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Helping Out

Quarter Horse Outfitters, the official AQHA store, donates 400 hoodies and T-shirts to Colorado fire victims.

By Christine Hamilton
The American Quarter Horse Journal
July 13, 2012

Ford Youth World 2012 T-shirt

An official AQHA truck delivered the boxes of hoodies and T-shirts July 11 to ProNews7, which then sent them on to its sister station, Fox 21 News, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Journal photo)

What do you do with 400 misprinted top-quality hoodies and T-shirts shipped in for the 2012 Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show? That’s what Haley Hotchkiss, manager of Quarter Horse Outfitters Internet and inventory, was wondering the first week in July.

Then she heard that Amarillo’s ABC News affiliate, ProNews 7, was seeking donations for Colorado fire victims. After a quick call to the station, she found the clothing would be very welcome, though food was a priority. No strangers to drought-driven grassland wildfires, helping out fire victims strikes home with people from the Texas Panhandle.

An official AQHA truck delivered the boxes of hoodies and T-shirts July 11 to ProNews7, which then sent them on to its sister station, Fox 21 News, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
            
“We couldn’t think of a better way for them to be used,” Hotchkiss said.