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THE EDMOND SUN
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2019 © 2019 THE EDMOND SUN
Peaceful Animal Adoption Shelter’s ‘Ride to Rescue’ celebrates 5,000 dog deliver
THE EDMOND SUN
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2019
© 2019 THE EDMOND SUN
Peaceful Animal Adoption Shelter’s ‘Ride
to Rescue’ celebrates 5,000 dog delivery
VINITA — For more than three years, Kay
Stout, of Edmond, executive director of the
Peaceful Animal Adoption Shelter in Vinita,
has joined forces with area nonprofit rescues
and animal shelters from more than a
dozen rural state municipalities to give a
second chance to unwanted or abandoned
dogs through its weekly “Ride to Rescue”
program.
The outreach program uses PAAS Vinita’s
animal shelter as a regional hub to house 25
to 30 dogs a week. Each dog has been preselected
by participating area shelters and
rescues based on specific criteria, including
the state of the dog’s health, friendliness
and potential adopt-ability. The dogs are
then transported from PAAS Vinita in a dogfriendly
bus to the Dumb Friends League in
Colorado, where they are usually quickly
adopted.
Early in November, a friendly young Great
Dane mix named Homer was delivered to
the Dumb Friends League’s Buddy Center
in Castle Rock, Colorado. Homer became
the 5,000th dog “Ride to Rescue” has delivered.
In celebration, the Dumb Friends
League presented Homer with a cake and
his success story was featured on TV by a
Denver CBS affiliate. Homer was also
More than three years ago, Edmond resident Kay Stout, executive director of thePeaceful Animal Adoption Shelter in Vinita, joined forces with area nonprofit rescues and animal shelters from more than a dozen rural state municipalities to give a second chance to unwanted dogs through its weekly “Ride to Rescue” program. PHOTO COURTESY | PAAS VINITA
adopted the next day.
“You suddenly realize the 5,000th dog
delivery is so symbolic in so many ways
because most of those dogs potentially
have new homes in Colorado,” she said.
“We have a business mindset at our shelter,
but our biggest challenge is knowing that
we can’t always save the dog in front of us,
but we do save the 10 that are waiting to go
on the bus.”
Approximately 95% of the dogs that are
delivered weekly have been adopted before
the next week’s transport arrives. While
Oklahoma has a surplus of dogs and cats,
Colorado has a booming population of
people who often want to adopt a dog in
need of a home.
In addition to PAAS Vinita, the other
Oklahoma shelters and rescues come from
the towns of Bixby, Chickasha, Collinsville,
Coweta, Duncan, Enid, Mannford, Miami,
Muskogee, Langley, Noble, Poteau, Sapulpa,
Sand Springs, and Tulsa. Stout said with the
help of generous philanthropists, including
the Cresap Family Foundation and the
Arnall Family Foundation, the “Ride to
Rescue” program has been a success.
“Without philanthropists who are willing
to trust us, we could not have accomplished
what we’ve accomplished,” she said. “With
the massive dog overpopulation in rural
Oklahoma, I believe our best line of attack
is our out-of-state transfers. We have too
many unwanted dogs here, so we take the
overflow to Colorado.”
Dumb Friends League Public Relations
Manager Maia Brusseau said its partnership
with PAAS Vinita is very valuable
because the “Ride to Rescue” program
delivers highly adoptable dogs.
“We collaborate with them and their
partner shelters concerning an individual
dog’s health care, vaccinations and veterinary
records,” Brusseau said. “Before the
‘Ride to Rescue’ program we had more
adopters than dogs here in Colorado and
we didn’t have enough dog choices. When
PAAS Vinita delivers the dogs, they are
greeted warmly by our staff and volunteers,
and we feel so grateful to have them.
“We thank the people of Oklahoma for
bringing us these dogs,” she said.
She said the league’s name can be confusing
to the uninformed. The term
“dumb” was a common term used in 1910
when the Dumb Friends League was established.
It means lacking the power of
speech.
“It means we are speaking for those who
cannot,” Brusseau said. “It is really quite
sweet.”
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The Oklahoman – https://oklahoman.com/article/5649543/oklahoma-business-briefcase-for-dec-11-2019
Oklahoma business briefcase for Dec. 11, 2019
Published: Wed, December 11, 2019 5:00 AM
Clemens Aviation expands into Oklahoma
Clemens Aviation, a family-owned aircraft charter, management and sales operation based near Wichita, Kansas, has teamed up with longtime Oklahoma aviation professional Gary Purdum to lead its expansion into Oklahoma’s business jet sales market.
Clemens Aviation recently named Purdum as its local marketing director and plans to open an office at Wiley Post Airport in Oklahoma City, officials said.
The company offers the opportunity for customers to buy full or shared interest in business jets. Clemens Aviation manages every aspect of the ownership from pilots to maintenance.
“All the customer has to do is to make a phone call with a few details about their trip and everything else is taken care of,” Purdum said. “It’s that simple. The Clemens family’s mission is to provide the safest, most affordable ownership experience available.”
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Jet charter business expands to Oklahoma
By: Daisy Creager The Journal Record December 9, 2019 0
From left, Clemens Aviation founder Dwayne Clemens with his wife, Julie Clemens; son, Austin Clemens; daughter, Lizzie Clemens; and son, Alex Clemens, in front of one of the 25 business jets they manage in Benton, Kansas. (Courtesy photo/Clemens Aviation)
Kansas-based Clemens Aviation is moving into the Oklahoma business jet market with a time share-esque model.
The charter, management and sales operation will be run locally from an office at Wiley Post Airport, where customers can buy full or shared interest in a business jet with Clemens managing every aspect of ownership, from pilots to maintenance.
Clemens offers the sale of 25% interest in an aircraft for 80 days of use a year. Oklahoma customers set up the flight with an advance phone call and fly out of Wiley Post. The company has 25 business jets, 12 mechanics and 30 full-time pilots that will remain based in Wichita for now.
“They’ve been very successful in the Wichita area and have made utilization and ownership of a jet aircraft very affordable,” Clemens Marketing Director Gary Purdum said. “It enables a company or an individual to have the benefits and advantages of jet ownership for a very small percentage of the actual cost if they owned it alone.”
Family-owned, the company was started by Dwayne Clemens, whose father was a crop-duster. Dwayne Clemens’ career has spanned work at Beechcraft, now part of Textron Aviation, where he worked as a production test pilot, before purchasing Stearman Field Airport, a 90-acre public-use airport in Benton, Kansas.
Now, Dwayne Clemens runs the company with his wife, Julie Clemens, and their kids Alex and Lizzie Clemens.
Lizzie Clemens said expansion to the Oklahoma market was natural, in part, due to the family’s relationship with Purdum, who worked at Beechcraft with Dwayne Clemens.
Ponca City resident and business owner Chuck Greenwood, who recently purchased full share of a plane through Clemens, said the flexibility and convenience of the service have been helpful.
Also in the aerospace business, he said he appreciates the company’s background and not having to worry about handling maintenance and other aspects of owning a business jet.
“I think their model is the trend where private aviation is going because by buying a share of an airplane, you get to use it whenever you want. Your airplane is being exercised because planes, like cars, seem to break when they’re not used for extended periods of time,” Greenwood said.
Lizzie Clemens said she and her siblings grew up around aircraft and flying. Now, the family aspect adds a dimension to the company’s service.
“I feel that … the small or family-owned business feel is a lot different, it’s definitely a more personalized experience. Especially since we work with a lot of family-owned businesses as well. I think people find it comforting,” Lizzie Clemens said.
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