The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLII No. 12 // 2019-3-20

The Nugget Vol. XLII No. 12

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News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Fair encourages futuristic thinking

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

The Sisters High School commons buzzed with excitement on Saturday during the eighth-annual Sisters Science Fair. Students from all three Sisters schools showed off their educational experiments, exhibits and demonstrations.

Students showed off their wide range of hands-on demonstrations, from a vacuumpropelled ping-pong cannon to lemon-powered lightbulbs. People of all ages got a charge as they made their way around the maze of educational experiments.

This year, Sisters Science Club’s treasurer Cal Allen built an exhibit, Galileo’s Acceleration Experiment, that demonstrated how the Italian physicist measured time using a water clock. Galileo used inclined planes to slow down the acceleration rate of an object under the influence of gravity to measure the time interval of an object in freefall.

Science fairs are a great way for students to become more knowledgeable about

USFS plans major Suttle Lake project

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Suttle Lake is one of the best-loved and most heavily trafficked areas in Sisters Country. It is also home to an old and decaying forest. The combination of those two factors has led the Sisters Ranger District to propose a major project to deal with diseased and potentially dangerous trees.

The District is seeking public input on a project to fell dangerous and/or diseased trees and replant and transplant in the area. The project is designed to address safety concerns and also to promote the health of the forest in the area.

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solar system.”

McCrystal added, “Using our telescope, we record when an asteroid that’s beyond Neptune goes in front of a star. The star blinks out See SCIENCE FAIR on page 15

See ROAD RAGE on page 18

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Network (RECON) project.

“The point of the project is to discover as many of the different objects that are in the Kuiper belt as we can,” McCrystal told The Nugget.

“The Kuiper belt is a field of asteroids that surround our

Road rage incident leads to arrest near Sisters A 31-year-old Bend man was taken into custody during a high-risk traffic stop after he allegedly fired shots at another vehicle in an episode Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office personnel characterize as a road rage incident on Sunday afternoon.

The sheriff’s office reports that a driver called in at about 6:55 p.m. to report that she was being tailgated by a large white Suburban, and that the vehicle had almost hit her car.

At the time of the call, the suspect vehicle was following the reporting person.

A short time later, the reporting person said that the Suburban had passed them, and fired several shots at their vehicle as they passed.

Wren Gunnarson was fascinated by a gyroscope at Sisters Science Fair last Saturday. how the world around them, including the solar system, works.

Sisters High School Astronomy Club member Delsie McCrystal participates in the Research and Education Collaborative Occultation

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Tehan will be Rodeo Grand Marshal

By Bonnie Malone Correspondent

Disease including dwarf mistletoe and a variety of forms of rot is prevalent in the forest surrounding the popular lake.

Sisters District Ranger Ian Reid told The Nugget that he was “blown away” by the extent of the decayed forest conditions — especially in the area of the Suttle Lake United Methodist Camp — when he toured the area after taking his position last year.

The Suttle Lake area has become well-known among foresters for its condition.

“It’s a place where employees would go to train on the various hazards and defects in trees,” he said.

Sisters Rodeo has chosen Sisters legendary songbird Peggy Clerf Tehan as the 2019 Grand Marshal of the Sisters Rodeo Parade.

Tehan, a 35-year resident of Sisters, sang the National Anthem at every rodeo performance for 29 years. Her pure soprano voice impressed Rodeo President Glenn Miller, who first asked her to sing the anthem in 1989. She saddled up, performing a cappella on horseback for all but one rodeo in the ensuing years.

During her first performance, Peggy left her threemonth-old daughter in the stands with Jean Wells of the Stitchin’ Post. She laughingly

See SUTTLE LAKE on page 21

See TEHAN on page 22

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Letters/Weather ................ 2 Athletes of the Month ........4 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 18 Classifieds.................. 19-20 Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements................12 Obituaries ........................17 Sisters Salutes ................ 18 Real Estate .................20-24

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Editorial…

Monopoly

Still time to step up With all eyes focused on the November 2020 presidential election, it’s easy to overlook a small off-year election for local offices.

Yet, the offices filled in those elections are the ones that most directly affect our lives. A letter-writer this week notes that unfilled positions, even on a local road district, can have major negative consequences.

There’s still time — barely — to step up if you’re interested in serving the Sisters community on a variety of elected boards. The Sisters School Board has two positions open; one candidate has stepped up for each. A single candidate running for a post isn’t really an election.

The Sisters Park & Recreation District Board also has one candidate each for two positions. As of press time, one position on

the Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District Board of Directors did not have a candidate filed.

Across Deschutes County, there were, as of Monday, 52 candidates filed for 66 available posts.

We all have concerns about the state of our great republic, especially at the national level. But it’s at the local level — right here in Sisters — where the heart of the republic beats.

And its lifeblood is participation. The filing deadline for the May 21 election is Thursday, March 21. For information visit https://www. deschutes.org/clerk.

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: After being out of town for a couple of weeks, I returned to find an article in the March 6 Nugget that is, literally, very near to my heart.

The article honors the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District for their service and devotes attention to their recent annual awards banquet. The article notes that, during the ceremony, firefighters and others were recognized “for saving two lives from sudden cardiac arrest.”

I am writing because I am one of those lives that was saved.

Sudden cardiac arrest is also referred to as sudden cardiac death because it is fatal in the overwhelming majority of cases. The heart completely shuts down and the victim has essentially “dropped dead.” Saving a life from sudden cardiac arrest, or death, is an extraordinary feat. I survived only because I was blessed multiple times over on that fateful day.

I collapsed at the Sisters Athletic Club, where staff were there to take immediate emergency response measures and contact the fire district. And, standing alongside me at the time was an individual — who I now refer to as my guardian angel — who is expert in CPR. He worked tirelessly to keep my heart pumping until the EMTs from the fire district arrived. Lastly, of course, were the EMTs. When they arrived, they immediately took charge, restored my heartbeat and transported me, and my wife, to St. Charles.

There is no way to properly thank the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District and the heroic individuals that saved me from certain death and gave me back the gift of life. But I just want to emphasize, from a very personal perspective, how extraordinary these individuals truly are. They play a critical role in saving See LETTERS on page 14

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By Tom Mullen Guest Columnist

If you purchase an item from Amazon, they will, in what appears to be a modern miracle, deliver it your door, here in the remotest part of Montana, within a day or two.

If you don’t like it, an even bigger miracle takes place. When the courier comes to retrieve the item, in that same box Amazon sent it you, the courier scans it at your door for delivery back to Amazon and you are instantaneously refunded the money.

Amazon might be getting an empty box when they credit you, no questions asked.

But that’s no miracle — their business model is unsustainable by anyone other than a company with monopolistic practices.

When Amazon first started in 1997 it was mostly a book re-seller, so no one would begrudge that they didn’t show any profit until 2003. Its fourth-quarter profits in 2017 exceeded the combined profits of the prior 14 years. Along the way it drove the nation’s biggest bookseller out of business and then, as any economist would suspect, started mandating new rules for publishers.

CEO Jeff Bezos (who until his divorce will be considered the richest person in the world) long preached reinvestment in his business as the reasons for the regular losses.

But that’s a lie. Amazon wouldn’t be in business if not for the stock market. It is investors who have fueled the growth and now dominance of the largest retailer the world has ever known.

And they’ve done it through unfair trade practices, inherently designed to eliminate their competition.

Look around your favorite bricks-and-motor stores — those are what Amazon is unfairly trying to eliminate.

Most Americans aren’t retailers, but we do depend upon local retail to pay for the lion’s share of our needs as citizens. Unlike your local retailers, Amazon paid little or no taxes in most of these United States, until a few years ago.

If you can imagine a world without local retailers, you might want to

imagine that same world without local police, clean water, and sewers.

There is a laundry list of why it’s a better experience to walk into a locally owned (or even locally managed) shop to buy something. First and foremost for the buyer is service. That may mean there’s someone to help you pick out the right product, and if it’s the wrong product, just take it back to the store.

When shopping online, a savvy buyer may be able to work miracles with a smart phone but good luck to the person who attempts to actually use that smart phone to discuss a problem.

So there’s the proof of Amazon’s miracle : They’re eliminating jobs on Main Streets all across America, to feed the beast.

And the beast is your desire for instant gratification.

If you spend $100 with a local retailer, that money recirculates in the community a multitude of times, burgeoning the local economy.

Spend that Benjamin with Amazon and you achieve the opposite effect for your community — you diminish your local economy by several hundred dollars with your $100 purchase.

A recent investigative report on Amazon states that the company killed almost a million local retail jobs last year along with a staggering 62,000 local shops.

If Teddy Roosevelt were president now, Amazon would be broken up by way of the Sherman Act, along with Facebook (which we believe is America’s real Public Enemy Number One), Google, and others who bamboozle the public into believing there is no long-term harm in unfair competitive schemes.

But America is at its ebb in political courage.

Greed, which was a few generations ago considered one of the deadliest sins, seems now to be the American ideal.

All those years of no profits also garnered Amazon billions in tax refunds — so the federal taxes you pay did, in some sense, pay for Amazon’s ability to create those miracles you enjoy online.

Tom Mullen is co-owner of The Nugget.

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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Final ‘Open Studios’ finishes Caldera season Caldera, she can work all day.

