What I Now Know.... When joining the Lynchburg Humane Society as their new Executive Director last month, I thought I knew A LOT about this community shelter. After all, I was from Lynchburg and had adopted many of my family's pets from LHS over the years. I knew that the shelter had once been housed in a cramped cinder block building back behind the City Stadium, and that the community had rallied around the need for a new facility - - - coming together to build a beautiful new building on Graves Mill Road in 2015. I had visited this new facility on numerous occasions, sometimes with a goal of selecting a new family addition and other times simply wanting to have cuddle time with those pets waiting to be adopted. I knew that that I always left these visits feeling uplifted by the wagging tails of the dogs and the purring and "biscuit making" of the cats. Like I said, I thought I knew a lot. BUT... Since working with our staff and volunteers for the past six w