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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
-John Wooden, Basketball Coach
"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands -- one is for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
- Audrey Hepburn, Actress and Humanitarian
"People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
FORGIVE THEM ANYWAY.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
BE KIND ANYWAY.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
BE HONEST ANYWAY.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
BE HAPPY ANYWAY.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
DO GOOD ANYWAY.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
GIVE YOUR BEST ANYWAY.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
IT WAS NEVER BETWEEN YOU AND THEM ANYWAY."
-- Mother Teresa
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How to Reach Us
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Barn Phone
336-784-6385
Barn Cell Phone
336-971-9388
E-mail
Physical Address: 2210 Darwick Road Winston-Salem, NC 27127 Lovell's Mailing Address: 2915 Shetland Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27127
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Running water -- for the first time! Donations from the Little Bits recently brought running water to the orphanage in Ghana. Way to go Little Bits! For a note from Dr. Medge and more pics, see below.
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Dear CLS Family and Friends,
 On Monday, while I was helping a friend, Cash and Cashlyn turned out Buddy and Lucy at our house. Like a zillion times before, they took off into our woods chasing a deer. Buddy came back. Lucy didn't.
It's been an exhaustive week of searching. I want to thank each person who has called and searched and prayed. And there have been literally hundreds.
We hired a professional tracker to help us. His beautiful dog tracked Lucy's scent around her normal path on our farm. The scent went cold at our pond. This could mean many things, nearly none of them good. But I cannot give up hope. And I won't.
Yesterday, we received a call from Animal Control. The officer had called home base, reporting that he had picked up a Miniature Schnauzer. We blistered a path to the shelter, only to find that it wasn't her
she. It wasn't a Schnauzer, at all, but a little Jack Russell, wearing a collar. His owner was already on his way to pick him up. Crushed and defeated, turning toward the door, Cashlyn, Kylie and I  stopped at about the same time. Our curiosity led us to a back cage where a chubby little Beagle stood terrified and shaking.
Cooper came home with us. Today, when another call came in for another possible Lucy sighting, Cooper rode in the car with me to find her. Another dead end. As I type this, Buddy is in my lap. Cooper is in his new doggy bed at my feet. Between us is my phone, We're waiting for it to ring and bring Lucy home to us.
Parker
PS. Please know how much we all appreciate the thoughts, prayers and offers to help. This awfulness has shown us how many people who love us. It's just still really, really hard to talk about Lucy. So if we can't when we see you, I know you'll understand. |
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A MUST HAVE for All CLS Riders -- our new 2012 Calendar!
 Ms. Sondra has created a gorgeous CLS calendar with EVERY important CLS date for 2012 -- Fun Fridays, Camps, Horse Shows, Academy Shows, Birthdays, Camps, etc. Plus, each month features a special CLS School Horse! Calendars are $20 and everyone needs one! Come see us in the office to get yours today. Supplies are limited, so come soon! |
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 An Office Make-Over!
Get ready for GREEN walls and PURPLE walls and even some PINK trim!
Thank you for your patience as we spruce up our offices, and make a new office for Parker. We're also redoing the standing stalls for the school horses and painting all around.
So be on the lookout for our mess, and beware. Any available bystanders could find themselves drafted to paint!
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 Five Camps from which to Choose!
Little Tots
-June 11-13
Beginning/Intermediate - First Session - June 18-22
Academy New-To-Showing - June 25-29
Intermediate to Advanced - July 9-13
Beginning/Intermediate - Second Session -- July 23-27
To find out more about our summer camps and register on the spot, click here to go to our "Summer Camp" web page. Thanks!
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 This Man Knows His Shoes
Gordon Ingram is renowned across our region for his incredible work as a farrier -- "horse shoer". He's a masterful artist with a horse's hooves.
Show horses wear custom-made shoes, and about every 6 weeks, their hooves must be trimmed and their shoes reset. You cannot imagine the precision involved.
