Thanks

We want to say thank you to all of our helpers, volutneers, sponsors, those who donate. If we forget to mention you here, it is not intentional. Sometimes we just get too busy with too many different things. If your name isn't here, please please please do not be shy about letting us know. We want to list all of helpers here. And any omission is not intentional.

Sponsorships / Donations in any amount are greatly appreciated.
We have been rescuing horses and educating new and hopeful horse owners since 2001, operating totally through Volunteers, Sponsorships, and Donations. So that's how we stay "in business."
We do not pay any administrative salaries.
We are the true meaning, the true spirit, of Volunteerism and Nonprofit.
All Donations are acknowledged here on our website (not the amounts, unless you want).
Or you may request that your contribution remain anonymous. That's ok too.
Donations may be made as a tribute or memorial to a loved one or a beloved horse or pet.
email us here
doublehphorses@alliancecom.net

More thanks in early 2012.
Thanks Kathy Holm, Louise McGannan, Faythe Weber, for donations in Jan/Feb.
Thanks Wendy Olson and the Way of the Horse for our Equine Assisted Learning demo!

Thank you Jada H for your recent financial gift for our horses. And for visiting us and treating Shadow so nice. Jada has been selling cat dog and horse treats. going door to door etc. And with some of her hard-earned profits, she presented... a check to DoubleHP! She has told us that she wants to be an animal rescuer some day, but she thinks maybe she should be a Vet first, to have some money to support her rescue. At one time she also thought that maybe she could, with her profits, buy the now-closed Second Chance facility and call it 2nd Second Chance, or maybe even Third Chance, but she realized it would be a long time before she had enough money for that. So, for now, she is donating her animal treat profits to various animal welfare organizations, and we are so very thankful that she chose us. here's a pix of Jada and Shadow.

Thank you Wally and Maurine Hortness for your greatly appreciated annual donation for our rescued horses. Wally, with his well-earned "tip money," is a special sponsor for Shadow and Bella too.

Thank you Diane Filing for your recent financial gift for our rescued horses. Diane is from Glenrock, Wyoming. (that town may sound familiar to some of you who have been with us for a few years). Anyway, thank you very very much Diane for your donation and your kind words. We believe that you and your kindness truly represent your town of Glenrock.

Thank you Mary Ueker for your recent memorial donation. Mary writes, "my co-workers gave me this check on the death of my father, Owen Neiter, of Billings, Montana. Their intent was that I would give it to the organization of my choice. My father was always a champion for animals of any kind, but he had a special soft spot for abused or neglected horses. I know he would approve of this money going to DoubleHP."

Received a donation from Mickie Hortness (DoubleHP West) in memory of T.J. (Thomas Jasper) Dowling, beloved kitty cat of Mickie's friend Lindsay Dowling. So sorry for your sadness Lindsay, thank you for giving T.J. such a wonderful home. Thank you for being such a good friend Mickie.
Thanks Schatzi for playing with our rescued horses. Schatzi is a level 3 Parelli grad and her plans right now include taking our Hero to the Parelli campus in Colorado for a month in May-June!

Thanks Dakota Large Animal Clinic for continued help with our rescued horses.

thank you Spirit. Nice photo (of course this was last year, since we have no snow here this year).
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION:
TO BE MORE PROMPT ABOUT KEEPING THIS THANK YOU PAGE UPDATED!

Happy New Year 2012
January 2012 Thanks
Thank you to Mickie Hortness in Rapid City for donations toward our Spayngeld program (Spay Neuter Geld) and also for your donation in memory of Emmitt. Emmitt was a pet duck of Becky Cross; Emmitt went to heaven shortly after Christmas Time.

Thank you to Darci Adams for your gifts and donation this month, and for helping with chores during your visit!

Thank you TH for your donation this month, most or all which we will put toward our Spayngeld program.

Thank you Joann Smith for your donations and help with our Spayngeld program as well:
"A Christmas donation in the name of Richard, Jennifer, John and Josie Walsh."
and "A Christmas donation in the name of John and Erica DeWitt"
and a donation "in memory of Dr. Richard Jones DVM and his wife Helen Jones...Dick was the Freeman (SD) Vet for many years and always had a passion for horses."

