11-12-2007

Christmas In The Stockyards 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 12, 2007                                        

Contact: Natalie Parish, Stockyards Station Marketing Director

              817/625-9715 nparish@stockyardsstation.com   

HISTORIC FORT WORTH STOCKYARDS HOST

 8^TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS IN THE STOCKYARDS – DECEMBER 1^ST

Fort Worth, TX – The Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District will host the 8^th annual “Christmas in the Stockyards” on Saturday, December 1st from 11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. The western-themed holiday event is free and open to the public.

2007 Christmas In The Stockyards Activities to include:

• Live musical entertainment
• Pictures with Stockyards Cowboy Santa
• Holiday face-painting
• Legends of Texas Gunfight Shows
• Horsemanship demonstrations
• Science experiments
• Pony rides
• Fort Worth Herd Cattle Drives & CowKid Roundup
• Stockyards Christmas Parade begins at 4 p.m.
• Stockyards Tree Lighting – following parade
• Coloring Contest & more

The annual “Toy Trail Ride for Tots” benefiting Tarrant County Food Bank, Good Fellows and the Northside Inter-Church Agency begins at LaGrave Field at 3:00 p.m. Over 30 mounted riders will then join the “Christmas in the Stockyards” parade following the 4:00 p.m. Fort Worth Herd Cattle Drive.

This event is made possible in part by sponsors: Cattlemen’s Steakhouse, Stockyards Station, Fort

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ADD ONE – Christmas in The Stockyards

Worth Stockyards Business Association, Wells Fargo, Riscky’s Restaurants, Fort Worth Farmers Market, Stockyards Hotel & H3, Wells Fargo, Leggett & Platt, Prosperity Bank, Coors Distributing, The Best Hat Store, Cole, Greene, & Ruggeberg, P.C., Budweiser, Frost Bank, Admiral Linen & Uniform Service, Trailer Storage Inc., Hyatt Place Historic Stockyards, Unity One Federal Credit Union, White Elephant Saloon, Lonesome Dove & LoveShack, Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau, The T, Cowtown Coliseum and Rodeo, M.L. Leddy’s Boots & Saddlery , Solar Sense, Sweethearts of Rodeo, Quick Park and Billy Bob’s Texas.

About the historic Fort Worth Stockyards

The great Fort Worth Stockyards, once home of the largest livestock market in the Southwest, is now the new emergent entertainment district in FW-D metroplex with a twice daily cattle drive, family entertainment, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum, the historic Livestock Exchange Building, daily historic walking tours, Billy Bob’s Texas, Stockyards Station, Stockyards Championship Rodeo, the Texas Trail of Fame and more.

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