The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, hereby recognize, commend and thank the volunteer partners of the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter for their ceaseless energy and effort towards saving and caring for the most vulnerable animals in our community and maintaining the invaluable human-animal bond.
CZU Fire: Special Volunteer Helpers Honored
It really did take a village! We are so grateful to the many organizations and individuals who helped in so many different ways with the support of animals in need during and after the CZU fire. SCCAS wants to thank all volunteers who helped during this time. If you spent time out at the SC County Fairgrounds, or helped out in some other way, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP. The names below were compiled by the volunteer leads who were at the fairgrounds every day during this disaster. We apologize if anyone was inadvertently left out.
Equine Evacuation of Santa Cruz County
Members braved the fire zones to rescue animals and returned multiple times to care for animals in place that were left behind!
Kathy Adams
Cheryl Basinger
Erica Berg
Debi Boscoe
Jane Brown
Hap Bullard
Shari Click
Kenneth Coale
Susan Coale
Nancy Cole
Rebekah Crill
Rachel Crill
Alicia Dayton
Helen Dilworth
Stacey Dorsey
Crystal English
denise Fehrman
Lorraine Flores
Claire Francis
Hannah Good
Tauna Grinager
David Guelphman
Cally Haber
Marsha Heidt
Lawrence Herzberg
Susan Herzberg
Elisabet Hiatt
Lyn Hood
Janet Hope
Leslie Jaquith
Jan Jensen
Loren Keeley
Genae Kindscher
Gina Kindscher
Jennifer kurl
Amanda Langlais
Howard Liebenberg
Scott Lindberg
Elise Livingston
Frank Locatelli
Teresa Locatelli
Kristi Locatelli
Dawn Mackey
Sue Magnusson
Cyndi Marchese
Linda Martin
Michelle Mc Carthy
Ginger Mosney
Robin Musitelli
Lindsay Overton
Kristin Praly
Sebastian Praly
Patricia (PT) Reap
Chistin Rechmuth
Joseph Repetiski
Nancy Repetiski
Liz Riehl
Nolan Sands
David Schoen
Sarah Schoen
Heather Shupe
Christine Smith
Alicia Stanton
Donna Stidolph
Bonnie Stoehn
Jane Strang
Mary Sullivan-White
Cristie Thomas
Larry Wall
Chris White
Katja Wick
Julie Wood
Fairgrounds Core Volunteers
Jessica Schattenburg (Operations Management)
Jamie LaFollette (Site operations coordinator)
Tessa Ramsay (barn lead equine)
Dr. Kacie Wells (primary volunteer vet gave us all exams FREE)
Jec Ballou & Siobhan Saunders (team/barn leads equine)
Cyndi Marchese (barn lead/goats/sheep etc.)
Jayce Schattenburg
Scott & Cristie Thomas (team) Equine Evac
Shannon Oliveira Cole & her daughter Morgan Cole (team barn lead poultry/rabbits/small animals)
Shona McDougall (volunteer coordinator)
Linda Martin- Equine Evac
Cole Kawata & Justin Waikiki Firebaugh & team (ground team and inventory managers)
Mary Sullivan White (Equine Evac Ops Lead)
Kelly Ann Crigler & Carlos Medina (Equine Care: lead team)
Jeannette Moules (owner of Country Hills Feed main supplier of all feed etc.)
Stephanie Fontana (14th District Ag. Association Santa Cruz County Fair Board Director-helped with everything we needed) https://fairgrounds-foundation.org/
Other Fairgrounds Volunteers and Help
Haley Alaga
Amy Alford
Sarah Alm
Jessia Ayala
Jone Balesteri
Gavin Barnholt
Dr. Jessica Beattie (Steinbeck Equine)
Connie Breakfield
Jane Kameny Brown (Equine Evac)
Alida Canale
Phillp Carranco
Emily Clark
Cole & Justin
Gina Cole
Brian Cole
Shania Cole
Wesley Cole
The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz (Gave us a $5000 grant for our fund.)
