From the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office: A K9 Unit tradition: Today the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office K9 Team, along with members of the Northern Nevada Interdiction Task Force including Reno Police officers, surprised WCSO Sergeant Sam Van Der Wall.
Sgt. Van Der Wall recently promoted, and his K9 partner, Boomer, retired. They leave pretty big paws to fill as the Van Der Wall-Boomer duo had some amazing busts getting drugs off the streets of Northern Nevada.
Today, the team held a surprise ceremony and gifted Sgt. Van Der Wall these plaques.
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Many thanks to KOLOCaresand KOLO 8 News Now for the great story about our Mug Shot for July and our DOM (dog of the month), Ava! We are pleased and proud to be included in KOLO’s Pillar Partners program! Click here to read the article or scan the QR block below with your phone.
Tomorrow is the release day for our July K9 mug. It’s not a secret; it’s Ava! The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office leaked the information about a week ago. Check back tomorrow to find out how to get your K9 Ava Mug.
K9 Ava with Deputy Harris at Barks and Badges last month. Photo by Gaby (WCSO)
Check out this cool video posted by the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department with some highlights from Saturday’s event. If you went, this will refresh your memories. If you missed it, here’s a chance to see a little of what you missed. Maybe next year?
Lithia Reno Subaru presented this fantastic donation of $35,079 during the Barks and Badges event on Saturday, June 26th! This is a wonderful donation through their Subaru Share the Love Event . K9 Partners is thrilled and grateful to be a recipient of this money. Without the support of our community and the businesses in the Reno-Sparks area, we would not be able to provide everything needed for our Washoe County K9s to allow them to do the great job they do for the entire county.
Thank you to Chip Ciciovan and his great team at Lithia Reno Subaru and the national Share the Love program from Subaru for supporting our efforts for our K9s. You help to make so much possible for us!
In addition to the new edition of 2021 T-shirts for adults, we will have really cute new shirts for the children in all sizes. Take a look at these. Aren’t they the cutest things ever?
You can find these shirts and the adult-sized shirts (pictures not available yet) at the K9 Partners booth at Barkley Ranch this Saturday, June 26.
We will also have the three released K9 mugs for sale. If you haven’t started your collection of our dog Mug Shots, you can do it now.
Remember: All profits from any sales from the booth go to support the training and equipment for our WCSO K9s.
We are one week away from our annual (except last year) Barks and Badges event. Come out to meet our dogs and get a close up view of our two new K9s, Ava and Odin. Entry to the event is FREE and it’s great for the whole family. We’ll have lots of games for the kids and demonstrations of various scenarios the dogs are asked to handle.
Our K9 Fashionista Ava models one of last season’s K9 Partners shirts. We’ll have these at the K9 Partners booth along with new ones with the current K9 footprints on them. KIDS ALERT: We also have children’s sizes and bright colors.
We’ll also have information booths, food trucks, face painting, and other vendors with interesting and unique ideas. A mobile library will also be there along with the Nevada Deportment of Wild Life Bear Dogs.
Check out the list of Vendors to see who will be joining us. We will have a vendor map up toward the end of this week and possibly a schedule.
Bartley Ranch is located off Lakeside Blvd. to the South. Turn left on Bartley Ranch Rd and then right into the entrance to cross the bridge.
Bartley Ranch is off of Lakeside Drive just before it begins to climb to Windy Hill.
Many thanks to our terrific sponsors Lithia Subaru Reno and Consign Furniture for helping to make this event possible.
Available now!! Our Mug Shot for June!! Introducing K9 Zeke!! Isn’t he handsome?!
Our amazing sponsors and partners over at Consign Furniture Reno-Lake Tahoe now have the mugs for June! Head on over there to get your 3rd mug for a donation of only $10!!
If you haven’t yet got the Mug for April, featuring Jett, or May, featuring Kyago you can grab those as well.
Consign Furniture is located at 6865 Sierra Center Pkwy, Ste 200 Reno, NV 89511. Big thanks go out to them for all their help with our Mug Shots event and all they do for us all year long!
If you’d like to order ahead of time and pick up your mug at Consign later, you can go to our page here: www.k9partners.org and order your mugs for your donation. While you are there, check out and download the fantastic coloring pages done by our resident, talented artist Breanne Craig!! You can see and commission her work over at The Rustic Grove . Thank you for your support!!
Today Sheriff Balaam retired K9 Boomer after 3 years of service with the WCSO. His retirement comes after his handler, Deputy Samuel Van Der Wall’s recent promotion to Sergeant. Sgt. Van Der Wall and Boomer were assigned to the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Task Force, which operates in critical drug-trafficking regions. Thank you Boomer for your hard work and service! #ProudSheriff#K9#K9Retirement
K9 Partners wish Sgt. Van Der Wall much success in his new position and happy retirement to Boomer.
