The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLII No. 42 // 2019-10-16

The Nugget Vol. XLII No. 42

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Harvest Faire draws horde of shoppers

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

The annual harvest celebration event is a Sisters tradition, and for 40 years thousands of people from all over the Pacific Northwest meet up in Sisters to observe the changing season with the Sisters Harvest Faire, hosted

by Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce.

Last weekend the event featured 185 vendors that lined Main Avenue with unique handcrafted items from fused glass to metal art. There were novelties for everyone’s taste.

The faire is the last hurrah of the summer season and has continued to evolve from its modest beginnings.

Jeri Buckmann, event coordinator for the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce, was happy as she commented on another exceptional faire.

“The show is now twice the size, with the same number of vendors, because we have a lot more space for visitors. More spread out for the entertainment and food,” Buckmann said. “The town was busy and that is what we

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Camp Sherman to honor Dave Blann

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

been in the show since its beginning, and even though

Camp Sherman will honor its longtime resident deputy Dave Blann with a road sign dedicating the road he kept clear in winter to the memory of his service.

Camp Sherman community members met with Jefferson County Commissioners on Wednesday, October 9, during one of their regular visits to this corner of their jurisdiction. The meeting seemed poised for contention, as the community ardently wished to honor Blann, and the commissioners indicated that they were not comfortable changing the name of the road into Camp Sherman.

But it quickly became clear that all sides were in agreement that Blann, who

See SHOPPERS on page 30

See BLANN on page 29

PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER

David Johns, better known as The Spice Guy, has been a vendor at Sisters Harvest Faire for 26 years. strive for in the off-season. I loved it. I work hard to make this a great experience not only for the visitors but the

vendors as well. The show is celebrating 40 years, an achievement I am proud to be part of. Many vendors have

Festival of Books opens Rallying for good attendance in Sisters next weekend

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

The upcoming weekend in Sisters is going to be one for the books — literally. Sisters Festival of Books, a threeday celebration of the literary culture of Central Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, runs October 18-20 at multiple venues around town.

The festival features more than 40 local, regional, and national authors. Books featured at the festival will cover a wide range of subjects, including politics, Western historical fiction, Vikings, motherhood, romance, Arctic exploration, Central Oregon recreational activities and more.

Lead organizer Lane Jacobson of Paulina Springs Books is gratified with the

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response to the inaugural festival, both from the local community and from the broader literary community.

“It’s been exclusively positive and excited,” he said. “I wouldn’t say a home run, but a solid triple or a really impressive ground-rule double.”

Ticket sales have been brisk and satisfying, but there will be room for more throughout the event.

“Tickets will be available at the door for everything except the (Saturday-night author) dinner,” Jacobson said.

The idea for the festival was sparked by local See BOOKS on page 28

Passers-by may have wondered what all the police vehicles with flashing lights and sirens out front of Sisters Elementary School were all about the morning of Thursday, October 10. The blaring music, police cars, and SWAT vehicles were part of the “Strive for 95” attendance initiative underway in Sisters School District — as well as an opportunity for elementary students to get to know more about law enforcement personnel in Sisters Country.

The district has a goal of 95 percent attendance for the 2019-20 school year in response to a notable drop in attendance over the past few years. For 2018-19 attendance rates overall for the district

PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG

Deschutes County Deputies interacted with Sisters Elementary School students in the classroom. were just above 80 percent.

Based on a model used by Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office in the community of La Pine during the last few years, the rally included officers handing out — you guessed it —donuts to parents and guardians as they

dropped their kids off for school. Sisters School District Resource Officer Brent Crosswhite, who helped coordinate the event with principal Joan Warburg, was one of a number of officers out front See ATTENDANCE on page 20

Letters/Weather ................ 2 Announcements................12 Sisters Naturalist............. 14 Obituaries ....................... 19 Classifieds..................26-28 Meetings ........................... 3 Entertainment ..................13 Business Roundup ............15 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................28-32

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Welcome

Jonah Goldberg

Authors & Patrons Letters to the Editor…

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To the Editor: One of the things I enjoy when visiting Sisters and the wonderful hikes is to read the latest Nugget. In the October 9 issue I just read the letter from Paula Surmann. It’s amazing how many new climatologists have popped out of the woodwork since 2017 when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced the end of the world coming in 12 years. Yes, Eric Knirk was right, climate change is highly politicized.

Paula refers to a graph on a NASA site going back 800,000 years. So who and what instruments were used for “scientific” measurements 800,000 years ago? She mentions 97 percent of scientists agree; and especially those employed by our government agencies.

That same type of assumption could have been made at one point less than 100,000 years ago when 97 percent of scientists thought the earth was flat and the sun orbited around the earth.

When I was in grade school our science books taught all oil came from dead dinosaurs

and that some thing crawled out of the ocean and developed into humans; just add a couple million years to your theory to make it valid.

I can still see in my mind the profile drawing of the different stages from chimp to ape to cave man, to Homo erectus. I wonder if it’s still used to indoctrinate children.

Of course climate change occurs and yes humans can have an effect on it, but how much? Paula did not even mention China, one of the worst polluters in the world. We live 93 million miles from our planetary source of life, the sun. Is anyone talking about changes the sun may be going through or even changes in our orbit around the sun? Lots of theories; and not everyone at NASA is in agreement on all issues. (https://coldclimatechange.com/ carbon-dioxide-is-a-cooling-gas-according-tonasa/) Tom Lawrence See LETTERS on page 22

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In one sense, the Syria debacle is a singular moment in the Trump presidency, and arguably in American history. I can’t think of another momentous decision by a commander in chief that was instantly recognizable as a disaster for which the president was entirely to blame.

Even if you think the Iraq war was a catastrophic blunder, it wasn’t immediately and universally recognizable as such. And President Bush could point to support from both parties in Congress, his advisers, the intelligence community and even his predecessor. The Bay of Pigs was backed by the Pentagon and CIA. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed Congress, unanimously in the House and 88-2 in the Senate.

But here the cheese stands alone.

Trump and the handful of surrogates willing to defend this grotesquerie are quite comfortable arguing about “endless wars” and “Trump’s mandate” as an abstract matter. Talk of “realism,” “America First” and “endless war” is a rhetorical safe harbor that works well on Twitter and cable news because it gives the impression that this is a serious conflict of philosophical perspectives. Even if you agree with all of that stuff, the fact remains that this was a scandalously incompetent and reckless action.

Trump may indeed have campaigned on getting out of Syria. He didn’t campaign on potentially freeing thousands of Islamic State fighters, greenlighting ethnic cleansing or empowering Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A serious policy of disengagement from the Middle East would require working with our allies in the region and elsewhere. It would involve intense planning by the Pentagon and State Department. And, most importantly, it would necessitate tough negotiations with the Turks to minimize our betrayal of a people who lost some 11,000 troops fighting at our side.

Trump went a different way. According to reporting

by Jennifer Griffin of Fox News — not normally a target of Trump’s “fake news” broadsides — Trump “went

off script from what his national [security] team gave him as talking points for his phone conversation with the Turkish president.”

In an instant, Trump blew up months of negotiations with Turkey to establish a Kurdish safe zone that would satisfy both Turkey’s concerns and make sure that Islamic State wasn’t given a lifeline.

Whether Trump was trying to ingratiate himself with Erdogan — he does like strongmen — or was intimidated by the Turkish despot remains unknown.

Either way, in a phone call last week he in effect encouraged Erdogan to go for it.

Within days, the Turks rolled across the border. Arab militias began the initial stages of what could turn into ethnic cleansing. When the Kurds begged for air cover, Trump ordered our planes to stay on the tarmac. Already, there are videos — authenticated

by U.S. officials — of roadside executions of Kurds.

The Turks have even rained artillery around an American outpost, requiring a full U.S. retreat from northern Syria and forcing Kurdish forces to ally themselves with the Syrian government.

After the call, Trump claimed that Erdogan promised to take responsibility for guarding Islamic State prisoners. The Turkish government quickly announced there was no such commitment. The Turks might be lying, though Trump’s silence suggests they aren’t.

Either way, they put one over on the self-proclaimed world’s greatest negotiator.

The cycle wouldn’t be complete without Trump doing his best to humiliate his defenders, desperately trying to squeeze square facts into the round holes of some theory. The same week he said we must disengage from the Middle East and its conflicts, he sent thousands more American troops to Saudi Arabia. He said he opposed Turkey’s incursion, but he instructed his United Nations ambassador to vote with Russia to block condemnation of it. And now, he’s approving sanctions on Turkey for the “destabilizing actions in northeast Syria” he greenlit. He might as well put the sanctions on himself. © 2019 Tribune Content, LLC

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Adult poetry contest winners announced triptych of poems, which she later revised; the full triptych will be published online at sistersfarmersmarket.com.

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

New Oregon Arts & Letters and Sisters Farmers Market recently co-presented the inaugural Food & Farm Haiku Contest. The judge was the State of Oregon’s official poet laureate, Kim Stafford, soon to appear at the inaugural Sisters Festival of Books.

Stafford chose a poem by Holly Crosson of Corvallis as the first-place winner in the adult Out-of-Towners category. Crosson wrote a

Hoes strike stones that sing.

Sweat and dust and heat, then green.

Music in the fields.

— Holly Crosson The three finalists were Lee Kordell of Scottsdale, Arizona, who has family in the Sisters area. Portland See POETRY on page 29

Scientist to talk bees at The Belfry The birds and the bees.

Dr. Jerry Freilich is quick to confess that he is quite interested in the birds and the bees, and he’s confident that everyone else is, too.

The birds are fascinating, of course, but it’s the bees he really wants to talk about.

“Biodiversity Begins with a Bee” will be the topic when Dr. Freilich speaks at The Belfry on Tuesday, October 22, for the second lecture in the 2019-2020 Frontiers in Science series.

Most people can name fewer than five kinds of bees and are astounded to learn

that there are actually 4,000 native bee species in the United States. Most of these are tiny, fast-flying, and hardto-spot despite their vital importance to our lives. Dr. Freilich’s three-dimensional images and 3-D glasses for the audience will provide a valuable tutorial about native bees and the role they play in sustaining the biodiversity around us.

“We have a general understanding that living things create the oxygen we breathe, clean the water we drink, See BEES on page 22

PHOTO BY HELEN SCHMIDLING

Carol Bunker and her daughter, Colleen Franks, spin alpaca yarn during the demonstration at the Sisters Library.

Spinning, weaving grow in popularity

By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

Eight-year-old Nolan Riding ran the shuttle back and forth across the weft of fiber on his table loom, and then pressed the beater against the weave, creating a pattern of fabric that will be a table runner. Nolan and his six-year-old brother John are the youngest members of the Central Oregon Spinners and Weavers Guild. They understand the mechanics and the process of weaving, and both

have created finished items.

The young brothers got involved in weaving after a visit to their grandfather’s neighbor intrigued them. The neighbor had a loom, and the boys wanted to know how it worked.

“So I encouraged them,” said their mom, Courtney.

“We are a family of redheads — we can’t go out much in the summer, so I’m always looking for things to keep the kids busy indoors.”

Both entered items in the Deschutes County Fair this

summer, and Nolan took home a blue ribbon and a best of show.

At the Sisters Library on Saturday, Nolan set up his table loom and easily described the process that he’s been working on for more than a year now. Both Nolan and John have items on display as part of the Guild’s annual show in the Library’s Community Room. Around the tables on Saturday, other Guild members demonstrated See WEAVING on page 24

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, Sisters Caregiver Support Group 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., The Lodge in ages welcome. 541-771-2211.

Sisters. 541-771-3258.

Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) Sisters Cribbage Club Wednesdays, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ray’s Food Place Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. community room. 541-923-1632.

Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board 4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230. of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.

Location information: 541-549-1193.

Military Parents of Sisters Meetings are held quarterly; please call for details. Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at 541-388-9013.

Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870.

Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Sisters Parent Teacher Community Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., 2nd Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. at Sisters Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469.

Saloon. 541-480-5994.

SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. 2nd Tuesday, 2 p.m., The Lodge. to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation 541-668-6599.

District. 541-549-2091.

Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.

Location information: 541-279-1977.

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

Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-760-5645.

Sisters Area Photography Club Sisters Speak Life Cancer Support 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library Group 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 10 a.m. community room. 541-549-6157.

Suttle Tea. 503-819-1723.

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 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m., SPRD bldg. 541-549-2091.

Sisters Planning Commission 3rd Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-549-6022.

FIRE & POLICE Black Butte Ranch Police Dept.

Board of Directors Meets monthly.

541-595-2191 for time & date.

Black Butte Ranch RFPD Board of Directors 4th Thursday, 9 a.m., Black Butte Ranch Fire Station. 541-595-2288.

Cloverdale RFPD Board of Directors 3rd Wed., 7 p.m., 67433 Cloverdale Rd. 541-548-4815. cloverdalefire.com.

Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday, 5 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 541-549-0771.

Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Drills Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St. 541-549-0771.

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Outlaws soccer team cages Cougars

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The girls soccer squad caged the Cascade Cougars in a 2-1 win at home and improved their league record to 2-5-2.

Sisters scored their first goal at the 10-minute mark to take an early lead. The Lady Outlaws were building their attack on the right side when Maddie Symonds crossed the ball to the middle. The ball was miscleared by the Cougars and Olivia Hougham was there to follow it in with a one-touch lefty. Sisters held onto the 1-0 advantage as teams entered the half.

In the 55th minute, Hallie Schwartz passed the ball up to Hollie Lewis. As defenders stepped to Lewis, she passed the ball off to an open Emma Lutz, who punched it into the upper-left corner from 18 yards out.

Keeper Reese Harwell shared, “It was a very intense game and we kept our focus.

Emma and Olivia’s goals were amazing, and we just

stayed positive the whole time.”

Coach Brain Holden noted several key players “Maddie Larrabee and Maddie Symonds have really come to understand their roles as outside midfielders, which has helped our offense be more dynamic, and Hollie Lewis, even when she’s not scoring, draws a lot of attention, which draws in the defense and allows our midfielders and other forwards to be free. Hallie (Schwartz) and Olivia (Hougham) play every minute of every game.

They never get tired, never quit, and are the engine of our team.”

The Outlaws continue to improve with every game they play, but need to work toward finishing their shots.

“We easily could have won 5-0 or 6-0,” said Holden.

Our focus this second half of the season will be finish, finish, finish!”

The Outlaws were to play at Woodburn on Tuesday, October 15. They will host Philomath on Thursday.

Boys XC takes second at Philomath

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Facing the other topranked 4A teams in the state brought out the best in the Outlaws cross-country team on Saturday, October 12.

The boys squad placed a close second at the Paul Mariman Invitational hosted

by Philomath High School.

