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: