The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLII No. 37 // 2019-09-11

The Nugget Vol. XLII No. 37

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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Sisters Folk Festival all about community Armed

citizen detains burglary suspect in Sisters

teach together, hang out together, and jam together, so when we get to town for the actual festival we have a bond and an energy that we get to share with our audiences, and the sense of community continues to grow,” said one artist.

Though performers came from a wide array of places — Hawaii to New York to Prince Edward Island to Cuba (via British Columbia)

Sheriff’s deputies apprehended Ryan Paul Huber, 43, of Sisters, after he allegedly broke into a home at the west end of town in the early hours of Monday morning.

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s office reports that at approximately 1:54 a.m. on Monday, September 9, deputies were dispatched to a burglary in progress at 1659 W. Carson Ave. in the Hayden Homes subdivision off McKinney Butte Road in Sisters. Dispatch advised deputies that an unknown male subject had entered the house by breaking down the back the door.

The homeowner, armed with a rifle, confronted the

See FOLK FESTIVAL on page 20

See SUSPECT on page 26

Sunday morning’s free community gathering brings artists and audience together in a way that vividly reflects the spirit of the event.

PHOTO BY ROB KERR

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

The term “community” may not do justice to what the town of Sisters — and with it the Sisters Folk Festival — is known for, but the word got uttered repeatedly during Folk Festival week by attendees, artists and volunteers.

Several thousand people absorbed the music and fellowship of the three-day festival September 6-8.

At Sunday morning’s free community concert at the Village Green, singer/songwriter/poet Beth Wood began the gathering with a heart of gratefulness for what she has experienced in her many years of involvement with the festival. This came on the heels of the announcement that she plans to make Sisters her home in the months ahead.

“Reflecting back on my first experiences here some 15 years ago, I remember

‘No Name’ Lake restrictions imposed

By Craig F. Eisenbeis Correspondent

The recent kerfuffle involving newly imposed camping restrictions at socalled “No Name Lake” on the eastern slopes of Broken Top is yet another example of impact resulting from irresponsible user abuse in local wilderness areas. The new restrictions impose a quartermile setback for wilderness campers using the area. Such campsite setbacks are not uncommon at other wilderness lakes.

Jean Nelson-Dean, public affairs officer for the Deschutes National Forest said, “People can still enjoy the location, but we’re

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asking them to camp in a more appropriate location where waste can be disposed of, so they can follow the ‘leave no trace’ principle.”

The “traces” being left behind are what have caused the problem, specifically human waste improperly disposed of. The lake has become an unexpected and popular mecca for backcountry travelers, with scores of overnight visitors setting up camp right on the shores of the fragile lake.

According to NelsonDean, the human waste being deposited in the area has left the place “smelling like a sewer.” The margins of the See NO NAME on page 20

immediately feeling so welcomed,” Wood said.

By all accounts, the most intimate circle of community took place at the four-day Americana Song Academy held at Camp Caldera Tuesday through Friday.

That supportive, accepting, genuine sense of connectedness was transported into town Thursday night and Friday morning as the camp concluded and the festival began.

“At the camp we get to

Sisters locals shine in triathlon

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Four friends from Sisters traveled to Sweet Home on Saturday, September 7, for the Best in the West Triathlon Festival, held at Foster Lake — and two of them came away as champions.

Josh Nordell and Winter Lewis, who frequently swim and bike together, each won his age division in the Olympic-distance triathlon that featured a 1,500-meter swim, a 40-kilometer (24.8 mile) bike ride and a 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) run.

Nordell described himself as “delighted” with his performance after clocking 2 hours, 17 minutes, 28 seconds in winning the 40-44 age group division.

“I just felt so darn good,”

Tate Metcalf, Ross Kennedy, Josh Nordell and Winter Lewis smile before embarking on the swim at the Best in the West Triathlon held at Foster Lake on Saturday.

PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG

he said. “It was a great day and I’m just so happy.”

Nordell placed third overall among 176 finishers.

Lewis felt pleased with

his performance as well, finishing in 2 hours, 24 minutes, 33 seconds to win the See TRIATHLON on page 24

Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Naturalist............... 8 Entertainment ..................13 Fit for Sisters ................... 23 Classifieds..................28-29 Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements................12 Obituaries ........................15 Crossword ....................... 27 Real Estate .................30-32

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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: Mr. Seymour, the planning commission chair, states in The Nugget, Wednesday, September 4, “the commission is always trying to balance (and balance is the key word here) economic development with quality of life.”

If so, why are the recent affordable houses clustered in one place rather than integrated in the community? Why is Dollar General sited right on top of a senior citizen development?

We all know why — so that these potential problem areas (see previous Nugget letters) are all out of sight of the expensive homes and their occupants (NIMBY).

The city council and the planning commission are making sure that no negatives interfere with Sisters’ high-end enterprises.

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To the Editor: In the September 4 Nugget, guest columnist Rian Schermerhorn laid out what in my opinion was an excellent response to Laura West’s August 28 letter.

It was backed by facts, and an intelligent discussion of issues.

Part of Rian’s discussion focused on the characterization of the Squad and their narcissistic use of skin color against those that call them out for their outrageous and hateful rhetoric. As we approach remembering 9/11, remember Omar’s description as “some people did something.” Coupled with Omar’s continued anti-Semitism, it reveals the extent of hate within her heart and her true character.

While much of the press continues to fawn over the Squad, I wonder if they realize there See LETTERS on page 22

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“Climate change is an existential crisis,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren declared, unveiling her plan to fight climate change in advance of CNN’s interminable townhall event on the topic with 10 Democratic presidential candidates.

The term existential crisis comes from psychology or philosophy, not environmental science. An existential crisis is when you’re overcome with panic or dread about your place in the world or your purpose in the universe. If you’re depressed and ask, “What’s it all about?” you might be having an existential crisis.

A giant asteroid barreling toward Earth is an existential threat, midlife adultery is a sign of an existential crisis.

The irony is that concern over climate change — which is a real and legitimate concern — seems more derived from an existential crisis than an existential threat.

At the CNN event, many of the Democratic candidates insisted that life on Earth was at stake. Warren said climate change is an “existential threat” that “threatens all life on this planet.” According to Sen. Bernie Sanders, “We are dealing with what the scientists call an existential threat to this planet, and we must respond aggressively; we must listen to the scientists.

That is what our plan does.”

That’s not true. Our quality of life on Earth might be threatened, but our existence isn’t. Now, of course, something can come up far short of an extinction-level event and still be really, really bad. But the idea that all life on this planet is in jeopardy if America doesn’t wean itself from fossil fuels is just hyperbole. And even if America did exactly that, there’s little reason to believe the rest of the world would follow suit.

Still, if we take them literally, not just seriously, they’re saying we’re doomed if we don’t implement some version of the Green New Deal — a sweeping, wildly expensive, hodgepodge of proposals first unveiled by Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez, that aims to eliminate carbon emissions inside of 12 years.

And yet, both Sanders and Warren (and others) are against using nuclear power to reduce carbon emissions.

It’s an odd argument.

Sanders says we must “listen to the scientists,” but there are scads of scientists who think nuclear waste storage is eminently manageable, including the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

They report that the “consensus” is that safe geological storage is entirely feasible.

More importantly, if you honestly believe that climate change is an existential threat, why would you rule out one of the only proven tools to combat it? It’s a bit like refusing to use a firehose on a burning orphanage because you’re afraid of the subsequent water damage.

All the Green New Deal proposals are sold as huge economic bonanzas, offering lavish subsidies for displaced workers, socialized medicine and other improvements to our quality of life.

And this is what I mean by the existential crisis underlying the alleged existential threat of climate change.

According to the Washington Post, in July, Saikat Chakrabarti, who then was Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, admitted that, “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.” The Post reported that, in a meeting with Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA), Chakrabarti said: “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?

Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-changethe-entire-economy thing.”

Climate change is not the hoax that some claim it is. But to the extent that it’s a crisis, people like Sanders, Cortez and Warren want to use it as an excuse to radically transform the American economy and political system along lines that have less to do with climate change and much to do with their ideological animosity to the status quo.

And when the fight against climate change conflicts with their fight for “social justice,” it’s climate change that takes a backseat. © 2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

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

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Raptor survey gets underway this month starting to appear on the nape of the bird’s head, many people mistakingly call it a golden eagle.

If you want to spend some time with bird ID experts, the opportunity to do so is coming up. Local birders involved with the East Cascades Audubon Society (ECAS), are getting together to conduct the Green Ridge Fall Raptor Survey — and they would love to see members of the public join them.

East Cascades Audubon

By Jim Anderson Correspondent

The photo accompanying this story on page 25 of a bald eagle leaving its juvenile life and slowly becoming an adult shows why that phase of the eagle’s life can cause a lot of trouble among birders: Some observers just don’t know what to call it.

It’s especially confusing before the yellow beak comes into the adult phase. Before that, it’s dark brown to black in color tones and, coupled with the white feathers just

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Mountain-bike riders started the Peterson Ridge Trail, which has evolved into a destination for riders of all types.

Seed to Table highlights PRT evolved over many years summer’s bounty Indulge in the last flavors of summer; there is nothing like the sweet burst of a sungold cherry tomato.

Two opportunities provide the summer flavors this week, Seed to Table’s Fall Harvest Dinner on Saturday, September 14, and the Sisters Farmers Market each Sunday, through the end of September.

The early fall is perhaps the most bountiful time for Central Oregon’s local food scene, and Seed to Table has had one of their best years yet. Celebrate local foods through the end of the month by joining in their dinner

and filling your fridge at the Farmers Market.

At Seed to Table Farm, warm temperatures have brought ripe fruits and veggies galore. The Fall Harvest Dinner is the true culmination of months of work. Fall is the time to truly celebrate the bounty that Central Oregon can provide.

“The ripe tomatoes are so heavy, the plants can barely hold themselves up,” said Seed to Table’s Audrey Tehan. “It is true, we have had the tomatoes nearly pull See SEED TO TABLE on page 31

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

When the community gathers on Saturday, September 21, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the expansion of the Peterson Ridge Trail System, they’ll be celebrating a grassroots effort that actually evolved over more than two decades.

As mountain-biking began to catch on in the early 1990s, an informal group of enthusiasts started building a place to ride at the south end of Sisters.

“Early ’90s, mountainbiking was booming and

everyone was, like, ‘where do we ride?’” cyclist and bike-shop owner Brad Boyd said. “And even though we’re blessed with a lot of doubletrack — Forest Service roads to ride — people want to ride single-track.”

Work parties comprised mostly of riders laid out trail starting right on the southern edge of town. In those days, irrigation canals ran through the area, which required bridges.

“We got a bunch of people together and some high school kids and had some work parties with the Forest Service and built those

bridges,” Boyd recalled.

The result was a trail configured like a “lollipop”: nine miles out-and-back with an approximately 3/4-mile loop at the top. It was a popular trail, but really only fully appreciated by mountainbikers and some hikers. The City of Sisters nearly pushed it aside to make room for its sewer treatment facility.

Boyd, who was serving on the city council at the time, advocated for retaining the trail.

Then, in the early 2000s, Sisters resident John Rahm See TRAIL on page 16

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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Song Academy touches souls

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Walking up the path to the main lodge at Camp Caldera at Blue Lake, the sound of a banjo twangs through the trees and the strumming of a guitar and a ripple of laughter waft in the breeze. A palpable sense of peace is present.

The Americana Song Academy, in its 17th year in association with the Sisters Folk Festival, provided 85 attendees with a rare mix of place, creativity, community, and, of course, music, music, music from September 3-6.

More than 20 of the artists slated to perform at the Sisters Folk Festival joined the “students” for four days of workshops, mentoring, open mic time, fellowship and jam sessions as a means to hone skills, learn new techniques, and bask in the love of songwriting and performance.

In a workshop Thursday morning by “Stand and Sway” artists Beth Wood and Ara Lee James, the session began with the circle of 25 holding hands and performing a group hum, which soon grew into spontaneous harmonies and melodies. This simple exercise seemed to symbolize what took place in the camp all week: creating a space of safety, camaraderie, open-heartedness, and learning.

Artist Dave McGraw of the duo Sway Wild said, “As far as camps and festivals go, this is sort of the center of the universe for me.”

Other campers and artists echoed that sentiment throughout the day. For Greg Troll of Portland, a retired doctor who has been to the Academy “nine or 10 times,” being stretched to perform in front of a live audience has meant the most to him.

“I think one element of song camp that gets

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underrated is the importance of doing performances. When we do performances it ups all of our games and it’s really helpful to break into performing in front of a truly empathetic audience,” he said.

Sisters resident Jack Nagel has volunteered as a kitchen helper for more than a decade just to be able to take in some of the magic of the camp.

“I do a little bit of percussion, so I sometimes join the jam sessions in the evening, and there are times when I just stop playing and marvel at the talent and energy around me,” he said.

Brad Tisdel, creative director of Sisters Folk Festival, sees the camp as a somewhat hidden, but integral, part of the organization’s outreach and impact.

“People may not understand the depth and breadth of the festival, but when you think about it, the song academy alone covers a lot of ground,” he said. “The artists come and give of themselves to adult and teenage students.

Those artists become friends of the Sisters community and there is a synergy that is created which actually continues year to year. There are many levels for people to be engaged.”

Emma Horner, a senior at Sisters High School and committed member of the Americana Project, got a few minutes of a guitar finger technique session with members of the trio The Brother Brothers and said, “It’s amazing how much you can learn in such a short time with expert musicians like these guys,” she said.

Horner was one of three current SHS students to attend the camp along with fellow seniors Sierra Henneous and Chloe Gold.

After lunch on Thursday, fifteen campers got the opportunity to perform during an open mic session and many alluded to how important, and scary, getting on stage for the first time can actually be.

One performer, who introduced himself as Greg, took the stage and said that his would be a protest song and went on to tickle the crowd with a clever tune depicting his inner battle with the expectation of “having” to write a song, but not wanting to do it. His creation, titled, “I’m not going to write a song” ended to a standing ovation.

Dennis McGregor of Sisters is deeply rooted to the Folk Festival as a graphic artist, mentor, and performer. He says that the very first Song Academy truly impacted his life — and it almost never happened.

As McGregor recalls it, he read about the Song Academy in The Nugget and dismissed it as not applying to him.

