Ride With Pride’s Kentucky Derby Open Horse Show
Ride With Pride will be sponsoring the Kentucky Derby Open Horse Show May 5th at Cedar Creek Stables. Classes will include jumping, flat, and games. $5 per class. Special prizes for the Kentucky Derby classes.
Classes start at 9 a.m. Concession stand will be available. Raffle items and prize for the best Derby hat. Come out and enjoy the fun. Read more
Open Horse Show sponsored by Ride With Pride
Ride With Pride will be sponsoring the Kentucky Derby Open Horse Show May 5th at Cedar Creek Stables. Classes will include jumping, flat, and games. $5 per class. Special prizes for the Kentucky Derby classes.
Classes start at 9 a.m . Concession stand will be available. Raffle items and prize for the best Derby hat. Come out and enjoy the fun. Read more
Scholarship to aid Special Olympics students
Debbie Winters, director of Ride With Pride, accepts a check from Old Dominion Cruiser’s Club President Andy Chase. The check for $1,200 will go for scholarships for Special Olympics students. Ride With Pride ‘s therapeutic horseback program has been serving students of all ages for 21 years.
Ride With Pride Open Horse Show
Ride With Pride, Augusta County’s therapeutic horsemanship program will be holding an Open Horse Show on Saturday, July 23, 2011 at Cedar Creek Stables in Staunton. Equitation, hunter, jumper, trail, and game classes will be judged by Judy Bonin. $8 per class, $5 per game/trail class. Concession stand will be available. Rain or shine show begins at 8:30 a.m. Negative coggins test required for each horse competing.
All proceeds will go to support Ride With Pride’s therapeutic riding program. Ride With Pride has 21 years serving children and adults with special needs through a therapeutic horsemanship riding program. For the physically challenged, riding provides the gentle motion, rotations, and balance they cannot perform themselves. This gives the rider a sense of body control, strength, and flexibility. For the emotionally and learning challenged child or adult the programs offer opportunities for providing daily care of the horses which fosters responsibility, self-esteem and trust.
For more information on volunteering or making a donation to Ride With Pride go to www.ridewithprideva.org or become a friend on Facebook.
Donation to Ride With Pride
Hillary Williams from Cold Stone Creamery in Harrisonburg presents a $1,000 check to Debbie Winters, director of Ride With Pride.
Ride With Pride is Augusta County’s therapeutic horseback riding program for youth and adults with physical, mental, and emotional challenges. Stone Cold Creamery created a video with RWP to celebrate the new eight-layer cake.
For more information about Ride With Pride and how you can make a donation or volunteer go online to www.ridewithprideva.org or become a friend on Facebook.
Ride With Pride director honored for work
Debbie Winters, director of Ride With Pride, received the Pete Geisen Humanitarian Award at Ride With Pride’s annual dinner on Thursday, Dec. 2, held at Memorial Baptist Church in Staunton. The Pete Gesen Award, given by the Shenandoah Valley Disability Employment Awareness Committee, is given to individuals who champion the cause of equal opportunity and independence for individuals with disabilities. Ride With Pride’s Therapeutic Horseback Riding program is celebrating its 20th year. Pictured in this photo are Patty Roberts, Karen Stevens, Kathy Martin, Debbie Winters and Debby Austin.
Helping more kids Ride With Pride
Ride With Pride will be hosting its first benefit concert on Friday, Sept. 10. The concert will take place at the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton. Gates will open at 6 p.m., and music will begin at 7 p.m.
The bands performing at the Ride With Pride Benefit Concert will be local artists Lisa Meadows and the Virginia Dreams Band as well as Faithful Men Gospel Group. Tickets are $15 per person, which will include lawn seating and a BBQ dinner catered by Tim Flick.
“Everything is being donated, including the catered dinner. The performers are also donating their time and energy,” says Debbie Winters, Ride With Pride Program Director.
All proceeds from the benefit concert will directly benefit the organization.
Ride With Pride is a nonprofit organization that has been in the Valley since 1989. The organization helps special-needs children and adults with “therapeutic equine activities.” Winters says, “Having special-needs people work with horses also helps with their attention and cognitive skills. It also helps children with emotional issues. Just being around horses that they know are going to be there for them really helps.”
The organization sees about 80 kids throughout the week. They also work with the Department of Social Services as well as special-education programs.
“This is the first time we have tried something like this benefit concert,” says Winter. We are very excited that these bands are helping out. We usually do fundraisers that involve horses, so we are a little out of our element, but hopefully we will make lots of money for our program and be able to help even more people in the Valley.”
Music will go from 7 p.m until 9 p.m.
For more information about Ride With Pride, visit their website: http://ridewithprideva.org.
Story by Jenny Hypes. Jenny can be reached at jenny.hypes@emu.edu.
