Apr 29 2009
Apr 22 2009
Centennial Plaza
Centennial Plaza
Round-Up is close
to reaching its
fundraising goal
The Pendleton Round-Up is about $100,000 away from its million-dollar goal for completion of the Round-Up Centennial Plaza in front of the rodeo grounds on Southwest Court Avenue. Committee chairmen Tim Hawkins and Mike Thorne have asked the public for help to meet the goal.
“We wanted to give everyone a chance to contribute to this exciting improvement,” Hawkins said. “The public has always shown its support for the rodeo and we hope this fundraising effort will be a success.
Thorne agreed. “Although times are tough, we’ve gotten so close to our goal because Round-Up is near and dear to groups like the Pendleton Foundation and various businesses,” he said. “We hope Continue reading…
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Apr 20 2009
Pendleton Round-Up Centennial Cookbook
Beyond The Bull
The Pendleton Round-Up started in 1910 and has grown to a four-day extravaganza that brings more than 50,000 visitors to this cozy Eastern Oregon town of 16,000. Food has played an important role in Round-Up celebrations over the decades and each organization and family has added their own spin. The participation of the Umatilla, Cayuse and Walla Walla tribes, dating back to the very first rodeo, makes the Pendleton gathering a unique event and adds to the diversity of food that’s associated with Round-Up. Whether it’s fry bread, the cowboy breakfast, a barbeque, or a special baked beans dish that is served to guests in the backyard, food has become an important tradition. This cookbook, Beyond The Bull, documents these traditions while celebrating the Round-Up’s 100th Anniversary.
Pre-Sales are being taken for Pendleton Round-Up Centennial Bookbook. For more information, or to reserve a copy you can stop by the Round-Up & Happy Canyon office located in the Hall of Fame Museum at 1114 SW Court Avenue, or call 541-276-2553.
Category: News & Updates
Apr 14 2009
The Pendleton Round-Up Foundation has awarded scholarships to five young people to help continue their education. Pendleton High School seniors Allison Frey, Michael Hales, Tracey LeGore and Molly Murry along with Cheyenne Ward, a 2008 graduate of Pilot Rock High School, have each received $1,000.
“I wish I had more scholarships to give,” Judge Ron Pahl, the Round-Up director who chairs the scholarship committee said. “The caliber of the applicants is very high. This community should Continue reading…
Category: People & Volunteers
Mar 29 2009
Swearingens to lead the 2009
Round-Up Westward Ho! Parade
Wayne and Mervin Swearingen
Brothers Mervin and Wayne Swearingen of Pendleton will serve as grand marshals for the 2009 Westward Ho! Parade to be held Sept. 18. Parade Director Billy Lorenzen announced the grand marshals at the Introductory Party held Saturday (March 28) at the Red Lion. The parade had two grand marshals only once before, in 1969 when Walt and Sid Seale of Condon led the procession.
“This whole rodeo goes on because of its volunteers,” Lorenzen said. “They have 95 years of volunteering between them. Kids start out by selling programs. You guys have gone Continue reading…
Category: People & Volunteers
Mar 27 2009
Queen Tiffany Aliverti (center) Princess Ashley Kannard (top left),
Princess Kristin Hoeft (top right), Princess Mackenzie Beard (lower left),
and Princess Amber Pack (lower right).
Category: People & Volunteers
Mar 10 2009
Rodney Atkins
Rodney Atkins will headline the 2009 kickoff concert for the Pendleton Round-Up & Happy Canyon. Atkins, the Academy of Country Music’s 2006 Top New Male Vocalist will perform Saturday, Sept. 12th at the Happy Canyon Arena in Pendleton, Ore. The annual concert is the opening of the week-long activities of the world famous Pendleton Round-Up and Happy
Canyon.
Atkins is one of the hottest country music performers today, with four number one hits to his credit. Atkins also has the honor of receiving the Billboard magazine award for the most played song in back-to-back years. In 2006 for “If You’re Going Through Hell,” and in 2007 for “Watching You.” “These Are My People” marked Atkins’ latest number one country hit.
“”Every song I sing is about the world as I know it,” Rodney says. “Every word is real. I’m not going to sing it if it isn’t.”
A native of small-town East Tennessee, the adopted son of a loving family and the proud father to a family of his own, Atkins understands regular lives because he still leads one. “People always talk Continue reading…
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Feb 27 2009
The Pendleton Round-Up Association is offering scholarships to individuals attending college. The scholarships will be available to those students who, with their families, have been involved with the Pendleton Round-Up. In addition, other considerations are financial need and scholastic achievement. This scholarship is not limited to graduating high school seniors, but an individual Continue reading…
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Feb 23 2009
Congratulations to Tim Cain,
Pendleton Round-Up’s Volunteer of the Year
Tim Cain with President Randy Severe.
PENDLETON -The Pendleton Round-Up honored a long-time volunteer, presenting Tim Cain as the rodeo’s volunteer of the year for 2008. Cain received the award Saturday, Feb. 21 and the annual barbecue honoring
all Round-Up volunteers.
The award is given in the memory of the late Orville Gerberding, a long-time rodeo volunteer who also served on the board of directors. It was presented to Cain by Round-Up President Randy Severe who applauded all the volunteers who help stage the rodeo the second full week of each September.
“This award is all in honor of the volunteers,” Severe said. “It’s a challenge to pick the outstanding volunteer of the year, because there are so many but this year we did pick the best. There are so many volunteers Continue reading…
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Feb 13 2009
PENDLETON – The Pendleton Round-Up will have a new face soon, as work has begun to clear the way for a plaza that will feature a wider sidewalk and two ticket booths set back from Southwest Court Avenue.
“We did surveys and one of the things that kept coming up was to get rid of that prison-looking fence,” Round-Up Director Tim Hawkins, who is co-chairing with Mike Thorne the committee tasked with making the improvements, said. “What precipitated this was we applied to the Oregon Continue reading…
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