{"id":4344,"date":"2011-06-14T01:44:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T06:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=4344"},"modified":"2011-06-17T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T22:10:11","slug":"pinefield-goes-to-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2011\/06\/14\/general-interest\/pinefield-goes-to-the-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinefield Goes to the Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4352\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110618-vest-a-dog-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4352\" title=\"Vest-a-Dog photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110618-vest-a-dog-02.jpg\" alt=\"K9 outfitted with vest by MA Vest-a-Dog\" width=\"222\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">K9 outfitted with bullet proof vest from Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog (photo by Christian Kozowyk)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - Once again, Robinson's Hardware and the merchants of the Pinefield Shopping Center in Saxonville are hosting and a family fun <em>(and dog friendly)<\/em> event for a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday <strong>June 18, 2011<\/strong> from <strong>10:00AM 'til 2:00PM<\/strong>,the shopping center merchants are raising money in support of the\u00a0<strong>Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog<\/strong> organization which raises  money to purchase bullet proof vests for K-9 officers<!--more-->, <em>(dogs who work  in law enforcement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Here's some of what will be happening:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MA State Police K9 Demo<\/li>\n<li>Free Nail Clipping For Your Dog at Flying Fur<\/li>\n<li>Two live bands: The Smokin' Pidgeons and  The Weekend Band<\/li>\n<li>\"Weber Grilling Event\" at Robinsons Hardware<\/li>\n<li>Free Tanning at Always Golden Tanning<\/li>\n<li>Food Tastings<\/li>\n<li>Wine Tastings<em> (age 21+ only)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Classic Cars<\/li>\n<li>Arts &amp; Crafts!<\/li>\n<li>Games and Raffles!<\/li>\n<li>Try a demo K9 vest on your dog for a fabulous photo op!<\/li>\n<li>MA  Vest-a-Dog T-shirts, Bandanas, &amp; Hats!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Vest-a-Dog organization was formed after a <a title=\"Police K9 dog 'Cero' is Killed by gunman March 25, 2000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.napwda.com\/valor\/k9cero.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">K9 named Cero<\/a> was shot and killed on March 25, 2000 by a suspect who had been involved in an assault and was then firing at police.\u00a0 Cero gave his life to save the lives of a human officer.\u00a0 Each vest costs $735, and many police departments don't have enough money in their budgets to purchase them.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 10 years the group has purchased  hundreds of vests --    but their goal is to see that every K9 police dog is  outfitted with one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4346\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110618-vest-a-dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4346\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4346\" title=\"Vest-A-Dog fundraiser at Pinefield Shopping Center June 18, 2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110618-vest-a-dog.jpg\" alt=\"Vest-A-Dog fundraiser at Pinefield Shopping Center June 18, 2011\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog fundraiser at Pinefield Shopping Center on June 18th from 10AM-2PM.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Robinsons Hardware and the Pinefield Shopping Center are located at 1 Nichols Rd., Framingham, MA, (off Water Street near the McAuliffe Library). For more info about Massachusetts Vest-A-Dog visit their website at: <\/em><a title=\"Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mavestadog.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.mavestadog.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>###<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; Once again, Robinson&#8217;s Hardware and the merchants of the Pinefield Shopping Center in Saxonville are hosting and a family fun (and dog friendly) event for a good cause. On Saturday June 18, 2011 from 10:00AM &#8217;til 2:00PM,the shopping center merchants are raising money in support of the\u00a0Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog organization which raises money to purchase&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2011\/06\/14\/general-interest\/pinefield-goes-to-the-dogs\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[34,2125,210,2047,2124,244,1299,326,2123],"class_list":["post-4344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","tag-framingham","tag-fun-for-kids","tag-fundraiser","tag-june-2011","tag-kp","tag-police","tag-robinsons-hardware","tag-saxonville","tag-vest-a-dog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4344"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4344\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}