Letter From President

Good morning all.

This Saturday's (April 9th) Demonstration & lessons at Meadowlark Bluff Farms (my farm) is cancelled due to the weather forecast. So far they are saying that the rain will continue until late morning. I cannot take the chance of anyone getting injured on property, and really want everyone to enjoy watching our members in the lesson. We have re-scheduled the Presentation for the Daughters of Norway for Saturday, May 14th @ 11:00am. We also need to reschedule our lessons. FSS has lost 3 lesson days already this year due to the weather. Rider safety is of utmost importance, and footing of the arenas is a part of being safe.

Our horse show is on for May 1st, and starts @ 9:00am. We will ride the Saturday before the lesson, and can help members who are interested how to prep their horse/themselves for a horse show if they would like. I have heard from most of you about helping with the horse show. Tell all of your horsey friends about our show & help make it a busy one. We have had the best turnout from the students of Great Oaks High School, and other members of our local community that are interested in helping the day of the show. Our judge is booked ($350.00), and we need to order the ribbons ASAP. Premiums are being printed up tomorrow.

Some donations have come into FSS, and are available for purchase. I have English & Western items at my place. These have been solicited by lots of hours of texting, and monitoring local trade publications. If you know anyone who wants to donate any items to FSS have them call me or email me. We do provide a tax write off to approved donations.

Please monitor our web site. Gayle Lawrence has been doing a great job keeping it fresh. If you have any items you would like to put for sale please contact Gayle. Her email is listed on this email. If you are a member of FSS you get to advertise for FREE!

Oh, we have started our "VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH" award. For the month of February LISA HASLER is our VOTM! She lives in Fallbrook, and took the time to help out our little non-profit. Oh, Lisa is in love with one of our minis "Moe". She has groomed, and walked him all over the neighborhood here. He was a wild man, and was a stallion when we received him. Now he is gelded, and is calm while being groomed and led. (Moe still likes the ladies though...and still thinks he is a stallion!)

I feel 2011 is the year our little non-profit gets back on its feet. Thank you for caring and helping.

Respectfully,

Jayne Woellhof-Olson