Crime & Safety
2011 Backdraft Rodeo Packs Fans
The 19th annual Backdraft Rodeo attracted a full crowd to Lions Park. It was hosted by the Eureka Fire Protection District Firefighters' Association to benefit a variety of charities.
Eureka got "Wild Western" Friday and Saturday nights as the Firefighters' Association hosted the 19th annual Backdraft Rodeo in .
Statewide and local cowgirls and cowboys performed for a packed house. It included bronco riding, calf roping, barrel racing and bullriding. The event was produced by Columbia, MO-based Outlaw Rodeo Productions. Event managers from Booneville, MO, on Saturday night said the Eureka-based rodeo was their longest running Outlaw event.
Proceeds from the rodeo are donated to many area charities by the association.
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Organizers called rodeos the "greatest sport on dirt." They also said next to Troy, MO, that nearby Pacific, MO, was "the calf roping capital of the United States per capita."
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Eureka Fire Protection District Captain David Liebenguth, who chaired the rodeo, said the number of spectators for both nights this year was estimated to be 4,000.
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