The Range Riders 4 Wheelers donated $100 to support the 18th Annual Cochise Cowboy Poetry & Music Gathering. The 2010 Gathering, to be held in February at Buena High School , will offer a unique view, as it has before, into our Western heritage painted in your imagination through word and music. This very popular annual entertaining event relies on the support of over 100 volunteers and on donations from the public, organizations, clubs, local businesses for its operation. In addition to organizing and hosting the Gathering the nonprofit organization operates the "Western Heritage Program" where local cowboy poets and musicians visit  children in 23 Cochise County elementary and secondary schools where they perform cowboy poetry, music, and discuss cowboy life and our western heritage. They are committed to the young people of our community and in conjunction with the teachers encourage the students to write cowboy/western poetry each year. The poems are judged and prizes are awarded at all grade levels. A collection of the "best of the young cowboy poets" is published each year in The Saddlebag of Poems. Proceeds from the sale of this booklet benefits the participating schools.

What do we benefit from this $100 donation? Besides feeling good about ourselves by supporting such a worthwhile community wide effort the Range Riders 4 Wheelers will receive unmeasureable positive name recognition in our County by having our name published in the Ranch Hand level sponsor section of their program and also having it prominantly displayed on large scrolling monitors visible to the thousands of event attendees. Perhaps next year we can donate at the $500 level which would give us name recognition at he morer appropiate WRANGLER level.  Lutz