July 23, 2022 Issue, Page 8 of 8

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Community July 23, 2022 2nd Dust Bowl Days Festival Had Something For Everyone Creston Moore of the Natural Resources Conservation Service sits on his 1948 Ford 8N ‘The Tyler Wilhelm band played C&W and rock and roll at the Wild Plum Jam Music tractor at Sayre’s Dust Bowl Days Farm & Ranch Festival, Jul 22. Photo by Richard Stephens Jr. Regt, July 15, 2022. Five hundred at Sayre’s City Park enjoyed it. Photo by Richard Stephens Jr. eet = aT (errSATE = ic Lover TELAN” y. HUT CH's c.sTo| KECO Fm 96,5 = x THE WHEELER ge N 4D TRUCK WwacteeNERAL STORE Kay Allen, Lead Planner for the Dust Bowl Days Farm & Ranch Festival, thanked the 45 vendors who contributed $45,000 to the festival. Photo by Richard Stephens Jr. By Richard Stephens, Jr. on hand for that. Ausher and volunteers had coloring books, games, and educational infor- Sayre’s City Park sits one mile from down- mation for children. 7 = ane band aeee 500 guests - caer wie vhs Jam Music town. The Dust Bowl Days Farm & Ranch Festi- at midday, Allen provided a festival update. lest, 3 . Five bands play. fore them. Photo by Richard Stephens Jr. val planning committee, led by Kay Allen, filled She liked adding the Wild Plum Jam Music Fest it full of tly fi ctivities for t id e ‘county ee eee July residents from ee15th -eer17th.im... “It was (sponsors KECO 96.5 FM and Hutch’s), corn- ca (0) m e E LU |t a celebration of the land,” explained Allen. bole games, and camping in the'park, New For its second year, festival planners tried events are fine as long as they fit within the y hard to offer something for everyone. Friday theme. “We just want to stay true to what, why night's Wild Plum Jam Music Fest - a first - we're doing it. And that purpose is to celebrate had a nice turnout of about 500 people. It is the love of the land - that is the purpose.” She estimated another 750 came on Saturday and appreciates the 15 key planners and 65 addi- Sunday and enjoyed a good variety of activities. tional volunteers who helped realize the festi- ‘There's nothing like music to kick off a fes- 131 hey all local people of all ages...Every tival. The Wild Plum Jam with Ragland, Even Money, and Tyler Wilhelm, Joe Merrick, Mi- (Chamber of Commerce] board member was chael Murphey and Stoney LaRue pleased mu- here and working all day yesterday...and at the sic seekers who partied in the park listening to a parade too.” N good mixture of C&W mixed with rock and roll music. __The intense heat ~ 103 degrees — delayed ro- deo arena events until 5:30 pm, but once they ayn anti! NES LaRue’s red dirt C&W band unleashed driving _ started, there was plenty of whoopin' and hol- drum beats, electric guitar riffs, and plenty of Jerin’ as the four participating families: Silk, instrumental solos during a two-hour music set ~~ Damron, Merrick and Hodge Podge entertained that included “You Oughta Know Me by Now” a crowd of 125 folks with five semi-serious, and “Velvet.” semi-competitive events like saddling and rid- Saturday morning beamed sunny and mild inga steer and horses and ATVs pulling humans as families half-filled Main Street waiting for the Heritage Day Parade to start at 10 am. along on a cow hide. Finally, the “Dust Bowl ‘They weren't disappointed as Jimmy Clark an- Derby” launched into action as each family used nounced each of the participants that drove _outriders and an ATV to pick up a bed roll, chair, or walked by for forty-five minutes: Breeze, and goat from inside the arena and race outside HIC, Smith and other farm and ranch family _ a quarter mile to an adjoining pasture and back. floats; Sayre's Star Cheerleaders, Shriners and The winner with bragging rights for a year: the ESLOW ES “ wi other associations; Sayre's Police and Fire De- gi Family Farm, It was dusty, dirty, and down- , ae) | partment; Northfork Blectric Cooperative; and 1, Lie. @ Fowler: Agency;oe LittSpring Hoine Health ana, “2**®™™ Afterwards, families ate calf: fries from the Hospice and other businesses. ‘The Mayor of Sayre Gerald Sherrill, OKlaho- FFA: shopped for merchandise under tents, a /AAPR* ma State Representatives Anthony Moore, Dis- 2nd ate dinner from food trucks while listen- trict 57, and Nick Archer, District 55, and Okla- _ ing to Cole Snider and the Dean Jackson band, homa State Senator Brent Howard, District 38, the last of six musical groups or soloists that r met with locals afterwards. Sherrill praised the _ played C&W, jazz/blues, and easy listening mu- Apply online at www.endurancefcu.org festival, “Well, its good for the economy, Its sic throughout the day. good for people to have something to do and sunday’ gospel singing under the park pavil- ae a eae ond vee acquainted ion from 12 - 3 pm fit nicely into the overall with each other, Howard is a Aiti-generation DustfiBowl theme farmer whose family owns an Oklahoma Cen- a and ended lunch theand festival. me Sev- tennial Farm that started in 1892. His family m*Y five attendees ate lunch and sung familiar saw large differences between farming during hymns, clapping along. the Dust Bowl Days in the 1930s and today. His Despite concerns about new music acts and Fefo | era | C re fe | it U n i on grandfather “started plowing behind a team of _ activities, the festival came together after seven mules...and during his last years we had him on months of planning by 80 volunteers and 45 105 Regional Drive - 225-2690 | [naaemeiis 5 : a 450-horsepower tractor. So that's an an ee a big differ- donors giving $45,000 in money and in-kind By 11 am, the action switched to Sayre City three-day period. Five fun rodeo type events. Restrictions apply. Promotional Annual Percentage Rate (APR)is a fixed rate and is available for a Park, all free except the corn hole tournament. limited time. Approval is not guaranteed. Not all will qualify for a loan o Planners wanted families to sit and relax. Or All day swimming and mini golf. A large down- Promotion is for home equity loans in Oklahoma only. Other rat 1 ini golf im all day k Or town parade. There was plenty to do. maximum. r mortgage maximum, 85% or n to value. (Paymente: Pee Bo cian ac cigtca tages, Sie and JER Chamabex ot tommnate. wlio: £3 PR, monthly payment 004.50. This do ;, about conservation. Rusty Norrie and Creston is : : a insurance or } Must be a member of Endurance Federal Credit Union or me t membe Moore of the Natural Resources Conservation hosted the festival, provided a well-conceived, eligibility. Federally insured by NCUA. Equal Hou Lender. NI #421605 Service and Cassandra Ausher of the North well-executed event for the citizens of Sayre Fork of Red River Conservation District were and Beckham Country.