Colorama 2014

COLORAMA

2014

• Rodeo • Carnival • Beer Tent • Parade Arts & Crafts • Food • Run the Dam • Walk the Dam, Build a Gym May 8, 9, 10, 2014

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Lots to do for Colorama T here’s plenty to do at this year’s Colorama celebration.

Of course there’s the parade, the rodeo, and the carnival.

But how about some of the other activities?

Take the craft fair at North Dam Park. Featured are a number of places to eat, and then the tour of booths. Lots of opportunity for the purchase of gifts for a later date -- or for Mother’s Day. The craft booths are up again from a year ago and many of the craft people are back from last year.

The craft fair activity begins on Friday running from 10 a.m. until dusk both Friday and Saturday.

The carnival starts at 5 p.m.

Thursday, 3 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Saturday, closing at 9 p.m. each day.

The old fashioned beer garden will be featured again this year in two places. One, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, will be at the tennis court at North Dam Park Thursday night, 5-9 p.m., Friday from 5-10 p.m. and Saturday, 4-11 p.m. Live music is planned.

The second beer garden will be at the rodeo grounds in Delano, and is sponsored by the Ridge Riders. It will be open during both Friday and Saturday rodeo hours.

You can also take advantage of the Cowboy Breakfast at the Bonnie Femling shops in the Colorama market at North Dam Park in 2013. SixtySenior Center, Saturday morning eight vendors will fill the park this year. from 7-10:30.

There’s also the run/walk the races, plus a “Walk the Dam — start at the east end of the Grand dam activity. Here’s your chance Build a Gym” event to benefit a Coulee Dam. All runners start at 7 a.m. Walkers start at 8 a.m. to cross the dam. “Run the Dam” fund for a new school gym.

Both runners and walkers offers 5K, 10K and half-marathon

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Haley Wade is queen of the rodeo

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his year’s 58th Colorama Pro-West Rodeo celebration will see Queen Haley Wade reign over the parade and all rodeo events.

Selected last October, Wade is a 17-year-old high school senior from Ephrata. Parade and rodeo fans will see Haley ride her 10-year-old horse “Latago Bee.” The daughter of Jeff and Beth Wade, she is active as a singer, plays the guitar and enjoys softball, in which she has lettered at her school.

Haley stated that working with her horse has given her the confidence to represent the Ridge Riders and the Colorama Rodeo this season.

The Ephrata teen has been active in a number of school choral programs and with Future Farmers of America.

She also lettered at state in the Washington High School Equestrian Teams program, an equine activity.

She plans to attend Walla Walla Community College this fall, then transfer to Central Washington University after two years.

In being selected for Colorama queen, Haley had to pass a written test and oral exam, give a prepared speech and successfully complete a horsemanship drill.

She has already represented the Ridge Riders in a community event, but this will be her first official appearance locally.

You can see her in the big parade and at the Ridge Riders’ 58th annual rodeo.

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Save money, win prizes

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here’s still time to get tickets to the various activities of Colorama. And you can add a couple of mementos to the list.

Advance carnival tickets are available at nine different places in the coulee.

If you hurry you can save $10 by purchasing your ticket early - down from $35 at the gate to $25.

These tickets can be purchased at Center Lodge, Coulee Hardware, Loepp Furniture, NCB, Funzees, H&H Grocery, the Credit

Union, the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce office and The Star newspaper.

The Colorama Pro-West Rodeo tickets are also on sale early at Loepp Furniture and Choice Auto Group. You can save $2 by buying your ticket early. They are $10 at the gate and $8 if you purchase them early.

There are also good buys on Colorama buttons, which each feature a raffle number. They are $3, and on sale all over the coulee. There are a lot of good prizes and you don’t have to be

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You can also get your Colorama T-shirt to add to your

collection. They are just $20, and available at the chamber of office and at the rodeo and craft fair.

Thursday, May 8 & Friday, May 9

MUSIC - DJ Brandon George Friday, May 9 & Sat., May 10

BBQ - Hotdogs, Cheeseburgers & Macaroni Salad Saturday, May 5 Breakfast begins at 10 a.m.

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May 9 and 10 , 2014 6:00 PM Friday and 4:00 PM Saturday Ridge Rider Arena, 22209 Alcan Road, Grand Coulee, WA

Admission at the Gate: 10.00 Adults * 8.00 Students * Under 10 free Sponsored by the Ridge Riders and these corporate sponsors

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Welcome to the 58th Colorama Pro-West Rodeo

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owboys and cowgirls will be out in their rodeo duds ready to provide thrills and plenty of “oohs” and “ahs.”

