Issue 38 July 2013

Mark your calendars!

HETRA Four Man

Scramble Golf Event

August 12, 1 pm Shotgun Start

Field Club of Omaha,

3615 Woolworth Ave

Little Britches

September 14

Skyline Ranches

Family Fall Festival

October 19 4-8 pm

Jimando Farms,

County Road 8, Yutan, NE

The Ranch Run or Walk

October 20, 2013 -1 pm Start

St. Augustine Episcopal Church,

285 S. 208th St

Jimando Events

August 6, 7 & 8 – 3 Day Mada-

gascar Camp – 9:00 – 11:00 AM

August 17 – Carriage Driving

Day – 2:30 – 4:30 PM

September 7 – Miniature Horse

Camp – 2:00 – 4:00 PM

September 21 – Carriage

Driving Day – 2:30 – 4:30 PM

October 5 – Miniature Horse

Camp – 2:00 – 4:00 PM

October 19 – HETRA’s Annual

Fall Festival

Check out the events calendar at

www.HETRA.org for more

details!

HETRA Begins Programming at Jimando Farms HETRA is proud to announce the first few months of programming at Jimando Farms

have been a success! Thus far, we held an open house, three

miniature horse camps, and two days of carriage driving lessons.

At Miniature Horse Camp, students are assigned a miniature

horse to learn multiple aspects of horse care. Miniature horse

activities including grooming, bathing, leading, and so much

more. Students also participate in other classic camp activities,

such as horse related crafts and games.

Students who participate in a Carriage

Driving lessons have the opportunity to learn how to drive a

carriage while enjoying the beautiful scenery at the farm.

HETRA is excited to announce a collaboration with

Conservation Fusion! HETRA and Conservation Fusion will

be working together on a fun 3 day camp at Jimando Farms.

Conservation Fusion’s mission is educating to build and

strengthen our world. Conservation Fusion will host stations

during the Camp where students will learn about the island of

Madagascar and help with a project used to educate children

in Madagascar about their unique natural heritage. These new stations will be held in

addition to the usual horse stations.

HETRA would like to thank the following for their support of the Jimando Farm

program; all donors, including the Meyer Foundation for disabilities, The Dolan Family

for use of the property and Doug Irvin for property management.

If you have questions about Jimando Farms or any of the programs, please visit our

website at www.HETRA.org or email Rachel at rachel@hetra.org.

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

Quality of Life Grant Award The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation award is set up to

support facility accessibility modifications and recently provided

a SureHands Lift in the Valley HETRA barn to assist with

transfers between wheelchairs and the horse. With the addition of

this piece of equipment, we can serve additional adult students,

and increase the safety and security of our current riders during

mounting and dismounting. In a few

cases, HETRA instructors were

unable to safely mount a student onto the horse so the

student participated in other activities, such as grooming or

carriage driving. With the addition of the lift we will be

able to offer riding to students, whom in the past

instructors only offered alternative activities.

The Heartland Hoofbeat Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy

Thanks to HETRA Intern,

Cassie Ford for assisting with

the creation this edition of the

Heartland Hoofbeat.

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A Very Successful Omaha Gives Event! On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 the Omaha Community Foundation hosted the first

Omaha Gives! event. Omaha Gives! is a 24-hour online fundraising event to

showcase Omaha’s spirit of giving, to raise awareness about local nonprofits, and to

celebrate the collective effort it takes to make this city great. Together, the

community raised over $3 million for 318 nonprofits in Douglas, Sarpy, and

Pottawattamie counties. This community

has a strong spirit of generosity. On the

day of giving, HETRA raised $3,144.03,

which was directed towards the cost of

care for HETRA horse, Star.

Woodmen of the World -

Nebraska Alpha Lodge 16

presented a check to HETRA

in the amount of $1,900 from

the proceeds of the Las

Vegas Night Fundraiser.

Thank you!

Maddie asked for horse supplies

or Votes for Team Jessie for her

birthday!

