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Kudos to our supporters
Gifts of feed, supplies & time listed on this page.
Gifts of money on Donor page.
click HERE to view Thank You photos
click HERE to view Event photos
7-11-08- A Big Thank you to Kathy Ziegler
and Hope Lutheran Church for inviting, Cecely & JoJo, the donkeys to the bible school program. The childen
and adults really enjoyed the visit this year in Cherryville. The people at the church were very generous with monetary
and food donations for all the animals.
7-10-08 Another big "thank you" goes out to Miss
Molly, Barb, Dustin, Melissa, Polly, Kiran, Julie, Caitlin, Kathy V., Miss Jen,Quinn, Lee, who have really been
"digging in their heels" helping the animals-Clarence, turkey, Teagan Alpaca, Rocky, Pyr, Sundance, horse, Samson, goat, with
the multiple medical problems, that this group has had in the past week...all at one time! All of you, and of course,
Ben Gress, loving husband, have been going "above & beyond" helping care for the therapy animals at the ranch! Kudos
to you all, I COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS WITHOUT YOU! !!! I am truly blessed....KG
06-22-08 Thanks to Brent, Bill, Jeff, and my husband, Ben, who worked
long and hard to get the roof completed for the alpacas. Great job for Brent's Eagle Project.
The "Alpaca Palace", is really quite beautiful, and Andrew really enjoys it, along with all the rest of the animals. (photos
in the thank you album)
06-19-08-A Huge "Thank You!" goes
out to Darren Still, who has donated 200lbs of Platform-Senior Horse grain, and two nice containers of ''Carrot
& Oat Treats" for the horses, and Timothy hay for the rabbits. Darren, also, has come out after his "work" day,
and fed all the horses. Thank you, Darren, You are our "Special Horse Angel" for Sundance, Dede, Elle, JoJo, & Cecely
.KG
06-14-08 Thank you to Julia, Catlin, Miss Polly, and Julia's family
who helped out with Samson, Chili, the rabbit, Pearl & LeRoy Piggy, at the Quakertown Vet Clinic Fair.
Fun time for all, Samson, stole the show, with his "American Cowboy goat costume, and won 3rd place for his entry. Pearl
Piggy, got 2nd place as "little Miss Muffet." LeRoy Piggy, wagged his tail nostop to the people and "worked" the crowd
for TGMR!
06-14-08 Thank you to Boy Scouts
Troop 72 Fogelsville, "Eagle Scout project for Brent Baade and all the scouts, Troop leaders: Bill, Ken, Robin, John,
and Sharon and Scouts, Andrew, Jeff, Alex, Ryan, , especially our "project manager" Brent Baade. Dedicated Hard working
folks, Bless all of you for helping the animals at The Gress Mountain Ranch. Photos of Robin and the boy scout group posted
in the thank you album.
June 5, 2008, Darren Still, Thanks for your
generous donation of 30lbs of delicious California carrots for the animals, 50lbs of alpaca/llama pellet food, and 3lbs of
Timothy Hay for both Chili & Ratchet Rabbits!
June 4, 2008-A Great Big "Thank You" goes out to
Amanda Kling-who put out an message on "craigslist" to sponsor an animal. Amanda has pick up from Al's
farm in Bangor, Pa. some alfalfa mixture hay, donated the hay for the "horses" at TGMR. Amanda, made Kathryn's anniversary
day, even more special! Thanks for your kindness, Amanda, visit us soon! KG
June 2nd "
Thank You" to Jennifer Rex, my psychology intern from Chestnut Hill College with "El Gato" the barn cat.
Jen has been helping at The Gress Mountain Ranch, and mentoring under the direction of Kathryn Gress, in counseling sessions
at the "therapeutic ranch", helping people with "mental fitness." (photo in TY album)
May 23-May 26, 2008--Thank you to the unannounced
person, who purchased a plane ticket for Kathryn to fly to Texas, to see her family and go to her nephew's, "Nick's" graduation.
Kathryn had not see her family in over 10yrs, in Texas! During that time, Kathryn's loving husband, Ben, stayed home
and took care of 28 therapy animals. Helping Ben, manage and care for the ranch and the animals were: Polly, Molly,
Melissa, Donna, and Georgine! Ladies each and everyone of you, did a tremendous job, and it put Kathryn's mind
at ease, knowing you were helping Ben with all the animals! We are very fortunate to have you on our team!
05-17-08- Here is Ben,
with Andrew Alpaca, Leonard, our "shearer" & Wendy. "Thank you" to Leonard Erdman
and Wendy, from "Shearing 123, for another great job for shearing our 3 alpacas, and Cutie the goat at The Gress Mountain
Ranch. You can contact Leonard by clicking his banner on the LINKS page.
(photo in Thank You album)
May 15, 2008-A Big Thank you to Joysa Winter
from Havertown, Pa. who donated some adult and children gardening tools, complete with a variety of both children & ladies,
gardening gloves too! Joysa, and The Jewish Community Center helped to landscape and plant some flowers
on May 4th. Thanks so much, gardening "never looked so good!." KG
May 14, 2008-"Thank You" Loretta,
for helping out with the Service Electric Cable TV presentation.
