Tuffy gessling biography for kids
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Avoiding the sharp and sometimes even deadly horns of raging bulls in thousands of cities across the world, Tuffy Gessling said because it’s his first time in the county, he put on an extra special show Friday night and plans to match the performance again tonight at the annual Allen County Rodeo.
With trick roping, pyrotechnics and duck herding in his repertoire, Gessling has made a career of making people laugh and helping bull riders avoid injury as a rodeo clown for more than 20 years — and he has the medical record to prove it.
“I’ve broke one leg 52 times,” he said Thursday night just after arriving in Iola. In all, Gessling said 127 times in his career he’s suffered bone-breaking injuries.
“It’s not anymore dangerous than riding in a car,” the Glasgow, Mo. native insisted, pointing to animals’ predictability. “I know what them bulls are going to do. A lot of people don’t know how to drive.”
Gessling, a two-time Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association clown of the year, got his start in the rodeo business riding bulls and broncos as a young child but it didn’t take him long to realize what he was truly good at.
“It was a natural transition,” he said of his sta
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EDITORIALS: Back to school costs; Rodeo clown over-reaction
Helping families handle back-to-school costs
Press-Republican / Plattsburgh, N.Y.
Store aisles are already crowded with parents and children shopping for back-to-school needs. We trust that teachers have been judicious about their requests in empathy with family finances.
When the kids are barely past the halfway mark of their summer vacations, the notebooks, pens, writing paper and the like start appearing on store shelves.
It used to be, many years ago, that all these items were doled out to students on the first day of school. Many Baby Boomers can recall the smell of composition books, the nervous excitement of lifting the classroom desktops to store their pencil holders.
But as schools struggled to reduce costs, more and more of the supplies needed for students have to be provided by their families. Lists are sent home specifying how many binders, notebooks and pens are needed. Shopping also often includes book covers, Kleenex, markers, erasers, calculators, rulers and more. It can get pricey, especially for those with multiple children in school.
And that is not even factoring in the fact that most families do at least a little back-to-school clothes shopping. The marketing for that begins in mid summer,
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