Marist Catholic topped the coaches’ polls last week, followed by Philomath and Sisters, which were tied for second. Siuslaw ranked fourth and Newport fifth.

The rankings didn’t quite hold up as the Warriors clipped the Outlaws by 11 points (5970) in a hotly contested battle while Siuslaw placed third (83), Marist fourth (98) and Newport fifth (106) among 16 complete teams.

Junior John Peckham put the pedal to the metal midway through the 5,000-meter race to separate himself from the lead pack and he pushed to a nine-second victory with a time of 16:17. Will Thorsett nearly nabbed second place with a tremendous effort over the final 500 meters, but Wiley Watts of Marist held him off by less than 0.2 seconds as the pair clocked 16:26.53 and 16:26.69 respectively.

Josh Liddell ran a lifetime best by over 35 seconds to place 14th overall in a time of 17:05, while Sam May also knocked more than 30 seconds from his career best to place 23rd in 17:25.

Ethan Hosang finished

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John Peckham on his way to victory in the Paul Mariman Invitational. as the fifth scorer for the Outlaws in 29th place (17:36), followed by Max Palanuk’s personal best of 17:57 (41st) and Kalden Gilbert’s season best of 19:51 (82nd) among 132 finishers.

“Philomath has a lot of depth and ran really well on their home course,” said Coach Josh Nordell. “Our boys also ran with a lot of confidence and poise. What an exciting race!”

The Outlaws and the Warriors figure to go at it hammer-and-tongs again, along with Newport, when the Oregon West district meet takes place November 2. The top two teams from that meet

will advance to the state meet the following week.

“Philomath, Newport and Sisters have a long-standing, but very positive, rivalry in cross-country,” said Nordell.

“I think we bring out the best in each other.”

The Outlaws have more than a week off before their next competition on October 23 at the Creekside Invitational in Salem.

“This will give us 10 full days of training to do quality work as we prepare for the championship part of the season,” said Nordell. “I am very happy with the progress and competitiveness these boys are showing right now.”

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Homecoming Parade...

Author has a passion for outdoor experiences

By Ceili Cornelius Correspondent

Ruby McConnell is a featured author at the Sisters Festival of Books, taking place October 18-20 at venues around town.

The festival proceeds benefit the Sisters Festival of Books scholarship fund.

McConnell is a writer, geologist, and adventuress whose work focuses on nature, the environment, and the relationship between landscape and the human experience. Her experiences as a researcher, activist, and explorer in the wildlands of the western United States led her to write “A Woman’s Guide to the Wild,” which is touted as the definitive outdoor guide for anyone who identifies as, or loves, women (or just wants to learn how to read a map).

McConnell believes that positive outdoor experiences are the key to healthy living and protecting the environment, and is committed to breaking down barriers that prevent all kinds of people from being outside. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Grain Literary Journal, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and Mother Earth News and was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in 2016.

McConnell stumbled into writing by accident. By trade and study, she is an environmental geologist. During the recession, however, she wasn’t working much in that field. Also a dancer, she embraced her creative side while she had the time to do so. She entered her first piece of writing after seeing a competition for Tiny Stories. She sat down and wrote a tiny story and ended up winning the competition. Shortly after, she read about an essay contest and entered her personal essays. They ended up getting picked up as articles and she fell in love with writing and

has been doing it ever since.

Her writing primarily focuses on environmentalism and the human connection to the natural world.

“It stems from working as a field geologist, and in that profession there is a lot that isn’t thought about ahead of time, about what to do out there,” she told The Nugget.

“As a woman working out in the elements with gear that didn’t fit me, I felt as if there wasn’t enough out there about how to be prepared in the wilderness, especially focused specifically on women.”

That inspired the start of her own field guide: “A Woman’s Guide to the Wild.”

She had been taking notes and creating it since 2008 and released it in 2016.

“I realized that my skill-set had caught up to my desire for a women’s field guide during my own field work, and wrote my own,” she said.

She got funding for the book with a Kickstarter, and eventually publishers picked up her book because there wasn’t anything out there like it and there was a market for it.

“I wanted to write something that wasn’t just strictly about survival, but just how to be comfortable in the natural world and out in the field,” she said.

McConnell also has a “Girl’s Guide” series of field guides. She is in the process of releasing the third installment of her Kid’s Nature Books.

“A lot of that writing stems from my work as an outdoor school teacher and working at summer camps with kids,” she said.

She is also releasing her personal essays focused on environmentalism and the human connection to the movement, as well as the natural world itself. Recently, she received an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship to help with

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Sisters High School students and other community members got creative in their costuming for the annual Homecoming Parade down Hood Avenue last week.

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Girls XC competes at Philomath

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Freshman Ella Thorsett got a closeup look at the only two 4A girl runners in Oregon who have run faster than her on Saturday, October 12 at the Paul Mariman Invitational, hosted

by Philomath High School.

Thorsett finished third in the race behind state leader Hannah Hernandez of Philomath and secondranked Hannah Rannow of Siuslaw. Hernandez led from start to finish and ran a season’s best of 18:28 for the 5,000-meter course. Rannow got away from Thorsett in the final mile on her way to second in 18:35, while Thorsett crossed the line 10 seconds later in 18:45, nearly 40 seconds ahead of the next runner.

“That was such a great experience for Ella to see two of the best girls in our classification who are both seniors with lots of experience and loads of state meet medals in cross-country and track,” said Coach Josh Nordell.

“Ella is running extremely well.”

Rannow placed fourth at last year’s state cross-country meet and Hernandez finished fifth.

Sisters’ number two and three runners struggled a bit in the race as Kate Bowen finished seventh in 19:54 and Emma Singleton finished about a minute off her best with a time of 21:37 in 27th place.

“It’s rare to have everyone at their best on the same day,” said Nordell. “Between Homecoming week and a bit of sickness going around, some kids had a tougher time than normal.”

Two other varsity runners ran personal bests and another had a season best, however.

Sophomores Sadie Sharp and Skylar Wilkins both showed continued improvement, lopping a full minute off their previous bests to finish in 22:28 and 23:35

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Ella Thorsett leading Hannah Rannow of Siuslaw at the Paul Mariman Invitational at Philomath High School. respectively. In addition, Pearl Gregg lowered her season best to 22:46. Iris Diez crossed the finish in 24:11, only two seconds off of her personal record.

The girls finished fourth in the team race with 104 points behind Marist Catholic (37), Siuslaw (52) and Philomath (81) among a field of 12 complete teams.

Marist, the undisputed number-one-ranked team among 4A girls, placed four girls in the top 10, despite missing their number-one runner, who was on a college visit. Siuslaw is ranked second in the state, Philomath fourth, and the Outlaws seventh.

“This meet was a great way for us to be more prepared for the type of competition we will be seeing at district, so I am really pleased with the way the kids pushed themselves. Even though we were not at our best, it was still a positive learning experience.”

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“Most all of the writing I have is focused on environmentalism and the outdoors and how to be comfortable and understand your natural world,” she said.

She is also a contributor to GROW magazine featuring articles on CBD and hemp use in Oregon.

McConnell’s love for the outdoors stems in part from outdoor education programs in the 1990s as well as working for Greenpeace in her college years and doing other pieces of environmental advocacy work.

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combined with my background in geology, I want to be able to bring hard science to the world and write about it in a way that people can be guided and enjoy their natural environment,” she said.

McConnell says she doesn’t have one singular formative place; she says she has a “formative landscape.”

“The PNW is a great place to see environmentalism play out because it is such a vast and diverse natural environment,” she said. “I hope that I can create a reading experience for my audience that helps them to understand and feel comfortable in their own natural world surrounding them.”

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Outlaws cannot contain the Cougars

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws started off Homecoming Night with a bang, and held a lead over the visiting Cougars at the half and again at the close of the third quarter, but they just couldn’t contain the cats in the fourth, and the home team suffered a heartbreaking 25-21 loss.

Cascade took the ball the length of the field and scored on the opening kickoff and took a quick 6-0 lead. In the second quarter, Sisters marched from their own 35-yard line and scored a TD less than a minute into the period, behind the three-pronged rushing attack of Taylor Fendall, Ethan Martin, and Hunter Spor.

Fendall punched it into the endzone.

The offensive line, aided by quick reads from Fendall, had their way with the Cougars defensive line. Both

teams’ rushing attacks were a focal point, and the clock ran down fast. The Outlaws, on their second drive of the night, went from their own 27, averaged five yards per carry, and scored on a blast from Spor up the middle with just 10.6 seconds left. At the half, the Outlaws held a 14-6 advantage.

In the third, Garrett Kersavage intercepted a pass at the Outlaws five-yard line and ran it back to the 24 to stave off a Cascade scoring attempt. After a few bruising runs up the middle by Martin, Fendall kept the option and ran 56 yards for the touchdown. The Cougars responded and scored to close the gap to 21-12 at the close of the third.

The fourth quarter wasn’t kind to the home squad; they just couldn’t keep the Cougars in a cage. Missed assignments, injuries, and players who had to adjust to new positions on the

fly doomed the Outlaws.

Cascade scored twice in the fourth with a powerful run game, coupled with some nice quarterback runs. Sisters lost by four, 25-21.

The Outlaws could hold a record of 5-1, but penalties, lapses in defense, and turnovers have hurt the Outlaws this season. The Homecoming defeat was another painfully disappointing loss.

After the game Athletic Director Gary Thorson said, “This is the best 1-5 team I’ve ever seen.”

Fendall finished the game with 117 yards rushing and two touchdowns. Martin recorded 37 yards rushing and Spor had one touchdown on the night.

Martin led the squad with nine tackles (three solo) and one tackle for loss, Spor tallied eight tackles (two solo), and Eli Gurney posted seven tackles (two solo), and two tackles for loss. Kersavage had five tackles (four solo), and one interception, Anthony Randolph had three solo tackles, two tackles for

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Aude Gire brings fresh food and education to Sisters Country

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

“I firmly believe that access to fresh foods and vegetables should be a basic human right,” said Aude Gire, education coordinator for Seed to Table farm.

“It’s disappointing the way that our culture and society views food — and here in Sisters, the grocery stores are expensive.”

With Seed to Table, she hopes to increase access to fresh fruit and vegetables for people of all incomes.

“I really believe that food is deeply rooted in community, or it once was,” said Gire. “I want to bring that back: where people are sharing vegetables from their gardens and the farmers market is the heart of the community.”

Gire is originally from Pennsylvania, where she grew up gardening. She admits, “I didn’t like it as a kid — I think because my parents forced me to do it and I was rebelling.”

She came to love it, though, and volunteered with community gardens while doing AmeriCorps in California.

“I was really fascinated by the community aspect of it, people gardening right next to each other, sharing

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their successes and failures together — enjoying each other’s company, reminiscing,” she explained.

This work led to another AmeriCorps program where Gire taught kids about gardening and cooking in Vermont.

“It clicked,” she said of the experience. “There is a big disconnect between kids and their food. With larger grocery stores and transportation abilities, kids just don’t know where their food comes from. It was fun and fascinating to see how interested and motivated the kids were — how much they loved getting their hands in the dirt, planting and digging.”

Gire moved to the Willamette Valley to work on a hunger-relief farm. She then moved on to a mix of farm-to-school education projects and working on small organic farms. The job listing for Seed to Table’s education coordinator caught her attention because it aligned so well with her values.

“It’s difficult to grow here,” she noted. “People here are deserving of fresh foods just as much as in the Valley where it just grows magically. It’s tough here, but it is possible if you are committed to growing organic, fresh produce.”

As education coordinator, she runs many field trips and activities for elementary school programming.

“We’re also working with the high school to do a high school greenhouse class every spring — an indepth experience growing in our greenhouse and learning about agriculture in our modern society,” she said.

Sisters High School has a greenhouse on-site, and Seed to Table also partners with the Interdisciplinary Environmental Expedition

program. IEE brings about half of the school’s juniors into the great outdoors regularly for education across multiple subject areas.

“We have several high school students who come and do projects at the farm every spring through IEE,” said Gire.

Gire expressed excitement about working with the Warm Springs School District as well. She hopes that incorporating Seed to Table’s knowledge into the classroom and into the science curriculum will help the reservation’s residents in the long-term. “Students come out to the farm four times of the year,” she said, “and we also do in-class learning.”

Many in the Sisters area struggle financially to bring healthy food to their tables.

Every Thursday, Gire brings donations of Seed to Table’s fresh produce to local food banks. “It’s amazing to see how grateful people are to see the abundance of the produce we can grow here,” she said. “Witnessing such genuine appreciation for what we do — they’re able to get these local fresh fruits and veggies for free or a really cheap price. It’s really nice to see that — instantly, they’re smiling, and they’re happy.”

In partnership with High Desert Food and Farm Alliance, Seed to Table provides harvest meal kits: “HDFFA provides a recipe, the food bank provides a nonperishable item like rice, and we provide the veggies.

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Gire has learned from the feedback people offer.

“It’s been interesting to hear what people have to say,” she said. “Because I get how much people think they hate kale — until they try one of those recipes. A lot of families pick up the harvest kits. Then they’re like, ‘Hey

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An anonymous donor has challenged the Sisters community to raise $20,000 in order to receive a matching donation of the same amount. Seed to Table has until November 1 to raise the matching funds. Donations can be mailed to Seed to Table Oregon, P.O. Box 1812, Sisters, OR 97759. For additional information, see www.seedtotableoregon.org.

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USFS seeks input on wilderness fees The Deschutes and Willamette National Forests are asking for input on a proposed special recreation permit fee as a part of the new limited-entry system for day and overnight use in three central Cascades wildernesses.

The limited-entry system will go into effect beginning the summer of 2020. The special recreation permit fee, if approved, also would go into effect in the summer of 2020.

“We are looking for the public’s input on the next steps for managing visitor use in these popular wilderness areas so we can reduce resource damage and maintain access to these areas for current and future generations,” said Deschutes Forest Supervisor Holly Jewkes.

The central Cascades wildernesses include the Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Washington, Three Sisters, Waldo Lake and Diamond Peak wildernesses. Increased recreational use is degrading the resources, wilderness character and recreation experience in these areas. The Willamette and Deschutes National Forests began an environmental analysis in January 2017 to address these impacts. Following this analysis and public input, the forest officials decided this past spring to apply a limitedentry system, with the final decision signed on May 10, 2019. The Willamette and Deschutes National Forests are now seeking authorization through the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to charge a special recreation permit fee as a part of the

limited-entry system within the three wildernesses.

The Forest Service has proposed the following structure for the special-use permit fee: • No special-use permit fees for youth 12 and under, though each person requires a limited-entry reservation regardless of age.

• Day-use permit fee $3 per person (needed at 19 trailheads, no fee 60 trailheads).

