Surrounded by photographs of cats, dogs and people, Vicky Pasenko gushed about Salty, the Evanston Animal Shelter’s black and white office cat. “In the afternoon, when nobody else is around except one of us office people, we just let him go, and he runs everywhere,” Pasenko said. “He loves it here.” Pasenko is the executive.
The city approved plans for renovating Evanston Animal Shelter in November, with the new building on track to be operational by the end of this year. The Evanston Animal Shelter Association, Cook County and the City of Evanston are working together on the estimated $6.3 million community project that saved the shelter — located on.
City Council is set to vote on an estimated $6.3 million renovation of the Evanston Animal Shelter on Nov. 14. The proposal calls for the construction of an entirely new facility. Not all of the funding will come from the city –– two million dollars will be provided by a Cook County grant agreement, and Evanston.
Northwestern students and Evanston residents gathered in Alice Millar Chapel on Sunday morning for an unusual service. It began similarly to a mass, with a choir singing hymns and lectors reading scripture, but unlike typical services, dogs also filled the chapel with barks as they found seats in the pews and aisles typically reserved for.