Horsy News,
Views and Attitudes Vol. 1 Number 33 March 3-9, 2008
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Ski joring practice
Trail ride in the snow --- Photos courtesy of http://cavaliersdelafrontiere.com |
Art Show Cancelled Roof Leak Damages
Town Hall Floor Wiggins Leap Year Art
Event Called Off
When Pony Pal Anna Harley and art show organizer Wilhelmina Wiggins
walked into the Town Hall exhibit room on Saturday morning, they found a part
of the hall ceiling had fallen on the floor. Water was dripping from where
the ceiling had been attached. "We
were just lucky that the contest artwork hadn't been installed yet, or it
could have been ruined," Wilhelmina said. "The art is all safe and we decided to extend
the deadline later this year. That means young artists still have a chance to
enter the contest."
"With all the snow and ice in Wiggins this week, ice built up on
that corner of the roof. It forced water into the roof and then the ceiling
got too heavy and fell down," Wiggins continued.
Leakage in Town Hall Exhibit
Room When
young artist Anna Harley went outside, she saw a lot of icicles near where
the damage was on the hall inside.
"I guess nobody checked that corner of the gutters to make sure
they were draining," Anna said. Continued on page 2 |
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Art Contest
Deadline Extended! email entries
to WebMaster@ClubPonyPals.com |
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Art
Show Cancelled by Ice and Leaks Continued from front
page
Ice Dam on Town Hall Roof edge Anna continued, "Now that the deadline is
extended, I plan on doing another drawing of my pony Acorn to put in the
contest. He's so cute I hope he'll win!" Wilhelmina
Wiggins painted the prize for the contest winners. It's called "Snow
Moose?" based on a photo by the cavaliers de frontiere.
"Snow Moose?" –
watercolor by Wilhelmina Wiggins, based on a photo courtesy of |
Pony Pals Letters I
was just wondering about how much your books price range? On the ClubPonyPals.com website there are website
links to where you can buy Pony Pals books. New books from Scholastic do not
cost too much. If you can find the book you want on Amazon.com, some used
volumes are only a few cents plus shipping and handling. The Reading Well's
books cost more but they have a better selection. We do not sell
books from ClubPonyPals.com but you can sign up for the ÒWiggins Weekly.Ó
This free emailed newsletter is based on the books. _________________________ I would like to subscribe to the Wiggins weekly e-newspaper.
Thank you!! P.S. The e-mail address on the opening
page is incorrect. There is a "p" instead of a "b".
Please subscribe me to the Wiggins Weekly e-newspaper. Thank you!! Abby Dear Pony Pal Abby Thank you!!!!!! ... for letting me know about the mis spelled
link. I fixed it right away, and I really appreciate your making the effort
to get through to me about the problem.
Like Anna, I have dyslexia and did not see that mistake. ;-( If you have tried to subscribe in the last
week or two and did not get a note back saying you have been added to our
mailing list, please send me another note. I will be happy to add you.
Editor Read a letter from Pam! Pony Pals Letters are continued on page 3 |
Pony Pals Power thought
for the day - -
Wild ponies can be
dangerous at both ends!
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Pony
Pals Letters Continued from Page 2 Dear Pony Pals,
Anna, Lulu and I finally got to see Mrs. Eastman last Friday. We wanted to find out about the machines
on Mt. Morris. Mrs. Eastman told us all about the ski resort that she used to
run with her family.
After she told us about closing her family's ski resort, Mrs. Eastman
seemed very sad. We promised to come visit her again when we left.
Once we were outside, Lulu, Anna and I all looked at each other. I
wondered why no one knew about Mrs. Eastman's family ski resort. It was getting late, so we
went back to Anna's house. I called home and asked if I could sleep over to
talk about it. My mom said yes,
as long as I was home early Saturday morning to help her with lessons. We fed the ponies. Lulu's
Grandma Sanders was busy with her beauty salon, so we all walked over to the
Off-Main Diner. It was full of
people having dinner. Anna talked to her Mom, who made us up three hot
sandwiches in a bag and some fresh broken pieces of brownies. We walked back
to Anna's house to eat and have a Pony Pal meeting.
