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OKANOGAN VALLEY GAZETTE-TRIBUNE | JULY 25, 2013
OKANOGAN VALLEY LIFE
TONASKET COMANCHEROS TRUCK & TRACTOR PULLS
Zachary Van Brunt/submitted photos
Above, Daniel Garvin of Snohomish roars to victory in the Heavy Diesel class at Saturday’s Tonasket Truck & Tractor Pulls. Below right, a 1945 International from Oregon competes. Below left, Tonasket Rodeo Queen Karlie Henneman discovered a new passion as she got her first taste of action in the “Queen’s Coach.”
RESULTS EVENT LOOKS TO KEEP GROWING Roger Sawyer of the Tonasket Comancheros said he thought between 8-900 attended the Truck and Tractor Pulls. “The pros that were there were kind of in awe,” he said. “They said there were more people that pulled here in Tonasket than the last time they pulled in the Kingdome.” Sawyer added that he spoke to a lot of first-time fans that said they’d wished they had known what they’d been missing. “I think a lot of those will be back,” he said. “They wished they’d come to our shows the last couple of years. We got done at about 10:30 and people hung around and looked at the machines for probably another hour and a half afterward.” Mark Peterson of KXLY-TV in Spokane returned to Tonasket to be the event’s MC. “(The Comancheros) would really like to thank the Moonlighters Pulling team, and Mark Peterson, Steve Henjum and Paul Gschiel for flying in, as well as all the pullers who came in from all over the Northwest to participate,” Sawyer said.
1 - Jason Burton - Rockford 2 - Garrett Parlette Exhibition 1 - Bounty Hunter - Thorp 2 - My Addiction - Salem, OR 3 - Tonka - Salem 4 - Queen’s Coach - Tonasket Country Mod 4x4 1 - Noel Kuzma - Albany, OR 2 - Dave Veenendall, Albany, OR 3 - Trish Lutgen, Albany, OR Pro Mod 4x4 1 - Melanie Lankaar, Lynden 2 - Butch Phelps, Dale, OR 3 - Ralph Tramp, Salem, OR 4 - Jenny Bocook, Spokane
5 - Steve Henjum, Spokane 6 - Jason Gish 7 - Duane Stetson 8 - Jason Burton - Rockford 9 - Gary Grant 2WD Mod 1 - Frank Woelk, Salem, OR 2 - Steven “Bad to the Bone” Campbell, Landy, B.C. Smoker Tractors 1 - Fred Tjoelker, Lynden 2 - Delton Amoth, Bonners Ferry, ID Mod Tractors 1 - Jack Wheatley, Thorp 2 - Larry Pfennig, Salem, OR 3 - Russ Hodges, Thorp
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Light Diesel 1 - Trish Burton - Rockford 2 - Dave Notar 3 - Sterling Clinedinst - Tonasket 4 - Jeff Simpson Heavy Diesel 1 - Daniel Garvin - Snohomish 2 - Kevin Wiebe 3 - Sean Ehr Mod Diesel
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