Cowboy Up benefitting PYR raises over $190,000
RICHMOND, TX. (October 19, 2022) – Parks Youth Ranch (PYR) held its 10th Cowboy Up on Saturday, October 8 in The Lodge at Safari Texas. Cowboy Up featured emcee George Lindsey from 100.3 The Bull, The Rumours with Seth Breckenridge, liquor & wine raffle, and silent and live auction. The dessert bar was stacked with yummy bites donated by Cinnaholic in Sugar Land, Crumbl Cookie in Aliana, Grammy’s Cookie Jar, The Grove Do-nutz & Deli, Sassy Cakes and The Sweet Boutique Bakery. The PYR Board of Directors would like to extend their thanks to the 400 attendees, sponsors and hard-working volunteers, who helped make Cowboy Up 2022 a success!
Each year at Cowboy Up, the Carl Favre “True Believer Award” is handed out to a dedicated volunteer who helps make our mission and vision a reality, in recognition of their support to our cause. This year, we honored two of our founders Mark Eyring and William Rohrbach. These two gentlemen created the details, the framework for PYR. They drafted our first set of By-laws and articles of incorporation, managed the bank account and dealt with the oversight and applications and licensing and audits and many more behind the scenes responsibilities. Previous recipients have included Dick Hogan-2013, Mary Favre-2014, St. Laurence Social Concerns Ministry-2015, Fred & Mabel Parks Foundation-2016, Pat Somers-2017, Dee Koch-2018, Mike McGrath-2019, Lucy and Ron Hudson-2020 and Tracey Schindler-2021.
PYR opened its doors in 2011 to provide emergency shelter, counseling and life-changing services to at-risk and homeless youth. Located in southern Fort Bend County, PYR is a 28-bed emergency shelter that provides services to abused and neglected youth ages 7 to 17. Since opening, the shelter has served over 1,650 children. PYR remains the only non-profit emergency shelter for youth in Fort Bend County. We are a Home for Today, Hope for Tomorrow for disadvantaged youth.
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