“After breakfast in my cabin, I set out for Campbell Studio where I work ‘til sunset, stopping for lunch and dancing breaks,” she told The Nugget.

“It’s hard to describe the quiet and soft that is Caldera,” Martinez said. “The remote location, isolation, artist community and full autonomy is my ideal balance for delving into and catalyzing new work.”

She describes herself

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

March artist residencies at Caldera were hampered by late-season snowfall.

Still, seven artists made it to Central Oregon for their residencies. Working in film, literature, photography, and other media, they will share artwork, readings, and conversation during Open Studios this Saturday.

Back home in Oakland, California, Alex Martinez fits her studio practice around her teaching schedule. At

See CALDERA on page 10

Melting snow delivers lawn, health headaches Minnesota-based allergy and asthma clinician said it’s possible to develop allergies even if you’ve never had them before.

Snow mold causes typical respiratory symptoms like sniffing, sneezing, throat-clearing, and runny nose, according to Lilly Byrtus of the Allergy Asthma Information Association.

“Some people will get itchy, watery eyes or ears, or a sore throat. Then it goes into the lower respiratory system and causes wheezing or

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

As long-term snow melts, an intricate web creeps across Sisters and our surrounding forest. It looks like filaments of cobweb or tufts of dog hair, etched across lawns, leaves, and pine needles.

For some, it’s a lawn maintenance nuisance. For others, it’s a source of misery: snow mold.

“Often times people will think, ‘I get a cold every spring.’ It is actually more their allergies,” Dr. Stephanie Fox told CBS News. The

See SNOW MOLD on page 6

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Oregon’s Poet Laureate Kim Stafford will visit Sisters for a free event focusing on history and art on April 8.

Poet Laureate to visit Sisters

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Oregon’s Poet Laureate will visit Sisters next month.

“Confluence,” an evening with Kim Stafford, Oregon’s ninth Poet Laureate, will take place Tuesday, April 9, 7 p.m., at FivePine Conference Center.

Stafford, founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis and Clark College, has been teaching writing since 1979. Governor Kate Brown named him Poet Laureate in May 2018 for a two-year term. He travels the state to meet with students, teachers, writers and readers to help with academic literacy through language, and emotional literacy through

poetry. By sharing the power of poetry, he helps communities become more curious about their own stories.

Three Sisters Historical S o c i e t y, S i s t e r s A r t s Association, and the Friends of William Stafford are collaborating to present the evening, which gave rise to the evening’s title — the melding of art and history. Stafford will artfully merge a lifetime of history, art, poetry, stories, and music from his own personal archive in a confluence of “Sisters Memories.”

Happy days were spent at the family cabin on the edge of Indian Ford Meadow, and memories of those years will lace the evening with a weave of creative reflection, bringing to life those memories.

Stafford’s sister, Kit, lives in Sisters and taught art in the Sisters School District. Kit and Kim’s father, William, also taught at Lewis and Clark College and also served as Oregon’s Poet Laureate.

Kit recalls trips in the family station wagon searching for arrowheads around Central Oregon. Her dad was expert at finding them when no one else could.

Stafford is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including “The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer’s Craft” and “A Thousand Friends of Rain: New and Selected Poems.”

His most recent books are See POET on page 4

SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS

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

Al-Anon Mon., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Wed., 6 p.m., East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration.

Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ 541-549-8737 or 541-549-1527.

Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.

Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & Friends of the Sisters Library Board Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com.

Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / ages welcome. 541-771-2211.

Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran 4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230.

Church. 541-548-0440.

Military Parents of Sisters Meetings Alzheimer’s & Dementia Caregiver are held quarterly; please call for details.

Support Group 1st Tuesday, noon, 541-388-9013.

Sisters City Hall. 800-272-3900.

Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469. room. Partner required. 541-595-6236.

SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.

For Saturday meeting dates and to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation location, email: steelefly@msn.com.

District. 541-549-2091.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419.

Three Sisters Irrigation District Board of Directors 1st Tuesday, 4 p.m., TSID Office. 541-549-8815.

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

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

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

Location information: 541-549-1193.

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

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

Three Sisters Lions Club 1st Thursday, noon, Ray’s Food Place community room. 541-419-1279.

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

Weight Watchers Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, Sisters Community Church. 541-602-2654.

SCHOOLS Black Butte School Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 5 p.m., Black Butte School. 541-595-6203.

Sisters Christian Academy Board of Directors 2nd Thursday, 8 a.m., RE/MAX office. 541-549-4133.

Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group 2nd Tuesday, 1 p.m., Sisters Community Church. 907-687-8101 or 541-668-6599. Sisters School District Board of Directors One Wed. monthly, SSD Sisters Family Aglow Lighthouse Admin Bldg. See schedule online at 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., Ponderosa Lodge Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday. www.ssd6.org. 541-549-8521 x5002.

Location information: 541-279-1977.

Meeting Room. 503-930-6158.

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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POET: Event is free and open to public from arts/history community Continued from page 3

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Project Unify participants honored bounds,” says Project Unify Coach Josh Nordell.

“Michaela’s skills in basketball are remarkable.

She is a consistent scorer, responds to her teammates, and makes the hard shots. In soccer her ability to move with the ball and understanding the flow of the game have made her a major piece in the Outlaws’ attack. As her coach, I find Michaela remarkable in every way on and off the field. I am incredibly proud of the woman she has become, her work ethic and her wonderful sense of humor. She is a treasure to our community and I am lucky to have her as part of my life.”

Nordell states that,”Skyler Larson has been an incredible partner to the Project Unify team.”

A partner is an individual who serves as a teammate, mentor and inspiration to non-typical students.

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Project Unify Athlete Michaela Madsen and Project Unify Partner Skyler Larson are Athletes of the Month for the Outlaws.

Michaela began as an individualskills athlete, where she has won state championships over six times and through time has progressed to full competition.

“Michaela’s skills development, understanding of the game of basketball and relationships with her teammates has grown by leaps and

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Project Unify Program,” Nordell says. “Skyler understands what it means to be a great teammate and facilitate learning through sport. His positive attitude and commitment to those on the Project Unify team is exceptional. Skyler’s actions and his friendships touch those around him on the team daily. He understands the importance of the program and it has made a difference in his life and the lives of the athletes he has chosen to serve. Skyler embodies what makes Project Unify so powerful.

He understands no matter our differences, we are stronger together.”

“100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared,” and “Wind on the Waves: Stories from the Oregon Coast.” In 2016, the 30th-anniversary edition of his collections of essays, “Having Everything Right,” came out from Pharos Editions.

He has taught writing in dozens of schools and community centers, and in Scotland, Italy, and Bhutan.

Although he has published books and taught in hundreds of classrooms, Stafford says, “It’s really about one page at a time, and one fellow writer at a time, in the mystic encounter of the deep mystery of our existence with the trick of beginning.”

“On my tombstone,” he has told his wife, “you might inscribe, ‘He was easily pleased by a few words.’”

Besides the Tuesdayevening Confluence, Stafford will visit Judy Fuentes’ 7/8 art class at Sisters Middle School, Samra Spear’s IEE class, and creative writing class at Sisters High School, several of the Mandarin Chinese classes at the high school and will meet at Sisters Middle School with all fifth-graders. He will be conducting a writer’s workshop Monday evening.

The evening Confluence event is free of charge; donations are welcome.

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SAA Fourth Friday Art Stroll – Spring Event

By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

Sisters Arts Association is taking advantage of the change of seasons with the Fourth Friday Art Stroll on March 22 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Galleries of Sisters.

The Collection Gallery will spotlight Gary Cooley’s clay sculpture kits for kids, using Sculpey clay. Bring the family because Gary might just have some homemade cookies.

The Stitchin’ Post Fiber Arts Gallery will feature lively, organic, original creations by the Journeys Art Quilting Group. A must-see!

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Detail from a Judith Beaver quilt at the Stitchin’ Post.

Clearwater Gallery’s featured artist is Dennis Dame.

“Paint is fascinating to me. It communicates and connects like nothing else. I am amazed how shapes, values and colors can be arranged to convey something that simply could not be said with words,” he says.

Sisters Coffee is showcasing Lighten Photography by Rachel Hooley, who specializes in the stark differences of light and dark. All of her prints are featured on wood canvases as well as different media including note cards and small collages.

Raven Makes Gallery will feature Coast Salish artist Maynard Johnny, Jr., and a fine selection of newly curated Pueblo and Navajo pottery reflecting both traditional and contemporary aesthetics in Native art.

Hood Avenue Art is featuring large-format landscape photography by Scott Cordner, and the alternatively glazed ceramic work of Peter Roussel. Cordner reaches a new level of craftsmanship by printing his own images and hand-crafting his own creative, furniture-quality

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Peter Roussel, crackle glaze vessel with lid at Hood Avenue Art Gallery.

wood frames. Roussel’s glowing and highly textured ceramics hold impressions and images directly from nature and have a rarely seen tactile quality.

Wildflower Studio will be celebrating spring during the Art Stroll. Stop in and see rich oil paintings, nuno felted soft sculptures, hats, leather wallets and more. Enjoy the evening with friends, wine and light appetizers!

Marjie Scott steps up to the fore at Ken Scott’s Imagination Gallery, with several new steel wall sculptures — a change-up from small and beautiful to large and stunning.

Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop welcomes glass artist Mel Archer and returning artists Kay and Gordon Baker.

