UPAWS Receives Donation from Thrivent Choice Dollars

UPAWS Receives Record Donation from Thrivent Choice Dollars

MARQUETTE, Mich. – March 22, 2016 – The Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter (UPAWS) recently announced a record year for donations coming from the Choice Dollars program offered by Thrivent Financial.  Each year

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Jon’s Auto Supports UPAWS

Thank you to Jon’s Auto for helping the UPAWS pets!


Contest for a customized dog house from The House Designers – and UPAWS wins too!

It’s a contest for a customized dog house from The House Designers – and UPAWS wins too!

Details:

To enter, first make a donation of at least $50 to your UPAWS
Next, write a short essay about your own dog and take

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Ishpeming High School Students Help UPAWS

The Ishpeming High School National Honor Society and Key Club had a service project to help UPAWS! They made and sold “puppy chow” for donations and had a large wish list drive for us. Thank you students and all who

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The Throttle Bar and Grill Sled Night Update

Many thanks to the wonderful folks at The Throttle Bar and Grill in Little Lake hosted and sponsored another Sled Night to benefit UPAWS. There were dozens of bucket raffles, 50/50 drawings, and a lots of door prize drawings. All

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Saving Your Econo Slips Helps UPAWS

One of the easiest things you can do to help our shelter is to save your Tadych’s Econo receipts (slips) for us. Shelter volunteers total the slips up that we receive, turn them into Econo & we get 1% of

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Art for Animals Update

The long anticipated Art for Animals, sponsored by Art of Framing, was held February 25th and what a great evening it was! One hundred and forty-four artists, young and old, professional and amateur, submitted their masterpieces for the silent auction,

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Super One Raises Money for UPAWS

Super One Foods in Marquette held a special in-store lunch recently for their customers-with all money raised coming to our shelter. Despite wintery weather, many customers came in to enjoy a lunch of shrimp, fries, coleslaw & a pop &

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Find “The One” in time for Valentine’s Day!

Looking for “The One”? UPAWS has a sweetheart of a deal!

February 1st – 14th — $14.00 to adopt any cat over six months old!

Adopt the love of your life. Because this Valentine’s Day, some cute feline thinks YOU’RE “The

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Father Marquette Students Help UPAWS

The Father Marquette eight grade students in a service project called “Project Sawbuck”. The goal of the project was to use their time, talents and treasure to make seed money grow over the course of eight weeks. The students works

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