Kiwanis to host Buckaroo Breakfast

The Sisters Kiwanis Club may be the largest in the Pacific Northwest, and it is certainly one of the most active. From scholarship programs to its vital community food bank, the service club contributes mightily to the Sisters community.

For years, the club has staged its Buckaroo Breakfast on the Sunday of rodeo weekend, providing a hearty traditional breakfast to rodeo fans. It's a fundraiser for the club, but according to Kiwanian Michael Robillard, it's a lot more important than that: it's a chance for Kiwanians to get together and have a lot of fun.

Cooking bacon, brewing range coffee, cooking ranch eggs and flipping cowboy hotcakes is serious work - and serious fun - for Kiwanians. They get going on the work at 3 a.m. with a rare spirit of collective fun.

Robillard notes that the club doesn't have a lot of purely social activities, so they make the Buckaroo Breakfast nothing but good times.

"Everybody comes together and has a lot of fun together," he said.

That fun has a serious

purpose. It helps forge the bonds that make the club members work hard together to provide for many needs in the community.

"If everything is all serious all the time, you lose that camaraderie and wanting to do things together," Robillard said.

The Buckaroo Breakfast kicks off at 7 a.m. at the Sisters Rodeo Grounds and runs till 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 13. Cost for breakfast is $8 for adults; $4 for kids up to 12 years of age, and those under 3 are

free.