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Flagler Palm Coast Kiwanis donates $2,000 to Whispering Meadows Ranch

The club also learned about Pop Smoke K-9 which provides trained service dogs to veterans with PTSD and other disorders.

By Observer Staff
| 1:55 p.m. June 29, 2024

Members of Pop Smoke K9, a nonprofit that trains service dogs, spoke about their mission at the Flagler Palm Coast Kiwanis Club meeting on June 26. Courtesy photo

Kristine Aguirre of Whispering Meadows Ranch accepts a $2,000 check from Flagler Palm Coast Kiwanis President Warren Mudd. Courtesy photo

Long-time Flagler Palm Coast Kiwanis member Dr. Maria Barbosa (left) received the President's Legacy Award. Children's books will be donated to Rymfire Elementary School in her honor. Courtesy photo

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The Flagler Palm Coast Kiwanis Club presented Whispering Meadows Ranch with a check for $2,000 to assist with their equine programs benefiting children with disabilities and veterans.

Kristine Aguirre, who operates Whispering Meadows with her parents, spoke to the club at its June 26 meeting. Aguirre provided an update on the progress of the ranch's future home west of Ormond Beach.

Also at the meeting, members of Pop Smoke K9, a nonprofit that trains service dogs, spoke about their mission is to help stop veteran suicides by providing veterans with post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and military sexual trauma with a trained service dogs to help them live a more productive life after the military.

Also, long-time and very active member Dr. Maria Barbosa receivedthe President's Legacy award. Five children's books, with her name printed inside, will be given in her honor to the library at Rymfire Elementary School.