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PawsiTive News

Ninth Annual Countdown 2 Zero Pet Adoption Event

Kickoff Event: Saturday, Sept. 24 From 10 a.m. To 4 p.m.

Adoption Promotions Continue Through Oct. 1

Each year, local animal Admission and parking is free for the Countdown 2
rescue groups join together for Zero Pet Adoption Event. Many of the rescue groups will
the Countdown 2 Zero (C2Z) be offering special discounts and adoption incentives, and
Adoption Event – Palm Beach all new pet parents will receive special gifts. In addition,
County’s (PBC) largest adoption rabies license tags will be complimentary (where applicable)
event – in an effort to save the for each adopted pet that will reside in PBC courtesy of
lives of hundreds of animals. PBCACC. By visiting Countdown2Zero.org, you will be
On Saturday, Sept. 24, able to see the various rescue organizations and link to their
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue website to view their adoptable animal list.
League and PBC’s Public Safety Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League is located at 3200
Department Division Animal N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. PBCACC is located at
Care and Control (PBCACC) 7100 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach.
will open its doors to host local Rescue organizations participating in the Ninth Annual
rescues from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. C2Z Adoption Event currently include: Peggy Adams Animal
Both campuses will be filled Rescue League; PBCACC; Big Dog Ranch Rescue; Furry
with adorable, adoptable animals Friends Adoption Clinic and Ranch; Shining Horse Farm and The Pet Taxi, Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley PA;
hoping to meet someone ready Sanctuary; and Touch of Grey Rescue. Scenthound; Veterinary Emergency Group; WPBF 25 News,
to take them home! Adoption promotions and specials will Sponsors to date include: PetMeds; Camp Bow Wow Sunny 107.9 FM, 850 WFTL, 97.9 WRMF, New country
continue at each individual shelter and/or rescue organization Boca; Camp Rusty Dog; Conking & Lewis Construction; 103.1, X 102.3, Party 96.3 and Fox Sports 640AM.
through Oct. 1. Hundreds of dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, and Daszkal Bolton; Flagler Bank; Furry Friends Adoption Clinic
other animals will be seeking new families and homes. and Ranch; Inn the Doghouse; Nozzle Nolen Pest Solutions; Pawsitive News on page 23

Travel

Bulgaria: Birthplace Of Spartacus

By Don Kiselewski, MCC, D.S., Palm Beach Gardens Travel Leaders

Long before Bulgaria
received its name, this land
area bordering the Black Sea
between Turkey, Romania,
Serbia, Macedonia and
Greece was known as Thrace.
Its people were the Thracians
and they started recording
history around 3500 B.C.
The artwork – especially
that which was produced
in gold – is considered by
archeologists to be the oldest in the world, dating back some
6,500 years.
Not only does Bulgaria have some of the oldest pieces of
gold artwork, it also ranks third in the world for the number Bulgarian town of Sozopol
of cultural sites after Greece and Italy. Bulgaria is said to have
fostered the world’s first writing system. This claim is based The Thracian civilization, forerunner to Bulgaria, was alphabet, the second most widely used alphabet in the
on the engraved stones known as the Gradeshnitsa tablets jointly founded by the Greeks and Romans. Romans had world. The language was developed in the 10 century.
th
based on the location where they are kept. Gradeshnitsa the command by the end of the first century A.D. At the Twice in their history, the Bulgars conquered the
Monastery, also known as St. Ioan, is located in the northwest decline of the empire, the Goths, Avars, Huns and Bulgars majority of the Balkan Peninsula between 836 and 1260.
corner of the country. These tablets were found in 1969 and invaded. In 679 A.D., the Bulgars crossed the Danube from However, they were defeated by the Ottoman Empire in
are examples of late Neolithic proto-writing known as “Old the north and took control of the area. 1396, becoming a Turkish province until 1876. It was the
European Script.” The tablets were dated to around 500 Although the country was named after the Bulgars, Russians that forced Turkey to release its hold on Bulgaria,
B.C. Stephen Guide, a Bulgarian-American of the Institute the language and culture of the people died out. It was giving them back their independence. This came about as
of Transcendental Analysis, claimed that he had deciphered supplanted by the Slavic language, religion and writing. a result of Turkey’s loss in the Russo-Turkish War (1877
the tablets. However, I along with many others haven’t heard Boris the First adopted Orthodox Christianity for the
or read the transcript. country in 865. Bulgaria is the birthplace of the Cyrillic Travel on page 22