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OETRA slates clinic, plus poker run next month.
Oklahoma Equestrian Trail Riders Association Inc. (OETRA) will host a clinic on GPS 101 and Horse Camping 101 on Saturday, Oct. 12, at Bell Cow Lake Equestrian Camp in Chandler. On Sunday, Oct. 13, an equestrian poker run will be held for participants who have their own horses to practice using their GPS on the trail. The clinic will be held rain or shine.
Instructors will be available to assist participants in learning how to use a handheld GPS unit for the morning session. The afternoon session will cover what to take on the trail, trail riding etiquette, what to expect on an organized ride, how to condition the horse for trail riding and safety skills. Attendees will learn how to use portable corral panels, electric fence pens and picket lines to safely contain their horses. Former OETRA Presidents, Milt Alexander and David Smith, are the instructors.
On Sunday morning, OETRA will sponsor a poker run using the GPS, beginning at 9 a.m. The GPS will be used to locate the various check points on the trail. For those who don't have a GPS, OETRA will team them with someone who does. Prizes will be awarded for the winning hands.
Clinic fees are $25 per person for OETRA members and $35 for non-members. Registration is 8:30-9 a.m. The classroom portion of the GPS 101 clinic starts promptly at 9 a.m. at the Equestrian Camp pavilion. At noon, clinic participants will what elements should be in their saddle bags, then at 1 p.m., Horse Camping 101 will continue the clinic and will conclude at 3 p.m. After 3 p.m., participants can have one on one time with the instructors. Dinner will be served at 5:30 for participants. Lunch and dinner are provided in the costs. Camping and trail fees are not included and are payable to the City of Chandler who operates the park.
For those not familiar with OETRA, this group has donated more than $20,000 in funds across the state in the last four years at several horse camps and trails. OETRA was established in 1974 as the state's trail riding association with the goal of promoting good stewardship towards Oklahoma's trail system.
OETRA members worked to put the horse campground in at Robbers Cave 39 years ago and also planned, cut and marked the horse trail system. Today, OETRA hosts a work week at Robbers Cave State Park each spring and volunteers bring their horses and work by horse back and also on foot to maintain the trails and clean up the camp. OETRA also hosts workdays at other horse trail systems.
OETRA membership is based on the calendar year. The cost is $20 for individuals and $25 for families. Those who join after September 1, membership will be good through December 2014. Members receive a monthly newsletter full of upcoming rides and ride reviews and yearly membership directory.


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He lost two important women in his life to ovarian cancer.
First, his mother: She died in 1942, when he was only 14 years old. She was 42.
Sixty-four years later, in 2006, his daughter, Michelle, died, also at age 42.
Jack Kendrick was by the side of both women when they died.
"It was pretty devastating," he said. "I was thinking a year ago, 'Maybe there's something I could do.'"
Now, what can an 85-year-old retired junior high school teacher possibly do to cure ovarian cancer?
Well, he's taking a hike.
He's training to spend several weeks backpacking the Pacific Crest Trail in the Cascade Mountains in late July. A buddy from college (University of Washington, Class of '62) is going with him all the way. A son is joining them on the first leg starting at Goat Rocks Wilderness and hiking north.
Kendrick figures they can do 10 miles a day.
"My goal is to do at least 100 miles," he said. "I'm in pretty good shape for my age. I've been blessed with a good body."
And a good mind. "I have this philosophy. I tell people: 'Old age is like freezing to death. If you keep moving it doesn't happen as fast,'" he said.
"Maybe I'll do 200 miles."
Kendrick taught biology in Shoreline and has lived in north Edmonds for 60 years. His two sons, Michael and David, live in Snohomish County and a daughter, Cindy, lives in Burien.
Daughter Michelle was an English professor at Washington State University in Vancouver. That's why he approached Ovarian Cancer Alliance of Oregon &SW Washington with his "Hiking for Michelle" campaign.
"She was a very popular professor," said Diane Rader O'Connor, president of the cancer nonprofit based in Vancouver. "She was beautiful and talented. She had everything going for her."
It wasn't enough to defend her from what O'Connor terms "the deadliest of the gynecologic cancers."
"Ovarian cancer is typically not found until later stages," she said, "because it is difficult to diagnose and there is no screening test."
Kendrick said after Michelle's diagnosis she learned she carried the gene that sharply increases the chances of ovarian cancer. He suspects his mother, Grace, also had the gene defect.
He hopes his hike will somehow help future victims.
"Hiking for Michelle" has already raised about $4,000 in pledges and the hike is still six weeks away.
"When I started out I thought maybe $3,000," he said, "but it is going so well maybe double that."
Kendrick has stayed busy since leaving the classroom in 1990. "If I sit around watching television I get logy," he said. "I ran five marathons after I retired."
In 1996, he went with Michelle to run the Boston Marathon. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2001.
"It was a repeat of what had happened to my mother," he said. "My daughter slowly wasted away. I was there when she died. She died at home."
Kendrick credits his mom with sparking his adventurous spirit as a teen. "After my mother died, I was devastated for three years," he said. "I got into reading true adventure stories as an escape. That sort of set me up for the rest of my life. I was always looking for adventure.
"A high school friend and I got involved in The Mountaineers. That probably saved my life. I had a peer group. There was no smoking or drinking. It was all about keeping in shape."
His genius wasn't always tempered with wisdom. When he was 21, he and a friend paddled a canoe from Washington to Alaska — and lived to tell about it.
"We were gone two months. We did not have a brain in our heads but we had lots of muscle," he said.
Andrea Brown; 425-339-3443; email@example.com
For more information about the Jack Kendrick and his hike, go to www.ovariancancerosw.org/donateMichelle.php or www.hikingformichelle.com.

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About Me
Tech enthusiast, lover of *nix systems, likes Free/Libre & Open Source Software, novice programmer & web developer, information security analyst wannabe from Myanmar(Burma).
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Co-curator of Fedora.my and AppRepo.
Currently "leading" the APU FOSS Special Interest Group.
I'm a Fedora Ambassador for Malaysia/Myanmar (Got approved/sponsored on Fedora Ambassadors Welcome Week 18/2012)
What I've done so far
- Organized/Planned FADKL Jan 2012 - (NOTE: event report at Event Report: FADKL January 2012)
- Helped out Fedora Malaysian Team with Malaysia APAC FUDCon 2012 Bidding to get the bidding.
- Assistant coordinator of FUDCon Kuala Lumpur 2012
What I'm currently doing
- Helping Izhar @ KageSenshi with AppRepo by adding contents (Note: have stalled abit for now, should generate more ideas)