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Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center's 15th Annual Get Wild Benefit! · Go News To Go: More Good News

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  Okay, Hi, this is pauls Acle's Good News broadcast, Good News Planet
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  and Pause the World for Peace. Actually, you started the Nature or A
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  series on PBS, and I love this nature stuff with how We just did
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  a show on ecology on Earth Day in Times Square in six hour live broadcasts.
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  So now I've been here before and I'm here with Noel done, Noel,
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  how are you? And I've been here and I had nice conversations with
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  the owls and other animals and they taught me a lot because they're smart.
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  Right, So tell us about your involvement here please. I'm the director of
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  development, but I've only been doing that for now a little over a year.
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  I started with Wildlife Rescue a while back doing wildlife we had out of
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  my home. Wow. And then I got hired at the rescue center to
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  work in the hospital with the animals. Wow. But I do have some
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  fundraising backgrounds good. Our previous director of development left. I kind of slid
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  into that position. So I've been doing this for a year. This is
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  my second to get wild and people are getting wild. Yeah, I'm just
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  doing Everyone enjoys and bids on our great auction items and every dollar goes to
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  support our rescue center. So tell us about the rescue center. Where is
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  it. It is in Hampton Base and it's been UM it's been in operation
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  for twenty three years and was founded by Jinny Fratty and Jim Hunter, who
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  wobe Jim Hunter is actually going to be honored tonight. And so yeah,
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  it's been taking an animals injured, wildlife, jess wildlife, you know,
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  domestic animals, UM for twenty three years. Wildlife. Wow. Wow,
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  you started in your own home. Everybody who's happy about that? Oh?
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  Oh yeah, so I still do wildlife you have in my home and UM.
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  In fact, my daughter just moved out is in Illinois and her room
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  now it's full of squirrels. I'm just talking about squirrels today. You convert
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  their kids room to an office. I converted it into a squirrel room.
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  So squirrels are like one of the few animals that somehow have made it right
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  for everything. And they're very fast. They're very fast. But I know
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  this is a vector of development. You need to speak with the people and
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  I don't want to take up much of your time, and thank you.
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  What is the website and how can people support you? Um? You can
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  donate directly on our website. It's Wildlife Rescue Center dot org. Keep it
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  very simple, and you can also follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Ah,
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  all right, what is Facebook Live? Thanks so much? Have you?
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  I'm crazy. If you let in nanty five for service and devotion,
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  you would think that I would deserve their promotion along to move ahead. But
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  the boss wont seem to let me. I swear sometimes that man is out
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  to get me. Well, they lent to dream just to watch them shatter.
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  You're just to step on the boss man's lighter. But you got dreams
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  he'll never take away. We're in the same boat with a lot of your
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  friends, waiting for the day the ship or come in. But the tide's
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  gonna turn and it's all gonna roll you away, working nine two five water
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  away to make a living therely get in by. It's all taking and no
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  giving. They just use your mind. They never give you credit. It's
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  enough to drive you. I'm crazy if you let it nine two five.
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  They got you where they were all you. There's a battle line, y'all.
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  Dream about it. Culture. It's a rich man's game. I don't
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  care what they call it. Any spend your life butting money and he's wanding
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  nine two five, just working, working, working nine two five. They
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  got you working nine to five, working nine two five. They'll keep you
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  working, working, working, working nine two five. We'll get back ye
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  like naschool. Wow, I got to appreciate you. All right, I'm
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  recording. I'm broadcasting, wife. Oh, did you want to say something?
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  I love him? Ahead? Who's that? What's this meal? Next?
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  Kalala? But it's a great one now. And her nickname breathing is
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  Beef. And she we've had her said she was a baby, she was
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  two days old. She fell out of a nest and she from both her
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  wings in her pelvis. But she's fully flighted down and she's a little princess
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  and she's a very happy, good life. Right, and she's she's an
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  owl. She's a great corn owl, great great corn corn. She are
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  in ow. You know what to grow her? A great corn owl?
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  The history of that or whatever corn or somehow a great horned owl a corn
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  Okay, well you would think that these are horns, but they're actually not
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  horn. We are messing the swallow. But you know, now people remember
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  it better than the obviously or horns. Great, Oh, because those Yeah,
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  it makes sense. Yeah, well have a have a nice say there.
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  You know they're all around this area because that right, yeah, oh
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  my god, that's sorry. That's a beautiful bo fantastic all right, I
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  think the gentleman watching U great horns? That's your girlfriend? Yes, all
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  right, well sounds good to me. Okay, Hi, how are you?
