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Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
Soldiers from The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) participate in a joint service cordon at The White House. The cordon is part of the Ambassador Credentialing Ceremony which marks the formal beginning of an ambassador’s service in Washington. (Photos by SSG Jedhel Somera)
I think more than 50 percent of teaching is organization. Managing paperwork. Tons of it!
And time management.
Interestingly enough, I never had an actual course on classroom organization and time management in my two-year credentialing program. (Guess it was covered under student teaching.) But I digress.
Spent my lovely Friday afternoon organizing and photocopying for my One-Minute Math Drill box. It will be way more efficient and easier for me and the One-Minute Math Monitor to use (yep, we teachers have classroom monitors for everything!)
Spending time to save time.
ROBINSON MANEUVER TRAINING CENTER, N. Little Rock, Ark. — Soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard's Joint Forces Headquarters (JFHQ) have an opportunity to practice the new Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) with equipment and training provided by the JFHQ full-time staff. The trainers are qualified and credentialed to evaluate and provide expert training on the new test, discuss and demonstrate techniques, and fully describe the new standards of the ACFT.
Governor Kay Ivey gave remarks to the Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways Meeting at the Hyundai Training Center Thursday March 17, 2022 in Montgomery, Ala. (Governor’s Office/Hal Yeager)
$4 million in new funding will improve the foreign credential process, assising both immigrants and their future employers. Attending the announcement were from left: Parliamentary Secretary for Multiculturalism Dave S. Hayer, Ida Chong, Minister of Regional Economic and Skill Development, Stockwell Day, Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, Marni Choudhari, a UK-credentialed lawyer working towards B.C. accreditation, and Daisy Quon, with Immigrant Employment Council of B.C.
2008-09 Football. Tennessee vs No. Illinois at Neyland Stadium. Image copyright UT Athletics, for credentialed media use only. Creative Commons license does not apply.
2008-09 Football. Tennessee vs No. Illinois at Neyland Stadium. Image copyright UT Athletics, for credentialed media use only. Creative Commons license does not apply.
A Coast Guard Station Miami Beach 33-foot Special Purpose Craft-Law Enforcement boat crew conducted a boarding of the 75-foot pleasure craft, Lady H and the 78-foot pleasure craft, Own the Night, and terminated the operations of the vessels July 10, 2020 after discovering safety violations. Vessels operating as illegal charters can be dangerous to passengers aboard them because these vessel often do not have properly credentialed operators and safety equipment aboard in case of a maritime emergency. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Station Miami Beach)
Our Shipmate in the Spotlight for this edition is LCDR Josh Cribbs. LCDR Cribbs received his Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, in 2011. He graduated from Midwestern University in Downers Grove, Illinois, with a Doctorate in Dental Medicine in 2015 and then attended Officer Development School in Newport, Rhode Island. He completed a one-year credentialing tour in 2016 while stationed at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego and was then forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan from 2016-2019. Upon completion of his overseas tour, LCDR Cribbs elected to go operational with the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, California from 2019-2021. There he earned his Fleet Marine Force warfare device. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he served as a Medical Isolation and Observation Center Officer for the base. In 2021, he was stationed in Groton, Connecticut at Naval Submarine Base New London, where he currently serves as DIVO and Infection Control officer. His decorations include two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals.
Fun Facts.
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Dental School: Midwestern University-College of Dental Medicine Illinois
Favorite thing about being a Navy Dental Corps Officer: Aside from having the best patients in the world, I enjoy the opportunity to move around and explore different parts of the world.
Hobbies: I enjoy sports, both watching and playing. I love hanging out with my three sons and doing any activity together that makes them smile.
Something that most people don't know about you: Despite being accident prone, I have never broken a bone. Hoping to keep that streak alive.