“I had been writing songs since I was a teenager and had played music professionally for over a decade, so I thought it was something you just do.”

Then he ran into Brad Tisdel, who urged him to take part in the camp, but McGregor was unswayed.

Tisdel remained persistent.

“Brad told me that only 11 people had signed up and that if they didn’t get 12 the camp wasn’t going to happen, so I finally agreed,” McGregor recalled.

Camp Caldera did not exist at the time of the first Song Academy. “The hearth building wasn’t built yet, so it was just a crude little tipi village. It was very intimate and I was very affected by it, which surprised me. It wasn’t

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that I learned that much about songwriting, but that I was inspired,” he said.

It was the fact that other campers, as well as the instructors, had made the effort to come a long way to be part of the camp that intrigued McGregor.

“I thought that if they cared that much to make that sort of effort, I should care more myself,” he said. “By the time the camp ended I was sort of lit up, and once I got home I really started writing songs.”

The results of his inspiration included winning the Sisters Folk Festival songwriting contest the following year. He has been an annual attendee at the camp where he serves as a mentor and

instructor.

“It’s something I really enjoy,” he said. “It’s bringing people together with a common interest and you celebrate the things you love.

It’s a loving place, you know.

Everywhere you go people are encouraging, non-critical and caring,” he said. “It’s sort of a model for the world — if only the world could be this way.”

Tinker Hatfield, a designer from Portland, comes to the camp as an added layer to his creative life and summed up the unique atmosphere of the camp this way: “The song camp is all about peace, love, and light; and it just happens to be music that delivers that message,” he said.

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SFF and schools have close bonds

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

The Sisters Folk Festival and the Sisters School District have a long-lasting and deeply rooted relationship that continues to deepen as the years pass.

Evidence of this friendship may have been most evident Saturday at the Fir Street venue where Sisters High School students and a whole lineup of Americana Project graduates performed on stage.

Yet, those performances only represented a bit of the story of how Sisters Folk Festival is interwoven in the schools.

Festival musicians performed at all three schools Friday: Jason Romero, a banjo maker and musician with his wife, Pharis, met with students in the high school’s guitar-building class; and nearly 20 artists taught and mentored at the Americana Song Academy at Camp Caldera during the week.

The relationship stretches far beyond the week of the festival. Since its inception in 1995, the Sisters Folk Festival organization has supported the arts (visual and performing) in schools, provided funding to help school-aged kids access the arts, spearheaded the “My Own Two Hands” project each year involving all ages in both visual and performing arts, and contributed scholarships to graduates of Sisters High School.

The result is a vibrant arts program throughout the community with young people being involved at many levels.

The East Pointers played at Sisters Elementary School on Friday afternoon, leaving students and staff dancing into the weekend. Sisters Elementary School Principal Joan Warburg in no way takes the contributions of Sisters Folk Festival to her school for granted.

“Our partnership with Sisters Folk Festival provides enhanced opportunities for our students to authentically experience the arts through the support of our visual arts

and music classes, artist in residencies, and performances

by Sisters Folk Festival artists in our schools,” she explained. “These experiences allow some of our children to dream of professions in the arts while also ensuring that all of our students are artistically and musically literate.

The elementary students in Sisters have a unique and rare opportunity to weekly experience art and music classes as a result of this collaborative effort between our schools and SFF.” And the young people have many opportunities to give back, according to Rick Johnson, choral director at Sisters’ middle and high schools and teacher of the Americana Project at Sisters High School.

“The students return from the ‘song camp’ with their eyes open to the many styles of songwriting, and they have the opportunity to give back by teaching a 30-minute lesson to the students in the Americana class,” he said.

“In this way, they begin the process of passing on the knowledge they learned from the festival headliners to their classmates.”

Students give back in other ways as well.

Brad Tisdel, creative director for SFF, said, “Seeing young people engaged through the weekend by performing, volunteering, helping set up chairs, selling raffle tickets, and helping on the recycling team all with the purpose of SFF partnering with the schools (to support and enrich programming) is a great lesson in service learning and community engagement.”

Sisters High School students were treated to three different acts that served as a great way to conclude the first week of school. They heard from The Brother Brothers, Kuinka, and Ron Artis, along with his brother Thunderstorm Artis, to top things off.

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Drew Harrison performed at Fir Street Park during Sisters Folk Festival.

Sayler, played a number of his own songs Saturday at the Fir Street Park venue, including one that he wrote while still in high school.

“It was great to come back and be a part of all of this again,” said Harrison. “When I looked out from the stage and saw so many old and new friends it just made me smile.

I feel so lucky to get to come back to such a vibrant and supportive community.”

Another SHS alum, Slater Smith (2008), also attended the song academy and has taken the reins directing the Americana Song Academy for Youth (ASAY) in association with SFF. That event is scheduled for March here in Sisters. Smith performed after Harrison along with Matt Cartmill. Other alums who shared their music Saturday included Jaimee Simundson, Raman Ellis, Elize Van der Laan, and Benji Nagel.

Koady Chaisson of The East Pointers believes strongly in bringing folk music to young people.

“At the end of the day it’s all about passing the music on to the next generation by inspiring them at a young age.

If you get them started early enough, by the time they are teenagers they have a few years of music under their belts and are on their way.

“Our festival at home in Canada generates funds for kids in our small community to have access to free fiddle lessons that anyone can take part in,” he said, “so we truly appreciate what is happening here with youth in Sisters.”

Keith Greeninger concurred, saying, “Over the years of coming here as an artist, I have been just amazed by the programs you have that honor your young people and allow them to express themselves artistically.”

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Teacher’s husband fulfills big league dreams

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Brittaney Brown, kindergarten teacher at Sisters Elementary School, got a phone call recently that felt unbelievable at first. Her husband, Seth Brown, who she married in December, phoned to tell her his dreams had come true: He was heading to Kansas City to join baseball’s major league Oakland Athletics for a series against the Royals.

At the start of the phone call Brittaney couldn’t tell what Seth was trying to tell her because he was so emotional.

“When Seth called to tell me the news, I truly thought he got injured or something terrible had happened because he was just crying on the phone and it was really hard to understand what he was saying,” she said. “Once I understood what he was telling me, a roller coaster of emotions followed.”

The couple met at LewisClark State College in Lewiston, Idaho where she was on scholarship for basketball and Seth for baseball.

After college, he was signed by the Athletics in June 2015 and began playing in the minor leagues.

Seth Brown is off to an incredible start for the Athletics.

As of September 8, Brown was batting .417 in his first 10 appearances for the Athletics, including a game last week in which he hit not just one, but two triples, tying a franchise record, against the Anaheim Angels.

Prior to moving up, Seth played for the AAA team in Las Vegas where was having a stellar season. He had hit 37 home runs in 112 games and had a batting average of .297.

After opening in Kansas City, the Athletics traveled to Yankee Stadium and Brittaney got her first real taste of what Seth’s call up to the major leagues meant for her.

“I couldn’t make it to Seth’s debut series, because it was really important to me that I was at school for the first week of the new school year,” she explained.

“So Oakland coordinated flights so that I could travel to New York City to watch the Yankees series and watch Seth play in the big leagues live for the first time.”

The trip was a real eyeopener for Brittaney.

“Seth and I are just two regular people, and starting from the first-class plane ride to the fancy hotels, to the VIP passes at Yankee Stadium — it is just a whole different world for us,” she said.

“Seth’s agent was in town and took me to a variety of tourist spots and we went to dinner with couples from the team and I truly felt like I was in a movie,” she said.

“Being able to go on the field to watch Seth take batting practice at Yankee Stadium is a memory that I will never forget.”

In stories published by the Associated Press following the game in which he hit the two triples, including driving in the go-ahead run, Seth was quoted as saying, “It’s incredible. I want to do what I can to help the team and I was able to do that tonight, so it was a dream come true for me.”

The Athletics are in a heated contest to earn a wild-card spot for the Major League playoffs, and Brown’s contributions have come at the perfect time.

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“Our principal, Joan Warburg, called a staff meeting,” she said, and as I walked into the commons of our school I saw the ENTIRE staff wearing Oakland Athletics T-shirts with ‘Brown’ on the back, and all I could do was put my face in my hands and thinking to myself, ‘We are so blessed!’.”

The Browns are savoring every moment of this time because one thing is certain about playing major league baseball: there are no guarantees it will last.

“For Seth, this is the moment he has worked his entire life for,” she said. “We both have sacrificed a lot of things for his chance in the big leagues, and we are forever grateful for the outcome of this opportunity.

“The biggest takeaway for Seth and myself from this entire experience is that dreams really can come true,” she said. “The road may look different for everyone, but with hard work, a strong support system, and resiliency, anything can happen.”

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Girls soccer takes down Madras in season opener

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The girls soccer team edged out the White Buffaloes 2-1 in their season opener on Tuesday, September 3, but fell 2-0 at home to powerhouse Marist two days later.

In Tuesday’s match-up the White Buffs got on the scoreboard first with a goal approximately 20 minutes into the game. Sisters had a missed clear on their defense and the Buffs got off a lucky shot that rang true and put them up 1-0.

Madras outplayed the Outlaws the first two quarters and held onto their onepoint advantage as the teams

entered the half.

At halftime, Coach Brian Holden told the Outlaws they needed to step up with higher pressure and be more efficient in front of the goal.

The Lady Outlaws listened and executed the changes perfectly.

Fifteen minutes into the second half, Madras was charged with a handball and Emma Lutz hit a perfect shot into the upper-left corner of the net to even the game 1-1.

Ten minutes later, the Outlaws took the lead. Oly Thorson received the ball on the right side of the field, beat her defender, and crossed the ball in front of the goal to Hollie Lewis. Lewis took a

shot inside the 18 and the ball sailed to the left side of the net for the score and a onepoint Outlaws lead.

Within the last 10 minutes of the contest, the White Buffs had a chance to tie it back up, but their shot went up and over the crossbar, and the Outlaws got the win.

Reese Harwell did a fantastic job for the Outlaws in the goal, and had a couple of key saves that kept them in the game.

Holden said, “She did a great job defending all of Madras’ free kicks and corner kicks.”

Holden was proud of the Lady Outlaws and their grit and determination to pull off

Volleyball posts win after rocky start

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaws had a rough start in their first nonleague game of the season on Tuesday, September 3, against rival Crook County, but bounced back with a sweep at Marist two days later.

Tuesday’s action found the Outlaws trailing the entire match and losing to the Cowgirls with scores of 17-25, 21-25, and 22-25.

Sisters struggled to connect and convert on the floor most of the night.

Coach Rory Rush said, “We would have moments of great play, but we were never able to find our rhythm and found ourselves on the losing end of the match.”

Greta Davis led the team with six kills, and Sophie and Sam Silva added five kills each.

After the tough and disappointing loss to Crook County, the Lady Outlaws rallied and posted three straight wins in their match against Marist Catholic.

Sisters struggled to find

their groove at the start of the first set, but settled down and relied on their strong serving to take the lead and record a 25-14 win. They went on to win the next two sets 25-21, 25-12.

Davis put down 11 kills, followed by Sam Silva with eight, and Sophie Silva with four. Ellie Rush dished out 27 assists.

The previous week, on Friday and Saturday, August 30-31, the Outlaws attended the Mt. View Tournament (16 teams), and Sisters took first place in the Silver bracket.

The Outlaws matched up against Grants Pass, South Albany and Ridgeview in pool play and finished out the morning with two wins and then a loss to a very tough Ridgeview squad.

In the afternoon they faced Pendleton and Thurston. The Outlaws defeated Pendleton 25-13, 25-17. They served very well, and recorded 12 aces as a team, which prevented the Buckaroos from running an effective offense. Sophie Silva led the team with eight kills, Davis had six, and Sam Silva

added five.

After the win over Pendleton, Sisters took on the Thurston Colts. They carried their momentum from the previous match and again started the game with strong serves. Rush served up eight in a row with four aces, to give the Outlaws an 8-0 lead.

Sisters dominated the first set with their strong serves and a quick offense that had the Colts on their heels. The Outlaws easily won the first set 25-13.

The second set was very similar, with the Outlaws dominating from the service line. Addy Myhre served nine straight with five aces to give Sisters a commanding lead. The Colts couldn’t find any sort of rhythm and the Outlaws won 25-17.

Sophie Silva had nine kills in the contest, Davis recorded seven, and Sam Silva added five.

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“Either team could have won, but I praise our team for persevering through the heat with minimal substitutions and getting the win under those conditions.”

Two days later the lightning, thunder, and rain caused a two-hour delay in the Outlaws’ game at home against Marist. Teams got through the first half, and agreed the game will count.

Marist is a private Catholic school where the majority of their players play club ball year-round, and during league they are always ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in the state.

Coach Brian Holden

decided to play a slightly different format in hopes of disrupting Marist’s tough offense. He clogged up the midfield with five players and forced Marist to go to the outside of the field.

Holden had praise for his midfield, who played organized and never gave up. He also noted the defense for their strong performance on the back line. Harwell once again did a nice job in the goal, took quite a few shots, and made some great saves.

Sisters was to play at home against Newport on Tuesday, September 10. On Thursday they will travel to Cascade.

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Sisters Naturalist

by Jim Anderson

Rachel Carson, a wonder of nature Again and again, friends and colleagues email, text, or stop me at the post office, asking, “What’s going on in the insect (or packrat, or English sparrow, or desert snake’s or lizard or butterfly or…) world?”

I can’t answer any of those many, many questions. And to make it even more interesting, Sue and I have even had phone calls from a dear friend in France who also wonders why the German government is so worried over the significant drop in their insect populations.

What is going on?

The physical proof of the change in insect populations is all too visible just from driving down the road. One very obvious thing is noticeable: there are not as many bugs splattered on my windshield at the end of the trip.

Where are they? What is happening? Why is this happening?

Maybe we should be paying more attention to what Germany is trying to do to put nature back in balance.

“We human beings need insects,” said Environment Minister Svenja Schulze.

“They deserve to be protected with their own law.”

Her “action plan for protecting insects,” announced by news agency DPA, would

provide annual funding of €100 million for the cause, including €25 million for research.

