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November 2016 EAT Newsletter

EAT News Equine-Assisted Therapy

Seasons Greeting from EAT !

An impromptu group therapy ses-sion was held for the large herd to support each other from the ef-fects of a scary early morning thunderstorm .



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At Equine-Assisted Therapy

We are thankful for

YOU!!!

We are so excited to show you all how much we love you, our

amazing volunteers! Come for dinner, prizes, and the crown-

ing of our 2017 Kings and Queens.

Mark your calendars to join the 2016 Volunteer Thanksgiving Dinner

Saturday November 12th

from 6 – 8 p.m. at our Wildwood Facility.

Your Spouse / Significant other/ kids are welcome

Thanksgiving—Volunteer Dinner . . . .

Dear PARTICIPANTS,

Once a year we all take time to thank our wonderful volunteers who make lessons at Equine-Assisted Therapy possible. You’ll never meet a greater bunch of people! Some of you have gotten to be quite close to the Volun-teers that are there for your child’s or your safety every week.

This year our Volunteer Thanksgiving Dinner is November 12th and, as always, we are asking you to help make it a dinner worthy of our volunteers. If you can lend a hand with any of the following items it would help im-mensely.

Please let us know how you’d like to help and we’ll keep a list going so we get everything just right!

You will also be asked to vote on your favorite horse of the year at each location.

Thank you all! The volunteers always ap-preciate this event after a long year of wind and rain and dark of night classes!

NOTE: All items need to be dropped off at WW

by 5 pm Saturday Nov 12th

Salads to serve 20

Potatoes/casseroles to serve 20

Vegetable/casseroles to serve 20

Stuffing to serve 20

Dinner Rolls – 2 dozen

Desserts to serve 20

$10 gift cards as prizes

* V O L U N T E E R S *



EAT Horses and Cold Weather

At Equine-Assisted Therapy taking care of our equine is a year-round ac-tivity. There are many ways that people take care of their horses (and miniature donkeys) in the winter. Some horse care practices depend on climate and others on personal preference. We use a combination of years of knowledge and experience, current information in horse care, and the advice from our veterinarians to care for our horses.

The horses at Equine-Assisted Therapy, start getting ready for winter in August. As the days begin to shorten, the horses begin to shed their sleek, summer coats. A longer, thicker winter coat grows that will protect his body from cold, wet weather. In addition to his furry winter coat, a

horse’s skin secretes a naturally waxy substance called sebum. It provides a waterproof barrier for the horse. Even if the rain or snow penetrates the long coat, the sebum will repel moisture.

At this time, our regular program horses do not require an extra blanket in the winter. Horses and peo-ple do not experience cold the same way. According to veterinarians, a horse’s comfort zone is between 5 degrees and 77 degrees Fahrenheit. Research says that a horse with a full winter coat, feels very com-fortable at around 23 degrees. That is much colder than a human’s comfort zone. If any of our equines, especially those who are retired, show signs that they need a blanket, we have plenty on hand to take care of their needs.

As the days get cooler in October, the staff at EAT that is responsible for horse care, begins to watch the weather forecasts closely. A horse needs an increase in calories, as he goes into the winter season. We slowly begin to increase the portions of grain given to the horses. We also add hay as the grass loses its nutrients in the fall. At Wildwood the horses are provided with free-choice, high-quality grass hay. At Town and Country, the horses each get about 20 pounds of hay a day. Their diet is also designed to keep them warm.

Water is important for horses. In the winter, a horse drinks between 5 and 10 gallons of water per day, and more if he is exercised regularly. When temperatures are below freezing we make sure that the wa-ter is kept open and free of ice. At Wildwood, the automatic waterers are heated. At Town and Country we put heated water buckets in the stalls and the trough has a special water heater.

We provide shelter for our horses as well. Each pasture at Wildwood has a large run in shelter. We also have the indoor arena which can be utilized if the need arises. At Town and Country, the stall doors are kept open so that the horses are able to go into their stalls at any time. Even though shelter is provided, it is not unusual to find the horse’s outside in the open. They enjoy being outside even when it is raining or snowing.

