Horses

UNDER THE BIG TOP: Circus offers 'old-fashioned family fun' (03/04/10)

ACM award winner Adkins returning to fair (04/21/09)
The 2009 Clay County Fair will feature a night with a pair of country's hottest stars on Sunday, Sept. 20. Louisiana-native Trace Adkins, burst onto the county scene in 1996 with his debut album Dreamin' Out Loud. The album garnered his first Billboard number one hit with "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing." Other hit singles produced from that album including "Every Light in the House" and "I Left Something Turned on at Home."...

Pony Express gallops again on Good Friday (04/11/09)
State roadways and county blacktops resembled the Old West Friday as Pony Express riders galloped throughout Iowa raising money. The network of volunteer riders have been collecting money for Camp Sunnyside since 1968, when Stub Johnson, Leo Gray and Wayne Nielson first masterminded the idea to ride "Pony Express style" county-to-county to help Iowa children and adults with disabilities. Don Essick has been involved since the ride's second year, when it expanded and became a statewide ride...

Democrats rally local troops on eve of national convention (08/26/08)
Clay County Democrats gathered at the Oneota Park shelter house Sunday evening for their annual fundraising steak fry. The meeting, coming just a day after Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate via a much hyped text message to supporters, had County chairman Bob Whittenburg's stressing organization to his fellow Democrats...

BEAT THAT DONKEY (05/06/08)
Cyro Baptista and Beat the Donkey got the fourth and final season of the SPOT/Hancher Family Arts Adventure program started with a bang over the weekend with several activities geared for children and families on Sunday, followed by grade school specific programming at the old Middle School Auditorium during the day on Monday. ...

SPOT enters its final year in Spencer (05/02/08)
By Randy M. Cauthron Managing Editor Cyro Baptista and Beat the Donkey will be in Spencer this weekend, performing a unique blend of music and offering a variety of special sessions for the public to kick off the fourth and final season of the SPOT/Hancher Family Arts Adventure series...

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