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News . . . Updated on November 1st, 2009
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Friday Nov 27
• THANKSGIVING
Turkey Day
Members List:
Links Section
President:
Deb Thomas
Vice President:
Janice Drake
Treasurer:
Lisa Bibbiani
Members:
Lauren Bousquet
Fun & Learn Show Chair:
Lisa Bibbiani
Membership:
Janice Drake
Points/Year End Awards:
Deb Thomas
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The Connecticut River Arabian Horse Association . . .
C.R.A.A. is a club comprised of a diverse group of people with one thing in common - the Love of the Arabian Horse. Through annual events such as Horse Shows, Clinics, and Fun Days, the group gathers to work and play, share experiences, and enjoy each other's company.
The C.R.A.A. is also dedicated to educating the public on the oldest horse breed, the Arabian and encourage horse owners and non-horse owners alike, to attend and participate in club events. The Connecticut River Arabian Horse Association is a fun, laid back group of people that hope to introduce you and your friends to the Arabian horse - THE ULTIMATE SHOW HORSE.
If you have any questions, please contact any Board member, and we'll be delighted to help in any way we can.
NEW IN 2009, NEW & RENEWING AFFILIATED MEMBERSHIPS THRU C.R.A.A. will receive a C.R.A.A. T-Shirt to thank you for your membership. Questions on membership, please contact Janice Drake @ jld5776@comcast.net . . . and don't forget to check out the Membership Page for more information.
PAYPAL ACCEPTED . . . If you would like to become a CRAA Club sponsor, pay your membership or purchase an ad for the Banquet Program, please email Deb @ CtRiverArabian@aol.com and let Deb know. She'll then send you an invoice through our paypal account for payment.
Here are the standings for 2009 Year End Awards. If you have questions or changes, please get them to me no later than Monday, October 11th, 2009. As of October 12th, these standings will become final. And, please remember, the points are taken from AHA's web site. For points to count, you must be a member (either affiliated or associate), and horse and/or rider's nominations must have been post-marked and/or received no later than October 1st, 2009.
If AHA's web site does not have an accurate listing of you and/or your horse's points, it is up to you to contact the Show Secretary and AHA to correct this. Please note that I will accept an email from the show secretary stating the correct placing and number of horses in the class(es) and further that it will be corrected on the AHA web site. This will be accepted due to timing of AHA's ability to correct timely in this case. Any questions, please contact me directly either via email DLT8888@aol.com or 860-526-9526. I thank you for your understanding regarding this matter.
download Adobe PDF 2009 Final Point Standings with Corrections
C.R.A.A. YEAR END AWARDS BANQUET SCHEDULED. . .
Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at the Gallery located @ 141 New London Turnpike, Glastonbury
Costume Party . . . Costume of your choice (optional, too).
1st Place for Best Costume
1st Place for Most Original
1st Place for Most Outlandish
Invitations to be in mail by end of this week
C.R.A.A. Arabian Community Show held on Saturday, September 12th news . . . even though the weather was not the greatest, we had a nice turn-out of horses. It was exciting to watch the over fences classes that consisted of both Arabian, Half-Arabian and Open Horses competing for the 3 championships. We added a A/HA/AA Sport Horse in Hand Class and a A/HA/AA Sport Horse Under Saddle Class to the day, which proudly had 4 participants in each of those classes.
A very special thank you to the following volunteers:
Sundy Martin for all of her efforts on advertising & a great job with our raffle items, thank you, Sundy.
Rhea Distefano for supplying the jumps, the courses, and playing double duty as Ring Steward and Announcer, thank you.
Kimberly Selig for a beautiful job on our first place awards, thank you.
Janice Drake for all of her behind the scenes work with AHA and secretary work for the day, thank you.
Bob & Deb Thomas for giving us their farm for the day, thank you.
C.R.A.A. ACS Arabian & Open Show Results. . . download 2009 CRAA ACS Show Results
REGIONAL & FUN and LEARN SHOW YEAR END AWARDS NEWS . . . The Board has recently added the ACS Show to be held on September 12th to be DOUBLE POINTS towards 2009 Year End Awards to members for both the Regional & Fun and Learn Divisions. Please don't forget to nominate your horse and equitation rider for the Regional Year End Awards divisions.
CONGRATULATIONS to the following Youth Members on their College choice and acceptance: Cristina Thomas will be attending Sweetbriar College in Virginia; Keley Selig will be attending UCONN in Connecticut; Lauren Valcourt will be attending Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts; Kayleigh Meyer will be attending UCONN in Connecticut; and Tara Preston will also be attending UCONN in Connecticut.
Fun & Learn Show @ Showtime Stables on October 31, 2009 has been postponed until 2010.
CHECK OUT OUR NEW YOUTH CONTESTS . . . Horse of the Month and Youth of the Month. For more details click on the Youth Page link.
NUTRENA CLUB SUPPORT PROGRAM
Do you use any of the following Nutrena Brand Feeds:
Life Design, Vitality, Legacy, SafeChoice, LifeBalance, XTM, Empower, Triump Brands, Horse Kwik, NW Stretch Hay Extender, Naturewise Farmstore Feeds, Cargill Milk Plus, Dairyway/Dairy Focus Feeds, Other Nutrena Grain Products, River Run Dog Foods 50#, River Run Dog Foods 25#, Nutrena Cat Food 20#, Nutrena Cat Food 8#?
How about helping us out by saving the FEED TAG LABELS and sending them to Deb Thomas, 60 Clark Hill Road, East Haddam, CT 06423 and help us turn those labels into CASH for the C.R.A.A.? The only acceptable proofs of purchase are the UPC labels from the bags.
It's easy to do, just pull off the labels and send to Deb Thomas at the above address. Thank you for your help and support. Please make sure that labels sent in do NOT have a dated code over one year. If you have a great picture in jpg format, please send it to me at DLT8888@aol.com and I will post it as quickly as possible (must be in jpg format or it can't be done).
