Last Stand Rodeo back for 72nd year

COULEE CITY — The PRCA Last Stand Rodeo returns for its 72nd outing this May, hosted at the Coulee City Rodeo Grounds. The three-day rodeo is hosted over Memorial Day weekend, beginning the night of May 24. “The only year we didn’t have the rodeo was the year Mount St. Helens blew and the COVID year,” said Pete Thiry, president of the Coulee City Rodeo Association. Rodeo attendees can expect a full weekend of events. “We’ve got a full rodeo,” Thiry said. “We’re bareback riding, saddle bronc, bull riding, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, team roping, steer roping, girls breakaway roping and girls barrel racing. We do mutton busting and that kind of thing as well.