“My father bought me a pony.”

This amazing gift started Lorraine on a lifelong love of animals, especially horses, which she continues today. She was born in Westlake, and raised by her fireman father and mother, who moved to Columbia station to have land for their animals.

Her father promised that when the time was right, he would get her a pony, and when she was 8 he did just that. She learned to both ride and care for horses.

Told she could do whatever she wanted, Lorraine started school in Colorado and worked for an oil company, but missed her family and moved back to Ohio, where she finished her degree at Baldwin Wallace in geology and chemistry.

She tried her hand at lots of things, from growing and selling vegetables to area restaurants, to owning a restaurant herself. However, this was not the life she wanted. She always wanted to introduce kids to ponies, as her father had done for her. She wanted to help rescue the ponies she and her father saw at auctions.

She knew she couldn’t help them all, but she could help some. Lorraine and Bill purchased the property now known as Pony Tales Farm and Rescue in Columbia station , and began to offer pony rides and pony camps and lessons, where children from 2-12 can experience the fun of ponies…even if their parents don’t buy one for them. Both children and adults love to visit the goats, bunnies and chickens at the farm.

Lorraine says she is delighted that while he is helping the ponies, they are helping children possible fueling their dreams while teaching them responsibility and animal care.

For the future, she wants to keep going as long as she can, and be remembered as someone who helped children and animals.

Her advice to the younger set, have a goal and go for it. You never know what you might achieve.