CGRA Newsletter

September, 2011

President

Cowboys and Cowgirls gather round,

We are off and running. With or without you. Now come on you know me. I would much rather be off to the races with you. So let's all make an effort to get involved, be a part of this great organization. We set a great pace last year and I have every intention of not slowing down this year. Looking back I think we built some great things last year, accomplished some things that we weren't suppose to do. For those of you who helped in all of our accomplishments, Thank You. As for the others, well hell, we still got this year. Some come join in on the fun.

I have some things that I would like each of you to be thinking about and that's our Charity Partners for RMRR 30. I opened nominations at last meeting and will keep them open thru the October and November meetings. During the November meeting each nominated Partner will be allowed to talk with the General Membership and ask for your vote. We will be selecting our 2012 RMRR 30 Charity Partners at that meeting. I am certainly anticipating being able to donate back to our community a large amount of money from the profits of RMRR 30. That being said.......... We need to give those who we nominate a great deal of consideration. Is it that we donate back to our community to those who help us or is it that we donate back to those who can most use our help. There is no right or wrong answer. You decide. As for my goals. I told those in attendance at the September meeting I would like to donate $30,000. for RMRR 30. Yep 30 for 30. Don't laugh there certainly have been years where we have done just that. Let's work hard and think outside the box and show everyone just who CGRA is. Okay so it sounds like work. So does building a barn, fixing the fence, hearding cattle. No one said it's an easy goal but I know we can have a lot of fun doing it. You know Nike says "Just do It" and last year we said "WTF". What are WE gonna say this year? I need your support and help.

I am once again gonna hold a Summit at my house for the new Board of Directors, much like we did last year. It's an informal meeting where we discuss ideas, philosophies and where we would like to take CGRA. Things we can do to increase membership and membership involvement in our organization. I am personally inviting each of you to attend. If you are interested in getting involved with us and speaking out about your ideas this is a great time to do so. The meeting will be on October 1, 2011 at 1:00pm. If you'll just e-mail me I'll give you my address and directions out to the house. Hey, its like the only way I can kinda get a head count. You know we gotta eat. Maybe we should have a pool party, but my Granddaughters pool is plastic and only about a foot and a half deep. But there is a slide. Yeehaw. Seriously I do hope you can attend. I found last years summit quiet informative and gave me a great deal to work with. I look forward to the same this year.

Okay, I recon that's enough to think about for one month. It is for me anyways. Thanks for a Great first year and let's get started on an even better second one.

Let's Ride
Robert Thurtell
CGRA President
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Vice President

Hello from Colorado Springs!

First of all, I would like to thank each of you who voted for me and for the honor of being your Vice President. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns regarding our Royalty or the Royalty program, please email me. I would love to hear from all of you on ideas that will help us grow and continue to be a presence in our community.

I would like to introduce our 10-year Anniversary CGRA Royalty Team - Mr. David Westman, Ms. Mary Munger and Miss Lushus La'Rell. My thanks to each of you for still being part of this wonderful family we call CGRA. You will definitely be seeing them out and about promoting our 30th year of Rodeo here in Colorado.

Please watch out for information regarding our contestants for the 2012 CGRA Royalty Team. As soon as I have their applications turned in and they have met their requirements to run for the team, I will be introducing them to you all - both online through emails and also during our monthly General Membership meetings.

Please mark your calendars for CGRA's Past Royalty Show on Friday, December 2, 2011, and then again on Saturday, December 3, 2011, as we celebrate A Night of Sharing and our CGRA Royalty Competition. More details will be coming out for these two events.

Also, remember to check out our web page - cgra.ws - where all upcoming events are listed on our calendar. We would love to see you at our events!

If you would like to help in any way, I am always looking for volunteers. I hope to see each and every one of you out supporting CGRA and our Royalty team throughout the coming year. If I can be of assistance, please let me know!

Rich Valdez
CGRA Vice President

Trustee

Hello Members,

"A Big Thanks" for the Trustee position and as you know its our 30th year and we as a board are planning big for it.

SO GET READY TO SADDLE UP!!!

Finals for IGRA are in Texas - October 7th - 9th. Good luck to all contestants who are qualified in there events.

Remember September 21 at 7 p.m. at Charlie's is the Rodeo Rules meeting. So if you plan on attending Convention.

SHOW UP!

Good Luck Contestants,

John Beck
CGRA Trustee
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Public Relations

Hello CGRA, First and foremost I want to say THANK YOU for voting me in as your Public Relations Chair this year. Now on to business. You as our memebership can have an article in the newsletter, If you choose to do that I need your articles emailed to me by the 5th of each month. That way I can get the newsletter published by the 10th of each month. I look forward to working with all of you this year.

