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PAGE B8 The INNformer February 11, 2022 Tyler County Spee dway pr epares for action-packed 2022 schedule MIDDLEBOURNE – With the Hometown Racing Association entering its ninth season at the helm of one of America’s raciest venues – more prominently known as the ‘Bullring’ – fans are in for a treat as the ’22 season will once again be among one of the most fan-friendly and diverse schedules in motorsports. As another stellar line-up of events await race teams and fans during the Tyler County Speedway’s 48th year of operation. Eager racers will get their first laps on America’s Bad- dest Bullring Saturday, March 26, with Test, Tune and Time Trial along with the annual Joe Dirt 100 Enduro. With the 2022 campaign oiffcially taking the green Saturday night, April 2, for the 48th season opener as the region’s best turn some crucial laps in preparation for the early season Hillbilly 100. How big is 2022 going to be you ask? How does Double Hillbilly 100s grab you? After the last day of the 53rd annual event would succumb to Mother Nature in 2021, race oiffcials opted to reschedule for Friday night, April 8, as the Lucas Oil Dirt Car Series will roll into town with $30,000 on the line in the makeup event. Armbands from the 2021 event will be good and for new ticket buyers tickets are avail- able online for the early season and epic running of the Granddaddy of short track major events. As the 2022 season comes in with a bang with the 53rd edi- tion, they will look to close out the summer in Almost Heaven fashion with the 3-day weekend, 54th Hill- billy 100 Labor Day weekend, Sept. 2-4. They will welcome the Lucas Oil Dirt Car Series back to the Bullring for their 2nd visit of the season for another $30,000 100-lap Hillbilly 100! The gates will open at Tyler County Speedway on 26 occasions in 2022 with several new events planned along with a plethora of Bullring mainstays to which fans have become accustomed. From classics such as the 28th Annual Topless 50 April 30 to the 34th An- nual Earl Hill Memorial Sunday, May 29, as part of the Legends of the Ring Night, the Tyler County Speedway will be the place to be all summer long. Other notable events include the 12th Annual Pat Herrick Memorial for Steel Block Late Models Sat- urday, April 9; 18th Annual Dickson Classic Sunday, May 29; Tammy Clegg Tribute for Hotmods on Sat- urday, June 11; 20th Annual Eaton/Childers King of the Ring welcoming the RUSH Late Model Tour to town in the first of two visits Saturday, July 23; the 10th Annual Bud Weigle Memorial as they kick off the 60th Tyler County Fair Saturday, July 30, and the 2nd Annual Mini Wedge Buckwheat Memorial, slated for July 3. Several new events, series visits, special races and family fun nights litter the 2022 action-packed sched- ule. So make plans now to join them at America’s Baddest Bullring all summer long. Stay connected to the Bullring and for more information on the upcom- ing 2022 season follow them and ‘Like’ the track on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thebullringwv. For tickets, complete schedule, rules, sponsors, news and so much more visit online at www.tylercountyspeed- wayonline.com. As the 2022 racing season nears, sponsorship oppor- tunities are available at America’s Baddest Bullring ranging from title sponsorship, nightly event sponsors to plenty of great signage opportunities. Those inter- ested in marketing possibilities can inquire by email to danpatterson1173@gmail.com or by calling the speedway oiffce at (304) 771-5661. Built and opened in 1974 by the Tyler County Fair Association, Tyler County Speedway is a motorsports complex affectionately known as the Bullring and features a 1/4-mile high bank clay oval. The facility is promoted by the Hometown Racing Association, and located 3-1/2 miles south of Middlebourne on State Rt. 18 at the Tyler County Fairgrounds approx- imately an hour from Wheeling, Clarksburg and Parkersburg. Featuring a spacious scenic camp- ground along the Middle Island Creek with hookups, shelters, playgrounds, showers and bathroom facili- ties among other amenities to enhance the racing ex- perience at West Virginia’s premier motorsports venue. Tyler County Speedway’s weekly Saturday night rac- ing program runs from April to September each year, featuring Super Late Models, RUSH Late Models, UMP Modifieds, EDGE Hotmods, Sportmods, SCDRA 4 Cylinders and Mini Wedges. AG Morrisey condemns Biden Admin at southern border for fentanyl crisis CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attor- scribe what all of us experiencedDeaths are rising, doubling in many cer tain asylum seekers arriving at the ney General Patrick Morrisey spoke the last couple of days and the hor- of our counties. U.S.-Mexico border to return to Mex- recently at the countrric catastrys southernophe wer e seeing down ico while awaiting their asylum hear- He also called for the ring of De- border where he and attorneys gen- here at the border. Not only undoc- partment of Homeland Security Sec- ing in U.S. immigration court. eral from 12 other states got a rst-umented aliens streaming across retary Alejandro MayorkMost fentanyl now available in theas for hand look at the crisis on the U.S.the border, human traiffcking, but having failed miserably at the high- United States gets its start as raw in- southern border. fentanyl, Morrisey said. These drugs are owing into the heartland est level of government in his duty gredients made in China, which are In a news conference, he forcefully to control the ow of drugs acrthen shipped to Mexico and usedoss from across the southern border. denounced the Biden administra- the nations southern border. by the cartels in that country to Bodies are starting to pile up as a re- tion and said the federal govern- Morrisey has led the charge against manufacture the dangerous opioids. sult of the utter failure of this admin- ment needs to stop abdicating its fentanyl ooding into this country and From there, the drug is traiffcked into istration. And its time they do responsibility to protect people poisoning citizens. This includes his l- the U.S. across the southwest border. something about it. In West Virginia, from scourges such as fentanyl, ing a landmark lawsuit against theSeizures of fentanyl at the bor der in- we experience the illegal immigra- which is killing record numbers of Department of Homeland Screased frecurity om approximately 1,187 West Virginians. tion problem most acutely through over the termination of the Remainkilogr ams in 2019 to roughly 2,939 the explosion of fentanyl into our Words really cant adequately de- in Mexico policy, which rkilograms in 2020.equired state. Were seeing it all the time.
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