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Roundup raises funds the Western way
Published March 10, 2010
GUADALUPE COUNTY — The Guadalupe Regional Medical Foundation is offering a chance for people to brush up on their cowboy knowledge.
During the 7th Annual Roundup Cowboy Gathering guests will get to hear tales of frontier life and history, while feasting on campfire cooked meals, said GRMF Roundup committee co-chairman Steve Koehler.
“The committee is doing two things which members decided seven years ago that they wanted to do: promote our hospital to the community and at the same time we wanted to pass on the traditions that make Texas what it is,” he said. “Without our Western traditions or our cowboy backgrounds, Texas would not be Texas and we wanted to pass that on to the younger generation. So that is why we do ‘Then and Now’ and ‘Women of the West.’”
Proceeds from this year’s festivities will go toward purchasing four to six additional baby warmers for the new maternity floor in the Patient Tower at Guadalupe Regional Medical Center, Koehler said.
“They are state of the art, unlike the ones we were put into when we were born,” he said with a chuckle. “It’s got the built-in scale, oxygen, suction, wheels, adjustable height — they cost about $13,000 to $15,000 each.”
The event on March 20 at Rio Cibolo Ranch is divided into two parts — daytime and evening.
A cowboy-style breakfast will start the day right, Koehler said followed by a variety of entertainment that is sure to keep the family interested.
GRMF Marketing Assistant Suzanne Fey said there are plenty of activities during the day for the younger generation to enjoy, including barge and hay rides and a calf scramble.
Throughout the day in the arena there will be sheep dog and horse training demonstrations along with mutton bustin’ for the little ones and a ranch rodeo, Koehler said.
“A ranch rodeo is so much fun and it is very different from a regular rodeo,” Koehler said. “They have the most amusing events, like the rescue races in which they jump over a stream of water — which is a blue tarp — and pick up people off of a 55-gallon drum and piggy back them to the other end in a type of relay race. The last event, which is the biggest hoot you will probably ever see in your life, is where they sit on cow hides that are attached to horses with ropes and ride it back and forth.”
Over on the Cowboy Stage will be a host of musical entertainment featuring the talents of Dottsy Dwyer, Natalie Rose and Jill Jones and Lone Star Chorale.
Headlining the event are two cowboys who will be telling the tales of Western culture on the main stage, Koehler said.
“We will have ‘Then and Now,’ ‘Women of the West’ during the day put on by Red Steagall and Lynn Tate and they’ll discuss the history of the cowboy culture in the United States,” he said. “Lynn will have about how important the wives were to ranchers, not only just being a wife but being hands out there, helping their husbands and in some places running the ranch. It will be a very entertaining history lesson.”
GRMF Executive Director Foundation and Marketing Dorothy Wiley added that Steagall is widely known for his many talents.
“Red Steagall is considered the Cowboy Poet Laureate of Texas, he has written many books on cowboy poetry and has composed a lot of beautiful cowboy songs and has his own show,” she said.
Part of the Western tradition is the experience of camp fire-cooked meals and starting at noon lunch will be served, Koehler said.
“At lunch we will have a real chuck wagon meal with food prepared by five chuck wagons,” Koehler said. “They will be preparing chicken fried steak, some type of potatoes, some type of beans, biscuits and peach cobbler. They all prepare stuff a little differently so nothing will be exactly the same. You can count on great food there.”
Dinner for the evening will consist of a variety of foods from both of the Rio Cibolo Ranch and the chuck wagons, Fey said.
“We are going to have seven food stations from Rio Cibolo Ranch from quesadillas to cobbler, beef rounds, a vegetable station and potato station,” she said. “The chuck wagons are doing calf fries, chicken diabolo and chili.”
Jake Hooker and The Outsiders will kick the evening off with some country music while guests eat and bid on items for the silent auction.
Keeping the crowd entertained will be Red Steagall, followed by the Quebe Sisters. Jake Hooker will close out the night, Koehler said.
Between the musical talents will be a live and silent auction with some exciting items to bid on such as a pool table and fishing trip, Koehler said.
“There will also be a raffle that we have going on during the day we have an ATV that a hunter or rancher would use like a four-wheeler, a 1.1 karat diamond, a liquor cart and wine fridge fully stocked,” he said
Hours for the event are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for daytime activities and gates will reopen at 5:45 p.m. to kick of the evening festivities.
Day tickets for the event are $15 for adults, $5 for children 13 to 17 and 12 and under is free and breakfast is $8 and $10 for the chuck wagon lunch.
Tickets for the evening are $100 per person and includes entrance into both day and night activities, dinner and drinks.
“It is the best $100 deal that you are going to find in South Texas that weekend, I guarantee it,” Koehler said.
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