A Beef and Beer Dinner Dance fundraiser will be held 7-11 p.m. Oct. 16 to celebrate Riding High Farm’s 30th year of service in Allentown as a not-for-profit therapeutic horseback riding facility for individuals with disabilities. The event will be held at the Ancient Order of the Hibernians, 2419 Kuser Road, Hamilton.

YELLOW SPRINGS – Carolyn Bailey smiles at the memory of Louise Soelberg. Now 50, Bailey was in her early 20s and Soelberg’s heir apparent as director of Yellow Springs’ Riding Centre the day Bailey left a gate unlatched.

Kidney coverage, horseback helmets and human smuggling are addressed in new laws.

Twenty-eight new laws will take effect in Florida on Thursday. Among the laws will be: new rules for human smuggling, cracking down on the sale of stolen gold jewelry and new rules for children wearing helmets while horseback riding. One new law bears the name of a special South Florida basketball player, the Alonzo Mourning Access to Care Act.

MENDHAM – Greg Barna has ridden horseback through Spanish olive groves, he has glided on snowmobiles along snowcapped mountains in Iceland, followed sled dogs in Quebec and zipped along on a zip line in a volcano in Maui.

Youngsters 5 to 17 who have never experienced riding a horse are being given an opportunity to saddle up. The Kiwanis Club of Calistoga is inviting young Calistogans to apply for three horseback-riding lessons at Diamond Mountain Stables in Calistoga — and the Kiwanis Club will pick up the tab.

Wildomar has a logo, now for a slogan. A city-approved logo for the new municipality depicts three people on horseback riding through a meadow with a ranch house and hills in the distance, a sunrise and a large “W” in the center. There are 25 small stars on the outer rim of the round logo above a banner that includes the year Wildomar was established — 1886 — and the year it became a city …

The Ride-A-Thon is a major fund-raiser for Rolling Ridge, where special needs children receive therapy on horseback

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. The Franklin County 4-H Therapeutic Riding Center has offered horseback riding lessons to children with autism for more than a year.

The 17th Annual Ride-A-Thon, coming up on October 10, will benefit SIRE, a nonprofit therapeutic horseback riding program that uses the spirit and movement of the horse to help people with disabilities stay active.