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Observer Volume 79 • No. 17
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Rough ‘N Ready Rodeo brings the action in Stoughton
Staff photo by Kelly Running
Tate Hartell goes for a ride on Said & Done in the bareback event. Kelly Running Observer Staff
The New Hope Horse Club in Stoughton has developed a fantastic draw to the community with the always entertaining Rough ‘N Ready Roughstock Rodeo. The event, held on Saturday, Sept. 5, entered into its fourth year, which expanded events this year and drew in help from other community organizations making it run smoothly. “Thank you for coming,” DeeAnna Lyke, one of the organizers, welcomed the crowd. “The New
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Hope Horse Club is an intense group of volunteers who work [hard] all year. This is our fourth year for the rodeo. We’ve slowly grown over the years and have brought in other community groups to help us this year. The Stoughton Daycare has the food booth, the Demolition Club is working security, Heward Parks and Recreation have the kids’ booth, and the 4-H Club is holding a 50/50 and is offering driver services after midnight as well.” Working together was the main goal for the event and bettering all groups in the community was important to those with New Hope Horse Club. The event saw a little bit of luck this year with rain, that had been coming down all day, stopping
just before the rodeo was to begin. “It was awesome,” Lyke told The Observer of the event. “We had a huge crowd and were able to go on even with the two and a half inches of rain, we were lucky beyond belief.” “The one good thing about the rain when hosting an event is that no one can farm, so they came out since they couldn’t be in the field.” The event has seen livestock supplied by Prime Time Rodeos Ltd. of Kennedy each year, and once again the crowd wasn’t disappointed.
See Stoughton Rodeo on page 2
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