The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLI No. 45 // 2018-11-7

The Nugget Vol. XLI No. 45

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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

The Sisters don their season’s coat...

PHOTO BY AL KRAUSE

Autumn snowfall has returned the Cascades skyline to its snow-capped magnificence. While the mountains have received snow, Sisters Country awaits its first heavy precipitation.

Sisters represented for Sisters cutting of national tree is back in burning season

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

Every year a different National Forest is selected to provide a tree to appear on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol for the Christmas season.

The 2018 United States Capitol Christmas Tree was harvested from the Willamette National Forest in Sweet Home last Friday, November 2. That perfect tree from Oregon was chosen in August from a handful of finalists by the architect for the Capitol.

It’s the first time in the 47-year history of the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree Program that a noble fir has

been selected and the second time the tree has come from Oregon. A 70-foot Douglas fir from Umpqua National Forest was chosen in 2002.

Only 50 lucky people were able to watch the 2018 Capitol Christmas Tree cutting event up close from the Sweet Home Ranger District on Friday morning. Jeri Buckmann, Visitor Center manager and events director for Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce represented Sisters and was excited to witness the cutting of the beautiful 82-foot fir tree.

“When the tree was cut, it was a sense of pride for Oregon. It made you

Burn season opened at sunrise on November 1, for many of the local fire districts in Central Oregon. With the recent fall weather and precipitation received in some areas, the fire chiefs of local fire departments, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and Oregon Department of Forestry have agreed that many areas are now safe to enter into burn season.

Residents still need to use caution in burning — and

See TREE CUTTING on page 20

See BURNING on page 23

Community to honor veterans Each November, the Sisters community — led by its youth — honor local veterans of the armed services. All local veterans, their families, and the public at large are invited to attend the observances.

This year, on Friday,

November 9, from 1:55 to 3 p.m., Sisters Middle School and Sisters High School will join in honoring veterans in an assembly at the Sisters High School auditorium.

Afterwards, there will be a reception in the lecture drama room for conversation and photo sharing, accompanied by homemade goodies and coffee.

See VETERANS on page 17

Police: Growers were exporting marijuana A multi-agency investigation led to the arrest of two people in Sisters in connection with alleged illegal manufacturing and sale of marijuana.

On the afternoon of Thursday, October 11, members of the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement Team served a search warrant at 17521 Forked Horn Dr. in Sisters. According to law

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enforcement, the action was part of an ongoing, long-term investigation. Members of the Central Oregon Emergency Response Team (CERT) assisted with the execution of the warrant.

A law enforcement statement reported that, “A large, sophisticated indoor marijuana grow was located on the property which was contained in both a large

metal pole building as well as within the primary dwelling on the property. A large, sealed structure had been built within the large pole building and was complete with an air filtration system, a self-watering system and also climate control features.”

Police seized 4,368 marijuana plants in various stages See MARIJUANA on page 24

Local veterans raised the American flag on Sisters street corners last week in preparation for Veterans Day observances.

PHOTO BY JEFF MACKEY

Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Salutes .................. 8 Announcements................12 Obituaries ....................... 14 Classifieds..................26-28 Meetings ........................... 3 Sisters Naturalist..............11 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................28-32

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Wednesday, November 2, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

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None of this is winning

By Margaret Wood Guest Columnist

November 11, 1918 — November 11, 2018

Letters to the Editor…

The Nugget welcomes contributions from its readers, which must include the writer’s name, address and phone number. Letters to the Editor is an open forum for the community and contains unsolicited opinions not necessarily shared by the Editor.

The Nugget reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for a response to letters submitted to the Editor. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. Unpublished items are not acknowledged or returned. The deadline for all letters is noon Monday.

To the Editor: The October 24 Nugget published a guest editorial by Jeff Mackey declaring that Donald J. Trump is the “right person for the job” based on the premise that Trump is a successful businessman and that the United States should be run like a corporation with the President as its CEO. This strikes me as a simplistic and absurd assumption.

Trump would hardly be a smart choice to run a business as complex as the United States.

Trump companies have filed for bankruptcy six times, leaving bond-holders and lenders to foot the bill. More recently, he has demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of fiscal policy and the role of the Federal Reserve.

According to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) the recently passed tax-cut bill signed

by Trump is estimated to add 1.4 trillion to the federal deficit by 2027. No business gets an unlimited line of credit like that.

Running a government is fundamentally different than running a corporation. A company’s sole purpose is to make a profit for its owners. Period. The purpose of our Federal Government, as found in the Preamble of the Constitution, is to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”

Doesn’t sound much like running a company, does it?

Candidate Trump promised to drain the swamp. Instead Robert Mueller has multiple indictments, and guilty pleas and plea deals from Trump’s lawyers and aides. Obama had none.

Integrity starts at the top, and the current leader seems sadly lacking. I will be voting for a change of course with my ballot.

Karen Lord

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Last spring I had the privilege of touring the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. It was a deeply emotional and disturbing experience and a testament to our shameful past. In one exhibit, etched into glass on a case that displayed a vicious leather bullwhip that was used on slaves was a quote: “O, ye nominal Christians! Might not an African ask you-Learned you this from your God, who says unto you, Do unto all men as would men should do unto you?”

– Olaudah Equiano, 1789 We should be asking ourselves the same question implored by a slave nearly 230 years ago. Our country is in a moral crisis, where decency and empathy are set aside for a “win.”

It is not a win when our president uses words that incite violence against detractors, political opponents, Jewish people, immigrants and people of color. It is not a win when 11 Jewish worshippers are killed in a synagogue and the president attends a rally rather than comforting a frightened, grieving nation.

It is not a win when our president refuses to admonish Vladimir Putin, or claims that he “fell in love” because of “beautiful” letters received from a North Korean dictator whose people are starving, murdered and silenced.

It is not a win when a Saudi journalist (U.S. resident) is slaughtered and dismembered in a consulate and our government does not respond definitively and immediately.

It is not winning when a president claims there were “fine people on both sides” in Charlottesville, where a young women was killed by a white supremacist and the torch-bearing alt-right walked chanting “Jews will not replace us.” It is not a win when a super supporter of Trump mails bombs to two former presidents, a

former secretary of state, a former vice-president and other victims, and the president says he’ll “take a pass” on calling the intended victims to assure them that he will do everything he can to protect them.

It is not winning when migrant children are separated from their parents, kept in tents and cages or sent thousands of miles away from the only people they know. It is not winning when a president talks about women as if they are objects, calls them derogatory names and mocks a victim of sexual assault. It is not winning to imitate a disabled journalist or praise the assault of another by a congressman. It is not winning to say that immigrants are “infesting” our country, that a “caravan” of “bad people” are coming to “invade” us or that our constitutionally supported free press is “the enemy of the people.”

None of this is winning.

This is losing. Losing a moral compass.

Let us not forget the time when a McCain supporter at a campaign rally approached the senator and said, “I can’t trust Obama. I have read about him, and …. he’s an Arab.”

McCain immediately shook his head and took the microphone from her.

“No ma’am,” McCain said.

“He’s a decent family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what this campaign is all about.” Candidate McCain would not let that lie go any further.

It is winning when we remember that we are better than this, stronger than this and more compassionate than this. When we stop feeling good about name-calling at rallies, about separating families, about fearing the “other” or blaming the less fortunate for their situation. It is winning when we realize that our children will inherit this earth and we have an obligation to future generations. It is winning when we stand up for facts, truth, justice, human dignity and the values that this country was founded upon.

Opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the writer and are not necessarily shared by the Editor or The Nugget Newspaper.

Wednesday, November 2, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

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Three printmakers show work at Sisters Library

By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

This month, prints made by three artists, each using different processes, are hanging in the Sisters Library.

Katie Newton’s “Lumen Landscapes” depict microcosms within the Pacific Northwest’s natural beauty.

Lumen printing relies on three things: physical objects, photographic paper, and the sun.

The prints capture the afterimage of organic materials — pinecones, pine needles, Sitka spruce bark, ferns, branches,

or blossoms — as they fall onto the photographic paper, on the ground. These objects leave a photographic trace that Newton develops and fixes in the darkroom, toning with selenium to bring out golden warmth.

This particular collection was made near Pistol River on the Southern Oregon coast. A single black-and-white photograph created as a silver gelatin print, called “Forest Dinner Party,” shows the area of the forest where Newton laid See PRINTMAKERS on page 30

Land trust recognizes outstanding volunteers The Deschutes Land Trust presented three Central Oregonians with volunteer awards at its annual open house on October 25. Jay Mather, Steve Ponder, and Jan Rising were honored as Volunteers of the Year.

This award is given annually to Land Trust volunteers who have provided outstanding service in the last year.

Mather has been a Land Trust volunteer since 2007. A retired professional photographer, Jay donates his time taking stunning photos that help tell the story of the Land Trust’s work. For more than

10 years, Mather has been out rain, shine, or snow to capture the events that mark the day or the decade. From massive stream restoration projects to delicate releases of monarch butterflies, the Land Trust is grateful that he has been there, camera in hand, so the organization can share its work with others.

Steve Ponder has been a Land Trust volunteer since 2016. If you hike the trails of any of the Deschutes Land Trust Community Preserves, you may have had See VOLUNTEERS on page 29

PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER

Teacher Bethany Gunnarson and students work on a mural for Three Creeks Brewing Co.

Mural helps students grow as artists

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

From cave paintings in southern France to the street art murals of today, artists have been leaving signs of their own existence in many places around the world.

When Three Creeks Brewing Co. contacted Bethany Gunnarson, art teacher for Sisters High School, about designing a mural on the side of their 52-foot storage container, Gunnarson thought it would be an exceptional opportunity for her advanced art students to learn how to create art on a large scale.

“The students are now learning how to design for a client with what they want included, proposing designs and having them selected,”

Gunnarson said. “This project will teach them life skills.”

Victoria Graves, managing partner for the brewery, thought the huge tractor trailer containers used for additional storage at their production facility on Barclay Drive looked like blank canvases.

“They just looked like two billboards that needed something. We were going to talk with our sign maker who painted our logo on the silo outside out facility, but instead we thought why not do something that encompasses art and Central Oregon and involves art students to create something out of the ordinary,” she said.

After discussing the art project with the managing team for Three Creeks Brewing, Graves contacted Gunnarson and the

art students with what they would like included in the design for the mural.

“We wanted to mix the Central Oregon lifestyle in with the natural world we live in,” Graves said. “The students came up with a couple of design sketches and our management team voted on them and finalized it.”

Each of the 10 art students drew up a design and presented it to Gunnarson, who had them all vote on which one would work the best for the mural.

Gunnarson noted, “All students were tasked with designing for this mural, so everyone got a chance to have their design chosen. This composition was the favorite of the class and of Three See MURAL on page 22

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 Ranch Bridge Club Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community room. Partner required. 541-595-6236.

Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild For Saturday meeting dates and location, email: steelefly@msn.com.

Central OR Spinners and Weavers Guild One Saturday per month, Jan. thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217.

Council on Aging of Central Oregon Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters Community Church. 541-480-1843.

East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.

Friends of the Sisters Library Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com.

Go Fish Fishing Group 2nd Monday, 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All ages welcome. 541-771-2211.

Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505.

Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to 4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230.

Military Parents of Sisters Meetings are held quarterly; please call for details.

541-388-9013.

Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-408-5594.

SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation District. 541-549-2091.

Sisters Family Aglow Lighthouse 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., Ponderosa Lodge Meeting Room. 503-930-6158.

Sisters Area Photography Club 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library community room. 541-549-6157.

Sisters Area Woodworkers 1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. 541-639-6216.

Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.

Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays, 12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse.

Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419.

Sisters Caregiver Support Group 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. 541-771-3258.

Sisters Cribbage Club Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Ray’s Food Place community room. 541-923-1632.

Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.

Location information: 541-549-1193.

Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870.

Sisters Meditation Group Mondays, 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays, 4 p.m. 420 N Tamarack St. Text only (no voice) to 541-207-7266.

Sisters Parent Teacher Community 2nd Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. at Sisters Saloon. 541-480-5994.

Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group 2nd Tuesday, 1 p.m., Sisters Community Church. 907-687-8101 or 541-668-6599.

Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.

Location information: 541-279-1977.

Sisters Rotary Tuesdays, noon, Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-760-5645.

Sisters Trails Alliance Board 1st Wednesday, 5 p.m. Sisters Art Works. Public welcome. 541-719-8822.

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, 5:30 p.m., SPRD bldg. 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 lisa@nuggetnews.com

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Wednesday, November 2, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Eleven Outlaws earn all-league football honors

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws football squad had 11 players named to all-league teams, including seniors Joel Miller, Korbin Sharp, and Wyatt Hernandez, who were all first-team picks.

Miller was named firstteam all-league offensive guard, and was the top votegetter at that position. He was also a first-team defensive line selection. Coach Neil Fendall said that Joel was a force on both sides of the ball for four years at Sisters, and was recognized by his teammates and coaches around the league as one of the best on the team and in the Oregon West League. Joel was also a team captain and was voted Lineman of the Year by his teammates.

Sharp was picked firstteam defensive back, and also earned second-team wide receiver. Korbin finished league with 281 yards receiving, and averaged 17.5 yards per catch. He recorded three receiving touchdowns and one rushing touchdown.

“Korbin is the consummate teammate and arguably our best all-around athlete,” said Fendall. “He leads by example and with incredible compassion and care for others. He’s one of the best role models I’ve been around in my career.”

Korbin was recognized by his teammates for “Leadership and Service,”

the award given to the consummate teammate.

Fendall said, “He always looks out for others and finds ways to make them better.

He does all the little things that others don’t want to do or don’t do because of recognition. He’s the guy you can count on to help no matter how it affects him.”

Hernandez earned firstteam recognition as a place kicker. Wyatt hit 100 percent of his extra points and field goals, and was recognized by his teammates as the Special Teams MVP. “Wyatt is an amazing story,” said Fendall. “He had never kicked until last spring, and just decided he wanted to do it. He would tell you himself that he struggled with it when he first started. However, he worked at it with a zealousness that I’ve not seen before. He was obsessed with improvement.

It’s just an incredible story, and I could go on and on about the type of young man Wyatt is. His kicking was helpful to our team this year, but it pales in comparison to what he brought to our team as an emotional leader, and example of maniacal work ethic.”

Tr e y S t a d e l i , G a t o r Haken, and Taylor Fendall were all second-team picks.

Stadeli (senior) was a defensive back secondteam selection. Trey tallied 11 catches for 135 yards, and recorded one receiving

touchdown and one rushing touchdown. His teammates bestowed on him the Iron Man Award, an award to the guy who shows up with intensity, focus, and energy on a daily basis. Fendall noted that Trey never takes a play off or a day off, and is a guy you can count on to be there no matter what.

“Trey exemplifies the traits that every coach desires in a player,” said Fendall.

