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The Nugget
Vol. XXXX No. 23
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
It’s Rodeo time in Sisters
A small army of volun-
teers has the arena painted,
the signs up, the grounds
spruced up and Sisters is all
set to put on The Biggest
Little Show in the World.
As it does each year, the
77th annual Sisters Rodeo
will bring the best competi-
tors in the sport to Sisters to
challenge some of the best
rodeo stock in the business.
Sisters Rodeo has the big-
gest purse in the nation the
second weekend in June,
which brings top competi-
tors and new challengers to
compete for event purses of
$10,000 in the Professional
Rodeo Cowboy Association
rodeo. Around 200 cowboys
and cowgirls are entered over
the five total days of rodeo.
Xtreme Bulls begins
on June 7, with 41 cow-
boys competing in what
has become the most popu-
lar event in rodeo. Sisters
will see the return of Shane
Proctor, former PRCA World
Champion and two-time PBR
World Champion bull rider,
and Steve Woolsey, a Sisters
Rodeo bull-riding champion.
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veteran
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By Craig Rullman
Correspondent
championship,” David said.
“This is the biggest number
of entries we have ever had.”
Bareback riding, the clas-
sic rodeo event, has the 2015
World Champion, Steven
Brett Miller of Sisters has
been honored by the Wounded
Warrior Project as the recipi-
ent of the George C. Lang
Award for Courage.
The prestigious award,
presented at an event in New
York City, was founded in
memory of George Lang, a
Medal of Honor recipient who
passed away in 2005. It is
bestowed upon an individual
who best exemplifies the spirit
and virtue of Lang, who was a
humble yet unyielding advo-
cate for all veterans, particu-
larly those with disabilities.
Although Lang shunned
the spotlight, preferring to
See RODEO on page 22
See VETERAN on page 31
PHOTO BY GARY MILLER
Gary Baker and John Morris hang the sign for Sisters Rodeo. The event is an all-volunteer production.
Rodeo action begins with
the rough and tumble of the
Wild Horse Race at each
performance. Although not a
PRCA event, the Wild Horse
Race is enthusiastically wel-
comed by Sisters Rodeo fans.
Butch David, the Columbia
River regional director of
professional wild horse rac-
ers, is excited to have a slate
of 21 teams entered.
“We will have a full
slate of finalists, with three
teams from each contest
heading into Sunday for the
13-year-olds arrested
for arson in Sisters
Homebrew gets Sisters hoppin’
Three Sisters youths were
arrested after a citizen’s tip
allegedly connected them
with an arson fire that dam-
aged the snack shack at the
baseball field between Sisters
Middle School and Sisters
Christian Academy.
On Tuesday May 30, at
about 3 p.m., the Deschutes
County Sheriff’s Office and
the Sisters Fire Department
responded to a report of a
building on fire at the base-
ball field. Units found the
rear of the snack shack on
fire. The fire was extin-
guished within 10 minutes of
the first fire unit arriving on
scene.
Americans have been
brewing beer in their homes
since colonial times. Both
George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson were home
brewers.
On Saturday, Sisters Park
& Recreation District (SPRD)
carried on the tradition with
the first Sisters Homebrew
Festival in partnership with
Sisters Kiwanis at Creekside
Park.
The huge event tent housed
more than 25 taps of the best
homebrew in the region. The
amateur brewmasters pro-
vided kegs of their best cre-
ations for patrons to sample.
The festival was an exciting
Inside...
An initial investiga-
tion offered few clues as
to the cause of the fire and
the investigation remained
open. According to the sher-
iff’s office, on June 3 a con-
cerned citizen told the sher-
iff’s office that three juve-
niles who attended school in
Sisters were involved in the
fire. Patrol deputies and a
school resource deputy with
the Sisters School District
picked up the investigation
and interviewed several juve-
niles throughout the day.
After interviewing the
juveniles, three 13-year-olds
See ARSON on page 27
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Matt Kirchoff serves home brew.
opportunity to highlight the
immense creativity and talent
of regional homebrewers.
“I think this is a great
community event for Sisters,”
said Liam Hughes, SPRD
See HOMEBREW on page 30
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