President’s Message

Hello Saddle Sore Riders!

We had our Planning Meeting this month. Thank you to those who came and helped make up next year’s calendar. We will have some of our favorite rides and a few new ones and I am happy to say we also have some new event chair-persons for next year !

We only have one more ride left for this year and you all know that it’s the Turkey Poker Ride. It’s one of our biggest rides of the year and our last. Show on up and help make it a great ride. It’s a rain or shine ride, so you may want to bring your long coat. And, next month we have the Christmas Dinner Dance. This is a fun party and S.S.R. members get all dressed up and enjoy great food, dancing, and lots more !!! I hope to see you all there.

We also had our S.S.R. elections for next year’s Officers, Standing Chairpersons, and Board Members. Officers will be sworn-in for the 2012 year at the dinner dance and Jan Beaver will be officiating. Don’t worry, Jan will be swearing them in in a good way.

Also coming up is the City of Norco Light Parade and Sara Gerety Pauley is chairing this event. She is looking for riders to help show off the S.S.R. Christmas spirit, so please get some battery operated lights and join us on December 3, 2011. We will get staging informa-tion out via the S.S.R. Facebook page and website, saddlesoreriders.org. Hope to see you there !

Thank You

Kevin R. Whitaker

Remember To Get The Back Yard Out Of The Back Yard!

 

IMPORTANT UPDATES!!

 

DECEMBER

12/4 GENERAL MTG, 10 a.m., Legion

12/10 Tacos @ the Legion

12/13 Joint Board Mtg @ 7 p.m.

12/17 Christmas Dinner Dance @ the Legion

 

JANUARY 2012

1/14 Tacos @ the Legion

1/28 Aquarius Poker Ride

1/29 Breakfast at the Legion

 

Membership News

Please make a note & add the following members to your Roster:

NEW MEMBERS:

EVA BRADY 951-736-9431; MIKE AND HEATHER HEMPHILL 951-203-5438. WELCOME ALL !!!!!!

MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL BEGINS NOW! PLEASE REMEM-BER TO SIGN BOTH THE FRONT AND THE BACK OF THE RENEWAL FORM!!!

NEW ROSTERS WILL BE COMING OUT AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR

 

 

Past Events

TACOS AT THE LEGION on October 8 hosted by Team Deever.

Thanks to Cindy Deever, Ron & Tammy Kapec, Anneliese Maben, and Michelle Bauchman. The crew whipped out a chuck wagon full of tacos that were devoured by all the S.S.R. wranglers and Legionnaires. A fun and profitable time was had by all.

Thanks, Steve

 

HESPERIA LAKE DAY RIDE on October 16, 2011 hosted by Larry Galvez and Jerrie Scott.

Oh my gosh! Larry was sooo excited! Not expecting anyone to show for our first out-of-town ride, he had 25 rid-ers, including 6 non-member locals from Riverside, Palmdale, and Yermo; which is not exactly close, so

a big thank you goes out to our web-site and publicity departments for get-ting the word out on this ride.

Every horse that attended received a treat bag consisting of carrot treats and every human received a trick bag with candy and an Avon chapstick. Randy & Teresa Roblero served as our ―welcoming committee‖ with Teresa exclaiming ―You should call this ―a ride just to ride!‖, being that I

 

sold no poker hands or 50/50 tickets. And, ride they did, on this beautiful sunny, crisp-cool perfect weather day. First came the river crossing with no mishaps. It really was a trickling brook; wonder what Larry would call a real river — the Pacific Ocean? Then about another 15 minutes into the ride, Nick’s horse went off the trail to check out a dead tree, got spooked by it, hit soft dirt and fell backwards throwing Nick off. Nick got back on his horse, then Larry and Charlene led Nick back to camp and helped him put his horse in the trailer. Nick drove home, his wife took him to the hospital — turns out he broke his collar bone and two ribs. Talk about ―Cowboy Up‖, he deserves a buckle!

Now you ask, who’s been trail-bossing the riders to the Historic Bar? You’ve all heard the saying that horses can lead themselves to water, well, Saddle Sore Riders can lead themselves to a liquor water hole. (Just kidding—maybe not — our friend Doug McPherson knows the area and led the riders to the bar.)

Now, at this bar is where riders were to also buy their lunch and we’ve never seen more than 2 customers at a time here, but two other groups un-known to us show up, and the place is packed and only 1 bartender to do it all!! I still don’t know if Pam Witham every got her wiener?? Larry and Charlene joined up and the group

was led back with no mishaps.

 

There was Cholla here and there, but it was all pointed out to the riders so Robert can keep his Cholla Award. Back at camp everyone is trailoring up their horses and you hear Debi yelling, ―Come here Baby!‖ and it wasn’t her husband Hank that she was yelling at, but his horse. So, Hank will suffer repercus-sions from Mike Montgomery at our SSR meeting.

