Idaho
Idaho’s rodeo queen from Buhl is headed to the big show in Vegas
- Miss Rodeo Idaho 2023, Lydia Miller, is concluding her year as titleholder after crisscrossing the country, and visiting rodeos near and far.
- Miller is headed to the Miss Rodeo America Pageant, held Dec. 3 – 10 in Las Vegas, where she will compete in events like horsemanship, extemporaneous speaking, and rodeo knowledge.
- Lydia made many of her outfits for the Pageant, and has kept them under wraps. The outfits can be seen publicly for the first time at a special send-off party for Lydia begining at 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 18 at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds.
What follows is a transcript of the broadcast script.
Lydia: “This is my first queening buckle ever…”
Rodeo runs deep in Lydia Miller’s family.
Lydia: “….It’s kind of been an insane journey in a matter of 8 years”
For rodeo queens, the crown gets passed down … but the buckles you keep.
This case – a special place – for buckles won by the whole family.
“I have to say this is one of my favorite buckles because, as I kinda mentioned before, horsemanship is the biggest part of any pageant”
She attended rodeos as a kid with her grandparents… And watched her parents compete.
But once she realized how hands-on these rodeo queens are… She was hooked
Lydia: “I think that seeing the opportunities these girls had to work with stock contractors with these rodeos and do more than be a smiling pretty face, that was really inspiring to me.”
Now — Lydia is gearing up for the biggest event of her entire pageant career… The Miss Rodeo America pageant… Which starts December 3rd in Las Vegas,
Lydia: “So this is kind of the big one, this is what I’ve been training for.”
There will be all kinds of competitions… And you better believe the rodeo queens will be dressing to impress.
Lydia is keeping details about her outfits under her hat until she makes them public for the first time at a send-off party at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds on the 18th.
Lydia: “I’ve helped make myself, my mom has been a huge part of this, and we did a lot of this with tools and things from my great-grandmother who was very important in my life when I was younger.”
A woman with many talents …
Add to the list — leather crafting.
She tooled these chaps special for Vegas with images important to Idaho and important to her
Lydia: “ So this is my mom barrel racing, and you could even see she used to take her foot out of the stirrup to miss the barrel so she wouldn’t knock it. Yeah, so she was a pretty cool rider, in my opinion.”
“My dad was a bareback rider, he loved riding bucking horses, that was this thing, so, of course, I had to include that on there with the Sawtooth Mountains and a western white pine as well.”
In under two minutes, she freehanded a horse into some leather while I watched.
Lydia: “Not everybody does leatherwork like this. A lot of times it’s your fun floral patterns and things like that. I love doing things a little bit differently. And I loved drawing horses growing up, it’s one of my favorite things to tool on leather.
90 seconds of chamfering later, voila!
BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — An Idaho court has issued a ruling clarifying the medical exceptions allowed under Idaho’s abortion ban law.
The ruling now broadens the previous exception, which allowed for abortions only when necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant patient, to now allow patients if they have a health condition or pregnancy complication that creates some risk that the patient may die at some point if they do not receive an abortion.
Four women, each of whom had to leave Idaho in order to obtain an abortion after suffering lethal fetal diagnoses. The new ruling expands and clarifies the exception, though it would not have helped some of the women who brought the suit to begin with. The court ruled that pregnant women with lethal fetal conditions do not qualify under the ban’s exception, unless the fetal condition also poses a risk to the mother’s life. The court also ruled that people who are at risk of self-harm due to mental health conditions do not qualify.
“Pregnant Idahoans whose health is in danger shouldn’t be forced to remain pregnant, and we are glad the court recognized that today. But this decision leaves behind so many people, including some of the women who brought this case. No one should have to choose between carrying a doomed pregnancy against their will or fleeing the state if they can,” said Gail Deady, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
It’s been an emotional rollercoaster hearing this decision. This cruel law turned our family tragedy into an unimaginable trauma. No one wants to learn that your baby has a deadly condition and will not survive, and that your own life is at risk on top of that,” said lead plaintiff Jennifer Adkins. “While I was able to leave the state for care, others may not be so lucky. We all deserve to feel safe and thrive as we try to grow our families. I hope to see a day where Idahoans can get the care we need, when we need it, right here with our trusted doctors.
The lawsuit was initially filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of the four women who were denied abortions, multiple Idaho doctors, and an Idaho medical association, all of whom were seeking clarification on what circumstances qualify under the “medical emergency” exception, according to a statement released by the Center for Reproductive Rights.
FRUITLAND, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — The growing season is commencing; however, there is another unique way to farm, hydroponics and they have the benefit of being able to grow food all year long.
“I always had a dream of doing it, and it’s going great,” said Amos Wengerd, owner of GreenWave Hydroponics.
Hydroponics is a unique way of farming that utilizes mostly water to provide nutrients to the plants. Some plants are put into a soil pot, but others are not, like lettuce.
Wengerd moved from Pennsylvania to Fruitland with his wife and started this business not that long ago.
“We started four years ago in 2021, spring of 2021 we got going. I built the greenhouse myself. We got going, we started selling by June.”
GreenWave Hydroponics grows all sorts of greens like lettuce, basil, and rosemary.
It’s a strange way of farming, that takes a while to get started. However, it does come with some great benefits.
“The benefits of hydroponic farming are endless. Some of the biggest ones are no disease pressure, no pest problems, very little. We actually completely quit spraying 100%. We don’t do any, not even organic pesticides. If we have any problem with any pests, we just bring in some ladybugs”
Wengerd also said that it is more water-efficient than standard farming practices and if you would like to do a small-scale version, there are ways to do it.
“So, to get started at home, you can buy a lot of kits online. You can make your own kits; you can get into it fairly inexpensively. The most important things are your light and your nutrients. If you make sure your plants, get enough lights per day, they like 12-16 hours of light per day. And make sure your nutrients are where they supposed to be.”
He recommends sending your water to a lab to get tested, as each water source is unique. Some of the nutrients needed to grow food with hydroponics are potassium, calcium, and magnesium.
And Wengerd says that he does see hydroponics becoming more popular.
“I think this is one of the most important things as land becomes increasingly more expensive and harder to get, this is more important as you can get a huge amount of food in a small area.”
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