Thanks for taking a minute with CYO's October newsletter. It's a great month to be at CYO - our 220-acre office has hit peak pretty: green with yellow accents, the weather is pleasant, and the campus is *just slightly* less frenetic than the last five months.

This newsletter is brief. On Friday (spoiler alert) we will go off-script & email again to announce the beginning of NoCo Winter Wonderland ticket sales.

Too soon? Listen: we've been up to our elfin ears in holiday lights, candy canes & everything red and green since September. We're about to burst with holiday spirit. And on November 1st, we're finally allowed to TALK about it! SANTA IS COMING!

October was a great month at CYO!

🎃There is nothing more wholesome than hosting a pumpkin patch on a Friday afternoon! Thanks to everyone who visited CYO's Pumpkin Patch. We have some leftovers - if you know a group of kids who could use pumpkins, please contact us ASAP! It will be a pick-your-own situation.

🏆 The Governor gave us an award! Well, not actually, but the governor's office sponsored it. Explaining the government agencies involved took 15 minutes in a staff meeting . . . basically, it's an award for employing young people, and CYO would not have received it without a glowing write up by our friends at Larimer County.

🦌 CYO's Adventure Series - it takes several tiers of CYO programming for participants to attend a CYO Adventure series. Three father/son pairs did all the rifle training and graduated to a deer hunt this month . . . and all three pairs harvested a deer! If you contributed to the Paddle Raise at the Maverick, you directly funded this effort. Thank you.

⛽ The energy industry has always supported CYO; they really went all-out this month:

• A $5,000 grant from Chevron, voted by employees. Speaking of, was that CYO in the latest Chevron commercial??

• Western Midstream volunteered for a day, and then wrote CYO a check for $5,500.

• 1888 Industrial Services hosted a cornhole tourney to benefit CYO. We had NO IDEA how much they like cornhole . . . we hear they raised $35,000!

• Civitas has committed a fleet pickup truck to our cause.

• Last, Halliburton invited CYO to their employee golf tourney in Houston. And presented us a check for $50,000! If you're a thorough newsletter reader (👏👏👏), you might recall they did the exact same this time last year. Double awesome! Every other non-profit at the tourney is out of Texas, we're obviously thrilled to be included.

🕺Finally, our day programming team hosted all sorts of High School PE classes, nonprofits Cooper Home, Revital, and River Deep visited, and we hosted Poudre School District's Peer Summit: 150 high school kids from all over the district learned survival skills, fishing, archery . . . . and line dancing. If you have a stone on CYO's Legacy Walk, it was well-trod!

CYO exists to build relationships.

We build relationships by having fun together outside.

Our classes cost more than double what we charge, and 25% of our participants come through full scholarship.

We only run thanks to community support. If you believe in what we do, please consider a financial donation.