Saturday, November 2, 2002
Our annual picnic, held November 2 at Phoenix Greyhound Park was a smashing success. A little over 500 greyhound owners came out to spend the day with all of their wonderful hounds. It is always such a special time for the AAGI staff to see all of the adopted greyhounds come back for a fun day. Thank you for making time to attend this event.

The costume contest, as always, was great fun. What a riot to see the great imaginations of some of our adoptees — and the greyhounds are always so tolerant of it all! Our judges had a real challenge choosing the final winners, but here are their selections. Judy Sutton was the lucky winner of the 29" brass greyhound in the raffle with many other happy runners-up.

The only cloud on an otherwise sunny day was that the radar gun for timing the Blur of Fur failed to operate properly. After several attempts the crew abondoned the timing & just let folks have a good time letting their hounds race down the grassy course. The folks from RU2 Systems promise to get things ready for next year so be ready! By the way, we sell squawkers (the noise maker) in the AAGI trailer.

Dana Provost was the grand prize winner in the "Hunt for Your Hound" contest and lots of happy pups consumed their catch in "Bobbing for Hot Dogs."

Enjoy the pictures but plan to join us 2003!!

Costume Contest Winners:

1st Place
Maureen as "Where's the Fire?"
Rochelle Gribbler

2nd Place
Vin Diesel as Fireman
Sherry Tischendorf

3rd Place
Necco as Tarrantula
Greg & Kelly Knapp

4th Place
Terra, Taz & Stevie as "Medieval Times"
Judy & Harriet Weintraub
L-R: Stevie, Taz & Terra Weintraub as "Medieval Times"

Thank you to...

Phoenix Greyhound Park
Brass & More
Silk Road Collars
Greyhound Love Design
Bone Appetit Bakery
Goober Express
Perfectly Spoiled
Marsha’s Martingales
Mik Wilkins
Sew What Embroidery
Northcoast Greyhounds
Kay Cox, Pet Counseler
TTouch of Phoenix
Cindi Charboneau
Deb Trickel
Henry-Larry Snook
Joyce & Gil Cropper
Dragonflyte Creations
RU2 Systems

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