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1 MVTH Quarterly Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 3 December 2010

192 Hope Hill Oak Ridge, Missouri 63769PO Box154 Jackson, Missouri 63755

Barn Phone: 573 788-2100

Board of Directors News and Notes

The Mississippi Valley Therapeutic Horsemanship (MVTH) Boardof Directors (BOD) is proud to announce the hiring of Mrs. Tina L.

Collins as the new Program Director. The position will be a part timesalaried exempt position; Tina's first day at MVTH will beDecember 1, 2010.

Tina comes to MVTH with background in community relationsdevelopment, business structure improvement, project launchdevelopment, strong leadership and effective problemresolution skills.

The BOD is planning the new employee orientation schedule; someof you may be "tapped on the shoulder" to offer Tina backgroundabout the specific volunteer duties you perform at MVTH. Initially,Tina will be present at portions of the December evening lessons onWednesday's and Thursday's as well as the Saturday morningsessions (weather permitting, obviously!).

Please join the board in welcoming Tina Collins to MVTH!!

Additionally, the BOD elected new officers at the 11/22/10 annual meeting; the new officers are asfollows:

Linda Farrow, President email c/o: ([email protected] )

Mary K. Nespor, Vice President ([email protected] )

Jerrie Hall, Secretary ( [email protected] )

Gail Kamp, Treasurer ([email protected] )

Also, the board briefly celebrated Ms. Betsy Rigdon's "retirement" from her (record holding) 4 year termas BOD President. This message would not be complete without asking each of you to email BetsyRigdon and thank her for her caring ways and leadership over the past 5 years! Thankfully, Betsy hassaid she will return to Tuesday lessons, as well as will be chairing one of the new board committees,Herd/Land management.

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The magic that happens each lesson day at MVTH puts "a skip in our step" thanks to all of the volunteers,horses...and a special thanks to the 30 riders and parents that allow us to participate in the magic!

Volunteers…YOU make it happen!

Jerre Hall, Volunteer Coordinator and Board of Directorsmember has done an excellent job recruiting new faces forour program. For all of you who make the trip to HopeHill, you know what a joy it is working with the horses andmost especially our riders, youngsters and not soyoungsters who face every day with courage anddetermination. Our riders are inspiring, to say the least.Mostly though, they are funny, witty, determined, talented

and goal oriented.

Jerre has lots of activities planned for the new year, some of which are volunteer riding clinics, field trips, new instructortraining classes and summer camps. In just a few months she hassuccessfully constructed and manned a booth at the SEMODistrict Fair with the help of many volunteers and signed up anumber of new folks to work in the program. She has institutedVolunteer Team Captains for each night or day of lessons to aidinstructors with tacking up the horses, taking messages, trainingnew volunteers and making visitors welcome to our barn andindoor arena facility. A big thank you from all of us at MVTH to

Jerre and her crew of tireless workers.

Horseshow 2010

Leah Shrum chairman of “Fall 2010 Third Annual HorseShow” (co-chairpersons Beth Altenthal, Trey Wiginton, DianeHinkebine, Scott Altenthal) welcomed an audience who wasgreatly entertained first by riders in costume followed byesquestrienes demonstrating the skills learned this past year inreining, mounting and general horse handling. The flagceremony was especially beautiful, the colors presented byAmerican Legion Post 63. Sharon Hogan on horseback escorted the flag.

Musical Stalls was a game of skill and light-footedness for side




walkers as they competed with horses and riders for stall space. Competition was high but allended in laughter as the wiley side walkers ended up face to face in one stall.

Guests were treated to hot dogs and hamburgersfrom Hinkebine Hills Farm where Chef Karlios

Hinkebein cooked up some of the best burgersever. Proceeds were donated back to MVTH.Thanks, Carlos for your tribute to our friend“Denny” Hinkebein who passed away and was aspecial friend. We send our sympathy to his wifeand family. They have been a great support to our

entire program.

We had a great time at the horse show,Miss Leah and from all the riders,volunteers and guests, we thank you andyour committee for a job well done.Didn’t we look special in our beautifulhorse show tee shirts?

Speaking of Shirts

We have another fund raiser going on, “Nobody Rides for Free” brightly colored tee shirts withthe MVTH logo on the back feature Lad, Ace and Nibbles on the front. Thank you to JamieMayfield for her clever design. Shirts can be purchased from Grayson Erlbacher, Jamie Mayfieldor Riki Erlbacher. (basically, your Apple Tree Staff.)

ALERT! If you have heard about the Apple Tree and have not begun to receive it or know of someone who would like to receive it whether written or in e-form, contact your newsletter staff (that would be me) [email protected] . We want to hear from you too. You can also keepup with the activities of MVTH on Facebook and our own website www.semohorsetherapy.org .

We wish you a happy holiday season. Your newsletter staff!




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