Held four times per year, PetSmart Charities National Adoption Weekend invites future pet parents to help change a life through pet adoption. With adoption events at over 1,600 stores and partnerships with nearly 4,000 adoption partners, unconditional love is closer than you think. Since 1994, we’ve been able to help over 8.5 million pets find loving homes through our adoption programs. It’s support from pet-lovers like you that provides homeless pets the best chance to find the people they’ll call family. Help us keep the momentum going and join us to adopt your new best friend. @PetSmartCharities @PetSmartCharities @PetSmartChariTs {PetSmart Charities} THE PAW REPORT SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION MARK YOUR CALENDAR PETSMART CHARITIES NATIONAL ADOPTION WEEKEND FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 Find a store near you at www.petsmartcharities.org/locator We’re leveraging social media to encourage people to attend their local events and adopt. For those that can’t adopt just yet, there is #PicMe — using the power of social media and influence to inspire others to help save lives. Can’t adopt? You can still help pets in need: Attend a PetSmart Charities National Adoption Weekend Event at a PetSmart store near you. Take pics of adoptable pets (feel free to sneak in some snuggles while you’re at it!) Post the photos on your social media channels using #PicMe with information on the pet(s) and where they can be adopted. ADOPT IF YOU CAN... INSPIRE OTHERS IF YOU CAN’T! NATIONAL ADOPTION WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 13 - 15

Art Lives There SHEMER ART CENTER THE STORY Hidden along the base of Camelback Mountain is the first home built in one of Phoenix’s best-known neighborhoods: Arcadia. In 1919, this home housed the foreman of a water company set to develop irrigation in the newly named neighborhood. Years later, in 1984, a successful real estate investor named Martha Shemer purchased the house and donated it back to the City of Phoenix with hopes of it being preserved and developed into a place where community residents could gather. Today the home stands as a statewide arts center and one of Phoenix’s “Points of Pride.” Though the city owns and maintains the house and land, the Shemer Art Center is completely community-funded. Since its creation in 1984, exhibitions and events have taken place at Shemer, and that’s still what you can expect today. “We host classes, weekend workshops, summer camps and after-school art clubs,” said Shonna James, president and executive director of the Shemer Art Center. “We are inviting people to come to the center all the time to do a lot of different things and that is exactly what Martha Shemer would have wanted.” THE CAUSE The Shemer Art Center offers up to seven fine-arts classes a day and weekend workshops year-round, available both to children and adults. Attendees can Ashley Ford | Assistant Publisher CHARITY SPOTLIGHT {giving back} AUGUST 2019 | FRONTDOORS MEDIA 41