Wednesday, June 3, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
A Tribute to The Biggest Little Show in the World
SISTERS RODEO
PRESENTED BY
Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce
City of Sisters " The Nugget Newspaper
& Participating Advertisers
Celebrating the heritage of Sisters Rodeo
By Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief
It seems awfully strange to roll into June without the
prospect of the Sisters Rodeo.
It took a global pandemic to keep the 80-year-old
institution in the chutes, forcing the board of directors of
the all-volunteer outfit to cancel one of Sisters9 premier
events. But rodeo culture is nothing but resilient. If you
get bucked off, you pick yourself up, beat the dirt off your
chaps, and start looking to the next ride, when you will
make the eight seconds.
Sometimes you don9t even get the opportunity to get
bucked off.
Rodeo actually has a built-in protocol for getting
another crack at a score when things go wrong through no
fault of the rider. When a horse or a bull doesn9t perform,
when it lingers in the chute or fails to buck, the judges
have the option of offering a cowboy a re-ride. Sisters
Rodeo crowds are pretty certain that their cries and cheers
can influence that decision, and there have been more
than a few times when the stands shook with the chant:
<Re-ride! Re-ride!=
Sisters Rodeo may never have made it out of the chutes
in 2020 thanks to COVID-19, but surely there9s a 95-point
ride still ahead 4 if we can just get a re-ride in 2021.
So, here9s to Sisters Rodeo: The Nugget Newspaper
and the community celebrate the heritage of a grand
Sisters event, and an organization that gives our town
character and identity and supports the community in so
many ways.
Let9s hear it Sisters&.
RE-RIDE! RE-RIDE! RE-RIDE!
PHOTO BY
JERRY BALD
OCK
PHOTO BY CODY RHEAULT
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