Via Pat Hunt: I had so much fun being sous chef for Judy O’Loughlin at the Silver City Farmers Market this weekend! Thank you Gale Moore for the pictures!
Exciting News
We had a GREAT Executive Committee Meeting today! We are moving forward. We have confirmed our slate of officers who are willing to serve for 2015. Elections will be held in October. We are confirming location and band for our 2015 Shindig. If all goes well, we will have a Kentucky Derby theme next year. We don’t want to put out the date just yet! We have a new County Fair ChairBelle and are excited to see what she has planned. Next meeting will be August 12th! More details prior to the meeting!
Kim Clark
CowBelles at Downtown Rodeo Days
CowBelles at Downtown Rodeo Days yesterday at the Silver City Farmer’s Market. We will have more photos to share later this week. Thank you to everyone that stopped by!
Scholarship Print
A HUGE thank you to Robin Gierhart and Robert “Shoofly” Shufelt for donating Shoofly prints to our Scholarship fundraiser every year! Take a look at these amazing drawings depicting “The Cowboy Way!” With our CCB Scholarships, we are able to help several local college students who are pursuing an agricultural degree.
Get your 2014 Shindig tickets today!
Meatless Monday…
It is always discouraging when someone you know decides to follow the “Meatless Monday” movement. It is especially hard to understand when it is a close friend or family member. Why are your friends and family making these choices? Many think it is a better health choice, some are following a proclamation made by a celebrity, and others for personal or religious reasons.
Amanda Radke takes on the challenge of discussing the celebrity angle in her recent blog at beefmagazine.com:
Stella McCartney Tells Fans To Go Meatless On Mondays; Agriculture Responds
Click here to read the blog
The blog post also includes a video in the “Meat Crusher” series from The American Meat Institute and American Meat Science Association.
According to the Meat MythCrusher video, meat offers “a number of nutrition benefits that cannot be replaced without other dietary changes. Protein is a necessary part of the diet, and meat and poultry are considered complete proteins, meaning they provide all the essential amino acids needed for health.”
Radke suggests that we should show the video on social media sources to balance the conversation.
2014 Shindig
CowBelles announce the date for their 2014 Shindig…
Mark your calendar! The date for the Copper CowBelles 2014 Shindig is Saturday-April 12th.
We have reserved the Flame Convention Center and booked The Yarbrough Band.
The CowBelles leadership have selected the theme “SPRING ROUND-UP” and are well on their way to planning the annual event. Make plans to join the CowBelles for an evening of dancing, making new friends and renewing old acquaintences.
The event will be a dinner, dance and silent auction as it has been in the past.
We are working on confirming our caterer, getting auction items, and printing tickets and posters.
Stay tuned for more details!
Hope you will make plans to join us on April 12th! Any questions, please contact Copper CowBelle Co-President Judy de Pedro at 575-535-2567.
County Fair Report
The theme was “the Animals, the land, Natural Resources and the Environment how Ranching Families take Care of it All”: These four members made a poster display for our booth, Joan Woodward on the animals, Katie Donaldson on the land an grasses, Elizabeth McCauley on the natural resources and water, and Lucinda Billings on the environment. These members made a wonderful display for us that was very informative and attractive to display. Ranchers are wonderful stewards of the land. The questionnaire was based on the booth display as we are trying to educate the public about beef and ranching.
Food Basket donated 3 wonderful roasts and Twisted Wire Ranch donated 3 lbs of hamburger and 3 lbs of stew meat. Instead of cooking the meat this year we placed the meat frozen into an ice chest and tied it with a red bow and gave the meat away. WE think it was a great success as the winners received more beef and could cook it at their leisure. We sold license plates, t-shirts and napkins.
Kathy Davis, Chair
Too funny not to share…
Grant County Copper CowBelles 