Archer’s intricate glasswork reveals itself in layers of glass

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“Sisters Cabin” by Mel Archer at Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop. treated as paint, fused and mounted on custom metal plaques. The effect is threedimensional. The Bakers, who recently moved back from Arizona, are plein air landscape painters, whose work is also featured at the Sisters Library. Gordon’s oil paintings are being shown in the library’s Community Room, and Kay’s landscapes in oil and pastel are in the Computer Room through the end of March.

Good Day Cafe at Bedouin will be open, featuring prints

by Carolyn Platt and paintings

by Janice Druian.

At Grizzley Ridge Upcycle, find funky to fabulous reincarnated treasure.

Jill Neal will be away at a fine art show, but her gallery will be open, serving wine and chocolates, and featuring original new impressionistic horses and small new prints.

Gallery maps are available in each gallery, and on the Sisters Arts Association website, sistersarts.org. SAA reminds you it pays to shop local – support local artists, galleries, and restaurants.

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SNOW MOLD: Some can develop sensitivities that affect health Continued from page 3

asthma.”

Indoor molds are commonly linked to asthma and other problems. Many people don’t realize that outdoor molds can also cause hay fever. Some doctors say they can trigger headaches, deep fatigue, even depression.

If you develop sensitivities or allergies to mold, there are practices to help reduce exposure (see story, page 7).

Snow mold’s filaments are called mycelia — the vegetative part of a fungus.

“We often see mycelia that resemble spider web on plants just after snowmelt,” Japanese researcher Naoyuki Matsumoto, Ph.D., told The Nugget.

When Matsumoto talks about “snow mold,” he means fungal diseases (pathogens) that kill plants under snow.

He said the gray stuff we call snow mold might just be an innocent saphrophyte, doing the important work of consuming dead plant matter.

“Snow cover creates a unique habitat with constant low temperatures, darkness and high moisture,” Matsumoto said. “Snow cover acts as an insulator and protects plants from freezing, but plants deteriorate in the darkness, consuming reserve materials through respiration.”

This opens the door to various fungi. Local observations suggest our gray snow mold tends to appear in late winter or spring, after a deep snow that sticks around a while.

“Prolonged snow cover is essential for most snow molds; in areas like Hokkaido, Japan, snow cover lasts for four months or more,” Matsumoto said. “However, gray snow mold fungus can readily attack plants such as bent-grass soon after the occurrence of snow cover.”

Folks often remark that the air smells crisp and clean when it’s snowing out. Later, some notice a stale or acrid smell as the streets turn to slush. Is that smell related to snow mold?

It’s possible. Humans sense smells by perceiving chemicals in the air, called volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

Recent research at McGill University showed that snow takes up air pollution and changes its tiniest particles, many of which are carcinogenic.

Once in the snowpack, they undergo chemical transformations, creating a new array of toxic nanoparticles.

Some volatilize back into the air; others are “released” with

meltwater.

Science Daily reported, “Unexpectedly, colder temperatures and interaction with snow increased the relative presence of smaller nanoparticles in the polluted air above the snow.” Such VOCs could indeed cause an unpleasant smell — and cancer.

Matsumoto said he didn’t know whether snow molds emit or decompose VOCs, but he suspects “their involvement under natural conditions. I think no one has ever worked on the decomposition of chemicals by snow mold fungi.”

As local lawn maintainers and golf course owners know, snow mold can kill plants. Matsumoto recommends “resistance breeding of crops and cultural practices to improve winter hardiness of plants. This is the most practical method.”

Fungicide can also be effective, but costly annual applications add up. Fungi also build immunity — similar to how “superbugs” became resistant to medicines after humans overused antibiotics in healthcare and in animal feed.

“One should always be aware of environmental

concerns” using fungicides, Matsumoto added. Fungicides are linked to health problems in humans and animals, notably bees.

Molds are commonly used for industrial production. For example, the food preservative citric acid is no longer squeezed from lemons.

Vats of the black mold Aspergillus niger are fed sugar and corn syrup; the results are processed using sulfuric acid.

So far, there’s no similar gold to be found in mining snow mold.

“Some of snow mold fungi have antifreeze protein which enables them to survive extreme low temperatures,” Matsumoto explained. But commercial producers would rather cultivate a mushroom that contains the same protein.

Research on snow mold is limited. What brought Dr. Matsumoto to the study?

“We had a serious outbreak of snow mold on forage crops in the spring 1975 when I was assigned to Hokkaido National Agricultural Research Center, Sapporo,” Matsumoto said.

Dr. Takao Araki assigned the subject to him, and Matsumoto went on to become one of the world’s few experts on snow mold.

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Sniffling, sneezing & allergies: help for snowmelt season

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

Sniffles and sneezes, coughs and headaches. Do you have a cold — or is your body reacting to the environment?

Snow mold, which grows and blooms during snowmelt, can ratchet up allergies. (See story, page 3.)

Experts don’t always agree on how to handle mold illness and allergy. Still, a few sensible suggestions can go a long way.

Chemical Warfare Julie Rehmeyer is an expert on mold-related health issues. Author of the intriguing, thoughtful memoir “Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer’s Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn’t Understand” (Rodale, 2017), Rehmeyer suffers from severe mold sensitivity.

Mold exposure can paralyze her in seconds flat.

She offered tips for Nugget readers to keep outdoor molds out of the home. “Shower and change your clothes as soon as you get home,” she said.

This applies to everyone in the household.

“Leave shoes outside.

These molds can easily spread from your clothes or hair onto your bedding, furniture, etc., so getting rid of them right away makes a huge difference.

“I learned these methods from a guy named Erik Johnson, who applied the techniques he’d learned in the Army for dealing with chemical warfare!”

Safe Room Rather than protecting their entire house, some folks create a sleep sanctuary — one safe room, cleaned frequently with a sealed HEPA™ vacuum such as a Miele. No one enters with pollen or mold on their clothes or hair.

To Rake Or Not To Rake?

“We should not be touching it with our bare hands, for sure,” said Lilly Byrtus of snow mold on Canadian news.

Byrtus is a regional coordinator of the Allergy Asthma Information Association.

If snow is piled up around your yard, allergy expert Dr. Stephanie Fox recommends spreading it around with a shovel or rake so it will melt faster.

Byrtus has a different take.

“It’s kind of a Catch-22, whether it’s better to rake it and spread it out, or let it run its course,” she said. “If we rake it, it becomes airborne.

That [raking] should certainly not be done by the person that is sensitive to mold.

“Usually we say just leave it alone,” Byrtus concluded.

Shuttered & Filtered Rising humidity encourages mold spores to proliferate,

Dr. Purvi Parikh of Allergy and Asthma Associates in New York told CNBC. Dry winter air discourages molds from “blooming.” When the air grows warm and moist — such as when snow melts — molds come back to life.

That’s when they’re most likely to send spores, hyphae fragments, and other allergens into the air. It’s tempting to open a window when we see the sun out, but that can invite humidity and spores inside.

“For indoor mold issues, effective air purifiers like HEPA can help remove mold spores from the air,” said Parikh.

Not all HEPA systems are created equal. BlueAir and Austin are reliable brands; use with brand-name replacement filters.

Rehmeyer notes that when outdoor air is bad, indoor air may be even worse.

“Off-gassing of materials, cooking, breathing, etc., can quickly make your indoor air as bad as Beijing,” she said.

“Ordinarily, opening windows is a good solution — but if there’s mold in the outdoor air, that won’t work.”

Rehmeyer is partial to PCO technology for filtering mold.

“Particular brands that are well-regarded are Vornado and Molekule,” she said. “Wholehouse filtration is also an option — heat recovery ventilators filter outdoor air, allowing for plenty of fresh air while not admitting outdoor molds.”

Wash With Care Laundry duties can get intense when someone in the household develops allergies.

Whether pollen or outdoor mold is the culprit, clothes and hats require frequent cleaning.

“Be careful about your washing machine,” Rehmeyer urged. “Modern washers easily develop mold problems, so run them on their self-clean cycle frequently to avoid this.

Clean the gasket with vinegar and baking soda — and enjoy the volcanic bubbles!”

See A Professional Parikh noted that because of climate change, more people are experiencing more allergies. Treatment and research are changing, too.

“If your allergies get really bad,” she said, “There are appropriate medications people can take to alleviate the symptoms.”

While popping a Benadryl may help some people with short-term reactions, others need a deeper approach.

Prescription medications like leukocyte inhibitors may be required. Allergy clinics offer testing, treatment, and patient education.

Sinus pain and stuffiness may subside after strain-counterstrain techniques, like those

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Decades of keeping Sisters covered

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

It seems ironic 20 years down the road, but when Tammy Taylor first came to Sisters with her husband Jeff in 1996, she wanted no part of working for an independent insurance agency.

“I was scared to death to be an independent agent,” she said.

Licensed in 1993, she had worked for Farmers Insurance in California. She was a direct writer — she wrote policies for what Farmers offered and that was her comfort zone.

The idea of having multiple carriers to choose from and a multiple of options to chase down for a client was intimidating.

Her first job in Sisters wasn’t in her field. Bob Grooney hired her on the spot when she went into The Gallimaufry. But the insurance field still beckoned.

Word got around that Don Fullhart, who owned and operated Fullhart Insurance wanted to talk to her. Talk they did, and on March 19, 1999, Taylor signed on with Fullhart — the start of a 20-year run, and still counting.

