NewVaConnects, Roanoke's community action group of young professionals, has launched a Web site to help raise funds for the city's first fenced, off-leash public dog park.

The group would like to raise $30,000 to add a fence to the part of Fishburn Park that the city designated as an off-leash area more than a year ago.

The problem, as anyone who has been to the park with a dog can tell you, is the busy street that runs parallel to the park. It is dangerous for even well-trained dogs to be off-leash there.

What can you do to help? Glad you asked:

Donate the entire $30,000 to build the fence and you will indeed be the Top Dog. You will get your chosen identity (either your name or your company's name) on a permanent sign at the park's entrance, good things written about you on the Web site, and be a hero to many pooches in the Valley.

Give $10,000 to the cause and you rate Four Paws way up. Again, you will get signage and Web site recognition for your generosity toward canines and their families.

Come up with $5,000 at the Three Paws level and you are a founding sponsor. Your name or logo will be on the Rules and Regulations sign, and multiple shout-outs on the Web site. Again, you will be loved by many.

Make a grand donation of $1,000 and you are a Two Paws donor. Enjoy an engraved message, name or corporate logo on a bench, a picnic table, a tree or a water fountain. Enjoy praise on the Web site.

One Paw donors of $300 or more can reserve a commemorative brick engraved with a personal message on the park's walking path. One Paw donors will also get accolades on the park's Web site.

And if you are low on funds but high on the idea of a great park, be a Big Lick donor of $5 or more and get props from pups all over the city, and on the Web site, too.

So, make a paw-sitive impact on your community and check out the Web site at http://www.roanokedogpark.com/

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