| | We welcome March Spring Days and Program Season is HERE! As we inch closer to Spring, program season is coming closer too! We can hardly wait and March is the month to sign up! Mini Horse Heroes will start its first session on April 1st, and Summer Day Camp registration is this month! Mark your calendars as spots do fill up quickly! Find the links below to register for each program! Also this month; ReFUND Colorado! Did you know you can donate your State tax refund directly to the horses? Read about how to do this in this newsletter. And....drum roll please....The Lights Are ON!!!! Robin's Nest has electricity, and water and heat should be online soon! Stay tuned in the coming weeks for exciting move in information, as this amazing facility, made possible by the Rhea Bigelow Charitable Trust, nears completion! |
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| UPCOMING PROGRAMS MINI HORSE HEROES! Registration Opens TODAY!! Mini Horse Heroes returns in spring, and Racey can't wait to see you all back at the ranch! Registration for Spring/Summer dates for MHH opens on March 1, 2023. The first session will be on Saturday April 1, 10am-12pm. |
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| | SUMMER DAY CAMP - REGISTRATION OPENS MARCH 10! Time is finally here, so mark your calendars as Summer Day camp Registration opens on March 10th! Mountain Valley Horse Rescue is excited to offer kids ages 5 and up new opportunities to spend their days this summer with horses. Day camps will take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from June 6th through August 10th, 2023. Kids can sign up for one day or multiple days in a row, or spread days throughout the summer. The day camp themes will vary based on the day or week and include Horse Heroes Day Camp, H.O.P.E. Day Camp and Horse Glamour Day Camp. These summer day camps are the perfect way for kids to spend time with horses and have fun outdoors at our beautiful ranch in McCoy! No prior horse experience is needed to participate and MVHR will provide transportation from Wolcott. Full and partial scholarships are available for all day camps. |
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| | | HORSE UPDATES Love was certainly in the air, as four MVHR horses found loving adoptive homes in February! Cole headed around the corner to Carbondale, where he will be a pleasure horse around the ranch. Rex picked a person of his very own and headed up to snowy Craig to embark on a career of endurance riding. And Angel and Baybee headed together to the front range, where they now have a family of their very own. Because of YOU these happy endings to these Journeys of Hope are possible...and now we will begin some others. Look for news of intakes in March as we sort through who on our waiting list needs help soonest, and bring them to the ranch to begin their own Journey of Hope! |
| | | | | While on our waiting list, many owners provide MVHR with information about their horse and ask for help marketing them, in hopes of getting them directly into new private homes. This is a service MVHR provides at no cost, and to anyone who requests it. The list is long, and there are some great horses looking for homes on our "Other Horses" page. Check them out! |
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| |  | ReFUND CO Support the horses with some, or all, of your state income tax refund in 2023: - Decide how much of your state income tax refund to donate (all or a portion of it).
- Enter Mountain Valley Horse Rescue and our registration number 20063004823 in the Donate to a Colorado Nonprofit Fund line on your state tax return or tax software – or give just give this info to your tax preparer when you share your tax documents.
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| | VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES - We Need Your Help! No horse experience is needed to volunteer, as MVHR provides introductory and ongoing training to help to develop horsemanship skills that will allow you to volunteer with the horses in varying capacities, based on your interest, such as: Corral Catering Water and hay need to be topped off throughout the day, and the horses will love you for it! Manure Meditations What more valuable way to spend time than putting a corner of the world all to rights, and all for the horses?! There's always plenty of manure to go around and, whether scooping one corral or five, every single pile picked up helps the horses stay happy and healthy...and you too ;)! Tuesday Tech Both the vet and the farrier are at the ranch on Tuesdays, and that makes for a busy day when we could use extra hands to help handling horses! You can learn to be a "Tech" and assist with catching and holding horses while they have their vet and farrier treatments, and even help with any ongoing treatments they may need on other days of the week. Grooming Gurus For those who can’t wait to get in there and curry and comb, getting all the dirt and tangles out! Grooming helps improve the health of each and every horse, and this is a great way to get to know the herd! |
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| | | MORE WAYS TO HELP THE HORSES! The City Market Community Rewards program is a really easy way to give back. This program makes it possible for you to donate through the shopping you do every day. By using your Shoppers Card, City Market/King Soopers makes a donation to the horses on your behalf! No extra cost to you! Once you link your Shopper’s Card to MVHR, all you have to do is shop at City Market and swipe your Shopper’s Card. Click HERE to set this up today for your grocery shopping! It only takes a few minutes and helps the horses greatly! |
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| ADDITIONAL WAYS TO HELP MVHR ALL YEAR LONG Visit our Other Ways to Help resource page to learn about more ways to help MVHR anytime of year. We have information on our Amazon Wishlist and how to shop and support MVHR thru organizations such as City Market Community Rewards and Chewy Gives Back. Check it out and sign up for some of the shopping programs, or please consider helping out with much needed supplies from our wish lists. |
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| MVHR BROKERAGE ACCOUNT with EDWARD JONES Did you know MVHR has a brokerage account that you can donate to…and that you can make a gift to the horses this way? Donating stocks offers benefits for both you and MVHR. We are so grateful for the donors that have already committed to doing so. For more information on how to donate to our account with Edward Jones, contact your broker or email marleen@mvhr.net. |
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| MVHR ENDOWMENT FUND at YVCF MVHR made a big step in 2023 and established the MVHR Endowment Fund at the Yampa Valley Community Foundation. If you'd like to learn more about donating to the Endowment Fund, please click HERE. |
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| From all of us at Mountain Valley Horse Rescue, thank you for your continued support! |
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| | Mountain Valley Horse Rescue
33933 Colorado River Road | McCoy, Colorado 80463
970-653-0185 | info@mvhr.net |
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