The Mount Pleasant Rodeo celebrates its 60th anniversary from May 28 through June 1 at its newly renovated grounds in Northeast Texas, but the event nearly rode off into the sunset 15 years ago. During the Great Recession in September 2008, the Mount Pleasant Rodeo Association posted a notice in the local newspaper that it planned to disband and return its 501(c)(4) number to the IRS. Thankfully Bo Rester picked up the paper that morning, saw the notice and attended the MPRA's would-be final meeting on the second Tuesday of that month. "My son was playing peewee football, and I was coaching. As soon as practice was over, I said, 'get in the car,'" Rester told the ProRodeo Sports News. "He was standing out there with me in the middle of the grass with 10 or 12 other people by the concession stand at a place that I fell in love with the sport. "I'm out there with him and he's in a pair of football pants, a t-shirt and cleats. And I said, 'I care. Don't do it. Don't send that number b...