A Guest and A New Member
Bronc Rumbord
guest and cousin of Doyle Ehling
New Member Luke McConnaughy
of One Hour Air Conditioning & Heating
brother of Monty McConnaughy
Reporting In
TUIT
Luke McConnaughy brought the TUIT back for brother Monte. Many felt this was an infraction of the TUIT Rules of Order so the Big Hatters in charge left it with Luke for another week while they check the fine print.
FINES
Big Hatters Doug Foss and Scott Saylor were acting Sgt. at Arms.
They fined Pam Brooks and Jerry Dalton for arriving after the bell. Steve Harmon was fined for not supplying (golf) balls with paint logos to a certain golf-playing member named Doug. Steves comment Its hard to find the right balls. Jeff Brewer was fined for skirting duty when asked to be a Sgt. today.
Stan Macgirvin, Guy Gann, Terry Brigman, Tony Powers, Fred Conner and Steve Conard for not wearing their Big Hat today. (I dont know about the rest of you but my wife forgot to set mine out.) Doyle Ehling paid to announce that he was a 5X-grandpa with the birth of his granddaughter Ayla Aileen Booe.
The rest were fined for either missing AMBUC pins or no breakfast cards.
PROGRAM
Doyle Ehling introduced his long time friend and shirttail relative Bronc Rumford. Bronc owns and operates the Rumford Cattle Co. in Abbeyville, which has been family owned for many years, supplying rodeos around the world with rodeo stock. Floyd Rumford started the Abbeyville rodeo in his hometown in 1963.
Bronc was contacted early in 2005 through diplomatic channels to supply three barrel racing horses, three bucking horses, two pick up horses and two ponies for a special event in the Middle Eastern country of Oman. Omans Royal Calvary Equestrian and Camel Show was held New Years Day in the capital city of Muscat for the Sultan Oaboos Bin Said and 3,000 specially invited dignitaries and guests. The Commander of Omans Royal Calvary extended an invitation to the United States to participate, specifying rodeo as the American theme. The U.S. portion would be 9 minutes of the 90-minute show.
Bronc along with another employee trailered the horses to Chicago where they were quarantined and crated in special containers for the overseas trip. They accompanied them along with a professional handler on the 23-hour cargo flight from Chicago to Brussels, Belgium. All were transferred to another plane for the flight to Dubai, United Arab Emirates and then by trailer again for 5 hours across the desert to Muscat.
The show included 1,200 horses, 800 camels and 5,000 people and the cost, $10 million dollars. The staging area outside the 12,000-seat area covered 4 acres. The Sultan personally chose the music for each portion of the show and each act had to coincide with it exactly. There were 14 days of rehearsal, prior to the show that everyone had to attend. It was sunny everyday except for the 2 days prior to the show, which it rained. They had not had any significant rainfall in 5 years in Muscat.
Needless to say but the arena floor was a muddy mess. The morning of the day of the show the Sultan brought in about 1,000 men and heavy earthmoving equipment and replaced the entire dirt floor of the outdoor arena so the show could go on as planned.
Bronc said the 10 horses used in the show were sold to Omans Royal Calvary as it was less expensive to do that than pay the $6,000 each to ship them back.
Club Announcements
Next Meeting, Friday, April 6 Lynette Mitchell Smith and Tomi Ann Foust
of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Reno County
Winners
50-50
Brenda Janda won $26.00
N.L. Drg
Curtis Mitchell would have won $5
had he been here with his newsletter.
The pot increases to $10 next week.
Hutchinson AMBUCS Calendar
Friday, April 13 CMDR Chris Orwoll, US Navy, Ret.; New CEO at Kansas Cosmosphere
Friday, April 27 Ice Cream Committee meeting at 6:15 AM