Attorney Steven H. Nakano Raising Funds and Awareness for Wildlife Associates

Attorney and musician Steven H. Nakano announces the Wildlife Associates fundraising event on Sunday, September 25, 2016. The Wildlife Associates Harvest Party will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at its wildlife sanctuary in Half Moon Bay.

“This is a day to celebrate our human relationship with animals, and to raise funds for this outstanding organization,” said Nakano, who donates $1,000 each year for the event. “My band, the Steve Nakano Quintet, will also be playing at the party.”

Wildlife Associates provides over 800 educational presentations each year. In addition to its school-assembly programs, Wildlife Associates offers adult and family wildlife experiences and lectures to professional groups and community organizations. Its Harvest Party will include food, family games and activities, pumpkin carving, an old-time pie-eating contest, live music, pony rides, encounters with wild animals and more.

Wildlife Associates was founded by Steve Karlin (retired), who still lives on the Wildlife Associates grounds with over 50 different birds of prey and animals who cannot be released into the wild. The animals are trained and cared for by a dedicated staff, who travel with the animals to teach about respecting wildlife at school assemblies and other corporate events. Wildlife Associates has also become a sanctuary for kids living as foster children, who can identify with and feel compassion for animals, who have been separated from their mothers at an early age.

In addition to supporting Wildlife Associates, Nakano recently participated in the 38th Annual 500 Mile American Indian Spiritual Marathon. The event is a four-decade annual tradition of running in a relay format across 500 miles of Northern California. “We train to be the messengers between camps, who keep alive the message that ‘all life is sacred,’ to protect Mother Earth and indigenous burial sites,” said Nakano. “This is particularly important work, and we support other efforts to save the planet like the now tens of thousands of native people protesting the oil pipeline across native lands in the Dakotas.”