Sisters car wins at Concours d’Elegance page 5
4-H participants show at county fair page 8
City of Sisters has new project coordinator page 20
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The consensus among the approximately 80 citizens who attended last week’s town hall regarding House Bill 2020 and carbon emissions was “Do something!” State Sen. Cliff Bentz-(R) of Ontario and Rep. Daniel Bonham-(R) from The Dalles told those assembled in the FivePine Conference Center on Monday, July 29, that they wanted to hear from their constituents their thoughts and ideas about carbon emissions,
A federal lawsuit filed by former Outlaws coach Nik Goertzen against a Deschutes County judge involved in a series of legal actions regarding his 2012 removal from his coaching position has been dropped and an ethics complaint against the judge has been dismissed. Goertzen had twice been named league Coach of the Year for girls soccer before Principal Joe Hosang ended his tenure in 2012. Goertzen
See TOWN HALL on page 19
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Benny, a high-energy Labrador makes a grab for glory in Deschutes County Fair competition as his athletic trainer Brian Fowler of Sisters looks on. See story page 10.
Firefighters still see accessibility problems By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief
Despite a stark lesson learned last year when three houses and several outbuildings went up in flames, not all local residents have taken on the work Cloverdale Fire Chief Thad Olsen and other emergency officials say is critical: Homeowners must do their part to make their properties defensible, and they must be prepared for a crisis to hit with little warning. “We aren’t going to commit firefighters to houses that are not defensible,” Chief Olsen told The Nugget last. “Basically, what we’re asking is, give us a fighting chance.”
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That still holds true — and Cloverdale is still seeing houses that can’t be defended. Olsen told The Nugget last week that they are hearing from UPS and Fed/Ex drivers about driveways that aren’t cleared. If a delivery truck can’t make it up a driveway, a fire truck can’t, either. The fire district recently sent out a flyer to remind residents of requirements: Access roads shall have an unobstructed horizontal clearance (trees, limbs, brush and large rocks) of not less than 20 feet wide, and an unobstructed vertical clearance of 13.5 feet. See FIRE ACCESS on page 18
See LAWSUIT on page 29
Sisters photographer honored By Ceili Cornelius Correspondent
Sisters photographer Jay Mather is being recognized for his work in Cambodia during a time when the country was in turmoil. His work will be featured in the Visa Pour l´Image International Festival of Photojournalism near Paris in September. Mather visited the country in 1979 when the communist Khmer Rouge regime had slaughtered 1.7 million people — 21-24 percent of Cambodia’s population. Mather and reporter Joel Brinkley went on the lines of the refugee camps reporting and photographing the crisis in the surrounding areas. The Louisville (Kentucky) Courier sent Mather and Brinkley alongside doctors
PHOTO BY JAY MATHER
Jay Mather’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs from Cambodian refugee camps in 1979 will be shown at an international photojournalism festival. to document the brutality inflicted upon the Cambodian people, as well as treat the sick and starving refugees. Mather heard of the chaos happening after seeing a CBS special report on one Dr. Ken
Rasmussen, a Louisville physician at the time who went to Cambodia looking after the refugees. CBS had done a report on what he had been See MATHER on page 23
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Naturalist............... 7 Announcements................12 Bunkhouse Chronicle ........17 Classifieds..................26-28 Meetings ........................... 3 Obituaries ......................... 8 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................28-32
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“…mania feeds upon itself and becomes hysterical.” — Christopher Hitchens
It’s time for the 24th Annual
Country Fair & Art Show!
Sat., Aug. 10, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 68825 Brooks Camp Rd., Sisters PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
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: I sat through the town hall meeting on Monday held by Sen. Bentz and Rep. Bonham on HB 2020. First let me say it was good to see that people of different opinions can still be civil – unlike what we have seen from other town halls, in other cities. Kudos to Sisters Country people! We should all be thankful that our elected representatives have clearly studied the subject of cap and trade, and are well versed on the topic. Their level of knowledge was impressive, and their concern about doing something (the right thing) was evident. My suggestion is that we contact Speaker Kotek and Governor Brown and remind them of how history views major legislation that is rammed thru on party lines. LBJ knew he had
to have bi-partisan support for Medicare for it to become a fixture in our society. Sadly, President Obama failed to learn that lesson and instead of passing bi-partisan healthcare reform, he rammed thru Obamacare on a party line vote and it is slowly being dismantled. Cap and Trade can work if done properly, and if it is done on a bi-partisan basis. This is an important step for Oregonians, and we will all be better off if we do it together. Carey Tosello
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To the Editor: Monday, July 29, there was a Town Hall called by our State Representative D. Bonham See LETTERS on page 24
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Anyone who attends a music festival in Sisters, or goes shopping in a big-box store in Bend, or maybe goes out for an evening downtown might pause in the wake of the past week’s events and consider that they might just be a target. Active shooters attacked crowds at a festival in Gilroy, California; shoppers in a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas; and downtown diners in Dayton, Ohio. It can happen anywhere, and anyone could be a target. That’s terrorism. The El Paso shooter appears to have been ideologically driven by hatred of immigrants. The motivations of the other two are murkier. The Gilroy shooter may or may not have been driven by white supremacist ideology, but he reportedly imbibed the same spew of late-19th-century racialist bile that fueled fascism and National Socialism. He told a witness that he was “really angry.” The Dayton shooter reportedly kept a “rape list” and a “kill list” when he was in high school, and seems to have had extreme left leanings. Among the first he killed was his own sister. Ideology matters, but it is not a sufficient explanation for why mass shootings keep happening. Any mechanistic explanation — it’s guns; it’s video games; it’s mental illness; it’s racism; it’s…. is bound to be reductive and inadequate. History shows us that. The U.S. has experienced bouts of domestic terrorism before. Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin bids us: “Think about one fact, one fact alone: 1,000 political bombings a year in ’72, ’73, ’74. Almost inconceivable. That was what the world was like. Skyjackings were epidemic. You had an actual revolutionary movement in this country that, while never likely to succeed, was disrupting the country, especially Northern California, in a way that’s… it’s just hard to believe.” Those bombings, it must
be noted, were for the most part low- or no-casualty affairs, but there were other acts of intense criminal violence purportedly supporting leftist “revolution.” In the 1980s and ’90s, there was a spate of rightwing terrorism, culminating in the horrific bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, an attack that took 168 lives. Explaining such acts as the products of warped ideology — or the belief that such mad acts must require a mad perpetrator — obscure a simple, horrifying truth: Some people just want to watch the world burn. Some people want to set it on fire. The end doesn’t justify the means — the means ARE the end. It’s all about the blaze of glory. And, as the philosopher Eric Hoffer wrote in his brilliant treatise “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”: “Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience… The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending — for making a show — and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.” The spectacle itself drives these events. It’s no accident that they cluster; each terrible act feeds the next. The Internet is full of fever swamps where perpetrators of mass shootings are fetishized and glorified as heroes. As Hitchens says, “mania feeds upon itself and becomes hysterical.” That’s not mental illness; that’s evil. We have gone a long way down a dark path, with no easy fix to get us out. Tinkering with systems won’t avail us much. As Patrick J. Deneen writes with a nod to Czech dissident Vaclav Havel, a better system won’t ensure us a better life — in fact, only creating a better life can build a better system. That, Deneen says, requires “the patient encouragement of new forms of community that can serve as havens in our depersonalized political and economic order.” And a sense of honor and code wouldn’t hurt.
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Folk festival announces event schedule Sisters Folk Festival has announced the final schedule for the annual festival, September 6-8. The festival’s 11 intimate venues throughout downtown Sisters have attracted audiences for more than two decades, helping to earn the festival tagline “All The Town’s A Stage.” This year ’s schedule features performances by 46 artists over three days, plus six Americana Project alumni artists who will perform Saturday, September 7 at the Fir Street Park
Songbird Stage. Artists in the final lineup for 2019 include: Bruce Cockburn, Peter Rowan’s Free Mexican Airforce featuring Los Texmaniacs (each will also perform their own set), Ron Artis II & The Truth, Le Vent du Nord, Rising Appalachia, The East Pointers, Della Mae, The Hamiltones, Flor de Toloache, Martyn Joseph and more. “As a festival, we’ve dedicated ourselves to bringing See LINEUP on page 30
Fair and luau offer local entertainment Two of Sisters’ favorite events are on tap this week. Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) will bring the Hawaiian Islands back to Sisters on Thursday, August 8, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Village Green city park. “This is the fifth year for our luau,” said Shannon Rackowski, event coordinator for SPRD. SPRD will bring back the Aloha Spirit — the mutual affection and regard for all with no obligation in return — with music from headliner Kurt Silva, Halau Uhane Dancers, Sisters Ukulele Players, DJ
Chuck Boogie, Halua O Hula Hawaii with Shannon Mokuahi Rackowski and the opening number to be performed by Kane O Hula, Men of Hawaiian Dance Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District Firefighters. Rackowski will be preparing the kaukau, (the food), but this year includes a little twist in the menu adding teriyaki chicken, along with kalua pig (family recipes) sticky rice and more. Tickets are still available at SPRD; call 541-549-2091, See EVENTS on page 13
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Beth Wood will perform in two different venues in Sisters August 9 and 10.
Singer-songwriter poet to perform Singer-songwriter poet Beth Wood is no stranger to Sisters. The Texas-born, Portland-based troubadour has been hosting the Sunday Community Celebration at the Sisters Folk Festival for the last eight years. On Friday, August 9, Beth will read poems from her two poetry books, “Ladder to the Light,” and “Kazoo Symphonies” at Paulina Springs Books. Then on Saturday, August 10 from 5 to 7 p.m., Wood will play songs from her 11 albums in the Eurosports Food Cart Garden. Both events are free and open to all. The response to Wood’s second book of poetry, Ladder to the Light, has been overwhelming. Inspired by an image from a Jane Hirshfield
poem, “Mule Heart,” in which grief and joy are carried in “two waiting baskets,” Wood seeks to find balance again and regain footing after heartbreaking loss. Ladder to the Light chronicles her journey from grief to gratitude to believing in love again — poetry as a ladder toward the light. Ladder to the Light is the winner of the 2019 Oregon Book Awards Readers’ Choice Award and was chosen as a finalist for the 2019 Oregon Book Awards – Stafford/Hall prize for poetry. Wood’s exceptional musicianship, crafty songwriting, powerhouse voice, and commanding stage presence have been winning over American audiences for over twenty years. Beth’s performances and songs have won accolades
from the Kerrville New Folk, Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, Sisters Folk Festival Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest, and Telluride Troubadour Contest. Beth has released 11 independent albums and two books of poetry and has a forthcoming duo album with Ara Lee James under the name of Stand and Sway, which will play at this year’s Sisters Folk Festival. The poetry reading is set for Friday, August 9, at 6:30 p.m. at Paulina Springs Books, 252 W. Hood Ave. The Eurosports Food Cart Garden is located at 223 E. Hood Ave. All ages are welcome — bring chairs. For more information about Beth Wood, visit www. bethwoodmusic.com.
SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS Al-Anon Mon., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Wed., 6 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. 541-549-8737 or 541-549-1527. Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. 541-548-0440. Alzheimer’s & Dementia Caregiver Support Group 1st Tuesday, noon, Sisters City Hall. 800-272-3900. Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community room. Partner required. 541-595-6236. Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild For Saturday meeting dates and location, email: steelefly@msn.com. Central OR Spinners and Weavers Guild One Saturday per month, Jan. thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217. Council on Aging of Central Oregon Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters Community Church. 541-480-1843.
East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.
Sisters Area Woodworkers 1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. 541-639-6216. Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.
Friends of the Sisters Library Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays, Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com. 12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse. Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419. Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All Sisters Caregiver Support Group ages welcome. 541-771-2211. 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., The Lodge in Sisters. 541-771-3258. Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Sisters Cribbage Club Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ray’s Food Place Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to community room. 541-923-1632. 4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230. Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board Military Parents of Sisters Meetings of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m. are held quarterly; please call for details. Location information: 541-549-1193. 541-388-9013. Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870. Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469. Sisters Parent Teacher Community SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings 2nd Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. at Sisters & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. Saloon. 541-480-5994. to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group District. 541-549-2091. 2nd Tuesday, 2 p.m., The Lodge. Sisters Family Aglow Lighthouse 541-668-6599. 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., Ponderosa Lodge Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday. Meeting Room. 503-930-6158. Location information: 541-279-1977. Sisters Area Photography Club 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library Sisters Rotary Tuesdays, noon, Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-760-5645. community room. 541-549-6157.
Sisters Trails Alliance Board 1st Wednesday, 5 p.m. Sisters Library. Public welcome. 541-719-8822. Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon, Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123. Three Sisters Irrigation District Board of Directors 1st Tuesday, 4 p.m., TSID Office. 541-549-8815. Three Sisters Lions Club 1st Thursday, noon, Ray’s Food Place community room. 541-419-1279. VFW Post 8138 and American Legion Post 86 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-903-1123. Weight Watchers Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, Sisters Community Church. 541-602-2654.
SCHOOLS Black Butte School Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 5 p.m., Black Butte School. 541-595-6203. Sisters Christian Academy Board of Directors 2nd Thursday, 8 a.m., RE/MAX office. 541-549-4133. Sisters School District Board of Directors One Wed. monthly, SSD Admin Bldg. See schedule online at www.ssd6.org. 541-549-8521 x5002. Sisters Middle School Parent Collaboration Team 1st Tuesday, 2 p.m., SMS. 541-610-9513.
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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A journey to the farm Olympics By Audrey Tehan Columnist
My favorite day this spring was the first-ever sixth-grade Farm Olympics. Students had been visiting the farm four times a year, every year since the second grade. A challenge surrounding science, health, and agriculture was just what they needed. The opening ceremony led teams to chant their team names and cheers before they embarked on their four Olympic farm events. The plant part relay relied on a delicate balance of speed and wit. The compost jeopardy necessitated a keen eye and brought teams together for indepth brainstorming sessions. Sheer muscle and teamwork had to be utilized during the bed preparation station. Scientific inquiry was critical to the soil nutrient testing and finally, the blind taste-testing made students tune into their senses. The final prize: eternal recognition as the winners of the 2019 Farm Olympics — and $5 gift cards to Sisters Coffee Co. Our education programs are the key focus on Seed to Table Farm. The food production, the soil health, and management of pests serve as the perfect classroom for hands-on exploration of nutrition and science. This spring our education programs grew leaps and bounds in the quality and quantity of students served. Due to community support and the generous donations of individuals, the Collins Foundation and the Oregon Community Foundation, Seed to Table was able to hire education coordination. Our previous capacity could not keep up with demand from teachers and students. To start the spring off we hired Andrea Del Rio, to serve as our part-time high school education coordinator and Crystal Vogt to serve as our part-time K-8 coordinator. Ramping up with these two inspired individuals took our classes to another level;
we developed twice as many lessons to integrate next-generation science standards into more grade-specific activities. We were able to dive into the school and offer K-4 garden club programming three days a week during recess and after school. Some days there was a line out the door as students chose to spend their free time with their hands in the dirt. At the high school level, we culminated months of learning and growing in the four-season greenhouse into an Iron Grower and Iron Chef competition. The high school agriculture class stunned our board with their presentations of cucumbers growing up to the ceiling and cherry tomatoes ripening in early June (this is an amazing feat). Incorporating these foods into our life does not stop when students leave the greenhouse. Students were challenged to create a seed-totable meal incorporating 60 percent of the produce they grew, 30 percent of items grown or raised in Oregon and 10 percent of items could be sourced from anywhere. The culinary classroom at the school was a sensory overload of roasting tomatoes, basil sorbet, zucchini noodles and more. It was perhaps the most delicious ending to a class that I have ever experienced. Our newest project has been an honor as we were invited members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, to help establish a seed-to-table-type program for their K-8 Academy. Seed to Table was approached by tribal members, two years ago as Seed to Table and Warm Springs were working on increasing the local foods of school lunches. Tribal member John Brunoe was inspired to create a garden-based wellness program in their community. This spring we greeted all the second- and eighthgrade students of the Warm Springs K-8 Academy on Seed to Table Farm. Teachers and OSU garden program
coordinators shadowed staff and are being mentored on how to integrate gardens into daily activities and the intricacies of growing food in the high desert. This will be a three-year project to assist the Warm Springs community in developing their own seed-to-table program to help increase access to nutritious foods and engage students in farm/earth-based education. Seed to Table has been busy this past spring. Thank you so much to everyone who supports us by following along, purchasing produce at the farmers market, becoming a produce share member or coming to one of our many events. Being a consumer of local veggies or a donor; you are leading the way in improving the health of our community and supporting 1,500 students in receiving farm-based education! The foundation of our farm is our education programs; student’s experience is at the center of everything we do. Please make sure to join us at the Sisters Farmers Market at Fir Street Park on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Subscribers will also receive an email that highlights all of the events we have coming up on the farm in August and September. To celebrate the success of our programs thus far, please join us August 7, for our Growing Community Event from 4 to 7 p.m. The event will be held at Seed to Table Farm and feature Boone Dog Pizza, a kids’ Farm Olympics and live music. Tickets at the door. We take cash, card, and check. More information at www.seedtotableoregon.org/ events.
