Rodeo and PV a good match
Jun. 8—The rodeo and Pauls Valley clearly go together as the 78th annual Heritage Day Rodeo is coming Friday and Saturday, June 23-24.
The rodeo action is scheduled to get started at 8 p.m. both nights at the Pauls Valley Roundup Club Arena.
Bull riding is only a part of the rodeo as other events are breakaway roping, tie-down calf roping, ranch broncs, open barrels and mutton' bustin' for kids 6 and younger.
Also featured is the Star Spangled Stampede Drill Team.
A rodeo parade going through downtown Pauls Valley gets riding at 5 p.m. June 24.
Call 405-238-7425 or 238-2776 for more as advance tickets of $5 are available at Sharpe's Department Store in downtown Pauls Valley.
----A handful of Oklahoma Blood Institute blood drives are set for different Garvin County sites over the next few weeks.
—Thursday, June 8 (12:30 to 5:30 p.m.) — Lindsay United Methodist Church southeast room, 114 West Chickasaw. Call Tammy April at 405-756-1414.
—Thursday, June 8 (1:45 to 4:15 p.m.) — The Clinic in Stratford, 302 West Smith. Call Anne Flinn at 580-925-3286.
—Tuesday, June 20 (11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.) — Simmons Bank in Wynnewood, 201 South Dean A. McGee. Call Amie Orr at 580-798-3714.
----The next series of the Let's Talk About it book lectures, a program of Oklahoma Humanities, is set to return later in the summer.
With a theme of "Writing Worlds," the schedule of books and lectures are:
—"Into the Heart" by Kenneth Good. Lecture is Aug. 10 led by Sunu Kodumthara.
—"The Storyteller" by Mario Vargas Llosa. Lecture is Sept. 14 led by Harbour Winn.
—"Everything that Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor. Lecture is Oct. 12 led by Joshua Grasso.
—"A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" by Robert Olin Butler. Lecture is Nov. 9 led by Ken Hada.
—"An American Childhood" by Annie Dillard. Lecture is Dec. 14 led by John Morris.
—Thursday, June 22 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) — First United Bank in Pauls Valley, 315 West Grant. Call Joy Kinney at 903-245-9780.
