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Summer 2025
GIHA members show off newly purchased tractor
Gulf Islands Horse Association members Sue Higgs, Patricia Lockie, Mary Ackenhausen, Lynn Bissett and Dan Lennox stand proudly next to a new eco-friendly electric lawn tractor purchased with funds donated by local donors to our Sport BC Fund, as well as a generous grant from Horse Council BC.
This purchase will make maintaining the arena's sand footing and the surrounding grassy areas much easier to achieve. Many thanks to Daniel Van Koughnett, Barry Dunster, Sue Higgs, Lucy Sliwowska, Dan Lennox, and countless other volunteers, contractors, and donors past and present for helping to repair and maintain the arena and surrounding infrastructure in past years. We look forward to many more happy moments of celebrating improvements to our community riding arena.
The necessity for dry, safe, and secure tractor storage prompted us to search for a reasonably priced structure of some sort when we purchased the tractor. Volunteers are now constructing a wonderful building that will store our tractor and other equipment, thanks to a kind donation of shed materials from the Barr family. We would especially want to thank Sue and Andy Higgs, Pam Brain, Dan Lennox, Zach Barr, and Jerry Sparshu for their tireless efforts in making this shed watertight and strong.
Our next project will be to create a water catchment system from the roofs of the shed and judges booth for sprinkling water onto the arena during dry days to keep the dust down.
