Karen Griffiths

After a divorce left Kyla Maupin-Carver

When you help a family, you make a community stronger — please donate to the Peninsula Home Fund

EDITOR'S NOTE: For 26 years, Peninsula Daily News readers in Jefferson and Clallam counties have supported the “hand up, not a handout” Peninsula Home Fund.… Continue reading

After a divorce left Kyla Maupin-Carver
After a divorce left Kyla Maupin-Carver

When you help a family, you make a community stronger — please donate to the Peninsula Home Fund

EDITOR'S NOTE: For 26 years, Peninsula Daily News readers in Jefferson and Clallam counties have supported the “hand up, not a handout” Peninsula Home Fund.… Continue reading

After a divorce left Kyla Maupin-Carver
After a divorce left Kyla Maupin-Carver

‘A hand up, not a handout’ — Peninsula Home Fund donors’ generosity lightens a family’s future

EDITOR'S NOTE: For 26 years, Peninsula Daily News readers in Jefferson and Clallam counties have supported the “hand up, not a handout” Peninsula Home Fund.… Continue reading

After a divorce left Kyla Maupin-Carver
After a divorce left Kyla Maupin-Carver

NEW – Peninsula Home Fund donors’ generosity lightens a family’s future

EDITOR'S NOTE: For 26 years, Peninsula Daily News readers in Jefferson and Clallam counties have supported the “hand up, not a handout” Peninsula Home Fund.… Continue reading

After a divorce left Kyla Maupin-Carver
Barbara Noble

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ PENINSULA HORSEPLAY: Supplements can help horses with issues

OK, I’VE GOT issues — lots of issues —but that’s another story. My horse, Indy, may have an issue with shivers, an equine neuromuscular syndrome,… Continue reading

Barbara Noble
Sisters Terri Winters

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ PENINSULA HORSEPLAY: Sisters support each other in shows

LISA HOPPER, TERRI Winters and Tina Johnson are sisters by blood, best friends by heart and partners in all things equestrian. Their latest venture was… Continue reading

Sisters Terri Winters
Freedom Farms instructor Jessica Crouch helps Hoof Beats Riding Club members Grace Niemeyer

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ PENINSULA HORSEPLAY: Riding clubs good for horse-loving youths

AS A KID, nothing was better than riding horses. Thus, I’m an unabashed fan of programs supporting our horse-loving youths. Ag-new’s Freedom Farm offers Hoof… Continue reading

Freedom Farms instructor Jessica Crouch helps Hoof Beats Riding Club members Grace Niemeyer
Winning smiles from the North Olympic Peninsula’s senior division performance horse riders are

KAREN GRIFFITH’S PENINSULA HORSEPLAY: DNR looking for input on trails policy

I like to tell folks I live in a puppy, horse and kid paradise in my little neck of the woods under Sequim’s “blue hole.”… Continue reading

Winning smiles from the North Olympic Peninsula’s senior division performance horse riders are
Sara Woodard follows a pack string of mules led by Sol Duc Valley Packers’ Larry Baysinger across the Quinault River. The Baysingers were selected to pack tools

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ PENINSULA HORSEPLAY: Packer service helps with chalet effort

EARLIER THIS MONTH, Olympic National Park officials contracted Sol Duc Valley Packers’ owners Larry and Sherry Baysinger to use their mules to bring in tools,… Continue reading

Sara Woodard follows a pack string of mules led by Sol Duc Valley Packers’ Larry Baysinger across the Quinault River. The Baysingers were selected to pack tools
Clallam Fair 4-H stockseat equitation seniors hoping to win positions at the State Fair in Puyallup were

PENINSULA HORSEPLAY WITH KAREN GRIFFITHS: Summer riding season ends swimmingly

IT’S OVER? ALREADY? I don’t know about you, but I am not ready for summer’s sunny, warm weather to end. For me, the highlight of… Continue reading

Clallam Fair 4-H stockseat equitation seniors hoping to win positions at the State Fair in Puyallup were
Participants in the annual Jefferson County 4-H Horse Project's three-day clinic and horse camp in July learned how to clip coats and band manes for showing

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Faring well at Jefferson fair

WELL DONE, GRASSHOPPER! Like most people 18 years old, graduated senior Anne Meek and younger sister Kaitlyn must dislike thinking of their mother as “master”… Continue reading

