February 15th Wrangler Club Meeting

We had a great February meeting and really learned a lot.

Thanks to our host and 4-H Mom Miss Diane Clare, our horsemanship instructor and good friend of 4-H, Mr. Clayton Stambaugh, and 4-H Dad and veterinarian Dr. Andy Cameron. We know all our members and their horses now have a good start on spring. Thanks to Dr. Cameron we will follow up ensuring that our horses are healthy and ready for a season of fun.

We welcomed our newest Wranglers, Sierra Knox, and Jessica Sexton to our club. We also all observed a moment of silence in honor of Turquoise Trail Wrangler Club Leader, Chad Winters. We announced that we will be dedicating our arena to Chad this spring and requested ideas for the dedication ceremony.

Please make sure you bring your filled out horse certificates to our March meeting (which will be announced later).


Our "hostess with the mostess".


Mr. Clayton Stambaugh instructs how to put his horse in reverse.

Wranglers and parents listen to Dr. Andy Cameron explain vaccinations, worming, travel documents and first aid kits for our horses.





Dr. Andy Cameron



Cheers,
Rick & Nancy
TTW Leaders

February 15th Club Meeting Update

Hi wranglers,
Hope all is well and you are keeping warm with this hopefully last blast of winter weather. Just to update you, due to an unexpected scheduling update, our guest clinician Mr. Rex Petersen will be unable to conduct our planned clinic this Sunday. HOWEVER will will still have our meeting at Diane's arena and will now have Dr. Andy Cameron DVM, coming to show us how to do wellness checks, how to and what to vaccinate for and generally getting our horses ready for spring from a VETS point of view.
Diane Clare, Clayton Strambaugh, Nancy and I will also work on Ground manners (is your horse running over you??) and some other back to basics issues including evaluating you and your horsemanship. We will also take a look at your tack for servicabiility and answer any questions we can.
Please call us if you have any questions.
See you on Sunday!
Rick and Nancy

Turquoise Trail Wranglers Lose a Club Leader

It is with great sadness that I tell you that one of our club leaders, Mr Chad Winters, lost his life in a car accident on County road 44 off of State road 14 Friday evening.

Chad was an outstanding young man and having worked side by side with him for many months building our arena was both a pleasure and an honor. Our arena will stand as a constant reminder to us of Chad's dedication to our club, 4-H, and the young people of our county.

Please remember him and his family in your prayers.

Rick & Nancy
TTW

Post Script: Visitation for friends & family will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at McGee Memorial Chapel, with remembrance service to follow. He will be buried at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Manassa, Colo. .



Photos courtesy of photographer Rob Shields