In lieu of birthday gifts, Ellie

requested her guests bring a

donation for Team Dynamite!

In lieu of Birthday presents,

Vicky suggested her friends send

money for Team Doc!

Matt collected for Team Beemer!

Thanks Wyatt for raising funds

for Team Waldo!

HETRA thanks those who have given generously to honor or memorialize the

following individuals :

Angela Owen Cathy Krupa Mardell Peterson

Thanks to Omaha Dairy Queen at 17101 Lakeside Hills Plaza for their generous

donation of $366.59. Their donation was a portion of all sales on 3 different dates.

Thanks to Marian High School Equestrian Club for donating a bucket of horse

supplies!

Thank you Bank of the West– Mortgage Banking Division for cash donation of

$2,450 from jeans day!

Thank you to Union Pacific for supporting HETRA’s Equine Services for Heroes

Program! Their generous $5,400 grant will help fund transportation for the

veterans to their sessions at HETRA. The grant is also helping to feed and care for

one of the HETRA horses.

Maddie & Beadle

Middle School

collected for

Teams

Doc, Rainbow,

and Tuff!

Kelli O’Brien from Union

Pacific, with HETRA

Student & Volunteer

2013 HETRA Horse Of The Year Crowned! Great Job Team Diamond, Instructor Lisa, and Diamond's team members!

Have you been to on of the HETRA barns during

the horse of the year campaign? If not we strongly

recommend it! Hand drawn campaign posters for

Ted and Waldo, bags of Trix cereal for Trixie’s

campaign, and Rainbow posters decorated the

barns. Waldo put up a hard fight, but in the end

Diamond was the winner. The simple race for

“Horse of the Year” collected pennies aka “votes”

for the greatest horse in the herd and raised close to

$12,000. All funds raised during this campaign go

to the Horse Sponsorship Fund. ($3,600 to

sponsor a HETRA horse for a year). Thank you to the Winsor Family for sponsoring

Diamond’s new HETRA HOTY Halter

Thanks to Farm Credit Services

of America for their hard work

at the Valley Barn and for a

donation of $1,000!

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Another Successful

Blue Jeans and

Dreams Event

Over 600 guests attended the 13th

annual Blue Jeans and Dreams

event on April 20, 2013.

$70,000 was raised to support the

student sponsorship program to

fund over 1,500 student

sessions. Guests were greeted at

Five Star Stables by the Omaha

Mounted Patrol. Inside you could

hear Melissa Fry announcing

event highlights and witness local

Royalty in the crowd. The

evening included a performance

to demonstrate the skills of

HETRA students on the specially

trained HETRA horses. A very

exciting live auction was

conducted by Scott Moore. With

the live streaming of the

demonstration and auction via

Proxibid, HETRA was able to

attract bidders from across the

US. The evening concluded with

dancing to the music of Crossfire.

HETRA Student, Staff, and

HETRA Horse Tuff

Thank you to UP Ties for

volunteering during Blue Jeans

and Dreams!

Auctioneer, Scott Moore with HETRA Staff

Emcee, Melissa Fry

Thanks to: ,Miss Douglas County, Aleah

Peters; Miss Lake McConaughy,

Rachael Foehlinger; and Miss Kool-Aid

Days, Kim Brennan for their help

at the event.

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Dear Mom and Dad, Summer horse camp at HETRA was great!

This year we did crafts, played games and made

some new friends. We learned the different parts of

the saddles and horses. We got to paint Dynamite

and then give him a bath. We led the pony, around

the back pen and made tasty-looking horse treats.

Besides getting horse riding lessons, we learned to

tack and groom horses, and clean stalls. We want to

take good care of them. The last day of horse camp

we wore our cool tie-dyed and stenciled t-shirts that

we made. During our final riding lessons we each

got a trophy for our riding achievements.

I sure hope I get to go to horse camp next year.

I can’t wait!

Summer Camp Fun!