It looks like Arkell, Ontario (a village just outside Guelph) will not be home to the 2015 Pan Am Games' equine events, after all. But nonetheless, a Guelph-area group working towards creating an Ontario Equine Centre is moving ahead with plans to create a state-of-the-art research, education and training facility there. The website called The Horse.com has a news release from the group, talking about its plans to go forward. I'm hoping the creation of this facility will further accelerate the growing field of equine communications and journalism, which is gaining momentum through Equine Guelph's education programs.
OWEN ROBERTS
Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.