The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLII No. 5 // 2019-1-30

The Nugget Vol. XLII No. 5

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News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Sisters Folk Moonset on Festival the mountain.. navigating changing landscape

Fundraisers set to aid Cashwell family

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) has come a long way from its origins in 1995 as a one-day music event held at what is now Sisters Middle School.

The festival organization now stages a nationally renowned three-day music festival on the weekend after Labor Day; a major arts event called My Own Two Hands in spring; winter and summer concert series; and two songwriter camps. In addition, Sisters Folk Festival has pioneered innovative music education programs in Sisters See FOLK FESTIVAL on page 20

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Sisters resident Barry Clock captured a magical moment when last week’s full moon seemed poised on the pinnacle of Three Fingered Jack.

PHOTO BY BARRY CLOCK

Friends and community members are planning fundraisers in coming weeks to aid the family of Jenny Cashwell.

The 37-year-old Sisters woman was killed in a shooting on Saturday, January 12, leaving behind two young daughters, ages 8 and 10.

Cashwell was a weightlifter at Level 5 CrossFit Sisters, which will hold a “Lift for Jenny” fundraiser on Saturday, February 2, starting at noon.

Level 5’s Facebook page announced that: “the Sisters Community will come together for one afternoon to celebrate her life by doing one of her favorite activities in one of her favorite places… let’s all ‘Lift for Jenny’ in what See FUNDRAISERS on page 29

Sisters man arrested after ER incident

People’s Choice winners named

A 37-year-old Sisters man was arrested on multiple charges after an incident at St. Charles hospital in Redmond on Tuesday, January 22.

Redmond Police Department officers were called to the emergency room at St. Charles Redmond at approximately 6:45 a.m., regarding a man — later identified as Scott Bulloch — who had engaged in a physical dispute with a security guard at the location.

According to police, the man displayed “threatening and tumultuous behavior” and damaged property while in the building.

Security and other hospital staff were able to remove the man and the hospital was placed in a lockout. The security guard involved in

During the past three weeks at Sisters Library, the people voted – and how they voted! This year, a record number of People’s Choice ballots were turned in, each ballot listing the three favorite pieces of art in the Sisters Library Annual Art Exhibit.

Friday night, the ballots were counted and the winners were announced. Two of the three winners repeated from last year, and the third was also a previous winner.

Make it two in a row for artists and friends Austin James Jackson and Steve Mathews, both of Tollgate in Sisters. Jackson, 20, a selfmade landscape photographer, is a senior at Portland State University; and Mathews, 76, a professional artist and retired teacher, also earned ribbons in last

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the dispute sustained minor injuries.

Officers responded and attempted to locate Bulloch.

He was not immediately located, but police received information including his name and clothing description. After approximately 45 minutes, the hospital reopened for normal business.

At approximately 9:30 a.m., officers were called to the area of NW 17th Street and NW Jackpine Avenue to a report of a physical dispute that turned out to involve Bulloch. Officers arrived and detained Bulloch. Law enforcement and family members had been looking for him since the earlier incident at the hospital.

See ARREST on page 30

By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

PHOTO BY HELEN SCHMIDLING

Chuck Chamberlain’s painting, “Not A Single Leaf,” earned honors. year’s exhibit. This year’s third award winner is Charles H. “Chuck” Chamberlain of Bend, a landscape artist who

works in acrylics.

Mathews’ winning entry See ART AWARDS on page 18

Letters/Weather ................ 2 Announcements................12 Stars over Sisters .............15 Classifieds.................. 26-27 Real Estate .................29-32 Meetings ........................... 3 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 25 Flashback ........................ 28 Bunkhouse Chronicle ........31

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Editorial…

That time when nothing happened A little over a week ago, the Internet lost its collective mind over a pseudo-event.

The scene was the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. A kid smirked; a First Nations man beat a drum; Black Hebrew Israelites threw out some taunts. That’s it. Not exactly Days of Rage, but social media kicked into high gear, followed by hours of cable TV news analysis and exclusive interviews. And then came death threats and the ritual menacing with lawsuits.

America 2019. We’ve been hacked, and we’re being played, by the data-gathering and data-selling giants to whom we’re selling our souls.

Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari notes that, “So far, many of these giants seem to have adopted the business model of ‘attention merchants.’ They capture our attention by providing us with free information, services, and entertainment, and they then resell our attention to advertisers. Yet the data giants probably aim far higher than any previous attention merchant. Their true business isn’t to sell advertisements at all. Rather, by capturing our attention they manage to accumulate immense amounts of data about us, which is worth more than any advertising revenue. We aren’t their customers — we are their product.”

And with the Great Smirking Kid Caper, the Data Leviathan captured the attention of millions upon millions of people with a pseudoevent onto which we projected all manner of social, political and cultural hostilities and anxieties. Outraged, roiled, played like Nathan

Phillips’ drum — and for what?

As Joshua Rothman notes in The New Yorker: “When the dramaturgical or rhetorical interest of a debate exceeds the interest of the real events that inspired it, that debate becomes a fantasy — an occasion for dramatizing our values, rather than testing them against the real world. This, in turn, makes our values feel hollow.”

It would be bad enough if this phenomenon was confined to our online “lives,” but it leaks out into our real life, too. We are conditioning ourselves to make judgments on the thinnest slices of information; we judge our neighbor before we even glance to see if he’s wearing moccasins or not, much less venturing to walk a mile in them.

We’re all susceptible to this insidious phenomenon. Disconnecting is probably the right thing to do — but that doesn’t guarantee escape, and anyway, it’s not a realistic option for most of us. But we can discipline ourselves to take a moment and decide what we want to give our commodified attention to and how much drama we want to get sucked into — be it online or in our hometown. Or online in our hometown.

We’re lucky here in Sisters; we have lots of options. Sometimes — maybe always — the best thing to do is to just go for a hike.

Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief

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: Kudos to Craig Rullman, who always speaks his mind, and expressed so well the divisive hyperbole going around these days!

Our First Amendment free speech rights are in danger as are other freedoms we hold dear.

Carefully weigh and investigate what comes across the media. There is a lot of hype and hysteria out there.

Jeanne Brooks See LETTERS on page 19

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Why I am upset by idling vehicles

By Steve Nugent Guest Columnist

Idling a vehicle unnecessarily adds CO2 to the atmosphere, increasing global warming.

Even though I don’t travel much and don’t live where hurricanes, floods and tornadoes are a threat, the impacts of global warming on me are still significant. I breathed toxic smoke from the California fires last year for two months, not to mention smoke from other local Oregon fires. Scuba trips to dive on reefs are disappointing because 50 percent of the reef is dead.

Salmon and steelhead fishing in Oregon is getting harder because of declining stocks of wild fish. The cost of wild salmon in the market continues to rise.

Some fruits, vegetables and nuts from California are getting more expensive and scarce.

I have to continually fireproof my house to protect from more frequent, increasingly intense wildfires. My fire insurance is increasing because of all the western wildfire claims. We are all paying more taxes to support $300 billion in Federal disaster relief in 2017 and even more in 2018.

What a waste of my tax dollars.

When I ask why a person is idling when parked, they generally give me one of six answers: 1. “It saves money because I’m only going to be in the post office, bank or store for a minute.” It’s a myth that this saves any money. Idling your vehicle for more than five seconds uses more fuel than stopping and restarting.

2. “My diesel needs to idle to save the starter and keep the oil pressure and temperature up.” Myths.

Diesels need to be under load to be at optimum temperature to minimize wear.

Unburned fuel causes pollution and dilutes the oil, causing excessive wear.

Starter wear is not a concern. Hybrid car starters start hundreds of times during each trip. UPS trucks

re-start at every stop.

3. “I need to let my engine warm up before driving.” Gas cars should be immediately driven after starting to prevent excessive wear and shortening of life. Diesels should be driven after a 30-second warm-up of the oil to prevent excessive wear and unnecessary pollution. Diesel manufacturers recommend no more than three minutes of warm up.

4. “I need to let the diesel turbocharger cool down.” Another myth.

Totally unnecessary and ineffective. Just turn it off and save some money.

5. “Diesel exhaust does not hurt anybody.”

Human studies show an increase in lung cancer and cell damage due to diesel fume inhalation. It’s carcinogenic.

6. “It’s my God-given right to pollute if I want to.” This is not like leaving the lights on in your house. This impacts every living thing on the planet, including your neighbors, friends, and relatives. It’s a global impact.

I often talk to people that are avid hunters, fisherman, birders and outdoors hikers. These people should be the most concerned about the global warming impacts on their quality of life. They should be the people conserving, minimizing car trips and definitely not idling when parked. Most people cannot believe that what they do as an individual makes any difference.

Well it does, particularly when millions are doing the same thing.

Oregon actually has laws against idling an unoccupied car, maximum fine $250. Diesel trucks over 10KGVW must turn engines off after five minutes in any one-hour period.

There is no reason to idle a vehicle once it is parked, unless it is for survival in sub-zero conditions. Do the smart, responsible thing and just turn it off. If it’s cold outside, go inside and look at your cell phone.

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

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Shelter staff will meet with community including possible remedies.

A number of topics are possible for discussion, including: the shelter’s “screening process” of guests and weapon control as it exists today; temperature guidelines for being open that are different at different shelters and the impact on SCWS; possible solutions to help lessen neighborhood and community concerns; and arrival and departure of shelter guests.

Chairperson for the

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Sisters Cold Weather Shelter (SCWS ) is hosting a meeting on Monday, February 4, at 6 p.m. in the Sisters Fire Hall community room.

Interested members of the public and neighbors who live near the churches providing shelter accommodations are invited to come hear from shelter organizers and to engage in a conversation about neighbor concerns regarding the shelter,

See SHELTER on page 30

Bruce Cockburn will headline festival Bruce Cockburn will headline the 2019 Sisters Folk Festival.

Cockburn will perform Saturday, September 7, as part of the three-day music festival where “all the town’s a stage” and intimate performances occur throughout 11 venues in town.

Few recording artists are as creative and prolific as Bruce Cockburn. Since his self-titled debut in 1970, the Canadian singer-songwriter has issued a steady stream of acclaimed albums every couple of years.

Cockburn says, “Part of

the job of being human is just to try to spread light, at whatever level you can do it...

More than 40 years after embarking on his musical career, Cockburn keeps “kicking at the darkness so that it might bleed daylight.”

While Cockburn had been popular in Canada for years, he did not have a big impact in the United States until 1979, with the release of the album “Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws.” The album’s first single, “Wondering Where the Lions Are,” reached No. 21 See COCKBURN on page 24

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

The Ayala family of Sisters dedicated their new home with Sisters Habitat for Humanity.

Ayala family dedicates new home Many happy tears and thank-yous were shared last week as Silvia Ayala and her three children celebrated the dedication of their new Habitat home. The Ayala family is the 66th family to purchase a home through Sisters Habitat for Humanity homeownership program, and this home is the second home to be built in partnership with the Heart of Oregon Corps YouthBuild.

“This is one of the most important days of our lives.

My mom is a single mother.

She works very hard and deserves this. I am very appreciative to have my mother by my side and I am appreciative to all the people who helped make this possible,” Silvia’s son Jose Rojas

told the volunteers and crew from Habitat and Heart of Oregon Corps YouthBuild.

Thirty-five students have worked on the Ayala house since construction began 10 months ago, YouthBuild construction manager James Collins told the crowd. Heart of Oregon Corps YouthBuild is a nonprofit organization invested in inspiring and empowering change in the lives of Central Oregon youth through jobs, education, and stewardship. Their programming creates pathways out of poverty while stimulating regional economic growth.

They apply a “work-earnlearn” model that invests in local young people, many of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds, to

prepare them for the workforce and to encourage their self-sufficiency.

When a family is selected into the homeownership program, they are teamed with family partners. Judy Osborne and Suriana Iverson have helped Silvia through the process, and Iverson, as district community liaison for the Sisters School District, partnered and acted as a translator for Ayala.

“I hope they realize what a valuable resource they have in Suriana. This wouldn’t have happened without her,” Osborne said.

Even though Iverson was available to translate, Osborne said, “Words are See HABITAT 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, noon, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse.

Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419.

Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All Sisters Caregiver Support Group ages welcome. 541-771-2211.

3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., Shepherd of the

Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon, Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123.

Sisters Cribbage Club Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ray’s Food Place Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to community room. 541-923-1632.

4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230. Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.

Military Parents of Sisters Meetings are held quarterly; please call for details. Location information: 541-549-1193.

541-388-9013.

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

Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469.

Sisters Parent Teacher Community 2nd Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. at Sisters SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings Saloon. 541-480-5994. & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group District. 541-549-2091.

2nd Tuesday, 1 p.m., Sisters Community Church. 907-687-8101 or 541-668-6599.

Sisters Family Aglow Lighthouse 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., Ponderosa Lodge Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.

Location information: 541-279-1977.

Meeting Room. 503-930-6158.

VFW Post 8138 and American Legion Post 86 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-903-1123.

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

Hills Lutheran Church. 541-771-3258.

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.

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 1st & 3rd 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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Celebrated author to visit Sisters Renowned author Pam Houston will visit Paulina Springs Books in Sisters on Friday, February 8, at 6:30 p.m. for a reading and discussion of her latest book, “Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country.”

At 31 years old, fresh off a tour promoting her first collection, “Cowboys Are My Weakness,” Pam Houston had “no job, no place to live except my North Face VE 24 tent.” On an impulse and a good instinct, she spent her royalties on a 120-acre ranch near Creede, Colorado. It was more than she could afford, and required more maintenance than she could manage.

And yet, twenty-five years later, it’s the piece of land that’s defined the largest part of her life.

“Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country” tells the remarkable story of “that girl who dared herself to buy a ranch, dared herself to dig in and care for it, to work hard enough to pay for it, to figure out what other people meant when they used the world ‘home.”’

