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April 9,1982 Page 11 Spilyay Tymoo Tygh Valley All-Indian Rodeo The date for the Tygh Valley All-Indian rodeo has been set for May 15-16. The annual event is sponsored by the Tywama Saddle Club in Wasco County. The rodeo marks the beginning of the rodeo season for the Western States Indian Rodeo Association (WSIRA). Events for this year’s rodeo will be: (1) saddle bronc with an added purse of $400, entry fee of $30; (2) bareback with an added purse of $350 and entry fee of $30; (3) bull riding with an added purse $350 and entry fee of $30, open to the first 32 bull rider’s—fee paid; (4) Bull dogging, added purse of $300 and entry fee of $30; (5) calf roping with added purse of $300 and entry fee of $30; (6) wild cow milking with added purse of $300 and entry fee of $30; (7) team roping with and added purse of $300 and entry fee of $60 per team, ropers must enter as a team, one go and 2 loops; (8) girls barrel racing with an added purse of $300 and entry fee of $30; and (9) wild horse race with added purse of $ 150 and team entry of $30, limited to 8 entries. There will be no set-ups and no trade-outs for contestants. Buckles will be given-to the winners of each event. The books will open on April 29 and close on May 10. Entries can be mailed to Ginger Johnson, P.O. Box 26, Warm S p r in g s , O re g o n 97761. Telephone entries will be taken at (503) 553-1700 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. during the days the books are open. WSIRA card numbers must be enclosed with the entry fees. No money will be accepted if telegraphed. Phone entries must have a current WSIRA card number when they call. Home town and permit holders entries must be paid by May 10. Permits must be purchased by 12:00 noon on May 15. Added attractions for the weekend will be a western dance to be held Saturday evening at 9:00, a Buckaroo Breakfast on Sunday from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. with prices for adults $4 and children $2, and an Indian Arts and Craft Fair. For information on the Arts and Craft show call (503) 544- 2723. Camper parking will be available at the rodeo grounds with a fee of $2.00 for the weekend. High school rodeo association With the spring weather comes the rodeo season and the High School Rodeo Associa tion is getting ready to go into full swing. For high school students who have aspirations of becoming a rodeo star, this is a good start into the world of rodeo. The Oregon High School Rodeo Association is accepting membership of students who are under the age of twenty and are enrolled in an accredited school and are in good standing with th e school. It is not required that the students be a member of a rodeo club at their school. Students must meet the grade requirement as set by the O re g o n S ta te A th le tic Association. Applications to join the association are available by writing to Bonnie Segers, Sec- Tres.; 11800 N.W. 10th St.; Terrebonne, Oregon 97760. Dues are $45 a year and this includes $12 for National dues, $20 for insurance and $13 for state dues. It is important to get your application into the association so you will eligible to enter any of the sanctioned rodeos. The applications must be post marked 30 days prior to any of the sanctioned shows. A copy o f y o u r g ra d e s m ust accompany your application. The OHSRA is an organiza tion designed to give you people of high school age an o p p o rtu n ity to gain and develop rodeo skills through rodeo competition with their peers. The season for OHSRA will begin during the first weekend of April with a rodeo at Eugene, Oregon—the Emerald Empire High School Rodeo Events featured at the rodeos will be bareback riding, saddle bronc, bull riding, calf roping, steer wrestling, team roping, boys cutting, barrel racing, pole bending, goat tying, breakaway roping and girls cutting. When ¿fie A ß ta is... St. Jude Mini Run-Walk The fund raising event planned for the first of May has increased its agenda from the bike-a-thon to include a Mini run/ walk. It was decided by the St. Jude committee that to limit the day to just bike riders would keep many people from participating. The program for the day will include the original bike-a- thon as planned along Tenino Road. The riders will ride a consecutive 2 mile run as many times as they wish. The riders will be responsible for picking up the monies donated by their sponsors and turning in the money within ten days after the scheduled ride. Added to the program will be the Mini- run/walk, A $3 donation will be charged for each person entered but an entire family may enter for $6. There will be check points for riders, walkers and runners where beverages will be served. If there are any groups interested in managing a re fre sh m e n t sta n d please contact Elina Langnese at 553- 1161, ext. 241. T h e P o l i c e O f f ic e r s Association has donated $50 for prizes. Prizes will be drawn for throughout the event. 6th Annual Other events listed for the week-end will be gambling, stic k gam e to u r n a m e n t, WBR A open barrel racing and a Calcutta Auction on May 21- 22 at 6:30 and May 23 at 12:30 p.m. Bull-A-Rama One of the the Northwest’s richest open bullriding will be held May 21, 22, and 23 in Wellpinit, Washington. The event will be limited to the first 130 signed up. The entry fee is $100 with a $2,000 added purse. Last year’s winner of the event was Pat Price who won over $2,900. The winner for the 1982 event should make well over $4,000. The stock will be provided by Frank Beard of Ellensburg, Washington and Flying Five R odeo Co. of P om oroy, Washington. Entries by mail should include money orders and can be sent to Wellpinit Bull-a- rama Rodeo, PO Box 197, Wellpinit, Washington 99040. Phone entries will be taken on May 3 from noon until 6:00 p.m. (509) 258-4250, and on May 19 from 6-8 p.m. at the same telephone number. All entries must be paid by May 16. Wrestling in Warm Springs Big time wrestling is coming to Warm Springs. Wrestlers from Saturday night wrestling of KPTV fame will be at the Community Center on April 25 to show Warm Springs what wrestling is all about. The Warm Springs Peace O ffic e rs A s s o c ia tio n is sponsoring this event with the p ro c e e d s g o in g to w a rd s scholarships for two tribal members. The matches begin at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 25. Ringside seats are going at $7.00 and general admission for adults will be $6.00. For senior citizens, students with student body cards, and children 14 years and under the admission will be $4.00. 