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Show Royale parade precedes Western Expo entertainment The Western Royale celebrated in conjuction with the USAUSSR Friendship Tour offers activities for southern Utahns and guests alike. The goodwill five-da- y celebration will feature western culture. Thursday, May 4, the Royale events start at high noon with a Western parade that will wind its way from the Iron Mission State Park through Cedar City to Thunderbird Stadium. The parade is a colorful beginning to an afternoon and evening of activities including a rodeo exhibition, Western Expo and a Lee Greenwood concert. The United States Marshals Posse will celebrate its 200th anninversary in Cedar City when East and West Coast members combine ranks to participate in the Western Royale. 83RD YEAR; NUMBER 42 Other entries for the parade include horse-draw- n and Future wagons and buggies, antique cars, Farmers of America groups, rodeo clubs and riding groups from throughout southwestern Utah. The Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and young Navajo students from the Kayenta Boarding School in Arizona are other participants. Mule and pack groups in the parade include the Golden Spike Association from Ogden, the Corn Creek Mule Association from Kanosh and Karen LeCount and the Cougar Coutry Outfitters from new Flarmony. Theres lots of excitement. Its all coming together, said Jerry Jerman, parade 4-- Professional cowboys will also man a booth at the Western Expo to sign autographs after the parade and SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE before the rodeo exhibition. The parade ends about 1:30 p.m. Also, at 2 p.m. south of the Stadium, the Expo will include a rodeo Queens Closet fashion show coordinated by Gia Andrus, an SUSC student from St. George. g The fashion show will feature several rodeo queens along with several Native American representatives who will model modern and traditional native costumes, she said. May 3, from 2:30 to 3 p.m., a fashion show of contemporary clothing based on traditional costumes of Plains, Pueblo and Woodland Indian tribes will be held. CEDAR CITY, UTAH MONDAY, MAY 1, 1989 to return Gymnasts SUSC 400 students can buy $10 exhibition tickets An anonymous donation offers $10 USAUSSR gymnastic exhibition tickets to the first 400 SUSC students that arrive at ASSUSC student government offices, between noon and 5 p.m., Tuesday. With his activity card, a limit of one ticket may be purchased by each student. The exhibition features Olympic champion Vladimir 19 and Soviet of American one Artemov, gymnasts scheduled to exhibition scheduled May 5. participate in the Olympic-styl- e All cultural and political barriers will be set aside as athletes e in an exhibition from the two world powers appear that set up the 1989 USAUSSR Friendship Tour. The exhibition begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Centrum and will be televised nationally by Turner Broadcast Systems. Representing the United States are Christy Flenrich and Scott Burr and 1988 Olympians, Flope Spivey, Kelly Garrison-SteveScott Johnson, Charles Lakes and Lance Ringnald. Artemov leads the Soviet contingency which includes Seoul, Korea, Olympians, Svetlana Baitova, Elena Shevchonko and Olga Strazheva. Natalia Abrashitova, Natalia Kalinina, Elena Sozonenkova and L. Stobchataya are other women gymnasts for the Soviets; Vladimir Schepochkin, V. Belenkit, Dimitri Vorobiev and Gennady Zaddrozhny are the other Soviet men gymnasts. Three of the 19 gymnasts performed in Cedar City in 1987 Artemov and Americans, Lakes and Spivey. Wilson indicates that each of the athletes will demonstrate the skills he or she knows best. Women participate in vault, balance beam, uneven bars and floor exercise; men in floor exercise, parallel bars, rings, pommel horse, vault and high bar. Never has such an outpouring of friendship and good will been so evident as at the exhibition here two years ago, said Utah Summer Games Director Rich Wilson. Southwestern Utahns showered the athletes with Western activities, and they reciprocated, sharing with us their world class gymnastics ability. The gymnasts were on a national, three-cit- y tour when they stopped in Cedar City in 1987. This time they opted to make Cedar City their one and only stop and to spend an extra day in southwestern Utah, a move that has facilitated an extra program for area youth. The free program, Wednesday May 3 at noon in the Centrum, will feature the gymnasts in a program titled A Drug-Fre- e World Through Excellence in Athletics. side-by-sid- s, athletic delegation of Wilson indicates that the athletes and coaches will arrive in Las Vegas Tuesday morning and travel by bus to Zion National Park. Theyll tour the park and be welcomed by Park Superintendent Harry Grafe at the visitors center before traveling to Cedar City for a 5:30 p.m. welcome at the Holiday Inn. |