In its chapters, Houston spends her days walking along the fences on her property, watching leaves on the aspens ignite into an eruption of fall colors, and caring for the animals on her ranch: the horses, sheep, chickens, Irish wolfhounds, and a pair of miniature donkeys with outsized attitudes. Houston’s audacity and generosity are on full display as she cares for an elk calf abandoned by its herd and sleeps outside to comfort her old hound. Deep Creek raises concern about the many ways we endanger the natural world’s delicate balance, and nature’s enigmatic powers to survive and to save. It’s also a chronicle of recovery.

H o u s t o n ’s c h i l d h o o d was marked by her parents’ alcoholism and abuse—harrowing experiences, which with Houston’s deft hand are imparted in a way that’s both straightforward and deeply affecting. More shocking

than her surviving multiple car wrecks at the hands of her intoxicated parents are her strength of spirit and openness of heart, qualities that illuminate every page. It’s no wonder that despite the seclusion of her ranch, Houston is never without friends, from writers like Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell, to practical strangers who have her back in every situation. There are the locals who come to her aid when she’s snowed in, the woman who shelters her as a child from her volatile parents, a surgeon who performs an astonishing operation on her pulverized arm, a wise neighbor who tactfully keeps the ranch from being bought out from under her, and firefighters who risk their lives to try and keep a massive wildfire from destroying her ranch.

The “Diary of a Fire” section is a gripping account of the West Fork Complex wildfire and the efforts to try and contain its growing intensity. The burning traveled all the way to Houston’s backyard, which, by nothing short of a miracle, was saved by a valiant stand of aspen trees that kept it at bay. The fire scorched the mountains around her home, transforming her landscape, though not destroying it. Taking stock of the damage, Houston notices fireweed, baby aspen, woodpeckers, and the exquisite green of new grass shoots coming up through all the char.

Encompassing Houston’s childhood, her adventures, and her details of everyday life at the ranch, Deep Creek is, above all, a testament.

In holding on to her ranch, Houston carved a life to support her spirit and her talents, and discovered that she could be the cowboy of her own story.

“I know,” she explains, “that when I claimed these 120 acres, they also claimed me. We are each other’s mutual saviors.”

Pam Houston is the author of the novels “Contents May

Outlaws wrestle at Oregon Classic

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

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Pam Houston will visit Sisters on February 8.

Have Shifted” and “Sight Hound,” the short story collections “Cowboys Are My Weakness” and “Waltzing the Cat,” and “A Little More About Me,” a collection of essays. Her stories have been selected for volumes such as The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The 2013 Pushcart Prize, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century.

She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA Literary Award for contemporary fiction, the Evil Companions Literary Award, and multiple teaching awards. She cofounded the literary nonprofit Writing

By Writers, is a professor of English at UC–Davis, and teaches in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ lowresidency MFA program and at writer’s conferences around the country and the world.

TIME FOR INSIDE PROJECTS Table Saw

Two weeks ago, the Outlaws attended the Oregon Classic on Friday and Saturday, January 18-19, held at the Redmond Expo Center. The annual event brought in 94 high school teams, which were split into five divisions. In addition, this year also featured the expansion of the high school girls dual matches, with four girls teams. They also hosted the women’s college tournament that included nine girls teams from Oregon, Canada, Illinois, and California.

“One of the best experiences I have as a coach is when I walk into the Expo Center and look at the faces of my wrestlers who have never been there before,” said Outlaws Coach John Downs.

“They get to see the Expo Center floor covered with 16 wrestling mats, and over 4,000 athletes competing, warming up, or walking around.”

Nineteen of the 94 high school teams in attendance were in the 4A bracket with Sisters.

Sisters started against No. 2-seeded Sweet Home. The Huskies are always tough competition and beat the Outlaws 72-0. In the second round, the Outlaws lost 72-12 to Estacada.

The two standouts in the match against Estacada were

junior Anthony Randolph (145 pounds) and freshman Wyatt Maffey (132 pounds).

Randolph pinned his opponent in 1:55 and Wyatt took down his foe in 1:28.

In the third dual, Sisters faced No. 4-seeded Woodburn. The Outlaws lost, but again Randolph came through for the Outlaws.

Anthony beat his opponent in an 11-4 decision.

In the final match of the night, the Outlaws lost to the Henley Hornets 72-12.

Randolph pinned his opponent in 38 seconds to pull off another win, and Dalton Ford (126 pounds) pinned his opponent in 49 seconds.

On Saturday, the Outlaws started off with a dual against McLoughlin and lost 66-6.

Ford (126 pounds) continued his winning streak and got the pin in 3:52.

The Outlaws finished up the tournament with a 42-18 loss to Marshfield. The highlight for Sisters was when freshman Michael Zoormajian pinned his opponent in 1:05.

The Outlaws also received points with forfeits at 132 and 285 pounds.

Downs told The Nugget that the Outlaws had some individual success, especially Anthony Randolph, who finished the weekend with three wins and three losses.

The Outlaws will attend the Madras Invitational on Saturday, February 2.

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Lady Outlaws snap two-game losing streak

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaws snapped their two-game losing streak with a 47-29 road win at Sweet Home on Tuesday, January 22.

Sisters was tenacious on defense and pressed the Huskies all four quarters. In the first quarter, teams played even and at the close of the period the Outlaws held a slim one-point lead at 6-5.

In the second quarter, the Outlaws continued to play tough defense and really started to hit their shots. At the half they’d built a substantial 24-15 advantage.

The Outlaws came out aggressive and in charge at the start of the third. They scored immediately and continued to widen the gap.

Sisters’ tenacious pressure wore down the Huskies, and the Outlaws continued to convert on the offensive end and knocked down big shots.

Sisters outscored the Huskies 23-14 in the final half and easily earned the win.

Meagan Greaney said, “This win was a great way to end the first half of league.

During the second half, we played aggressively, and our press was extremely effective in forcing turnovers. All of us trusted the game plan and played tough. We feel confident heading into the second half of league because we have had really focused and intense practices these past couple of weeks. Recently, our team has been playing very well together and we’re starting to click on the court.”

Sisters had balanced scoring throughout the squad with nine different players contributing points. Lexi Stewart led the team with 11 points, and Greaney followed with 10. RylieReece Morgan and Payden Petterson scored six points each, Kaylee Huber had five, Sophia Bianchi and Isabelle Spitler posted three points each, Sydney Head had two, and Gracen Sundstrom added one.

Sisters was also a force on the glass. Morgan pulled down nine rebounds and Greaney had eight. Head and Petterson grabbed four boards and Bianchi recorded three.

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Spitler, Stewart, and Morgan each had three steals.

Coach Brittaney Niebergall-Brown said, “We played very well. I really loved our team’s aggressive defense. We pressed the entirety of the game and created some scoring opportunities for our offensive game. We pressed on makes and misses and tried to make Sweet Home as uncomfortable as we could, and we rebounded with more authority against a much taller and bigger opponent. We also limited our turnovers and were able to control more of the game from the guard position, and that really helped our tempo as a team.”

The previous week was a completely different story.

The Outlaws struggled to get points on the scoreboard and dropped their games against Philomath and Stayton.

On Tuesday, January 15, Philomath’s size, strength, and skill was no match for the Outlaws. In the first quarter, Sisters went down 0-21 before they were able to score. With two-and-a-half minutes left in the period, Isabelle Spitler hit a nice shot from behind the arc to give the Outlaws their first and only score in the quarter.

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Sophia Bianchi drives into the offensive execution. There were a couple highlights for the Outlaws in the third quarter: Sundstrom stole the ball, and drove the floor for the score, and Bianchi grabbed an offensive board and made a put-back for two.

In the final period, freshman Emma Lutz drove and made a nice lay-in, and also hit a three-pointer, for the Outlaws’ last five points in the game.

“The athleticism of Philomath really made it difficult for us from the start of the game,” said NiebergallBrown. “Our girls played hard throughout the game and were able to put together

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lane against Stayton. a more productive second half. We are still challenging our girls to stay focused with high energy for all four quarters of the game.”

Three days later at Stayton, it was a similar situation. The Outlaws were held scoreless in the first quarter, and at the half trailed 24-8.

The Eagles continued to hit their shots and outscored Sisters 19-11 in the second half.

The Lady Outlaws were scheduled to host Newport on Tuesday, January 29.

They will play on the road at Cascade on Friday. The Outlaws are currently 3-3 in league play, and 5-13 overall.

BEND (AP) — Western Communications, the parent company of The Bulletin, has filed for bankruptcy.

The Bulletin says court filings made Tuesday show the company owes more than $10 million to more than 1,000 creditors and has assets of $10 million to $50 million.

Its largest unsecured creditor is newsprint supplier Page Cooperative Inc. of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, which is owed about $946,000.

Western Communications previously filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2011 following a three-year dispute with Bank of America, the company’s largest creditor at the time.

The company emerged from Chapter 11 protection in April 2012.

Western Communications is also the parent company of The Baker City Herald and four other Oregon publications, as well as two California newspapers.

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Wrestlers host first-ever Sisters Invitational

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws hosted their first tournament ever on Tuesday, January 22. Prior to the tourney, they celebrated senior Dalton Ford and his four years as a varsity wrestler.

In the first dual face off of the night, Sisters had some exceptional matches, but lost to The Dalles River Hawks in a final score of 42-29. Four wrestlers who had strong performances.

Freshman Wyatt Maffey (132 pounds) technicalfaulted his opponent 20-3 at the 4:40 mark in the match.

Coach John Downs said that Wyatt continues to surprise the coaches with his amazing wins, and Downs is excited to watch Wyatt continue to grow and succeed as the season progresses.

Junior Anthony Randolph (145 pounds) pinned his opponent in 1:54 in the first round, and Dalton Ford pinned his opponent in just 29 seconds in the first round. Damien King (285 pounds) also got a win via a pin in 1:32. King continues to dominate, despite the fact he gives up 30 to 40

pounds to his opponents.

In the second dual, Madras defeated The Dalles 36-33.

Sisters went up against the Madras White Buffaloes in the final dual of the tourney, and earned a 33-30 win.

King started off the dual with a stellar match in the 285-pound weight class.

“Damien’s opponent was tired from his previous match against The Dalles,” said Downs. “When the whistle blew he continued to step back, and in wrestling, if you step back too many times you can get called for stalling and your opponent earns a point.

I encouraged Damien to step into his opponent or step to the left or right.”

At the close of the first round, the score was 0-0, and both wrestlers had been warned for stalling. In the second round, King earned a point from his opponent who was called for stalling. In the third round, Damien’s opponent was able to get an escape and scored a point, evening the score 1-1. The wrestlers were on their feet, and both aggressively stepped forward, hoping the other would get called for stalling.

Downs described the end

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of the match.

“With 30 seconds left, Damien’s opponent tried for a shot, but Damien had a beautiful sprawl and spun around behind and earned a two-point take-down, and took the lead 4-1. Damien continued to break his opponent to the mat for the last 20 seconds and won the match.”

Ford and Randolph both had another outstanding performance with pins over their opponents. Ethan Martin (195 pounds) won by a fall in 1:27.

Due to low numbers on both squads, both teams received points due to forfeits, and in the end, the Outlaws came out on top and posted the win.

“This was a very exciting dual for our six wrestlers,” said Downs. “We knew it was going to be difficult to get a win with six wrestlers in a dual that has 14 matches.

Every tournament we attend I tell the guys to do their best and not worry about the team score and eventually the wins will come. This advice finally paid off! I was very excited and surprised at how well my wrestlers did. It was an amazing feat for only six wrestlers and it was the most exciting dual for the Outlaws this season. The team truly needed this win! It was a huge morale booster for this small team as they head into the final weeks of the season. I was very proud that every one of my wrestlers earned a win from either a win or a forfeit.”

In the past, the Outlaws have only been able to host single dual matches, but fundraising paid off and Sisters was able to purchase an additional mat, which allowed them the opportunity to host an additional team and hold the Sisters Invitational.

“We’ve never been able to have any type of tournament in the past,” said Downs. “We hope that the success from this

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The Outlaws took to the mats for a first-time invitational in their home gym. tournament will grow and we someday have a large eightwill have more teams attend way dual tournament at the in future years. My goal is to high school.”

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St. Charles nurses ratify new contract

By Sue Stafford

BEND — St. Charles Bend nurses represented by the Oregon Nurses Association have voted in favor of ratifying a new four-and-a-half year contract.

“We are happy to have reached a contract agreement that both the nurses and St. Charles leaders feel good about,” said Debbie Robinson, chief nursing officer for St. Charles Bend.

“While it took many months of conversations, we ended in a good place and we are all ready to come together and continue doing what we do best – providing quality care for our patients.”

Now that the contract has been ratified, St. Charles and the ONA will work together to develop processes to put the new contract language into practice in the coming weeks.

“The newly ratified contract helps ensure we are providing the best quality care for our community,” said local nurse leader and ONA bargaining unit chair David Hilderbrand, RN. “We look forward to taking the next step of implementing the new contract and utilizing the

A group of Tollgate residents is concerned about the impact of a trail rehabilitation effort on their private property rights.

The Tollgate residents and one from Crossroads addressed Sisters City Council last week regarding the proposed refurbishing of the trail near Tollgate by the Sisters Trails Alliance (STA).

The project was described in last week’s Nugget and explained on a guided walk along the trail the Saturday before.

The article outlined plans by the STA to rehabilitate an existing trail that runs from Sisters High School to Tollgate through a pine forest, which is administered by the Deschutes Land Trust for the Sisters School District. A rare species of plant, Peck’s penstemon, grows in the area.

Over the years the trail condition has deteriorated with use and weather. The last 550 feet of the trail near the high school athletic fields has become overgrown with sod, creating a narrow single track rather than the original eightfoot width.

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new tools provided to address shared concerns like staffing and practice standards, which allows us to focus on our patients.”

Some highlights from the new contract include: • New groups have been created so nurses float between similar departments, providing more flexibility for staffing and ensuring every patient is treated by nurses trained to meet their specific needs.

• Creates a shared governance structure to increase accountability around staffing and practice issues. The new shared governance model will allow direct-care nurses and managers to work together to quickly address practice concerns.

• Nurses can be hired into St. Charles at step levels that are consistent with their years of experience, which will enhance recruiting efforts.