Rebekah Lynn Crill (Equine Evac)
Mei Curry
Erik Dahlstrom
Nick Drobac
Annette Renee Coulon & Bruce Edwards (six tons of grass hay donated from Oregon, friends of Jec Ballou)
Bridgette Rory Elliott
Connor Engler
Kathy Evans
Scott Garner
Sebastian Garner
Gary Goodstein
Kody Haney
Alecia Haselton
Adam Haverstock (volunteer and photo documentation)
Brett Hennie
Dr. Cori Phinn & Natasha Hunt (Coast Veterinary)
Stacey Iverson (SCCAS Humane Educator)
Alleaha Javed
Carrie Johnson
Mary Jones
Julia Jones R.V.T. (Fletcher Equine)
The Juniors Crew from White Rock Ranch- Dakota Slaughter, Amanda Garza, Ashley & Hunter
Ana Kazimi (raised $4,602 for our fund)
David Kegebein (Fairgrounds Manager)
Dr. Jen Keil
Jaron Kelley
Janey King
Lisa Krigsman
Maria Kyong
Brett Lancaster (farrier)
Amanda Langlais (Equine Evac)
Laura & Robin
Michelle LeClair (Pleasant Valley Horse Club)
Debbie & Nathan Lewis
Lisa Lydon
Dr. Maddie Turner & Dr. Katelin McKeown (Adobe Equine)
Patrick McNett
The Mead Family
Meghan Morkeski
Carson Newton
Ely Padilla (Corralitos Feed, donations and volunteer efforts)
Caeli Elizabeth Perrelli (raised $6,000 for our fund)
Cathy Pieratt
Jeanne Ainsworth Pifferini
Neil Porsch
Nickolas Porter
Christian Quaglia (Peace Officer)
Denise Russo
Crystal & Nolan Sands (Equine Evac)
Kristina Sandstrom
Rachel Saull
Doug Schattenburg
Hannah Schultz-Wilson
Cheryl Selden
Dominique Sembrat
Cristy Sorenson
Kelly Souza
Becky Steinbruner
Donna Stidolph
Jane Strang (Equine Evac)
Trevor Stroud
Becky Suarez
Dr. Emily Talkington
Wendy Vogelgesang
Faith, April & Jeff Walls
Jacob Westberg
Karen Williams
John Wyatt
Food Vendors Who Kept Volunteers and Evacuees Fed
Driscoll’s : https://www.driscolls.com/
Togo’s Watsonville
Bagelry and Grocery Outlet and Shopper’s Corner teamed up with www.unionfoodietruck.com to provide a multitude of meals on different days with their food truck
Food Truck Heroes “Talya’s Kitchen.” https://www.talyaskitchen.com/foodtruckhero/ brought out a taco truck for us
Butchers and the Mule (biggest donor of daily food): https://www.tasty-meats.com/ in collaboration with Beer Mule: kickassbeer.com
Pacific Cookie Company
Laura Holmquist and Staff at Five Star Catering: fivestarcatering.com
Private Ranches Who Housed Evacuees
Gina Gomez Kindscher & Genae Kindscher of Morning Sun Ranch (housed over 30 horses, donkeys and their humans ; set up all their arena space with portable pens; they put together incredible effort): http://www.morningsunranch.com/
Anne M. Beggs & Russell Beggs at Equisance at Moon Valley Ranch (housed over 30 horses): https://equisance.com/
Michelle Le Clair & Kelly Ann Crigler & Carlos and Neil Porsch with Pleasant Valley Horse Club (trailered innumerable horses AND sent us volunteers and supplies daily, Kelly and her partner Carlos worked with us EVERY SINGLE DAY morning and night during the entire evacuation): https://www.pleasantvalleykidsclub.com
Jec Ballou (Ran our upper barns almost the entire time with her wife Siobhan even overnight when needed deferring her entire own equine business (and life) to do so and brought her entire team of people with her to help she is also the person who brought me in to the fairgrounds on day two) at https://www.jecballou.com
Erik Dahlstrom and Rosy Dahlstrom with White Rock Ranch (Lent his trailer expertise which is extensive for VERY difficult horses, sent us tons of volunteers): http://www.whiterockranch.com/
Missy Paul & Family at Big Tree Ranch in Larkin Valley (housed evacuated horses).
Anne Howard at American Sporthorse (houses over 30 evacuated horses): http://www.in-balance.com/Ash-indx.htm
Julie at Dream Valley Ranch (housed evacuated horses): https://www.yelp.com/biz/dream-valley-ranch-watsonville
Horse & Heart (houses evacuated horses): https://www.horseandheart.org/
Backstretch Equine in Aromas Dennis Barwick (housed a lot of evacuees and their horses/animals): backstretchrescue.org
Jeanette Moules owner of Country Hills Feed & Bella Mar Training Facility (housed 49 evacuated horses and raised a HUGE sum of donated funds to supply us at the fairgrounds and help care for evacuated horses and animals in the community and their needs) : http://www.countryhillsfeed.com/Horse_Boarding.php
Santa Cruz County Horsemen’s (worked w/equine evac to establish the first evac center at Graham Hill Showgrounds- many of our volunteers are both EE and SCCHA members/volunteers including myself); https://sccha.wildapricot.org/ On Facebook
Monterey Bay Equestrians (sent volunteers/donations/fundraised for us): https://montereybayequestrians.org/