Summit Featured in UWeek

Nov. 10, 2010
Good dogs! Summit Assistance Dogs is a heart-warming CFD choice

By Peter Kelley University Week

Mary Levin Representatives of Summit Assistance Dogs visit the annual kickoff of the Combined Fund Drive in October. From left, they are Andrea Crispin, Lynda Ardern (with her lab Logan), Michelle Munro, board president (with her "Labrdoodle," Hayden) and Wendy Hardman, with puppy Crickett.     Mary Levin Crickett the puppy and Logan the lab share an unguarded moment of affection.

Editor's note: Through the 2010 Combined Fund Drive campaign, University Week will spotlight agencies that receive CFD funds and members of the UW community who volunteer for such organizations. The theme of this year's drive is "Imagine the Difference We Can Make."
Michelle Munro is not only president of the board of Summit Assistance Dogs of Anacortes -- one of 2,800-some agencies that get support from the Combined Fund Drive -- she's also a contented client whose own assistance dog helped her rejoin the world after illness.
"He changed my life," Munro said of Hayden, the shaggy "Labradoodle" who came her way through Summit after being donated by a dog breeder in Idaho. Hayden helps Munro with balance and mobility, coping with the effects of a rare autoimmune disease that struck her several years ago, and its after-effects.Read More