Published in Weekly Dental Update May 12, 2023
Congratulations to the Stubbs Family on their bundle of joy and for delivering Womack Army Medical Center's first baby of 2017, Jan. 1 at 5:29 a.m. Baby boy, Aestus E. Stubbs, weighed 6lbs., 5oz and his name means rolling tide of fire. Maj. Emiliana Escueta, 204th Forward Surgical Team, mom and Lt. Col. Toihunta Stubbs, 82nd Airborne Division brigade surgeon, dad, are both credentialed at WAMC. Baby Stubbs' name was inspired by dad's love for the University of Alabama, Roll Tide!
In photo: Col. Lance Raney, WAMC commander and Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Stoddard, WAMC CSM, presented a New Year's gift, sponsored by AAFESS, to the parents of WAMC's 2017 Baby of the Year.
April 5, 2013
Can colleges and universities effectively pursue massive online learning while maintaining their core academic missions? Issues surrounding the quality of courses, their cost effectiveness, student learning outcomes, credentialing, and equal access to education have provoked a spirited and evolving international debate. Penn President Amy Gutmann moderated the 2013 David and Lyn Silfen University Forum, welcoming New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist Thomas Friedman, The Honorable Martha J. Kanter, under secretary, U.S. Department of Education, and Brit Kirwan, chancellor, University of Maryland System.
Photos by Stuart Watson
Soldiers from The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) participate in a joint service cordon at The White House. The cordon is part of the Ambassador Credentialing Ceremony which marks the formal beginning of an ambassador’s service in Washington. (Photos by SSG Jedhel Somera)
Volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of L D.S. pack MRC med-packs in Direct Relief warehouse on November 10, 2011.
Each Medical Reserve Corp (MRC) pack contains supplies and equipment to meet a variety of prevalent disaster-related health needs, including infection control, diagnostics, trauma care, and personal protection tools. The packs enable Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) members—trained, credentialed, medical personnel—to respond when disaster strikes.
Learn more about our MRC pack program here.
For the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the larger homeland security enterprise, the coming years hold the potential for significant change. While broad shifts in the structure or mission of the homeland security enterprise are unlikely, there are a number of specific areas in which tangible advances can be made. These include cyber threat information sharing, enterprise screening and credentialing, border security intelligence and information sharing, and investment planning and execution. Yet in order for needed progress to occur on these issues, policymakers and planners must have a clear vision for the future and an understanding of desired strategic outcomes. To offer perspectives on the complex systems dynamics of the homeland security enterprise, CSIS is collaborating with MITRE, operator of the DHS’s Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HS SEDI) FFRDC, to characterize key crosscutting homeland security enterprise missions and frame transformational outcomes for the Department. You are invited to an on-the-record conference on October 30, 2012 in order to foster a dialogue regarding strategic visions for the homeland security enterprise in these areas and explore how these visions might be implemented.
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160429-N-OT964-187 WASHINGTON (April 29, 2016) Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Mike Stevens visits with Ms. Annie Andrews, Assistant Administrator for Human Resource Management, Federal Aviation Administration. The two leaders discussed credentialing opportunities for Sailors serving in Aviation specialities and toured the Ronald Reagan National Airport Facility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Martin L. Carey/Released)
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For the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the larger homeland security enterprise, the coming years hold the potential for significant change. While broad shifts in the structure or mission of the homeland security enterprise are unlikely, there are a number of specific areas in which tangible advances can be made. These include cyber threat information sharing, enterprise screening and credentialing, border security intelligence and information sharing, and investment planning and execution. Yet in order for needed progress to occur on these issues, policymakers and planners must have a clear vision for the future and an understanding of desired strategic outcomes. To offer perspectives on the complex systems dynamics of the homeland security enterprise, CSIS is collaborating with MITRE, operator of the DHS’s Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HS SEDI) FFRDC, to characterize key crosscutting homeland security enterprise missions and frame transformational outcomes for the Department. You are invited to an on-the-record conference on October 30, 2012 in order to foster a dialogue regarding strategic visions for the homeland security enterprise in these areas and explore how these visions might be implemented.
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Navy Medical Leader & Professional Development Command (NML&PDC) hosted a Change of Command and Retirement ceremony in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s Memorial Auditorium on April 9.
