Ozarks Farm & Neighbor Newspaper – written for, by & about farmers

Name:  Aaron Mattox
Mother:  Ginger Mattox
School:  West Fork High School, West Fork FFA, Advisor, Justin Hayes
4-H Group:  Woolsey 4-H, Leader-Clarissa Barton

Name:  Kathy Wallace

Stull Feeders

Owners:  Randy and Cathy Stull and the Stull Family

Location:  Harrison, Ark. 

I wonder what the real amount of time is between, “You know, some day we’ll all look back on this and laugh,” and the day everyone involved actually does look back and laugh. Well, I’m going to jump out on a limb here and tell a story that will certainly get a few laughs. But I will preface it by saying, to some who may be still recovering from this situation, I apologize for the accident again, and I apologize for bringing it up in this column so soon.

Labor Day Weekend and we were off to the Bar Eoff Ranch at Clinton, Ark., for the 23rd annual National Chuck Wagon Racing Championship.  My wife Pat and our friend Lorna Wilson came with me.  I no longer co-announce but help in various ways. Four to five hours announcing the fast pace action of the championship out in that hot sun got a little tough on this old cowboy.  Andy Steward of Louisiana, who does lots of PBR and PRCA rodeos, handles my former part of the co-announcing.  This year he was worried about things in his home state because of hurricane Gustav bearing down and had received several reports via his cell phone and gave  advice for folks going back home on Sunday evening.

Overkill.