RR&DT exceeds Advocacy Center hopes
Photo contributed by Kim Biggerstaff-Digital Reflections Photography
With the Pecos Bill Mustang P-51D vintage aircraft as a backdrop, Ricky Smith of Storage Wars Texas conducts an auction at the Freedom Flyers hangar in Burnet for Rifles, Racks & Deer Track a fundraiser Saturday, Oct. 8, that topped $110,000 for the Hill Country Children's Advocacy Center (HCCAC).
Supporters of the Hill Country Children's Advocacy Center (HCCAC) contributed more than $110,000 to the center through the Rods, Racks & Deer Tracks event Saturday, Oct. 8.
Celebrity auctioneer Ricky Smith of Storage Wars Texas presided over an auction and Lakes Area Rods & Classics made an outright $6,000 donation. Tickets for the dinner drawings, a silent auction and donations to a total that exceeded the expectations of the HCCAC board of directors.
Honorees of the event were co-founders of the center, Yvonne Evans of Shady Grove the late Deborah Jayne Keith (1952~2015) of Llano. Members of Keith's family represented her--her father Jim Bagley Jr., sister Cheryl Bagley, brother Jim Bagley III and nephew Doug Bradshaw.
Ben Watson and the Hired Guns set the relaxed country tone for dinner and dancing at the Freedom Flyers airplane hangar in Burnet. Cody Hanson of the HCCAC board and Executive Director Kelly Forister presided over the event.
Forister explained that the HCCA is a non-profit organization serving the children Burnet, Blanco, Llano, Mason, Lampasas and San Saba counties where abused children are given a safe place to tell their story, a medical examination to help preserve evidence of abuse and ongoing therapy to deal with the trauma they have suffered.