• The teams reached an agreement on wages and benefits. The agreement offers variable cost-of-living increases to provide financial flexibility for the hospital while helping recruit and retain nurses.

The Tollgate residents appeared to be responding to wording in The Nugget article that stated, “The trail will also serve as a community-wide recreational extension to the Tollgate pathway network that is open to the public.”

That statement was drawn from information provided on the guided walk by Kris Calvin, STA member and a 28-year resident of Tollgate.

Calvin’s statement was based on wording in a 2018 grant proposal from the Tollgate homeowners association to the State of Oregon Recreational Trails Program, which grants funds for public trails. The STA, SPRD, the USFS, and a number of other organizations and elected officials had provided letters of support for the grant proposal supporting Tollgate public trails.

The homeowners association did not receive the grant.

The Tollgate residents who spoke at the Council meeting seemed to be mainly concerned with public access to walking paths and roads within Tollgate. The roads and trails inside Tollgate are maintained by the homeowners association, and, therefore, the residents who spoke

said, they are not available to the public. They do not want people to come into Tollgate to walk or ride bikes in the subdivision.

The 2018 grant application was for funds for “public trails” — thus the confusion for Calvin.

A donor to STA originally offered $10,000 toward the trail rehabilitation. With a price tag of over $20,000, STA had hoped Tollgate would contribute some money toward rehabilitating the part of the trail that lies on Tollgate property. The last 220 feet of the trail from the Tollgate well house to the gate at the end of Wagon Wheel belongs to Tollgate.

Prior to the Council meeting, the donor had offered to cover the entire cost of the trail, eliminating the need for a letter of support (LOS) that had been requested from the City of Sisters to accompany an STA grant proposal for $5,000 from the Doppelt Foundation. The LOS was on the Council agenda until the last minute, which explains why the Tollgate residents appeared to speak to Council.

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the past two years and is an amazing leader. She is one of the most fit female athletes in our school and has strong academic standards for herself as well. She will have been to State all four years and was on the first cheerleading team from Sisters to compete at Nationals. She has a passion for her sport but also is one of the most seen students at all other athletic contests here at our school beyond what was required of her as a cheerleader. She is one of the best examples of athletes at our school.”

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Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that the rules approved Thursday are a tradeoff between having some smoke drift into communities during the winter months and the potential for devastating wildfires in the summer.

On the color-based system used for air quality alerts, the cutoff would now be within the yellow or “moderate” category.

The rules also designate limits for the 24-hour average of smoke in communities. The new rules apply to public and private landowners and burning on industrial timberlands.

“This change will allow relatively low levels of smoke from prescribed burning to occur more frequently in communities. And that’s a tradeoff for reducing the potential for much worse smoke incidence from wildfire in the summer season,” said Department of Environmental Quality director Richard Whitman.

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A community’s identity with art

By Chris Morin Correspondent

Small towns in America typically aren’t associated with art.

Their identity is usually based on one of the following: remote location; nearby job-related industry such as agriculture, mining, ranching, logging, commercial fishing, or manufacturing; serving as a bedroom community to a nearby larger town. When the identity shifts, due to loss of the original causation, the town will wallow and gradually stagnate, or it might attempt to gain a new identity, which carries a certain risk.

Small towns that are art destinations rarely start out as such, they evolve into it.

Twenty years ago, John Villani authored the book “The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America. “ A backcover summary of a small art town: “[It] is the type of community people love visiting on a weekend getaway. They might stay at a gorgeous B&B, have dinner in a great (but undiscovered) restaurant, wander around art galleries, antique shops, and flea markets.

“A small art town is the sort of place urbanites move to after selling their condo and finding a renovated farmhouse on five forested acres.

On weekends these new residents enjoy art gallery openings and local musicians performing at cafes. On weeknights there are concerts and dance programs at the local arts center.

“A small art town is the sort of place where people can find a true sense of community. Families value small art towns because they have a high priority on neighborliness and security. Kids can walk home from school in safety. Crime rates are reassuringly low.”

Visiting an almost “ideal” place is one thing; living

there brings a greater dose of everyday reality. Nonetheless, the kernel of truth in this glowing perception is palpable. Art as a commanding presence genuinely does exist in a small percentage of towns and helps influence the atmosphere of these locations toward the kind of place envisioned by Villani’s book.

For a community to be considered an art town, per capita, a fairly large number of artists call it home. Works of art are out and visible in the community. Performing art venues have been set aside and dedicated to music, dance, or theatre performances. Opportunities annually occur for individuals to study, learn, and practice various art genres. Finally, art galleries and antique stores offer take-away works.

The iconic small towns of the American West are always noted for having three things: 1. amazing outdoor scenery that provides recreational opportunities; 2. a strong cultural component with an art community as one of those foundations; 3. a wide selection of good-togreat restaurants. Thereafter, each has a unique quality that makes it distinct. Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is renowned because of the nearby wildlife; Sedona, Arizona, provides the mystical energy angle; Durango, Colorado, has the Old West persona; Taos, New Mexico, offers the deep heritage of Pueblo and Spanish cultures.

These locations have a wide range of locals, with a plethora of attitudes, lifestyles, and perspectives, but overall, they exemplify those initial three qualities. They have learned how to make the alchemy of egalitarian and unified coalesce. This, in turn, attracts visitors who seek out those very things to include a lack of monochromatic thinking, which is more indicative of generic small towns. These attributes are

also likely to influence who will consider moving to these locations.

Other iconic towns offer much different unique identities. One is known for a massive motorcycle gathering, which provides a certain persona and attracts a different crowd. Yet another town is developing its image to include being a cannabis destination, due to the change in recent state laws. Another town, in the heart of red rock canyon country, annually holds 18 major, town-filling, traffic-altering weekend festivals or events along with an equal number of smaller venues. Locals there have come to resent this town’s popularity on those weekends. Yet, none of these popular locales are viewed as art destinations.

A town can gain the art identity accidentally or through guided effort. Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, became art centers in the early 1900s after several artists relocated there over a period of 30 years. It wasn’t planned. Whereas some communities, particularly ski towns of the West — Aspen, Squaw Valley, Telluride, Deer Valley — sought out art festivals and art galleries so as to infuse this aspect into their identity.

Ouray, Colorado; Poulsbo, Washington; and Homer, Alaska, began as mining, agricultural, and fishing communities, but eventually faced a downturn in those

industries. Each reinvented itself as a small-town destination, though not as an art community per se. They’ve become highly respected destinations where art is recognized as playing an important and respected role. If a community could be said to have a “soul,” then it would be fair to say that spiritually, in addition to economically and culturally, these three towns have been prospering over the past 30 years.

Sisters, Oregon has a solid identity driven by the outdoors, the Western frontage motif, and three major events.

These factors might very well be sufficient and sustaining as the town continues to grow, and growing it is. The foundation exists for it to also become a true art community.

Whether or not to attempt to direct the progress of Sisters in any direction, let alone an art community direction, would be debatable. After all, contentious debate serves as the norm for anything anymore. Determine, fate, acquiesce, status quo, intervene … these are fancy words for saying hands-on or hands-off.

However, every town has, at the very least, hands in place around it, be they interested or passive, proactive or reactive. Whatever hands there are in place around this community, whatever they may or may not do, let them hold a healthy, positive desire for the future of Sisters — in its entirety.

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Government shutdown took toll on wildfire preparations

By Gillian Flaccus Associated Press

PORTLAND (AP) — Just two months after a wildfire wiped out Paradise, California, officials are gearing up for this year’s fire season and fear the government shutdown could make it even more difficult than one of the worst in history.

The winter months are critical for wildfire managers who use the break from the flames to prepare for the next onslaught, but much of that effort has ground to a halt on U.S. land because employees are furloughed. Firefighting training courses are being canceled from Tennessee to Oregon, piles of dead trees are untended in federal forests and controlled burns to thin dry vegetation aren’t getting done.

Although the furloughs only affect federal employees, the collaborative nature of wildland firefighting means the pain of the fourweek-long shutdown is having a ripple effect — from firefighters on the ground to federal contractors and top managers who control the firefighting strategy.

State and local crews who need training classes, for example, are scrambling

without federal instructors.

Conservation groups that work with the U.S. Forest Service to plan wildfireprevention projects on federal lands are treading water.

Annual retreats where local, state and federal firefighting agencies strategize are being called off.

The fire season starts as early as March in the southeastern United States, and

by April, fires pop up in the Southwest. Last year’s most devastating fire leveled the Northern California town of Paradise just before Thanksgiving, leaving just a few months to prepare between seasons.

“I think a lot of people don’t understand that while there’s not fire going on out there right now, there’s a lot of really critical work going on for the fire season — and that’s not getting done,” said Michael DeGrosky, chief of the Fire Protection Bureau for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.

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A dozen senators from Oregon, California, New M e x i c o , Wa s h i n g t o n , Colorado, Nevada, West Virginia and Michigan sent a letter this week to Trump warning that the shutdown would put lives at risk this coming fire season. Classes necessary for fire incident managers, smokejumpers and hotshot crews are in jeopardy in the near future, the senators said.

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“Even if the shutdown ends and we start hiring people, we will have missed the cream of the crop,” DeGrosky said.

The U.S. Forest Service said in an email that the agency was committed to hiring for temporary and permanent firefighting positions and would continue critical training “to the extent feasible.”

The first session of an apprenticeship program for wildland firefighters went ahead this week, Forest Service spokeswoman Katie O’Connor said.

“The agency is assessing and prioritizing the activities we are able to maintain while in shutdown status.

We are unable to speculate on specific impacts while the government shutdown is ongoing and ever-changing,” O’Connor said in a statement.

Conservationists and fire managers say there are other concerns.

Clearing and thinning projects and planned burns on federal land that could lessen fire danger by weeding out flammable debris also are largely on hold in California, Oregon and elsewhere. Private contractors say they have received letters telling them to stop the work.

There’s already a backlog of such projects in federal forests in Oregon and Northern California, said Michael Wheelock, president of Grayback, a private contractor in Grants Pass, Oregon.

Intentional fires can only be set in a narrow winter window before temperatures rise and humidity falls — and that is rapidly closing, Wheelock said.

“Every week that goes by, it’s going to start increasing the impact,” he said.

Joyce McLean, who lost her and her husband’s home in Paradise last November, supports Trump’s push for a border wall but worries what will happen if firefighters aren’t prepared for next time.

“I hope there are no more forest fires,” said McLean, 74. “I wouldn’t wish that on nobody.”

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The Sisters Park & Recreation District Board of Directors, which previously met on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month, will now be meeting on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month.

Meetings are still at 5:30 p.m. at The Coffield Community Center SPRD building. For info call 541549-2091.

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Cold Weather Shelter Community Meeting

An opportunity to share information and ideas and to learn about and discuss the Sisters Cold Weather Shelter is set for 6 p.m. Monday, February 4, at the Sisters Fire Hall Community Room. The session will be led by a neutral facilitator, and ideas and comments will inform Sisters Cold Weather Shelter operations. All are invited. For more information please call the shelter at 541-2139766 and leave a message.

Saturday, February 16 from noon to 1:30 p.m. the Alzheimer’s AARP Driver’s Safety Association will hold a program Wednesday, February 27 from AARP’s Driver Safety Course, a at the Sisters Library on 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. is a night of classroom refresher for motorists Understanding and Responding art for Sisters in the Sisters High 50 and older, will be offered on School Commons. Sisters Country to Dementia-Related Behavior.

Tuesday, February 19 from 9 a.m.

Learn to decode behavioral is invited to attend the 22nd to 4 p.m. at Sisters Community messages in the absence of annual celebration of the arts at Church. There will be a one-hour language due to Alzheimer’s SHS! Bring the whole family to lunch break. Call 541-390-6075 disease. To register call 800-272participate and interact with the to register. Cost is $15 for AARP 3900 or go to alz.org/oregon. students and community at our members and $20 for nonhands-on art stations. Studentmembers.

Annual Chili Feed for Vets designed silkscreen T-shirts, Ronnie and Susie Frigulti present Career Funds Available collaborative art stations, a their 6th annual free chili feed Applications are available for take-away prize for visiting all the for veterans and their families the Sisters Kiwanis Career stations, and more! Enjoy our pop- on Saturday, Opportunity up gallery of student art, luthier February 16 Fund to help designs, and live entertainment from noon to adult residents of from SHS music programs as well 3 p.m. at Sisters Sisters establish as refreshments. Admission is $5, Community an occupational $20 for family. For more info call Church. The path. Pick up 541-549-4045. meal includes forms at the homemade chili, Kiwanis House, Hunter’s Education Class Wednesday, January 30 sausage, coleslaw, corner of Oak For a hunter’s education class Empty Bowls Event cake, coffee and Main, 9 beginning Tuesday, February 5, 6 p.m. at Sisters High School and soft drinks. a.m. to 2 p.m. register online at odfw.com Please RSVP Thursdays, and (hunting–resources–education).

Monday, February 4 the number during regular It runs two nights per week for Shelter Community Meeting of attendees hours from the three weeks, plus a required field 6 p.m. at Sisters Fire Hall Sisters Habitat day. For information call Rick Cole by Tuesday, February 12 at for Humanity at 541-420-6934 or Dave Jones at Tuesday, February 5 541-549-1089 office. For 541-863-0955. or via email Hunter’s Education Class Begins additional Mom-to-Mom Meeting to frigulti@ 6 p.m. at Sisters Community Church information, Moms are invited to get bendcable.com. please call 541connected with other moms 410-2870. for support and fun! First Parkinson’s Support Group Tuesday of each month, from Healthy Living Information The second Tuesday of each 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hangar for Seniors month, Sisters Parkinson’s at Sisters Community Church.

Seniors and caregivers are invited Support Group meets at Sisters Also meeting the third Tuesday to drop by the SAGE room at Community Church from 1 to of each month 10 a.m. to noon SPRD on the second Monday of 2:30 p.m. (following the Senior in the Fireside Room at Sisters every month from 1 to 3 p.m.

Luncheon). All are welcome to Community Church. Childcare to meet local service providers learn, share, and receive support. available in morning session — and gather free information For more info contact Lenetta at RSVP if needed. For information 907-687-8101 or Carol at 541-668- about aging in place from foot call 970-744-0959. care to end-of-life planning. Call 6599.

