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Cailyn Gallerani, left, takes part in the Pace for a Purpose. She won best costume. R. Jakowski photo.
Pace raises funds
POMFRET --- The recent annual Pace for a Purpose fund-raiser put the event's three-year total at $15,000.
Amy Jakowski said this year "We raised as much as the first two years combined and our goal next year is to match our three-year total of $15,000
The 8-mile cross country course with 38 optional fences raises money to benefit the local community. The money stays local, she said.
Tyrone Farm held the 29th annual Pomfret Hunter Pace and sponsors the Pace for a Purpose as an auxiliary event. The event supports Pace for a Purpose and the DKH Deary Memorial Fund.
New this year were fence sponsors and Jakowski said Cailyn Gallerani of Pomfret was instrumental in getting the 2013 fence sponsorships off the ground.
Jakowski said that $975 in donations were collected from the sales of door prize gifts and that will be given to the cancer fund in memory of Marie Sherman. She lost her battle to cancer this year. Marie was a familiar face at
the Putnam Farmers Co-Op. She supported many of our local equestrian events.
Jakowski said she retired in 2009 after 30 years in pharmaceutical research. "I decided I wanted to to start an equestrian fund raising event, where all the funds would go directly to benefit the local community. I met with Peter and Gene Deary. It is their passion for helping people and remembering those they lost that makes you compassionate and want to help too. "
She added that Helen Scanlon, equestrian artist and author, from Hampton has donated her talents to provide portrait of your horse and a copy of her book, My, Horse, My Heart as door prizes. Her business name is Sound the Bugle Studio