February 7, 2020 Greetings!

While America's focus has been on politics, the global focus is upon Australia where, with more than one billion animals dead already, there are two more months of fire season - where are the survivors and where will they find sustenance when the fires are extinguished?

Our Fabulous Fabric Artist, SUSAN LEWIS, has offered to contribute all the potholders she could create for endangered Australian wildlife IF we could offer them on the NCG website and cover all fees so that 100% of each $50 purchase would go directly to WIRES to help rescue and recuperate animals from the horrific bushfires in Australia. There are 2,600 vets attached to 28 branches of the NSW wildlife rescue group WIRES - let's pool our resources and send them some help!

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MARY LAHAM , our Canadian friend and greyhound enthusiast, shopped for the batiks Susan prefers and shipped more than twenty yards of fabric to Susan just for this endeavor. At the same time, Susan’s local Humboldt County friend, JEAN STACK , purchased $200 worth of unique Australian fabrics to contribute! AND another HUGE box of designer fabrics is now on the way to Susan from SUSIE MCQUADE and her friends at GALT !<p> The enthusiasm generated for Susan’s project is obvious- as a matter of fact, Susan included $450 in the first shipment of potholders, collected from locals who bought them faster than Susan could make them for us!

EVERY CENT of your $50 purchase will be directed to WIRES Australian Wildlife Rescue Organization- that’s $600 for every dozen we sell - and were’s starting with Susan’s $450 before we sell the first potholder here! Some little injured or abandoned koala or kangaroo (or platypus!) will benefit fully and directly from your participation in Susan’s program. Thank you, SUSAN LEWIS, and thank you, too, to all of you who are helping to make her project a success.

Australian fires have incinerated the habits of up to 100 threatened species. Read the Science News report on the catastrophe here as crucial habitats of rare plants and animals burn.

Prefer to contribute to WIRES directly? Here's how!

Each story here is linked to the sites offering more thorough news and photographs. Click on each link to read more.

Watch the Fire & Light video - if you have a Memorial Heart of your own, you will appreciate the rich artistic history which accompanies its loving sentiment. Watch the Brief Valentine Heart Video . Fire & Light Closing, but Memorial Heart Program Continues..... We are saddened to report the closure of Fire and Light, makers of our Memorial Hearts and the pride of Arcata California. We have managed to secure most of the hearts remaining: all Aqua and Pink- fitting colors. Other colors may be ordered as long as our stock remains available. We're greytful to be able to continue our memorial Heart Program with these hand poured, hand signed, recycled glass keepsakes..

 Memorial Heart Gifts Will Continue!  Memorial Hearts are of hand poured recycled glass by Fire & Light in Arcata CA. Each is professionally etched with NCG's 8Ball Greyhound and hand etched with the memorialized greyhound's name. A Rainbow Bridge card with your own sentiment is included with each gift. $25 of the receipts from each heart gift is contributed to the canine cancer research of Dr. Nicola Mason at University of Pennsylvania. 

You'll want to watch this YouTube video of DR. NICOLA MASON discussing her canine cancer program! It's personal, entertaining and educational!

We are especially impressed to learn that Dr. Mason's trials are now offered at more than TWENTY clinics, according to t his article in Veterinary Practice News! Open the link to find a location near where you live- I hope you don't need one but someone you know might..., The article is worth saving.