June 26^th 2010, will commemorate the Bronze Unveiling and Centennial Plaza Dedication

The bronze will be unveiled just after 11:30am, with a dedication to the Centennial Plaza also taking place at this time.  Following the dedication & unveiling, the community is invited to stay and enjoy the celebration with activities following at Roy Raley Park, located to the east of the arena.     In the park you will enjoy the following entertainment:  The Mounted Band.  Both Round-Up and Happy Canyon Courts will be signing posters and pictures.  Austin Barton, the artist of the bronze, will be on hand to visit and take questions.  The Westward HO! Grand Marshals will be available to meet and greet.  There will be tee pees up to step inside and back into history.  The Zac Grooms Band will be playing live music.  Pony Rides, Stickers and Face painting will be taking place for the kids.  The BMCC Robo Bull will be there for those who would like to give their 8 seconds a go.  There will be a demonstration in the arena by the Hermiston Mounted Shooters.  Trick Ropers will be in the park, as will be students from BMCC who will demonstrate roping techniques   There will be 50 of the West End bleachers which will be branded at the event and available for sale- it will be your last chance to own a piece of the history as these will be the final fifty bleachers.      There will be Hot Dogs to the first 2000 people and Swire Coke will provide beverages.

Plan to be apart of this historical event beginning at 11:30am on June 26th, 2010

Pendleton Round-Up Centennial Plaza Dedication Bronze Unveiling & Spring Branding
Unveiling to begin at 11:30am at the Centennial Plaza

Roy Raley Park Activities

12:00 – 4:00 Zac Grooms & Unwound playing at the amphitheatre

12:00 Free Hot Dogs & Coke for the first 2,000

12:00 – 3:00 Pendleton Round-Up and Happy Canyon Court
Signing pictures and calendars

12:00 – 3:00 Children’s Museum Face Painting and
Pendleton Round-Up’s bucking horse tattoo’s

12:00 – 3:00 BMCC’s Robo Bull demonstrations

12:00 – 3:00 Roping demonstrations and lessons with hay bale steers

12:00 – 3:00 Pony Rides for Children (children 1- 4 yrs must be accompanied by an adult)
The ponies are bringing some of their baby farm friends too!

12:00 – 3:00 Trick roping demonstrations by Tommye Flenniken Jr.

1:00 – 2:00 Branding Demonstration by the Round-Up Board of Directors

For our Out Of Town Guests: The Pendleton Red Lion Hotel is offering a discounted rate on Rooms under the block name “Spring Branding & Unveiling” .  Rates for these rooms at $92.95 plus tax.  To make reservations please phone the Red Lion at 541-276-6111

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The old West Grandstands may be gone, but we have the bleachers!   Now is your chance to own a piece of history.  The West Grandstand bleachers built in the 1950s are now available for you to take home- with the 2010 brand to commemorate the Centennial celebration.  The bleacher boards are now available for sale at the store, located at 1114 SW Court Avenue- across from the Round-Up arena.  They are $20 each and proceeds go to the Centennial Plaza Project.
Own your piece of history~  there are only 400 bleacher boards available!

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Photo by Gary Ogilvie

PENDLETON — World-famous sculptor Austin Barton has been commissioned to create the bronze bucking horse made famous by the Pendleton Round-Up logo for the Centennial Plaza project. The artist is also creating a limited edition series of 100 28-inch replicas of the statue for sale to Western art collectors and fans of the Round-Up.

The sculptor was raised in the Snake River and Wallowa Valley of Eastern Oregon, giving him an intimate knowledge of the Western way of life. His pieces are sold in galleries across the United States and his bronzes are in many private and corporate collections.

“I’ve admired Austin’s work for years,” Round-Up Director Tim Hawkins, who is chairman of the centennial committee, said. “When I approached him for a potential commission he was both flattered and excited. I didn’t think we would be able to afford an artist of Austin’s reputation, but he told me ‘I don’t charge for being famous.’”

Hawkins said that as Barton began work on the bronze he confided it may be the most significant piece he’s ever created.

“I was pleased,” Barton said of Round-Up approaching him to immortalize the bucking Continue reading…

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The 100^th anniversary of the Pendleton Round-Up will kick-off with a New Year’s eve celebration on December 31^st, 2009.  The “Let’er Buck Ball” is planned as the initial kick-off event for the 2010 rodeo, to be held September 15^th through the 18^th.

The 21-and-over event, taking place at the Hamley and Co. facility in downtown Pendleton, will feature celebrities, dignitaries, public officials, and cowboys and cowgirls from around the northwest, along with multiple entertainment options through the evening as well as a live and silent auction.

Tim Hawkins, Pendleton Round-Up arena director and chairman of the Round-Up centennial committee says the intent is to kick off the year in a style unique to the Pendleton Round-Up.

“When the concept came about, there was no doubt in my mind that it had to be a first class, once-in-a-lifetime western affair,” Hawkins said.  “We have the unique ability to make this happen and it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Hawkins says guests are encouraged to wear their favorite rodeo regalia from the past hundred years.  The evening will include live entertainment, food by Hamley Continue reading…

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From left to right: Mike & Jill Thorne, Tim & Jennifer Hawkins, Randy Severe, Dave Croslin and Stacey Bowen.

The Safeway Foundation for District 71 donated $15,000 to Centennial Plaza now under construction along Southwest Court Avenue in front of the Round-Up Ground Thursday. The donation comes from employees of the 18 stores in the district.

“It’s from the employees of stores all the way from Enterprise to downtown Portland,” District 71 Manager Dave Croslin said. “Normally our donations are around $2,000 to $5,000, but Round-Up has been wonderful to us and we wanted to do something in return.”

Croslin said when he took his position three years ago all he knew about Round-Up Continue reading…

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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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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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