I plan on using a few different ways this year to get CGRA's info out to the community such as our facebook page, Outfronts blog page, Milehighgay's blog page, Gayzettes blog, The Center, and Alice 105's fm blog page. As well as keeping all other groups in the link as well. However with that said, I need your help with that. I need your press releases in order to get them out. Also if your planning an event, I need to know that info as well.

Dan Rutledge
Public Relations Chair 2011
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Membership

Hey y'all. As the summer winds down to a close and the temps start to drop, it's a perfect time to leave your air-conditioned homes and venture out. While you're out enjoying driving with the windows down and the music up, why not stop down to Charlie's for a General Membership meeting? It's a great way to find out what is going on with CGRA, as well as to make sure you have a voice in the future of the organization. We normally meet up the second Friday of each month at 8 PM, and our next meeting will be October 14th. Come on down and see what we are up to!

Those of you who have memberships expiring in the third quarter, you need to renew by September 30th to ensure your membership does not lapse. Since the online store is currently down, you can send those payments to my PO Box at PO Box 202604, Denver CO 80220, or you can pay at the next meeting if you want. Either way, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to let me know.

If you have been wanting to volunteer with CGRA but you weren't sure in what capacity, we are starting up a Membership group that will go to CGRA events and specifically talk about being a member. My hope is to have a large cross-section of members participate, so the more the merrier! If you want to join up, shoot me a note at or to the Membership email via CGRA. Either one works. We will be having a get-together toward the end of October to talk about the team and how to get started, so there's plenty of time to free up your calendar.

Have a great September, and we'll see y'all next month!

CGRA-Membership

Rodeo Events

Hello

Its me Kim Rodeo Events Chair. I would like to invite anyone and everyone who like to work with me this year on the Gymkhana for 2012. I will be holding a meeting at Hamburger Mary's at 700 east 17th Avenue Denver, Co 80203 at 12:30 on September 17th

Some of the things I would like to talk about are how to increase the number of people and how to market it better. How to reach more of our own members and maybe do two on the road Gymkhanas.

That's just some thing! I would love to hear what you have and say. So I will see you on Saturday at Hamburger Mary's. And if you can not made it and would still like to give your input, E-mail me, but the one thing that will really work is to come out and help.

Rodeo and Gymkhana Events Chairperson

1. Under the supervision of the President shall attend as a voting member all meetings of the CGRA Board, General Membership, and Rodeo Committee
2. Coordinate with the Entertainment Chairperson all People Events for gymkhanas
3. Coordinate the rodeo arena staff with the Arena Director
4. Responsible for providing secure housing and maintenance of arena equipment (barrels, poles, flags, etc.) and arena supplies (pellets, flour, etc.)
5. Responsible for maintaining list of Contestants eligible for Contestant Growth, Education, and Finals Appreciation Fund and for ensuring that the appropriate funds raised during the year are recorded and submitted in a negotiable form to the Treasurer within five (5) days of their availability. Also responsible for working with the Treasurer to ensure that the available funds are distributed correctly and, in the case of IGRA Finals, sent to the IGRA Finals Hosting Association.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozel

Kim Fry
CGRA Rodeo Events

Royality

Hello Everybody,

I am so glad to be back, and I am so ready to get back to work!

I wanted to take some time and say how sorry I am for the embarrassment I caused to CGRA and our community! I am taking action to make myself a better person so that I may better serve the community and CGRA! I also want to thank everyone that has stood behind me! THANK YOU!! You don't know how good it is to have your support!!

A big Congrats to the new Board of Directors for 2012!! I am looking forward on working with you all this coming year!

Now on with the good stuff!! In July I had a Beer bust at the Compound, we raised $144 for CGRA, and In August I had another Beer Bust at the Compound were we raised $136 for Paws Co. my charity partner! Thank You to everyone that came out!

Next Show is October 1st, Paula Scougal and I are having a show together!!! I am so happy to be working with her on this show!!! This is going to count as her fundraiser for CGRA Royalty, she is running for Ms CGRA 2012!!! It will be at Charlie's October 1st, Beer Bust at 7pm and Show at 8pm. We will have a 50/50 drawing and other drawing. Plus some great entertainment planned!!! I also have my "Thank You" Show on November 5th at the Compound, Beer Bust at 6pm and show at 7pm, with Drawing. I am looking forward to seeing you all around and at these two great events!!

With All My Love
Tracey Lee Saunders
Miss CGRA 2011

Paula Scougal

Good afternoon CGRA members, and family. I would like to tell everyone that I am running for MS.CGRA, this being the 30th year and being a founding member it just sounded like the right decision. I promise to always represent CGRA in the best manor. I always wanted to run for MS. but work would never allow it, now that I'm retired I can give this position all the attention it demands.

Thank You fellow brothers and sisters

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