From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:
HOHENWALD,  Tenn.— Elephant Sanctuary vice president of operations Scott Blais on August 17, 2011 announced that he is leaving the organization.  Blais and Carol Buckley cofounded the Elephant Sanctuary in 1995,  with one elephant on 112 acres near Hohenwald,  Tennessee.  It now keeps 14 elephants on 2,700 acres. Read more

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:

OLATHE,  Kansas--The National Animal Control Association is to dedicate a Memorial Wall & Gardens on October 1,  2011 at the NACA corporate office.

“The NACA Memorial Wall & Gardens is a permanent display/tribute to remember and honor NACA members employed as animal control officers who have died in the line of duty,”  said NACA executive director Johnny Mays.

“The wall will display the names of these fallen animal control officers.  The gardens will serve as a backdrop for the wall,  providing a serene and private area to reflect on the loss of these fallen members and to honor their memory.”

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  September 2011:

MEMPHIS--Memphis Animal Shelter director Matt Pepper resigned effective on August 12,  2011 to become director of Albuquerque Animal Services,  beginning in mid-September.

Pepper,  35,  was hired by the city of Memphis in March 2010 to succeed Ernest Alexander,  who had headed the shelter since 2007. “Before landing in Memphis,” recalled Amos Maki of the Memphis Commercial Appeal,  “Pepper served as head of Caddo Parish Animal Services in Shreveport,  Lousiana.  When he took over at Caddo in 2008,”  Mako noted,  “that shelter’s director,  veterinarian and two others had been terminated amid accusations of mismanagement.”
This was almost the same situation that Pepper inherited in Memphis. Read more