Mt. Jefferson hiking trail reopens two years after wildfire
Legislature fails to approve state hemp commission
PORTLAND (AP) — One of the most popular treks to Mount Jefferson has reopened more than two years after a wildfire closed it to public access. The U.S. Forest Service announced Wednesday night that the Whitewater trail in Central Oregon had officially reopened. The Oregonian/ OregonLive reports the trail was heavily damaged by a wildfire that started in July 2017 from a lightning strike. The fire smoldered for weeks before wind picked up the flames. The fire burned more than 22 square miles of forest before cooling down months later. The Whitewater trail is one of the most popular ways to access Jefferson Park at the base of Mount Jefferson. In 2018, Willamette National Forest officials estimated the cost of repairing the trail at $73,500. Officials had hoped to reopen it earlier, but in May extended the closure for more clean up.
SALEM (AP) — A proposal for an Oregon Hemp Commission has died in a Legislative committee. The East Oregonian reported Friday that the proposal for a commission to raise research funds for Oregon’s hemp industry failed to pass the Joint Ways and Means Committee in June. The committee approves budget measures in each legislative session; a similar proposal was rejected by the committee two years ago. An Oregon State University researcher says an industry-wide organization would help increase understanding of the difficulties faced by hemp growers. Annual hemp production in Oregon has increased from less than a square mile (2.6 square kilometers) to more than 78 square miles (202 square kilometers) in the past five years. Officials say Oregon already has 23 commodity commissions that collect assessment fees from farmers, ranchers and fishermen.
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Sisters car wins at Concours d’Elegance A first-time car show entrant from Sisters won best in class at one of the most prestigious competitions on the West Coast. Since 1973, Forest Grove, Oregon, has hosted Concours d’Elegance. The phrase is French in origin and means a “competition of elegance.” It refers to an event where prestigious vehicles are displayed and judged. Every era of automotive history is represented, from the earliest horseless carriages to the latest sports cars. Although most people know Brad Boyd as a bicycle man because he has owned Eurosports for 30 years, they might be surprised to know his long-time love affair with motorcycles and automobiles. At age 9, Brad got his first motorcycle. Over time, out of necessity he became a mechanic. This led to a skill he still uses today, working on his own vehicles and as a bike mechanic at Eurosports. All these years later, he is still hooked, working on and owning many cycles and cars over the years. The Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance is considered the most prestigious car competition in the Pacific Northwest. Although never having entered a car show, Boyd thought his family had a special automobile that just might get some attention – and had some serious history to it. He submitted a car that has been in his family for 42 years and the jury selected it to compete. His father, Bob, bought the black with red interior 1960 Mercedes SL convertible in 1977. The first owner bought it in Germany in 1960 for 18,453 deutschmarks. Boyd has that bill of sale and all of the original receipts — including a clutch replacement, parts and labor, that cost $160 back in the day. Having such a detailed provenance is rare and adds value to a vehicle. “I entered the ‘preservation class,’ which means everything on the car is original, and not restored. There
was some stellar competition, including an old ‘Woody’ — a Suburban that seats nine and had suicide doors,” Boyd said. The judges not only check to make sure everything on the car works and look for detailed cleaning, they also want to know the stories behind the cars, similar to an antique road show. Three judges with many years’ experience are assigned to meticulously go over each car. “Never having entered a car show of any sort, let alone something that is considered one of the superbowls of auto competitions, I burned the midnight oil,” Boyd said. “We have a great resource at the Sisters Classic Car Storage, and I really appreciated having the washing bay so that I could work late into the night. I even polished the door jams.” Although the judges were extremely thorough, they didn’t look at the jams. Boyd was uncertain how a black car would stack up against the other cars. Black is the most difficult color to keep looking new, because it shows all imperfections. More than 350 cars, some valued in the $1 million range, gleamed under the big trees planted in 1848 at Pacific University in Forest Grove. Thousands of attendees strolled in the shade and shared stories of favorite cars from their past. One of the most unique vehicles was a 1919 school bus that still runs and is considered the oldest school bus in the United States. Several competitors remarked to Boyd that they couldn’t believe he drove the car over 150 miles to the show. Many people trailer these unique vehicles to protect them. The car drove beautifully, even thought it is 60 years old. The event included an optional 50-mile driving tour of nearby wine-country vineyards. People lined the streets to wave at Boyd’s convertible, two 1920s Packards and
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Brad Boyd’s 1960 Mercedes SL convertible took first in class at the Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance. various other rare and vintage muscle, foreign, collector and sports cars. Cars are a family affair for the Boyds. Former Sisters resident, now deceased, Bob Boyd, was Brad’s dad. Bob’s first car was a 1953 MG TD. Boyd describes that car as
“red, looking like a miniature Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” Bob also owned a Mercedes Gullwing at one time – valued at over $1 million on today’s market. Brad’s daughter Alex has a 1967 MGB. Alex was on hand to watch her dad garner the trophy. Boyd got to
drive his winning car onto the podium to accept the award and be interviewed Boyd said, “It was almost more than one could hope for, to enter your first show, meet such an amazing group of people, and to take home best in class.”
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Sisters to celebrate trail system EO Media Group wins bid for two newspapers BEND (AP) — EO Media Group, a newspaper publishing company based in Oregon, bought the largest newspaper in Central Oregon and its sister weekly, outbidding a competitive offer at an auction Monday, July 29. The winning $3.65 million bid puts The Bulletin, which had declared bankruptcy, and its sister weekly The Redmond Spokesman, into the hands of a family-owned company that has been publishing newspapers since 1908. “The vibrant economy of Central Oregon, coupled with a fresh start for The Bulletin and Redmond Spokesman, bodes well for the future of these newspapers,” Heidi Wright, EO Media Group’s chief operating officer, was quoted as saying in the East Oregonian. The newspaper, based in Pendleton, is owned by EO Media Group. The company outbid Adams Publishing Group at the auction at the offices of Tonkon Torp LLP in Portland. Adams owns more than a hundred small dailies, weeklies and shoppers, including the Herald & News in Klamath Falls and the Lake County Examiner in Lakeview. Michael Fletcher, attorney for The Bulletin’s parent company, Western Communications, said a previous bidder, Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers Inc., did not participate in the auction, The Bulletin reported. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Trish Brown approved the sale, which is expected to close at the end of August. With about $30 million in debt, Western Communications filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January. It was the company’s second trip to bankruptcy court since 2012, driven by debt from its headquarters building that was built in 2000. EO Media is not acquiring the real estate, which is being marketed separately. Terms of a lease for space inside the
building require the press to be relocated within 90 days of the building’s sale, Wright said. Steve Forrester, EO Media Group’s president and CEO, said the acquisition of The Bulletin carries emotional and historical meaning. “Our essential challenge is to bring new life to Bend’s storied daily newspaper,” he said. Kathryn Brown, vice president of EO Media, said the company will look at how to fold the Central Oregon papers into the organization and soon will reach out to the employees at The Bulletin and Spokesman. Robert Chandler bought The Bulletin in 1953 from Robert Sawyer with a down payment of $6,000, and was chairman of the company until his death in 1996. He was succeeded by his daughter, Betsy McCool. McCool said she was rooting for EO Media to come out ahead at the auction, noting that she has known the family owners since she was a child. “They seem like compassionate people that care about Oregon,” she said. EO Media will be the majority owner of a new holding company, Central Oregon Media Group, for The Bulletin and The Redmond Spokesman, Wright said. A group of Bend investors who contributed capital will have a minority stake. Terms of their agreement with EO Media prevent the local investors from exercising editorial control, Wright said. Among those who provided financial backing was The Bend Foundation, The East Oregonian reported. The Bend Foundation was established and funded by Brooks Scanlon lumber company, Brooks Resources — a real estate development company, and its shareholders. Bend Foundation trustee Mike Hollern said “a really important part of the whole American dream [is] to have an unbiased local press.”
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The Peterson Ridge trail system (PRT), built and maintained through volunteer effort, has been providing recreational opportunity for equestrians, hikers, dogwalkers, mountain-bikers and most recently snowshoers for over 10 years. Sisters Trails Alliance (STA) is hosting a celebration of local trails on Saturday, September 21 at Village Green Park. The event features organized hikes and mountain-bike rides on the trail system, activities in the park for everyone, a little history of the PRT, a free lunch and the just released “Peterson Ridge Pale Ale” crafted by Three Creeks Brewing Company. Three Creeks is now pouring the Peterson Ridge Pale Ale at their pub in Sisters in celebration of the PRT and to recognize the efforts of Sisters Trails Alliance. The single hop pale ale features four separate additions of El Dorado hops, a “fruit-forward” hop, featuring bold notes of citrus and tropical fruit, plus a faint hint of vanilla. This is a light, easy-drinking pale ale, perfect for capping off your trail experience. Organized hikes and mountain-bike rides at the event will feature some of the best parts of the trail and will be led by STA volunteers knowledgeable about the trail system, design, building and maintenance. It’s a great opportunity to explore some new territory or experience trails you know with
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Clay Warburton created the image for the STA celebration of Peterson Ridge Trail. a new perspective. Sign-up information for the organized activities will be available by September 1. A complimentary vegan and gluten-free lunch will be provided along with interactive and informative displays and activities for trail lovers, families and kids. Advance registration for lunch is required by September 10 to know how much food to provide. The link to register can be found on the homepage at www.sisterstrails.org. The day will also feature a drawing for three fantastic raffle packages thanks to the generosity of our local businesses and donations from members. There will be a duffel of items that any equestrian would love to have, a backpack of hiking supplies
and a package to appeal to any kind of cyclist. Raffle tickets will be available after August 15 at Sisters Feed & Supply (equestrian package), Hike n Peaks (hiking package), Blazin Saddles (cycling package) or Your Store (all three packages). Anyone interested in providing raffle items or a donation to purchase raffle items should contact info@sisterstrails.org as soon as possible. “Special thanks to Your Store for underwriting the event and to Clay Warburton for creating and donating the beautiful trail image promoting this event,” said STA member Ann Richardson. For more info about STA, the PRT celebration event, to volunteer or donate, visit www.sisterstrails.org.
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Sisters Naturalist by Jim Anderson
The bane of our existence Historically, there is no animal on the face of this good Earth who has caused we humans more problems than the mosquito. Not only have they spread death and destruction throughout the human race through transmitting disease, but in our effort to “control” these pestiferous little beasts we have caused environmental problems that have become almost as serious as the blood we’ve lost and the diseases we’ve suffered from. Let’s face it, it’s really not the diseases that mosquitoes spread that most people beller and bawl about, it’s the annoyance: the buzzing, the interruption to outside recreational activities, the slapping of bodies in a constant effort to kill the little beasties, and all the other maddening, infuriating, exasperating vexations caused by mosquitoes. If you have them nearby and can legally do something about it, PLEASE stay away from chemicals! If it’s standing water and the larvae are swimming around by the thousands, see if you can have it drained. If it’s a big standing body of water and draining it is impossible, try putting some mosquito fish in it. The native larvae predators already there, such as dragonfly larvae, fish and such, do a wonderful job reducing mosquito larvae numbers, and mosquito fish help. The thing about mosquitoes that is overlooked when we get enough of them is that they’re all in the food chain. Swallows are on top of the list of diurnal birds that can’t get along without them, and bats are on the nocturnal list. If you want swallows to feed on your mosquitoes, just put swallow nesting boxes on the north side of poles, trees and/or buildings. If you want to have bats flying about at night feasting on your annoying mosquitoes, put a bat house up on the side of one of your outbuildings. Not only will they feast on those mosquitoes bothering you, but they’ll provide a wonderful air show while fluttering about your domicile.
And while we’re on the subject of bats and mosquitoes, one of the most interesting books I have ever had the pleasure of reading was, “Bats, Mosquitoes and Dollars,” by Dr. Charles A. Campbell. A r o u n d 1 9 0 5 , D r. Campbell, freshly returned from fighting malaria in the Panama Canal, became the city bacteriologist in San Antonio, Texas and was confronted by malaria taking over the city. He began experimenting with attracting bats to artificial roosts with the idea the bats would eat the mosquitoes and stop the spread of malaria. But he couldn’t get enough bats to live in San Antonio to do the job — and then he hit upon an idea that worked. With $500 of his own money, in 1907 he built the first artificial bat house he called, “Malaria-Eradicating, Guano-Producing Bat Roost” at the U.S. Experimental Farm near San Antonio. He called the 30-foot-tall tower “my monument.” But his first effort failed. Then he chose Mitchell’s Lake south of San Antonio as the site for his new, improved bat roost. All the city’s sewage ran into that area and the mosquitoes were so thick wagons and coaches pulled by horses had to race through or the horses would almost die from loss of blood. This experiment succeeded, and within two years malaria was eliminated from San Antonio and cities all over the southwest hired
Dr. Campbell and his bats to rid their areas of the disease. In his contract with the cities where he set up his bat towers, complete with hundreds of Mexican free-tailed bats, he promised to keep the bat towers clean of guano, and did so faithfully, selling the guano as fertilizer and literally making millions. Google has a whole lot of information on flowering plants you can use to annoy mosquitoes to the point where they’ll go somewhere else to find the warm blood they need to make babies. Repellents make a location (like your yard or skin) less attractive to mosquitoes, but don’t kill them. So, citronella, for example, or DEET, smoke, lemon eucalyptus, lavender, and tea tree oil might keep the insects at bay, but won’t control them or get rid of them in the long run. Here’s the bottom line in my book about mosquitoes: Yes, they suck your blood, and leave you with itchy bumps and possibly a horrible infection. Mosquitoborne pathogens include malaria, West Nile virus, Zika virus, Chikungunya virus, and dengue. But please don’t fantasize about living in a mosquito-free world; too many of our fellow life forms living, crawling, swimming and flying around us cannot live without them. If you would like free plans for swallow nesting boxes and day roost for bats, send me an email to jimnaturalist@gmail.com.
