How rodeo can help our city

August 1 2013 - 11:00pm
RODEO TRAINING: Mount Isa residents and rodeo organisers have tipped their hat at the idea of bringing youth rodeo training programs, like the Shaftesbury Centre Rodeo School in Murgon, to the city.
RODEO TRAINING: Mount Isa residents and rodeo organisers have tipped their hat at the idea of bringing youth rodeo training programs, like the Shaftesbury Centre Rodeo School in Murgon, to the city.
ON THE JOB: A young idigenous boy from Cherbourg stands in the arena, ready to put his Rodeo School training into practice.
ON THE JOB: A young idigenous boy from Cherbourg stands in the arena, ready to put his Rodeo School training into practice.

TRAINING our youths how to manage the chutes, work with cattle or ride a bucking bronco in the rodeo arena may just be the key to curbing youth crime rates in the city while getting more use out of Buchanan Park.

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