You can’t control what happens, but you can control what happens next. Jamie suggested that she replace Chuck, Gale Ingham replace Mom, Kathryn Quaas Stapleton replace Gale, and we hire Barbara Nichols to be our Director of Donor Appreciation. We offered to Katie Nikic that she keep her job, and work from home, to manage our database. Today Howie will meet with Katie and Gale to try and finalize that. It’s painful, but there was never going to be a good time to do this, and it needed to be done. As for the shift of Gale and Kathryn, that couldn’t be better for them based on their skills and personalities. We had to euthanize Cheetaro Leopard yesterday and that was especially hard on Kathryn as he was her favorite cat and most of what held her to the sanctuary. Howie has been busy and just posted the following to our Important Updates page. The one element we haven’t completely worked out is that Jamie wants to hand off most of her volunteer tracking to Chelsea Feeny so she can take on more of the outdoor work of repairing and building cages. Staff Changes After 20 years of incredible service Barbara Stairs, despite being so young, has decided to finally retire. I see grandchildren getting lots of attention in the future! Gale Ingham, who prior to coming to BCR worked in the accounting field, has agreed to initially take over Barbara's duties and then, once settled into that, take over the Chief Financial Officer portion of my duties and become our official CFO. This will free me up to spend more time on our advocacy work, particularly the federal bill, and most likely result in much better financial statements. :) Kathryn Stapleton has agreed to replace Gale as Operations Manager, a transition we expect to be quick and easy given Kathryn's long history here and wealth of knowledge. Last but by no means least, volunteer Barbara Nicholas will become staff and take over the position of Director of Donor Appreciation. Barbara is traveling but will return Aug 10 to begin her new duties. Please make a point when you see them to congratulate Barbara Stairs on her well deserved retirement and Gale, Kathryn and Barbara Nicholas on their new responsibilities. Hi, I’m Carole Baskin and I’ve been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story. The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/ I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story. My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet. You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion. Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk