Front Royal Rotary makes final community award of 2021 fiscal year to Humane Society

Ellen Aders, president of the Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC), accepted what turned out to be the Rotary Club of Front Royal’s last Fiscal Year 2020-21 community contribution a few week’s into Katie Tewell’s term as president at Rotary’s Zoom/in-person meeting August 6.

Ellen Aders, president of the Humane Society of Warren County with Katie Tewell, President of  Rotary Club of Front Royal. Photo by Bret Hrbek.

It was a check for $1,000 to help fund the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter and was accepted by Aders. In a brief conversation following the meeting, she called on animal lovers in Warren County to both volunteer at the shelter and also put up their names to fill elective vacancies on the HSWC Board of Directors.

While the HSWC annual meeting isn’t until next April, there are three openings on the current board that Aders said could be filled by appointment, and others, including her own, that need to be filled by election in 2022. Aders plans to step down after nine years of service on the humane society board. Persons wishing to join the board now should call the Humane Society at the Wagner Shelter number, 540 635-4734.

Meanwhile, following the opening of the new downtown spay/neuter clinic and the annual Waggin’ for Dragons boat race down the Shenandoah River last weekend, HSWC is busy planning for November’s major fundraiser “Tales and Ales” for which sponsorship packages are already being sought. “Yappy Hour”, Aders reminded, continues each Friday evening at ViNoVa restaurant, 124 East Main Street in downtown Front Royal, 4-6 p.m. as a continuing fundraiser for the Humane Society overseen county animal shelter.