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Show Strawberry Days brings back memories p.g. blab By MARC ELLA WALKER It is hard to believe that it is time for Strawberry Days again. It seems like it is coming earlier in June than usual but it is not. Perhaps it seems that way because be-cause school just got out, later than usual, and so it has pushed Strawberry Straw-berry Days up. When I go to the parades and the rodeo it reminds me of the "olden days" when I was a kid in Ogden and we had the Pioneer Days celebration cele-bration on July 24 and the week preceding. The children's parade and the rodeo wereheld several days ahead of the grand parade on the 24th. If we marched in the children's parade pa-rade we received a free ticket to the rodeo. We never missed the rodeo. It was a wonderful time for us and, even though I was a city girl, I loved to see the beautiful horses, and watcl. the cowboys ride, and see the trick riders and the rodeo clowns. But my favorite part was the cowboys or the royalty. It made you get goose bumps all over your arms. There was the good smell of hot dogs and hamburgers mixed with the odor of horse sweat and manure. ma-nure. The drum and bugle corps, with the many uneven rows cf baton twirlers, marched in the arena, too. My best girlfriend was always in the baton troupes. I tried to go to the rodeo at least two nights and more if possible. I sort of worshipped the cowboys . from afar. I thought they were about as macho as you can get. The funny thing is, I still feel that way and a real cowboy still gets a second look from me. Don't tell Jerry, though. When the rodeo was over, I liked to walk down past the stables and get a better look at the cowboys and the horses close up. We didn't have a carnival, per se, but there were rides at Lorin Farr Park which is right next to the rodeo grounds. We would like to ride a few things (that is all they have is a few things), before we went home. There used to be the old Monte Young Carnival which would come down by the baseball field during the summer. It would come and stay for quite a while. My mom didn't want us to go down there because it kind of attracted at-tracted a bad crowd, but sometimes after MIA we would all go down and rideafewrides. IhopeMom doesn't read this. But this carnival did not usually coincide with Pioneer Days, as I 1 recall. So, as we approach, Strawberry Days this week, it brings back a flood of memories. Make memories for your kids and attend as many of the planned events as possible. The parades, the rodeo, the kiddie games, and the carnival will provide happy days for them and will get the summer off on the right foot. ' Happy Strawberry Days to you all! Grand Entry. The sound system played the neatest music and all of the cowboys, pickup men, entertainers, enter-tainers, royalty, and clowns participated par-ticipated in the Grand Entry. Everyone stood with their hands over their hearts as Old Glory went past, held high by the |