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JULY/AUGUST, 2008
Hi kids – happy horse’n
around – hopefully your life is moving along as smoothly as mine has
been. First-off, PLEASE add the following dates to your
calendar:
02AUG08 – Rodeo at the Saddle Club, starting at 8:00 PM
15AUG08 – UCSC Monthly Meeting, 7:00 PM
23AUG08 – UCSC Open Horse Show – sign-up @ 11:00AM / start @
12:00Noon
Our thanks goes out to our
volunteer “rock-collectors” – Sunday afternoon, they picked-up and
disposed-of loose rocks in and about the arena – a great and much
appreciated work-project -- it should make it a lot easier on our
horses. Our July 17th business meeting dealt with
quite a few interesting subjects;
* Question: Can our August Open Horse Show start at 4:00 PM (in lieu
of 12:00 Noon) – to help us all deal a little better with the
expected heat? It’s up to the show committee.
* It was agreed that double points
will be given to all those barrel-racers who signed-up for the last
show
but were unable to run because of the rain that came! We have
all the sign-up sheets from the last show
and will use them at the next..
* The championship trophies for
the past few shows have been ordered and they will be awarded as
soon as
they arrive.
* The NRHA (National Racking Horse
Association) has approached us with the idea of “hosting”
one of their shows during next year’s schedule. After a little
discussion, we approved this proposal,
with the understanding that all of the necessary arrangements can
be made and agreed upon in a timely
manner.
* Note: We need UCSC member/volunteers to help-out at the
rodeo (parking cars, concessions, etc..)
JULY NEWSLETTER
Hi kids – I have an
important announcement to make: if you
haven’t paid your 2008 dues, you aren’t reading this!
One other
announcement, before I move on to other subjects --
our July 5th make-up show has been
cancelled -- for quite a number of reasons (too many other
conflicting events; too hot for the horses; too many folks will be
out of town or at other 4th of July activities, etc.) –
it will be rescheduled at a later date.
Be sure to put a
few dates on you calendar:
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17JUL08 – UCSC July Meeting @ 7:00PM @
club house
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21AUG08 – UCSC August Meeting @ 7:00PM
@ club house
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23AUG08 – UCSC Open Horse Show –
sign-up @ 11:00AM / start 12:00Noon
You will probably
notice – the UCSC house (concession stand, bathrooms, meeting room,
etc.) has been cleaned, water-proofed, painted, etc.—looks a lot
better and should be much more pleasant to use (hopefully, we’ll
even get the window fixed soon). Our June business meeting was
typically, poorly attended but those of us that did make it managed
to deal with a few important items: We now have a new (at
least new to us) tractor to do all the various chores around the
arena – it will be stored at Double C until a proper storage place
can be provided at the arena site. We, unfortunately, had to
cancel the July 5th show (see words above) We may
have some good news soon about “Team Penning” events at the arena –
plans are in the works.
As much as it pains me to bring this subject up again, if you or
your group use the arena – great, that’s what it here for – BUT –
PLEASE clean-up after yourselves.
I seem to be spending far too much of my personal time picking-up
cans, wrappers, discarded tack, toys, etc., etc. Our “friendly
bush-hogger” has to stop and clean up the mess before he can make
his passes and do his thing. That shouldn’t be necessary! Why
can’t you (we) spend the couple minutes it takes to pick up what’s
not supposed to be there or, better yet, don’t drop it there in the
first place – that’s what those big barrels are for!
