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Horse riding a gentle form of therapy Program helps children learn balance, self-esteem BY JEFF CHEW
She chose to train in horse-assisted therapy at the Pony Farm in Temple, CARLSBORG — Yvette N.H., to grow beyond her Ludwar’s kind of therapy instruction skills in basic comes with a whole lot of horsemanship after hearing horse sense and humanity. several parents ask if she S i n c e could teach disabled chil2004, she’s dren to ride. been teachHer special training ing youngthrough the North Ameristers from can Riding for the Handithe age of 3 capped Association certifies and older her in horse-assisted therhow to ride apy, which gives those h o r s e s , Ludwar unable to walk a new set of which she legs up on the saddle. said eliminates fear and self-doubt at Mimics walking an early age. “I say start ’em while “Riding is the only thing they’re young. At 3 years that mimics the body’s old, it teaches them balance walking,” she said. “It can and self-esteem,” Ludwar wake up nerves that would said at her Native Horse- ordinarily be dead. The manship Riding Center on wheelchair-bound get total Taylor Cutoff Road. “By body stimulation.” placing them in a safe She recalls a child with atmosphere, you are going cerebral palsy who arrived to help their courage, hunched over in a wheelthereby their self-esteem.” chair but later rose up Her equine therapy straight and tall in the sadhelps the mentally and dle atop one of her ponies. Part Oklahoma Cherokee, physically abused child cope, she said, adding that Ludwar teaches using the Child Protective Services, native horsemanship style of the state agency that horse training and riding. “It’s a 100 percent gentle watches over abused youths, periodically refers method for training horses,” she said. “Even patting is children to her. It is a program designed aggressive behavior to to help children create a horses.” They prefer a good rub frame of trust and cooperation that promotes self- or relaxing scratch over an pat, she esteem, teaches responsibil- unnerving ity in caring for a horse and explained. “That’s why I believe our imparts positive life skills that carry over to school, horses are gentler and home and social life, she said. kinder,” she said, adding PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
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Sarah Klippert, 5, left, and her sister, Isabelle, 7, are guided by Native Horsemanship Riding Center volunteers Joey Barton, left, and Scott Aldrich along the center’s trail. that riders are taught to use the “wiggle, wiggle, smooch” method of asking a horse to move rather than kicking it in the sides. The rider simply wiggles twice back and forth in the saddle and makes a kissing sound with the lips. Children can learn to ride small horses through an obstacle course as well as ride the trails. Safety helmets and boots are provided for those who lack them. The program also can help a soldier suffering
from post-traumatic stress syndrome or someone who has just been through a stressful, nasty divorce. Five $150 Veterans of Foreign Wars scholarships are given to each year qualifying disabled individuals and children. All that is necessary is a letter to the VFW expressing the need, Ludwar said. Ludwar, who teaches up to 200 to ride every summer, dreams of one day having access to an indoor arena to teach year-round. “What we need is a fairy
godmother,” she said, smil“Yvette really breaks it down for them to learn.” ing. Their grandmother, Those at the center praised Ludwar’s approach. Donna Spivey of Sequim, called Ludwar “a wonderful lady.” ‘Having a blast’ “I am so impressed,” she “They’re both having a added. “To have the love of blast,” Sequim mom Amy horses like she does, I Klippert said of her daugh- couldn’t ask for anything ters, Isabelle, 7, and Sarah, better than this.” 5, who were finishing up Ludwar can be contacted their pony riding lessons at 360-582-0907. with Ludwar, whose volun________ teers then led the girls on a Sequim-Dungeness Valley Edishort trail ride around the tor Jeff Chew can be reached at center’s treed 5 acres of 360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@ peninsuladailynews.com. maintained trails.
