CATTLE DRIVE A DIFFERENT BRAND OF ENTERTAINMENT.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer It will be perhaps the closest Lancaster gets to the famed running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. For the first time, Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa alfalfa (ălfăl`fə) or lucern (l  sûn`), perennial leguminous plant (Medicago sativa Festival officials have planned an afternoon cattle drive of about 40 Mexican longhorn The code name for the Windows Vista operating system. After the client version was renamed "Vista" in 2005, Longhorn referred to the server version until it was officially named Windows Server 2008 in May of 2007. See Windows Vista. steer in the middle of town - down Lancaster Boulevard. ``I think it will be an experimental kind of thing to see what the public view is,'' said fair board member Jim Lott. ``If everything goes safely and none of the buildings are crashed, the board would consider doing it again. It might add a new dimension. It brings back the Old West idea.'' The cattle drive is scheduled for Thursday at 3:30 p.m. on Lancaster Boulevard between 10th Street West and Division Street. Traffic will be blocked off to let the steers and their herders go by. People helping to herd the cattle will be rodeo queens, people from the community and fair volunteers and staffers, said fair manager Dan Jacobs. The animals will be furnished fur·nish tr.v. fur·nished, fur·nish·ing, fur·nish·es 1. To equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for. 2. by Marysville-based Flying U Rodeo Co., the outfit that puts on the fair rodeo. ``Cattle drives are becoming a big thing,'' said rodeo company manager Cotton Rosser. ``Everybody wants to drive cattle.'' Jacobs thinks the public will be receptive to the event, which also will feature a chuck wagon pulled by mules with world champion mule mule, in zoology mule, hybrid offspring of a male donkey (see ass) and a female horse, bred as a work animal. The name is also sometimes applied to the hinny, the offspring of a male horse and female donkey; hinnies are considered inferior to mules. driver Freddy Valentino at the reins reins pl.n. The kidneys, loins, or lower back. . ``I think it would be a neat thing to do. It sounds exciting,'' Jacobs said. ``I think people will love it. It will be just like Spain.'' |
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