Thanks Heidi for returning for chore help here. We are all so glad to have you back. Thanks pt chore employees Ashley, Bob and Rachel and Heidi too, for giving me some breaks during the week.

Thanks Kathy H and BJ and Ashley for the visit the other day and for helping a lot with chores that day too!
Thanks Jim and Emily and Courtney for your fantastic volunteer help. and for helping us keep some of the horses ridden in this unusually mild-temp. winter we are having.
And thanks Tina for your continued volunteer help with chores, bookkeeping, solving world problems as we pick up horse poop, for riding Star for us, for your other gifts, etc etc!



End of 2011. Holy Horses! We've been going for 10 years now.
Thanks at the end of the year to volunteers Jeremy, Emily and Jim, who came to my rescue in the month of December. Especially Emily and Jim for putting in many many many volunteer chore hours Xmas week and New Years Week, when everyone else left for vacations, etc. And Tina, who has been volunteering for more than 3 years now! She is pretty dang handy with the manure fork by now.

Thanks to Madonna in Rapid City, for your donation in memory of Mickie’s cat Simon.

Thank to TH in Sioux Falls for your very generous donations.

Thanks Denise in Crooks for helping to sponsor Minerva in October.

Thanks Lori Rumbolz (sorry not sure of spelling) for your very special visit to trim some of our rescued horses' hooves. And for the intro. to your Pulsed Magnetic Therapy. Call Lori for info. 605 770-9152.

Thanks everyone for buying our Unbridled Beauties Calendars.  

Thanks again to Pam and Mae for all of the great rummage sales you did for us this year. Thanks everyone who donated and shopped and helped.

Thanks again to Steve & Colleen Schjodt for long-time support and end of the year donation.

Thanks to another long-time friend, Dennis B from Jefferson SD, for the end of the year donation for hay.

Thank you to Dr. Jensen and Dr. Tornberg and Kit, Dakota Large Animal Clinic, Harrisburg, SD, for years and years and years of help and friendship and understanding, and end of year donations too! Thank you so so much.

Very big thank you to Patrick C of Edina MN for end of year donation, a very generous one. Thanks Pat!

Thank you Sherry Steineke, South Grove Tack, Hartford, SD, for the beautiful items you donated. We sold most of them on ebay and made hundreds of dollars, for the horses.

 Thanks to Tom Biegler for helping with hay and for helping us put stalls in the new barn. And for all of your help and donations through the years.

Thanks Volunteer Jeremy for putting in lots and lots of hours at the end of the year.

Pretty sure I'm forgetting a whole lot of people here. It is not intentional. Just busy. Please give me a reminder so I can add you.

August 3, 2011 -
Thank you Hazel Schjodt for your long-time support of our rescued horses at New Hope Horse Shelter. Hazel is a Super Sponsor. One of our best.

Thank you Heidi, Bev, and Denise for emergency chore help a couple of weeks ago. And Tina for continued almost-weekly volunteer chore help.

Thanks Polly and Don Mosey, Melissa, Lauren, and Ryan
Thanks for the visit guys! and for the apples and the financial donation for the horses. and for all the great pictures and videos. and for the smiles and laughs and friendship. Come again!

Ryan, Polly, Lauren, Melissa, and Our Friend Flicka

gettin' Flicka ready to ride

Treats for Hero

hugs for Minerva

cooling off

visiting the pasture herd. Spirit and Moonshine here.

and of course Ralph. Ralph always manages to get into the photos.

go here to to see videos from this day, plus other videos from New Hope Horse Shelter

http://www.facebook.com/newhopehorses?v=wall#!/video/?id=424380895283

Thank you Pam Lostroh and her mom Mae for our spring/summer rummage sales. Thanks everyone who donated and bought items. I believe we received more than $800 so far, all to help care for our rescued horses. Pam and Mae are doing it again for us in August! Let us know if you have items to donate. 605 359-0961 or email doublehphorses@alliancecom.net