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4-H participants show at county fair Correspondent
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Nolan Mitchell (center) with Journey Keeton and her brother Judah in the sheep barn at the Deschutes County Fair. She added, “Sometimes it’s not the kids I would have expected. But they came back because it meant something to them.” The Cloverdale club focuses on sheep, with members entering in showmanship (which is required for all 4-H animal handlers), market, and production classes. 4-H is one of the largest out-of-school youth programs in the nation. It encourages youth to learn by doing. Through animal science, home economics, art, or other project areas it helps youth grades K-12 develop life skills through leadership activities and communityservice opportunities. The 4-H members learn about finances, nutrition, recordkeeping, healthcare and marketing. Mitchell’s son, Nolan, is now 17 years old and will be a senior at Sisters High School; he has one more year to complete the 4-H program. His brother Sam completed
the 4-H program and is commercial fishing in Petersburg, Alaska, for the summer. Nolan noted, “I was born into the program. I grew up with all the kids and now I’m one of the oldest kids in the group and supporting the younger ones.” Te n - y e a r- o l d C l o v e r Keyes, a student at Black Butte School in Camp Sherman, was excited to be participating in the 4-H program for the first time. She said, “I got two lambs and I have learned responsibilities and how to care for animals.”
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By Jodi Schneider Pam Mitchell has been a volunteer 4-H leader of the Cloverdale Livestock Club for 34 years — from long before her children were able to participate. The program has been a key part of her life since the fourth grade when she became a 4-H member. It’s a family affair and Mitchell’s dad, Keith Cyrus, a fifth-generation farmer, remembers joining the 4-H program back in 1947. “I was only 7 years old and started out with rabbits, and then I showed steer in my last year in 1958,” Cyrus told The Nugget. Mitchell’s brother Matt Cyrus, president of the Deschutes County Farm Bureau, was also a 4-H member and now raises cattle. Matt’s daughter, Awbrey Cyrus, was also in the 4-H program. The Deschutes County Fair is run by the local fair association with major support from 4-H volunteer leaders. Last Saturday during the fair, Mitchell was focused on club members ages 10 to 17 hanging out with their lambs in the sheep barn on auction day. “The kids are learning values about life,” said Mitchell. “I don’t think there’s any other organization that has fourth-graders working with seniors in high school, and here they are all together. You’ve got the older kids mentoring the younger ones. The fair is hands-off for adults, so the kids really have to depend on each other. They come together as a group at the fair and develop lifelong friendships. It’s a joy seeing kids that start young and stay with 4-H all the way through. Then see them want to come back as a volunteer to help.”
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Born in Sioux Falls, SD to Merle P. and Gertrude E. Warren. She moved with her family in 1937 to Reedsport. She graduated from Reedsport Union High School in 1952 and went one year to University of Oregon. She married Donald W. Abbott of Reedsport in 1954. August 28 would have been their 65th anniversary. She and Don had a carpet-interior store in Lake Oswego for many years. They retired to Sisters in 2004 after coming here for years. She loved to travel. She was very active at Christ Episcopal Church in Lake Oswego and at Sisters Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. She enjoyed her water aerobics class, reading, and working her crossword puzzles. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Heather J. Webb; sister, Lucia E. Powers; and brother, Robert M. Warren. She leaves behind her
husband, Don; daughter, Angela L. Abbott-Plass; granddaughter, Sydney L. Plass; and grandson, Donald J. Webb. She also leaves her brother James G. Warren (Betty) of Bakersfield, CA; sister, Glenda G. Warren of Sisters; five nieces and nephews; and many family friends. A memorial service will be held August 17 at 11 a.m. at Sisters Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration.
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Local artist to release mural at Seed to Table Local illustrator and painter Maren Inga Burck will be revealing her community mural at Seed to Table Farm, Wednesday, August 7, from 4 to 7 p.m. during Seed to Table’s Growing Community Event (see column, page 4). The event will feature Burck’s mural release — a 26-by-12-foot installation that is at the centerpiece of the nonprofit education farm. Burck is an illustrator and painter raised in Central Oregon. She graduated from Sisters High School in 2007 and received a bachelor’s degree in art from Oregon State University. Her mother’s Norwegian heritage has been a heavy influence in her work over the past decade. Elements of traditional Scandinavian textile design, woodcarving, needlework, and folklore can
be seen in much of her work. Burck finds inspiration in the forms and movement of plant life, and the communication between simple and intricate concepts, forms and shapes. Having travelled and lived throughout Southern Oregon, the Willamette Valley and Austin, Texas, Maren is thrilled to be back in Central Oregon sharing her work with the community. Seed to Table’s Growing Community Event will feature the mural release, farmfresh Boone Dog Pizza, live music by the band Honey Don’t and Kids Farm Olympic activities. The event costs $15 for adults and is free for kids 12 and under. Bring your own drinks and chairs or picnic blanket. For more information and tickets visit www.seedtotableoregon. org/events.
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Donor sets record in school supply drive Just when they thought they’d seen their largest donation ever in 2018, Mid Oregon Credit Union kicked off its annual Supplies 4 Schools 2019 supply drive with yet another record donation from a Redmond resident who stuffed 190+ backpacks with school supplies ready for local students. The donor, Vikki Olds, topped her previous year’s contribution of 140 backpacks by a significant margin, saying that she planned ahead and ordered many of the supplies earlier in the year to get maximum benefit from her investment. Her husband, daughter, son-inlaw and a group of family
friends worked several weekends in a row to organize and assemble the backpacks. Although Olds is a Redmond resident, she requested that her donations be distributed throughout Central Oregon to ensure that students with the greatest need have what they need to start the school year, regardless of where they live. “I researched the statistics on food insecurity in our local area, and it showed kids in every part of Central Oregon could use the help,” Olds said. “I just want to see that the supplies go to students who’ll benefit the most.” In 2018, Olds and her
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family drove a trailer to the Redmond Mid Oregon Credit Union branch to deliver the bounty. This year, Mid Oregon Credit Union came to her — bringing the credit union’s classic blue 1970sera Chevy van to her front door to load up the enormous donation. “Vikki is one of those amazing people who acts from her heart and makes big things happen,” says Marketing Vice President Kyle Frick. “Our Supplies 4 Schools drive allows all our members to contribute to help kids have what they need for school, and Vikki takes it to a whole new level.” The Supplies 4 Schools
fundraiser and supply drive is underway during the month of August at all seven locations within Mid Oregon Credit Union’s service area, including Sisters. All donations of cash and supplies stay in the community where they are collected. In most communities, Mid Oregon partners with Family Access Network and other local agencies to distribute the supplies to students in Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties who may lack the basic necessities to be successful at school. Mid Oregon Credit Union’s Sisters branch is located at 703 N. Larch St., next to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office substation.
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Sisters pooch wins dock diving competition By Jodi Schneider Correspondent
High-flying dogs and loud music are what you get when you have a dock-diving dog competition at the Deschutes County Fair, presented by Xtreme DogSports (XAD) aka DogTown. Mike Allen, emcee and known as mayor of DogTown, founded the competitive dog sports creation in 2003 and the company has gained momentum at fairs all over the West. Xtreme DogSports hosts dock diving, disc games, and K9X, which is a fast-paced run, jump, and grab ground-based sport for dogs with high energy to have a blast. Allen said, “Our mission is to improve the lives of canines and our human XAD family and fans.” Brian Fowler, Sisters resident and assistant superintendent at Aspen Lakes Golf Course, signed up his 3-year-old dog Benny, a chocolate Labrador retriever and Chesapeake Bay mix, last year with XAD in their “Give it a Try” program in Susanville, California. Benny “leaped” into the Pro Dog status and has excelled at rapid disk, speed disk, speed retrieve, and holds the record at 7 feet 6 inches in the dock diving high jump. Neither had experience with dog sports competitions and Fowler thought it would be a great activity for his high-energy pooch. “I’ve been watching dog diving on ESPN for years,” Fowler said. “And one day Benny and I were hanging out at the Deschutes River with
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family and I threw a ball out into the water off the dock for the heck of it and he really took off after it. “I found Xtreme DogSports online in Junction City at a fair,” he added. “We went there and that’s where it all started. It was that first toss and jump that he showed a natural talent for water sports.” Fowler grew up in Bend, graduating from Bend High School in the early 1990s. He joined the Navy, then had a variety of jobs until he landed at Crosswater Golf Course in Sunriver. He’s been with Aspen Lakes Golf Course for the last five years, and in the golf industry for nearly 20 years. Allen noted, “Brian and Benny came in at the tail end of last season. It’s absolutely amazing for a dog to dock jump like that without any training at all. He’s a natural.” Dock diving is an exciting canine sport that grows in popularity each year. All breeds are welcome, but many dock dogs are Labradors. It’s been around for a while and there are shows worldwide. Dock diving, also called dock jumping, first appeared at the 1997 Purina Incredible Dog Challenge. Xtreme DogSports revolutionizes dock diving by using a bumper. The event requires jumping out for length, jumping up for height, and racing from one end of the pool to the other and back (speed retrieve). During the high dive and long jump into the pool, the use of a bumper is important for reaching height and distance. To complete the high dive the bumper is moved higher over the water
Benny is ready to jump and grab the bumper. after each dog succeeds in either catching it in their mouth or at least knocking it down off the magnets into the water and retrieving it. Kristin Airoldi, marketing director for XAD, grew up in Central Oregon. She earned a degree in international affairs and has had various positions in the past from nonprofit to large corporations. Airoldi said, “These dog handlers are competitive yet caring of their dog’s health and safety. Mike is inspirational, he’s all about motivation and praise. Mike emcees all the events and there’s a whole team who helps set up, take down and keep score.” Last weekend, Fowler and Benny competed throughout the day at the Xtreme DogSports competition held
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at the Deschutes County Fair. Benny geared up for the 6 p.m. hi-jump competition held at the XAD’s big pool — and won first place jumping up to seven feet after his opponent was ruled out. He went on for fun and nearly made it to seven feet six inches. Learn more about XAD at www.xtremedogsports.com.
Travelers using U.S. 20 over the Santiam Pass are reminded that a paving project resumed last Sunday evening. Paving is scheduled on Sunday nights from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. and Monday through Thursday nights 6 p.m. to 10 a.m. Two-way traffic will be controlled with flaggers and a pilot car. Travelers should expect up to 20-minute delays. The project will be completed by October 31. The project covers almost 14 miles from Santiam Junction in Linn County (milepost 74.5) to Jack Lake Road in Jefferson County (milepost 88.2). Stay informed and know before you go by checking the latest road and travel conditions and traffic alerts at www.tripcheck.com or call 5-1-1. Motorists should stay alert and watch construction signs and construction workers in the work zone.
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Running commentary By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent
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SPRD’s cornhole and softball leagues proved popular this summer.
SPRD wraps up adult sports leagues Generally, parents act as a taxi service for their kids to get to all of their extracurricular activities during the school year. This summer, Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) felt it was time for adults to taxi themselves to an activity designed for them, that the whole family could enjoy. SPRD did just that this summer, offering two new adult sports leagues that have just wrapped up, crowning the first league champions in cornhole and co-ed softball. The cornhole league started this summer on June 13 in partnership with The Landing Zone at Three Creeks Brewing Co.’s production facility. Ten teams participated, with over 25 adults having a great time throughout the season that ended on July 25 after an eight-team playoff. Sisters Coffee Co. took home the championship. The league was such a success that SPRD is in the process of planning a cornhole tournament in partnership with Three Creeks Brewing in mid-September.
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After a few-year’s hiatus, softball is back in Sisters. The league included three teams, including an SPRD staff/ board member/family team, Gregg’s Team and a “Free Agent� team that included various individuals that signed up to play. SPRD offered a four-week season that ended with a single-elimination playoff. The Free Agents won the league, beating the SPRD team 15-10 in the championship game. The co-ed rec league is designed for players of all skill levels, and generally is more about having fun than competition. SPRD looks forward to expanding this league and offering it every year. Due to the feedback received by both leagues, SPRD is organizing another four-week co-ed rec softball league that will begin near the end of August. Information on fall and winter programs will be available after August 15 at www. sistersrecreation.com, or in the fall/winter guide, available online and at various locations in Sisters Country.
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As I looked at the imprint of my shoe in the “moondust� that the roads and trails of Sisters Country become in August, I sort of chuckled when I thought how it reminded me of Neil Armstrong’s footprint on the moon, since the 50th anniversary of the moon landing was so recently in the news. While his was “one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind,� mine simply represented “one step at a time.� Approaching 60, I have become keenly aware of the challenges of age in physical fitness process. It seems I have had one hurdle after another in getting in a good routine of running and hiking. A winter goal of running a race with a friend in February came to an end with a fall on the ice that resulted in an ankle injury which I foolishly thought would heal in a week or two. Ten weeks and numerous physical therapy sessions later I was finally pain-free. Long walks with my wife got me moving again as I eased myself toward some running, and things were looking up as we entered summer. A road trip to Tennessee with an old coaching friend of mine included daily stretching and walking until a case of bronchitis descended on my body and waylaid my training for over a week. So yesterday’s trek into an area my family calls “Manzanita Meadow� was my first outing in a while. As my dogs raced ahead I hiked up the gravel road to where it turns to dust, taking in the panoramic views of North Sister, Mt. Washington, Three-Fingered Jack and Mt. Jefferson. The crisp morning air and the beauty of the scene before me got me through a steady one hour out and back trek. I had to fight to curb negative self-talk such as “you should be running� and “you
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A running shoe print in Sisters “moon dust.� One step at a time. need to work harder on your fitness� and accept the situation as it was. The lungs were still a little wheezy and the energy a tad low, but an hour moving about outdoors did my soul a world of good. So today, my wife and I are headed north to Alberta,
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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Music in the Garden
An evening of free music from the local group Skillethead will be held in the stunning mountain-view location of the Sisters Community Garden on Monday, August 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. Light snacks and lemonade will be provided, or you can also bring an item to share. BYOB. Some seating will be available, but bringing your own chair is good idea. Bring a nonperishable item to benefit Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank, and monetary donations will benefit Sisters Habitat for Humanity. For more info call Lisa at 541-390-9025.
Sisters Garden Club
The next meeting of the Sisters Garden Club is at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 10 at Sisters City Hall. Rick Martinson of Winter Creek Nursery will present “Native Plants in your Garden.” All are welcome! For more information call 541-549-6390 or go to sistersgardenclub.com.
Happy Hour With A Ranger
Changed location! Join Discover Your Forest and U.S. Forest Service rangers in an informative talk about current happenings in the Sisters Ranger District on Thursday, August 8 at 5:30 p.m. at the Three Creeks Tasting Room. After a 30-minute talk, you are encouraged to ask questions about the topic of the night, “Restoration Work on the Forest.” Free to the public! Info: 541-383-5572.
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Highlights Wednesday, August 7 Veterans Meeting 6:30 p.m. at Sisters City Hall
Thursday, August 8 Happy Hour with a Ranger 5:30 p.m. at Three Creeks Tasting Room Saturday, August 10 Sisters Garden Club 9:30 a.m. at Sisters City Hall Saturday, August 10 Friends of Metolius Walk 10 a.m. in Camp Sherman Saturday, August 10 CarFit Event 1 p.m. at Sisters Fire Station Saturday, August 10 Free Astronomy Lecture 2 p.m. at Sisters Library Saturday, August 10 Camp Sherman Ice Cream Social 6:30 p.m. at Camp Sherman Comm. Hall Saturday, August 10 Music in the Garden 6 to 8 p.m. at Sisters Community Garden
Crafters Wanted
Share your creativity! Qualityoriented crafters are being sought as consigners for the 44th Annual Snowflake Boutique (November 1 & 2). Jury will be Saturday, August 10 at 9:30 a.m. at Highland Baptist Church, Redmond. Info at www. snowflakeboutique.org, or call Randi 541-788-4452, Jan 541-3504888 or Tina 541-447-1640.