“He’s selfless, adaptable, smart, tough, and never complains. He’s a very good football player, but will make an incredible employee, husband, and father. He is as competitive as they come, despite his quiet nature. He’s another kid on this team that gives all of himself to his team and the program. He played so many positions for us we sort of forgot where he started out. He’s got a tremendous work ethic.”

Haken (junior) was selected second-team allleague running back. Gator recorded 511 total yards, and six touchdowns rushing. He also had one receiving touchdown, and averaged over 14 yards per catch. He was voted offensive MVP by his teammates.

“Gator proved he was one of the best backs in the league on a week-to-week basis. He showed amazing courage and toughness every week by picking up his body piece by piece and finding a way to perform every Friday

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night. He showed he could be an every-down back. The last game he was in a sling for his shoulder up until the day of the game, and he still suited up and played tough that night.”

Fendall (junior) earned recognition as second-team all-league quarterback.

Taylor finished league with a 50 percent completion rate, and six touchdown passes.

“Taylor has done as much as any of the guys to improve his strength and athletic ability,” said Fendall.

“He also displayed a ton of grit throughout the year to handle the physical, mental, and emotional demands of the quarterback position.

His crowning achievement may have been when he got body-slammed by Newport’s 340-pounder, and although was down for a moment, was able to run off the field before the trainer could get to him. Teams benefit from quarterback toughness in their leadership, and Taylor displayed that throughout the year.”

Matt Harris, Anthony Randolph, Garrett Kersavage, Ethan Martin, and Hayden Sharp were all honorable mention selections.

Harris (senior) was selected honorable-mention all-league linebacker. Fendall

told The Nugget that if the Outlaws would have won a couple more games, Matt would have been a first-team pick. The team voted and selected Matt as the team’s Defensive MVP. “He was our rock at linebacker, and led with courage and smarts,” said Fendall.

“He always knows his assignment and plays with toughness and aggression. He also finished a close second for Lineman of the Year on our team awards, which goes to show how much respect he has from his teammates.

The theme of this senior class could be SELF-LESS and nobody exemplified this more than Matt. He’s an awesome teammate and person.”

Randolph (junior) was honorable-mention all-league defensive line.

“Anthony played defensive line at 150 pounds, and showed he could defy physics by taking on guys close to twice his size,” said Fendall.

“He can do this because of his dedication to working hard every season, and improving himself on a constant basis.

Nobody works harder or longer than he does.”

Because of his dedication to working extremely hard and improving on a continual See FOOTBALL on page 16

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Wednesday, November 2, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

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Outlaw cross-country girls earn trophy at State

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

For the second week in a row the Sisters High School girls cross-country team left Head Coach Josh Nordell nearly speechless as the squad ran to a fourth place trophy as the OSAA 4A State Championships held Saturday, November 3, at Lane Community College in Eugene.

“I knew we had an outside chance, but honestly I was thinking fifth or sixth place would be a successful day for us,” he said.

This came a week after an upset win at the Oregon West

PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG

Kate Bowen runs out onto the track on her way to seventh place.

District meet on October 25.

The surprising Outlaws snuck in for their third fourth-place state trophy in a row behind solid running from the top five scorers.

When the announcer called for the top four teams to come down for awards, Nordell and his assistants could barely believe it, looking at one another with a mix of shock and joy. The girls, too, stood frozen for a moment before Nordell shooed them away to head to the podium, and had a broad smile on his face as they trotted down to the infield of the track.

It was not a resounding win, however, as the Outlaws beat La Grande by a mere four points and league rival Philomath by just seven.

The top three teams battled to the closest finish among teams in recent years. Marist, despite the literal collapse of its number-one runner, edged the Vikings of Siuslaw and the Cheesemakers of Tillamook.

Marist scored 70 points to squeak past Siuslaw, which scored 73, while the defending champions of Tillamook scored 77.

The next three places were equally close as Sisters scored 141 points to 145 for La Grande and 148 for Philomath.

“We tell the kids every year that every single runner you beat matters because it can come down to very narrow margins,” said Nordell.

“If any one of these girls had let up on the track the trophy would have gone to one of those other two teams.”

Kate Bowen capped a strong junior season with a

seventh-place finish in what coaches around the state called the most competitive field of individuals in memory. Her time of 19:16 would have been good enough to win in many past seasons, according to Nordell.

S o l a c e B e rg e r o n o f Tillamook defended her title in a time of 18:32, but she had to work at throughout the race as Annika Thompson of Junction City and Marist’s McKenna Priske kept the pressure on through the first two miles. Bergeron eventually gapped Thompson, who finished in 18:40, while Priske faded to 39th place and actually collapsed temporarily with 300 meters to go.

Interestingly, 10 of the top 13 finishers came from either the Sky-Em or the Oregon West districts, underscoring the strength of those two leagues. Additionally, three of the top four teams came from those leagues as well.

“The 4A level was already loaded with fast girls even before Marist dropped down from 5A,” said Nordell.

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The Outlaws again exceeded expectations to earn a fourth-place trophy.

“That was a really exciting race to see.”

Senior Ella Cole completed her prep cross-country career finishing in 23rd place (20:35). Freshman Emma Singleton ran a strong second half of the race to finish 40th (21:37). Pearl Gregg (22:19) and Amy Hills (22:24) both beat Philomath’s fifth runner, which Nordell told them

would be necessary before the meet to beat the Warriors.

Iris Diez (23:45) finished 77th and Sasha Stolasz (25:32) ended up 91st.

“The girls all did their jobs,” Nordell said. “They competed and beat the girls that they needed to beat to earn that trophy. I am so proud of them for what they accomplished this season.”

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Iconic book store in new hands

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

“For the past six years, I’ve told friends that I wanted to own a bookstore,” Lane Jacobson told The Nugget last week.

The bookstore he described in those conversations was very specific: about half the size of the store he managed in North Carolina — Chapel Hill’s highly regarded Flyleaf Books — one that also carried games and toys, and was located in a mountain community that cares about books and art.

Turns out, he was envisioning Paulina Springs Books. As of November 1, he is the owner of that very store.

“This is exactly that,” he said.

Jacobson grew up in a mountain resort community — Mammoth Lakes — did a brief stint at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, then headed across the country to the University of North Carolina. An English and anthropology major, he took a part-time job at Flyleaf Books. He planned to leave on graduation, but the owners of Flyleaf made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

“I stayed at Flyleaf and just became a big part of that store and by the time I left became the manager and lead buyer,” he recalled.

Jacobson learned the booksellers’ trade from top to bottom from mentors in the American Booksellers Association, and feels well prepared to take the reins at a shop that has been a Sisters institution for more than 25 years.

He acknowledges that it may seem counterintuitive to take ownership of an independent bookstore in an era of profound upheaval in an industry that has seen so many independents — and big chains — fold in the face of a decline in readership and competition from the online behemoth, Amazon.

Yet Jacobson firmly believes that he is riding a countervailing trend.

“Since 2009, more bookstores have opened than have closed,” he notes.

And the patrons of independent bookstores have become increasingly intentional and passionate in their support, seeking to keep their dollars local.

“People are happy to spend their money locally,” he said.

Bookstores have had to adapt, of course, and they have to deliver on both product and services.

“You kind of find your niche, you settle into it, and you do that very well,” Jacobson said. “You’re not just selling a product; you’re selling an experience.”

You kind of find your niche, you settle into it, and you do that very well. You’re not just selling a product; you’re selling an experience.

— Lane Jacobson Paulina Springs has been providing a unique experience to Sisters residents and visitors since Diane Campbell and Dick Sandvik founded it in 1992. In 2003, Brad Smith took ownership and put a larger-than-life personal stamp on it until his death from cancer last spring.

Jacobson is acutely aware that there is a profound legacy in the beloved institution he has taken over.

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Lane Jacobson is the new owner of Paulina Springs Books — for 25 years a Sisters institution.

“If I can at the very least maintain what (Brad Smith) had going on here, I will be very happy,” he told The Nugget.

Jacobson is a passionate consumer of his own product.

Queried about his favorite reads of 2018, he had several ready answers — although he acknowledged that his reading of late has been, by necessity, practical.

“I’ve been reading a lot of business books,” he said with chuckle.

Jacobson lists “They’re There” at the top of his pile of 2018 reads, calling it a “groundbreaking” look at the urban Native American experience in California. He cited “The Overstory,” which he expects to win awards. He

also acknowledged a strong taste for horror fiction.

“On the drive out here, I listened to the audio edition of ‘The Troop’ by Nick Cutter — and it was absolutely horrifying,” he said.

His all-time favorite book? No question there: “Lonesome Dove,” by Larry McMurtry. He named his LLC Hat Creek Book Co. in tribute to Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call’s ramshackle cattle outfit. In keeping with that classic American epic, Jacobson can assure Sisters that there is one thing that Paulina Springs Books will NOT offer: They don’t rent pigs.

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October was chilly and dry According to preliminary data received by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton, temperatures at Sisters averaged slightly colder than normal during the month of October.

The average temperature was 45 degrees, which was 1.4 degrees below normal.

High temperatures averaged 62.8 degrees, which was 0.2 degrees above normal. The highest was 74 degrees on October 1. Low temperatures averaged 27.2 degrees, which was 3.0 degrees below normal.

The lowest was 16 degrees, on October 14.

There were 26 days with the low temperature below 32 degrees.

Precipitation totaled 0.39 inches during October, which was 0.66 inches below normal. Measurable precipitation — at least .01 inch — was received on four days with the heaviest, 0.25 inches reported on October 29.

Precipitation this year has reached 2.59 inches, which is 7.11 inches below normal.

The outlook for November f r o m N O A A’s C l i m a t e Prediction Center calls for above-normal temperatures and near-normal precipitation.

Normal highs for Sisters fall from 54.0 degrees at the start of November to 41.0 degrees at the end of November.

Normal lows fall from 29.0 degrees to 23.0 degrees. The 30-year normal precipitation is 1.86 inches.

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Peckham 15th at state cross-country meet

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

John Peckham’s stellar sophomore season drew to a close Saturday, November 3, with a 15th-place finish at the OSAA State Championships at Lane Community College.

Peckham’s breakout season included a personal record of 16:05 at the Oregon West District meet on October 25, where he placed fifth in a field that ended up including four of the top 10 finishers at the state meet.

On Saturday, the crowded field made the going tough for Peckham as he got caught in about 40th place for much of the first half-mile, leaving him to fight his way through the pack in hopes of getting back in contact with the runners he had kept pace with all season.

He kept his wits and moved up to as high as 12th place in the second half of the race, but a top-10 finish was not meant to be as he crossed the line in 16:58.

“I am not that disappointed,” he said after the race.

It would be understandable for Peckham to feel some disappointment, however, considering he consistently ran close and even beat a number of the boys during the season who placed ahead of him Saturday.

“The field of runners was so tight through 15 guys going into the meet we thought any of those guys might have won on a given day,” said Head Coach Josh Nordell.

The field of runners was so tight through 15 guys going into the meet we thought any of those guys might have won on a given day.

— Coach Josh Nordell As a freshman, Peckham ran 17:46 at state and placed 42nd, which provides perspective on his impressive improvement in one year’s time.

Joey Peterson of Marist Catholic won the race in 16:10, followed by Stayton’s Matthew Frazeur (16:13) and Newport’s Kolby Spink (16:15).

Marist won the team title with 54 points in its first season since dropping down from the 5A classification. Newport placed second with 81 points to edge third-place Tillamook, who finished with 84 points.

Valley Catholic nabbed the fourth- place trophy with 119 points, just one point in front

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Our beloved country Jim Anderson Correspondent

The other day, my dear old pal, retired veterinarian, patriot, and fellow churchmember, Phillip Brittain, sent me an electronic message entitled, “Laus Deo.” I read it through, because most of what Philip sends me is worth the time. This one, for some reason, hit me right where America dwells in my heart.

“Laus Deo” translates to “Praise be to God,” which is on a steel plaque hidden away in the very top of the Washington Monument. My way of thinking, should be emblazoned in all our hearts and minds as well.

I wish I could have been a part of the planning and building of our beautiful Capital. I could have shook the hand of the man my grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Rockefeller, was named for, and perhaps even held the string of his kite.

I would also have shed the tears and felt the heart-breaking remorse and anguish for the thousands of men, women and children who gave their all in the battle for the America many of us take for granted — as I do today.

This subject is always in my mind and heart in these times of awful political peril, or in the rare and beautiful shining moments of freedom.

When both my sons were in combat in Bosnia and in so many battles in Afghanistan and other parts of Asia, I worried and prayed. Especially one morning at 3 a.m. when I received a call from my son stationed in Italy who said, “Pop, I just bombed two bad guys with my F-16,” and we had a long discussion about causing the death of the enemy.

When the news channels

carried those heart-breaking stories of the men and woman who would never come back alive — or at all — or were so smashed by the horrors of war when they did, I wept.

While pursuing my curiosity regarding the Washington Monument, I discovered that the same man who designed it — Major Pierre L’Enfant (1755-1825), a French artist and engineer who had formed a friendship with George Washington while serving in the Revolutionary War — requested the honor of designing a plan for the National Capital. “After surveying the site, L’Enfant developed a Baroque plan that featured ceremonial spaces and grand radial avenues, while respecting natural contours of the land.”

(Did you get that part about “respecting the contours of the land?” I had the same experience working with the man who designed Sun River, Bob Royston).

Snopes states: “The result was a system of intersecting diagonal avenues superimposed over a grid system. The avenues radiated from the two most significant building sites that were to be occupied by houses for Congress and the President.

“L’Enfant specified in notes accompanying the plan that these avenues were to be wide, grand, lined with trees, and situated in a manner that would visually connect ideal topographical sites throughout the city, where important structures, monuments, and fountains were to be erected.

“On paper, L’Enfant shaded and numbered 15 large open spaces at the intersections of these avenues and specified that each reservation would feature statues and memorials to honor worthy citizens. The open spaces were as integral to the capital as the buildings to be erected

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And here dear readers and fellow patriots is where L’Enfant got himself into hot water. He opposed landgrabbers selling land inside his mapped area prematurely and refused to furnish the map to the city commissioners in time for the sale. He was then — unbelievably and, hopefully, reluctantly — relieved of his duties by George Washington, and another more cooperative person was then engaged to produce a map and reproduced L’Enfant’s plan from memory.

As I sat, digesting this bit of information, I wondered: could that have been the first example of land-use planning running afoul of those who worship profit in America today?

L’Enfant’s plan was put on hold until 1898.

That’s when President President William McKinley formed a Congressional joint committee in February 1900, with Senator James McMillan of Michigan as chairman. At the same time, plans were put forward for the development of a mall which would include the newly reclaimed Potomac Flats.

Thanks to L’Enfant, the model for American city planning and a symbol of governmental power to be seen by other nations worked. The plan conceived

by L’Enfant is little changed today.

To me, Laus Deo: “Praise

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Of a certain

AGE Sue Stafford Columnist

We can all do better At long last, the cacophony of political ads is gone!

