Sisters salutes...

•The Sisters High School Key Club organized the annual food drive at the high school for the second time and had a successful year despite the economy. Students received 4,180 items of non-perishable food, toiletries, basic needs and dry pet food for The Nugget Furry Friends Food Drive.

This year they also collected over $1,000 in cash donations by singing carols at Ray's Food Place, passing the change jar at lunch at the high school, and the athletic department graciously allowed the club to keep the gate from the home basketball game.

Key Club is the youth branch of the Kiwanis Club. The donated food and cash will be delivered to the Kiwanis Food Bank on Wednesday, December 23.

•From Terry Terhune:

My sincere gratitude is offered to those Sisters merchants who voluntarily, caringly, gave me discounts, thus enabling me to quietly expand my assistance with the firemen and others for Christmas.

They are: Black Crater; Mackenzie Creek Trading Co.; The Paper Place; Paulina Springs Books; The Pony Express; Slick's Que Co.; Sisters Movie House.

Thank you and Merry Christmas!

•Sisters resident Clayton Allen Rogers graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science on Saturday, December 19, and was joined by more than 600 graduates at the winter commencement ceremonies.

Azusa Pacific University is a comprehensive, evangelical, Christian university located 26 miles northeast of Los Angeles.