Port Townsend video store brews Briefly . . . up Harry Potter-style butter beer Concerned Citizens Wanted to do something for final movie BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT TOWNSEND — As portrayed in books and on film, Harry Potter’s favorite beverage is a kidfriendly drink called butter beer. The drink is never defined, so a Port Townsend video store has blended its version of the concoction and is serving it in a variety of ways. “We wanted to do some-
thing special when the final movie came out,” said Vasu Video owner Liam Cannon. “We spent a few weeks developing the recipe before we got it right.” The butter beer base is a thick sauce that contains caramel, cream and lots of butter. It can be mixed with coffee or milk and can be served hot or cold.
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While butter beer has no alcoholic content, the drinking of one’s first butter beer is a rite of passage in the wizarding world. In the real world, a butter beer costs $3.67 for a regular 12-ounce cup, which compares to the price of a latte. Vasu Video, at 1030 Lawrence St., is the only remaining full-service video store in East Jefferson County, according to Cannon. He said the store has been able to stay open because of support from a core of loyal customers and the movie studios’ recent practice of supplying new movies to independent video stores one month before releasing them to cable TV or Netflix. “Netflix has cut into our business,” said Cannon, who has run the store for 15 years. “But we’ll be here as long as our customers support us.”
The store began serving the drink about two weeks ago, one week before the premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.” During last Thursday night’s Port Townsend premiere, the store was serving butter beers until midnight for people who had lined up for the show. While Harry Potter merchandise is tightly controlled, Cannon said that no copyright exists for the term “butter beer.” “They never say exactly what is in butter beer,” he said. “And the term is not ________ trademarked.” Jefferson County Reporter CharButter beer is barely lie Bermant can be reached at 360mentioned in the movies, 385-2335 or at charlie.bermant@ but in the book it is por- peninsuladailynews.com.
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SEATTLE — Firefighters battled a fire at an SEQUIM — Concerned apartment complex south Citizens of Clallam County of Seattle. The blaze sent up a plume of smoke that will host a legislative update at the Sequim Boys was visible from downtown Seattle and as far away as & Girls Club, 400 W. Fir Tacoma. St., at 7 p.m. today. The fire broke out at the State Sen. Jim HarLighthouse Apartments on grove, D-Hoquiam, and state Rep. Steve Tharinger, Sunday afternoon south of Seattle. The nonprofit D-Sequim — both of the Union Gospel Mission 24th District, which includes the North Olympic owns and operates the four-story, 18-unit apartPeninsula — will share ment for low-income peotheir thoughts and experiple. ences of the 2011 legislaThe group’s senior vice tive session. president, Gary Fast, said Also, Clallam County about 30 people had to flee Auditor Patty Rosand and the burning apartment Elections Supervisor building and that “everyShoona Radon will talk one is accounted for.” about voter registration He said two people were and the election process. taken to hospitals, but he The meeting is open to did not know the extent of the public. their injuries. “Everybody is shaken Drum circle up. It’s a tough thing. Some PORT ANGELES — of their vehicles were conThe community drum circle sumed in the fire, too,” Fast that meets every month at said. Peninsula College welThe building has 18 comes new faces at its get- units, but two were empty. togethers, including the one this Tuesday. Carrier deployment Drummers, with or BREMERTON — The without their own drums, are invited, as are dancers, USS John C. Stennis is scheduled to deploy today singers, sounders and lisfrom its homeport of teners. Bremerton. The circle starts at 6 The aircraft carrier is on p.m. in the Longhouse, in its way to the western Peninsula College’s southPacific Ocean and the Perwestern corner. To find it, enter the col- sian Gulf for a sevenmonth deployment. lege campus from the east The Navy said the Stenend of Park Avenue, turn nis will leave port around on the road between the college parking lot and the 1:45 p.m. after a morning news conference and cerepower substation, and folmony in Bremerton. low it as it curves to the The aircraft carrier will right. The Longhouse will need the better part of an come into view on the hour to move away from right. the port. For more details about Peninsula Daily News the drum circle, usually held the fourth Tuesday of and The Associated Press
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