Join the Pima Rotary Club at Old Tucson Studios on November 7 from 4PM-9PM for their first ever City Slicker Rodeo! The event, which is open to the public, will raise funds to support youth projects both in our local community and internationally: building a playground for the children at the new Tucson Gospel Rescue Mission facility, providing clothing, furniture and household items to Youth On Their Own in Tucson and supporting the Rubaga Community School, an orphanage school in Uganda. Through the Rotary International matching grants program, Pima Rotary Club has an opportunity to double the local funds and more than triple the international funds allowing them to help many children.

 The fun-filled family event features a city slicker team rodeo, children’s carnival booths, a chuck wagon dinner, and a barn dance with live music by the Bill Ganz Western Band. Join in the fun by getting a team of four people together to compete in City Slicker Rodeo events including Build-A-Horse, Rope-A-Steer, Double-Sided Barrel Races, Tomahawk Throw, Cross Country Shuffle, Calf Tying and Poker Darts. Competition is sure to be fierce as teams vie for bragging rights as rodeo champs. No live animals are used in the city slicker competition. “It would be too dangerous to allow ordinary ‘city slickers’ to compete with live animals,” according to Project Co-Chair David Flieger, MD

 Admission to the event is $40 for adults and $25 for children over 3 years.  For more event information including entering your own team or being an event sponsor and to purchase tickets, visit http://www.pimarotary.org/rodeo/.

 Rotary International is the world’s first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary Club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto, “Service Above Self.” The Pima Rotary Club is a Tucson based Rotary Club that meets at 11:15 am at Chad’s Steakhouse the first three Fridays of each month.