Mini wrangler, facilities helper, auction procurer and general all-around energetic assistant, describe SAFE’s April Volunteer of the Month Candi Kintzley.

Candi lives in North Bend with her husband Kerry, a sergeant with the Washington State Patrol, and their four dogs. The couple have identical 21-year-old twin sons.

“I have always had a love for horses since the first time my aunt Jackie put me on the back of her horse Luke when I was only two,” Candi says. “I used to have a Saddlebred and rode saddle seat in the Southwest Circuit in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.  When we moved back here, we couldn’t bring my horse and I missed it terribly.”

Candi first got involved with SAFE alongside her aunt and joined up as a regular volunteer about a year ago. “At SAFE, I am a part of the auction procurement team, the facilities team, I help record at the auction and I am co-mini wrangler with Jackie for all of Sunny D and Shasta’s outreach visits. I fill in on chores and was the official pooper-scooper for the Joel Conner Clinic. I am a ‘get ‘er done’ kind of gal. Give me a project, assign me a task and I will make sure it gets done. I am so excited to be tackling the greenhouse, aka ‘Jeanne’s Place’ so Jeanne, SAFE’s facilities manager, can have it for her facilities headquarters.”

Candi says she is in awe of SAFE, “the dedication of its volunteers, the compassion, success stories and overall commitment to making life better for the horses that have suffered such injustice. An added bonus is that I get to spend more time with my BFF/Aunt Jackie! We are the ‘can do’ team.”

When not volunteering at SAFE, Candi is a photographer, specializing in real estate photography, and runs her own marketing company.