The Airdrie Humane Society will be starting the New Year with a new name - and new hope. 

The Society will be changing its name to the Wild Rose Humane Society as of January 1, 2012, to better reflect the communities it serves. Purple Kumai, president of the AHS, explains:

And they will also be starting the New Year with real hope that the shelter they've long wanted to build will become a reality.  An anonymous land owner has come forward looking to donate half the purchase price of land for the shelter, near Didsbury.

Purple says that the Society will be kicking up its fundraising efforts to ensure the purchase of the land for the shelter can go ahead.  For more info, go to airdriehumane dot ca.