JUNE, 2008
Hi kids – can you believe it, another month has come and gone – I
hope every thing is moving along OK! Sorry about the cancellation of
the 4-H Fun Show. As soon as a reschedule date is known, I’ll pass
it on! Our last business meeting was somewhat poorly attended but a
few interesting items came up. You-all ought to come out and take
part (next meeting is Thursday 19JUN08 at 7:00 PM) – we can use the
help! The “biggie” for the May meeting dealt with one of our
favorite subjects – non-payment of dues! I’m sure those of you who
have renewed are tired of hearing about it but, the perpetrators
still haven’t got the message – and now, the age-old “monster” has
reared it’s ugly head at our first show! How many times will it
take? IF YOU HAVEN’Y PAID YOUR DUES, YOU MUST PAY THE EXTRA $2.00
PER EVENT WHEN YOU SIGN-UP – AND – ANY POINTS EARNED DURING ANY
EVENT YOU TAKE PART IN WILL NOT BE COUNTED TOWARD THE YEAR-END
AWARDS! @#!#@&* How clear is that? It would not be fair to make
exceptions – the rule is the rule and has been the rule and it must
be applied to everyone! Hopefully, this is the last time I will
ever have to write about this subject again (I’m running out of
printer ink!). If you have a problem with this subject, PLEASE send
me an e-mail, a letter or give me a call. Although I have been
authorized to finally stop sending newsletters to non-paid-up folks,
I’ve decided to make an exception – one more time – because of the
above-mentioned “problem”. It has been decided that we will
not take part in the proposed association of local saddle clubs (at
least for this year) due to lack of interest by our membership and
for scheduling difficulties. I only received two (2) positive
responses to my questionnaire in the last newsletter. Maybe we can
reconsider it in the future? One of the new SIGNS (announcing
our next show) has “disappeared” – it simply wasn’t there when Art
went to retrieve it from where he put it! If you run across the
sign, be sure to let us know where it is, etc. The idea of
having more “English Style” events at our shows has been reviewed –
all we need is to have more interested entries and we will add it to
our future shows. Be sure to put June 28th
on your calendar – our next Open Horse Show – sign-up is at 11:00 AM
and show starts at 12:00 Noon. See you all there!
Once again, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions
regarding the Saddle Club, the way things are done or the things
that we do, please don’t hesitate to call your President, Lonny
Marcus @ (706) 379-3810, your Vice President, Lloyd Martin @ (706)
835-1605 or call me (your Secretary – Jim Holzinger) @ (706) 781-
6449. If you wish to mail any checks, forms, comments or anything
else, please send them to:
Union County Saddle Club, Inc.
c/o Jim Holzinger
1050 Brumby Run
Blairsville, GA 30512
EQUINE LICENSE PLATE
In this month’s Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin published by
the Georgia Department of Agriculture, there is an article about a
new equine license plate that is now available for your automobile.
There has to be at least a 1000 plates pre-sold in order for the
manufacturing process to begin. To order the plate, just go to your
local county motor vehicle tag office and fill out an application
for a Special Interest License Plate. You will need to indicate the
name of the tag you are requesting which is "Georgia Equine
Industry" and pay a $25.00 one time manufacturing fee. This will be
applied to your tag or it will be refunded if they don't get the
1,000 plate requirement. Just be sure to obtain a receipt of your
payment. Proceeds from sales of this tag will provide needed funds
for promotion, research and educational programs for the state's
equine industry.
NEWSLETTER
MAY, 2008 (second edition)
Hi kids
– as you probably noticed, I sent the last newsletter quite a bit
early than usual in order to announce the rescheduled date of our
“Special Invitation” show – hence , this newsletter is titled
“(second edition)”.
I hope you enjoyed our first show-day as much as I did. The
“Special Invitation”
portion of the day was really well attended -- when you consider the
weather and the weather forecast. We all had a blast helping our
guests enjoy themselves – I think we were successful!
Our first Open Horse Show
also came off very well, again considering the weather. It appeared
that quite a few folks stayed home because of the impending rain,
but Mother Nature was nice enough to hold off the rain and everyone
who did show had a ball. I hope you made it -- but, if you didn’t,
I hope to see you at our next event(s).
Speaking of “next event” – it will be the
4-H Fun Show
on the 17th of May. Sign-up will be at 9:00A and they
will start at 10:00A. Y-all come and enjoy a fun day. Our
next business meeting will be held at 7:00P on the third Thursday,
the 15th of MAY. Come on by – we welcome your input! We
do have a few “interesting items” to talk about. One will be the
proposal to join an association of local Saddle Clubs – your
response to my inquiry in the last newsletter was somewhat under
whelming (one e-mail was received)– we’ll see what gets
decided??
Another important item that will be discussed is
UN-PAID DUES!