• Overnight permit fee $5 per person, per night (needed at 79 trailheads).

The special recreation permit fee will be required from the Friday before Memorial Day to the last Friday in September in the Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Washington, and Three Sisters wilderness areas. The special recreation permits would be available at Recreation.gov.

Limited-entry reservations would include the special recreation permit fee, plus the processing fees charged by Recreation.gov. The processing fees are currently $1 per person for day use and $6 per overnight group.

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“Now we seek the public’s engagement on the specifics of the fee structure.”

The Forests will review and consider all comments and use them to inform how the proposal may be adjusted.

The final proposal will be presented to two Resource Advisory Committees, one on the east side of the Cascades and one on the west side of the Cascades. The Resource Advisory Committees will give the Forest Service recommendations on the fee structure. The regional forester for the Pacific Northwest, Region 6, will make the final decision.

Under Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, 80 to 95 percent of the proposed special recreation permit fees would be invested in wilderness management activities, trail maintenance, visitor education and expanding work with volunteers and partners within the three wildernesses.

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Investigators believe the deer was shot sometime around September 5, during the buck deer archery season.

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Foster home has new ownership

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

Lori Owen, a registered nurse, recently purchased the adult foster home at 182 E. Tall Fir in Sisters, formerly Absolute Serenity, owned by David Tolle.

Owen is calling it “Our Home.”

“My philosophy is as we provide excellent loving care, we must always be mindful that we are a guest in their home,” she said.

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Throughout her life she reached out to different occupations, but always returned to caregiving.

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“My goal was to graduate before 50, and I was 49.

Going back to school after my three children were out of school was a good idea,” she added.

Owen’s first position as an RN was at East Cascade Retirement community in Madras, and when she found herself in-between jobs she began working at a local adult foster home in 2015.

Within a few months she bought the home she was working in.

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She added, “But after praying again, I received an e-mail a couple of days later with the opportunity to acquire an AFH in Sisters.

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Purchasing the adult foster home seemed serendipitous since Tolle and Owen knew each other as colleagues for a few years.

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Outlaws fall in final minutes on soccer pitch

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The boys soccer team fell 2-0 at Cascade on Wednesday, October 9 — but they played some of their best soccer of the year.

Cascade controlled the ball and dictated the tempo early, but the Outlaws defense settled in and momentum shifted their way about 20 minutes into the game.

Coach Jeff Husmann said, “We’ve been doggedly working on playing small ball as a unit in the midfield the past couple of weeks, and we have certainly improved.

This allowed us to move the ball into the finishing third of Cascade. We had offensive opportunities, as did Cascade, but both goalies played well the entire game.”

At the half, the score was deadlocked 0-0.

The second half continued much the same, with both sides losing and gaining momentum. Husmann told The Nugget that play was very aggressive and wasn’t held in check as much as it needed to be. Toward the end, Oscar Rhett suffered an injury to the back of the neck while he was on the ground as keeper, and the game was delayed for 25 minutes.

“It was scary, as he needed to be back-boarded off the field,” said Husmann.

“The team was visibly and

understandably upset by the loss of their starting goalkeeper, as he was taken to the hospital. He’s OK and recovering from a mild concussion.”

Cascade scored twice in the final 10 minutes of the contest and got the win.

“I’m so proud of the manner in which this team played today, and more importantly, how they handled a challenging situation,” said Husmann. “Their heads and hearts were with the injured teammate and friend.

While the 2-0 loss stings, it’s their collective character that I am most proud of.”

Husmann noted Noah Pittman and Gavin Christian (both sophomores) for their outstanding play.

“Noah played his best match of the season,” said Husmann. “He’s been working hard learning to contain players, rather than stab in, and it certainty showed today.

He had his hands full with their crafty strikers. Gavin demonstrated an increasing maturity in his role as an outside midfielder.”

The Outlaws were scheduled to play at Woodburn on Tuesday, October 15. They will play at home against Philomath on Thursday.

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Lady Outlaws bring a broom to the hardwood

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaws continued to dominate league foes this past week, with a sweep over both Cascade and Woodburn. Sisters defeated Cascade 25-14, 25-5, 25-10, at home on Monday, October 7, and two days later on the road, swept the Bulldogs 25-3, 25-21, 25-9.

Sisters started off strong in Mondayʼs contest, and held the momentum the entire night. In the first set, Sydney Myhre served seven in a row to put the Outlaws on top 20-6. In the second set, Greta Davis was the serving queen, and served up eight straight to give the Outlaws a 16-4 lead. Sam and Sophie Silva and Davis all contributed in the strong offensive effort and combined for 28 kills.

Davis said, “As a team, we tried to stay focused and take care of business, and thatʼs difficult when the competition isnʼt there. Tonight was a really good night for Addy (Myhre), who was on fire and really effective for us on offense.”

Two days later, the Outlaws traveled to Woodburn. The long bus ride didnʼt hinder the Outlawsʼ start, as they came out with grit and determination. Ellie Rush started at the service line and quickly got Sisters a 9-0 lead. Sophie Silva served out the first set with 13 straight serves, and the

Outlaws won the set 25-3.

Coach Rory Rush made some lineup changes in the second set, and although the Outlaws never trailed, they didnʼt play with the confidence they had in the first set.

They struggled with missed serves, and passing and hitting errors, which gave the Bulldogs a renewed momentum. Despite the mistakes, Sisters managed to hold Woodburn off and record a 25-21 win.

The Outlaws got back down to business in the third set, and quickly took a 14-2 lead behind solid serves from Sam Silva. Sophie Silva made an outstanding hustle play; she ran down a shanked pass, and dove to keep the ball in play, which kept her sister Sam at the service line.

Sisters easily won the set 25-9.

Davis had nine kills in the match, followed by Sophie Silva and Addy Myhre, who tallied seven. Sydney Myhre recorded five kills and Natalie Sitz added three.

Sophie also had six aces in the contest.

Sam Silva said, “I think we are figuring out what works best for our team as a whole. Everyone on the team is so talented and can play any position on the court. This allows us to sub people into any position and everyone is happy whenever anyone comes into the game, which is so great to see.

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Sydney Myhre with a dig against Cascade. was definitely a bummer, but we were able to see what areas we need to improve on and we are all excited to play them again in a few weeks,” added Silva. “Weʼve done well this season and we hope to continue improving and creating memories as not only a team, but a family.”

Rush commented that the Outlaws will work hard to

capitalize on their consistency and work hard to maintain confidence from start to finish, as they push to finish league strong in preparation for playoffs.

Sisters is currently 8-1 in league play. The Outlaws were to play at home against Philomath on Tuesday, October 15. They will travel to Stayton on Thursday.

St. Charles Health System is hosting a medication takeback on Saturday, October 26, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at its St. Charles Bend hospital campus at 2600 NE Neff Rd. The take-back event is intended to help households dispose of medications that could be ingested by someone other than the person for whom they were prescribed and to prevent meds from ending up in the water table.

In 2018 St. Charles collected more than 280 pounds of medication.

No questions will be asked. Individuals can drive through the parking lot and drop off medications right from their car window. Bend police officers will accept the medications, then give them to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to dispose of safely.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Spanish Conversation Group Forming

A Spanish conversation group for anyone and any level to practice Spanish will begin on Thursday, October 17 at 10 a.m. at Fika Sisters Coffeehouse. The group will meet weekly if there is enough interest. Contact Dick Falxa at dfalxa@bendcable.com or 541280-2742 for more information.

Community Wildfire Protection Open House

The Greater Sisters Country Community Wildfire Protection Plan is hosting an Open House on Wednesday, October 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District at 301 S. Elm St. Please come and provide your input! Call 541-322-7129 for info.

Bell Choir Seeks Players

Sisters High Desert Bell Choir has immediate openings for 2 players.

Music reading is essential and practices are on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m. There will be free training available to anyone who applies.

For more information call Lola at 541-390-4615.

Sisters Aglow Lighthouse

All men, women and teens are welcome for an encouraging time of worship, message and ministry. Sisters Aglow Lighthouse Fellowship is gathering at the Ponderosa Lodge Meeting Room on Saturday, October 26, from 10 a.m. to noon. Our speakers are Joy Durham and Debbie Bucher. We will also hear from Daniel Faludi, who leads worship at David’s Tent in Washington, D.C. Worship will be led by Kim Williams. For additional info call 503-930-6158 or email dana.herman.54@gmail.com.

Habitat Groundbreaking Ceremony

Sisters Habitat for Humanity will hold a groundbreaking ceremony with the Neal family to celebrate the beginning of construction of their new home.

The ceremony starts at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, October 23 in the south end of the Village Meadows neighborhood near the intersection of N. Brooks Camp Road and N. Desert Rose Lane. All are invited. Refreshments will be served. Call 541-549-1193 for info.

Sponsor an Impoverished Child from Uganda

Hope Africa International, based in Sisters, has many children awaiting sponsorship! For more information go to hopeafricakids. org or call Katie at 541-719-8727.

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Highlights

Wednesday, October 16 Community Wildfire Open House 6 to 8 p.m. at Sisters Fire Station Thursday, October 17 Spanish Conversation Group 10 a.m. at Fika Sisters Coffeehouse Thursday, October 17 Alder Springs Geology Hike 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. atAlder Springs Trail Monday, October 21 Go Fish Meeting 7 p.m. at Sisters Community Church

Go Fish Meeting

The Go Fish Group will meet Monday, October 21 at 7 p.m. at Sisters Community Church. The program will be presented by Bill Seitz of Bend and will focus on the “Nuts and Bolts” of nymphing techniques applicable to Central Oregon rivers and streams. For more info contact 541-771-2211.

Stars Over Sisters Party

Learn about the night skies!

Stargazers are invited to gather at the SPRD building on Saturday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m. for a free presentation and slide show. If weather then permits, plan on heading out to the SHS sports fields to observe the night sky through powerful telescopes. For information call 541-549-8846.

Sisters Speak Life Cancer Support Group

This cancer support group meets the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at Suttle Tea in their back room from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Caregivers as well as patients and family members are welcome to join in.

Please contact Suzi Steele at 503819-1723 for more information.

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.

Sisters Newcomers Club

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

Volunteer for Parks Board

The City of Sisters is accepting applications for a volunteer position on the City Parks Advisory Board for a 3-yr. term. Applicants must live within the Sisters School District boundary. The Board advises the Council on matters pertaining to the acquisition, development, maintenance and preservation of public parks, trails & open spaces, meeting every first Wednesday at 4 p.m. Applications are at www.ci.sisters.or.us or at Sisters City Hall at 520 E. Cascade Ave. Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. Friday, October 25. For info contact Patrick Davenport at 541-323-5219 or at pdavenport@ ci.sisters.or.us.

Alder Springs Geology Hike

Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Derek Loeb for a geology hike to Alder Springs on Thursday, October 17 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Descend into the canyon from the top of the Crooked River National Grasslands, then hike to Alder Springs and follow Whychus Creek to where it meets the Deschutes River. Learn about the geology of the canyon and Alder Springs’ conservation. Register at www.deschuteslandtrust.org/ hikes-events. Info: 541-330-0017.

Social Security: Unlock Its Potential

Join Casey Miller of Hartford for this 45-minute lunch-hour class on Thursday, October 24 at 12:15 p.m. at the Sisters Library to learn the options and implications for taking Social Security benefits and how to maximize them. Call 541549-1866 for more information.

Senior Luncheons & More

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

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

Dementia Caregivers Group

A free support group for caregivers of those suffering with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia takes place the first Tuesday of each month from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Sisters City Hall. Sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association, meetings provide emotional, educational, and social support. Call 800-2723900 or go to alz.org/oregon.

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 6 p.m. Worship the 3rd Tuesday of each month 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

Volunteer for Sisters Festival of Books

Sisters Festival of Books could use a few more volunteers on Saturday, October 19 for the author readings at Sisters Middle School. Interested? Email info@ sistersfob.com or call Ann at 541549-0998.

Career Funds Available

Applications are available for the Sisters Kiwanis Career Opportunity Fund to help adult residents of Sisters establish an occupational path. Pick up forms at the Kiwanis House, corner of Oak and Main, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Thursdays, and during regular hours from the Sisters Habitat for Humanity office. For additional information, please call 541-4102870.

Halloween Trick-or-Treat Parade

The Annual Halloween Trick or Treat Parade is happening on Halloween afternoon, Thursday, October 31. Open to children aged 0-10 and their parents/ caregivers. Gather at the Fir Street Park by 3:15 p.m., in costume, ready to follow a route through town, trick-or-treating at local businesses. Registration is required and forms are at the Sisters Library and the elementary school. Please bring a non-perishable food item for the Kiwanis Food Bank. Call 541-410-9070 for more info.

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.

Tai Chi/Balance Sessions

Free Tai Chi/Balance Classes based on the CDC “Steadi” Program to reduce injuries and falls in our community are being sponsored by Sisters Drug. Taught

by Shannon Rackowski every Thursday from 11-11:30 a.m. (except holidays) at the SPRD Fitness Room next to Sisters High School. Open to all ages. For info: 541-549-6221.

Furry Friends Blue Bag Fundraiser

Collecting bottles and cans for Furry Friends is now easier than ever. Pick up the plastic blue bags at our office or from the basket on The Nugget porch. Fill the bag with your returnable bottles and cans and Furry Friends gets the funds. For more information pick up a flyer at your next drop-off or call 541-797-4023.

Creative Crafters Wanted

Soroptimist Holiday Bazaar will be held at Crook County Fairgrounds Grizzly Building on Saturday, November 16 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Booths are available for crafters to display and sell their creations. For more information call Neva 541-447-4290.

Batacular!

The Deschutes National Forest in partnership with Discover Your Forest will host Batacular, an educational and family fun day on Saturday, October 26 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Deschutes National Forest headquarters at 63095 Deschutes Market Road in Bend. Participants will learn about bats while enjoying crafts, games, snacks, tips to inspire guests to become Bat Heroes, a mini cave to explore, a photobooth and much more! Free, open to the public, and Halloween costumes are welcomed! For questions, please call Stacey at 541-383-5530 or stacey.cochran@discovernw.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. Info: 541-771-3258.

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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, October 17, 24 and 31 from 10:30 to 11 a.m., with songs, rhymes and crafts, all designed to grow young readers.

Caregivers must attend. Info: 541-617-7078.

The Library Book Club

Read and discuss “The Wife”

by Alafair Burke with other thoughtful readers at the Sisters Library on Wednesday, October 23, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Info: 541-617-7078.

Pumpkin Party

Pumpkin-decorating, stories and games for ages birth to 11.

No registration required. Sisters Library on Saturday, October 26 at 10 a.m. Info: 541-617-7078.

