Pathway leads to new opportunities at Haven Horse Ranch

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SIFE and volunteers from Lowe’s and the St. Johns Juvenile Correctional Facility work to build a pathway at the Haven Horse Ranch in St. Augustine, Fl.

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (04/30/2012)(readMedia)-- Flagler College's Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) recently partnered with Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation to build a brick pathway to help handicapped riders at the Haven Horse Ranch in St. Augustine, Fl.

The pathway, constructed by SIFE and volunteers from Lowe's and the St. Johns Juvenile Correctional Facility, will enable handicapped riders to go directly from the uneven dirt parking lot to the barn. The project will also increase the scope of therapy lessons by allowing these riders to help groom and saddle their horses.

Working with experienced Lowe's volunteers, the young men from the St. Johns Juvenile Correctional Facility learned everything from how to level the ground to figuring out the brick pattern to actually laying brick, which should aid the job prospects of the residents of the St. Johns Juvenile Correctional Facility while also increasing the quality of life for the handicapped riders at the Haven Horse Ranch.

The Haven Horse Ranch is a non-profit therapeutic riding center that works with those who suffer from physical and mental disabilities.

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Flagler College is an independent, four-year, comprehensive baccalaureate college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 24 majors, 29 minors and two pre-professional programs, the largest majors being business, education and communication. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review regularly feature Flagler as a college that offers quality education at a relatively low cost; tuition is $22,500, including room and board. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for the historic beauty of its campus. The main building is Ponce de Leon Hall, built in 1887 as a luxury resort by Henry Flagler, who co-founded the Standard Oil Company with John D. Rockefeller. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.

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