Golfers' drive nets funds for classrooms

Good weather and a good cause made for a fine day on the links at Black Butte Ranch Friday, October 3, as 80 Sisters golfers turned out for the Sisters Rotary Club Shoot-out.

The benefit tourney raised a total of $6,850 which will be donated to the Sisters Schools Foundation, earmarked for the classroom raising project which is adding four new classrooms to Sisters Elementary School.

Teams competed in three separate flights.

Craig Nelson, Susan Nelson, Mike Daughtry and Ken Pugh led the Co-ed Flight. Roy Clarke, Mike Marjalin, Fred Krecklow and Bill Burke took top honors in the Open Flight.

Rotarians competed amongst themselves, with the Redmond Rotary Club team of John Brenton, Rick Margeson, Alan Ome and Craig Brooks scoring in the top spot in the Rotarian Flight.

Susan Nelson and Rick Margeson made the longest drives and Carrie Larson and Ed Fitzjarrel placed shots closest to the pin.

Participants capped their day with a banquet and fund-raising wine auction under the tent at Black Butte Ranch.

Schools Superintendent Steve Swisher, who accepted the Rotary Club donation on behalf of the foundation, told The Nugget that the funds raised should put the classroom project close to its funding target.

"This will put us close," Swisher said. "Some things may cost less and this could put us right at it."