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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.
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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?
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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.
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