Senior Life February 2016

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AWARD-WINNING NEWSPAPER Send a singing Valentine to your sweetie Volume 19 Number 10

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OF FLORIDA

February 2016

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A pug love affair

FEATURES

Passion for pugs prompts birth of rescue group

Handmade quilts take center stage Page 11

Brevard athletes score at the Senior Games Page 25 Diesel the pug, once scheduled for euthanasia, is now safe in his forever home, thanks to the pug rescue group. BY ELIZABETH STUMP Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate all things love. What better way to do that than to showcase the tales of Becky, George, Mika and a rescue full of pugs and Boston Terriers. The origin of the Brevard County Pug & Boston Terrier Rescue, based in Cocoa, began more than a decade

ago. It’s all thanks to a fundraiser to benefit pugs, appropriately called “Pugsgiving,” that pug owner Mika B. Martinez started in 2002. “I was over the top about pugs then, and it’s a little embarrassing to look back at,” Martinez said. But that’s how she met fellow pug owners Becky and George Hinton, who bonded over shared love for the dogs

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and became fast friends. “Mika, born the same year as our son, is like a daughter to us,” Becky Hinton said. Speed to 2005, when Hinton and Martinez established the pug rescue

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