Cowboy Dinner and Dance - Bucky's Birthday Bash

Cowboy Dinner and Dance

Honoring Rural Families, Rural Traditions and our Rural Heritage
Glenwood Park - Glenwood, NM

The Gila Livestock Growers Association (GLGA) www.gilalivestockgrowers.org and the Americans for the Preservation of Western Environment (APWE) www.amprowest.org are sponsoring a Cowboy Dinner and Dance at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Glenwood, New Mexico on June 12, 2010 in honor of Bucky Allred’s birthday. Dinner starts at 6:00 pm and the dance at 8:00 pm. So please try to make Bucky’s annual Birthday Bash.

Music by Joe Delk, Bucky Allred and The Delk Band featuring Neal, Mark and Byron Delk, Robert Flowers, Roswell; Roy Garcia, Las Cruces; Dee Ford, Alma; Ty Martin, Silver City; and a special appearance by Jacy Yarbrough, Winston, NM.

Not too long ago, Saturday-night dances were a common occurrence at many rural locations throughout New Mexico. Families, friends and neighbors coming together to share a meal, visit with one another and enjoy an evening of dancing. We can certainly refer to those days as “the good ole days” and we want to show our younger generation what it was like and allow our older generation to remember the way it was.

All are welcome. This is a fundraising event and we ask that you contribute what you can at the door but we don’t set an amount so in spite of economic circumstances, all can afford to attend. All monies raised in this effort will be utilized to help end the impacts of the Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Program and preserve our rural heritage. We have had camp cowboys and young couples dancing with babies between them to older couples on our dance floor. Cattlemen to CPA’s to youngsters with tattoos all are welcome.

The Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Program has evolved into an assault on our rural way-of-life by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) with the help and support of extremist environmental groups like the Center for Biological Diversity, Wild-Earth Guardians and the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. Today, the people and communities in and around the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area, which encompasses the Gila and Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, are bearing the brunt of the physical impacts and the economic and social cost the wolf reintroduction program is having on the people and communities that are forced to live with wolves on their ranches, in their yards and in their communities.

The Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Program has been grossly mismanaged by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local residents are paying the price. The program is a bust. Ranches have been lost, local businesses are suffering, elk hunting in the Gila may never be what it once was and families are being put in danger every day.

For contributions, please make checks payable to Gila Livestock Grower’s Association for “Preserving our Rural Heritage”. Bring your check to the Cowboy Dinner and Dance or mail to Gila Livestock Grower’s Association (GLGA), HC 64, Box 30, Magdalena, NM 87825.
Credit Card contributions can be made at www.wolfcrossing.org.