Thank you to 2012 Unbridled Beauties Calendar sponsors:
Heidi Beck Design, Crooks, South Dakota www.heidibeck.com
Kevin J. Myers Trucking, Inc., Sioux City, Iowa
Firehouse Bar, Sioux City, Iowa
Model Crystal
Mickie Hortness and her Wildlife Rescue, Rapid City, South Dakota
Artist Laurie Pace, Mount Vernon, Texas www.lauriepace.blogspot.com
Trygve Trooien and Oak Lake Farm, Astoria, South Dakota
Sunny Radio, Brandon, South Dakota
Wiseman Contracting, Sioux Falls, SD
Traci Jarvis and Donnelly Photography, Jefferson, South Dakota

thanks also Nate Robertson from Trndy Photography for the angel wing photos
and to the models Heidi Elisabeth, Heidi Belle, Racheal and Crystal
Thanks Heather for getting the horses ready on photo shoot day here!

 

Thanks hay guys Tom, Steve and Greg

Thanks for putting the hay away, guys. Tom Biegler, and Steve and Greg Schjodt. Thanks also for the money you give throughout the year for our rescued horses. All 3 of you! thanks!

It was a beautiful day.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Thanks to long-time (going on 3 years now) volunteer chore helper Tina!

Thank you Dakota Large Animal Clinic for special help with our rescued horses.

Thanks to Faythe Weber, and Wally and Maurine Hortness for early year financial donations.

Thanks to Trygve Trooien and Edward Brennan for more calendar sales!

Thanks Polly and Don Mosey and Lauren for visit and for sponsoring all of the rescued horses here on Lauren's birthday.

Thank you for financial donations for saving our Shadow and Flicka before the loose horse sale.
And for their initial vet and care costs.
Steve and Colleen, Wally and Maurine, Svaya Grundstrom, Joann Smith, Larry and Ila from Madison, Wendy and Matt, Patricia from Sioux Falls.
Thank you to Mickie and Larry for your memorial donation in memory of Jake and Janelle Kleinschmidt's Chewy, "He was one of a kind."
And also for Mickie and Larry's donation in memory of Duke: "Please kiss these babies for me and tell them about Duke. All good thoughts and best wishes for Shadow and Flicka"

Thanks Stephanie and Jason for bringing Shadow and Flicka to us.

Thank you for financial donations to save Roman from the loose horse sale.
Mickie and Larry, Joann Smith, Traci Jarvis, Darci Adams
And to Tom and Karolynn Biegler for the unspecified donation that we are going to use toward Roman's initial vet/farrier bill.
Thanks Tiffany and Nina from Gentle Spirit Horses for helping with Roman also.
Thanks Dawn at Cottonwood Stables for letting Roman stay there for a few days.

Thank you Tom Wintersteen for donation in April 2011.

thank you Wally Hortness and Old Chicago in Sioux Falls for hosting our directors' meeting in April. The food and beverages and everything was just fantastic!

Thanks Heidi for the new halters.

 

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Thanks, end of 2010

Thanks to anonymous friend from Sioux Falls who donated $500 for our rescued horses.

Thanks Steve and Colleen Schjodt from Hot Springs for your Xmas donation for our rescued horses.

Thanks Tom Biegler from Sioux Falls for your Xmas donation for our rescued horses.

Thanks Maynard Morud for calendar purchase.

Thanks everyone who is buying our calendars in our online store.

and to everyone who bought our Xmas cards.

Thanks everyone who lists for us on ebay through our missionfish program.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Many Thanks.

I always love to do this and hate to do this. Recognize people who help us help our rescued horses. Love it, because we really appreciate it. Hate it because I no doubt leave someone out.
If your name isn't here, it is not intentional. Please just remind us and we would be overjoyed to add you here. We try to write things down but we know we miss some. Sorry. but just let us know.

