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THE In This Issue: PETALUMA Summer Fun! A READER’S MONTHLY Sonoma County Fair PVol. XVIIIo • JULYst 2004 • No. 213 Photography by Scott Hess 2 •JULY 2004 THE PETALUMA POST WWW.PETALUMAPOST.COM Several affordable massage plans available Receive a one hour massage for as low as $40 Special pricing for the first 100 members Your Authorized Mattress Dealer WHY A TEMPURPEDIC FOR YOU? Well, based on our after sale phone calls to our customers, you may experience one or more of the following benefits: “I no longer toss and turn!” “I wake up feeling so rested!” “I don’t need hy- drotherapy to start my day!” “I don’t need my sleeping pills!” “My arthritis doesn’t bother me at night!” “My sleep apnea is far better!” “My arms and legs don’t get numb anymore!” . .And why Praetzel’s for a TEMPURPEDIC? We have a showroom just to show Tempurpedics. Beside it being clean & neat, we’ll make you feel oh so comfortable. Our courteous ! sales people can answer any sleep questions. Not sure? 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John felt other specialty Nature Barbara Caswell GRodeo, Friday, July 30, and acts were equally deserving Norris (Bob) Dyer Old Petaluma Skip Sommer Saturday, July 31, at 8:00 and declined to accept any Petaluma Pete Richurd C. Somers p.m. Grandstand seats in the additional honors. His only Q&A Your Money Jim Becker Travel Jean A. Cooke Pepsi Chris Beck Arena are focus these days is to please Transformations Pamela Bell $10 each -- and they sell out rodeo fans… and please quickly each year. them, he does. With the Online: Saddle bronc riding, steer crack of his whip, “The One PetalumaPost.com The Petaluma Post is not responsible for the wrestling, team roping, bare- Arm Bandit” has his horse images and statements of any advertiser or author. Community information must be submitted by the 15th of the month. Adver- tising deadline is the 20th of the month. For BMXBZTGPVOEHVJMUZPGTUFBMJOHUIFTIPX subscriptions, mail $20.00 to: THE PETALUMA POST back riding, calf roping, barrel and dogs obeying his every P.O. Box 493, Petaluma, CA 94953 racing, and bull riding will be command. He’s even trained PHONE: 707.776.2788 featured. Plenty of good ol’ his longhorn Watusi steer to boys will be in town to enter- hurdle a 90-degree jump from EMAIL: [email protected] tain rodeo spectators and to his truck, landing on the top battle their rivals for purses set of his trailer. All this is accom- at $2,050 per event. Back by plished with no ramp in sight. The One Arm Bandit Rides Again! popular demand, Idaho An- It’s an act you’ll never forget. ABOUT TIME! nouncer Don Jesser will call “The One Arm Bandit Gang” A Fair Summer Night New Portable Spa the competitions. is always found guilty of steal- $2495 Rodeo is a grueling and ing the show and making the #T140 Energy Efficient Of Bluegrass Plugs into 110 Volt Electricity fickle sport. The cowboys crowds go wild. know their scores will be Like the PRCA Rodeo, h e C a l i f o r n i a every song the ‘Jades tore equally dependent upon their the Fair’s Charreada Mexicana Bluegrass Associa- through.” performance and the animals’ is an annual sellout. Sched- tion, dedicated to Lost Highway is renowned 707-528-3061 performance, so the stock uled for Sunday, August 8, in the furtherance for their love and respect for 709 Santa Rosa Ave., Santa Rosa contractor plays a huge role the Pepsi Chris Beck Arena, Tof Bluegrass, Old-Time, and traditional bluegrass. This in the success of a rodeo. The this celebration of Mexican Gospel music, will produce group of five gentlemen is bucking bulls and horses for culture starts at 6:00 p.m. its first-ever Bluegrass Festival best-known for tight trio har- the Sonoma County Fair are Tickets are $12 each. Spec- at this year’s Sonoma County monies, instrumental prowess provided by Russell Rodeos, tators will be treated to an Fair. The three-hour event and a relaxed, friendly stage back for the 10th year in a international extravaganza will play on the Budweiser manner. Ken Orrick’s voice is row. These premier animals featuring unique displays of