The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 24
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday,June 12, 2019
Records topple in 79th Sisters Rodeo
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
An 18-year-old Sisters
Rodeo arena record bit the
dust Saturday night as bar-
rel racer Meka Farr of
Honeyville, Utah, made a
17.29-second run, supplant-
ing a record previously set in
2001 at 17.34 by Amy Dale
Coelho from Echo, Oregon.
The Rodeo also set some
organizational records, selling
out multiple performances.
<We have never sold out a
Sunday performance, but we
did yesterday,= Rodeo board
of directors member Bonnie
Malone told The Nugget on
Monday morning. <In fact, we
sold it out mid-way through
Saturday night.=
Perhaps the most satis-
fying record of all was the
more than $15,000 raised on
Sunday for Sara9s Project
(formerly Sara Fisher Project)
for breast cancer aware-
ness. Each year, the Sisters
Rodeo raises funds for the St.
Charles Foundation9s proj-
ect, usually pulling in some
$8,000 to $9,000. This year,
Malone described an extraor-
dinary act of giving.
The Rodeo framed two
Correspondent
Graduates from the Sisters
High School class of 2019
were showered with schol-
arship money at the annual
GRO Senior Celebration on
Thursday, May 30.
Sisters GRO (Graduate
Resource Organization)
has continued to expand
local scholarship offerings
each year, resulting in over
$208,000 of locally gener-
ated awards, represented
by 69 separate scholarships
that included 140 individual
awards.
Sisters School employee
Rick Kroytz is on the GRO
board and operates the high
school9s ASPIRE program,
Inside...
Josh Ritter
to return to
Sisters for
SFF event
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
Malone reported, an audi-
ence member approached a
Josh Ritter and the Royal
City Band will be perform-
ing their one and only Central
Oregon show on Wednesday,
June 27, at Sisters High
School, as part of the cel-
ebration of the organization9s
campaign purchase of the
Sisters Art Works building,
where it has its headquarters.
<The capital campaign is
titled Connected by Creativity
and is basically a two-phase
process to purchase this
building that can be devel-
oped as a center for creativ-
ity in the community,= said
Sisters Folk Festival Creative
Director Brad Tisdel.
The event on June 27 is
a ticketed show to help con-
tinue to raise funds for buy-
ing the building, as well as
See RODEO on page 30
See CONCERT on page 15
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
The Sisters Rodeo action was outstanding, as was the weather and the stock.
editions of this year9s poster,
which were signed by the
cowboys competing in the
Rodeo. One poster was
2019 grads showered
with scholarships
By Charlie Kanzig
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which is designed to help
guide students on their post-
high-school plans. Kroytz
loved the energy and joy the
event produced.
<It was an exciting night&
you could feel the electric-
ity in the air as the students
eagerly waited to hear the
results,= he said.
All seniors from the
class of 2019 were encour-
aged to apply for the local
scholarships and many took
advantage of the digital por-
tal established to help make
the process more efficient,
according to Kroytz.
<Our goal is always for
every senior who has any
financial need to apply,=
See GRADS on page 18
auctioned for $4,800, with
the runner-up agreeing to
match that number to attain
the second poster. Then,
Students raise walls for Habitat
Collin Harris was just a
toddler when he and his fam-
ily moved into their Sisters
Habitat for Humanity home
nearly 15 years ago. Last
week, the high school senior
was raising walls alongside
his construction classmates
for another Sisters Habitat
family9s home.
Harris, who said he
doesn9t remember moving
into his house, has enjoyed
the construction class at
Sisters High School. He9s
learned basic tool knowl-
edge, worked with a fun
team, and been able to use
his skills in Sisters.
<It9s cool we get to help
the community out and build
a home for a family. It feels
good to help people,= he
said during the crew9s lunch
break.
The students from Tony
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Sisters construction program students raised the walls at the Palmer
house last week. Classes build each year for Habitat for Humanity.
Cosby9s construction class
at Sisters High School spent
the semester building the
walls for future homeowner
Krista Palmer and her two
boys. <One of my guys is
See HABITAT on page 31
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituaries ......................... 7 Entertainment ..................13 At Your Service............ 19-23 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Sisters Naturalist ............. 14 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32