At German Shepherd Rescue of New England's Annual Benefit Auction, the Board of Directors honored Chris & Tomas Harriman as the 2002 Volunteers of the Year. "We salute the 2002 Volunteers of the Year, Chris and Tomas Harriman whose tireless work in all facets of GSRNE has made our continued success possible," began Janice Ritter, GSRNE President.  "Chris takes care of the GSRNE website, keeping the information on our web pages interesting and informative. This is vitally important because it brings people back who hopefully will adopt a GSD or support us in other ways." "They have evaluated over 30+ dogs for us, building contacts with various shelter and often taking vacation time to travel to the shelters all over New England and evaluate the dogs in need," continued Janice. "This is serious work and they do excellent, accurate evaluations. They do these in a timely way, work well with shelter personnel and are great ambassadors for GSRNE. Besides driving to shelter evaluations, this couple does tons of driving: driving foster dogs, driving dogs from shelters to the vets so these dogs can escape from euthanasia, driving to do home visits wiht prospective local adopters and driving to attend committee meetings." "If that isn't enough, Chris and Tomas are always willing to  foster at a moment's notice, often when no one else has the time or room.  They have saved a lot of deserving GSD's lives. They have dogs of their own to work and train but they always have room for "just one more." I can't tell you how critical this is!  This was especially true in 2002 over the holidays when a number of dogs were crying for help, and Chris & Tomas generously offered their home to a few dogs so they could live to see another day. Chris designed and printed our thank you cards and they both work tirelessly on our events (and have contributed many, many items to our auctions in the past). They have worked on the adoption hotline and were our only volunteers for both the foster and shelter hotlines for a long period of time.  They also work with our Working Dog Program which places shelter dogs with police depts, search and rescue organizations,  the Maine Warden Services and other public service organizations. GSRNE wouldn't be where it is today without this couple and we want to give them a special recognition this year. Thank you, Chris & Tomas Harriman! For more information on how you can volunteer for GSRNE please email info@gsrne.org!