The rodeo kicks off at the Ridge Rider grounds in Delano at 6 p.m.

Friday night, and picks up again at 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

The Pro-West rodeo was named “best in the state” in both 2012 and 2013, and brings to fans the same excitement this year.

Promoters promise action-packed excitement — packing more action into just a few seconds than probably any other sport.

Admission at the gate is $10 for adults, $8 for students. Those under 10 go free.

This year’s presentation has a number of added features.

These include mutton busting (it’s back), the McMillan family trick riders, the Skagit Rein Rider Drill Team, and the Whiskey Run. The Ridge Riders will offer a Pendleton Whiskey and Coors beer garden for those who want refreshments.

The Colorama Rodeo is a familyoriented activity, and everyone in the family is encouraged to enjoy the action.

On Saturday, to kick off the day’s events, the seniors sponsor their traditional Cowboy Breakfast at the Senior Center, beginning at 7 a.m. and running until 10:30. Price is $8 for adults, and $4 for those under 12.

A rider takes a fall during last year’s Pro-West Rodeo.

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Carnival riders prove the fun with big smiles.

Craft Booths at North Dam Park

Friday, May 9........... 10 a.m. - Dusk Saturday, May 10..... 10 a.m. - Dusk

Colorama Parade

Saturday, May 10..... 11 a.m.

Downtown Grand Coulee

Cowboy Breakfast

Saturday, May 10..... 7:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Senior Center in Grand Coulee

Run the Dam

Carnival Thursday - Saturday May 8-9-10 at North Dam Park Thursday opening................. 5 p.m.

Friday opening...................... 3 p.m.

Saturday opening...... 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. & 4-9 p.m.

Saturday, May 10..... Begins 7 a.m.

Mason City Park, Coulee Dam

Carnival

May 8-9-10.............. at North Dam Park

Carnival by Paradise Amusements from Coeur d’Alene

Helicopter Rides - Upper Ball Field at North Dam Park Fri., May 9 - 1 p.m. - dusk • Sat., May 10 - 11 a.m. - dusk BEER GARDEN - Tennis Court at North Dam Park May 8 - 5-9 p.m. • May 9 - 5-10 p.m. • May 10 - 4-11 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC - Fri., May 10 - 6-10 p.m. • Rock-a-Bar

Sat., May 11 - 7-11 p.m. • Rock-a-Bar

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Drawing Sat. 1:00 p.m.

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Thursday, May 8...... 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Skate Park at North Dam

Pro-West Rodeo Friday, May 8.......................... 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 10.................... 4 p.m.

At Ridge Riders Rodeo Grounds

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The helicopter offering the public rides last year takes off from the upper ball field at North Dam Park.

Copter rides return to Colorama

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elicopter rides will return as one of the added features of Colorama this year.

Colorama will see Lake Roosevelt High School graduate Tim Tueth return to give helicopter rides to those who want an aerial view of the coulee.

Tueth graduated from LRHS in 1992, and had lived in the area since he was in the second grade, so it will be like coming home for him.

Last year, Tueth’s first year giving helicopter rides here, was highly successful. He will lift off and land again this year from the upper ballfield at North Dam Park, with a limited three passengers at a time. Cost is $30 if he has three passengers, or $40 each if there are fewer, minimum two.

Tueth learned to fly by taking instruction in both Spokane and Texas.

The tours are being arranged by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce.

Flights will be offered Friday and Saturday during Colorama weekend.

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Horse show, parade, concert, dance headlined 1955 Western Festival compiled by Sheila Whitelaw

Lasting about one and a half hours, the parade was led by ack in 1955, the secthe “snappy” eight-man V.F.W. ond “Western FestiPost 3157 color guard, and the val,” the forerunner of American Legion Posts 157 the Grand Coulee Dam area’s and 131. They were followed by annual summer kickoff “Colnine bands from Coulee Dam, orama Festival” was a weekend Manson, Grand Coulee, Coulee event held May 14-15. SponCity, Hartline, Harrington, Wilsored primarily by the Grand bur, Almira, and Bridgeport.