The backbiting tone of many of those diatribes does more to turn me off of candidates than to consider supporting them.

After a conversation last week in which the other person said there is no excuse for someone in Oregon not voting because it is so easy with the ballots coming right to our homes, I considered my own personal history with voting and politics and for the first time in my life, saw the strong political thread through my life — of which I was not fully aware.

As a child, my first memory of a political campaign was the 1952 presidential contest with “I Like Ike” buttons everywhere and Eisenhower’s opponent Adlai Stevenson. My parents were Republicans and we had just gotten our

very first black-and-white Philco television set. We watched the inaugural televised political convention when the Republicans gathered in Chicago to select the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket.

I accompanied my parents every time they went to the polls to vote, until I was a teenager. I even remember the polling places: Sylvan Grade School, the Highway Department building, and neighborhood homes. Going to vote in those days seemed like a social occasion, and my parents knew most of the other voters.

I learned by example that voting was a civic duty no one would shirk. Maybe that sense of duty resides somewhere in my genes. My maternal great uncle, Leslie Scott, served as the Oregon State Treasurer from 194049. My maternal two-times great-aunt, Abigail Scott Duniway, led the women’s suffrage movement in Oregon for 40 years and cast the first Oregon vote in the election of 1912, after Oregon had defeated women’s suffrage five times.

My paternal great-uncle, Rufus Holman, served one term as a U.S. Senator from Oregon in the 1940s before losing to Wayne Morse. He had been the Oregon State Treasurer prior to that and served on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners. Public service was a family value.

When I was a fifth-grader, the father of one of my oldest and dearest friends, Tad

McCall, ran for Oregon’s Third District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives against Edith Green and lost.

I remember the excitement of election night at a neighbor’s house, watching the returns. I was secretly glad Tad wouldn’t be moving to Washington, D.C. His dad, Tom McCall, did go on to become Oregon’s Secretary of State and popular twotime governor.

As a sixth-grader, I played the role of women’s suffragette Susan B. Anthony in a grade school play. I had a bit of ham in me and loved performing in public. These many years later as I write about elections and voting, I am only now aware of the synchronicity of that role.

In grade school and high school I ran and campaigned for a number of student offices. It was always fun to make campaign posters and create campaign slogans.

Fortunately, I got that out of my system early.

As a young mother in Bellevue, I worked at the local polls on election day to earn some pin money and get out to meet my neighbors.

Since returning to Oregon, I have come to really enjoy my voting obligation, with the opportunity to sit down at home with my mail-in ballot and my voter’s pamphlet and make informed decisions on each vote after considering all sides of an issue or the qualifications and positions of each candidate. All of their ads have no positive impact.

Despite my Republican roots, I have long considered myself an Independent, eschewing labels and stereotypes in favor of supporting the person or position that lines up with my values. It was frustrating to have to register as a member of a party in order to vote in a primary here in Oregon. I would much rather have a primary open to everyone and not need to choose from only one party’s candidates.

A prescribed part of our education in the 1950s and 1960s was the study of civics, where we learned all about the democratic process, how our government is meant to work, the course of a bill through the House and Senate, the electoral college, and the three distinct branches of the government, among much else.

I heard a distressing statistic this week that in a recent national poll, 10 percent of the people queried couldn’t name one branch of the government and 25 percent couldn’t name all three.

The commentator was making the point that it appears the political polarity and incivility in our electoral process ramped up when schools stopped teaching civics. Citizens uneducated in how our country runs, he posited, are more prone to hold extreme views and exhibit intolerance for points

of view that differ from theirs.

True or not, it certainly appears that our political discourse is becoming more and more polarized, as candidates and politicians sling mud at one another, neither side listening to the other.

Being a child born in the 1940s and growing up believing children respect their elders, if you can’t say something nice say nothing at all, and good manners and civility are the accepted norm, I am appalled and disheartened by the current tone of our public discourse.

More often than not, I am turning off or muting the TV rather than listening to the non-stop rude, crude hyperbole and outright lies crowding the network and cable channels.

I haven’t totally lost hope that we can turn the corner, but I also find myself glad I’m more toward the end of my journey and not a 30-something with decades ahead possibly filled with more of the same.

I hope Tuesday’s election will result in public servants actually serving those they represent and not just moneyed interests or their own drive for power. I don’t think I’m alone in also wanting public civility from our elected officials as well as the electorate.

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Tales from a

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The ‘wabbit’ of Camp Sherman No… I did not tamper with that desert cottontail’s ears, or Photoshop them; that’s the way the photo arrived from Richard Skupa.

Richard wrote: “About the latter part of July I would find a rabbit frequenting my lawn off and on most days. He seemed to enjoy the ‘gourmet’ clover in the grass, and he was not just any rabbit as he had four ears instead of two.

“I got accustomed to him, he seemed tame, as I would be able to walk up to within about 10 feet of him before he would ‘rabbit’ off into the shrubs. Thinking of the old Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd cartoon, I named him the ‘10 foot Wabbit,’ as he would hide in the lilac shrubs, and I would be able to get closer and was able to see the two larger ears, which were the real thing, and the extra

smaller ears in front were just for show.

“After looking online, and finding this special feature has occurred occasionally in the North American continent before, I assumed it to be a rare mutation that may happen in nature. A rare find indeed…”

Then my neighbor Lynn “crYcKet” Woodward got into the discussion. She (like me) believes the ears may have been split by a very sharp tool moving at a very rapid speed — like a motorized or gasoline powered lawn mower with horizontal, revolving blades.

But then she suggested the oddity might be a result of “Jackalope fever” which was discovered in Iowa infecting cottontails — of which Wikipedia states: “The Shope papilloma virus (SPV), also known as cottontail rabbit papilloma virus (CRPV) or Kappapapillomavirus 2 (try pronouncing that one!), a apapillomavirus which infects certain leporids (rabbits), causing keratinous carcinomas (hair root sheath cancer) resembling horns, typically on or near the animal’s head.”

That said, the ears of Wabbit do not resemble anything like the keratinous carcinomas caused by cottontail papilloma. Which takes us back to the sharp blade theory.

When a cottontail goes into hiding out in the open it crouches down with its feet and legs under it. It pulls its head down on its front legs, flattens its ears tight against the top of its head and neck, closes its eyes and hopes that thing coming at it will pass by/over without seeing it.

If the cottontail is about a week old that escape maneuver may work without any painful or fatal circumstances, especially if the animal is crouched down at the edge of the lawn, lower than the grass. A mower could pass directly over the poor little guy without cutting it up into sliced rabbit.

If, however, the animal is caught out in the middle of the lawn and goes into the couched, defensive posture — AND — the mower is set to cut the grass very short, it’s curtains. On the other hand, if the mower is set to leave several inches of lawn, the mover blades could pass over the little fellow and allow it to see another day.

Now think what happens if the mower is set to leave one inch of grass instead of two inches. The first — or perhaps only thing — the revolving blades will meet up with is the rabbit’s ears lying tight on the top of the animal’s head, parallel to the mower blades. To me, that’s what I’m seeing in Wabbit.

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Richard Skupa’s “10 foot Wabbit.” Take a good look at those ears. little ears thinner than they were as the mower went over him, leaving the appearance of another set of ears.

If you have any other theories, let’s hear ’em. Send an email to jimnaturalist@ gmail.com.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Veterans Assembly

Sisters Middle School and Sisters High School would like to honor Veterans at an assembly in the SHS auditorium on Friday, November 9 from 1:55 to 3 p.m. Then gather in the lecture/ drama room afterwards for conversations and photo sharing over homemade goodies and coffee. Call 541-549-2099 x5531 for more information.

Veterans Chapel

Veterans, friends, and families are invited to Sisters Christian Academy’s annual Veterans Chapel. The school will honor Veterans with a short program, homemade goodies, and grateful conversations. If you have any memorabilia to show our students, please feel free to bring it to display. Please join us at Sisters Community Church at 1 p.m. on Thursday, November 8.

If you have any questions please call Sisters Christian Academy at 541-549-4133

Jazz Cafe for Youth

The SHS Jazz Combo, under the direction of Tyler Cranor, will be playing at The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration on Sunday, November 11 from 5 to 6 p.m. Admission is free.

Students in grades 7-12 are invited to dance, play games, and listen to friends jam. Food and drinks free for youth. Adults welcome, too! Call 541-549-7087 for more information.

Operation Christmas Child

National Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child is November 12-19, 2018! Since 1993, Samaritan’s Purse has delivered 157 million shoebox gifts to children affected by war, poverty, disease, famine and disasters in more than 160 countries. Drop-off location during national collection week is at Sisters Community Church, 1300 McKenzie Hwy. from 10 a.m. to noon. For details visit samaritanspurse.org/occ or contact Joanna at 541-588-0886.

Free Pet Food

Budget tight this month, but you still need pet food for your dog or cat? Stop by the Furry Friends pet food bank. We have all sorts of pet supplies, too. Open Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Located in the Sisters Art Works building, Ste. 109, 204 W. Adams Ave. For more information call 541-797-4023

National Novel Writers Month

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November is National Novel Writers Month. Participants work toward the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 p.m. on November 30. Join a group to work with other writers, getting support from others, with no critiquing. Meeting Thursdays, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.; beginning November 1 at Suttle Tea, 450 E. Cascade Ave., Sisters. Showing gratitude to the tea house with patronage is appreciated. For more information, call 925-3833481.

The Council on Aging of Central Oregon will offer free Senior Health Insurance Benefits Association (SHIBA) counseling sessions during the upcoming 2019 Medicare enrollment period, which runs from October 15 through December 7, 2018. Adults aged 65 and up can schedule appointments with an Englishor Spanish-speaking certified volunteer counselor. Call 541-6785483, x211 to leave a message and receive more information.

SPRD Board Meeting Date Change

The Women Making a Difference event with Nicky Meritt from Circle of Friends in Sisters, which was scheduled for November 10 at Sisters Community Church, has been cancelled. For more information call 503-559-5245.

The Sisters Park and Recreation District Board Meeting that is regularly scheduled for November 13 has been changed to Tuesday, November 20. Meeting time remains 5:30 p.m. at the SPRD building. Call 541-549-2091 for more information.

SPRD Executive Director Meet & Greet

Sisters Park and Recreation District invites the community of Sisters to meet the two finalists for our Executive Director position on Thursday, November 8 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The Board of Directors and a panel of community partners will interview the candidates and the Board will hold an executive session to discuss the interview process immediately following the community meet and greet. Call 541-549-2091 for more info.

Pet Photos with Santa

Join Furry Friends for their annual Pet Photos with Santa fundraising event on Saturday, December 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bring your furry friend to Sisters Art Works, 204 W. Adams Ave. to have your favorite pet’s photo taken with Santa. For more information please leave a message for Kiki at 541-797-4023.

Dementia Caregivers Group

A free support group for caregivers of those suffering with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia takes place the first Tuesday of each month from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Sisters City Hall. Sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association, meetings provide emotional, educational, and social support. For more information, call 800-272-3900 or go to alz.org/oregon.

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PTSD in Central Oregon

Central Oregon Veterans Ranch is hosting a free community forum on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Central Oregon. November 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bend High Auditorium. Learn how to interact with people suffering from PTSD and about support resources available in Central Oregon. Visit covranch.org or call 541-706-9062 for more info.

Auditions for One-Act Plays

All ages of actors are invited to audition for Silent Echo Theater Company’s fourth annual one-act plays. Auditions on Sunday and Monday, November 11 and 12 at 7 p.m. at Sisters Community Church, 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. No preparation or acting experience is required; just a love of theater and commitment to rehearsals. Performances in March 2019. For more information please email silentechotheatercompany@ gmail.com or call 541-719-8779.

Sisters Christmas parade applications are now available at the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce. Deadline is Thursday, November 15. Theme this year is “Rockin Around the Christmas Tree.” Awards for Best Themed entries. Stop by the Chamber, call 541-549-0251 or email jeri@ sisterscountry.com.

Sisters Garden Club

The next meeting of the Sisters Garden Club is at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 10 at Sisters City Hall. Teresa Schweitzer of T’s Tonics will speak about natural products grown in your garden for skincare and teas. All are welcome! For more information call 541-549-6390 or go to sistersgardenclub.com.

CPR and First Aid Class

Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD will offer the AHA “Heartsaver” CPR/ AED class on Saturday, November 17 and the First Aid class Sunday, November 18 at the Sisters Fire Hall. The cost is $30 which includes a student workbook and completion card. Register no later than Wednesday, November 14, online at sistersfire.com (CPR tab) or at the Sisters Fire Hall weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call Gail at 541595-5712.

Spinners/Weavers Group

The Central Oregon Spinners and Weavers Guild will meet at the Sisters Library on Saturday, November 17 at noon for a holiday dessert potluck. All fiber enthusiasts are welcome! Info: 541-639-3217 or https://weavespin-centraloregon.org

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Fishing Group for All

“Go Fish,” a fishing group for bait fishers and fly fishers, will be meeting Monday, November 12, at 7 p.m. at Sisters Community Church. The program will include MaryAnn and Dave Dozer of Sisters. MaryAnn is a master fly-casting instructor, and a guide for the Fly Fisher’s Place in Sisters.

Dave designs and builds bamboo fly rods and will be demonstrating the assembly process. Dave has fly-fished since he was four years old. Men, women, and children of all ages are welcome to attend.

For information call 541-771-2211.

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Healthy Living Information for Seniors

Seniors and caregivers are invited to drop by the SAGE room at SPRD on the second Monday of every month from 1 to 3 p.m. to meet local service providers and gather free information about aging in place from foot care to end-of-life planning. Call Diane Goble at 541-588-0081 for information.

Art in the Library

Robin Thomas and Carolyn Platt’s exhibit in the community room at the Sisters Library explores color and texture through two different approaches to printmaking.

Katie Newton is hanging some of her wonderful unique photographs in the computer room. For more information call Zeta at 541-549-6157.

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Family Fun Story Time for kids ages birth through 5 takes place at the Sisters Library on Thursdays, November 8, 15, and 29 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., with songs, rhymes and crafts, all designed to grow young readers.

Caregivers must attend. For more information call 541-617-7078.

Animal Adventures

Live animals, stories, crafts with High Desert Museum for kids ages 3 to 5. It’s 30-45 minutes of adventure! Limited to 30 children and their caregivers. Sisters Library on Tuesday, November 20 at 11:30 a.m. Info: 541-312-1072.

The Non-Fiction Library Book Club

Read and discuss “Educated”

by Tara Westover with other thoughtful readers at Suttle Tea on Thursday, November 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information call 541-312-1072.

Beginning Watercolor

LILLITH: This beautiful 5-yearold domestic shorthair grey/ buff tortoiseshell is looking for a wonderful family to call her own.

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Thursday, November 8 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Sisters Library join an introduction to the basic techniques of watercolor. Instructor will demonstrate each technique then the class will practice.

