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It’s Rodeo week in Colville! |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
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 Rodeo Queen Shelby Berg.
Annual Pro-West Rodeo will
bring some of circuit’s top cowboys
BY CHRIS COWBROUGH
S-E Editor
One of the Colville valley’s biggest weekends of the year is back again.
Pro-West circuit cowboys will be in Colville on Friday, Saturday and on Father’s Day Sunday for what promises to be one of the best rodeos ever staged at the Northeast Wash¬ington Fairgrounds arena.
The three-day show will start on Friday night with the annual Carter Toyota Bulls & Barrels show in the arena. The show, which features nothing but bull-riding and barrel rac¬ing, starts at 7 p.m.
Scott Carter and the gang at Carter Toyota in Colville have given the Bulls & Barrels show a big boost with $2,500 in added purse.
On Saturday morning at 11 a.m., the annual Panorama Rodeo Parade will make its way up Main Street. The Pro-West Rodeo Parade will be led by Rodeo Queen and recent Colville High School graduate, Shelby Berg, and by this year’s Grand Marshals, Lewis and Lillian Hill.
The parade will line up in the usual spot around Colville City Park and Colville Munici¬pal Swimming Pool and wind its way down Dominion to South Main Street for the route north and downtown to 2nd, and then travel east to Oak St. The parade will head south on Oak and disband back in the park area.
First show
The first Pro-West show will get underway at 7 p.m. at the fairgrounds on Saturday night.
On Sunday, a Cowboy Breakfast will run from 8 a.m. to noon at the Colville Eagles’ Lodge. Non-denominational church service will be con¬ducted at the fairgrounds starting at 8 a.m.
The second and final Pro-West show will get started in the arena at 1:30 p.m.
Rodeo announcer Al Par¬sons will be back in the booth.
Protecting cowboys at this year’s Bulls & Barrels and Pro-West Rodeo shows will be Josh “Slick” Sheppard.
“Slick” has been entertain¬ing folks since he was knee high to a hitching post. He didn’t grow up in a rodeo fam¬ily, but he always dreamed of being a rodeo clown and the barrel man.
He was adamant that rodeo clowning was in his future. For one thing, there were all those rodeo clown costumes at Halloween.
Sheppard grew up in Clark¬ston, played sports and rode dirt bikes. He also participated in FFA and raised hogs and entered tractor-driving compe¬titions.
After high school, he got an AA Degree in carpentry at Walla Walla Community Col¬lege and married his “cowgirl” junior high sweetheart, Chelsy.
She pretty much got him into the horse end of the busi¬ness. He started riding horses—and ultimately, fight¬ing bulls.
Sheppard says that his pas¬sion for rodeo “has kept me coming back to bull-fighting and my ultimate dream of be¬coming a rodeo clown last year,” he said.
He’s living that dream—every weekend.
Barrel man loves what he does
The new father, when he’s not spending time with his young family, works as a car¬penter for Guy Bennett Lumber Company.
This athletic barrel man says he loves to entertain and make his audience laugh. He’ll get plenty of opportunity to do just that this weekend.
Prices for the rodeo are $25 for adults (weekend pass) and $10 for youngsters age 12 and under. Six and under are ad¬mitted free.
Daily tickets are priced at $10 for adults and $4 for youth ages 12 and under. On Sun¬day, senior citizens (age 65 and older) will be admitted to the grounds for half-price.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 June 2008 )
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