From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000--


People

Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, on September 18
received United Animal Nations' Animals' Choice Award for forming a Pet
Posse to investigate and ensure prosecution of animal abuse cases, and
for converting an obsolete jail into a shelter for abused animals, staffed
by female inmate volunteers.

The Alternatives Research & Development Foundation, a subsidiary
of the American Anti-Vivisec-tion Society, on October 1 presented its
$5,000 William A. Cave Award to MatTek Corporation president John
Sheasgreen for his success in marketing to major corporations a line of
project safety tests which do not require animal testing. Cave headed
American AV from 1978 until his death in 1990.

Salomon Smith Barney brokerage firm vice president Philip D.
Pitchford, 49, of Rolling Hills, Calif-ornia, on September 29 donated
$1 million to enable the Los Angeles SPCA to complete a "companion animal
village and education center" in El Dorado Park, Long Beach. The facility
will resemble the adoption campuses built throughout England in recent
years by the National Canine Defence League.

United Activists for Animal Rights president Nancy Burnet and The
Price Is Right host Bob Barker on October 1 realized that five hens used in
the just-completed CBS television series Big Brother would be out of work,
so called CBS, asked for them, and got them. Barker heads the $10
million DJ&T Foundation, formed in honor of his late wife Dorothy Jo and
his mother, Tilly, to make grants to neutering projects. Info:
310-278-1160.