CAPT Adams is retiring from the Navy after 26 years of service, the last three years as NML&PDC’s Commanding Officer. The incoming CO, CAPT Myaing, a Dental Corps officer, most recently served as the Dental Corps Senior Assignment Officer at Naval Personnel Command in Millington, TN.
A West Texas native, CAPT Adams was commissioned in the Medical Service Corps in 1995. His early experiences included service as Director, Navy Fleet and Family Service Center, Naval Training Command and Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, Orlando, FL., Director, Marine Corps Counseling and Advocacy Services, Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan, and Clinical Credentialing Consultant, Bureau of Navy Personnel, Millington, TN.
CAPT Adams also served as Combat and Operational Stress Control Consultant, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Director, Aeromedical Research, Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Pensacola, FL., and Director, Deployment Health, Wounded, Ill and Injured, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. He completed two tours to Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan, and served as Navy Social Work Specialty Leader (2013-2016) where he was appointed as the first Active Duty Navy Professor at the Army/Fayetteville State University Master of Social Work Program, Army Medical Department Center and School, U.S. Army Health Readiness Center of Excellence, Fort Sam Houston, TX (2013-2016). He most recently served as the Executive Officer, Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Texas (2016-2018).
CAPT Adams is planning to retire to Texas. Fair winds and following seas Captain!
Navy Medical Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC), Beaufort, SC. BEAUFORT, SC – Congratulations on successfully completing the year-long Orientation Tour at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island Dental Clinic. These Navy dentists are ready for the fleet!
Pictured (from L-R): LCDR David Yi (Credentialing Tour Coordinator), LT Ryan Magsino, LT Aaron Pack, LT Christopher Davis, LT Ronald Bryant, LT Abraham Kim, LT Duy Truong, LT Sarah Medlin, and CDR Thomas Grubbs (DH, General Dentistry).
(Photo courtesy of LT Brendan Ruby, 6 April 2021)
Published in Weekly Dental Update, May 7, 2021.
For the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the larger homeland security enterprise, the coming years hold the potential for significant change. While broad shifts in the structure or mission of the homeland security enterprise are unlikely, there are a number of specific areas in which tangible advances can be made. These include cyber threat information sharing, enterprise screening and credentialing, border security intelligence and information sharing, and investment planning and execution. Yet in order for needed progress to occur on these issues, policymakers and planners must have a clear vision for the future and an understanding of desired strategic outcomes. To offer perspectives on the complex systems dynamics of the homeland security enterprise, CSIS is collaborating with MITRE, operator of the DHS’s Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute (HS SEDI) FFRDC, to characterize key crosscutting homeland security enterprise missions and frame transformational outcomes for the Department. You are invited to an on-the-record conference on October 30, 2012 in order to foster a dialogue regarding strategic visions for the homeland security enterprise in these areas and explore how these visions might be implemented.
csis.org/event/toward-strategic-outcomes-envisioning-futu...
In a first, members of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference Session took time to recognize the gifts and witness of credentialed lay ministers (CLM's, Hispanic lay ministers, home missioners, deaconesses) and licensed local pastors. Photos by Patrick Scriven, PNW Conference.
Governor Kay Ivey gave remarks to the Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways Meeting at the Hyundai Training Center Thursday March 17, 2022 in Montgomery, Ala. (Governor’s Office/Hal Yeager)
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Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
Soldiers from The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) participate in a joint service cordon at The White House. The cordon is part of the Ambassador Credentialing Ceremony which marks the formal beginning of an ambassador’s service in Washington. (Photos by SSG Jedhel Somera)
April 4, 2011.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner will release the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010 on Thursday, April 7 at approximately 10:30 a.m. in the Press Briefing Room of the U.S. Department of State.
The remarks will be open to credentialed members of the media. The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, commonly known as the Human Rights Report, covers the legal status of human rights in more than 190 countries and territories around the world.
