Trinity Valley rodeo set for February
10-11
Special to The Monitor
ATHENS–At Trinity Valley Community College (TVCC), the rodeo
team celebrates Valentine’s Day a little differently.
Next weekend, the college will host its fourth annual rodeo.
The event started on the same weekend as many people
traditionally celebrate the lovers’ holiday and has been
held the same weekend since.
The fourth annual Elder Dodge and Trinity Valley Community
College Rodeo is set for Friday-Saturday, Feb. 10-11, at the
Henderson County Fairpark Complex. The weekend will be
filled with activities for rodeo fans of all ages.
Rodeo performances begin at 7:30 p.m. each night. Admission
is $5. Kids 12 and under and TVCC students with ID are free.
In addition to featuring elite rodeo participants, the event
is also kid-friendly. Kids Day is at noon Saturday and will
feature rodeo-related activities for children.
There will also be a drawing for prizes.
“We always have a lot of fun with that,” TVCC Rodeo Coach
Brent Bratton said. “It’s a great way for kids to come out
and find out what we’re all about.”
More than 400 students from National Intercollegiate Rodeo
Association schools around Texas are expected to make the
journey to Athens next week for the event.
“We expect to have a good crowd to come cheer on the
participants,” Bratton said. “I expect our (team) leaders to
stay in the hunt for the College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR)
and for everyone to do their best and have a great time.”
The National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) is in
the middle of its season with five rodeos remaining,
starting with the TVCC event. At season’s end, the top three
competitors in each event qualify for the CNFR in June.
And this year, TVCC is a real force in the NIRA’s southern
region. The team is currently ranked third, with several
students ranked in the region in particular events.
“We still have a long way to go, but so far its been a good
year,” Bratton said.
Colleges and universities expected to compete with TVCC at
the rodeo are Northeast Texas Community College, Panola
College, Lone Star College, Sam Houston State University,
Texas A&M University, Hill College, Wharton County Community
College, Stephen F. Austin State University, McNeese State
University, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Lon Morris College and
Prairie View A&M.
Severe storm program set
Special to The Monitor
KAUFMAN–The 2012 severe weather season is fast approaching.
As part of its area-wide weather preparedness campaign, the
National Weather Service in Fort Worth will hold a severe
weather program from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.15 at the
Kaufman Fire Department in Kaufman. The program is free and
open to the public.
The session is held in partnership with Kaufman County
Emergency Management.
The 2012 program will discuss thunderstorm formation, severe
weather production, and features associated with severe
storms.
The presentation will also review tornado formation and
behavior, non-threatening clues which may be mistaken for
significant features, and thunderstorm safety for the
family. The program will discuss spotter operations and
recommended reporting procedures. The two-hour presentation
will be in multimedia format, featuring numerous pictures of
storms and more than 30 minutes of storm video clips.
“We have quite a bit of new material for this year’s spotter
training program,” warning coordination meteorologist Mark
Fox said.
“We will show some behind the scenes activity from last
year’s severe weather operations, and will show how and why
severe weather reports from spotters are so essential,” Fox
added.
The fundamental purpose of the spotter training and of the
storm spotter network as a whole remains unchanged.
“We could not do our job as well as we do without storm
spotters. Radar is a great tool, but it only tells us part
of a storm’s story. Spotter observations complement the data
we use to analyze storms. The combination of spotter reports
and radar data gives us the best possible picture of the
storms and what’s going on inside them.”
Last year, 44 tornadoes were recorded across north and
central Texas.
“By coming to this program, you will learn a lot about
thunderstorms,” Fox said.
“Even if you don’t become an active storm spotter, you will
learn about how storms work and the visual clues you can
identify when storms are in your area. We will discuss
severe weather safety tips. This will better prepare
yourself and your family for the threats that storms pose”.
The Kaufman County severe weather program is one of more
than 60 that the Fort Worth NWS Office will conduct between
January and March of this year.
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth provides
forecasts, warnings, and weather services for 46 counties in
north and north-central Texas.
For more information on severe weather and the National
Weather Service, go online to
http://www.weather.gov/fortworth.
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