CPR/AED and First Aid Class
The next CPR/AED class is scheduled for Saturday, August 17 at 9 a.m. The First Aid module is on Sunday, August 18 at 9 a.m. The cost is $30 which covers both modules, a workbook and completion card. Register by Wednesday, August 14. To register, go on-line to sistersfire.com and select the CPR tab, or stop by and register at the Sisters Fire station during business hours (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Pick up the student workbook at the station after you register. If you have questions, call Gail Butler at 541-595-5712.
CarFit Event
AARP and Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District are sponsoring a CarFit event for drivers on Saturday, August 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire Station. Find out how the fit of your vehicle affects your driving. Trained technicians will make individual adjustments to find the best person-to-vehicle fit. These adjustments will help you benefit from your vehicle’s safety features by helping you feel more comfortable and in better control behind the wheel. Event is by appointment only. To schedule an appointment contact Sharon at 541-390-6075.
Organ Donor Awareness
A new nonprofit is in the planning stages to educate the community on the importance of organ donation. Fundraisers and events will be discussed. If interested in taking part, please call Fifi Bailey at 541-419-2204.
Friends of Metolius Walk
Saturday, August 10 from 10 a.m. to noon, enjoy a free interpretive walk along the Metolius River with USFS ecologist Maret Pajutee. Learn some answers to your questions on the secrets of the Metolius. Children are welcome, but please, no dogs. Meet at Allingham Bridge (3/4 mile downriver from the Store). For more information please call 541-549-3082.
Free Astronomy Lecture
Sisters Astronomy Club and Sisters Park & Recreation District present a public lecture by Professor Shane Larson of Northwestern University: “Feeling Small in a Big Cosmos.” Dr. Larson will talk about how our understanding of the universe has expanded with time, and how we came to understand our place in it. There is no charge to attend and this presentation is suitable for all ages. Saturday, August 10, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Sisters Library meeting room For more information contact Jim Hammond, drjhammond@ oldshoepress.com, 541-617-1086.
Camp Sherman Ice Cream Social
Come join us for an old-fashioned Ice Cream Social in Camp Sherman on Saturday, August 10 at 6:30 pm in the Camp Sherman Community Hall, sponsored by the Camp Sherman Historical Society. Enjoy ice cream and increase your appreciation of the history of the Community Hall, including the great community effort that went into the Hall restoration completed 15 years ago. No charge, donations gladly accepted. For info: 541-595-2719
Veterans Meeting
The Sisters VFW Post 8138 and American Legion Post 86 meeting ng at Sisters City Hall at 6:30 p.m. onn Wednesday, August 7. All veterans ns in the area are encouraged to join! n! For more information call Lance Trowbridge at 541-903-1123.
Stars Over Sisters Party
Learn about the night skies! Stargazers are invited to gather at the SPRD building on Saturday, August 24 at 8:30 p.m. for a free presentation. If weather then permits, plan on heading out to the SHS sports fields to observe the night sky through powerful telescopes. For more information please call 541-549-8846.
Council on Aging Luau Lunch
The Council on Aging of Central Oregon will host a “Life’s a Beach” luau lunch on Tuesday, August 20 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Village Green Park. There will be a menu of tasty Hawaiian foods, fun games, friendly competitions and prizes. Lunch is free for those 60+; nominal fee for all others. For information call 541-678-5483 or visit www.councilonaging.org.
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 at 541-588-0081 for information.
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Applications are available for the Sisters Kiwanis Career Opportunity ty Fund to help adult residents of Sisters establish an occupational path. Pick up forms at the Kiwaniss House, corner of Oak and Main, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays, and during regular hours from the Sisters Habitat for Humanity office. ce For additional information, please call 541-410-2870.
Chapel in the Pines Camp Sherman • 541-549-9971 10 a.m. Sunday Worship 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
Sisters Newcomers Club
A Newcomers’ Club specific to Sisters-area new residents is starting up! Call Karee at 541-719-0050.
Free Pet Food
Budget tight this month, but you still need pet food for your dog or cat? Stop by the Furry Friends pet food bank. We have all sorts of pet supplies, too. Open Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Located in the Sisters Art Works building, Ste. 109, 204 W. Adams Ave. For more information call 541-797-4023.
Senior Luncheons & More
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 541-480-1843.
Sisters Library coming events
Family Fun Story Time
Family Fun Story Time for kids ages birth through 5 takes place at the Sisters Library on Thursdays, August 8 and 15 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.
Project Constellation
Calling all stargazers ages 6 to 11. Discover the stories behind the stars that map the night sky at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 7 at Sisters Library. No registration required. Call 541g 617-7078 for more information. 61
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Al ages are welcome to join this All journey around the world and jou into space through stories and int crafts at 10 a.m. on Saturday, cra August 10 at Sisters Library. No Au registration required. Call 541reg 617-7078 for more information. 61
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SISTERS-AREA CHURCHES Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (ELCA) 386 N. Fir Street • 541-549-5831 10 a.m. Sunday Worship shepherdofthehillslutheranchurch.com Sisters Community Church (Nondenominational) 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. • 541-549-1201 10 a.m. Sunday Worship (with signing) sisterschurch.com | info@sisterschurch.com St. Edward the Martyr Roman Catholic Church 123 Trinity Way • 541-549-9391 5:30 p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass 9 a.m. Sunday Mass 8 a.m. Monday-Friday Mass Calvary Chapel (Nondenominational) 484 W. Washington St., Ste. C & D • 541-588-6288 10 a.m. Sunday Worship 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)
Parkinson’s Benefit Hike
Join Hiking Sisters & Misters on August 10 on a hike to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease’s impact on women and to benefit Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon. The hike will be to Moraine Lake on the South Sister. Register and donate at www. parkinsonsresources.donordrive. com/index.cfm. Info: 630-564-2624.
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Sto and activities aimed Stories at the early learning needs of birth to 5-year-olds. Pajamas bir optional! Sisters Library on op Tuesday, August 13 at 6 p.m. No Tu registration required. Info: 541reg 617-7078. 61
The Nonfiction Book Club Read and discuss “West with the Night” by Beryl Markham with other readers at the Sisters Library on Thursday, August 15 at1 p.m. Info: 541-617-7078.
Yoga Nidra Workshop & Meditation
Kathy Durham will guide participants in meditation to aid insomnia, anxiety and other issues on Friday, August 16 at noon at the Sisters Library. Call 541-312-1063 for more info.
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A special storytime just for children entering kindergarten will include songs, crafts and more. Thursday, August 29 at 1:30 p.m. No registration required. Call 541-617-7078 for more info.
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EVENTS: Fair and luau are Sisters institutions Continued from page 3
or purchase online at www. sistersrecreation.com (go to the event section, click on luau then click the blue link). For 24 years the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration on Brooks Camp Road in Sisters has supported the Sisters community through its annual Country Fair and Art Show. Through the years the church has contributed over $250,000 to local support agencies such as Family Action Network, Kiwanis Food Bank, Neighbor Impact, Sisters Habitat for Humanity, Healthy Beginnings, Bethlehem Inn, Circle of Friends, and Saving Grace. The distributed funds come from a community Art Show and Country Fair which will be held August 9-10. Beginning Friday night is the “invitation” Art Show/ Sale and Silent Auction from 5 to 8 p.m. with diverse art and the opportunity to enjoy refreshments and mingle with the artists. The Art Show and Country Fair continue on Saturday, August 10, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the Art Show/Sale, the Marketplace, and more
silent auctions. The Country Store offers homemade preserves, fresh produce, candy, pies, cakes, home-baked breads and cookies, potted plants, and handmade craft items. The Good Book store offers a great selection of gently read books. The Sweet Tooth booth dishes up famous homemade Marionberry cobbler with ice cream. Face painting, a bouncy castle, children’s games, cake walks, fire truck tours and animals can be followed by hamburgers and hot dogs, coleslaw and chips at the Café Transfig. All proceeds go back to the Sisters community. The Church of the Transfiguration is located at the corner of Hwy. 242 and Brooks Camp Road. For more information call 541-549-7087.
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Kid Made introduces food cart camp Can young kids run a real, certified food cart? Can they prepare delicious food safely — and learn to become entrepreneurs? According to Angelena Bosco, founder of Kid Made Camp, the answer is a definite yes. “Working for money is fun,” said Bosco. “Kids can do anything.” As she knows from the many youth and children’s cooking classes she has taught, “They love preparing and serving food.” Kid Made Camp’s inaugural food cart camp will take place August 19–23. Campers will staff a real food cart and make smoothies on Sunday, August 25, at Sisters Farmers Market. Classes are limited to a small group, so that all
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Entertainment & Events
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Seed to Table Farm Community Pizza on the Farm 4 to 7 p.m. Boone Dog Pizza with farm fresh ingredients, Kids’ farm olympics and live music. Visit seedtotableoregon.org for info. Hardtails Bar & Grill Karaoke Night! 9 p.m. Every Wednesday, no cover! For additional information call 541549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com. Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Trivia Night 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sign up by 6:15 p.m. For additional information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471. Sisters Saloon Poker Night 7 p.m. Every Wednesday! $20. For information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net. Village Green Park SPRD Hawaiian Luau 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Full Hawaiian dinner menu and live music. $15 for adults, $5 for kids. For information call 541-549-2091 or email Shannon@sistersrecreation.com. Cork Cellars Tasty Thursday Hosted Wine Tasting 5 to 7 p.m. For additional information call 541-549-2675 or go online to corkcellarswinebistro.com. The Suttle Lodge & Boathouse Wine Tasting 5 to 7 p.m. Free and open to everyone 21+. For additional info call 541-638-7001 or go to thesuttlelodge.com. Sisters Saloon Karaoke Night 9 p.m. to midnight. Every Thursday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net. Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Art Show & Artists’ Reception 5 to 8 p.m. Many pieces are for sale! For information call 541-549-7087. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church Live Music with Dennis McGregor and the Spoilers 7 p.m. On the lawn under the tent. Cash and food donations accepted for Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank. Call 541-549-5831 for more information. The Suttle Lodge & Boathouse Live Music with Bear Clouds & Lighters as Guns 6 to 8 p.m. Big Lawn Music series with food & beverages for purchase. For additional info call 541-638-7001 or go to thesuttlelodge.com. Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Live Music with NTT with Chris Brown 5 to 7 p.m. Dogs, children & adults all welcome! For information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471. Hardtails Bar & Grill Live Music with Hwy. 97 Band 6 to 10 p.m. Free on the outdoor stage! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com. Paulina Springs Books Author Presentation with Beth Wood 6:30 p.m. The author will read poems from her two poetry books, “Ladder to the Light” and “Kazoo Symphonies.” For more info call 541-549-0866 or go to paulinasprings.com. Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Country Fair & Art Show 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Music, food, games, book sale, country store, art sale and more! For info: 541-549-7087. Cork Cellars Live Music with Jim Cornelius & Mike Biggers 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. No cover! For information call 541-549-2675 or go online to corkcellarswinebistro.com. Sisters Saloon Live Music with Rob Wynia (of Floater) & The Sound 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door. For more info call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net. Angeline’s Live Music with Halden Wofford and the High*Beams 7 p.m. Summer music in the backyard. $5 cover. For additional information call 541-549-9122. Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Live Music with Beth Wood 5 to 7 p.m. Dogs, children & adults all welcome! For information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471.
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Fir Street Park Sisters Farmers Market 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Every Sunday: fresh local produce, lunch, live music, & yoga. Call 503-997-0301 or go to sistersfarmersmarket.com. Suttle Lake Camp Stone Sculpture Show 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. August 11–18. Outdoor sculpture show and exhibition. Free. Visit www.NWSSA.org for more information. Village Green Park Twelfth Night (or What You Will) 3 p.m. Presented by The Guerrilla Shakespeare Company. Tickets available at Bendticket.com Sisters Saloon Open Mic Night 8 to 11 p.m. For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net. Hardtails Bar & Grill Open Mic & Jam Night 7 p.m. Every Monday, no cover! For information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com. Fika Sisters Coffeehouse Author Presentation with Lanigan Vitaceae 6 p.m. The author of “The Cozy Herb Book” will give an herb talk and sign books. For more info call 541-904-5498 or go to thecozyherbbook.com. Sisters Saloon Trivia Night 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sign-up is at 6:15 p.m. Free, every Tuesday! For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net. Hardtails Bar & Grill Karaoke Night! 9 p.m. Every Wednesday, no cover! For additional information call 541549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com. Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Trivia Night 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sign up by 6:15 p.m. For additional information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471. Sisters Saloon Poker Night 7 p.m. Every Wednesday! $20. For information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net. Cork Cellars Tasty Thursday Hosted Wine Tasting 5 to 7 p.m. For additional information call 541-549-2675 or go online to corkcellarswinebistro.com. The Suttle Lodge & Boathouse Wine Tasting 5 to 7 p.m. Free and open to everyone 21+. For additional info call 541-638-7001 or go to thesuttlelodge.com. Sisters Saloon Karaoke Night 9 p.m. to midnight. Every Thursday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net. The Suttle Lodge & Boathouse Live Music with Alela Diane & Weezy Ford 6 to 8 p.m. Big Lawn Music series with food & beverages for purchase. For additional info call 541-6387001 or go to thesuttlelodge.com. Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Live Music with Toothpick Shaker 5 to 7 p.m. Dogs, children & adults all welcome! For information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471. Hardtails Bar & Grill DJK9 Rawkstar Karaoke Night! 9 p.m. Every Friday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com. Faith, Hope & Charity Vineyards Wine ‘N’ Shine Car Show 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All years, makes & models. Register your vehicle online at www.FaithHopeandCharityEvents.com. Hardtails Bar & Grill Live Music with Petty Fever 9 p.m. Award-winning Tom Petty tribute! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com.
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Local woodworkers share talents and projects By Sue Stafford Correspondent
Standing in a wellequipped workshop, two retired mechanical engineers extolled woodworking as a fun hobby and productive pastime. Dennis Mills, with 40 years as a woodworker under his belt, and Rich MacConnell, a relative newcomer to the craft, discussed the Sisters Area Woodworkers (SAW), a group of 76 members who all share a love of crafting projects from wood. They meet the first Tuesday of each month from 7 to 9 p.m. in members’ shops. Member Terry Ferguson said, “My favorite thing is seeing other members’ shops and the projects that they do.” “I’m impressed by the woodworking equipment that is in most of the shops where our meetings are held. These men and, yes, women, are without a doubt serious woodworkers,” added Ren Broomhead. All levels of experience and abilities are welcome. “I am amazed at the expertise and ability of so many in this area to build such incredible items,” added Broomhead. Chris Frazeur, who has completed a four-year carpentry apprenticeship and graduated to journeyman carpenter, explained, “There is great satisfaction in designing and building something from raw wood and seeing the beauty of wood grain patterns come to life in the finished product.” Stephen Baer, a professional woodworker, offered some advice. “As for new or beginning woodworkers, I would at least recommend that he or she attend a few meetings before spending time, energy, and money on any materials. Woodworking can be expensive, dangerous, and extremely rewarding at different times. The SAW group can help moderate the negative aspects while enriching the positive aspects.” Ferguson concurred with Baer, saying “I would encourage anyone who is interested in woodworking to attend a meeting, meet new people, and see if they find some value for themselves.” SAW grew out of Central O r e g o n Wo o d w o r k e r s (COW) in Bend two years ago when members from Sisters grew tired of the drive to Bend for meetings. They started with 15 members and now have 76 people on the rolls, with 15-20 people at most meetings, a majority of them retirees.
