Dear Editor:
Another Ponoka Stampede has come and gone — somebody had fun.
We listened to pounding bass beats from 8 a.m. to 3 or 4 a.m. each day and watched males and females alike urinate and defecate on the ground with no thoughtful owner to pick up after them.
They left behind piles and piles of trash, broken liquor bottles, and torn up sod from doing booze-fueled burnouts to impress their buds. There used to be a police presence in this overflow field adjacent to St. Augustine School —apparently no longer — the last couple of years have been a gong show.
I don’t begrudge anyone a good time, but a little respect would be nice.
Perhaps the Stampede Association could buck up and provide a few more porta-potties and some more garbage receptacles toward the back of their field. Clearly these able-bodied humans have to conserve their energy for less mundane tasks than picking up after themselves. And we can look forward to it all again at the Summer Send Off. Yee-haw!
Dope smokin’ hippies are much quieter and environmentally friendlier. Maybe we could host a reggae/rasta festival and just chill for a change.
Lori Derry