February and March to help raise money and awareness of our services. You are invited to attend and bring your friends. The events are as follows:
| Aunt Charlie's Lounge Sunday, February 7, 4 pm - 7 pm 133 Turk Street San Francisco, CA 94102-3914 Get directions to Aunt Charlie's |
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| Stray Bar Friday, February 12, 4 pm - 8 pm 309 Cortland Avenue San Francisco, CA 94110-5535 Get directions to Stray Bar |
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| Marlena's Sunday, March 21, 4 pm - 7 pm 488 Hayes Street San Francisco, CA 94102-4309 Get directions to Marlena's |
October 2009 Graduation Huge Success
The Hearing Dog Program graduates four hearing dogs!
This article appears courtesy of The Commonwealth Club of California.
On October 24th at Deaf Community Center, 1550 San Leandro Blvd, San Leandro four graduates received their Hearing Dogs. Those in attendance enjoyed entertainment, food, raffles, prizes, Hearing Dog demonstrations, awards, and a costume contest. Many thanks to our sponsors Elsie Fletcher, Bob Bove, Mike Murray, and Pet Food Express. And of course a big Thank You to DCARA for co-sponsoring the event. A special thank you also goes to our Sign Language Interpreters and to the Communication Access Realtime Translators (CART) who typed what the speakers were saying so we could read it on a screen.
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We provide assistance to people with hearing loss by training dogs to alert Deaf and hard of hearing people to important sounds.