Mermaid spotted at Fir Street Park page 5
Sisters artist’s book is on the street page 7
Quilts in the Garden to feature raffle chances page 21
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Most Milli-damaged trails remain open By Craig F. Eisenbeis Correspondent
In the wake of last year’s 24,000-acre Milli Fire, the good news is that almost all trails within the burn perimeter are open for use. The bad news? Well, that’s pretty obvious: more forest destruction has been added to our ever-growing local inventory of thousands of burned and blackened acres in Sisters Country. The Forest Service is working hard to clear trails of debris and fallen trees. In the meantime, even trails that have not been fully cleared are still passable, albeit with more than a few obstacles to negotiate. The only major closure remaining is the Black Crater Trail, which is very... black. By all accounts, this trail is pretty much completely, and severely, burned over — except for portions near the very summit of Black Crater, where some
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Fisheries biologists have found a record number of redband trout redds, or nests, during their 2017-2018 surveys on the Metolius River. This indicates that the river’s trout population remains strong and healthy. “We have found that the primary spawning areas on the Metolius River for redband trout are from the mouth of Spring Creek to the headwaters, and in Lake Creek and Abbot Creek,” said Nate Dachtler, assistant district fisheries biologist for the Deschutes National Forest’s Sisters Ranger District. Surveyors documented
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Sisters continues to wrestle with short-term rentals By Sue Stafford Correspondent
and emphasized that the closure is seen as temporary.
There was obvious frustration in the room last Thursday when the Sisters Planning Commission again discussed short-term rentals, after having already passed on their recommendation to the City Council. Following directions from the Council at their May 23 workshop, City planning staff is looking at incorporating
See TRAILS on page 31
See RENTALS on page 25
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The landscape immediately surrounding both Matthieu Lakes was not burned in last year’s Milli Fire. of the old bristlecone pines reportedly survive. Amy Racki, recreation team leader for the Sisters
Record redd counts on Metolius River By Jim Yuskavitch
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1,947 redds in those stream reaches for the 2017-18 spawning surveys. For 201617 they located 1,244 and 1,174 for 2015-16. These redd surveys were begun with the 1995-96 redband spawning season, which on the Metolius runs from December through May, although most of the fish spawn between January and March, peaking in February. The surveys are cooperatively done by the U.S. Forest Service, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Portland General Electric, but volunteers play an important role. According to Dachtler, they typically get about 20 See REDBAND on page 20
Ranger District, said that her agency hopes to have the Black Crater Trail open again before the end of summer
100 years of a country store By Sue Stafford Correspondent
Walking into the Camp Sherman store, a local greets proprietor Roger White with, “How are you, Mr. Mayor?” The Camp Sherman Store and Fly Shop is surely the heart of this small community on the banks of the wild and scenic Metolius River. Roger and Kathy White have been the tenders of that heart for the past 22 years. In honor of its 100th anniversary, the store is holding a barbecue on Saturday, July 7, starting at 5 p.m., with wine tasting from 3 to 6 p.m. The public is invited to celebrate 100 years of continuous operation of the same business in the same location. Roger says Kathy is living her ultimate dream of owning
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The Camp Sherman Store has been serving the local community for a century. They’re celebrating next weekend. the store. She and her family were regular visitors to Camp Sherman when she was a child, and she worked
in the store in the summer as a teenager. Kathy’s brother See 100 YEARS on page 30
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Naturalist............. 10 Entertainment ..................13 Obituaries ....................... 18 Classifieds..................26-28 Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements................12 Sisters Saver ....................15 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32
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Airport is an outstanding community asset By Mike Macon & Sharon Karr Guest Columnists
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Tariffs threaten newspapers Tariffs on newsprint are threatening the existence of community newspapers across the country. Thanks to the support of the Sisters community and our advertisers, The Nugget remains a healthy and vibrant publication — but we’re not sheltered from national trends. The vast majority of economists will tell you that protectionist policies and tariffs do far more harm than good. In a global economy — which the U.S. has operated in for well over a century — imposing tariffs merely triggers tit-for-tat retaliation. Protecting one industry often causes harm to others. That’s what’s happening with tariffs on newsprint. In order to protect one paper mill in Longview, Washington, employing approximately 400 people, the Trump Administration has imposed tariffs on Canadian uncoated groundwood paper that threaten 600,000 jobs across a multitude of industries. NORPAC (the North Pacific Paper Co.) argues that it is unfairly impacted by uncoated groundwood paper subsidized by the Canadian government being sold below market value in the United States. Addressing unfair trade practices — where they exist — is a laudable goal. But tariffs are a blunt instrument at best, and igniting trade wars with North American trading partners
will hurt everyone in the end. The Commerce Department will decide this summer whether to make the newsprint tariff permanent. Hopefully, once the full ramifications of the policy are understood, officials will dump it. And Congress may act to freeze the tariff while directing the Commerce Department to better assess its impact. Some community newspapers are seeing printing costs increase by 20 to 30 percent. The Nugget, which prints in Bend at The Bulletin’s facility, has seen a smaller increase than that — but there’s no assurance that that line can be held. If cost increases put newspapers and other publishers out of business, the paper industry as a whole will suffer a huge blow — which is why the rest of the industry doesn’t support the tariffs. As Republican Senator Susan Collins, a cosponsor of the bill to suspend and reassess the tariffs noted, tariffs are “harming the industry they were intended to protect.” Hopefully, in an overheated political environment where ready, fire, aim seems to be the norm, cooler heads will take into account the broad and long-term effects of an ill-conceived action. Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief
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We attend the Sisters Airport 4th of July Fly-In, no matter what. This community event started six years ago to celebrate the airport makeover, including the repaved runway, new hangars, offices, and aviation fuel. The festivities start at 7 a.m. with pancakes, the buzz of planes arriving, and the rumble of classic cars for the hot-rod show. The Sisters Fly-In is just one of the many ways Benny and Julie Benson contribute to our community. When the Bensons became the owners of Sisters Eagle Airport, the facilities were in a sad state of disrepair. The Oregon Department of Aviation had designated the airport runway as “failed.” There was no business base, and no jobs at the site. Under the new ownership of the Bensons, revitalization of the dilapidated airport began immediately. Every time we drove by the airport, we noticed projects underway, from painting the fence to digging up the house-sized boulder that created the hump in the runway. The Bensons dedicated their airport as a community asset, and received two ConnectOregon grants, which provided 45 percent of the project costs to resurface the runway, and helipads for emergency and fire services. The Bensons paid the remainder. While most airports are owned by a public agency and receive funds for the operation and maintenance, the Sisters Airport is entirely financed by the Bensons, but still operates as a community asset for the public. The annexation of the airport into the City of Sisters was facilitated by the Bensons, supported by an unprecedented voter approval of 87 percent, seven public hearings, and unanimous city council approval. The 34-acre airport property now provides Sisters with additional tax revenue, along with recreational uses, including a fly-in campground and the community garden. These improvements drive tourism, recreation and business to Sisters. The Bensons proved the airport met the criteria to be included on the Oregon Department of Aviation (ODA) list of Airports of
Significance, including a public hearing which demonstrated overwhelming support of the community and Flight Science students. Now listed, the Sisters Airport is recognized and protected for current and future aviation uses. Julie Benson helped start the Flight Science program at Sisters High School (SHS), and then founded Outlaw Aviation with the purchase of a Cessna 172. Julie also facilitated the donation of the FAA-certified simulator from COCC, which is available for students to use after school. The Bensons plan to host a new Career Technology Education class at the airport starting next fall for SHS students to build an airplane. The Bensons’ business, ENERGYneering Solutions, Inc, (ESI), employs more than 50 living-wage employees, providing services for over $10 million in renewable energy projects. ESI also designed and built the new biomass boiler at SHS in 2011. As a tradedsector business, ESI brings revenue from distant projects back into the Sisters economy. ESI received the Sisters Pioneering Spirit Award in 2013, Business of the Year Award in 2014, and the Oregon Business award “Best 100 Companies to Work for in Oregon” in 2015. Their projects are making a difference and are actually changing the world. ESI’s combined projects offset the carbon footprint equivalent to two million cars per year! More than a half-million dollars in infrastructure and street improvements is directly tied to the jobs being created by ESI. Funding is partially from grants, the remainder was covered by the Bensons. Their community contributions reach beyond the airport. They donated HEPA filters for all three Sisters schools when unsafe levels of smoke from fires filled the schools, and they serve as advisors for the SHS engineering academy, Aspire mentors, and Pursue Your Passion programs. The Bensons’ goal is to provide an airport which is a true community asset. We congratulate Benny and Julie for contributing tirelessly to the Sisters community. We hope you join us to celebrate the 4th of July!
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Sisters GRO seeks grant for tech upgrade Sisters GRO is trying to secure a $6,000 matching grant to improve the GRO technology systems. Sisters Graduate Resource Organization (GRO) was established 10 years ago. In that time, it has grown in both the number of scholarships it awards each year and the amount of the scholarships. To launch into the next 10 years, Sisters GRO would like to develop a more robust website and database to keep up with changing technology and to make the scholarship process less manual. Grant funds will fund a redesign of Sisters GRO’s website with added cyber security; design and installation of a database
system to record and monitor donor and student data relative to donations and scholarship awards – also with an added data security systems. The technology enhancement is expected to immediately enable the GRO organization to become more digitally effective, efficient and safe leading to the provision of more scholarships for the roughly 100+ SHS senior graduates. To make a donation to help Sisters GRO make the technology upgrade and for Sisters GRO to receive the matching grant that has been established, contact Sisters GRO at Info@ SistersGRO.org.
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Joe O’Neill and Wanda Braughton work the grill at the annual City of Sisters barbecue.
City hosts parking lot barbecue By Sue Stafford Correspondent
Sisters will ‘rally on the runway’ for 4th of July The Sisters Airport will host its sixth annual Fourth of July community celebration, featuring an airplane flyin, classic car show, pancake breakfast, 5K run, and drag races down the runway. The theme for this year is Rally on the Runway. Festivities will begin at 7 a.m. with the buzz of planes arriving from all over the Northwest for the fly-in, and the rumble of classic cars for the hotrod show. Sisters
Rotary will be flipping pancakes and sausages. “Old Glory” will arrive by air in a spectacular flag jump presentation by Skydive Awesome at 7:30 a.m. The 5K walk/run will start at 8 a.m. with the Sisters-tradition race between a plane and a street dragster. Runners can pre-register online at www.SistersAirport. com. The premier Sisters Fly-in See 4TH OF JULY on page 24
The Second Annual Sisters Barbecue sponsored by the City of Sisters on June 19 at City Hall was a rousing success, with an estimated 350 attendees. Clouds over the sun provided a perfect temperature for those gathered around tables under red awnings in the parking lot and scattered on the lawn and under the trees, enjoying hamburgers, hotdogs, salads, chips, and cookies. Guitar music and songs by local Scott Brown provided entertainment as residents and a few visitors enjoyed socializing and meeting new people. City Manager Brant
Kucera, Mayor Chuck Ryan, and Deschutes County Commissioner Tony DeBone each spoke briefly, encouraging residents to participate in the Sisters Country Horizons vision project. “Cities are a place of ideas, hope, diversity, and progress,” said Kucera. “The vision process will provide a guide for what the city will become.” Ryan focused on the many important issues currently facing Sisters: affordable housing, marijuana dispensaries, and a new noise ordinance. “All of these, and the TSP (transportation safety plan) are going to affect the city going forward,” Ryan pointed out. “The visioning project is
a time for public input. We want to hear your opinion.” Ryan went on to encourage residents to get involved in the city by volunteering for committees and local nonprofits. Steven Ames and Ruth Williamson of NXT Consulting invited people to participate in the Horizons vision project by attending meetings and taking the new survey coming out in July. Williamson encouraged people to “navigate change with your heart open.” K e r r y P r o s s e r, C i t y recorder, and the rest of the City staff, organized the event, handling all the details from setup, to purchasing and cooking the food, to the final cleanup.
SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS Al-Anon Mon., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Wed., 6 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. 541-549-8737 or 541-549-1527. Alateen Thursday, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. 541-549-1527. Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. 541-548-0440. Alzheimer’s & Dementia Caregiver Support Group 1st Tuesday, 11 a.m., Sisters City Hall. 800-272-3900. Black Butte Macintosh Users Group 3rd Thursday, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Sisters Library community room. 541-549-1471. Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community room. Partner required. 541-595-6236. Central Oregon Council on Aging Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters Community Church. 541-678-5483.
Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild 4th Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For location information: 541-549-2072. Central OR Spinners and Weavers Guild One Saturday per month, Jan. thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217. East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.
Sisters Area Woodworkers 1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. 541-639-6216.
Sisters Rotary Tuesdays, noon, Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-760-5645.
Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.
Sisters Trails Alliance Board 1st Wednesday, 5 p.m. Sisters Art Works. Public welcome. 541-719-8822.
Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays, 12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse. Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419.
Sisters Caregiver Support Group 3rd Tuesday, 10:30 a.m., Ray’s Food Friends of the Sisters Library Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Place community room. 541-771-3258. Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com. Sisters Cribbage Club Tuesdays, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Ray’s Food Place Go Fish Fishing Group 1st Monday, community room. 541-923-1632. 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All ages welcome. 541-771-2211. Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m. Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Location information: 541-549-1193. Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at 4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230. Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870. Military Parents of Sisters Meetings Sisters Meditation Group Sundays, are held quarterly; please call for details. 6 p.m., 484 W. Washington Ave. #A. 541-388-9013. Text only (no voice) to 541-207-7266. Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Sisters Parent Teacher Community Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., 3rd Wednesday, 3 p.m., Sisters Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-408-5594. Elementary C-wing. 971-570-2405. SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings Sisters Parkinson’s Disease Support & Enrichment) Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m. to Group 2nd Tuesday, 1 p.m., Suttle Tea. 4 p.m. at SPRD. 541-549-2091. 907-687-8101 or 541-668-6599. Sisters Area Photography Club Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday. 2nd Thursday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library community room. 541-549-6157. Location information: 541-279-1977.
Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon, Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123. Three Sisters Irrigation District Board of Directors 1st Tuesday, 4 p.m., TSID Office. 541-549-8815. Three Sisters Lions Club 1st Thursday, noon, Ray’s Food Place community room. 541-419-1279. VFW Post 8138 and American Legion Post 86 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-903-1123. Weight Watchers Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, Sisters Community Church. 541-602-2654.
SCHOOLS Black Butte School Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 5 p.m., Black Butte School. 541-595-6203. Sisters Christian Academy Board of Directors 2nd Thursday, 8 a.m., RE/MAX office. 541-549-4133. Sisters School District Board of Directors One Wed. monthly, SSD Admin Bldg. See schedule online at www.ssd6.org. 541-549-8521 x5002.
CITY & PARKS Sisters City Council 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-549-6022. Sisters Park & Recreation District Board of Directors 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 6 p.m., SPRD building. 541-549-2091. Sisters Planning Commission 3rd Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-549-6022.
FIRE & POLICE Black Butte Ranch Police Dept. Board of Directors Meets monthly. 541-595-2191 for time & date. Black Butte Ranch RFPD Board of Directors 4th Thursday, 9 a.m., Black Butte Ranch Fire Station. 541-595-2288. Cloverdale RFPD Board of Directors 3rd Wed., 7 p.m., 67433 Cloverdale Rd. 541-548-4815. cloverdalefire.com. Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday, 5 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 541-549-0771. Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Drills Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St. 541-549-0771. This listing is for regular Sisters Country meetings; email information to teresa@nuggetnews.com
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Quilts for Empowerment coming to Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show Correspondent
New Location! Camp Sherman!
bags, and “story quilts” of various sizes. “The women are creating quilts from simply what they know, their life around them,” McCammon said. After subsequent trips to work with the women and refine their craft, McCammon established the nonprofit organization “Quilts for Empowerment” in 2017. “I just couldn’t give up on these women. I wanted these women to have stable incomes and to be able to put their children in school,” she said. “They craft the quilts and I bring them back and sell them here and give them a flat rate for each product.” McCammon returned once again in April 2017 to introduce the idea of making large art quilts incorporating new embroidery stitches, applique, and more motifs. “The women embraced the idea and began filling large black pieces of fabric with their unique embroidered motifs.” Nora Otondo, a fistula survivor, is now the program director for QFE in Kenya. “She’s a great quilter, has her master’s in counseling and can handle the phycosocial problems the women are having,” McCammon said. “We are partnering with Women and Development Against Distress in Africa (WADADIA) to teach quilting to women in their fistula support groups, and Norah is teaching them.” QFE has grown and is now
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Mary Ann McCammon, a registered nurse, combined her passion for quilting and women’s health by launching Quilts for Empowerment (QFE), teaching quilting to obstetric fistula survivors in Kenya, Africa. Obstetric fistula (OF) are debilitating complications of obstructed labor during childbirth, which results in uncontrollable leakage through the bladder or kidneys, leading to devastating and dehumanizing medical conditions for the affected women. The program’s goal is to help women who have had surgical repair of their fistulas reestablish themselves back into their community with the skills and self-confidence to be economically independent. McCammon’s ambition in life was to become a nurse. She received her Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Missouri, then a PhD in nursing from the University of California in 1979. She was a professor of nursing at Oregon Health & Science University where her clinical practice and research program focused on improving the health of marginalized women: homeless women, women with disabilities, abused women and lowincome pregnant women. When she wasn’t focused on her nursing career, she quilted. “In the late 1980s, when I began quilting, I made traditional quilts for beds and babies,” McCammon said. “I was an absolute purist at first and I hand-pieced and handquilted everything.” Many of McCammon’s art quilts focus on obstetric fistula and have been juried into local, regional, and national shows. After taking a hiatus
from quilting to continue her hectic nursing schedule, McCammon resumed her hobby in 2000 when she retired and has taught traditional quilting to the women incarcerated at a correctional facility in Wilsonville, Oregon. “But, when I learned about obstetric fistula in Kenya, I recognized this was a marginalized group of women I wanted to help,” McCammon told The Nugget. “My initial thought was to volunteer as a nurse but knew that would be short-term.” So, in 2015 she donated her fistula art quilts to the Fistula Foundation in San Jose. The foundation then facilitated her first trip to Kenya to teach quilting. When McCammon arrived in Eldoret, Kenya at the Gynocare Fistula Center with a bag full of quilting notions and embroidery floss, she learned quickly that none of the women had ever handsewn, drawn a picture — or with few exceptions, could use a treadle seeing machine. But over the next four weeks the class size grew from three to nearly a dozen. McCammon said, “My hope was to teach obstetric fistula survivors how to make quilts that would provide them with the skills and selfconfidence to achieve economic independence.” First, the women learned to hand-stitch around motifs. Then they made simple landscape quilts. Finally, they learned simple embroidery stitches to tell their “stories” through stitched images that they drew out on paper first. These early quilts laid the groundwork for their art quilts. Over the next two years, McCammon taught the survivors to hand-stitch with embroidery floss, which included table-mat sets, tote
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Mary Ann McCammon, left, is assisting women in Kenya through quilting. forming a community-based organization in Kenya: Kenya Quilts for Empowerment. McCammon will be the U.S. representative to their board. McCammon will be at Wildflower Studio during quilt week and is available to meet folks and talk about the program in Kenya. A QFE board member, Deb Sorem, will also be available to meet with people during the week. Owner of Wildflower Studio, artist Chris Nelson, who is known for her paintings of landscapes and songbirds, remembers meeting Deb Sorem at Sisters Library during her art show. “I met Deb when she bought one of my paintings,” Sorem said. “She told me about Mary Ann and her work with fistula survivors.
We were looking for somebody to represent for the quilt show and that cause drew us in, and we are honored to represent them.” QFE will have all their products for sale, including three types of art quilts for sale: the “Raw Tops,” which are black art quilts without borders so that buyers can frame as they choose. And there will also be quilts that have been framed by Wildflower Studio. “Deb is an amazing fiber artist and has been framing many of our quilts in preparation for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show,” McCammon said. “I couldn’t do it without her!” McCammon will be giving a public PowerPoint presentation Monday night, July 9, about the program.
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Marijuana Mermaid spotted at Fir Street Park growers turning to hemp for CBD extract By Jodi Schneider McNamee
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By Gillian Flaccus Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD (AP) — A glut of legal marijuana is driving Oregon pot prices to rock-bottom levels, prompting some nervous growers to start pivoting to another type of cannabis to make ends meet — one that doesn’t come with a high. Applications for state licenses to grow hemp — marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin — have increased more than twentyfold since 2015, making Oregon No. 2 behind Colorado among the 19 states with active hemp cultivation. The rapidly evolving market comes amid skyrocketing demand for a hemp-derived extract called cannabidiol, or CBD, seen by many as a health aid. In its purified distilled See CBD OIL on page 29
The mermaid is one of the most popular figures in world folklore. They have long captured the imagination of the public. So, when mermaid Cthulha (Clue-luh) splashed down in Fir Street Park during Sisters Farmers Market last Friday, she caught everyone’s eye. Especially the kids. Madelyn Wilson, 10, visiting from Riverside, California has always longed to see the mythical creature that is half girl and half fish. “I think their tails are so unusual, and I always believed they would be nice to humans,” Wilson told The Nugget. Mermaid Cthulha, or Prairie Emrich, grew up in Sisters living near Whychus Creek. “I grew up on Whychus Creek,” Emrich said. “The creek was my highway every day on the way home from school.” Swimming was secondnature to Emrich, and she thinks of herself as “The Mermaid of Whychus Creek.” “I went swimming in
rivers and lakes in the area since I was little, including Whychus Creek,” she added, smiling. Wilson’s eyes lit up when Mermaid Cthulha spoke about all the wildlife she’s spotted along the creek. “I’ve seen otters and baby beavers, fish, butterflies and deer,” she said. “It’s such a special place and we’re so lucky to live near it.” Emrich also helped keep the creek clean by picking up any garbage she would find and dispose of it the proper way. Why would a mermaid like being at Fir Street Park every Friday, besides being able to show off her bright pink scaly tail and beautiful necklace made from driftwood found in Whychus Creek? “Imagination is good for us, and being a mermaid is a fun way to raise river awareness,” Emrich said. “I want to inspire young people to connect with and to protect Whychus Creek and all our local waterways.” And the kids think she is fintastic! Before her mermaid transformation, Emrich left Sisters to attend college at Portland
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A mermaid has been sighted at Fir Street Park. State University and received an academic arts degree in theater. “I’ve done performance art at COCC, CTC in Bend, Lincoln Hall Performance
Arts Center Portland (at PSU), and Artist Repertory Theater Portland,” she said. And now she’s performing at home, close to water at the Fir Street Park splash pad.
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Kiwanis grant comes full circle in Sisters By Katy Yoder Correspondent
Terri Daniel arrived in town 12 years ago after hearing about Sisters from a friend who suggested it would be a great place to heal from the recent death of her 16-year-old son. Living in a remote cabin, Terri grieved — but also began to cobble together a new life, which would ultimately lead her in unimagined new directions. She quickly recognized that her healing process had ignited a passion for building a positive relationship with death and grief. With minimal resources, she immersed herself in preparing to support others on the grief journey. She began as a hospice volunteer, and went on to spend the next nine years in academia, pursuing degrees in comparative religion and counseling while studying multi-cultural approaches to death and grief through South American and African ritual traditions. “It didn’t take me long to notice that people bring a lot of religious issues to the experience of dying and grieving. I wanted to be qualified to address those issues, so I enrolled at Marylhurst University for a bachelor’s degree in religious studies,” said Daniel from her new home in Northern California. “I couldn’t have imagined that this journey would take me all the way to a doctorate — with a lot of interesting side trips along the way.” When she began her studies at Marylhurst, she was able to remain in Sisters, taking classes online and on weekends, but classes that required her to be on campus — along with hospice and hospital internships — forced her to move to the Portland area in 2012. When she entered a clinical chaplaincy training program at Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis, she applied for — and received — the Kiwanis Community Scholarship Service Grant to pay for the program. “That grant really helped get me started as a chaplain, which, I should point out, is not a religious designation,” Daniel explained. “I don’t identify with any particular religion or belief system, but to provide spiritual support in clinical settings, chaplaincy training is crucial. It helped me to develop an interfaith language so I could help people with their spiritual issues, regardless of their personal theology.” As she continued to gain
experience working with the dying and the bereaved, she observed that some theological systems were causing undue stress and pain during the grieving process, which is the subject of her doctoral dissertation. “I frequently encounter people who are struggling with the suicide of a loved one, and they believe suicide is a sin punishable by an eternity in hell. Or if they lost a child, they believe the death is punishment for a ‘sin’ the parent(s) may have committed in the past,” Terri added. “The grief process is difficult enough without adding unhelpful concepts that do nothing but promote guilt and shame.” Daniel is returning to Sisters this summer to fulfill the final phase of her Kiwanis Club grant, which asks recipients to bring their skills back to the community. “I offer my deepest gratitude to the Kiwanis,” Daniel said. “Because of that training, I’m better able to give bereaved individuals not just the benefit of my personal experience, but access to a body of knowledge about spirituality, psychology and grieving practices from around the world.” To share that knowledge, Daniel teaches classes and facilitates workshops that offer unique bereavement tools that are not ordinarily
found in traditional counseling or support group settings. In addition to interactive group work and art therapy processes, she incorporates powerful rituals from cultures that have deep respect for death and the power of community to support the bereaved. “Many grievers find that our culture’s basic rituals around loss – funeral customs, grief support groups, prayer, counseling, etc. — lack personal meaning, and don’t go deep enough,” Daniel said. “In order to advance our wisdom and develop more skills in this area, we need to borrow from other cultures. The workshops incorporate ceremonies from Peruvian shamanism, sacred singing from Celtic pagan traditions, African community grief rituals, and teachings from Gnostics, Buddhism and Judeo-Christian mysticism.” Daniel is offering several workshops in Central Oregon between July 8 and 15. In Sisters, HarmonyHouse will host “Conscious Grieving: Turning Loss into Light,” a mini-workshop on July 10. The evening includes experiential practices for working through loss and grief that are of interest to grieving individuals as well as bereavement professionals seeking insights into supporting clients. For information and tickets, visit www. spiritualityandgrief.com or call 503-957-7419.
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Rotary gets set to hoedown in Sisters The third annual Sisters Rotary Hoedown is set for action on Saturday, July 28, 5 to 9 p.m. in the big blue horse arena at 67480 Cloverdale Rd. Tickets are available now. “It is highly recommended to pre-purchase, though some tickets will be available at the door,” said Rotarian Kathryn Godsiff. It’s a time for families, neighbors and friends to have some fun together and support a variety of community nonprofits. The Bartolotta family donates use of the arena, and Circle of Friends, Seed to Table, Sisters Band of Brothers and the Flight Science program at Sisters High School partner with Rotary to bring the event and awareness of their work to the community. Apart from the altruistic aspect of a fundraiser involving silent and live auction items, Hoedown attendees can eat, drink, dance, play some games and socialize. The Dry Canyon Stampede is a popular local band known for getting some wear and tear on the dance floor. John Bushnell, former co-owner of The Tumalo Feed Company, and his wife, Lea, make sure there is a steady supply of burgers, hot dogs and trimmings. Seed to Table provides salads, the Flight Science Program manages desserts and Rotarians keep everyone hydrated one way or another. Volunteers from all the non-profits are dotted around to make sure the event runs smoothly. Food and drink is available for purchase and is not included in the ticket price of $20. (Children under 12 get in free.) At the end of the event, all present ticket holders are eligible for the grand
prize drawing of A Taste of Sisters, a package of dining vouchers from The Depot Cafe, Los Agaves, Chops Bistro, The Gallery and Three Creeks Brewing Company. A new feature this year is the Kids Corral, a place where youngsters can play games and do activities. The creative team from Seed to Table is dreaming up fun things to do there. For the adults, a Wine Wall provides a chance to take home a surprise bottle of wine. Each bottle is valued at at least $20, with a few $50$100 bottles hiding in plain sight. Since the bottles are not allowed to be opened at the event, per OLCC rules, participants have to wait until they are out of the building to see their prizes.
