Unique to my city – unlike anything found anywhere – of festivals, fairs, rodeos, agricultural exhibitions, concerts, parades, celebrations of every description – selling tickets or memories, nowhere else exists an eleven day festival of hootin’, hollerin’, yippee and yahoo rolled into non-stop party which begins daily at dawn with sizzling sausage, spiked orange juice, pancakes and rodeo, horses and chuckwagons, beer tents and fireworks that ends just before next dawn arrives, where we all live for those 8-second thrill rides and civic pride dazzling children of all ages – where midway food and fantastic art are paces apart, where rides for kids and by cowboys compete for attention, yes indeed this day begins the greatest outdoor show on earth, beyond wildest dreams of founder Guy Weadick’s imagination, the Calgary Stampede deserving everyone’s loudest and proudest yahoo! begins today …
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