Cancer screening to be provided at Cattlemens Ball
Cancer screening will be provided at the fourth annual Cattlemen’s Ball
of Nebraska to be held Saturday, June 2 at the Thacher Cattle Company southeast
of Valentine, Neb.
The UNMC Eppley Cancer Center, with the help of nurses from the Nebraska
Health System, is providing free Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) tests,
cancer risk assessments and face scanning. The PSA test includes
a blood draw and is a valuable tool in the detection of prostate cancer.
Results will be kept confidential and mailed out following the event. The
cancer risk evaluation is a simple questionnaire which an oncology nurse
will go over with the participant. The face scanning test will show
sun damage and problem areas on the face.
Riders in the Sky, a western entertainment group, and country music
artist, John Conlee, will be the feature entertainers at the Cattlemen’s
Ball. Riders in the Sky is a Grammy-award winning musical comedy
group. They have combined the classic cowboy sound with outrageous
comedy in 200 live performances annually over the past 20 years. Conlee’s
hit list of songs includes “Rose Colored Glasses,” “Before My Time,” “Hit
The Ground Runnin,” and “Fellow Travelers.”
He has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1981, the national
spokesperson for Feed The Children and was a co-founder of Farm Aid.
The 2001 Cattlemen’s Ball at the Thacher Cattle Company will be hosted
by Don and Sandi Ormesher, their son and daughter-in-law, Mark and Kami
Ormesher, and Mark and Kami’s four children.
The Ormesher family has been touched by cancer several times. Although
both Don’s parents are now deceased due to other causes, Don’s mother was
a breast cancer survivor and his father was a prostate cancer survivor.
In addition, Sandi’s father is a colon cancer survivor. The Ormeshers are
hosting the ball to ensure that others also can have success in their personal
battles with cancer.
The Cattlemen’s Ball is held to promote beef in a healthy diet and to
showcase rural Nebraska. All of the money raised will stay in Nebraska
with 90 percent of the proceeds going toward research projects at the UNMC
Eppley Cancer Center. The remaining 10 percent raised at this year’s ball
will be directed to health care in the Valentine area.
The UNMC Eppley Cancer Center received $104,000 for cancer research
from the 2000 Cattlemen’s Ball held at the Haythorn Ranch near Arthur,
Neb.
Invitations are not sent as the event is completely open to the public.
Top Hand ticket holders ($60) may attend Saturday afternoon and evening
activities beginning at 1 p.m. Trailboss ticket holders ($500) receive
a champagne reception, commemorative gift, Trailboss brunch and preferred
seating for the evening dinner and concert. Tickets are limited.
For tickets, call Dean Jacobs at the Valentine/Cherry County Visitor
Promotion Board at (800) 658-4024 or send checks to P.O. Box 201, Valentine,
NE 69201.