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Home  News Latest Saddle up for Whoop-Up
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
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Page 1 of 2 By Buck Traxler, I-O Editor
 Helen Elliott - Grand Marshall
Paul Olson is getting really good at being chairman of the event and this will mark his fifth year heading up the project.
He notes that a huge improvement will be the seating at the rodeo grounds. When flooring at CMR High School in Great Falls had to be replaced, it was decided to get new bleachers as well.
The Lions Club was able to get a big section and a crew went and removed the bleachers, brought them back here and it is now placed at the rodeo grounds.
“With a new date, we are getting more cowboys and are not competing with the Bucking Horse Sale in Miles City,” he said.
Another new activity, getting an early start on the weekend is the Whoop-Up scramble at the Pondera Golf Club on Friday.
This is a four-person event with golf teams teeing it up and getting off the box at 8 a.m. Call the PGC at 278-3402 for more information, it is not too late to get a team up for some golf action.
Following the tournament, at 7 p.m. there will be a Rodeo Calcutta at the PGC. Now is the time to go and buy your favorite cowboy and hope he places at the rodeo.
Also getting a jump of the Whoop-Up activity will be the Bebe Berland Academy of Dance, which is having a recital at the Orpheum Theatre/Wiegand Auditorium on June 7, 6:30 p.m. Little dancers from Conrad and Choteau will be strutting on the stage.
On Friday, from 5-7 p.m., in another new change, the Conrad High School freshman class will have a K-8 Fun Fest outdoors on the playground at Meadowlark School. Kids will be grouped by age for a variety of outdoor games. Prizes will be awarded.
As this event ends, two Montana good ol’ boys will be teaming up for a concert at the Orpheum Theatre/Wiegand Auditorium.
Eric “Fingers” Ray and Richard Matoon will put on a dazzling performance of traditional country and classical guitar music and singing.
Tickets will be on sale at the door only and if this doesn’t get you primed for the weekend, nothing will.
Saturday morning as you roll out and pick your head up from our saddle-pillow, you can mosey over to Meadowlark. Beginning at 7 a.m. the Lions Club will have a free ham and pancake breakfast. You not only can feed your face, but this is one of the top social events of the year.
Better than tasty does not begin to say how good these Lion hot cakes stack up. Ray Stoetzel and Dan Wilcox will be cooking the cakes from a time—honored, beer-batter recipe blended together by Byron Grubb and a couple of his closest cohorts.
Outside groups, please take note; there is no soliciting here.
At 8 a.m. there will be, still another new event added on to a traditional one. At the Whoop-Up Fun Run, sponsored by the Pondera Medical Center, a new fun category is being offered. For kids 12 and under, the one-mile walk/trot will have a costume class. All you have to do is come up with a clever costume that you can finish the race in; the costumes will be judged after the race. It will not matter what order you finish the race, only that you and your costume survived.
There will be prizes and something for all participants. For more information on this and the PMC Fun Run, contact Julia Drishinski at 271-2295. The race gets off from in front of the courthouse.
No doubt, you’ve read about the Rhubarb Festival, formerly of Ulm being relocated here. Rhubarb festivity will be taking place all day on Saturday along Main St. starting at about 9:30 a.m. and a rhubarb cookbook will be available at the library.
The Conrad Community Service Sewing Circle will have a quilt showing in the showroom of Courtesy Ford. All proceeds from their projects come back to the community. There is a one-dollar admission fee and they will be open from the morning to afternoon. Call Terry Syvertson at 278-3390 for more information.
The VFW Auxiliary will be out and about selling “Buddy Poppies” which are assembled by disabled veterans and proceeds are used to aid veterans and their dependents.
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