Diane Goble at 541-588-0081 for Organ Donor Awareness Support for Caregivers information.

A new nonprofit is in the planning A free support group for those stages to educate the community who provide care in any capacity Thich Nhat Hahn Sangha on the importance of organ meets at Shepherd of the Hills Meditation Group donation. Fundraisers and events Lutheran Church, 386 N. Fir St. Weekly on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. will be discussed. If interested in at 10:30 a.m. the third Tuesday of at 737 E. Black Butte Ave. For more taking part, please call Fifi Bailey at each month. Call 541-771-3258 for information please email Kathyn 541-419-2204. additional information. at Katindahood2@gmail.com.

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The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration 68825 Brooks Camp Road • 541-549-7087 8:30 a.m. Ecumenical Sunday Worship (Sunday school, childcare) 10:15 a.m. Episcopal Sunday Worship (Sunday school, childcare) Sisters Church of the Nazarene 67130 Harrington Loop Road • 541-389-8960 | sistersnaz.org 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship | 2sistersnaz@gmail.com Westside Sisters 442 Trinity Way • 541-549-4184 | westsidesisters.org 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship Vast Church (Nondenominational) 1700 W. McKinney Butte (Sisters High School) • 541-719-0587 9:37 a.m. Sunday Worship | vastchurch.com Seventh-Day Adventist Church 386 N. Fir Street • 541-595-6770, 541-306-8303 11 a.m. Saturday Worship The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 68885 Trinity Way • Branch President, 541-420-5670; 10 a.m. Sunday Sacrament Meeting Baha’i Faith Meetings Devotional Gatherings, Study Classes and Discussion Groups. Call for location and times • 541-549-6586

Backcountry Film Festival

On Sunday, February 17 at 7 p.m. the Sisters Movie House will be hosting the Backcountry Film Festival, a celebration of winter and the passion for adventure. Proceeds raised will go toward Project SNOW (Studying Nature Outdoors in Winter), a program dedicated to providing free outdoor education experiences for over 2,000 kids in Central Oregon. Tickets may be purchased ahead of the event for $15. Call 541-383-5530 for more information or go to winterwildlands.org/backcountryfilm-festival/.

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

One-Act Plays

Fourth Annual “Now You’re Talking...” Theater Event. Thursday through Sunday, February 2124, local nonprofit Silent Echo Theater Company will premiere eight one-act plays by different playwrights at The Belfry.

Performances are at 7:30 p.m., with matinee shows at 2 p.m. on Saturday, and 3 p.m. on Sunday.

Doors open one hour prior to curtain. Tickets may be purchased in advance online at bendticket. com; at the door is cash only. For additional information call 541719-8779.

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Hire a singing valentine for your special someone! A quartet will come to your desired Central Oregon location, sing 2 songs and provide a rose for a unique, personal and fun valentine gift for $40. Whether you want to embarrass your honey at the workplace or have us crooning at your dinner table, we can deliver. This is a fundraiser for local nonprofit Bella Acappella Harmony Chorus. Call Pam to reserve your spot at 541-480-7425.

CPR/AED and First Aid Class

The next CPR/AED class is scheduled for Saturday, February 9 at 9:00 a.m. The First Aid module is on Sunday, February 10 at 9 a.m. The cost is $30, which covers both modules, a workbook and completion card. Register by Tuesday, February 5. To register, go online to sistersfire.com and select the CPR tab, or stop by and register at the Sisters Fire station during business hours (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Pick up the student workbook at the station after you register. If you have questions, call Beverly Halcon at 818-674-7686.

Announce Your Celebrations!

Birth, engagement, wedding and milestone anniversary notices from the Sisters community may run at no charge on this Announcements page. All submissions are subject to editing for space. Email lisa@nuggetnews. com or drop off at 442 E. Main Ave. Deadline is noon, Mondays.

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Family Fun Story Time

Family Fun Story Time for kids of all ages takes place at the Sisters Library on Thursdays, January 31 and February 7, 14, 21 and 28 from 10:30 to 11 a.m., with songs, rhymes and crafts, all designed to grow young readers. Caregivers must attend.

Info: 541-617-7078.

Animal Adventures

Koda is a 3-year-old St. Bernard and boxer mix. He is a very sweet boy who is looking for his new forever family. He came to us when the owner could no longer take care of him. Koda can be nervous at first, but once he comes out of his shell he is the nicest and sweetest dog you’ll ever meet! He would do best in a home without any cats, and would love to meet any dogs in the home before being adopted.

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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 Tuesdays, February 5 and 19 at 11:30 a.m. Info: 541-3121072.

Know Less Waste

Explore how the stuff we buy, use and get rid of every day is impacting our world with staff from The Environmental Center’s Rethink Waste Project.

Leave with hands-on tips to do something about reducing waste. Wednesday, February 20 at noon at the Sisters Library.

No registration required. Info: 541-312-1032

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by Richard Russo with other thoughtful readers at the Sisters Library on Wednesday, February 27, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Info: 541-617-7078.

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Tales from a

Sisters Naturalist

by Jim Anderson

Flying through winter Winter’s hard on wildlife, just as it is on you and me.

But like you and me, birds that spend winter with us have methods they can use to stay warm and dry, like layers of clothing that keep us warm.

(The butterfly has built-in antifreeze.)

Songbirds, quail, waterfowl and the like also are well suited (pardon the pun) to survive winter, with downy feathers close to their warm bodies. The down is like warm woolen long-johns to us, trapping air close to our skin keeping in the heat. A bird’s outside feathers that prevent cold wind, snow and rain from reaching their insulating down are like our jackets, overcoats, and wool hats.

I know for sure it is nigh unto impossible to freeze a great horned owl to death.

Back in the 1960s, a fellow called me at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry to tell me he had a dead great horned owl he picked up off the shoulder of the highway, and asked what he should do with it.

He lived just a few miles from my home in Beaverton, so I told him to put it in the freezer and I’d be by to pick it up as soon as I could. It so happened that an unexpected meeting sent me off in his direction, so I stopped by that afternoon.

As I walked into his house I asked if he’d checked the owl for a band.

“No, I forgot to, but here,”

he said, taking hold of the freezer door handle, “you check it and take the owl with you.”

He opened the door, still looking at me, and when he turned his head, he yelped, “What the…!” and slammed the door shut. He just stood there staring at me and said — no I can’t tell you what he said — but it was very colorful and intimated that owl was supposed to be dead…

We both peeked in very carefully as he slowly opened the freezer door, and sure enough, the owl was standing upright, blinking at us.

Yeah, he had a broken wing and wasn’t very alert, but he was a living — albeit severely damaged — adult male great horned owl. (I’m sorry to say he did pitch-it-in later, from injuries suffered from the vehicle strike).

From the moment they hatch — late winter and early spring in most places — owls have a thick coat of down covering their entire body.

The insulating qualities are superb at keeping air trapped in the soft down, maintaining the owl’s body operating temperature at about 109 degrees.

To say an owl is “hot stuff” is no exaggeration.

Hummingbirds that choose to spend winter here instead of going to Mexico with their kin — because people leave their feeders up — use fat to survive. They can go into a stupor for 36 hours without food or warmth. There are hummingbirds coming to feeders in Oregon right now that have survived the cold nights, with just enough warmth during the day for them to leave their shelter, slurp up sugar water and search for insects.

Wintering birds as a whole need that same protein and water, especially. When a bird attempts to slake its thirst using their body heat to melt snow and ice into water it uses too much energy. Yes, sage grouse can get away with it, but robins and most feederbirds cannot. They must have

flowing or open water to stay alive.

Robins can get by on juniper berries, old apples and other fruit, but not without water. They will go into serious stress without water — the same for the hummers, goldfinches and other small birds. Please, keep your water feature flowing; the colder it is outside, the more birds need the water.

Even the migrators have a tough time of it. As we have seen, waterbirds of all kinds crash, sometimes in the middle of the highway, when they’re making their night migratory flights and run into a weather front. They quickly run out of fuel, and in the case of grebes, will usually die if they can’t find water to land in. That’s when wildlife rehabbers like Elise Wolf of Sisters Country become very busy trying to heal injuries on

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Outlaws earn win over Warriors

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws posted a big 45-41 victory at home over Philomath on Tuesday, January 15, but three days later suffered a 48-32 loss on the road against No. 3-ranked Stayton. They also dropped their game at Sweet Home on Tuesday, January 22, in a final score of 51-42.

Against Philomath, the Outlaws worked together to earn a league win over the visiting Warriors.

In the first quarter teams scored back-and-forth, and mid-way through the period the score was even, 8-8. The Outlaws held the Warriors scoreless the last four minutes, and a bucket from Jack Berg and a three-baller from Noah Richards put the Outlaws on top 13-8 to close out the quarter.

Philomath hit a three with 17 seconds left in the second quarter to close the gap to 21-20. Zach Anderson was fouled at the buzzer and stepped up to the line. Zach was poised and steady, and sunk both shots to give the Outlaws a three-point lead, 23-20, as teams headed into the half.

Sisters only allowed the Warriors one point the first half of the third, and with three minutes left in the quarter, the Outlaws had built a 31-25 advantage.

Philomath tightened up their defense and shut down the Outlaws’ scoring until Jude Carhart made a nice lay-in at the nine-second mark and closed out the period with the Outlaws on top 33-25.

Philomath fought back, and midway through the fourth closed the gap to three, 35-32. With two minutes left on the clock, the Warriors had cut the lead to one. Richards grabbed an offensive board and made a put-back to put the Outlaws up by three, 42-39, and at the 18-second mark, Anderson blocked a huge three-point attempt that would have tied the game.

The Warriors pressed and put the Outlaws on the line.

Brad Eagan made both his shots at the stripe to give the Outlaws a 44-39 lead.

Philomath made two points at the line, and then with five seconds left Ryan Waddell hit one of his two foul shots to seal the deal as time ran out on the clock.

Richards had a great game for the Outlaws. Noah played tough defense, and made some big plays in the second half. He led the Outlaws’ scoring effort with 16 points, including two big threes in the final half. Ryan Waddell scored 11 points, and Berg and Anderson each contributed seven points.

Runco told The Nugget that Eagan, Richards, and Berg really handled the Warriors pressure to get the Outlaws the win.

On Friday, Sisters struggled against the Eagles 2-3 zone, and their two big posts.

They didn’t shoot the ball well, and weren’t able to penetrate into the paint. On the flip side, the Outlaws defense did well against the Eagles’ size, and were able to slow them down.

Sisters only put up 10 points in the first half, five in each quarter, while the Eagles on the other hand put 23 points on the scoreboard.

Runco told The Nugget that the Outlaws tried to attack seams, but were tentative against the Eagles’ size in the first half of the contest.

In the second half the Outlaws played even with the Eagles, but they’d dug themselves into too big of a hole in the first half to be able to come back.

Waddell came off the bench for the Outlaws and put up a great battle against the 6-foot-8-inch post Anundi. Ryan, along with Carhart, doubled up on him, slowed him down, and held him to eight points.

Post player Nichol posed more of a problem, as did the Eagles’ shooting guard, who hit three shots from behind the arc while the Outlaws

were focused on the posts.

Waddell, Richards, and Joe Scholl held their own on the boards, and rebounded well against the much bigger Stayton squad.

Runco said, “Offensively, we had some really good looks early that did not go in, and that made it tough as they were able to keep their bigs close to the basket, slowing our penetration. We kept fighting, but just gave up too much in the first half.”

The Outlaws suffered another tough loss at Sweet Home on January 22. Sisters handled the tenacious manto-man press well, but the culprit and difference in the game was foul trouble.

Anderson had to sit out due to a previous concussion and so the Outlaws started out the contest short on depth, and found themselves in foul trouble from the start.

Richards, Berg and Waddell got in foul trouble in the first quarter and the situation just got worse as the game went on.

Runco said, “It was quite frustrating with the pressure and physical play that Sweet

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Home was able to play that the foul issue was one-sided.

In the end, they shot 29 free throws to our 11, and converted 19 points from the line to our six, which was the difference in the game.”

Runco noted Eagan and Waddell for their play.

“Brad had a great game on both ends,” said Runco.

“Defensively, he was rocksolid, and took care of the ball under tremendous pressure. Ryan was solid as usual.

He’s been fighting sickness for a few weeks, but he is so tough and he battled through the illness without missing a

game.”

Since the Outlaws have not all been at 100 percent, they’ve been working hard to build depth from the JV players, and Runco told The Nugget he feels several are on the edge of playing time due to their hard work and effort seen in the Sweet Home contest.

Joe Scholl has steadily improved on both ends and played big minutes for the Outlaws in the last two games. Brogan Petterson and Nate Weber have also been instrumental in the Outlaws’ depth.

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Stars over Sisters

By Delsie McCrystal & Holly Werts Correspondents

February of 2019 has arrived, and with it comes the prospect for beautiful starry skies. There are new things to observe and discover in our immense, dark sky.

The Winter Triangle is an especially prominent feature. This impossible-tomiss asterism consists of the three bright stars that mark the points of the triangle: Procyon, brightest star in Canis Minor, Sirius, brightest star in Canis Major (in fact, the brightest star in the entire sky), and Betelgeuse, second brightest star in Orion. But the triangle itself isn’t the primary focus of interest here, except to frame the area of sky within the triangle where a celestial unicorn resides.

Monoceros doesn’t date back to antiquity, as do many other constellations, but arrived on the scene relatively recently. This is why very little, if any, mythology is associated with it. The first historical reference to this star grouping appeared on star charts created in 1624 where it was listed as Unicornu.

However, it wasn’t until 1930 that the International Astronomical Union adopted Monoceros as one of the 88

modern constellations.

Although the constellation is relatively inconspicuous, containing no stars brighter than fourth magnitude, it is home to an extraordinarily beautiful object known as the Rosette Nebula. Officially classified as an emission nebula, this roughly spherical cloud of interstellar gas and dust is a hotbed of star formation. Many young, superhot stars have formed near the nebula’s center (an open star cluster known as NGC 2244), from which intense stellar winds are creating a hole.

