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San Miguel Basin Forum, Thursday, June I, 1989 - 3
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The annual Naturita Days
celebration is this weekend,
and the schedule of events is
fulll
Starting w/th the parade at
I0 a.m. Saturday- the theme
this year is "Hold Hands and
Stick Together" - the fes-
tivities continue all day
Saturday and well into Sun-
} d%be
0ueen Candidates,
Shelly Hightower, Rhonda
Neely and Shannon Reeder.
will be In the parade, along
with entries from many of the
area businesses and or-
ganizations. There will be
cash prizes for both the win-
ning floats and for the win-
ners of the decorated bike
contest, so be sure to get
your b/kes, trikes or even
unicycles all duded up, k/dsI
Following the parade there
wUl be a pingpong ball drop:
at the park. the feather-light
balls falling from San Mlguel
Powers "cherrypicker". Then
games for k/ds of all ages
begin. Beside the children's
games there will be the tradi-
tional softball tournament
lasting all day Saturday and
ricking up again on Sunday
for the championship
rounds. There will be vol-
leyball and horseshoe tour-
neys too.
The Naturita Lioness,
sponsors of the weekend, will
have concessions available
all weekend long, and the
Nucla !,ions will be serving
their delicious BBQ both
days too. The cost of the bar-
becue beef sandwich, beans,
pickle and chips is $3.50 per
plate, $2.50 under twelve.
Saturday evening, at 9 p.m.
on the slab at the Naturita
Pazki the ( t.|een will be
crowned. Then comes dane-
lng, to the music of Western
Pleasure. Tickets cost $3 per
person.
Get ready for a fun-ffiled
weekend. There's something
for the entire famflyI
Softball
Tournament
Schedule
Twelve teams are slated to
go to bat for the champion-
ship in the 12th Annual
Naturita Days Softball Tour-
nament this weekend.
Game #1 starts at 8 a.m.
pitting Ray Motel against The
Mustang. Game #2, also at 8
a.m., is Norwood versus
MCB/Merc. At 9:30 a.m.
Game #3 pits Flairmont
against A to Z, and Game #4
is Scoreboard versus Mon-
ticello.
Game #5 at 11 a.m. has
Chuck's Glass facing the
winner of Game #1. Another
II a.m. game, #8, puts
Northern NavaJos against the
winner of Game #2. Game #6
places Strutter's against the
winner of Game #3, action
The San Miguel Horse
Racing Association is
dedicating this years Race
Meet to Stan Ol/ver and the
Ol/ver family, who have been
involved in racing for forty
years or more. Stan, who
recently passed away, was
one of the "old timers" who
were instrumental in getting
the San M/guel association
active and involved in the
racing c/rcutL
This year the gates open a
noon both Saturday and
starting at 12:30 p.m. Game
#7, also a 12:30 p.m. game,
puts Whitey's opposite the
winner of Game #4.
Games 9 and I0, at 2 p.m.,
are consolation games, as
are games 11 and 12 at 3:30
p.m. At 5 p.m. are Game #13,
with the winners of #5 and
#6 facing each other;, and
Game #14 putting the win-
ners of #7 and #8 as op-
ponents. Games 15 and 16,
in the consolation bracket,
begin at 6:30 p.m.
Sunday morning starts off
at 9 a.m. with games 17 and
Sunday, with post time at I
p.m. There will be feature
races, including a $1,000
purse each day, and the Stan
Oliver Memorial Race on
Sunday, with a k -added
purse.
There will be equestrian
and dressage events during
the breaks between races. As
of Monday there were ap-
prox/mately I00 head ofrun-
ning horses from four states
expected at the races, and
Association anticipates a
18, consolation quarter-
flnals.iGame #19 in the win-
ners bracket starts at 10:30
a.m. with those winners
going into Game #22 at 1:30
p.m. for the championship
match. The consolation
finals are at noon on Sunday
and there is the poas/bfllty of
a match-up of the champ/on-
ship team and the consola-
t/on finalists facing a 3 p.m.
game.
Stop by the balBlelds at
Naturita Town Park both
days for some sure-/hr, hot-
dawg soflbellt
bigger parUclpat/on this year
than last year's 116 horses.
..
Jim Suck]a will serve as
announcer for the two-day
Race Meet. There will be
starts of 300 yards up to six
and one-half furlongs. Bet-
ring includes ( dcutta and
$2 win tickets. Conemmtons
will be avsflable, and admis-
s/on ts $3 at the gate.
Come Join the fun and ex-
citement of racing at the
fairgrounds In Norwoo
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