It takes a pony to raise a community S BY LESLEY ARMSTRONG
eptember signals back to school. At Powell River Therapeutic Riding Association, the longest serving, most brilliant therapy master, returns to his favourite job of schooling young and old this September for his thirteenth year. A good teacher teaches. An excellent teacher intuits and respects the uniqueness of each student, and builds a trusting respectful relationship over the course of the school year. An excellent teacher understands that each class is taught with the same rigour as the last class. Can that level of intelligence and professionalism be attributed to a mammal other than a human armed with a teaching degree? Well, those are the words used to describe a 27-year-old little Fjord draft horse, who is the Powell River Therapeutic Riding Association’s (PRTRA) longest serving horse. His registered name is Destrier of Narnia, but he is lovingly known as Desi by staff and hundreds of students over the past 12 years.
Cops for Cancer
Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser
Featuring this year’s local rider in the Tour de Coast, RCMP Staff Sgt. Rod Wiebe
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Friday, September 20 Cocktails 6:30pm | Dinner 7pm Town Centre Hotel Get your tickets from the Town Centre Hotel or the Powell River RCMP Detachment
INVEST IN THE BEST: Destrier of Narnia, named for the horse that belonged to Caspian X in the C.S. Lewis series, nearly lost his life to equine cementosis five years ago. But, as a top therapist, the community raised $4,000 for a cure.
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