This summer we added four field trips for kids through Parks & Rec and we serve as their bus shelter if a storm comes up while they are at Silver Lake for other programming.

I am very sorry to learn that a potential participant could not get through to ride at Rainbow. Both NVTRP and Rainbow… as well as Spirit, LTRP, Lift Me Up! and many others work hard to serve the same population. Please accept my sincere apologies for that experience.

We have five active duty service personnel riding at Rainbow in our inaugural program that began in April. We are very proud of this program and our participants enjoy their time with us immensely!

NVTRP has had a full-time Executive Director for about ten years. We have had a full time ED for five years. We are growing our staff and working hard to provide better administrative services. You can call my cell phone, 571-332-2587 any time if you have trouble reaching someone through our phone line. We don’t have an office yet, the phone messages are answered by a part-time admin.

I am committed to providing our services to the community and welcome suggestions on how we can do better!

Sincerely,

Debi Alexander
Executive Director

Crazy!

http://www.spiritequestrian.org/

I guess if you call it competition, yes. They are both, to my understanding, non profits. They both provide services to the same community of people - disabled children and adults of Northern Virginia. I never got a chance to know the Rainbow people. I have seen them actively raise money and court volunteers in PWC, but as I said, I didn’t get that same level of enthusiasm in getting a call back when it came to actually getting a slot in the program. Forgive me, but I still a bit angry about that. But I have been very pleased with our experience at NVTRP.

And the subsidized food program is not only federal. Ask Kermit Dance if the $83,000 of free food he wants to give to “anyone” this summer is federally financed food.

Not to mention that School Board member Kermit Dance supported giving out $83,000 of “free food” this summer to “anyone, not just students.”

Not to mention that over 50% of the student enrollment is now Hispanic.

The Manassas City School system has been turned into a bi-lingual welfare program.

Along with jobs and low-cost housing, free education and free food are magnets for illegal aliens…who create various other costs of which we are aware, e.g. social services, medical services, transportation services, criminal services, court costs, translators/interpreters for those in the criminal system and health system, more free food, etc. … and foot soldiers for the gangs in the City, which now include the ‘BLoods’ and ‘Crips.’

Hylton center? The candy factory?

Is Rainbow in direct competition with any other privately owned facility or organization that is or could provide these services? My sense from Anonymous’s response is that, yes, it is in direct competition with the non-profit NVTRP -in Fairfax.

Citizens don’t know it, but when they protest anything that requires construction they are really arguing about taking money out of someone ’s pocket (who wants to do that construction).

Follow the money.

Sounds to me this is a waste of taxpayer funding.

Did they add the cost of additional police and ambulance services once the trail is opened and it creates more victims than beneficiaries?

Seems Harrover will invite Charles Manson to the ribbon cutting ceremony.

Note to Manassas City Council RINO’s - Your libtard do-gooder underpants are on full display for everyone to see.

“The danger isn’t going too far. It’s that we don’t go far enough.”

The danger of too much garbage?
hmmm?

Might be time for a better slogan?

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http://www.nvtrp.org/

Some facts about Rainbow Riding:

They use taxpayer-owned facilities at Silver Lake for free (no rent) and serve only a tiny fraction of County residents.

Better, more extensive services and facilities are located nearby to serve special needs children and veterans who benefit from therapeutic riding.

Rainbow Riding has $700,000 cash in its coffers now that it can use for paving its parking lot or whatever needs it has.

Prince William County can’t afford such expenses now. The money is needed for teachers, firefighters, police, etc. - people and services that benefit the entire County rather than just a tiny fraction of our population.

Taxpayers are hurting and would be better served by a lower tax rate.

This money is just a boondoggle to benefit an organization run by the wife of a supervisor who has never placed fiscal conservatism as a high priority.

I hope the Board votes down this frivolous spending, as well as the Wartime Museum. Recall that the Wartime Museum claimed in October of 2010 when the Board approved it that they would not require taxpayer support, and that they had $2 million in donations ready to come in pending Board approval. Seems both claims were false. The Board should stop throwing good money after bad now.