Redwood Theater stage at 6: considered by many to be one come to Sonoma County Mexican cultural dress and 00 p.m. on Monday, August of the best bluegrass voices well-rested after performances music 2, and features some of the anywhere. earlier in the month at the A d v a n c e R o d e o & most outstanding musical tal- True Blue, a local band prestigious California Rodeo Charreada tickets may ent in America. that hails from Berkeley, in Salinas. “Our livelihood be purchased online at The Crooked Jades take rounds out the evening with depends upon supplying sonomacountyfair.com, or the stage first to play mate- their traditional Bluegrass animals that are healthy, at the Fair Administration rial ranging from soulful sound. They’re not soft or po- well cared for, and capable of Office. Once the Fair opens, old-time ballads and rocking lite, but compelling in a way performing to their full po- tickets are on sale at the ticket string-band dance music to that is both fresh and familiar. tential,” said Linda Russell, booth in front of Grace Pavil- traditionally-inspired original They bring together the three owner and operator of Russell ion on Bennett Valley Road. pieces. The Jades have played crucial elements of good blue- Rodeos, “We take great pride Two hours before the start of to rave reviews across the grass: instinctive harmonies, in putting on a show that has the Rodeo, ticket sales move United States and their talents soul, and an organic rhyth- everyone leaving happy.” to the Pepsi Chris Beck Arena. are certain to be appreciated mic feel reminiscent of Flatt New this year is a specialty You may also buy advance Fair by our audience. According & Scruggs. This band is an act that’s bound to excite and admission tickets and carnival to playinginfog.com, “the example of what can happen thrill all rodeo fans. Having coupons at your local Sonoma entire audience was clapping when four people share a nabbed eight consecutive County Mary’s Pizza Shack or and hooting and generally musical sensibility and joy in PRCA “Specialty Act of the Coddingtown Mall. forgetting to act cool during what they are doing. 4 •JULY 2004 THE PETALUMA POST WWW.PETALUMAPOST.COM Sonoma County Fair Jumbotron & Wine Tasting Are Back At The Races See You At he thundering of of $100,000. The 32nd run- hooves, the roar ning of the Grace Handicap, The Fair, of thousands of a distance race for Thorough- voices, and the breds four years of age and up, July 27th Tsweet anticipation of cashing is scheduled for Saturday, Au- in a winning ticket: Wine gust 7, and promises to attract Country Racing is back in the finest collection of horses Through town. ever assembled in Santa Rosa. Sonoma County, known Last year, the Sonoma County globally as a producer of some Fair renamed its premier race August 9th ! of the finest wine grapes, also for two-year-olds the Cavon- has an impressive 68-year nier Juvenile Stakes ($40,000) record as one of the leading in honor of the late Bob Wal- on-track horse race provid- ters’ Sonoma County-grown ers in the country. From gelding who won his first race A Summer in the Life of a Wednesday, July 28, through at the Sonoma County Fair in Monday, August 9, you’ll be 1995. Cavonnier went on to able to experience the sights, win the Santa Anita Derby Livestock Exhibitor smells, and thrills of horse and missed winning the 1996 The Sonoma County the livestock shows and sells racing, Sonoma County style. Kentucky Derby by a nose. Fair’s Junior Livestock Auc- 5IF SFTQFDU UIF well at the market auctions. Daily first post is 12:45 p.m., Grandstand patrons can tion, combined with our vast ZPVOHTUFST TIPX The youngsters are quite with no racing on Tuesday, watch the races on Wine farm animal exhibit, makes UPXBSETFBDIPUIFS competitive, but there is a dis- August 3. Country Racing’s giant in- us one of the most prominent tinct camaraderie that exists The Showcase Café, im- field “Jumbotron” screen and County livestock exhibitions JT B QMFBTVSF UP in the livestock barns. It’s all mediately adjacent to the can wager on races at other in California,” notes Live- XBUDI for one and one for all.