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- Plains Bison, male, born April
24, 2000; weighs nearly 2,000 lbs
- owned by Jim and Linda Sautner of Sterling Ranches at Spruce Grove,
AB
SOME
OF THE MANY EVENTS BAILEY HAS BEEN FEATURED AT :
• Calgary Stampede 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and
2007 - on display for 10 days, 12 hours each day
• Westerner Exposition in Red Deer 2003 and 2004
• “Aggie Days” Exhibition for school children
at Calgary - on display for 5 days
• Walked in the Rimbey Rodeo Parade and the Calahoo Heritage
Parades
• Stony Plain Farmers Market Festival and Ukrainian Cultural
Village 'Harvest of the Past' Festival
• Rocky Mountain House Agriculture Fair and Parkland Conservatory
Farm Day for school children
• Numerous school and classroom appearances
• West Edmonton Mall promotion – first buffalo to be
in the world-renowned mall !
• Guest of Honour at two "Buffalo Bonanza" fund
raisers [aka – Bailey's Birthday Bash] at the Westin Hotel
• Courtney/ Comox Summer Fair on Vancouver Island, B.C.
• Heritage Day Festival in Fort McMurray, invited and sponsored
by Syncrude Canada Ltd.
• Introduced to Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II and
Prince Philip at Centennial celebration in Edmonton (the first time
Her Highness and the Prince have met a buffalo!)
SOME
OF THE MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS SINCE FEBRUARY 2004
• Edmonton Journal newspaper, front page 4 times, 7 articles
on the “Buffalo Bonanza” event
• Reuters wireline featured Bailey in newspapers in England,
New Zealand, China, Australia, Germany, Borneo, Belgium, Scotland
- and numerous Canadian and U.S. papers
• PEOPLE Magazine, March 2004 Academy Awards Issue, whole
page-146 (International circulation)
• Other U.S. magazines - National Geographic Kids and OWL
Kids
• In England - London Times Weekly Magazine, Maxim (honest!!),
LOOK, and Her Majesty June 2004
• In Canada – 'English Express' and "Oh Canada"
magazines
TV - Film - Radio
• CBC "On the Road Again" television show
• CBC, Global, CFRN and CTV News Shows - CNN News
• CANADA AM television morning program (twice)
• Global TV documentary ‘The Arctic Challenge”
• Invited to be on Jay Leno, Ellen Degeneres, and Montel Williams
talk shows (cannot go into U.S. because of BSE border closure disallowing
all ruminants, but Ellen and Montel did show film on Bailey)
• INSIDE EDITION and PET PALACE television programs
• German television crew filmed Bailey : at the Edmonton Parliament
Buildings, at the Bison Centre office, at an RCMP station with one
officer in full dress uniform, on the sidewalks of the town of Stony
Plain interviewing onlookers, and in our home
• BBC film crew filmed a special on Bailey in our home
• Stephen Speilberg television mini-series "Into the
West"
• Disney Studio movie “Little House on the Prairie”
• Interviews on Bailey for numerous radio stations & newspapers
across the U.S. and as far away as Germany
• CFRN, A Channel, & Global have filmed Bailey : ‘checking
into’ Westin Hotel for his Birthday Bash at the Buffalo Bonanza,
riding in the elevator to his executive suite, checking over his
suite and the banquet room, and receiving his birthday cake from
Premier Ralph Klein
Bailey
draws a crowd wherever he goes - everyone wants to see the World
Famous buffalo !
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