The drawing for the SILVER SCREEN LEGEND
XIV, a magnificent pair of fully
engraved and sterling silver-plated Colt
SAA .45 revolvers and a gorgeous
Hollywood style double buscadero holster
rig just like the one that Roy Rogers
wore in his movies and TV series, was
held Saturday night, December 17, 2011
during Curly’s Cowboy Christmas
dinner and show, a benefit for abused
children at the Cooper Home, a project
of Happy Trails Children's Foundation.
Mimi Rogers Swift, daughter of Roy
Rogers and Dale Evans and a member of
the Happy Trails Children's Foundation
board of directors drew the winning
ticket.
The drum
was packed with more than 20,000 ticket
stubs representing tickets sold
throughout 2011. The lucky winner is
Mrs. Lavonne Novak-Dlouhy of Dodge,
Nebraska. The winning ticket number
was 53, one of eleven tickets Mrs.
Novak-Dlouhy purchased by phone for
herself along with 11 tickets for her
husband, James. They saw it promoted in
the American Rifleman magazine and are
first-time ticket buyers. Mr. and Mrs.
Dlouhy have a large blended family with
10 adult children and 21 grandchildren.
They are both NRA members and Lavonne
enjoys deer hunting with James. Lavonne
is the first lady winner in the fourteen
year history of the Silver Screen
Legend. She is also only the second FFL
holder to win. In addition to being a
semi-retired farmer, James is a gun
collector, owns a gun shop and does gun
repairs.
To date,
the Silver Screen Legend project has
raised more than $1,500,000.00 dollars
for abused children. It is truly a
unique case of guns doing good things
for kids. The Happy Trails Children's
Foundation is a charitable non-profit
organization. All donations are fully
tax-deductible to the extent allowed by
law, under the Internal Revenue Code,
Section 501(c)(3). The kids at the
Cooper Home for abused children offer a
huge THANK YOU to everyone who bought
tickets for Silver Screen Legend XIV.
Your support is sincerely appreciated!
A big tip
of the Stetson to those special people
who make this drawing possible each year
including General William Keys of Colt’s
Mfg. Co. and the folks in the Colt
Custom Shop; Jim Lockwood, Jr. of
Legends in Leather; Conrad Anderson of
Rocktree Ranch; Bob Leskovec of
Precision Pro Grips; Mr. David Warther,
Jr. of Warther Carvings; Charles Sauer
of Sauer Custom Knives and Spurs; Mike
Ekstrom, of Custom Jewelry by Michael &
Naomi Ekstrom; and Ron Love. Without
these fine folks, there would be no
Silver Screen Legend fund raising
project. All of these wonderful people
and companies are enduring examples of
that very special American Spirit known
as "the cowboy way."
Watch for
Silver Screen Legend XV, coming in
January 2012. Each year the outfit is
different from previous years. The
Silver Screen Legend XV will present a
Tribute to the singing cowboys, Tex
Ritter and Eddie Dean. The outfit will
feature a pair of unique engraved Colt
.45 SAA revolvers in a magnificent hand
–carved and sterling silver mounted
deluxe Hollywood style double gun rig
exactly like the ones worn by Tex and
Eddie.