Lets face it, in todays eco-friendly, carbon neutral, green credentialed society a little bit of good old fashioned clag is just what is needed to get the corpuscles corpsing. And there is no better purveyor of clag than a British Rail Class 56; how they have been missed! Now back in action for both Colas and DCR, and we hear maybe Freightliner, you can always rely on a 'Grid' putting up a good barrage. The latest re-admission to the mainline fleet, DCR's No. 56103, still sporting a revised 'Fertis' livery, puts up a credible smoke screen as it restarts 6Z56 1117 York Leeman Sidings-Washwood Heath Metro Cammel from Elford Loop on 13th August 2014.. Classmate No. 56312 is positioned at the rear, and sandwiched between is the Railvac and some mineral wagons carrying spoil. Long may they hang around! Copyright John Whitehouse- all rights reserved
Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
"WASHINGTON, DC – On Friday, the President will visit Boeing in Everett, Washington where he will continue to discuss his blueprint for an economy built to last based on American manufacturing and the importance of promoting American exports. The President's remarks are open to pre-credentialed media."
In a first, members of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference Session took time to recognize the gifts and witness of credentialed lay ministers (CLM's, Hispanic lay ministers, home missioners, deaconesses) and licensed local pastors. Photos by Patrick Scriven, PNW Conference.
Image copyright UT Athletics, for credentialed media use only. Creative Commons license does not apply.
In a first, members of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference Session took time to recognize the gifts and witness of credentialed lay ministers (CLM's, Hispanic lay ministers, home missioners, deaconesses) and licensed local pastors. Photos by Patrick Scriven, PNW Conference.
Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.
Polo Match- Barn Workshop- Military Veteran Fundraiser
Aug 12-13th Bettendorf IA, Quad Cities Area
This workshop is a fund raiser for Operation Horses and Heroes, a 501(c)(3) and will take place at the Quad Cities Polo Club and surrounding area on August 12 and 13th, The tour will consist of premium access to photograph the horses before and during the polo match on Saturday afternoon, a group dinner, an overnight stay in a local hotel and a barn or horse barn photographic workshop inside three barns the next morning.
The price for this workshop is $100 and is entirely tax deductible as Keith and Tony are donating all their fees to the not-for-profit and the gate for the match has been waived. The fee covers admission to the polo field and the guided barn workshop the next day. The only out of pocket will be gas and tolls, dinner and the hotel room that will be reserved for you. We will spend a maximum of 1 hour at each barn, giving time to shoot and get individual instruction. We will suggest and help arrange carpooling. The group would be capped at 20 people.
Upon registration you will receive the exact location, parking instructions, photography gear recommendations, and any other vital information to make this a fun, comfortable learning experience. Since this is the first time for the Polo Field hosting such an event, and the first time photographing here, we don’t have any good photos of what you can expect. However, imagine the polo match, riders in colorful silks, horses braided with colorful ribbons, and the match itself with horses flexing, and straining, showing off their power and flexibility. Then Sunday morning we’ll offer exclusive entrance to private barns near the polo grounds with all of it’s textures, and patterns, livestock, fencing, and so many other artful opportunities.
Operation Horses and Heroes is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-profit organization dedicated to provide healing and wellbeing to military veterans and active duty suffering from the effects of PTSD, and other traumatic brain injuries through the proven concept of Equestrian Psychotherapy. It is not horseback riding lessons, in fact it is rare if any of the participants in the program actually mount a horse. It’s more about providing our veterans with a scenario requiring them to work with the horse to accomplish a task under the watchful eye of a highly trained and credentialed Equine Psychotherapist. Using cues from the horse the therapist can establish “tells” about the veteran and use that information to help them understand their PTSD and provide ways to cope with it, or work through it in everyday life situations.
OHH is not funded by any government organization and relies entirely on donations, volunteers, and the support of everyday people like you. We have so far successfully held our 3 and 4 day programs in various locations around the US without it costing our dedicated military men and women any money. It’s bad enough some of them have to take off work, or use precious vacation days for the program, however it works and it vital to healing in the family especially. For more information on Operation Horse and Heroes visit www.operationhorsesandheroes.org or search for them on face book.