By Karen Blackledge
The Daily Item
DANVILLE — Most of the donations the Danville Adoption Center receives are for cats and dogs.
But horse enthusiasts Leslie McManus, 14, and Bethany Yerger, 15, met with Donna Alpaugh, who is in charge of horses at the Pennsylvania SPCA center, to determine what was needed.
They used $1,700 in proceeds from a horse show they set up to purchase items for horses at the area SPCA and presented the money to center team leader Shawn Bradley.
"It was awesome how they organized the show," Bradley said of the July 17 show at the Susquehanna Valley Corral, which donated space for the event that attracted 37 horses.
The mid-July event represented the second SPCA benefit horse show.
Leslie, of Limestoneville in Montour County, and Bethany, of Mount Pleasant Mills, in Snyder County, are third cousins who have spent a lot of time with horses at the home of their grandmother, Christine Styring, of Limestoneville.
Bethany has been riding horses since she was 2 and Leslie got into riding four years ago.
"These two entrepreneurial young ladies asked what was needed and then shopped for those items," Bradley said.
"Three of the horses that competed in the show were adopted from here," Bradley said of the adoption center. "That shows you can get a good horse from an animal shelter."
Items donated included booties, veterinary wrap, grooming supplies, buckets, pitch forks and gift cards for veterinary care and farrier services.
Both girls will be in ninth grade this fall — Leslie, at Warrior Run High, and Bethany, at Selinsgrove Area High. Leslie is a daughter of Lisa and Mike McManus and Bethany is a daughter of Jeffrey and Robin Yerger.
The adoption center, which has cared for as many as 13 horses, has four horses in need of homes. They are Ginger, an Appaloosa; Emma, Buckskin Grade; Glory, an elderly Arabian mare suitable as a companion horse; and Colonel, a Tennessee Walker. Ponies and elderly horses are $100 and others are $200. The shelter can be reached at 275-0340.
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