L.I.R.H.A. would like to send special thanks to
our wonderful volunteer, Mathew Spohrer and his Boy
Scout Troop #577 of Merrick Legion Post #1749.
They all got together to work on a wonderful project
for L.I.R.H.A. which was to build us two new
mounting blocks for the program, some wooden benches
and a new cabinet to hold our special tack in our
tack room. These wonderful scouts and scout
masters came out the day after the cold, snow and
ice to work on this project. We thank them all
and special thanks to Marie and Jim Spohrer who
opened their business for them to work on all these
items. Many thanks to PRO Builder who donated
the wood for this project. Our special thanks to the
neighborhood Bagel Cafe' of Bellmore who donated
bagels for everyone and our wonderful friends of My
Hero Deli who donated the lunch to all these
wonderful scouts. Also Bellmore Dunkin Donuts and
Bellmore Stop N Shop. We thank them for their
support. Mathew is a wonderful volunteer and
big brother to Phillip who is a student in our
program and his family are wonderful people who
support L.I.R.H.A. On behalf of
L.I.R.H.A., thank you all for thinking of us and
these wonderful items being made will help us so
very much in our program. Every step brings a
disabled person closer to a new freedom of being
mounted onto his or her special horse and the smiles
on all of there faces says it all. Thank you!
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We are saddened on the sudden passing of our
student, Jack G. 1/19/09.
You will be missed by all at L.I.R.H.A. His
funny comments, how he made everyone laugh, he was a
true gentlemen to us all and for all the joy he
brought to our program. Bless you Jack. Love
L.I.R.H.A
L.I.R.H.A. gives its deepest sympathy to the
Christian Fellowship Ranch on the passing of a great
horse AKA: Rusty (March 2009) He was wonderful
friend, show horse and a therapy horse, we
shall all miss him.
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Our amazing volunteer (Bill) who was honored for all
he does for his community and for giving of his
time, especially to LIRHA. Pictured with him
is our board members MaryJean and Vol. Coordinator
and Board member Toni.
Another amazing volunteer (Ariel & her Mom Ronnie).
Ariel is an amazing girl, she loves animals and
wrote about her experiences with working with the
Handicapped at LIRHA, she won an award for this
essay. We thank her for being who she is.
Her and her mom are always there for LIRHA and their
dad too. She is going on to college and we
wish her the best.
Our wonderful volunteer Nicole, has been with LIRHA
a few years. She wrote about our program to
her school on how important it is to be a volunteer
to help the handicapped and how beneficial it is to
work with the horses and students. Also in her
last year of High School she and her French club
made a donation to LIRHA and also set a day aside to
have some of our board members and students attend
to talk more about the program. We thank her
for being a supporter of our program and for
informing others about the benefits of therapeutic
horseback riding. We wish her luck in college
which she is learning more about the equestrian
field.
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