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News HP Yahoo Group - HighlandPonyNA - Join Up! - A Yahoo Group has been formed for HPECA members and any other North American HP lovers or owners to join in. Need advice? Have a question? Want to share photos or stories? Go to yahoo.com, sign in or create a log-in to Yahoo Groups at 'HighlandPonyNA', and send a request to join to the moderator, Judy Brescia. Board members and officers will be using the group on August 28th at 7pm EST to have a 'town hall' type meeting after the AGM. Join the group in advance so you're ready to attend. Other meeting times will be arranged in the future. HPECA
Booth at 2010 Equine Affaire ®
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HPECA Secretary Contact Information Change - Please note that Suzi Newport's phone number has changed slightly as:
Suzi Newport - HPECA Secretary
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HPECA Photo Contest WINNERS!
Over-All Reserve went to Mary Ellen Erickson and her photo of Kerrara Jeanie. See the other winners of categories"Action", "Scenic", and "HP Character & Personality". Congratulations to all our winners and those who provided the other entries. You did a great job and the competition was tough! Write-up of the whole contest including the photos will be in our next newsletter.
2010 Mountain & Moorland classes - NPS America has been busy organizing Mountain & Moorland classes for 2010 all over the United States. Go to our Events page for a complete listing. See if there's something in your area that you can go and introduce the Highland Pony to other Native Pony people! Congratulations are in order for member Sandy Mairs and her pony, Ailsa of Glenlomond. They placed in the top 10 of the 2009 HPS Performance Awards for England/Wales area! This is the second year they placed in the top 10 - in 2008 they came in third! Sandy, who was club Secretary for our first four years, has spent her time since stepping down actively & successfully campaigning Ailsa in England. They competed in many shows to accumulate thousands of points for the performance awards. To see the entire list for the England/Wales area, plus the top 10 placings for Scotland, go to the Highland Pony Society website, click on "HPS News" in the navigation bar, then "Current News".
2009 Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 14, 2009 as part of the 12th annual Equine Affaire in Springfield, Massachusetts. Many of our East Coast members were in attendance. Everyone congregated at the Storrowton Tavern restaurant, located on the EA grounds, for a lovely lunch, the official AGM and lots of Highland Pony talk! It was a wonderful opportunity for many to put faces to people we've only talked to on the phone or via email. Members in attendance were: Donald & Pat Wright of Maine, Leif & Mary Ellen Erickson of New Hampshire, Bob & Debra Coburn of New Hampshire, Bob Hatch of Massachusetts, George & Barbara Clardy of Pennsylvania, Pat & Judy Brescia of Virginia, Lee Ann Bunn of Virginia, and Suzi Newport of Tennessee.
Don't forget our Photo Contest! Please submit your pictures of Highland Ponies taken in 2008 or 2009 by Feb. 5, 2010 to Lee Ann Bunn, Newsletter Editor - either via email (in jpeg format to leeann@cvalink.com) or mail to 181 Tater Lane, Bumpass, VA 23024. Winners & prizes to be announced in the winter newsletter. Categories to be: Action, People & Ponies; HP Character & Personality, and Scenic. Submission of photo for the contest is permission to be use it for HPECA publications. Click here for a submission form. |
Highland
Pony Enthusiasts Club of America (HPECA) |
For
Summer 2010:
Rosette
Award Program Reminder:
Don't forget to report any public activities you & your pony participated
in for 2010 in order to get your rosette! Our very own HPECA Rosettes
will be awarded to pure and part-bred ponies registered with the HPS,
who 
For
Spring 2010:
HPECA
had ponies & display tables as part of the Equus Survival Trust
at 12th
annual Equine Affaire in Springfield, Massachusetts - November 12
- 15, 2009. Our club
Treasurer, Judy Brescia, did a fantastic job of organizing the club's
participation at this event. The
club had four Highlands and one part-bred in the Breed Demonstration
on Saturday, and each of the four