With cake, an update from Dean Dori Borjesson, a variety of lawn games and a showing of the award-winning international film "War Tails."
Free vanilla, chocolate and gluten-free cake options will be available from 3-5 p.m. — or until the cake is gone — at the college’s Cake on the Lawn event. The event will take place on the Bustad Lawn in front of WSU’s Bustad Hall, directly across Grimes Way from WSU’s Lighty Student Services Building.
Games and activities will include a digital photobooth, trivia, cornhole, ladder ball and other traditional lawn games. Prizes will be awarded to game winners and Butch T. Cougar is expected to make an appearance.
Following the Cake on the Lawn event the college will host a free screening of the international documentary "War Tails" from 5–6:30 p.m. in the Compton Student Union (CUB) Auditorium.
The film, in line with the college’s Rabies Free Africa program mission to eliminate rabies by 2030, investigates the harsh reality faced by more than 1 million homeless pets in Ukraine and the team working to rescue them. As the dedicated veterinarians and volunteers assemble, their mission becomes saving animals and people from rising rabies cases in the war-torn region.
Dan Fine, producer of the documentary and WSU alumnus, will introduce the film and a Q&A with College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Dori Borjesson, the film’s main subject Khrystyna Drahomaretska, Adam Parascandola from Humane Society International, and Mark Dyce, WSU alumnus and refugee pet volunteer, will follow.
View the War Tails trailer on YouTube. For more information, email Anna Wheatley at awheatley@wsu.edu.