It’s time to dust off your hats, polish those belt buckles and get out your bling to attend Texoma’s premier social event of the year. The Annual Boot Scootin’ Ball will be held at Cal Barker’s Bar-K-R Ranch in Pottsboro, Texas on October 17, 2015. The theme for the 2015 ball is Wranglers and Roses.
Sponsors, partners, Texoma businesses and hundreds of volunteers all join in a huge effort to make this a great party with lifesaving and community service values at the core. What began fifteen years ago as a small gathering of Lake Texoma friends and neighbors to raise money to support the Preston Volunteer Emergency Services, the Boot Scootin’ Ball has become a sensational event with 1000 people in attendance.
Proceeds from the Boot Scootin’ Ball will go toward purchasing equipment for the Preston Volunteer Emergency Services (P.V.E.S), who provides emergency medical services to the Pottsboro area. PVES provides services to 5 marinas, numerous youth camps, recreational areas, and the estimated one million annual visitors to their district each year. The Corps of Engineers estimates that 1.4 million people live, work and/or play in this service area.
This is the fifth year that TAPS busses will provide transportation for volunteers and Boot Scootin’ Ball guest from Georgetown Church and Landmark Bank in Pottsboro. Golf carts provided by North Texas Golf Cars and Premier Golf Car Company at Tanglewood will be available to transport guest from their cars to the main arena.
Master of Ceremonies, Grayson County Judge Drue Bynum will kick off the evening of dining, dancing, and fundraising activities at 6:30 pm. The very popular Chance Cody and Spur 503 Band will provide live music for your listening and dancing pleasure. A delicious Bar-b-cue dinner with all the fixings will be catered by Smokey Joes. Volunteers from the Austin College Community Service League and Grayson College Culinary Arts program will assist in table service for upper tier sponsorship tables.
It will be a great evening to mix and mingle with friends and neighbors while strolling among tables laden with unique, one of a kind silent auction items. The Big Board auction will feature items ranging in values from $400 to $1000, all up for grabs to the highest bidder. Wine enthusiast will most certainly want to participate in the “Wine Cork Pull”. Winners will be announced after the Live Auction.
This year the Boot Scootin’ Ball Raffle will be for a Live Auction item. Buy a Raffle Ticket for $100 and choose the Live Auction item you want to “win”. The winner will be drawn at the Boot Scootin Ball before the Live Auction and the item listed on the Raffle Ticket will be withdrawn from the Live Auction. Only 150 tickets will be sold and you do not have to be present to win. Raffle Tickets can be purchased online at www.bootscootinball.com.
The Live Auction is always a highlight of the evening. Lewis with Murad Auctioneers will get the auction rolling about 8:30 pm and the bidding frenzy will begin. One of the main attractions is a drum coffee table donated by Reba McIntyre. Proceeds from the sale of the item will be shared with Texoma Health Foundation to help breast cancer patients. Also on the bidding block are Miranda Lambert Fan Fare, Lake Texoma Catered Cruise, RGB Lasik, trips, Fire House Birthday Party, cocktails, dinners and a pub crawl. You can find more details at http://bootscootinball.com/live-auction-2015.
The Boot Scootin’ Ball is the single largest fundraiser for the Preston Volunteer Emergency Services, an all-volunteer organization. In addition to firefighting responsibilities, Preston Volunteer Emergency Services provides ambulance service for the entire Pottsboro and Preston Peninsula area servicing 8,000 full time residents and 18,000 residents on the weekends. On holidays and during special events in the Lake Texoma area, it is not unusual for the service area population to grow to 40-50,000. Preston Volunteer Emergency Services has one paid paramedic and one EMT on staff 24/7, 365 days a year along with two ambulances. Both Preston Volunteer Emergency Services Foundation and the Boot Scootin’ Ball are 501(c)3 organizations.
