112th annual Clovis Rodeo fuels community fundraising and youth programs

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Bucking bulls and courageous cowboys person drawn crowds to the Clovis rodeo for 112 years. And implicit time, the yearly amusement has go a mode for the assemblage to enactment itself.

"It is really 1 of our biggest fundraisers of the year. It helps america with our scholarships that we manus retired to Clovis Unified students," said Eric Scharton, a subordinate of the Old Town Clovis Kiwanis Club.

The Kiwanis Club serves sizzling meals to marque those scholarships possible. It's conscionable 1 of dozens of fundraisers for antithetic groups the rodeo brings in.

"They're each earning their wealth to enactment backmost into the assemblage for immoderate crushed that is," said Chuck Rigsbee, Board Member and past President of the Clovis Rodeo.

And similar the Kiwanis Club, galore of the fundraisers absorption connected helping section children.

"It doesn't substance what it's for: It's each astir the kids," said Scharton.

"I'm a Boy Scout. So we merchantability worldly for the rodeo and that's however we marque wealth to spell connected camping trips," said Boy Scout Owen Cummins.

Many of the kids are focused, too; connected giving backmost to the aforesaid assemblage that's providing for them.

"Boy Scouts does a batch of work projects. So, for example, Eagle Projects, those payment schools, churches, spiritual institutions, worldly similar that," said Boy Scout Aaron Dominguez.

Even extracurricular of the rodeo grounds, immoderate businesses connected the streets of Old Town Clovis payment arsenic well.

Mostly, the bars, wherever radical person been lining up each week long.

But immoderate edifice owners who didn't privation to beryllium identified accidental concern for them has been slow.

It's wherefore immoderate radical accidental they made a constituent to enactment them, too.

"We're each astir supporting the section community, and I'm a Clovis miss astatine heart," said Brittany Becklin, who attended the rodeo.

Sunday is the past time of the 112th yearly Clovis Rodeo. Festivities commencement astatine noon.