Coulee Chamber of Commerce Here for the parade and the and the Ridge Riders Club, horse show were the British the festival featured the fourth Columbia Dragoons Bagpipe annual horse show for the club Band from Penticton, the and activities for the area’s fami- Larson Air Force Base Drum lies and visitors, such as: and Bugle Corps and drill team, plus more than 20 floats and Grand Parade several horse-riding drill teams, uch to the delight which, according to the parade of several thourules, placed the “horse units” sand spectators, at the parade’s end. the parade, with more than 50 All of the entries were judged entries, started at Grand Couprior to parade’s start and the lee avenue (near today’s Grand bands played a free concert at Coulee Park), past the grade Ludolph Field for the public, school to Main Street, turning with drill teams and majorettes left past the TeePee Drive-In, showing off, too. onto Midway Avenue (today’s Grand Parade winners inmain thoroughfare in Grand cluded: Loepp Hardware’s Coulee) to the intersection western motif float with Mr. we now called the Four Corand Mrs. Ed Rice seated in ners, and back up to the Grand an “old fashioned buggy,” Mr. Coulee High School (now the “Pop” Wallis and kids in the middle school).

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non-western float division and the town of Bridgeport winning first place in the community float division. In the junior division, students from the Grand Coulee Grade School won all three awards, with more awards, including first through fourth places in decorated bikes, to Allen Carr, Virginia Fuller, Ron Ponder, and Billy Neubauer. John Weber took first in the costumed children’s category. Linda Jacobsen, Butch Perkins, Sharon Kelly and Ronnie McCoy’s pets were winners too.

Grand Coulee Dam Float

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he Grand Coulee Dam area float was decked out in a western theme, having made

its debut by taking first place among community floats in the 1955 Apple Blossom Festival in Wenatchee prior to the Coulee’s shindig, and sponsored (built) by the Eagles and Jaycees.

The volunteers constructed a huge wooden horseshoe fronted by a wagon seat where two local high school princesses sat: Cecelia Good and her escort Rick Rose of Grand Coulee, and Wilma Funston and Jim Abbott of Coulee Dam. Behind them in a square dance exhibition, 10 area youngsters danced on the float during the parade.

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Stamper. Dick Barter was the dance director and called the dances with the help of another youngster, Jack Miller.

The float that took first place in Wenatchee was accompanied by three school bands: a 44-member Grand Coulee junior high school band, the 54-member Coulee Dam High School band and Grand Coulee High School’s 21-member band.

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Saturday night.

The dance followed the 7 p.m. “under the lights” horse show at the Ridge Rider’s arena in Delano, where contestants tried their luck in categories, including: a garment race, scurry by pairs race, team pole and individual bending, bareback relay, open cow cutting, cowhide race, rescue race, junior/ senior drills, musical pairs, reining class, junior equitation, a wheelbarrow race and a trailer race.

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cowboy breakfast at the VFW hall in Delano, starting at 6 a.m.

And finally, a free “special Western Musical Concert” featured the 54-voice Columbia High School choir of Richland — singing show tunes, “popular” barber shop numbers and some good ole’ country tunes, sung and strummed by choir director Harley Stell. The concert was also broadcast on the local radio station, KFDR.

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Two high school beauties rode on the Coulee DamGrand Coulee float in a Manson, Wash., parade, circ 1940’s.

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Bringing back the Colorama beer garden in 2013 proved to be a popular move. It’s back again this year.

Beer tent provides place to meet up

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one for decades, the Colorama beer tent brought back in 2013, proved to be a popular place for people to meet, talk and enjoy the spring air, plus beer,

the tennis courts at North Dam Park.

The beer tent will be open from 5-10 p.m. Thursday, May 8; 5-10 p.m. on Friday, May 9; and Saturday from 4-11 p.m. Live of course. music by Rock-A-Bar will go from 6-10 p.m. Friday and 7-11 p.m.

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Walkers travers Grand Coulee Dam last May during Colorama, one of the few times the top of the dam is open to the public since security tightened in 2001.

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Thousands gather along Midway Avenue to watch 2013’s Colorama Parade.

Getting ready for the big parade?

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he 57th Colorado Festival Parade kicks off from its launching spot on Spokane Way at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 10, and winds its way down to Midway Avenue and up Highway 155 through the main business district.

Better get a spot early because parking spaces are sparse.

Announcing this year’s parade is Nespelem resident Dave McClure.

Chamber of Commerce officials state that the big parade will have between 60-70 entries, including marching bands from Lake Roosevelt, two from Bridgeport and Vicki Watson and her marching band from Pasco.

Royalty from a number of towns and rodeos will be on hand, as well as the usual fire engines and police cars.

Being an election year, a number of politicians have already indicated they will be in the parade.

The Colorama Parade will include both young people and oldsters. Everybody loves a parade, both to be in one and to watch one.

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