Paint, paper and brushes will be supplied. Space is limited and registration is required; register online at www.deschuteslibrary. org/calendar/. For more information call 541-312-1072.

Volcano Veggies

Volcano Veggies will share the story of organic indoor vertical aquaponic farms, which grow the equivalent of 2 acres of lettuce in less than 200 sq. ft.

Tuesday, November 13 at noon at the Sisters Library. For more information call 541-312-1072.

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Read and discuss “Lafayette in the Somewhat United States”

by Sarah Vowell with other thoughtful readers at the Sisters Library on Wednesday, November 28, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. For more information call 541-617-7078.

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Scottish fiddle legend to play in Bend Alasdair Fraser is a legend in the world of Scottish fiddle. Three years ago, he and cellist Natalie Haas performed at the Sisters Folk Festival.

Fraser and Haas are returning to Central Oregon for a matinee performance at the Tower Theatre in Bend on Sunday, November 11 at 3 p.m.

The event is a fundraiser for “Save a Warrior” and for Bend2Baja2Build and also features performances

by Deschutes Caledonian Pipes and Drums Band; A Scottish Heart, Bend’s premier Scottish musical group; The High Desert Scottish Country Dancers; Professor James Knox; and piper David Brock, “The Lone Piper,” pays tribute to veterans and the fallen on Veterans Day. Fraser has a concert and recording career spanning over 30 years, with a long list of awards, accolades, radio and television credits, and feature performances on top movie soundtracks (“Last of the Mohicans,” “Titanic”).

In 2011, he was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame.

Haas, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, is one of the most sought-after cellists in traditional music

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Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas will perform in Bend on Veterans Day. today. She has performed and recorded with a who’s who of the fiddle world including Mark O’Connor, Natalie MacMaster, Irish supergroups Solas and Altan, Liz Carroll, Dirk Powell, Brittany Haas, Darol Anger, Jeremy Kittel, Hanneke Cassel, Laura Cortese, and more.

This seemingly unlikely pairing of fiddle and cello is the fulfillment of a longstanding musical dream for Fraser. His search led him to find a cellist who could help return the cello to its historical role at the rhythmic heart of Scottish dance music, where it stood for hundreds of years before being relegated

to the orchestra. The duo’s debut recording, “Fire & Grace,” won the coveted Scots Trad Music “Album of the Year” award, the Scottish equivalent of a Grammy.

Since its release, the two have gone on to record four more critically acclaimed albums that blend a profound understanding of the Scottish tradition with cutting-edge string explorations. In additional to performing, they both have motivated generations of string players through their teaching at fiddle camps across the globe.

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Obituary

The meaning of art in 2018

Gifford Thomas Gibson 1936 — 2018

Gifford Thomas Gibson, age 82, passed away on October 27, in Loveland, Colorado, surrounded by his loving family.

Giff was the son of Alenor Jr. and Hazel Gifford Gibson.

Giff was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1936, graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1958. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. He became the general manager of the Gibson Motor Company Inc. of Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Neenah, Menasha, and Appleton, eventually retiring as the president of the company. Mr. Gibson served for many years on the Board of Directors of the First Wisconsin National Bank.

He was a past Commodore of the Oshkosh Yacht Club, a member of the South Side Ice Yacht Club, the Oshkosh Country Club, Bend Country Club, and Sisters Kiwanis Club.

Giff had a life-long passion for sailing; in building boats as a hobby and sailing on Lake Winnebago as much as possible. Winter was spent ice-boating, going out on exciting rides across the ice. Giff also enjoyed music and learned to play the piano by ear. He wrote a published novel. And he loved tennis — a lifetime of tennis.

Giff was a lifelong devout Catholic, and his faith formed who he was and how he lived. He was a positive, upbeat person who never spoke an unkind word.

He will always be remembered by anyone who knew him as a gentleman with a kind heart.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Ellen McDermott Gibson. Three children, Kimberly (Mark Romerein) Lindberg of Timnath, CO, William (Chris Manuel) Gibson of New Castle, CO, Katie

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(Scott Bischke) Gibson of Bozeman, MT. Three grandchildren, Corrina (Brandon) Benjamin, Laura (Dillon) Dugan, Katie Lindberg, and many dear nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, sisters and brother: Jane Bergstrom, Marjorie Haase. Allan Gibson.

A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on November 17 at Saint Elizabeth Anne Seton Catholic Church, Fort Collins, CO followed by interment in Grand View Cemetery, Fort Collins Colorado.

In lieu of flowers, memorials could be made to the following: Oshkosh Area Community Foundation for the benefit of the Oshkosh Yacht Club, 230 Ohio St. Suite 100, Oshkosh, WI 54902; Pathways Hospice of Fort Collins at www.

P a t h w a y s - c a r e . o rg ; o r Alzheimer’s Association of Fort Collins CO, 415 Peterson St., Fort Collins, CO 80524.

Society has mostly concluded that the meaning a work of art has is primarily whatever it means to the person owning it. If the work resides within a museum or is public art, then the person viewing it determines the meaning. What the artist felt and thought when creating the work or what an art critic/expert might claim it means is not given precedence for determining the aesthetic qualities.

This development in how to consider the meaning of art is rather recent, however, as the long history of art meaning and art appreciation provided for one of the earliest, most important branches of Western Philosophy.

Seattle, Washington, has a wooded park a few miles north of the skyscraper downtown region. Green Lake — lined by old-growth trees, inundated with hundreds of quacking-splashing waterfowl, a dozen different centers or playgrounds offering various activities — sparkles as an oasis in the metropolis. One-hundredyear-old Craftsman homes surround the park and have become some of the most expensive in the city. On a sunny weekend afternoon in the summer, 10,000 people might be swarming about the paths and grass fields.

Green Lake slopes

inward, to the lake itself, and a two-and-a-half-mile loop around it serves as a mecca for local runners. In the early 90s, I used to run there while attending grad school at the University of Washington. Back then, a single artist often set up next to the running path, painted, and effectively captured the scenes occurring.

I passed by the painter ’s open-air, working studio hundreds of times while doing laps. In my early 30s and barely able to afford college expenses, I ached for but couldn’t manage to buy one of the paintings, which began at $1,000. Now, 25 years later, I still recall some of his

park-humanity-cityscapes, the most stirring images I’ve seen in person.

Plato essentially dismissed art by viewing it as the lowest of all forms, besides seeing it as powerful and therefore dangerous.

Aristotle countered his mentor two generations later by saying that art is the realization, in external form, of a true idea; it provides pleasure, which we feel in recognizing likenesses.

Two thousand years later the preeminent philosopher Immanuel Kant wove a complex interplay between judgment, beauty, and harmony as being that which allows See ART on page 15

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Across the great divide Correspondent

Have you ever signed up for something and immediately regretted it? Wondered if you could just not show up to whatever you just signed up for? This happened to me recently when I responded to what felt like a healthy challenge for some conservative citizens to turn up to a politically motivated training session.

Citizens 4 Community recently held a workshop called Across The Divide. Its purpose: To train and prove to participants that civil political discourse is possible. As soon as I hit “send” on my registration, visions of shouted family political discussions danced in my head.

And from what I’d seen and heard lately, I doubted if a community could be different from a family.

But, being generally an optimist, I thought it might make a nice change to attempt conversations with liberals that didn’t end up with rolled eyes and expressions of disbelief at each other’s views. So I turned up to City Hall and parked my truck next to another large and dusty one.

Even though Sisters often votes red on issues, conservatives tend to be fairly non-vocal. We’ll keep our thoughts either to ourselves or shared only with those of like persuasion. The

workshop organizer, Robyn Holdman, recognized that this could be an uncomfortable night for many participants and was quick to assure those of us with the deer-inthe-headlight look that it was a safe place to be.

The facilitator, Heidi Venture, gave us some background on the “divide” and the issues and values that create it. She then put us through some icebreaker and sortingout-of-perspective exercises, and finally had us stand red on one side of the room, blue on the other. There were just seven of us conservatives and I was the only woman.

Nineteen liberals stood across from us. This ratio is apparently very common at these things. I suppose that could be a reason why conservatives often don’t feel heard.

Turning up to the conversation is a great place to start.

Moderate conservatives have been referred to as the Silent Majority. I don’t know if that label still is true. What I do know is that we are generally quite polite and don’t want to lose friends over political issues. So we choose to disengage rather than disagree. But I take exception to the perception that silence is complicity. There are other ways to make change besides protests, rallies or social media comments. We go into ugly places and create beauty.

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Sitting somewhere in the middle isn’t the same as sitting on a fence and liberals don’t own the caring agenda.

There, I said it.

There are times when speaking feels like a waste of time. Disgust and dehumanizing are tactics used by both sides to make it OK to say terrible things to one another. Heidi admitted that liberals, on the whole, say mean things to conservatives more readily than conservatives will to liberals. No matter who said what and when, the whole scheme of nastiness is being addressed in active workshops like this all across the world. That gives me hope.

The whole point of Across the Divide was to learn some listening and speaking skills to hear and be heard.

Compassionate Listening sounded a bit woo-woo to me, but really all it turned out to be is listening with intent and realizing when you need to turn off the chatter and turn on your ears. We all need to practice that. That night we all practiced together and it was good.

So there is work to be done from all of us. I’m pretty sure there will be ongoing discussions even after the election hype is over. Whether we can continue across the divide without a facilitator remains to be seen.

I encourage you to turn up and find out.

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us to conceptualize the meaning of art. However, he cautions that fine art, the only art worthy of discussion in his estimation, must be considered by how it was created, which he further declares as necessarily following established artistic traditions. With this final point, for the first time a philosopher clearly defined and located the particular thing that is responsible for a work of art’s meaning: the artist.

A quite large piece of pottery in the gallery that my wife and I own comes from a Native American tribe of

New Mexico. The narrow neck is sculpted so that it depicts a duck. Among the paintings around this water vessel are a number of deer symbols, each with a heart line. Only the Paynesta family of the Zuni Pueblo, among the many tribes and pottery making families of the Southwest, has the right to paint the deer with heart line motif on pottery.

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Your Story MATTERS

Audry Van Houweling, PMHNP Columnist

Facing the tough questions of suicide Have you ever felt so overwhelmed, sad, or hopeless that you considered ending your life?

This is a question I ask to almost every new client that comes in my doors.

You might be surprised who says, “yes.”

Prominent community members, business owners, CEOs, healthcare providers, educators, honor-roll students, dedicated parents, spiritual leaders, elementary-aged children, elite athletes, yoga masters, and politicians are all among the many individuals who were brave enough to tell me that yes, they have contemplated suicide.

The reasons are varied.

Wanting to escape, not seeing a way out, exhaustion, burn out, unbearable physical or emotional pain, hopelessness, perceived failure, powerlessness, releasing others from a perceived burden, feeling worthless, or to escape ridicule or bullying are just some possibilities.

We live in a society where we often see one aspect of a person. You might call it a mask, a façade, or social expectations, but behind closed doors that person may be facing an entirely different reality than what might be perceived.

We also live in a society that would come running if I were to break my arm and sign my cast, but if I were to disclose depression or suicidal thoughts, people might judge or run the other way. For many of us talking

about our emotions and feelings may feel uncomfortable or even foreign. Some of us may have been taught to suppress emotions, keep our heads down, work hard, and don’t be a problem. Sound familiar? Strangely and perhaps sadly, this mindset is reminiscent to our society’s version of success.

But, as I like to ask my stoic, hard-working clients, how’s that working for you?

Furthermore, with suicide rates and depression rates on the rise, how’s that working for us — as a society, community, family?

We have all experienced our share of emotional pain and struggle. Many of us have a personal story about suicide whether it is regarding ourselves or somebody else. Suicide can have profound impacts on communities. In the small towns of Silverton and Sisters where I practice, the impact of tragedy can feel more intense, palpable, and immediate.

The shroud of grief can be heavy. Attempting to sweep such things under the rug, most of the time only perpetuates a sense of isolation and shame.

The misguided notion that suicide is somehow selfish or the easy way out does us no favors and compounds shame and silence. Most often it is rather the point that in desperation, people are overcome by the long, hard struggle of staying alive — many have fought hard time after time and may ultimately feel defeated. They did not simply give up.

Not everyone who contemplates or completes suicide has a mental illness per se. While mental illness can contribute, rejection, financial woes, impending crises, loss, and/or relationship problems can all be driving factors as well.

Like many small towns, Sisters and Silverton are charming and somewhat idyllic communities, but certainly both have their emotional layers and undercurrents. People are struggling, and too often they are among those you least suspect. We all compartmentalize at times

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— especially in our go-go-go society, which often gives us little time to grieve, process, and feel. A community’s social decorum, culture, and pressures can sometimes leave little room for authenticity and acceptance.

Suicide rates are up 30 percent across the nation since 1999. Suicide is the leading cause of death among Oregonians age 10-24. So, we must start asking tough questions, having tough conversations, and allowing space for personal stories to be shared. Talking about suicide and our emotional wellbeing needs to take place beyond the walls of a counseling office. It is a topic that ought to be talked about in our places of worship, clubs, schools, workplaces, and within the walls of our home.

Let’s come together, support one another, strategize, and work toward prevention.

“The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic, or hospital.”

— Mark Hyman Editor’s note: Starting January 2019, She Soars Psychiatry, LLC will be hosting community forums in Sisters and Silverton on suicide as part of a greater “Shame-Less” series aimed at debunking stigma and shame on a number of topics impacting emotional wellness. Anybody who has an interest in showing support, has a story to share, or wants to contribute to ideas of how Sisters can become stronger as a community is welcome.

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basis, his teammates gave him top votes in the Dedication to Improvement award.

Fendall said, “The Dedication to Improvement award goes to the player that shows growth from year to year and week to week, not necessarily the ‘Most Improved,’ because they may have been performing at a high level already. It goes to the guy who shows commitment to physical and mental improvement through his action.”

Kersavage (junior) was an honorable-mention allleague defensive back. He recorded three interceptions, and was second on the team in catches.

Fendall said, “Garrett might have the highest football IQ on our team. He can play a number of positions, and is dedicated to the mental mastery of the game. You can count on him as a coach on the field. He used this intelligence to intercept passes, a testament to his ability to understand the scheme, and study the opponent’s tendencies to aid his anticipatory skills. He’s an excellent allaround athlete, and is near

and dear to coaches hearts with his love of the game.”

Martin (junior) was an honorable-mention defensive line pick. Fendall stated that Ethan is another player who would have garnered more votes if the Outlaws had finished higher in the league standings.

“Ethan is one of our most athletic guys, and plays tough every week,” said Fendall.

“He’s always been a big kid, so sometimes it goes unnoticed that he’s blocking guys with 40-to-60 pound advantages. He plays with excellent speed, which makes him very difficult to block on the defensive line. He is a guy quarterbacks have to be aware of every time they drop back.”

