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.
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