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Wednesday, August 30, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
RODEO: Organization
has a big impact in
Sisters community
litter like an ant colony gone
berserk. Hogwash earned
$1,200 this year.
Sisters High School
sports programs has parents,
coaches and teachers vol-
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unteering in service jobs to
commerce.
make a percentage of prof-
Much of how the rodeo its for all high school sports.
supports the community This year, their income was
throughout the year is not $8,703.
visible to the public. Many
The vintage Swinging
organizations earn their Mountaineers, a square dance
yearly budget by working club with members up into
at several sites during the their 90s, has served hotdogs,
rodeo.
hamburgers and fries from
The young people at the rodeo kitchens for over 30
Youth Build earned $1,480 years. They brought in $4,135
for labor before and during this year. The Deschutes
the rodeo. After each rodeo County Sheriff ’s Posse
performance, they and a 4-H earned $2,250 parking cars.
group, Hogwash, do clean-
Within professional rodeo,
up, clearing the grounds of Tough Enough to Wear Pink
was created seven
years ago, mostly
by contestants.
This is a day at
any PRCA rodeo
in which cow-
boys, cowgirls
and fans wear pink
and raise money
for breast cancer
support groups
and research.
This year, Sisters
Rodeo raised
$7,130 for Sara’s
Project, a Central
Oregon program.
This results in a
combined seven-
year total from
Sisters Rodeo of
over $45,000.
Such relation-
ships with com-
munity programs
are beneficial to
PHOTO BY GARY MILLER
Cheryl Bill was recognized as Volunteer of the the rodeo as well.
Income from the
Year for her service to Sisters Rodeo.
rodeo allows
the association
to give $7,500
annually in high
school gradu-
ate scholarships
(over $130,000
since 1993), and
a $1,500 schol-
arship to the
rodeo queen for
her continued
education. The
rodeo also sup-
ports high school
rodeo finals,
hoping for future
professional
rodeo com-
petitors, along
with supporting
Columbia River
PHOTO BY GARY MILLER
Circuit Rodeo.
P r e s e n t l y , Mike Shepherd was honored as Volunteer of the Year by Sisters Rodeo.
Sisters Rodeo
is hosting animals that have Biggest Little Show in the possible.
had to be relocated from fire World to town, with a repu-
With charitable donations
evacuations in its corrals and tation for being one of the this year totaling around
paddocks with management best mid-sized rodeos in the $45,000, Sisters Rodeo will-
by the Pet Evacuation Team. nation. Sponsors and adver- ingly welcomes its own
The rodeo is also a camp- tisers find Sisters Rodeo to responsibility in choosing to
ground and incident com- be a good partner, supporting make this a better, healthier
mand center for firefighters local businesses whenever community.
and their governing agencies.
Historically, before there
were many wonderful com-
munity events, Sisters Rodeo
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