Great news! The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City has been approved! After a year and a half of negotiating, we have an agreement with the City in which Fullerton Recreational Riders (FRR) will formally oversee the use of the City’s arena.

The City has established a rental fee for the use of the arena which will be reviewed each year for groups wishing to use the arena. These fees will be used to help maintain the arena for everyone’s use. If you know of anyone that would like to schedule the use of the arena, they should contact FRR directly. The cost this year to use the arena is set at $5 per horse (grounds fee). The arena is open to public use at no cost for individuals and groups of less than 25 people and/or fewer than 5 horses. The City will be helping with the replacement cost of a tractor to do arena and trail maintenance. We hope this can be done this summer when we sell our existing tractor. If you know of someone wanting our old tractor, please contact me. It looks like we may have several people interested. I also want to thank those of you that were able to attend the Council meeting in place of our regular membership meeting. I think your attendance helped.

The May campout got cancelled because of fires and heat in the area of Chino Hills State Park. The June campout has been cancelled also in part because of the cost of fuel. Our Trail Coordinator, Bud Welch, is working on the July campout at Wild Horse. Many of us have already made reservations, some for the whole week.  Sharon and I are looking forward to the campout at Wild Horse campground near Big Bear. I hope to see some of you up there.

We have been able to install a quick coupler near the main arena gate so that the area can be watered to keep the dust down for the shows. The arena has been rented for a series of Eastern/Western Pleasure shows starting in June. Don’t forget the monthly gymkhana we have scheduled.

The Board has decided to cancel this year’s Hunt Brunch after our Social Chairman, Charlene Rodriguez, reported she only had 11 people signed up for it. I want to thank Charlene for all her work in trying to set it up. If you have any ideas to increase interest in next year’s event, please let us know.

As you read this article, Sharon and I are in Colorado. Wish me well as I am looking for a horse that I can keep at our place there. I have been borrowing one, but it is time for me to have my own out there. It is easier than hauling a horse out there from here. We also have a lot of work to do on the ranch now that my health is better. I hope your summer is going well. We will be back just after the General Membership meeting at the arena this month. Our V.P., Brian Jacobs, has scheduled a trailer clinic for the program. The meeting will be at the arena.

FRR’s Executive Committee has been meeting to plan for the future of FRR and the horse community in the Fullerton area. We are working on a new club brochure and looking at ways we can become further involved with the community. We are also looking into ways we can help keep Fullerton horse friendly. If you have any ideas, we would like to hear from you. Our City Liaison, Robert Hayden, continues to be a real asset by working very closely with the City on issues that might affect us.

As of this writing I have been advised that two of our members had been in the hospital. Curta was in a horse accident at the arena and Coren had hip replacement surgery. The Club has sent flowers and hopes they will both be back in the saddle soon.

Until I see you on the trail, ride safe.

Bill Naylor, President

(213) 399-5309 (cell)

Bnaylor4@sbcglobal.net