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Salt Lake City radio personality "Cowboy Ted" has ridden
into Morgan once again and this time the rodeo journalist is here
to administer a 10-week tobacco education program for sixth graders
at Morgan Middle School.
He is currently serving as a spokesperson for the Weber/Morgan
Health Department and their Toward No Tobacco use program written
by the Center for
Disease Control. Cowboy Ted will also a national spokesperson for
the American Cancer Society and their Cowboy Cancer Crusade program.
The longtime educator and healthy lifestyles advocate will be working
with students in Mr. Roberts and Mrs. Christensen's classes through
Dec. and he will also host a healthy lifestyles assembly at Morgan
Middle School at 1 PM on Wed. to celebrate Red Ribbon Week.
He most recently served as host of the morning show on KGNT 103.9
in Logan, as well as, taking on duties at Utah State University
as an instructor in the PE department. Cowboy Ted has announced
the Morgan High School Rodeo three of the past five years and has
also made visits to the Morgan 4-H program this past year. He has
also written some stories for this publication and has plans for
some future features for the Morgan County News.
Cowboy Ted has hosted weekly rodeo features for K-Bull 93 in Salt
Lake City and he also hosted a segment called the Cowboy Minute
for the Salt Lake affiliate for Radio Disney. He hosted similar
rodeo radio programs for KKAT (now K-102) and AM 700 ~ Classic Country
in Salt Lake. He has also worked for radio stations in central California
and southeast Missouri.
Cowboy Ted served as sports director for KGNT 103.9 and KNFL 104.9
while he was in Logan. He has experience in the sports field - after
hosting sports-talk shows for two radio stations in Fresno, California
and then serving as the sports information director at Salt Lake
Community College and
San Francisco State University.
He will split time between Bountiful and Logan as he makes healthy
lifestyles presentations in the Weber and Morgan counties throughout
the year, as he will also continue to teach PE classes at Utah State.
The longtime educator is a graduate student, as well as, teaching
assistant for PE classes at Utah State University. He is completing
his coursework in the Health, Physical Education & Recreation
department as for a
Master's degree in Education.
The popular radio personality has been involved with education
for over 15 years and around the rodeo and horse world for his entire
life. He has taught communications classes at Salt Lake Community
College and UVSC, along
with teaching stints at high schools and elementary schools. He
was twice honored as Teacher-of-the-Year for the Upward Bound programs
in Missouri and California. Cowboy Ted makes regular visits to schools
and libraries to visit with young people to encourage them to read,
do well in school and lead healthy lifestyles.
He also keeps busy with visits to schools and libraries throughout
Utah. Cowboy Ted's visits are about an hour in length and include
roping demonstrations and words of encouragement about the values
associated with a Healthy Lifestyle, including healthy food choices,
exercise, remaining tobacco-free and alcohol-free, good citizenship,
and the value associated with reading books.
He reads a story to the children during each visit and also provides
youngsters with a printed list of his favorite titles and authors
for young readers. Cowboy Ted concludes each visit with a chance
for kids to personally try their hand at roping the "indoor
bull" then he signs autographed bull riding photos for the
young readers. He also extends an invitation to become junior cowboys
and cowgirls by joining the Cowboy Ted's Kids Club (at no cost).
The longtime educator is the founder of the Cowboy Ted's Kids Club
and the Cowboys Against Tobacco program, which encourages young
people to lead healthy lifestyles. He also writes rodeo-related
stories for a host of horse & rodeo publications across the
United States and serves as a tobacco education spokesperson for
the American Cancer Society.
Cowboy Ted has introduced a new Rodeo coloring book to encourage
kids to become involved with reading along with learning about the
sport of rodeo. The Cowboy Ted Rodeo Coloring Book consists of 12-pages
of rodeo pictures for
kids to color as they learn more about the sport of rodeo. He also
has a horse racing coloring book and healthy lifestyles coloring
book.
The Cowboy Ted's Kids Club and the three versions of coloring books
are the culmination of a lifelong dream of Cowboy Ted "to be
able to touch the lives of a million kids in a positive way."
"I want kids to get excited about rodeo and horses - along
with reading books so they can become lifelong fans of reading."
Cowboy Ted reported.
"We are also working on a series of children's books to help
young people learn about different aspects of the horse world as
well as healthy lifestyle choices." He has also published a
Healthy Lifestyles Coloring Book and is in the process of reprinting
that coloring book along with a coloring book about horse racing.
Single copies of the Cowboy Ted Rodeo Coloring Books are priced
at $1 and are available at Corral West at the Fashion Place Mall,
or by contacting: Cowboy Ted's Kids Club 6914 S. Redwood Rd. #322
West Jordan, Utah 84084.
He also makes healthy lifestyles presentations at local schools.
Readers can schedule Cowboy Ted to come out and make a Healthy
Lifestyles presentation at your school or library by calling 435-899-1102.
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