Participants in the annual Jefferson County 4-H Horse Project's three-day clinic and horse camp in July learned how to clip coats and band manes for showing
Participants in the annual Jefferson County 4-H Horse Project's three-day clinic and horse camp in July learned how to clip coats and band manes for showing

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Faring well at Jefferson fair

WELL DONE, GRASSHOPPER! Like most people 18 years old, graduated senior Anne Meek and younger sister Kaitlyn must dislike thinking of their mother as “master”… Continue reading

Participants in the annual Jefferson County 4-H Horse Project's three-day clinic and horse camp in July learned how to clip coats and band manes for showing
Participants in the annual Jefferson County 4-H Horse Project's three-day clinic and horse camp in July learned how to clip coats and band manes for showing

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Faring well at Jefferson fair

WELL DONE, GRASSHOPPER! Like most people 18 years old, graduated senior Anne Meek and younger sister Kaitlyn must dislike thinking of their mother as “master”… Continue reading

Participants in the annual Jefferson County 4-H Horse Project's three-day clinic and horse camp in July learned how to clip coats and band manes for showing
High-point pleasure horse winners from the 4-H “Friendzy” show last weekend at the Clallam County Fairgrounds are

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Summer mixes sunshine, pastimes

OH, WHAT GLORIOUS riding weather we're having! I absolutely love this time of year when it's dry, warm and sunny outside. The Peninsula's been bursting… Continue reading

High-point pleasure horse winners from the 4-H “Friendzy” show last weekend at the Clallam County Fairgrounds are
Peninsula Junior Rodeo Association contestants at the Kitsap Junior Rodeo are

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Peninsula Junior Rodeo riders strut stuff

I REMEMBER HIM as a gangly, shy red-haired kid competing in junior rodeo events on a borrowed horse. I never thought the man lying on… Continue reading

Peninsula Junior Rodeo Association contestants at the Kitsap Junior Rodeo are
Del Sage crafted this sign signifying the entrance to his family’s new Layton Hill Horse Camp off Chicken Coop Road in Blyn. This Saturday

PENINSULA HORSE PLAY: New horse, camping spot to open Saturday

WAGONS, HO! IT’S time to hitch up your wagons — or horse trailer — and head over to the Layton Hill Horse Camp for a… Continue reading

Del Sage crafted this sign signifying the entrance to his family’s new Layton Hill Horse Camp off Chicken Coop Road in Blyn. This Saturday
Eyes That Smile and Olympic Peninsula Equine Network volunteers coax three wary and inquisitive feral foals rescued from Yakima out of a trailer to their new temporary home in Port Angeles. In 30 days

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Nonprofit rescues foals from slaughter

ON SUNDAY EVENING, I met with Eyes That Smile board members Valerie Jackson and Diane Royall to see their three newly rescued foals, part of… Continue reading

Eyes That Smile and Olympic Peninsula Equine Network volunteers coax three wary and inquisitive feral foals rescued from Yakima out of a trailer to their new temporary home in Port Angeles. In 30 days
Zoe Thompson successfully plants a flag inside the barrel during Saturday's Patterned Speed Horse Association show at the Quarter Moon Ranch in Carlsborg. Thanks to Grandma Marie Dickinson

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: Spirited run at Carlsborg patterned speed show

IT'S THRILLING TO see young ones taking to the sport of Patterned Speed Horse Association events. During last weekend's show at Waynora Martin's Quarter Moon… Continue reading

Zoe Thompson successfully plants a flag inside the barrel during Saturday's Patterned Speed Horse Association show at the Quarter Moon Ranch in Carlsborg. Thanks to Grandma Marie Dickinson
The Port Angeles High School Equestrian Team appears at the state finals in Lynden. From left are Bailee Palmer

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: State finals produce area champions

VANDALS, THIEVES AND lowlifes struck at least twice this month at the Mount Muller horse camp in Olympic National Forest. When Back Country Horsesmen (BCH)… Continue reading

The Port Angeles High School Equestrian Team appears at the state finals in Lynden. From left are Bailee Palmer
Farrier Brad Erickson draws a grid on a healthy horse's hoof to outline the placement of the external hoof anatomy — frog

KAREN GRIFFITHS’ HORSEPLAY COLUMN: See signs of laminitis before it’s too late

ARE YOU READING the signs? Spring grass can spring forth a serious problem for horses, namely laminitis and its more severe form, founder. I know… Continue reading

Farrier Brad Erickson draws a grid on a healthy horse's hoof to outline the placement of the external hoof anatomy — frog