The Rosette Nebula derives its name from the red color and flower-like shape that’s revealed using modern techniques of astrophotography. But don’t expect to see this view through your backyard telescope, or any telescope. It’s easy to locate NGC 2244, the fine star cluster at the heart of the nebula, but it takes a low-power telescope with a wide field of view, and a clear, moonless night to even begin to detect the dim, white glow of the gas cloud.

Despite being 5.5 times larger than the famous Orion Nebula, the Rosette Nebula is about four times farther from the earth.

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The Rosette Nebula is a beautiful emission nebula where new stars are being born, and is located at a distance of approximately 5,200 lightyears in the constellation of Monoceros.

Venus arrives on the scene 30 minutes later, followed

by Saturn at about 5:30 a.m.

The best planetary show of the month will occur on February 18 when Venus and Saturn come into conjunction, staged against a backdrop of stars in the constellation of Sagittarius.

The cycle of the lunar phases is driven by the relative positions of the moon, earth and sun, and indicates the percentage of the moon’s face that is illuminated by sunlight at any given time, as viewed from the earth. When the moon is between the earth and sun, its face is unlit and we refer to it as a new moon (NM). Roughly 15 days later

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Monocerotis, the constellation’s brightest star. Only by turning a telescope on this star is its true nature revealed—a triple star system! And it can be seen through all but the smallest of backyard telescopes. British astronomer Sir William Herschel, who discovered it in 1781, commented that it is “one of the most beautiful sights in the heavens.”

Mercury and Mars patrol the evening sky this month, while Venus, Jupiter and Saturn populate the pre-dawn celestial canopy.

By mid-month Mercury stands about 5 degrees above the western horizon half an hour after sunset. It spends the rest of the month climbing higher in the sky until on February 26, when the smallest planetary orb reaches its greatest eastern elongation, the separation with the horizon has grown to 11 degrees.

Mars, on the other hand, is still well above the horizon by nightfall and doesn’t set until 11 p.m. local time on February 15.

At 4 a.m. on February 1 Jupiter is the first planet to burst into the morning sky.

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the moon has traveled halfway around the earth in its orbit, resulting in an alignment where the earth is between the moon and the sun. This is a full moon (FM), as the moon becomes fully illuminated.

The first and last quarter phases occur when the moon is at right angles to a straight line between the earth and the sun, resulting in a half-lit moon. The moon is said to be waxing (increasing illumination) when it’s between the new and full phases, and waning (decreasing illumination) between full and new.

This month NM will occur on February 4, FQ on February 12, FM on February 19 and LQ on February 26.

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And it goes online at no extra charge!

Placement deadline for Nugget classified ads is Monday before noon.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

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Enjoy a memorable night out on Valentine’s Day at the Lodge Restaurant.

Our chefs are planning a spectacular four-course prix fixe meal, featuring oysters, lobster bisque, butter-basted petit filet and pan-seared diver scallops. A specially selected wine flight is available. Call 855-318-9848 for reservations.

See BlackButteRanch.com for menu and details.

Our LOVE BBR Romance Package is available when you book a cabin, home or condo* with the Black Butte Ranch Rental Program February 8-18.

The package includes: 1 bottle of champagne 2 Black Butte Ranch logo wine glasses • Locally made spa products Box of locally sourced chocolates • Rose petals upon arrival in your vacation rental Call 855-318-3967 to book now. *Mention code LoveBBR2019.

Nothing says romance like a piece of handcrafted jewelry for your sweetheart — or a piece of fine art to enhance your love nest.

Hood Avenue Art, at the corner of S. Pine Street and W. Hood Avenue is a premier destination fine art gallery in Sisters, Oregon. Over 20 Central Oregon artists exhibit in this artists-owned gallery established in May 2014.

Exhibiting original paintings, sculpture, jewelry, functional and decorative pottery, metal work, woodcraft, textiles, water features, and more, Hood Avenue Art is a beautiful and creative space for art collectors. See art reflective of the landscape, and expressive of the images, thoughts, and sensations of the artists who interpret our unique High Desert culture.

Enjoy innovative artwork in a friendly and intimate setting, while visiting with the working artists who staff the gallery. Our artists offer many personalized services like commissions, portraits, customized fabrication, and classes.

Make a date of it and visit Hood Avenue Art with the one you love.

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Spoons now features See’s Candies. They’re offering them year-round to chocaholics in Sisters — but they’re an especially apt gift at Valentine’s Day. In addition to See’s Candies, Spoons is the perfect place to come for your mid-winter comfort food. The eatery on Cascade Avenue has a stellar reputation for its delicious homemade soups — three varieties on offer every day.

Soups are available to-go, making a delicious, nutritious meal easy even when you’re busy. The chicken noodle soup flies out the door.

Spoons offers a soup club, and they deliver to downtown businesses.

Spoons features a range of specialty sandwiches and a wide selection of delicious frozen yogurt.

Not only does Spoons offer delicious homemade food all day long, it’s also a warm, inviting family community spot where kids can come and enjoy activities open-heartedly supported by the staff.

Come to Spoons and take a menu with you. It’ll become your go-to spot for Valentine’s Day — and every day!

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Lake Creek Lodge

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There’s no more romantic location in all of Sisters Country than Lake Creek Lodge. It’s just a few miles up the road in Camp Sherman, but it feels like a real getaway.

For Valentine’s Day, Lake Creek Lodge is serving up a delightful fixedmenu meal featuring filet mignon and salmon. Call early and reserve an especially intimate seating by the fireplace, 541-516-3030.

Enjoy a drink at Lake Creek Lodge’s full bar as you and your sweetheart unwind from the day-to-day grind.

Extend your romantic evening into a staycation. Take advantage of winter specials that make a romantic getaway easy and affordable. While they last, you can also get discount tickets for skiing at Hoodoo. Call for rates.

It really doesn’t take much for you and your Valentine to get away from it all. Just drive a few minutes out to beautiful Camp Sherman and the lovely Lake Creek Lodge.

The perfect romantic dinner with your Valentine awaits at The Open Door.

Sisters’ unique wine bar and gallery offers two seatings on Valentine’s Day — 5-5:30 p.m. and 7-7:45 p.m. — for you and your sweetheart to enjoy a fixed menu featuring four courses: soup, salad, an entrée and Julia’s crème brûlée cheesecake for dessert. View the menu at www.opendoorwinebar.com.

Enjoy wine parings featuring Italian wines and Brut Champagne, and a full wine and cocktail menu will be available — all in a warm, intimate setting. Seating will be available throughout the wine bar — including the enclosed porch and in the attached Clearwater Gallery — which means you and your special someone will be surrounded by beauty all evening long.

Clearwater Gallery features a variety of renowned Sisters and Pacific Northwest artists — and you might just find the perfect gift for your Valentine right there in the gallery.

Reservations are required; call 541-549-6076.

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A staycation at Lake Creek Lodge is the perfect Valentine’s getaway

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

S TAY I N S I S T E R S F O R

Always the Perfect Gift…

We Now Carry Ca Cand See’s Candies!

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Sandwiches Delicious soups

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Valentine’s Day Gift Certificates Available...

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Chocolate & Oregon Hazelnuts Are Divine!

— JJustt FFor N Nuggett V Valentines l ti — Order Our Nutcracker Trio,

(Roasted Hazelnuts, Toffee & Chocolate Covered Hazelnuts) Get A Free Brittle!

Mention: YUM!

More ddelicious M l gift f boxes at www.hazelnuthill.com Order online or call 541-510-4464

ARTWORK WITH

HEART! Special gifts for that special person!

Black Butte Ranch

Hood Avenue Art

Enjoy a memorable night out on Valentine’s Day at the Lodge Restaurant.

Our chefs are planning a spectacular four-course prix fixe meal, featuring oysters, lobster bisque, butter-basted petit filet and pan-seared diver scallops. A specially selected wine flight is available. Call 855-318-9848 for reservations.

See BlackButteRanch.com for menu and details.

Our LOVE BBR Romance Package is available when you book a cabin, home or condo* with the Black Butte Ranch Rental Program February 8-18.

The package includes: 1 bottle of champagne 2 Black Butte Ranch logo wine glasses • Locally made spa products Box of locally sourced chocolates • Rose petals upon arrival in your vacation rental Call 855-318-3967 to book now. *Mention code LoveBBR2019.

Nothing says romance like a piece of handcrafted jewelry for your sweetheart — or a piece of fine art to enhance your love nest.

Hood Avenue Art, at the corner of S. Pine Street and W. Hood Avenue is a premier destination fine art gallery in Sisters, Oregon. Over 20 Central Oregon artists exhibit in this artists-owned gallery established in May 2014.

Exhibiting original paintings, sculpture, jewelry, functional and decorative pottery, metal work, woodcraft, textiles, water features, and more, Hood Avenue Art is a beautiful and creative space for art collectors. See art reflective of the landscape, and expressive of the images, thoughts, and sensations of the artists who interpret our unique High Desert culture.

Enjoy innovative artwork in a friendly and intimate setting, while visiting with the working artists who staff the gallery. Our artists offer many personalized services like commissions, portraits, customized fabrication, and classes.

Make a date of it and visit Hood Avenue Art with the one you love.

Excludes lodge rooms. Not valid with existing reservations or other promotions. Excludes access fees, taxes and cleaning fees. See BlackButteRanch.com for details.

Spoons

Oregon Lifestyle Property Group

Spoons now features See’s Candies. They’re offering them year-round to chocaholics in Sisters — but they’re an especially apt gift at Valentine’s Day. In addition to See’s Candies, Spoons is the perfect place to come for your mid-winter comfort food. The eatery on Cascade Avenue has a stellar reputation for its delicious homemade soups — three varieties on offer every day.

Soups are available to-go, making a delicious, nutritious meal easy even when you’re busy. The chicken noodle soup flies out the door.

Spoons offers a soup club, and they deliver to downtown businesses.

Spoons features a range of specialty sandwiches and a wide selection of delicious frozen yogurt.

Not only does Spoons offer delicious homemade food all day long, it’s also a warm, inviting family community spot where kids can come and enjoy activities open-heartedly supported by the staff.

Come to Spoons and take a menu with you. It’ll become your go-to spot for Valentine’s Day — and every day!

It can be difficult to find the “right” Realtor when you buy or sell one of your most valuable assets. However, Oregon Lifestyle Property Group and Jodi Satko, Broker, have earned the “We Love Our Realtor” status with their clients. Hear what some of those clients have to say: “When everything lined up to buy my first home, Oregon Lifestyle Property Group was ready! I can’t say enough about my customer experience and their professionalism … there is no price tag on the peace of mind you get from having this great team working for you!” — James B. “Moving from California, I interviewed 3 local realtors, I had no question that Jodi’s team was the best choice!” — Kerri B., Bend Call Jodi, Courteney, and Brian today regarding their feature properties; spring specials; no-obligation property evaluation (mention this ad). Inquire about a complementary one-year warranty.

Call Jodi for ALL your Real Estate needs!

Lake Creek Lodge

The Open Door

There’s no more romantic location in all of Sisters Country than Lake Creek Lodge. It’s just a few miles up the road in Camp Sherman, but it feels like a real getaway.

For Valentine’s Day, Lake Creek Lodge is serving up a delightful fixedmenu meal featuring filet mignon and salmon. Call early and reserve an especially intimate seating by the fireplace, 541-516-3030.

Enjoy a drink at Lake Creek Lodge’s full bar as you and your sweetheart unwind from the day-to-day grind.

Extend your romantic evening into a staycation. Take advantage of winter specials that make a romantic getaway easy and affordable. While they last, you can also get discount tickets for skiing at Hoodoo. Call for rates.

It really doesn’t take much for you and your Valentine to get away from it all. Just drive a few minutes out to beautiful Camp Sherman and the lovely Lake Creek Lodge.

The perfect romantic dinner with your Valentine awaits at The Open Door.

Sisters’ unique wine bar and gallery offers two seatings on Valentine’s Day — 5-5:30 p.m. and 7-7:45 p.m. — for you and your sweetheart to enjoy a fixed menu featuring four courses: soup, salad, an entrée and Julia’s crème brûlée cheesecake for dessert. View the menu at www.opendoorwinebar.com.

Enjoy wine parings featuring Italian wines and Brut Champagne, and a full wine and cocktail menu will be available — all in a warm, intimate setting. Seating will be available throughout the wine bar — including the enclosed porch and in the attached Clearwater Gallery — which means you and your special someone will be surrounded by beauty all evening long.

Clearwater Gallery features a variety of renowned Sisters and Pacific Northwest artists — and you might just find the perfect gift for your Valentine right there in the gallery.

Reservations are required; call 541-549-6076.

Love is in the air

A staycation at Lake Creek Lodge is the perfect Valentine’s getaway

Antler

ARTS

Watch for our Re-Opening!

Graceful Touch

New local owners!

Valentine’s Day Special…

Open 7-daysa-week!

Enjoy Valentines dinner ... and stay a few nights, the lodge is glorious this time of year.

See dinner menu at lakecreeklodge.com. g A short drive from Sisters into another world.

Call for reservations: 541-516-3030 | www.lakecreeklodge.com

LOCALLY HANDCRAFTED:

541-549-4251

Lighting • Decor• Gifts Furniture • Jewelry Western & Native American Lifestyle Store

311 E. Cascade Ave., | sistersantlerarts.com Facebook.com/AntlerArtsinc

Body Works

Full-body scrub, microdermabrasion, facial and reflexology.

90 minutes only $80!

Couples treatments also available!

Specializing in…

Facials • Reflexology Body scrubs • Ionic Foot Detox Reflexology $35/hour

170 W. Cascade Ave, Suite 5 • 541-977-4110 www.gracefultouchbodyworks.com

541-749-1800

ON THE CORNER OF S. PINE ST. & W. HOOD AVE. IN N INF0@HOODAVENUEART.COM

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Serving Buyers & Sellers in Central Oregon for over 15 years!

Team of Brokers for the price of one!

