Travis County Commssioners Court
March 2, 2004
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Item 1
1. Approve proclamation declaring March 2004 as "trail ride month" in Travis County. Ms. Mueller is here with us again. It reads whereas the trail rides recreate the old Texas cattle drives and wagon trains which settled our great lone star state, whereas those participating in this event will be the 20th annual Austin founders trail ride, with trail boss jean mueller, whereas the 20th annual Austin founders trail ride, March 5 through 14, 2004, will follow a 102-mile route with covered wagons, horses and mules from new braunfels to canyon lake and into Austin to officially start the 67th annual Austin star of Texas fair and prca rodeo, which will run from March 13th through 27th, at the Travis County exposition center, and whereas the Travis County residents will hear the gyp gel of spurs and see lots of bandannas, boots, chaps and cowboy hats during trail ride and rodeo time in Texas. Happy trails, head 'em up, move 'em out, wagons ho. We will let jean do it this year. Be it revolved that we the Travis County Commissioners court do here by proclaim March 2004 as trail ride month in Travis County and encourage all citizens to participate in -- applaud the citizens of the trail rideor the preservation of the cultural heritage of Texas, I move approval.
>> second.
>> good morning.
>> good morning, happy Texas independence day. Thank you so much, judge, Biscoe and Travis County Commissioners. Head 'em up, move 'em out, wagons ho! It's trail ride and rodeo time in Texas [laughter] we want to invite you all, in fact we have an honorary membership for you all to come out on our 20th anniversary of the Austin founders trail ride that's going to start this Friday, March the 5th, in new braunfels at the comal county fair grounds and we will be riding about 25 covered wagons and got probably about 450 trail riders coming in from all over the country, all ages, to travel down the guadalupe river road on that Saturday March the 6th, lots of flags flying. And we'll end up at the red barn there in canyon lake. We will have the dinner and dance and the awards there. I will be very, very proud to be presenting five, 20-year trophies. I'll be one of those, I have been on the ride ever since the beginning in 1985, but we have a wagon driver that's 85 years old that's going to get that trophy with great pride. My assistant trail boss will be getting it. And several other, very, very special. We will do two nights at the ranch, ranch riding, then heading on to the wimberly rodeo grounds and then riding through the ranch for lunch heading to camp benefit mccullough, we will end up and jenn and peggy buda's ranch, coming in to kick-off the 67th annual rodeo at the Travis County exposition center on Saturday, March the 13th. After all of that riding on the trail, through the wild flowers and blue bonnets and Texas two stepping in the dances with dusty britches and the ranch hands from bandera and pauline reese and her cup western band on June 5th the wimberly dance, we are looking forward to being there at the rodeo grounds on opening night, which is going to be extreme bull riding, Saturday March the 13th, starting at 7:30 p.m. And the rest of the 13 performances, March the 13th to the 27th will be the regular prac rodeo with all of the bull riding, bronc riding, calf roping, team roping, calf scrambling and barrel racing. Across canadian, ragweed is the opening band, we are looking forward to having clay walker, I didn't know nona, meryl haggard, lots of great entertainers coming. I would like to wish you happy trails on Texas independence day.
>> thank you.
>> thank you. I almost think that bull riding is extreme. What is extreme bull riding, i've not heard that expression?
>> basically the whole two hour rodeo performance is all bull riders.
>> okay.
>> so the professional bull riders association has gone to just bull riding event and it's been very popular, so the prca, which is professional rodeo cowboys association, which our star of Texas fair and rodeo is a sanctioned prac rodeo, mike sercy from houston provides all of the stock, it's the prca all bull riding.
>> kind of like Commissioners court. [laughter]
>> good to see you again.
>> thank you very much. All in favor. Passes.
>> thank you very much.
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