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Dr. Dick Temple named 2010 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo grand marshal
By Tiffanie Greenup
Have you have ever watched the Morrow County Rodeo and wondered, “Who is that calf roper with a halter on his horse
and no bridle”? Well, it is the 2010 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo Grand Marshal Dr. Dick Temple.
Dick was bom, raised and attended school in Wallowa County. After high school, he attended collage at Eastern Oregon
University, Oregon State and Colorado State where he earned a degree in animal science and veterinary medicine. Dick practiced
in Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming and Montana. He also went to Canada where he practiced in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Dick came to
Morrow County in 1986 and set up shop on Hinton Creek above Heppner before moving to Lexington in 1988 where he practices
veterinary medicine today.
Dick met his wife of 43 years, Karen Lovell, at the Wallowa County Junior Rodeo, the only rodeo he ever got to go to as a
kid. Dick and Karen were married August 6, 1967, so they will be spending their anniversary this year at the Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo
with their family. They have four children, Gordon, Brent, Laurel and Kristal, along with eight grandchildren, whom they are both
extremely proud of. Dick and Karen came to Morrow County to work for their friends and raise their kids in a good community.
Dr. Temple has done a variety of things during his lifetime. He was a federal meat inspector and taught as an instructor at
the North Alberta Institute of Technology. He was a talk show host on radio station KLWJ for a year.
He currently gives speeches about the
creation of life and has a three- part seminar on Dr. Dick Temple
Real cowboys.
Real action.
Real rodeo. marriage relations. He has given these speeches as far away as Portland and Molalla,
Oregon. He also has been the speaker at cowboy church. When he was in the fifth
grade he became interested in creation/evolution and he is now on a first name basis
with several of the top scientists in the United States. He is still looking for the first
bit of evidence for evolution that will stand up to scientific scrutiny.
One of his proudest times came as a result of disagreeing with the conclu
sions of published research on calf hood vaccinations. He convinced a ranch on
Butter Creek to keep records on an experiment for a year. As a result the ranches in
South Morrow County were using the branding time vaccination program presently
used across the Western United States five years before the experts figured it out.
He has also set up mineral programs that have been highly profitable for the
ranchers. One ranch’s springtime medicine expense dropped from $2,000 to $300
the year after adopting the program, he says.
Although Dick doesn’t get to rope a lot, he has placed at the Pendleton
Round-up 13 years in a row in the wild cow milking. He was also the 2009 Morrow
County Amateur calf roping saddle winner. He’was very proud of himself when
he won third place at the Mud Lake Alberta Canada rodeo in the calf roping in the
I970’s. He felt he had done well, considering it was in the mud, the calves were
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big and the only two who beat him were professional cowboys.
The Temple family is a big supporter of this community and are always
willing to lend a hand to anyone that may need it.
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Sept 16-19,2010 Schedule of Events
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Kick-Off Dance & Gam es
I Sept. 13 Round-Up Foundation
Memorial Golf Tournament
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Classic
|Sept. 14 US Bank/Pendleton PBR
Wear Pink Day, Happy
Canyon
Sept. 17 Westward Ho! Pbrade,9am
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Sept. 18 Rodeo Finals & Happy
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I Sept. 15 Rodeo, Happy Canyon &
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