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Show x Have pony... will travel' The perfect pony for summer parties i H . 11 - 'rimJ J f 1 By PATRICK MITCHELL Looking for a unique way to entertain the neighborhood kids at your child's next birthday party? If so, don't horse around. Call Pony Haven. "Have pony, will travel are the words on the side of the half-ton pickup truck that hauls the "Party Pony' to more than 500 birthday I parties every summer in Davis County. i And although the company is heading into the busy season, there are 22 ponies to accommodate your partying needs, and if you call early, ear-ly, you're virtually assured of reserving reser-ving one of the hoofed mammals, saddled, bridled, and ready to ride. Here's how it works: you phone Diane Dimeo at Pony Haven and she brings a pony to your party for a fee of $45 to $50. The Party Pony stays at your place for about three hours. During that time, the neighborhood kids clamor onto the friendly pony's back, you take pictures, pic-tures, and the kids go home saying they got to ride a pony at Susie's party. And the kids can feed the pony j too. "The ponies like ice-cream, cake, hot dogs, water melon and carrots. They'll eat just about anything," Dimeo says. The ponies are popular from Ogden to Salt Lake City, says Dimeo. "We do birthday parties, school carnivals, church carnivals, family reunions, and parties for elderly eld-erly people. "We had a riding academy at first, when we started out, but when ! the subdivisions grew around us there was no place to ride any more. 1 So we decided to utilize the ponies in a different way,' ' she said. The business is located at 680 West Pages Lane in Bountiful, where ponies have been roaming the range at the Dimeo place for 25 years. - , - 'ST -i- J t - i - i . if','- (Clipper photos by Patrick Mitchell) Andy the party animal Diane Dimeo leads Andy The Party Pony to a back yard in Farm-ington Farm-ington where a birthday party will soon be in session. The pony is led around the house and over a wooden bridge where the party-goers party-goers -- young children -- can sit on Andy's back, feed him cake, ice cream and carrots, and pet his mane. In three hours, Diane Dimeo will come to take Andy The Party Pony Home to his pasture on Pages Lane in Bountiful. |
