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 an agricultural journalist and communications instructor based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is a trustee on the Global Foundation for Agricultural Journalism and an associate editor (communications) for the Journal of Agromedicine. Previously, Owen was president of the International Forum for Agricultural Journalists, an agricultural communications faculty member at the University of Illinois, and research communications director at the University of Guelph. His programs and research papers have been recognized through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence and the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation.