The board members and instructors of the Mount View Special Riding Association share your

heightened feelings of concern and uncertainty around COVID-19. We are respectful of the

present cautions and measures our government and the community in general are taking in our

collective effort to stem the tide of COVID-19. We are also getting and heeding guidance from

our certifying body, the Canadian Therapeutic Riding Association (CanTRA). CanTRA has

indicated that all therapeutic riding programming in Canada should be suspended until at least

April 6, 2020.

We remain committed to our program, volunteers, our riders and their families but do have to

grapple with the realities facing us all.

We also feel it important to position ourselves for some “normalcy” as we get beyond this

crisis. We hope circumstances will have changed enough to enable our spring session to

proceed as planned, commencing our Monday sessions on May 4, 2020, the Tuesday sessions

on May 5, 2020. We are accordingly proceeding with registration and are reminding members

that registration and payment is due Thursday April 2, 2020. We have arrangements in place

(noted elsewhere on the website) to enable online registration and payment of fees. We of

course remain positioned to postpone programming should that be required.

We’ve increased our protocols in sanitizing surfaces, will continue the excellent practice of

“social-distancing” to the extent possible and will alter how we provide and deliver our snacks

once our program resumes.

We will continue to closely monitor the changing situation, and will of course comply with

public health guidance as it is offered. We will keep riders, their supports and volunteers posted

and will of course refund registration fees should that be necessary.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation and, with all of us working together and

supporting one another, will get through this. We look so forward to seeing you all once again.