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Girl Scouts Get Animal Care And Riding Experience With Horse Guard

Published: Nov 19, 2023 7:00 am

Girl Scouts from Newtown Troop #50597 visited the Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard (2GHG) for a hands-on (and ride-on) experience in horse care on Sunday, November 12. There were seven Scouts on hand to earn their horse care/horse riding patch during an approximate two-hour visit to the 2GHG’s Fairfield Hills headquarters.

Horse Guard troopers gave the girls a brief history of the 2GHG. Additionally, these special guests got to visit artifacts, view the property map, take a tour of the tack room and learn about riding equipment, tour the barn, feed the horses, and learn about basic care and safety. Horse Guard troopers have a demonstration on grooming and the Scouts took turns brushing horses. Horses Drifter and Tommy were tacked up and girls got to ride them around the indoor ring. The event was capped off with putting the horses back in their stalls and cleaning the tack and putting it away Army style.

Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops interested in earning badges with the Horse Guard may e-mail the office at 2ghg.ctmd@ct.gov.

Girl Scout Juliana Dominguez rides Drifter as Corporal Laurie Pittman, left, and Private Nadia Gluch assist during a visit to the Second Company Governor’s Horse Guard. —Bee Photos, Hutchison

Girl Scout Eleanor Magnano sits atop Tommy as Sergeant Samantha Burton, left, and Private First Class Selena Carella walk alongside.

Troop leader Carla Magnano and Girl Scouts, from left, Eleanor Magnano, Brooke Duncan, and Finley McMurdo, enjoy a horse grooming demonstration.

Sergeant Samantha Burton, left, and Private First Class Selena Carella demonstrate horse care on Tommy.

Ellie Veneziano, Kaelyn Albert, Hadley McMurdo, and Juliana Dominguez get up close and personal with Drifter before riding in the ring.

Drifter gets ready to go to the ring as Corporal Laurie Pittman and Girl Scouts take the cooperative horse out of the stall.

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How do you propose tapping the brakes, Dave? 8-30g already trumps any local regulations- you don't have a brake pedal to push. Brookfield, Trumbull and now Ridgefield have a clear case for a moratorium based on the development (thanks to 8-30g) that has already occurred. I don't see a clear case for Newtown to request a moratorium... yet.

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Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.

Hey, there you go! Richard solved it. Thanks, that seems so easy- we'll just get rid of the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court. Seriously, the 2nd amendment doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The Supreme Court doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The problem is not the tools, but the criminals & the mental illness. The state of Connecticut seems to be focused on the tools, like Richard, while ignoring the users of those tools.

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Ned, please familarize yourself with 8-30G, and then please share the unique flaws that may be helpful in formulating a denial An 8-30g project can be denied only on very narrow grounds – i.e., if it presents health, safety or other concerns that exceed a town’s need for affordable housing. According to the TOG website, “projects cannot be rejected for incompatibility with a Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD); density; traffic congestion; height; aesthetics; concerns of neighbors or the community; and failure to comply with local zoning regulations.” 8-30g proposals are rarely denied by planning and zoning officials because the burden of proof on appeal is on the town. Appeals are costly, but a municipality can be successful in a court case if it has sufficiently established that the concerns leading to denial are factual and substantive.

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