“Once I got over the intimidation of all the different carriers, that turned out to be the highlight: having all the different choices,” she said.

Fullhart insurance was always about finding the right fit of product and price for Sisters clients — who are often friends and neighbors.

Taylor quickly fit into that culture and the commitment to customer service. But she still had to stretch beyond the comfort zone.

“I had never dabbled in commercial (insurance),” she said. “I’d only done home and auto. Don told me, ‘if you’re going to be a producer, you have to do all of it.’”

Taylor credits Richard Engstrom for mentoring her in the commercial insurance field.

Now Taylor is a leading

producer/agent with Bisnett Insurance, which took ownership of Fullhart Insurance in January of 2018.

“That’s opened the door for more carriers that we didn’t have access to before,” she noted.

Taylor continues to train and learn to stay abreast of a changing industry.

“I’ve seen a lot of change,” she reflected. “I would say that the biggest change is on the technological side of things.”

Insurance went from burying agents, clients and providers alike under a blizzard of paper to being conducted almost entirely digitally.

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CALDERA: Final arts event of the season is on tap Continued from page 3

as a “first-generation queer Xicana, raised among nopales, strawberries, and canneries in Watsonville, California.”

After studying fine arts at San Francisco State University, where she focused on printmaking and painting, she began working toward “inclusive arts education.”

Martinez became a teacher, focusing on students with moderate to severe disabilities. “I am dedicated to exalting people of color,” she wrote in her bio, “and the LGBTQI artists community through multi-disciplinary learning, collaboration, and education.”

At AiR Open Studios, Martinez plans to show a new series of mixed-media paintings begun during her time in Sisters Country. “Pop culture references, family portraiture and childhood ephemera are layered in bright acrylics, linocut stamping, embroidery and beading,” she said.

Also sharing work at Open Studios is writer Emily X.R. Pan, author of “The Astonishing Color of After.”

Born in the Midwest to immigrant parents from Taiwan, she now lives in Brooklyn. She is a co-creator of “Foreshadow: A Serial YA Anthology” and the founding editor in chief of Bodega magazine.

Another Brooklynbased resident is visual artist Carolyn Monastra, whose work focuses on climate change. (See story, page 11.)

Seattle-based Kemi Adeyemi teaches gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Washington. Her book manuscript, “Making New Grounds: Black Queer Women’s Geographies of Neoliberalism,” and co-edited volume, “Queer Nightlife,” are in development.

Adeyemi wrote exhibition catalog essays for “black is a color” (Los Angeles), “Endless Flight” (Chicago), and “Impractical Weaving Suggestions” (Madison, WI). She co-curated “unstable objects” at The Alice in Seattle, and will curate a show on black texture at Ditch Projects in Eugene this year.

Julie Hammond lives in Vancouver, B.C. She describes her art as “working across performance, pedagogy, and intervention.” Encompassing theatre and public projects, her practice “activates spaces with the performative and investigates the relationship between performance and audience, spectator and place, site and story.”

Hammond’s work appears onstage, in print, and in the streets. It is supported by Vancouver New Music, On the Boards, and the Oregon Arts Commission, among others.

From Saratoga, California comes Alisa Yang, an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose practice is rooted in collage across mediums. Yang explores themes of language, cultural identity, memory, and sexualities of diasporas.

Yang’s recent film “Please Come Again” won the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Golden Reel Award for Short Documentary.

Her film “Sleeping with the Devil” took the Ann Arbor

Film Festival’s Best Regional Filmmaker Award.

Another artist and filmmaker, Miami-based Analise Cleopatra, joins Caldera from Portland, where she is currently working. Cleopatra describes her work as centering around “matriarchs, water and foliage,” celebrating “our connection to ancestry through trees and nature.”

Cleopatra co-curated the Portland Black Film Festival and was a featured artist in “Primary,” a Culture Series exhibition at the headquarters of creative agency Wieden+Kennedy in Portland.

Agency co-founder Dan Wieden is also the founder of Caldera. It began in 1996 as a youth camp in the woods, offering arts education and nature immersion to kids who lacked access to such opportunities.

Now Caldera encompasses summer youth camp, off-season AiR program, and a host of other youth programs reaching across a wide span of ages and demographics. Middle school students in Sisters and teens from Bend and Redmond are among those served.

AiR Open Studios is free to all, and takes place Saturday, March 23 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Snacks and coffee will be on-hand. Presentations begin at 1 p.m.

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Beyond political labels is so conservative.”

His answer taught her “a really interesting lesson, and it’s one that stuck with me.

He said, ‘I don’t talk to them about climate change. I talk to them about things they love.’”

Hunting, fishing, and the land are loved by Americans of all political stripes. So is birding.

At Caldera in Sisters Country this month, Monastra is working on “Divergence of Birds” (pictured).

Several years back, she read an Audubon Society report on bird migration, which has been hugely altered by climate change.

She also read Philip K. Dick’s cyberpunk novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,”which inspired the movie “Blade Runner.” In the book’s dystopian future,

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

Photographer Carolyn Monastra fits the image of a liberal environmentalist. She lives in Brooklyn, works as a community college associate professor, takes photos of trees, and was a climate leader with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

But traveling and meeting people from all walks of life taught Monstra something intriguing: climate change reaches across the left and right divide.

“I actually grew up in Ohio,” Monastra says. “My mom was very liberal and my dad was more conservative.”

At age 18 she moved to New York. From fine art photography to the arresting documentary-activist style evidenced in her series “The Witness Tree,” her work earned accolades, exhibitions, and awards.

A pivotal moment came when she visited South Carolina.

“I went to photograph these trees that were ending up in the ocean,” a striking image of climate change in action.

Monastra said to a retired activist there, “Everyone here

“most of the animals that exist are just electric versions,” Monastra remembers.

The combination inspired her current series. To bring attention to the birds’ plight, she starts with a publicdomain photograph of a real bird. She prints and cuts it out, attaching the cutout to a twig or hanging it from fishing line. Then she photographs her faked bird in the real environment where the bird would normally be living — if climate change hadn’t forced it out.

The process is Monastra’s way of “mimicking nature photography. But when people see the photography, they think ‘Something’s wrong!

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Margie Figueras is holding a First Aid Class hairdressing event once a month The next CPR/AED class is to help benefit Camp Eagle Cap, scheduled for Saturday, April 13 which is dedicated to children in at 9 a.m. The First Aid module our area under extreme adverse is on Sunday, April 14 at 9 a.m. circumstances.

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(8 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Pick up the student workbook at the station Age-Friendly Sisters after you register. If you have Country Activity questions, call Gail Butler at 541An invitation is extended to 595-5712. youth and others to participate in a planning program at SPRD Free Spay & Neuter on Wednesday, March 20 at 6 It’s as easy as 1-2-3. Stop by the p.m. This is in preparation for a Furry Friends Foundation (FFF) program to be presented on June office to fill out a simple form, 1, 2019 at Sisters High School. call to make your appointment Conceived by Claudia Bisso Fetzer, at Bend Spay & Neuter, transport Ph.D., the purpose is to promote your pet. FFF also sponsors the benefits of connecting youth vaccinations and chipping. Located with older others in activities in the Sisters Art Works building, they select and do together.

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The American Red Cross is urging new and current donors to roll up a sleeve to help sustain a sufficient blood supply. Eligible donors of all blood types — especially Type O — are urged to give blood now to help ensure a supply for hospital patients this spring. There are many opportunities to donate blood in Deschutes County, but the Sisters event will be held on Friday, April 5 from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Sisters Fire Station Community Room at 301 S. Elm St. For more information call Christine Welch at 909-859-7570.

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The second Tuesday of each month, Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group meets at Sisters Community Church from 1 to 2:30 p.m. (following the Senior Luncheon). All are welcome to learn, share, and receive support.

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All women of Sisters are invited to a morning with Nicky Merritt, Executive Director of Circle of Friends on Saturday, March 23 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Nicky has worked for non-profits in Central Oregon since 2011, addressing trauma, resiliency and generational poverty in at-risk children and families as well as children living in foster care. The event is being held in the Fireside Room at Sisters Community Church. Call 503-559-5245 for more information.

Thich Nhat Hahn Sangha Meditation Group

Weekly on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. at 737 E. Black Butte Ave. For more information please email Kathyn at Katindahood2@gmail. com.

Healthy Living Information for Seniors

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

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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, March 21 and 28 and April 4, 11, 18 and 25 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.

The Library Book Club

Read and discuss “Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon” by Robert Kurson with other thoughtful readers at the Sisters Library on Wednesday, March 27, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Info: 541-617-7078.

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Learn to get the most out of Gmail on Friday, March 29 at 10 a.m. at Sisters Library Registration is required, along with familiarity with computers and internet. Call 541-312-1066.

Animal Adventures

Live animals, stories, crafts with High Desert Museum for kids ages 3 to 5. It’s 30-45 minutes of adventure! Limited to 30 children and their caregivers. Sisters Library on Tuesday, April 2 at 11:30 a.m. Info: 541-312-1072.

Breaking Barriers: Women’s Achievements in the Era of Apollo 8

Dr. Jamie Bufalino, an instructor at the University of Oregon, will explore how women in the 1960s contributed to NASA in this presentation at the Sisters library on Saturday, April 6 at 11 a.m. No registration required. Call 541-3121032 for more information.