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Sisters artist’s book is on the street By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief
Dennis McGregor’s new book, “You Stole My Name,” was born out of a serendipitous accident. “I had some free time and I just wanted to paint something fun,” McGregor recalled. He painted a turtle climbing up a barbed-wire fence with a bird watching him. “Without realizing it, I started painting a turtledove,” he said. The artist got a kick out of the juxtaposition — and so did others. “The first people that saw it responded so favorably to it, I thought, ‘Maybe I’m on to something,”’ he said. He was. A whole series of paintings followed. He painted a bull and a frog, staring at each other, and called it “Bullfrog.” And he kept going, and going. Last summer, he hosted a showing of his paintings at the Sisters Library. And recently he conducted a successful Kickstarter campaign to produce a book. This is the second book McGregor has crowd-funded through Kickstarter. “People say, ‘Why don’t you just go get a publishing deal?,’” McGregor said.
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Kids of all ages love Dennis McGregor’s new book. “First of all, I hate rejection. Second, I don’t have that many years left. I wanted to get the book done and get it out there.” And out there it is — to great acclaim. People have been sending McGregor pictures of them reading the book to their kids, or the kids reading the book themselves. “I can’t believe how well it’s been received,” he said. “It’s probably the most successful thing I’ve done, based on what I’m hearing.”
The book has also led to a commission from The Old Mill District to do a mural based on three of his images. The book is available through Paulina Springs Books in Sisters. Next month, on Friday, July 27 from 4 to 7 p.m. Paulina Springs Books and Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop will feature McGregor for the 4th Friday Art Stroll. And there’s more to come. “I’m working on a sequel now,” the artist said. “You Stole My Name, Too.”
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Groups sue Oregon over coho salmon By Gillian Flaccus Associated Press
PORTLAND (AP) — A coalition of environmental and fishing groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the State of Oregon, alleging logging in the state’s two largest forests is threatening the survival of coho salmon that breed in streams flowing through the coastal region. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene challenges the state’s logging policies in the Clatsop State Forest and the Tillamook State Forest. It alleges the Oregon Department of Forestry is in violation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act because of the logging, and is illegally engaging in activities that result in the death of a threatened species. The agency has not followed through on implementing a species management plan required under federal law that would help preserve salmon habitats despite logging and mitigate damage, court papers allege. Ken Armstong, a spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry, said his department could not comment on pending litigation. “Poor logging practices by the Oregon Department of Forestry is causing real harm to the Oregon coast coho and commercial fishing families who depend on
these magnificent fish for their livelihoods,” Glen Spain said, the Northwest regional director for the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations and the Institute of Fisheries Resources, both plaintiffs in the case. “Stronger protections for streams to protect the coho ... is decades overdue.” Together, the forests cover a half-million acres stretching from the Washington state border to the central Oregon coast. About 2,500 miles (4,023 kilometers) of roads have been built in them to accommodate logging, according to court papers. Logging activity increases the risk of landslides and of sediment falling into the streams where the salmon breed and grow to maturity before venturing to the Pacific Ocean. Seven streams critical to salmon habitat flow through the Tillamook State Forest and several others run through the Clatsop State Forest, according to the lawsuit. Between 1 and 2 million salmon returned to their natal streams in this region — an area stretching from Seaside to Port Orford — in 1900. The number of returning coho salmon has now dropped below 76,000, court papers say. O t h e r p l a i n t i ff s a r e the Center for Biological Diversity, the Native Fish Society and Cascadia Wildlands.
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Fundraiser Sun FireDefense protects homes from fire to help Sisters family By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief
The Sisters community is rallying to aid the Francis family of Sisters. The family has been undergoing tremendous stress, heartache and loss. In the midst of severe medical issues involving family newborn Kaenon, the sudden and tragic loss of husband/father/grandfather Mark Francis in an accident has left them without a crucial pillar in their lives. Fundraising coordinator Tara Lowell noted, “We can’t mend their broken hearts, but we can certainly ease their financial burden.” A yard sale will be held at Green Ridge Physical Therapy, 325 N. Locust St. on Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. All proceeds of the fundraiser event will go to the Francis family. Dutch Bros. in Sisters has offered an “All Proceeds Day” for the Francis Family. On June 30, the community is invited to stop by the Sisters Dutch Bros.; proceeds for the day go to the Francis Family. Raffle baskets will be available and donations for baskets or auction items are gladly accepted. Raffle tickets are $7 each or 4/$25 and you do not need to be present to win. Raffle tickets can be purchased at the sale or before by contacting Tara at 541-999-9831 Kaenon is scheduled for another surgery on July 2.
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According to the Sun FireDefense website, “SPF 3000 Clear Spray is an innovative long-lasting fire retardant that provides protection against heat and burning embers up to 3,000 degrees F. The silicone-based ceramic formula penetrates and bonds with wood and other building materials, insulating against heat transfer and creating a self-extinguishing reaction when hit by flame. This prevents the ignition and spread of dangerous flames to treated surfaces. It is typically professionally applied to the exterior of a structure, or to framing or roofing, using an airless sprayer. SPF 3000 offers Class A fire protection to cedar shake shingles, openair roof systems, decking, and structural lumber.” “Basically it’s like a supper-high-quality paint job,” Su explained. In fact, the protectant can be mixed into paint, making it a natural upgrade when painting your house. Roof protection is critical to fire safety — even with fire-resistant shingles. Heat can cause fire to break out on the underlayment of an untreated roof. “If we can treat the plywood under the roof, that’s optimal,” Moseley said. “If the person’s getting a new roof, (treatment) is a no-brainer.” Su noted that the product is effective on wood siding and hardyboard, both in common use in Sisters. “Decks are another prime fire-protection target,” he said. Other Sun FireDefense products include a clear shield coating for windows and insulating roof blankets. Moseley notes that those considering treatment should
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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The fly on the windshield So, there I was, fastening my seat belt in my Toyota 4Runner as my wife, Sue. was about to drive us into Sisters for dinner at a good pal’s home. As we pulled out on to Central Street at Sun Mountain I looked out ahead of us to see what was going on and a tiny image on the surface of the windshield caught my eye. It was a flesh fly feeding on the eggs and remains of a butterfly that was splattered on the windshield. Even after Sue had pulled out onto Central Street and began to build up a little speed, the fly stuck tight to that luscious butterfly debris. In my old age, my sense of taste is slowly leaving me, but I could almost share the delicious taste of the butterfly guts that fly was slurping up. In fact, it was enjoying the food so much (if flies can do that) it just hung on, and I asked Sue to stop while I shot that picture. When we started out again and commenced going faster the fly hung on tighter as we
got out on Highway 20 and built up more speed. Curious about how long it could hang on, I began watching the speedometer — and the fly. At 30 mph it slowly swung into the slipstream, its tongue swiveling on the butterfly smear. When we hit 40 the fly’s wings began to vibrate in the slipstream, and the fly’s labellum held fast. But things turned out sad for the poor fly when we hit 48 mph; the speeding slipstream had enough force to break the bond between tongue and the tasty butterfly debris on the windshield and I saw the fly fly off the surface and vanish behind us. I can only imagine the poor fly’s disappointment as it broke loose and lost that delicious meal. Consider all the tools a fly has with which to feed: If you take a close look at a fly’s head, you’ll see lumps and bumps sticking out which include two small, antenna-like feelers called maxillary palps that help the fly to taste its food. The end portion of the proboscis is called the labellum, and terminates in a spongy, somewhat sticky mouth part, with which the fly slurps up its food. Houseflies and flesh flies are rulers of the insect-scavenging world, but they have a lot of predators just waiting for a chance to pick them out of the air, or slurp them up. Spiders, frogs, lizards, bigger flies, birds, predatory wasps all love to eat them by the hundreds, plus you and I
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Musician makes Sisters a regular tour stop By Ceili Cornelius Correspondent
David Jacobs-Strain, an Oregon native and frequent performer in Sisters, will be returning with his band, The Crunk Mountain Boys on Friday, June 29, to kick off summer concerts at Angeline’s Bakery. Jacobs-Strain and his band have frequently performed in Sisters — at least twice a year — and David returns as a solo artist throughout the year. David Jacobs-Strain made his debut in Sisters when he was 17 years old at the Sisters Folk Festival. David has a special place in his heart for Sisters. When he was young he used to climb in the back of a pickup truck and hitch a ride to Central Oregon to rock climb at Smith Rock, and he fell in love with the Cascades and the town of Sisters. When he started playing music in his youth, he got involved with the Sisters music scene. “I love playing shows that are in towns that are out of the way, small places off the grid. It is easier to connect with the audience and have a bigger impact on them,” said Jacobs-Strain. He sees the impact that only a few people can have on a community. “The bakery is one the favorite party shows, it is a public concert, but feels so much more like an intimate backyard party. You get everyone from grandparents to little kids to adults all dancing and grooving together. That is my favorite part about playing those shows,” he said.
Another reason JacobsStrain returns to Sisters is simply because of the scenery and the people he’s connected with here. “It’s the best when you can find a place to play a gig and the next day go swimming or hiking in the mountains,” he said Jacobs-Strain plays a variety of venues, but enjoys the intimacy of house shows and feels ensconced in the Sisters community.
You get everyone from grandparents to little kids to adults all dancing and grooving together. That is my favorite part about playing those shows. — David Jacobs-Strain “It isn’t ever a hassle to play there, it becomes a seasonal thing and is a sustainable gig because I’ve been welcomed into the community,” said Jacobs-Strain. Jacobs-Strain recently returned to Oregon after a string of tour dates on the East Coast, south, and through California. He mostly tours with harmonica player Bob Beach. “Playing with Bob gives me a chance to interact with someone and adds dynamics to the show, and he can take some of the solos to keep things interesting,” he said Jacobs-Strain also plays
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months. In the meantime, he’s live on stage in Sisters.“I look forward to returning to Sisters to kick off the summer dance party at Angeline’s juke joint!” he said. David Jacobs-Strain and the Crunk Mountain Boys will be playing at Angeline’s Bakery, 121 W. Main Ave., Friday June 29, at 7:30 p.m. with David opening with an acoustic set. There will be a donation on a sliding scale accepted at the door.
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solo shows: just him and the guitar. “Solo shows in a way feel more freeing because it’s just me, the song and the audience. The guitar becomes the centerpiece of the rhythm and I like that,” said Jacobs-Strain. Jacobs-Strain and The Crunk Mountain Boys have been playing together on and off for seven years. “With the band there is the power, and the driving rhythm. It keeps people dancing longer and we have a connection with each other where we don’t have to communicate much when we want to change something up,” he said He spoke of the importance of a balance of chaos and planned actions with the band: “The unplanned notes or mistakes are some of the best moments on stage because so much could go wrong, but that sense of slight risk is what keeps playing interesting.” Not just any band works the way David Jacobs-Strain and The Crunk Mountain Boys do. “I always try to have a little note of variety of songs and playing them in the back of my mind just to keep the audience on their toes and have songs to fit various niches, and the band just runs with it,” he said. Jacobs-Strain is currently in the process of recording a new album in his hometown
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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Francis Family Fundraiser
Saturday and Sunday, June 30 and July 1, a Yard-Bake-Raffle Sale will take place at Green Ridge Physical Therapy, 325 N. Locust St. to help raise funds for the Francis family. The community is invited to come support the family after the tragic accidental death of Mark Francis. Numerous gift baskets have been donated for the raffle; tickets are $7 each or four for $25. Purchase on site or in advance from Tara by calling 541-999-9831.
Pancake Breakfast
Enjoy all-you-can-eat pancakes, ham, eggs, juice and coffee on Sunday, July 8 from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Camp Sherman Community Hall. This is a fundraiser for the historic community hall. Cost is $8 for adults, $5 for kids ages 5 to 10, and free for under 5. Questions? Call 541-595-6458.
Quilt Week Breakfast
Monday-Friday, July 9-13 from 6:30 to 9 a.m., breakfast will be available at St. Edward the Martyr Catholic Church. A daily special will be $10 with Continental breakfast for $4. Prepared by women of the Altar Society, this is their largest fundraiser of the year. A raffle is also featured, $1 per ticket or six for $5, with the drawing on Sunday, July 22 (need not be present to win). For more info call Mary at 541-549-2053.
Lunch in the Garden
See quilts at the Sisters Community Garden while enjoying lunch on Thursday, July 12, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Enjoy a delicious fresh medley of three salads with bread, beverage, and cookies for just $10. This is the nonprofit garden’s annual fundraiser. Turn off Camp Polk to the Sisters Airport; the garden is 1/4 mile beyond it on the left. For additional information contact Lisa 541-390-9025.
Book Sale Approaches
What’s a snuggly quilt without a great book? The annual Friends of the Sisters Library Book Sale takes place at the library during Quilt Show Saturday, July 14 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. All books will be priced at $1 or less! For additional information contact Kathy Campbell at 541-912-0750.
Family Wildflower Walk
Enjoy a walk with Outdoor Educator Jen Binks along the Metolius River Friday, June 29 from, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Learn about local history while discovering wildflowers, birds and butterflies! This easy 2-mile walk is for all ages. Learning materials will be provided; donations accepted. Register at http://bit.ly/registermetolius (where more details are noted). Questions? Call 541-848-9192.
Garden Plots Available
The Sisters Community Garden still has individual plots available for planting, in varying sizes, from $20 to $35. Applications are in the shed at the garden location (near the Sisters Airport). Questions? Call Anne Nora at 541-549-8664.
Free Walks & Hikes
Upcoming free walks and hikes with the Deschutes Land Trust include a Storytime Stroll from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 30; Butterfly Walk from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 11; and Tree Yoga from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 12. Registration is required at deschuteslandtrust.org/hikes. Once registered, directions are provided. See the full listing online. For additional information call 541-330-0017.
Fishing Group for All
“Go Fish” is a fishing group for bait fishers and fly fishers; and men, women, and children of all ages. The group meets at 7 p.m. the first Monday of each month at Sisters Community Church. All are welcome to come for interesting speakers, instruction, raffles and outings. Questions? Call 541-771-2211.
Parkinson’s Support Group
The second Tuesday of each month, Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group is now meeting at Sisters Community Church from 1 to 2:30 p.m. (following the Sisters Senior Luncheon). All are welcome to learn, share, and receive support. Info: Lenetta, 907-687-8101 or Carol, 541-668-6599.
