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Blood Donor Fest set for June Sixth annual event a blood drive blitz By Jennifer Gladstone Special to The Weekly
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Bowers Cone practices Sunday afternoon at Hunters Edge Stables for the 67th Annual Germantown Charity Horse Show where he is competing for the irst time in the grand prix on Saturday riding his horse VIP Quality Royale.
67TH ANNUAL GERMANTOWN CHARITY HORSE SHOW
All for the show C’ville teen jumping for horse show prize
Charity Horse Show Grand Prix in front of his hometown crowd for the irst and possibly the last time. “It was always a goal that I had to do that Grand Prix,” Cone said after a weekend training session with his gray Dutch Warmblood, Roy. The two tackled a series of jumps ranging from 3 to 5 feet tall before afternoon storms rolled through the Hunters Edge Stables horse farm Cone’s father, Beanie Bowers, owns on 8 acres in south Collierville. With his dad coaching from the sidelines, it was the younger Cone’s irst time jumping since he’d injured his wrist playing lacrosse for St. George’s Independent School seven weeks earlier. His black cast still limiting the
By Jennifer Pignolet pignolet@commercialappeal.com 901-529-2372
It would be understandable if 19-year-old competitive equestrian Bowers Cone decided to sit out the local charity horse show this week: A broken wrist left him unable to ride for the previous two months. It would even be understandable if the Collierville native and recent high school graduate wanted to ease back into the horse show world, maybe with an event that didn’t involve jumping over poles that would just barely graze the forehead of his 5-foot-8-inch frame. But that would rob Cone of the chance to ride in the Germantown
use of his left hand, Cone’s right hand did most of the work, evident by a blister where the reins rubbed between his thumb and foreinger. Cone and Roy, whose show name is VIP Quality Royale, are scheduled to ride in the Welcome Stakes class at 5 p.m. today and then the Grand Prix — which comes with $25,000 in prize money — at 5 p.m. Saturday. In 2013, the pair won a diferent class at the show, called “gamblers choice,” where the rider has his or her choice of which jumps to tackle in the ring, but the more diicult obstacles are worth more points, and the team that has the most See SHOW, 2
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Fishing rodeo ready to hook anglers Saturday
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Germantown, Lakeland and Bartlett will host their annual youth ishing rodeos this Saturday. A lifetime hunting and ishing license, plus a three-day, twonight vacation to Reelfoot Lake are two of the prizes on the line when the Germantown Parks and Recreation Department plays host to the 15th annual Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Mid-South Junior Fishing Rodeo at Johnson Road Park in Germantown. Children ages 6-12 are eligible to ish in this free event. Bartlett’s children’s ishing
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rodeo will be for kids 12 and under, from 6-9 a.m., at Appling Lake in the Bobby K. Flaherty Municipal Center, Highway 70 and Appling Road. In Lakeland, reel ‘em in at the city’s annual children’s ishing rodeo at 8 a.m. at IH Managerial Park Lake on Canada Road. On-site registration starts at 7:15 a.m. and runs through 7:55. Registration forms are available at City Hall, 10001 Highway 70. The rodeo is for children between 4 to 12 years old. At the Germantown rodeo, noted Mid-South anglers Carl Graham of Corinth, Miss., and Ron Wong, along with several members of the Memphis area chapter of Legacy Outitters will be on-site to help assist anglers Griin Davis was the winner in his age division during
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During summer months, the need for blood remains high but donations often do not. To encourage donors to keep donating through the critical summer months, Lifeblood will be holding its sixth annual Donor Fest event June 8-13. Donor Fest is a weeklong blood drive blitz, and this year’s goal is to collect more than 1,963 units of blood and platelets in honor of the year that the community’s only local, non-proit volunteer blood bank was founded. As in past years, the week will be capped by a community event that celebrates all volunteer blood donors, recipients and their families. Participants are invited to wear red and gather at Saint Benedict at Auburndale High School’s soccer ield on June 13 at 9:30 a.m. The celebration will include food, a blood drive, balloon animals, face painting, donor recognition and more. At 10 a.m., participants will line up to form a human blood drop in an attempt to break the current U.S. record for similar formations. All Lifeblood donors who give blood or platelets until June 13 will receive a red limited-edition 2015 Donor Fest T-shirt to wear to the event. Donor Fest is celebrated in conjunction with World Blood Donor Day, June 14, to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products. For information about Donor Fest, visit DonorFest.org or call 901522-8585.
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