{"id":2495,"date":"2022-11-10T06:37:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/?page_id=2495"},"modified":"2022-11-10T06:45:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:45:18","slug":"board-members-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/board-members-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Members – 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Christine Steendam, President
<\/i><\/b>Christine got bit by the horse bug when she was 11 years old–although, bit by a certain naughty grey pony is probably closer to reality. Since then, her life has revolved around horses, but it wasn\u2019t until 2019 that her addiction to endurance riding began. When Christine isn\u2019t riding her own horses, she\u2019s probably riding someone else\u2019s, and there\u2019s no place she\u2019d rather be than spending hours in the saddle. She is honoured to serve as a board member and looks forward to continuing her education and development in the sport of endurance.
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Andy Dunlop, Vice President


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Wendy Nagtegaal,<\/b>\u00a0Treasurer
<\/b><\/em>Wendy\u2019s love of horses began when she was about 8 years old.\u00a0 She, along with her best friend Rhea, begged the camp director to take the camp children to Falcon Lake riding stables.\u00a0 It helped that the director was Rhea\u2019s uncle and so they all went.\u00a0 Wendy picked for herself a beautiful chestnut (yes chestnut) mare and proceeded to experience her first time on a horse.\u00a0 All the boys were asking to go faster and Wendy said \u201cnot yet! not yet!\u201d but her quiet voice was not heard and they went faster.\u00a0 Well that 8 year old girl soon forgot her fears and was part of the group asking to go faster after that. From that moment on horses became her passion.\u00a0 Little did she know at that time that 23 years later she would own her own horses and approx 15 years after that riding endurance.\u00a0 There is still a part of that girl that still says \u201cnot yet \u201c but encouraged on by her daughter, Christine Steendam, Wendy is enjoying the training and sport of Endurance riding very much! Wendy semi-retired in spring of 2020 from bookkeeping and currently enjoys more time with her family, riding, gardening and taking on new projects on her acreage.\u00a0


Tricia Mason, Secretary<\/em><\/b><\/p>

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Carrie Schellenberg Wilson,\u00a0Member at Large
<\/i><\/b>Carrie picked up the horse habit in 2012 when the neighbour girl asked to borrow pasture for her horses. Since then, Carrie has come to own two happy Icelandics and enjoys riding as often as she can. After researching and talking to other Endurance riders, she successfully completed several rides in 2017. Carrie is very pleased to be part of the DRM board this year. She looks forward to many more miles down the trail with her new friends, four-legged and two-legged.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christine Steendam, PresidentChristine got bit by the horse bug when she was 11 years old–although, bit by a certain naughty grey pony is probably closer to reality. Since then, her life has revolved around horses, but it wasn\u2019t until 2019 that her addiction to endurance riding began. When Christine isn\u2019t riding her own horses, she\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2495","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2495\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.distanceridersofmanitoba.ca\/DRM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}