Meet MOMMA DOG, an exceptionally delightful senior mastiff mix who is looking for her forever home! Momma is a staff favorite at the shelter because she is so friendly with everyone she meets! This gentle lady has an incredibly wonderful personality and is looking for the quiet and loving retirement home that she deserves. If you are looking for a sweet and gentle senior lady to add to your family then Momma is the dog for you!

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The reading life

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Sisters is getting set to celebrate the reading life.

The Sisters Festival of Books runs Friday-Sunday, October 18-20.

There are few things more worthy of celebration than books and the strange and wonderful people who create them. Writing a book is a damnably difficult business, and far more books are started than are finished. Inspiration can give you a good start, but only discipline can carry you through to completion. And that’s to say nothing about all the work involved in getting a book out into the hands of readers, whether you are traditionally published or are doing the work yourself.

It’s a giant pain and best to be avoided, if you can.

Thing is, most writers just… can’t. They HAVE to write.

David Joy, who is featured at this weekend’s festival, described the overwhelming compulsion to get a story down on paper and out into the world: “It feels almost terminal, like if I don’t get the words out then it’ll be the end of me.”

Well, I, for one, am grateful that these intrepid souls are so driven, for they have given me gifts beyond price.

Books made me. Reading the propulsive pulp stories of Robert E. Howard and the gritty yet romantic frontier novels of Will Henry made me say, “I want to do THAT!” and set me on the path to making my living with the pen. My brother’s gift of Allan W. Eckert’s historical novel “The Frontiersmen” introduced me to the Kentucky woodsranger Simon Kenton, and the Shawnee resistance leader Tecumseh. From that seed grew a lifetime of frontier studies — and my own book.

Non-readers often think that we readers aren’t actually doing anything when we’re reading — but they are oh so wrong. We’re living a thousand lives, right there on the couch. My wife, Marilyn, once had to shout at me to get my attention while I was reading Tim Willocks’ brilliant novel “The Religion,” which depicts the 1565 Great Siege of Malta by the Turkish army of Suleiman the Magnificent. She laughed at me as I tore myself from

the page and stared at her blankly, like I’d just woken up from a deep slumber.

All I could tell her was that it takes some time to get back from 1565 to the 21st century. A good book does that to you. It carries you away, and returns you home changed, like Bilbo Baggins returning to The Shire from the Lonely Mountain.

As you’ve no doubt deduced, my tastes run heavily to blood-and-thunder — and that’s true of both my fiction and non-fiction reading. My poor, dear mother early on gave up trying to elevate my barbaric tastes — and defended them when I got in trouble in sixth grade for bringing Hunter S. Thompson’s “Hell’s Angels” to free reading day.

Not that anybody’s tastes need defending, but that blood-and-thunder section boasts some extraordinary writers. When you combine 100-proof storytelling with writing chops honed to a razor’s edge, you’ve got something that makes the blood sing, something as

timeless and soul-stirring as “Beowulf.” Willocks has it; so do James Carlos Blake and Cormac McCarthy. And so does David Joy, who will tear himself away from his beloved forests, streams, and mountains to carry the coals of story to us right here in Sisters.

Of course there are myriad literary paths to take, and the Sisters Festival of Books offers a bunch of them.

That’s another wondrous thing about the reading life: Whatever your pleasure, whatever worlds you seek to explore, someone has marked trail for you, and there are mysterious legions of fellow travelers who share your love for the journey and the destination.

So, this weekend we gather in the Great Hall to hail the spinners of tales, the creators of worlds. We’ll try not to break the mead benches.

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Fika Sisters Coffeehouse Coffee & Connections at Jobb 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Connect with remote workers & other professionals. For more info call 541-588-0311.

Sisters Saloon Poker Night 7 p.m. Every Wednesday! $20.

For information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net.

Cork Cellars Tasty Thursday Hosted Wine Tasting 5 to 7 p.m. For additional information call 541-549-2675 or go online to corkcellarswinebistro.com.

17 THUR Sisters Saloon Karaoke Night 9 p.m. to midnight. Every Thursday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net.

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FivePine Lodge Sisters Festival of Books Local Author Reception 5 to 7 p.m. Light hors d’oeuvres with 13 local authors. Tickets and information at SistersFoB.com or call 541-549-0866.

Fika Sisters Coffeehouse Game Night until 8 p.m. Bring your own games & friends or find them there! Call 541-5880311 for more information.

Hardtails Bar & Grill KJ Annie Rawkstar Karaoke Night! 9 p.m. Every Friday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com.

Sisters Middle School Sisters Festival of Books Author Readings & Presentations 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Author readings, presentations, signings, and a pop-up bookstore.

Tickets and info at SistersFoB.com or call 541-549-0866.

Cork Cellars Live Music with Derek Michael Marc 6:308:30 p.m. No cover! For information call 541-549-2675 or go online to corkcellarswinebistro.com.

Hardtails Bar & Grill KJ Annie Rawkstar Karaoke Night! 9 p.m. Every Saturday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com.

Paulina Springs Books Sisters Festival of Books Family & Community Events 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free and open to the public. Info at SistersFoB.com or call 541-549-0866.

The Belfry Biodiversity Begins with a Bee Sisters Science Club presentation by Dr. Jerry Freilich. 7 p.m. Social OCT Hour at 6 p.m. $5 admission. Call 541-912-0750 or go to 22 sistersscienceclub.org.

TUES Sisters Saloon Trivia Night 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sign-up is at 6:15 p.m. Free, every Tuesday! For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net.

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Fika Sisters Coffeehouse Game Night until 8 p.m. Bring your own games & friends or find them there! Call 541-5880311 for more information.

Hardtails Bar & Grill KJ Annie Rawkstar Karaoke Night! 9 p.m. Every Friday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com.

Chops Bistro Live Music with Bob Baker & Mark Barringer 6 to 8 p.m. Fiddle and guitar music. For additional information call 541-549-6015.

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Tales from a

Sisters Naturalist

by Jim Anderson

I know who you are...

I found a sweet old 1946 wooden-main-spar Cub for sale at the Oregon City airport back in 1966. I was working for OMSI as the staff naturalist at the time and really needed the Cub to continue the golden eagle surveys I had started about a year after I rolled into Bend on my Harley in ’51.

My two older boys, Dean and Ross, were introduced to the sense of flying, and taking control in that Cub, which may have led to their becoming F-16 instructor pilots. It also made it possible for me to continue checking the eagle nests in Central Oregon.

One hot spring morning I took off from Bend to check Fort Rock, Cougar Mountain, and other breeding sites, and let myself get so involved with eagle-searching I didn’t notice the thunderstorms at all quadrants. By the time I was ready to head for home and landed at Christmas Valley for fuel, there was a dark curtain of thunderstorms between Fort Rock and points north, so I decided I’d stay in Christmas Valley.

My old pal, Shorty Gustafson, his wife, Echo, and their beautiful daughter, Judy, lived there and Echo made the best elk-and-creamgravy there was on Earth.

As we were chowing down, there came a sudden crash against the side of the house.

Looking up in alarm, I asked Shorty, “What was that!?”

“The wind,” he replied.

That sent shivers down my back, and I blurted out, “If that was the wind, I just lost an airplane,” and we all

jumped into Shorty’s pickup.

Sure enough as we pulled into the tie-down area the Cub wasn’t there — even though I had tied it down.

Well, sort of…

There it was, the left wing down into the rocks and gravel, wingtip at right angles with the rest of the wing, and the fuselage caught under the goose-neck of an 18-wheeler flat-bed trailer. With the wind still howling, we hauled the grease-covered Cub out from under the goose-neck, got it back on two wheels and then tied it to the pickup and trailer house and Shorty rolled a big pile of heavyduty high-tension wire under the other wing and tied it down tight.

Next morning was a sight.

The Cub was where we left it; however the left wing-tip was crunched, there was a large slash of grease on top of the fuselage, and worst of all, the fuselage was twisted to the point where the tailsection was out of whack with the rest of the plane, and there big wrinkles in the fuselage skin.

I could see the task of taking the wings off, trailering it to Bend for repairs, and mucho bucks flying out of my pocket to fix my poor old broken Cub. Shorty stood looking at the twisted fuselage, went to his pickup and came back with a flashlight, opened the doors to the interior of the Cub and crawled over the back seat into the so-called luggage area. He spent quite a while swinging the flashlight around, inspecting the framework.

When he returned from his cramped investigation he said, “I think I can straighten out your airplane.” I didn’t believe it and said so. “Well,” Shorty began, “I don’t see any breaks in the welding, or holes in the skin, so, let’s give it a try.”

With that, he untied his pickup from the Cub and drove away. When he returned he had a big pile of sleeping pads and blankets, along with a bunch of old harness from his horsefreighting days. He instructed me (and bystanders) to hold

the pads and blankets and began to weave the old harness around the fuselage like a spider wrapping up a grasshopper.

When he was done we drove another pickup under the left wing and tied it down in several places, and did the same to his pickup. We then tied the landing gear and nose section to the tiedowns directly under it so, for all practical purposes, the airplane was stuck to the ground.

He told the bystanders to hold the wings, Me and my old 1946 wooden-main-spar Cub. nose and front of the fuselage from mov- he’d also brought along, ing as he tied Echo’s long made a giant band-aid for the clothesline pole to the har- damaged wing.

After much hand-shakness and said, “Now, Jimmy, go behind the airplane and ing and hugging to all who watch what happens.” And helped during the operation, he began to pull down on the I took off for Bend — first leveling off about three feet long jill-poke.

Slowly, the empennage above the runway and shak(tail and elevators combined) ing the Cub as violently began to come into alignment as I could. I even bounced with the wings. As Shorty the wheels on the runway. kept grunting and pulling on Everything stayed where it the pole things got better, the belonged, so I headed north.

When I landed at Bend, I wrinkles came out of the skin and the tail was vertical to pulled up to the gas pumps to the wings. “You’re there!” I fill the tanks and a big guy shouted, and then he gave the I’d never seen before was leaning against a beautiful pole one more mighty yank.

I couldn’t believe it. red Stinson Voyager, smilEverything was lined up like ing. “I know who you are” he said; “you’re Jim Anderson.” it should be. ”You did it!” I shouted, And walked over to inspect and taking the flashlight I the bandaged wing-tip.

“I don’t know you,” I crawled into the rear of the fuselage and inspected the welded joints—every one of them. Not one was broken. I really couldn’t believe it, but it appeared the Cub was airworthy again. Then I looked at the broken wing-tip.

Shorty saw me looking at the wing tip, took a hacksaw off the front seat of the pickup, got up on a ladder, sawed off the wingtip at the wing rib. Then took a feed sack he’d brought with him and with the rolls of tape

PHOTO COURTESY JIM ANDERSON

replied, “so how can you know me?”

“Elementary,” he said, walking over and offering his hand, “I’m Dean Johnson.”

As we shook he continued, “I know you’re Jim Anderson by the condition of your Cub.” I started to say something but he held up his hand and went on. “Look, it’s obvious. You got one of the eagles you’re always pestering very unset; it tried to tear your wing off, and smeared you-know-what all over your fuselage.”

We were good pals, and had many soaring adventures together, and someday, you’ll have to ask me about his book, “What I Know About Fly Fishing On The Rogue River.” You won’t find it in the library…

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Outlaws enjoyed downtown challenge race

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

Sisters’ entire volleyball program got together for their inaugural “Amazing Race” on Monday, September 30, and had a great time working together and competing as teams.

The girls were split into groups of three or four, and then sent around town to different locations where they had to complete a challenge.

When the challenge was complete, they were given a clue for the next location and challenge.

Teams had to go to six different locations around town, and the store-owners joined in and were part of the Outlaws experience. Challenges included: untie a big climbing knot-ball rope at Hike-NPeak, a nut-and-bolt challenge at Ace Hardware, cast a fly into a hula-hoop at The Fly Fisher’s Place, eat a grossflavored candy at The Garden of Eden, sing a song at Sisters Coffee Company and ride a tiny bike at Blazin Saddles.

Senior captains, Sam Silva and Addy Myhre, shared their thoughts on the event.

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Outlaws volleyball players shifted their competitive spirit to a challenge race in downtown Sisters last week. activity was amazing!” Silva said. “We were all able to work together to create memories with teammates from different grades. We are a very competitive team and that made the race so fun!”

Myhre stated, “It was super-fun! It was a really cool bonding experience for all of the teams because we had to do really exciting and weird challenges.”

Senior parent Jason Myhre was the driving force behind the whole idea, and organized

the event with the support of coaches, parents, and local businesses.

Myhre said, “We were so appreciative of the participation of each location, and they had a lot of fun being a part of it. It was a great success and set the stage for hopefully an annual thing that the girls can look forward to.”

Varsity Volleyball Coach Rory Rush added, “The Amazing Race was a fun activity organized for the team. It was a great way to

get exercise and run around Sisters and spend time together; of course with a little competition built in!”

We were all able to work together to create memories with teammates from different grades.

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Corporations and resources

By Michelle Klampe Correspondent

C O RVA L L I S – Researchers have identified six corporate actions that, combined with effective public policy and improved governmental regulations, could help large transnational corporations steer environmental stewardship efforts around the world, a new paper suggests.

A handful of transnational corporations in key sectors such as agriculture, forestry, seafood, minerals and fossil energy have a significant environmental impact but also possess the ability to influence important industry changes to ensure long term sustainability, and these features of change underscore that, said James Watson, a co-author of the paper and an assistant professor who specializes in sustainability science at Oregon State University.

“The leaders of these companies should be at the table when we’re talking about issues of global sustainability,” said Watson, who is on the faculty of OSU’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. “In the past, you would not have imagined them at the table.

But to create sustainability around the globe, we can’t act alone in one place. We have to act in concert.”

The researchers’ findings were published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

The paper’s authors include notable ecology and economics researchers from the U.S. and Europe; the lead author is Carl Folke of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Consolidation among corporations, where a small number of companies control a large share of the market for a product, is a well-known and predictable feature of economic development, Watson said. These companies’ dominance across the globe puts them in a unique position to influence sustainability practices.

“These issues can affect companies’ bottom line,” Watson said. “Lots of companies have rules about maximizing profit for shareholders. But if you act unsustainably, your profits will be zero at some point in the future.

Issues of sustainability are completely in line with the long-term profitability of companies.

“It’s not just about now.

It’s about future generations.”

I n t h e i r p a p e r, t h e researchers identified six

features of change that could mark a shift toward corporate biosphere stewardship.

Stewardship, rather than sustainability, emphasizes both social and environmental dimensions of caring for the planet, emphasizing that people, nations and the global economy are intertwined and together shape the environmental dynamics of the planet.

