H.A.R.P.S. 2006 Picnic. 

See more pictures in our Photo Gallery

Thank you Mr. Petrovic for taking all these pictures!!

By Beth, The Youth Treasurer

HARPS.  When we got to HARPS we immediately went to talk to Donna.  She had numerous amounts of jobs for us to do.  At first we all groomed the ponies; Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Ella, Barney and Rama.  Once the ponies were radiant we went and fitted the tack.  Katie Zimmer, and Gracie McCauley took on the hard task of putting random pieces of leather together to make bridles for the tack sale.  When we were all finished with that we went to the volunteer meeting and they told us what we would be doing. 

There were pony rides; live music; the HARPS horse parade; the Timmermann's Ranch Horse Drill-team who has several Illinois PtHA members including Patti Bohmann, Lisa McCauley, Art Timmermann and Candy Bowersox.  There was also an elegant dressage performance by Susan Gohl.

"Dear Lisa and The Pinto Club,

We could not possibly thank you and your team of wonderful girls enough for all you did at our 1st annual picnic.  The girls were real troopers to lead the ponies all afternoon-we could not have done it without you!  God Bless, Donna, Rhonda & The Whole HARPS gang."

About Harps

http://www.harpsonline.org/about.htm

HARPS was founded in 2001 by Donna Ewing, one of the nation's best-known and most respected rescuers of abused and neglected horses and other hooved animals.  As the founder and former director of the Hooved Animal Humane Society (HAHS), Donna has over thirty five years of experience in rescuing hundreds of horses and contributing to the rehabilitation of thousands more.  In Illinois, Donna played a key role in the passage of the 1973 "Humane Care For Animals Act" legislation (which was over 150 years old) along with State Veterinarian Dr. David Bromwell.  They worked diligently with attorneys and state legislators in getting the laws changed so that Illinois then represented the first state in the country to have the best laws governing the protection of hooved animals.  Donna also worked with legislators on the recent changes that are part of Senate Bill 629, signed into law in August of 2001.  As in the past, Donna Ewing and her staff work in conjunction with the Illinois Department of Agriculture, as well as a multitude of volunteer investigators, in rescue and protection efforts across the nation.