Welcome Letter from President

January 2008

Here we are at the beginning of another new year and HPA hopes that everyone’s holiday season was happy.  At the awards dinner in December there were many new and exciting activities planned for this 2008 show year.  One of the most exciting is our new website. Thanks to a some of our members generous donation of time and expertise, this website should help us keep our members informed of what is happening, make show bills, show information and show outcomes readily available to anyone who logs on.  We are working with our webmasters to have the 2009 stallion auction on our own website where it will be much more user friendly.  Our hope in letting all members as well as non-members know not only about the stallion auction, but our shows, the judges retained for those shows and our other events, that we can encourage larger participation within the association and in the shows. 

For the 2008 show season our shows will be held at the facilities in New Castle, IN.  due to the huge success of last years joint show, the association decided that our May 31^st through the June 1^st and our Sept 27^th through the  28^th shows will be with the Buckskins.  Our Labor Day weekend show will be our Futurity and Midwest Gold weekend. 

Again to encourage a larger youth participation, youth will show free with one paid open class All office, stall, and drug fees will still apply as well.  The leadership of our association is asking that all of the members be proactive in spreading the word about this terrific opportunity for youth with a yellow horse.  So please, help us spread the word to fellow 4-H’ers and other youth in your area. 

The association also discussed and agreed to have a Bi-State Challenge with the Michigan Palomino Association.  The thought was with the increasing pressures on the state associations, to gain entries, working with a neighboring state which has been supportive of our HPA shows made sense.  We currently have a committee working on getting it together. Watch the new website for more news as the event begin to takes shape.

In addition our hope with this new website is that we will now be able to keep you updated on dinners, the fundraising auctions held at each of the shows to further enhance our futurity fund, end of year awards, minutes of our meetings and what’s happening with our members. 

We hope that you like the new website, the Bi-State Challenge and our show schedule.  We look forward to each and everyone of you participating not only in these events, but coming out to the shows and getting to know your fellow horse people.

Happy New Year

Susan Kirts