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$1 Million Donation to help build National Training Center for America’s Search Teams
Ventura County Star | $1 Million gift from anonymous donor puts SDF within striking distance of $14.5 Million base goal to build the National Training Center.
Searching for life
The Santa Ynez Valley Journal
The dark shadow of aftermath looms heavy in the morning air as search dogs pace, eager to begin the task of converting hope into promise, of finding life below the rubble.
To the rescue — finding a purpose for rejected shelter dogs
CNN | When disaster strikes and people are buried in rubble, there’s often no better search tool than a dog’s nose.
Finding a home for our nation’s Search Dogs
Dog Fancy | SDF Founder Wilma Melville says, “After 9/11, donations from people all over the country helped launch the Search Dog Foundation. The nation responded once, and I believe they’ll do it again.”
Building a wreck: SDF breaks ground on 125-acre National Training Center
Pacific Coast Business Times | The construction of a one-of-a-kind training facility for America’s search and rescue personnel and their canines begins in Santa Paula, CA.
Search Dog efforts on 9/11 are recounted
Ventura County Star
If tears shed during the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation’s salute Saturday to those who died and those who searched the piles of rubble that once were the World Trade Center could count as dollars, the Ojai-based nonprofit would have no problem raising the $10.6 million needed to build a national training facility for search dogs and handlers.
Search Dog Teams set sights on new national training facility
Noozhawk
Local teams called in after a gravel truck crashed into a Santa Barbara home recently will attend Saturday’s groundbreaking ceremony.