Astronaut Jim Wetherbee, commander of 5 space missions, will share stories of Apollo 8 at the Sisters Library on Wednesday, April 10 at 3 p.m. No registration required. Call 541-312-1032 for more information.

Adults age 60 and older are invited to join the Council on Aging Senior Luncheon, served every Tuesday at Sisters Community Church. Coffee and various fun activities begin at 11 a.m. with lunch served at noon.

Bingo is played after lunch until 2:30 p.m. For information call 541480-1843.

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 452 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

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Sisters Community Garden

The Sisters Community Garden has raised-bed garden plots available for the 2019 gardening season. Application materials and information are available on the Garden’s website, SistersCommunityGarden.org. For additional information, call 541549-8664.

Magnetic Poetry Kit

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Create your own collection of magnetic words at the Sisters Library on Thursday, April 11 at 4 p.m. Gather words and stick them on magnetic tape to create your own poetry kit to take home. Supplies provided. Ages 12 to 17. No registration required.

Call 541-617-7078 for more info.

Open Computer Labs

From 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, a free open lab is offered at the Sisters Library.

Practice skills, receive help with technical tasks, and have your questions answered. For more info call 541-617-7078.

Tween Poetry Camp

Celebrate National Poetry month with art and musical poems at the Sisters Library on Tuesday, April 16 at 4 p.m. Listen to music and view art to inspire your poetry! Ages 10 to 17. No registration required. Call 541617-7078 for more info.

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Photographing a black hole?

Starting in April 2017, international researchers linked radio telescopes around the world, aiming them simultaneously at Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy.

The goal? To take a picture of a supposedly invisible object in space, the black hole itself. Data from this remarkable Event Horizon Telescope Project is currently being analyzed. What will we learn?

What will it all mean?

Dr. Larry Price is curious, too. He will speak at The Belfry on Tuesday, March 26, for the next lecture in the 2018-19 Frontiers in Science series, sponsored by the Sisters Science Club.

“Success will provide the first opportunity to measure directly the properties of black holes, still-mysterious objects which have only been observed indirectly until now,” Dr. Price explains.

The research will provide an incomparable test of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity at extreme values of the gravitational field, Dr. Price says. And, perhaps most important, it should give scientists important clues with which to construct the stillelusive quantum theory of gravity.

Dr. Price will explain all of this, without assuming any technical knowledge on the part of the audience, to provide a good framework for

following what should be one of the hot scientific stories of 2019 and beyond.

Dr. Price, a physicist specializing in elementary particles, holds degrees in physics from Pomona College (BA) and Harvard University (MA and PhD). He is retired from a career at Argonne National Laboratory, where he held the rank of senior physicist and was director of the High Energy Physics Division.

He has served on multiple national and international committees for particle physics and related fields, including the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, the U.S. Federal Advisory Committee for elementary particle physics.

Dr. Price’s lecture, “The Big Picture: Photographing the Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy” starts at 7 p.m. at The Belfry, with an introduction by astrophysicist Dr. Ron Polidan.

Social hour begins at 6 p.m. with light fare, beer, and wine available. Admission is $5; teachers and students are admitted free. The Belfry is located at 302 E. Main Ave., Sisters.

D r. D a n i e l L o w d ’s rescheduled lecture, “Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence: Science Takes on Fake News,” is set for Tuesday, April 23. Dr. Bob Collins will speak on “The Brain Makes the Mind” on Tuesday, May 7.

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LETTERS

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lives and performing so many other vitally important tasks each and every day. Their exceptional work often goes unnoticed, but it is the heartbeat that keeps our community alive.

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To the Editor: This is an open letter to the residents of Sun Mountain Ranches.

Once again I find myself pleading with my neighbors to help save Sun Mountain Ranches Special Road District.

Without three board members (each serves a three-year term), the District could be forced to be disbanded.

Who will plow the roads when snow comes?

Where will your children catch the bus if the roads deteriorate due to lack of maintenance? What about the value you will lose on your home? Do you know how your tax dollars are being spent?

The prevailing attitude seems to be: “someone else will take care of it.” But “someone else” isn’t always going to be there.

Unless you want this to happen you need to become involved. I for one would hate to see all the money and time we’ve put into this end up a waste.

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I would like to make it clear that this is categorically untrue. I have not seen one person suggest the banning of this book. To the contrary, most of us believe no book should ever be banned.

We are simply requesting that our children not be required to read a book that encourages (even praises) the denying of one’s biological reality.

If it became required reading, it’s not like the book would end up on the list by accident. Since the majority of the world’s books don’t end up there, it’s obvious that the ones that do are very carefully selected in order to teach children certain values, or for their literary merit. I’d venture a guess that those who support this book would not want, for example, the Bible on the list.

Our children can and will learn to be compassionate individuals who are kind to those who are different, without being required to read a book that encourages denial of biological reality. The author’s own bio states: “They are proud to have served on the board of NOLOSE, a fat-positive, queer, feminist organization dedicated to supporting radical fat acceptance and culture.” Seriously? It isn’t even grammatically correct to refer to oneself as “they.”

No. The people who are harming our children are those who think such a book should be required reading. Woe to you.

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To the Editor: After reading Jeff Mackey’s letter to the Editor in the March 13 Nugget, I was taken aback by its hateful tone, its irrationality, and its lack of facts. After reflecting on this, I realized that the message he is really trying to convey is how afraid he is. I think most people can relate to that. These days, there is certainly a lot to fear.

One big fear seems to be about what we stand to lose, or what might be taken away; our safety and security, our dignity and respect, a healthy natural environment, a chance for a better life, our image of how we think things should be, our children’s future, etc.

We certainly need to work for change, but I wonder what might happen if, instead of lashing out in fear about what we think we might lose, we started to think more about what we have to give. What we have to give, after all, is one thing that can never be taken away. That would be revolutionary. And it could start here.

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so you can’t see it anymore.

So, we take a video of the asteroid going in front of the star. The amount of time that it blinks out can determine how big the object is and that can tell us different things, like what it is made of.”

Recently McCrystal and five other Astronomy Club students met in Boulder City, Nevada, at a science conference to discuss their findings.

In the main gymnasium elementary students wowed the crowd as each student signed up for the competition races with their own specially designed and decorated balloon cars. Then the older students competed in the DCC contest. This year there was a contest featuring flying tennis balls, conducted by physics teacher Andy Scheele, with the help of Mark Thompson from Sisters Science Club.

Thompson noted, “Everyone makes their own apparatus to launch a tennis ball through a two-meter square aperture that will fall into a hula hoop.”

Sisters Science Club President Bob Collins was having a great time observing

students demonstrate the science behind each unique project to hundreds of spectators.

“I just spent about a half an hour in what I call ‘poison alley.’ These exhibits are about all the waste humans have put into the water trying to make money,” Collins said.

“Some demonstrate arsenic and oil spills, others are mercury poisoning, acid rain, and plastics. These students have studied their own exhibits and have come up with some solutions for the problem. I think it’s a step up this year in terms of it’s getting the kids not to just study a scientific problem but to come up with a solution. And some of these solutions that the kids have come up with are amazing.”

A lot of plastic garbage inevitably ends up in the ocean waters, and the accumulation of millions of tons of plastic trash in what are known as gyres has been well documented.

Last January, Emilie Turpin and Olivia Bertagna gave a presentation at a city council meeting working toward ending plastic bag use in Sisters.

“Right now, the state is working on banning plastic.

There is a bill that I testified in favor for last month to remove all disposable plastics,” Turpin said.

She explained, “Gyres are large circular ocean currents

caused by the world’s wind patterns. The water is so stagnant in gyres that trash, like plastic, collects there. But gyres are also a place where nutrients collect that the ocean life is attracted to. The marine life ends up eating little plastic pieces that mixes with the nutrients or they get damaged by it.”

Ninety percent of seabirds have plastic in their stomachs.

It is predicted that 700 marine species will go extinct because of plastics.

Many students are going above and beyond the staples, taking on projects that could change the future. From exploring the asteroid belt to revolutionizing the disposal of plastics, these students prove you don’t have to be an adult to have amazing, worldchanging ideas about science.

A group of four Sisters High School chemistry students displayed a mini scaled weather balloon and Patagonia swatches of different grades of material that will be tested for insulation value in near space.

Makenna Liddell, Emma Farley, Amy Hills, and Sydney Rawlins were accepted by the ASGARD project in Belgium after creating a proposal for launching an atmospheric balloon up into the stratosphere while conducting an experiment testing how insulation of commercial-grade and

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Makenna Liddell, Amy Hills, Sydney Rawlins and Emma Farley shared their experiment (that they will be taking to Belgium) with science fair visitors. industrial-grade materials compare in insulation quality in near-space conditions.

The group will be going to Belgium and meeting with 35 other jury-selected teams from around the world in April.

“This is a wonderful opportunity to share our

experiment with other students, to learn from their unique projects, and develop new STEM skills that will open up new horizons and opportunities both for us and the Sisters High School Science Program,” Liddell said.

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Preparing for wildfire season in Sisters While Sisters-area residents were shoveling snow, staff with the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District were busy preparing for another wildfire season.