Thanks Dave & Marty Sweet for the recent excellent saddle and saddle stand donation.
Thanks to DoubleHP Director Heidi and DoubleHP Secretary Dawn for helping with the rescued horses at the fairgrounds.
Thanks Steve Schjodt from Hot Springs SD for your financial donation in October.
Thanks Crystal Young from Mitchell SD for the calendar sales money!
A great big huge thank you to Pam Lostroh & Mae Ranchau for hosting our annual rummage sale in August. They raised more than $1,500 for our rescued horses.
thanks everyone who donated, shopped and helped. Here are just a few that I know of who helped:
Larry & Ila French/LakeBrook TV & Appliance, Madison SD, they donated a brand new microwave for the silent auction!
The Lodge at Deadwood, donated 2 night stay package for the silent auction. Congratulations Dan Varns for grabbing it! Dan also donated lots and lots of really nice items for the rummage sale. Thanks Dan!
Tom & Lori Morris, Traci Jarvis, Joanie Hinds Wagner, Pam's freind Carmen who donated the beautiful Xmas ornaments and the Lenox Xmas stoneware. and Pam's sister who donated all the excellent baby & children's clothes. Deana Fuller, Carol Mullin
There are many others. Maybe I can get Pam to make a list for us. But thank you everyone.
and again, just let us know if you want us to add your name here to our helper list.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Thanks for Donations for Duke

Thank you to everyone who is helping with Duke's rescue. Special thanks to Dan Varns of Sioux Falls and everyone from "DoubleHP West" Mickie Madonna Larry, Wendy & Matt & everyone else out there. Sorry I don't know who all has helped but just let me know and I'll add your names here.

Friday, July 9, 2010

July Sponsor Dorothy

Thanks Dorothy from Sioux Falls for helping to sponsor a rescued horse in July.

Dorothy met several of the rescued horses. Here she is combing Butterscotch's beautiful mane.

 

2011 Calendar Sponsors

Thanks to all who have helped with our 2011 calendar so far. It's our Unbridled Beauties of DoubleHP 2011 Calendar.
Sponsors so far:
Trygve Trooien and Oak Lake Farms of Astoria SD
Rick Knobe and his Lazy RRse Buffalo Ranch near Montrose SD
Mickie Hortness and Wildlife Rescue at Canyon Lake Veterinary Clinic in Rapid City, SD
Laurie (Elle) Pace, Equine Artist from Mount Vernon, Texas
Photographer Traci Donnelly-Jarvis of Donnelly Photography, Jefferson SD
Care Transportation/Adrian & Cathe Gravatt, Meridian, Idaho
D&D Market in Balitc, SD
The Corner Pub, Sioux Falls SD
Models/Sponors Heidi Elisabeth, Katie (and Cole), and Cindy
photo shoot/ horse helpers Joanie and Denise

thank you loyal, long-time friends from Madison SD. for the financial gift and for the fly masks too! greatly appreciated.

Thank you Marcia McPhail and Bali Hai Weddings in Hawaii, for your donation for our horses. And for the great postcard to Hazel! Marcia is a facebook friend of ours.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Thank you Hazel Schjodt for donation

in memory of Melvin Waswick

Hazel Schjodt recently made a donation in memory of Melvin Waswick. Hazel is the young gal in ball cap in this photo. Her donation will be used to buy hay later this year, because she wanted to help all of the horses here.

Denise has sponsored Spirit for the last two months.

Pat helped to sponsor Lily for several months last year, and has returned after our long cold winter. Pat is also helping during the Antonsen family visits in the Paul's Prince Project.

Both Denise and Pat have riding privileges here. That is available to horse sponsors.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Denise Heidebrink has sponsored Spirit for a second month. And she has riding privileges at New Hope Horse Shelter. So far she has ridden Moonshine, Star, and Flicka. Denise used to ride English. But she hadn't ridden for a while, so she is starting out on the older, more experienced horses here. And, since we don't own any English riding gear, Denise is also getting used to Western saddles. She's doing great!
The photo is of Spirit playing with his buddy Rocky last winter. We'll try to get a picture of Denise this weekend when she comes to ride.
Thanks Denise!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Thank you to Faythe Weber, Robyn Gunther, and Holly Johnson for your recent help for our rescued horses. These 3 women have been our friends and helpers for many years. Holly was one of our original organizers, and Faythe wasn't far behind her. Faythe wrote our 501c3 application. And Robyn came along just a little bit after that. Thank you. We really do appreciate your support very very much.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Thanks Denise Heidebrink or sponsoring Spirit for a Month!