At Equine-Assisted Therapy, we are on duty every day of the year making

sure that each member of our herd receives the best care that we can

provide.



EAT - Hoedown 2016 ~ Thank You * Thank You * Thank You

Oh what a night! Great music, awesome food, bucking bull and a squealing pig added to hundreds of guests equal a full evening of fun and laughter. Thank you to everyone - and there were soooo many - who made this event a rollicking success!

Adrian, Lisa & Darin Akre, Steve Alpine Shop Aminis Bader, Tammy Behlman Auto Billo, Beth Bogolin, Lulu & Tracy Bower, Bob & Sandy Butts, Thomas Chesterfield Grooming Clynes, Brian Coyle, Dr James & Cynthia Crescent Farm Golf Course – Brit Roberts Culvers – Eureka Delashmit, Lauren & Jacob Delf, Jody Delgado, James, Judi & Jaime Damon, Lorie Detmer, Marc & Nancy Deweys Pizza – Ellisville Dierbergs - Wildwood Dietz, Hattie & Timothy Diffley, Richard Dorsey, Mark Drury Marketing Dueker, John & Judy Duffys Pub & Grill Dulaneys Grill Dunn, Gregory & Ruth Dwyer, James and Noel E&A CFO Group EAT Donors EAT Instructors EAT Participants EAT Volunteers Eckelkamp, Laura & Matt Egan, Kate Eidson, Jerry & Dottie Ennenbach, Joe & Mitch Epstein, Jay, Dee Dee & Margot Ernst, Karen & Ed Executive Construction Services – Kevin & Louisa Dean Extra Step Cleaning Faust, Leslie

Feinstein, Dan Fletcher, Mark & Diane Foster, George & Linda Fox & Hound Gerding, Courtney Giles, Bruce Golden Horseshoe Goldfarb, Deborah & Lawrence Goodman, Carol Grand Financial Advisors Great Clips – Wildwood Grebenc, William & Susan Green 2 Go Lighting – Chuck Justus Green, Rodney & Kecia Hager Co Hair Suite Too by Charlotte Halley, Ian & Melanie Happe, Sue Hartke, Gary & Ginni Hawthorne Inn Healthcare Complete Hoekel, Jennifer Holst, Dave Homestead Veterinary Hospital Horsehair Pottery - Schultz, Sandy Hubbard Investment Fund Huddleston, G Integrated Project Management Jenssen, Rex, Wendy & Caleb Jersey County Grain Co Joey B’s Jones Family Juice + Kaufman, Ronnie Keeven, Terry Kemp, Michele Kolovos, Nikoveta Kretsinger, Cal Kuhns, Benjamin & Jessica LaRoe & Controller Choas LBL Contracting Co Letty Lous Café LLywelyns – Wildwood Lonergan, Mike Magic House

Manna Pro Mark, Joseph Mark, Richard McAlisters – Fenton McCabe, Eric & Laura McCabrey, Michael & Jo Diane McNamara, Andrea McNeil, Daniel & Jill Mederios, Gregg Mestemacher, Mark & Carol Mettler, Sheridan Meyer, Bradley & Christine Miceli, Kathy Michaels Crafts Michaels, Dr Robt Miller Law Firm Milton, Jeffrey & Kathleen Modesto, Mike & Karen Moore, Lee Morton, Don & Sally National Charity League Nipon Tei Oberweiss Ojascastro, Stacy Olive Garden – Fenton & So Co Olympiad Gymnastics Oswald, Todd Palmer, Craig & Eileen Panera – So Co Parmenter, Jill Perficient Group Perlmutter, Barbie Petru, Michael & Valarie Pevely Farm Golf Course – Brit Roberts PF Changs – Chesterfield Piccirilli, Jenny PM BBQ Pole Position Go Carts Poor Richards – Eureka Prairie Farms Rallo, Linda Red Lobster – Chesterfield Rib City Richard Taylor Dental River Services Company Robinson, John

