Spurred into action

Bullriders explode from chute

For a while, it didn’t look like any of the 15 cowboys in the 22nd Annual Days of the Old West Hometown Bullriding contest were going to make 8 seconds. Thirteen ate dirt. The next-to-last cowboy on Saturday night, last year’s champ Chad Boyd, then had a nice 80-point ride that looked like a winner. The final contestant was Chad Lukkasson, who also lasted 8 seconds on a ride strikingly similar to Boyd’s. But Lukkasson, shown above leaving the chute, spurred his bull—and that accounted for the winning two points in his 82-point buckle ride. Express photo by Willy Cook

For the week of July 9 - 15, 2003

• Bug Crew on front lines in knapweed war
  Knapweed-eating beetles released at four test sites

• Working in miniature to create art

• Join the Bellevue Historical Home and Garden Tour
  

• Appointment overdue

• Perfect candidate

• When adults sound silly—and stupid
  Commentary by Pat Murphy

• Hole in the world
  Commentary by Adam Tanous

• Planning for a new century
  Guest opinion by J. Robb Brady

• Folske repeats in SV Sprint Triathlon
  46 individuals, 18 teams

• "Cowboy Christmas" comes to Hailey
  Days of the Old West rodeo has $24,369 purse

• Holiday tennis a big hit at Warm Springs
  Drew, Turner win singles in Ketchum

• Big meet for volleyball teams
  900 teenagers compete at UC-Davis

• Did you draw? Hunters can check
  New rule: Must pay by Aug. 20

• Fishing Report
  by Bill Mason

• Public Notice Summary

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