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On January 20, 2008, ABC will air a two-hour special of Extreme Makeover Home Edition in which a home and a therapeutic riding facility is rebuilt for the Luther family in Port Deposit, [...]

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With a different instructor, students riding different horses, our schedule completely thrown off, and a new working style to which to adjust, last night could have been really crazy at Pegasus Farm’s therapeutic riding program. Despite all of the last minute changes, one of our more difficult students was thriving.
Randy, the instructor I work under [...]

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After volunteering for several months at Pegasus Farm, a therapeutic riding center in northeast Ohio, I actually got to help teach a class on Monday night. This isn’t typical for volunteers, but I guess my years of experience teaching riding lessons and horse care has been showing, so Randy felt comfortable leaving me with a [...]

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Last night was another volunteering night at the Pegasus Farm therapeutic riding center, and even though I wasn’t feeling my best I still managed to learn something from the students. I was a little tired, not feeling very patient, and it was rainy and cold. I’ve had a few really good weeks in a row [...]

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I had a really nice chat with a good friend yesterday, a seminary student and ministry intern at my church who also happens to be affected by cerebral palsy. He has difficulty with his legs and a little with trunk control, but he also works harder to improve himself than anyone I know.
He was thrilled [...]

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I first met Kylie when she was about 3 years old. She came hobbling down the concrete aisle, her legs scrawny, misshapen, and unable to support her, her arms attached to braces to give her balance and support, and her face glowing like a small angel. Kylie has cerebral palsy. I was attached to her [...]

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If you talk to horse enthusiasts, most of them would say, “Of course I’m against horse slaughter!” And they do mean it. But many, like me, have never taken it any farther than that. Without knowing details, I knew there are inhumane practices in the shipment and process. I would never consider eating horse meat, [...]

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