Robinson, Matthew & Tammy Roscoe, Laurie & Bob Rudd, Patty Rumbolo Peter Schlafly Brewery Schmitt, Carole Schnucks – Denise Moss Schnucks – Eureka Scully, Michael & Susan Shepard, Brad Schrader, Tom & Sharon Simon, Justin Smith, Brad & Hilary Smith, Chuck Smith, Patricia Smith, Scott & Barb Solterman, Donna Sperry, Craig Sprich, Glen & Patricia Steck, Lee & Ken Stewart, Daniel & Rebekah Sugarbaker, Beth Sugar Fire BBQ Tack Trunk Target – Fenton & So Co TGIF – So Co Threlkeld, Dave & Monica Threlkeld, Chas Threlkeld, Brian Time For Dinner Trulaske, Sarah Valley, Ted Verdine, Ben Waddell Concrete Waddell, William & Mary Ward, Connie Wathens, Tim Watts Rebar, Jim Watts Weber, Keith Welsh, Gaye West Co Phillips 66 Western Rivers Boat Mgt White, Acacia & Ted Widwood Yoga Wellness Wildwood Pub & Grill Williams, Laura & Michael

DIAMOND Level Donors

Big Mr B’s

Ceres Tank Barge

Designs for Tomorrow

GOLD Level

Donors

Commercial Develop-

ment Co

Extra Step Cleaning

Hubbard Investments

SILVER Level Donors

First Community Credit

Union

Steiner/Bertrand

US BANK

BRONZE Level Donors

AT&T

Manley Brothers

Waddell Concrete Co



Everyone had the most wonderful time at our Alzheimers & Caregivers Day on the Farm Event. This whole day came about as one of our volunteers' husband is suffering from the beginnings of this horrible disease and she and other caregivers have created a group that supports and advises one another. They all go out on little field trips and then get lunch. What a SUPER bunch of people. Our visitors watched the EAT video first, then went out to the arena to watch a beautiful perfor-mance by Linds/Flo, Linda/Chip, Denise/Chewy and Christy/Scooby then walked around and learned about all the various breeds and how they help EAT. Scott/Brady, Chuck/Hero, Karen/Dokka, and Lee had her hands full with Tator and Spuds while Nancy Rosenstock floated among the visitors making sure they were getting the most from the experience. Two visitors who did NOT want to touch a horse were smiling and petting them at the end of their visit and the group decided this was the best field trip they had ever taken. I agree, it was just the best!

Alzheimer’s Group Visit

Alzheimer’s Group Visit



Four 10 & 11 year-olds from First LEGO League - "Girlbots2.0" - came to visit Equine-Assisted Therapy to learn more about human/animal interaction. The girls watched a lesson and our video then met the animals as we talked first about how they interact with each other and then about how we've all been learning communication techniques at EAT in order to keep our horses and don-keys happy and healthy. The girls brought questions, took notes, then finally just started taping everything as we got deeper and deeper into the human/animal philosophy. It was fascinating!

Serve St Louis Day is always a huge boost to our Wildwood facility as 40 or so people come from an area church to help us maintain the grounds. This year, Holy Infant Catholic Church came by to help us fine tune our newest trail - chipping trees and branches that were sitting along the sides and adding tree hug-gers...... a bear, a raccoon, an elf and an owl along the trail for the kids to enjoy, then seeding the trail! The Holy Infant Confirmation kids swept down cobwebs and cleaned tack in our maintenance building and arena. Everything is beautiful! Thank you Holy Infant!

First LEGO League—”Girlbots 2.0” !

Group Visit - Led by Eureka Fire Departments

Holy Infant—Serve St. Louis Day !

As you can see, our visitors led by Eureka Fire Depart-ments, Sheila Frost, had a great time visiting with Florian.



