Horsy News,
Views and Attitudes Vol. 1 Number Number 32 February 25 - March 2, 2008
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Camp Scholarships Offered
Local Trainer Asks 'What Should the Pony Pals Game Have?' Wiggins riding Instructor Jane Crandal would like
young readers to enter a new contest.
Kids who enter will have a chance to win a computer camp scholarship. Two awards
are available to National Computer Camp (NCCamp.com). Now in its 31st year,
NCC has locations in Connecticut, Georgia, New York, and Ohio.
At these camps, girls can design a 2D or 3D video game, learn to
program, create a graphic video, take apart a computer, create a home page,
play tennis, play Civilization
-- and make new friends!
"One group I joined when I started to build the Pony Pals game is
WomenGamers.com," Crandal said. "This group is offering two
scholarships for girls ages 8-18 who want to attend this great summer
experience." During
the June-July 2008 season, two female students ages can each attend for one
week. These scholarships are worth almost $1000.
Girls at computer camp ---
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Enter the Leap Year Art Contest!
e-mail your
drawing to WebMaster@ClubPonyPals.com
Deadline February
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Game Camp Scholarship Continued
from page1 To apply,
girls need to write and send in an essay in response to the following
question: What
will video games of the future be like and if you were in charge of designing
a game, what would it be like? The 500 - 600 word essay must be
submitted to scholarship@womengamers.com no later than May 16th, 2008.
Along with that essay, include your name, address, telephone, email
address, and age.
The winning essays will be posted on WomenGamers.Com. Former
scholarship winners are not eligible. Essays submitted previously will
not be accepted.
A members' panel from WomenGamers.Com will judge the essays.
Scholarship winners will be announced on May 23rd, 2008. For each scholarship
to be awarded, at least five entries need to be received. (Teachers
and parents, this is a real contest. Club Pony Pals, Scholastic and the Wiggins Weekly will never ask
for a child's real name, home address, telephone or age. -- Editor) ___________________________________________
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Pony Pals Letters Dear Pony
Pals, Our class loves your
books and website. We're in 3rd
grade in NC. The kids are
coaching me about what to write and they want me to say they're your biggest
fans! Our names are
Meredith, Sadie, Nicholas, Garland, Sunshine, Brandy, and Mrs. S. We're making a
banner for our library featuring "Too Many Ponies." Is there any chance that you would
send us a photo of Jeanne Betancourt so we can put it on our banner? Our banner is approx. 26" X
44." Please write back. We can be pony pen pals. Thank you for
reading our email. Mrs. S. Reading Specialist Technology Mentor Dear Pony Pals Meredith, Sadie, Nicholas, Garland, Sunshine,
Brandy and Mrs. S.,
Thanks for your letter. I forwarded your request for a photo to Jeanne
Betancourt. She promised to send you one. Your banner sounds
great! Could you please
email me a photo to show all of you and your finished banner? Mrs. S. is now on the
mailing list for the Wiggins Weekly. Maybe she will share it with you on
Monday morning!
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Pony
Pals Letters Continued from Page 2 Dear Pony Pals, This is Anna. It is my
turn to write. Last weekend we asked Ranger Stranton about the Mt. Morris
mystery machine. The Ranger said he
didn't know what it is. He also told us there is another machine like it at
the bottom of Mt. Morris. That land used to be owned by the Simpson family.
They gave it to the park a long time ago. Pam remembered the old
history teacher Mrs. Eastman. Her last name was Simpson before she got
married. We decided to go meet her again and ask about the machines. On Monday afternoon
Lulu called the Grand View Nursing home. She asked if we could come see Mrs.
Eastman.
They said we could come any afternoon between two and five. I had my
tutor on Tuesday and Thursday. It was really raining with ice on Wednesday. This week we
had a lot of snow, sleet and ice. It was too cold and wet to ride out on
trail. It is boring for Acorn and Snow White when we don't ride. So sometimes
I just jump on Acorn bareback when he is in his paddock. When it is cold our
and you ride bareback it is fun to feel how warm a pony is! Acorn likes it
too. 8-) Finally it
was Friday and we all went to visit Mrs. Eastman after school. We remembered that she gets tired
easily because she is very old. So I did a bigger drawing to show Mrs.
Eastman what we knew about the machines. When we talked to the
Ranger. He said that there were some other buildings near a bottom wheel. So
I drew in the wheel. Maybe Mrs. Eastman can tell me more about the buildings
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Then we put on coats and
went to see Mrs. Eastman. First we walked to the Green
Market. Mrs. Lacey was there and she gave us half off on a plant, a pot of
paper white bulbs that were about to bloom. We wrapped them up to keep them
from freezing. Then we went to the Good View Nursing home. When we got there,
Mrs. Eastman was glad to see us again. She wanted to know about our ponies.
We told her about the coyote traps back near her favorite secret meadow.
Then we started to ask Mrs. Eastman about the big wheels.
I showed her my drawing. Lulu asked if there was a mine. Pam asked if
they were part of a factory.
Mrs. Eastman started to laugh. She pointed to a big scrapbook on a
shelf in her room. Then she started to show us some pictures.
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Pals Letters Continued from Page 3
Mr. Eastman built in a special machine called a rope tow. People held
on to the rope while it pulled them up Mt. Morris so they could ski back
down.
Photo courtesy of http://www.nelsap.org/ Lots of people came to ski on Mt. Morris. It was so popular that
Mr. Eastman built a better way to get up the mountain.
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Mrs. Eastman told us that even though they didn't make a lot of money,
her husband built a small restaurant and ski rental shop so people could rent
skis. Their daughters gave
skiing lessons.
Photo courtesy of http://www.nelsap.org/
We all liked looking at the pictures but Pam was curious. "What
happened? Did people stop skiing?"
Mrs. Eastman looked out the window, just thinking for a moment. Then, she said that after her
daughters grew up and got married, it got more expensive to run the ski
resort. When
some ski places started to make artificial snow, smaller ski resorts like Mt.
Morris didn't make enough money to compete. Her family decided to sell the
resort but there were no offers. They closed it when Mr. Eastman died. Mrs.
Eastman donated the ski resort to the Mt. Morris park.
We thanked her for telling us her story. After we talked for so
long, Mrs. Eastman looked sad. We promised to come back and visit her again. After we left, Pam, Lulu and
I all looked at each other. It was time for a Pony Pal meeting. So that was
our adventure this week. Write and tell us about yours. Pony Pals, |
Pony Pals Power thought
for the day - -
One of the reasons
girls are on earth
is because ponies
need someone to care for them.