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  Can I get to some here? Tell me a little bit about who
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  you're hanging out with you? Yeah, all right, yeah, we're live.
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  I actually did it. H So this is Poe again, and uh
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  I'm here. What your name is Chris Hunter? And yours Lindsay Hunter?
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  Lindsay Hunter? Are these Hunters? Hunter? Girl? How does you mind
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  a face you want? No? Yes? No, okay, all right,
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  Oh you're got Except for those countries that don't allow Facebook can watch us.
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  And it's amazing because I'm in making TV show fifty years and we'd have
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  to bring trucks and trucks and satellite dissues and off the chart and spend one
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  hundred thousand dollars to shoot this. I went back a life. I look
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  at that. I taught my jaws oking. So now I heard something very
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  nice that your dad was part of starting this organization to give me some background,
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  and I said, I sent a prayer after your dad. Yeah.
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  He and Jennie Freddie worked together in the county and they carpools and they would
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  stop and help wild animals and there was no place really to help rehabilitate them.
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  So they started the Genie's House and her husband audience, and with their
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  connections with the county, they got involved in months Pond and Hampton Bees and
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  they left them open up the first wildlife center on the island and it started
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  one or twenty five years ago. And here we are today, and he'd
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  be very proud of what's coriminating to Yeah, I'm sure he would, but
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  let's make sure we have the whole family here this time, because we had
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  a temporary malfunction in our service here. So and we're back. We're back.
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  When I was younger, my dad brought who pets all the time,
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  cats from the dog. We had a pet. He brought home the dog
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  because someone was gonna put it down because it had a genetically neck in the
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  eye. But he was always passionate about animals. Team hunted when he was
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  younger because my grandfather loved it. But he never shot anything. He would
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  walk in the woods and just watch the deer and the watch the animals,
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  and you know he's passed it onto all of us, bros. All right,
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  are you do you mind saying something good? This one? Animal lover?
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  Animal love love animals, Like like, I don't know, do you
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  have it? Yeah? Do you have a dog? A bird? What
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  kind of bird? You have? A karake I need? Parakey talks to
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  you. Baas I'm talking talk. He comes out of the cage all the
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  time. And even when I'm as sleep, he like flies on the right.
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  I keep his cage open so he can like fly around. It comes
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  over to you. Yeah, you have to like put your and he like
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  the rest on it. Yeah is that right? She rubs underneath his little
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  neck and you know he d Yeah. Your name is Katherin Hi Katherine,
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  and your name is Alexandra hi axandraw. So what is it about animal?
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  You like animals? Also? I do? So my favorite animal I love
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  turtles. Um so I feel like a lot of it did stem from my
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  grandfather. Um. I don't know. They always just resonated with me,
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  Like even today I saved the turtle he was crossing the street and yeah,
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  he was writing in front. I'll tell you guys, he was right in
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  front of our driveway and teen was going in one direction. And that's what
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  they tell you is you're supposed to put it. Actually, Grandpa taught us
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  that that if he's going in one direction, that's where you put him.
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  You put him where he's crossing the street, not back to where he came
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  from. So, um, yeah, I see him today. I just
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  love turtles. They're like everything. Had my turtle ring on, I might
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  usually had my turtle necklace samba to change it out today. Heard this reason,
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  but yeah, that's like my thing. That's a nice, very interesting.
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  I want to repeat that because it was so powerful that comment about if
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  you found an animal in this situation, in a turtle, to bring it
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  to where they're where they're going. You know, they're they're visiting somewhere.
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  Yeah, and that's true. And it's also true all I had this too
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  because it's very important too, especially living out in this way a rip current.
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  I just learned that if you're in a rip current, you know,
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  and it's pulling, you go with it. Yes, yeah, that it
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  was news to me. I'm Eric, Hi, Eric, how are you
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  all right? Good, Eric, what's your animal life? Well, I
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  love nature like I pretty much. I like live at the beach, like
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  I grew up in the beach. Um. I don't know. I go.
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  I go fishing all the time. I go by by myself with my
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  friends. Oh yeah, let me go. We went like it was probably
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  like twenty miles out. It look like an hour to get out there.
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  But it was cool and we didn't even catch anything. But you saw the
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  whales jumping out of the water. The dolphins would ride right up next to
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  the boat. I don't know. Pati is just amazing. Yeah, he's
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  going outside and just looking around and I don't know, you can't be there.
