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9 p.m.: Rescue groups ready to help Obamas find a dog
ANDERSON — If the Obamas are looking for a rescue dog, they’re welcome to call Madison County.
President-elect Barack Obama announced Tuesday he would make good on a campaign promise to buy a puppy for his daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7.
“Sasha and Malia, I love you both more than you can imagine,” Obama said in his election night address. “You have earned the puppy that is coming with us.”
Malia expressed a desire for a “goldendoodle,” a golden retriever-poodle hybrid. Michelle Obama told reporters in October that the family would select a rescue dog from a shelter. But any future pet must be hypoallergenic because of Malia’s allergies.
In any case, the puppy should be a social animal with a stately look, said two Anderson experts.
Maybe a crossbreed, suggested Mike Kase, president of Countryside Animal Rescue, the Anderson nonprofit which offers adoptable pets.
Kase noted that a crossbred dog “can represent all the people of America.”
Kase said, “I think you’ll find that shelter and rescue organizations across the country do have the crossbred between a golden retriever and a poodle.”
Offhand, Kase recommended a Doberman pinscher-German shepherd mix named Jasper. The animal rescue group can be reached at (765) 649-7944. Animals can be viewed at www.petfinder.com
At Anderson Animal Care and Control, Superintendent Joe McClain suggested, “You’d want something stately and you’d want something that emanated their (the Obamas’) personality.
“And also remembering the whole time that once you add an animal to the family, it does become part of the family, you have to look it more from that standpoint than actually what breed it is.”
The shelter, 613 Dewey St., has numerous dogs for adoption.
“If people want to come down and rescue one for their own, we’ll call it a presidential dog,” McClain said.
Jimmy Carter was the last president to bring a mixed breed to the White House. However, a recent American Kennel Club survey indicated that said voters would like the Obamas to adopt a purebred poodle Of 43 presidents, 22 have owned purebreds.
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Labor Day without the labor
Joyce Qualls said she’s blessed. She has something that 11.7 percent of working-age county residents don’t have — a job.
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Fundraiser in memory of man killed by IPD officer attracts 2,500
Terry Palmer was one of an about 2,500 participating in a fundraising motorcycle ride that left Pendleton Sunday morning.
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Arrest Log: Sept. 6
Arrests made by Madison County law enforcement on Saturday and Sunday, based on Madison County Jail records.
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Million Meals program aims to feed the hungry in a land of plenty
David Hardin’s family-owned hog farm had survived nearly two years of economic downturn.
A plunging pork market had led to a $20 loss on every pig sold, when a colleague came to him with a request last summer: Would he and his fellow pork producers in the state provide a million meals to feed hungry people in Indiana? -
THB honors soldiers who died in Iraq
Like most media outlets, ours has been guilty at times of paying too little attention to the U.S. military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. For nearly a decade, the United States has been involved in major military operations in that part of the world.
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Stimulus pumps nearly $5 million into neighborhoods
ANDERSON — To see how stimulus dollars are changing neighborhoods in Anderson, drive down Sheridan Street, and the vicinity near Allen Chapel AME Church and Sherman Street Church of God north of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
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Council to pass final budget, salary ordinances
ANDERSON — Anderson City Council on Thursday will introduce a preliminary 2011 budget for city departments, while some city departments will ask to shift money within their accounts to pay salaries for the rest of the year.
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A great sacrifice: Families remember those lost in Iraq
ANDERSON — In the moments before Henry and Sharon White’s son was shot and killed when his convoy was ambushed along a Baghdad road, he took hold of the machine gun mounted to his Humvee and killed 18 insurgents, allowing the other members of his unit to scramble to safety.
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THB offices closed for holiday
The Herald Bulletin business offices will be closed Monday in observance of Labor Day.
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Local news briefs: Sept. 5
The following are brief news items of local interest.
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