The 125th Anniversary  Around the World for 80 Strays Gala will take place on Saturday, April 21 at the Hilton Garden Inn on Hoosick Street in Troy.

The event will benefit the Hudson Mohawk Humane Society and will feature live and silent auctions. Music will be provided by Grand Central Station.

According to a statement, the society will present 2012 Human Heroes Awards and Goldstein Auto Group will receive the Humane Business Award,  while the Humane Non-Profit Award will be presented to Community Resource Federal Credit Union. 

More awards will be given to Cohoes Harmony Hill School third grade students & teachers when they receive the 2012 Humane Education Award and John Norton will be given the Humane Advocate Award for his photographs of homeless animals. 

The Society will also present its highest award given in honor of Dr. William O. Stillman, who founded the organization in 1887.

The Mohawk Hudson Humane Society received two grants for the purpose of spaying and neutering animals in the Capital Region. Together, the grant money totals $30,000.

The money comes from the state’s Animal Population Control Fund, which is administered by the ASPCA. The funds are the result of surcharges on every dog license in the state (outside of New York City) as well as the state’s spay/neuter license plate.

Half the money will go to the society’s Feline Fix program which spays and neuters cats and the other half will go to the Buck-A-Bull program which is dedicated to sterilizing pit bull type dogs.

“We are very excited about this new funding,” said Brad Shear, MHHS executive director in a statement.  “This grant money means we will be able to do even more to prevent the growing population of animals in the Capital Region and ultimately save more animals’ lives.”

A Mohawk Hudson Humane Society adoption clinic will be held on Saturday, Jan. 28 and will be hosted by Goldstein Subaru located at 1754 Central Avenue in Albany.

The clinic will go from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and there will be a variety of cats and dogs available for adoption. The animals at the clinic will all be spayed or neutered, dewormed, treated with flea and tick preventative and will also have received age-appropriate distemper and rabies vaccines. When people adopt animals at the clinic they will go home with 30 days of pet insurance and a free bag of Hill’s Science Diet pet food.