1984 (Fall) Newsletter

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The Lower Connecticut Valley Educational Riding Association,

Inc.

L.C.V.E.R.A. Hadlyme, Ct.

06439

Vol. 3

No. 3

LOVERA is in full swing with our fall season well underway. Eleven adults ride Monday evenings at Westbrook Hunt Club; twenty Old Lyme - Lyme students and two cerebral palsy adults ride Tuesdays from 9am - 2pm at Kingswood Farm, Lyme; eighteen students from schools in Essex, Madison, Guilford and Higganum ride Wednesdays from 9am - 2pm at Sea Horse Farm in Chester and eight riders come to the Goulds in Hadlyme on Thursday afternoons. These fifty-nine riders are assisted by fifty-five volunteers and taught by four instructors. Holly Ridgeway, Edi Griswold, Jonnie Edwards and Kathy Skolem are creating imaginative, demanding classes for all riders. Two riders are trotting independently and cantering on the lunge line! Trail blazing has been done by the riders at Sea Horse Farm so they could enjoy trail rides on these lovely fall days. Complicated mazes and obstacle courses have sharpened the steering and perceptual skills of many riders. Stable mangement continues to be an area of emphasis for LOVERA. Once the sequential steps in grooming, tacking up a horse or cleaning a stall have been mastered, the rider gains self-confidence and will transfer this ability to other learning situations. Carolyn Jagielski, our LPT, is always on hand assisting and evaluating the physically handicapped riders. I urge you to come visit a class. The enthusiasm is contagious! Judy Lovelace Executive Director

Nonprofit, tax exempt organization

Fall

1984

Jonnie Edwards, Holly Ridgeway, Judy Lovelace, Edi Griswold and Carolyn Jagielski spent some time this summer with Marge Kittredge who has run a therapeutic riding program for twenty years. Marge's words of advice and encouragement were sound: "teaching the disabled is just like teaching the able-bodied, it only takes longer." Marge's barns are lovely, her horses well mannered, her instructors excellent and her students are extremely enthusiastic about their riding program. We all enjoyed our stay and came back to Connecticut bursting with ideas and the knowledge that LOVERA also has an excellent therapeutic riding program.


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