Germany would also stop covering new land with concrete for roads or home construction until 2050, and limit light emissions at night to avoid disorienting the sixlegged creatures. (Author’s note: Getting back to darker nights will not only make the natural world happier, but save a heck of a lot of money and hold down air pollution.)

Their government would set rules for “environmentally and naturally bearable application of pesticides and significant reduction of their input and that of other harmful substances into insect habitats,” according to the documents.

The plan comes at the heels of a historic victory in Bavaria. Last month, a record 1.75 million people in the prosperous south German state of Bavaria signed a petition for a referendum to “save the bees,” calling for more organic farming and green spaces and increased protection from agricultural chemicals. See anything wrong with those plans? I don’t.

All these events take me back to 1962, while I was working with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry as staff naturalist. I was headed for a high school at Park Rose when I heard the news on my Hillman Husky radio that Rachel Carson, the wonderful scientist who wrote “Silent Spring” and many other natural history books, had gone out among the stars.

It was such a shock I had to pull over to the side of the road; I couldn’t see for the tears of sadness that came to my eyes. I sat there blubbering and telling my companion, Mr. Owl, what a tragedy this was. I’d say he didn’t give a hoot, but I did.

Carson was one of my

greatest heroines — even greater than Amelia Earhart.

In her books, Carson tried to teach us human beings how to live with the nature of our world, and what the consequences would be if we didn’t.

That day, I gave the most difficult talk I ever had to give to a high school audience. Mr. Owl, my feathered friend for over 12 years and teaching companion, even sensed my dilemma and the difficult time I had sharing the news with those students that the Earth’s great champion of justice and glory was no longer with us.

At the time I had only a little idea of how much we needed her then, and how much we need her today. Our present administration wants to do away with elements of our Endangered Species Act (ESA) that impact some areas of our economy. How inconvenient!

That means that establishing protection for Franklin’s bumblebee under the ESA is nigh onto impossible. This bee has the smallest geographic range of any bumblebee species in North America. The hills of southwest Oregon and northern California are where this elusive bee calls home.

Although it has always been hard to spot, it has not been observed in its native habitat since 2006. Therefore, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal to list Franklin’s bumblebee as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Historically, Franklin’s bumblebees have been found at elevations between 540 feet to more than 7,800 feet, in a roughly 13,000-square-mile area in southwest Oregon and northern California. Their ability to survive in cold climates makes them the primary pollinators of alpine flowering plants.

The bee needs abundant

flowers throughout their May-September flight season and cavities — or holes — for breeding and sheltering. Because they are habitat generalists and there appears to be plenty of intact habitat available to them, the Forest Service determined that designating critical habitat for the Franklin’s bumblebee is not prudent.

In the discussions regarding the disappearance of Franklin’s bumblebees it is thought they are/have been likely impacted by a combination of factors including: disease, small population size, and neonicotinoid pesticides, which indicates the decline of this species since the late 1990s. And persistent threats mean this bee is at high risk of becoming extinct.

I use this example of the Franklin bumblebee as proof that something even more threatening is taking place all around us. I suggest we sit down and charge our batteries by taking the time to again consult with Rachel Carson by re-reading her book “Silent Spring.”

I was talking over the apparent dilemma of missing insects with a pal, and got around to the role of insects as irreplaceable pollinators and mentioned the importance of bumblebees, and my pal said, “Yeah! But

bumblebees can sting you!”

Yes, bumblebees can and do sting, but only in an attempt to save their home or themselves. Might I suggest that we humans also defend our homes, etc, etc.

Anyway, for most people stung by a bumblebee it was the result of trying to swat it away from the face or one of the kids. If a bumblebee invades your personal space, stand still and do nothing and it will be gone in seconds. Honest!

If you are intent on getting a bumblebee all riled up the result could be you’ll be stung. But, hey, Good People, I’ve been working with and around bumblebees most of my adult life and I have yet to be stung. I removed a nest of bumblebees from a love seat on a friend’s front porch without the aid of a bee suit and placed them in a new construction block home without getting stung.

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High Desert Museum wildlife curator to speak in Sisters

By Craig F. Eisenbeis Correspondent

Jon Nelson, from the High Desert Museum, will be the speaker at a presentation next week sponsored by the Sisters Trails Alliance (STA). Nelson is the Curator of Wildlife at the iconic Central Oregon museum. As such, he will be talking about the animal residents of the museum. The talk is the latest in the Bjarne Holm Speaker Series sponsored by STA. The STA series focuses on local outdoor recreation and natural resource issues.

Nelson is looking forward to his upcoming date with the STA. “I’d say that my goal in the work I do is to connect all kinds of people to the wildlife in our region so that they will continue to be aware of our native animals and want to conserve them,” he said.

“Presenting to the trail alliance seems like a natural extension of that work, as they also seek to connect communities to their natural surroundings. I imagine that valuing the wildlife in our area is an important component of their work as well.

“For this presentation,” Nelson said, “I am happy to talk about the wildlife collection at the museum, particularly how we work with and train the animals using integrated techniques based on operant conditioning.

Training is used to encourage animals to participate in their own care, empowering them to make choices about participation which maximizes their welfare in captivity and allows us to also enhance the educational experience for our visitors.”

The High Desert Museum is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a zoo. In fact, Nelson explained, “Most of the wildlife at the museum is not viewable to the public on exhibit, but rather is trained to participate in programs which engage and inspire people to care about wild animals and conservation of

the landscapes they depend on. I oversee the daily care, training, and public presentation of a diverse collection of animals that cannot survive in the wild and are utilized for public education.”

Most of the museum’s animal residents have been rescued after debilitating injuries or never had the opportunity to learn necessary survival skills for life in the wild.

Nelson hopes that it may be possible for one of the museum’s animal ambassadors to make a “guest appearance” at next week’s talk in Sisters.

Nelson grew up in Sandy, Oregon, and moved to Bend 10 years ago. He has a B.S. in natural resources from OSU Cascades. He began work with the museum in 2009 and has been wildlife curator since 2015. In addition to his work at the museum, he has conducted field biology work throughout the high desert, including projects with the USGS studying the impacts of lead poisoning on raptors; and he has published research on behavioral relationships between golden eagles and common ravens.

In making the announcement of Nelson’s appearance, Greg Vandehey, an STA board member and member of the Bjarne Holm Speaker Series Committee, said, “STA is very excited to welcome Jon Nelson of the High Desert Museum to our speakers series to hear his thoughts on wildlife and conservation in our local natural surroundings.”

The High Desert Museum has numerous opportunities for the public to become involved, whether through membership, volunteering, donations, or community outreach. Further information can be found at https://www. highdesertmuseum.org.

Through sponsorship of public presentations such as this one, STA is working to promote outdoor public recreation and education in Sisters Country. This next event will be held on Thursday, September 19, in

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Jon Nelson, wildlife curator at the High Desert Museum, will be speaking next week in Sisters. He is seen here with a golden eagle. the Sisters Camp Sherman Fire Station Community Hall in downtown Sisters at 301 S. Elm St. Doors will open at 6 p.m., and the formal program will begin at 7 p.m.

The program is free and open to the public, but donations would be appreciated; a $5 amount has been suggested.

Light refreshments will be served.

STA will also be selling raffle tickets for hiking,

bicycling, and equestrian gift baskets to be awarded at their upcoming Peterson Ridge Trail celebration being held on September 21 at the Village Green Park (see related story, page 3).

Five years ago, STA’s speaker series was launched by the late Bjarne Holm, for whom STA posthumously named the series in 2016.

Since its inception, the purpose of STA’s speaker series

has been to enhance outdoor public recreation opportunities in the Sisters area and to educate the public about outdoor recreation and the natural world.

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Additional information can also be found on their website at https://sisterstrails.org or follow STA on Facebook at Sisters Trails Alliance.

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The triangle between Highway 20 and Highway 126 at the east end of Sisters is part of a larger land swap.

Sisters land part of proposed swap

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Twenty-seven acres of land on the east side of Sisters would be transferred to the jurisdiction of ODOT if a proposed land swap is approved.

The swap has been discussed since 2014 between Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) and Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) by the OPRD Commission and will be addressed at their September 17-18 meeting in Brookings.

The land spans the intersection of Highways 20 and 126, including the red dirt triangle and trees beyond, as well as swaths of land to the north of 126 and south of 20. The City of Sisters’ most recent Transportation System Plan illustrates a footprint for a future roundabout construction project in the immediate vicinity of this property.

According to Bob Townsend, ODOT Region 4 area manager, the proposed roundabout “is a high

priority moving forward… It is definitely on our radar and acquiring the land ahead of funding the project is definitely beneficial.”

Townsend went on to explain that ODOT schedules their capital improvement projects in four-year cycles.

The next cycle is 2020-2024 and the roundabout is not in that plan. He estimated that it would probably be 10 years out before definite plans would be established for the project and funding allocated.

The proposed roundabout at Locust Street and East Cascade Avenue, the intersection by the elementary school, is of higher priority to enable truck traffic to use the Barclay Drive/Locust bypass around town.

Historically, State Parks was a division of ODOT when the identified properties were originally acquired. In 1989, legislation created OPRD as a separate State department.

At that time, lands to be managed by each department were divided between them.

The Creekside Campground along Whychus Creek, and

the adjacent 27 acres, came under OPRD, with the City assuming responsibility for the park. OPRD maintained ownership of the remaining land.

OPRD needs more land in the Tumalo State Park and Service Creek (in Wheeler County) areas to develop new outdoor recreation opportunities. The land in Sisters is impacted by ODOT rightsof-way and is needed by ODOT if they are to make traffic improvements to the 126/20 junction and improve egress/ingress to Highway 20 from Buckaroo Trail in the FivePine campus.

According to Chris Havel, associate director for OPRD, the proposed land swap is an action item on the September agenda in Brookings. Staff is requesting the Commission approve the exchange of fee title ownership of ORPD’s Sisters SP property for fee title to ODOT’s Tumalo and Service Creek Recreation Site property. He indicated that both his department and ODOT are in favor of the swap, which would allow all

three properties to be better utilized.

Sisters City Manager Cory Misley confirmed that any action on the 20/126 roundabout is “a long way off.” He indicated the City has a very positive ongoing relationship with ODOT, having worked successfully with them on the Cascade Avenue improvement project and the roundabout at Barclay/Highway 20.

Community Development Director Patrick Davenport is hopeful the City and ODOT can reach agreement to allow creation of pedestrian/bike paths and other improvements to the land after the right-ofway for the proposed roundabout is dedicated/reserved.

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Sparrow Club benefit swings with the stars Tickets are on sale for the ninth annual “Swinging with the Stars” event benefitting Central Oregon Sparrow Clubs and scheduled for Saturday, October 19, at The Tower Theatre in Bend.

Tickets are reserved seating and are set at $30 per person and early purchase is recommended to secure the best seats.

“Swinging with the Stars” is modeled after the popular “Dancing with the Stars” program. Featuring nine local celebrities, paired with professional dancers, each couple will dance and compete to take home the “Peopleʼs Choice Award” and the coveted Mirror Ball Trophy.

The audience decides who takes home the grand prize trophy as they cast votes for their favorite dancing couple through donating to Sparrow Clubs. Each dollar equals one vote! The event will also showcase local dance talent.

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Doors open at 5 p.m., the show starts at 6 p.m.

Tickets may be purchased by visiting The Tower Theatre website at https://tickets. towertheatre.org/events or by calling 541-317-0700.

For more information, sponsorship opportunities and how to support Sparrow Clubs, visit: www. swingingwiththestars.org, or contact Nancy Childers at 541-312-8630.

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Thor swung down his hammer over Sisters...

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Sisters Garden Club

The next meeting of the Sisters Garden Club is at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 14 at Sisters City Hall. Karen McCarthy of Madras Garden Depot will present “Ornamental Grasses.” All are welcome! For more information call 541-549-6390 or go to sistersgardenclub.com.

Seeking Poets & Poetry Fans Share your voice & the poetry you love with your community.

Participate in Tea & Poetry, presented by New Oregon Arts & Letters and Sisters Farmers Market. Email tiffany@plazm.com for information or call 503-9970301; email is preferred.

Intro to Coaching at SCC

Starting on Sunday, September 15 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Sisters Community Church will be offering a 6-week workshop with Dr. Phil Newell, DMin, ACC. Develop skills to enhance relationships and learn how to engage in active listening. $30 or $5 per session. Call 541-549-1201 for more information.

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Highlights Thursday, September 12 Debate Watch Party 4:30 to 8 p.m. at Sisters Library Saturday, September 14 Sisters Garden Club 9:30 a.m. at Sisters City Hall Saturday, September 14 Walk to End Alzheimer’s 11 a.m. at Riverbend Park, Bend

Monday, September 16 Go Fish Meeting 7 p.m. at Sisters Community Church

DLT Walk & Hike Series

Deschutes Land Trust volunteer naturalists lead free walks and hikes in small groups. Upcoming walks include: Metolius River Preserve Hike on Saturday, September 14 from 10 a.m. to Furry Friends New Hours 1 p.m.; Trees + History in the The Furry Friends office is Metolius Preserve on Wednesday, changing its hours beginning Tuesday, September 17. Visit Furry September 18 from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

Online registration is required at Friends now on Tuesdays from deschuteslandtrust.org/hikes. For 2 to 5 p.m. The Thursday hours remain the same, open 11 am. to 2 more info call 541-330-0017. p.m. Furry Friends is located in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s Sisters Art Works building, at 204 The Walk to End Alzheimer’s W. Adams Ave., Ste. 109. For more Central Oregon will take place information call 541-797-4023.

Saturday, September 14 at

Central Oregon Partnerships Riverbend Park in Bend with a for Youth Mentoring 10 a.m. registration. Opening

Central Oregon Partnerships for Youth (COPY), a program of the Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Office, prepares volunteers to become mentors for children with an incarcerated parent.

On Saturday, September 21, COPY will offer an orientation/ training class. This six-hour class covers program policies, how to establish a mentor relationship, the impact incarceration has on families, and communication skills.

There is no cost to attend, but advanced registration is required.

For additional details, please call 541-388-6651 or email COPY@ deschutes.org.

ceremony is at 10:45 a.m. with the 2-mile walk beginning at 11 a.m. Start a team, join a team, or donate at alz.org/walk. Questions?

Call 503-416-0213.

