On June 6, 2024, The Beagle Alliance held the First Annual Beagle Benefit at Nicolino’s Restaurant.

If you’ve ever participated in a sport, you know what it’s like to play on the home field or the home ice. You know you have to play well every.single.game but when you play at home, there’s something magical about having the support of your people, the locals, the ones you live near and can actually meet in person.

That’s what it was like for me at the 1st annual Beagle Benefit at Nicolino’s this month. Old friends, new friends, board members, volunteers, fosters and adopters all came out to support the mission to place former research dogs into loving homes and to help spread awareness about animal testing in Canada.

Time and money is valuable and it is so humbling to be apart of a community that loves animals so much that they are willing to part with both. To say I am grateful is an understatement. We had a wonderful time and I had the amazing opportunity to chat with a number of amazing folks that I had not met before, and to catch up with many that I had not seen in person for a long while.

Thank you all for showing up and thank you all for buying supporter tickets because you couldn’t show up. Thank you to all who donated prizes and to all who donated to win prizes.

Thank you to the Manitoba based Ian and Rochelle Laing Family Foundation, who most recently donated over $2000 to The Beagle Alliance and to Executive Director Jasmine Allen for attending the event, as well to Vincenzo Adamo, who held an earlier event in order to attend and donate $500.

There is no one act that is too small, but all kind acts that contribute to the coming together of a community and the making of change for the better.

In deepest gratitude and with high hopes for the dogs we intend to rescue and the change we intend to make,

Lori Cohen
Executive Director
The Beagle Alliance

THANK YOU TO OUR PRIZE DONORS

• EcoLicious Equestrian Natural Grooming
• CremeFRESH Natural and Cruelty Free Skincare
• Avidity Hair Salon
• Westland Insurance
• Allianz Global Assistance
• Brenda Greschuk
• Cherisse Epp
• Bethany and Tyler Hebel
• Blaire Barta
• Henry Mayer
• Zoe Beddall
• Jennifer Chance