This weekend isJefferson County Stampede Days.
For Rigby, this is a pretty big deal. The celebration surrounds a rodeo that has been happening since 1928. It was originally held in Lewisville to help raise money to build a new LDS church building.
In 1939 it moved to Rigby.
Along with the rodeo, there is a parade and a celebration with booths and entertainment in the park.
Last May, I decided to start advertising to gather students for a clogging team. I tried to pick a name that would be a little different from other clogging studios in Idaho/Utah. John and I love Yellowstone Park. We now live less than 100 miles from it. So that's where the first part of the name came from.
The "clogging company" part is obvious. I didn't want to disguise what kind of dance group we are.
The last part came about because I wanted kind of a theme name. Gem Cloggers use words to name there teams like "rubies" and "diamonds." So I picked "Stampede."
Yellowstone Clogging Company STAMPEDE! or
"Yellowstone Stampede" for short.
Now I have groups called
"Stampede Rumble" and
"Stampede Thunder" and
"Stampede Storm."
I kind of like it.
So I sent out flyers in early in May. Soon after, I drove into Rigby and saw signs on all of the lamp posts in town, advertising an event I had never heard of before, and my new clogging team name--STAMPEDE DAYS!
Well, if your clogging group is called Yellowstone Stampede, it is necessary or almost required that your dancers are a part of the whole thing--don't you think. I made up my mind then and there that we would be part of Stampede Days the next time it happened. And here we are getting ready.
Much can happen in one short year...
PS--Laura, if it were not for you, none of this would be. Thank you for sharing your talent with the girls and I. Now there are new cloggers in eastern Idaho benefiting from you as well!
And, last but not least,
I finished ALVOR
(over a week ago,
sorry so slow to post),
and I LOVED it!!!
Keep working on #2...
For Rigby, this is a pretty big deal. The celebration surrounds a rodeo that has been happening since 1928. It was originally held in Lewisville to help raise money to build a new LDS church building.
In 1939 it moved to Rigby.
Along with the rodeo, there is a parade and a celebration with booths and entertainment in the park.
Last May, I decided to start advertising to gather students for a clogging team. I tried to pick a name that would be a little different from other clogging studios in Idaho/Utah. John and I love Yellowstone Park. We now live less than 100 miles from it. So that's where the first part of the name came from.
The "clogging company" part is obvious. I didn't want to disguise what kind of dance group we are.
The last part came about because I wanted kind of a theme name. Gem Cloggers use words to name there teams like "rubies" and "diamonds." So I picked "Stampede."
Yellowstone Clogging Company STAMPEDE! or
"Yellowstone Stampede" for short.
Now I have groups called
"Stampede Rumble" and
"Stampede Thunder" and
"Stampede Storm."
I kind of like it.
So I sent out flyers in early in May. Soon after, I drove into Rigby and saw signs on all of the lamp posts in town, advertising an event I had never heard of before, and my new clogging team name--STAMPEDE DAYS!
Well, if your clogging group is called Yellowstone Stampede, it is necessary or almost required that your dancers are a part of the whole thing--don't you think. I made up my mind then and there that we would be part of Stampede Days the next time it happened. And here we are getting ready.
Much can happen in one short year...
PS--Laura, if it were not for you, none of this would be. Thank you for sharing your talent with the girls and I. Now there are new cloggers in eastern Idaho benefiting from you as well!
And, last but not least,
I finished ALVOR
(over a week ago,
sorry so slow to post),
and I LOVED it!!!
Keep working on #2...
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