The Clackamas print., May 01, 1996, Page 6, Image 6

News/Feature
The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, May 1,1996
Photos by Paul Ulmen
Page Design by Amy Ku’uipo Hanson
(Right)
Members of
the Clackamas
Chamber
Choir play
basketball
against
members from
ITS on
donkeys as a
fundraiser for
their trip to
Estonia.
Chamber Choir
sponsors Donkey
Basketball
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Paul Ulmen
Photo Editor
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donkeybasketball.
The CCC Chamber Singers
teamed up Tuesday evening for a
game of Donkey Basketball,
against Clackamas members from
ITS (Information Technology Ser­
vices).
The Rebels Without a Clue
(ITS) won game one against the
Donkenators (choir).
The
Roughriders (choir) won out over
the Rebels Without a Clue in gam
two. The champions of game thr/e
were Rebels Without a Clue
Proceeds from the gam^will
benefit the CCC
Chamber
Choir’s trip to
Estonia in Au­
gust of this
year.
Donke y
Basketball is x
played with four
riders on donkeys and one un­
mounted center to relay the ball if
es the downside^k^s=s^ it goes out of bounds. He must
keep one foot inside the center
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Riders must shoot or pass the
balLwhile mounted. If the ball is
dropped^riders must get off their
ear neo-
m marring
ays co-
with
er. Try
donkey
the ball
n be re-
triev , grab the
ith one
r
m
(finally)^emount
while hanging
onto the ball,
nudge
your
mount toward
the basket and
shoot with one
hand.
If you miss,
which is fre­
quent, then the
process is re­
peated all over
again. The don­
key goes one
way as the ball (Above) Choir director Lonnie Cline acts
goes the other. as the official “pooper scooper ™” for the
Some riders are game that night.
certain to be sore after several Aaron Shirely, one of the owners.
spills.
“It takes six months to a year
For those who didn’t know to train a donkey, quite a bit to it.
where the game was, just follow Each one is an individual. They
your nose, since donkeys have sev­ all do their own thing.”
eral accidents(where’s the Pam­
Shirely said he does this from
pers ™?)
November to May. Then from
Choir Director Lonnie Cline May to November he has another
(Left) The
humbled himself to be the desig­ outfit called Icicle Outfitters where
donkey posse
retrieve
the ball
while
nated
“Pooper
Scooper
™, hanging
”
he takes people out on hunting and
riding on
onto
the
reins,
remount
arid gal­ fishing trips in the Cascades.
The
donkeys
were
provided
animals
lop
(how Spprts;'Thc.of Entiat, Whenever he can during summer
by
Donkey
prtMdecfi&
basket. The
Washington.
"V
his doni
“Donkey Base-
Donfey Sports,
prene
sho^s
to keep
“We
raiseSjRour
own ani­ ball.”
Inc., makerp
the floor.
mals,
have about SuMJead,” said
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fast break to
.One
the basket.
game is/under
way, the
on’tal