Colorado Youth Outdoors

[Big Slick]

Went to the annual Colorado Youth Outdoors sporting clays shoot today. What an awesome organization, it is set up to get the youths of Colorado into fishing and hunting with their parents. They are involved with some of the high schools in northern and southern Colorado from Ft. Collins down to Colorado Springs. Real classy organization working to keep families doing things together and keeping our hunting and fishing sports alive by teaching our future outdoorsmen the right way through eduction.

 

[genesis273]

Sounds like a great time and a great organization. Getting kids outdoors is one of my favorite things to do. Were you helping or participating with one of your kids?

 

[Big Slick]

Genesis, the company I work for has sponsored this event the last couple of years and have put a shooting team together. I'm just glad to see that the companies that sponsor these events are aware of the importance of keeping our family values in sight. We as sponsors get to have a great time and it is all for a great cause. Their are so many things I have seen go away such as motorcycle tracks because of noise pollution. A lot of these events are or were family outings. A lot of my buddies raced bikes and when their kids got big enough they also raced. I'm glad to see that this organization has seen these things happening and have found a way to keep the family unit doing things together. Quite a few people can't even get the family to sit down together for dinner

 

[Oak]

CYO is a great organization doing great things. We sponsored two shooting teams for the second day (today). I look forward to their plans to finish the main facilities and expand to other parts of the state.

 

[arffdog875]

Oak, where do I find out more info on CYO? I have a son and stepson that would be very interested! Thanks!

 

[Oak]

arf,
Check out the following link. Currently, CYO is only operating on the Front Range. They have plans to expand over to this side in the near future, with the acquisition and development of a facility near DeBeque.

http://www.coloradoyo.org/default.aspx

When they first started out, they were setting up the program within each high school. Then they realized that a better model would be to develop regional facilities that could serve multiple school districts. With their own facilities they gain much more freedom to manage the program the way it should be managed, and they can be consistent with operations for each school.