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Wayne DuPage Horse Trials, Inc Honored as Corporate Sponsor of the Year
Cindy Burge Memorial Grant Awarded to Clare VanderWoude
Jennifer Ohmes Clinic: December 18/19
Ralph Hill Clinic: March 5/6
Jonathon Holling Clinic: March 19/20
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Wayne DuPage Horse Trials, Inc Honored as Corporate Sponsor of the Year
At its annual Circle of Friends Dinner on Saturday, November 14, 2010, Friends for Therapeutic Riding Activities (FTEA) a Winfield, IL based handicapped riding program, honored the Wayne DuPage Horse Trials, Inc. with its Corporate Sponsor of the Year Award. The Wayne DuPage Horse Trials, Inc. and FTEA partnered in 2005. Since that initial year, FTEA volunteers have become a regular and visible sight at the Wayne DuPage Horse Trials learning about and participating in the various volunteer positions necessary to host a horse trials. Both the Wayne DuPage Horse Trials Inc. and FTEA are 501 (c) (3) organizations and rely heavily on volunteers to make their programs successful.

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Clare VanderWoude Receives Cindy Burge Memorial ICP Grant
 

The Cindy Burge Memorial ICP Grant is offered each year by each USEA Area's Adult Rider Program to one (or more) of its Area's instructors who meet the grant's qualification standards and is selected as a recipient.  These qualification standards include merit as an instructor, service to the sport, potential to provide future benefit to the sport, and demonstration of compatibility with the educational goals of ICP and intention to be assessed for ICP certification.

This grant program honors Cindy Burge, who was a spirited leader of eventing in the Northwest and one of the first instructors to be certified by ICP.  The following news was written by Clare VanderWoude, the recipient of the very first Area 4 Cindy Burge Memorial ICP Grant.  She used the grant to try for her Level II certification, and I'm thrilled to announce that she passed!

CONGRATULATIONS, Clare!

 

Kathy Kerns
USEA Area IV Adult Rider Coordinator

Read Clare's Report on the ICP Testing Procedure
Jennifer Ohmes Clinic: December 18/19

December 18-19, 2010

Clinic with Advanced Level Event Rider, Jennifer Ohmes.

Come spend your weekend riding with Jennifer and other riders interested in improving their position/technique and communication skills with their horses. Jennifer is an excellent instructor that can quickly pinpoint priorities for you and your horse to correct and improve upon. She works will all levels, competitors and those that do not compete as well as foxhunters.

Date: December 18-19, 2010

Location: Ohmes Farm if weather holds, Gordon Farm (covered arena) if inclement weather. Both farms are easy to access from 10 Hwy in De Soto, KS

Sign up deadline  December 8, 2010.

Find out more about Jennifer at www.JenniferOhmes.com 

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Ralph Hill Clinic: March 5/6
March 5 & 6 RALPH HILL CLINIC

Brand new Feather Creek Equestrian Center, Campton Hills, IL
Space is limited.

Please see the Feather Creek Equestrian website for flier and entry: www.feathercreek.net Or e-mail Feather2404@yahoo.com for more details

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Jonathon Holling Clinic: March 19/20
Jonathan Holling Clinic on March 19-20
At Versailles Equestrian, Virgil IL
Contact :Catherine Morauw, 630-802-5519
www.vequest.com
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Cynthia Wiseman
USEA Area IV