Picture Yourself With Your Pet In Event For Special Olympics

Here, Fido. You too, Fluffy and Buttercup.

It’s time for all you critters to shine.

Get your owner gussied up - a good brushing should do the trick - and bring her or him to University City Mall. You can have your picture taken together and raise money for a worthy cause.

U-City merchants, Tidyman’s and Northwest Seed and Pet are sponsoring “Special Pets and Special People for Special Olympics.” The fund-raiser takes place today and Sunday and again next Saturday at U-City.

For a $10 donation, Mark Bertoldi Photography will take pictures of pets of all sizes and their owners. The money goes to Inland Northwest Area Special Olympics, a non-profit organization that sponsors sports programs for athletes with special needs. You’ll get two 8-by-10 black and white copies of the photo.

Large pets - horses, llamas and the like - and their owners will be photographed from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. each day outside the mall. Small pets and their owners can have their pictures taken between 11:30 and 6 p.m. today and next Saturday and between noon and 5 p.m. Sunday in front of U-City Pets in the mall.

Quilt show, raffle

Holman Gardens Retirement Community is sponsoring a quilt show next Saturday, at Spokane Valley Baptist Church, 1222 S. McDonald Road.

The show, which runs from from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., will feature about 50 hand-made quilts owned by residents of the retirement center. Most of the quilts were made by the exhibitors, said Diane Keener, Holman Gardens activity director. A few are family heirlooms that have passed down from the residents’ mothers, aunts or other relatives, she said.

A full-size bed quilt and a quilted wall hanging will be raffled during the show. Admission is $1. Proceeds will be used to buy new chairs for the retirement center’s fellowship room, Keener said.