August Meeting Minutes

by Donna Franus

 

The meeting on August 3rd was called to order at 7:10 p.m. by President Roger Dougan.

 

 

Program

 

Kevin Lutkenhaus put on a very informative program on “Fire Evacuation Planning, Emergency Preparedness, and Basic Fire Safety”.  We all learned quite a bit and he gave us plenty of information to help us prepare in case of a fire.  How many of you have 2 evacuation plans for your barn, one with you there and one in case you are not home?

 

 

Club Business

 

We had quite a few new faces at our August meeting.  Welcome to Stacy Branam, Polly Hale, Richard Fehr, Spook Wiggins, and Donna Helvey.

 

This meeting had a few guest speakers.  First was introduction of Jackie Risner, the new Grayson County Extension Agent.  Jackie explained that he has been in this line of work for quite a few years in different areas.  He asked for suggestions of what kinds of educational programs would be good in this area.  The members of HAT had quite a number of suggestions to get him started.

 

We met Stacy Branam from Digital Express, the professional photographers who will be working at our September 30th show at Loy Lake.  You may visit their website at www.digitalexpressonline.com to see samples of their previous work.  Don’t forget to visit their trailer during the show to see the pictures that have been taken.

 

We also met Donna Helvey and Spook Wiggins from Aces and Eights Performance Horses.  Mr. Wiggins has been training people and horses for many years and his goal is to involve the entire community in the knowledge and understanding of horses.  They are interested in working with us to organize an event along the lines of the Adult Riding Clinic we have been discussing for some time.  It was agreed this is a topic to be covered in an Executive meeting.

 

Due to time constraints from the many guest speakers, the business portion of the meeting was cut very short.  The minutes from the previous meeting were approved as written in the HAT Chat.  The treasurer’s report was approved as presented by Jenni Dougan.

 

Committee Reports:

  • All committee reports were tabled until the September meeting.

 

Old Business:

  • All old business was tabled until the September meeting

 

New Business

·         Executive Meeting – An executive meeting was called for August 16th to discuss a number of topics including riding clinics, the 2007 event schedule, and revisions to the Futurity format.

·         All other new business was tabled until the September meeting.

 

The meeting was adjourned and HAT Chats were handed out for distribution to the surrounding communities.