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2000 Vernonia Friendship Jamboree - Page 23 Adults enjoy watching as kids enjoy fishing at annual Fishing Derby The children’s Fishing Derby kicks off the Jamboree week end, Friday night, August 4, at Vernonia Lake, and has been a favorite event of participants and spectators. Registration js at 4:00 p.m. The competition begins at 5:00 p.m. and con tinues until 7:00 p.m. Children compete in a num ber of categories, including the most fish, or the largest fish. There will be six winners in each of the following age groups: children five years and under, six through nine years, and 10-14. In addition to the six winners in each age group, there will be a prize for having bait and tackle. Children five years and un der may be assisted by an adult in baiting their hooks and/or removing fish from the hooks, but the children must catch their own fish. The participants of the Fish ing Derby aren’t the only ones who have a good time, though. Spectators are also entertained as the excited children watch the longest fish. Crappie, blue gill and perch are the only fish eligible for this competition. Participants are expected to supply their own their catches being measured and counted. There are many prizes for winners in the competition, in cluding sleeping bags, fishing poles or other gear, and tro phies for the winners, but no child will leave empty-handed. Each participant will also get a popsicle. In addition, each child who registers will receive two raffle tickets to be entered into two drawings for a video of this year’s Fishing Derby, taped by Chuck Cradit. The tapes will be available for purchase as well, $12.95 each, and there will be a TV/VCR set up to view last year’s video, also filmed by Cradit. The Jamboree Fishing Der by is sponsored and run by the Nehalem Valley Chapter of the Izaak Walton League, with co sponsor Chuck Cradit, of Bridge Street Bait & Tackle is a co-sponsor. For further information, call Don Webb at 429-7193. Fast Draw evokes speed, skill of old west gunslingers The fast-draw shootout fea tures two separate events, and draws large numbers of shoot ers from Canada and around the United States. The shoot out will begin Saturday, August 5, at 10:00 a.m. in Hawkins Park. The first of the two events is a head-to-head shootout with a balloon target. Two shooters, vying for the best of ten rounds Bullets are not used in this event. The target balloons are burst by excess powder in the cartridge. In the second competiton, contestants use 45 caliber am munition with a shotgun primer and a bullet made of wax. Shooters compete individually, with targets that are 20 inches wide and 40 inches high, firing from distances of five, eight, Contests are measured by a digital timer which reads the action to 275/1000 of a second. The weapons used in these events are usually Colt 45s or Ruger .357s bored to 45 cal ibers. Ray and Claire Thielke spon sor the event. Ray is chairman of the board of the World Fed eration Fast-draw Association. Men, women and children compete for trophies and cash prizes in different categories. Men's, women's softball tourney Eight men’s teams and eight women’s teams will meet in Vernonia for the 26th Annual Friendship Jamboree Softball Tournament. Play will begin on Friday, Au gust 4 at 7:00 p.m. and contin ue through Sunday evening. The games will be played on ball fields at Vernonia High School and Spencer Park. Bill Hawkins is the organizer and sponsor of the very popu lar softball tournament. Two gunslingers shoot it out in fast draw competition. Go back in time with mountain men As we prepare to enter the and knife throwing competi 21st century, you may want to tions, and a primitive archery turn the clock back a couple of trail. hundred years. The theme of this year’s The event is open to the Nehalem River Rendezvous is public without charge from 9:00 “Relive the 1800s.” The public a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Traders is invited to enjoy the Vernonia Row will feature articles for Muzzleloaders’ historical reen sale that reflect the mountain actment of the Mountain Man man period from 1825 until Rendezvous, August 4-6. 1840. Take Hwy. 47 North from This re-creation of the Vernonia, approximately 1-1/2 Rocky Mountain fur trade era miles, turn left at Stoney Point includes a variety of black pow Road. der shooting competitions with For further information, call both rifle and pistol, tomahawk Sid Howard, 429-0177. DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS ADVERTISER The Alternative Stage.......... Banner Furniture................. Bighorn Logging.................. Bridge Street Mall................ Bridge Street Mini Mart....... Buckner Land Salvage........ Buds & Blooms.................... Camp 18............................... 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