A nice piece written about yesterday’s Style ‘N Smile event and Jennie’s part in it.
Thanks to http://braces.posterous.com/

Today has gone by in a total blur and was so much fun!

We started bright and early setting up and getting the models checked in and fitted. Makeup and hair came next and a dress rehearsal. The kids were all area orthodontic patients (both past and present) and they were so excited. It was great having them there.

Our guests from the Boys & Girls Club of America arrived soon after. We are so happy they were able to join us!

Dr. Lee Graber, the president of the AAO, welcomed the crowed of more than 50 attendees.

Jennie did an awesome job introducing the kids and all the great styles and fashions for this fall. Some of our favorite looks included pink, plaid and argyle. Converse sneakers were really popular as well. They looked really comfortable and all of the colors were great.

We’ll post additional interviews with bloggers, models and our stylist, Melis Kuris, soon. Stay tuned. You can find photos at www.Facebook.com/AAOBraces and videos at www.YouTube.com/AAObraces. You can also check out our following and attendee Tweets at @Braces using our hashtag #StyleNSmile.

I’ve added some more MQ pictures of Jennie and Peter visiting the The Kingsley Elementary School, for their charity project “Make A Clean Difference”. Enjoy, they are doing great work.

Peter Facinelli and Jennie Garth are a power couple, that’s for sure. Alone, they do great charity work – especially with Peter Facinelli’s tireless cross-country work for childhood cancer foundation Alex’s Lemonade.

Recently, Facinelli spoke out about environmental issues, and now he and Jennie Garth are adding a new charity to the workload, “Make a Clean Difference.”

The two are teaming up with Proctor & Gamble’s Bounty brand as well as many other groups to work at a local Los Angeles school, Kingsley Elementary School, and “unit[e] more than 1,000 volunteers to transform the learning environments of 30 public schools in 10 cities across the country.”

Facinelli was quoted to state, “Jennie and I are thrilled to be here in Los Angeles to join Bounty and all of the volunteers who have given their time today to truly make a difference in the lives of these young students . . . As parents of three daughters, we understand the importance of inspiring children in the classroom, and we are happy to be part of a program committed to improving their learning potential.”

With many thanks to the lovely Kat for this article and letter that Jennie wrote to Mom Central recently, trying to get them to end their promotions for the “Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus”. Who abuse elephants to get them to do tricks.

Jennie is doing such a great thing, and i can not agree more with her. This abuse is horrible and has to stop, and i think it starts with us by not supporting and or promote this kind of circuses that treats their animals so badly.

90210 star Jennie Garth has just sent a letter on PETA’s behalf to parent-oriented Web site and marketing firm Mom Central urging the site to end its promotion of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. In December, PETA sent Mom Central CEO Stacy DeBroff photographs and undercover video footage of Ringling trainers as they beat and whipped elephants. But the site has decided to continue offering discounted circus tickets to other parenting blogs.

“In their natural habitat, mother and daughter elephants rarely leave each other’s side,” writes Garth. “I implore you to consider the helpless animals who are forced to surrender their children to a lifetime of isolation and pain.”

PETA has revealed dozens of dozens of never-before-seen photos taken inside Ringling’s Florida training center by a veteran elephant handler. The photos expose how still-nursing baby elephants are captured rodeo-style and dragged away from their mothers. The babies scream and struggle frantically as they are wrestled, stretched out, slammed to the ground, gouged with steel-tipped bullhooks, and shocked with electric prods. These abusive sessions go on for several hours a day for up to a year. For more information, please visit PETA.org.

Jennie Garth’s letter to Stacy DeBroff, CEO of Mom Central, follows.

Dear Ms. DeBroff:

As the mother of three daughters, I appreciate resources like Mom Central that help working moms deal with the everyday experiences of parenthood. Since so many mothers turn to your Web site for guidance, I urge you to reevaluate your current partnership with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Please consider the animal abuse and family separation that you are actually endorsing by recommending this cruel show to your readers.

Photos taken at Ringling’s facility (available at RinglingBeatsAnimals.com) show frightened baby elephants who are forcibly stretched out, slammed to the ground, and wrestled by several adult men holding bullhooks–a heavy device with a sharp hook at one end that trainers use to beat elephants on the nerve-rich skin of the head, ears, trunk, and other sensitive areas. Any mother can recognize the pain and terror on these baby elephants’ faces as they are roped around all four legs, tethered neck-to-neck to an anchor elephant, and dragged from their mothers–some while still nursing. After undergoing a year of daily violent training sessions, elephants continue to endure bullhook beatings and constant confinement as they travel from city to city–all for a few moments of entertainment.

In their natural habitat, mother and daughter elephants rarely leave each other’s side. Because Mom Central is a resource that promotes support for all mothers, I implore you to consider the helpless animals who are forced to surrender their children to a lifetime of isolation and pain. Please do not continue to condone this cruelty. I urge you to end Mom Central’s Ringling promotions.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Jennie Garth

This is such amazing work, i’m truly proud Jennie sticks up for abused animals. I love animals and it makes me so sad, knowing what happens to them. What people are doing to them, like they have no feelings. It’s sickening, and i hope many will join her in this.

I got teary again and again watching Jennie Garth’s character, Kelly Taylor, grow up on Beverly Hills, 90210—and I got goose bumps when she mamboed on Dancing With the Stars. But when I learned that Jennie asked MomCentral.com to drop its partnership with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, I cheered so loudly that I woke Frank and Tom from their fifth nap of the day. (Sorry, fellas.)

The mother of three was moved to take action after learning about Ringling’s abuse of baby elephants, who are snatched away from their wailing, distraught mothers by trainers who slam the babies to the ground, poke and prod them with bullhooks, and give them electric shocks. Asking the site to sever its ties with Ringling, Jennie wrote, “Because Mom Central is a resource that promotes support for all mothers, I implore you to consider the helpless animals who are forced to surrender their children to a lifetime of isolation and pain.”

You don’t need to have children to be concerned about the dangerous lesson Ringling teaches its audiences—that it’s OK to abuse babies who’ve been stolen from their mothers. I’ll be following Jennie’s lead and politely asking MomCentral.com to drop Ringling. Will you join me?

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Here’s a new article + lovely pictures. Thanks very much to Kat for sharing this with us. This just melts my heart. What a sweetheart Jennie is, i’m so happy to see she has made that little girl’s day.

A lot of celebrities like to lend their name, and do their bit, for charity – and Jennie Garth is one of them. The ex-90210 beauty recently stopped by UCLA hospital with the Lollipop Theater charity to “do the KIND thing” [www.kindmovement.com] for terminally ill kids. Jennie’s KIND act was to spend time with the kids and give them manicures – which all the girls loved!

You can start a chain of kindness too in the name of a charity of your choice and do a “not so random” act of kindness then pay it forward and ask others to do a kind act and support your cause. In June, the cause with the greatest number of KIND acts linked to it by June 30th will receive $25K.