The six actions are: • Alignment of vision – As people increasingly recognize global environmental changes, new norms are emerging among some of the largest corporations and brands. More than half of a sample of 450 companies in food, wood-product and textile sectors reported using at least one sustainable-sourcing practice. Progressive chief executives can be role models for entire sectors and set norms for industry.

• Mainstreaming sustainability – Guiding frameworks help society define problems and provide space for innovation and solutions to emerge. Frameworks established through science can be magnified by engaging with corporations and help them rapidly scale up when they find sustainability success.

• License to operate – Developing global licenses for transnational corporations to operate in a democratic, ethical and sustainable manner around the world.

Governments in some countries are already taking steps toward this; for example, the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act requires companies to disclose the measures they take to address slavery and human trafficking.

• Financing transformations – Major pension funds and other institutional

investors are starting to move funds away from unsustainable practices and toward global stewardship.

Systematic incorporation of sustainability criteria in traditional financial sectors could push transformative change.

• Radical transparency – Novel technologies are making it easier to follow supply chains and monitor production, harvesting and distribution of supplies for environmental impacts. If the major leaders in an industry engage in these practices, it could stimulate others to follow their lead.

• Evidence-based knowledge for action – The scientific community can play a key role in facilitating and monitoring corporate change by independently investigating, defining problems and engaging with companies to develop solutions.

Moving toward more sustainable practices is not without risk, Watson noted.

Even if most corporate leaders are on board with a change, one bad actor can ruin a plan – skirting rules to cut costs or increase market share.

The researchers focused on large transnational corporations that have the potential for the largest impact, but their guidance can also apply to individuals and small and mid-size businesses who are part of the economic chain, Watson said.

“Everyone has agency.

It’s important to take ownership of your position in the global economic marketplace,” he said. “Ensuring the long-term viability of the planet is a collective action problem. Everyone has to participate.”

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Commentary: Consider the banned book

By Lane Jacobson Guest Columnist

Few would argue against “free speech” as being a basic tenet of our democracy. It’s the First Amendment of the Constitution, after all. I think, also, that most would agree that the idea of “free speech” exists beyond its legal and constitutional definition of state censorship. It’s central to the ethos of our country and influences the way we interact with and view our society.

With this in mind, I’d like to consider the banned book.

Whether you’re familiar with the idea of banned books or not, chances are that you’ve flipped through a book that has been banned or challenged at some point.

If it’s a “classic,” it’s practically a guarantee. Think of your Hemingway or Twain novels, Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” or perhaps most famously, JD Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye.” Two more recent examples are “Red: A Crayon’s Story” and, one that folks might remember being involved in some local controversy, Alex Gino’s “George.”

The complaints leveled against these books usually fall under the umbrella of general vulgarity, offensive language, and sexually or violently explicit material.

Then there are those examples that are a bit more humorous: Dave Eggers’s “Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” for “poor grammar and sentence structure” (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, by the way), or the cases of mistaken identity in which the wrong book is removed from a library because it shares a title with the book in question. These banned books (and the hundreds more one could list) represent myriad perspectives and subjects. They do, however, have something in common: They have been banned in schools over concerns with children and young adults having access to them.

Historically, in the United States, at least, it is extremely rare that a book is challenged in such a way that the general public’s access is limited.

Recently, however, this has begun to shift. In our era of polarized politics, increased accountability for public figures, and social media and Internet movements, more and more books are being pulled from bookstores’ shelves (not just libraries) or cancelled before publication.

When Simon & Schuster announced it was publishing a book by Milo Yiannopoulos, an especially provocative right-wing media personality, they received heated criticism from readers, booksellers, writers, librarians, and other

publishers. Some authors pulled their upcoming books from Simon. Many bookstores vowed to minimize the number of any Simon & Schuster titles they would carry. The book was cancelled in early 2017. Simon cited the official reason for cancellation as a video in which Milo praised aspects of pedophilia, but one suspects they were looking for any reason to pull the book – he just happened to give them a particularly great one.

Or consider “A Place for Wolves,” a novel written

by Kosoko Jackson, a gay, black author that follows a gay, black protagonist — a perspective and experience far underrepresented in literature. It was cancelled just

before it hit shelves because it ran afoul of the Twitter mob and was deemed insensitive to Muslims and portrayed victims of the Kosovo War as the villains of the story. Some irony here because Kosoko himself had previously been a leader of this “cancel culture.”

There is little question as to whether these are examples of censorship in the legal sense: they’re simply not.

But are they censorship in a broader cultural sense? Or are these just examples of the free market doing what it’s supposed to do? Books are tricky because they are essential to the free exchange of ideas, but they’re also bought and sold and subject to the whims — and demands — of consumers. But what about those

books like Milo’s or Kosoko’s that are squashed before they reach the marketplace?

Consider, also, books of health pseudoscience or fad diets that studies have found to be dangerous. Do they have a place on our shelves?

Or Jay Asher’s “13 Reasons Why,” subject to the double whammy of often being cited as romanticizing teen suicide and being penned by an author accused of sexual harassment.

Do we feel comfortable buying and promoting books by authors that have admitted to sexual misconduct (Asher has not, for the record)? Those royalties are going into that person’s pockets, after all.

Do we, as readers, thinkers, and consumers, have a moral and ethical responsibility

to limit the platforms (and profitability) of those individuals or entities that might be damaging to our society?

Each and every instance of this is complicated in its own way and there are no one-size-fits-all answers. It’s important, also, not to draw a false equivalency between these examples or any others that you might find. As you ponder these questions, keep in mind Ray Bradbury’s dystopian and oft-banned “Fahrenheit 451,” in which it is the public that institutes a policy of book burning — not the government.

We’ll be exploring these and other questions related to free speech and civility at Sisters Community Fire Hall Thurs., Oct. 24, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

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Court: AG must rewrite ‘misleading’ pension ballot measure

By Ted Sickinger The Oregonian/OregonLive

PORTLAND (AP) — Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum must redraft the misleading title and explanation that her agency wrote for a proposed ballot measure that seeks to prohibit government employers from taking on any new pension debt, the Oregon Supreme Court ordered this week.

The Justice Department is responsible for drafting ballot measure titles and explaining their effects to voters in a neutral fashion. But backers of Initiative Petition 13 say that’s not what happened when agency officials issued proposed language for their measure in May, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.

The initiative is straightforward, says Julie Parrish, a former Republican legislator who is one of the chief petitioners. It requires the state treasurer to calculate the unfunded actuarial liability of any public pension program in the state as of December 31, 2022. It creates a constitutional prohibition against government employers accruing any new unfunded liabilities after that date. And it prohibits employers from borrowing money to offset their pension payments, as public employers have in the past by issuing pension obligation bonds.

In fact, it’s not literally possible for government employers to avoid incurring

new unfunded liabilities — temporarily at least. They are created when investment returns fail to live up to expectation in any given biennium, when actual wage growth or mortality rates differ from assumptions, or when employers fail to make adequate contributions to cover accruing benefits.

But practically speaking, backers say the measure would turn public pension systems in Oregon into pay-as-you-go systems, with employers forced to eliminate any incremental unfunded liabilities by paying more money into the system; in effect, zeroing out the credit card balance in any funding period.

Pretty simple, they contend.

But the measure drafters at the Department of Justice apparently had trouble with the concept.

In the draft ballot measure title and in the explanation of what a “yes” would mean, the agency included the notation: “effect unclear.”

The Supreme Court said in its unanimous decision that the measure wasn’t clear in every respect, particularly in how government entities would comply with the new constitutional provision. But it said the “effect unclear” comment “is unhelpful and fails to describe the proposed measure’s subject matter, as required.”

Meanwhile, the court said the agency’s “no” vote explanation was misleading,

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insofar as it “does not summarize the current law accurately or advise voters of the choice they are being asked to make.”

The agency drafters lost the thread in the summary explanation of the ballot measure as well, which the court said contains information that “does not summarize any part of the measure and is not an effect of the measure.”

For those reasons, the court said the draft doesn’t comply with the standards for ballot measures set out in state law and referred it back to Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum for modification.

Parrish contends agency officials deliberately drafted the measure in a way that would confuse voters and make them less likely to support it. She maintains the move was political: That Rosenblum will be up for reelection and be beholden to unions for campaign donations. And that unions won’t like the measure.

“This whole thing is very political,” Parrish said. “And if your makers are quietly saying we should not let these things get past the goal posts, it makes it difficult to use the process the way it’s supposed to work. I don’t have any faith that the ballot titles being drawn up are not partisan.”

Kristina Edmunson, Rosenblum’s spokeswoman, said the agency has a team of lawyers from the Appellate Division that work on ballot measures in consultation

with the attorney general.

The process, she said, is consistent with statute, including a comment period and a letter of explanation that responds to each comment when the title is submitted.

“Any suggestion that this was politically motivated is incorrect,” Edmunson said.

“We simply believed voters should know that, despite the first impression conveyed by its words, the measure may or may not have the effect of preventing unfunded actuarial liabilities. But the Supreme Court has ruled, and we will follow their instruction.”

Parrish isn’t wrong about the unions’ position. The executive director of the union-backed advocacy group Our Oregon submitted a brief in the case, generally in support of Rosenblum’s ballot title language.

Bottom line, the measure would put public employers on a financial hotseat, likely destabilizing budgets and jeopardizing jobs. As it stands, the PERS Board has a number of mechanisms

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in place to protect public employers from any spike in pension costs, including rules that spread the repayment of any new deficits incurred over 20 years, dampening the budget impact of any new pension shortfall. In fact, in a move backed by unions, state lawmakers just gave employers a major pension holiday by extending the repayment period for the current deficit for an additional eight years.

If the ballot measure were to pass, that wouldn’t fly.

Any new shortfalls would need to be covered immediately. In the end, the only choice public employers might have is to replace their current defined benefit retirement plans with defined contribution plans like a 401(k), which are, by definition, fully funded.

At the very least, Parrish contends, “voters should get a chance to see what these pensions are really costing.

The way to do that is to put it in your budget every year.

You don’t get to kick these obligations down the road in perpetuity.”

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Donald Reed Mayne At the age of 96, Don passed away peacefully in his sleep. Born in 1923, and raised in Portland, Oregon, Don was the only child of Ada Jeanette Reed and Harry McDonald Mayne.

He is survived by his three children: Donald Reed Mayne, Jr. (Noelle) of Boulder, Colorado; Joel Sage Mayne (Gloria) of San Diego, California; and Bryn Mayne Redman of Charleston, South Carolina; and his five grandchildren: Gloria and Alessandra Mayne; Sage and Reed Redman; and Pierce Mayne.

Don’s college years at the University of Oregon were interrupted by World War II, where he served in the 104th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in Europe.

Don was severely injured in the weeks following D-Day. After a lengthy recuperation, he returned to the University of Oregon where he met Marilyn Sage. They married on Christmas Eve in 1947, and soon moved to San Francisco to begin their careers.

In the early 1950s they returned to Portland to start a family. Their two sons were born shortly after. In 1956, the family relocated to La Jolla, California, where daughter Bryn was born. For the next three decades the Maynes enjoyed the Southern California lifestyle.

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Company. He then rose to partner and national sales manager with Eastman Dillon Union Securities & Company. At 72, he finished his working years at the firm that is now UBS. In 1980, Don moved to Sisters, and spent over 20 happy years in Central Oregon’s High Desert in the company of cousin and lifelong best friend, William Reed and his extended family. He remarried twice — first to Ursula Marden, then to Lei Durdan. He also had two yellow labs. The last one, Scotch, was rarely out of reach, and remained his companion for many, many years.

Beyond being a devoted father, Don’s true passion and avocation was ranching — owning or leasing properties and acreage throughout the western U.S., breeding Polled Hereford cattle and raising many horses.

Don was returned to Oregon to his final resting place next to his beloved mother and Norwegian grandparents in the Reed family plot on the tree-lined banks of the Willamette River. A man of great character and kindness, Donald Reed Mayne lived a rich full life and will be missed by many.

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Ballot measures could let voters act on climate SALEM (AP) — Three initiative petitions filed with the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office Monday, October 7, would require the state to phase out electricity sources that contribute to global warming, and transition to a carbon-free economy by 2050, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.

If they proceed to the November 2020 ballot, the measures would likely usher in a bruising ballot fight.

But one of the organizations spearheading the efforts, clean energy coalition Renew Oregon, is hoping the measures instead add urgency to next year’s legislative session.

“Our priority will continue to be the cap-and-invest bill,” said Brad Reed, a spokesman for Renew Oregon. “We will put all of our energy to that.

But we cannot afford for the state and for the people to not have bold climate action next year.”

The carbon cap bill has been in the works for over a decade, and was the focus of a tussle in the Legislature this year. The proposal flamed out amid a walkout by Senate Republicans and disunity in Democratic ranks. Opposition to House Bill 2020 was stiff among some business groups and rural voters.

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The second initiative petition filed by Renew Oregon, called 100 percent Clean Electricity, would require that all electricity used in Oregon be from 100 percent carbonfree sources by 2045.

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Sisters gym to host grand opening

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

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Students got an up-close look at a SWAT vehicle during a Strive for 95 attendance rally at Sisters Elementary School last week.

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handing drivers donuts and thanking them for getting the kids to school.

“It’s really about promoting positive attendance and getting students to want to come to school and be engaged because as educators, we know how important consistent attendance is for learning,” said Warburg. “We are hoping this campaign will help reduce unnecessary absences.”

As part of the incentive, the four classrooms at the elementary school that had the highest rate of attendance for the day also received donuts.

Officers visited the kindergarten and first-grade classrooms to do some reading with the students and other interactions in order to allow kids to get a close up view of the police as real people, according to Crosswhite. In addition, some classes got to meet Deputy Keith Snyder and his canine companion, Brolo of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit.

Snyder and Brolo conducted a presentation for grades 3 and 4 about how dogs are used by the sheriff’s department. Brolo is trained as a patrol (tracking and apprehension) dog. Snyder gave an overview of how dogs like Brolo are trained and how they help police officers, before bringing Brolo out to let him “play” with another officer wearing a protective arm covering used in

training the dogs.

Just as he was finishing up the question-and-answer period, Snyder and Brolo got called to a case unfolding in southern Deschutes County, underscoring that they are basically on call all the time.

“This event is an opportunity for the sheriff’s office to support the Sisters School District in attendance and at the same time let us get to the know the kids, you know, showing them that cops are people too,” he said.

“Everyone enjoys a donut and it’s kind of a win-win for us by giving us a chance to be inside the school and teach kids at an early age that police officers do much more than just chase bad guys.”

Tim Roth, an assistant principal for both the middle school and high school is taking the lead on the “Strive for 95” initiative.