Quilt Raffle for FFF
Interested in a local civic organization? Sisters Kiwanis raises gifts and money for our community! For a hosted visit or more information, please call 541-410-2870 or visit their website at sisterskiwanis.org.
This year’s fundraising quilt for Furry Friends Foundation, designed & created by Valerie Fercho-Tillery, is on display at 204 W. Adams Ave. #109, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and will be at Fir Street Park on Quilt Show Saturday, July 14. Purchase tickets at the office or online at furryfriendsfoundation.org for $1, 6 for $5, or 25 for $20. The drawing is September 3 Info: 541-797-4023 or email info@ furryfriendsfoundation.org.
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The City of Sisters seeks to award grants to nonprofit community groups and other entities that meet the criteria for the 2018-19 fiscal year, beginning 7/1/18. The City will award up to a total of $20,000 in grants for Sisters community projects. Submit a Community Grant application (on the City’s website or at City Hall) and letter of interest by Friday, July 27, to the attention of Kerry Prosser, City Recorder. Questions? Call Kerry Prosser at 541-323-5213 or email her at kprosser@ci.sisters.or.us
Three City Council positions will be open on the Nov. 6 General Election ballot; the terms of Asson, Connolly, and Esterman expire 12/31/18 (and they’re eligible to re-apply). You must be registered to vote in Oregon and a resident of the city of Sisters for 12 months preceding the election. Pick up materials at City Hall starting May 30. Perfected petitions must be received by 5 p.m. on August 28 to be on the ballot. Questions? Kerry Prosser: kprosser@ci.sisters.or.us, 541323-5213, or stop by City Hall.
Women & Teens Bible Study
Women (adults and teens) are invited to a study, “Bad Girls of the Bible,” at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 12 through August 9 at Sisters Community Church. Questions? Call 503-459-2977. To arrange for childcare, call 541-408-5539.
Donate Items to Annual Sale
The Three Sisters Lions Club is seeking donations of clean, unbroken, salable items for their annual sale, July 19-22. You may drop off items on Saturdays, June 30 and July 7; and Sunday, July 15, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. next to XPress Printing, behind Les Schwab. (Please, NO unattended drops; and no large furniture, appliances, or electronics.) To ask about other drop-off opportunities, please call Deri at 541-419-1279 or Kathleen at 541-410-6831.
Family Fun Story Time
Family Fun Story Time for kids ages birth through 5 takes place from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday, June 28, with songs, rhymes, and crafts, all designed to grow young readers! Caregivers are required to attend and are encouraged to participate. For more information call 541-312-1072.
Social and Book Discussion
Indivisible Sisters invites the community to the Pine Meadow Village Clubhouse on Thursday, July 26 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Come socialize, enjoy refreshments, and discuss Naomi Klein’s latest book, “No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need.” Questions? Call 541-595-0243.
Open Enrollment for SCA
Sisters Christian Academy is accepting applications for the 2018-19 school year. Preschool through 8th-grade enrollment packets are now available at the school office. For info call 541-549-4133 or email office@ sisterschristianacademy.com.
Food Assistance at the Kiwanis Food Bank
You may be eligible for food assistance. Find eligibility rules at the Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank, located at 328 W. Main Ave., open Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. USDA is an equal opportunity provider prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, nationality, sex, age, religion or disability. Cat and dog food is also available at the food bank, supplied by Furry Friends.
Veterans Meetings
The Sisters VFW Post 8138 and American Legion Post 86 will have their next meeting at Sisters City Hall at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 1. Meetings take place the first Wednesday of each month (but there will be no meeting in July due to the holiday). All veterans in the area are encouraged to join. Info: Lance, 541-903-1123.
Stars Over Sisters Star Party
Learn about the night skies! Stargazers are invited to gather at the Sisters Park & Recreation District building on Saturday, July 21 at 9 p.m. for a free presentation and slide show. If weather then permits, plan on heading out to the SHS sports fields to observe the night sky through powerful telescopes. Info, call Ron at 541-549-8846.
Sponsor an Impoverished Child from Uganda
Hope Africa International, based in Sisters, has many children awaiting sponsorship! For more information go online to hopeafricakids.org or call Katie at 541-719-8727.
Tai Chi/Balance Sessions
Now located in Ray’s Food Place, Sisters Drug is hosting FREE adult fitness and health sessions led by Shannon Rackowski. Classes are the first and last Thursday each month, from 11:15 to 11:45 a.m. in the Ray’s community meeting room. Sessions are based on the CDC STEADI Program, to reduce adult injuries from falls. Tai Chi has been shown to improve balance and strength, helping to accomplish this. All are welcome! 541-549-6221.
Free Meditation Group
All are welcome to a free meditation group meeting on Sundays at 6 p.m. at 484 W. Washington Ave. #A, Wear comfortable clothing; no experience necessary. For more information please email dawnsong03@gmail.com or text only (no voice calls) to Dawn at 541-207-7266.
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Sisters RVers
If you have an RV (trailer, 5th wheel, motorhome, et al) and would like to get to know other RVers in Sisters Country, please call Tom Kopec at 541-588-6255. There are no regular meetings, no officers, and no dues; just camaraderie and occasional get-togethers to share helpful hints and information. The group is now at 49 “members”!
Cow Pasture Golf
Redmond’s American Legion Post 44 presents a Cow Pasture Golf fundraising event on Saturday, July 7 at 7:30 a.m. at Whistle Stop Farm, 65325 Pleasant Ridge Rd. This is “no-rules” golf, hitting tennis balls with any instruments through 15 holes in the pasture. Go to alpost44.com for details on cost and registration, or call 541-548-2551 or 541-526-1371.
Have Art to Donate?
Save your art for donation! This will be the second year for a Friends of the Sisters Library fundraiser, the Annual Pre-Owned Art Sale. Consider saving your treasures for this event. Art donations will be accepted one day only: Saturday, July 28. The sale will take place on Sunday, July 29 at the Sisters Library. For additional information contact Linda Davis at 541-549-1222.
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SISTERS AREA CHURCHES Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (ELCA) 386 N. Fir Street • 541-549-5831 10 a.m. Sunday Worship shepherdofthehillslutheranchurch.com
The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration 68825 Brooks Camp Road • 541-549-7087 8:30 a.m. Ecumenical Sunday Worship (Sunday school, childcare) 10:15 a.m. Episcopal Sunday Worship (Sunday school, childcare)
Sisters Community Church (Nondenominational) 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. • 541-549-1201 10 a.m. Sunday Worship (with signing) sisterschurch.com | info@sisterschurch.com
Sisters Church of the Nazarene 67130 Harrington Loop Road • 541-389-8960 | sistersnaz.org 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship | 2sistersnaz@gmail.com
St. Edward the Martyr Roman Catholic Church 123 Trinity Way • 541-549-9391 5:30 p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass 9 a.m. Sunday Mass 8 a.m. Monday-Friday Mass
Westside Sisters 442 Trinity Way • 541-549-4184 | westsidesisters.org 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship Vast Church (Nondenominational) 1700 W. McKinney Butte (Sisters High School) • 541-719-0587 9:37 a.m. Sunday Worship | vastchurch.com
Calvary Chapel (Nondenominational) 484 W. Washington St., Ste. C & D • 541-588-6288 10 a.m. Sunday Worship
Seventh-Day Adventist Church 386 N. Fir Street • 541-595-6770, 541-306-8303 11 a.m. Saturday Worship
New Hope Christian Center (Assembly of God) 222 Trinity Way • 503-910-9069 10:30 a.m. Sunday Worship
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 68885 Trinity Way • Branch President, 503-932-2401; R.S. Pres., 541-549-4499. 10 a.m. Sunday Sacrament Meeting
Chapel in the Pines Camp Sherman • 541-549-9971 10 a.m. Sunday Worship
Baha’i Faith Meetings Devotional Gatherings, Study Classes and Discussion Groups. Call for location and times • 541-549-6586
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entertainment & EVENTS WED...JUNE 27
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Sisters Movie House “Skid Row Marathon” 7 p.m. Sisters Athletic Club presents this award-winning documentary, one night only. $10 tickets are only at SAC. 541-549-6878. Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Trivia Night 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sign-up is at 6:15 p.m. Free, every Wednesday! 541-549-2471. Sisters Saloon Poker Night 7 p.m. Every Wednesday! $20. For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go online to sisterssaloon.net.
Sisters Eagle Airport Rally on the Runway! 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. The annual celebration features an aircraft and automobile showcase, pancake breakfast, 5K run/walk, Great Rubber Chicken Drop & more! For info: sistersairport.com. Black Butte Ranch 4th of July Celebration 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Includes a fun run/walk, bike parade, games, kids’ activities, live music, family night at the movies and more! Info: blackbutteranch.com. Sisters Saloon Poker Night 7 p.m. Every Wednesday! $20. For information call 541-5497427 or go to sisterssaloon.net. Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Trivia Night 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sign-up is at 6:15 p.m. Free, every Wednesday! 541-549-2471.
THURS...JUNE 28 Sisters Saloon Karaoke Night 9 p.m. to midnight. Every Thursday, no cover! For information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net.
FRI...JUNE 29 PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
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SAC screens awardwinning documentary Sisters Athletic Club is screening the award-winning documentary “Skid Row Marathon” on Wednesday evening, June 27, at 7 p.m. The film synopsis recounts: “When a criminal court judge starts a running club on LA’s notorious skid row and begins training a motley group of addicts and criminals to run marathons, lives begin to change. Skid Row Marathon follows four runners as they rise from the mean streets of LA to run marathons around the world, fighting the pull of homelessness and addiction at every turn. Their story is one of hope, friendship, and dignity.” Tickets are only available at SAC. Cost is $10. Sisters Athletic Club is located at 1001 E. Desperado Trail in Sisters, on the FivePine campus. SAC is a full-service wellness center
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Creekside Park Sisters Roundup of Gems 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It’s the annual gem, mineral and jewelry show featuring treasures from around the world! For additional information call 619-920-0464. Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Live Music with Mark Barringer & Fiddler Bob 5 to 7 p.m. Free! For additional information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471. Hardtails Bar & Grill Karaoke Night 9 p.m. Every Friday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com. Fir Street Park Sisters Farmers Market 2 to 5:30 p.m. Fresh on Fridays, through September! For more information go online to sistersfarmersmarket.com.
Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Live Music with Juju Eyeball 5 to 7 p.m. Free; it’s the Beatles tribute band! For more information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471. Hardtails Bar & Grill Karaoke Night 9 p.m. Every Friday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com. Fir Street Park Sisters Farmers Market 2 to 5:30 p.m. For more information go online to sistersfarmersmarket.com.
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Sisters Saloon Live Music with the Bobby Lindstrom Band 7 to 10 p.m. No cover! For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net. Cork Cellars Live Music with Parlour 7 to 9 p.m. No cover! For additional information call 541549-2675 or go online to corkcellarswinebistro.com. Creekside Park Sisters Roundup of Gems 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It’s the annual gem, mineral and jewelry show featuring treasures from around the world! For additional information call 619-920-0464. Hardtails Bar & Grill Karaoke Night 9 p.m. Every Saturday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com.
Camp Sherman Store 100th Anniversary Bash! 5 to 8 p.m. for the all-youcan-eat BBQ ($16 adults, $12 kids) and Live Music with Big Pine & the Pitchtones 6 p.m. to close. For additional information call 541-595-6711. The Suttle Lodge Big Lawn Music Feat: Jacob Miller 7 to 9 p.m. Free event! Learn more about Miller online at thesuttlelodge.com/happenings. Sisters Saloon Live Music with Melanie Rose Dyer, Daniel Cooper, and Chris Patrick 7 to 10 p.m. No cover! For info call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net. Cork Cellars Live Music! 7 to 9 p.m. No cover! For additional information call 541-549-2675 or go online to corkcellarswinebistro.com. Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Music & Swing Dance Lessons with James Hillbush 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free! Come alone or bring a partner! Info: 541-549-2471. Tollgate Rec Center “Quilty” Art Show 9 a.m. Circle of Friends Art presents numerous artists and their creations, door prizes, drawings & more! Call 541-480-6361. Hardtails Bar & Grill Karaoke Night 9 p.m. Every Saturday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com.
SUN...JULY 1 Creekside Park Sisters Roundup of Gems 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It’s the annual gem, mineral and jewelry show featuring treasures from around the world! Info: 619-920-0464. Sisters Saloon Open Mic Night 8 to 10 p.m. Free, every first and third Sunday! For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net.
TUES...JULY 3 Sisters Saloon Trivia Night 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sign-up is at 6:15 p.m. Free, every Tuesday! For info call 541-549-7427 or go online to sisterssaloon.net.
Sisters Saloon Karaoke Night 9 p.m. to midnight. Every Thursday, no cover! For information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net.
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What is CBD? CBD is new to the scene, an alternative to painkillers for aches/pains, inflammation, and a host of other maladies. It is a compound found in the hemp plant, which is extracted as an oil and applied sublingually or through contact with the skin. It is researched and proclaimed to be a mild painkiller (to the effect of NSAIDs) and anti-inflammatory. Other claims are of neuroprotective benefits, and treatment for sleeplessness. Sales doubled over a year (2016-17) and CBD has netted sales of an estimate $200 million. CBD is often confused with THC, which is found in the marijuana plant (but not in the hemp plant). THC causes an intoxicating psychoactive response, which is why people use marijuana.
CBD being closely associated with an intoxicating (but now legal in Oregon) drug carries a guilt-by-association stigma. CBD however, is a compound which can be a safe alternative to opioid prescription painkillers. Opioid painkillers, such as Percocet, Vicodin, and Oxycodone are of similar chemistry as heroin, yet not thought of the same way as CBD to THC. These painkillers can be dangerously addictive, and pose a huge burden on our society. If CBD can sometimes take the role of these without the addictive or withdrawal risks, it’s worth examining. Now legal, CDB proponents claim it’s effective for: pain relief; inflammation; sleeplessness; neurological conditions; seizures; anxiety; and general well-being. Some of the claims read very sensational, while others relate it to over-the-counter meds in their effectiveness. Whether or not it actually is effective, the jury is out. Determining whether or not a substance is efficacious is a daunting task. Anecdotes don’t tell the story because of people’s expected effects, their beliefs, and subtle placebo effects. CBD is currently being assiduoulsy studied. Thus far, no danger in using the substance has been discovered. The claims, however, are not definitive and are currently only speculative.