With summer just a few months away, several projects are nearing completion which the fire district believes will improve the safety of area residents. Projects include enhancing partnerships with Firewise communities, increasing community preparedness for evacuations, advocating for enhanced building codes and improving the burn-permitting process.

Fire Chief Roger Johnson said, “We are seeing a growing fire problem across Oregon and the entire West Coast. We want to make sure our agency and the community are prepared for changing conditions.”

While the Sisters area didn’t experience a significant fire like Milli or Pole Creek last season, it did have several smaller fires that challenged responders. The Rabbit Brush Fire in the Cloverdale community destroyed two homes and several outbuildings before being controlled.

Fires at Warm Springs, and the Graham Fire at Lake Billy Chinook also required activation of regional task forces to control the fires. In addition to regional fires, the District participated in two statewide mobilizations. One mobilization was for the Substation Fire in The Dalles and the

District also sent personnel and equipment to the Camp Fire in California (Paradise).

The Camp Fire was California’s most devastating wildfire in history, destroying 18,800 buildings and killing 85 people. The Camp Fire has impacted the way fire officials across the country are viewing the growing fire problem, and those impacts are being felt in Sisters.

“We told our personnel as they deployed to Paradise, view the fire through the lens of Sisters,” Chief Johnson said. “We wanted to know, where can we improve?”

The Fire District is focusing its efforts on prevention, community preparedness and education. Even in California where there is an abundance of firefighters, fire engines and aircraft, entire communities are still being destroyed by wildfire. The Fire District is supporting efforts to require new homes to be built with more fire-resistant construction. The Oregon Residential Specialty Code (building code) now allows communities to adopt a stricter building standard in high-risk areas.

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The Fire District is also planning two community events in Sisters this spring.

In April there will be a meeting for all Firewise communities and homeowners associations that may be interested in becoming a Firewise community. Firewise is a program initiated by the National Fire Protection Association that teaches people how to adapt to living with wildfire and encourages neighbors to work together to prevent losses from wildfire.

The Fire District would like every neighborhood in Sisters and Camp Sherman to become a Firewise community. Also during the April meeting participants will receive information about the coming fire season and strategies to make homes in their community more resilient in the face of wildfire.

In May, the Fire District is hosting a community preparedness day where residents will be asked to evaluate their home and make sure they are ready for the coming fire season. Residents will be asked to evaluate their home for vulnerabilities. Residents will also be asked to learn where the evacuation routes for their neighborhoods are.

During a fire, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office will implement any needed evacuations.

Normally, residents will be directed to evacuate their neighborhood on the main

access roads they use every day. In some cases they may be directed to use an alternate road. The best time to become familiar with alternate evacuation routes is before the fire starts. Residents will also be encouraged to register their cell phone with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office. By registering cell phone numbers, residents will receive emergency notifications wherever they are. To register your cell phone go to https://www. deschutes.org/911/page/signdeschutes-emergency-alerts.

The Fire District is also introducing a new burn-permitting system. The permitting system will remain free, but will have a web-based feature that will allow residents to text if they want to burn. Once the Fire District receives the text, the program will instantly respond, letting the user know if it is a burn

day or not. The program will also capture the location of the burn, which will allow firefighters to know on a daily basis where fires are burning. The new system will also allow the Fire District to send notifications to users of the system.

The Fire District hopes to have the system online by May 1.

Residents are reminded that the City of Sisters does not allow burning of brush and debris within city limits.

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Obituary Daniel E. “Dan” Jordan August 9, 1941 — February 15, 2019

Dan was born in West Elizabeth, Pennsylvania to Robert and Agnes Jordan.

After high school graduation, Dan enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served from 1960 to 1964, stationed in Okinawa, Japan. While serving his country Dan’s field of study was in telecommunications.

After leaving the Navy, Dan settled in Portland and pursued his career in telecommunications for 35 years.

While working at Pacific Northwest Bell, AT&T, and Cellular One, Dan worked his way up to manager of operations and retired in 2002.

Dan’s positive demeanor and engaging personality were a delight to his friends, and he was a treasure to everyone who knew him. His affable manner and social skills enabled him to quickly make friends of strangers. To Dan, your friendship greatly mattered and he strongly secured and nurtured his friendships throughout his life.

Dan met Marcy Kuhlman in Portland, and in 1990 they began a 28-year marriage.

Dan possessed an almost childlike enthusiasm for exploration and adventure.

While wanting to serve his community, Dan pursued with vigor the life of a volunteer fireman for the Beavercreek Fire Department and became a lieutenant. In 1977 Dan won the proud distinction of being named the firefighter of the year. Dan once mentioned there was no greater thrill than being behind the wheel and driving the big fire engine. His adventures continued when he became a motorman and learned to drive the trolley car that traveled from Lake Oswego to downtown Portland.

In 2003 Dan and Marcy moved to their newly constructed home in Camp Sherman where they commenced to involve themselves in all kinds of opportunities. They shared a love

for traveling in their RV for 10 years and often enjoyed visiting their small beach getaway in Florence. Friends were well aware that Dan could meet any challenge in parking that large RV in any size of campground.

Dan and Marcy also made many trips abroad and considered Africa and Spain among their favorite countries.

Dan took much pleasure in reading all kinds of literature and helped to create “The Men’s Book Group” which existed for 13 years.

Dan served as the esteemed secretary of the group for several years.

Dan zealously involved himself in several outdoor activities which included hiking, snowshoeing, and fly-fishing. Living close to the Metolius River, Dan was motivated to learn the skills of fly-fishing and gradually became adept in this sport.

However, his fishing comrades knew that whenever Dan waded into the waters of the Metolius, the wily and elusive trout of the river usually took little notice of him. With his usual sense of humor, Dan advocated that catching wasn’t important and it was his good fortune to share in the beauty of the Metolius.

In 2011, after eight memorable years in Camp Sherman, Dan and Marcy moved to Sisters where they could more conveniently participate in more activities in their new town. A new addition arrived in their home about two years later when a delightful young doggie named Bentley became their constant companion.

In his desire to contribute

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By Sue Stafford Correspondent

to the community, Dan actively involved himself with volunteer projects through his connection with the local Kiwanis Club.

Dan passed away after a valiant 14-year battle with prostate cancer.

Dan was a gregarious, thoughtful, and kind man whose legacy of love will continually reside in the hearts and minds of his loving wife, family, and devoted friends.

Dan was preceded in death by his parents, Robert and Agnes Jordan.

Dan is survived by his wife, Marcy Kuhlman; daughters Pamela Harshberger of Happy Valley and Janice Jordan of Vancouver, Washington; brothers Robert Jordan and wife Carole of Marshfield, Mass., Henry Jordan and wife Rita of Boston, Mass., Bill Jordan and partner Rosemary of Dorchester, Mass., Jim Jordan and wife Catherine of Happy Valley; Sister Linda Pritts and husband Richard of Mt. Pleasant, Penn. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews.

Memorial contributions may be made to: Partners In Care, 2017 NE Wyatt Ct., Bend, OR, 97701.

A celebration of life for Dan is planned for spring 2019.

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• The Sisters Planning Commission will be deliberating on the McKenzie Meadows Village land-use application and Master Plan from Hayden Homes on Thursday, March 21, 5:30 p.m., at City Hall. No more public testimony will be taken.

• The Sisters Public Works crew continues to remove large piles of snow from streets throughout the city, especially any that are covering storm drains to ensure proper drainage for melting snow. Public Works Director Paul Bertagna wants city residents to know that in future heavy snow events, if there is a medical emergency and the medics can’t reach the patient due to snow blockage to call the City Public Works Department and ask for assistance.

• Site plans have been received at the City for a small hotel/restaurant/bar on the old Ski Inn property on East Cascade Avenue, a new bus barn and transportation center on school district property directly behind the Sisters Park & Recreation District building, and from Sisters Rental for additional storage buildings and outside storage.

• At the annual City Council goal-setting workshop on February 12, councilors identified six main goal areas: livability and growth; public safety; economic development; essential infrastructure; good

governance; and community vision. Staff will now align suggested project ideas from the councilors with the correct goal, add action items, and bring the document back to Council for further review and input.

• City business licenses have been issued to Lyft, the vehicle-for-hire business, and Fika, the new coffee shop located at 201 E. Sun Ranch Dr. in the business park north of West Barclay Drive.

• A contract has been awarded to Mountain Sky Landscaping for the Barclay/ McKinney Butte/US 20 roundabout landscape and art project. Work could begin as soon as weather permits.

• City Council has authorized staff to apply for a matching grant from the state to replace the Village Green play structure, with a total project cost of $193,750.

The City would be required to provide 62 percent of the cost, or $120,125 to match the state’s $73,625, which is considered a small grant and may have a better chance of being funded than a request for a larger grant. The City portion of the expense could come from Parks System Development Charges, the general fund, and possibly Urban Renewal funds.

• Former City Councilor David Asson has been appointed to the Budget Committee that will meet this spring to set the City’s 2019-2020 budget that begins in July.

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The Nugget Newspaper Crossword

Sisters salutes...

By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service

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Ann Richardson hugs Katy Yoder, who helped organize a surprise appreciation party on Thursday.

• Pete Rathbun wrote: “Thank you to the 150 or so people who attended the surprise party thrown for Ann Richardson last Thursday at FivePine. Not to mention the dozen or so super-heroes that set it up; you know who you are.

