Cowboys 4 Kids

The following information is about an amazing event for an amazing set of non-profits.  If you don't have plans for tomorrow night, this is the place to go.  Affordable and benefitting the children in our community!

Cowboys 4 Kids Thursday, Tickets Available at the Door

Several local nonprofit organizations have come together to do what makes so much sense in this economy – collaborate! The John and Linda Shelk Foundation of Prineville initiated the collaboration to benefit Crook County children and the Crook County satellite programs of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon, KIDS Center, Saving Grace and SMART (Start Making a Reader Today).

So, the first annual “Cowboys 4 Kids” was born! Presented by the John and Linda Shelk Foundation with Les Schwab Tires, Thursday, April 22, 2010 will be an evening of country and western entertainment, a great silent auction, a grand raffle drawing for tickets to the Tim McGraw and Lady Antebellum concert at the Rose Garden … and chock full of local love!

All four organizations serve the children and families of Crook, Jefferson, and Deschutes counties, and the group decided that it was very important to keep the event talent as local as possible. It doesn’t get any more local to Central Oregon than the main event, Shannon Bex.

“I feel very honored to be a part of such a wonderful event like Cowboys 4 Kids. Not only is this a great cause, but it’s benefiting the community I love, my home,” said Bex.

Other performers include 2008 AWA Cowboy Poet of the Year Jay Snider, members of the Bunkhouse Orchestra and a cowboy swing dance presentation by James and Paige Gustaveson.

In keeping with the theme of the locals in mind (and that includes their pocketbooks!), tickets to “Cowboys 4 Kids” are only $12 each and can be presented for 10 percent off a meal at either Dillon's or Club Pioneer in Prineville the day of the event. Raffle tickets for Tim McGraw and Lady Antebellum (with a night's stay at The Mark Spencer Hotel!) are only $5 and can be purchased in advance or at the show. Doors open at 5:30 for the silent auction, and the entertainment will be from 6:30-8:30pm. "Cowboys 4 Kids will be held at the Crook County High School Southwell Auditorium.

Tickets are for sale now online at Cowboys4Kids.kintera.org/CrookCounty and will be available at the door.

"Cowboys 4 Kids" is sponsored in part by Commissioner Lynn Lundquist/Bar Lynn Ranch, Home Federal Bank, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, Harrigan Price Fronk & Co. LLP, Bryant Lovlien & Jarvis PC, and Nosler and has partnered with the media entities of Horizon Broadcasting Group/KRCO and Cascade Publications Inc.