Sharp (sophomore) rounds out the all-league picks. Hayden earned honorable mention as a punter, a position Fendall said many people don’t notice or value.

“Hayden saved our bacon time and time again by changing the field position in games, and helping us dig out of holes,” said Fendall.

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On the trail of movie history in Sedona

By Craig F. Eisenbeis Correspondent

Right now, it’s kind of a “shoulder” season for hiking in our area, when the high mountains may not be the best choice and other possibilities come to mind. For more than a few residents of Sisters Country, however, those “other possibilities” might include giving some thought to warmer and sunnier climes to the south. One of the most popular southern destinations is Arizona; and, as far as my wife and I are concerned, there is no better place than Sedona.

So, each year I like to feature a Sedona hike or two.

As I was studying my Sedona trail map to plan our next Sedona outing, I happened upon a trail name that caught my attention. It was the Broken Arrow Trail, and that name brought back a childhood memory. The movie “Broken Arrow” was first released in 1950, and I remember seeing it in my youth.

“Broken Arrow” became one of the most popular movies of the entire 1950s, which is impressive considering that it came out in the first year of the decade. It was also a landmark movie in pioneering a more even-handed portrayal of the American Indian. In fact, the movie’s pro-Indian sympathetic viewpoint managed to arouse some rather rancorous backlash among certain segments of the population that held more Eurocentric points of view.

The list of movies shot among the unique red rocks of Sedona is a long one; and when television and advertisements are factored in, the list is almost endless. In any event, some quick research confirmed that portions of “Broken Arrow” were, in fact, filmed in the vicinity of the trail of that same name.

So, off we went to explore it, even though Jimmy Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Deborah Paget, and Jay Silverheels are long gone from the former movie setting.

The Broken Arrow Trail is a fairly easy 3.4-mile round trip that offers plenty of the spectacular red rock scenery that has made Sedona one of the most popular off-season hiking destinations for people from all over the world.

I say “fairly easy” because there is no significant elevation gain or loss, but there is a fair amount of undulating ups and downs. Also, the trail offers more than a few obstacles and rocks to step or climb over; so, in reality, it technically should probably be classified as “moderate.”

However, my wife liked it, so you know that it can’t be too bad, since she is not a fan of long or difficult or uphill hikes. We saw families and hikers of all ages on this trail, along with a few trail bikes, as well. Dogs must be kept on leashes.

Trailside vegetation is more abundant than might be expected in a desert-like climate, but there is not much shade. I was very impressed with how well this trail is marked. Anyplace where there is a trail junction or decision to be made, signage is very good. Occasionally, the trail meanders over long stretches of bare rock. In spots such as this, wire-caged rock cairns have been constructed to create an unmistakeably clear path.

This trail connects to many others for myriad choices of distances and destinations. The presumed destination of the Broken Arrow Trail is traditionally a place called Chicken Point, a prominence of modest height amid towering formations of red rock. Chicken Point purportedly draws its name from some trail users who are too

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There are a couple of interesting sidelights along this trail. The first is only about a half-mile from the trailhead and allows trailside viewing of a bat cave!

Referred to as the Devil’s Dining Room Sinkhole, the cave itself is fenced off for the protection of the bats; but the main entrance is easily viewed.

The second diversionary interest involves a side trail leading to Submarine Rock.

Take this trail to add a 1.2mile bonus excursion to your hike. Submarine Rock is a shallow, bare rock protuberance from the valley floor that is vegetation-free and really does bring to mind a surfacing submarine. From an elevated point, farther along on the Broken Arrow Trail, the submarine aspect of this feature is particularly apparent.

Be sure to bring plenty of water because this is dry country. On this day, we drank every drop that we were carrying, so we doubled our supply for subsequent hikes. If you think this outing sounds like fun, but you just can’t bring yourself to walk that far, I have good news.

Local Jeep tours cover much of the same terrain on (separate) Jeep trails. If what we saw is any indication, Pink Jeep Adventure Tours must have a monopoly.

The Broken Arrow Trail is very close to town and easy to find. Heading south from Sedona proper on Highway 179, it is only a couple of miles from town.

The trailhead lies at the end of Morgan Road, which is east off the third roundabout south of town. Unlike some of the trailheads in the area, the parking area for this one is fine for any type of car.

Some of the permit requirements for red rock areas have

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VETERANS: Local schools welcome veterans Continued from page 1

PHOTO BY CRAIG F. EISENBEIS

Hikers in the red rocks of Sedona enjoy reaching Chicken Point, at the end of the Broken Arrow Trail. been relaxed in recent years, and federal park and forest permits are now valid for most federal areas.

On Tuesday, November 13, Sisters Elementary School will host a light breakfast in the gym at 7:45 a.m., followed by an assembly program at 8:15 a.m. in the SES Commons.

The program will end at 9 a.m.

Veterans Day, which falls on a Sunday this year, is an official U.S. holiday recognizing all who have served in the United States Armed Forces.

The date coincides with Armistice Day, where nations mark the formal end of World War I on November 11, 1918.

This year marks the centenary of that event (see related commentary, page 18).

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Commentary...

An End To War, An End To Peace

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Take some time this Sunday, November 11, to reflect upon a moment that occurred exactly 100 years ago. It made the world we live in.

In November 1918, at the 11th hour* of the 11th day of the 11th month, an Armistice went into effect between the Allied powers of France, Great Britain and the United States and the newly-formed German republic. The guns that had thundered for four years, raining unprecedented death and destruction down on millions of men, suddenly fell silent.

The Great War had come to an end. Except that it hadn’t — not really. While the cataclysmic fighting ended on the Western Front — which ran from Belgium in the north, cutting across France to the Swiss border in the south — wars and revolutions, pogroms and ethnic cleansing would flare and burn in central and eastern Europe and across Anatolia for another five years. Historian Robert Gerwarth says that a conservative estimate puts the death toll for the wars after the Great War at some four million. And that’s not counting the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922, which took something like eight million lives.

In a very real sense, the Armistice that ended the First World War ended peace in the 20th Century.

As the extraordinary German soldier and writer Ernst Junger said, “This war is not the end but the beginning of violence.”

The Armistice itself looks like a mistake through the backward-looking lens of history. A number of military leaders, including American General John J. Pershing, thought so at the time. The German Army had been badly battered by the combined arms offensives of the British Army in August and September, and there’s no way it could have survived hammer blows from a massive and newly-proficient American Expeditionary Force, which had swung into action in earnest in the late summer of 1918.

Pershing thought the Allies should march on to Berlin, utterly crushing

the German military. The Armistice let the German Army claim that it had never been defeated on the battlefield, that revolution on the home front was a “stab in the back.”

That toxic myth would be exploited by Adolf Hitler and helped carry the National Socialists to power in Germany in 1933.

Of course, it is easy to judge in the luxury of hindsight. It would have been very difficult indeed for Allied leaders to continue a war that was crushing the victors as well as the vanquished when the opportunity to end it was on the table.

The disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires under the strain of war poured out a devil’s brew of competing ideologies and blood-andsoil nationalisms, as the peoples of those empires strove to establish ideologically or ethnically “pure” territories, usually at the point of a bayonet.

And there was plenty of armament around in the wake of the war to contest a claim with. Everybody was armed to the teeth.

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The new Polish nation repelled a Bolshevik invasion from the Soviet Union as Communist revolutions broke out across the continent, even in Germany — to be crushed under the hobnailed boots of rightwing paramilitaries. Victors executed the vanquished in windrows. In the newly freed Baltic states, who had lived under the once and future dominion of Russia, those German paramilitary Freikorps marched across forest and fen with fire and sword like medieval freebooters.

The Greeks and Turks fought a savage war in Anatolia over the ashes of the Ottoman Empire that ended with ethnic cleansing and mass migration — and the formation of the modern Turkish state.

Gerwarth — whose excellent history “The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed To End” explores this dark territory — writes:

“As civil wars overlapped with revolutions, counter-revolutions and border conflicts between emerging states without clearly defined borders or internationally recognised governments, ‘postwar’ Europe between the official end of the Great War in 1918 and the Treaty of Lausanne in July 1923 was the most violent place on the planet.”

By the early 1920s, the flame conflict and violence in Central and Eastern Europe had guttered and died down as an exhausted population simply could no longer sustain the intensity.

But the demons unleashed by the First World War and its aftermath have never been fully banished. The baleful consequences of unleashing unchecked violence on ethnic and religious minorities would come again to Europe in the Second World War, and yet again in the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

The jihadi terrorism and the response to it that has shaped the first two decades of the 20th century also have roots in the era of the First World War. The Ottoman Empire issued the first modern call to jihad to undermine the Allies, and the victory of the Allies ended the Ottoman Caliphate, as well as establishing the states of the modern Middle East.

Jihadis from al Qaeda to ISIS have expressed their commitment to reversing the consequences of the Great War. And their profound violence, directed at civilians, hearkens back to that dark age.

Indeed, the great guns fell silent on November 11, 1918, but they did not fall silent everywhere — and their thunder echoes still. * You’ll have to be up at 4 a.m. to commemorate the 11th hour, which in 1918 was seven hours ahead of PST under Paris/ Greenwich Mean Time.

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Makenna Liddel Sisters High School October 2018 Student of the Month “Connection” is the watchword in Makenna Liddellʼs endeavors.

From her work with student government (sheʼs vice president) to Leadership Crew, to interning at Sisters Elementary School in special education, Makenna is all about helping students connect with each other and helping students feel invited and included in the life of the schools.

“Itʼs really important to me to make student connections,” she said. “I just want to help that process along.”

For her, engagement is not about how much she can do and how successful she can be, but how she can help “make other people be successful.”

She helps that process by connecting with younger students through Sisters Dance Academy, where she is both a student and a teacher.

“Thatʼs a huge part of my life,” she says.

Makenna is applying to Brigham Young University in Utah, where she plans to major in special education, with a minor in dance.

“When I think of Makenna, so many incredible qualities come to mind, but most of all I think of her good and kind heart. Every single time I

have seen or been around this young lady, I have witnessed her pure heart, her selfless attitude, and her contagious smile. She genuinely makes those around her better. She approaches each day with a goal to be a light to others, and she is! No matter what path Makenna takes or what career she pursues after high school, I am confident that she will continue to make the world a better place. She is so loved and will be greatly missed here at SHS!” — Samra Spear “Makenna is one of the most hard-working and kind people I know. The dedication she approaches her learning, dancing, and relationships with is truly inspirational. Our school is a better place because of the many impacts Makenna has on our culture.”

— Daniel O’Neill “I love Makenna! What a great kid. I love witnessing her in-depth thought process that she has had since she was a freshman, but I’m most excited about seeing how she has become a great leader and great example for the school and for her classmates. She is a talented designer and artist, as well as dancer, student, leader, and teacher.”

— Bethany Gunnarson “Positive, energetic, passionate, caring and thoughtful are the first words that come to my mind when asked about Makenna. Her positive energy makes people around her, including the staff, want to do better and work harder. Makenna can brighten up one’s day with her smile, but she’s also willing to work. She spent many hours over the summer with her ASG team to get ready for this school

year. Congratulations, Makenna, you deserve this recognition.”

— Joe Hosang “I loved having Makenna in my Spanish 2 class last year! She always walked in with the brightest smile, and was enthusiastic about learning Spanish and participating in class. I definitely miss having her around this year!”

— Rebekah Dunkle “Makenna is so deserving of being chosen as our Outlaw Student of the Month. She has added so much to the SHS community. Her kindness and enthusiasm are catching—just the way she walks down the halls with that big smile on her face brightens the day for so many people! Makenna tirelessly works to make SHS a place where everyone feels welcome and important. Makenna truly embodies the spirit of what it means to be an Outlaw.”

— Gail Greaney “Makenna is a kind, beautiful, motivated person! She has helped in my classroom for 2 semesters and she is amazing. She is very independent, super-creative, and she does quality work.

She was a tremendous support for me, as well as a joy to have around. Makenna is always positive, and that positive energy impacts everyone she comes in contact with!”

— Leah Soloff “Makenna graces the world with her sweet smile and kind nature. Makenna strives to make the world a better place, and she genuinely cares about others, often going out of her way to make people feel

welcome. I have loved getting to know Makenna in biology and chemistry. She puts her full effort into each task she tackles, and holds herself to high standards.

I am grateful Makenna is a part of our community!”

— Rima Givot “McKenna is one of the most hard-working, kind, and positive people I know. She is a leader in the best sense of the word — she serves well without recognition, and she brings the best out of those around her. She is an insightful and diligent student. She is keen at seeing needs and then giving her best to meet them. She brings a joyful and thoughtful presence to wherever she is. She is a beautiful soul from the inside out. I am really grateful she is a part of life here at Sisters High School.”

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realize how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful state,” Buckmann said. “I felt incredibly honored to be there for Sisters. I was thanked more times than I can remember for being there. People were happy, and it was about this moment in time where Oregon will be part of the Christmas tradition in Washington, D.C.” Buckmann was thrilled to receive a branch from the tree as a souvenir.

The holiday tree represents the hope, goodwill and spirit of the people of the United States.

Tracy Beck, forest superv i s o r w i t h Wi l l a m e t t e National Forest, counted 26 rings on one of the souvenir rounds taken eight feet up the tree and estimated the noble to be about 35 years old.

“The amount of time and planning to put this together was incredible,” Buckmann said. “A shout-out to the Sweet Home Tree Committee and the hundreds of others to make this memorable moment.”

Spectators watched through the rainfall as crews cut down the tree.

Jonah Gladney, firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, took time out from leading a crew of wildland firefighters on a prescribed burn in Detroit to harvest the tall noble fir. The tree was supported with two slings from a crane as it was cut, to prevent it from falling and its branches from breaking. The crane and supporting equipment were provided by Papé and Axis Crane, a main sponsor of the event.

After the tree was cut it made its way down eight miles of gravel road on a new Kenworth W990 truck, provided by Central Oregon Truck Company (COTC) of Redmond, to Highway 20, then to Sweet Home.

Nikki Swanson, district ranger for the Sweet Home

Ranger District noted, “The architect at the capitol office chose a tree that wasn’t that easy to get to. This was by far the most beautiful tree in the forest. Cascade Timber consulting made it possible to be able to access the tree with their roadwork.”

The tree will be wrapped and prepared for the long journey east on Friday, November 9, when it departs from Sweet Home and begins its 3,000-mile road trip through Oregon and across the country to Washington, D.C.

People were happy, and it was about this moment in time where Oregon will be part of the Christmas tradition in Washington, D.C. — Jeri Buckmann The theme for this year’s tree-cutting event is “Find Your Trail,” in recognition of two special anniversaries in 2018: the 50th anniversary of the National Trails System Act and the 175th commemoration of the Oregon Trail.

The Capitol Tree will travel the Oregon trail in reverse, stopping at communities along the way to Washington D.C., where there will be an official tree lighting in early December.

