CAHW welcomes new director

The board of directors of The Center for Animal Health & Welfare (CAHW), a life-saving adoption facility dedicated to finding permanent homes for homeless pets, has announced that Sarah Wees has joined the organization as executive director.

Wees comes to the organization with extensive experience in animal welfare that includes animal care, fundraising, volunteer management, clinic operations, board development, community engagement, budgeting and strategic planning. She entered the animal welfare field as a volunteer 25 years ago and since 2010 has held leadership roles in several animal shelters.

Most recently Wees served as executive director for the Middleburg Humane Foundation, a Virginia farm shelter, where she increased adoptions, overhauled animal data collection, developed a pet parent program that included a food bank and low-cost medical services, and implemented a volunteer database. Prior to that she was the executive director at the Southeast Volusia Humane Society in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. During her time there she reduced shelter euthanasia rates more than 20 percent to achieve a no-kill status and raised revenue to update the shelter’s canine housing.

Wees also served on the Animal Control Board of New Smyrna Beach and the DEI communications committee for the Association of Animal Welfare Advancement. She is a graduate of the Fear Free Shelters program and is a member of the AAWA.

According to Wees, she was drawn to CAHW because the organization recognizes that animal welfare is not just about animals and that it must also support the people in their lives, and the community. In April 2022, CAHW opened Project PAW, a second location in Downtown Easton that is focused on supporting the community through a variety of low and no-cost programs such as vaccine and microchip clinics and pet food bank days.

For more information about The Center for Animal Health & Welfare, visit healthyanimalcenter.org.

Ward named NMIH Barnetrte intern

The National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH) is pleased to announce the appointment of its first Barnette Intern. A Moravian University junior with a long love of history, Brendon Ward (Class of 2024) will spend about 20 hours a week learning the many aspects of the museum’s mission. The internship comes with a stipend to support student research and is endowed through the generous support of Curtis “Hank” Barnette, Chair Emeritus of the museum’s board of directors and of Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and his wife Joanne Barnette.

Ward is currently helping to catalog the hundreds of thousands of documents, photographs, films and other records of the past at the museum’s archives and working on updating the museum’s ever-evolving “Forging Community” exhibit.