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A promising drug is always an instant attention-grabber, but keep in mind that 95 percent of the drugs that make it past the initial safety test do not meet the final requirements. They never hit the market. One of the caveats with CBD is that it is not an FDA-regulated substance. One proprietor may extract CBD differently from others. It may be less potent or less pure. The source or crop of hemp can be very different. The consumer largely doesn’t know what they’re getting. All they can do is trust the source they’re buying from as legitimate. In a world of hucksters promoting weight-loss miracles and seven-day detoxes, the buyer ought to beware. Will CBD cure chronic pains, rid the body of anxieties, and change your life? Any time something is labeled as a wonder drug, it will fall short. Know what the substance is: an herbal extract; know that it’s effect is probably going to be modest, and mild. Once looked at from the scope of realism then CBD may be a valuable treatment for mild conditions. It’s not an intoxicating drug, and it likely poses no risks. It won’t be a wonder cure, and lifestyle management will always be more important than the next wonder drug.
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It’s all about the soil quickly learned that not all soils are created equal. Oregon’s state soil type (yes, Oregon has a state soil) is called Jory, which is a deep, highly productive soil, rich in organic matter and is found exclusively west of the Cascades. Jory is what makes the Willamette Valley one of the top agricultural producers in the entire United States. High-desert soil, on the other hand, is sandy, coarse, high in volcanic rock and — generally — void of organic matter. What are the natural functions to feed our soil biology in Central Oregon? Think sagebrush leaves, juniper berries, cheat grass and ponderosa needles. When Seed to Table first had its soil tested in 2013, we learned that our soil had 1.7 percent organic matter compared to our desired minimum of 7 percent. Since organic practices are essential to our education farm, chemical fertilizers are not an option for us. To create a successful veggie farm in Central Oregon, we would have to make our soil more like Jory — a highly productive, living, breathing ecosystem. Our
By Audrey Tehan Seed to Table Program Director
Grow 15 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in poo. I can’t count the number of times I have heard someone say, “You can’t grow anything but cheat grass in Central Oregon.” It is certainly true that in the high desert, we do not have the luxury of just throwing seeds on the ground and watching a jungle emerge. At Seed to Table, we sweat, dig, water, pray, wish and hope our seedlings will emerge and maybe grow up to our shins. And grow they do. This year, we will grow 15 tons of veggies on one acre of land — to the amazement of many onlookers. The secret to our success has been in understanding and building our soil. First, it was important for us to understand the soil situation in Central Oregon. The Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) has identified over 20,000 different soil classifications, based on climate, topography and historic use, in the United States. We
focus has been on increasing the amount of organic matter — plant and animal residue — in our soil to promote high levels of biologic activity. In our desired soil ecosystem, each handful of soil can have 50 billion bacteria cells, half a million fungal cells, algae, protozoa and tiny critters too numerous to count. Central Oregon soils may only foster half of this amount of biologic activity. The more biologic activity in the soil, the more nutrients that are available to plants. Since starting the farm four years ago, we’ve added up to 20 dump-truck loads of composted horse and cattle manure, along with bone meal, blood meal and fish emulsion, each year to make our soil rich enough that it can mimic natural ecosystems of decay and renewal. When we re-tested our soil this year, our organic matter was up to 5.5 percent! While we continue work to achieve our 7 percent goal, our crops this year are larger and stronger than ever. The best part? More productive soil means our workload has decreased.
For instance, we only had to apply half as much compost to our beds as we did in prior years. And we can continue building our organic matter by simply tilling our crops back into the soil at season’s end — replicating the natural system of leaf fall and decomposition. Soil is a delicate ecosystem requiring our care and long-term vision. We need only to look to the Dust Bowl for an example of the dire consequences of poor farming practices. I am pleased to know that many farmers are realizing the benefits of
increasing organic matter. You, too, can reap substantial benefits from increasing organic matter and cutting back and, eventually, eliminating chemical fertilizers. Here’s how — add at least two inches of highquality compost or composted manure to your garden EACH YEAR. For the first year or two, add up to four inches of compost. Turn the organic matter into the soil. Feeding your soil to promote high biologic activity can also help balance those nasty pests we all see; decreasing the need for harmful pesticides.
This summer, Seed to Table will host a free series of classes called “Growing BIG” for anyone interested in learning more about soil and garden health. The first class is this Friday, June 29 from 10 a.m. to noon. Register at www.seedtotableoregon.org. PHOTO BY EMILY GREEN
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The people behind The Nugget... High school sports are integral to the fabric of any small town — and the Sisters Outlaws are definitely woven deeply into the Sisters community. And for the past 16 years, those sports programs have been the beat of Rongi Yost.
I did some feature stories, but sports kept snowballing. — Rongi Yost Yost doesn’t remember exactly how she ended up being a sports reporter. Back in 2002, she had a daughter playing soccer, and The Nugget didn’t have anyone covering soccer. She thought the girls would like to see some coverage, and somehow — probably through
some gently arm-twisting by Editor Jim Cornelius — she ended up with the gig. Without meaning to, she had become a freelance reporter. “I did some feature stories,” she recalled, “but sports kept snowballing.” Yost covers football, baseball, volleyball, soccer, lacrosse. She doesn’t have a favorite — at least not one she’ll admit to — but she does have a favorite aspect of the work across the board: “My favorite part is talking to the kids, she said. The excitement builds “when they get to the playoffs, when they make it that far and every game counts. There’s a lot of families and kids (at games) and there’s a lot of excitement and anticipation… That’s very fun.” She loves “talking to the kids after the game, when they’ve made it that one step further.” Yost notes that Sisters
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has produced some remarkable athletic achievements, like Joey Morgan being drafted by the Detroit Tigers. Many, many Outlaws have won scholarships and continued to play their sport at a college level. “I think it’s incredible,” she said. She also really enjoys seeing programs grow and improve. “The wrestling program was almost non-existent when I started writing,” she said. “And now that program has really grown. Every year, it seems like they’re taking it a step further.” Yost moved here from Rogue River with her husband, David, in 2000. The family was friends with the Sweeneys, who had come to Sisters and started a plumbing business, and David worked for a time as their office manager. Rongi needed to work, too, and she secured a job with the Sisters School District as a paraprofessional. David is now a pastor and a contractor, and Rongi continues to work at Sisters H i g h School. “I assist
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Rongi Yost turns in multiple sports stories week in and week out for The Nugget. And she’s been at it for 16 years. in the classroom,” she said. The school job makes her Nugget work easier. “It’s such an easy opportunity for me to just grab kids in the hall (for an interview),” she said. Yost says she plans to keep covering sports for The Nugget — which is good news for Cornelius. “Rongi is invaluable,” he said. “It’s tough chasing down coaches and players and pulling that many stories together on a deadline. With
multiple sports, she’s really busy, usually on weekends. Those sports stories really matter to the athletes and their parents, and I appreciate her dedication to getting them in week in and week out.” Yost gets a welcome break during the summer, when school’s out and it’s time to travel. Soon enough, she’ll be writing about the first Outlaws football practices of the 2018/2019 season…
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Running commentary By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent
Summer is here and the opportunities for runners in Central Oregon seem endless. So, whether you are a year-round resident of Sisters Country or here for a visit there are trail recommendations and events galore. The trail systems in and around town cannot be taken for granted. Few cities of any size have done more to enhance the running, hiking, and biking access than Sisters, thanks to the Sisters Trails Alliance, city, county, and state governments, and the U.S. Forest Service. Long-time residents are likely well-acquainted with the Peterson Ridge Trail complex south of town, which offers a variety of loop courses suited for everyone from joggers to ultra-marathoners. The shortest loop, Dog Crossing, is 1.4 miles and the longest, Top Rung, covers just under 21 miles. Rather than a loop, it can be fun to get dropped off at the top of the trail and have a mostly downhill run back to town of about 10 miles. The main trailhead can be accessed from the corner of Elm (Three Creek Road) and Tyee streets. Parking is
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limited, but more parking is available at the Village Green City Park on Elm, right across from the fire station. There is also access to the trail from FivePine Lodge and Sisters Athletic Club. Maps of the Peterson Ridge system along with other trails maintained and supported by Sisters Trails Alliance can be found at www.sisterstrails.org. Horse activity on the Metolius-Windigo Trail in the summer makes it a little sketchy, as well as extra dusty, but it does pass through prime forested land in the heart of Sisters Country. Trail etiquette is a must, and dogs are not recommended. Camp Sherman, famous for its quiet beauty, is another access point for some of the most beautiful running in Oregon. A trail runs on both sides of river from the Camp Sherman Store and bridges downstream allow for making a loop. The trail is also accessible from the campgrounds along the river. The store is a great place for postrun refreshment. If getting off the beaten path is more your style, the Sisters Ranger Station has excellent maps of the area that show the hundreds of
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Forest Service roads and trails in the surrounding Deschutes National Forest. Access to dirt roads from the Tollgate and Crossroads subdivisions, as well as Black Butte Ranch, is easy, as are spur roads off Road 15 west of town off the McKenzie Highway. Most of these roads are lightly traveled dirt with occasional gravel sections. For safety, especially if you are unfamiliar with the area, it is recommended to let someone know your planned route and carry a phone and/ or a map. Those trees and dirt roads can all start looking alike, so do all you can to save yourself from getting lost or going on a much longer run than you expected! Summer races in Sisters are limited, but others are available in the greater Central Oregon region. Fourth of July includes a plethora of races in the region, including the Rally on the Runway 5K at the Sisters Airport. Registration is available on UltraSignup. The race is nice and early at 8 a.m., leaving you free for the rest of your Independence Day fun. The Sisters Kiwanis Club sponsors the Hoodoo Challenge: Run to the Top half-marathon on Saturday, Organic, natural n products
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Sisters is blessed with lots of trails that offer endless running options. July 28. The event has added a 5-kilometer race for those that want something less than the 13.1-mile option. Information at http://sisterskiwanis.org/runtothetop.
Most regional races are listed on the FootZone Bend website (www.footzonebend. com) and www.racecenter. com. Happy running!
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Obituary Ralph Romans
June 4, 1925 — June 8, 2018
Ralph Romans was born in Fremont, Nebraska, June 4, 1925, to Gladys and Lyman Romans. In his early years, his family lived a classic Americana lifestyle, a happy childhood of hauling ice, fishing with his dad and grandmother, garnering coal that spilled from railroad cars, hauling water from the pump and growing their own food. Their wardrobes were hand-me-downs or purchased from Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogues. He and his friends met on a corner in Fremont, where his future wife, Dolores Walters, lived. From there, they rode bicycles and went skating. He truly did walk four miles to school, to the delight of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who idolized their grandfather and his stories. He was a hero to his daughters and his descendants. He championed all people, and was extremely intolerant of bigotry and racism. In 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He became a Seaman with an education in Morse code and signaling. His first tour was on the USS West Virginia, a ship that had been sunk in Pearl Harbor and was restored. His ship was part of the initial invasion of the Philippines, where they secured beaches for troop landings. They were still on site when General McArthur made his famous “I Shall Return” speech. Their ship was part of another invasion, bombing the shores of Okinawa. They were hit by a Kamikaze pilot, suffering the loss of four sailors with only mild damage to the ship. One of their missions was the rescue of 300 sailors,
whose aircraft carrier was struck and destroyed by a Kamikaze pilot. They were part of the invasion of Iwo Jima, where, as signalman, Ralph watched through a long glass as the Marines tackled the mountain and the enemy. After their return to Okinawa, the war ended.
However, action didn’t. The Navy lost a ship to bombing, and several suicide missions were attempted. The Signal Corp developed a secret code to prevent sinking each other’s ships in the Japanese islands. Ralph and his ship were nearby when McArthur accepted the Japanese surrender. In their Pacific career, they had shot down 13 Japanese fighter planes. He was discharged in 1946, and soon after married Dolores, his childhood sweetheart. He enrolled in Midland College and worked a variety of jobs. Their daughter, Dianne, was born a year later. Ralph re-enlisted in the Navy in 1950, serving another 20 years. In the Korean conflict, he served as a yeoman in the administrative office on the USS Essex out of Bremerton, WA. In Fremont, their second daughter, Cheryl, was born. The family lived in Hawaii in Ralph’s three years of service with a Four-Star General in charge of all Army, Navy, and Marine forces in the Pacific. He retired as Senior Chief Yeoman in 1967. The couple moved to Sisters in 1968. In his last
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employment, he served in government assistance in Bend, where he administered the initial food stamp program for Central Oregon. He retired in 1987, at almost 62 years old. “And I never earned another dime,” he liked to joke. He was an avid fisherman throughout his life. He also was a voracious reader and a favorite patron at Sisters Library. He was a perfect neighbor, always offering assistance in plowing snow or bucking fallen trees. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Dolores, and a great-granddaughter, Jazzlyn. He is survived by his daughters, Dianne Perla (and Jim); Cheryl Smith (and Robert); brother Jim Romans; his grandchildren, Tracy Ward, Kerisna Wilhelmson, Lance Perla, Jeff Perla, Lisa Jones, Stephen Scott and Andrea Bermudez. There are 12 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. The family will hold a private service.
WATER: Warming temperatures could exacerbate problem Continued from page 17
questions about their effects on human health. “When water bodies warm up earlier and stay warmer longer... you increase the number of incidents,” said Wayne Carmichael, a retired Wright State University professor specializing in the organisms. “That’s just logical, and it’s being borne out.” Technically called cyanobacteria, the ancient class of organisms that create the blooms are present nearly everywhere water is found, but thrive in warm, still bodies like lakes and ponds. They also create a unique class of toxins, the impact of which on humans is only partly understood. Long linked to animal deaths, high doses of the toxins in humans can cause liver damage and attack the nervous system. In the largest outbreaks, hundreds have been sickened by blooms in reservoirs and lakes, and officials in some areas now routinely close bodies of water used for recreation and post
warnings when blooms occur. But less is known about exposure at lower doses, especially over the long term. Small studies have linked exposure to liver cancer — one toxin is classified as a carcinogen, and others have pointed to potential links to neurodegenerative disease. But definitively proving those links would require larger studies, said Carmichael, who helped the World Health Organization set the first safe exposure standards for the toxins.
