Mission Statement
Topanga Animal Rescue is a registered 501c3 non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to providing immediate medical field triage and transportation for wounded and abandoned animals in the Santa Monica Mountains and the San Fernando Valley area. We are also committed to providing outreach education programs for children and adults covering animal emergency and disaster preparedness protocols as well as animal responsibility and interaction topics. We reach out to provide free medical care for the animals of the homeless and the elderly. It is our mission to bring dignity and respect to all actions involving animals and the people who interact with them.
Purpose
Topanga Animal Rescue provides fostering and placement services for lost or abandoned domestic animals in the Topanga area. It provides immediate medical field triage and treatment for domestic and wild animals in Topanga as well as providing local sliding scale spay and neuter clinics for domestic animals in Topanga. It fosters community education programs concerning the responsibilities of domestic animal care and ownership. This organization also serves as center for training of volunteers and veterinary professionals in emergency animal handling and restraint through out the county.
Need
While Topanga Canyon is home to over 12,000 people it sits in the middle of over 11,000 acres of undeveloped State and Federal park land in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Topanga Canyon Boulevard is also a major route between the San Fernando Valley and the Coast. Over 20,000 cars per day travel in the canyon. The juxtaposition of people, wild animals and cars creates and an environment that endangers domestic animals. Over 200 domestic animals are hit by cars, attacked by wild animals and abandoned in Topanga. Much of this could be prevented by an effective spay and neuter program and domestic animal care education. For those incidents of animals injured and abandoned that cannot be prevented, an emergency medical triage and treatment program is essential to well being of these animals and the safety of the community.
History
For the past 19 years the Topanga Animal Rescue has operated as a loose coalition of veterinary professionals and concerned citizens delivering immediate medical triage and treatment to animals in Topanga. This dedicated group of volunteers saw a need to move beyond just treating injured animals to preventing these accidents. Topanga Animal Rescue is a 501c3 non-profit organization.
Services to be provided
- Immediate medical triage of injured animals
- Training for volunteers in emergency animal handling and restraint
- Community education in the responsibilities of domestic animal care and ownership
Ken Mazur : treasurer, web designer/web master, co-respondance, rescue Composer/guitarist Ken Mazur is currently scoring Travelscope for PBS TV. Ken has performed on over fifty albums as a session guitarist with artists such as Robert Palmer, Tina Tuner, INXS, Mink Deville, Marvin Gaye, Kid Creole, The O Jays, Herbie Mann, Ben E King, The Paul Winter Consort, and Candi Staton. He toured with Robert Palmer and Mink Deville and appeared on Broadway with Twyla Tharp as well as the musical’ Gotta Go Disco’. Ken’s jingle writing credits include Chevy, McDonalds, AT&T, Nintendo, Honda and Russel Athletics. Writing from his studio in Topanga California, Ken scored the Discovery Channel Program, ‘Biker Build Off’ from 2004 to 2007. His TV work includes the feature length documentaries ‘Studio 54′ and ‘Woodstock’ for Behind the Music,VH1, One Day At A Time Reunion, CBS, the comedy series ‘Manhattan AZ’ for USA Network, the series ‘Comics on Delivery” for Comedy Central, the series Lost and Found for FX and the theme song for NBC’s tv special, ‘Dinosaurs Larger than Life.’ His movie credits include “the Uninvited,” “The Rose Technique”, starring Jo Beth Williams, ‘Lucky’ and ‘Pros and Cons’. Among his other credits are the documentary ‘Voices from the Attic’, documentary winner of the NY film Festival, and the short film,’Cat and Mousse’, nominated for best prize at Cannes. Ken has won two Tellly Awards for his work in commercial video. In 2005 Ken wrote the music and lyrics for a children’s musical, “Precious Piglet and Her Pals”, which won the LA 2005 ADA Award for Best Music, Lyrics and Book for an original children’s musical. Ken is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in anthropology from the University of Colorado and holds a Masters in Music from CAL State LA.
Ken is also and educator. He is currently the director and creator of an exciting new music program at the River Oaks Academy in West Lake Village, Ventura County. This charter/magnet school invited Ken to develop his own progressive curriculum for children from kindergarden through high school. The program began in January of 2011 and is currently running for the 2011/12 school year.
Links to Ken Mazur’s work:
http://musicmacros.blogspot.com/