Expanded 'Slack' event at Cheney Rodeo

Want to get a sneak preview of the action at the 50th Cheney Rodeo?

Sneak away for a long lunch or an early exit from work on Friday, July 7 for an event called “Slack” which starts at 1 p.m. Admission is $5 and gates open at 12:30 pm.

“We have had Slack of some sort as long as I have been involved,” Rick Edwards of the sponsoring Cheney Events Association wrote in an email.

Slack is a rodeo term Edwards explained. “It is when the contestants that cannot fit into the regular performance, or in rodeo terms, ‘perfs,’ participate for the purse.” Cheney’s slack event will feature 17 bronc riders a...