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Little Cowboy Makes Big Impression By Noelle M. Hood, Contributing Writer
Argyle’s nine-year-old Lealond Henderson, whose nickname is Lelo, got into the rodeo business just before his third birthday. “Actually, Lelo got into rodeo by accident,� Mom Deborah said. “We went for fun and thought he might get a charge out of riding a sheep. For the fun of it he rode a sheep at the North Texas Fair in Denton, got a face full of dirt, but loved the experience.� One time and he was hooked. Thereafter, he practiced on a sheep in the small corral beside the family home. At age six he retired as the fair’s Champion Mutton-Buster. “Bronc riding is in the Henderson blood,� Dad Jimmy said. “My family has been ranching up near Amarillo for a long time, and breaking horses to saddles is part of the business.� Jimmy looks like he could easily hold his own on a football field, but he went through college on a rodeo scholarship.
Rodeo events all use animals unaccustomed to a saddle or a rider; hence, the natural bucking and kicking behavior. Today’s events were born in the late 1860s among cowboys on horseback, who drove herds across the western ranges. The sport started as an entertaining form of, “I can do anything you can do, better� in a “cowtown� at the end of a successful cattle drive. Railroads and fences ended the era. In 1887, the first paid spectator rodeo was held in Denver. The Rodeo Association of America came into being in 1929 to regulate the sport. The rules of its current successor, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), are accepted by most rodeos large and small, including the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association and the National High School Rodeo Association. The most famous rodeos today include the Pendleton Round-Up (in Oregon), the Calgary Stampede (in Canada), Cheyenne
Photo by Helen’s Photography
Lealond Henderson is home on the range in Argyle.
See COWBOY on Page A18
Mothers, Sons Give Back Together
By Mark Miller, Contributing Writer
Photo by Helen’s Photography
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The Young Men’s Service League’s Integrity chapter of Flower Mound spent two weeks last month helping the North Texas Food Bank.
Beyond the obvious rise in population, homes and businesses, there are many ways to measure the continued growth of Flower Mound. Take the expansion of the Young Men’s Service League (YMSL), for example. When the first local chapter of moms and their high school-aged sons working together to help others outgrew its limits, another group was formed in 2016. In just its second year of existence, members of Flower Mound’s Integrity chapter showed how quickly they have learned about helping others.
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The group spent the first two weeks of October collecting 4,829 pounds of food for its inaugural food drive as part of its Ultimate Gift obligation requested of each chapter. That equated to 4,153 meals, which 67 volunteers delivered and prepared for the North Texas Food See YMSL on Page A7
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