Event
Love to laugh? Love Animals? Join us at “Comedy A.S.A.P” Nov 9th!
Love to laugh? Love Animals? Take a mid-week comedy break on Wednesday, November
9th at Comedy A.S.A.P. presented by KPOJ radio. All ticket proceeds go to help animals! Meet us at Helium Comedy club where KPOJ morning host Carl Wolfson will headline an evening of stand-up comedy. And there’s a silent auction too!
By working together, ASAP partners have reduced euthanasia in our region by 44% in four years! But there is much more to be done to save the lives of cats and dogs, and we need your support! This event will raise funds for ASAP’s Spay & Save subsidized spay/neuter program.
What: “Comedy A.S.A.P.” an evening of comedy presented by KPOJ radio to benefit the Animal Shelter Alliance of Portland, (ASAP)
When: Wednesday, November 9th. Doors open at 6pm. Silent auction till 7:30pm. Show from 8-9:30pm.
Where: Helium Comedy Club: 1510 SE 9th Avenue (entrance is just South of SE Hawthorne on 9th Avenue).
How much: Tickets are $20* in advance and $25* at the door. (This goes straight to support ASAP!)
To purchase tickets, call Helium at 888-64-FUNNY or pre-purchase online .
(*$2.50 ticket processing charge)
Who:
About KPOJ and Carl Wolfson
Carl and his cats Kali & Tux
Carl Wolfson is the host of The Morning Show, which airs weekdays from 6 to 9 a.m. on AM 620 KPOJ, Portland, Oregon’s progressive talk station. The show can be streamed or Podcast at www.620kpoj.com.
The show features an in-depth analysis of the day’s events, breaking stories and interviews with local and national newsmakers. Each day, Carl draws on his longtime comedy career and a master’s degree in political science to provide illuminating interviews with the likes of Helen Thomas, Ralph Nader, Maya Angelou, Madeleine Albright, and Alan Greenspan. Hosts, guests and callers mix it up on subjects great and small – from polar caps to wiretaps, oligarchy to Glenn Beck’s malarkey.
Carl joined KPOJ in 2007, after a 27-year career as one of America’s top headlining comedians. He is a veteran of more than 6,000 performances. During the 1980s and 1990s, Carl was a frequent performer on national television, appearing on HBO, Showtime’s Comedy Club Network, VH-1 Stand-Up Spotlight, An Evening at the Improv and The Joan Rivers Show. His weekly news segments on Thicke of the Night (“The Wolfson Report”) and Fox Network’s Late Show (“Carl’s Camera”) were the most popular features of each show. Carl began his show-biz career at Hollywood’s Comedy Store in 1980. He received his B.S. in Communications from The University of Tennessee and his M.A. in Political Science from UCLA.
About ASAP
The Animal Shelter Alliance of Portland’s (ASAP’s) mission is to end the euthanasia of healthy, social, and treatable cats and dogs in Portland-area shelters through collaboration and outreach. By working together we have reduced euthanasia in our region by 44% in four years! The coalition is comprised of ten organizations : The Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs; Cat Adoption Team; Clackamas County Dog Services; Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon; Humane Society for Southwest Washington; Multnomah County Animal Services; Oregon Humane Society; Portland Veterinary Medical Association; Southwest Washington Veterinary Medical Association; and Washington County Animal Services/Bonnie L. Hayes Small Animal Shelter.
ASAP’s keystone program is Spay & Save, a Portland metro area-wide program that aims to assist low income families and their cats by offering 10,000 annual, affordable spay & neuter surgeries for those who qualify. The program aims to keep struggling families and their pets together and reduce the number of cats and kittens that are coming into our shelters every year—23,574 in 2010 alone. All surgeries are performed by licensed veterinarians and assisted by skilled, caring support teams. The low cost service is made possible by charitable donations.
Spay Day USA Special for the Week of February 21st
Get your cat ‘fixed’ for just $10 – one lucky ‘cat’ will also win a $500 gift card!
In honor of Spay Day USA on February 22, and to prevent unwanted litters of kittens from being born this spring, the Animal Shelter Alliance of Portland (ASAP) is offering an additional 500 low-cost spay/neuter surgeries the week of February 21st in five locations around the Portland/Vancouver metro area. Caretakers of stray or feral cats can take advantage of this offer as well.
Qualified cat owners can have their unsterilized cats or kittens spayed or neutered for only $10. And to help drive participation, the first 500 cats sterilized that week will get their caretakers entered into the drawing for a $500 gift card of the person’s choice. Surgeries are performed by licensed veterinarians and subsidized through charitable donations.
How to Qualify: For a cat owner to qualify, they must receive government assistance (such as Medicaid, WIC, food stamps, SSI, Section 8 public housing, AFDC, or TANF) and live in Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, or Clark County. Those feeding unowned feral/stray cats need not meet income requirements.
Where: Services are being provided at the following locations by licensed veterinarians and caring surgical teams. Transportation may be available for those unable to take advantage of this offer due to travel issues.
- Cat Adoption Team – Sherwood
- Oregon Humane Society – NE Portland
- Multnomah County Animal Services – Troutdale
- Humane Society of SW Washington – Vancouver
- Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon – for strays or feral cats
How: Call: 503-802-6755 for a cat you own; or 503-797-2606 for feral cats to schedule an appointment for $10.
Past Events:
Watch the video from our “Elect To Spay” event, when we spayed and neutered 200 cats alone in one day at one of our service locations!