Mills, who served as the head of the COW group, has informally taken on the role of “chief” for SAW. He stressed that SAW has no dues, no officers, no bylaws, and it has a big social aspect. “There is nearly always a lively discussion that can continue into a social conversation after most of the official business portion of the meeting is complete,” said Baer. Whoever hosts the meeting gets to determine what kind of project they will do. They have made mallets, marking gauges, oval Shaker boxes, cam clamps, and have learned to use the Beall wood-buffing system and a router dovetail jig, among any number of other projects. For each meeting, members are encouraged to bring something for “show and tell,” whether a finished product or under construction. SAW has carried on a project that began four years ago with the COW group, in conjunction with the Touchmark Retirement Community — making toys for at-risk children for Christmas. The woodworkers build cradles, dump trucks, and biplanes out of wood and take them into Touchmark in mid-October, where a cadre of residents does the finish sanding, staining or painting, and applying decals and hand-painted
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details. Other residents make little cradle quilts, some hand-embroidered or crossstitched, and add a baby doll with handmade clothes to complete the cradle. When everything is complete, each toy is wrapped in clear cellophane and topped off with a bow. The woodworkers are invited to Touchmark to see the finished products before they are distributed to five different local agencies working with at-risk children. Mills said they have received letters from parents thanking them for what is their child’s only toy. The first year they just used whatever wood they had sitting around. The next year Mills created kits for them to assemble. Touchmark has offered to pay for the materials but SAW members don’t want to be reimbursed. For the coming Christmas, Hardwood Industries of Bend will be donating all the wood for the cradles and biplanes. Poplar is the wood used because it is an inexpensive hardwood and takes paint and stain nicely. In addition to their monthly meetings, special workshops are conducted to work more in-depth on special projects. In one that lasted over several months, seven members made Nicholson work benches, based on an
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Sisters woodworkers make toys for at-risk children. original 1830s bench that is able to hold wood for cutting and planing without an attached vice. Mills is credited by other members with bringing SAW into being. David Hiller indicated that Mills “was instrumental in bringing this to fruition.” Ferguson added, “Under Dennis Mills’ leadership and the talented woodworkers
in Sisters, the group has flourished.” “The best thing about the Sisters Area Woodworkers group is the people. They are a generous group of individuals with a willingness to share their skills and artistic talents with everyone,” summed up Hiller. For more information about SAW, contact Dennis Mills at 541-639-6216.
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Hula, herbs, Commentary... Be alert to elder abuse — Part V and history to light up farmers market By Betsy Leighty-Johnson Columnist
What goes best with a hot summer day? How about iced tea and Hawaiian dance? On Sunday, all are invited to sample herbal iced teas made from medicinal plants, watch and learn hula, and check out a Sisters Country archaeology dig game. The fun happens at Sisters Farmers Market on Sunday. Maesie Speer presents “Herbal Iced Teas for the High Desert Summer” on the Songbird Stage at Fir Street Park from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Marketgoers are welcome to come up onstage, chat with Speer, and try a tea. As with other showcase events at the market, it is offered free of charge to visitors. “Teas are some of the easiest ways to enjoy and experiment with plants that taste great and support our health,” said Speer. The arts center programs director at the Caldera Arts Center, Speer has been working with “plant allies” since 2012. Speer will bring teas made from two classes of herbs she describes as “perfect for our hot, dry summers: demulcents (herbs that help our tissues stay hydrated) and diaphoretics (herbs that help our bodies See MARKET on page 28
This is Part 5 of a multipart series on Elder Abuse Awareness, intended to raise community awareness and to provide resources for individuals who are themselves vulnerable or are caregivers, family or friends of vulnerable people. The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) h a v e A d u l t P ro t e c t i v e Service (APS) offices statewide to coordinate and conduct abuse investigations and provide services to reports of neglect and abuse of vulnerable adults, including: adults over the age of 65, adults with physical and/or developmental disabilities, adults with mental illness, and children receiving residential treatment services. Self-neglect (representing 15 percent of Oregon’s 2017 substantiated cases) is the inability of a person to understand the consequences of their actions or inaction when that inability leads to or may lead to harm or endangerment to self or others. This situation often requires the court appointment of a conservator or guardian to make decisions on behalf of the vulnerable person. Neglect (with nine percent of the 2017 substantiated Oregon cases) is the failure of an individual who is responsible to make a reasonable effort to protect an
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adult from abuse or to provide the care, supervision, or services necessary to maintain the physical health and emotional well-being of an adult. Without these interventions, the vulnerable person is at risk of serious harm or results in physical harm, significant emotional harm or unreasonable discomfort, or serious loss of personal dignity. The warning signs of neglect include: dirt, fecal/ urine smell or other health and safety hazards in adult’s living environment; leaving an adult in an unsafe or isolated place; rashes, sores, lice on the adult; malnourishment or dehydration and/or sudden weight loss; untreated medical condition; soiled clothing or bed linens; and/or poor skin condition or poor skin hygiene. Abandonment, restraint, and seclusion represent 2% of the confirmed cases in Oregon in 2017. Abandonment, a specific form of neglect, is desertion or willfully leaving an adult alone by a caregiver, placing an adult in serious risk of harm. The warning signs for abandonment are the desertion of a vulnerable person at a public location or a person’s own report of being abandoned. Involuntary seclusion is defined as confinement, isolation or restriction of an adult to their room or a specific area; or placing
restrictions on an adult’s ability to associate, interact, or communicate with other individuals. In a facility, emergency or shortterm, monitored separation from other residents may be permitted if used for a limited period under specific guidelines (i.e., part of a care or behavior plan or intervention). Involuntary seclusion warning signs are an adult’s report of not being allowed to see or talk with people who they would reasonably see or talk to; they are kept away from where others can go; they are not allowed to use the telephone; or are not allowed to receive or send mail. A wrongful use of a physical or chemical restraint includes situations where: a licensed health professional has not conducted a thorough assessment prior to implementing a licensed physician’s prescription for restraint; less restrictive alternatives have not been evaluated prior to the use of the restraint; or the restraint is used for convenience or discipline. Note: Physical restraints may be permitted if used when a resident’s actions present an imminent danger to self or others and only until immediate action is taken by medical, emergency, or police personnel. Warning signs of physical or chemical restraint consists of being sedated; going
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to bed at an unusually early time or uncharacteristically early bedtime; bruises or marks on both wrists, both ankles, or a strip-like mark or bruise across the chest; or an adult’s report of being tied up or sedated or not allowed to move. If you become aware of signs that a person over 65 (or a person with disabilities of any age) is being abused, report it and let the authorities investigate. Protect any evidence you may have and call the toll-free abuse hotline at 800-503-SAFE or by calling local law enforcement in the county where the abuse occurred. If you report elder abuse in good faith, the law will protect you from being sued by the alleged abuser if you are mistaken. D r. B e t s y L e i g h t y Johnson has a PhD in Human Services with a specialization in Social and Community Services. In September 2014, the author and her husband discovered his (then) 96-year-old mother had been the victim of financial elder abuse. They were very involved in the collection of evidence assisting in the felony prosecution of the victim’s daughter for the crime. Since that time, the author has become an elder abuse advocate, currently assisting the Deschutes County District Attorney’s office with elder abuse cases.
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Alaska bound By Chris Laing Correspondent
My husband and I raised our son and daughter in Homer, Alaska, recently named by Coastal Living Magazine as one of the “Happiest Seaside Towns in America” — however that gets measured. It’s also known as “the halibut fishing capital of the world,” the “cosmic hamlet by the sea,” and is vaguely referred to by author/storyteller Tom Bodett in the title of his first book “As Far As You Can Go Without A Passport.” It shares a lot of similarity to Sisters as an ecotourism destination and a notable art town. Little wonder when we moved here to live closer to family we found many other Alaskans had migrated to Sisters Country before us. I
am writing for the benefit of those who may miss Alaska, and for those who still have it on their bucket list: Now is an excellent time to visit. September 6-19 Homer will host the Alaska World Arts Festival, fashioned after the Edinburgh Fringe. One hundred artists from around the world will come to entertain, share their culture, and mix with local talent covering a wide range of art forms including: theatre, film, dance, comedy, storytelling, poetry, music, pottery, visual and performance art. It will be an exciting two weeks during the shoulder tourist season. I encourage anyone to whom this appeals to check it out online at AlaskaWorldArtsFestival. org. I’ll see you there.
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where they have responsibility, are trusted to make decisions, perform necessary tasks, interact with customers and be taken seriously,” Bosco says. “The food cart provides all of that.” Bosco will instruct the kids in safe, healthy usage of her Simple ‘N’ Fresh food cart, which serves fresh foods inspired by Central and South American cookery. Collaborating with Kid Made Camp, the cart will also serve a new menu item: smoothies. Students will use produce sourced from local farms onsite at the market, along with fruit and other wholesome ingredients. “Kids like to be creative,” Bosco notes. “They take chances with ingredients.” She will help them develop
their ideas into tasty, consistent recipes. Many are familiar with Kid Made Camp’s art and craft entrepreneur camps in Bend and Sisters. The Kid Made experience “shows them they have options,” Bosco said. “Kids are smart, have fabulous ideas and don’t fear sharing them. At our camps, they learn that their talents are valuable. They learn how to be confident in presenting themselves.” The community is invited to request a smoothie or other menu item at the Kid Made Camp “takeover” of the Simple ‘N’ Fresh food cart at Sisters Farmers Market on August 25. Sisters Farmers Market takes place every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Fir Street Park. The August dates for the food cart camp are new; registrations are now being accepted at kidmadecamp. com. Kid Made Camp will also present its standard entrepreneur and arts camp at The
Environmental Center in Bend during the week of August 5, culminating in a booth at Northwest Crossing Farmers Market on August 10. Patrons are encouraged to ask campers questions about their ingredients, creative process, or what they have learned at camp. “Kids can do it,” said Bosco’s new partner in the Kid Made business, T. Lee Brown. She teaches journalism and edits the Kids in Print section of The Nugget Newspaper in Sisters, where kids can see their writing and artwork published in a real newspaper. “We just have to give them the chance.” Additionally, Kid Made offers free/donation-optional activities for all kids who visit Sisters Farmers Market. The Kid Made booth pops up about twice a month during Market season. Families are invited to step inside, make a craft, or try on some face paint.
Oregon lagging in disaster prep By Sarah Zimmerman Associated Press
SALEM (AP) — Oregon state lawmakers abandoned a multimillion-dollar project to develop early warning systems for earthquakes and wildfires, and scientists warn that the funding shake-up could endanger public safety and put Oregon further behind
other West Coast states in preparing for natural disasters. Researchers were shocked when nearly $12 million to expand ShakeAlert and AlertWildfire — early warning systems to help detect significant earthquakes and wildfires — unexpectedly went up in smoke last month, just days before the end of the legislative session. Money for
the projects was included as part of a larger funding package, but was stripped in a lastminute amendment. Disaster preparedness has continually been a focal point as Western states are poised to enter the hottest and driest months of wildfire season. And two massive earthquakes See DISASTER on page 31
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The Bunkhouse Chronicle Craig Rullman Columnist
Once Upon a Time in America The Russian playwright Anton Chekhov wrote that, “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the second one you should fire it. Otherwise don’t put it there.” That was Chekhov’s advice to storytellers, which, in Quentin Tarantino’s film masterpiece “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” the writer-director takes to heart. Only in this case it isn’t a pistol, it’s a World War II flamethrower in the hands of a completely self-absorbed actor who, moments before, was floating around in his Hollywood swimming pool. What makes this film great isn’t just DiCaprio’s genius turn as a fading television-Western heavy. It isn’t even the brilliant acting of Brad Pitt, who plays Cliff Booth, Dalton’s longtime stunt-double whose own career is in shambles, who lives in a battered trailer behind a drive-in movie theater, and whose best friend is a pitbull. What makes this film great is that it’s actually a Western. More than that, it’s a Western inside a Western, set in the most frontier town of them all: the city of Los Angeles. And if you
understand anything about the history of LA, what it was in the era of the TateLaBianca murders, and very much remains today, you must start with the appreciation that Los Angeles was, and remains, Deadwood on steroids. This movie isn’t about the Manson Family, or Sharon Tate. Not really. Like all good Westerns this movie is about the triumph of flawed people over evil. It is an occasionally dragging homage to great filmmaking and the endless cast of wild characters who have populated not just Los Angeles, but our collective nationwide subconscious by virtue of decades of Hollywood storytelling. Hollywood used to give us heroes in film, but has seemingly dissembled on the notion that such a thing is even possible. Tarantino’s genius in this film is to revitalize the notion that good guys, flaws and all, still get to win out over evil. And it is as an expression of evil that the Manson Family makes its appearance in the film, perfectly embodying Hannah Arendt’s observation of how ultimately banal evil truly is. Manson makes his only appearance in the film, for instance, driving a Twinkie delivery truck in a cul-de-sac. In this world, the good guys win not because they are perfect human beings — they aren’t — but because even within the wide latitudes of their behaviors they possess a fundamental decency. Every frontier town needs its own Shane, even if he comes in the form of an actor who has made his career playing bad guys in bad Westerns. It’s as if Lee Van Cleef had somehow parachuted into the Ambassador
July weather was mild in Sisters Country According to preliminary data received by NOAA’s National Weather Service in Pendleton, temperatures at Sisters averaged slightly colder than normal during the month of July. The average temperature was 62.5 degrees, which was 1.8 degrees below normal. High temperatures averaged 81.9 degrees, which was 3.2 degrees below normal. The highest was 91 degrees on July 27. Low temperatures averaged 43.1 degrees, which was 0.4 degrees below normal. The lowest was 35 degrees on July 19. Precipitation totaled 0.02 inches during July, which
was 0.51 inches below normal. Measurable precipitation — at least .01 inch — was received on one day. Precipitation this year has reached 9.07 inches, which is 1.34 inches above normal. Since October, the water year precipitation at Sisters has been 12.84 inches, which is 0.23 inches above normal. The outlook for August from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center calls for above-normal temperatures and near-normal precipitation. Normal highs for Sisters during August are 84.5 degrees and normal lows are 42.8 degrees. The 30-year normal precipitation is 0.44 inches.