It needs to be
recognized that any points earned/recorded in any of our timed
events can only be counted (toward the year-end totals)
IF
your dues have been paid. New memberships are due on January 1st
of each year. If you haven’t
renewed your membership, your times won’t count!
Quite a few of the folks who participated in last Saturday’s events
were not paid up members. We need to get this situation
resolved immediately (or sooner) so we don’t end-up with the mess we
ran into at the end of last year!
Here I go again – I have decided to extend the deadline for
newsletter mailing to unpaid folks for one more month -- because of
the above noted “point problem”. Please send your renewals
post-haste. Don’t just wait for the next show – one stamp won’t
break you!
Once again, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions
regarding the Saddle Club, the way things are done or the things
that we do, please don’t hesitate to call your
President, Lonny Marcus @ (706)
379-3810, your
Vice President, Lloyd Martin @ (706) 835-1605
or call me (your Secretary –
Jim Holzinger) @ (706) 781- 6449.
If you wish to mail any checks, forms, comments or anything else,
please send them to:
MAY, 2008
I know --- I
screwed-up the date of next month’s show in my last newsletter –
but, everyone knows it isn’t going to be held on Monday. The Open
Horse Show will start at 1:00PM on Saturday the 3rd
of May -- sign-up will begin at 12:00 Noon -- directly after the
rescheduled
SPECIAL INVITATION SHOW that will
start at 10:00 o’clock and close at Noon. Once again, if you know
of anyone who should be invited to this Special Invitation Show,
please invite them -- I’ll do the rest by mail.
Our April meeting was fairly well attended and quite a few items
were covered. One proposal came up – we need your input!
It has been suggested that an association of local Saddle Clubs
(Blairsville, Elijah, Chatsworth & Midway) be formed and that they
each have 2 shows each year for all association member- clubs to
participate. Points will be awarded toward an association
championship. If you think we should consider or not
consider joining such an association, please let me know, either by
mail or e-mail.
I hope the little “red-lettered nasty-gram” (sent to all those on
our mailing list who hadn’t yet paid their 2008 dues) didn’t offend
anyone – but, we can’t keep spending all that postage on the entire
list forever. Please renew soon, if you’re going to. Because of
the cancellation of last months show, I’ll send one more mailing to
the entire list – but “that’s all folks” – there ain’t no more!
Don’t miss the “4-H Horse Handler’s Fair”, to be held from 10:00AM
to 4:00PM on the 26th of April at the Union County Saddle
Club arena. There will be an admission of $15.00 per person or
$45.00 for a family (4) pack. The action-packed day will include a
full schedule of events, lectures & demonstrations plus a delicious
Bar-B-Que luncheon. Attendees will also have a chance to win
$100.00 in the Poker Run.
Be sure to remember our May UCSC Meeting at 7:00PM on Thurs. the 15th.
Y’all come -- take an active part in your Saddle Club – who knows
maybe you’ll have a good idea that someone hasn’t thought of!
Keep a close eye on our web site www.unioncountysaddleclub.org for
all the latest club news and happenings – a veritable plethora of
information!
EDITORIAL COMMENT: If you use the arena and surrounding
area, be sure to clean-up any mess you made, pick-up any “stuff”
you left, move the barrels back to where you found them, etc., etc.,
etc. It’s your arena – it’s up to you to keep it clean!
Once again, if you have any
questions, comments or suggestions regarding the Saddle Club, the
way things are done or the things that we do, please don’t hesitate
to call your President, Lonny Marcus @ (706) 379-3810, your
Vice President, Lloyd Martin @ (706) 835-1605
or call me (your Secretary – Jim Holzinger) @ (706) 781- 6449
SEE YA
AT THE SADDLE CLUB
March 2008
NOTE:
MARCH 15th WILL BE OUR “WORK-DAY” – PLEASE COME OUT TO
HELP!
We hope
everything is going well with you-all so far this year – it sure is
with the Saddle Club! Be sure to take a close look at our brand
new WEB-SITE.
Simply type: “UNIONCOUNTYSADDLECLUB.ORG” and enjoy! Our thanks go
out Art Miller (and his web-site designer, Janice Boling) for a
great job!
I’m still
hoping for quite a few more membership renewals & dues
– PLEASE try to get this paperwork out of the way ASAP. This may be
the last newsletter you receive if you don’t get your renewal in….
