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Helping Equines Regain Dignity, or HERD based in Tryon, North Carolina, is thankful for the success.
The nonprofit, founded by Heather Freeman and her husband Scott Homstead in 2016, relies on donations and grants to save horses from slaughter, restore them to health, and send them on to new beginnings. This year, with COVID, I thought we were going to have a very difficult time getting any funds raised or any horses adopted, but we ended up finding homes for 40 horses, Freeman said.
In the four years HERD has been in existence, the group has saved hundreds of horses bought at auction to be sent to slaughter for their meat in Mexico and Canada.
Growth Pummels North and South Carolina
by Leon Kolankiewicz
I have had the good fortune to experience the charms of both the Tar Heel State and the Palmetto State. For those Westerners who may never have ventured east of the Mississippi River, I m referring to North Carolina and South Carolina.
In the former, I have backpacked the Appalachian Trail from Newfound Gap in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. I have stood atop Mt. Mitchell the very rooftop of the Smokies and at 6,684 ft., the highest point in all of eastern North America, Canada included. My son worked as an avionics engineer with the U.S. Navy at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, NC, working on the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey, and I have often visited him at his place in New Bern on the banks of the tidal lower Neuse River where its mouth opens wide into Pamlico Sound.
John Gossett grew up in a small farmhouse on Shiloh Church Road bordering the Camp Croft World War II training site, where his dad was an engineer and mom was a post command driver.
At 83, the retired Army colonel still recalls vividly as a child watching from his bedroom window where many of the estimated 250,000 soldiers who trained there during World War II used live artillery fire. That hill there and all the way back to Pauline was maneuver areas, where troops moved and ran tactics, he said, pointing past the fence line that contains his cattle. Course, we haven t had any worry about it. Soon as the war was over, we went right back (to) farming.