Gordon is usually at CLS every Wednesday. So stop by and watch him in action. He loves homemade banana pudding! Granny surprises him with it sometimes. But keep that hush-hush. His wife prefers that he eat protein bars! |
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 Register Now for the Raleigh Show
March 22-24, 2012
Sign up now for the Raleigh Spring Premier Horse Show, Thursday, March 22-Saturday, March 24. This is a CLS favorite! Academy Team members ride Saturday, March 24 at 1:00 pm. Academy Team Members and Show Horse Riders please sign up at the barn.
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 Becker Brothers Date Change
Dale Becker, the master of show clothing, will be at CLS on Thursday, March 1, instead of Friday, March 2. He'll start at noon, and go all day and probably half the night. Please email Parker for an appointment time. Dale will be bringing with him clothing from his prior visit, and making final alterations. He'll also take orders for new show clothing.
We can hardly wait to see all of the new duds!
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Sign Up Now for Our Next Fun Friday --
Friday, March 9 from 6:00-9:00 pm
Kids of all ages love a night out at the barn. Older kids help younger kids, younger kids make the older kids laugh and feel younger again. Our Fun Fridays include dinner, equine instruction, arts & crafts, games, sometimes a little colorful hair spraying... well, you get the idea. Just some good old fashioned fun that we could all use! Parents, this is a date night out in the making and we want YOU to go have some fun. Sign up for Fun Friday today!
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CLS Riders Have a Blast at the Winter Tournament
We took a record number of new show riders to the tournament in Huntersville, NC -- and we rocked! OK, we shivered AND we rocked!
Please enjoy the photos below, and many more onour Shutterfly site.
And congratulations to the nicest, most beautiful group of show riders. You guys and your incredible families make our dreams come true!
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Thank You For An Awesome Fun Friday!
Well, let's just say our Fun Friday was aptly named! Poor Steve and Julia Joyce, trainers at CLS. When they arrived Saturday morning, there were hot pink and blue hairspray streaks still dripping down the walls.
Thank you everyone for sending your wild & crazy riders to us -- we had a blast!
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 Our Barn Helpers of the Week are ...
Brandon Lummus (14) and Jordan Lowery (17), both students at North Davidson High School, are volunteering at CLS through an Agricultural Science Class. These fine young men want to learn about farm life.
So far, they've cleaned tack, replaced those massive rubber mats in the standing stalls, painted, cleaned, swept and even learned to give electromagnetic therapy to horses!
These are fine young men, and we're tickled to meet them and work with them. These fellas are wonderful ambassadors for North Davidson, and it's our honor to work with them.
Congratulations guys on being our Helpers of the Week!
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 Note from Dr. Medge (Who is Now in Ghana)
Thanks to the Little Bits, now the community school has running water, teacher bonuses ($35 per teacher, they only make about $40/mo) and a gas cylinder/cooking stove. Money was also given to help fix the outhouse (toilet). This project has received $1,000 from Little Bits so far to accomplish this. In the next visit, we will give money to build new desks. These will be delivered when the CLS groups arrives. Our job will be to paint them! Many thanks for your support.
To see more recent pictures from Ghana, click here.
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 We need footballs, soccer balls, basketballs, plain old red dodge balls ... (any old ball will do!)
From Feb. 27th through March 5th, Lovell's Little Bits Youth Club will be collecting inflated and uninflated new and gently used kickballs, soccer balls, basketballs and footballs to help bring peace to people around the world! Bring your equipment to the CLS office before Monday, March 5th and help us donate sporting goods to "Play for Peace". Click here for more details about this fantastic program.
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 Our Shutterfly Picture Page
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Now on our Shutterfly picture page: new pictures from the ASAC Convention. And if that's not enough - there are oh, probably a thousand more pictures for you to see!
Shutterfly has some amazing ideas for Valentine's, too. Create a mug using some of the cute CLS pictures!
We're mighty thankful for the talent of our photographers! Thank you to all of the folks who take pictures of our gorgeous riders and take the time to upload them to Shutterfly. |
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