This coming Friday the 27th of February we are going to try to get the ODS Awards out in the mail. In order to do so, I need to get a small group of volunteers together to assist me. If you are available in the morning or early afternoon and can come to the ODS Office to help stuff and organize envelopes, please respond to me directly. Ideally we would begin the project around 9 AM and hopefully be done by noon. The office is in my home in NE Hillsboro.
Thank you in advance.
Warmest Regards,
Corinne Stonier
Executive Director
Oregon Dressage Society office@oregondressage.com
PH: 503.681.2337 — CELL: 503.730.8036 — FAX: 503.681.3873
880 NE 25th Ave., Suite 2-173
Hillsboro, OR 97124
There have been several changes to the prize lists previously printed in the ODS Omnibus for the State of Jefferson Chapter ODS Dressage Shows. Please note the link to each prize list can be found below and on the ODS website’s “Shows & Clinics” page.
Specific Changes include:
·Title of Show (should have indicated this as two one-day shows - i.e. “Dressage in the State of Jefferson I & II”)
·Technical Delegate
·Please check prize list carefully in case of other changes not listed in this e-mail
To be held at the Jackson County Fairgrounds & Expo Park in Central Point, OR. Prize List Updated 2/23/2009 USDF Intro and USEF Training through Fourth and FEI classes offered; also offering IPEC TOC, Young Horse TOC, Equitation, Freestyles, Pas de Deux and Quadrille. See also Dressage in the State of Jefferson II information below. Contact Ed Miller at 541-482-2902 or Secretary/Manager Connie Davenport at 530-265-0950. Officials: Major General Jonathan Burton (S), Lynn McEnespy (R); Barbara Tuohino Funk (r-TD).
To be held at the Jackson County Fairgrounds & Expo Park in Central Point, OR. Prize List Updated 2/23/2009 USDF Intro and USEF Training through Fourth and FEI classes offered; also offering IPEC TOC, Young Horse TOC, Equitation, Freestyles, Pas de Deux and Quadrille. See also Dressage in the State of Jefferson I information above. Contact Ed Miller at 541-482-2902 or Secretary/Manager Connie Davenport at 530-265-0950. Officials: Major General Jonathan Burton (S), Lynn McEnespy (R); Barbara Tuohino Funk (r-TD).
If you are planning on entering either of these shows, please review the PDF posted prior to mailing in your entry. Please contact the listed show secretary / show manager (not the ODS Office) if you have any questions.
Opening Date: 2/13; Closing Date: 2/20 2/27. To be held at the DevonWood Equestrian Centre, Sherwood, OR. This show offers Training Level through FEI, Freestyles, IPEC – see also DSHB information regarding Materiale Classes. Officials: Melissa Creswick (S) and Anne Appleby (r). Official website: http://ods-nwvchapter.com/.
Attention Trainers and Instructors:
Do you have High School riders that might be interested in earning a High School Activity letter in Dressage? We have everything you need to form a team and compete. If you do and would like to learn more about the program please contact Gaye McCabe at J-G.McCabe@Juno.com or call her any evening at 503-378-0309.
ODS has given us approval to go ahead and create a College Program since we’ve had so many High School graduates wanting to continue to compete in the team atmosphere.
This is the current propose design:
College students can compete at ODS recognized or ODS League Shows.
We would designate shows as College competitions (similar to how we designate high school shows).
I would recommend that the OSU Beavers’ show to be the kick off show in the fall and then again in the spring.
We can finish the year by including a College Team Championship portion to the ODS League Championship/High School Team Championship Show (currently held in May).
In the future, if this show gets too big we may break off the High School Championships and College Championships to another weekend.
Students can represent their schools as individuals. If there are enough students from one college/university they could represent that specific school as a team. Otherwise, we will put riders together from different colleges/universities to form mixed teams. It will be up to the student/riders to approach their own colleges to get their clubs setup and to obtain approval to be recognized as representing their college at ODS League and USDF level shows. If the school is not open to this, students could still compete and represent their school, they just would not get the school’s recognition.
