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Emily Gravlin of Creston does part of a reining pattern, a sliding stop, during the National High School Finals Rodeo in July in Gillette, Wyo.
By KELSEY HAUGEN CNA associate editor khaugen@crestonnews.com
Emily Gravlin got hooked on rodeo about 10 years ago with barrel racing. From there, her fascination grew, and in July, she competed in the National High School Finals Rodeo (NHSFR) in Gillette, Wyoming, in the reined cow horse category. This was Emily’s third consecutive year qualifying for nationals, and this time, she tied for 17th place out of about 112 competitors in reined cow horse. “It’s a blast,” said Emily, a Creston High School senior. “There’s a lot of pressure, but it’s really fun to go out there and compete and
know this is the highest level you can compete at in the (high school) rodeo system and see where you place in the world standing.” Emily earned a position on the Iowa National High School Rodeo team by placing third in the state in reined cow horse. She and fellow teammates then traveled to Gillette July 17-23 to compete in the 68th-annual NHSFR. “Reined cow horse is kind of a newer event in the rodeo system,” Emily said. “I love it because it’s so versatile in what you do. You do a reining pattern – a really slow, collected, beautiful pattern. But, it’s still thrilling because you go fast down the arena and you slide, and it just really push-
es what your horse can do. Then, you bring out a cow and it’s all fast work, and you have to be in control of that cow, and you have to be in the right position with your horse. It’s really challenging.” With more than 1,650 contestants from 43 states, five Canadian provinces and Australia, the NHSFR is one of the world’s largest rodeos. In addition to competing for more than $200,000 in prizes, NHSFR contestants compete for about $350,000 in college scholarships and the chance to be named an NHSFR World Champion. The final day of the championship was televised nationally and broadcast online.
Starting out About 10 years ago, Emily’s mother, Michelle Hanson, and stepfather, Wayne Hanson, purchased the first horse for their children. Emily and her older brother, John, became interested in horses. “We pretty much just trail rode horses. I started on a little Arabian pony,” Emily said. “We started out doing the Lenox youth rodeos, got hooked on barrels, and my older brother really liked to bareback ride. So, he got hooked in with the high school rodeo, and then we found out there was a junior high rodeo.” Emily began running a pony in the junior high rodeos while John competed in GRAVLIN | 2A
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Hot dog: Gizmo, a Pembroke Welsh corgi, smiles for the camera while getting a scrub down and rinse by volunteers, from left, Shawna Ritchie, Landon Lovely and Alison Lacey during the Dog Gone Rescue Hot Doggie Wash Saturday at McKinley Park. Volunteers of the rescue Janel McLain, Victoria Brammer and Katie Nolte washed 30 dogs and raised funds to go toward the rescue.
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LONDON (AP) — Delta Air Lines delayed or canceled hundreds of flights Monday after its computer systems crashed, stranding thousands of passengers on a busy travel day. About six hours into the outage, the airline said that limited flights were resuming but that were delays and cancelations were continuing. The Atlanta-based airline said that a power outage at a facility in Atlanta at around 2:30 a.m. Eastern started the cascading meltdown. Flights that were already in the air when the outage struck operated normally, but others were grounded. Over the next several hours, only a handful of flights took off instead of the usual hundreds, according to flight-tracking services. Airlines depend on huge, overlapping and complicated technology systems to operate flights, schedule crews and run ticketing, boarding, airport kiosks, websites and mobile phone apps. Even brief outages can snarl traffic and cause long delays. In Richmond, Virginia, Delta gate agents wrote out boarding passes by hand. In Tokyo, a dot-matrix printer was resurrected to keep track of passengers on a flight to Shanghai. Technology that appeared to be working was sometimes giving inaccurate information. Flight-status systems, including airport screens, incorrectly showed flights on time, something the com-
“NOT ONLY are their flights delayed, but in the case of Delta the website and other places are all saying that the flights are on time because the airline has been so crippled from a technical standpoint.”
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pany said it was trying to fix. “Passengers become increasingly reliant on their ability to check in online (and) check their flight status,” said Daniel Baker, CEO of tracking service FlightAware.com. “Not only are their flights delayed, but in the case of Delta the website and other places are all saying that the flights are on time because the airline has been so crippled from a technical standpoint.” Delta issued a statement saying it apologized to customers and said teams were working to fix the problem as quickly as possible. Many passengers, like Bryan Kopsick, 20, from Richmond, were shocked that computer glitches could cause such turmoil. “It does feel like the old days,” Kopsick said. “Maybe they will let us smoke on the plane, and give us fivestar meals in-flight too! “ In Las Vegas, stranded DELTA | 2A
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Jennie and David Hargrove, Gibson Memorial Library director, perform a song on fiddle and guitar in between musical acts during the library’s fundraising event, “A Sunday with Matilda,” held to kick off its capital campaign Sunday afternoon at the library in Creston.
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