Light Center's first post!

Hello blog world! This is our first post and a big day in our little corner of the world. As you can see from the posted bio about us, we work with special needs kids... and horses, and donkeys, and goats, and sheep, and ducks, and...well you get the picture. If you're reading this and you've never been to our web site; you can visit us at www.TLCinUnion.org. We are always looking for instructors, volunteers, horse handlers, and the ever popular donor with deep pockets! Just kidding about the deep pockets, but we survive on donor support and do our very best to always make our donors proud of our efforts. The kids we see have learning disabilities, developmental challenges, and behavioral disorders. Many have been the victims of physical or sexual abuse and come from homes where drug and alcohol abuse are the norm. Others have been in juvenile detention or are well on their way. We see about 200 kids a year, and all of them learn far more from the animals than they'll ever learn from us! It rained today so the boys group practiced remembering and following 6 steps to good horse grooming. Despite the rain, the horses look great and the kids had fun. Yesterday, our young gelding, Rhett, left for "camp", or at least that's what we told him! He's actually gone off for some retraining and will hopefully rejoin us in a few months with some greatly improved manners! Tonight we're painting (on a horse) good behaviors on one side and bad behaviors on the other. I'm not sure if the horse will love the activity, but we sure do. Good luck with that one kids! We'll let you know how it went tomorrow! Good night Blog world! See ya tomorrow!