It’s absolutely certain in my mind that warming temperatures are going to end up causing more of these algal blooms. — Steven Chapra “It’s absolutely certain in my mind that warming temperatures are going to end up causing more of these algal blooms,” said Steven Chapra, an environmental engineering professor at Tufts University. See WATER on page 24
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Event will aid equine adoptions 3 Sisters Equine Refuge is participating in the ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) national Help A Horse Day contest, competing for a chance to win some of the $110,000 available in grant prizes. The rescue outfit invites the Central Oregon public to meet their horses next weekend, June 29-30, at Oregon Rescue Challenge held at the Rim Rock Riders Event Center, Brasada Ranch. 3 Sisters Equine Refuge recently adopted a formerly wild orphaned mustang filly. The nationwide competition for rescues, shelters, animal-control agencies and sanctuaries that adopt out equines is designed to raise awareness about the yearround lifesaving work they do to find homes for horses. As a participating group, 3 Sisters’ goals align with the 2018 ASPCA’s National Help a Horse Day. The ASPCA event is focused on how to reach more potential adopters, and thereby enhance placement of adoptable equines in qualified homes. Motivated by the results of ASPCA equine research
suggesting there could be approximately 2.3 million adults in the U.S. with both the resources and desire to adopt a horse in need, Help a Horse Day 2018 is focused on finding more good homes for horses. Help a Horse Day is celebrated annually on April 26 — a date chosen for its significance in the ASPCA’s long history of horse protection. In 1866, ASPCA founder Henry Bergh stopped a cart driver from beating his horse, resulting in the first successful arrest for horse mistreatment on April 26 of that year. Now in its fifth year, Help a Horse Day has been a meaningful way for hundreds of equine rescues and sanctuaries to garner community support for their lifesaving work. Since 2014,
the ASPCA has awarded equine groups more than $300,000 in grant funding through the Help a Horse Day contest. 3 Sisters Equine Refuge launched their efforts in the contest in April, and they culminate with the event this month. “The ASPCA Help A Horse Day contest is a wonderful opportunity for 3 Sisters to raise awareness about amazing adoptable horses in Central Oregon and place them in good homes,” said Cyndi Davis, president, 3 Sisters Equine Refuge. “Horses are majestic, loving animals, and we hope our local supporters will come out to learn more about equine adoption and help us win grant money so we can continue our lifesaving efforts for
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REDBAND: Fish populations are also healthy Continued from page 1
volunteers helping out each year, and many are recruited from the ranks of the Central Oregon Fly Fishers, Native Fish Society and Trout Unlimited. Before wading out into the river’s 45- to 50-degree water, volunteers get a quick course on how to identify a redband trout redd. The hen fish digs her nest in the gravel river bottom by turning on her side and undulating her body, which creates a depression revealing light gray finer sediment and a mound of heavier gravel immediately downstream of the redd. In this depression she will lay her eggs, then the male will move over the eggs and fertilize them with his milt. That light gray area on the river bottom is the giveway that helps the surveyors spot redds, although the fisheries biologists will doublecheck until they are sure the volunteers have gotten the hang of redd identification. The surveyors typically work in teams of three so they can cover the entire width of the river in one pass. When they find a redd, they mark it with a rock painted white so that it will not be counted more than once during subsequent surveys. The river from Spring
Creek to the headwaters, and Lake and Abbot creeks, are surveyed every two weeks through the spawning period. While this year’s redd count was a record high, Brett Hodgson, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife district fisheries biologist based in Bend, cautions that it doesn’t necessarily mean that the Metolius River redband trout population is currently increasing as the numbers have fluctuated over the years. But the data does create a picture of the river’s redband population as robust and healthy. Based on the redd count, Hodgson estimates that it represents about 5,000 adult, spawningage fish, although there are certainly many more younger fish in the river as well. There is no official estimate for the Metolius redband population. However, there is no question that the river’s wild redband trout numbers have increased over the decades, where surveys in the mid- and late 1980s found fewer that 200 redds compared to nearly 2,000 30 years later. “That’s been a result of the excellent habitat projects on the river and the discontinuing of the hatchery stocking program,” says Hodgson. For many years the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife stocked the Metolius River with hatchery fish raised at Wizard Falls Hatchery. But over time, research found that
stocking hatchery fish has a detrimental effect on wild fish that includes competing with them for space and food, and if they interbreed they produce less-fit offspring. Studies in the 1990s found that wild Metolius River redband trout were hybridizing with hatchery rainbow trout that also made them more susceptible to diseases.
That’s been a result of the excellent habitat projects on the river and the discontinuing of the hatchery stocking program. — Brett Hodgson “There were some pools that had hundreds of hatchery fish that were outcompeting the smaller, wild fish,” said Dachtler. The state ended the stocking program in 1996, allowing the native, wild redbands to reclaim the Metolius River as their own once again. Habitat improvements on the river have been another important factor. There were some early habitat projects just above Bridge 99 in the late 1980s, but the big push came in 2010, when the Forest Service put 900 trees in the river, the largest habitat project ever done on the Metolius, according to Dachtler. Those trees offer a number of benefits for the
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Volunteers locate and count redband trout redds on the Metolius River. trout including shade, places to hide from predators, and as the logs decompose, create insect habitat that increases the food supply for fish. While the strong redband population is good news, the Metolius remains a difficult river to fish. It’s clear water makes it easier for the fish to see anglers and spook, and it often requires anglers to “match the hatch,” determining what kind of insect
the fish are feeding on at the time and presenting them with the proper imitation fly. According to Hodgson, there is a core group of regulars who have the river figured out and do pretty well, but for the casual angler it remains a challenging place to connect with a trout. Nevertheless, said Hodgson, “We’re very happy with the redband population on the Metolius.”
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SFF seeking Quilts in the Garden to feature raffle chances education program manager By Sue Stafford Correspondent
Sisters Folk Festival is looking to hire an education program manager. The education program manager is responsible for assisting the creative director in execution of SFF educational programming and event production in accordance with the vision and strategic direction of the Sisters Folk Festival organization. The position is halftime and includes support for the annual Sisters Folk Festival and integration with school programs and events. “The education program manager will play a key role in executing the programs of Sisters Folk Festival and providing the support needed to sustain and grow those programs in the schools and community,” said Creative Director Brad Tisdel. “This dynamic person will join the organization at an important time, with our Studio to School initiative still in place, programming growth in the schools, and plans for our capital campaign.” The position description and application information are available at: www. sistersfolkfestival.org/jointhe-sff-team. Applications are requested by July 16. For more information contact Brad Tisdel at Brad@ sistersfolkfestival.org. For more information about Sisters Folk Festival visit www.sistersfolkfestival. org.
A new feature at this year’s Quilts in the Garden home and garden tour on Thursday, July 12, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. will be the addition of three special quilts available for raffle. Each of the quilts will be on display at one of the tour sites where raffle tickets may be purchased. One of the colorful quilts, made by Jill Miller of Sisters, depicts happy animals on a bright blue background with red accents. The tickets for that quilt will be $1 each or six for $5. The proceeds from that raffle will be used to purchase batting for quilts made by Quilts for Kids, a Sisters-based quilting group
with members from Sisters, Redmond, and Bend. The largest quilt, by Sisters resident Karen Shadley, measures 74 by 85.5 inches, is edged in a soft grass-green, with floral squares in shades of yellow, light blue, rose, green, and orange. Former Sisters resident Edie Hines has donated a dynamic full-sized quilt with a medium-blue background covered with large abstract squares in a variety of bright colors and intricately quilted in a flowing wave pattern. Both of the adult quilts will be offered for $5 per raffle ticket or three for $10. Proceeds will go to aid the Sisters Garden Club
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Visitors on the Quilt Show garden tour have a chance to win quilts.
in providing support for numerous Sisters organizations and programs. The club has already donated almost $60,000 to the community over the years. Drawing of winning numbers will be held at each garden at 3 p.m. Winners will be contacted as soon as possible and quilts delivered to them before they leave town, or they will be shipped. A location on the tour every year is the Sisters Community Garden next to the Sisters Airport on East
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Barclay Drive, where lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The ticket price of $10 includes “a delicious medley of three salads served with home-baked bread, a sweet treat, and a beverage,” according to garden publicity. Quilts will be on display at the garden as well. Tickets for the 21st Quilts in the Garden tour are available now for $20 at the Sisters Chamber of Commerce or The Gallimaufry. For more information visit www. sistersgardenclub.com.
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Traditional foods for Fourth of July Next We d n e s d a y, Americans will celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the event that sparked the American Revolution and led to the eventual creation of the United States of America. The Fourth of July is a beloved holiday among Americans — and the perfect opportunity to fire up the grill with family and friends. No Independence Day celebration in America
would be complete without a picnic table filled with some traditional favorites: Hamburgers, hotdogs, buns, potato salad, corn on the cob and watermelon. But when our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence, it’s likely that they celebrated with a feast of rabbit, pigeon, lobster — and turtle soup. No one knows for sure, but according to legend on the very first celebration of America’s birthday, John Adams and his wife, along with thousands of other Americans on the East Coast, sat down for a celebratory meal of green turtle soup. The traditional meal also included poached salmon with egg sauce, green peas, boiled potatoes, Indian pudding or apple pandowdy. The popularity of turtle soup died out when concern about protecting the species of turtle grew. On the other side of the plate, tomatoes and potatoes have been a perfect pairing for centuries. And as early as 1781, Thomas Jefferson served French-fried potatoes with tomatoes at Monticello. In 1927 according to
“Good Housekeeping’s Book of Good Meals,” a good July 4th dinner consisted of canned tomato soup, broiled lobsters, stuffed potatoes, luncheon rolls, stuffed green pepper salad and cherry pie. Here are a couple of “Porch Picnic” menus that were published in the Washington Post for July 4, 1934: Assorted breads, rye, white, graham and finger rolls; assorted meats and spreads including salami cut in thin slices, spiced gold tongue, ground ham with grated pineapple and chopped walnut spread, cream cheese and green pepper spread. The other Porch Picnic menu consisted of hot ham shortcake, pineapple and cucumber gelatin salad, ripe olives, cheese crackers, iced tea, raspberries and ice-box cookies. In 1950 the Daily Tribune reported: “It’s the custom in New England to serve cold salmon steaks on the Fourth of July. No one knows where it started, or why, but the custom is spreading to all parts of the country. Perhaps the color was responsible, but we think it more likely that it’s because salmon fishing is at its height in July.”
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And in 1966 in the Navy Food Service publication was a “Yankee Doodle Dandy” supper for the Fourth, which featured a chili mac and cucumber and sour cream salad. The recipe was submitted by the USS Madera County (LST-905) CHILI MAC (10 portions) 2 1/4 lbs. ground beef 3/4 cup onions, chopped 2 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 1/4 teaspoons pepper 1 1/4 cups macaroni 2 1/2 cups tomato puree 3/4 cup canned tomatoes 3/4 tablespoon chili powder Cook beef, onions, salt and pepper in skillet over low heat until browned. Cook macaroni according to package directions; drain. Add tomato puree, tomatoes, macaroni, and chili powder to browned meat. Simmer 30 minutes. Today, food has become less formal as it has changed with the technology of our times. So why do we celebrate Independence Day with hot dogs and hamburgers? Probably because America is a nation of immigrants with diversified taste buds. The nation as a whole came together with differing culinary backgrounds, and that helped to create and popularize what is currently on your Fourth of July picnic table. But if you’re still craving the historic dish, Americans in the South make mock turtle soup with veal or beef. Here is a great version of MOCK TURTLE SOUP: 3/4 cup unsalted butter
6 celery stalks chopped 1 cup chopped onion 2 garlic cloves minced 1 1/2 pounds ground sirloin 1 (15-ounce) can tomato puree 1 (14.5-ounce) can chicken broth 1 (14.5-ounce) can beef broth 1/2 cup all-purpose flour mixed with 1 cup water 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce 1 cup ketchup 1 teaspoon hot sauce 2 bay leaves 1 1/2 teaspoons dried thyme 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/2 cup lemon juice 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley 6 large hard-cooked eggs peeled and chopped 1/4 cup sherry Garnish lemon slices In a large saucepan over medium-high heat, melt butter. Add celery, onion, and garlic, and cook until just softened, 5 to 7 minutes. Add sirloin and cook until meat is browned and vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes. Transfer to an 8-quart slow-cooker. To slow-cooker, add tomato puree, broths, flour mixture, Worcestershire, ketchup, hot sauce, bay leaves, thyme, salt, and pepper, and stir to combine. Cook over low heat for four hours. Add lemon juice and cook 30 minutes. Remove bay leaves, and stir in parsley, eggs, and sherry. Garnish with lemon slices, if desired.
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Summer camp offers adventures From mountains to meadows, meandering creeks to the mysteries of lava caves, adventure awaits July 16-20 for the kids who enroll in the first annual Jim Anderson Camp for Science and Nature. This new day camp will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for students entering fourth, fifth or sixth grade, featuring field trips, scientific research and a challenging educational curriculum developed and taught by education professionals from the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council and Discover Your Forest. Tw o S i s t e r s t e a c h ers, Kristy Rawls and Kirk Albertson, are camp coordinators; Karen Gentry of Discover Your Forest and Alyssa Grove of the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council are leading the activities. Jim Anderson will make a guest appearance, and the Sisters Astronomy Club will participate as well. The camp was developed by the Friends of the Sisters Library and is supported by the Jim Anderson Chair endowment from Bob and
Gayle Baker. The camp is administered by SPRD. “This is a great opportunity for kids to do real science with inspiring teachers and have a lot of fun along the way,” said Kathy Campbell, a member of the FOSL board. Campers will bring their own lunches and will meet at SPRD each day; all transportation for field trips will be provided by SPRD. With a maximum enrollment of 15, the camp will provide individual attention and assistance for each child. The week kicks off with a visit from Jim Anderson, followed by a “Bio Blitz” along the Metolius River. Midweek, campers will map glacial activity at Three Creek Lake, sample water at Whychus Creek, and talk with trees at Cold Springs. On Friday, the group will cap their adventures by heading underground at the Lava River Caves. Biologist Alyssa Grove is an environmental educator with the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council. She will coordinate activities in the middle of the week.
