November 20, 2007

Happy Holidays SSRC Family,

What a good year, please read the information below about upcoming events, please mark these on your calendars.

If you have any questions please email an officer.

Have a Blessed Thanksgiving,
Renee

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Things to know, remember & look forward too:

Dec 1 General Membership Meeting & SSRC Christmas Party -

At Pat of Hendersons - off 210 Loop, Legion St. exit (east of 210) next to Nissan dealership in Lake Charles. Meal is 11-12 and Meeting is 12 - 3:30. If you are interested in coming, please make sure that you have been included in the head count. If you are just deciding to join us, please email me at rntwade1@hughes.net or call 337-884-8167. If you want to join the meeting but not eat, that is ok. You should still be included in the head count. Just come at 12 instead of 11.

Please bring a $5.00 wrapped gift to exchange. We will have adults and kids in separate stacks.

Please bring a new unwrapped toy for Toys For Tots for the Marine Corp League. They have sponsored several classes for us in past years and were kind enough to cook for us at the 2006 banquet. Hopefully, they will cook for us again this year. No pig though!
Toys do not have to be expensive.

General Membership Meeting -

You will not have a vote on any upcoming changes or officer elections if you are not physically at the meeting. There will be no proxy votes or email votes allowed. All people voting must be paid members for 2008 show season. Therefore, be prepared to complete a membership form and pay your membership fees for 2008 at the Dec 1 meeting. Only persons 18 years & older and a paid 2008 SSRC member will be allowed to vote.

Items up for vote -

***Increase grievance fee to $100 instead of $10.

***Officers should not be paid - To clarify, none of the SSRC officers are paid for being an officer. The announcer, the table help & ring steward is paid for a job that requires them to remain in that position the majority of the show day.

***Start at 9:00 instead of 8:00.

***OCAP charges the club $5.00 at each show; this is paid for by SSRC funds. Vote to continue offering OCAP or not.

***OCAP does not recognize the walk trot wording on the pee wee classes. If the class name say pee wee walk/trot - they do not recognize the class and will not give ocap points.

***Do we keep monthly High Pt/Res High Pt awards for 2008.

***Do we keep High Pt/Res High Pt English, Western & Speed or go back to original All Around as was before.

***Do we want to do a Saddle Series as in 2006? Being in Deridder, this may draw more folks to come increasing year end awards.

***Remove halter grand/reserve during the show. Could still have a High Point Halter horse at year end without doing grand/reserve during show.

***Put trail back in main arena.

***Remove beginner western pleasure fundraiser.

***Remove novice western pleasure class.

***Remove western riding.

***Make western riding all ages like the reining class.

***Remove reining.

***Move stallions back to first halter class for safety reasons & get them out of the arena prior to other halter classes.

***Remove speed events. Alternative - have speed events as specialty classes during summer months; proceeds from these classes would go to year end awards only for these classes and would not be included in all day ride. No sponsors required.

***We have had pee wee w/t and w/t/l classes the past year. W/t/l offers less points for year end all around & high point awards as they are not filled classes. Possibility - only put w/t class as counting for all around & high point awards.

***Change PW from w/t to w/t/l - this would also fix the ocap problem.

***Add pee wee english and western discipline rail classes.

***Add older than dirt halter class - 15 yr old mare/gelding or older.

***Add a "youth"??? category that is a 13 & under w/t - already have 2 pee wee hus & western pleasure classes; would just be adding an equitation, showmanship, horsemanship class to have youth wt and pw wtl classes.

***Do we want to continue to have separate Gen Membership Meeting & Banquet?

There may be additional nominations and suggestions/ideas up for vote at the meeting that are not shown here. This is just a list of items received to date.

****If you have any other suggestions/ideas or officer nominations to vote on at the Dec 1 meeting - you must put them in written form and email to me rntwade1@hughes.net no later than Nov 27, 2007 to be included on the Dec 1 agenda. No suggestions, ideas or nominations will be accepted unless received in written form by this date.

Jan 26 - 2007 SSRC Banquet - more information to follow.

Congratulations Go To 2007 Winners

PeeWee English High Point - Caleb Ross
PeeWee English Res High Point - Ralynn O'Brien

Jr English High Point - Aerial Pauley
Jr English Res High Point - Sarah Seaman

Sr English High Point - Erica Hayslip
Sr English Res High Point - Leanne Elliott

PeeWee Western High Point - Morgan Bertrand
PeeWee Western Res High Point - Emmalee Bertrand

Jr Western High Point - Sarah Seaman
Jr Western Res High Point - Jamie Wade

Sr Western High Point - Donald Foster
Sr Western Res High Point - Wanda Vincent

PeeWee Speed High Point - Ralynn O'Brien
PeeWee Speed Res High Point - Ralynn O'Brien

Jr Speed High Point - Tori Adams
Jr Speed Res High Point - Kim Hailey

Sr Speed High Point - Leanne Eliott

Pee Wee All Around - Morgan Bertrand
Pee Wee Res All Around - Ralynn O'Brien

Jr All Around - Sarah Seaman
Jr Res All Around - Aerial Pauley

Sr All Around - Leanne Elliott
Sr Res All Around - Erica Hayslip

CONGRATS TO ALL OF OUR 2007 HIGH PT, RES HIGH PT, ALL AROUND & RES ALL AROUND WINNERS!!!

Congrats to Madison Jenkins & Lacy for their awesome job at Pinto Congress. They placed 1st in Trail and Western Pleasure, Res (2nd) in Showmanship and 3rd in Horsemanship. She received 2 Championship Pinto Congress jackets and won gifts valued at $700.00 in a Hoedown Hula Hoop contest.

Congrats to our November High Point and Reserve High Point winners –

Pee Wee High Point – Morgan Bertrand
Pee Wee Res High Point – Ralynn O’Brien

Jr High Point – Kim Hailey
Jr Res High Point – Sarah Seaman

Sr High Point – Leanne Elliott
Sr Res High Point – Erica Hayslip

2008 SSRC Show Dates

Feb 16 – Practice/Open/Warm Up Show
Mar 15 –
April 26 –
May 24 –
May 31 to June 1 – 4H/Youth Show
June 21 –
July 19 –
Aug 23 –
Sept 20 –
Oct 18 –
Nov 22 –
Banquet & Gen Membership Meeting TBA

Jessica Stanley won 1st place Congress Champion in the amateur yearling geldings.

Stoney Richard won 1st place Congress Champion in the open yearling geldings and the international yearling gelding futurity.

Thanks.

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