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BEST AVAILABLE COPY Thursday February 20, 2003 iccen Want to look up a restaurant's health record? Check StarNet's searchable database to see how your favorite places rate on the cleanliness scale. www.azstamet.comln8pectlons SECTION ARIZONA DAILY STAR I'll 0 TUCSON SINCE 1877 77 --are 3 owboy competitors praise the fearsome buckers supplied to the Tucson Rodeo by Beutler Sons of Elk City, Okla. Bennie Beutler's family has provided stock to the Old Pueblo 's rodeo for 51 years. Let bidding begin on guys for scholarship By Anthony Broadman ARIZONA DAILY STAR trm didn't find a valentine last 1 1 week, you can buy one next Thursday. WlThe Tucson Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television will auction off local bachelors Feb.

27 to raise funds for its AWRTHank Lominac Scholarship. Radio personality Dub! will be one cut of meat on the block. According to his Web site, the 26-year-old is a Sagittarius who "loves a girl with a big fat booty." Think you fit the bill? Bids start at $25. Though Dub! fears he'll be saddled with a nonagenarian winning bidder "I'm gonna have to be her love slave for the weekend" he's looking forward to the event. "Hopefully, I'll bring a few dollars for the charity," said the man who actually signs his checks Dub! "I plan on having my mom there as a backup." I I if) I ri Ken Cummings Jii By Anthony Broadman ARIZONA DAILY STAR From behind a good stout fence, 092 Okeechobee Wipeout looks like a friendly bull.

With his back to the sun on a recent morning, the 1-ton pale brindle bucker is dozing after a night in the rain. And except for one of his eyes, which opens and flashes a look like hunger, he doesn't seem like he'd buck off anyone, let alone the best bull riders at the Tuc- ,5 I son Rodeo. Dubl gfr- ''if But fill the rodeo grounds with fans, strap a rider to his back, and Okeechobee Wipeout will do whatever he Carey Edwards can to put a cowboy on the ground or worse. For many, the rodeo means bulls, and, at the Tucson Rodeo, bulls mean Bennie Beutler, 1 4 I whose family has been supplying Money from the rental of human flesh benefits a scholarship given to a UA media arts major in honor of the late Tucson TV personality Hank Lominac. Lominac made hundreds of commercials with car dealer Jim Click and introduced movies on two Tucson television channels.

One student has received the scholarship, which pays a year's tuition. The event starts with a silent auction, during which women will bid on dates rather than bachelors. Then the bachelor associated with each date will be revealed for a final live auction segment Date packages may include a trip to the theater, sporting events, dinner and outdoor activities. Winning bidders get a date and tickets to a future show at Laffs Comedy Carle, passes to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, a bouquet from Roses More and hair styling and makeup from Metropolis the Salon. Single women "depressed" by Valentine's Day can find relief by trading money for man, according to Joan Lee of the sponsoring group.

"A lot of us are married on the board," Lee said. "These are men that we'd want to go out with if we were single." She said the group hopes to raise $2,500. The following dudes-about-town have agreed to donate themselves to the cause: I Carey Edwards, program director and afternoon personality for KZPT (104.1-FM). I Ken Cummings, promotions manager for KWBA-TV. I program director and afternoon personality for I Brett "Porkchop" Miller ofKUM (99.5-FM)'s morning show.

I Obi Wan Kenobi of KRQQ (93.7-FM)'s morning show. I Don Abbott, production supervisor for KMSB-TV(Fox)KTTU-TV (UPN). I Stan Wald, account executive for KNST (790-AM) KWFM (97.1-FM). Laffs Comedy Carle. I Drew Borcherding, account executive for KGUN9TV.

stock to La Fiesta de Los Vaqueros I I for 51 years. As tough as they say Wipeout is, without his horns he doesn't look it -t "He used to have real big horns," V. says Paul Peterson, who cares for the Beutler Son Rodeo Company stock. Scotty Goff S' "He was kind of dangerous." So they took the horns off Wipeout, but, according to Peterson, it didn't take the buck out of him. Good rodeo-stock companies want a clean fight, according to Beutler.

