Pasco Sherriff"s Mounted Posse to Give Check for $19,000 to Gulfside Regional Hospice

Online, May 5, 2012 (Newswire.com) - The Pasco Sheriff's Mounted Posse will present staff from Gulfside Regional Hospice a check for $19,000 from the Ride for Hospice on May 7 at 9 a.m.

The presentation will take place at the Pasco Sheriff's Administration Office, located at 8700 Citizen Drive in New Port Richey. Scheduled to attend is Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco.

Gulfside Regional Hospice and Pasco Sheriff's Mounted Posse will also celebrate the end of the Ride for Hospice on May 5 at 11 a.m. at the Gulfside Center for Hospice Care in Zephyrhills (5760 Dean Dairy Road). Lunch will be served and patients and families staying at the Gulfside Center will have the chance to meet some of the Posse's horses.

The money raised is from the Ride for Hospice, held on March 31. The Ride for Hospice is a three-hour horse trail ride through Diamond B Ranch and adjoining ranches in Dade City. Other activities at this event included wagon rides, music, horseshoe competition and children's games.

Sponsors for the Ride for Hospice included:

•Mare - Sonny's Real Pit Bar-B-Que
•Colt - The Hook Law Group, MedFleet Ambulance, Norm & Sons Tire and Auto, O2 Solutions, Pasco Sheriff's Charities, Inc
•Filly - Bay Area Environmental Services, Blue Skies Equine Services, Inc., CF Industries, Farmers Feed Depot, Firehouse Subs and Oakley Realty, LLC
•Foal - Martin's Larsen Farms, Matt's Certified Tree Care and Surgi-Care Center for Horses
•Pony - AC Plumbing, Albright Services, Bauer & Associates Insurance, Business Decisions, Cornerstone Financial Planners, Dade City Animal Clinic, IERNA's Heating and Cooling, Jim Crandell Car, Truck & RV Sales, Land Merchants Property Management and Thomason Creative
•In-Kind Sponsors - Catch of the Day Band, Cold Iron, Design Candy, Diamond B Ranch, Jack Melton Family, Inc., Little Peoples Christian Day Care, Seminole Feed, Steve Melton's Agricultural Museum, Tommie Turvey's Amazing Horses, Two Rivers Ranch and Wooten's Well Drilling & Septic

The Pasco Sheriff's Mounted Posse has been serving the citizens of Pasco County since 1995. All Posse members must pass and maintain several qualification standards to enable horse and rider to safely work in close contact with the public. The Pasco Sheriff's Mounted Unit (comprised of sworn deputies) and the Pasco County Sheriff's Mounted Posse (comprised of civilian volunteers) are part of the Citizen Support Services (CSS) section of the Pasco Sheriff's Office. For more information, call 813-220-8459 or visit http://www.pascoposse.com.

Gulfside Regional Hospice, established as a nonprofit corporation in Pasco County in 1988 and initially licensed in 1989, serves more than 300 patients daily. GRH employs over 250 professionals and has more than 550 volunteers, and is the only hospice that serves Pasco County exclusively. For more information about Gulfside Regional Hospice, call 813-780-1235 or visit http://www.grhospice.org.

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