She was blown away.

Who knew so many people in this small town could keep a secret for three whole weeks?

I can’t speak for Ann, but I know for a fact that Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) wouldn’t be where it is today without Ann and all of you (plus another few hundred volunteers).

In my years at SFF I’ve learned that if you start calling out individuals or organizations by name you’re bound to miss somebody, but you all know who I’m talking to. I’m forever grateful to have gotten to know and work with all of you.

Thank you for making the job not only so much easier, but a lot of fun.

ROAD RAGE: No one was hurt in incident on Highway 20 Continued from page 1

Nobody in the reporting person’s car was struck by gunfire. The reporting person advised they were still following the suspect. The reporting person then said that the suspect had turned onto Central Avenue east of Sisters. The reporting person parked near the intersection of Central Avenue and Highway 20 to await contact from sheriff’s office personnel.

At approximately 7:13 p.m., a deputy with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office spotted the suspect vehicle parked in the middle of Fryrear Road near Cascade Estates Drive. That deputy requested additional units,

I sincerely wish the best for the organization going forward.

• Cal Allen and Carol Packard wrote: The Science Fair was a fine event and was made possible by the many contributions from the Sisters community. Our thanks to the Sisters School District for making the high school available and especially to the teachers and students who spent time developing the interesting exhibits.

Thanks to Kiwanis Foundation, our financial sponsor for the event, and to those Kiwanis members who volunteered to help set up and run it. A round of applause for our outside exhibitors for exhibits that enhanced the science we wanted to display.

Finally, thank you to the Science Club volunteers, parents and other citizens of Sisters for contributing your time and energy to make this event a success.

and law enforcement officers initiated a high-risk vehicle stop. The suspect, Joseph Wade Tafte, 31, of Bend, was eventually taken into custody.

The suspect was transported to St. Charles Medical Center for evaluation, and then to the Deschutes County Jail and lodged on multiple charges, including DUII; reckless driving; reckless endangerment; criminal mischief; hit and run (property damage); unlawful use of a weapon; menacing; resisting arrest; and interfering with a police officer.

There were no injuries to the victim, suspect, or lawenforcement officers during this incident. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office was assisted at the scene by the Bend Police Department, Redmond Police Department, Oregon State Police, and the Cloverdale Fire District. The investigation is ongoing.

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C L A S S I F I E D S ALL advertising in this newspaper is 101 Real Estate subject to the Fair Housing Act Horse/cow property in upscale which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or rural Sisters area. 5 ac. for sale discrimination based on race, color, with up to 17 ac. LT lease, 12 ac. religion, sex, handicap, familial 1895 water rights, mtn. view, status or national origin, or an pond, adj. BLM, near hiking intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrim- preserve. No hemp or marijuana. ination.” Familial status includes Will list @ $397,000. children under the age of 18 living 541-548-3438 for photos/info. with parents or legal custodians, HEATED CAR STORAGE pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

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This newspaper will not knowingly Purchase or Lease Option. accept any advertising for real estate 541-419-2502 which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all Cascade Sotheby's dwellings advertised in this International Realty newspaper are available on an equal – Sheila Jones, Broker – opportunity basis. To complain of 503-949-0551 discrimination call HUD toll-free at Your Local Realtor!

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The toll-free telephone number for the hearing – Sisters Oregon Guide – impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

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CLASSIFIED RATES COST: $2 per line for first insertion, 102 Commercial Rentals $1.50 per line for each additional insertion to 9th week, $1 per line SNO CAP MINI STORAGE 10th week and beyond (identical www.SistersStorage.com ad/consecutive weeks). Also included LONG-TERM DISCOUNTS! in The Nugget online classifieds at no Secure, Automated Facility additional charge. There is a minimum $5 charge for any with On-site Manager classified. First line = approx. 20-25 • • • characters, each additional line = 541-549-3575 approx. 25-30 characters. Letters, spaces, numbers and punctuation = 1 MINI STORAGE character. Any ad copy changes will Sisters Storage & Rental be charged at the first-time insertion 506 North Pine Street rate of $2 per line. Standard 541-549-9631 abbreviations allowed with the approval of The Nugget classified Sizes 5x5 to 15x30. 7-day access. department. NOTE: Legal notices Computerized security gate. placed in the Public Notice section On-site management. are charged at the display advertising U-Haul trucks, trailers, moving rate. boxes & supplies.

DEADLINE: MONDAY, noon preceding WED. publication.

Prime Downtown Retail Space PLACEMENT & PAYMENT: Call Lori at 541-549-7132 Office, 442 E. Main Ave. Phone, Cold Springs Commercial 541-549-9941 or place online at NuggetNews.com. Payment is due CASCADE STORAGE upon placement.

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CATEGORIES: 101 Real Estate 102 Commercial Rentals 103 Residential Rentals 104 Vacation Rentals 106 Real Estate Wanted 107 Rentals Wanted 200 Business Opportunities 201 For Sale 202 Firewood 203 Recreation Equipment 204 Arts & Antiques 205 Garage & Estate Sales 206 Lost & Found 207 The Holidays 301 Vehicles 302 Recreational Vehicles 401 Horses 402 Livestock 403 Pets 500 Services 501 Computer Services 502 Carpet Upholstery Cleaning 503 Appliance Repair & Refinish 504 Handyman 505 Auto Repair 600 Tree Service & Forestry 601 Construction 602 Plumbing & Electric 603 Excavations & Trucking 604 Heating & Cooling 605 Painting 606 Landscaping & Yard Maint.

701 Domestic Services 702 Sewing 703 Child Care 704 Events & Event Services 801 Classes & Training 802 Help Wanted 803 Work Wanted 901 Wanted 902 Personals 999 Public Notice

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103 Residential Rentals PONDEROSA PROPERTIES –Monthly Rentals Available– Call Debbie at 541-549-2002 Full details, 24 hrs./day, go to: PonderosaProperties.com Printed list at 221 S. Ash, Sisters Ponderosa Properties LLC

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202 Firewood SISTERS FOREST PRODUCTS DAVE ELPI – FIREWOOD • SINCE 1976 • Doug Fir – Lodgepole – Juniper DRIVE-IN WOOD SALES – 18155 Hwy. 126 East – SistersForestProducts.com Order Online! 541-410-4509 Firewood $99/cord partially seasoned cut/split u-haul from downtown Sisters.

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• • • • • • • • • • • • (3) LIGHTED SHOWCASES Durable & Mirrored! $600 ea. or $1,650 for all.

Call Cha, 541-549-1140 – TURQUOISE – Native American Cuffs, Squash Blossoms, Concho Belts Authentic Inventory • Gift Certificates • Cowgirls and Indians Resale 160 S. Oak St. | 541-549-6950 Wed.-Sat., 11-5 or by Appt.

205 Garage & Estate Sales Happy Trails Estate Sales!

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301 Vehicles We Buy, Sell, Consign Quality Cars, Trucks, SUVs & RVs ~ Call Robb at 541-647-8794 or Jeff at 541-815-7397 Sisters Car Connection da#3919 SistersCarConnection.com

401 Horses Horse boarding, Sisters 3 fenced pastures on 4 1/2 acres, 2 acres irrigated. Barn, corrals, loafing shed, shade trees. Will graze cattle, sheep, alpaca.

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

541-213-8959 Certified Weed-Free HAY. Orchard Grass or Alfalfa Hay, Sisters. $250 per ton.

Call 541-548-4163 Horse Boarding in Sisters ~ New barn, arena, round pen, and access to National Forest. $550/mo. Call 541-323-1841.

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403 Pets A CARING ENVIRONMENT for your treasured Best Friends in your home while you're away!

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Joyful Pup Pet Happiness Service! Offering experienced and loving pet care, Joyful Pup Hikes, Happy Dog Walks, Forest Adventures and Trail Dog Training. Contact Jen at 541-848-9192 or joyfulpupinsisters@gmail.com Furry Friends Foundation helps pets in our community!

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

500 Services WEDDINGS • CATERING ~ Willow Camp Catering ~ Call Wendy, 541-923-8675 • DERI’s HAIR SALON • Call 541-419-1279 SMALL Engine REPAIR Lawn Mowers, Chainsaws & Trimmers Sisters Rental 506 North Pine Street 541-549-9631 Authorized service center for Stihl, Briggs & Stratton, Honda, Tecumseh FIFI'S HAULING SERVICE Dump Trailers available!

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

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502 Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Sisters Carpet Cleaning CELEBRATING 39 years in business with spring specials!

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The Sisters Park and Recreation District is seeking an Executive Director who demonstrates a 606 Landscaping & Yard passion for recreation services Maintenance and has 3-5 years of management experience. To learn more or to apply, visit our website at https://www.sistersrecreation. com/employment/ Sisters Park and Recreation Fencing, irrigation installation & District is looking for a trouble-shooting, defensible customer-service-oriented team space strategies, general player to serve as our cleanups, turf care maintenance administrative assistant at and agronomic recommendations, Coffield Center. Job description fertility & water conservation and how to apply are available at management, light excavation. https://www.sistersrecreation.

CCB 188594 • LCB 9264 com/employment/ 541-515-8462 Black Butte School is seeking a All Landscaping Services Bus Driver. $18.85+ DOE. Mowing, Thatching, Hauling...