If you have any questions or other ideas please feel free to contact me.
Beth Glosten – Pilates for Horses and Their Riders
Lower Columbia Chapter/ODS
Opening Date: 2/10/2009
Closing Date: Open until filled
Facility: Classroom in The Daily News, Longview, Washington – Saturday, April 4
Riding at Alpha Riding Academy, Castle Rock, Washington – Sunday, April 5
Riding Participants (limited to 10 private riding sessions) – includes Classroom Session and one Auditor Pass for Sunday riding session. Riding times will be scheduled from 9:15 a.m. on throughout the day. Individual sessions are 45 minutes:
LCC Members $100 – extra rides $65 (extra rides will be held on Saturday morning)
Others $125 – extra rides $80 (extra rides will be held on Saturday morning)
Haul-In Fee is $10 and may be waived for volunteering.
Classroom/Pilates (no riding) – Saturday 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. Required of all riders. Group Session.
LCC Members $35
Others $45
Auditors: $10 – badges will be provided.
Participants to provide their own 65 mm exercise ball, mat (if desired) and horse. Riding Participants fee includes the Classroom Session and can not be discounted. Space reservations should be made as soon as possible with a minimum 50% deposit. The deposit may be refunded only if space is filled by another participant. Day of clinic (Saturday) all participants will be required to sign a waiver/release. Upon receipt of deposit, participants will be emailed addresses of both locations along with their confirmation.
Volunteers Gaye McCabe and Siobhan Barker have been working on the reformatting of the 2009 ODS Dressage Trail Test and it was not included in this year’s ODS Dressage Test Book. Several ODS League Approved Shows will be hosting this test (please verify with individual show management). Click on the link below to view the PDF File. Questions? Contact Gaye McCabe at j.g-mccabe@juno.com.
The ODS Board and several other ODS members just returned from what I feel was the best retreat ever! Great thanks go to Ed Miller and Donna Thayer for preparing and putting on a very productive presentation and work session to develop a Strategic Plan for ODS. We were first charged with going over the past 5 years and celebrating our accomplishments as well as looking at those areas we could say were “learning experiences.” We then as small groups moved into the future and wrote “letters” telling a friend who had been away for the past five years what ODS was like in 2013. The letters were surprisingly similar for all of the 5 or 6 groups. The information will be collated and from this material we will draw the 4 or 5 issues our Strategic Plan will focus on. In addition we reviewed the results of the Survey sent out last fall. Thanks to the 25% of membership who completed the survey and gave comments. This information will be very helpful in developing this plan. The Strategic Plan committee includes Ed Miller, Donna Thayer, Patty Armstrong, Gaye McCabe, Linda Lindus and myself. Our timeline is to identify goals at a meeting in March. In August well will set the actual goals and draft the Strategic Plan to present at the annual meeting in November. The final plan will be presented at the 2010 retreat in January and implementation will begin.
In response to many comments in the survey about lack of communication and chapter support we have started an email chat group for Chapter Presidents. This venue will allow presidents to communicate with each other and the board, share ideas and challenges and ask questions.
We reviewed two proposals from USEF and two from USDF and decided our stand on these issues. We have agreed to stand with California Dressage Society against GR1210.14. While we agreed the USDF Board of Governors and system of Governance could be streamlined we have sent a recommendation against the proposal to the Governance Committee. We also reviewed and have given feedback in regards to a proposal about rating shows.
We have promoted our current Office Manager, Corinne Stonier, to Executive Director. We are actually writing a new job description for this position. We feel Corinne’s valuable skills and passion for our organization justify promotion and she will be a valuable participant in the Strategic Plan as well.
Good news is our membership numbers are right on target even with the uncertain economic times we are experiencing. We have purchased 8 great new DVD’s for the library and our Education Chair, Francy Haupt and Librarian, Claudette Fitzgerald are restructuring the library offering list to make it more user friendly for you. Our shows are beginning to open and we hope they will be filling. We look forward to the successes and challenges of 2010.
As a board we are striving to serve the membership, as always please feel free to contact me or any of the board members with questions and concerns.
