STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
Pony up for the 27th annual Cowboy Ball.
Swiftsure Ranch will hold its always popular evening of dining, drinking, dancing and donating—all while wearing your best cowboy and cowgirl duds—from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday, July 12.
The event will be held at the Swiftsure Ranch on Calypso Lane south of Bellevue.
This year Marine Corps veteran Mitch Burrow will pepper the evening with live comedy, while the Robbie Walden Band will finish it off with music to dance to.
There’ll be 44 North cocktails from an open bar, a photo gallery highlighting the Swiftsure Ranch herd, a one-item live auction, upscale barbecue and more.
The Cowboy Ball supports a therapeutic equestrian program that uses horses as therapists for returning veterans with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury and adults and children with a variety of challenges, including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, spina bifida, cancer and various cognitive and emotional challenges.
All programs are provided free of charge.
This year’s ball will present a new format that will allow partygoers to roam and dine as they please or to hunker down with a table of friends.
Tickets are $175. To learn more, visit https://swiftsureranch.org.