2nd Annual A ll Indian f o w l i n g to u r n e y $ e t T he C olville T rib e of W ashington is having its second annual all-Indian Bowling tournament April 30, May 1, 2, 1982, at Riverview Lanes, Coulee Dam, Washing ton. The bowling events will include (1) 3 games of mixed doubles with four members to a team. (2) 3 games of doubles. (3) 3 games of mixed doubles. (4) 3 games of singles. The entry fees will be $ 15.00 per person in each event. All events optional, $3. The entry fee breakdown is as follows bowling $3,prize fund $10, expenses $1.50. T he tim e sch edule is: Thursday for local bowlers only at 6 p.m. singles, 9 p.m. doubles. Friday 6 p.m. singles, 9 p.m. doubles. Saturday 9 a.m. teams, 12 noon mixed doubles, 3 p.m. singles 6 p.m., doubles and 9 p.m- open. On Sunday 9 a.m., teams, 12 noon open, 3 p.m. open. April 2-4 There will be tournament 40 & over/Old Magpies at Ft. Hall—Champs jackets presented to the All-stars—Satch Miller, Rick Minthorn winners in each event, one per M.V.P. Satch Miller person along with other special 12-14 yrs. W.S.C.C. at Toppenish, Washington—Champs . cash awards. All-Star Anson Begay ' The tournament rules: (1) M.V.P.—Donnie Bagley Entrants must be *4 Indian. (2) H ig h S c o r e r — R y a n “ S m i t t y ’* S m ith 74 p o in ts Entants will use highest ABC- 9-11 yrs. W.S.C.C. at Toppenish, Washington W IB S a n c tio n e d le a g u e All-star—JoJo Smith average from ‘80-81 season, Team members—Mackie Begay, Johnson Heath, Leander unless average on 12/31/81 is Squally, Waynie Miller, and Austin Greene, coach of boy’s teams. ten pins higher. If no average W.S. Boxing Club at Seattle, Washington from that year, entrants must Runner-up—Joey Ortiz, 139 lbs., Reynolds Allen-70 lbs. use league average based on Champions—David Lucei, 112 lbs. minimum of 21 games or more Most Inspirational Reynolds Allen, 70' lbs. as of 3/1/81. All others must April 10-11—Braveries at Taholah, Washington bowl scratch. (3) Handicap is Teen Club and War Chiefs at White Swan, Washington based on 80% of 200, men and April 17-18—Teen Club at Reno, Nevada women; no limit. Saturday—W.S. Boxing Club Match, W.S.C.C. 7 p.m. (4) All entrants must be Ipril 19-24—Warm Springs Braveries basketball team at certified by the league or Srtional Indian Activities Association—N ational Finals, A s s o c i a t i o n S e c r e t a r y . Spokane, W ashington/W hitew orth College and Spokane Falsifying of entry will result in forfeit of all fees and loss o f Coliseum. prize money. The tournament ' committee also reserves the; Community Center Events Everyone is welcome to ’ attend whether to watch or participate in the Fun Day. right to reject or re-classify any entry before or after bowling. (5) One prize for every six entries, or m ajor fraction thereof. Prize fee returned 100%. (6) Entrants must show ABC or WBC current membership cards before bowling. (7) In all double events one cannot bowl more than once with same partner. In the team event bow ler m ust change two members to maintain a mixed team . (8) W hen m ultiple participation is permitted not more than two bowlers on the same team can place more than once in the prize list for position standing. (9) All- Events $3.00 per bow ler optional, separate All-Events for men and women. First games bowled in each event singles, doubles or teams count., toward all-events. WSCC (10) Make all checks or money orders to Colville Indian Bowling Committee. All N.S.F. checks will result in au to m atic {disqualification. Entries will close at 12:00 p.m. Sunday, May 2nd. All advance entries should be mailed to Carol Adolph, Box 298, Elmer City, Washington 99124. All registrations will be processed at Riverview Lanes in . Coulee Dam. Persons to contact: Roy Redthunder, President, home phone 633- 0701 Office 634-4901 ext. 424: Gary Desautel, vice president, phone office 634-4901 and Carol Adolph, Sec/Treas. 633- 0266. Entry forms here in Warm Springs are available from Mike Clements in the Planning Department or at the Spilyay Tymoo office. Teen Club Numero uno in Nespelem during the weekend of March 13th a n d 14th was the W SCC/Teen club. Jerome Davis played up to his best and earned the Most Valuable Player award. Also in attendance were the 4-H War Chiefs. In double overtime against Nespelem Log House, the Chiefs secured third place, 68-66. The winning basket was sunk by Raphael Caldera in the final moments of the game. Tournament all-star awards went to James “Buckwheat” Scott and David Crowe. Tim Kneeland was nick-named Mr. H u s t l e . , Sp o r t s ma n s h i p recognition was accepted by Nelson Zomont and his 4-H team. On March 21 and 22. the WSCC/Teen Club hosted a 16- under, four-team boys and girls b a s k e t b a l l to u r n a m e n t . Finishing first for both boys and girls was the host team, W ar-C hiefs—second place, and Omak-third place. Chiloquin girls finished 2nd and 4-H girls third. Jerome Davis and Lana Shike were nam ed m ost valuable players. Jerom e scored 42 points against Omak and 33 points against the Chiefs. Ray Caldera and Lori Case, were tournament Mr. and Ms. Hustle.