Sisters Newcomers Club

A Newcomers’ Club specific to Sisters-area new residents is starting up! Call Karee at 541-719-0050.

Presented by Indivisible Sisters on Thursday, September 12 at the Sisters Public Library conference room. 4:30 to 5 p.m. social time; debate is from 5 to 8 p.m.

Munchies provided! Debate is on ABC news for home viewing.

More info: 541-400-8312.

Go Fish Meeting

On Monday, September 16 at 7 p.m. at Sisters Community Church Phil Fisher of Sunriver will present a program on “Fly-Fishing Highway 97 through Central Oregon” Phil is an avid fly-fisherman, fly-tier, and photographer. For more information call 541-771-2211.

Free Medicare 101 Class

Three Sisters Insurance and Regence are collaborating to present the free Medicare 101 Class. Learn the basics of Medicare and what you need to consider before making your healthcare choices. Attend this free, educational workshop Thursday, September 19, at 4:30 p.m. in the Sisters Library.

Pre-registration is not necessary, all are welcome. Please contact Breeze Holman 541-549-6115 with questions or e-mail breeze@3sistersinsure.com.

One-Act Play Submissions

Silent Echo Theater Company is seeking one-act play submissions from local playwrights for possible use during the 2020 Evening of One-Acts happening in late winter. Plays should be between 10 and 20 minutes long and need to be submitted to silentechotheatercompany@ gmail.com by Monday, October 7; play selections by November 1. Directors are also wanted for the event — please email your theater experience and contact information. For more information call 541-719-8862.

Come Sing With Us!

The Sisters High Desert Chorale will begin rehearsals for Winter/ Christmas concerts on Monday, September 23. The Chorale meets each Monday night at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Hall of Transfiguration Episcopal Church. No audition is required and all ages are welcome. Winter concerts are scheduled for the first part of December 2019. For more information call Connie Gunterman at 541-588-0362.

Peterson Ridge Trail Celebration

Sisters Trails Alliance invites the community to celebrate the amazing trail system in our own backyard. The event is Saturday, September 21 at Village Green Park and features organized hikes and mountain-bike rides on the PRT, activities in the park for all trail-lovers, a little PRT history, and a free lunch. Registration required for lunch & organized rides. Info at sisterstrails.org or call 541-719-8822.

Historical Walking Tour

Join the Three Sisters Historical Society for a free walking tour down Cascade Ave. to hear the historical stories behind those false fronts. Meet in front of City Hall at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 21. For information call 415-637-7186.

Parkinson’s Support Group

The second Tuesday of each month, Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group meets at The Lodge in Sisters from 2 to 3:30 p.m. All are welcome to learn, share, and receive support. For more info contact Carol at 541668-6599.

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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)

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

World’s Children Speaker

Sisters nonprofit World’s Children is offering a speaker for your club, church group or classroom. Topics include street children in developing countries; child trafficking; and child marriage. Each talk is given with a PowerPoint presentation that explains why these issues exist in developing countries and what can be done about them. For more information call 541-904-0789 or email info@ worldschildren.org.

Support for Caregivers

A free support group for those who provide care in any capacity meets at The Lodge in Sisters at 10:30 a.m. the third Tuesday of each month. Call 541-771-3258 for additional information.

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, September 12, 19 and 26 from 10:30 to 11 a.m., with songs, rhymes and crafts, all designed to grow young readers. Caregivers must attend.

Info: 541-617-7078.

The Nonfiction Book Club

Read and discuss “City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris” by Holly Tucker with other thoughtful readers at Fika Sisters Coffeehouse on Thursday, September 12, from 1 to 2 p.m.

Info: 541-617-7078.

Retro Games

Join other kids ages 12 to 17 to play a selection of fun games, listen to retro music and enjoy a few flashback surprises on Friday, September 13 at 4 p.m. at the Sisters Library. No registration is required. Call 541617-7078 for more information.

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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.

Democratic Presidential Debate Watch Party

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Insulting the president, from Washington to Trump. On Saturday, September 14 at 3 p.m. at the Sisters Library author and professor Edwin Battistella will trace the ways in which presidents have been insulted over the centuries since the founding of the republic, selecting from more than 500 examples collected in his upcoming book, “Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels.” Battistella shows that less has changed than you might think.

Android Basics

Learn the basics of using your Android smartphone or tablet on Tuesday, September 17 at 10 a.m. at Sisters Library. Bring your fully charged device. Registration is required by calling 541312-1066 or email grahamf@ deschuteslibrary.org.

The Library Book Club

Read and discuss “The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore,” by Kim Fu, with other readers at the Sisters Library on Wednesday, September 18, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Info: 541-617-7078.

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Grand piano enlivens the desert playa at Summer Lake

Hunter Noack and his nine-foot Steinway grand piano came to Playa in Summer Lake for an outdoor concert.

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

It’s not unusual to hear music outside. Guitars and ukuleles pop up around campfires. String quartets cluster on lawns at outdoor weddings.

What’s more unusual: a classical piano concert en plein air.

A recent performance of pianist Hunter Noack and the “In a Landscape” project brought this experience to the Playa residency site in Summer Lake. Along a desert lakebed, at the foot of a stern desert mountain, Playa offered an oasis.

Audiences , comple te with kids and picnic baskets, sprawled out on lush lawns.

In front of a picturesque pond stood a flatbed truck trailer.

Upon the flatbed stood a Steinway grand piano.

Audience members were given wireless headphones.

Noack invited people to walk around the grounds and promenade alongside the vast desert playa, carrying the music with them.

He opened with Chopin’s “Grand Polonaise,” its liquid grace interplaying with the rustling of a strong breeze through trees and cattails (for those who left their headphones off). The audience was encouraged to sit by the pond during a water-inspired piece, with the music trickling and burbling. During Frederic Rzewski’s “Winnsboro Cotton

Mill Blues,” Noack invited folks to stretch out underneath the piano.

Noack is from Central Oregon. He grew up in Sunriver, though he went away to attend boarding school at Interlochen Arts Academy. At home, he said, “I would go fly-fishing with my dad, duck-hunting; we did most of our hunting and fishing along the Deschutes and in the Cascades.”

He spent eight years living in cities including London, where he earned his master’s degree at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Noack said, “When I came back to Oregon, I wasn’t planning on staying. I was only here waiting for my visa to go back to England.”

Instead, “I fell back in love with Oregon and these landscapes.” Now based in Portland, Noack enjoys traveling the whole state for performances. “I still hunt and fish, and try to get out as much as I can.”

Noack played fluidly, selecting compositions that ranged the whole keyboard and showcased his nimble fingers and responsive instrument. Halfway through the evening, guest vocalist Katie Harman Ebner from Klamath Falls animated the stage with song. In a friendly way, she contextualized each piece, educating the roving listeners and rapt picnickers alike.

She started with an intriguing piece by Amy Beach, the acclaimed early American composer and pianist. Next, Debussy’s “C’est l’extase” rolled sensually over the undulating grasses. Ebner’s set closed with the dramatic “Les chemins de l’amour”

by Poulenc, punctuated by wild geese flying close, as though choreographed into the performance.

Headphones were necessary to hear vocals and announcements, but optional for the piano alone. “When I first started, I wasn’t sure about the technology; I thought it was maybe gimmicky or something,” Noack said. He has grown to appreciate the sense of intimacy they can bring.

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Eagle Creek Trail to reopen PORTLAND (AP) — Two years after a fire consumed trails and forests in the scenic Columbia River Gorge, the popular Eagle Creek Trail is in the final phases of reopening to the public.

The 13-mile (21-kilometer) trail could open as early as this fall or as late as next summer, depending on weather and assessments from forest officials, Stan Hinatsu, recreation staff officer with the U.S. Forest Service in the Columbia Gorge, told The Oregonian.

Crews still need to install replacements for two bridges that were destroyed in the fire, and those materials could be airlifted to the trail in late September. Once that’s complete, officials will need to determine whether to open the trail right away or wait until weather improves next summer, Hinatsu said.

“Do we think it will be ready to open then? That’s something we’ll have to sort through and make a call,”

he said. “There’s no guarantee that it will actually open when the bridges are installed.”

The region is known for seasonal landslides and rockfalls, which means the trail work already completed could be damaged by a particularly wet season. If officials don’t feel comfortable opening the trail this fall, it could be opened next spring or summer, depending on if the winter weather caused any damage.

The hiking trail is known for its views of several waterfalls, including Punchbowl Falls and Tunnel Falls.

The fire that forced the trail closure started on Sept.

2, 2017, after a teenager tossed fireworks into a canyon along the trial. The boy was eventually ordered by the court to pay over $36 million in restitution and to work more than 1,900 hours of community service. He also was ordered to serve five years of probation.

The trail is now a mosaic of severe burns and untouched forest, Roberta Cobb, a crew lead with the Pacific Crest Trail Association, said. Cobb has been working with the Forest Service on restoring the trail.

“The biggest thing that everyone should know is that it is lush regrowth happening,” Cobb said. “There’s still a lot of green trees, there’s a lot of ferns coming back, and there’s a lot of spots that haven’t been touched at all.”

Of course, there are plenty of burned trees as well, she said. Though it can be disheartening to see the charred trunks, the fresh growth is a sign that the forest is recovering, Cobb said.

“I would say that it’s a lot more hopeful than it used to be,” she said. “Some of the trails are in better shape now than they were before the fire, just because we’ve had a chance to get in there and work on them.”

Electronic court records in Sisters The Deschutes County Access to Justice Committee, Deschutes Public Library, and Oregon Judicial Department are extending their pilot project allowing access to electronic state court records to Sisters Library. The Oregon Judicial Case Information Network (OJCIN) is now available at Redmond, La Pine, Sisters and Sunriver libraries.

The pilot project, which launched at Redmond Library in March, makes OJCIN accessible for free on public Internet computers. OJCIN OnLine includes the Oregon eCourt Case Information

Network (OECI). It is a valuable resource for court case information from all 36 of Oregon’s circuit courts, the Oregon Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and Tax Court. It allows people to search for civil, small claims, tax, domestic and criminal (including misdemeanor and felony) cases.

“While there are sound legal and policy reasons for not publishing case file documents directly to the Internet, in a large, rural county such as Deschutes County, it makes sense for people with a need for this information to have access closer to home,

rather than having to drive 30 miles or more to get to the county courthouse in Bend,” said Jeff Hall, trial court administrator for the Deschutes County Circuit Court.

Case file documents are available electronically for most cases filed after January 1, 2015. Documents can be printed through the library’s print system, but certified copies can only be acquired at the courthouse. Some cases are confidential and protected statutorily and therefore not available to the public, including juvenile cases and protective orders.

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Sisters Kiwanis set up a feeding station for Cycle Oregon riders who swung by Sisters on Monday.

Boys soccer falls in season opener

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws opened their pre-league season with an 8-1 loss to Madras on Tuesday, September 3.

The White Buffaloes are a highly skilled team with depth, skill, and speed, and the young Outlaw squad had a rough time keeping up.

Sisters scored their lone goal midway through the second half when Aidan Eckert won the ball in the midfield and had a great through-ball to a speedy Ricky Huffman, who’s shot rang true.

Coach Jeff Husmann noted that although Sisters suffered the loss there were many positives for the young Outlaws.

“Commendable performances include Connor Martin and Nathaniel Alvarez

splitting the goal-keeping duties,” said Husmann. Ethan Eckert had a very solid game as the holding midfielder, and Nate Pittman played a solid game and is gaining more confidence in his defending duties. Simon Rhett had an excellent performance as central defender.”

The Outlaws are a young team, with only one senior, and Coach Husmann has been impressed with the work ethic and positive outlook the team brings.

Two days later Sisters was scheduled to play Marist but the contest was canceled due to weather, and has not been rescheduled.

Sisters was to play Newport at home on Tuesday, September 10. They will travel to Cascade on Thursday.

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Obituaries

Chad J. Hurtley

July 25, 1970 — September 2, 2019

Oregon cowboy Chad J. Hurtley passed from this life to the next life on September 2 in Redmond, following a search and recovery operation managed by Deschutes County Sheriff and Search and Rescue. He was 49 years old.

Chad was born in Junction City, moving with his family to the Sisters area in 1973, where his parents ranched, bred, trained and showed horses. Chad, with his older brother, Shawn, spent their days in the shadow of the Cascade mountains where he loved to take photographs and in later life share cracking coffee time with Facebook friends. Chad finished school at Redmond High School, where he had excelled in high

school rodeo until an accident that forced him to no longer move toward a professional rodeo life. On July 27, 1991 he married Arlene (Shorty) Cassell at the Sisters Park. He was the father of two girls, Rylee (21) and Dally (18), whom he adored. He worked as a carpenter for local construction companies and for a time transported horses across the country for people moving to new locations. His love was horse-training and ranching on Hurtley Ranch Road. He loved to ride in the Three Creek area and enjoyed horse-packing with friends.

He had an amazing sense of direction and once helped someone out of Mt. Bachelor after spending the night in a snow tree well. He worked the bucking chutes for a number of years at the Sisters Rodeo. He was kind, respectful, loyal to his friends and family, wore a cowboy hat, jeans and boots and a championship buckle he won in La Pine High School Rodeo in 1988. Recently Chad had attended First Presbyterian Church in Bend, but he had grown up at the Sisters Church of Christ where his mother — Judy Hurtley — had worshiped until her death in 1997.

Chad is survived by his daughters, Rylee and Dally of Sisters; his former wife, Arlene (Shorty) (Alan) Haugen; brother Shawn Hurtley (Michelle) of Marco Island, Florida; his father, David Hurtley (Carol) of Yuma, Arizona; an aunt, Jane (Jerry) Kirkpatrick of Bend; uncle, Craig (Barbara) of Redwing, Minnesota; and nephews Joshua (Rebecca) Hurtley, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; niece Sarah (Justin) Robinson, Longview, Texas; nephews Jacob (Laurell) Hurtley, WrightPatterson AFB, Ohio; Josiah Hurtley, Goodfellow AFB, Texas; Jonathan Hurtley, Marco Island, Florida; cousins Matt (Melissa) Kirkpatrick, Wasco, Oregon; Kathleen (Joe) Larsen, Deland, Florida; Cohlman (Katie) Rutschow, St. Paul, Minnesota; Clayton (Dani) Rutschow, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and many friends, especially Lisa Marie Gilbo of Redmond who helped him recover from a serious horse accident in 2017.

