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No. 1 January, 2010
FROM
THE SECRETARY :
Hello
everyone and Happy New Year. We had our annual meeting on January
9th.
Of course it had to snow theThursday before, so
attendance was down some.
We
elected:
John
Ayers as President
Jill
Malone as Vice President
Roxanne
Janes as Secretary/Treasurer
Your 2010 Board members are:
John
Ayers 678-753-0737
Carla
& Jack Beckom 770-358-2678
Barbara
Branch 706-677-2712
Ken
& Roxanne Janes 770-479-7110
Jill
Malone 770-735-1549
If
you have any concerns feel free to contact any board member and they
will try to help you. I would like to remind
everyone that your
membership application and dues were due January 1st , so please
fill out your application
and
get it to me. I hope everyone has a successful foaling season
and those of us that have geldings Happy Driving!
Sincerely, Roxanne Janes
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FROM THE PRESIDENT:
Well
first of all I would like to wish all very Happy New Year. We have
had some very cold northern type weather.
The cold weather we have
had makes me think I AM up north. All of the brood mares are showing
evidence of foaling.
I wish all of you good tidings in this foaling
season. Before you know it, foals will be on the ground,
it will be summer,
we will be cutting grass, and everyone will be
looking for a cool spot to rest. Blink twice and fall will here!
Blink again,
it will be winter and we
will be wondering what happened to the past year.
This
brings me to the main point of this letter; time is very important to
me and we are wasting time arguing over
something that lasts two days
of the entire year. I am here to tell you I have too much going on
(as do many others)
to waste valuable time arguing. It seems to me
that we should change our name from the Georgia Draft
Horse
Association to the Perry Show Association. I was at the very
first meeting of the GDA many years ago and there were
10 or 12
members then. Since that time the association has grown but we lost
more members over a horse show than
anything else. We have a show
chairman with six committee members. These seven people make the
final decisions
regarding the show – FINAL! The show chairman
spends endless VOLUNTARY hours to make this show a success.
This
is a very difficult job. We can send all of our suggestions to
the show committee and they make the final decision.
We live with the
decision whatever it may be, whether we like it or not! When the
show is over, I would rather have good
friends than a blue ribbon or
trophy. I have four important things in my life – God, family,
friends and then my horses.
I would rather play with my horses than
eat. I refuse to lose a good friend over a horse show because it was
not run
my way. For years we have been trying to change our shows so
everyone could have a class suitable for them and it
is a very tough
job. Someone
else should worry about the rest of the year.
All of your opinions
are very important to me as president and none will go unnoticed. We
elected the show
committee
to handle the show and we must let them; we must also abide
by their decisions. If you have a negative opinion or you
are upset
about something do not take it out on another member – send a
letter or e-mail
to the show committee. All
things in life will not go your way and
the world does not revolve around me (at least
that is what Anna says – although
it is still under discussion!).
There
was a good friend of mine that told me once that if you
always do what you have always done, then you will
always
have what you have always had. Folks, let us try to
make this association one we can be proud of for many
years to come.
In closing this letter, do not forget that in the January meeting we
all decided to send names and infor-
mation on a potential riding judge
for Perry; this information needs to be sent to Carla Beckom or one
of the board mem-
bers via letter or e-mail on or before January 30 .
Pursuant to the board reviewing all of the information, they can make
a
final decision
that we WILL be happy with.
John Ayers
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THE
NEWSLETTER STAFF:
Roxanne
Janes (770) 479-7110 (rjanes@alltel.net)
Lawana Smith (770)
422-5142 (DoubleSFarm@aol.com)
Rebecca Cannon (423) 339-0694
(fairwindsclydes@gmail.com)