Up and Down El Rio Blanco: Perseverance

“Endeavor to persevere,” said Lone Watie, the Indian character in the 1976 movie “The Outlaw Josey Wales.”
Endeavoring to persevere is what the Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship Trials have done for a quarter of a century.
What started over a cup of coffee in downtown Meeker as an idea for economic development has grown into a world-class event.
Gus Halandras(one of the people at that first coffee conversation), was the event’s biggest advocate and he…