“If there’s one thing in this life that you should always have, it’s forgiveness. I forgive you dad for your mistakes, and I wish you knew that before. I know

you were putting yourself back together, I wish I knew how far you had come. I wish you’d given me more of a chance to reconnect with you.

I’m so angry that you left us behind. You’ve gone through so many hard things in your life. I wish you didn’t give up.

“But, thank you for teaching me to be strong; strong with horses and strong in the mountains. I wish we could go on just one more long camping trip. These next few months are going to be the hardest months of my life, but at least I know you get to be with your mama, Judy, and you’ll be my guardian angel.

Ride high, daddio. 7/25/1970 - 9/2/2019” — By Dally Hurtley He is predeceased by grandparents Chuck and Pearl Rutschow; and his mother, Judy Hurtley.

A Celebration of Chad’s Life will be held on September 21, at the Sisters Rodeo Grounds, at 1:30 p.m. Niswonger-Reynolds is handling affairs. Visit their website at www.niswongerreynolds.com to leave condolences and memories for the family.

Contributions can be made to www.deschutes searchandrescue.org.

Michael (Mickey) Julian Pearson

April 7, 1956 — August 29, 2019

To try to describe Mickey Pearson in an obituary does nothing to edify this extraordinary man.

He was a lover of business, music, hunting, fishing and of life. But mostly a generous lover of people.

To best honor this man we ask that you come and please share your story of Mick with us that cannot be described on paper.

We know you have a story.

Everyone does.

Celebration of Life will be September 28, at 2 p.m., at 22515 Bear Creek Rd., Bend.

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Norma Holmes will describe the 13-year evolution of her book “Land Escapes: A Painted Journey On Oregon’s East Side” on September 20.

Holmes to describe painting project at talk Noted Sisters-area artist Norma Holmes will describe the creation of her book “Land Escapes: A Painted Journey On Oregon’s East Side” in a presentation at Paulina Springs Books on Friday, September 20, at 6:30 p.m.

The creation of the book evolved over a period of 13 years, Holmes told The Nugget.

“I was doing a lot of painting and traveling on the east side,” she told The Nugget.

“I was sitting on Steens Mountain looking at Basque Meadow and this idea came to me: People need to see this.”

The display-quality book is perfect for the coffeetable — but Holmes hopes it gets more direct use.

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“My idea was that people would take this and travel with it.”

Land Escapes is conceived to be an exquisite travel guide to the natural and cultural landmarks of Oregon’s eastern regions. Many of the sites will be familiar to folks in Central Oregon.

Holmes paints on-site.

“Every painting starts with a pencil rendering and notes,” she said.

In her presentation at Paulina Springs Books, she will offer insight into her work process and how the book came to be. She’ll also read from the book and offer some stories about the landscapes depicted and answer questions from attendees.

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turned a passion for mountain-biking loose on what would eventually become a major expansion of the trail.

“I just got really excited about mountain-biking,” Rahm said. “Once I got a really good bike, I was out there all the time. The trailhead is 300 yards from my house and I just noticed that there were some problems.”

Portions of the trail got very sandy and difficult to navigate, especially in the dry summer months. Rahm found a solution in bentonite clay, which firms the soil, and he and other cyclists added the clay to the trail.

Rahm and other riders saw greater potential in the trail.

“What we really need is a trail going out and a trail going back,” he thought. “I eventually put in a proposal to the Forest Service — really just kind of an informal thing.”

It took a few years to gain traction, but then-Sisters Ranger District Ranger Bill Anthony, himself an avid cyclist, got behind the project. The community raised the thousands of dollars

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required to do an environmental analysis, flagged the proposed route and organized to get the work on the ground done.

In a remarkable community effort, community members from across Central Oregon built and improved 20 miles of trail in 20 months, completing a major expansion in December 2009.

The trail is regarded as “fast and flowy,” and a fun ride for a wide range of cyclists. A beginner can have a good time and want to come back. An expert can have a good time and want to come back.

The accessibility of the trail from downtown Sisters and the views from the top add to the attraction.

“It’s a destination trail,” Rahm said. “People come here just for that. I think it’s the primary recreational amenity that the city has.”

Sisters Trails Alliance (STA), which coalesced in part around the creation of the trail, maintains the trail and has created maps for riding, hiking, and equestrian users.

S TA h a s p l a n n e d a series of hikes, rides and other activities to celebrate the trail on September 21.

Registration is open until the activities are filled. For more information, visit http:// www.sisterstrails.org.

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SALEM (AP) — Authorities say the body of a 21-year-old man has been recovered on Mount Jefferson more than three years after he was reported missing.

T h e M ari o n C o u n t y Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that Riley Zickel was reported missing on July 30, 2016, after not returning from the Mount Jefferson Wilderness Area where he had been on an overnight hike.

At the time, the sheriff’s office says hundreds of people covered over 350 miles (560 kilometers) searching for him.

About three weeks ago the sheriff’s office was contacted by climbers who believed they had located Zickel’s body in a glacial area above Jefferson Park.

The sheriff’s office says the area is extremely steep with loose rocks and rock avalanches.

County Search and Rescue, Corvallis Mountain Rescue, the Civil Air Patrol, and the United States Forest Service planned the recovery mission, which happened Tuesday.

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Oregon death is second linked to vaping

By Gillian Flaccus Associated Press

PORTLAND (AP) — Public health officials in Oregon said Wednesday, September 4, that a person who recently died of a severe respiratory illness had used an electronic cigarette containing marijuana oil from a legal dispensary, the second death linked to vaping nationwide and the first tied to a vaping product bought at a pot shop.

Officials have not determined what sickened the middle-aged adult, whether the product was contaminated or whether they may have added something to the liquid in the device after buying it, said Dr. Ann Thomas with the Oregon Health Authority.

Thomas declined to name the brand of the product or the dispensary during the investigation and said it’s the only case of vaping-related illness or death in Oregon that authorities know about.

“Our investigation has not yielded exactly what it is in this product,” Thomas said.

“At this point, some of the other states have more data than us.”

As of last week, 215 possible cases of severe lung disease associated with the use of e-cigarettes had been reported by 25 states, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The battery-powered vaping devices can be used to inhale a flavored nicotine solution or a solution infused with marijuana oil.

Illinois officials on Friday reported what they consider the first death in the nation linked to vaping after the person contracted a serious lung

disease. They didn’t say if the e-cigarette contained marijuana oil or just nicotine.

Health officials in some states have said a number of people who got sick had vaped products containing THC, the compound that gives marijuana its high.

That’s a critical distinction in the Oregon case, according to the American Vaping Association, which has blamed the recent spate of lung illnesses on illegal vape pens that contain THC. Wisconsin public health officials said late last month that 89% of the people they interviewed who became sick reported using e-cigarettes or other vaping devices to inhale THC. In New York state, 32 cases of vaping-related illness have been reported, with a “vast majority” involving people who vape illicit marijuana. None has involved medical marijuana products sold in compliance with state law.

New York officials are focusing their investigation on an additive used in blackmarket vape oils made from vitamin E. A state health department spokeswoman

said a lab has found “high levels” of vitamin E acetate in “nearly all” the marijuana samples involved.

Officials cautioned, however, that there have been respiratory illnesses diagnosed where the vaping product did not contain marijuana.

“It’s kind of scary and it’s hard to believe that any vaping is really safe at this point,” said Thomas, the Oregon doctor.

In Oregon, where marijuana is broadly legal for adults 21 and older, dispensaries can’t sell products that have not been tested by stateaccredited labs.

Mark Pettinger, spokesman for the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which oversees Oregon’s legal marijuana industry, said the investigation was in its early stages, but if it turns out the THC oil was implicated, his agency can track the product back to its origin and review all the testing results.

In general, all marijuana intended for sale at a legal dispensary is tested for pesticides and potency, as well as for solvents, if the product is not dried marijuana flower.

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Oregon said he will introduce legislation next week that would tax e-cigarettes in the same way as traditional cigarettes to reduce the appeal to teenagers who are increasingly taking up the popular smoking alternative.

“The products are highly addictive. They’re subject to minimal safety standards and oversights, exposing users to dangerous chemicals ... and they are getting into the hands of more and more young people,” Wyden said.

The American Vaping Association said in a statement that vaping products are “far less harmful than smoking” and have helped people break their addiction to traditional cigarettes.

“Making vaping products more expensive has not been shown to reduce experimentation by youth and will only lead to more adults continuing to smoke deadly combustible cigarettes,” association president Gregory Conley said in an email.

Health experts say nicotine is harmful to developing brains. Researchers worry that addicted teens will eventually switch from vaping to smoking.

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“Miles is one of the musical legends of the past century,” said Drew Kaza of Sisters Movie House. “We’re extremely excited to bring this to Sisters as yet another Central Oregon exclusive. It’s the perfect event to kick off the fall season.”

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Create gardens accessible to all

By Kym Pokorny Oregon State University Extension Service

CORVALLIS — Gardening is one of the more therapeutic things a person can do — emotionally, mentally and physically — but for some it seems out of reach.

Good design and practices can make gardening accessible for everyone.

“We all have challenges if we live long enough,” said Corinne Thomas-Kersting, a retired speech-language pathologist and five-year Oregon State University Extension Service Master Gardener.

“We have different challenges.

Even when you’re young and healthy there are things to do to prevent future disabilities.”

Thomas-Kersting advocates “universal” garden design — planning the landscape so that anyone can access and enjoy it.

“It is my deeply held belief that we don’t need to label people as having a disability versus being ‘normal,’” she said. “Using universal design benefits us all.”

There is no one formula for designing a universal garden. Being aware of ADA measurements for pathways, using raised beds and appropriate tools are good starting points, but Thomas-Kersting said there are many ways to invite anyone into the garden and protect the gardener from injury or future problems.

For instance, a garden can be designed for a person with a visual impairment with water features, fragrant plants, ornamental grasses that make a gentle sound as they blow in the wind and bright, contrasting colors.

“For me, I really love to touch things,” she said. “I’m gently touching things when I’m in another garden. Think about texture – smooth, fuzzy, lacy, sharp. Variety and diversity in the garden and mindfulness in how it’s designed opens up the opportunity for more people to enjoy it. And you enjoy it, as well.”

In her own garden,

Thomas-Kersting redid some steps into a ramp. Not only does it allow people in wheelchairs to traverse the path, but it makes it easier to move the wheelbarrow from one area of the garden to another. And, she says, it looks better with a sloping, continuous path rather than the steps.

Stretching, resting and using the correct tools top the list of approaches to avoid injuries and mitigate disabilities of everything from mobility limitations to medical challenges such as arthritis. Have benches and chairs sprinkled throughout the garden as places to rest. Keep water around to sip while you sit. Stretch or walk a bit before and after time in the garden.

Ergonomic tools are available in a variety of prices.

Look for curved handles and indentations for fingers on smaller tools or modify yours by wrapping them with water pipe insulation, bicycle handles or tape used to wrap golf clubs. Check that handles on larger equipment are long enough so you can keep your back straight. Tools shouldn’t be too heavy. Choose those made from aluminum, which is lighter than steel. Sometimes, lightweight children’s tools will do the job.

There’s much more you can do. Here are some tips to increase the ease of gardening: Buy a kneeler with handles that will help you get up.

Some versions can be turned over and used as a seat.

Sit on a bucket or seat made for gardening.

Use major muscles and keep your back straight.

Start small. Biting off more than you can handle means more work and more chance of overdoing it.

Keep pruners and equipment sharp and clean. With pruners, use a sheath to protect yourself from accidentally sitting or kneeling on them.

Build raised beds or tables out of wood, concrete blocks or thick pavers. Make them 3 to 4 feet wide so you can easily reach into the middle. Height

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Provide benches in the garden or next to it. Take breaks to avoid fatigue and enjoy the beauty.

Move the garden to you by planting in containers or window boxes. Containers are easier to weed and water than gardens in the ground. They also take much less work to fill with soil than adding compost to in-ground gardens.

Containers with wheels are easy to move around.

Make beds narrow enough so that you can get to the center when sitting or kneeling.

Keep tools, hoses, wheelbarrows and other equipment put away so that there’s no chance of tripping over them.

Use a light or expanding hose.

Make paths easy to navigate without having to show people where to go.

Design wider paths with places to turn around. This works for wheelbarrows as well as mobility devices.

Instead of steps use gradually sloping paths.

Keep tools and equipment close to the garden. If possible, move or build sheds adjacent to the garden.

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The California quail [Callipepla californica], also known as the valley quail, inhabit thick brush and sagebrush areas throughout Central Oregon.

The topknot or plume, made of six feathers, is black in males and brown in females. Nesting in late spring, the female scratches out a depression under a bush and lays 12 to 16 cream-and-browncolored eggs. Incubation takes 20-22 days. When the

chicks hatch they are off and running, eating seeds and bugs.

In winter, California quail live in coveys that can be as many as 200 birds.

The males will act as sentinels and often crow from brush piles or fence posts.

When quails form coveys, they are referred to as a “battery,” “shake,” “flush,” “drift,” or a “rout” of quails.

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Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) reports the civil suit was filed in U.S. District Court of Oregon by Ryan Payne, Shawna Cox and others who were associated with the Bundy family’s 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

They claimed that FBI agents, Oregon State Police and other officials violated their civil rights by using excessive force and “ambushing” them on the day Finicum was shot and killed.

Chief District Court Judge Michael Mosman dismissed all counts in the lawsuit Friday, saying “It’s time to put a fork in this case.”

The lawsuit was filed in January 2018.

Many of the original defendants in the case, including FBI agent W. Joseph Astarita and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, had already been dismissed over the course of nearly two years of litigation.

in which the patron sought to purchase several specific cards, made inquiries and dissuaded the patron from making the purchase.

Phone scams requesting the purchase of gift cards are common. According to the Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information website: “the caller will often tell you to go buy a popular gift card, frequently, iTunes, Google Play, or Amazon.

The caller will tell you to get the card at a particular store near you — often Walmart, Target, Walgreens, or CVS. They may even have you buy several cards at several stores. Sometimes, the caller will stay on the phone with you while you go to the store.

