February 2012
Photos for February 3, 2012
Three-year-old Hannah Long gives a big hug to a miniature horse that is bigger than she is during a clinic at a Tonto Basin ranch clinic on the use of draft horses for farming. See the story and other photos on page 3B.
Local favorite John Carpino will be performing at Bootley Alley Antiques & Art from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., First Friday, Feb. 3 and at a benefit at the Buffalo Bar & Grill with the Hot Cappuccinos at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 4.
Ayothaya Thai Café marked its one-year anniversary with a special buffet Tuesday.
Upcoming expos are a great way to learn about all kinds of outdoors activities; check out the latest in equipment and vehicles and see what the future may hold. Two major events are planned in the Valley this month and next.
C.J. Nottingham makes a great effort in the Horns’ 78-49 loss to Fountain Hills Jan. 31
Jake Spear, Payson’s best wrestler, will be in the most ‘stacked’ weight classes at sectionals.
Harriet Rae Strunk
Mary A. Mullen
Lyndon “Lindy” Harry Kelly
Margaret J. Eckert, R.N.
Dacey Taylor (foreground) and a group of town workers, cut, rake and load old cattails, weeds and small brush into trucks in an effort to clean up the large lake at Green Valley Park.
A morning frost blankets the grass at Pine Meadows Country Club. Less than normal precipitation has limited the amount of snow in the Heber Overgaard area.
Two school staff members say goodbye. Doris Randall (left) and Jan Clark (right), great friends and staff members at Pine-Strawberry School, will both retire at the completion of this school year after a combined 62 years of working in education.
Red takes a look at the camera before organizers demonstrate how to safely work with a horse while putting on its harness.
Brian Jenning shows Karen Lewis of Snowflake how to control the horses while driving a forecart.
Walking into the semi-sized container where the Brown’s store their harnesses, bits, reins and halters, the smell of leather assaults the nose. Each bit of tack hangs on a peg with the name of the horse the tack belongs to above the equipment. Because every horse is a different size, each bit of tack is specific to that horse.
Bill Brown’s family has ranched in Arizona for generations. Bill and his wife Lori started using draft horses six years ago. Now he shares his knowledge at a draft horse clinic hosted on his family’s H-4 Ranch.
Daniel Stutzman shares stories about Red, a draft horse he raised, trained and then sold to the Brown family. Stutzman talked about the importance of the relationship ranchers and farmers have with their horses. “Red is a special horse,” he told the participants at the draft horse clinic held at the H-4 Ranch in Tonto Basin.
Riding on a forecart across the fallow alfalfa field, participants at the draft horse clinic learned how to drive a team of horses for farming.
Daniel Stutzman, an Amish farmer from Indiana, demonstrates how to correctly hitch up draft horses to a wagon during the draft horse clinic at the H-4 Ranch in Tonto Basin.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Question of the week
Do you think new Principal Anna Van Zile has a valid idea in eliminating the Asst. Principal and replacing it with an Athletic Director position that would share her duties as Principal?
Advertisement