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Hall Implement generously donates lawnmower to MSSPA

On any business day you can find three generations of Halls busily working at Hall Implement Co. in Windham, Maine. Founded in 1961, the family-owned and-operated John Deere dealership has thrived through good and difficult economic times.  read more »

MSSPA Volunteers of the Year

“It wasn’t my idea, it was my daughter Meghan’s,” explains Windham second grade teacher Kelly Rich. Three years ago she was looking for a class project using applied math skills that would also contribute to the community. She also wanted something concrete so the children could see what the money they raised was actually spent on. Meghan, the horse expert in the family, suggested helping the animals at MSSPA’s farm.  read more »

2010 Buy-a-Bale Campaign Begins

Every year the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals feeds its animals more than 25,000 bales of hay. Depending on weather conditions, the farm yields between 5,000 and 6,000 bales of hay from its own fields during each hay season. Last season the average cost for a bale of hay was $5.00. Right now the Society is providing rehabilitation and care for nearly 90 horses.  read more »

Newsletter Summer 2010

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Keybank supports MSSPA

Community is Key to helping abused horses

On Tuesday, May 25th, KeyBank closed its doors to banking business and set about a different kind of business for the afternoon. KeyBank employees wearing red t-shirts emblazoned with “Neighbors Make a Difference” went into local communities to deliver volunteer service of many kinds. The Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals was very fortunate to have an afternoon’s assistance from KeyBankers Kathy Morrell and Alyson Trempe.  read more »

Pennies for Ponies

Pennies for Ponies

Is the U.S. penny obsolete? Is there anything that can be bought with just a single penny? How many pickle pails would it take to hold $556.18 worth of pennies? These questions and others were recently considered by seventh and eighth graders attending the Windham, Maine Middle School. As part of lessons in science, math, and a friendly competition involving community service, the students, their families, school faculty and staff began collecting pennies to support the MSSPA.  read more »

Horse enoying a spring day

Vaccines donated to horse rehab facility

The Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals thanks the American Association of Equine Practitioners, Intervet/Schering Plough Animal Health, the Unwanted Horse Coalition, and Dr. Rachel Flaherty of Maine Equine Associates. All these played an important part in securing, at no cost to the Society, a significant number of vaccines for spring shots.  read more »

First-grade twins Adele and Grant, assisted by their younger brother Wyatt, load returnables for the collection effort.

Narragansett Hay for Horses

The MSSPA knows that when it comes to saving the lives of animals, one is never too young to make a difference. The first-graders of the Narragansett School in Gorham proved this after raising $570 for the Society. This money is designated to help keep the barn’s hay loft stocked and the horses’ bellies full.  read more »

Morgan Kendall starts the Recycle for Rescue program

Recycle for Rescue

For many people across the state, times are still tough and money is tight. Priorities have shifted, and the focus of most is now one essentials. The Society is no exception.  read more »

Windham Second Grade Class Heading the the Big Barn

Holiday Recipe for Happiness

Preheat the circumstances to critical, combine a few dozen second graders and their families with a half dozen creative, community minded teachers, blend with field trips on perfect autumn afternoons, some practical math lessons, and lot of very hard work.  read more »

MELISSA BARTER

And the winner is . . .

Melissa Barter of Windham, Maine! The Society thanks everyone who purchased raffle tickets to win the fabulous purple pagoda cat tree donated by Bryan Kaufman of r6meows.com.  read more »

MSSPA Holiday Open House

Horse Rescue Farm Holiday Open House

On Saturday, December 5th, the River Road farm of the Maine State Society for the Protection of Animals was filled with holiday spirit as guests enjoyed hot cider, hot chocolate, coffee and holiday treats. The horses whinnied their greetings and showed Society visitors what equine rehabilitation is all about.  read more »

Birthday at MSSPA

The Giving Spirit

The animals, staff and friends of the Society send a heartfelt thank you and happy birthday wish to Connor H. of Gorham. Connor met many of the animals last year when his school class took a field trip to the Society’s River Road farm in South Windham. What he learned about the creatures there made an impression that will last a lifetime.  read more »

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