Cathy didn’t have school on Tuesday, so she either went to the paper to see if Pauline had any work for her or checked on how things were going at Rainbow Rescues II. She chose to do that later this morning, after breakfast. Now that Becky had a young son, she preferred to work nearby and so did Gran, so Cathy was responsible for the new rescue center. It didn’t take too much time. Once a week usually worked. The volunteers and paid workers knew they could call her if they had any problems.
When she arrived at the center, she was greeted by Fran Larkin, a woman in her mid-forties, who’d been hired when the center first opened last month. Her daughter, Melody, a student at Buttercup Bend High School, volunteered there.
“Hi, Cathy,” Fran said. She wore a Rainbow Rescues apron and carried a