Oregon also provided 70 smaller trees to decorate government buildings and other public spaces. Oregonians made 10,000 crafted ornaments and 80 quilted tree skirts. Fifteen of the tree skirts were quilted by East of the Cascade Quilters in Sisters.

The tree will make 11 stops around Oregon before heading east, including one in Bend on Monday, November 12 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. in the Old Mill District.

After the tree leaves Bend on Monday it will be heading through Sisters.

Birders sought for raptor survey

By Jim Anderson Correspondent

If you’ve wanted to get to know our Northwest raptors better, now’s your chance.

The East Cascade Audubon Society’s Winter Raptor Survey Project is now underway. Jeff Fleischer, who is spearheading the 15th season of surveys under the auspices of Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA), says this is the first time that more than 300 survey routes will be in play.

Over 225 raptor watchers are involved with surveys conducted once a month on more than 16,000 miles of transects located throughout Oregon, Idaho, and along the Washington side of the Columbia River from the ocean to the Tri-Cities. Also from Walla Walla, along with the California portions of the Klamath Basin in south central Oregon and Northern California.

As coordinator of this project, part of Fleischer’s duties is to ensure as much coverage as possible for the routes that already exist. Following is a list of current routes that are now vacant and looking for someone to adopt them: • Curry County North: 55 miles • Portland I-205 to Sandy River: 52 miles • Corbett: 44 miles

• Gresham: 49 miles • Boring: 48 miles • Myrtle Creek: Riddle 60 miles • Canyonville: 45 miles • Hood River: 81 miles • Klamath Marsh: 56 miles • Agency-Ft. Klamath: 82 miles We’re located a long way from most of those areas, but you may know of someone living in one or more of those locations who wishes they, she, or he had the opportunity to get to know our raptors better, and would like to participate in a local survey.

This isn’t just for the birders who cut their teeth on binoculars, but for people who want to get to know other birds as well.

Winter Raptor Survey (WRS) encourages raptor enthusiasts to collect information on wintering diurnal raptors, and teach novice birders who would like to become Citizen Scientists “how to.” This protocol is a set of guidelines enabling motor vehicle-based observations to be recorded in a standardized format which is scalable to the skill of the observer, length of survey route and detail orientation and capability of the surveying party.

The survey’s goal is to collect — by means of uniform methods — wintering raptor information that can be useful to researchers,

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land management, planning agencies, and regional birding organizations. The goal of the program is also to have an enjoyable citizen science experience and bring on board new observers.

Results will be published in Hawk Migration Studies, the publication of HMANA, and eventually be incorporated into HawkCount, the HMANA database of spring and fall raptor migration monitoring site observations. For more information visit www.hmana.org, and/ or contact Jeff Fleischer at dmarc-noreply@freelists.org.

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Stars over Sisters

Sisters Country birds

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As 2018 advances into the second-to-last month of the year, the sky orients itself in new ways, bringing with it spectacular starry treats. There are new things to see and discover in our dark, infinite sky.

Coming up in midNovember is the annual Leonid meteor shower. Over the years this spectacle has produced some of the most appreciable displays in history and is considered an incredible event to watch when this occurs.

As the earth crosses the orbital path of comet Tempel-Tuttle, it intercepts some of the comet’s debris which is vaporized as it enters the earth’s atmosphere. The Leonids are bright and often deep blue in color and travel at speeds of around 44 miles per second, making them some of the fastest streakers in the sky.

Every 33 to 34 years the earth passes through a particularly dense cloud of cometary rubble that lights up the sky with thousands of meteors per hour. When this happens, the event is known as a meteor storm.

A display must generate at least 1,000 meteors an hour to be called a storm. The latest Leonid storm occurred in 2001 and many of those who witnessed it described meteors that fell like rain because of how many there were.

The next chance for a storm won’t come again until the year 2034 or 2035.

This year’s shower will produce only about 15 meteors per hour, best viewed at midnight on November 17 through the morning of November 18. A waxing gibbous moon, however, will reduce this paltry rate.

Autumn is an ideal time to view the beautiful Andromeda Galaxy. Also known as M31, this object is classified as a deep sky object and is located in the constellation of Andromeda.

It lies between Pegasus to

The high-pitched trill heard within tall Northwest conifers in spring is often the Townsend’s warbler ‘Setophaga townsendi.

Arriving early, the male will sing to mark his nesting territory. When the females arrive they form monogamous pairs and the female builds a nest on the end of a confer branch well up in the canopy. Bark strips, grass, moss, and twigs are used for a small cup nest that is lined with feathers and hair.

The female incubates 3 to 7 white-brown speckled eggs for 11-14 days and then

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Meteors “rain” over Monument Valley Utah during the Leonid meteor storm of 2001. the south and the northern constellation of Cassiopeia and can be seen without optical aid under dark skies.

Look for a dim blur or hazy oval.

The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest member of the Local Group of galaxies that includes it, our Milky Way Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33), another spiral galaxy. By way of comparison, our galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter, while M31 in Andromeda is more than twice as big. The smallest member of the group is M33 at just 60,000 light-years in diameter.

Lying at a distance of just 2.5 million light-years, many astronomers believe the Andromeda Galaxy and or own Milky Way will collide in about four billion years.

The five brightest planets, known as the naked-eye planets, consist of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn. All of these can be seen without optical aid, explaining why they are called the naked-eye planets. All of them are visible for most of the year but are typically not seen all in one night. The position of a planet moderately changes against the background every night, helping to distinguish it from a star.

Early in November, both Jupiter and Mercury hug the southwestern horizon 30 minutes after sunset. Using

a pair of binoculars will greatly improve your chance of locating them. Still hanging out in the constellation of Sagittarius, Saturn is an easy evening find. But it’s ruddy Mars, shining brighter than a first-magnitude star, that continues to put on the best show as it hangs in the sky until about 1 a.m. local time before setting.

The first week-and-ahalf of the month is a good time to plan your nighttime observing because skies will be dark. As the month progresses, however, a waxing moon will gradually brighten the night sky, culminating in a Beaver Full Moon on November 22.

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both parents feed insects to the young for 10 days who then fledge the nest. Insects, including spiders, are the majority of the Townsend’s diet, although they visit suet feeders during winter months.

The Townsend’s warbler will occasionally crossbreed with the Hermit warbler when the nesting areas are close together only in our Northwest forests.

Warblers are referred to as a “fall,” a “bouquet,” “a “confusion,” or a “wrench” of warblers.

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Creeks Brewing Co. and was designed by Sarah Rubbert.

We took her composition and refined the colors and shapes before we began. I would describe it as colorful and it does a good job of illustrating the vibe of the company and the Central Oregon Lifestyle.”

Graves calls it a valuable real-world experience, going through the design process, buying supplies, and seeing how much time it takes to complete a large-scale project.

“The students are bussed over to the production facility on Barclay Drive during their art class.

One thing the class needed was a heavy-duty scaffold to stand on to paint, since the storage container is nearly nine feet tall.

Graves said, “A huge thank-you to Sisters Rental for donating the use of the scaffold so they can access the entire framework of the mural.”

Gunnarson arrives on site with her class and helps them map out parts of the mural, while professional muralist David Rock of Sisters is ready in case they need his expertise.

“I contacted Bethany a couple of years ago and asked if she ever needed my help to contact me. And she did,” Rock told The Nugget. “I’m just volunteering help wherever they need it, but I’m not doing much.”

Rock has been painting murals for over 35 years, with his first mural in 1983 at the Bronx Zoo. The largest single mural he has done is over 10,000 square feet.

“I think the biggest challenge for them has been taking a design and scaling it up from 10 inches to 52 feet! It’s always difficult to have the discipline to enlarge an image without wanting to draw something that is on a more understandable scale,” Rock added. “This is an educational opportunity to learn the tricks of scaling something up and keeping the proportions the same.”

Sisters High School art class is working to bring their mural to life, with the Three Sisters Mountains as the backdrop, the colors are evolving into images that will soon become Three Creeks Brewing Company’s work of art for public viewing.

The students involved with painting the mural are Jade Anaya, Alexa Asson, Victoria Franklin, Sierra Henneous, Delia Hoyt, Grace Maiden, Meredith Mandal, Shaely Meyer, Nolan Mitchell and Sarah Rubbert.

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Sisters Trails Alliance hires program manager Sisters Trails Alliance has hired a new program manager. Thanks to a grant from the Robert W. Chandler Discretionary Subfund of The Oregon Community Foundation, STA now has Kate Donovan as its first-ever paid staff member to support the work of the organization.

In 2017 the STA board of directors completed a threeyear strategic plan, crafted with feedback from many key community stakeholders. The overarching strategy coming out of that plan was the need to strengthen organizational capacity by bringing on a part-time paid staff member to help manage and coordinate STA’s varied activities and volunteers.

Donovan will be the primary connection to membership and ensure the community is informed about STA’s

events and activities. Having Donovan at the helm allows STA’s board members to focus less on the day-to-day management and to spend more time deepening relationships with key donors, directing the work of trail building and maintenance, and advocating for trails and trail users at the local, regional, and state levels.

Donovan said she is excited to combine her interest in the outdoors and enthusiasm for community engagement by joining STA. Her professional background is in recreation programming with emphasis on inclusion and community integration.

She looks forward to deepening her involvement with the trails and STA members alike.

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Staff will continue to monitor weather and fuel moisture conditions in the SistersCamp Sherman Fire District and may make modifications on a day-to-day basis. Call your local outdoor burning information line for your current conditions. If conditions become drier, individual agencies may choose to close local burning.

For residents who are uncomfortable burning or are not in areas where outdoor burning is allowed, fall FireFree events will be available to residents. Watch www.firefree.org for the dates of these events in November.

Central Oregon Fire Chiefs federal partners (U.S. Forest Service & Bureau of Land Management) will be performing prescribed burns throughout the region. These prescribed burns will be conducted with federal fire resources, professional fire managers and firefighters on scene, favorable weather conditions and carefully planned land plots. These prescribed burns improve forest health and reduce the forest fuels in order to lower the wildfire risk to communities that is ever present later in the season when the conditions are more extreme.

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pup — Sunny dog. She is also the current volunteer program coordinator for another local nonprofit: Sisters Folk Festival, Inc. Sisters Trails Alliance is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect people and communities to each other and their natural surroundings. With the support of more than 100 volunteers, STA maintains the Peterson Ridge Trail system, produces a free trail map, hosts an annual speaker series, and supports trail-related activities and events throughout the year.

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MARIJUANA: CODE Team engaged in extensive investigation

ART: We get to choose meaning in the art we love

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of growth, 196 pounds of dried marijuana and four pounds of BHO (Butane Hash Oil).

“The marijuana grow lacked any current permits authorizing the growing of marijuana at the Forked Horn address for either medical or recreational purposes,” police reported.

Shaun Gutta and Krystal Silverio, both occupants of the Forked Horn address and present during the execution of the search warrant, were arrested on multiple charges involving possession, manufacture and distribution of a controlled substance. Both were transported to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Adult Jail where they were booked and lodged.

Police report that evidence gathered during the investigation supported information that Gutta and Silverio were exporting marijuana product outside of Oregon.

The CODE Team also investigated and took action on two other marijuana growing operations, one in Redmond and one in La Pine, and stopped a Penske moving truck connected to the La Pine operation, seizing 957 pounds of dried marijuana, 66 pounds of BHO extract, over eight pounds of marijuana concentrate and three BHO/concentrate labs.

While marijuana use and licensed growing are legal

still the process followed for every pot. Due to being so laborious to make, it’s rather expensive.

A couple became quite interested in this particular work because they found it “fun,” a word they mentioned a few times while pondering whether or not to get it. One woman was strongly drawn to it because her father was an avid duck hunter who liked to acquire “old arrowheads and tools of the Indians.” Yet another couple considered purchasing it because it went with their dining room colors and they needed something “good-sized” to take up a particular space. We happen to like having it in the gallery because of its unique, dramatic beauty and assiduous handcrafting.

The earlier perspective — the artist determines the meaning of art — eventually begged the question: So who is qualified to tell us what the artist had in mind because, in most cases, the artist is not present to tell us?

The philosophy movement of Structuralism in the early and mid 20th century attempted to answer this

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of County Commissioners, Redmond Police Department, Prineville Police Department, Crook County Sheriff ’s Office, Jefferson County Sheriff ’s Office, Madras Police Department, Sunriver Police Department, Black Butte Police Department, United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Warm Springs Tribal Police Department, Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson county district attorneys, and the Oregon National Guard.

question by arguing that experts, so-called “qualified” critics, were the only ones capable of establishing the meaning of art, in the absence of the artist. This somewhat elitist position inspired the post-Structuralism movement and lead to the current thinking that art means whatever it means to each and every individual, whether the artist provides input or not.

Perhaps that high-end piece of Zuni pottery eventually will go to a person who thinks it “perfect.” Then again, maybe the person who acquires it will feel moved by the earth-tone animal motifs, is someone who has been to and resonates with the Pueblo culture of the Southwest, and is an individual who once tried to learn but gave up on making pottery. Either person can possess the duck pot; either person is capable of liking or even cherishing it; either person can determine its relative purposefulness for them.

In our society today, we get to determine our own meaning and the meaning of the things we own. We don’t require philosophers, art experts, or even politicians imposing upon us their understanding of art. It is ours, just like our lives, and its meaning is whatever we choose.

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By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service

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The Lady Outlaws turned in a strong performance at state, on the way to a third-place trophy.

Lady Outlaws take third at state tourney

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws made their 12th consecutive appearance at the state tournament and walked away with a thirdplace finish. The tourney was held in Forest Grove on Friday and Saturday, November 2-3.

Sisters faced Hidden Valley in their first match of the tournament on Friday, and posted scores of 26-24, 25-16, and 25-19 for the win.

The volleyball squad only had three girls who had played major minutes during last year’s state tournament, so the start of the match was a bit rough. They were tense, and quite nervous, and struggled to pass and find their offensive rhythm. On the plus side, they served well, which gave them the first-set win.

As the match progressed, the Outlaws gained confidence, found their offensive groove, and put away the Mustangs in three straight sets.

Sisters fell to Valley Catholic (VC) in four sets (16-25, 25-12, 17-25, 22-25) in the semi-final game. The game was a re-match of the state championship game last year, and the Valiants came out strong and ready to play.

In the first set, the Outlaws struggled with the Valiants’ strong block and passing, but bounced back in the second set and stepped up their serving, which took VC out of rhythm often.

Sets three and four were back and forth, but VC persevered and took both sets, and won the match 3-1.

Sisters’ final match was against league foe Sweet Home. These two tough teams had already matched up against each other five times during the season, each one a battle to the end, and every set won by never more than a

few points.

This match proved to be no different, with both squads battling back and forth in five very tough sets. Sisters came out on top with scores of 22-25, 25-20, 23-25, 25-23, and 15-6.

