News and Events

March 20, 2004 Meeting

THANK YOU SANDIE SMITH! From "the bottom of our paws!"

At our Gold Canyon D.O.G. –Dog Owners Group- March meeting we had a wonderful guest speaker, our own Sandie Smith, Pinal County Supervisor for District 2. Sandie has been a supporter of an off-leash doggie park in Gold Canyon from the beginning,back in October of 2002.

Some of the issues that Sandie addressed were as follows:

Harold Christ has donated the land behind the Yacht Club for open and park space. It is currently still at the title company. The DOG group, the land owner, and the county need to work with the surrounding citizens and Home Owners Associations (HOA’s) for usage of this open space.

She mentioned that another possible location for the off-leash dog park would be on the land behind the Dinosaur Park and meetings will begin with the school district to see if this is possible. Of concern is the amount of space available.

Sandie also mentioned the importance of meeting with the Home Owners Associations (HOA). She is willing to be present at the meetings when necessary. D.O.G. will attend the Superstition Foothills HOA meeting in March. The more people in the community that are aware of our efforts to promote responsible pet ownership the more the community will support us.

She suggested that Jane Decker, Director for Pinal County Animal Care and Control would be glad to be a guest speaker at our meetings.

Sandie also suggested that our group sponsor events such as Vaccination Clinics. Pinal County Animal Control will be available for such events. This could be combined with organizations that sponsor pet ID chips, etc

Sandie was very impressed with the efforts of our group to “promote responsible pet ownership.” She liked the idea of our donation of a Dog Poo container to be installed at Dinosaur Park in the next few weeks.

Sandie Smith appreciates our efforts in helping find LOST dogs or in finding the owners of FOUND dogs through our
program PAW Alert.