Jodi Satko, Broker, Team Leader 541-550-0819 satkosellsoregon@gmail.com Luxury, Ranch, Resort, Investment, Custom, Land

Each Office Is Independently Owned And Operated

Special Valentine’s Day Dinner

Whether dining with a friend or a sweetheart this February 14th, celebrate Valentine’s Day with The Open Door. Reserve your table and enjoy lovely service, a 4-course prix fixe menu, specialty cocktails and an elegant wine pairing menu.

Call for reservations 541-549-6076 and visit our website for our menu www.opendoorwinebar.com

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ART AWARDS: Works remain on display at library Continued from page 1

is called “So It Went For the Duck.” It is a four-foot-tall juniper slab inscribed with wildlife of all sorts. The duck is somewhere – yes – peeking out from behind a gnarly branch. Look closely and you may even spot Waldo, of “Where’s Waldo” fame, among the collection of ravens, raccoons, and …?

J a c k s o n ’s photograph, “Sunrise Before the Storm,” is a shot from the

Enchantments, in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the Stuart Range, about 15 miles from Leavenworth, Washington. It’s an area of lakes and tarns and jagged peaks, the most prominent being Prusik Peak, which Jackson captured in his shot.

The range is sometimes regarded as one of the most spectacular in the Washington Cascades. Taken during a four-day wilderness camping trip, Jackson’s photograph depicts a lake surrounded by sharp peaks just as the sun is cracking over the horizon. Rocks in the foreground frame the lake, which reflects the color of the rising sun.

“Twenty-four hours later,” Jackson said, “there was eight inches of snow at the same spot.”

T h e large photograph, printed on metal, is hung unframed in the center of the largest wall in the Library’s Community Room.

PHOTO BY HELEN SCHMIDLING

Steve Mathews repeated as a People’s Choice winner with “So It Went For the Duck.”

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Austin Jackson’s “Sunrise Before the Storm” drew the attention of People’s Choice voters.

Chamberlain’s winning painting, “Not A Single Leaf,” depicts a small grove of aspens in very late fall, barren of every branch. The painting is positioned offcenter in a large rustic metal frame that the artist “found for three dollars at a Bend High School yard sale.”

“The painting was three times this size, but I cut it down to fit into this frame,” Chamberlain said.

Like Jackson’s photograph, Chamberlain’s painting depicts a landscape waiting for the season’s first snow to cover the tailings of a stormy fall. The frame accentuates the mood.

The Art Committee of the Friends of Sisters Library (FOSL) organizes the annual exhibit. This year, the exhibit

includes 148 pieces of twoand three-dimensional art, by 68 artists. More than a hundred people dropped by on Friday night for the reception, to view the art, cast their ballots, and visit with the artists.

This is the seventh year for the People’s Choice Award, said Zeta Seiple, chair of the Friends of Sisters Library Art Committee. Before announcing the winners, she thanked the many artists who participate in the show each year, and the many who visited the library in the past three weeks to vote and the Renaissance Sisters, a chamber group led

by Lola Knox, who provide an elegant musical backdrop.

The exhibit continues through February 22.

Some of the two- and

Twenty-four hours later there was eight inches of snow at the same spot.

— Austin Jackson three-dimensional artwork is still available for purchase, and FOSL receives 10 percent of the purchase price. To indicate a desire to purchase, fill out one of the forms located on the table near the entry of the Community Room. Library hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

LETTERS

Continued from page 2

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To the Editor: I was delighted to see the stories in The Bulletin on January 24-25 about the improvement in graduation rates throughout the state, and especially in Central Oregon. Most of our area schools were not only above the Oregon average they were also above the last reported national average. Those improvements indicate that something is going right in our schools, and they all should be congratulated.

Even though Oregon’s rate is still lower than the national average, increasing these numbers around the state is a step in the right direction.

I just finished reading a fascinating book

by Emily Krone Phillips entitled “Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader At A Time, The Make or Break Year.” It focuses on how developing the Freshman On Track program in the Chicago Public Schools changed their graduation rates dramatically.

The book recognizes Oregon as being one of the states that has adopted this program and it was satisfying to read that many of the schools listed in the articles mentioned the Freshman On Track program. It highlights how individual attention to students during this crucial year can become a turning point for any student having difficulty.

I highly recommend the book for anyone who has a student in, or going into, the ninth grade and encourage all educators to become familiar with it.

Edie Jones

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To the Editor: Regarding the “George” book conversation, I’m confident I speak for the majority who are appalled that our children are being subjected to GLBTQ+ influence in schools.

Few would be happy if their child decides to try to become the opposite of their biological birth.

Most children with such feelings naturally grow out of them. But in the current “social construct” they’re being encouraged to question, experiment, even change themselves through artificial means to become something other. Going through changes of puberty is traumatic enough, without presenting them with confusing ideas that they may have been born “in the wrong body”!

There is an agenda to push this on our children, and force those of us who think differently to go along with it or be branded as bigots — punished for, among other things, using the “wrong” pronouns to address confused people. Statistics show the suicide rate among people who choose that route is very high. They find it hasn’t made them happy, that they’re missing something in their life.

Some have transitioned back and become happily married with children, the ideal we were

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To the Editor: Sue Stafford wrote at the end of her article “Sisters man’s donation speeds up trail rehab” (The Nugget, January 30, pg. 1) that the proposed resurfacing of the Tollgate-toSisters High School trail “will also serve as a community-wide recreational extension to the Tollgate pathway network that is open to the public.”

Contrary to Ms. Stafford’s assertion, Tollgate is a private community and its pathway network is not open to the wider public except by explicit invitation from residents.

Many people in Tollgate steadfastly oppose the resurfacing of the north end of the Tollgate-to-Sisters High School trail (which traverses Tollgate property) because it would expedite illegal use of Tollgate’s private facilities and provide quick getaway for burglars of Tollgate homes. They also worry that use of the trail by the broader Sisters community could cause Tollgate to lose its easement rights to its own property through a prescriptive easement acquisition.

But this is more than an issue for just Tollgate residents. Sisters Trails Alliance (STA) has an ulterior motive in resurfacing the trail. During their guided walk of the trail a couple weeks ago (which Ms. Stafford attended), STA representative Kris Calvin told participants that the resurfaced trail could possibly become a spur trail to the highly controversial Sisters-to-Black Butte Ranch trail.

For all the good STA has done in our community, they are very slow learners. A few years ago, the Sisters Ranger District declined to fund or even sanction the Sisters-to-Black Butte Ranch trail (a proposed wide asphalt path through the Deschutes National Forest) when it became obvious (after several rancorous public meetings) that its proposal was severely dividing our community.

Here we go again. All those in Sisters who oppose a revival of the Sisters-to-Black Butte Ranch asphalt path should send STA a loud and clear message: Hands off!

Michael Cooper

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The Bend Rush 3-vs-3 Indoor Soccer Tournament hosted their second annual event on December 29, at the Bend Indoor Soccer Center and five Outlaws from Sisters Middle School, Marley Holden, Lilly Sundstrom, Juhree Kizziar, and Sage and Shae Wyland attended.

Sisters girls were entered in the 13-and-under girls division, with four teams in their bracket, including two very good club teams.

Coach Brian Holden told The Nugget that the girls were nervous about playing in their first-ever indoor tournament.

Each team played each other once, and then points for wins, losses, and total goals scored were added up, and teams were seeded first through fourth place. From there teams went into an elimination round. Sisters finished third, behind the No. 1 and No. 2 Bend Rush teams.

In the elimination round, Sisters defeated the No. 1 Bend Rush team.

Holden said that the win was a huge team effort.

“The girls were successful because they applied pressure early, and forced mistakes in front of the other teams’ goal,” he said.

The Outlaws then faced the No. 2 Bend Rush squad.

Sisters started out great and at the half were on top 2-1.

Bend Rush came back in the second half, and defeated the Outlaws 4-2.

“The girls came out a little nervous, and in the second half fitness definitely came into play, and you could see they were a little bit tired,” said Holden. “Overall, it was a good final game by both teams.”

Most of the goals for the tournament were scored by Holden, Sundstrom, and Kizziar. The Wyland sisters did a great job on defense, and kept goals out of the net.

“We gained some great experience from the tournament, and with more experience, the girls will show less nerves and be more confident,” said Holden. “The girls were happy and surprised by their success and had a great time as a team. I’m proud of their success and glad they challenged themselves against better teams.”

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FOLK FESTIVAL: Organizational structure revised Continued from page 1

and elsewhere, along with a guitar-building program at Sisters High School.

The organization is currently in the last stages of a capital campaign to buy the building where it is headquartered and which is also the site of the largest festival venue, and is exploring the possibility of building a performing arts venue.

All of that is occurring in the context of a rapidly changing music industry landscape that is putting unprecedented pressures on artists and event producers alike.

The SFF board of directors announced last week that the organization is moving away from a co-directorship that has run the festival for the past five years with Ann Richardson as managing director and Brad Tisdel as creative director. The board announced that it had come to the “conclusion that an executive director (ED) model would better serve our organization, community and mission. While creating an ED position will impact every staff position, it has a material cost and scope overlap with the current managing director position. After a considered decision by the board, SFF has chosen to adopt the ED model and eliminate the managing director position.”

Debbie Newport, a career educator who served on the board in the past and was instrumental in establishing the SFF education programs, will serve as interim executive director.

“We realized quickly that we needed a single voice,” SFF board chair Sue Boettner told The Nugget.

“The co-director model had been working — with some issues — but we realized that we needed a singular voice… there were different messages because of different styles that were going out to the public and I

think we confused the public sometimes.”

She also noted that the operations of the organization and the jobs of the people within the organization are both growing rapidly in scope and complexity and the board believes that they had to get out in front of the changes.

In an email to friends and business associates, Richardson said, “I am shocked and saddened to let you know that my position as managing director at Sisters Folk Festival has been eliminated and my last day in the office will be March 1. I have been assured that this change is not at all reflective of my performance.” Richardson said that, “I’ll be taking some time to run a few rivers, work on some quilts, walk with my dogs (and husband!), and assess the road ahead.”

Richardson has been working with Newport on the transition.

Boettner told The Nugget, “We did look internally for an ED.” However, she said, the board agreed that Richardson and Tisdel each had some of the qualities the organization needs in a future executive, but not all of them.

We realized quickly that we needed a single voice.

— SFF Board Chair Sue Boettner “I think it’s someone who has a passion for the arts and music and someone who has the business sense to run a multi-million-dollar organization,” she said. “It’s going to be hard to find the right person, but I think they’re out there.”

Newport noted that the ED must be “somebody that embodies the desired culture in the community.”

The interim director told The Nugget that her immediate priorities are supporting

the staff through a transition and in staging the upcoming winter concerts and the My Own Two Hands fundraiser, and delivering on the ongoing school programming.

We’re all in this together and it’s about creating a healthy community.

— Interim Executive Director Debbie Newport Newport noted that many people who attend SFF events don’t know about the extent of the music education programs, which include a Studio to Schools program funded through the Oregon Community Foundation.

The program utilizes art not just for its own sake, but as a vehicle for learning critical thinking, creativity, and student leadership as they take on and teach to others.

Newport said that SFF has made a “commitment to sustain all of that going forward. As a community, what we’re doing is supporting education.”

Newport will also lead the search for a full-time ED, whom SFF hopes to have in place in mid-April.

The search will be local and nationwide.

Boettner and Newport reflected on the wide impact SFF has on a range of stakeholders, including patrons, vendors, business owners, volunteers, artists, donors, sponsors, the school district and local government.

“It’s mind-boggling how many people we touch,” Boettner said.

And that is at the core of the message Newport most wants to deliver to every stakeholder: “We’re all in this together and it’s about creating a healthy community.”

E d i t o r ’s n o t e : J i m Cornelius was a co-founder of the Sisters Folk Festival and served on its board of directors from 1995 to 2015.

SISTERS FOLK FESTIVAL:

A changing music landscape The music industry has undergone seismic shifts in the past decade, and those changes are creating challenges both for artists trying to make a living and for event producers like Sisters Folk Festival.

Perhaps the biggest shift is that most artists now must make almost their entire living off of live performance fees.

Royalties from record sales and songwriting credits have dwindled. That means that the fees charged by artists’ agents have gone up, and the timing of bookings has changed.

“Some artists are looking way out in advance because artists are playing live to make a living and record sales are no longer the thing that’s sustaining them,” SFF Creative Director Brad Tisdel told The Nugget. “I think we need to be looking further in the future for bookings.”

SFF helped to pioneer a thriving music scene in Central Oregon and the Pacific Northwest — and that means there’s more competition for artists both regionally and nationally.

“More and more festivals are coming into the marketplace and larger festivals are coming into the landscape that have big corporate sponsorship and can pay fees that are actually a little out of market rate,” Tisdel said.

Many big festivals have just one or two major stages and book 12 to 16 performers, Tisdel noted. The SFF model places 11 venues throughout Sisters and the festival annually books 40 to 50 artists. Tisdel says SFF remains committed to the model, but it grows increasingly challenging in terms of both budget and logistics to deliver upon.

One of the charms of the Festival is that it’s intimate and that “all the town’s a stage.” Patrons enjoy coming not only to catch artists that they already know, but to find new favorites.

“The niche we’ve created is more of a boutique/‘discovery’ festival,” Tisdel said.

It’s a balance though.

“We do have to have some familiarity with names on the poster,” Tisdel said.

The festival has gained a reputation among artists for the beauty of the setting, the attentiveness of audiences and for being a festival that treats artists exceptionally well. Those are values that Tisdel is committed to, regardless of changes.

He also noted that the timing of SFF is a bit challenging. In addition to being increasingly vulnerable to wildfire impacts (the 2017 Festival was cancelled due to heavy smoke), it lies just outside the traditional festival “season,” which ends with Labor Day Weekend. If the festival was at an earlier time, it would be easier (and less costly) to catch artists as they route through the Pacific Northwest — but it would also be competing head-to-head with bigger festivals.

Another challenge lies in massive consolidation among booking and management agencies in the music industry.

