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Canadian Cowboy Country magazine, along with Lindsey Edge and Dee Roy are hosting an online auction on Facebook to raise money for the Cooper Children’s Trust Fund.
Cam Cooper, 40, and his brother Wade, 44, died in northern Saskatchewan last June in a plane crash that also claimed the lives of three others. Both Cam and Wade left behind a wife and three children. The Cooper brothers were well-known for their exploits in rodeo and as working cowboys. Cam was a former bronc rider with the PRCA and Wade was manager of Heartland Livestock in Prince Albert.
Cam and Wade are the brothers of Crash Cooper, a seven-time Canadian Professional Rodeo Association Contract Act of the Year who was the barrelman at the 2011 Wrangler NFR, and performed at the Springville Sierra Rodeo a couple of years ago. The Cooper Children Trust Fund auction (www.facebook.com/groups/345022702184629) will continue through noon on Feb. 17.
COWBOY CUISINE ©
Swedish Meat Balls (Kottbullar)
¾ Pound, ground round or sirloin, ½ Pound ground veal, ¼ Pound ground pork, 1½ Cups soft bread slices (about 3 slices), ¼ Cup milk, ½ Cup chopped onion, 1 Cup half & half, ¼ Cup finely chopped parsley, 1 Teaspoon salt, 1 Teaspoon MSG (Not recommended), ¼ Teaspoon ginger, 2 Tablespoons butter (twice). Have meats ground together twice. Soak bread in milk for about 5 minutes. Cook onion in 2 tablespoons butter until tender, not brown. Combine meat, bread, onion, one cup half & half, parsley and seasonings. Beat vigorously until fluffy (about 5 minutes on medium speed on an electric mixer.) Form soft mixture in 1 inch balls, brown a few at a time lightly in 2 tablespoons butter, shaking skillet to keep balls round. Gravy: 1 Tablespoon flour, ¾ Cup half & half, ½ to 1 Teaspoon instant coffee, ½ Teaspoon concentrated meat extract. Remove meat balls, stir flour into drippings in skillet, add ¾ cup half & half, coffee meat extract and MSG?. Heat and stir until gravy thickens. Return meat balls to gravy and let simmer uncovered about 10 minutes or until done. Add more half & half if needed. Makes 5 dozen.
Lefty Carlson
Denver, Colo.
COYOTES OF THE WEEK
Obama unconstitutionally frees 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students. The first 10 states to receive the waivers are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee. The only state that applied for the flexibility and did not get it, New Mexico, is working with the administration to get approval. A total of 28 other states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have signaled that they, too, plan to seek waivers. California can’t decide.
Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley removed a logo several weeks ago from the Rapid Capabilities Office. The patch included a line written in Latin that read, “Doing God’s Work with Other People’s Money.” But after the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers complained, the line was rewritten in Latin to read, “Doing Miracles with Other People’s Money.” Last year, the Air Force banned a class on the Christian-based “Just War Theory” because the class used verses from the Bible.
SAYIN’S
“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.” — Winston Churchill.
Send us a sayin’ or quote and if we use it, you’ll be eligible for a drawing for a “Weekend in Pixley or be eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize.
COWBOYS & RANCHERS ADVISORY PANEL
In another blow to San Francisco’s newly elected sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, a judge has refused to lift an order that prevents him from contact with his wife and 2-year-old son. Mirkarimi — inaugurated a few weeks ago with wife and son at his side, and now embroiled in a domestic abuse case — called the decision “enormously crushing” and “disproportionately cruel,” according to a report in The Bay Citizen (http://www.baycitizen.org/crime/story/judge-refuses-allow-mirkarimi-contact/), a nonprofit news site.
The legal case promises personal and political drama fit for afternoon soaps, starting with Mirkarimi’s reputation as fiercely liberal — even in the context of progressive San Francisco — and prone to hotheaded tirades against his staff. Witnesses will include an ex-girlfriend whom the politician dropped in favor of a Venezuelan actress who is now his wife and the alleged victim of abuse. The prosecutor in the case is well known as Mirkarimi’s political adversary.
CAMPAIGN ’12
Santorum wins a bunch of ‘em.
WHERE TO BUNCH UP
Springville Sierra Rodeo April 27-29 — Save $3 — tickets on sale now at www.rodeo49.com
