Aiken Ladies Aside
                                        Celebrating the Art of Side Saddle

January 2013

We are well into the new year and just wanted to update everyone on some activities.

First, we did donate $281.00 to Women Beyond Cancer from our wreath sales!

Don't forgot about the fox hunt show at Highfields on Friday February 8th, classes 2, 3 and 4 are sidesaddle.. ALA is also sponsoring the stirrup cup so any donations for that would be appreciated! The show starts at 10AM so we should have our stirrup cup in place by 9.

We continue to practice at Ann Lawhornes on Monday at 1 with Mark Thompson.

We have scheduled a sidesaddle clinic on March 7th and 8th, Sue Sisco will be the instructor! Sue has shown aside for many years and held several clinics, should be a great time! (
www.suesiscosunfield.com) The clinic will be held at Lisa Darden's lovely covered arena off Stiefel Rd.. The format for the clinic will be a series of semi-private lessons 1-1/2 hours in length.. $100 per day per rider. Auditors are welcome and we ask for a donation to FOTAS. If you haven't ridden sidesaddle before please contact Betty Alexander 803-761-1637 and we will arrange for you to try sidesaddle at the clinic.

More details to follow on the clinic but would like to get responses for ladies planning on attending.

Dont forget the Aiken Horse Show April 5, 6 and 7.

We are scheduling a meeting on Thursday February 28th. Carolyn Reese Potter has offered to host it where she is staying off Dupree.. directions will be forthcoming. Thanks Carolyn!

Hope to see you all soon.

November 2013

We hope everyone has a great holiday season!!

The board decided not to try to schedule a holiday party in December as everyone is so busy, instead we will schedule something in January, time and place tbd.

We are quite proud of the fact that we were able to present the Audubon with a check for $1140.00! Thank you Diana for once again organizing it, and everyone who helped make it such a success!

The wreath sales have been quite good! This is our biggest fundraiser of the year for our club. We still have a few undecorated ones left, $25 each, so if you haven't ordered one please do! And don't forget 25% of our proceeds to go 'Women Beyond Cancer'!

We hope to schedule a clinic after the first of the year.. more on that to come!

Dont forget to get your ss pictures to Amber.. aikenladiesaside@yahoo.com. She is working on getting our website up with a different host, hopefully one more user friendly!

Happy Holidays!

Betty and the board!