Share Your Thoughts on a New Horse Barn
Posted October 10, 2015 at 5:53 am by Tim Dustrude
The inside of the existing horse barn – Tim Dustrude photo
Here’s a letter from Nancy Ballmann about a possible new horse barn at the Fairgrounds…
Hi my name is Nancy Ballmann and I have lived in Friday Harbor for 8 years. I have helped with the 4H Bits and Spurs for as long as I have lived here. I have decided to work on a plan for replacing the Horse Barn in conjunction with the San Juan County Parks and Fair Department. I would like your input on three different barn options as we begin this multi-year project:
- Barn A would be a pole barn with removable stalls and sand floor
- Barn B would be a pole barn with removable stalls and concrete floors and finally
- Barn C shed roof style barn, 30-40 stalls with tack rooms and temporary stalls on the outside.
It is preferable that the barn be multifunctional year- round.
I feel it is time to do away with the old barn. The many years of patching are no longer enough. The kids and other horse event participants need a safe place for their horses during the events held on the fairgrounds. Please share your opinions so we may begin this process. Send your Horse Barn preferences and opinions to info [@] sjcfair [.] org.
Thank you,
Nancy Ballmann
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4 comments:
4 comments...
why not just remodel with new stalls and sand or cement floors, I glad to hear you work with the kids,andjust moved here but if you want a new barn why not build it further out back
The plan is to move the barn back they been doing repairs for years now it’s far beyond that kinda help but thank u for your offer will keep every one posted on the progress of this
It seems like pouring money into a venue that sees so few calendar-event days would not be the best use of limited funds. I could see spending money to improve the lot of the stressed-out chickens and rabbits in their current dark, dingy tent with cramped cages with barely enough room to turn around. The horses seem to have it pretty good.
Seems like it could all be accomplished. Surely this community would come together to generate the funds needed to fix both, just like we have done for the Animal Shelter…doncha think??? These venues provide so much to children and parents alike, it is part of what makes this community such an amazing place to raise a family.
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