Category: 50th anniversary

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OCTRA 50th Yearbook Now Available

Dear OCTRA members past and present

It’s not just a memory book, it’s YOUR book! It’s time to order a OCTRA 50th yearbook!

After two years of diligent work we have a beautiful hard cover coffee table book with over 930 people included in it’s 278 pages of treasured memories of photos, documents, articles, results, awards.  It’s been a journey and the more information we uncovered, the more we found!

The first 40 orders were $50 (reg. $99) subsidized by Nancy Beacon as her gift to all the families of OCTRA.

More INFO and how to order
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Sheila and Marg Memorial Ride Postponed

Due to extremely wet conditions Rob Wright has announced the postponement of the Sheila and Marg Memorial Ride scheduled for May 18-19, 2019. With the approval of the board of directors, Rob has announced that on the August 3-4 long weekend the ride will proceed as planned. A new ride flyer has been posted. The location remains the same; only the date has changed.

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50th Anniversary Chair

A commemorative OCTRA Directors Chair is being presented this 50th Anniversary year only, to a person who is special and has done something Above and Beyond at each Ride.

The recipient is chosen by ride Organizers, and/or fellow workers. We are pleased to announce this year’s (so far) 50th Anniversary Chair holders:

  • Julie Phair,
  • Marc Downing,
  • Rick Tenhove,
  • Kristen Russell,
  • Earle Baxter, and
  • Kristen Howard.
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OCTRA 50th Book Editors and Photos Needed

Rose Danko and Nancy Beacon with Wendy Webb on the computer have spent the winter digging thru 50 years worth of archives finding an incredible number of OCTRA highlights to be shared in this beautiful coffee table book. The book at this point is over 100 pages, and will be available in soft and hard cover for the 2019 AGM.

Editing

The OCTRA 50th Book draft is set up so we can have several people editing on the cloud. We would love for people who are passionate about various sections to be able to join the process and edit a section. There are many years of archives scanned and uploaded into the media library for people editing to access as well as Wendy Webb’s OCTRA ride images.

Photos

There is a link for people to contribute edited photos to the media library of the book, no promises that all with be used however its good to have photos to draw from. Go to https://octra.picaboo.com/ the upload link is beside the camera icon. Be sure the title contains: Year, names of people/horses in the photo and any other information that would other wise be lost.

We have a long list of sections which is quite lengthy and fluid as new ideas come up, we welcome keen people to contact us to figure out where there expertise can best be utilized.

Interested? Contact Nancy Beacon rabbitrun1@me.com or for tech help Wendy Webb at funwithhorses@mac.com

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