2009-12-17

Cowboy Christmas, ringing in 2010

By Carol Smith

With the weather on Friday, Dec. 4, crisp and clear and temperatures dipping below freezing, it really “looked a lot like Christmas” at the official kick-off for Bandera’s holiday season on the courthouse lawn.

Mirthful merriment seemed the theme for the evening with singing, dancing, hot chocolate and a Living Nativity, to boot. Miss Rhetta’s dancing dollies twirled in spite of the cold and the Twin Lakes Independent Baptist Church choir belted out a spirited rendition of “Having a Cowboy Christmas.”

Students of the Pipe Creek Christian School presented the Living Nativity with Mary trundling toward Bethlehem on a pony. Booming, “Have you been good little boys and girls?” Santa arrived in the nick of time to hear all those Christmas lists.
Rounding out the rest of this month’s holiday celebrations this month:

• Winter Bull Riding series begins at 3 pm, Sunday, Dec. 23, at the BR Lightning Ranch on FM 1283 in Pipe Creek. Admission is $5 per person with kids ages six and under admitted free.

• Members of the congregation of the Pipe Creek Presbyterian Church issue an open invitation to the community to their annual Christmas Day Lunch on Friday, Dec. 25. For more information, call 830-510-6650.

• Members of the Medina Lake Betterment Association will host a New Year’s Eve Dance on Thursday, Dec. 31, at the Lakehills Civic Center on Park Road 37. For more information, call 830-751-9904.

• Jeff Woolsey and the Dance Hall Kings will perform at the 2010 New Year’s Eve Celebration at the 11th Street Cowboy Bar, 307 11th Street. Doors open at 7 pm and admission is $15. Advance tickets are now on sale. For more info call 830-796-4849.

• The Drugstore Cowboys will appear at the New Year’s Eve Spectacular at the Silver Spur Guest Ranch, 9266 Bandera Creek Road. Tickets are $45 per person and include appetizers all evening; beer, wine and set-ups available; party favors, midnight drawing; fireworks display; champagne toast and breakfast buffet. Doors open at 7 pm with music beginning at 8 pm. For more information, call 830-796-3037 or email www.silverspur-ranch.com.