Birch Bay Ranch Western Drill Team Entertains

Birch Bay Ranch Western Drill Team Entertains

Rosanne Fortier - News Correspondent

Birch Bay Ranch Western Drill Team performed with their horses to music at Vegreville Agricultural Society Viterra Dash to Summer Equine Event at VAS Grandstand on June 5. Team Caption Amy Frederick said, “The Birch Bay Ranch Western Drill Team started in September of 2021, and has many of the participants riding on a team that was started in early 2018 to do a fundraiser for the Stollery children’s hospital. What was to be one event turned into a passion for many of the riders. The team continued to practice as much as COVID would allow through the 2019-2020 season. In September of 2021 the team partnered with Birch Bay Ranch in Sherwood Park, Alberta. The team practices weekly and performs patterns on horseback to music striving to showcase excellent horsemanship as well as striving to develop a positive life change in all our riders.

Birch Bay Western Ranch Drill Team performs with their horses to music.

(Rosanne Fortier/Photo)

We usually have a group of 16 riders to perform and have a roster of 22 horses and riders. We have riders as young as 14 and the oldest in their late fifties.

Birch Bay Ranch is a Christian summer camp and conference center. We are located close to Sherwood Park. We are open year-round offering many activities including Horseback riding lessons, trail rides, English and western lessons, archery, ropes course and zip lines.

What our team especially enjoys about performing is the camaraderie with each other and learning from each other and our horsemanship. We just have a lot of fun,” Frederick said.

Innisfree-Minburn 4H Beef Club May Report

Madeline Nott - Club Reporter

We had a very busy month with our Mock and Achievement day as well as other activities. We held our monthly meeting a week earlier on May 4 at Minburn. We had our Mock achievement on May 11 at Minburn Ag. Grounds and our cleanup of the Ag.Grounds on May 15. All the days went really well, we had great weather for each day.

Our Achievement day was held on May 25 at Minburn as well. Was a beautiful sunny day and all the calves looked great and behaved very well. Our members did a great job and our Grand Champion was Rylan Jackson and Reserve Champion was Camille Kassian.

We had a fabulous supper after the show at 5 pm, and our sale started at 6:30 pm. We had a great bunch of buyers that came out to support. We are grateful to our sponsors for the year and all the community that has come out year after year to support our club.