Donor Spotlight | Witwer Family Located within the Hutchison Family Stockyards Event Center, the Stow L. Witwer Memorial Show Arena will honor the Witwer family’s legendary history with the National Western Stock Show. Harvey E. Witwer, who raised Herefords on the SLW Ranch east of Greeley, was showing horses and cattle at the
Donor Spotlight | Bob & Judi Newman Bob and Judi Newman’s generosity is no secret around Denver: you may have heard of the Robert & Judi Newman Performing Arts Center at the University of Denver or the new Freyer-Newman Center at the Denver Botanical Gardens, and that’s just two of many examples of
News Clippings | January 2021 It started with a simple question: given the 2021 Stock Show’s postponement, what could we do to make us all just a little bit less lonely during those 16 days in January when we’d normally be together? What emerged exceeded our wildest expectations. Celebrating the Spirit of the National
MLK’s niece Alveda King to lead virtual sermon for National Western Stock Show Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., will lead a virtual sermon Sunday for the National Western Stock Show’s Founders Memorial and Cowboy church service. The sermon is part of a 16-day series of virtual events beginning on Jan.
Q&A with Paul Andrews | Stock Show leader looks forward by looking back on a legacy Paul Andrews wears more hats than a cowboy on Christmas at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo. He's the president and CEO, to begin with, but Andrews is so much more — fundraiser, planner, promoter and native
Ron Williams named 2022 Citizen of the West A leader in business, education, civic and philanthropic communities, Ron Williams will receive the award in January 2022. DENVER — The National Western Stock Show has announced Ron Williams as the 2022 Citizen of the West. Selected by a committee of community leaders, the annual award
National Western Stock Show holds virtual events in 2021 The last time the National Western Stock Show was canceled was in 1915 due to a "hoof and mouth" disease epidemic. As originally published in 9news. BUILD THE FUTURE WITH US INVEST IN THE VISION AND BE A PART
Lemonade from lemons: How the ‘Virtual Stock Show’ came to be The National Western Stock Show had persevered through two world wars and a Great Depression. As the long summer of 2020 progressed, though, the prospects for the 2021 National Western Stock Show were fading fast. COVID-19 case counts kept climbing. While promising vaccine
Tradition Continues Online The National Western Stock Show was postponed this fall, but Coloradans will still have the chance to celebrate all things Western in January through a series of virtual events. For 16 days, virtual happy hours and concerts will be hosted every evening as part of the “Celebrating the Spirit of the
Stock Show plans to come back bigger, better than ever in 2022 Since the pandemic forced the closure of the National Western Center and the cancellation of the National Western Stock Show, more than 200 events have been canceled, resulting in a loss of more than $120 million in revenue. But there is also