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Flor de Toloache, an all-female mariachi band from New York, wow the crowd with stylings that took off from the Mexican tradition to incorporate everything from a touch of Motown to “reggaeachi.”

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— and backgrounds, the shared experience at the Sisters Folk Festival seemed to draw everyone involved closer together.

Friday evening Pharis Romero, from northern British Columbia, expressed her appreciation for the experience she and her husband, Jason, were having while playing at The Open Door.

“I feel like I’ve died and gone to folk heaven,” she said.

“The sense of community is what causes artists to want to return and why we have so many ticket-holders and sponsors coming back year after year,” said SFF Creative Director Brad Tisdel.

Much of Tisdel’s work as creative director for SFF is focused at bringing the community together.

“I view the Sisters Folk Festival as a model of economic development, community engagement, schools partnership, and communitybuilding through music that is unique and dynamic. I see how it helps folks to feel they are contributing and engaged in something bigger than themselves,” he said.

Martyn Joseph, who has played in Sisters a number of times, put it this way: “If Oregon is a cathedral, then Sisters is a chapel on the hill.” He added, “Coming to Sisters is like revisiting, remembering and rediscovering true America. The great thing about all this (the festival) is that it reminds us of the greater good and the bigger picture.”

After her final performance Sunday, Wood described how the SFF is different than most festivals in that the audiences come not just to listen, but to actively take part.

“The active engagement from the audience creates a circular, reciprocal communication between the audience and the artist, which forms that connectedness that makes the Sisters Folk Festival special,” she explained.

Susan Gibson reflected on the week before the final song Sunday morning and thanked those who had come “from far away and also those from right down the street” and urged everyone to remember what had been shared over the three days.

She told the audience that “the artists come to see you, not the other way around” underlining the mutual interplay between performers and listeners.

Many artists touched on the notion that there has never been a more important time than now to foster community, not just in Sisters, but everywhere we go. Beth Wood pointed to this year’s poster by Dennis McGregor and alluded to the ripples that come off the canoe as being “like the ripples of the magic and connectedness that were experienced that can be taken out into the world as everyone goes back to their regular lives.”

Mandy Fer of Sway Wild said, “This week has been such a wonderful reminder about the power of music and human connection.”

Keith Greeninger, known for his thought-provoking lyrics and concern for others, closed things out for the morning with a song he actually wrote as a teenager that comes from the perspective of a homeless man.

In an interview afterwards he said, “We can talk all we want about community, but let’s not leave anybody out.”

He added, “Sisters has such a magical community and it’s so strong. You all treat each other so well and treat your youth so well. I find that the whole way Sisters and the folk festival are doing things just radiates out into your community.”

lake are made up of a glacial moraine composed of rock and gravel, which is not conducive to the digging of waste disposal “cat holes” or to the organic decomposition of the waste.

“Day hikers are not affected,” said Nelson-Dean, “but everyone needs to adhere to appropriate backcountry behavior.”

Inappropriate user behavior has been an increasing problem in local wilderness areas, as evidenced by sweeping new wilderness trail restrictions slated to be imposed on a wildernesswide basis next year. The No Name Lake area is one of the many areas slated to require limited-entry fee permits starting next year.

The term “No Name

Lake” is actually something of a misnomer. Although the lake has no officially designated name, it actually has several names. Some have referred to it as Bend Glacier Lake; it sits beneath the snout of Bend Glacier on Broken Top. Others refer to it as Broken Top Lake, and it’s also been called Iceberg Tarn.

Day hikers are not affected, but everyone needs to adhere to appropriate backcountry behavior.

— Jean Nelson-Dean The character of the lake is such that the glacial meltwater escapes through a deep gash in the relatively “fresh” moraine that Bend glacier pushed up in the not-too-distant geologic past.

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Rough road to No Name Lake

By Craig Eisenbeis Correspondent

I always thought No Name Lake was not very well known. In fact, it didn’t even come to my attention until about 12 years ago, when I spotted it from the slopes of Broken Hand. I noticed a picturesque little lake at the snout of a small glacier on the east side of Broken Top. I decided that it merited a visit and resolved to investigate.

As it turned out, the trail to the lake is a pretty easy hike; but getting to the trailhead is another issue altogether. The trail can be accessed from either the north or south on the 370 road, which runs from the vicinity of Three Creek Lake all the way to Century Drive.

Although the lake itself is not in the Sisters Ranger District, we started from the Three Creek end, which is. Sisters District Ranger, Ian Reid, said “That is a maintenance-level 2 road for high-clearance vehicles only.” At about the six-mile point, a roadside sign belatedly announced, “Not maintained for passenger cars.”

No kidding.

After another 5.5 miles of punishing 4x4-only road and turning onto the 380 road, we arrived at the Broken Top Trailhead and discovered a nice, and surprisingly crowded, parking lot. We learned that all the other cars had come in from Century Drive, and I began to wonder if the 50-mile route through Bend might have been a better choice. I was told, however, that the road in from the south was “really awful,” too.

The Broken Top Trailhead is an alternate route to enter the Green Lakes Basin from the east. The trail takes off over the open alpine country, with spectacular views of Broken Top and the surrounding countryside. The trail is well worn and easy to follow.

It’s only a couple of miles; and, as the trail approaches the lake, there is more than one track. Generally, it is better to stick to the higher ground to avoid damaging fragile habitat that is only exposed to the sun for a few short weeks in the summer.

Therein lies another

problem with the current hiker assault on the area.

According to Jean NelsonDean, public affairs officer for the Deschutes National Forest, a sensitive plant species grows in the area.

“Newberry knotweed is a perennial plant that only grows at higher elevations, and we’re seeing some damage to the plants,” she said.

Despite the suspicious sound of its name, NelsonDean says it’s a “good” plant and an important feature of this high mountain habitat. It is a low-growing herb with oval, pointy leaves that are yellowish, pale green. Its small flowers can be yellow, green or purple tinted. Stems have a reddish appearance.

The lake itself is not visible from any point along the trail; so, it is necessary to follow the gash in the moraine up a rocky path to reach the lake. The eye-popping view from the lake’s outlet up to Broken Top is totally unexpected and is reminiscent of the view from Moraine Lake in Canada’s Banff National Park. Yes, there are fewer peaks here and the scale is smaller, but you’re also a lot closer. This is a top-notch Oregon viewpoint, right here in our own backyard.

The fragment of Bend Glacier terminates right in the glacial silt-colored lake, and ice breaks off into the water, creating a continually changing variety of floes. Typically, fresh glacier ice can be seen floating on the lake throughout the summer, which it will continue to do until the lake freezes up again in a few weeks. A trail around the east side of the lake ascends a ridge to the north.

Once atop the 8,300 foothigh ridge above the lake, views unfold endlessly. With Park Meadow and the eastern headwaters of Whychus Creek far below in the near foreground, Cascade views stretch out for hundreds of miles. We took a slightly different route back by skirting the outer edge of the moraine rather than retracing our route through the lake’s outlet. Round trip, including the ridgetop, this hike is only about six miles.

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This road warning sign on the way to No Name Lake should be taken seriously.

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are other new representatives in Congress. I can think of 3 who served honorably in our military and are Purple Heart recipients as well: • Jim Baird, Republican from Indiana, lost his left arm in Vietnam.

• Brian Mast, Republican from Florida, lost both legs in Afghanistan.

• Dan Crenshaw, Republican from Texas, lost his right eye in Afghanistan.

Jim Baird, oldest of the three for example, has an amazing record easily searched on Google. The contrast in experience and character from those in the Squad is telling. It highlights the extreme left bias in press coverage of those representing American values and best suited for determining America’s future direction.

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To the Editor: The planning commission and the city council are all volunteer positions. I want to thank them for their service. The city has a paid planning staff that basically controls what happens in Sisters. They advise and sometimes dictate to the planning commission and city council as to what they will do. A classic example is the McKenzie Meadows/Village at Cold Springs decision.

It is time for the city manager, the paid planning staff, the planning commission and city council to take responsibility and make decisions that are in the best interest of the citizens and local businesses in Sisters. It is time for them to address the proposed Dollar General Store! Is building the Dollar General store right next door to Bi-Mart in the best interest of Bi-Mart? I do not think so! Bi-Mart has been in Sisters over 10 years, and the employees that are also owners live in the area. Bi-Mart supports local nonprofits, they put up posters to support events, they donate food to the Sisters Food Bank and much more.

Dollar General is a very large, 15,000 stores, over $4 billion in annual sales and growing. They have thousands of employees. This company has no connection to Sisters. They are only interested in selling and making money. Have they talked to anybody about community support? Do we need a large corporate box-type store in Sisters? Are they using any local contractors or bringing in out-ofstate workers? That is not supporting business in Sisters! We have the contractors and people to do this project.

Is it in the best interest of the citizens that will have to fight more traffic? Remember, the city has approved the additional traffic from the 500-plus Hayden homes, the 40-plus units from Housing Works, all the new Habitat homes and high school traffic. Look at the mess of trying to enter the roundabout now. This will be a serious problem Remember “BUY LOCAL.” The Dollar General is not buying local. All the profits will go back to corporate in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. Do we really need Dollar General? I don’t think so.

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To the Editor: Hooray, hoping to get a Dollar General in Sisters, I think it would be a boon for all.

I am sure they wouldn’t be a deterrent for Bi-Mart; but it would be wonderful to have another place to shop that isn’t so expensive! AND rumor has it Winco is coming to Bend, another boon!

We both are born and raised in Bend/Sisters, as well as siblings, kids, cousins. We live close to Sisters and shop frequently in the community; so not transplants wanting more! Enjoy.

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To the Editor: Rian Schermerhorn’s September 4 editorial in The Nugget “Truth or narratives?” urges us to stop using false narratives and that to do so is

irresponsible and adds to the growing divisiveness throughout the country. Rian encourages us to seek the truth and do the research with an objective mind.

As an example Mr. Schermerhorn uses to make his point, he refers to Laura West’s excellent August 28 letter to the editor. In it Ms. West wrote about Trump’s “denigration of Mexican immigrants as rapists.” Mr. Schermerhorn believes it’s a false narrative because Ms. West left out the part where Trump said: “Most are honest, hardworking people just looking for a better life.” Although maybe she left that out because he never actually said it. He did say, “Some, I assume, are good people.” (Ms. West also didn’t mention Trump’s comment, “These aren’t people. These are animals,” which, of course, Rian also left out of the narrative.)

Mr. Schermerhorn continues to pick and choose the narrative to fit his views. He cites crime statistics on immigration from The Texas Department of Public Safety in order to prove Trump was right (and therefore not a racist?) when he said “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” Mr. Schermerhorn, in all his research and with his objective mind, must not have seen the article titled, “Is the Texas DPS Skewing its Border Security Stats - Again?” Or the article “For the Last Time, Here’s the Real Link Between Immigration and Crime” showing that where immigration grew violent crimes decreased, and another study that found of the 10 cities that received the most refugees in the last 10 years there were significant drops in crime.

Trump is a racist, Mr. Schermerhorn. Your attempt to justify and normalize Trump’s vile comments and truly vicious actions against people of color and anyone who disagrees with him is irresponsible. You seem to have fallen for the radical far-right’s agenda, particularly Fox News. I suggest you take your own advice when searching for the truth because in your own words: “it helps no one to simply spew rhetoric and false narratives.”

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Sisters Andrew Loscutoff Columnist

E-bikes: A good fitness tool Electric-assisted bicycles are new to the American market after being popularized in Europe in the last five to 10 years. When someone hears electric-assisted bicycle it may conjure up a lot of misconceptions. Many “biomechanic” cyclists disdain the idea of someone “cheating” with an electric motor.

Perhaps the John Muirs of the world dislike nature and tranquility being disturbed by buzzing electric motors.

However, from a health and fitness perspective, an e-bike may be appropriate as a tool.

The biggest myth of e-bikes is that a person with no fitness or ability can hop on an electric motor and go about with ease. This is not true. An e-bike only assists the pedaling that is already happening. These bikes have limited battery supply, and on eco mode only make cycling marginally easier.

Another myth is that e-bike riders are lazily skipping all the years of base fitness real cyclists all would like to think they possess. This also isn’t true. According to Transportation Research, most e-bike owners are also “analog” bike riders as well.

Even so, it takes pedaling and skill to ride an e-bike, just as it does a regular bicycle.

Now here are the statistics that may surprise: The Transportation Research

Group reports that e-bike riders ride longer, and get more exercise than regular cyclists. How can this be? They examined the metabolic cost of riding a bike and extrapolated it to the amount of riding being done. While e-bikes had a lower intensity of exercise, the minutes of riding exceeded standard enough so that the total MET’s (metabolic equivalent measure) were higher for the e-bikes. (4,463 met/week vs. 4,085/week) .

The average trip distance was around eight kilometers (five miles) vs. five km (three miles) in favor of e-bikes as well. This likely points to the commuter or grocery store runs that would be so much easier on an e-bike. Consider Sisters Country: Who wants to cross town in a car in summer? Wouldn’t an e-bike be a joy?

While just catching on, e-bikes provide a fitness opportunity for those who might not be able to access it otherwise. It opens doors to put less cars on the roads.

These machines are not rocket ships; they’re heavy and slow. They aren’t any noisier than a conventional bike. While it is embarrassing as an avid cyclist to be passed by one, it’s not the end of the world. An e-biker is likely a fellow biomechanical rider who respects mileage under the legs and muscles rather than motor.

Give a look to an e-bike if commuting, errands, or getting back into fitness is something interesting. All major manufacturers have good options and the bike shops in town are keen on the technology and how to get the right bike for anyone.

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SPRD to hit trails with local youth Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) is expanding its its mountain-biking program. By working with a local mountain biking professional, the district has been able to provide a highquality experience for riders and expand program offerings to include third- and fourth-graders. SPRD’s new mountain biking program, designed specifically for third- and fourth-graders, starts September 19.

Zach Hooley, Sisters Park & Recreation District mountain-biking professional, has been biking since the age of 4. He started cross-country mountain-bike racing when he was 15 years old and has won dozens of local race medals, was named the Idaho State Champion in both cross-country and downhill, and was a silver medalist at the 2005 USA Cycle Championships.

