Sisters salutes...

•â¯The volunteers of the Sisters Rodeo Association deserve a big tip of the hat for their efforts in staging the 75th Sisters Rodeo. Creating and sustaining an event of that caliber and scope with an all-volunteer crew is a remarkable achievement.

Barrelman J.J. Harrison said it best: "What a great place to have a rodeo!"

•â¯Sisters High School graduate Riley Gilmore has been nominated for teacher of the year in the Clark County School District in Las Vegas - the fourth largest school district in the nation.

Gilmore went through Sisters schools for his entire K-12 education and graduated in 2008 as valedictorian. He was also crowned Mr. SHS. He graduated in 2012 from Biola University summa cum laude in physics. He also minored in Bible and mathematics.

He was accepted into Teach for America, the national corps of top college graduates who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. The program is highly selective, with the acceptance rate below 15 percent.

Riley has been teaching high school physics at Mojave High School since 2012.

Riley's father, Ed Gilmore, noted, "Lynn and I feel very fortunate to be a part of a community and school district with caring teachers that still ask how my children are doing after they have moved on. Since our teachers in Sisters invest so much into the life of our students I think they long to hear how that effort has paid off. We are so proud."

•â¯Outlaw baseball standout Jonathan Luz represented Sisters High School in the Oregon 4A All-Star Baseball tournament in Roseburg last weekend.