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  It's nothing like it. I agree with you. I agree. I
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  love the woods and the nature. This is all good. Any other thought
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  you'd like to share with us. I mean, it's very kind your parents,
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  your father is looking nice here for you. It's nice and honoring here
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  today, and you're very proud of what this has grown into from, you
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  know, stopping and helping an animal on the side of the rulings when they
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  were saying they get ten thousand goals a year and they're able to help,
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  Yeah, they were like he loved the number series where they went into schools
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  and two kids and he started that. Wow, absolutely love that. They
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  loved that it was expanding. Ye I am, I must start with you,
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  because Megan, that's how it started. You were such a you're such
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  a good soul and such a concerned friend about an organization and you introduced me
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  here. Why'd you do that? Since seriously you're a good soul? That's
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  what is it? That? Evelyn Alexander is a fantastic work. All right?
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  And you're here and I'm here and I love a volunteer for them,
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  volunteer transporter okay, and they taken orphaned injured Wildlight all over the east end
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  of Long Islands. Okay, Hampton's North Fork. Really important. We're all
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  here today, don't You're not good? Meg? I'm not spontaneously contrition on
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  the run and I make thousands of My name is mar Platts, and I
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  am here tonight to support Evelyn Alexander Wild Lights. I love the work they
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  do. Anytime I see your bone or an animal in distress, I immediately
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  call Evelyn Alexander and they have a team of volunteers that respond. So I
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  came here tonight because I'd like to get more involved with the organization my own
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  rescue, and I do believe that rescues should work together because we're all sharing
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  the mission of saving lives. And so I have my own event coming up
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  or No Dog second line. We are a global organization and we rescue dogs
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  from the most and get your back up perfectly, I think I started well,
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  I am starting it like right now, and I don't edit, and
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  we just kind of like, you know, see we have a bad,
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  semi difficult reception here, but oh I could not move the camera all right,
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  So we were right at a point where you were finding dogs in all
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  different places. It's a national organization. Congratulations, And so when did you
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  start your involvement with it? And actually how do people involve themselves with what
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  you're doing? So I became involved with No Dogs Left Behind when I saw
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  a beautiful labrador on news Swell Dog Day Friday that was in need of a
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  rescue, and so I adopted that dog. And then the person who rescued
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  that dog contacted me and said he wanted to meet me. Then get him,
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  you know, make sure the dog was adjusting well to the new life.
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  And so I met him and I found out the organization was fairly new.
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  We're only we've only been around six years, and I said, I
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  was love to help you spread awareness around the Hamptons. So that became my
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  mission, helping to spread awareness. I adopted a second dog from No Dogs
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  Up Behind, which is my dog's sister, so I now have two beautiful
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  goldens from No Dog s uff Behind. And I started recruiting people around the
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  village. And my amazing friend Myra Is has become a huge part of No
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  Dogs Up Behind and recently adopted a dog from Ukraine. So we are friends
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  and rescue and we are holding an amazing event the end of July, July
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  twenty ninth to be exact, in sag Harbor. It's at the Breakwater Yacht
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  Club. Yeah, so fantastic. Every dollar that we raise goes to the
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  rescue you of of our dogs, and we have a brand new sheltering upstate,
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  so we're raising money for that. Where's that New York, New York
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  where we're hants in New York? Can? Yes? Where's that? All
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  right? A lot of hills, all right, that's got Yeah, that's
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  a beautiful thing. So tell me about anything else you want to share about
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  the event. Your website. What's your website? Well, we have plenty
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  of dogs up for adoption. If you cannot adopt, please foster. Um.
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  We're on ww dot No Dog stuff behind dot com. Just look under
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  survivors and you'll you'll view the dogs up for adoption. H all right,
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  thanks so much. And the website. You have a website. How people
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  know about you? It's ww dot No Dogs up behind dot com? One
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  more times www dot No Dogs left behind. If you don't say things three
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  times, no dogs left behind, no great. I will say a hundred
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  times. We need to get these dogs adopted, whatever it takes in advertising
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  and marketing, If you don't say something three times, people don't leave every
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  remember. Okay, that's bottom line stuff, Ukraine. Jeffrey Barry, the
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  founder of No Ducks Left Behind, was rescuing dogs that were stranded and left
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  behind during the war and he found a little dog terrier mix chained up to
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  a fence and he asked somebody would please adopt him? So I said I
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  would. I'm on the board of No DUTs Left Behind and a volunteer,
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  and he would put the dog he named you, and he put him in
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  a shelter, and then he went back in December and rescued him and brought
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  him back to New York's. Congratulations, thank you very much, and thank
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  you for bringing us over here and meeting some wonderful people. Thank you so
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  nice to meet