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THE PPEA PALOMINO POST
Newsletter of the PA Palomino Exhibitors
Association
Volume 1, Number 1 May, 2000
YOU Can Win
PPEA Awards
If you're one of the many PPEA members
who likes to show your Palomino, the new PPEA Awards Program
is for you! Through the year 2000, each time you place
in any horse competition with your PHBA or PHA registered Palomino
you can earn points toward beautiful year-end awards! How? Simple!
Just 1.) join PPEA and pay $5 club dues for the year, 2.) nominate
your horse on the official nomination form, 3.) hit the show
ring, and 4.) send in your placings to our Points Chairperson
Dana Myers on an official PPEA Show Report Form along with a
copy of your show program within 10 days of each show. All horse
shows and horse competitions open to the general public count
toward this program including Palomino shows, other breed shows
(such as AQHA), Open Shows, Youth Shows, and others. Our PPEA-sponsored
Palomino Shows and "Rainbow" Fun Show at Crooked Creek
will count double PPEA points! Awards will be presented
in nine categories for adults and ten categories for youth at
our PPEA Banquet next winter. Please note that shows that were/are
held prior to June 10 can be counted if your enrollment
and show placing reports are postmarked by June 10. (Important
for shows held June 10 or after you must be signed-up the
day BEFORE the show for points to count!) Rules, nomination information,
and the forms you need are in the center of this Newsletter.
See you in the show ring!
PPEA Plans
1st Annual Horse Shows!
Mark your calendar now
for September 30 and October 1... it's PPEA's big weekend of
Palomino and open horse showing at Crooked Creek Horse Park in
Ford City, PA. Plan to bring your Palominos to our PHBA Shows
let's aim for 60 horses and a Class "A" Show!
The Rainbow Open Show on Saturday evening will be open to all
breeds and all colors and will be lots of fun, too. Don't
forget these shows will count double points for PPEA's
Year-End Awards! Complete class schedule & info are coming
soon, so start making plans to be there!
Show Book Final
Deadline Coming
The deadline for getting ads in to our
1st Annual PPEA Showbook has been extended to June 30,
but that date is absolutely final and is coming up fast!
Every member needs do their part to help PPEA get off and running
and get at least $60 per person in ads... Sales from this special
edition Show Book will "make or break" our club programs
for this entire year and beyond!
Ad selling hints: Be sure to tell your
customers that over 1000 copies of the book will be printed and
distributed all over Pennsylvania and in surrounding states...
Ads do not have to be about horses or horse-related businesses
(though those are certainly welcome)... remember a quarter-page
is only $15 and is perfect for business cards or "Best Wishes"
from a friend or relative!
PPEA News &
Notes
PPEA Seeking
Logo
Any artists out there? Break out the art
supplies, because PPEA needs your talents to help design a new
logo for our newly activated club. The logo must somehow feature
the outline of the state of Pennsylvania and a horse or horses
which can be colored Palomino (and shaded with a screen fill
when printing the logo in black & white to indicate Palomino
coloring), along with the letters PPEA. There is a sample outline
of Pennsylvania on the cover of this Newsletter.
Each person is requested to submit no more
than three designs for consideration. We'll run the submitted
logos in a future issue of the PPEA Palomino Post so that
the membership can vote on the logo they like best. (If we get
too many, we might have to form a committee to narrow the
field to the top finalists.) The winning logo will appear in
and on many PPEA publications and items for years to come! Send
your submissions to the PPEA, 6093 Pleasant Valley Road, Irwin,
PA 15642.
Board Members
Needed
PPEA currently has three vacant positions
on our Executive Board, which need to be filled. They are the
Regional Representatives, one each from the West, Central, and
Eastern Regions. Candidates must be paid-up adult PPEA members
in good standing and must reside in the region they represent.
