Boots & Bling fundraiser planned

Celebrating 70 years of service, Gottsche Therapy Rehab & Wellness will be holding their 2024 Boots & Bling Fall Fundraiser on Saturday, September 7 at the Hot Springs County Fair Building 627 Springview in Thermopolis. Doors open at 5:15 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6 p.m.

Guest speaker will be Ethan Asher.

Asher was in a car accident in August 2019, the second day of school his senior year. Asher spent five months in hospitals after sustaining a traumatic brain injury as well as a spinal cord injury. After COVID of 2020, Asher joined the Gottsche Rehab family in January 2021. “In these trying times, Gottsche has created another family to depend on. The team has been very helpful, physically and emotionally, on this long trek of recovery.” Asher will tell his story and about his recovery with Gottsche.

Live music will be performed by Keith O’Brien. Dinner will be served by 148 Bistro. Beverages will be available from the OEB Saloon staff. There will be games, auctions and prizes and so much more.

Gottsche CEO Cheryl Shero said, “I think this year is going to be an exceptional year. It’s really an event. It’s the best way I can say it, an offering to the community. We’re pretty excited about it. A prime rib and shrimp meal will be served. There will be no lines. The decorations are going to be phenomenal with candelabras on every table and it will be a night of total fun with outstanding prizes along with all kinds of auction fundraising items.”

Some of the prizes available at the fundraiser include a gun raffle. Tickets are $20 each or three for $50. One prize is the Winchester XPR Extreme Hunter Midnight MB 6.5 PRC. The drawing for this gun will be at the Boots & Bling Fundraiser. You do not need to be present to win. Tickets can be purchased at the Gottsche front desk.

All proceeds from the Boots & Bling event go to support patients at all locations in Wyoming. Tickets are $40 each. There are limited tickets available at the door. You can purchase tickets at any Gottsche location, Storyteller, or the Thermopolis Chamber of Commerce or call 864-2146 to purchase.

Shero added, “We’re raising funds. We have had to due to reimbursements and cuts from insurance and we want to be able to continue to help those that we treat regardless of the ability to pay. We’re raising funds for not only those patients but also because we have a lot of equipment and other needs in the clinics. It’s been a vision and a mission that Gottsche has upheld for the entire 70 years, being that we are nonprofit.”