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Ol’ Jim York Ol’ Jim was one of the original Lions Club members that helped to start the Woodchoppers Jamboree in 1960. He gave most of the credit for the original idea to Mike Hammer. Some of Jim’s stories were how hard Carl Vyvey could swing an axe, about how hard it was to get George Brugeman to bring his rodeo stock to Encampment for the first Jamboree Rodeo. He liked to talk about the penitentiary marching and dance band that came to the Jamboree in the 1970s. That band would play for the parade and help serve food at the picnic until a co... Full story