Relationships that took years to build have changed. And negotiations for bookings often come down to a simple business proposition of dollars and cents and timing, leaving some of the less tangible but significant aspects of Sisters and its folk festival unarticulated.

“I wish we could communicate the deep investment that we in the community have in the schools, that artists and agents could understand that it is so much more than a threeday event,” Tisdel said. “I wish we could tell that story better, so that it’s not seen as just another gig.”

Where does Tisdel see SFF in five years?

“My honest answer is, I don’t know,” he said. “We just have to pay attention to the landscape… We need to be realistic and adaptive. We need to look at things in the future through the lens of serving our mission and our community as a nonprofit organization.”

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To buy a building In the immediate aftermath of a successful “comeback” event in September 2018 after the 2017 fire cancellation, Sisters Folk Festival launched into a campaign to raise funds to purchase the Sisters Art Works (SAW) building where the organization has been headquartered for most of the past two decades. The purchase will enable SFF to further develop the facility as an educational PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS center and multi-use events and performance Sisters Folk Festival is raising funds to purchase the Sisters Art Works venue. building, where the organization has been headquartered for 13 years.

The owners of the SAW building, Frank and Kathy for at least a decade been talking about creDeggendorfer, offered SFF the opportu- ating a hub for artist residencies, recording, nity to purchase the property at half of its and expanded educational opportunities — appraised value. SFF hopes to complete the all of which would be furthered by securpurchase by June 2019. The appraised mar- ing a permanent headquarters owned by the ket value of the property is $1 million. The organization. He noted that the Festival has Deggendorfers’ gift is long wanted to find ways valued at $500,000. With to expand its successful planned improvements model of the Americana and upgrades, an operatWe don’t know what Project into “lifelong ing reserve and an estilearning” opportunities mated $50,000 in camall those programming for people of all ages. paign costs, SFF needs More year-round proto raise a total of $1.4 gramming could have elements are going to be... million (including the an economic benefit by initial donation value) to — Development Director expanding the “shoulcomplete the transaction. der season” of the tourSFF Development Steven Remington ist economy, Remington Director Steven Remingnoted. ton told The Nugget that The unique opportuthe “Connected By Crenity for a purchase raises ativity” capital campaign is close to goal, a range of opportunities that is only beginhaving raised $1.1 million. ning to be explored.

“We’re working on some final grants — “We don’t know what all those programfoundations that have indicated an interest ming elements are going to be, what all those in what we’re doing and would like to be the collaborations are going to be,” Remington last funds in,” Remington said. said.

Once the purchase is complete, SFF will Remington said that he believes that the explore whether or not to pursue funding to building purchase pushed SFF toward other build a permanent structure on the expan- changes. sive lawn behind the SAW building, which “We had this great offer and I think that is now the Sisters Folk Festival’s largest certainly accelerated the board’s research venue space. A permanent structure would and discovery in terms of organizational allow for more year-round concerts and change,” he said. “We’re on the road to an other events, but there are varying opinions organizational shift that I believe will eleas to whether the SAW site is the right spot vate that growth. It’ll allow us to have somefor such a venue. body who’s always flying at 10,000 feet — Remington said that SFF leadership has that’s their view.”

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Rackowski to direct Alzheimer’s group Shannon Rackowski is the new Alzheimer’s Support Group Facilitator for Sisters Country.

The A l z h e i m e r ’s Association support group is an open gathering of people with common problems, needs and interests who come together to share their feelings, thoughts and experiences in a combined effort to better cope with and manage the shared problems of dementia in a safe environment. The goal of AA support group is to provide emotional, social and/or educational support to group members, said Rackowski.

Some of the signs of Alzheimer’s/dementia are: • Poor judgement and decision-making.

• Inability to manage a budget.

• Losing track of the date or the season.

• Difficulty having a conversation.

• Misplacing things and being unable to retrace steps

to find them.

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, accounting for 60 to 80 percent of all dementia cases. Alzheimer’s is not a normal part of aging – it is a progressive brain disease. Two abnormal brain structures called plaques and tangles are the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease and are thought to damage and kill nerve cells.

Rackowski has chosen to take the position as the new support group facilitator in Sisters because of her family genetics with her dad, mom, and several of her brothers suffering from AA before their passing. Everyone is welcomed to attend, whether you are a caregiver or this might run in your family.

The Alzheimer’s Support Group meets the first Tuesday of each month from noon to 1:30 p.m., at Sisters City Hall.

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Resolutions are dropping February is around the corner and most of us have gotten back into routines after the holiday. Many, who after the holidays felt the shame of binge eating, letting go of exercise routines, and stressful travel promised in 2019 to make

a resolution. According to Business Insider’s report, only 64 percent of people remain on board one month in.

How does it happen that a strong desire upends itself only one month in? Blame the paradoxical nature of the human being. A brain that is routed for habitual behavior.

A person sees chocolate, a person eats chocolate, a person feels good. It’s a basic program our brain runs in order to make higher-level thinking possible.

It takes time and a defined process to re-wire the program.

Learning from failure is one of the treasures of life. Without failing where would anyone be? Instead of labeling yourself as lazy or useless, look at the wins. If eating better was a goal, you undoubtedly did succeed.

Maybe you learned you actually like salad greens and can stand having a salad

for lunch. Maybe eating fish and chicken took the place of sausage and burger.

Perhaps you switched out a daily cola for a no-calorie sparkling water. These are all small changes, but if they are extrapolated over a year they can make a big difference.

Did you make it to the gym a few times? Are your running shoes by the door, awaiting a walk? Did you remember that standing up and doing some stretches improves posture and tension in your back immediately?

Take the win — and make that stick.

Resolution goals are usually set at a time when there is a big swing of personal shame and social pressure.

This condition makes for overshooting. Eating better and exercising more sound so simple, but in context of a busy life, it quickly becomes overwhelming to

of people reported that losing 40 pounds would be ideal, while another 30 percent wanted to lose 20. Now, if you’re a month in and see that three pounds is all that’s been lost, there’s a huge emotional letdown which might cause you to jump ship. One pound lost is still one pound lost.

Take the win.

Set a small goal and revisit it twice or three times a week. Make a small step, and make it a habitual program.

It’s a month into the new year, and many who were driven to succeed are facing a wake-up call. Take small wins, recontextualize the oversights, know that time and difficulty are conditioned; take the overall dream and break it into small bites.

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I watched her face when we walked across the subfloor; I watched her face when the walls were being painted. No words were required to tell us how much this home means to this family.”

While Ayala held her new grandchild, she expressed her thanks to the crowd, saying she and her children will treasure the memories that they will make in their new home.

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Forty-two percent of people reported failing a new year’s goal because of it being too difficult while 36 percent blamed lack of time.

This aligns with the habitual programming concept. Our behavior is set the way it is because of ease and time conditioning.

While eating healthfully seems like it takes time, if you make enough of a healthy meal to last for days you would inevitably save time. Any novelty is difficult at the first approach, but a meal of pre-packaged salad, a package of precooked quinoa, some garbanzo beans with a healthy dressing is only slightly more difficult than a packaged microwave product or drive-through burger.

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on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. in June 1980, earning Cockburn an appearance on Saturday Night Live. Through the 1980s Cockburn’s songwriting became increasingly urban, global and political as he became more involved with progressive causes, with his second U.S. radio hit, “If I Had a Rocket Launcher,” from the “Stealing Fire” album.

He had written the song a year earlier, after visiting Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico that were attacked

by Guatemalan military helicopters.

His newest recording, “Bone On Bone,” Cockburn’s 33rd album, arrives with 11 new songs, including “3 Al Purdys,” a brilliant six-minute epic that pays tribute to Purdy’s poetry.

Cockburn explains its genesis: “I went out and got Purdy’s collected works, which is an incredible book.

Then I had this vision of a homeless guy who is obsessed with Purdy’s poetry, and he’s ranting it on the street. The song is written in the voice of that character. The chorus goes, ‘I’ll give you three Al Purdys for a twenty dollar bill.’ Here’s this grey-haired dude, coattails flapping in the wind, being mistaken for the sort of addled ranters you run into on the street – except he’s not really ranting, he’s reciting Al Purdy. The spoken

word parts of the track are excerpts from Purdy’s poems.

After that, once the ice was broken, the songs just started coming.”

“Bone on Bone” amounts to the deepest expression of Cockburn’s spiritual concerns to date. The 12-time Juno winner and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee turned away from traditional Christianity in the mid-1970s toward a quest for the more all-inclusive mysticism he documents in his memoir.

And it’s that kind of spirituality that figures prominently in “Jesus Train” and “Twelve Gates to the City.”

In “Looking and Waiting,” Cockburn sings of “scanning the skies for a beacon” from the divine. “It’s a song of faith and frustration,” says Cockburn of the latter.

“Tired of looking in from the outside.”

“My MO has always been to be aware of the divine... that dimension... always dealing with being stuck in a kind of observer’s position with respect to all that,” he said. “I know it’s there. I don’t really see as faith so much as knowledge. Others may have different ideas about those things, but for me, I don’t have to struggle to believe in God, or the notion that God cares what happens to me. But I do have to struggle with being in a conscious, intentional relationship. That underlies a lot of these songs.”

“Forty Years in the Wilderness” ranks alongside “Pacing the Cage” or “All the Diamonds” as one of Cockburn’s most starkly beautiful folk songs.

There have been so many times in my life when an invitation has come from somewhere... the cosmos... the divine... to step out of the familiar into something new.

— Bruce Cockburn “There have been so many times in my life when an invitation has come from somewhere... the cosmos... the divine... to step out of the familiar into something new.

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Audry Van Houweling, PMHNP Columnist

The shadow of desperation In Oregon, suicide rates have increased nearly 30 percent from 1999-2016 and suicide is now the second leading cause of death among children and young adults ages 10 to 24. Per Mental Health America, Oregon has the highest prevalence of mental illness in the nation.

Oregon can also claim the third-worst high school graduation rate and the nation’s second-highest number of unsheltered homeless persons. In many of Oregon’s rural counties, opioid prescriptions are also among the highest in the nation.

There is a lot of hurt, a lot of desperation, and widespread feelings of being “stuck” in a system that allows little upward mobility.

Nearly 18 months ago I decided to make the shift to embracing functional medicine in my mental health practice. I have become convinced that functional medicine is not the latest trend, but simply common-sense medicine, I am a firm believer that functional medicine is the future of medicine.

That said, the reality is that functional medicine and frankly a lot of worthwhile therapies are still a bit idealistic and inaccessible for many.

Specialized labs are often not covered by insurance, supplements can be expensive, personalized nutrition approaches are not in the budget, and “stress management” may be a stretch for the many individuals existing in survival mode where relaxation, deep breathing, and self-reflection are luxuries.

And so, myself and many other healthcare providers are tasked with navigating the complexities of attempting to promote holistic, personalized care amid social realities that create immense barriers.

Too many of our patients are stuck in the “fight or flight or freeze” mode where true healing becomes elusive.

If we (as providers) are not careful and especially if we are being rushed into providing care for big problems, burn out can come quick.

Economic stability, physical environment, education, food, community and social supports, and access

to healthcare are identified as the primary social determinants of health by the Centers for Disease Control. Many patients come my way seeking respite from understandable distress when one or more of these determinants are minimal or absent. And while counseling has often been suggested, so too has medication in many cases.

The patient may be panicked, overwhelmed, depressed, hopeless, and isolated. Yes, they may meet “criteria” for a myriad of diagnoses; however, how often are we really medicating or even numbing symptoms that are not indicative of pathology, but of societal shortcomings?

I ponder the “what ifs” all the time…what if they had stable housing…enough food…a safe home? If only I had a magic wand.

Let’s go back to Psych 101 and revisit Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: food, water, warmth, rest, security, and safety. It is in fact rare that I come across a patient that has all these basic needs met.

Even in circles of affluence and privilege, there can certainly cases of unrest, insecurity, abuse, and a perception of feeling unsafe. Ultimately, when the body cannot be in a state of rest, healing is difficult if not impossible. To expect favorable health outcomes in the context of desperation is simply irrational.

My opinions do not negate the potential value of pharmaceuticals and mainstream therapies as tools to help regulate a person’s symptoms, but if we pretend that “the treatment” of mental illness and emotional distress is relegated to pharmaceuticals and counseling, we are being shortsighted and ignorant.

So where does this all leave us and how do we move forward? First and foremost, we cannot pretend that illness is happening in a vacuum. As a healthcare system, we know this intellectually, but in practice, as we silo care to different specialties, rush patients through appointments, and take away time for important communication, we can fail to address psychosocial, socioeconomic, and spiritual impacts. We cannot expect a pharmaceutical to solve homelessness, hunger, abuse, or poverty and we must prioritize trauma-centered care.

This takes courage, radical responsibility, teamwork, and innovation. We must provide opportunities and space for discussion and emotional vulnerability in our families, schools, places of worship, and workplaces. The idea that mental health is a “personal problem” and therefore an individual burden, only increases secrecy, shame, and stigma. We must all be advocates. Your health and my health depend on it.

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Alpine skiers turn in strong performance on slopes The Outlaws boys ski team finished fourth in their race at Mt. Bachelor on Saturday, January 26, and the girls posted an eighth-place finish under sunny, warm, and calm conditions.

The course got a bit soft and wet with the heat, and there were a record number of crashes among all the teams, but the Sisters teams finished strong and scored well.

The boys varsity team posted a team time of 6:48.77 for their fourth-place finish, just behind Mt. View’s third-place finish (6:47:76).

Colton Seymour finished fifth (2:14.66), Kincaid Smeltzer was eighth (2:15.97), George Chladek 12th (2:18.14), Evan Palmer 27th (2:33.25), and Christopher Lundgren, in his first varsity race of the year finished 30th (2:36.89).

Coach Gabe Chladek said, “Colton and Kincaid skied exceptionally well for the difficult conditions, and maintained clean, high, direct lines.

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time of 2:36.44. Adelt finished 29th with a time of 3:14.78, for her first top-30 finish.

Wilkins pushed hard and crashed on her second run, but got back on course and finished to record a second-run time, which kept the Sisters girls team in the team score.