Good attendance habits need to start in elementary school, so we feel good about this event taking place on that site.

— Tim Roth “Good attendance habits need to start in elementary school, so we feel good about this event taking place on that site,” he said. “To break it down, students who have two or fewer absences per quarter would achieve the 95 percent goal, which we think is attainable.”

Sisters’ options for pursuing a healthy, fit lifestyle keep growing. Ashlee Francis has opened Sweat PNW at 392 W. Main Ave. She will host a grand opening of the new fitness program and facility on Saturday, October 19.

Francis told The Nugget that she wanted Sweat PNW to complement the other gyms in town, offering a program designed to appeal to all fitness levels, with classes limited to six people (there will be more during the grand opening).

“I try to keep it limited so you feel like you are getting personal training for a fraction of the cost,” Francis said.

Francis’s education background is in physical therapy and she managed two gyms in Santa Barbara before returning to Sisters, where her family is. She is also a talented athlete.

The protocol at Sweat PNW is individualized training that focuses on proper movement, and a mix of cardiovascular and strength training for men and women.

Francis, who suffered a severed tendon in her ankle when she was hit by a car while riding her bike, understands the need to work around injuries, and she designs her programs to adapt and overcome limitations. The work is hard enough to smoke the fittest athletes if they want it — but it’s designed to go easy on the frame.

“All the cardio is low impact on the joints, so it’s great for building strength

and cardiovascular fitness without applying any pressure to the joints,” Francis noted. “This helps prevent injury and allows people with injuries and bad knees to continue working out.”

Francis keeps the workouts varied, both to help participants stay engaged and to avoid repetition and ruts.

“This is about my 100th day in this spot,” she said last week. “And they haven’t done the same workout twice.”

As a mother herself, Francis knows the value of a gym offering classes where a parent can bring their child — and Sweat PNW does just that.

Francis’ ethic also emphasizes giving back to the community that has supported her

family through trying times.

“Every month we support a member of the community in need,” she said.

Donations at the grand opening will help the Jeppsen Family of Sisters.

The grand opening will feature donation-based classes starting at 7 a.m.

“Every 75 minutes we’ll start a new class that’s an hour long,” she said.

That will give prospective clients a real taste of what the Sweat PNW program offers. Advance sign-ups are required due to limited space; visit www.sweatpnw.com to register.

Ann Griffin will offer free chiropractic consultations during the event and Amy’s Cake Lab in Sisters will provide cupcakes.

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Talk to your teen about the importance of driving safety National Teen Driver Safety Week is October 20-26, and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is teaming up with High Desert Driver Education to help empower parents to discuss the importance of driving safety with their young drivers.

The week is a perfect time to begin — and continue — this conversation, and to remind parents not to hand over the car keys until their teen knows the rules of the road.

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens 15 to 18 years old in the United States, ahead of all other types of injury, disease, and violence. In 2017, there were 2,247 people killed in crashes involving a teen driver (15-18 years old), of which 755 deaths were the teen driver — a 3% decrease from 2016. In fact, in 2017, there were an estimated 93,000 teen drivers injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes, and an estimated 293,000 people injured in crashes involving a teen driver, accounting for an estimated 11% of all those injured that year.

“Because of their lack of experience, teen drivers are a potential danger to themselves and to other drivers, which is why it is so important that parents take time to discuss driving safety with their teens,” said Tony Summers, the driver education program manager at the High Desert Education Service District.

“Don’t be afraid to have

this conversation every day.

NHTSA offers parents and caregivers helpful tips and a framework to talk to their teen drivers about risky driving behaviors that can lead to fatal consequences.”

Because of their lack of experience, teen drivers are a potential danger to themselves and to other drivers, which is why it is so important that parents take time to discuss driving safety with their teens.

— Tony Summers Parents play an important role in helping ensure their teen drivers take smart steps to stay safe on the road.

NHTSA gives parents tips on how to talk about safe driving behaviors with their teens, and to address the most dangerous and deadly driving behaviors for teen drivers: alcohol, lack of seat-belt use, distracted driving, speeding, and driving with passengers.

NHTSA’s website, www. nhtsa.gov/road-safety/teendriving, has detailed information and statistics on teen driving and outlines the basic rules parents can use to help reduce the risks for teen drivers: Impaired Driving: All teens are too young to legally buy, possess, or consume alcohol. However, nationally in 2017, 15 percent of

teen drivers involved in fatal crashes had alcohol in their system. But alcohol isn’t the only substance that can keep your teen from driving safely: In 2017, 6.5 percent of adolescents 12 to 17 years old were marijuana users. Like other drugs, marijuana affects a driver’s ability to react to their surroundings. Driving is a complex task, and marijuana slows reaction time, affecting a driver’s ability to drive safely. Remind your teen that driving under the influence of any impairing substance — including illicit or prescription drugs, or over-the-counter medication — could have deadly consequences.

• Seat Belt Safety: Wearing a seat belt is one of the simplest ways for teens to stay safe in a vehicle. Yet too many teens aren’t buckling up. In fact, there were 539 passengers killed in passenger vehicles driven by teen drivers, and more than half (60 percent) of those passengers who died were NOT buckled up at the time of the fatal crash. Even more troubling, when the teen driver was unbuckled, 87 percent of the passengers killed were also unbuckled. Remind your teen that it’s important to buckle up on every trip, every time, no matter what — front seat and back.

• Distracted Driving: Cell phone use while driving is more than just risky — it can be deadly, and is outlawed in 47 states, Washington DC,

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Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Remind your teen about the dangers of texting and using a phone while driving. Distracted driving isn’t limited to cell phone use; other passengers, audio and climate controls in the vehicle, and eating or drinking while driving are all examples of dangerous distractions for teen drivers. In 2017, among teen drivers of passenger vehicles involved in fatal crashes, 9% were reported as distracted at the time of the crash. Also remind your teen that headphones are not appropriate to wear while driving a vehicle, as they can distract a driver from hearing sirens, horns, or other important sounds.

• Speed Limits: Speeding is a critical issue for all drivers, especially for teens. In 2017, more than one-quarter (27 percent) of all teen drivers of passenger vehicles involved in fatal crashes were speeding at the time of the crash, and males were more likely to be involved in fatal speeding-related crashes than females. Remind your teen to always drive within the speed limit.

• Passengers: Passengers in a teen’s car can lead to disastrous consequences. Research shows that the risk of a fatal crash goes up dramatically in direct relation to the number of passengers in a car. The likelihood of teen drivers engaging in risky behavior triples when traveling with

multiple passengers.

Parents can help protect their teen drivers by talking with them about these risks.

Self-reported surveys show that teens whose parents set firm rules for driving typically engage in less risky driving behaviors and are involved in fewer crashes.

Explaining the rules and any other restrictions outlined in Oregon’s graduated driver licensing and the deadly consequences of unsafe driving practices can help encourage teens to exhibit safe driving behaviors.

“Teens will learn much of this content in drivers’ education classes, but it’s their home environment that will really help these lessons and rules stick. We need parents to set these rules before handing over the car keys,” Tony Summers said. “We hope parents will start the conversation about safe driving during National Teen Driver Safety Week, but then continue the conversations — every day throughout the year — to help keep their teens safe behind the wheel.”

For more information about National Teen Driver Safety Week and to learn safe driving tips to share with your teens, visit www.nhtsa.gov/ road-safety/teen-driving.

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To the Editor: To meet a generous matching grant challenge, Seed to Table Oregon is seeking 100 community members who will join its cause by donating to the organization. No donation is too small. This year, $10 sent seven students home with bags full of veggies, whole grains, and recipes to spark a love for fresh foods. Ten dollars provided two weeks of fresh salad for a family living in a travel trailer.

Expanding our donor base is critical to building a strong foundation for our future success. Of course, large donations are incredible and essential gifts, but, today, I want to emphasize the power in collective and small contributions.

Last Thursday, a food bank recipient and a high school intern each donated $10 toward our grant challenge. I was incredibly moved by their generosity!

What would 100 small donations achieve? Well, they would allow every student who visits the farm in the next year to go home with a bag of fresh produce, whole grains and a recipe.

The lessons learned and skills applied through cooking healthy meals with their families, and, just maybe, a newfound love for fresh veggies that could help them combat life-altering diseases.

As a community-based nonprofit organization, our strongest foundation is the supporters we have behind us. While donating is just one of many ways to show support, it remains exceptionally impactful in helping us carry out our mission and in fostering larger donations like the current challenge grant. Without community support, grants like that would not be available.

If you are a Sisters Country enthusiast, parent, teacher, medical professional, health connoisseur or garden-lover, please help us build our strong foundation by donating what you can within the next two weeks. The deadline to meet the challenge is November 1. Please go to www.seedtotable oregon.org/donate or mail a check to Seed to Table Oregon, Box 1812, Sisters, OR 97759.

Thanks so much to those who have shown support over the years through contributing, volunteering, partnering or providing feedback. Your help is much appreciated.

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To the Editor: Please make plans to attend the upcoming City of Sisters Planning Commission meeting October 17 at 5:30 p.m.. Feel free to address the issue being proposed where the City of Sisters Planning Commission is possibly giving into Hayden Homes again and again.

Hayden agreed to the Conditions of Approval a couple of years ago when this project started and through all of their delays and excuses now again want things changed in their favor.

The City of Sisters Planning Commission and City Council need to stand by their decisions and make Hayden complete the apartments as required and get them ready for occupancy before getting their Notice of Occupancy for the final phase at The Village at Cold Spring homes.

The City of Sisters needs these apartments before they need more single-family homes. Hayden is dangling a carrot in front of the Commission. Hayden is suggesting that adding some additional apartments to the last phase should allow for them to get the City to give them something. The City needs to stand by the original Conditions of Approval. Do all of the contractors and other developers get this special treatment here in Sisters?

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and provide every molecule of food we eat,” Dr. Freilich explains. “Yet we have only the vaguest notion of the species that provide these services.”

The term “ecosystem services” describes the benefits that humans receive from properly functioning ecosystems, such as plant pollination. Scientists estimate that every third bite of food we eat depends on pollinators such as bees, which pollinate about 75 percent of farm crops worldwide every year.

“As the human population of the earth doubles and triples, our natural support system is stressed,” Dr. Freilich says.

Understanding how pollution, urbanization and a changing climate threaten the connections in the natural world that keep humans fed and thriving is paramount, he says. That understanding can begin with the study of bees as we explore a microcosm of the larger world of biodiversity that sustains us.

Dr. Freilich is an entomologist who recently retired as Olympic National Park’s research coordinator, where one of his projects was to find and identify as many bee species as possible in the park.

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Dr. Jerry Freilich will set the audience at The Belfry abuzz with information about the critical importance of bees.

At the invitation of Sisters Elementary School principal Joan Warburg, he will also visit several third-grade classrooms — with bugs and microscopes at hand — during the afternoon.

Dr. Freilich’s evening lecture, sponsored by the Sisters Science Club, starts at 7 p.m. at The Belfry.

Social hour begins at 6 p.m. with light fare, beer, and wine available. Admission is $5; teachers and students are admitted free. The Belfry is located at 302 E. Main Ave. For more information on this topic and on the Sisters Science Club: www.sisters scienceclub.org; sciencein sisters@gmail.com.

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Owl killings spur moral questions about human intervention

By Phuong Le Associated Press

CORVALLIS (AP) — As he stood amid the thick oldgrowth forests in the coastal range of Oregon, Dave Wiens was nervous. Before he trained to shoot his first barred owl, he had never fired a gun.

He eyed the big female owl, her feathers streaked brown and white, perched on a branch at just the right distance. Then he squeezed the trigger and the owl fell to the forest floor, adding to a running tally of more than 2,400 barred owls killed so far in a controversial experiment by the U.S. government to test whether the northern spotted owl’s rapid decline in the Pacific Northwest can be stopped by killing its aggressive East Coast cousin.

Wiens grew up fascinated by birds, and his graduate research in owl interactions helped lay the groundwork for this tense moment.

“It’s a little distasteful, I think, to go out killing owls to save another owl species,” said Wiens, a biologist who still views each shooting as “gut-wrenching” as the first. “Nonetheless, I also feel like from a conservation standpoint, our back was up against the wall. We knew that barred owls were outcompeting spotted owls and their populations were going haywire.”

The federal government has been trying for decades to save the northern spotted owl, a native bird that sparked an intense battle over logging across Washington, Oregon and California decades ago.

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officials halted logging on millions of acres of oldgrowth forests on federal lands to protect the bird’s habitat. But the birds’ population continued to decline.

Meanwhile, researchers, including Wiens, began documenting another threat — larger, more aggressive barred owls competing with spotted owls for food and space and displacing them in some areas.

In almost all ways, the barred owl is the spotted owl’s worst enemy: They reproduce more often, have more babies per year and eat the same prey, like squirrels and wood rats. And they now outnumber spotted owls in many areas of the native bird’s historic range.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s experiment, which began in 2015, has raised thorny questions: To what extent can we reverse declines that have unfolded over decades, often partially due to actions by humans? And as climate change continues to shake up the landscape, how should we intervene?

The experimental killing of barred owls raised such moral dilemmas when it first was proposed in 2012 that the Fish and Wildlife Service took the unusual step of hiring an ethicist to help work through whether it was acceptable and could be done humanely.

The owl experiment is unusual because it involves killing one species of owl to save another owl species. But federal and state officials already have intervened with other species.

They have broken the necks of thousands of cowbirds to save the warbler, a songbird once on the brink of extinction. To preserve salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest and perch and other fish in the Midwest, agencies kill thousands of large seabirds called double-crested cormorants. And last year, Congress passed a law making it easier for Oregon, Washington, Idaho and American Indian tribes to kill sea lions that gobble imperiled salmon runs in the Columbia River.

In four small study areas in Washington, Oregon and northern California, Wiens and his trained team have been picking off invasive barred owls with 12-gauge shotguns to see whether the native birds return to their nesting habitat once their competitors are gone. Small efforts to remove barred owls in British Columbia and northern California already showed promising results.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has a permit to kill up to 3,600 owls and, if the $5 million program works, could decide to expand its efforts.

Wiens, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey, now views his gun as “a research t o o l ” i n h u m a n k i n d ’s attempts to maintain biodiversity and rebalance the forest ecosystem. Because the barred owl has few predators in Northwest forests, he sees his team’s role as apex predator, acting as a cap on a population that doesn’t have one.

“Humans, by stepping in and taking that role in nature, we may be able to achieve more biodiversity in the

environment, rather than just having barred owls take over and wipe out all the prey species,” he said.

Marc Bekoff, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, finds the practice abhorrent and said humans should find another way to help owls.

“There’s no way to couch it as a good thing if you’re killing one species to save another,” Bekoff said.