“I love seeing the next generation smiling, laughing, and bonding while riding bikes in the great outdoors right here in our backyard,”

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he said. “A big thank-you to Blazin Saddles, who both generously supported our cause by tuning up the kids’ bikes and helping with some damaged ones. I’m thrilled to see five of our current 10 riders choose to invest their hard-earned chore money in new mountain-bikes this summer. With so many options, that shows their priority for good old-fashioned outdoor adventure, which only increases my passion to keep going!”

The mountain-biking program has visited many local trails over the past few months including the Peterson Ridge Trail system, Phil’s Famous Trail Network in Bend and the Green Ridge Trail near the Metolius River.

Kelley Moen, a parent of a mountain-biking program participant, said, “The SPRD mountain-biking program this summer has been such a great experience for our middle-schooler. Charlie had a ton of fun on the trails and was inspired by the talented and ultra-enthusiastic

leadership of Zach Hooley.

Zach’s energy and positivity are boundless! Charlie learned about bike maintenance, trail-riding techniques and new adventurous routes around our home.

In fact, the kids have been teaching us parents some new riding skills! Thanks to the mountain-biking program, Charlie’s found his newest favorite mountain sport.”

Charlie Moen said, “My favorite trail was the McKenzie River trail. It’s a little hard in some places. I liked the challenge!”

The expansion of the mountain-biking program is thanks in part to the local option levy that voters passed in May 2018. Thanks to the additional funds made available, the District has been able to increase recreational opportunities for local youth.

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Ore. pushed to provide services for at-needs kids

By Andrew Selsky Associated Press

SALEM (AP) — Children with intellectual and developmental disabilities being attacked and locked up in isolation. This is what some kids from Oregon were subjected to after being sent to out-of-state facilities because of a lack of services in their home state.

They’re coming back, and now the state faces challenges to give them proper care.

Currently, 37 children remain in out-of-state facilities, down from as many as 88, Gov. Kate Brown’s office said this week.

State Sen. Sara Gelser, a Democrat from Corvallis and chairwoman of the Senate Human Services Committee, said she wants the number reduced to zero quickly.

At the same time, Oregon, which has sent some children to repurposed jails in the state, is trying to ramp up its capacity to serve those who are returning and others with needs.

The Oregon Secretary of State’s office said in a 2018 audit that the child welfare system “is disorganized, inconsistent, and high risk for the children it serves.”

In a follow-up published in June, the audits

division said “extensive work” remained to improve child safety and that staff and foster homes needed to be added.

Gelser, who has been at the forefront in the effort to bring the kids back to Oregon, said newly released documents show that as recently as last November, the Department of Human Services, or DHS, anticipated having over 120 kids in out-of-state placements by the end of June. The state reversed course amid reports the children face abusive environments in some of those facilities.

Gelser said that this summer, she visited several outof-state programs serving about 12 Oregon children.

She was impressed with the quality of one of the programs, at Forest Ridge, in Estherville, Iowa. It offers behavioral health intervention, drug counseling and other services in a rural setting with 140 residential treatment and emergency shelter beds.

But Gelser said she had “deep concerns” about another facility that she did not name that serves about 80 children, including three from Oregon, and is housed in a refurbished office park.

“Over the course of my two hours there, I witnessed

a physical intervention, a seclusion, and a child restrained in a classroom with a foot-to-chin body sock that left her without the use of her hands or feet,” Gelser said, specifying that the children involved were not Oregonians. “I saw disheveled ‘bedrooms’ that did not reflect a homelike environment and signage that suggested discipline is imposed in ways inconsistent with Oregon policy.”

Some Oregon children were housed in Red Rock Canyon School in St. George, Utah. The school is understaffed, leading to violence, sexual misconduct, and an unsafe atmosphere, Utah’s Department of Human Services told the school’s owners in May. The facility’s parent company announced on July 9 it would close.

At Clarinda Academy in

Iowa, where Oregon also sent vulnerable children, some staff slammed children to the ground while punishing them, and kept several students for weeks at a time in a suspension room, according to a report in the Des Moines Register, citing state documents.

To better serve the returning children and others, Oregon intends to develop additional psychiatric residential treatment services, hire caseworkers and develop capacity for an additional 15 beds by the end of the year, Brown’s office said.

Caseworkers will also work more closely with families, Gelser said those steps are “welcome and critical.”

New partnerships with programs like Parrott Creek, a facility in the Portland suburb of Oregon City, raise hopes that Oregon can reach its objectives, Gelser said.

TRIATHLON: Two Sisters men won their age group Continued from page 1

45-49 age division and 12th overall.

Another athlete with Sisters connections, Erin Kanzig, also shone, as she won among women in the “paddle” triathlon in which the swim was replaced with using a paddle board to navigate the 1,500-meter water section. Kanzig, who was celebrating her 29th birthday, clocked 2 hours, 54 minutes.

Sisters residents Tate Metcalf (3:05:19) and Ross Kennedy (3:26:37) also competed in the Olympicdistance triathlon.

The festival features events spread over two days that include a duathlon, relay races, a half-ironman triathlon, a half-marathon and more.

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That evening during the performance, he saw a couple holding hands far off, walking along the water with their headphones on.

“I just liked imagining that I was connected to them,” he said.

He noted that many people today are accustomed to hearing classical music in film, where it is used specifically to prod their emotions while “there’s something visually happening.” Headphones offer a similar experience to Noack’s audiences.

“Because the landscape is changing, the music becomes a soundtrack to whatever they’re seeing… it heightens everybody’s senses,” he said.

“What I hear from people is that they’re feeling more, seeing more vivid colors. It has that effect because it’s live and immediate, and blocks out other noises.”

Noack also appreciates that the headphones and landscape deflect the audience’s visual attention away from him. An impeccably dressed, charming 30-year-old, he seems at ease being the object of attention. However, he

said, “I’m not the most physically dramatic performer, so I love that people have the option to watch me or not.”

As the evening progressed, Noack responded to the changing weather, light, and mood. Toward the end, inspired by the wind, he played “Un Suspiro” (“A Sigh”) by Franz Liszt, arpeggios soaring up and down the keyboard while birds and dragonflies soared overhead.

After the performance, audience members were encouraged to scramble up onto the flatbed and experience the piano’s buttery action under their own fingers. The event’s friendly feel and outdoor environment made the instrument seem much less imposing than it might in a concert hall. Even children’s improvisations and halting renditions of “Für Elise” sounded warm and powerful.

The nine-foot 1912 Steinway has its own devoted roadie, piano technician/ musician Cameron Edens.

He tunes and maintains the Steinway for hours each time it is moved—which during this leg of the tour was every day. “In a Landscape” continues this month, heading from Central Oregon to the Wallowas and ending at Sacajawea Historical State Park in Washington on September 21.

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RAPTORS: Participants can learn from longtime birders Continued from page 3

Society’s 15th Green Ridge Fall Raptor Survey will kick off the weekend of September 21-22, followed by September 28-29 and the first three weekends of October.

“Our goal is to catch peak migration, but the third weekend of October can be touchand-go due to weather,” said naturalist and birder David Vick, who has been helping to run the raptor survey for over 15 years and has this to say: “We welcome all visitors and volunteers, as the more eyes to the sky the better to assist in spotting and tracking migrants.”

Due to changes in climate there have been many things happening within bird populations in this part of North America. Southern species are being observed in places they have never frequented before, and there is a good chance these changes will be seen among the migrating raptors.

There is no better time to observe these changes and learn who-is-who among migratory raptors than to rub shoulders with birders who have been watching and

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“Mornings often start slow, with numbers building up as the afternoon progresses and winds help the birds along.

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SUSPECT: Homeowner detained suspect until authorities arrived Continued from page 1

suspect, later identified as Huber, and Huber left the residence.

DCSO reports that Huber then went to the neighboring house and began ringing the doorbell. The homeowner there also called 911, and told Huber to leave. Huber then walked over to the area of the original house he broke into where he was again confronted by the armed homeowner. The homeowner held him at gunpoint until sheriff’s office units arrived on scene.

Huber was detained at the scene without incident. He reportedly advised deputies he believed his family, who lives nearby, was in grave danger and being held hostage. Several deputies went to Huber’s residence to conduct a welfare check, and found everyone safe and sleeping.

Huber was arrested for the charges of first-degree burglary, criminal mischief and criminal trespass, and booked into the Deschutes County Adult Jail. There were no injuries during this incident. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office was assisted at the scene by the Black Butte Police Department.

OSU funded Deadly plane crash at Oregon fly-in to research quake impact on electrical grid

By Andrew Selsky Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon State University will receive more than $400,000 in federal funds to research how large earthquakes, like ones that could strike in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, would affect the western electrical grid.

U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both Oregon Democrats, announced that the award from the National Science Foundation will provide $433,792 to a project titled, “Earthquake Resilience of the Western Power Grid.”

Wyden said it’s vital to understand the risks of a big earthquake to the electrical grid that keeps everything running, so local communities can prepare to respond.

Merkley said the grant will allow Oregon State University to conduct critical research so the West Coast can prepare for the challenges that will follow a major earthquake.

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SALEM (AP) — As dozens of horrified pilots and other aviation enthusiasts looked on, a small plane took off Friday from an airfield in the scenic Oregon town of Hood River then plummeted to the ground after its engine cut out, killing the pilot and his passenger.

The crash occurred as an annual “fly-in,” where hundreds gather to view planes, many of them antiques, was about to start.

One of the people killed was Ben Davidson, chief pilot for a museum of antique planes and cars that hosts the event, Hood River County sheriff’s Deputy Joel Ives said. Also killed was Matthew Titus of Turlock, California, who was piloting the Super Cub airplane, Ives said.

Ives said the two men were apparently related.

The Piper PA-18 Super Cub is a two-seat, singleengine monoplane, introduced in 1949 by Piper Aircraft.

Witnesses said the plane probably didn’t get more than 100 feet (30 meters) off the ground when the engine cut out, almost caught, and

then cut out again, Ives said.

The weather was clear, with scattered clouds and light winds.

Davidson was chief pilot for the Western Antique Airplane & Automobile Museum, which hosts the Hood River Fly-In, being h eld o n S atu r d ay an d Sunday.

A woman who answered the phone at the museum, located alongside Hood R i v e r ’s K e n J e r n s t e d t Airfield, said she could not comment, and hung up. Ives said the museum owned the crashed plane.

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board were notified, and an FAA representative, who may have been off duty and happened to be nearby, already visited the scene, Ives said.

Video footage showed

the yellow airplane had broken into pieces upon impact.

The rear fuselage was intact, bearing the logo of the U.S. Air Force from 1947.

“The main cockpit was extremely mangled,” said Ives, who got to the scene after fire department and emergency medical services arrived. No one on the ground was hit, he said.

Hundreds of people flock to the airfield, located less than three miles from the Columbia River, for the Hood River Fly-In. “There are lots of fly-ins.

Pilots fly in with their personal planes and line them up for viewing by the public,” Ives said.

The event features biplane rides, a Lions Club Pancake Breakfast, pilot seminars, aircraft restoration workshops and book signings.

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Remembering 9/11 — and 9/12

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are fading into history, though the echoes of that terrible day continue to reverberate through our lives.

Sgt. First Class Elis A. Barreto Ortiz, who was killed by a car bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan, last week, was 16 years old when the Twin Towers fell and the U.S. went to war to dismantle al Qaeda and their Taliban hosts in Afghanistan.

We’re still trying to extricate ourselves from the endless conflict in that war-torn land.

A new generation is coming of age that was not yet born when the events that changed our world took place.

For the rest of us, September 11, 2001, is forever burned into our consciousness. We remember where we were and what we were doing when we first understood that the U.S. homeland had come under serious attack.

It was a Tuesday, and I was driving into The Nugget for work, still basking in the afterglow of the Sisters Folk Festival. I heard a radio report that a plane had struck one of the World Trade Center towers, but, like many, I assumed it was an aviation accident. I got to the shop, sat down at the keyboard and went to work.

Nugget publisher Kiki Dolson came in and asked me, “Do you know what’s going on?”

I said, “Yes, I heard a plane hit the World Trade Center.”

“Two,” she said, and I felt gears and tumblers turn and fall into place as the whole world shifted. I went home and woke my wife and told her the U.S. was at war.

Information was hard to come by in those strange, dislocated hours, where we tried to go about our work with our minds 3,000 miles away, in New York; Washington, DC; and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Most Americans then were only vaguely aware of al Qaeda and someone named Osama bin Laden.

I felt in my gut that it had to be the same people who had bombed two embassies in Africa in 1998 and the U.S.S. Cole in Aden Harbor in Yemen in 2000. I fumed that the administration of

President Bill Clinton had failed to treat those attacks as the acts of war that they were.

Fuming and grieving were about all we could do.

And yet when September 12, 2001, dawned, America was rousing itself from its shock and disbelief and rallying with a newfound sense of purpose. People in their thousands donated blood; young men and women enlisted in the military; diverse groups began to organize to find myriad ways of supporting the great city that had been struck so terribly.

For a time, there was a widespread sense of unity and purpose that is often lacking in our political and cultural life. The bitterly contested election of 2000 seemed a long ago trial from another world; political and ideological orientation ceased to matter as we turned our might and resolve to face an assailant who despises the values Americans hold most dear.

That sense of unity couldn’t last in a diverse, fractious republic — and it didn’t.

President George W. Bush squandered much of it in leading the country into a misconceived invasion of Iraq in 2003. The opposition party soon reverted to a focus on political calculation. And as time marched on with no new attacks on the homeland, Americans’ attention shifted back to domestic concerns, even as a small number of American servicemen and women fought in two savage wars and engaged in countless covert actions to combat Islamist terrorism around the globe.

We have fallen a long way from the spirit of September 12, 2001.

Divisions are so stark and apparently unbridgeable that some believe that Americans are actually locked culturally in a “cold civil war.”

No one wishes for a catastrophe on the scale of the September 11 attacks to restore a sense of unity. But it would behoove us all on in this anniversary week to contemplate the values that bring us together.

The idea of America, no matter how flawed in its manifestation in the roughand-tumble of history, is worth holding up and worth defending today, just as it was in those turbulent times nearly two decades ago.

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901 Wanted Furry Friends Foundation is raising money to benefit pets in the Sisters area. Drop off your redeemable bottles and cans in the containers on the side porch at The Nugget Newspaper office at 442 E. Main Ave.

