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Hollywood! Greg James, Hollywood producer, has created a ten-minute documentary www.sweetadelinethemovie.com to promote our famous Healing Horses, beginning with Magical Mac and focusing on Sere and Sweet Adeline, and is screening for hand-picked professionals to help create a full-fledged film and TV series.
Roses Award! Roses to Sweet Adeline, who is home and convalescing. She would benefit from holistic therapies. Please volunteer! She would benefit from a better space within the barn! Please help!
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Scroll down to read the complete story of the damage done by tornado Nov.10, 2002

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In the afternoon of Sunday, November 10, 2002, Dr. Michele Davis' farm in Union County in York Center, Ohio, was struck twice by a triple tornado system. Two of her ten healing horses lost their lives, three others are injured, and all are traumatized, as are the dogs and cats who survived. The lives of thirteen people, who were there attending the monthly Wellness Service, were spared. Her barns and stables are destroyed, her house damaged beyond repair, her truck battered beyond use. Dr. Davis was not there. Michele, Alexandra Makris and Elaine Godfrey were on the road returning from a speaking engagement in Michigan where Michele's message of hope and healing was eagerly received. Many people there told them they were looking forward to the day they could bring their horses to Serendipity Stables to interact with Michele's healing horses with the intention of duplicating the healing and therapy work at their farms via their own horses.

When they arrived at the farm, unaware of the disaster, the sight and reality of the devastation was overwhelming. By the car's headlights they saw, through the rain and darkness, twisted metal everywhere; cars overturned, shattered and scattered. The house was stripped of parts of the roof and siding-windows smashed. The barns were total rubble. It was a miracle that everyone in the back rooms of the new barn survived. The outer walls of the rooms they took refuge in had been blown apart.

The bodies of two elder geldings, dear Yankee and Parker had been found. Yankee was killed by the funnel and Parker by a barn beam. People were searching the fields with flash lights for two missing horses (found the next day two fields away). Sere, the elder mare, was one of them. She suffered a deep wound and is still in pain. One other horse, found under a beam, has a cut on her leg and another horse cut an artery on the way to their temporary stables at a farm fifteen miles away. It was fortunate that a single stable was found to keep this family of horses together, but the additional expenses incurred will surmount until Serendipity is rebuilt.

Michele and her daughter, Ashley, have been taken in by neighbors. The cats and dogs have been separated and taken to foster homes. Other neighbors and friends and strangers are helping in so many ways-with cleanup labor, money, food, medical supplies for the animals. Michele intends to rebuild Serendipity Stables from the ground up and continue the spiritually imbued healing ministry that was thriving there. However, insurance is grossly inadequate, as are relief funds and donations to this point, for the reconstruction and daily maintenance of what took years to build. Michele's time away from work and the interruption of healing sessions with the horses is creating a huge deficit in income for her and Ashley's and the horses' sustenance.

It was felt necessary that you be apprized of the situation. Prayers and any other extension of your good will and generosity would be most appreciated.