Pet Shops- Evergreen Pet

CLOSED!!!!













Old post:
The other day, I visited the Evergreen Pet Store on E. Sprague.  What a fantastic shop!  There is a delightful selection of pets and pet supplies.  It just may be the next best thing that Spokane has for a zoo...that is, besides Northwest Seed and Pet.  Of course, Cat Tales is interesting, but all they have is REALLY BIG cats.  Our local pets shops, on the other hand, have a bit of a variety, and there is no admission fee.  A short visit makes for a nice little outing to see a variety of small animals or pick a pet.

 They have kitties and puppies and rabbits and a whole farm-load of guinea pigs!

Lots of birds....

 

I have a special fondness for cockatoos.
I think this was was wanting people to buy the puppies next to his cage.

They also had a great selection of fish, both saltwater and freshwater...
and reptiles.

I enjoyed watching all these little red eared sliders jump off of the rock into the water and swim around!

 The tortoises are my favorite.  Sometimes you will find them roaming around the store....getting some exercise.  Here, they are in their kennel.

And they have the best selection of puppy pastries I ever saw!

School Advertising Billboards

Cute kids.  But seriously, do public schools need to pay for advertising?  Why do they need to advertise, to all of us passersby, that they are schools... on local billboards? ( This, as if you did not know you local public school exists and you pay lots of taxes to, too!)  No matter how cute the kids are, why are our tax dollars paying for advertising our public schools to the public? 

Furthermore, what is the point?  What do they hope to accomplish? Why are these funds not going to our kids or schools directly?  If the school is not paying for this kind of expenditure out of our tax dollars, then who is?

Is your school low on funding?  Consider,....someone is paying for big, high visibility, highway oriented, billboards like these. 
Meanwhile, back at the local school, we hear how funding is an issue.  In fact, you might even think that they are way too low on funding to have the resources to actually provide classrooms with items like spiral notebooks, facial tissues, pencils, crayons and gluestick.  This is because at the begining of the year, parent are asked to help pay for and provide them for ALL the children, not just their own.  The school seems not to be able to afford these things... but it can pay for billboards.

If you, like we, pay property taxes vote for levies to give the schools more funds, you and I really have to wonder.... 

Are our levies used to actually pay for billboard advertising like this?


Someone is paying for it. 


Yes... kinda crazy that our tax dollars are hard at work, advertising on high visibility billboards, like this.