"I don't want to hurt none of the guys," Beutler said in a recent imuue unci view uuiu ilia ucau- quarters in Elk City, Okla. "I Stan Wald IF YOU 60 When: 5:30 p.m. Feb. 27. Where: Laffs Comedy Caffe, 2900 E.

Broadway. Cost: $5, includes auction and 8 p.m. comedy show at Laffs. Information: 202-5824 just want them to perform. "You need a rank bull, but, on the other hand, when the cowboys ride 1 him (you hope) they'll be in the 90s." In the 90s that's a i universal hope among a the two-legged rodeo contestants.

If the rider stays on the bull for eight seconds, the judges score the ride. But it's more complicated than bucking bulls and cowboys holding on; the battle between men and Beutler's bulls is fraught with mind games. Bull rider and UA graduate student Michael Seng drew his Beutler Son bull last Friday afternoon. But before he did, he said this of Okeechobee Wipe-out "I think I wouldn't mind drawing him, 'cause he's gonna take you to the pay window; he's one you can win some money on." Seng won't ride Okeechobee. Luke Meeks of Interior, S.D., rides the bull today, and J.C.

Bean of Goldendale, rides him Saturday. For Seng, who will ride 811 on Saturday, the bad-der the brahma the better. Drawing a previously un-ridden bull "wouldn't bother me at all," Seng said. SEE BULLS E2 I Contact reporter Anthony Broadman at 573-4124 or broadmanazstarnet.com. Photos by Jama S.

Wood Staff Okeechobee Wipeout (without horns) and Stick Marsch (with horns) are among the bulls supplied to the Tucson Rodeo by Beutler Sons. Calling all cats! FELINE RCS SOUGHT Nev Ren Xvluseum is fairly primitive, for now of kitties who pay homage to the University of Arizona Wildcats. No photos will be re turned, but we II immortalize as many local cats as possible. Wildcats aren't the only cats we're crazy about Some of us are content to lavish our attention on our personal "mild-cats." Show off your furry felines in all their mischievous glory by sending us a photo or slide of your "mildcat," along with its name and your full name and phone number, to: "Mildcats," Arizona Daily Star, 4850 S. Park Ave, Tucson, AZ 85714.

Catnip treats go to our The deadline is Feb. 28. could be heading to an archaeological dig. Instead, he's turning a warehouse and steel foundry into a museum. Breidenbach, who holds a bachelor's degree in parks and recreation from California State University, Hay-ward, and has studied biology and evolutionary zoology, thought Tucson was missing one essential learning environment a dinosaur muse Inquisitive children can get a hands-on idea of what life may have been like during the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

They can transform themselves into archaeologists on a dig armed with a brush in hand to wipe away dirt from their "newly discovered" fossil. Wearing a soft safari hat, black Tyrannosaurus rex T-shirt, light tan-tinted sunglasses and cargo pants, Sam Breidenbach looks like he the museum, which opened this month at 1202 N. Main Ave. No need to fear that you will accidentally disrupt a display or talk too loudly this free museum is a place where children are allowed to touch just about everything. A good portion of the stuff, like pieces of dinosaur eggs and some fossils, is authentic, though many of the fossils and dinosaur bones are castings or replications.

By Olivia Clarke ARIZONA DAILY STAR The newly opened Rex Museum could best be described as prehistoric. With its displays set up on plywood and cinder blocks and its descriptive signs done on construction paper or cardboard this nonprofit museum is a far cry from big-dollar education facilities. But there's a certain friendliness and ease promoted at REX MUSEUM just north of Speedway Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, but the museum will probably be closed on Mondays beginning in March.

Grand opening: March 1-2 Cost: Free Call: 792-2884 Sweet 16, with a special 1 um. Final Four CATegory SEE MUSEUM E2.