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standing between Friends and RRCIA is people. More people mean less time per “Shoshone,” a five-month-old foal res-
in process concerning the reimbursement person. We need more hands! My time is cued from the Nellis range this summer
of credit card fees incurred on a trial your time. If the Tuesday-Saturday after being left behind by the herd. Be-
membership renewal program. schedule isn’t convenient, I’ll work with cause she had holes in all four of her feet,
Alice Stewart-Hatchett of RRCIA you. Just keep in mind that mornings are she was unable to walk and was found
has been engaged to design and imple- cooler and the earlier, the cooler. lying on the ground, helpless.
ment a new Friends website. My answering machine (643-1296) The NWHA asked members Connie
A request from BLM to is always on. We get to wear nifty green and Wes Canaday to foster her until she
contribute funding to the GLOBE T-shirts! - Clara Hatz could regain her strength. A veterinarian
Project was tabled until after the Sep-
tember Environmental Education The Book is Here!
meeting at the request of Norm Kresge.
The project will likely become a subcom- verything you always
mittee project of that committee. wanted to know about
The next board meeting will be E Friends’ procedures, but
held on September 9, at the Sahara West were afraid to ask, has been incor-
Library at 5:30 p.m. porated into a monumental work
entitled, Friends of Red Rock Can-
Baby those Babies! yon Operational Handbook. If you
think the title is a mouthful, wait
until see what’s inside. This little
he Native Plant Nursery is a fun binder, complied by Pat Williams,
place if you’re a gardener at heart. is chock-full of information about Friends cleaned and treated her painful hooves,
TThe P.L.A.N.T. team’s job is nur- and includes an overview of BLM and filling the holes with iodine-soaked cot-
turing the vegetation around the Visitor RRCIA. ton. Connie and Wes were grieving over
Center. We plant collected native seeds, From bylaws to job descriptions, the loss of their own adopted foal to an
hover over them, and celebrate when we committee workings to filing a reim- orthopedic disease. After offering to fos-
see green, usually with cake and coffee. bursement report, this package makes it ter the little filly until her feet healed, they
easy for any Friends member to step right found they couldn’t part with her.
into almost any committee or board po- Shoshone will remain a special needs
sition fully armed. It’s a great tool to horse for some time to come.
make your volunteer life easier. For more on ten special Nellis foals,
On Saturday, September 6, there will visit the View Neighborhood Newspapers
be an overview session at 9 a.m. at the at http://www.viewnews.com/2003/view-
Visitor Center presented by Friends, aug-15-fri-2003/summerlin/index.html.
RRCIA and BLM. All members are wel-
come to attend. Each chapter is self-ex-
Wall Hanging Raffle
planatory and easy to follow. All incum-
Seed planting; Laurie Vavak and bent and new board members and
Chuck Williams committee heads are encouraged to hand made Kokopelli wall hang
take advantage of this opportunity. ing, crafted and donated by Su-
We remove weeds that will choke the This book’s for YOU! Asan Morse, will be on display
flower, and do our best to give them starting September 4 in the Visitor Cen-
enough water to maintain life and still Meet a Baby Mustang ter Bookstore. Raffle tickets may be
save as much as we can. purchased for $1.00 each, 6 for $5.00.
We work the first and third Saturday n Saturday September 21, at The drawing will be held at the Annual
of each month, with two Tuesdays in be- 10:30 a.m. at the Red Rock Cor- Awards Banquet, October 18. You need
tween. All of this neat stuff takes quite a O ral, the National Wild Horse not be present to win. Check our website
few hours per month for only a few Association (NWHA) will present for further details.

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