Here is Loretta, getting "back to her roots" of farm life, engaging with Randy & Rascal Goats. Loretta, gives
"TLC" to the goats today. Thanks for all your super promotion of the Animal-Assisted Therapy program...You're the Best
Loretta! KG (photo in thank you album)
May 2nd Mosser Elementary School visit, thank you to Polly
for the laughs and the awesome job working with Pearl. (photo in event album) Thank you to the school for
having a food drive for the animals and a monetary donation too! Thank you to Betty and Don Semler for
helping with the Mosser event and being part of our "healing & helping" mission. (photo in event album) (also photo of
Don holding Pearl piggy).
4-26-08 Thank you to Lehigh
4-H vet science club with Dr. Marie Weber, Peter, Zach, Marie, Kristine,Lily and Sean who were helpful rounding up and
handling the alpaca and goats so Ben could de-worm them. (photos in T.Y. album)
4-2-08- A Thank you goes out to "Josh
Konkus Produce, Pottsville, Pa. at 1-570-527-5118 for his produce donations for the animals...Pearl & LeRoy enjoyed
the cucumbers alot!
April A Huge
Thank you goes out to the"many generous people" who donated for Elle, for the new shed built by Dave &
Hillside Structures from Herndon, Pa.! Elle's new run in
shed is up. (photos in T.Y. album) We are truly blessed to have all you wonderful people supporting the ranch and all the
therapy animals.
March 29th 2008-"A Big Thank
You" for the volunteers that help make the Mind/Body Connections: Animal-Assisted Therapy Presentation and the table display
at LVH -Muhlenberg for the APNA-Pa conference, a "wonderful" success!
Thank you Polly, for creating a super power-point
presentation" Last minute", that was well received by all! To Loretta, for her "heartfelt" testimony of her "life experiences"
with Brutus , AAT, and her personal power story! Loretta has the "WOW" factor.
Thank you to Polly and Don, for the skilled pig
handling of Pearl & LeRoy Piggy, Thank you to Trish, a new junior volunteer for helping with the animals, and hand out
fliers to the audience..Thank you, Betty, for managing the table, and coming up with creative ideas to share our mission!
.Thank you Ben, my loving husband for your "endless" support, working with Rocky, and all the animals.! I couldn't do
it without all of your grand support, thanks for promoting the human-animal Bond!
March 30, 2008, A huge success
was the Allentown St. Patrick's Parade-a Heartfelt "Thank you" goes out to Loretta, for handing out fliers to interested folks,
Donna and Molly for handling Andrew Alpaca, Frankie and Julia, helping ease "Miss Kayla's worries", and help her strut her
stuff! Jennifer, Mary, and Carla, mothers of girls, (scouts and church) who showed great role modelling by walking Jo
Jo & Cecely in the parade. Thank you Miss Jessica, "our official "sign" holder for the crowd, and Journey and Chopper,
who helped out along with the girls from the scout troop! Fred, thanks for helping the crowd of West End Allentown, to learn
about the "WoW factor in Rocky!
2-22-08 Thank you to all of you folks that
have donated in the past week! The Gress Mountain Ranch, animals have a good supply of Cheerios and Shredded Wheat,
Oaks, bread, dry cat and dog food. We are still in need of applesauce, Pepto Bismol, Apples, tomato juice, and carrots....
2-20-08-"Thank You! to the Good Shepherd
Rehab Center, where Nancy, Kathy, Heather, Patty, and Carolyn donated some bird
treats, timothy hay for the rabbits, Rocky & Kayla dog treats, and cat treats on Kathryn's Birthday!
02-17-08--A Big "Thank You!" goes out to
John Henderson, from Nutro Products, who again, donated a variety of dog/cat dry food, for
the "therapy" animals at The Gress Mountain Ranch. We "love" your Nutro Products, John, thanks for your generosity!
2-7-08 A big "thank you goes out to Naomi
Halperin, the video specialist, and Emily Robson,special to the Morning Call Newspaper., who did a great photo solution starting with .8-07-07 to read the article, and get the next in
line for giving someone, a special photo session, just let us know.KG
01-26-08-A Big "Thank You!" goes out to John
Henderson, our district sales manager, who has generously donated more Nutro Products-dog and cat food for the Fido's
& felines of The Gress Mountain Ranch.
A Big 2008 "Thank you" to the following volunteers that have been so dedicated to help the animals with
the extreme of weather condtions!
They are : Christine Condon, Chris Sell, Ashly Graves, Linda, Korey, Katie, Torie, Miss Molly, and
Melissa. New volunteers joining the forces to help the animals at TGMR, include: Abby, Donna, MaryFrances, and Amanda.
Returning volunteers, are: Allison, JoAnn, LeeAnn, William, and Jerry. All of you are "very special" people, who Kathryn
& Ben, are blessed to have on our team of helping the animals & people. Christine photo in TY album.
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1/13/08 Thank you to Nancy, the supervisor of Good Shepherd Rehab. Carolyn, Heather, Kathy, and
Patty, , who have done a "great job" (helping to heal and take care of "Rocky's mother-Kathryn). photo in T.Y. album
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