Story provided by Turning Point Ranch
Baxter, Turning Point’s mini therapy horse, went back to school in a Big Way on March 8, 2022. He took books to EVERY First Grader at Sangre, Westwood, Richmond and Skyline. That’s 14 classroom and 4 libraries!
The First Book distribution is a partnership between Turning Point Ranch and Pi Beta Phi sorority at OSU who wrote a grant together to buy hundreds of books. Then they raised a little extra to give a book to every child plus a bundle to each school Library.
Baxter also gave each class a copy of his favorite book: Little Black, A Pony. He had a little trouble turning loose of that book in Mrs. Billman’s class at Richmond.
Baxter is BB at the OSU football games when he’s not working at schools, the Life Center, Wings of Hope or other sites in his job as a therapy horse. So he also gave each class his 2022 Calendar with his picture on every month,
And there was a surprise at Sangre when he was so “hungry” for knowledge that he ate a worksheet right off the wall. Really!! A horse ate my homework?
And how does a mini black horse and hundreds of books get to school?
In a mini van, of course! He usually rides in the back seat of a black pickup truck with “BB’s Ride” vanity plates. But prefers either to riding in a horse trailer.