Here is a list of the regions and counties:
WESTERN: (counties) Allegheny, Armstrong,
Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Fayette, Forest,
Greene, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mercer, Somerset, Venango,
Warren, Washington, Westmoreland CENTRAL: (counties) Adams, Bedford,
Blair, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Cumberland, Dauphin,
Elk, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lycoming, McKean,
Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Potter, Snyder, Union,
York, Tioga EASTERN: (counties) Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Carbon,
Chester, Columbia, Delaware, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lebanon,
Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia,
Pike, Schuykill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming
We'd like to fill these positions as soon
as we can, so if you are interested in serving on the PPEA Executive
Board, let one of your officers know ASAP!
Reminder: Dues are Due by June
1
Foal News!
Congratulations to these PPEA members and
welcome to the world to their new babies: (sorry if we missed
anybody, please let us know!)
Colts
Vernon & Pauline Mast
Norm & Cheryl Abbott
Cliff Laughlin
Dana & Len Myers
Fillies
Mary Beth, Paul, and Merle Kuznik
Cliff Laughlin
Ryan Schultz
Dana & Len Myers
No Charter
Yet
As of May 9, PPEA finally received "official"
word from PHBA that our application to re-activate our charter
in 2000 was denied. This did not come as a big surprise as several
of our members had been hearing word to that effect in Internet
Horse Chat Rooms and by word of mouth for nearly two months,
since right after the PHBA Convention.
No reason was given for the denial of our
application. In the letter to our President which informed us
of the decision, PHBA General Manager Cindy Chilton stated, "Please
be aware that an organization does not have to be an APA to hold
approved PHBA horse shows except the multijudged show."
At the April meeting the membership discussed that in this event,
we should proceed as we planned anyway for 2000 by holding our
scheduled single-judged horse shows and by continuing to promote
the Palomino, especially in the many areas of our state where
Palomino horses and activities have not been recently promoted.
We plan to re-apply to get our charter
reactivated in 2001 and to have people at the Convention in San
Antonio to present our application in person next time. Charter
progress will be discussed at future meetings, so please attend!
Thoughts &
Prayers
Our thoughts and prayers are with Cliff
Laughlin as he lost his young Palomino broodmare to colic shortly
after she foaled a beautiful palomino Appaloosa colt.
Get Well wishes to Cheryl Abbott who broke
her collarbone in a horse driving accident; and to Merle Kuznik
who cracked ribs after being knocked down by a frisky foal. Hope
these ladies feel better soon!
Meeting Notes
- April 9
The April meeting of PPEA was held on the
9th at Chris Mitterer's Keystone M Quarter Horses near Brookville.
The club welcomed several new members at the meeting. Major actions
passed included motions for our shows to be held September 30
& October 1 at Crooked Creek Horse Park; motion for PPEA
to join the PA Equine Council; motion to support the PA State
4-H Horse Show Palomino Production classes with some form of
awards. Discussions included the progress of our PHBA Charter,
scheduling of halter classes at our show (geldings rather than
mares to follow stallion classes); plans to support of the Keystone
International Livestock Expo and the Challenge of the Breeds;
plans to support the PA Equine Council Horse Expo with a Palomino
booth, and other activities. Luncheon was served; and the group
toured Chris' facility and visited his horses. (Full minutes
to be presented at the June 14th meeting.)
THANK YOU, Chris for your kind
hospitality!
Hey
YOUTH!
PPEA-Y Youth Club is forming &
we need YOU!
Contact Youth Advisor Lynne
Myers at
(724) 445-7029 for info
The Cremello
Dilemma
How would you feel if you bred your registered
AQHA Quarter Horse to another registered AQHA Quarter Horse and
ended up with a beautiful, solid colored baby that can't be AQHA
registered because it's the "wrong" color? If you're
a Palomino breeder, this COULD happen to you. 25% of the time
when you breed Palomino to Palomino, you can get a "cremello"
a horse which simply has two copies (one from each parent)
of the wonderful creme gene which makes our Palominos golden.
Cremellos are light ivory colored, with pink skin and beautiful
blue eyes. And the fabulous thing about a cremello horse is that
if you breed cremello to sorrel you get 100% PALOMINOS
EVERY TIME!
Back in the 1940's, before the days of
DNA study and modern genetic screening, Cremellos were wrongfully
confused with albinos and were refused registration by AQHA.
