Roundup Week In The Mother Lode
Round-Up Week is here and events will continue through the weekend.
Jim Earll, Round-Up General Chairman and 2012 Mother Lode Round Up Queen Taylor Howell were Wednesday’s KVML “Newsmaker of the Day”.
Taylor Howell was crowned queen on her seventeenth birthday Sunday night at the Sonora Elks Lodge. Howell is a junior at Sonora High School and the daughter of Gary and Krista Howell.
Howell also won the awards for Horsemanship, Congenality, Appearance, Speech and High Ticket Sales.
Layne Olsen received the Photogenic Award and was the First Runner-up, followed by Trisha Berg.
This 2012 Mother’s Day weekend marks the 55th anniversary of the Mother Lode Round-up and the 65th anniversary of the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Posse, founded in 1948, who started presenting the Mother Lode Round-Up in 1958.
The rodeo and parade was established as a rewarding partnership between the Tuolumne County business community and the Posse and continues to be based on that partnership today.
Because of the generous support of the local business community, local government and law enforcement entities, and the hard work of the posse men and their families, and many, many volunteers, the Round-up continues to be one of the finest spring rodeos and celebrations in California.
Every year over 350 of pro rodeo’s finest cowboys and cowgirls are attracted to this rodeo which is now part of the PRCA Heartland Rodeo Series which celebrates small town rodeos throughout America. Saturday’s parade is recognized as one of the largest parades for entries in California. Thousands of visitors are drawn every year to the Round-up weekend.
The Mother Lode Round-Up is a traditional western family, and hometown reunion that celebrates and pays tribute to the regional agricultural heritage and the Possemen in our past that kept this special event alive. People from all over the region look forward to a fun, great time celebrated during the beautiful spring season in the Sierra Nevada foothills. This event is a celebration of memories of simpler way of life and rodeo as it used to be.
Events this week include:
Wednesday May 9
Band Review
6:00 PM
Sonora High School
Thursday, May 10
Calcutta
6:00 PM
Sheriff’s Posse Grounds
Rawhide, Road, Jamestown
Hors d’oeuvres and no host bar
FREE ADMISSION
Saturday, May 12
Parade
10:00 AM
Downtown Sonora
Rodeo
2:00 PM
Mother Lode Fairgrounds
$18:00 Regular Admission
$15.00 Presale
$7.00 Child (7-12)
Under 7 FREE
Dance
8:00 PM
Mother Lode Fairgrounds
$10.00 Regular Admission (Unused Adult Rodeo Tickets accepted)
Sunday May 13
Wrangler Family Day
All Day
Mother Lode Fairgrounds
Mothers Day Breakfast
8 AM – 12 noon
Mother Lode Fairgrounds
Admission $7.00 per person
Cowboy Church with Coy Huffman
10:00 AM
Grandstands
Mother Lode Fairgrounds
Rodeo
12:30 PM Kiddie Rodeo
2:00 PM Rodeo
Mother Lode Fairgrounds
$18.00 Regular Admission
$15.00 Presale
$7.00 Child (7-12)
Under 7 FREE
Ron Patel, General Manager of Black Oak Casino and Mark Truppner of KVML radio will announce the parade together on Saturday morning, beginning at 10am from their vantage point at Washington and Gold Street.
Big Joe and Bridgette of KKBN 93.5 FM will announce the parade from their elevated position, near the Radiator Doctor. Justin and Maryann of Star 92.7 FM will announce the parade by the VFW Hall (across from Courthouse Park).
The Round-up is the “Rope” portion of the well-marketed “Rope, Ride & Ribbit” this month.
Rope, Ride and Ribbit is three large events taking place within a week. First, the Mother Lode Roundup Parade and Rodeo, followed by the Amgen Race on Wednesday May 16 and concluding with the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping From Jubilee from Thursday May 17th – 20th.
For more information, log onto http://www.motherloderoundup.com/
The “Newsmaker of the Day” is heard each weekday morning on AM 1450 KVML at 6:47, 7:47 and 8:47am.