And Michael Harris, who directs the wildlife law program for Friends of Animals, thinks the government should focus on what humans are doing to the environment and protect habitats rather than scapegoating barred owls.

“We really have to let these things work themselves out,” Harris said. “It’s going to be very common with climate change. What are we going to do — pick and choose the winners?”

Some see a responsibility to intervene, however, noting that humans are partly to blame for the underlying conditions with activities like logging, which helped lead to the spotted owl’s decline.

And others just see a no-win situation.

“A decision not to kill the barred owl is a decision to let the spotted owl go extinct,” said Bob Sallinger, conservation director with the Audubon Society of Portland. “That’s what we have to wrestle with.”

If the experimental removal of barred owls improves the spotted owl populations, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife may consider killing more owls as part of a larger, long-term management strategy. Enough success has been noted that the experiment already has been extended to August 2021.

“I certainly don’t see northern spotted owls going extinct completely,” Wiens said, adding that “extinction in this case will be a much longer process, and from what we’ve seen from doing these removal experiments, we may be able to slow some of those declines.”

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WEAVING: Display is up through October 30 at Sisters Library Continued from page 3

different kinds of weaving and spinning techniques.

The Guild has its own loom set up as a demonstration of weaving twill fabric in different patterns. Stephanie Stanley, past president of the group, explained the process, which can yield fairly complex designs, or fabric as simple as the denim in your jeans.

“Plain weave is over and under and over — twill is a variation on that,” she said.

Kathleen Tovey of Tumalo demonstrated spinning on a wheel, turning a blend of unspun wool and mohair into yarn that she will use to weave. As the bobbin turned, it created a sparkling rainbow effect.

Donna and Jim Wilson used Turkish drop (also known as cross-arm) spindles that turn unspun fibers into balls of wool or wool-blend with a neat center pull thread.

Turkish drop spinning is one of the oldest forms of creating a single yarn from a pile of “fluff” and it does not require a complex wheel. Jim makes their spindles, which consist of a pair of small wooden arms that cross and a tapered shaft inserted down the center.

Carol Bunker and her daughter, Colleen Franks, popped into the room partway through the demonstration period. They quickly set up side-by-side spinning wheels, pulled out their fluffy bags of unspun alpaca, and started to work.

“My mom moved here from Anchorage and adopted some alpacas,” Colleen said.

“Before she knew it, those cute fluffy animals yielded a huge pile of fluff and she

wanted to know what to do with it.”

“I came here for better weather,” Carol said, “but I still go back several times a year because I have a business there.”

Colleen followed her mom from Alaska to Oregon, and recently got married.

They brought bags of roving, which is unspun fiber, as colorful as Carol’s shocking pink and yellow hair.

Carol pulled apart a huge bag of hand-dyed purple, while Colleen’s stash was bright pink. Within a few minutes, both wheels were flying and the piles of pink and purple alpaca became soft vibrant yarns, ready to weave.

“We’re all about animals, and looms, and spinning wheels,” Stephanie Stanley explained.

Many of the Guild members raise and shear their own sheep and alpacas, and others prefer to work with plant fibers.

Guild meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month at 9:30 a.m. in the Highland Baptist Church in Redmond, and in Sisters City Hall on the fourth Saturday of each month at 1 p.m. Anyone with an interest in the creation of fine natural fiber art from animals or plants is welcome to join. In recent years, the membership has grown from about 30 to more than 120 today.

There is a program at each meeting, and people bring their current work to show.

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The next meeting’s program will be on the different breeds of sheep. The topic is “Shave ’Em to Save ’Em: Exploring Different Heritage Breeds in Central Oregon.” The focus is specifically on breeds most suited to this area; the following month, breeds from other parts of Oregon will be discussed.

“Sheep were bred throughout the ages for different uses of their wool — some for carpets, others for heavy coats, and still others for soft sweaters,” Stanley said. “There are certain things you can do when spinning that make a yarn softer or harder, but the most determining factor is actually the breed,” she explained.

The display in the library includes wearable art in the form of ponchos, vests, wraps, and scarves in solids,

patterns and plaids. There are also rugs, wall hangings, and linen dishtowels which last through generations. Some of the items are for sale, and there are forms available to fill out if you wish to purchase. The Spinners and Weavers Guild show is up through October 30.

The Guild’s next event will be the 2019 Holiday Show and Sale, Friday, November 1 from 5 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, November 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Environmental Center, 16 NW Kansas Ave. in Bend.

See how fabric is woven and yarn is spun while shopping for locally handcrafted goods. The Guild’s website is currently being reconstructed, but more information on joining is available from Stephanie Stanley, 541-678-5449.

SALEM (AP) — Oregon’s public records advocate says fees charged by the state and local governments for public records requests are high and wildly uneven, creating a barrier for journalists and citizens seeking documents.

Ginger McCall, who leaves her job Friday, said in a final report Wednesday that fees, sometimes reaching $180 per hour, are onerous compared to what the federal government and other states charge.

She recommended a less discretionary fee structure and low rates. She called for the Legislature and others to commit more resources to public records processing.

McCall announced her resignation in September, saying Gov. Kate Brown’s office wanted her to secretly work for the governor while giving the impression she was working in the public interest. Brown said she regrets the controversy and is committed to improving transparency.

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Garret Kersavage and Hallie Schwartz were crowned 2019 Homecoming King and Queen last week.

College talk focuses on food as a unifier In an era of heightened exclusion and protectionism around the globe, Amy Harper, Ph.D., points to food as a unifier.

The anthropology professor at Central Oregon Community College (COCC) will discuss the role of food as a force for community-building in a presentation titled “Food is What Connects Us: Immigration, Community and Activism at the Dinner Table,” at 6:30 p.m., on Tuesday, October 29, at the Coats Campus Center’s Wille Hall.

This COCC Foundation event is free and open to the public; RSVP at cocc.edu/foundation.

Harper recently returned from a sabbatical in Berlin, Germany, where she conducted research on the intersection of food, immigration and activism. The educator will share a case study that involved neighborhood activists in Germany where food helped build community while simultaneously

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Anthropologist Amy Harper will talk about the community-building power of food at COCC. celebrating differences.

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103 Residential Rentals 3-BR, 2-BA apt. w/mountain view, $1,450/mo.

2 BR apt. $1,150/mo.

Call Jeff at 503-510-4468.

4-BR, 2-BA HOUSE. $1,500 plus utilities.

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

Front-porch charmer, 1,893 SF. 3 BR/2.5 BA, 2-story floorplan w/master bedroom down, inside laundry room, walk-in attic storage, oversize 2+ car garage, only 2 years old, close to elem. school & downtown, Min. 1-year lease, $2,500/Mo. 714-366-6279.

Barn studio apt. w/ loft, wood stove, full bath, kitchenette, w/d, refrig. New carpet & paint, no smoking, pets on approval. $1,275/month. References & refundable cleaning dep. required. Utilities incl. except Internet and satellite TV. Call 541-549-1147 or 303-246-6073.

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104 Vacation Rentals In the Heart of Sisters 3 Vac. Rentals – Quiet 1-2 Bdrm Sleep 2-6, start at $145 per nt. vrbo.com/442970 or /180950 or /337593 • 503-730-0150 CASCADE HOME & VACATION RENTALS Monthly and Vacation Rentals throughout Sisters Country.

(541) 549-0792 Property management for second homes.

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201 For Sale “Support Sisters” SHOP LOCAL! Upright Freezer, 19.3 cu. ft. $35. White deluxe cabinet w/ pull-out shelves, 2' wide x 7' tall $20. 503-244-4981 Regenerative Beef from Sisters Cattle Co. Give your family the best! $3.65/lb. 541-514-8598 sisterscattleco.com.

Snow Tires. Four new Bridgestone Blizzak DM-V2 245/55 R19. $400. Four Hakkapeliitta 2 245/55 R19. 300 miles. $250. Call 206-617-3763.

Habitat THRIFT STORE 211 E. Cascade • 541-549-1740 Mon.-Sun. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Donations: Mon.-Sat. 10 to 4 Habitat RESTORE 254 W. Adams • 541-549-1621 Tues.-Sat. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sun. Noon to 4 p.m. Closed Mon. Donations: Tues.-Sat. 10 to 4

202 Firewood SISTERS FOREST PRODUCTS DAVE ELPI – FIREWOOD • SINCE 1976 • Doug Fir – Lodgepole – Juniper DRIVE-IN WOOD SALES – 18155 Hwy. 126 East – SistersForestProducts.com Order Online! 541-410-4509 Firewood for Sale. Call 541-633-8297 FIREWOOD, dry or green Lodgepole, juniper, pine.

Cut & split. Delivery included. eaglecreekfire@yahoo.com

204 Arts & Antiques THE JEWEL – 27 YEARS! Jewelry Repair • Custom Design gems | 541-549-9388 | gold www.thejewelonline.com Knife-makers and Artisans! ... Fossil ivory and bone ... ....... Trade beads ....... ... And ... Complete set-up for soft glass, a small business!

Call Cha 541-549-1140 chaforthefinest.com YOUR SOURCE for up-to-date Sisters news! www.NuggetNews.com

ALFALFA TRITICALE ORCHARD GRASS HAY New crop. No rain. Barn stored.

3-tie bales. $185-$245/ton. Hwy. 126 & Cline Falls. 541-280-1895

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

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

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

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

500 Services

GEORGE’S SEPTIC TANK SERVICE “A Well Maintained 205 Garage & Estate Sales Septic System Protects the Environment” Huge Moving Sale! 14892 541-549-2871 Bluegrass Lp. Fri.-Sat. 9ish -3.

TOOLS galore, fishing gear, BOOKKEEPING BY KIM 4-wheeler, kayaks, furn., snow 541-771-4820 plow, trailers, Indian Scout, MOVING TRUCK FOR HIRE W & D. View pics on Craigslist. –COMPLETE MOVING, LLC– Long Hollow Ranch Sale!

Sisters' Only Local Moving Co.!

71105 Holmes Rd Two exp. men with 25+ years Fri & Sat, 9-4 comm. moving. Refs! ODOT Lic. Antiques, Western decor, art, Class 1-B • Call 541-678-3332 furniture, patio set, lawn art and SMALL Engine REPAIR so much more...

Lawn Mowers, View pics @ estatesales.net Chainsaws & Trimmers – Hosted by Happy Trails! – Sisters Rental Happy Trails Estate Sales!

506 North Pine Street Selling or Downsizing?

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Authorized service center for Daiya 541-480-2806 Stihl, Briggs & Stratton, Sharie 541-771-1150 Honda, Tecumseh FIFI'S HAULING SERVICE 301 Vehicles Dump Trailers available!

We Buy, Sell, Consign Quality Call 541-419-2204 Cars, Trucks, SUVs & RVs ~ Black Butte Call Robb at 541-647-8794 or WINDOW CLEANING Jeff at 541-815-7397 Commercial & Residential.

Sisters Car Connection da#3919 18 years experience, references SistersCarConnection.com available. Safe, reliable, friendly.

Free estimates. 541-241-0426 401 Horses • DERI’s HAIR SALON • Call 541-419-1279 SCC PROFESSIONAL AUTO DETAILING Premium services by appt.

Sisters Car Connection 102 W. Barclay Drive 541-647-8794 • Ask for Robb BOOKKEEPING SERVICE 2006 Sundowner SunLite ~ Olivia Spencer ~ 2-Horse Straight-Load Trailer.

Expert Local Bookkeeping!

Front Tack & Feed Area.

Phone: (541) 241-4907 Aluminum and in excellent www.spencerbookkeeping.com condition. Asking $7,600.

541-297-3306 HAVE A SERVICE TO PROVIDE? Certified Weed-Free HAY. Let the public know what you Orchard Grass or Alfalfa Hay, have to offer in The Nugget’s Sisters. $275 per ton.

C L A S S I F I E D S! Call 541-548-4163

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

I can fix them for you.

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

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

600 Tree Service & Forestry

– All You Need Maintenance – Offering tree removal services, high-risk removals, property clearing & fire fuel reductions, precision falling, climbers and rigging available, 30 years experience. Free quotes.

CCB #218169 Austin • 541-419-5122 Hello Sisters, The weather is turning and that snow, rain and wind is coming. Let's not forget that roof repairs are expensive and tree work is preventive. Call 502 Carpet & Upholstery Mr. Winter for those dangerous Cleaning trees before Jack Frost gets here!

Top Knot can handle all of your M & J CARPET CLEANING tree needs from trimming to Carpet, area rug, upholstery & removals.

Free consultations and tile cleaning. Senior & Veterans great clean ups!

Discounts • 541-549-9090 Call Bello @ 541-419-9655 GORDON’S CCB#227009 LAST TOUCH Sisters Tree Care, LLC Cleaning Specialists for Preservation, Pruning, CARPETS, WINDOWS Removals & Storm Damage & UPHOLSTERY Serving All of Central Oregon Member Better Business Bureau Brad Bartholomew • Bonded & Insured • ISA Cert. Arborist UT-4454A Serving Central Oregon 503-914-8436 • CCB #218444 Since 1980 4 Brothers Tree Service Call 541-549-3008 Sisters' Premier Tree Experts!

BULLSEYE CARPET & – TREE REMOVAL & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING CLEANUP – Cutting Edge Technology Native / Non-Native Tree Over 30 years experience, Assessments, Pruning, High-Risk specialize in rugs & pet stains.

Removals, 24 Hr. Emergency Licensed & Insured Storm Damage Cleanup, – Sisters owned & operated – Craning & Stump Grinding, bullseyecarpetcleaning.net Debris Removal.

• 541-238-7700 • – FOREST MANAGEMENT – Sisters Carpet Cleaning Fire Fuels Reduction - Brush CELEBRATING 39 years in Mowing, Mastication, Tree business with spring specials!

Thinning, Large & Small Scale – Call 541-549-2216 – Projects!

Circuit Rider Carpet Cleaning Serving Black Butte Ranch, “A Labor of Love” with Camp Sherman & Sisters Area 35 years exp.! 541-549-6471 since 2003 ** Free Estimates ** 504 Handyman Owner James Hatley & Sons 541-815-2342 JONES UPGRADES LLC 4brostrees.com Home Repairs & Remodeling Licensed, Bonded and Insured Drywall, Decks, Pole Barns, CCB-215057 Fences, Sheds & more.

Mike Jones, 503-428-1281 Eagle Creek Local resident • CCB #201650 Forestry tree thinning, juniper clearing, fire consulting, LAREDO CONSTRUCTION prescribed fire, specialized tree 541-549-1575 felling, ladder fuel reduction, Maintenance / Repairs brush & field mowing, tree health Insurance Work CCB #194489 assessments, hazard tree removal, FRANCOIS' WORKSHOP light excavation, snow removal, Int./Ext. Carpentry & Repairs dry firewood sales – Custom Woodworking – licensed, bonded, insured.