EAT Fall Festival !

Dolan House Residential Visit

EAT Horse Show !

Great Day visiting with the Resi-dents of Dolan House Residential

Care.

It was a Beautiful Day for this years Fall Festival at Town & Country. Great Day for a Ride in the Park !!

Todays Annual Participant Horse Show was defi-nitely a time for our participants to show their stuff! Everyone did so well! Even the horses seemed to know today was a special time for them to show off!



A number of people are always working behind the scenes to keep our facilities beautiful and running smoothly:

All of our Volunteers

Anne Nixon & Geno who help ob-tain necessary maintenance at T&C

Barn Buddies who care for the horses morning and night

Carla Abernathy our T&C Barn Manager

Christina Tobin—donor Christy Merritt & David Diamond who help tend

to horses needs Cathy & Kelley Dufour - cleaning T&C facility Chuck Smith - who trains our horses to be quiet

and calm Chuck & Scott Smith who help Gary maintain the

property at Wildwood Chuck & Scott Smith who run our leadership pro-

gram Dave Thompson - Farrier

David Hunt at St Louis Equine Veterinary Services David & Donna Norton - Donation in memory of

Christopher George Dennis & Cindy Cappel Donations made in honor of Ron Holloways

birthday - Kent Bohling and Lee & Sally Landers “Donut” Dave Holst - keeps T&C stocked

Drea Thomas for teaching while Dayna was away EAT Board of Directors—Steve Akre, Gary Hartke,

Cal Kretsinger, Craig Palmer and Peter Rumbolo EAT donors and supporters EAT Instructors - our dedicated certified riding

instructors who love EAT's participants and hors-es like they were their own.

EAT Office Staff - Lindsey and Katie EAT Therapy Horses

Everyone who helped keep the therapy herd cool over this scorching summer weather

Gaye Regan - takes care of all birthdays and Thank You’s

Girl Scout Troop 686

Homestead Veterinary Hospital

Horse leaders and sidewalkers who assure a safe lesson for our participants

John and Sue Ragsdale– donor

Karen Regina Keith Pey - editor

Keith Weber - who keeps the arena sprayed down so no one is breathing dust

Linda Taylor for teaching while Karen was away Linds Roscoe & Katie Gancarz who run both facil-

ities through their expertise in the office Matt Eckelkamp - electric advice National Charity League - help with events

Peggy Browne - joint supplement for T&C Rick Turner - Tack

Schools, Churches & Businesses who donate a day of service

Teri Jordan - donation of this years Volunteer Appreciation gift

Vicki Vogt for teaching while Linda was away

Wendy Janssen & Christy Merritt who help keep our Wildwood office clean

Wow! This years Hoedown was just....WOW!!!! Thank you one and all for your part in the suc-cess and great time had by all. The list is long but I want to thank those who put this event togeth-er over the course of 6 months:

Diane & Mark Fletcher Karen Ernst

Barb & Scott Smith Chuck Smith

. . . and of course, my sweet, patient, understanding husband, Gary!

Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You



EAT Year End Recap

Another year has come and gone.... can you believe it? 2016 started out with a literal FLOOD of unexpected activity as our beautiful Wildwood facility took on 48" of water from the "historic flood" damaging or completely ruining everything in its path. We couldn't be more grateful for the abundance of volunteers who came out to help evacuate the horses the night before then put things back together again once we were allowed back on the property. We had electricians, plumbers, painters, carpenters, and people with just plain muscle spending full days on tear-out and restoration as well as the city of Wildwood bringing us a huge dumpster and picking it up, free of charge. Our donors made all this work possible as we were not considered a flood risk so had no insurance. Bless you all!

The rest of the year was filled with activity! We gave 108 individuals lessons every week – although this summer’s extreme heat made cancellations necessary up at our T&C facility a frequent occurrence. Added to that, we had so many wonderful visitors from every walk of life!

