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The Cullman County Sheriff's Office kicked off their 2016 Jimmy Arrington Rodeo experience on Thursday morning with over 1,000 special needs children from across Cullman County in attendance.
Special needs students from County, City, private and church schools plus representatives from Cullman Child Development Center and clients from the Margaret Jean Jones Center arrived around 9 am at the Cullman County Agricultural Trade Center. Approximately, 400 teachers and volunteers along with 40 deputies and command staff were also on scene.
The students were entertained non-stop by Dusty the rodeo clown and Woody from 'A Toy Story'. The children got the opportunity to participate in traditional competitive rodeo events such as barrel racing, bronco riding, calf roping, steer wrestling and team roping.
The children also got to interact with real-life cowboys/cowgirls and other rodeo stars such as 2016 Rodeo Queen, Mary Ashley Rohrscheib. After being the Queen of last year's rodeo, Rohrscheib has amassed a huge following of starry-eyed fans and autograph seeking devotees among the special needs students.
For many, the highlight of the special needs rodeo was the hay rides conducted inside the arena. Those rides were originally planned for outdoors. However, due to frigid temperatures ushered in by a Thursday cold front, the hay ride action was forced indoors.
Sheriff's deputies and other staff members assisted students who required guidance entering and exiting the hay trailers and the red dirt arena floor.
Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry was often the central figure in many aspects of the event:
"Our special needs portion of the Rodeo is the heart of the Jimmy Arrington Rodeo. With over one thousand children and at least 400 or so volunteers and teachers, the event has come off almost exactly as planned. When you see a few deputies with tears in their eyes, you know everyone is emotionally touched in a very positive way. This Rodeo is often the highlight of many of these kid's year. Lots of these kids would never experience a rodeo if the Sheriff's Office did not fully support of it. Seeing the joy, wonder, and excitement in these special needs kids faces is huge."
Proceeds from the rodeo go toward local city and county Cullman schools with special needs students. Last year’s rodeo, netted $500 each to 31 Cullman area schools. That is, $15,500 total, and established a $5,000 scholarship to pay for one year at Wallace State Community College for two students studying criminal justice."
Proceeds also fund events like the Sheriff’s Citizens Academy, firearms training classes and purchasing tablet computers for all 11 school resource officers.
The sheriff’s rodeo began in 1998 under the direction of former Cullman County Sheriff Tyler Roden. The late Jimmy Arrington was a sheriff’s investigator with 27-year invested in the department. Arrington was seminal in starting and then directing the rodeo. Arrington died in 2006 from leukemia, the Sheriff’s Office named this rodeo in honor his memory.
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I printed last night for the first time in two weeks -- I was painfully slow. Only one color (red, obviously) completed in a time span during which I can usually do five. But I did it.
I was also very messy. I am going to go put on my bag and shower now.
Edited: Ink gone. Kinda sad... between that and the cast, I looked much tougher than usual.
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INVESTING IN CROYDON’S SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
Two Croydon schools this week celebrated the official opening of specialist facilities put in by the council to cater for children with disabilities or special medical conditions.
Chipstead Valley Primary and Woodcote High School have between them benefited from £1.56m of improvements over the summer. They are amongst five of the borough’s schools to see recent investment in new spaces designed specifically for children with a variety of special needs.
Edenham High School has opened a centre to help pupils with speech, language and communication problems and Kensington Avenue Primary can now cater for children with ASD. Fairchildes Primary’s facilities allow them to provide for children with a range of needs, including those of pupils with moderate learning difficulties.
The council is spending money to make sure local children are able to attend nearby schools rather than having to travel further afield to find ones that meet their individual requirements. The project also allows pupils with special needs to integrate into the mainstream education system.
Those schools chosen for investment are ones which have achieved good Ofsted results and have a strong track-record on inclusion.
They are also selected on the basis they work together to help children make a smooth transition from primary to nearby secondary schools.
Councillor Tim Pollard, cabinet member for children, families and learning, said: “The council’s investment in facilities such as these will help more local children study at schools close to home. We recognise why it’s important for every child to feel that they are a part of a community and why for those with specialist needs this is maybe even more crucial.”
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This morning I had the choice of sleeping in or going to the dentist. I went to the dentist.
When all was done the right side of my face was numb. I was also thirsty and asked for some water. The dental assistant gave me the bottle I'm holding in my hand here.
Have you ever tried swallowing water with half your mouth numb? Have you ever had water squirt out your nose? Yep. Not fun. I told the assistant what happened as I was standing at the desk paying the bill. She asked me to do it again. Very funny. I like her.
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