Sydney finished 33rd with a combined time of 5:08.46.

Chladek said, “I’m really proud of how well the Outlaws skied. The team keeps improving with every week. They’re moving up in the finish a little bit with each race, so we may move into third place. It will

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Outlaws skiers are skiing well as the season hits the midway point.

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was going to be her first lifting competition. Since she no longer can, let’s do the heavy (and light) lifting for her!

Spectators are welcome to come for free and can make donations or purchase fundraising items during the meet.”

A silent auction will be held at Sisters Saloon on Friday, February 8, from 5 to 9 p.m., with all proceeds going to the Daughters of Jenny Cashwell Memorial Fund.

Thirty-six-year-old Alan Porciello remains in Deschutes County Jail on charges of manslaughter and unlawful use of a weapon in connection with the shooting.

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel has reported that Cashwell and Porciello had connected through the dating website PlentyOfFish and had communicated several times before agreeing to meet in person for the first time on the day of the shooting.

Cashwell reportedly picked up Porciello at his apartment and they went hiking at Pine Nursery Park Trail before returning to the apartment.

Authorities say Porciello shot Cashwell in the apartment and called 911.

Investigators are still working to determine what led up to her death.

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be an exciting second half to the season.”

The boys JV team was missing some veteran racers, and fielded some for their first-ever race. Caden Mercer, Ian Cash, and Jacob Lee combined for fifth place.

“First-time racers Mercer

and Lee skied clean lines for a great start to their racing careers, and Ian continues to improve with every race,” Chladek said.

Next up for the Outlaws is a Giant Slalom race at Mt. Bachelor on Saturday, February 2.

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They had to balance being aggressive with responding to the variable snow conditions on a course with a couple tricky gate placements. And, in this league it’s a big deal to finish in the top 30 in your first varsity race, and Christopher did a great job.”

The girls were missing two racers and still finished eighth with a team time of 10:59.68. Three freshmen, Hollie Lewis, Piper Adelt, and Sydney Wilkins led the squad and did an incredible job. Lewis skied very fast and finished 18th with a combined

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SHELTER: Staff meeting with neighbors over concerns

ARREST: Man was restrained for safety, though force not used

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shelter, Gary Eidsmoe, told The Nugget, “I think the main concern for the neighbors is why do we have the shelter in close proximity to neighborhoods and schools, and we will explain this as best as possible.”

A professional facilitator will provide coordination for the evening to ensure the conversations stay on topic and civil.

Organizers are hopeful to also have representatives from Shepherd’s House (the fiscal agent for the shelter), the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office to talk about their experience with the unhomed, and Sisters District Ranger Ian Reid or Fred Perl, the USFS law enforcement officer. Perl has frequent contact with shelter guests and others who live in the surrounding forest.

For the month of February, the SCWS is located at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. Earlier it was housed at The Hangar belonging to Sisters Community Church and at Westside Church.

According to police, an investigation revealed that Bulloch contacted a High Country Disposal garbage truck driver and requested to use a phone. After the phone call, police say, a family member arrived and was assaulted and strangled by Bulloch.

The garbage truck driver attempted to intervene but was also allegedly attacked.

The driver retreated to the safety of her garbage truck; Bulloch then allegedly attempted to get into the cab of the garbage truck through the driver’s window, hitting and slapping at the driver.

Officers arrested Bulloch,

N U G G E T F L AS H BAC K a Sisters-area resident. While police reports state that drug use is believed to be a contributing factor in the incident, Bulloch’s father, Brad Bulloch, told The Nugget that he has seen blood work done after the incident and he is adamant that no drugs were involved. Brad Bulloch told The Nugget that his son was facing mental anguish due to the death of his mother two months before and other pressures associated with relocation and work.

Redmond Police Department reported that they did not use force to arrest Bulloch, but he was placed in a WRAP restraint to ensure his safety and the safety of officers. Bulloch was taken to St. Charles Redmond for an evaluation before being taken to the Deschutes County Adult Jail on multiple charges.

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The Bunkhouse Chronicle Craig Rullman Columnist

A weenie for the win The field of candidates for the 2020 Presidential Challenge Blowout is taking shape just in time for pitchers and catchers — they report for spring training in early February – and what makes this timing so marvelous, so utterly serendipitous, is that it also beginning to look a lot like a mid-season Sausage Race.

The Sausage Race is a baseball tradition born in Milwaukee where, during the seventh inning stretch of Brewers games, mascots dress up like different sausages and go racing around the park. It’s a fan favorite, because nothing beats watching a ten-foot kielbasa faceplant on the infield, or a tottering chorizo slamming into an andouille, or an outof-control bratwurst veering off course and flipping wildly over the dugout rail.

It’s hard not to see the burgeoning field of candidates for the American presidency in much the same way.

To wit: video posted by Mother Jones magazine of Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke wearing a onesie, and what appears to be a pig mask, while covering “Blitzkrieg Bop” — an otherwise terrific song by The Ramones. To be fair, Beto hasn’t formally announced, perhaps because he was too busy live-streaming from a dental chair while getting his teeth cleaned, but I sincerely hope he runs, if only

to see how low the bar is actually set for contemporary American candidates for the White House.

Not to be outdone, software gazillionaire John McAfee has announced his candidacy, albeit from exile on the high seas. McAfee has not paid taxes, by his own admission, for eight years, and has some trouble with the IRS. As to his platform, McAfee told reporters by satellite phone while bobbing around in a nor’wester: “...do not ask me about immigration, foreign relations, education etc. I have no idea.”

At least he’s honest. Other candidates in the field will undoubtedly wax endlessly about their brilliant solutions to these problems, but on the heels of a month-long government shutdown it’s quite clear that no one in American politics has any solutions anymore. For anything.

Instead, it’s every weenie for himself.

What’s most intriguing about McAfee is his doppelganger strategy, which is to run in absentia by hiring thousands of actors to wear McAfee masks and to make random appearances on the campaign trail. This is an idea he borrowed from Asian nations typically run by military juntas, where the practice

is merely practical. Alas, McAfee has other issues, including a notorious paranoia, and a larger question remains about the unsolved homicide of his neighbor in Belize, for which he remains the prime suspect.

There’s also Kamala Harris, who flunked the bar before having an affair with San Francisco’s “Downtown” Willie Brown, and then rode those coattails into the Attorney General’s office where she set about destroying California law enforcement. Harris likely has the inside track to the nomination, but only after shoring up her bona fides as a soldier in the Army of Savonarola by strapping Justice Kavanaugh to the Judas Cradle during his confirmation hearings.

One might expect a former prosecutor to understand the requirement for evidence before putting Kavanaugh to the test, but its apparent that large numbers of American voters no longer care about such mundane details as due process.

And, if political genealogy still matters, it’s probably worth noting that Harris’ guru and benefactor, Downtown Willie, once gave a speech where he lauded Jim Jones, of Jonestown fame, as “a combination of Martin King,

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Still others asked for even more flexibility to use fire to restore forests.

Communities interested in promoting prescribed burns will also be able to apply to state regulators for exemptions to occasionally allow higher hourly smoke totals, which would provide even more flexibility.

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Angela Davis, Albert Einstein (and) Chairman Mao.” Uncle Joe Biden might still jump into the race, though at this point the chances of a white septuagenarian serial groper surviving the myriad temptations of the campaign trail seem a bit slim. Also, there is the problematic issue of him recently admitting that he likes Republicans, which isn’t going to sit well with the perpetually furious and congenitally offended DNC. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are interesting sausages, in the same way that Lenin and Trotsky were interesting. Warren will no doubt forever regret her attempt to appropriate a Native lineage, which probably killed her shot at the Oval Office, and it’s doubtful Bernie will ever overcome his image as a burned-out church deacon pounding the rostrum and wielding a dogeared copy of Das Kapital like Moses come down the mountain.

One thing I love about

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the Sausage Race is that my pick never wins. This is also true of presidential elections.

Maybe its because I just put my money on the plain old weenie. You know the one, the great tasting dog with a little bit of ketchup, a little bit of mustard, a decent bun, and maybe a dash of relish.

Last time around I bet the farm on Jim Webb — me and five other people in America — but its fun to imagine just where we might be if that reliable old dog had actually found the finish line.

Sadly, the plain old hot dog has no chance in modern America. Zero. Zip. Zilch.

Which is too bad because that dog still tastes great, and rarely gives anybody heartburn.

While the chorizos and the kielbasas have all the flash and speed, the plain old weenie has neither. He’s just reliably good, and is usually found running a quietly brilliant race, well behind the pack, off camera and off course, right into the wideopen gap in center field.

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BEAUTIFUL TREED LOT IN METOLIUS MEADOWS! This .42± acre lot with mature ponderosa pines borders open space/common area overlooking Lake Creek Basin to the north and Black Butte to the south. Paved road and underground utilities.

Ownership includes common area privileges, tennis courts, pool and more. Close to National Forest and Metolius River. This is a great lot to build your vacation getaway cabin.$249,500.

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14973 BUGGY WHIP Rustic & charming 3-bedroom, 2-1/2-bath, 1,731 sq. ft. chalet in Tollgate. Exciting design features aged brick and wood complements throughout. Kitchen features solid granite counters, classic wood cabinetry and updated appliances. Dramatic vaulted ceilings w/loft space. Six-panel wood interior doors. Paver stone pathway leads to covered entry. Attached garage has attic storage above. Spacious lot with paved drive, parking and RV space. $389,000.

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541-549-2002 1-800-650-6766 576 W. JEFFERSON AVENUE Beautiful views of the Cascades over the water feature at Pine Meadow Village. Greatroom living with gas fireplace and vaulted ceilings.

Windows galore allow enjoyable natural light and sunshine into the living space and bedrooms. Covered full-width patio overlooking the pond, pool complex and the great outdoors.

Fully furnished and ready for your immediate enjoyment. Lower-level entry leads to upper floor, single-level living with a feeling of privacy. $325,000. MLS#201811493

GOLF HOME 245 Located on the 14th fairway of the Big Meadow Golf Course. Open greatroom floor plan with fireplace, hardwood floors, large master suite, loft and single-car garage. Four bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2,242± sq. ft. Large rear deck overlooks the golf course. Home is in a vacation rental program and can be rented when the owners are not using it. $539,500.

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BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN VIEW Beautiful mountain-view acreage located in the secluded Lower Bridge Basin near the Deschutes River. Lower Bridge Estates offers paved streets, electric power and phone. The lot is approved for a standard septic system. There is abundant BLM land in the area and the nearby Deschutes River corridor is great for hiking, fishing and wildlife viewing.$257,000 MLS#201702313

CLASSIC CAMP SHERMAN LOG HOME Rustic Lodge-style log home set in the heart of the beautiful Metolius Basin. Open greatroom with massive log vaulted ceiling, stone fireplace.

Brazilian cherry floors and pine paneling. Enjoy sunsets and views of Black Butte from the front porch and rear deck. Four bedrooms/3 baths, 2,775 sq.ft. w/family room, double garage and fenced yard. Year-round recreation opportunities right out your front door. Close to National Forest and the Metolius River.

Community access to seasonal pool and tennis courts. $599,500. MLS#201805367

EXQUISITE ASPEN LAKES HOME! First time on the market! 4,700+ sq. ft. steelreinforced concrete brick home with tile roof = superior insulation! 28’ ceiling in greatroom with wood-burning FP. Hickory floors & solid cherry cabinets & doors throughout. Kitchen boasts: Sub-Zero, Wolf, dual ovens & Miele appliances surrounded in granite. 3 bedrooms, each with private bath. Media room, office, power room & 900-bottle temperature-controlled wine cellar.

3-car garage plus 20x50’ RV or “Flex Space.”

Built-in BBQ & firepit. Located in Aspen Lakes Golf Estates, gated lakefront, Hole #11. Pool/hot tub at Rec facility. 2 years free golf! $1,695,000.

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YOU BELONG HERE 2.5-acre parcels with community water, power and phone available. All lots offer you treed privacy and easy paved-road access. Be one of the first buyers in to claim a mountain view.

Just minutes to Sisters. Priced $220,000 to $247,500. Call listing office for MLS#.

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17678 WILT ROAD Secluded 40-acre buildable parcel adjacent to government land. Beautiful old ponderosa pines, juniper and natural groundcover throughout.

Great property for RV/camping or build your offthe-grid cabin or dream home. Located within the Metolius Winter Deer Range. Deer, elk and other wildlife abound. Great area for horse trail-riding.

Located 10 miles northeast of Sisters via a series of paved, gravel and dirt roads. $225,000.

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TOLLGATE TREASURE Attractive “Acadian French Country” with dormers and wraparound porch/deck. Borders common area which borders National Forest!

Two fireplaces. Main-level master with fireplace, jet tub & separate shower. French doors in master and living room. Separate laundry/ mud room. Cedar siding painted 2014, asphalt driveway and heated/insulated/drywalled garage. 2018 multi-stage heat pump. 2017 water heater. Landscaped. Quality construction, well-insulated and stylish curb appeal! Walking/ biking paths to town and schools.$449,900.

MLS#201900182

SPRING HOME 23 Black Butte Ranch hassle-free! One-sixth share in this single level log home, with fabulous recent upgrades, bordering USFS. Cross country ski right off the back deck, heaven for those who love to hike and miles of bike paths on the Ranch. Two championship golf courses, recreation centers, pools, tennis, lakes, trails, etc. Family memories start with this amenable group of co-owners. Eight weeks a year as a BBR property owner. Truly “turn-key” affordability in one of the most beautiful vacation spots in the Northwest.$99,000.#201811006

MOUNTAIN VIEWS The greatroom boasts hickory floors, vaulted ceiling with log beam accents, propane stove & wall of windows with Cascade mountains beyond. Granite countertops, S/S appliances & large walk-in pantry are some kitchen highlights.

Master suite w/hickory floors, marble counters in the bath & electric fireplace adding warmth.

Large family room, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths in this 2,360 sq. ft. home. Sits privately on 9.5 acres with fencing & cross-fencing. 5.9 acres of water rights from private well. $699,000.

MLS #201810839