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Attacks by U.S. extremists lead to push for anti-terror laws

By Andrew Selsky Associated Press

SALEM (AP) — A white man opens fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, targeting Mexicans and killing 22 people. Another man kills 11 Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

The two mass shootings and a presidential tweet put a spotlight on the idea of “domestic terrorism,” adding momentum to a debate about whether such attacks should be classified and tried in the same way as crimes against America by foreign extremist groups and their supporters. A Republican senator and a Democrat in the House of Representatives are drafting bills to do that while some Republicans call for a leftwing group to be designated a terrorist organization.

“Domestic terrorism is in our backyard and we need to call it and treat it under the law the same as other forms of terrorism,” said U.S. Sen. Martha McSally, an Arizona Republican who intends to introduce legislation when Congress returns in September.

McSally’s proposal would allow federal law enforcement to charge suspects with acts of domestic terror and add punishments for those crimes, including the death penalty.

Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, introduced legislation on August 16 that he says is a “very high priority.”

“The goal is to put domestic terrorism at the same level of priority as ISIS- or al-Qaida-inspired terrorism, since Americans on American soil now are just as likely, if not more likely, to die at the hand of a domestic terrorist motivated by some hateful ideology like white supremacy,” Schiff said in a telephone interview.

S e p a r a t e l y, two Republican senators are calling for an anti-fascist movement known as antifa to be designated as a domestic terrorist organization. The push comes after clashes between white supremacists and antifa in Portland, Oregon, which drew a tweet from President Trump suggesting domestic terrorism designation for antifa but not the white supremacists. Such a designation does not currently exist.

While a push to rethink what should be deemed terrorism gains some momentum, it has sparked concerns about infringement of constitutional rights. It’s also not clear whether the debate will be embraced in a bipartisan way, though McSally said this

week that her bill has received “a lot of positive feedback ... from both sides of the aisle.”

Schiff said he hopes for “bipartisan support for an effort to put the full weight of the federal government behind the prosecution of people committing these hateful acts of domestic mass terror.”

Meanwhile, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is working on “legal mechanisms” that would enable domestic terrorist organizations to be treated like those on the State Department’s list of foreign extremist groups, his spokeswoman Maria Jeffrey said in an email.

Cruz and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced a resolution on July 18 condemning antifa, and calling for it to be designated as a domestic terrorist organization.

As antifa activists prepared to square off against far-right demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, on Aug. 17, President Donald Trump tweeted that “major consideration is being given to naming ANTIFA an ‘ORGANIZATION of TERROR.’” Currently, only foreign groups can be labeled terrorist organizations. The U.S. State Department maintains that list, currently comprising 68 groups — none of

which is white supremacist. It is a crime for a person in the United States to knowingly provide “material support or resources” to a foreign terrorist organization.

S e n . J e f f M e r k l e y, D-Oregon, said he doesn’t believe Congress should enable the executive branch to designate groups as domestic terrorists.

“I wouldn’t trust this administration to exercise such power in an unbiased and judicious manner,” Merkley said.

I wouldn’t trust this administration to exercise such power in an unbiased and judicious manner — Sen. Jeff Merkley The Anti-Defamation League says antifa hasn’t been accused of any murders, and that there is no comparison between the loosely organized movement and the white supremacist groups it sometimes clashes with.

Antifa uses “unacceptable tactics” but rejects racism, while white supremacists use more extreme violence to intimidate minorities, the

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ADL said.

Schiff denounced Trump’s tweet as “a disservice to our efforts to combat domestic mass terror.”

“I see it as the same destructive political posturing we’ve come to expect from the president, that would argue white supremacists’ hate is not the problem, antifa is the problem,” Schiff said.

Mary McCord, who used to lead the Justice D e p a r t m e n t ’s N a t i o n a l Security Division, said labeling domestic groups as terrorist organizations would infringe on First Amendment rights such as freedom of expression. Instead, she advocates making domestic terrorism a federal crime, which would enable prosecution for providing material support.

Such support could include providing funds, a safe haven

or weapons.

The most common international terrorism charge is providing material support, accounting for nearly half of federal terrorism-related prosecutions since Sept. 11, 2001, McCord said.

Schiff said his bill would allow the prosecution of providing material support to a domestic terrorist.

Jeanne Theoharis, a political science professor at Brooklyn College who has written several books on civil rights, worries about such a provision.

“What material support does is allow for going after people whose beliefs and associations are well outside the mainstream,” Theoharis said. “It provides a way for the government to go after people whose politics they don’t like.”

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RESIDENTIAL FARM & RANCH VINEYARD PATTY CORDONI

541.771.0931 patty.cordoni@cascadesir.com Principal Broker/Sisters Branch Manager Cascade Sotheby’s Farm, Ranch, Vineyard Division Manager CascadeSothebysRealty.com | Each office independently owned and operated.

SPACIOUS .81-ACRE LOT IN CAMP SHERMAN WAITING FOR YOUR DREAM HOME!

Is 2019 the time to make your dreams a reality? Metolius Meadows amenities: Swimming pool, tennis court, and close to the Metolius River. $295,000. mls#201707948

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Wednesday, September 11, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

How do I get out from under a timeshare?

Dear Property Guy

By Mike Zoormajian

Dear Property Guy, I’ve had a timeshare for almost 20 years. When the kids were younger, and I was travelling more, it was fun.

But now, it’s just an expensive hassle. The maintenance and annual fees are killing me. I just want to be done with it.

— Timeshared in Tumalo Dear Timeshared: Property Guy has a few rules for clients and friends: First, we don’t sell, we BUY property in Oregon. Second, we NEVER buy timeshares.

We’ll go over the other rules in a different column…

Timeshares can be structured a few ways, but basically you are a part-owner with the right to use the property for a pre-determined period of time each year.

The rub is that you are on the hook for: maintenance, management, repair, and any other fees the timeshare company dreams up in the future.

I’m not a timeshare expert, so I reached out to some attorney friends who are. Strangely enough, none of them actually own timeshares.

Timeshare presentations can be pretty slick. And when combined with free food and booze, can also be very compelling. Timeshare salespeople have even been known to (gasp!) lie about facts to get

you to buy. Timeshare staff actually rank somewhere between used-car dealers and politicians on the trustworthy scale.

When it comes to exiting a timeshare, you have a few options; none are really awesome. But let’s work through them.

Talk it out. Always start here. It’s easy and it doesn’t cost anything. Call the company and ask what your options are for sale or for a “deed back / surrender.”

You’ll find that (surprisingly) most timeshare companies don’t even want their own stuff back for free. Most will even try to sell you something else during the call.

Try to sell. Websites like Sharket, RedWeek, and Timeshare User Group can help you determine market value your property. These sites also provide listing services. This is probably the best option if you can make it work. Unfortunately, the market value of many timeshares is less than free as a result of high annual maintenance fees. A quick search on those sites showed pages and pages of listings for under a dollar.

Timeshare exit companies. These come in all flavors. Some are outright scams and others are very good. The ones that are scams will demand an upfront fee, and you will never hear from them again. Good ones will come with excellent references. There are many lawyers who specialize in this.

The key here is to research, research, research before you pay anyone to help you get out from under a timeshare.

There are no guarantees here, and the average cost for these services is about $5,000.

Walk away. This is just as it sounds. You can stop paying the bills, but this doesn’t stop the obligation. You

will start getting nasty letters from important-sounding attorneys and collection agencies. Your credit may take a significant hit, and there is potential for legal judgments and attachment of assets. Or you may never hear from them again. Just the luck of the draw.

The best way to avoid getting burned by a timeshare is not to get involved with one.

With the advent of AirBnB and VRBO, there is no reason to “own” something to explore different areas of the world. If you’ve already taken the timeshare plunge, there are always options.

Mike Dear Property Guy, A few columns ago, you talked about the importance of reviewing HOA financial documents. I have asked our HOA for our records, but they have not been forthcoming. Help?

— Concerned HOAm Owner Dear Owner: This is not a good situation, and one that may require a competent attorney, and perhaps even the District Attorney. It is important to note that HOA officers are bound by their governing documents and state laws.

HOA officers can face criminal prosecution, and be sued for breaches. My experience is that HOA members tend to be more forthcoming with documents when reminded of this fact.

— Mike Mike Zoormajian is principal at WetDog Properties in Sisters. Providing local property management and investor services. Questions, comments to: letters@ wetdogpnw.com. Free legal advice is worth what you pay for it. Consult a real attorney before doing anything crazy.

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SEED TO TABLE: Event marks a true transition between seasons Continued from page 3

down part of a greenhouse they are so heavy with ripe. A tomato a day keeps the doctor away is my new saying around this time of year. In addition, a record of 20 red bell peppers has decorated a single pepper plant! The pole beans are growing through

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the roof of our 14-foot-tall greenhouse and the zucchini has provided ample amounts of zucchini muffins.”

In Central Oregon we only get a small window for eating and purchasing these nutrientdense and local foods.

The Fall Harvest Dinner has tickets available at www. seedtotableoregon.org/events.

Stop by the Sisters Farmers Market from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Fir Street Park each Sunday through the end of the month.

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Seed to Table’s Fall Dinner celebrates summer’s bounty as the seasons turn.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Serving the Sisters, Camp Sherman and Black Butte Ranch Areas

Ponderosa Properties R E A L T O R S

A N D

P R O P E R T Y

The Locals’ Choice!

M A N A G E M E N T

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

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

MLS#201900507

BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN VIEW Beautiful mountain view acreage located in the secluded Lower Bridge Basin near the Deschutes River. Views of all mountains from Mt. Jefferson to Brokentop. There is a very private elevated building site in the NE corner of the lot with huge mountain views and southern exposure. Lower Bridge Estates offers paved streets, electric power and phone. The lot is approved for a standard septic system. There is abundant BLM land in the area and the nearby Deschutes River corridor is great for hiking, fishing and wildlife viewing. $229,000 MLS#201702313

Kevin R. Dyer 541-480-7552

Rad Dyer 541-480-8853

Debbie Dyer 541-480-1650

Shane Lundgren 541-588-9226

CRS, GRI, Principal Broker

GRI, Broker

69231 LARIAT Comfortable one-level ranch in a nice forested setting in Tollgate. Spacious greatroom to enjoy casual living. Attached double garage with additional space provided by attached carport ready for your special uses. Enjoy all of the amenities that Tollgate has to offer including pool, tennis, extensive commons with paved pathway and access to National Forest and trails to nearby Sisters. $350,000.

MLS#201905753

17170 PALOMINO DRIVE Come take a look at this comfortable 4-bedroom, one-level home on a .92-acre site in Sisters Country. Spacious greatroom features wonderful kitchen with quartz solid-surface counters, breakfast bar, large dining area & living space with wood-burning fireplace. Large laundry room, washroom sink & ample cabinetry space. 960 sq. ft. enclosed & finished garage space. Full-length covered front porch for ease and enjoyment of outdoor living. Fully fenced, keeping deer out & pets in. Paved streets, quiet neighborhood, plenty of sunshine & expansive night skies. $399,000.

MLS#201908300

14829 DOUBLETREE The desirable community of Tollgate in Sisters has one of the best lots available for purchase.

Fantastic cul de sac, well-maintained homes, and perfect pie shape with common area to the front and rear, and one lot away from USFS. This opportunity is enhanced by owner will carry financing terms!

Imagine beautiful ponderosa pines, short bikeride trail to town or schools (off the highway!) and homeowner amenities like pool, pickle ball, walking paths. Level topography and easy to build. $169,000. MLS#201908160

ABR, CCIM, CRB, CRS, GRI, Principal Broker

Broker

Carol Davis 541-410-1556 ABR, GRI, Broker

Catherine Black 541-588-9219

CRS, Broker, Realtor Emeritus - 40+ years

Greg Davidge 808-281-2676 Broker

Jackie Herring 541-480-3157 Broker

541-549-2002 1-800-650-6766 16676 JORDAN ROAD Mountain views! Part of the original Lazy Z Ranch. Fenced on two sides with Kentucky black fencing. Power close by. Septic feasibility in place, may need new evaluation. Close to town, yet off the beaten path, overlooking a 200-acre site of the R&B Ranch, which currently is not buildable. Needs well. Owner will consider short terms. $385,000.

MLS#201802331

687 W. JEFFERSON AVENUE Townhome in Pine Meadow Village with carefree living. Quality construction wraps around you in this 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath home. A propane fireplace adds ambiance to the living room.

Breakfast bar, pantry and appliances included in the bright kitchen. Spacious master with a walk-in closet, private bath and Juliet balcony that provides a mountain view. Double garage, covered front porch and back patio. A heat pump provides A/C. Pool, hot tub and Recreation Center for homeowners. Original flooring and countertops await your touch. $354,000.

MLS#201904027

ROCK RIDGE #37 Vacation location at Black Butte Ranch! One-half ownership for all of the fun at half the expense! 3 bedrooms plus a bunk room in this 1,540 sq. ft.

Rock Ridge home. So many upgrades, including granite countertops in the kitchen, new decks, efficient propane stove and more. Easy access to several pools, tennis courts, bike paths and the Glaze Meadow Sports Center. $239,500.

MLS#201905281

www. P onderosa P roperties.com 221 S. Ash St. | PO Box 1779 | Sisters

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.$449,500. MLS#201906185

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

NEAR THE DESCHUTES RIVER Climb the slight ridge and the mountain views open big and wide from Mt. Hood to Broken Top. Every peak is visible as well as the valley below.

Bordering BLM directly on the eastside. Paved access, underground utilities, existing well and septic available. Enjoy the quiet setting and night sky in this beautiful secluded corner of Deschutes County. $395,000. MLS#201506281

GRAND PEAKS AT SISTERS Grand Peaks is synonymous with well-being.

From day one, the choices are many for Discerning seekers of luxury & adventure! This exclusive 38-homesite community offers cutting edge design using natural, sustainable materials on the exterior, sleek and stylish interiors, and a wealth of recreation including two cushion professional Pickleball courts, butterfly gardens along the Grand Peaks trail, private parks and community pavilion.

Just a short walk or ride to downtown Sisters. Add the extraordinary views of the Cascades & Central Oregon’s natural beauty and you've found your new home. Lot prices: $146,475-$187,110.

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

The Locals’ Choice!