 

BTW, Hank and Debi Schleuning camped overnight and said they really enjoyed the campsite. Hesperia Lake equine center has overnight camp-sites with water hook-up for $10.00 includes one covered corral. There is also fishing at the Lake, so take advan-tage of this beautiful park that is only 55 minutes away from Norco ! Larry is planning on doing this ride again next year, so we hope to see you then !

Jerrie Scott

 

HALLOWEEN POKER RIDE on October 29, 2011 hosted by Karen Pacella and Tracy Penna (aka Pen-nacella)

The Halloween Poker Ride seemed to go off without a hitch. There were 49 riders — many of them were dressed up as they rode through town and then up towards the famous Pumpkin — so fitting for the day !! Carlos Lopez (otherwise known as Zoro) was our fabulous Trail Boss. His team of Out-riders consisted of: Robin, LT, Char-lene, Kevin, Sarah, Darlene, and Larry.

 

The rid-ers re-turned to fun, poker prizes, costume contests and food ! Our local vendors donated wonderful prizes that seemed to go over very well. Our own Russ donated FOUR beautiful pieces of horseshoe art — all hand-made by the artist — Russ himself !

 

Thankfully, Kevin Whitaker helped judge the costume contests — it was difficult with all the great creations ! Tracy and I got to work with a FABU-LOUS ground crew: Randi Verin and Stephanie Miller made a KILLER punch and manned the bar ! Cheryl Jarvis and Pat (Tracy’s Mom) handled the check-in, 50/50 tickets and poker hands; Joyce took care of our tie lines; Charlie managed the port-a-potties; Carolyn Provencio headed the horse ambulance. Even Mickey Nichols was seen running back for more ice !! A special thank you to you all !

As you know, these rides are a result of a lot of effort from a lot of people. I would like to send out a very special thank you to Tawnya Clauser, Randi Verin, and Stephanie Miller.

Karen Pacella

 

VETERAN’S DAY RIDE on Novem-ber 11, 2011 from Lake Cahuilla hosted by Debi and Hank Schleuning

Debi and Hank were hoping that the weather would be good and that SSR members would come out and sup-port this patriotic event, but that was not to be. Hank reported that Debi and he had a great ride. Beautiful weather and vista views. No inci-dents; no one showed up.

Hank

 

Here’s the Classifieds

Items and/or services must be truly horse related. Ads will run for three consecutive months. .

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WANTED– Looking for someone to accompany me across the river from the trails below Pedley. Give me a call-

Betty 714-425-9960. 3

FOR SALE - Older 2-horse straight load horse trailer with ramp and tack room that locks. New floor and tires. $1,200.00 OBO.

Call JoeDee Davison at 951-733-68772

FOR SALE - Load it on your truck, pull your trailer and go camping with your horse — 2001 Lance Camper 1130. Too many amenities to list. Call Bill Hampton at 951-264-1576$13,000 OBO.2

FREE TO A GOOD HOME— PERUVIAN. My beloved ―Santana‖, almost 15 hands, geld-ing, buckskin. He’s older but in excellent health. Knows the streets of Norco. I can’t ride any-more and he needs to be ridden. He is a great horse for an intermediate rider and has spunk! All tack included. We will transport. Call or e-mail, please, Karin VanderLee, 559-877-7551, karinvdl@yahoo.com or Casey’s cell # 951-565-7890. 1

AND THE WINNERS ...

50/50 prize winners this month were:

3rd place, $30 — Dennis Drop

2nd place, $45 — Tammy Kapec

1st place, $76 — Dion Clauser

PROGRESSIVE RAFFLE

YEA! Mike Montgomery led us by the nose for a few minutes while we tried to guess who the big winner of $329 was that Mike stated was there in that very room with us . . . And, the winner was

Robert Verbree

 

Linda Pelly, Board Member

Randi Verin, Board Member

Mickey Nichols, Board Member

Hank Schleuning, Board Member

Tammy Kapec, Board Member

Sandy Reiley - ABC Liaison

Terry McCarthey – Country Store Chairman

Donna Loera - Country Store Assistant

Roy Kennedy - Equipment Manager

Ron Kapec - Equipment Manager Assistant

Darlene Bjork - Event Signs Chairman

Pat Reiley - Historian

Tawnya Clauser - Membership Chairman

Pam Witham - Nooseletter Editor

Charlene Hall - Outrider/Security Chairman
Karen Pacella - Publicity Chairman
Stacy MacBeth - Publicity Assistant
Pam Witham – Webmistress

 

IF YOU HAVE GONE ON A SADDLE SORE RIDE AND HAVE TAKEN PICTURES, PLEASE SEND TWO OR THREE TO PAM WITHAM AT 4withams@sbcglobal.net SO THAT I CAN INCLUDE THEM IN THE NOOSELETTER