Equine-Assisted Therapy is a very active participant in the community and most of these extracurricular visits are done free of charge. We attend Ability Awareness Days at our area schools, open our facilities to groups that need a day in the “country”, educate and open the eyes of kids who aren’t sure what to do with a disabled classmate or friend, personalize a visit for our senior community, and happily provide community service hours for our high school students! There’s so much more to Equine-Assisted Therapy than meets the eye but, as you can see, it’s a program for and about community. Please consider Equine-Assisted Therapy in your year-end giving and donations. All are tax-deductible!

Alzheimers Association, their clients & caregivers

Boy Scout, Girl Scout, Brownies, Daisys, Eagle Scouts

Dolan Memory Care Residential Ctr

Equine Connection – Calgary CA

Eureka Seniors Group

Fontbonne University

Holy Infant Catholic Church

Integrated Processing Management

Keller Williams

Kids Who Kare Camp

Kirkwood Middle School

Kirkwood Rotary

Liberty Mutual

Living Word United Methodist Church

National Charity League

Pond Athletic Association

Purina Human Resources

Rotary Club of West County

Seckman High School

SLU Equestrian Team

St Louis Behavior Group

Westminster Football Team

Equine-Assisted Therapy, Inc. Therapeutic Horseback Riding for the Disabled

5591 Calvey Creek Rd, Robertsville, MO 63072 Come ride with us on the web at www.equine-assistedtherapy.org



Winter Interim Nov 27th – Dec 17th 2016 Wildwood Only

Holiday break – Dec 18th – Jan 1st Jan 2nd – Jan 29th 2017

Session break – Jan 30th – Feb 11th

VOLUNTEER & LEADER TRAINING Feb 11th – Noon – 2 pm

Session 1 Feb 12th – Apr 1st Wildwood only

Session break March 26th – April 1st

Session 2 April 2nd – May 20th Both Loctions

No classes April 16th for Easter

No classes May 14th for Mothers Day Session Break May 21st – 29th (Memorial Day)

ANNUAL EGG HUNT SATURDAY APRIL 8TH - 11:00 am at T&C

Session 3 May 30th – July 15th Both Loctions

No classes June 18th for Fathers Day

No classes Tuesday July 4th Summer break – July 23rd – Aug 5th

Session 4

August 6th – Sept 23rd Both Loctions

No classes Sept 2nd – 4th for Labor Day

Session Break Sept 24th – Sept 30th

5TH ANNUAL HOEDOWN FOR HOPE – Sat Sept 30th

Session 5 Oct 1st – Nov 17th Wildwood

Oct 1st—Oct 31st T & C

No classes Oct 31st for Halloween

No classes Nov 18th for the Volunteer Thanksgiving Dinner

Session Break Nov 18th – Nov 25th

PATH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – NO CLASSES – dates TBD

VOLUNTEER THANKSGIVING DINNER – Sat Nov 18th 6 - 8 pm

Winter Interim

Nov 26th – Dec 16th / Jan 2nd – Jan 27th

Thanksgiving Break Nov 19th – 25th

Christmas Break Dec 17th – Jan 1st

Session Break Jan 28th – Feb 10

2017 - EAT Calendar . . .



EAT’s Mission . . .

Equine Assisted Therapy - Contact Info

EAT Office Team

Lindsey Roscoe

Katie Gancarz

Phone: (314) 971-0605

Executive Director

Ginni Hartke, RN

Phone: (314) 221-3642

[email protected]

T& C Barn Mgr

Carla Abernathy

Phone: (314) 630-5479

Equine-Assisted Therapy – Program Addresses

EAT - Business Office

5591 Calvey Creek Rd

Robertsville, MO 63072

EAT - Longview Farm Park

13525 Clayton Rd Town & Country, MO 63141

EAT — Wildwood

3369 Hwy 109

Wildwood, MO 63038

Newsletter Editor : Keith Pey

Email EAT : [email protected] visit our web-site: www.eatherapy.org

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sons with mental, physical, and psychological disa-

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