In the fourth set, Sisters was down 17-20, and on the verge of losing in four sets, but freshman Greta Davis had two huge blocks, and two big kills, which gave the Outlaws a 21-20 edge. The momentum shifted in the Outlaws’ favor, and the added confidence got them the win.

Game 5 was all about the Outlaws. The set started behind strong serves from Ellie Rush, which gave them a 4-0 lead. Sophie Silva and Davis provided great hits, blocks, and serves, and the Outlaws held the lead the entire way.

In the final match against the Huskies, Davis finished with 10 kills and seven blocks. Kendra Sitz tallied 12 kills, three blocks, and three aces. Sophie Silva had nine kills, six blocks, and five aces, and Rush dished out 45 assists, and served up six aces.

Kendra Sitz was a firstteam all-tournament selection, and Samantha Silva was a second-team pick.

Coach Rory Rush said, ‘I am so proud of the girls for how well they played this weekend, and for never letting down. We were able to bounce back after losing to Valley Catholic and play a great game against a tough Sweet Home team. We grew a lot this weekend mentally, and having this experience will only set the stage for next year. Coming home with the third-place trophy is a great accomplishment for a team that many thought wouldn’t have what it would take to get back to the state tournament this year.”

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503 Appliance Repair & Refinish propane tank. Easy to tow. Used PONDEROSA PROPERTIES 504 Handyman for family camping and fall –Monthly Rentals Available– 505 Auto Repair hunting last year. Could use now Call Debbie at 541-549-2002 600 Tree Service & Forestry with some window patching, or Full details, 24 hrs./day, go to: 601 Construction replace the canvas for next PonderosaProperties.com summer. $1,100. 541-420-6734.

602 Plumbing & Electric Printed list at 221 S. Ash, Sisters 603 Excavations & Trucking Ponderosa Properties LLC 202 Firewood 604 Heating & Cooling Fully Furnished Short-term 605 Painting SISTERS FOREST PRODUCTS Rentals: 1 and 2 BDRMs, Flex 606 Landscaping & Yard Maint.

DAVE ELPI – FIREWOOD fall/winter months. 503-730-0150 701 Domestic Services • SINCE 1976 • NuggetNews.com 702 Sewing >> Order Now for Fall 2018!!

703 Child Care LP Pine – Doug Fir – Juniper 104 Vacation Rentals 704 Events & Event Services Camp Wood – Kindling 801 Classes & Training CASCADE HOME & LOG TRUCK LOADS 802 Help Wanted VACATION RENTALS YEAR-ROUND WOOD SALES 803 Work Wanted Monthly and Vacation Rentals – 18155 Hwy. 126 East – 901 Wanted throughout Sisters Country.

SistersForestProducts.com 902 Personals (541) 549-0792 Order Online! 541-410-4509 999 Public Notice Property management Year-round Firewood Sales ~ for second homes.

BMF • 541-420-3254 CascadeVacationRentals.net Firewood rounds $150.

101 Real Estate EAGLE CREST RESORT. 541-647-7484.

Cascade Sotheby's 2-BR, 2-BA. With all amenities.

International Realty Rent our time share 1 week 204 Arts & Antiques – Sheila Jones, Broker – starting on Nov. 24. $500.

THE JEWEL – 27 YEARS! 503-949-0551 Dan 541-549-6624.

Jewelry Repair • Custom Design – Joanna Goertzen, Broker – In the Heart of Sisters gems | 541-549-9388 | gold 541-588-0886 3 Vac. Rentals – Quiet 1-2 Bdrm www.thejewelonline.com Your Local Realtor Team!

Sleep 2-6, start at $135 per nt.

– TURQUOISE – – Sisters Oregon Guide – vrbo.com/442970 or /180950 Native American Cuffs, Pick one up throughout town! or /337593 • 503-694-5923 Squash Blossoms, Concho Belts HEATED CAR STORAGE ~ Sisters Vacation Rentals ~ Authentic Inventory Gated, w/clubroom & car wash.

Private Central OR vac. rentals, • Gift Certificates • Purchase or Lease Option.

Property Management Services Cowgirls and Indians Resale 541-419-2502 541-977-9898 160 S. Oak St. | 541-549-6950 www.SistersVacation.com Sisters Hometown Realty Wed.-Sat., 11-5 or by Appt.

Norma Tewalt, Principal Broker 106 Real Estate Wanted For Old-fashioned Hometown Dinosaur Eggs, Embryos Service! Call 541-419-9629 Tilting M Cattle Co. in search and Claws! of pasture to lease. Please call ChafortheFinest.com 102 Commercial Rentals Hobbs at 541-514-8598.

541-549-1140 Industrial New Block Bldg.

ANTIQUES, 201 For Sale Redmond Airport Industrial Park FARMHOUSE + VINTAGE 2,500 to 6,500 sq. ft.

“Support Sisters” Find Monthly Pop-up Sales Call Ralph, 541-390-5187 SHOP LOCAL! on our Facebook page at SNO CAP MINI STORAGE Culver Marketplace www.SistersStorage.com King-size Kenmore W&D Just 15 minutes from Redmond!

LONG-TERM DISCOUNTS! $1,375, 25 pairs jeans 0-4 $750.

Secure, Automated Facility 205 Garage & Estate Sales Call Cha 541-549-1140 with On-site Manager COUNTRY CHRISTMAS • • • Complete Set-up for soft glass!

BAZAAR • Fri. & Sat., 9-4 541-549-3575 $45,000 Creative Crafters will CASCADE STORAGE chaforthefinest@gmail.com be sharing in this (541) 549-1086 • (877) 540-1086 4 Studded Snow Tires on Snow Festive Holiday Bazaar 581 N. Larch – 7-Day Access Wheels. Size: 215/70/15. $475. 69427 Crooked Horseshoe Road, 5x5 to 12x30 Units Available Sisters (off Camp Polk) Please Call: 541-549-4381 5x5 - 8x15 Climate Control Units Happy Trails Estate Sales!

Plunder Jewelry On-site Management Selling or Downsizing?

Vintage • Trendy • Inspirational At Division & Revere in Bend Locally owned & operated by...

Custom Photo Pendants Office Space, Full Service Daiya 541-480-2806 Prices start at just $8 500-1,000 sf. – $1.65 per sf.

Sharie 541-771-1150 plunderdesign.com/jessdraper Call Ralph, 541-390-5187 FB: bit.ly/JewelryJess HAVE A SERVICE MINI STORAGE 541-977-8494 TO PROVIDE? Sisters Storage & Rental Place your ad in The Nugget Habitat THRIFT STORE 506 North Pine Street 141 W. Main • 541-549-1740 541-549-9631 206 Lost & Found Habitat RESTORE Sizes 5x5 to 15x30. 7-day access. 254 W. Adams • 541-549-1621 LOST AN ITEM? Computerized security gate.

Hours at both stores are FOUND SOMETHING On-site management.

Mon.-Sat., 9 to 5; Sun. 12 to 4 VALUABLE? U-Haul trucks, trailers, moving Donations accepted Mon.-Sat. Advertise in The Nugget's boxes & supplies. from 10 to 4 only.

Lost & Found classifieds

301 Vehicles

2009 VW CC VR6 4-MOTION $6995 Rare first edition. One owner.

Immaculately maintained. All records provided. Price is negotiable but this vehicle's value is in the maintenance. Odometer reads 225+k. Still gets 30+ mpg on the highway. Recently replaced the windshield and tires.

I've never lost traction on icy road conditions running mud and snow tires, no studs. If you're looking for a reliable classy ride, this is it! VIN report: https://vincheck.report/archive/W VWGU93C99E526608.PDF 2009 Subaru Forester plus 4 wheels/snow tires, sun roof, cold weather pkg., tow hitch.

90,000 miles, man. trans. $9,000.

Call 541-595-5712 We Buy, Sell, Consign Quality Cars, Trucks, SUVs & RVs ~ Call Robb at 541-647-8794 or Jeff at 541-815-7397 Sisters Car Connection da#3919 SistersCarConnection.com (2) TOYOTA Venzas, 2011 & 2012, low miles.

Call Ralph, 541-390-5187

401 Horses Horse Boarding in Sisters ~ New barn, arena, round pen, and access to National Forest. $550/mo. Call 541-323-1841.

– HORSEBACK RIDING – Long Hollow Ranch now offers trail rides with scenic views.

Call 541-604-1203 for more information or to book a ride!

Horse boarding, Sisters 2 acres irrigated pasture on 4 1/2 acres with corrals, loafing shed, barn, shade trees, 5 miles east of Sisters. $400/mo., discount for multiples. Call 585-388-0969.

TRITICALE MEADOW GRASS HAY New crop. No rain. Barn stored.

3-tie bales. $165-$215/ton. Hwy. 126 & Cline Falls. 541-280-1895 Certified Weed-Free HAY. Orchard Grass or Alfalfa Hay, Sisters. $250 per ton.

Call 541-548-4163 1st CUTTING HAY IS HERE! Call Cole Ranch for quality mixed-grass, barn-stored, tested, 2-tie & 3x3 bales.

541-213-8959

403 Pets Joyful Pup-Pet Happiness Service! Experienced pet care, joyful dog hikes and walks!

Contact Jen at 541-848-9192 or joyfulpupinsisters@gmail.com HOUSE/PET SITTING. Pets enjoy their familiar schedule, pampering, and play.

Trustworthy, personable, dependable, references available.

Michelle 919-600-1201.

Wednesday, November 2, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

C L A S S I F I E D S A CARING ENVIRONMENT for your treasured Best Friends in your home while you're away!

Sisters-Tumalo-Petsitting.com 541-306-7551 Furry Friends Foundation helps pets in our community!

Open Tues. & Thurs., 11 to 2 204 W. Adams Ave. #109 541-797-4023 Bend Spay & Neuter Project Providing Low-Cost Options for Spay, Neuter and more!

Go to BendSnip.org or call 541-617-1010 Three Rivers Humane Society Where love finds a home! See the doggies at 1694 SE McTaggart in Madras • A No-kill Shelter Go to ThreeRiversHS.org or call 541-475-6889

500 Services • DERI’s HAIR SALON • Call 541-419-1279 BOOKKEEPING SERVICE ~ Olivia Spencer ~ Expert Local Bookkeeping!

Phone: (541) 241-4907 www.spencerbookkeeping.com SMALL Engine REPAIR Lawn Mowers, Chainsaws & Trimmers Sisters Rental 506 North Pine Street 541-549-9631 Authorized service center for Stihl, Briggs & Stratton, Honda, Tecumseh FIFI'S HAULING SERVICE Dump Trailers available!

Call 541-419-2204 GEORGE’S SEPTIC TANK SERVICE “A Well Maintained Septic System Protects the Environment” 541-549-2871 MOVING TRUCK FOR HIRE –COMPLETE MOVING, LLC– Sisters' Only Local Moving Co.!

Two exp. men with 25+ years comm. moving. Refs! ODOT Lic. Class 1-B • Call 541-678-3332 BOOKKEEPING BY KIM 541-771-4820 SCC PROFESSIONAL AUTO DETAILING Premium services by appt.

Sisters Car Connection 102 W. Barclay Drive 541-647-8794 • Ask for Robb WEDDINGS • CATERING ~ Willow Camp Catering ~ Call Wendy, 541-923-8675 –THE NUGGET–

501 Computers & Communications Technology Problems?

I can fix them for you.

Solving for business, home & A/V needs. All tech supported.

Jason Williams Sisters local • 25 yrs. experience 541-719-8329

SISTERS SATELLITE TV • PHONE • INTERNET Your authorized local dealer for DirecTV, ViaSat HS Internet and more! CCB # 191099 541-318-7000 • 541-306-0729

502 Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning

Forestry • Fire Fuels Assistance LAREDO CONSTRUCTION Central Oregon's Premier 541-549-1575 FORESTRY CONSULTANT For ALL Your Residential & Year-round Firewood Sales!

Construction Needs Licensed, Bonded, Insured CCB #194489 Bear Mountain Fire LLC www.laredoconstruction.com 541-420-3254 • CCB #163462 JOHN NITCHER TIMBER STAND CONSTRUCTION IMPROVEMENT LLC General Contractor All-phase Tree Care Specialist Home repair, remodeling and Technical Removals, Pruning, additions. CCB #101744 Stump Grinding, Planting & 541-549-2206 Consultations • Nate Goodwin JERRY WILLIS DRYWALL ISA-Cert. Arborist PN-7987A & VENETIAN PLASTER CCB #190496 • 541-771-4825 All Residential, Commercial Jobs online at www.tsi.services 541-480-7179 • CCB #69557

BULLSEYE CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Cutting Edge Technology Licensed & Insured – Sisters owned & operated – bullseyecarpetcleaning.net • 541-238-7700 • Sisters Carpet Cleaning CELEBRATING 39 years in business with spring specials!

– Call 541-549-2216 – M & J CARPET CLEANING Carpet, area rug, upholstery & tile cleaning. Senior & Veterans 601 Construction Discounts • 541-549-9090 EARTHWOOD Northwest Carpet Cleaning TIMBER FRAME HOMES Great rates, serving all of Sisters!

Large inventory of dry, stable, Lic., Bonded, Ins. 541-390-0569 gorgeous, recycled old-growth peterson.carpets@gmail.com Douglas fir and pine for mantles, GORDON’S stair systems, furniture and LAST TOUCH structural beams. Timber frame Cleaning Specialists for design and construction services CARPETS, WINDOWS since 1990 – CCB#174977 & UPHOLSTERY 549-0924 • earthwoodhomes.com Member Better Business Bureau SIMON CONSTRUCTION • Bonded & Insured • SERVICES Serving Central Oregon Design / Build / Fine Carpentry Since 1980 Residential / Commercial Call 541-549-3008 CCB #184335 • 541-948-2620 Circuit Rider Carpet Cleaning bsimon@bendbroadband.com “A Labor of Love” with CASCADE GARAGE DOORS 35 years exp.! 541-549-6471 Sales • Service • Installation THE NUGGET Res. / Comm. / Custom Wood NEWSPAPER CCB #44054 • 541-548-2215 SISTERS | OREGON Carl Perry Construction LLC NuggetNews.com Home Restoration • Repair – DECKS & FENCES – 504 Handyman CCB #201709 • 541-419-3991 Carl Perry Construction LLC JOHN PIERCE Home Restoration • Repair General Contracting LLC – DECKS & FENCES – Residential Building Projects CCB #201709 • 541-419-3991 Serving Sisters Since 1976 John M. Keady Construction Strictly Quality Home Maintenance & Repairs, CCB #16891 • CCB #159020 Decks & Fences, 541-549-9764 Small Remodels & Upgrades.

