Welcome back to Idaho.
Today, a time honored tradition in Idaho,
the Snake River Stampede is back next week,
and it's not only a great place to take
in some barrel racing and bucking Broncos,
but it's also an opportunity to
support a great cause here to
tell us all about it is Dan Ward,
Daniel look great. Good to see you.
Thanks for having you and nice
to have me here.
Well it's it's fantastic to have you're
looking awesome with your hat all decked out.
This is just a great little taste of
some of the fun that we're going to
have at the Snake River Stampede.
But for those who are not familiar
give us an overview what can families
expect when they go to the Snake River
so you know the start off Monday we
have the buckaroo breakfast starts at 7
and then we have free slack on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Thursday and Friday.
So each event has their slack qualify
for the rodeo and then we have
Tuesday as the start of the rodeo
starts at 7 seven o'clock doors
open at 533 rodeos at 6:45. So
Dan explain a rodeo for those who've.
Ever been in an arena and seen the dirt fly?
OK, so what's that experience like?
Because we're gonna see barrel racing, right?
Yeah, so we have actually 7 events.
You get to walk. OK, so you know if
you haven't ever been to a rodeo,
it's very exciting because it's a.
It's a great competition where
they're one of the top ten in the
in the United States for our rodeo.
It's our 107th year.
So yeah, so if you come there
the the first one is either sale,
Bronco, ******** Horse, Bronx.
The back and then the second event
will be steer wrestling or tie down and
then we have barrel racing which is a
favorite and then we have the bull riding.
But the favorite thing of the whole rodeo
is the is the mutton busting at 5:45.
The kids ride the sheep so
that's worth coming to see
it. Yes it is so and we're
seeing some great footage too
of years past River Stampede,
which truly there's something for everybody
at this event and it is such a true.
The culture of our state that I just
people must attend. In my opinion,
it's a must do during the summer.
So how long has the Snake
River Stampede been around?
So it's our 107th year.
So we started in 1915 in Nampa.
There they just had a little arena out
there where the old post office is now,
so that's where it started.
Yeah, and it's obviously grown in size.
Yeah 1950. They built the we
called it the Green Queen which
was the old stadium outside.
And so that's where it
kind of really got big.
I remember going to that.
Yeah, we used to have stars all kinds,
you know, three and Roy Rogers and for
us old people that know those guys.
So I know them, yeah, so
yeah, so it's it's a great event
so we've been around a long time.
We have 20 directors.
We have 33 committees.
We have over 300 volunteers
and none of us are
paid. That makes this happen.
It's at the Ford Idaho Center.
What the 19th or the 23rd?
Is that correct? Correct, OK?
And this is also an opportunity
to raise awareness and funds
for really important cause.
Tell us about Stampede for the cure.
OK, so on Wednesday we honored
the breast cancer people we do
peak on the dirt in the stadium.
A fundraiser for breast cancer patients.
And so we do a big dinner out on the dirt,
so that's why we call it pink on the dirt.
Have a live auction and it's a great
event to raise money for the cancer.
All right. So if people want to
go to the event if they want to go
to the Snake River Stampede and
enjoy this fantastic opportunity.
Where do they go? What do they
do so you know you can get online?
You can get all to snakeorstampede.com and
it'll have an information thing there.
All the things that we do and
also on the cancer thing.
What you you can do that also a volunteer
list if you want to get on there.
If you want to buy tickets,
it's at the ICE ticket Office in Nampa.
Please go to that one because
we don't want you to get scammed
with any other thing, so
make sure your tickets
are legit. Excellent and
it sells out fast so you want
to get your ticket pretty soon.
Yeah, it's beloved event here.
Ohh it's great then
Dan thank you so much everyone stick around.
There's a lot more to come right here
on Ido today right after the break.