Archived News
2021 Volunteer of the Year
Gayle Kirma
We have staff scheduled seven days of the week to work in our cat rooms ensuring the areas are clean and our charges remain happy and healthy through proper diets, enrichment, as well as medication and supplements when needed. Consistency is key to a cat’s well-being which means our policies and procedures must be documented and shifts must be covered. One can probably imagine the Herculean effort it takes to provide proper documentation and manage 20+ people in 6 daily two hour shifts. That is why our 2021 Volunteer of the Year is our Volunteer Manager, Gayle Kirma. When we received the green light to allow adult volunteers back into the facility she sprung into action, contacting every single pre-COVID volunteer to determine who would be returning and what their shift preferences were. Gayle built a well-rounded schedule taking everyone’s preferences and skill-sets into consideration in just a few weeks. In addition to managing their coming and going, Gayle continues to recruit so we have 12 hours of continuous coverage 6 days per week.
2019 Volunteer of the Year
Carol Christensen
Peter Zippi Memorial Fund Inc is so fortunate to have Carol as part of our volunteer family, and we celebrate her as the 2019 Volunteer of the Year. Learn more about her contributions by clicking here.
Congratulations to our 2018 Volunteer of the Year!
Fiesta Hermosa – Spring 2018
Thanks to the Chamber of Commerce for Hermosa Beach for another successful event. We talked to many families that have adopted our cats and kittens in the past and we saw many pictures of them.. That is always something we look forward to. We had 8 adoptions, Jake, Justin, Dudley, Jelly Bean, Marshmallow, Wilbur and Peaches and Elon Meow. They are all in wonderful homes thanks to this event.
Congratulations to our 2017 Volunteer of the Year!
Orphaned newborn kittens are not planned. Learn about our Volunteer of the Year for 2017, Judi McEachen here.
Fiesta Hermosa – Fall 2017
A big THANK YOU to Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau for another great Fiesta Hermosa weekend.
We placed 5 cats in just 3 days (Portia, Mason & Dixon, Ginger and Alice).
We have 1 more going soon (Mia) and a couple potentials.
Placing these fabulous felines, meeting our neighbors and hearing stories about former “Zippi Cats” makes for a fantastic weekend in Hermosa Beach, California.
Our Volunteers of the Year for 2016 are
Christine Lugo and Jeff Kardatzke.
Together taking charge of our website and all other social media, they have improved the quality and coverage that PZF has seen this past year. We now have story and photo displays for all our cats and kittens, increasing adoptions. Facebook now gets top attention. Not only are there always new pictures of our adoptable cats, but many adopters share their pictures of new family members. PLEASE “Like” us on Facebook! Our website has also been enhanced with more timely notice to readers of off site adoptions, changes in our on site adoptions, and events in which we encourage their participation or support. We feel so fortunate and happy to introduce Christine and Jeff as the PZF volunteers of the year.
photo by Jacquelyne May
Founder of The Peter Zippi Fund for Animals, Dr. Alice Villalobos
Is named “Woman of the Year” by the Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau. This is a great honor, we are very proud of our Founder who started rescuing dogs and cats as a child and continues to this day.
2015 Volunteer of the Year, Evelyn Senior, took on the job of Grant Coordinator and helped PZF receive a generous grant from Best Friends Animal Society. Click here to read more about Evelyn’s contributions.
Peter Zippi cats were at the 2015 NKLA Super Adoption
Welcome to the new PZF Neff/Hoskinson Hostel!
After years of dreaming about it, our new hostel is finally a reality and a great showplace for all our adoptable “kids”.
Volunteer Christine Lugo and her husband, Jeffrey Kardatzke, donated one set of the very modern cages and Cynthia Higgins donated the other. These will house the cats and kittens when they are not out playing in the room.
We’re very proud of our many volunteers who worked tirelessly on the financing, the construction and the decorations, too.
We’d love to have you stop by and see it for yourself; perhaps even meet your new forever pet. The hostel is located in the lobby of the VCA Coast Animal Hospital in Hermosa Beach.