Hotel and managed to prevent yet another dark turn in American history. It’s by engaging that hope for salvation, and the rich irony with which Tarantino presents the possibility, which causes us to examine our history and think what might have been. And also it’s how our cowboy stuntman sidekick can engage evil, face to face, in that most Los Angeles of ways — on an acid trip — and not only fight it off convincingly and with the necessary gallows humor, but also, in the event, singlehandedly revive the much maligned reputation of pitbulls and their place in American society. Which can only happen in a world that still has good guys and bad guys, which isn’t something we like to admit much these days. We seem to believe that evil, as embodied in the characters of Tex Watson and Squeaky Fromme, is born of some fundamental misunderstanding, and can somehow be rehabilitated. The Western, and Tarantino in this film and others, deals with evil walking the earth by hauling out the World War II flamethrower and giving it a solid roasting. Tarantino is a foul man with a foot fetish, but who else could make a movie where the laconic Vietnam veteran, fading-stuntmanturned drink caddy and gopher, gets to square off
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with Bruce Lee in a parking lot? Surely every stuntman walking the earth has wanted to knock some starch out of Bruce Lee’s kung-fu sails, which Cliff Booth does with aplomb when, unimpressed by Lee’s waxing on mortal combat, he hurls Bruce into the side of a muscle car and gets himself fired from a much-needed gig. It’s notable that Bruce Lee’s family has reacted poorly to his portrayal in the film, but only as an asterisk in our “how dare you offend me” zeitgeist. I took my mother to see this movie and, now that she is nearly 80, was certain she would hate it. She hates most things Hollywood, and has earned it, since she was running around LA when the
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Vehicle pursuit ends in crash Oregon State Police took a suspect into custody on Monday afternoon, August 5, after a vehicle pursuit on Highway 20 ended in a crash on Wheeler Loop near the Bi-Mart shopping center area in Sisters. Numerous local law enforcement units responded to assist. OSP could not be reached for details on the incident by press time. Further information will be posted at www.nuggetnews.com as it becomes available.
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Access roads shall be at least 12 feet wide and provide an all-weather road base (cinder, gravel, asphalt, etc.), that is reasonably smooth and free of protruding rocks and/or potholes. Turnarounds or cul-de-sacs shall have a minimum of 50 feet of turning radius with an all-weather road base. Refrain from placing rocks next to and along your driveway. Driveways longer than 150 feet shall provide an area for vehicles to meet and pass each other. A reflective address sign is required. Many rural properties have gates — and that can pose a problem: “Gates must have a minimum width of 12 feet (over 12 feet is preferred) and set back from the road at least 30 feet,” the flyer noted. “Occupants must be aware that locked gates may delay or otherwise hinder our access to the property. Locked or electric gates are required to have a KnoxBox system installed for emergency responder access to your property.” The Cloverdale Fire District, and Sisters Country in general, has had an easier fire season this year than in recent years — but that can change literally in an instant. Fire officials urge that local residents take immediate action to make sure their properties are accessible and defensible, so that firefighters have a fighting chance.
Citizens want legislators to ‘do something’ By Sue Stafford Correspondent
At last week’s town hall on carbon emissions and House Bill 2020, which called for cap and trade measures, over half of the 80-something members of the audience made comments, suggestions, and asked questions of State Sen. Cliff Bentz and Rep. Daniel Bonham. Despite a variety of opinions on the merits or faults of cap and trade and possible economic impacts, the people who spoke at FivePine Conference Center were almost unanimous in their message regarding carbon emissions and climate change. “Do whatever it takes.” “Do everything we can — now.” “We must use every tool at our disposal to address climate change.” “Whatever is viable, I am in favor of.” “I’m worried about the future for our grandchildren.” “Listen to the climate scientists.” “Only thing we can’t do is nothing.” Several speakers noted that 12 other states, including California, have adopted cap and trade measures and 10 have experienced economic gains. The European Union and Canada also have cap and trade measures to reduce carbon emissions. According to a
meteorology professor, who self-identified as in the minority in the room, the forest fires are mainly the result of poor forest management. A number of people stated that any adverse effects from cap and trade would be mitigated by the gains in climate control. On the other side was a small-business owner who stated unequivocally, “Cap and trade will put me out of business and my seven employees out of work.” He said his two alternatives would be to try to sell his business or lock it up. His one percent profit margin can’t take any increases in fuel costs. There were suggestions that the legislature should pass HB 2020, even if imperfect, then come back and fix it. “We pass imperfect legislation all the time,” said one supporter of cap and trade. A Deschutes County farmer said they use fossil fuel and would “rather pay more for fuel and have a cleaner, clearer environment.” She went on to say that cap and trade is popular with farmers in California due to good agricultural incentives that help to upgrade irrigation. With increased incentives for no-till farming, less carbon is released into the atmosphere. A Camp Sherman resident raised the concern of whether or not she will be able to get or afford homeowners insurance due to the increase in wildfires.
Some attendees believe that data shows the planet is running out of time to effectively curb climate change. According to a recent OPB radio broadcast, if there isn’t a dramatic reduction in CO2 emissions in 18 months, the earth will reach a tipping point from which it can’t return. A Bend resident with a PhD from MIT, who specializes in numerical analysis, countered, saying that satellite data doesn’t support the estimate from OSU that by 2100 there will be a nine-degree Celsius increase in temperatures above 1975 levels. He does not support cap and trade. Suggestions for addressing climate change ranged from the cap and trade bill to improved irrigation programs, clean energy reinvestments, more green energy, stopping subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, in Central Oregon use the sun, wind, and hot
springs to generate energy, small dams for hydro power, improved forestry and farming practices, and changing the state constitution. A farmer born and raised in Redmond voiced his opinion: “Stop all this environmental stuff and the fires would improve.” The owner of a fuel business admitted that HB 2020 was a threat to his way of living, but, “Life is too important for my business to take precedence.” He criticized Bentz’s slide presentation for having no assessment of possible job creation or better quality of life with the cap and trade bill. He concluded with, “Go back to Salem and get something done. Please make something happen. That’s what people need right now.” Bonham responded, “We’re trying to do something. I hear you but I’m not there yet. I don’t want to martyr rural Oregon.”
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climate change, and HB 2020. They said they were there to listen and take notes. Despite varying opinions on the House bill and whether or not it should be re-introduced, changed or unchanged, at the next session in Salem, the overwhelming message that came through loud and clear was “do something about carbon emissions and their impact on our climate.” (See related story on page 18.) Emotions ran high in several participants and there was a plethora of information, study results, and opinions expressed during the two-and-a-half hour meeting. Bonham and Bentz said at the beginning of the evening they would stay until every person who had something to say was heard — and they did. The issues of carbon emissions, cap and trade, and climate change are complex and complicated and not easily summarized in a few hours or a newspaper article. Cap and trade is a marketbased approach to controlling pollution (like carbon emissions) by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. A central authority allocates or sells a limited number of permits to discharge specific quantities of a specific pollutant per time period. In theory, emitters will find ways to reduce their emissions below the established limits, and thus reduce the need for costly permits. If one emitter is able to lower their emissions so they don’t need all their permits, they can trade (sell) them to another emitter who is unable to find lower-cost methods to reduce pollution. Proponents hope that the overall impact on the environment would be that all emitters would attempt to take action to reduce emissions and avoid the cost of permits. Right up front, both Republicans stated they do not favor a cap and trade bill as the way to reduce carbon emissions. They have both been involved on carbon committees and have studied the issue extensively. Bentz attended a conference in Toronto to hear what Canada’s experience has been with cap and trade. In 2018, he attended 16 meetings in Salem, met with scientists from Oregon State
University and the University of Oregon to gain an understanding of the issues, and conferred with other scientists from Harvard and Standard universities. Bentz supports an idea put forward by Dr. William Jaeger of OSU, which includes a tax on income of one-fourth of one percent with the money going toward efforts to reduce climate change. With the support of slides indicating that Oregon’s carbon emissions in 2017 were 65 million tons, while global emissions reached 36.8 billion tons, Bentz proposed the best way for Oregon to truly make an impact on climate change globally is to come up with a really creative solution that would encourage duplication by other states and countries. “Cap and trade would create a multi-billion dollar liability for Oregonians,” he said. According to Bentz, there are two million operating coal-powered plants in the world, half of them in China. From a world population of 2.6 billion people in 1952, the number in 2018 reached 7.6 billion, adding 80 million more people each year. More people means more pollution. Polls have indicated that 65 percent of Oregonians want something done about climate change, with 85 percent of Democrats and over 50 percent of Republicans in favor of action. The current climate of partisan politics in Salem and nationally appears to be a major barrier to reaching consensus on a workable program. From the comments heard at the town hall, citizens are frustrated with the inability of legislators to work together and “do something.” Bentz stated he was shut out by Democrats from offering alternative solutions in the last legislative session and that is why he walked out of the legislature. The overarching problem, in his mind, is an existential one — “a lack of civility in how we govern and reach solutions.” According to Bentz, Oregon has abundant natural resources available for carbon sequestration. The seaweed in the three-mile territorial sea off the Oregon coast captures a lot of carbon. There are 27 million acres of forests, 16 million acres of farmland, and 15 million acres of sagebrush, all able to absorb CO 2 . If managed properly, this acreage could help capture significant amounts of carbon emissions. There are tens of thousands of acres available
for utilization as solar farms. The Oregon Conservation Partnership concurs. The forest and farm lands “could be included in strategies to sequester carbon and benefit climate resiliency. Data show that restoration, conservation, and improved landmanagement approaches can address a significant percentage of global emissions… Conserving working lands and water resources also supports Oregon’s rural economies. The Oregon constitution is written in such a way that the $350 million in taxes collected at the gas pump each year can’t be used to fund any projects other than roadwork. If that were changed, some of that money could be used for programs and incentives to reduce pollution. Bentz would like to see a change to the constitution to free up those funds. After hearing from everyone who wished to speak, Bentz closed out the evening by saying, “The burden is on you guys… What are you going to do to bring the Democrats along?” He believes that an appropriately designed bill to reduce carbon will have political durability. Bonham said both he and Bentz want carbon reduction programs in place. “It will take an investment of time and energy with all the stakeholders,” according to Bonham.
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City of Sisters has new project coordinator By Sue Stafford Correspondent
Troy Rayburn is the new face at City Hall, having arrived about a month ago to assume the duties of project coordinator in the City of Sisters Public Works Department. A fourth-generation Oregonian, Rayburn grew up in The Dalles and graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in public administration. He went on to do graduate studies in Public Administration at the University of Oregon, during which time he served as a graduate intern with U.S. Senator Bob Packwood in Washington D.C. His training in public administration has served him well over the years as the director of government affairs for the Clark County, Washington Home Builders Association and a policy senior analyst to the Clark County Board of Commissioners. For seven years he worked at the City of Aspen, Colorado as the project manager for design-build workforce housing and capital construction projects. Rayburn sees a number of similarities between Aspen and Sisters and believes his work in Aspen will positively inform his duties in Sisters. Once a small mountain town in the Roaring Fork Valley,
with a state highway running through it, Aspen was “discovered” and a strong demographic influence soon held sway, with the influx of people from Hollywood, Texas, and the East Coast, which brought an economic boom but proved very different from the “grand old ranching families” and the general population of the town, according to Rayburn. During his tenure in Aspen, much of Rayburn’s time and energy was spent planning and implementing capital construction projects, including two workforce housing projects and the Rio Grande Trail improvement project. “I loved Aspen. It was a lot of fun,” Rayburn said. He is an outdoor enthusiast and spent time hiking, camping, and rafting while in Colorado. The need to be closer to aging parents brought Rayburn back to the Pacific Northwest where he worked as a committee administrator for House Transportation and Economic Development at the Oregon State Legislature in Salem. Rayburn’s last position before coming to Sisters was three years in the Redmond Community Development Department. He was a program specialist/project manager involved with planning and executing a number of urban renewal projects including the expansion of Centennial Park,
redevelopment of the Fifth and Greenwood site, and downtown parking. His variety of duties in Redmond was broad, from drafting budgets and timelines to issuing requests for proposals, building consensus for projects, administering grant and loan programs for small business start-ups, and research and production of memos, briefs, press releases, and PowerPoint presentations. “The City is thankful to have Troy on board as our newest staff member. He brings extensive experience in local government and a pride for public and customer service. As a key member of our public works team, Troy will be assisting and supporting as a connector between departments, City consultants, government partners, contractors/ developers, and the public at large. His experience with project management and capital projects fits right in with what we were looking for in this position at the City serving our growing community,” City Manager Cory Misley told The Nugget. Rayburn credits his parents and grandparents for his passion for public service. His dad volunteered in youth sports programs and his mom and grandmother were deeply involved with the local arts community. They all stressed the importance of education and reading. They led by
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description for the position in Sisters, it reminded him of the work he did in Aspen. He views his new job as, “a great opportunity to do wonderful things for the town and its residents.” Since arriving, he has been impressed with the staff at City Hall. “The entire team are downto-earth, smart, committed public servants,” Rayburn concluded. “Cory and Paul (Bertagna, public works director) are both incredibly accessible and approachable.” Rayburn can be reached at 541-323-5220 or trayburn@ ci.sisters.or.us.
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L.A. death trip By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief
During summer college breaks back in the mid-1980s, I did some work for my grandparents — the typical light home maintenance stuff on their place in La Cañada, California. My grandfather was on his last legs, his breath stolen by emphysema, which he earned with a heavy smoking habit in his younger days and by working with asbestos and God knows what-all building liberty ships in Long Beach harbor during World War II. At lunch we’d sit at the kitchen table and I’d ask him questions about his ranching days and the move to L.A. during the Depression. These were just conversations, not interviews — and I neither recorded nor wrote anything down. Though I was a history major and a lifelong history nerd, I didn’t really think then of my grandpa’s life as part of history. I know. Youth is wasted on the young. Sometimes the conversation wound down odd paths. I don’t know how we got on the subject of the Manson murders of August 8-10, 1969, but I recall the conversation vividly. Because the killings freaked my grandpa out — and he did not scare easy. Quentin Tarantino’s current movie, “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,” uses the murders as a fulcrum on which to move a twisted love letter to vintage L.A. That it
works so effectively is evidence that there is something endlessly fascinating about the killings set against the cultural context of the times. It was context that made the killings so chilling to the likes of my grandfather. Part of it was that he either knew or knew someone who knew Leno LaBianca through the grocery business (I can’t remember which it was, but I think probably the latter). The slayings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were the second set of gruesome “Helter Skelter” murders, and are usually treated almost as a footnote to the slaughter of actress Sharon Tate and four others in Benedict Canyon the night before. A shocking murder that hits within a couple of degrees of separation is bound to shake anyone. But what my grandpa told me was that the killings made him and my grandma and their friends feel vulnerable in a way they had never felt before. Things still felt “innocent” and “secure” for them back in 1969, despite all the social turmoil of the era. Really, for a whole lot of middle class people just working to make a living and provide a decent life for their family, “the Sixties” weren’t really a thing. My brother was in high school, too young for Vietnam; my older sister was married to an Air Force man, but he was stationed in England. There was just no real personal point of connection to all the sturm und
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drang. My grandparents lived in a nice suburb that had not yet become an enclave of the rich. It was an actual neighborhood. They left windows open on hot August nights (a child of the Depression, my grandpa refused to pay for air conditioning. The week after he died, my grandma installed a unit). It would be several months before the Manson Family was fingered for the crimes of August 8-10. The sensational killings and all their bizarre and gruesome iconography made my folks and countless thousands just like them feel personally vulnerable. “They” — whoever they were — might just come into your home and carve you up. We like to think of the media “back then” as sober and responsible, but it was rife with speculation and stoked fear and hysteria. People — and not just freaked-out movie stars — started sleeping with guns on the nightstand. All of a sudden, the turmoil of the ’60s, which my people viewed through the TV screen but seldom encountered in
the real world, felt very present and profoundly menacing. Is that kid with long hair hitch-hiking at the freeway on-ramp a killer? Who is that driving that beat-up car down the street? What horror is going to happen next? 1969 was Maximum California Weirdness playing out in blood. Charles Manson was an avatar of a variety of pretty commonplace cultural influences and obsessions — drugs, sex, pseudo-religious self-actualization cons, “revolution,” all rolled up, lit on fire and inhaled in combination with the ultimate L.A. drug — the deepest belief that somehow, someway, if you can just get in front of the right person at the right time, you can be a STAR. The gruesome events of August 8-10, 1969, are often tolled out as “the end of the Sixties.” You can take your pick of end points. Altamont in December 1969? The landslide reelection of Richard Nixon in 1972? Watergate in 1974? The final evacuation and fall of Saigon in 1975? Such punctuation is inevitably somewhat arbitrary and
inadequate. This much seems clear, at least from the standpoint of my people: What happened on August 8-10, 1969, shook the sense of security that middle-class Angelenos (and maybe Americans writ large) had retained through the weird and wild times of the 1960s. Whether “the Sixties” ended then or not, a certain sense of the world did. Open windows and unlocked doors seemed mighty risky. Long hair and rock music wasn’t just distasteful — it was downright sinister. It may be putting too much weight on a single episode, but the way the killings went down — and the way they continue to be obsessively recounted — pushed a wedge into cultural faultlines that had already cracked open around Vietnam, the sexual revolution, and a broad culture clash. It raised the stakes. They weren’t just rebelling — they were murdering us. Those faultlines still remain 50 years down the line, and no number of security cameras can quite relieve the fear.
