I would like to thank all the members of the Enumclaw Seattle Children’s Hospital Guild for all their hard work to make our annual Christmas luncheon and silent auction a great success. Also a big thank you to the women of the Moose for providing a wonderful lunch. A thank you to all our local retailers for their generosity for the silent auction gifts.
Door prize winners were Heidi Zurcher, Carolyn Curtwright, Barb Staples, Judy Radliff and Donna Short. The raffle winners were Bunnie Lewis, McDonald and Company Christmas wreath; Phylis Blake, Work, Sports and Outdoors gift certificate; Gerri Van Beek, movie night basket; Gayle Grover, coffee basket; Toni Kirchner, Fugate Ford car detailing; and Darlene DeGroot, Hatfield candle basket.
All profits go to Seattle Children’s Hospital for uncompensated care. Thank you again to all who made this such a special day.
Sandra Stergion
Guild president
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On behalf of Mount Peak Pony Club, I want to share our club’s deepest gratitude for the donation granted by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe in support of our club activities. This donation will help further enhance our members’ equine education by allowing them to attend more clinics, participate in rallies, camps and ratings. With the Muckleshoot Tribe’s support it will help defer some of the costs of these educational programs for our area youth.
Mount Peak Pony Club is a part of the United States Pony Clubs Inc. These clubs provide top-quality educational programs for more than 12,500 youth members in approximately 625 clubs across the country. For more than 20 years MPPC has educated and helped shape young boys and girls, ages 5 through 25 years, from the Enumclaw and surrounding communities. Thanks to the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe’s support, MPPC will be able to continue to provide a strong program to even more participants.
The United States Pony Clubs promote teamwork, a sense of responsibility, safety, good moral judgement, and self-confidence. The USPC was founded in 1954 as a nonprofit national youth organization to teach riding and horsemanship through a formal educational program. Many of the nation’s top equestrians, including many of our Olympic Equestrian team members, have Pony Club roots. Activities are English riding-based, and members ride both horses and ponies depending on the size of the rider and the discipline in which she/he is competing. In all Pony Club competitions, much like those of the Olympic games, members learn the importance of cooperation and teamwork.
Paula Bartolus
