#GoodNewsFriday: Welcoming Tasks
In a few days, thousands of visitors will descend upon Stamford for the 92nd Texas Cowboy Reunion. Scores of competitors, fans, and tourists will partake in a wide variety of activities that preserve and promote the heritage of our community’s founding.
Today, I want to give thanks to all the folks who have worked feverishly to prepare for the TCR. It takes a literal army of workers to plan, promote, and execute an event of this magnitude. It takes all hands on deck. It starts with the TCR management, directors, and event chairs, along with dozens more volunteers and workers whose names never appear in the lights. It includes City employees who mow boulevards, patch potholes, spray for mosquitoes, and more. It takes individual businesses, business and community groups, and every other organization or individual who does something big or small to make Stamford more festive or welcoming.
I think back about 10 years ago, when I was at the rodeo grounds one morning. My late, great friend Jim West had been a TCR director for decades. Yet, I spotted him delivering toilet paper to the custodial crews cleaning the bathrooms in the pavilion. Why? Because it needed doing and because he knew the importance of each tiny cog in such a large machine that has such enormous impacts on our community.
Over the next week, many people will do many little tasks to make Stamford better, brighter, and more welcoming for the TCR. Some have been doing those tasks for weeks. We appreciate every single one of them.
“Good News Friday” is a weekly feature spotlighting positive news and activities in the #StamfordTexas community as a part of our quest to build a #BetterStamford.