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Paddling in canoe, students learn Native American history By Diana Kruzman The Oregonian/OregonLive
PORTLAND (AP) — The 36-foot tribal canoe listed to the left as it pushed away from the dock, looking dangerously close to spilling into the still green waters of Lake River. Its crew — eight college students, one professor and four members of the Chinook Indian Nation — paddled to the left, then the right. A soft breeze picked up and light rain began to fall, dulling the reflection of the shoreline in this tributary of the Columbia River about 25 minutes north of Vancouver. Tribal Chairman Tony Johnson instructed everyone to raise their paddles — the crescent-shaped ends marking them as distinctly Chinookan — and plunge them into the water. “Kanawi kanamakwst — all together now,” Johnson said, translating to English from the tribe’s language as the canoe straightened out and began to move forward at a brisk clip. Johnson helped guide the canoe as part of a new summer Native American literature course at Washington State University Vancouver. The class is a first-time collaboration with the Chinook Nation and one of the few courses in the region that offers the chance to earn class credits outdoors. It aims to help students connect with local tribes and learn about the issues important to them from environmental problems to their status with the federal government. But mainly, its goal is to dispel the notion that Native Americans are relics of the past, Johnson said. For nearly 3,000 members of the Chinook Nation spread across two states, canoeing isn’t just a historical legacy, but a modern-day tradition. “We want people to know that this is present tense,” Johnson said. “This is a living culture.” • • • On the recent rainy Tuesday the class set out on its second canoe trip of the summer — with four journalists in tow — Johnson kept the pace steady with calm instructions, occasionally breaking into song. “Nice and easy together — no wasted energy,” he said from the back while his daughter, Mary Johnson, and Chinook tribal council member Rachel Cushman pulled from the front. “The canoe is happiest when we’re all together.” While the students paddled, Johnson described the history of the area and pointed
to Chinook sites on the river’s banks. One village, now hidden by forest, had been home to nearly 1,000 Chinookanspeaking people before Europeans arrived, he said. Another site known as Warrior Point, on the Oregon side of the Columbia, was so named by an early British sea captain who encountered dozens of canoes there in 1792. Johnson believes most people lack an understanding of how this history shaped the land that now makes up Oregon and Washington. The states only recently began requiring public schools to teach students about contemporary Native American life and tribal sovereignty, with Washington passing legislation in 2015 and Oregon in 2017. As a result, Johnson said, few people realize the extent of the civilization that existed here for centuries or that these cultures have continued to evolve to present day. “Indian communities, Native communities, in the Pacific Northwest are often just in the shadows,” Johnson said. “You could be born and raised in Washington state and never have true interaction with or understanding of its indigenous people.” Desiree Hellegers, a WSU Vancouver associate professor
of English who organized the class, calls this gap in education the “myth of the disappearing Indian.” She began planning the six-week class with another faculty member in the fall, breaking it up into classroombased sessions focused around readings and trips in the canoe with Johnson. Most of the eight students enrolled in the course are English majors who hadn’t read literature by Native American authors. Hellegers designed the course to bring in representatives from different tribes, including the Chinook, Nez Perce and Cowlitz. “We’re on their land,” Hellegers said. “We have an obligation to listen to those voices and their concerns, to think about amplifying those voices, to think about what it means to be an ally.” The concerns include the preservation of waterways like the Columbia. Hellegers invited Lana Jack, a member of the Celilo Wyam tribe, to speak about how the opening of The Dalles Dam in 1957 affected her community, drowning the sacred Celilo Falls fishing site and displacing a village. And she had students read “Solar Storms,” a novel by Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan who explored the
impact of hydropower projects on Native lands. “Literature allows us to enter into the experiences of embattled communities,” Hellegers said. “I think it has the capacity to impact people at a very deep emotional level.” The canoe used during class sessions — one of two
Literature allows us to enter into the experiences of embattled communities. I think it has the capacity to impact people at a very deep emotional level. — Desiree Hellegers owned by the Chinook Nation — is painted red and black, the figure of a sea monster snaking along its bow. Traditional Chinook canoes are made of old-growth cedar through a months-long process still practiced by tribal members like Johnson. But this canoe was donated to the Chinook people in 2011 by the descendants of William Clark to make amends for the theft of a Chinook canoe during the
Lewis and Clark expedition in 1806. Its name, Kthlmin, means “moon” in the Chinookan language — a plea for favorable tides, Johnson said, on its frequent journeys in the open ocean. Each summer since the early 1990s, indigenous peoples along the Pacific Northwest coast, including the Chinook, have traveled by canoe to a prearranged meeting spot in an annual event known as the Canoe Journey. Upon reaching their destination, canoe families who travel together share songs, dances and gifts with the tribe hosting them that year. On July 16, members of the Chinook Nation set out for the Lummi Nation in Washington in several canoes, including Kthlmin. Students like Deanna McNeely, a senior English major originally from Florida, got a taste of what Chinook canoe families experience. “It was very challenging at first because I didn’t have the technique,” McNeely said of her first trip out onto the water. “But once you get into the canoe, it’s like a certain rhythm. You hear the paddles going against the water. You almost feel like you can do that longer than what your body can physically handle.”
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doing and seeing while there. Mather approached editors to get support for following up on the story. At the time, the Louisville Courier was an “aggressive news-gathering organization, and with this project we became the ‘blue engine that could,’ due to the scale and aspects of the story,” Mather told The Nugget. Bill Cox, the city editor at the time, was instrumental in getting the project off the ground and sent Mather and Brinkley to the Cambodian border on a three-week-long journey into the war-torn Cambodian, Vietnam and Thai borders. The report earned the Louisville Courier a Pulitzer Prize in 1979. Mather and his reporting partner were on the border of Cambodia and Thailand for three weeks photographing and writing about the refugees in the camps. The effect on Mather was a lifelong one. “After a few months of being back from it, I finally stopped having dreams about it,” said Mather. The refugees in the camp were a mix of those who were affected by the genocide as well as soldiers of the Khmer Rouge who were also starving and malnourished. “The feelings at the camps were very tense because everyone knew who was who and no one knew what was going to happen to them at night,” he said. The effect of seeing people in these states had a
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of leukemia. Brinkley’s syndicated column was often featured in The Nugget, and his work in Cambodia will be remembered. “I wish Joel could be with me on this,” said Mather of the festival showing. This year being the 40th anniversary of the 1979 events, Mather decided to break out the old negatives and scans and prints of the Cambodian work. He submitted it to the French photojournalism festival Visa Pour l´Image near Paris. Mather wanted to submit his pieces 40 years later because he believes in breaking old work out of the boxes. “If you don’t share the work, what is the point of doing it?” he said. Mather submitted his work at the beginning of the year, but did not hear back until mid-July. And what he heard back was that he had been selected for a screening of his work at the photojournalism festival in September. Mather and his wife, Diane, are planning on making a vacation out of the visit to France for the screening. The festival contains a number of exhibits about events in the world, including images of the Iranian revolution, which also occurred 40 years ago. The organization focuses on showing images and videos that have to do with planet and humanitarian issues faced in the last year — but it also does these special retrospectives, and Mather’s collection of photos was chosen. H e s u b m i t t e d 11 0 images from his collection of film photos. There is a combination at the festival of large hung prints, as well as film screenings of
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Jay Mather can still be found, camera in hand, on the landscape of Sisters Country, which he has called home for many years. photos. Mather’s work is being shown in a 20-minute screening that opens with the CBS report on Dr. Rasmussen’s work as a way to provide context to the situation. The video contains numerous images of refugees and children in the camps where they were placed, looking starved, homeless and scared. “I am glad that someone can go and honor the work and the people,” he said. Mather since has donated some of the images from Cambodia, as well as others scans, to the Louisville
University photographic archive. They will also be doing an exhibit of his work in October. “I think that photos shouldn’t sit in a garage, and thought that they should be in a place where they are protected and taken care of,” he said. Mather believes that sharing his work, even so many years later, is to honor the people affected as well as honor the work and effort put out for the story. “It is not about me, but the work being honored,” he said.
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and Senator C. Bentz. There were somewhere between 50 to 70 citizens in attendance. Senator Bentz started the Town Hall by letting us know how hard he has tried to learn about and to do something about climate change the past 9 years to create the best bill of any state so Oregon would lead the way. Please note, the House and Senate Ways and Means committees, which Sen. Bents and Rep. Bonham each served on, in their separate legislative branches, democratically voted to recommend the bill be passed (Sen. Bentz and Rep. Bonham were both in the minority with nays). Also, note HB2020 had been in the making for over 10 years. After the bill was brought to a vote and passed in the House, Senator Bentz felt it was not a perfect bill (because his recommended changes to it were ignored), so he and the other Republicans left to assure there was not a quorum to allow a vote. He said it was democratic to do so, but then later said he would never do it again. This had been his second time in walking out rather than voting on a bill. It is a fallacy to seek perfection and ignore progress in the right direction. Then he proceeded to lecture us on how he did not need to hear that he did not do his job and that he did not need us lecturing him. This before any in attendance spoke. So THAT went well. We each thanked them for the opportunity to speak and be heard, we thanked them for coming to Sisters, and with about 8 Bentz supporting opinions, the rest of us wanted him to at least vote next time, and a yea vote is preferred when the bill comes back in the next legislative session. The overall concern voiced was that the climate crisis needed attention now. One woman intelligently asked before we were to leave, now that they had heard what we had to say what was their takeaway. Representative Bonham fielded the question with a rambling answer that could be summed up as, “We will continue to do what we have been doing.” Yeah, democracy is working — not. Susan Cobb
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To the Editor: In response to Chris Carr’s letter: We are in complete agreement!
We are in the Plainview area and on July 22 our outgoing mail (along with several other residents) was stolen. Our mail consisted of payments/bills for August, 11 in total. Deputy Sheriff also came to our residence with the mail, all opened, with some of the payment vouchers (minus our mortgages vouchers), no checks of course. We had to close our account and open a new one, get temporary checks from the bank to RE-PAY these bills; which the bank charges $2 per check. Also called our mortgage lender and added a special “code” just in case. Our reaction time was so quick that none of the checks were presented to our bank. I now wish we had kept some, put them out in the mail, alerted the bank when they were presented to call law enforcement. We are hoping these thieves are caught and spend a good amount of time in federal prison. At the very least...KARMA, just wish we could be there to see it happen. And yes, it is a sad state of affairs. Gary & Jeri Johnson
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To the Editor: While reading Jeff Mackey’s letter in the July 24 issue of The Nugget, I was discouraged to see that this nice man again resorted to using outrageous hot-button words like fascism, racism, and infanticide while talking about Democratic congressional representatives. It’s sad that our American democracy has come to this. How did we get from the Republican Party leadership of Abraham Lincoln, who said “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” to the extreme radical new leadership of Donald Trump? If Trump and his followers call someone a fascist does that mean they really are a fascist? Yes, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was a bartender. Other members of Congress have risen from dubious jobs, too. One was a used car salesman, another was a rodeo announcer, a few were radio talk show hosts, and several were actors. As for eliminating fossil fuel use, what’s wrong with that? It’s polluting and over-warming our fragile earth. Truly, I think global warming is the ONLY issue we should be working on — all of us together
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To the Editor: I’ve been quiet too long and am sick and tired of trying to take the middle ground on gun control. The Second Amendment has been carried to extremes by the NRA and other gun enthusiasts. When the Second Amendment was written firearms consisted of single-shot muskets and pistols. Our forefathers never imagined the carnage that could be wreaked by an unstable maniac with an AK-47 and 30-round clips. Our present national gun policies defy all logic and humanity! I would venture to say that no one has the ability to read minds or know when somebody who seems completely normal is going to snap due to an obsession, a chemical imbalance, family discord, or a multitude of other unknown causes. The present position of gun-rights advocates is totally selfish, and in my view thoughtless. How can any human being be willing to trade the right to buy and own an assault rifle with the lives of so many innocent people, including children! You can’t own a sawed-off shotgun, hand grenades, or a fully automatic rifle for a good reason — the purpose of these weapons is to kill people. Let’s use some common sense here and stop the senseless killing. Ban assault rifles and guns with more than a few round clips. Go back to hunting with bolt-action rifles. Protect your home with a double-barrel shotgun. Anything more is unnecessary, unsafe, and as I said earlier, SELFISH. Art Blumenkron
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Town Mountain brought North Carolina Bluegrass to Fir Street Park in a free Sisters Folk Festival summer concert last week. The final concert in the series is set for August 21.
— Last Week’s Puzzle Solved —
Some Oregon Republicans question recall effort SALEM (AP) — Some Republicans in Oregon aren’t on board with the party’s attempt to recall Gov. Kate Brown, saying conservatives should instead focus their efforts on winning the next election. “I am only speaking for myself, but I have misgivings about the petition drive,” Deschutes County Republican Chair Paul deWitt told The Bulletin. “Kate Brown deserves to be recalled, but we also need to elect Republicans in 2020.” Oregon Republican Party chairman Bill Currier filed paperwork July 15 to launch a petition effort to recall the Democratic governor based on what he called Brown’s “politically motivated agendas,” citing her support of progressive legislation to grant driver’s licenses to immigrants who lack proof of legal residence, among other things. “The people of Oregon deserve and expect a governor that honors the will of the voters and works for the good of all citizens,” Currier said in his petition. DeWitt is one of few Republicans to vocally criticize the recall effort, which many believe to be a political longshot. Organizers have until mid-October to gather 280,050 valid signatures from voters. If recall supporters gather enough signatures,
a special election could be scheduled in November. On the chance that voters did choose to recall Brown, she’d be replaced by Treasurer Tobias Read, another Democrat. The current Secretary of State, Republican Bev Clarno, is ineligible to succeed Brown under state law because she was politically appointed to the position. “We do all of this and Read is governor — is that so much better?” deWitt said. “From what I see, he supports the same issues as Brown.” Democrats have lambasted the recall effort as a political stunt meant to undermine the results of the November 2018 election, which also gave Democrats a legislative supermajority. “The GOP is embracing inflammatory rhetoric and pursuing a fool’s errand by trying to recall a governor that voters re-elected by a wide margin less than a year ago,” said KC Hanson, chairwoman of the Oregon Democratic Party. “Clearly, the GOP is scared of what’s on the horizon for 2020.” Although some Republicans also have their doubts about the recall, that won’t stop them from circulating petitions. “The petition will be on our table at the county fair,” said deWitt. “We’ll do our part.”