We ate our sandwiches, and then Anna poured us glasses of milk. We
drank the milk, ate brownies and talked. I said that I was
worried because Mrs. Eastman was sad. Anna said that she
thought it was weird nobody knew about the ski resort even though it wasn't
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Lulu said she thought Mrs. Eastman would be happier if people
knew how much fun Mrs. Eastman and her family had when they ran the
resort. I said
for a history teacher, it must be hard to think people have forgotten all
about you. I said that was why I
thought Mrs. Eastman was so sad. Just talking
about how sad she was it made us all sad! We all decided this was a Pony Pal
Problem. How could we help
people learn how Mrs. Lydia Simpson Eastman gave her family's ski resort to
the Mt. Morris Park? It was late by then so Lulu
went home and Anna and I went to sleep. Saturday I got up
early when Anna's mom left for the diner, ate a bowl of cereal and rode home
on Lightning. My Mom wanted me to help her with lessons, saddling and
grooming the ponies Daisy and Splash. She even had me groom all of JB the
thoroughbred for one of her adult students!
By the time lessons were over I was so tired. It was hard to think about what we
should do for Mrs. Eastman. I
sat down to write my idea and ended up just drawing circles and triangles and
squares.
My Mom saw I was
thinking about something serious and asked if I was OK. I told her about
seeing the old machines on Mt. Morris and about our visiting Mrs. Eastman. As
I was telling Mom what had been there, I suddenly had an idea!
I wrote it down and then asked Mom if Anna and Lulu could come for a
sleepover Saturday night to talk about it. She said that was fine. She would
even make spaghetti for dinner! I ran off to call Lulu and Anna. Pam's Pony Pal Letter is continued
on page 4 |
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Pony
Pals Letters Continued from Page 3 Anna said she would
call her mother at the Diner to get permission. Lulu went to ask her
Grandmother, then came back and said it was all right. We decided to meet at
the three birches on Pony Pal trail and ride back to my house at five
o'clock. I wasn't so tired then, so I
ran out and saddled Lightning. I was so happy I trotted Lightning in circles
and even went over two jumps! Lightning knew I was happy and bounced me up
and down as we went around the arena.
Then we rode out on trail to meet Anna and Lulu. It was a little before five but they
were already at the birches. We cantered up the Wiggins Estate trail, jumped
two rock walls there and then trotted back to Pony Pal Trail before we made
the horses walk back to my house.
Lightning and Snow White were all right but Acorn was wet and we had
to brush and brush him until he was dry enough to put away. We gave our ponies some hay
and a handful of oats each, then went inside and ate spaghetti until we were
full! After we helped clean up
the dishes we went back out to the barn, checked on the ponies and unrolled
our sleeping bags in the tack room. It was hard for me to wait
to tell my idea, but I wanted to hear what Lulu and Anna had thought of. Lulu went first. She
said we should buy a thank-you card and get everyone who uses Mt. Morris Park
to sign it so that Mrs. Eastman would know how many people really appreciate
her donating the ski resort. Anna said she drew her
idea.
I told Anna her idea
was really good. |
My idea was
we should get the park to put up a sign that named a trail for Mrs. Eastman.
It should give some information about the Simpson family and how she and Mr.
Eastman ran Mt. Morris ski resort and then gave it to the Park. My idea looked like this.
We all
agreed our ideas were good. Lulu
said she would talk to her Grandmother and see if she could get her help to
buy the thank you card. I said that Mom and I could
ride over to talk to the Ranger after school to find out what it would take
get a park sign about Mt. Morris Ski resort.
We all thought the sign should be near the Ranger station, on a trail
leading east towards the first wheel we saw. That way people would know that
there was something special to go look at along the trail. Anna said she
would draw a map showing where the sign should be and what it should look
like. Monday was a nice day,
so I rode over to the Mt. Morris Ranger Station after school. Ranger Stranton was not there. I took
a piece of paper out and left him a note to call me. When I got home
it began to cloud up. By Monday night it was beginning to sleet. There was so
much rain, snow and ice this week that the Wiggins Weekly art competition
downtown had to be canceled. We
didn't have any snow days for school but that winter weather meant we didn't
do much riding. ;-( Finally on
Friday I finally got a call back from Ranger Stranton. I asked when we could come by to talk
to him about park business. He said that he could meet with us on Monday. The
weather is supposed to be nice, so we will ride over after school. More
adventures next week – write and tell us about yours! Pony Pals, Pam |
