Act Now to Help Troubled Kids and Cross One Thing Off your Holiday To Do List! The Liquor Industry has been sold for a long time on the great work being done by Sky Ranch for Boys. Located on the South Dakota/Montana border, Sky Ranch has been helping troubled kids from all parts of America for nearly 50 years! Their great record of success would not have been possible without the generous support of people from all segments of the beverage alcohol business. They formed the Sky Ranch Foundation in 1961, and have led fundraising efforts ever since! But Sky Ranch needs extra help this year, and we'd like to see all of our friends, including YOU, select Sky Ranch Holiday Greeting cards this year! These great quality cards feature art created by one of the Sky Ranch Boys and includes an important message about the program. It is a great way to share holiday best wishes, raise cash to help the kids, and let more people know about this wonderful program!  Click here to order cards. (Original design painted by a boy from Sky Ranch.) The best part is that it has never been easier to order Sky Ranch cards! Just follow the link below to their web site. You can click on the card artwork and download an order form you can complete and mail or fax to the Foundation office. Or, for faster service, right below the artwork is an on-line order form that you can complete securely with your credit card info to get the order moving right away! Sky Ranch cards come with deluxe "peel and seal" foil lined envelopes. For a nominal extra charge you can add a personal imprint inside the card to their standard greeting and your return address on the envelope flap. Wouldn't it feel great for all of us to receive a bunch of Sky Ranch cards from our friends and colleagues! That would be proof that the campaign worked!  If you routinely send holiday cards, or even if you don't, this is a low cost way to do something really important! These cards are limited production items and may be out of stock late in the season. Please order early! Just click and get started helping Sky Ranch and the kids in their care! If you have an extra minute or two, be sure to click on the "movie" icon at the top of the page to see a beautiful slide show about the ranch! www.skyranchfoundation.org Thank you! Happy Holidays! About Sky Ranch... Sky Ranch for Boys has a long history of providing troubled kids with a fresh start and a second chance. Each generation brings its own special issues and concerns - but the special relationship between boys and the ranch environment has proven to be a powerful and timeless one. In the late 1950s, Father Don Murray found himself looking after a few troubled boys at his rectory in the tiny town of Buffalo, South Dakota. He used a small plane to travel his large "territory" and soon found it could help him with the boys. Teaching them to fly really changed their outlook. But the priest had a dream and needed a lot of help to make it happen. He found the help, and so did thousands of boys who have been helped since then at Sky Ranch! Sky Ranch for Boys was incorporated in 1960. At first, the Bishop of Rapid City served as Chairman of the Board. From the start, however, it was agreed by all that the ranch would be non-sectarian, emphasizing the power of spirituality to help people without favoring one religion over another. By 1963, 3,000 acres of ranchland on the Montana-South Dakota border had been acquired, and the first buildings were going up. Father Murray and one of the boys died in a tragic 1975 plane accident, but the program continued to grow under his chosen successor, Father Dale Kutil. In the early 1980s, the first "civilian" executive director, Scott Louks, took the helm. When he retired in July 2008, Jodi Duttenhofer took over the reigns. Over the years, more than a dozen permanent buildings were built, the latest being the Bert Nickerson Administration Building in the mid 1990s. Sky Ranch for Boys continues to help troubled kids (age 12-17) from all parts of America and plans on doing so for a long time to come! Some of the original buildings are nearing the end of their useful life and planning for rehabilitation or replacement has begun.   Sky Ranch is well known among professionals in the field for an outstanding success rate. More than 90% of boys sent to Sky Ranch successfully complete the program! During a single school year at Sky Ranch, most boys gain 2 or more grade levels in the school work they are able to handle. Many go on to very successful lives in a wide variety of fields.   The program has been enhanced recently by the implementation of a "Corrective Thinking" approach. Boys are held responsible for their errors and taught to think through how to avoid problems in the future. It has been very well received by boys and staff.