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6:15-8:15 a.m. and 2:15-4:15 Metolius Lawn Maintenance p.m. + add'l hours for field trips Aerating, thatching, mowing, and paperwork. For more info: pruning, hauling & more – 541-595-6203 or Call Eric Bilderback srussell@blackbutte.k12.or.us LCB #15899 • 541-508-9672 Limb and debris clean-up and The Garden Angel is now filling landscape maintenance crew removal by L&B Lawn Care. member positions. LCB 9583.

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SUTTLE LAKE: Public input sought on proposed project Continued from page 1

Reid noted that the conditions are natural.

“It’s an old forest and that’s what forests do — they fall apart. And in lots of areas, that’s fine,” he said.

But in an area that’s full of campgrounds and developed camp facilities and traveled by thousands of people each year, a forest that’s falling apart can pose a hazard.

Reid noted that a USFS employee’s truck was struck by a decrepit tree that fell near the lake. It totaled the rig. Managers of the several camps in the area have been urging action by the Forest Service, which has been addressing hazard trees on a case-by-case basis. Reid said that the District decided that it is time for a comprehensive approach to the area.

A scoping letter from the Forest Service states that: “The proposed action takes a comprehensive approach to managing vegetation in this intensive recreation area. In addition to abating (felling) hazards in the form of danger trees and hazard trees to protect the public and reduce

potential damage to recreation infrastructure, trees in the general project area would be selectively harvested to improve overall forest health by reducing the extent of dwarf mistletoe and addressing susceptible host trees in areas with stem and root diseases. Reforestation, seeding, and transplanting of disease-resistant tree species would be conducted to facilitate recovery in areas of tree removal. This would result in a decreased need (both short and longterm) to address safety concerns.”

Some of the downed trees would be used for habitat restoration work, including in Link Creek.

The letter notes that, “Tree felling and removal would focus on tree species that have a higher susceptibility to root and stem decays as well as Douglas fir and white fir dwarf mistletoe. As a general rule, trees selected for removal would include white fir, Engelmann spruce, and mountain hemlock due to their higher susceptibility to root and stem decays and the presence of root and stem diseases. In addition, where non-native tree species or shrubs are present, additional tree falling/shrub removal would occur.”

Reid acknowledged that the project will have some impact on the visual appearance of the forest in the area of the lake.

“I think in some areas it will,” he said. “It’ll be more open… In some areas the cover canopy will be opened up quite a bit.”

He said that, depending upon the level of public interest, part of the public input process may include field trips to the area and identifying specific trees that foresters could try to save.

Comments are welcomed by the Sisters Ranger District; deadline is April 19.

Submit comments to Greater Suttle Lake Vegetation Management Project, P.O. Box 249, Sisters, Oregon 97759 Attn: District Ranger Ian Reid, c/o Michael Keown, Environmental Coordinator. Telephone 541549-7735. FAX: 541-5497746. Hand-delivered comments may be delivered to Highway 20 and Pine Street in Sisters from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Email comments should be sent to: comments-pacificnorthwestdeschutes-sisters@fs.fed. us. Put “Greater Suttle Lake Vegetation Management Project” in the subject line of the email.

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The forest around Suttle Lake is old and there is lots of disease and decay — which can pose a danger in such a heavily used area.

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TEHAN: Rodeo honors longtime anthem songbird Continued from page 1

recalls hearing her infant howl while she sang. Four years later, the dedicated Tehan sang, without a horse, just a week before the birth of her third child.

She is a member of the High Desert Chorale and Bell Choir. In 2014, she formed a ukulele group, which now has over 40 members. She is also a member of a wind instrument recorder group, Renaissance Sisters. The bells and recorders perform by request at many special events in Sisters. She has also graciously sung at weddings, memorials, and special programs throughout her tenure in Sisters, probably more times than she can remember.

“Peggy has great confidence in performing,” said the founder of the High Desert Chorale, retired opera singer Irene Liden, “she has an exceptional sense of rhythm and vocal quality.”

She has also served on the board of directors at Sisters Park & Recreation District since 2008.

Tehan was raised on a family farm and ranch in eastern Washington in the Kittitas Valley. Her father farmed 2,000 irrigated acres to feed the cattle his brother raised on the other 25,000 acres, all owned by their father.

“My father was a singer and a whistler,” Tehan said.

“We were always singing on the tractor and during other farming duties. The entire family, Dad, Jack, Mary Beth and Judy, played musical instruments. We had music in our lives constantly.”

When she entered middle school she met her mentor, a newly graduated music teacher who was excited about her skill. With his influence, a professor at Central Washington State University agreed to be her private vocal instructor, recognizing the superior talent in Peggy’s voice.

As a high school freshman, Tehan auditioned for the All State Choir and was accepted. The next year, she was accepted in the All Northwest Choir, to perform in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. In her junior year, she auditioned for the National Choir and was chosen as a member.

That summer, the National Choir performed across the nation and in Northern Europe.

As a more minor accolade, Tehan and four musically inclined friends

formed a high school rock band called The Rubber Band.

At Washington State, music was not her focus of study, but she pursued involvement in musical productions, including singing in operas. By her sophomore year, she changed her major to graduate with a degree in vocal performance in 1980.

Accepted to a graduate program in music at the University of Oregon, Tehan moved to Eugene. She soon realized she wanted to experience something else after intense dedication to performing. She didn’t take the offer. Instead, she went to work at the original Spotted Mule in Eugene before it moved to Bend. Music was in her blood, she felt, but she wanted to savor other adventures.

Tehan began her local Sisters career as a whitewater guide for Cascade Adventures. She often

socialized with the crowd at Hotel Sisters’ Bronco Billy’s Saloon, where she brought her guitar and often sang softly and sweetly for the locals. In short time, that attracted John Tehan, a coowner of the classic Western restaurant and saloon. After dating two years, the couple married in 1987.

Feeling the need for a “real” career, Tehan studied to become a certified public accountant. In 1997, the newly licensed Tehan joined Bill Campbell’s accounting service. After a short time, they evolved into Campbell and Tehan CPAs. The Tehans have three children, each accomplished in a chosen field and all part of a home of music. Audrey, wearing her grandfather’s “genes,” created Seed to Table, a nonprofit farming program that teaches Sisters School District children how to grow organic food to benefit subscribers and supply fresh vegetables at Kiwanis

Food Bank. That farm is on the Tehan acreage on the edge of Sisters.

Hattie is an educator in the Alzar School in Cascade, Idaho, after adventures in South America as a whitewater guide. J.C. traveled the map trying different careers, and is now in wind turbine energy production, with training that is ongoing in an industry that reduces the carbon footprint of energy sources.

Tehan retired from singing the National Anthem for Sisters Rodeo in 2018. The rodeo held a contest with her

as committee chair to bring new voices for each performance. Coming full circle, Audrey Tehan, the howling infant from her mom’s first performance, sang in her mother’s place at the Xtreme Bulls performance last year.

“This is such an honor,” Tehan expressed. “I hope to ride a horse in the parade instead of being in a carriage.” Sisters Rodeo hopes to add the carriage with the rest of the family on board.

All of them have contributed to the spirit of community of Sisters in so many unique ways.

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TAYLOR: Agent has navigated major changes in industry Continued from page 8

“It’s nice to be able to call up your agent and discuss that with them and come up with a plan of action,” she said. “You can call me, you can email, you can come in the office. It’s a personal relationship.”

That personal aspect of the job is the most rewarding aspect of her work, she says.

Taylor said the greatest ongoing challenge of her work is simply dealing with the continual steep climb of premiums for home and auto, some of it driven by massive disaster claims from California.

“That affects everybody,” she said.

Taylor has 20 years in service in Sisters and has no plans to change any of that soon. When work can spare her, she and Jeff have gotten back into golf, and they like to travel to the coast. Their 14-year-old, Lauren, is on the cusp of high school. They enjoy all of what Sisters has to offer, especially music.

For more information, contact Taylor at 541-549-3172.

CLARIFICATION In last week’s story, “Former Outlaws coach files federal lawsuit,” (The Nugget, March 13, page 1), The Nugget reported that former girls soccer coach Nik “Goertzen was not actually terminated from his position; his contract was not renewed. Coaches are ‘atwill’ employees of the district.”

There is disagreement over how the end of Goertzen’s tenure as girls soccer coach in 2012 should be characterized.

The Sisters School District has stated since 2012 that Goertzen was “non-renewed,” while Goertzen has asserted in legal filings that he was “terminated” from his position and that this was due to undue influence by disgruntled parents of student athletes.

In an email exchange with then-superintendent Jim Golden dated August 29, 2012, Sisters High School Principal Joe Hosang referred to having

been “in the process of terminating Nik (Goertzen)” and to his “termination.”

Hosang told The Nugget last week that he could not remember the context of his use of those specific words, but that he had informed Goertzen in February of 2012 that he would not be asked to return to coach the next season of girls soccer.

“All I can tell you is I had a meeting with Nik in February… when we went over his evaluation,” Hosang said. “It was at that time that we told him he would not be coming back for his soccer position.”

Goertzen recently filed suit in U.S. District Court in Eugene against Deschutes County Circuit Court Judge Beth Bagley, who ruled against Goertzen in a 2015 motion in relation to the case. The suit alleges that Bagley failed to disclose that she was “personal friends with” one of the parents whom Goertzen had originally taken legal action against.

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