Once again, if you have an e-mail address,
please let me know what it is so I can use it!
It is my
intention to mail-out the 2008 membership cards
next month after most of the renewals are in. Our February
meeting was held on the 21st
at the Saddle Club house. The turn out was slightly under- whelming
but so was the weather ….… although, quite a few items were
handled/discussed/etc.
* The big item was the “birth” of the Union County Saddle Club
web-site;
* The Show Schedule for the
year was also “born” (please note the next page and/or the web-site)
* The subject
of “under 18 handling of
stallions,..,”
was revisited and clarified: stallions may be ridden by under 18
folks ONLY in single-horse/speed events (barrels, poles, etc.) and
then only if an adult handles the horse until it enters the arena;
* The folks who ran the snack-bar
last year will
do it again this year – SO – please support them and use the
snack-bar regularly;
* Another big one: Saturday,
March 15th
will be our
first “WORK DAY”
of the year –
PLEASE come by between 9:00AM until when-ever, to help us do
whatever is necessary to get the arena and surroundings ready for
the first event of the year!
I have to
apologize for not noting the date of our February meeting in the
last newsletter (it probably has something to do with this old
brain). The March meeting
will be held on Thursday, the 20th at 7:00pm.
As you know, it will always be held on the 3rd Thursday
of the month.
Once again, if
you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding the Saddle
Club, the way things are done or the things that we do, please don’t
hesitate to call your President, Lonny Marcus @ (706) 379-3810, your
Vice President, Lloyd Martin @ (706) 835-1605
or call me (your Secretary –
Jim Holzinger) @ (706) 781- 6449.
If you wish to mail any checks, forms, comments or anything else,
please
send them to:
Union County
Saddle Club, Inc.
c/o Jim Holzinger
1050 Brumby Run
Blairsville, GA 30512
SEE YA AT THE SADDLE CLUB
February 2008 Newsletter
Happy Valentine's
Day you-all – this would
be a real good time to
buy your honey a new horse
(or something for her
existing horse) - that
would be a great Valentine's
Day present, don't you
think?
I'm still
looking for / waiting
for / hoping for a deluge
of membership renewals & dues – they're
certainly coming in slower
than I expected. I'm anxious
to get all this paperwork
done before our show-season
starts and the year really
gets busy! Come on kids,
stamps are cheap!
We were
deeply saddened by the
passing of Wayne Seaborn
(a long-time member & supporter
of the Union County Saddle
Club). Our thoughts and
prayers go out to the
Seaborn family. Please
note the attached/enclosed
benefit flyer.
Our first
meeting of the year was
held on January 17 th
at the Saddle Club house.
We had a pretty good turn
out and had quite a few
lively discussions about:
the year-end point process;
the coming year show-schedule;
the priority list of arena
improvements for the SPLOST
committee; last year's
show cancellations (the
reasons for and the difficulties
that resulted) and we
even talked about the
old “Trail Ride Committee” -
something the Saddle Club
hasn't had for a while
- if we get enough interest,
who knows?
If, for
some reason or another,
you failed to receive
a copy of your 2008 membership
form (it came with the
January newsletter), just
give me a call at (706)
781-6449 or send an E-mail
to keyholz@aol.com and
I'll send you another.
If you have an E-mail
available to you, please
let me know what it is
- (write it or say it
very clearly ) so I can
send future newsletters,
etc., electronically!
A few E-mails were returned
from my first “E-mail
offering” – so I did re-send
a few by snail-mail. I
hope to get them right
next time.
Once again,
if you have any questions,
comments or suggestions
regarding the Saddle Club,
the way things are done
or things we do, please
don't hesitate to call
your President, Lonny
Marcus @ (706) 379-3810,
y our Vice President,
Lloyd Martin @ (706) 835-1605
or call me (your Secretary – Jim
Holzinger) @ (706) 781-
6449. If you wish to mail
any checks, forms, comments
or anything else, please
send them to:
Union County Saddle Club
c/o
Jim Holzinger
1050 Brumby
Run
Blairsville, GA 30512
SEE YA
AT THE SADDLE CLUB!
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