Spirit, rescued from starvation in 2003,

he was a weanling found locked in a building with no food and water.

Now he lives at New Hope Horse Shelter.

And he's sponsored in April 2010 by

Denise Heidebrink of Crooks, SD.

Thank you to everyone who helped and supported us at the Horse Fair in Sioux Falls. Heidi, Dawn, Denise, Robyn, and anyone else who helped with the booth. Thanks to our booth neighbors, the hat people from Broken Arrow, for donating the beautiful cross; and to Dennis for taking it home. Thanks everyone who dropped gifts in our donation can. Thanks Pam Lostroh, Dennis Burnight, Lori Soldatke, Kim Nolz, and everyone else who made purchases or donations or sponsorships. It is all so greatly appreciated.
Thanks to Artist Lisa Madsen for the foal painting.

Thanks to Karlie & Denise Kirkpatrick for the beautiful quilt. Holly Johnson is the new owner!
Thanks to Seth Severtson of Equine Performance Services of Dell Rapids for the gift certificate

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Thank you to Vern Lindblad of Wolsey SD for recent donation, in sadness about our Aspen story.
Thank you Trygve Trooien and all of your friends who continue to buy our Unbridled Beauties Calendars.
Thanks to new volunteer Danny for putting in lots of volunteer hours the last 2 weeks. Really appreciate it a lot!
Thanks to everyone who voted for photos to benefit our DoubleHP nonprofit org. in the HSUS Spay Day Photo Contest.

Brad Deutsch Memorial

Thanks to our good and loyal friend Jane Stegenga, for her donation in memory of Brad Deutsch.

Thanks also to friends of Oak Lake Farms & Trygve Trooien, and to Ila French and employees, all for supporting our Unbridled Beauties of DoubleHP Calendar project.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

At Christmas Time we received a donation from Madonna & Daniel Goodart from Rapid City, SD. It's in memory of Simon, her friend's (Mickie Hortness) cat, who was euthanized 3 days before Xmas. Simon had cancer. Madonna writes, "Please use this donation to help sponsor Paul's Prince, in memory of Simon. He was such a sweet cat, always purring, always hugging. Bless you for all you do..."

Thank you to Rolling Meadows Farm, Virgina & Jennifer Meadows, Lore City, Ohio, for helping to sponsor Lily in December 2009. Jennifer writes, "Thank you for caring for the animals that otherwise would not have a chance. Merry Chirstmas and God Bless."

This is a picture of our Lily, taken in December 2009.

Thank you to long-time loyal Volunteer Chore Helper Tina from Sioux Falls.
Thank you to Heidi & your friends & relatives for your continued visits & volunteer chore help. Thanks Shaun for the box of apples for the horses at Christmas Time!

Thank you Hillman Plumbing & Heating in Sioux Falls SD for donation at Christmas Time.
Thanks to Greg Krueger & Missy and boys for hauling away our "cow hay" again, and for the donation at Christmas Time.

Thanks for your continued support & donations:
Hazel Schjodt of Sioux Falls SD, her son Greg of Crooks SD, and her son Steve & his wife Colleen of Hot Springs SD. They all also help with the Paul's Prince Project. Hazel sponsored 5 months in 2009!

Thank you good neighbor Matt for your amazing kindness and generosity. Thanks to Meyerhoff & Associates for donation at Christmas Time.

Thanks to everyone who helps with our Paul's Prince Project. Thanks Tri Valley High School Mustangs FFA Chapter for sponsoring 6 months, Jan-June 2010. Thank you to Artist Lisa Madsen from Baltic SD area, for "Prince in Paint"
Thank you to KDLT for excellent TV story "Someone You Should Know - Paul Antonsen"
Thanks to the Antonsens Deb & Randy, Christina & Amanda, Paul & Gabe, for donation at Christmas Time.

