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TheTrue Citizen, Wednesday, October 9, 2013 — Page 17
AROUND TOWN
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Scenes from St. Michael's Episcopal Church's Blessing
of the Animals ceremony in the city park last Saturday.
HIS NAME IS EARL
Burke County cowboy rides with the best
COWBOY AT A GLANCE
Name: Earl Bradley
Age: 45
Hometown: Midville
Occupation: firefighter and paramedic for Burke
County EMA
At the Rodeo: high ranked calf roper and team roper
First professional competition: 9 th grade
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
When Earl Bradley isn’t sav
ing lives, you can find him
breaking horses.
“My daddy was a rodeo man,”
he says. “It’s the way I grew
up.”
At least four times
a week, the father-
of-three plunks
down for six hours
in the saddle.
He’s carved a side
business out of
breaking horses for
the rodeo and his
Midville farm is a
go-to for some of
the nation’s top-
notch cowboys.
But Earl keeps a few
favorite horses for him
self. He has to. He’s one of
the fiercest competitors around
when it comes to roping calves.
The home crowd will cheer
him on at the Saddle Creek Ro
deo this weekend when he tops
his young spirited quarter horse
“Tazarey” and tries to make
record time.
That will require split-second
accuracy in everything from his
throw to dismounting the horse
and running down the roped
calf. Then he’ll flank, or flip,
the calf and tie three of its legs
together.
He’s done it in a lightning 7.8
seconds in competition and 7.3
in practice.
“A lot of it is muscle memory
from practicing so much,” Earl
explains. "You’ve got to be
fast and smooth with
everything you do or
you’ll get ahead of
yourself and make
mistakes that slow
you down.”
But whether he
makes a record
run or not, Earl
is stoked to fi
nally see a profes
sional competition
on his own stomp
ing grounds.
“It’s about time we
had one,” he says, not long
back from a rodeo in North
Carolina.
Beyond convenience, Earl
sees what a first-rate rodeo can
do for a small town. And as a
dad, he knows how the cowboy
atmosphere can breathe fire into
kids and get them interested in
riding and roping.
“I love the people and I love
the atmosphere,” he says. "It’s
a good thing for kids here to be
a part of."
The Broadway Boys!
The Broadway Boys were a big hit in the‘Boro. The Big Apple headlin
ers kicked off the Waynesboro-Burke Concert series last Monday night
and wowed the crowd with choreographed favorites like Where is Love
from Oliver and Morning Glow from Pippin. The audience included a
number of high school students who had some one-on-one time with
the guys earlier that day. Through an educational outreach program,
fine arts students from Burke County High School and Edmund Burke
Academy got a private show, a Q&A session with the group and a
chance to learn more about becoming Broadway performers. ‘The Broad
way Boys not only did an amazing performance but told their stories,
reminding us nothing was impossible with hard work,” BCHS senior
Makinizi Hoover said. “After the show they took pictures with every
single teen who asked, and that made us feel special”
Downtown Notes
By Don Lively
Director,
Downtown Development Authority
CASINO NIGHT FUNDRAISER
Casino Night is back! The Great Gatsby
themed fundraiser to benefit the Waynesboro
Downtown Development Authority Inside-Out
Grants and D.O.O.R. projects will be Friday,
October 25th, 6:30 p.m. at the Waynesboro Ice
Plant. Games will start at 7 p.m. and go until
10PM. The night will feature Blackjack, Texas
Hold Em, Craps and Roulette, as well as auc
tions, music, food and drinks. For tickets call
706-554-8018 or contact any DDA or D.O.O.R.
member.
DOWNTOWN NEWSLETTER
The office of Downtown Development is in
the process of establishing an email formatted
newsletter that will feature news about down
town happenings including events, meetings and
business and historic preservation issues. The
newsletter will be available to any person or
business interested in what’s going on in
Waynesboro. To get on the mailing list send an
email of interest to Don Lively at
dlively @ waynesboroga.com.
John Robert Hannah
Robbie and Mandi Hannah of Waynesboro announce the
birth of their son, John Robert Hannah, bom on July 25,
2013 at Doctors Hospital in Augusta. He was delivered by
Dr. J. Mark Gresham.
He weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces and was 20 inches
long.
He was welcomed home by his brother Bryson and sis
ter Claire.
Grandparents are Bobby and Debra DeLaigle of
Waynesboro and Johnny and Martha Hannah of Midville.
Great grandparents are Myrtle Bartlett of Waynesboro and
Lillian H. Godbee of Hiltonia.
SADDLE CREEK
RODEO
A schedule of events for this weekend's rodeo
Where: 3659 Highway 25, 8 miles south of
Waynesboro
When: Friday, Oct. 11 and Saturday, Oct. 12
Tickets: $10 at the gate, kids 10-and-under FREE
6 p.m.: GATES OPEN
•meet the cowboys, clowns and ride mechanical
bull
7:30 p.m.: RODEO BEGINS
• Bareback Riding
• Saddle Bronc Riding
• Steer Wrastlin’
• Calf Roping
• Cowgirls Breakaway Roping
• Cowgirls Barrel Racing
• Team Roping
• Bull Riding
All 8 events will be held each night but with differ
ent cowboys and cowgirls.The huge arena has a
covered seating section and the rodeo will go on,
rain or shine.
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