The Goals of Our Club
To develop and promote the
miniature horse breed;
To develop and promote good fellowship among other people and associations;
To encourage breeding, training and exhibition of good quality miniature horses; and
To cooperate with all equine breed registries.
To our Loyal NWMHC Members,
Due to the extreme weather conditions in both Washington and Oregon at
this time, the Board has come to the decision to reschedule our upcoming
Winter Meeting. This decision was made with the safety of all of our
Members in mind. The meeting has been rescheduled for NEXT Saturday,
January 28th.
A huge THANK YOU to Lisa Pichler, as she has worked so hard to make this
meeting a success and has secured a banquet room for us at the KIT
CARSON Restaurant, 107 SW Interstate Avenue, Chehalis, WA. Instead of a
pot luck, a lunch buffet will be available for $11.99. We are still
planning our exciting raffle and will as well be moving forward with our
NWMHC Tack Swap at this time. The meeting times will remain the same,
with our Show Committee meeting beginning at 9AM followed by our General
Membership Meeting.
Please pass this along to any members that you know of that are looking
forward to attending our Winter Meeting. We apologize for any
inconvenience that this change in plans has caused.
Your NWMHC Board is working very hard and we are excited about the
upcoming 2012 season. We look forward to seeing you all NEXT Saturday!
Please feel free to reply with any questions, comments or concerns. And
remember to check out your NWMHC website for updates as well.
www.nwmhc.com
Sincerely,
Your NWMHC Board of Directors
Matt Davern – President
Susie Gunther – Vice President
Nickie Gunther –Secretary
Jodi Bennett – Treasurer
Kate Beevers – Director
Margaret Slape –Director
Joanne Ross – Director
I would like to thank all of you who voted
for me for NWMHC President. I feel that it is an honor to be your
president and look forward to working with all of the members to make
this club the best club in the country.
First, I would like to thank all of the
outgoing board members for their dedication to the club. Sheryl Peterson
has done an excellent job as our President and her time and energy have
certainly been sincerely appreciated. Dave Miller, as past President and
Treasurer has given much to our club over the years. Barbara Ashby has
done a great job as long time News Letter Editor and Secretary. Without
her tireless dedication to the News, it would have disappeared years
ago. I would like to thank LaVon Read for her years of hard work for our
club. Lavon has spent many hours working for this club in years past she
has worked as our show manager, and then she retired and took over our
clubs Administrator position. Last year when we needed a show manager
she again stepped up to the plate and ran our NW Shows. Lavon has
decided to retire once again. When you see LaVon please thank her for
her years of service for the NWMHC. Last, but certainly not least, I
would like to thank Kate Sherry for all of her hard work on the
schooling show. Our volunteers are crucial to the continued success of
the NWHC.
We cannot forget a person whose voice is
recognized by anyone who has ever attended a NWMHC show, The Western
Regional Show or The AMHA's World Show. This is Mark Bulllington, his
years of service to our club as announcer for 20 plus years, as a board
member and I hope as a friend to all of us. I think I can speak for most
of the members when I say "THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR YEARS OF SERVICE".
We are known for the very professional and well announced shows that we
put on and Mark has and will always be partly responsible for that. Mark
we wish you all the best and we want you to know that we are thinking
about you.
The NWMHC is also bidding farewell, a huge
thank you and wishing the best to Frank Parker. Frank has been a huge
part of the success that our NWMHC shows have achieved. His
professionalism both in the show ring as our Steward and as our official
Measurer has always been a large part of the show experience for
everyone. We thank you Frank, for all of your wonderful years with the
club.
When we have outgoing board members we of
course, have new Board Members and at this time I would like to welcome
the new members to the board. Joanne Ross - Director, Jodi Bennett -
Treasurer, and Nickie Gunther - Secretary. I am very excited about
having these individuals and their enthusiasm and ideas on the board.
Now that we have installed the new board
members, we are already hard at work on 2012. This year looks to be a
fantastic year and we are all very excited about the decision that AMHA
has made changing the Western Regional Horse show from Reno to our own
Eugene, Oregon. I hope you all have or will send Polly Hyde a big thank
you for all of the hard work that she has put into this event. We are
already working hard behind the scenes on making this show a huge
success.
Our Membership meeting is just around the
corner and I am hoping to see a lot of you, the members, in Centralia on
January 21, 2012. I strongly urge you renew your membership prior to the
start of the Winter Meeting. Your Membership allows you the right to
vote and we would like for your vote to count.
Again I hope to see you all next week.
Sincerely,
Matt Davern
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