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Show 2R Pag Tues., June 9, 1998 -- - Montezuma Valley Journal YA HOO ALL RQDEO FANS STOR BY Ute Coffee Shop Serving: Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner y mt Order Anytime! South Broadway Cortez, CO 17 565-265- With more than ,000 members, the PRCA is the largest body in the world. In 1996, the association sanctioned 742 rodeos in 44 states and four Canadian provinces. Those PRCA rodeos awarded more than $26 million in prize money. The PRCA is committed to maintaining the highest standards in the rodeo industry. That commitment ensures that every rodeo sanctioned by the PRCA is competently managed and.uses only the most healthy and livestock. 1 1 rodeo-sanctionin- witness first hand the pageantry and excitement that is professional rodeo. At that same time, more than 13 million viewers turned in to all 10 rounds of the Finals competition on ESPN ESPN2. and ' ' , : , With audience numbers such as those, its obvious that professional rodeo is quickly rising as a spectator sport. As the competition gets better each year, the popularity level of the sport continues to skyrocket. The organization that has helped the sport rise in popularity is the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association well-cared-f- season rodeos in an effort to qualify for the sports premier championship event, the National Finals Rodeo. In 1996, more than $3.2 million in prize money was won at the NFR. The PRCA isnt made up solely of Colo. UTE MOUNTAIN contestants. Stock contractors, judges, rodeo clowns, ROUNDUP RODEO & PARADE bullfighters, rodeo secretaries, timers, specialty acts, e 8 13 & 12 11, -- pm-Jun- - 5 or -- in Colorado Springs, Rodeo g PRCA contestants compete in regular headquartered (PRCA), 7081 S. Hwy 160 - Cortez - Parade p.m June 12th & 13th announcers and photographers all fall -- The organization The PRCA staff BIG SALE 10-2- 0 consists of about 60 e employees, but grows to nearly 100 during the peak rodeo season. ON OFF VCRs hdiAN Arts & Mugs full-tim- cowboys staged a walk- out at a rodeo at the The promoter, W.T. Johnson, finally relented and the Cowboys Turtle Association was formed. The cowboys adopted the name Turtles for two reasons: they were slow to organize, and they had finally stuck out their necks to get what they wanted. In 1945, the Turtles changed their organizations name to the Rodeo Cowboys Association, which in 1975 became the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. The PRCA appointed its first commissioner, Lewis A. Cryer, to direct the PRCA on Jan. 1 , 1988. Since then, the PRCA has experienced Help Us Not Have To Move So Much!! one of its greatest periods of growth. traces its roots back to 1936 when a group of greater objectivity. UsecI SAddles 096 OFF headquartered adjacent , to the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy. 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