Thank you to these ebayers who sell on ebay to benefit our rescued horses:
rockymyhusky from Sioux Falls SD, this*is*that from Boulder CO (sells Life is Good items), coolbabyjewelry who sells Hawaiian jewelry, llagra-2008,

Thanks to Laura Squier who made a Christmas time donation on our missionsfish/ebay program.
Thanks to ebayer missstinkysmom from PA, who donated some beautiful colorful hoods & tail bags for us to use however we want. They'll probably show up at a fundraising event this year!
A very special donation made in Kay Langin's name, for her birthday, a gift from her friend Lisle.

Thanks to Kelli Bultena at lennoxnews.com and Eastern SD Peach for creating the beautiful Hope poster for us to use. Thanks for running full-page PSAs for us.

Thanks to everyone who volunteered and donated for the horse rescues we assisted with in late 2009. We have been informed that there is an arrest warrant out in at least one of the cases. The horses we helped are all in foster homes. It is a legal matter, and we will let you know if we hear anything else. Though the communication in these cases is not as good as it usually is. We have never worked with this particular county before. And there are several different groups involved. But the horses needed our help, and help them we did. Thanks to all of you: Dawn Jamison and Cottonwood Stables and all of your family & chore helpers; Pat Alexander, Heidi Skancke & family & friends, Greg Schjodt, our good neighbor Matt, Bob Corey & Angie Dolan,  Tiffany & family thanks for the alfalfa, Rick Knobe, Christina Hoefker, Pat Fleming, Kay Langin, Lisle, Nicole Barker, Wendy Olson, Ila & Larry French, Dan Varns, Donna Jensen, Peggy Koupal, Wally Hortness, Kathy who heard about us on KSOO, and everyone else who donated bags of bedding through our TSC program. And thank you TSC for helping with this too.

Thanks Pam Lostroh and her mom Mae Ranchau for hosting our annual Fall Rummage Sale.

Thank you to Tom & Karolynn Biegler from Bismarck, ND. These former horse owners and forever horse lovers have been great New Hope Horse Shelter supporters for many years. And we thank them for their continued generous support of our rescued beauties.

Thank you to Larry & Ila French from Madison SD, for your generous, long-time, ever-loyal support of our rescued horses.

Thank you to The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (the ASPCA). Our grant application for Emergency Hay Support was approved, and we received from the ASPCA a generous check to be used to purchase hay for our rescued horses.
http://www.aspca.org/

Thank you to American Association of Equine Practitioners, Unwanted Horse Veterinary Relief Campaign, Intervet/Shering-Plough, and DVM Michelle Jensen from Dakota Large Animal Clinic in Harrisburg SD.
Dr. Jensen helped us apply for a grant for free vaccines for our rescued horses. And our application was accepted!
http://www.unwantedhorsecoalition.com/

Thank you to everyone involved with our Unbridled Beauties Calendar Project. Thanks to everyone who is buying the calendars. Special thanks to new friend Vern Blystone from North Carolina. Thanks to Greg and pheasant hunting buddies Tom B and others, for selling hundreds of dollars worth of Unbridled Beauties Calendars in just a few days! Thanks to the family of one of our hay providers, Scott Huls from Salem SD area, for your terrific support of our Unbridled Beauties Calendars.
And to everyone else who is buying them on ebay
and to our beautiful models Crystal Anne, Crystal Jean, Heidi, Sadie, and Katie
and of course to our Sponsors:
Models Crystal Anne, Crystal Jean, & Heidi
Lori DeVries & The Insurance Connection, Sioux Falls, SD
America's Mattress, Mitchell, SD
Big Dummy's Bar & Casino, Mitchell, SD
Canyon Lake Veterinary Hospital (CLVH), Rapid City, SD
Wildlife Rescue by Mickie Hortness/CLVH, Rapid City, SD
Wiseman General Contracting, Sioux Falls, SD
Trygve A. Trooien and Oak Lake Farms, Astoria, SD
Latino Productions & Management