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Send to Winter Texan Times, 1217 N. Conway Ave., Mission, Texas 78572 or email to reunions@wintertexantimes.com. KINGSVILLE, TX – Come to Kingsville to kick-off the holiday season during Ranch Hand Weekend. The 32nd Annual Ranch Hand Breakfast will be held on Saturday, November 18, from 7 to 11 a.m. The event features an authentic, hearty cowboy breakfast cooked and served outdoors on the historic King Ranch. Team roping, historical exhibits and old-time cow camp cooking demonstrations are a part of the activities, along with cowboy poetry, storytelling, and musical entertainment. Join them for a taste of cowboy life. Tickets are available online at king-ranch.com/visit/special-events/. Tickets can also be purchased at the King Ranch Saddle Shop, the King Ranch Museum, the King Ranch Visitor’s Center, the Kingsville Visitor’s Center, and at the Breakfast. Tickets are $10 per person, ages three and under are free. Proceeds from the King Ranch sponsored event benefit La Posada de Kingsville. Festivities for the weekend begin on Friday, November 17, at 5 p.m. with an opportunity for guests to visit Main Street Kingsville merchants and vendors while sampling 20 varieties of wine, five different types of craft beer and the hard-tofind Special Edition Old Forester King Ranch Bourbon. Non-alcoholic wine walkers can sample a variety of sparkling virgin beverages and mocktails. Holiday Wine Walk passports come packed with coupons and savings and include a keepsake wine glass and lanyard or a glow-in-thedark stadium cup along with several opportunities for participants to enter to win great prizes. Passports are not needed to entertain. During the Wine Walk experience the tree lighting, Christmas Carolers, live music, and street dancing. After the breakfast, visitors are invited back to Main Street for food, fun, inflatables, livemusic, two-stepping, and line dancing. The Ranch Hand Weekend Festival features a Ranch Hand Car Show, Steam-Roller printing, unique vendors and Kingsville Parks and Rec Department provides an Archery Turkey Shoot, a Young Performer’s Stage, a Drug Free Jail and Pony Rides. Vendors come from far and wide to attend this festival. Even Santa Claus has confirmed attendance. He’ll be taking pictures and Christmas wish lists at Kleberg Bank from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Take a trip back to the 90’s as country music fills the air Saturday night at JK Northway Expo Center with the Ranch Hand Weekend Country Concert. This year’s headliner is country music legend Collin Raye. Raye has produced 16 #1 hits, 10 top ten records, and is a 10-time CMA and ACM nominee. Doug Stone will kick off the concert. You might remember his 90’s hits “I’d Be Better Off (In a Pine Box),” and “In a Different Light.” “We’ve seen tremendous success with these supportive events thanks to the strong foundation the Ranch Hand Breakfast has built for decades,” says Kingsville Director of Tourism Janine Reyes. Tickets are available at RanchHandWeekend.com. Visitors can purchase a Ranch Hand Weekend Getaway from a handful of hotels as well that includes tickets to all the weekend’s events, a bottle of wine, and exclusive keepsake gifts. Call the Kingsville Visitor’s Center at (361) 592-8516 for more information. King Ranch Breakfast this weekend Courtesy Photo
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