“This camp is a great way to utilize community members and resources to create a unique camp experience that really focuses on the science behind our amazing local ecosystems,” said Groves. “The experience will be a great tool to help deepen a student’s connection with the natural world, develop a stronger sense of place, and, we hope, a feeling of stewardship for their home.” Campers should enroll through SPRD; the registration fee is $125. Full and partial scholarships are available. The Friends of the Sisters Library board is hopeful the camp will become an annual summer activity, inspiring girls and boys to pursue science and excel in their science classes at school. Gayle Baker says she is delighted that FOSL has launched this very special camp in Sisters. “The Jim Anderson Camp,” Baker said, “just may be the inspiration for the next Einstein, Salk or Jim Anderson himself!”
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Prosecutor: Man justified in shooting in Bend BEND (AP) — A heavy equipment operator was legally justified when he shot and wounded a knife-wielding man last month outside an Oregon hotel, a prosecutor said Monday. However, Robert Garris was foolish to appoint himself “sheriff of the Days Inn” and initiate a confrontation with the man he considered shady, Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel said in a statement. “Robert Garris was legally justified in shooting Christopher Nolan, which is why I did not charge him with a crime,” Hummel said. “But his actions on the day of this shooting, and in the months prior, were foolish, dangerous, and mean-spirited.” Garris, 39, of Medford was staying at the Days Inn in Bend while working on a construction project. He sometimes complained to hotel staff about people on the property who looked homeless. Rather than head back to his room or call police, Garris would go outside and confront them, authorities said. On May 14, Garris complained to hotel staff and then found Nolan outside a restaurant next to the hotel. When the men came face to face, Nolan pulled out a switchblade and extended the knife, authorities said.
They say Garris stepped back, yelled at Nolan to drop the knife and then fired seven shots, four of which hit Nolan, who survived. Oregon’s self-defense law does not require people to
retreat before using deadly force against someone threatening them with deadly force. For that reason, Garris — a lawful gun owner — was authorized to shoot, Hummel said.
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4TH OF JULY: Annual event funds aviation programs Continued from page 3
signature event, the Great Rubber Chicken Drop, will take place at 10 a.m. This unique raffle-type event is performed aviation-style. Participants can purchase two-by-two-foot numbered squares which are chalked on the runway for $5 each. The Outlaw Aviation plane flies over the matrix, and rubber chickens are flung out. Each chicken represents a specific prize. Prizes are donated by Sisters-area businesses, and range in value from $15 to $400. The person who purchased the square that each rubber chicken lands on wins that prize. A 50/50 raffle, helicopter scenic rides, and tandem skydiving will add to the entertainment. Outlaw Aviation will have their two airplanes and new simulator on display, as well as popular apparel sales. At around 11 a.m. following the raffle awards, the runway will be closed to aircraft and taken over by hotrods. Drag races down the runway pits unlikely pairs of dragsters, such as the hot-offthe-line Tesla against a 1963 Corvette, or a Subaru vs. a tow-truck. The fun is open to participants in any type of vehicle, from the family car to the champion dragster. The pancake grill will be taken over by burgers for lunch around 12 p.m. The Rally on the Runway event is a fundraiser for the Sisters High School Flight Science program, which has grown to three classes and 52 students. The unique program is attracting attention as one of the only high school aviation programs in the country. While many schools offer ground-only instruction, few have access to flight training.
Through a collaboration between SHS, the Sisters Airport, and Outlaw Aviation, Sisters students are able to earn their pilot licenses while in high school. “Flight training is normally very expensive,” said Julie Benson, co-owner of the Sisters Airport. “This event provides scholarship funds for students learning to fly. The community support is very evident when so many people come to the event and participate. I’m glad to make the airport available to bring the community together to celebrate the Fourth of July, and help our students become the next generation of pilots.”
Flight training is normally very expensive. This event provides scholarship funds for students learning to fly. — Julie Benson The next phase of aviation opportunity for SHS students is an “airplane build” project. The Sisters Airport has agreed to host a new Career Technical Education program where students will build an airplane from a kit. “It will be a hands-on class where students will learn metal-working and machining skills, as well as learning how airplanes are structured. We are trying to get all the pieces together to offer it starting next fall,” says Curt Scholl, Sisters School District superintendent. Donations toward the airplane kit are being sought. Details will be available at the Rally on the Runway celebration. Admission to the Rally on the Runway is free. More information can be found at www.SistersAirport.com, and Facebook page “Sisters Eagle Airport.”
WATER: Drinking water can be affected by algae blooms Continued from page 18
Chapra led a team including scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in one of the most comprehensive studies to date of the interplay between global warming and the blooms, published in 2017. Because they prefer warm water, higher summer temperatures and more frequent heat waves help the organisms. More frequent droughts also cause reservoirs to be shallower in summer, causing them to warm faster. And more intense rainstorms, also conclusively linked to climate change, can wash more nutrients into lakes and reservoirs, especially from farms where nitrogen and phosphorousrich fertilizers are used, Chapra said. In Utah, a 2016 algae bloom in a recreational-use lake sickened more than 100, and when the story made national headlines other states reached out. “We started getting calls from other health departments all over the country saying, ‘Hey, we’re dealing with an algal bloom in a
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lake that has never ever had one before,’” said Aislynn Tolman-Hill, a spokeswoman for the Utah County Health Department. Officials only recently started carefully logging the blooms, but they seem to be becoming more intense, said Ben Holcomb, a biologist for Utah’s environmental agency. “They’re starting earlier, they’re lasting longer, and their peaks seem to be getting bigger,” Holcomb said. “I don’t think any state is isolated.” In Lake Erie, a major bloom in 2014 caused authorities to warn against drinking tap water in Toledo, Ohio, for more than two days, cutting off the main water source for more than 400,000 people. Now blooms happen every year in Utah and Ohio. Officials in both states say they’ve largely been able to stop them from toxifying drinking water, but they can still sicken people and pets that go in the water, and often hit recreation businesses that depend on lake access. Other blooms, including flare-ups affecting drinking water, have been logged in recent years in New York, Florida, and California. In Oregon, officials lifted the capital city’s drinking water advisory after several days, but then had to re-issue the warning. The water supply serves
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RENTALS: Planners wrestle with spacing versus cap Continued from page 1
additional changes to the short-term rental (STR) regulations being proposed for adoption as part of a larger package of text amendments. At the June 21 Planning Commission meeting, staff sought input from the commissioners on two changes Council would like to see. Staff was directed to include spacing/buffering requirements for STRs and to review “transferability” of STR land-use approvals and operator’s licenses. Council was concerned that without spacing requirements, concentration of STRs in any one area would create negative impacts on residential neighborhoods. Staff presented to the Planning Commission several scenarios regarding 150foot and 250-foot buffers between STRs and the possible ramifications regarding the number of additional STRs. Chairman Tim Klem indicated, “If we have to have spacing, I don’t want the eight percent cap.” Commissioners Jeff Seymour and Roger Detweiler don’t favor spacing requirements and Jack Nagel does. Nagel pointed to the impact of a concentration of STRs in a single neighborhood. In counterpoint, Detweiler asserted, “The town is too small to use spacing requirements.” The apparent frustration on the part of some of the commissioners seemed
to come from the fact that they have spent a number of months addressing the issues involved with STRs before making their recommendation to the Council. Several voiced that perhaps City Council was considering changes to what commissioners had recommended without being fully informed of all the information the Planning Commission had considered. A decision was made to seek a joint meeting of the Planning Commission and the City Council to discuss all the factors involved when considering STRs. With a steady influx of applications for STRs to the City, the Planning Commission is concerned that a delay in approving STR regulations will result in a continuing increase in the number and concentration of STRs. BreAnne McConkie, senior planner, reported that of 20 current land-use applications, 10 are for STRs. In other business, the commissioners considered prioritization of proposed new text amendments they will be considering. They will be looking at regulations for cutting trees, amenities requirements in master plans for subdivisions, annexation requirements related to affordable housing, tiny homes, mobile food units, and several factors involving planned unit developments. The upcoming treescape design for Adams Avenue, funded by a Transportation Growth Management grant, will require a review of the code for multiuse development and requirements regarding curbs, sidewalks, and parking on Adams.
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PORTLAND (AP) — Oregonians will not be voting this fall on a proposal to require safe gun storage. Supporters of the initiative petition said Wednesday there isn’t enough time to obtain the more than 88,000 valid signatures necessary to get the item on the November ballot. They had until July 6 but only got the go-ahead to start collecting names on Monday. The petition had been on hold after opponents with the National Rifle Association, Oregon Firearms Federation and other groups challenged its ballot language to the Oregon Supreme Court. “ We a p p r e c i a t e t h e Supreme Court acting quickly to dismiss the gun lobby’s challenge,” chief petitioner Henry Wessinger said in a statement. “However, we are disappointed the gun lobby’s efforts prevented signature gathering for a critical period of more than six weeks.” The proposal would require gun owners to secure their weapons with trigger locks or other mechanisms when they aren’t in use or being carried. Violators would face fines of up to $2,000 and be liable for
injuries caused by an unlawfully unlocked weapon. Among the petitioners are Jenna Yuille and Paul Kemp, relatives of two people killed by a gunman at a suburban Portland mall in 2012. The shooter had stolen an unsecured AR-15 rifle from a friend. Supporters said they will try to get the Oregon Legislature to pass the measure in 2019. If that fails, they will target the 2020 election. A separate campaign to restrict the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in the state continues despite an even tighter timeframe for collecting signatures. Pro-gun groups appealed ballot language for that petition to the Oregon Supreme Court, and the high court has yet to rule. Rev. Mark Knutson, one of the chief petitioners, said volunteers will be ready to roll as soon as the court rules. He calculates that 2,000 volunteers collecting 50 signatures a day — “which is not that hard to do” — adds up to 100,000 in just one day. “We have highly motivated junior high and high school students who can’t wait for the opportunity to take their petitions and get signatures,” he said.
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form, CBD oil commands thousands of dollars per kilogram, and farmers can make more than $100,000 an acre growing hemp plants to produce it. That distillate can also be converted into a crystallized form or powder. “Word on the street is everybody thinks hemp’s the new gold rush,” Jerrad McCord said, who grows marijuana in southern Oregon and just added 12 acres (5 hectares) of hemp. “This is a business. You’ve got to adapt, and you’ve got to be a problem-solver.” It’s a problem few predicted when Oregon voters opened the door to legal marijuana four years ago. The state’s climate is perfect for growing marijuana, and growers produced bumper crops. Under state law, none can leave Oregon. That, coupled with a decision to not cap the number of licenses for growers, has created a surplus. Oregon’s inventory of marijuana is staggering for a state its size. There are nearly 1 million pounds (450,000 kilograms) of usable flower in the system, and an additional 350,000 pounds (159,000 kilograms) of marijuana extracts, edibles and tinctures. “Usable flower” refers to the dried marijuana flower — or bud — that is most
commonly associated with marijuana consumption. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which regulates the industry, says some of the inventory of flower goes into extracts, oils and tinctures — which have increased in popularity — but the agency can’t say how much. A comprehensive market study is underway. Yet the retail price for a gram of pot has fallen about 50 percent since 2015, from $14 to $7, according to a report by the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis. Growers and retailers alike have felt the sting. “Now we’re starting to look at drastic means, like destroying product. At some point, there’s no more storage for it,” Trey Willison said, who switched his operation from marijuana to hemp this season. “Whoever would have thought we’d get to the point of destroying pounds of marijuana?” That stark prospect is driving more of Oregon’s marijuana entrepreneurs toward hemp, a crop that already has a foothold in states like Colorado and Kentucky and a lot of buzz in the cannabis industry. In Oregon, the number of hemp licenses increased from 12 in 2015 to 353 as of last week. Colorado and Washington were the first states to broadly legalize marijuana. Both have seen price drops for marijuana but not as significant as Oregon. Like marijuana, the hemp plant is a cannabis plant, but it contains less than 0.3
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percent of THC, the compound that gives pot its high. Growing industrial hemp is legal under federal law, and the plant can be sold for use in things like fabric, food, seed and building materials. But the increasing focus in Oregon is the gold-colored CBD oil that has soared in popularity among cannabis connoisseurs and is rapidly going mainstream. At least 50 percent of hemp nationwide is being grown for CBD extraction, and Oregon is riding the crest of that wave, Eric Steenstra said, president of Vote Hemp, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for pro-hemp legislation. “There are a lot of growers who already have experience growing cannabis, and when you’re growing for CBD, there are a lot of the same techniques that you use for growing marijuana,” he said. “Oregon is definitely a hotbed of activity around this.” CBD is popping up in everything from cosmetics to chocolate bars to bottled water to pet treats. One Los Angeles bar sells drinks containing the oil, massage therapists use creams containing CBD and juice bars offer the stuff in smoothies. Dozens of online sites sell endless iterations of CBD oils, tinctures, capsules, transdermal patches, infused chocolates and creams with no oversight. Proponents say CBD offers a plethora of health benefits, from relieving pain to taming anxiety. Scientists caution, however, that there
have been very few comprehensive clinical studies of how CBD affects humans — mostly because the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration still considers cannabidiol extract off-limits, and the government requires special dispensation to study it. Pre-clinical studies have shown promise for treatment of chronic pain, neuroi n f l a m m a t i o n , a n x i e t y, addiction and anti-psychotic effects in animals, mostly rodents, Ziva Cooper said, an associate professor of clinical neurobiology at Columbia University who focuses her research on the therapeutic potential of cannabis and cannabinoids. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration next month could approve the first drug derived from CBD. It’s used to treat forms of epilepsy. Christina Sasser, cofounder of Vital Leaf, isn’t waiting for government action to market CBD products in stores and online. She sells about 500 bottles of Oregon-sourced CBD oil a month and ships only to customers living in states with state-run hemp pilot programs, to better avoid the
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possibility of legal trouble. “Everybody in the CBD world has recognized the risks involved, and I would say the vast majority of us really believe in the power of the plant and are willing to operate in this, sort of, gray area,” she said. Willison was selling marijuana clones to pot startups when he realized last spring he was selling way more clones than Oregon’s market could support. The two-story building where he grew 200 pounds of weed a month sits nearly empty, and a greenhouse built to expand his pot business is packed with hemp plants instead. He breeds hemp plants genetically selected for their strong CBD concentration, harvests the seeds and extracts CBD from the remaining plants that can fetch up to $13,000 per kilogram. His future looks bright again. “The (marijuana) market is stuck within the borders of Oregon — it’s locked within the state,” he said, as he took a break from collecting tiny grains of pollen from his plants. “But hemp is an international commodity now.”
