CarolU
12-21-2007, 07:34 PM
I am forwarding this message. All help is/will be appreciated.
Many of you probably saw the positive PR that we received for BCHW when we
collected hay for victims of the recent flooding in Thurston and Lewis
counties, and some of you have already contributed hay, or money, or labor -
my sincere thanks to you! I have been hearing lots of real gratitude
expressed to Back Country Horsemen, and I have humbly accepted it on your
behalf.
It has become apparent that there will be a hay shortage in this area until
at least mid-summer. Many fields have been so heavily silted that grass may
not grow for a year or two, and horse owners who lost all their hay in the
flood will need hay for some time. Most available grass hay in the area has
been purchased already, and the flood victims have lost so much that buying
expensive hay is out of the question.
Some large hay producers in eastern WA have now donated seven semi-trailer
loads of 30 tons each, and a local trucking firm has volunteered to haul it
if we can reimburse them the estimated $400+ fuel bill per trip. Efforts to
collect this amount (call it $3000 in round figures) have already begun.
Contributions can be made to FOLCAS (Friends of Lewis County Animal
Shelter), a 501 c 3 organization, which makes them tax-deductible.
Credit/debit card payments can also be made through FOLCAS (contact
pattyk@folcas. org (http://us.mc318.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pattyk@folcas.org)).
If any of you or your groups are able to help in this effort, with any
amount at all, it will be most welcome. I can assure you that no
contributions are being wasted, and the few inevitable scammers have been
screened as well as humanly possible.
Merry Christmas and God Bless,
Darrell Wallace
BCHW Vice-president
Many of you probably saw the positive PR that we received for BCHW when we
collected hay for victims of the recent flooding in Thurston and Lewis
counties, and some of you have already contributed hay, or money, or labor -
my sincere thanks to you! I have been hearing lots of real gratitude
expressed to Back Country Horsemen, and I have humbly accepted it on your
behalf.
It has become apparent that there will be a hay shortage in this area until
at least mid-summer. Many fields have been so heavily silted that grass may
not grow for a year or two, and horse owners who lost all their hay in the
flood will need hay for some time. Most available grass hay in the area has
been purchased already, and the flood victims have lost so much that buying
expensive hay is out of the question.
Some large hay producers in eastern WA have now donated seven semi-trailer
loads of 30 tons each, and a local trucking firm has volunteered to haul it
if we can reimburse them the estimated $400+ fuel bill per trip. Efforts to
collect this amount (call it $3000 in round figures) have already begun.
Contributions can be made to FOLCAS (Friends of Lewis County Animal
Shelter), a 501 c 3 organization, which makes them tax-deductible.
Credit/debit card payments can also be made through FOLCAS (contact
pattyk@folcas. org (http://us.mc318.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pattyk@folcas.org)).
If any of you or your groups are able to help in this effort, with any
amount at all, it will be most welcome. I can assure you that no
contributions are being wasted, and the few inevitable scammers have been
screened as well as humanly possible.
Merry Christmas and God Bless,
Darrell Wallace
BCHW Vice-president