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Author: Beverly Bidney

Beverly Bidney has been a reporter and photographer for The Seminole Tribune since 2012. During her career, she has worked at various newspapers around the country including the Muskogee Phoenix in Oklahoma, Miami Herald, Associated Press, USA Today and other publications nationwide. A NAJA award winning journalist, she has covered just about everything over the years and is an advocate for a strong press. Contact her at beverlybidney@semtribe.com.

Horses, hoops provide summer fun with new CCDT programs

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Two new programs offered through the Tribe’s Children’s Center for Diagnostics and Therapy (CCDT) are providing special needs children with fun ways to learn. The youngsters can now shoot hoops during basketball clinics and straddle horses at the Junior Cypress Rodeo Arena all while receiving important therapy outside of a therapist’s

Seminole calf sale exceeds expectations

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Another record-breaking calf sale made for busy days during the annual calf shipment July 6-17 in Brighton and Big Cypress, where nearly 3,000 calves were rounded up for transport to feedlots across the country, Seminole 4-H’ers and the Tribe. The two reservations exceeded more than $5 million in calf sales and

Annual Wellness Conference revitalizes mind, body, soul

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MARCO ISLAND — For 22 years, Seminoles in Recovery’s Wellness Conference has provided the community with camaraderie and tools to make better choices for healthier lives, a fact Helene Buster hopes will make a 23rd year possible. "I hope people see the fellowship of Tribal members and that there is sobriety

Summer work program offers youth real-world experience

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Thirty-nine teenagers are spending the summer working for the Tribe to gain real-world work experience thanks to the Education Department’s Summer Work Experience Program (SWEP). Through the program, which runs from June 15 to Aug. 7, SWEP participants wake up, clock in and work in departments as diverse as Cattle and

Students reap academic accolades at incentive awards celebrations

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Students like to spend summer in places far from the classroom, so the Education Department gave them cool reminders of recent academic achievements via a series of summer-fun inspired incentive awards celebrations. Students from Trail, Hollywood, Immokalee and Tampa who met one of the 15 criteria outlined by the Education Department

Brighton Rez hosts rodeo double-header

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BRIGHTON — It was a long night July 1 in Brighton as cowboys and cowgirls rode a doubleheader at the Fred Smith Rodeo Arena. The previously postponed Cinco de Mayo Rodeo kicked things off and the Josiah Johns Memorial Rodeo followed. Between the two Eastern Indian Rodeo Association (EIRA) events, Moses

Rodeo kids lasso animals, points in summer series

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BIG CYPRESS — Young rodeo riders from Big Cypress, Brighton, Hollywood and Immokalee reservations and surrounding areas, corralled June 27 at the Junior Cypress Rodeo Arena for the third annual Youth Summer Series Rodeo. From mutton busting to goat tying, 182 youth contenders rode and roped feisty animals during the first

Kids reel in fish, fun at Big Cypress tournament

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BIG CYPRESS — From boats or banks, 11 adults and 22 youngsters hoped the big one wouldn’t get away June 27 during the Take a Kid Fishing Tournament along the Big Cypress canals. "We catch a lot of fish together," said Zechariah Stockton, 7. "It’s fun because we’re together as a

Bows drive arrows during Big Cypress archery tournament

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BIG CYPRESS — About a dozen young archers showed their skills and learned new ones June 26 at an archery tournament on the Big Cypress Driving Range. The tournament was the culmination of archery lessons given by the Recreation Department throughout the year and was the last event until classes resume

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