Yeehaw, Ride'm Cowpokes!

At Trafton Park, it wasn't no kids' rodeo. This was where the boots, hats, and butts hit the ground...it was another rodeo put on by local rancher, Jerey McEwen, and a host of hands that made it seem to go like clockwork.

Felicia Bruckner opened the event on Saturday by singing the national anthem, followed by a prayer by the announcer. On Sunday, Sommer Green of Whitewater sang the anthem. The pickup men were Ted Brown and Reed Pankratz.

It wasn't much of a "Cowboy Christmas" at the rodeo for locals, unfortunately. If luck was supposed to show up, it got waylayed.

Local youth presented the fl...