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Store is steeped in history By Sue Stafford Correspondent
The history of the Camp Sherman Store is peopled with both familiar and lesser-known names. After Frank Leithauser built the first permanent building in 1917 to house the store, in 1922 Ross Ornduff of Moro removed that building and constructed the present store. The post office was housed in the store with mail delivered from April to September, and Ornduff was named the first postmaster. Rod and Evelyn Foster ran the store from 1925 to 1940. In 1928 the post office became a year-round operation. During the Fosters’ 15 years, the store had 32-volt electricity from a turbine across the river that provided power for the store refrigerator, an iron, and a small heater in the house. Local Camp Sherman resident and builder Luther Metke owned the store during World War II, and his daughter Mae Dodd was the proprietor. Mary Lou Loar owned the store for a number of years until the 1990s. New gas pumps were installed in 1993 to the relief of the residents. In 1976 the separate post office was added onto the store building. The old-fashioned interior was salvaged from an old post office elsewhere in Oregon that was being replaced. Stepping into the post office is like stepping back in time.
The land on which the store sits in Tract G is leased from the U.S. Forest Service, like the cabins along the river. On the store shelves is an amazing variety of foodstuffs, camping supplies, clothing, gift items, and, of course, a whole section devoted to supplying the needs of the fly-fishers. Current proprietors Roger and Kathy White think part of the reason Camp Sherman, and the store, has been able to retain its unique character and ambiance is due to the fact the Forest Service controls the land. “The Forest Service keeps the (Metolius) basin here the same,” he explained. The Whites have done their part to maintain the integrity of the store that has served generations of families over the years. Walking into it today is not that different than it was in the 1950s. Roger and Kathy both think Camp Sherman is “the happiest place on earth.” They both expressed their belief that the cosmic
energy and synchronicity in this piece of paradise is what makes it so special to so many people. Roger laughs when he hears people who have discovered Camp Sherman express their desire to keep it a secret. When queried about plans for retirement, Roger hedges some, saying, “It’s a moving target.” They have purchased a cabin down river a little for when the time comes. For now, they are in the thick of their high season, which runs from mid-May to mid-October. In the winter the store is open three days a week. They are already planning their trips to the gift and food shows in New York City, Seattle, and Las Vegas, so that target is definitely still moving. On the next visit to the Camp Sherman store, sit awhile on the front porch or around the side on the deck. Watch the people, listen for the wind in the pines, notice the sunlight playing off the ripples in that beautiful river, and enjoy the experience of being in this special corner of the world.
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and his wife, Chris, owned the store for six years. Kathy’s dad discovered the Metolius and Camp Sherman in the late 1940s when he came over from Portland to hunt. After making his discovery, Kathy’s father asked, “Why would we go anywhere else?” From then on, the family station wagon collected red dust every summer from the unpaved road in Camp Sherman. Roger was born in Virginia surrounded by historic Civil War battlefields, antique shows, and a stop on the Underground Railroad beneath the steps of his 150-year-old church, so history has always been a part of his life. He moved with his family to Salem, Oregon, as a teenager. In honor of the store’s 100th anniversary, the Whites have invited the governor, state senators and representatives, and people who are an integral part of the store’s long history. Floyd and Jim Leithauser, whose grandfather Frank built the
first permanent building for the store in 1917, will be in attendance, as will Carrie Loar, whose mother owned the store for a period of time. “It’s pretty amazing this building is still here and intact,” Roger said. “In America today, are there many businesses still doing business in the same location after a hundred years?” The old Shell gas pumps out in front of the store had to be decommissioned and dug up in 1990 when concern over fuel leaking into the river surfaced. To add to the historical flavor of the weekend, Roger has arranged for a 1918 Ford Model A touring car and a 2018 Tesla to be parked noseto-nose in front of the old pumps. They will be joined throughout the weekend by other antique and classic cars. The Willamette Valley Vineyards will be on hand from 3 to 6 p.m. for a wine tasting, with the barbecue scheduled to start at 5 p.m. Big Pine and the Pitchtones will be providing music for the evening. Just to be sure the bases are covered, Roger is planning to have enough food for 1,000 people. Carpooling is probably a good idea as parking will be at a premium.
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“The Black Crater Trail is the only trail that remains closed from the Milli Fire,” she said. “Although the Black Crater Trail is within a high fire burn severity section on steep slope, the Deschutes [National Forest] is optimistic about being able to open the Black Crater Trail at a future date. Hazard-tree removal at the trailhead and trail drainage work will need to occur prior to reopening.” She also offered advice for trail users in burned areas that are open. “Forest users should use extreme caution when entering burned areas and should expect many trees fallen across the trails,” she said. “Portions of trail are damaged or blocked with down and dead trees.” Racki urged caution because of “stump holes, standing dead trees, falling trees and limbs, flooding, debris-flow, and rock-fall. Avoid burned areas during high winds,” she warned. She also noted that “loss of trail tread is anticipated in areas due to lack of vegetation and increased runoff of water during storm events. Please stay on the trail to minimize postfire impacts such as erosion and social trail development.” The Matthieu Lakes Trail is a favorite, and one of the most popular trails in the entire region. Racki and this correspondent hiked in to
the north lake to evaluate the status of the trail: In spite of some significant damage, the ecosystem along the trail was not completely destroyed and the area retains much of its unique appeal. The forest surrounding both lakes remains untouched. Fire damage along the trail is varied, with much of it having the spotty quality of a mosaic burn. Some pockets of trees were completely untouched by the flames; but one stretch of trail is very badly burned. Interestingly, one burned portion of trail is the area where there was a great proliferation of burls on the tree trunks. With all the ground vegetation and most of the lower limbs gone, the charred, grotesque arboreal malformations lend an eerie and striking presence reminiscent of a sculpture display. The Matthieu Lakes Trail is high on the list for priority clearing of downed trees; but the trail is quite passable with minimal obstacles at present. The status of Lava Camp Lake Campground is another topic of particular interest since the fire. Although the campground has reopened, Racki reports “high burn severity where 100 percent tree mortality occurred in pockets of the campground. Three campsites were closed within these pockets of standing dead trees due to unsafe hazard-tree conditions. Eight of the original 11 campsites are still available.” Area rehabilitation is in progress, and one site within the burned area remained
green and has been converted to a walk-in campsite. It now requires hauling camp gear about 300 yards from the end of the shortened access road. Racki said that the more remote site now provides a great opportunity for campers who seek a quiet place or for Pacific Crest Trail backpackers looking for a pleasant respite. Campers will also find that parking for the remaining campsites has been revised. “We still need to install signing, and complete trail and clean-up work at Lava Camp Lake Campground, which we hope to complete this summer,” Racki said. On the way up to the pass, the scenic McKenzie Highway looks very different now; and a wide swath has been cleared on both sides of the highway in burned areas, which seems to include most of the road on the Sisters side of McKenzie Pass. The bare dirt roadsides are a stark contrast to the lush green forests we had grown accustomed to. The roadsides are also punctuated by massive piles of dead forest debris. The current plan calls for the piled debris to be burned in the fall when conditions permit.
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Amy Racki, recreation team leader for the Sisters Ranger District, hiked the Matthieu Lakes Trail last week to assess damage from the Milli Fire. Ian Reid, Sisters District Ranger, said “the Forest Service appreciates the public’s patience and support while we assess and remedy post-fire impacts to trails and recreation sites. While almost all of the fire area is open to the public, some inherent risk remains when hiking or riding in recently burned areas.” So, while yet another of Sisters’ forest playgrounds has gone up in flames, there are still adventures to be
had and sights to see within the Milli Fire’s boundaries. Forest users are urged to exercise caution and good sense while visiting burned areas — both for their own safety and to avoid aggravating fragile conditions and the already lengthy recovery process. The public is encouraged to “KNOW BEFORE YOU GO” by contacting the Sisters Ranger District office at 541-549-7700 if you plan to visit the area.
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LAKE CREEK LODGE CABIN One-quarter share interest in this beautiful 3-bedroom, 3-bath cabin at historic Lake Creek Lodge in Camp Sherman. Features modern amenities with the feel of yesteryear. Built in 2014 and furnished with a combination of antiques and quality reproduction pieces, the cabin features fir plank floors, knotty pine paneling, stone/gas fireplace, butcher block countertops, gas cooktop, farm kitchen sink, tile bathroom floors & showers, washer/dryer, cedar decks, stone exterior accents & locked storage. $230,000. MLS#201605869 THE SIZE WILL SURPRISE YOU! Spacious single-level on .69 acres w/USFS out the back & common area on 2 sides. This 1,921 sq. ft. home was custom built with an eye toward quality. Hardwood-fl oored entry to a huge living room. Kitchen w/breakfast bar, oak cabinets, appliance garage & built-in desk. The master includes a private bath with redwood paneled ceiling & soaking tub. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths with an oversized garage. Easy access to the community pool, rec center & tennis courts for your enjoyment. $399,000. MLS#201803364
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CRAFTSMAN-STYLE WITH CHARACTER Great curb appeal and design in this NW Craftsman home with southern exposure located in Pine Meadow Village. Open floor plan with vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, wood cabinets, quartz kitchen counters with island eating bar and large walk-in pantry. Less than 2 years old. This beautiful home offers 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, den/office, 1,971 sq. ft. with an oversized double garage and storage room. Sit back and relax on the attractive covered entry porch or the upper level sunny deck with mountain views. Completely landscaped with sprinklers and screened service areas. Enjoy the common clubhouse, pool, spa, tennis courts, trails and open space plus close-in town convenience to shops, restaurants and services. $479,500. MLS #201804704
CLOVERDALE COUNTRY IS CALLING The answer is this 2,552 sq. ft. single-level home that is tucked behind a grove of mature trees for privacy. This 2-master-suite, spacious and gracious home was built in 2003. Granite countertops, pantry and breakfast bar in the eat-in kitchen. Slate entry and hickory floors throughout the kitchen, family room and 900 sq. ft. master wing addition that was built in 2008. New carpeting in the living room and formal dining. Vaulted ceilings, oodles of storage with a total of 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. The 1.84 acre is totally fenced and gated to keep kids and critters in. Covered RV storage, a double garage with shop area, greenhouse, patio and a lush yard with automatic sprinklers round out this move-in ready property.$525,000. MLS#201802080
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GLAZE MEADOW 325 Beautiful custom-built home, overlooking the 16th fairway of the newly enhanced Glaze Meadow Golf Course located in sunny Central Oregon. Spacious open floor plan, ideal for large gatherings, is filled with natural light, outdoor spa, and an open loft. Custom rock fireplace and built-in bar, ideal for entertaining. Large outdoor deck. Resort amenities include pools, tennis, bike-hike trails, horseback riding, restaurants and across the street from the new GM pool and tennis courts.$665,000. MLS#201711784
BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN VIEW Beautiful mountain-view acreage located in the secluded Lower Bridge Basin near the Deschutes River. Lower Bridge Estates offers paved streets, electric power and phone. The lot is approved for a standard septic system. There is abundant BLM land in the area and the nearby Deschutes River corridor is great for hiking, fishing and wildlife viewing.$257,000 MLS#201702313
343 W. ADAMS AVENUE Development opportunity for new construction. 120’ x 114’. Good location in NW portion of Sisters. Located in area with mix of professional, service, and medical. $289,000. MLS#201802939
69860 CAMP POLK ROAD Immaculate countryside 3,100 sq. ft. home. 3 bedrooms, 4.5 baths surrounded by beautiful gardens plus a full view of 152-acre Camp Polk Meadow Preserve. Spacious kitchen with granite countertops and island bar. 2 wood-burning fireplaces, family room/greatroom. 375 sq. ft. guest house and bath above the garage. Gardens designed by a master gardener. Landscaped with native plants.$610,000. MLS#201805009
26324 SW METOLIUS MEADOWS DRIVE A quality, energy-efficient and well-maintained 3-plus-bedroom, 3-bath, 2,346 sq. ft. home bordering US National Forest in beautiful Camp Sherman. Open-beamed vaulted greatroom, gas fireplace, granite counters, stainless appliances and pine cabinetry in kitchen. Large private master suite. Low-maintenance landscaped yard, paver patio and deck with hot tub. Attached triple garage has room for toys and hobbies with built-in storage. Hike, bike or ski out your back door.$549,500. MLS#201801824
17678 WILT ROAD Secluded 40-acre buildable parcel adjacent to government land. Ponderosa pines, juniper and natural groundcover throughout. Great property for RV/camping or build your off-the-grid cabin or dream home. Located within the Metolius Winter Deer Range. Deer, elk and other wildlife abound. Great area for horse trail-riding. Located 10 miles northeast of Sisters via a series of paved, gravel and dirt roads. $225,000. MLS#201609530
NEAR THE DESCHUTES RIVER Climb the slight ridge and the mountain views open big and wide from Mt. Hood to Broken Top. Every peak is visible as well as the valley below. Bordering BLM directly on the eastside. Paved access, underground utilities, existing well and septic available. Enjoy the quiet setting and night sky in this beautiful secluded corner of Deschutes County. $395,000. MLS#201506281
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16900 GREEN DRAKE COURT Quality & elegance! Custom-built Aspen Lakes beauty at a price that boldly challenges comparison. Outstanding floor plan with upgrades galore. All single-level living (except bonus room). Impressive vaulted greatroom with fireplace, dream kitchen, home office, “keeping” room with fireplace. Each bedroom has private bath; separated master with fireplace. Ironwood deck fronts 18th fairway, separate mud entry for kids/guests & 3-car garage. Every amenity your heart desires in best-rated golf community. Look at all the others, then come here to your new home in Sisters! $799,900. MLS#201707786
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