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Family Summerfest & Participant Horse Show

Partners For Progress, NFP will host their Annual Family Summerfest & Participant Horse Show Event on Sunday, August 5, 2012 from 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM at their new facility located at 23525 W. Milton Road in Wauconda, Illinois. This location, the former Fallen Oaks Equestrian Center, is located just southwest of Fairfield Road and Illinois Route 176 (near the Lake County Discovery Museum).

This wonderful, fun-filled day highlights the Participant Horse Show, where the programs’ riders with special needs will be presenting the skills that they have learned over the past year for everyone to see. There will also be games, face painting, live music, GREAT food, and so much more. The best part of this event is that admission is FREE!

Partners For Progress is a Wauconda based 501(c)(3) organization and premier therapeutic riding center that provides equine based therapy to residents in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. Partners For Progress supports about 170 riders per week on their 16 therapeutic horses with interventional therapy for functional gain. Currently, Partners For Progress is achieving a 70% goal achievement success rate with their participants.

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For further information about this event, please call 847-226-1300. We can’t wait to see you there!

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