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release heat).” Recipes will be available to take home. Speer studied with The Arctos School and The School of Forest Medicine. She maintains an active medicine-making practice and “enjoys learning from and building relationship with the land and plants in Central Oregon.” Throughout the market day, Three Sisters Historical Society will offer kids a chance to excavate an archaeology site. If they correctly answer a question about their dig, they can win a prize. Shannon Mokuahi Rackowski will present a hula dance and demonstration at 1 p.m. She describes herself as a “native Hawaiian/Caucasian, better known as a Hapa Girl, from the island of Oahu.” She has lived in Oregon just under 40 years and has been a fixture of the Sisters community for over five years. Rackowski has danced hula since the age of five. Thirty-seven years ago, she started the Halau O Hula Hawaii School of Hawaiian Dance in Newport. For the farmers market, she plans to dress in traditional hula garb including a pau skirt and leis or flowers. After dancing, she will offer a short demonstration for those who’d like to try hula themselves. Many Sisters residents know her as a powerhouse of activity at Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD). For SPRD and other organizations around town, Rackowski provides vivacious energy, tasty food, and organizational prowess at community events. She teaches popular classes for seniors and provides leadership in event coordination. “I have had the honor to dance with many incredible artist-legends such as Gabby
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Pahinui, Brothers Cazimero, Makaha Sons of Ni’ihau, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Don Ho, Bill Keale, and my Halau back home in Hawaii, Napualei O’ Likoleihua,” Rackowski said. Every week at the market, farms from Sisters bring microlocal produce plucked just blocks away. Rotating vendors keep the market’s offerings fresh. Homemade granola, locally blended teas, micro-roastery coffees, smoked steelhead, and fresh apricots have been on offer recently. The Simple N Fresh food cart offers tostadas and handcut pico de gallo, along with a housemade ceviche using cooked shrimp rather than raw. Fusion bowls, woodfired baguettes, and rawfoods desserts have also been on offer. Locally handcrafted items include unique Sistersthemed T-shirts and cork caps, and popular bracelets made by a Sisters family. Organic, small-batch skincare products are often available, as are handmade soaps, balms, and clever wooden combs for beards, cut in the shape of an Oregon map. Sisters Farmers Market runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday through the end of September at Fir Street Park. The park is located one block north of Cascade Avenue/ Highway 20 at the corner of East Main Avenue and North Fir Street. The market’s showcase program extends throughout the summer. It is funded
in part by a grant from The Roundhouse Foundation, along with sponsorship from Cottonwood Cafe, Metabolic Maintenance, She Soars Psychiatry, and Jane McGowan nonprofit counseling. In-kind donations from The Nugget Newspaper, Plazm, and XPress Printing helped turn the market around this year, moving to a successful new day and time. Sisters Farmers Market is a nonprofit entity operating under the fiscal sponsorship of SPRD.
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Maesie Speer will share plant medicine and iced teas with Sisters this Sunday at Fir Street Park.
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A hiker was transported across the Crooked River on a raft after being assisted off the Misery Ridge Trail at Smith Rock.
Woman rescued after Smith Rock fall Dorothy Jankowski, 56, of Wilton, Connecticut, took a fall on Misery Ridge and had to be assisted off the strenuous route. Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office reports that at 10:36 a.m. on August 1, 9-1-1 Dispatch received a call from a hiker on the Misery Ridge Trail at Smith Rock State Park, that she had come across Jankowski, who had sustained a non-life-threatening injury and needed assistance getting down off of the trail. Jankowski and her husband, Peter Jankowski, were on the Misery Ridge Trail, where it overlooks Monkey Face. One Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office deputy and nine DCSO Search and Rescue volunteers responded to assist Jankowski. Redmond Fire Department personnel also responded and arrived first at Jankowski’s location at 11:24 a.m. DCSO SAR volunteers arrived at 11:52. Jankowski was transported down the back side of the Misery Ridge Trail and then across the Crooked River via RFD raft.
Redmond Fire Department then transported Mrs. Jankowski to St. Charles Hospital in Redmond for further evaluation and treatment.
believes that several parents improperly influenced Hosang’s decision. A lawsuit against parents Merry Ann Moore and Rob Corrigan was dismissed in August of 2014, with the defendants awarded $24,061 in attorney’s fees. Goertzen sought in 2015 to have that ruling vacated (overturned), citing emails from Moore to Hosang discovered after the dismissal. Deschutes County Circuit Court Judge Beth Bagley denied the motion to vacate. Goertzen’s suit, filed by his attorney, Marlin Ard, in U.S. District Court in Eugene on February 25, 2019, asserted that, “at the time the motion to vacate ... was denied by J Bagley, she was personal friends with defendant Moore. J Bagley and Moore had exchanged email addresses and had also communicated with each other through social media (Linkedin). (Note:
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against (Goertzen) and acted improperly toward (him)…” The suit seeks compensation for emotional pain and suffering and other non-economic losses in the amount of $1.25 million in each of three claims for relief. Attorney Peter Merserau filed a motion to dismiss the suit on July 3 on behalf of the defendants. Merserau’s motion argues that Goertzen’s complaints are “time-barred” — that each is well beyond the timeframe allowed for action under statutes of limitation. He also argues that the current claims are precluded because Goertzen has “already litigated and had the opportunity to litigate the claims in this case to final judgment in Oregon state court.” Merserau further argues that each complaint fails to rise to a legal standard of fact or legal theory and therefore do not actually state a claim for relief. That case has yet to be resolved.
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LINEUP: Sisters Folk Festival is set for September 6-8 Continued from page 3
a wide variety of different ‘branches’ of the Americana music tree, from folk, to gospel and soul, Celtic and Acadian, old-time, bluegrass, Southern rock, singer-songwriters, mariachi and more,” said Creative Director Brad Tisdel. “The festival is a fantastic cultural and musical experience that is guaranteed to present new artists and new music to our audience every year.” Every artist — with the exception of headliner Bruce Cockburn — will play more than one set over the weekend, providing an opportunity to catch lots of acts and see folks multiple times. For those who really want to see a particular artist, organizers suggest arriving early to the venue, as venues do get to capacity at peak times. Tisdel continues, “The schedule allows for patrons to walk throughout town and sample music in different settings, different styles and in wonderful restaurants and businesses, all with a unique vibe and energy. We try to create scenes where there is something for everyone and every patron can find what they want, and be surprised by top-notch talent as they discover new artists and music.“ Sisters Folk Festival is also announcing Americana Project alumni artists, who will perform at Fir Street Park all day Saturday, September 7. The Americana Project is the educational outreach program of the Sisters Folk Festival organization and is celebrating its 20th year. The program teaches students in the Sisters schools visual arts, piano keyboarding skills, American roots music, songwriting, performing and recording, as well as building handmade guitars and ukuleles. “We are excited to work with these young adults who will be taking the stage throughout Saturday to share the music they have continued to write and create after graduating from Sisters High School,” says Tisdel. As part of the festival weekend, performances will include current Americana project students performing at 11 a.m., followed by sets from Jaimee Simundson, Elize Van Der Laan, Raman Ellis, Drew Harrison, Slater Smith & Matt Cartmill (of the Portland-based Weather Machine) and Benji Nagel with his new bluegrass band, Skillethead. Sunday performances will
also include festival artists and both days are free to the public. One additional offering this year will be an Open Hub Singing workshop, led by Ian Carrick at 11 a.m. Saturday behind the Sisters Coffee Company. Open Hub Singing is a group singing session, which Carrick considers “an unforgettable community singing experience.” He says that group singing “is one of the most ancient technologies of belonging and is our birthright to sing beautiful aural traditional songs together in community.” One change to the 2019 schedule is a new offering on Friday and Saturday evening at Sisters Coffee Co. from 6 to 10 p.m. This year the venue will be inside the Sisters Coffee Co. building. Festival artists will perform full sets as part of expanding the offerings at the 11 stages throughout town, and food and libations will be served, as well as coffee and tea from a cart outside. “We believe it will be a wonderful setting for intimate performances and will grow to be many peoples’ favorite space to hear and see music
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Peter Rowan is featured in the 2019 Sisters Folk Festival lineup. during the festival,” says Tisdel. In addition to all-event passes, single-day Sundayonly tickets are on sale July 31 for $70 and include performances from 27 festival artists. There are no Friday and Saturday single-day tickets available. Festival passes are $170 for adults and $55 for youth 18 and under. For tickets, artist information, to volunteer and a complete weekend performance schedule, visit www.sistersfolkfestival.org.
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DISASTER: Programs need investment to expand Continued from page 16
in remote areas of Southern California this month reminded the public it’s only a matter of time before the next destructive quake hits. “We don’t know when the next big earthquake or wildfire will strike, but we know it will happen at some point,” said Douglas Toomey, a seismologist and earth sciences professor at the University of Oregon who helps run both early warning detection systems. And Oregon is “woefully” unprepared, he said. Gov. Kate Brown, who included the $12 million in funding for the projects in her proposed budget last year, has told reporters the decision not to expand the early detection systems was one of the “biggest disappointments” of this year’s legislative session. ShakeAlert and AlertWildfire are designed to detect natural disasters as they start and alert responders and the public before significant damage occurs. They are managed by a consortium of public universities and funded through state, federal and private partnerships.
In Oregon, the programs are in the initial phases and need significant state investments to expand to a point that they’ll be useful to the public, Toomey said. AlertWildfire is a system of cameras stationed in some of the most remote and fire-prone parts of Oregon, Nevada and California. It has provided critical information to first responders in over 600 fires during the past three fire seasons, allowing firefighters in some cases to contain blazes before they spiral out of control. ShakeAlert, meanwhile, is a sensor system being built out across California, Oregon and Washington. The sensors pick up on faster-moving but less-damaging energy waves that emerge during the start of an earthquake. They can then sound the alarm before the stronger, more destructive secondary wave, giving people seconds or minutes to prepare depending on the size of the earthquake and their distance from the epicenter. Other western states have thrown significant cash behind the two systems, allowing them to build out hundreds of earthquake sensors and wildfire cameras. Cities and states need at least 75 percent of their earthquake sensors in place before
officials can begin alerting the public through the ShakeAlert app. Los Angeles became the first U.S. city to make the app available in January. The system could be sending alerts to the rest of California by the end of the year thanks to a $16.3 million investment from state lawmakers. Additional emergency management funds also have allowed California to expand its use of AlertWildfire, and the state is expected to install 200 to 300 new wildfire cameras by October. Washington’s ShakeAlert system could be ready by October 2020, and the state contributed $1 million this year to enhance the network. Meanwhile, only three wildfire cameras have been installed in Oregon, and the state still has to build over 100 more earthquake sensors before alerts can be sent through ShakeAlert. Without any additional money from the state, ShakeAlert will remain dependent on federal funds. That could mean the system won’t be online until 2021 at the earliest — far later than Oregon’s neighboring states. State lawmakers didn’t specify why funding for ShakeAlert and AlertWildfire was abandoned, but it’s
common for last-minute funding shake-ups to happen based on available resources, according to the office of Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, who chairs the legislative committee in charge of funding decisions. Lizzy Atwood Wills, chief of staff to Steiner Hayward, said ShakeAlert and AlertWildfire were some of the many projects not to receive funding this year. Investments are prioritized “within the limited resources available,” she said. Toomey said he still doesn’t understand why it wasn’t considered a priority, saying the money would have created jobs and attracted additional federal matching funds besides possibly saving lives. “It feels like the state is demoting public safety,” he said. “There are lives at stake here.”
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CORRECTIONS • The story “Sam Pyke loves his niche in the film industry,” (The Nugget, July 31, page 17), reported that “When asked what he considered his most successful project, he quietly replied, ‘The memorial project for my dad, who died in February.’ Pyke contacted The Nugget to note that “It was my brother Eli’s project of which I only played a small role.” The story also stated that Pyke took over his brother’s business. That is not correct. He took over production of a TV show his brother had previously produced. • The story “County purchases Sisters building,” (The Nugget, July 31, page 17) stated that the building included a diesel-powered back-up generator. That is not correct. There is no generator at the building.
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LAKE CREEK LODGE, #18 Turnkey in every sense of the word! Full interest 3 bed/3 bath cabin at Historic Lake Creek Lodge in Camp Sherman. Set on a small rise overlooking the creek basin, this vacation ready cabin offers quality throughout. Knotty pine paneling, plank fir floors, stone/gas fireplace, butcher block countertops, stainless appliances, farm kitchen sink, tile bathroom & showers, cedar decks, stone exterior accents & locked owner storage. Enjoy the common area tennis, pool, creek & open spaces. The adjacent Lodge serves great meals! $849,500 MLS#201805357 Options: 1/4 share $219,000 or 1/2 share, $429,000
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69114 BARCLAY LANE Beautiful 10 acres with Cascade mountain views! Close to town with paved access, natural sub-irrigated meadow, ponderosa pines, septic approval, excavated pond and shallow well depths. The building site offers views of Broken Top, the Three Sisters and Black Crater. There are views from the property of Mt. Jefferson, Black Butte, 3-Fingered Jack and Mt. Washington. An early morning walk through the meadow is spectacular with chest-high meadow grasses, wildflowers, grazing deer, circling raptors and countless native birds. This rare setting has Indian Ford Creek along its east boundary. $449,500. MLS#201906185
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CLASSIC HIGH MEADOW HOME Mountain views from this single-level, 4-bedroom, 3-bath home on 1 acre in Sisters premier neighborhood. Hardwood floors, a wall of windows and a wood-burning fireplace grace the greatroom. New GE Profile appliances & lighting upgrade the kitchen. Newly tiled walk-in master shower. Fresh paint and new carpeting throughout. Home office, family room and large pantry included in the 2,840 sq. ft. Oversized double garage with abundant storage. The 4th bedroom and 3rd bath can be “locked off” for that man-cave or sheshed.$674,900. MLS#201902939 YOU BELONG HERE 2.5-acre parcels with community water, power and phone available. All lots offer you treed privacy and easy paved-road access. Be one of the first buyers in to claim a mountain view. Just minutes to Sisters. Priced $196,000 to $247,500. Call listing office for MLS#.
GLAZE MEADOW #45 Wonderful cabin at Black Butte Ranch. Recently updated throughout the kitchen, living and bathrooms. It features a natural wood-paneled interior with tall vaulted open-beam ceilings and natural lava-rock fireplace. Two bedrooms down plus loft with bathroom. Enjoy the great location at the end of a long, peaceful cul-de-sac close to the Glaze Meadow Sports and Recreation Center. Adjacent to bike/pedestrian pathway with easy access to beautiful National Forest lands.$399,000. MLS#201904587
CLOSE-TO-TOWN LIVING Charming income producing cottage in the city of Sisters. Property has current short-term rental permit. Downtown location within walking distance to Whychus Creek. Relax in your master bedroom with fireplace and sitting area. Enjoy your evenings on the deck with gazebo and hot tub for your barbeque dinners and cozy evenings. $579,500. MLS#201905543 PREMIUM LAKEFRONT… …homesite in Aspen Lakes Golf Estates. 1.27 acres with nice pine trees and water views. Protective CC&R's in this gated community of fine homes. 2 years of golf membership included with the purchase. Utilities to the lot line. Just minutes to the town of Sisters. $349,000. MLS#201506535