McCARTHY & SONS CCB #204632 • 541-480-2731 CONSTRUCTION FRANCOIS' WORKSHOP New Construction, Remodels, Int./Ext. Carpentry & Repairs Fine Finish Carpentry – Custom Woodworking – 541-420-0487 • CCB #130561 Painting, Decks, Fences & CENIGA'S MASONRY, INC. Outbuildings • CCB #154477 Brick • Block • Stone • Pavers 541-815-0624 or 541-549-0605 CCB #181448 – 541-350-6068 Home Customizations, LLC www.CenigasMasonry.com Res. & Commercial Remodeling, DYER Bldg. Maintenance & Painting Construction & Renovation Chris Patrick, Owner Custom Residential Projects homecustomizations@gmail.com All Phases • CCB #148365 CCB #191760 • 541-588-0083 541-420-8448 JONES UPGRADES LLC Swiss Mountain Log Homes Home Repairs & Remodeling Hand-crafted Log Homes & Drywall, Decks, Pole Barns, Design Services • Roof Systems Fences, Sheds, Snow Removal! & Porches • Railings/Staircases • Mike Jones, 503-428-1281 Log Accents & Fireplace Mantels Local resident • CCB #201650 • Remodels & Log Restoration • LAREDO CONSTRUCTION Sawmill & Boom Truck Services 541-549-1575 – CCB #162818 – Maintenance / Repairs Phil Rerat, 541-420-3572 Insurance Work CCB #194489 www.SwissMtLogHomes.com

600 Tree Service & Forestry

Sisters Tree Care, LLC Preservation, Pruning, Removals & Storm Damage Serving All of Central Oregon Brad Bartholomew ISA Cert. Arborist UT-4454A 503-914-8436 • CCB #218444

602 Plumbing & Electric MONTE'S ELECTRIC • service • residential • commercial • industrial Serving all of Central Oregon 541-719-1316 lic. bond. insured, CCB #200030 NOW HIRING! SWEENEY PLUMBING, INC. “Quality and Reliability” Repairs • Remodeling • New Construction • Water Heaters 541-549-4349 Residential and Commercial Licensed • Bonded • Insured CCB #87587 CURTS ELECTRIC LLC – SISTERS, OREGON – Quality Electrical Installations Agricultural • Commercial Industrial • Well & Irrigation Pumps, Motor Control, Barns & Shops, Plan Reviews CCB #178543 541-480-1404 R&R Plumbing, LLC > Repair & Service > Hot Water Heaters > Remodels & New Const.

Servicing Central Oregon Lic. Bond. Ins. • CCB #184660 541-771-7000 SistersOregonGuide.com

603 Excavation & Trucking

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TEWALT & SONS INC. Excavation Contractors Sisters’ Oldest Excavation Co. Our experience will make your $ go further – Take advantage of our FREE on-site visit!

Hard Rock Removal • Rock Hammering • Hauling Trucking • Top Soil • Fill Dirt Ground-to-finish Site Prep Building Demolition • Ponds & Liners • Creative & Decorative Rock Placement • Clearing, Leveling & Grading Driveways Utilities: Sewer Mains, Laterals Water, Power, TV & Phone Septic System EXPERTS: Complete Design & Permit Approval, Feasibility, Test Holes.

Sand, Pressurized & Standard Systems. Repairs, Tank Replacement. CCB #76888 Cellular: 419-2672 or 419-5172 • 541-549-1472 • TewaltAndSonsExcavation.com

604 Heating & Cooling ACTION AIR Heating & Cooling, LLC Retrofit • New Const • Remodel Consulting, Service & Installs actionairheatingandcooling.com CCB #195556 541-549-6464

605 Painting Ext. & Deck Stain for Spring!

Residential / Comm. Painting Carl Perry Construction LLC CCB #201709 • 541-419-3991 THE HOME CONNECTION Serving Sisters for 21 years!

541-549-2934 • CCB #123232 Riverfront Painting LLC Interior/Exterior • Deck Staining SHORT LEAD TIMES Travis Starr, 541-647-0146 License #216081 ~ FRONTIER PAINTING ~ Quality Painting, Ext. & Int. Refurbishing Decks CCB #131560 • 541-771-5620 www.frontier-painting.com THOSE WALLS looking a little shabby?

Find yourself a painter in The Nugget's Classifieds!

ROBINSON & OWEN Heavy Construction, Inc. All your excavation needs *General excavation 606 Landscaping & Yard *Site Preparation Maintenance *Sub-Divisions All Landscaping Services *Road Building Mowing, Thatching, Hauling... *Sewer and Water Systems Call Abel Ortega, 541-815-6740. *Underground Utilities *Grading *Snow Removal J&E Landscaping Maintenance *Sand-Gravel-Rock LLC Clean ups, raking, hauling Licensed • Bonded • Insured debris, gutters. Edgar Cortez, CCB #124327 541-610-8982 or 541-420-8163 (541) 549-1848 jandelspcing15@gmail.com BANR Enterprises, LLC Metolius Lawn Maintenance Earthwork, Utilities, Grading, Aerating, thatching, mowing, Hardscape, Rock Walls pruning, hauling & more – Residential & Commercial Call Eric Bilderback CCB #165122 • 541-549-6977 LCB #15899 • 541-508-9672 www.BANR.net AJ's PROPERTY CLEANUP BWPierce General Contracting CASCADE BOBCAT Lawncare • Thatching • Edging Residential Construction Projects SERVICE Aerating • Hauling Debris • Becke William Pierce Compact • Capable Mulching // Licensed CCB#190689 • 541-647-0384 Creative • Convenient 541-279-0139 • 541-306-0761 beckewpcontracting@gmail.com Driveways, push-outs, backfills, FIFI'S HAULING SERVICE DECKS arena de-rocking, landscape prep, Yard, Construction, and Trex – Timbertech – Hardwoods trenching, post holes and more!

Debris Cleanup & Hauling!

Steel Framing Experts Lic. & Bonded – CCB #121344 Serving Central OR since 1979 541-728-3830 Mike Scherrer • 541-420-4072 • 541-419-2204 • www.5elmsConstruction.com

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CLASSIFIEDS – All You Need Maintenance – Pine needle removal, hauling, mowing, moss removal, edging, raking, weeding, pruning, roofs, gutters, pressure washing...

Lic/Bonded/Ins. CCB# 218169 Austin • 541-419-5122

701 Domestic Services BLAKE & SON – Commercial, Home & Rentals Cleaning WINDOW CLEANING! Lic. & Bonded • 541-549-0897 – CUSTOM HOUSE CARE – TLC for your Home or Vacation Rental in Sisters, Black Butte Ranch & surrounding areas.

Let us sparkle your home for a fresh start!

Call to schedule an immaculate home cleaning. Lic-Bonded-Ins. Refs Avail. Call Emilee Stoery, 541-588-0345 or email customhousecare@earthlink.net ~ Touch of Class Cleaning ~ Residential & Commercial.

Call Janie, 541-280-5962.

802 Help Wanted Executive Director Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show.

Full-time position. Details at www.sistersoutdoorquiltshow.org /events-activites/ or email jan@janmcgowan.com.

Part-time care giver needed.

541-598-4527

999 Public Notice The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners is looking for individuals interested in serving on the following committees: Budget Committee Fair Board Planning Commission Community Health & Social Services Advisory Committee Ambulance Service Area Advisory Committee Camp Sherman Road District #18 Interested persons should submit a letter of interest to Barbara Andresen, 66 SE “D” Street, Suite A, Madras, Oregon 97741, or Barbara.andresen@ co.jefferson.or.us no later than December 5, 2018. Please call 541-475-2449 if you have any questions.

DATED this 25th day of October, 2018 JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

L A Sgoes S IoutF for I library E D S exhibit Call toC artists The Sisters Library Annual Art Exhibit, sponsored by the Friends of the Sisters Library (FOSL), is happening January 9 through February 22, 2019.

All Sisters Country artists who want to participate are invited to submit work.

The submission date is Saturday, January 5, 2019, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Sisters Library Community Room. Due to limited space, just two pieces of wall-hung art, and five pieces of other art forms such as jewelry, ceramics, or sculpture, may be submitted. Artwork must not have been shown in the Annual Art Exhibit in the past three years.

Anyone is welcome to enter the exhibit. Invitations may be downloaded from the

website, www.sistersfol.com, or are available at the library’s information desk.

All artwork to be hung must have secured wire (no sawtooth) hangers. All artwork must be identified with labels on either the back or bottom of the piece.

No piece may exceed 30 by 40 inches, unless space allows. Quilts and other fiber art must have a sleeve secured on the back for hanging. Large quilts, which will be hung on the rafters, cannot exceed 84 inches wide by 75 inches long.

Three-dimensional art will be shown in locked cases in the entryway, or if too large for that space, on a shelf or table in the library.

Artists are asked to submit

a one-page biography that includes their name, description of their work, and contact information. This will go into a notebook that accompanies the show. Artists are also asked to sign the library’s art agreement, which includes the value of the work, and if it is for sale. The Deschutes Public Library System insures the artwork during the time it’s in the library building. All submitted art must be approved by the FOSL Art Committee, and will remain on display for the entire show.

The Friends of the Sisters Library will receive a 10 percent commission from the artist for any artwork sold during the exhibit.

The opening reception will be on Friday, January 25, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. with hors d’oeuvres and beverages served. Results of public voting for three People’s Choice Awards, which starts on January 9, will be announced.

This is always a popular event, and coincides with the Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Art Stroll in January.

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VOLUNTEERS: Land Trust preserves land in Sisters Continued from page 3

the pleasure of being greeted

by Steve. Ponder helped pioneer the Trail Ambassador program in 2017 and continues to devote many hours to being on the trail, meeting visitors, and sharing the Land Trust’s work with others. His regular trail reports help the

organization understand use at the preserves, and his conversations with visitors help connect the community to our protected lands.

Jan Rising has been a Land Trust volunteer since 2010. An avid birder, Jan teaches and inspires others to appreciate Central Oregon through the avian world.

She leads bird walks for the Land Trust and has contributed a great deal to the bird survey program by conducting regular bird surveys and

training new volunteers.

When the Land Trust needs someone to fill in for a tour, teach a class at the public library, or even take the staff out birding, Jan is there to help.

“These three outstanding volunteers really exemplify the depth and breadth of the Land Trust volunteer family,” said Sarah Mowry, the Land Trust’s outreach director.

“We are so fortunate to have so many dedicated volunteers who donate their time year

after year for the projects they love. It is these exceptional people who make it possible for the Land Trust to conserve and protect the best of Central Oregon.”

Volunteers donated more than 5,200 hours to the

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Deschutes Land Trust during the past year. In the process, they’ve improved wildlife habitat, sunk roots in the community and made a commitment to helping others experience the best of Central Oregon.

Tollgate Home Adjoins National Forest 15184 Wagon Wheel

Charming single-level home. 1,058 sq. ft., 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom. Single attached garage, circular drive, room for RV parking. Ductless heat pump and woodstove in living room. Heat pump hot water heater. 1/2-acre lot.

Community has pool, tennis & basketball courts, park, community hall and paved paths throughout. $325,000. MLS#20180986

Thank You Veterans

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“I am a native Oregonian and have lived in Sisters for the majority of the past 12 years.

My husband, two sons and I recently jumped on the opportunity to move back to town with a job offer to work at PMR after completing my professional mortgage education and licensing. We’re thrilled to be back, we all love the tight-knit community and the comforts of being ‘home’ again.

Growing up in a family-owned business taught me how to cultivate knowledge daily and tackle challenges with confidence. My background as a school teacher taught me how to work with all personalities at any level of knowledge. My desire is to understand your situation so we can choose the best path for your current and future financial goals.

I believe the home is where everything important resides, I’d like to be the conduit to help you get into your new home so you can fill it with memories, traditions, and love.” Jenalee

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The HECM loan program was created by the government for people 62+ to assist in their retirement years.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

PRINTMAKERS: Work on display at Sisters Library

print will be different.

A native Oregonian, Thomas went to Pacific Northwest College of Art. She raised her two children in Sisters, and now lives in Bend. She creates and shows her work at Bend Art Center, where she continues to be amazed at how much fun printmaking is.

Carolyn Platt’s prints are original monotypes, printed with soy-based ink on BFK rag paper. “I prefer loose rendering with the moving energy of marks,” Platt says.

Her work is like a dance.

“What is the impulse, and where do you begin? … When do you decide to start moving

and dancing?”

Platt’s prints suggest forces that move on a scale that could be either molecular or geological in scope.

“Sometimes, the beginContinued from page 3 ning meandering of the marks out and created her Lumen might suggest something, but Landscapes. It connects the I don’t want to force them lumen prints with the actual into rendering that thing,” landscape. The prints in the she said. “I work flat, paintlibrary are digital scans of a ing backwards on a plexiglass portion of the original large plate.” grid. The original images She adds and subtracts ink are on display this month in with a tool called a brayer. the Betty Feves Gallery at Playing with colors and texBlue Mountain Community tures, she tries to decide, “Is College in Pendleton, as this plate press-worthy? What part of a two-person show else can I do that won’t overdo depicting Oregon’s vanishing or kill it? The life and death of landscapes. the print is in my hands!”

Newton, a Redmond The next steps are techresident, is the public nical, laying paper and services specialist at the blankets over the plate, Sisters Library, has a BFA and hand-rolling the plate in photography from the through the press. Finally, University of Oregon. She it’s time for the big reveal. shoots both film and digi“Lifting back the blantal, and owns several camkets and peeling the print eras including an 8-by-10 off the pile is magical,” view camera from 1910.

Platt says. “It’s like openThe Community Room ing a kiln, not knowing has a display of collowhat might have happened graphic prints by Robin since you set the object into Thomas and original it, or in this case, rolled it monotypes by Carolyn through the press.”

Platt.

Platt, a native of Utah, PHOTO PROVIDED Collagraphy is a printis a longtime resident of making process in which “Let Me Define My Day” by Robin Thomas. Sisters. She taught art at materials are applied to a rigid substrate. The word is derived from the Greek koll or kola, meaning glue, and graph, meaning drawing. The rigid plate can be intaglioinked, inked with a roller, or painted with a paintbrush, or some combination thereof.

Thomas describes her process as building a collage, but backwards. She works from drawings, on a light table, building layers of materials, that include clothing from second-hand stores, drapery fabric, lace, string, or embossed papers, anything with a texture. Everything is laid out in reverse, and once she’s happy with the composition, Thomas pulls out her paintbrushes and goes for it.

The process of mixing colors then hand-painting the plate can take two or three hours, before even pulling a print.

The rollover captures both the color and the textures Thomas created on her plate. Each plate can be re-used, but each

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Printmakers Robin Thomas and Carolyn Platt.

Sisters Middle School for nine years, and at Central Oregon Community College for 15 years. Like Thomas, she works at and shows her work in the Bend Art Center.

The Friends of Sisters L i b r a r y ’s ( F O S L ) A r t Committee organizes the

monthly displays of art. Some of the work is for sale, and a portion of the sale price goes to support the library, through FOSL. The artwork can be seen during library hours, Tuesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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