RUHS Track Team will be competing in two different meets this Sat. March 26th
1) Meet of Champions at Azuza Pacific
2) Mira Costa High School in the Mustang Relays
Not all athletes will be competing this weekend as in all invitational’s each team entered in the Mustang Relays is only allowed a limited number of entries. Those athletes competing on Saturday were determined by previous meet results. Athletes not competing on Saturday will be informed on Thursday and Friday.
Information for the Meet of Champions at Azuza Pacific:
~BUS LEAVES: 6:00am. SHARP from RUHS Student Parking Lot on Diamond St
~BUS RETURNS: after the last race close to 10:00 pm.
~To view or print Meet Schedule for Meet of Champions click this link Meet of Champions Schedule
~To view or print Seeding for Meet of Champions click this link Seeding for Meet of Champions
~To print Alternate Transportation Form click this link Alternative Transportation Form
~For this meet only, the coaches will allow athletes who choose to leave with their parents after all their races have finished, ONLY with the Alternate Transportation Form (click link above to print) completed and turned into Coach Ferron at the meet. There are NO EXCEPTIONS. No athletes are allowed to drive themselves or other athletes to or home from the meet, they are only allowed to leave with parents.
Information for Mustang Relays at Mira Costa:
~All athletes must be at Mira Costa HS Track by 8:30 am.
~The meet ends at 5:00 pm.
~There will be no bus transportation to this meet so parents will need to drop off their athlete at Mira Costa HS.
~To view or print Meet Schedule for the Mustang Relays click this link Mustang Relays Meet Schedule
Sent: Mon, Aug 31, 2009 8:27 pmSubject: Re: PRESS RELEASE: BLM Rushes Forward with Roundup of World Famous Wild Horse Herd Before Senate Can ActFamous Wild Horse Herd Granted Two-Day Reprieve from Massive RoundupFor Immediate ReleaseBILLINGS, MONTANA- August 31, 2009: The Pryor Mountain Wild Horses, perhaps best known from the plpouar Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies PBS Nature series, have two more days of freedom before an unprecedented round up could begin. The Pryors roundup has been delayed for two days to allow Judge Sullivan of the Federal District Court to hear the case brought against the BLM by The Cloud Foundation and Front Range Equine Rescue.The Bureau of Land Management, responsible for managing wild horses on public lands in the United States, plans to round up all the horses in Montana’s only remaining wild herd and remove 70 horses plus four or more foals. This will leave a non-viable herd of only 120 horses according to respected equine geneticist, Gus Cothran, Ph.D., of Texas A&M University. The Pryor Mountain wild horses are a unique Spanish herd renowned for their primitive markings, historical connections, and spectacular habitat. BLM is dispatching National Wild Horse and Burro Program staff for this round up, perhaps because they expect trouble from humane advocates who are currently being prevented from observing this roundup. “Never before in my experience have plans been so vague and operations so secret in the Pryors,” says Ginger Kathrens, Volunteer Executive Director of The Cloud Foundation.” The BLM will be closing down roads to the mountain top where the majority of the herd spends their days grazing peacefully in their subalpine meadows. Young foals, only days old will be driven by helicopters and are in serious danger of being hurt or killed. Billings BLM Field Manager Jim Sparks told one advocate that they would expect a loss of 2% or six horses as a result of this operation. The BLM has always had signs posted at the entrances to the horse range that tell the public to ‘report violations of harassment, death or removals.’ “Why are they above the law?” Asks Crow Tribe Historian and Elder, Howard Boggess. “Everything that is against the law for me they are planning to do to these horses. This is a very sad thing as far as I’m concerned. The horses have lived here for over 200 years. Even under the harassment of the BLM they’ve survived since 1971.” The BLM claims that it is necessary to remove 70 horses in order to “maintain a thriving ecological balance.” However, the range is still green in late August following three years of above average precipitation after a multi-year drought. The horses are fat, preparing to go into winter. “Why are they removing nearly half the horses after the drought is over? I’ve told them [the BLM] if you take these 70 horses you’ve destroyed the bloodline, the gene pool will no longer be there,” continues Boggess. “Their whole goal is to get rid of the horses.”“What they are proposing to do is criminal— people locally and all across the Nation worked so hard to save these horses from eradication in 1968,” explains Kathrens. “This range was specially designated for wild horses, the first of its kind in the nation. This is their refuge and it is about to be invaded.”The BLM plans to remove 17 horses over ten years old and by BLM’s Standard Operating Procedures, “old, sick or lame horses shall be destroyed.” “When they take out the old horses they remove the ones that know the way to the water, the good grass, the way around the canyon they’re taking out all of the knowledge of the herd,” Boggess explains. “It is really sad to sit there and look at the horses and think that in the next ten days they’ll be taken off this range and they’ll never see it again.” This case is scheduled to be heard on Wednesday, September 2nd, and thousands of people around the United States and the world await the decision of Judge Sullivan which will decide the fate of the unique and beloved Pryor Wild Horse Herd.For more information contact:The Cloud FoundationValerie Kennedy312-371-4933photos available upon request