That outdated rule is still on the AQHA books, which is why your
healthy, full-blooded Cremello Quarter Horse could someday be
denied it's rightful AQHA papers and heritage!
A group of concerned breeders attended
the 2000 AQHA Convention and is working to get AQHA to change
this outdated rule, Rule227J.
If you would like to help contact
WENDY BOCKMAN, 7145 Flint Hill Rd, New Tripoli PA, 18066.
e-mail bockman@enter.net
You can subscribe to an e-mail
group about this issue at http://www.egroups.com/subscribe/Rule227J
More Info about the "Cremello
Dilemma" to come!
Editor's Corner
"FEED THE FOAL!"
A new or reactivating club is like a young
horse... it needs lots of love, care, and work. If you have the
most promising young foal who ever lived but you don't bother
to feed it or give it proper care, it will never become a champion
it might even die!
PPEA is like that young foal right now...
with the proper "feed" and care our club has the potential
to be strong and do great things to promote the Palomino Horse.
On the other hand, if everyone says 'I'm too busy to help' and
sits back to wait for someone else to do the work, PPEA will
never amount to much, and could even fall apart. THE CHOICE IS
YOURS!
Here are 6 easy ways to "feed the
foal" & help PPEA:
1) Join & Pay Your Dues
2) Help Raise Money: Sell Ads
for the Showbook, Get a Major Sponsor, Buy & Sell Shirts
3) Come to Every Meeting and Bring Your
Ideas
4) Volunteer Really Work and Make
Your Ideas Come True
5) Spread the Word About PPEA
Get New Members
6) Bring EVERY Horse You Can to Our
Show!
If we as Palomino lovers take the time
now to do these things and give our PPEA "foal" a good
start, our club will grow up to become that champion a
great club promoting a great breed!
Many thanks to all the people who have
called and e-mailed already to ask what they can do to
help PPEA get off the ground! Keep on FEEDING THE FOAL! Ed.
RESOLUTION
REGARDING PPEA MEMBERSHIP FOR 2000
Passed by Majority Vote of PPEA
Executive Board May 18, 2000
Effective immediately, PPEA membership
shall be obtained as follows:
Full Regular, Associate, or Youth Membership
for the year 2000 shall require the nominal dues of $5.00 per
person to be paid directly to PPEA.
Each person who has requested or claimed
PPEA Membership but has not remitted the $5 dues to PPEA and/or
has not provided full membership information to PPEA (address,
phone, e-mail, etc.) in writing by June 1, 2000 will have voting
and other membership privileges suspended until dues are paid,
including the suspension of mailings of Newsletters, meeting
notices, and other membership notices.
The 21 adult members who comprised the
"new PHBA members" for the purpose of PPEA's Application
for a PHBA Charter in 2000 shall be exempt from this rule for
this year; however they are strongly requested to voluntarily
comply. If any of the 21 "new PHBA members" wishes
to show for PPEA Awards in 2000, their $5.00 dues MUST be paid
along with his/her nomination fee. ALL other members must remit
the $5.00 dues to retain membership privileges.
New members will be welcome to join PPEA
for the remainder of 2000 at any time by making a written application
on a PPEA Membership Form and paying the $5.00 dues.
This resolution shall supersede where applicable
the existing PPEA Rules and Bylaws regarding dues and membership
for the remainder of the year 2000.
NEXT PPEA Meeting
Wednesday Evening, June 14
King's Restaurant at Barkeyville PA
(Intersection of Route 8 & I-80)
Arrive to Eat Between 7 and 7:30 PM * Meeting
to begin following meal (around 8)
Please Bring Showbook Ads and Shirt
Orders (unless already sent in!)
PLEASE RSVP to (724) 744-3345
or e-mail ppea@pahorse.net if you CAN'T come
IMPORTANT MEETING * BE THERE
THE PPEA PALOMINO POST
Newsletter of the PA Palomino
Exhibitors Association
Volume 1, Number 1 May,
2000
PPEA is Online!
e-mail: ppea@pahorse.net web:
http://www.pahorse.net/ppea
The PA Palomino Exhibitors Association
c/o Sunny K Farm
6093 Pleasant Valley Road
Irwin, PA 15642
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