By Jan Jackson
As if the PRCCA purse that goes to some of the best rodeo professionals in the business isn’t enough, the 2008 Santiam Canyon Stampede will raise money to help Santiam Memorial Hospital in its fight against breast cancer, donate food to the Stayton Food Bank and contribute to other community projects. The rodeo events take place July 31, Aug. 1 and Aug. 2 in Sublimity on the Sublimity Harvest Festival Grounds. The festival grounds will be packed with families enjoying a variety of good down-home entertainment.
“The music this year is Alexis Ebert with Bump in the Road and we are doing a bike rodeo with the Stayton-Sublimity Police Department on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.,” Corky Justis, Santiam Canyon Stampede director of promotions said.
“The Santiam Championship Bull Riding on Saturday night will feature riders from Texas, Kansas, Arizona, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, and we have gone back to doing Professional Barrel Racing this year, so that will bring the WPRA women back to town.”
The Stampede was established in 1997 as a PRCA-sanctioned rodeo and following the 1999 season, the rodeo was purchased by the community and re-organized as a nonprofit corporation. The re-organization produced the Stayton/Sublimity Rodeo Association Inc. as the new owner of the Santiam Canyon Stampede.
Stampede board members are local residents and after each rodeo they receive feedback from the community and take that information into account when they make their evaluations and plan for the next year.
Sublimity Harvest Festival Grounds,
11880 Sublimity Road
Events begin at 7 p.m. July 31, Aug. 1 and Aug. 2
Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door
for adults, $5 in advance or $6 at the door
for children 12 years old and younger.
Family Night is July 31 with children 12 years
old and younger receiving free admission
with a suggested donation of two non-perishable
food items per child.
Call 503-769-2799, email
[email protected] or visit
www.scsrodeo.org for information.
This year’s events include Family Night, Thursday, July 31 with children 12 years old and younger receiving free admission with a suggested donation of two non-perishable food items per child. The Stayton Food Bank is encouraging kids to bring their stick ponies and join in the Stick Pony races.
Mutton Busting, sponsored by Double H Western Wear, are back on Thursday and Friday night. Stayton/Sublimity Rodeo Association is donating $1 to cancer research every time someone walks through the gate “Tough Enough to Wear Pink.” Tickets are available at Champion Feed, Riverview Bank, Double H Western Wear and Wilco Farm Stores.
For information on the events including Champion Bull Riding, Miss Rodeo Oregon Jr. and Teen Pageant, motorcycle events and the PRCA Rodeo itself, call 503-769-2799, email [email protected] or visit www.scsrodeo.org.
