OVRHA NEWS
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Letter from the President Banquet Silent Auction Big Stop Raffle Added Money Sponsor Thanks Elliot Equine Service Advertising Information |
LETTER FROM THE
PRESIDENT - I would like to thank everybody who
braved the cold weather to come to our banquet! Congratulations to
all the Champions and Reserve Champions. I would like to thank our members who worked
so hard to organize the banquet...Madelon Ramsey and Sue Flynn for
making all the hotel and food arrangements, and Kathy Lopp and Sue for
working at the door taking in money for the banquet as well as
collecting membership fees, and Rick Clark for being our photographer.
I would also like to thank Stacy and Jesse Westfall for coming and to
Stacy for speaking at the banquet. We appreciate everyone who
donated items for the silent auction, especially our trainers who made
up a big part of the money we raised this year. Keep in mind when
looking for someone to work with you and your horse, those trainers who support
the OVRHA! I would
also like to thank Beth Vallery for heading up the fund raising
committee. She is doing an excellent job and has come up with many
ideas for fund raising one of which is the Big Stop Raffle, details of
which are in this newsletter. I would like to encourage members
with any ideas for how to raise money or help make our shows better to
contact any committee member or myself. This club is for the
members and we want YOUR ideas and thoughts on how to make things work
for everybody!!!
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AWARDS BANQUET - February 3rd we congregated at the Ashland Plaza Hotel for a fun filled evening with our reining friends. Social hour began at 6 p.m. and everyone gathered to catch up on all the news and bid on some of the many items available in the silent auction. Dinner began at 7 and, shortly after, OVRHA President Joe Wolfe introduced our guest speakers for the evening, Stacy and Jesse Westfall. We all know Stacy from her amazing freestyle performances as well as being the first woman to compete in and win The Road to The Horse. Stacy will again be competing in The Road To The Horse in March of this year. Jesse is an NRHA judge with many wins to his credit in the show pen in Open and Aged Events. Stacy did a wonderful job speaking to us on how she became involved in horses and the sport of reining. If you have never seen Stacy perform or had the opportunity to hear her speak, you must do so. She is very entertaining and has a down to earth manner of speaking. Stacy and Jesse showed Stacy's freestyle performance where she performed not only bridleless, but bareback as well! We also had a guest from the NRHA office at the banquet. Melanie Rinehart, Member Services Supervisor for NRHA conducted a Show Secretary Seminar during the day on Saturday and she joined us for dinner that night. After our guest speaker, the awards were presented. Stacy graciously lent her assistance and presented all the awards as President Joe Wolfe announced them. Following the Champion and Reserve Champion awards, the special awards were given to those club members who go above and beyond the call of duty to donate their time in assisting in many of the duties required to make our shows run smoothly. Dale & Kathy Lopp, Jack Martin, Madelon Ramsey, Carole Clarke, Kathy Taylor, George Clouse, Becky Jordan were among the recipients of this special recognition. Following the awards presentation, a few more minutes were allowed for the final bidding on auction items and then bidding was closed and the items awarded. Many people stayed following the conclusion of the banquet to talk about their favorite subjects....reining, horses and when is the next show! |
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| SILENT AUCTION - Thank you to all who donated items that were auctioned off during our Year End Awards Banquet. A very special thank you to our trainers Matt Flarida, Shawn Flarida, Sam Smith, Terry & Brandy Murphy, Woody & Kathy Taylor, Mal McGuire and Meri Sheffler who donated one months training for our auction. We were able to raise over $7500 to help with the funding of our weekend shows this year. Many of our members donated items and the bidding was fast and furious with everybody trying to be the final bidder on their chosen items. Thank you also to some new donators for this year....Elliot Equine Chiropractic Services who has a business card ad in this newsletter. We really appreciate everyone who helps to make our shows remain some of the best in the country. | |||
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BIG STOP RAFFLE - If any of you would like a chance to win $5,000 or $3,000 or $1,000....and I don't know of anybody who couldn't use that....OVRHA is selling raffle tickets at $100 each. Only 250 tickets will be sold. The first ticket drawn will win $5,000, the 2nd $3,000, the 3rd $1,000 and the 4th $1,000. That's 4 chances to win allot of money! The remainder of the money will be used to fund our shows for the year. The goal is to have all the tickets sold by the first show in April, at the Jividen's Farm Equipment Spring Slide Derby and the drawing will be done at that show. If you would like to purchase any tickets, or would like to help sell some tickets, please contact Rick Clark rickcl@bp1.com, Beth Vallery truluck@bright.net, Joe Wolfe Ljoewolfe@aol.com or Kim Rose kimrose62@msn.com |
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SPONSOR THANKS - We would like to thank our major sponsors for our "big three" shows this year. Jividen's Farm Equipment and Kim Rose for sponsoring the Jividen's Spring Slide Derby, John Clark Oil and Clark's Pump N Shop for sponsoring our Futurity, Leonard Truck and Trailer for sponsoring The Tradition Futurity and Sundowner for being a major contributor to our weekend shows. Be sure to tell these people thank you for their continued support and show your appreciation by taking your business to them! Back to Top |
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