Cowboys for Cancer Research would like to extend our condolences to the family and friends of Erik Ness, a former long-time communications director for the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau in Las Cruces. Erik was also a C4CR committee member. He has been a key component to our success. Erik lost a very short battle with Cancer just a few days ago. He will be missed by many. We will continue to fight the battle in his honor as well as the many friends and family we have lost along the way!

2012 Heart of a Cowboy Charity Calendar

Get your 2012 Heart of a Cowboy, C4CR Charity Calendar calendars now!

2012 Calendars available in Las Cruces at Horse N Hound Feed N Supply, Tractor Supply, The Feed Store (Dona Ana Rd.), Memorial Medical Center Cancer Center, many other businesses, also via US mail & UPS.  Price is $10 plus $5 shipping/handling.
Get yours today! Contact us through Facebook, or call 575-642-5696.  You can also get one by emailing Mike Black at mike@oasisusa.net or Geraldine Calhoun @ gwcalhoun@q.com !

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Front: Brent Bagwell, Keith Brownfield, Shain Sproul, Kevin Davis, Cole Salopek 2011 Winner, Tim Darden, Shain Sproul, Back: Mike Black, Keith Brownfield

C4CR Tips their hat to Cole for being the 2001 Trailer Winner!

Pink Event Success

Cinco de Pink campaign tops past fundraising

Courtesy:  Las Cruces Bulletin
Bulletin Staff Report

New Mexico State University Aggies Are Tough to Wear Pink (TETWP) organizers have closed the books on their 2011 campaign and report a total $570,581 in cash and in-kind contributions will be presented to Cowboys for Cancer Research.

This total reflects $22,465 in additional contributions made by local business, schools and individuals after the $548,116 check presentation made during halftime of NMSU’s annual Tough Enough to Wear Pink football game in October.

This marks an 8.6 percent increase over the 2010 total of $525,439 and brings the volunteer group’s five-year cash and in-kind fundraising total to more than $2.3 million.

“One hundred percent of the cash we raise, after operational expenses, is invested in endowments created by our partners, Cowboys for Cancer Research,” said TETWP co-chairs Laura Conniff, Pat Sisbarro, Magellia Boston and Mary Henson in a joint statement. “It is the interest income from these endowments that help fund the amazing breast cancer research being done here at New Mexico State University and the UNM Cancer Center.” Significant in the additional contributions were $10,940 raised by Las Cruces Public Schools students and administrators and $15,793 from the Gadsden Independent School District. Kevin Davis, president of the Cowboys for Cancer Research board of directors, said the $570,581 represents more than money.

“It represents the continuing commitment of a wonderful group of volunteers lead by Pat, Laura, Magellia and Mary,” Davis said. “More than that, it represents the kindness and generosity of sponsors like Memorial Medical Center, MountainView Regional Medical Center, NMSU and the people of Las Cruces and Doña Ana County.”

The 2011 Cowboys for Cancer Research Roping was another success ending up with close to one thousand teams in 4 roping over 2 days!  Our thanks to all who participated!

2011 C4CR Open Roping winners Nano Garza & Shain Sproul

2011 C4CR Mega Ten winners Rusty Evans & Denny Calhoun

2011 C4CR Dummy Roping winners: 5 & under Jesse James Dominguez , Mimbres,NM 6-8 yrs. Michael Dominguez, Mimbres, NM 9-11 yrs. Alejandro Rivera, Fairacres, NM

2011 C4CR Egg Toss winners Gabe Hernandez, Lordsburg, NM & Sheldon Church, Deming NM

2011 C4CR Egg Toss Jr. Winner Caden Black, Las Cruces, NM

Courtesy of
Las Cruces Bulletin photo by Chris Mortenson

During halftime of the NMSU-Idaho football game Saturday, Oct. 15, organizers with the NMSU Aggies are Tough Enough to Wear Pink hold up a banner proclaiming that the annual breast cancer awareness campaign has raised $548,166. Last year’s total was $506,939. Pink activities will continue throughout the month and reach as far south as Gadsden Independent School District. The broad community support has made this effort the most successful Tough Enough to Wear Pink event in the world. The money raised goes to cancer research conducted in New Mexico.

Telephone Pioneers to honor Rawley Jackson

Telephone Pioneers to honor Rawley Jackson

By Marvin Tessneer

Las Cruces Bulletin

Cowboys for Cancer Research has gained national recognition with the announcement that the Telephone Pioneers will name Rawley Jackson for a Centennial Lifetime Achievement Award on Nov. 5 at its centennial celebration in Boston.

Jackson helped organize the first C4CR team-roping fundraiser 29 years ago in the Calhoun Arena.

Jackson worked for U.S. West Telephone for 31 years as a lineman, installation technician and manager. He is a longtime member of the Telephone Pioneers, a fraternal organization of telephone workers, founded 100 years ago in Boston.

In Las Cruces, the organization has paint­ed U.S. maps at school playgrounds and the women have made hug-a-bears for firemen and police officers to help console children af­ter emergencies.

“I’m just a stuck-in-the-mud ol’ country boy, and to be selected for this award from over 50,000 members in our district, I feel overwhelmed,” Jackson said.

His selection has another special meaning.

Two of his grandsons were inspired by his C4CR work to study cancer.

One grandson, Mathew Jackson, is in medi­cal school at the University of Texas-San An­tonio, majoring in oncology. Grandson Steven Jackson is attending the University of Oklaho­ma, studying radiation treatment of cancer.

The 29th annual C4CR team-roping con­test will be conducted Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 8-9, at the Sproul Arena on Harvey Road north of Las Cruces.

The C4CR team-roping is the largest cancer fundraiser roping event in New Mexico. All of the money remains in New Mexico and is used for cancer research at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center and at New Mexico State University.