Painting, Decks, Fences & Serving Central OR since 1997.

Outbuildings • CCB #154477 CCB #227275 541-815-0624 or 541-549-0605 EagleCreek3@yahoo.com Home Customizations, LLC 541-420-3254 Res. & Commercial Remodeling, TIMBER STAND Bldg. Maintenance & Painting IMPROVEMENT LLC Chris Patrick, Owner All-phase Tree Care Specialist homecustomizations@gmail.com Technical Removals, Pruning, CCB #191760 • 541-588-0083 Stump Grinding, Planting & Information on Licensing for Consultations, Brush Mowing, CONSTRUCTION Lot Clearing, Wildfire Fuel CONTRACTORS ~ Reduction • Nate Goodwin An active license means ISA-Cert. Arborist PN-7987A your contractor is bonded and CCB #190496 • 541-771-4825 insured. The state of Oregon online at www.tsi.services provides detail at the Oregon THE NUGGET Construction Contractors Board SISTERS OREGON online. More information is at online at NuggetNews.com www.oregon.gov/CCB

601 Construction JOHN NITCHER CONSTRUCTION General Contractor Home repair, remodeling and additions. CCB #101744 541-549-2206

McCARTHY & SONS CONSTRUCTION New Construction, Remodels, Fine Finish Carpentry 541-420-0487 • CCB #130561 Carl Perry Construction LLC Residential & Commercial Restoration • Repair – DECKS & FENCES – CCB #201709 • 541-419-3991

602 Plumbing & Electric Construction & Renovation Custom Residential Projects All Phases • CCB #148365 541-420-8448 CENIGA'S MASONRY, INC. Brick • Block • Stone • Pavers CCB #181448 – 541-350-6068 www.CenigasMasonry.com JOHN PIERCE General Contracting LLC Residential Building Projects Serving Sisters Since 1976 Strictly Quality CCB #16891 • CCB #159020 541-549-9764 LAREDO CONSTRUCTION 541-549-1575 For ALL Your Residential Construction Needs CCB #194489 www.laredoconstruction.com

SIMON CONSTRUCTION SERVICES Residential Remodel Building Projects Bruce Simon, Quality craftsman for 35 years 541-948-2620 • CCB #184335 bsimon@bendbroadband.com

JERRY WILLIS DRYWALL & VENETIAN PLASTER All Residential, Commercial Jobs 541-480-7179 • CCB #69557 –THE NUGGET– CASCADE GARAGE DOORS Factory Trained Technicians Since 1983 • CCB #44054 541-548-2215 • 541-382-4553 EARTHWOOD TIMBER FRAME HOMES Large inventory of dry, stable, gorgeous, recycled old-growth Douglas fir and pine for mantles, stair systems, furniture and structural beams. Timber frame design and construction services since 1990 – CCB#174977 549-0924 • earthwoodhomes.com

Pat Burke LOCALLY OWNED CRAFTSMAN BUILT CCB: 215066 • 541-588-2062 www.sistersfencecompany.com BWPierce General Contracting Residential Construction Projects Becke William Pierce CCB#190689 • 541-647-0384 beckewpcontracting@gmail.com

SWEENEY PLUMBING, INC. “Quality and Reliability” Repairs • Remodeling • New Construction • Water Heaters 541-549-4349 Residential and Commercial Licensed • Bonded • Insured CCB #87587 CURTS ELECTRIC LLC – SISTERS, OREGON – Quality Electrical Installations Agricultural • Commercial Industrial • Well & Irrigation Pumps, Motor Control, Barns & Shops, Plan Reviews CCB #178543 541-480-1404 R&R Plumbing, LLC > Repair & Service > Hot Water Heaters > Remodels & New Const.

Servicing Central Oregon Lic. Bond. Ins. • CCB #184660 541-771-7000 MONTE'S ELECTRIC • service • residential • commercial • industrial Serving all of Central Oregon 541-719-1316 lic. bond. insured, CCB #200030 THE NUGGET NEWSPAPER Sisters | Oregon www.NuggetNews.com 541-549-9941

603 Excavation & Trucking BANR Enterprises, LLC Earthwork, Utilities, Grading, Hardscape, Rock Walls Residential & Commercial CCB #165122 • 541-549-6977 www.BANR.net

Cascade Bobcat Service is now SCHERRER EXCAVATION Lic. & Bonded – CCB #225286 scherrerexcavation.com Mike • 541-420-4072 Logan • 541-420-0330 ROBINSON & OWEN Heavy Construction, Inc. All your excavation needs *General excavation *Site Preparation *Sub-Divisions *Road Building *Sewer and Water Systems *Underground Utilities *Grading *Snow Removal *Sand-Gravel-Rock Licensed • Bonded • Insured CCB #124327 (541) 549-1848

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

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

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

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

605 Painting – Earl W. Nowell Painting – Local! Int., Ext., Stain, Decks...

Lic. & Bonded • CCB #201728 For free estimate: 541-633-8297 Riverfront Painting LLC Interior/Exterior • Deck Staining SHORT LEAD TIMES Travis Starr, 541-647-0146 License #216081 ~ FRONTIER PAINTING ~ Quality Painting, Ext. & Int. Refurbishing Decks CCB #131560 • 541-771-5620 www.frontier-painting.com

606 Landscaping & Yard Maintenance

Fencing, irrigation installation & trouble-shooting, defensible space strategies, general cleanups, turf care maintenance and agronomic recommendations, fertility & water conservation management, light excavation.

CCB 188594 • LCB 9264 541-515-8462 J&E Landscaping Maintenance LLC Clean-ups, raking, hauling debris, gutters. Edgar Cortez, 541-610-8982 or 541-420-8163 jandelspcing15@gmail.com Affordable Handyman & Yard Care. 541-240-1120 All Landscaping Services Mowing, Thatching, Hauling...

Call Abel Ortega, 541-815-6740.

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

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

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CLASSIFIEDS 701 Domestic Services

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

Let us sparkle your home for a fresh start!

Call to schedule an immaculate home cleaning. Lic-Bonded-Ins. Refs Avail. Call Emilee Stoery, 541-588-0345 or email customhousecare@earthlink.net

704 Events & Event Services Grand Canyon Float Trip Looking for a few more participants. Winter trip Jan. 22 to Feb. 18. You will need your own raft 15'+. Call for info.

Leave message as needed.

541-280-9764

802 Help Wanted Property and building maintenance, P-T. Sno Cap Drive In, Sisters; apply in person.

THE NUGGET NEWSPAPER C L A S S I F I E D S!!

They're on the Web at www.nuggetnews.com Uploaded every Tuesday afternoon at no extra charge!

Call 541-549-9941 Deadline for classified is Monday by noon THE LODGE IN SISTERS is now Hiring for: Caregiver (PT) Requires a mature and responsible attitude and the ability to establish confidence in the residents regarding their care needs.

Wages DOE. NOC/ Evening.

Med Tech (FT) Requires maturity and a responsible attitude for the residents to have confidence in your ability to administer medications and treatments.

Wages DOE. NOC/Evening.

Culinary Assistant (PT) Responsible for quality of dining service during meals for the Community.

Wages DOE. Morning/Evening.

Cook – Important to provide the highest-quality food preparation, plate presentation and prompt service to all residents/employees Wages DOE. Morning/Evening.

Housekeeper (FT, PT) Responsible for housekeeping apartment and community, laundry functions, and maintaining compliance with all regulatory standards. Wages DOE.

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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BOOKS: Inaugural celebration runs through the weekend Continued from page 1

resident Mac Hay, who travels annually to the Edinburgh International Book Festival in Scotland. Hay’s reports on the festival have been featured in The Nugget. While the Edinburgh festival is huge in scope, Hay was convinced that Sisters could adapt the model and provide a perfect venue for a festival of its own.

“This started with Mac coming to me and talking about his love for the Edinburgh Book Festival and his feeling that Sisters needs one,” Jacobson said last summer. “It just seemed like a no-brainer. It made a lot of sense.”

Jacobson, assisted by Ann Richardson, began shaping an inaugural festival that fits Sisters.

He told The Nugget that the festival offers “a high concentration of authors in a short period of time at a reasonable cost — and also (the opportunity) to mingle with likeminded book lovers, which is

also a big part of it.”

The festival begins Friday, October 18, at FivePine Lodge and Conference Center with a catered reception featuring some favorite Central Oregon authors including Paul Alan Bennett, Jill Stanford, Craig Rullman, Jim Barnett, Joshua Savage, Jim Cornelius and more.

The festival continues on Saturday with a full lineup of author events, a pop-up bookstore at the festival venue, and author dinners. Some of Saturday’s featured authors include the renowned North Carolina author David Joy, whose novels “Where All Light Tends To Go,” “The Weight Of This World,” and “The Line That Held Us” have won critical acclaim and a fiercely loyal readership. Joy is a native of the North Carolina mountains, as familiar with the fly-rod as he is with his pen. He is also the author of the memoir “Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey,” a finalist for the Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Ragan Old North State Award.

Other featured authors include Oregon Poet Laureate K i m S t a ff o r d , f o r m e r

congressman Les AuCoin, NYT Bestselling Author Jane Kirkpatrick (“One More River to Cross”), Bill Sullivan (author of the “100 Hikes” series of guidebooks, “Listening for Coyote,” and “The Ship in the Hill”), Debra Gwartney (“I Am a Stranger Here Myself”), Molly Gloss (“Unforeseen: Stories, The Hearts of Horses, Falling from Horses”), and Meaghan O’Connell (“And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready”).

Those who are interested in becoming a published author themselves may wish to attend a “Navigating the World of Book Publishing” workshop with Kim Cooper Findling on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Ponderosa Room at Best Western Pondrerosa Lodge.

This is a ticketed event.

Sunday will feature primarily kid- and family-focused events in-store at Paulina Springs Books. Programming includes story times, singalongs, coloring and more.

Jacobson noted that Jonathan Tweet, the author of a kids’ book on evolution entitled “Grandmother Fish” will be on hand.

“He is also the lead designer of the third edition of “Dungeons & Dragons,” Jacobson said. “It’s cool to have him involved.”

Proceeds from the festival will be used to establish a scholarship fund for Sisters High School students through the Sisters Graduate Resource Organization (Sisters GRO).

For information visit https://www.sistersfob.com.

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.

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Overlooking the Indian Ford Meadow Preserve with filtered views of the Cascade mountains and Black Butte, www.69777pineridge.com this Northwest-style home has 5 spacious bedrooms and 3 full baths, a 1,200 sq. ft. daylight basement, 69777 Pine Ridge with family room and bonus area. All on 0.85 acre in a park-like setting.

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POETRY: Farmers Market sponsored contest Continued from page 3

residents Heidi Bazille and Jeb Pearson were also finalists, their haiku focusing on harvest season. Prizes in the category included gift certificates to Bedouin clothing store and Seed to Table education farm. organic delight juicy peaches in summer napkin optional — Lee Kordell Weathered hand to bell Clangorous round peal resounds Cattle called to trough — Jeb Pearson The full moon harvest a performance of color then, brown lattice leaves — Heidi Bazille Stafford said that in judging the many entries, he looked for “the strong image, resonant sensation, kinship connection to nature, and the stroke of surprise associated with the haiku form.”

He urged local gardeners to keep growing local food and writers to keep growing

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BLANN: Deputy was beloved figure in community

poems.

Two categories were not judged by Stafford, but by market staff on the day of the event. Winning a gift certificate to Bedouin was Maggie Saslow, taking home the Community Spirit Award.

Continued from page 1

died suddenly at age 63 last February 15, deserved to be honored for his dedicated, professional law enforcement work in Camp Sherman. In addition to traditional law enforcement duties, Blann coordinated search and rescue efforts in the area and kept Camp Sherman’s roads cleared of snow in the winter.

It was his work on the roads that made it seem appropriate to dedicate the route into Camp Sherman to his memory. And the county commissioners concurred, urging community activists to work with the county public works director and simply find a spot and put up the dedication sign.

There was one caveat from Commissioner Wayne Fording: “Don’t block anyone’s line of sight — and keep it out of the way of the snowplow. Dave wouldn’t like it if it blocked the snowplow.”

That drew chuckles from the assembled citizens.

In Blann’s absence this winter, snowplowing will be undertaken by a local

Working together, Hands with heart cultivate greens, Nurturing us all.

— Maggie Saslow Linda Hanson won the Last-Minute Haiku Award, with a gift card to Paulina Springs Books.

Rain brings on a smile Like the crunch of an apple First flavors of Fall.

— Linda Hanson First-place winner of the Locals Only category was Willard Bartlett III, with Paul Bennett, Nancy Bright, and Theresa Kempenich as finalists. Their haiku were published in a previous edition of The Nugget.

Kids’ winning poems will be featured in an upcoming “Kids in Print” section in the newspaper. Additional selected haiku entered in the contest will be published online at www.sistersfarmers market.com.

PHOTO BY CONRAD WEILER

Les Schell and Phyllis Williamson displayed a proposed sign to be placed on the road into Camp Sherman honoring the late Jefferson County Resident Deputy Dave Blann. contractor. A Jefferson County snowplow will be on hand for plowing work to commence at 4 a.m. on snow days.

Blann served Camp Sherman as a Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy for 24 years and was well-loved in the community — and among his peers.

Last February, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Undersheriff Marc Heckathorn noted that, “Senior

Deputy Blann represented the Sheriff in a dignified and professional manner, but was known for his love of the outdoors, humor, and compassion for people. Hanging on the wall in Senior Deputy Blann’s home was a picture of him and a phrase that sums up who he was. It read: “BLANN’S RULES TO LIVE BY: 1. Have FUN! 2. Make someone smile.

3. See Rule #1.”

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SHOPPERS: Faire’s 40th anniversary was a big success Continued from page 1

I see them only once a year it’s like a homecoming. Hugs, laughter, and catching up on each other’s lives. Maybe more like a family reunion, and one big family that I adore.”

The scent of caramel apples by River ’s Edge Gourmet Foods and kettle corn, made by Diamond 2 Kettle Korn, lingered in the air as people browsed through stunning displays of handcrafted artifacts.

Portland resident Joe Bennett, vendor and owner of Glass Designs, had just finished hanging a one-of-akind glass plate with a twodimensional black-and-white cat design fused on top, captured in a pose.

“This is my original design. Butch, our cat, was the runt of a litter of three.

He lived for 19 years and once, before the age of digital photography, sat still long enough for me to capture him

in this pose,” Bennett told The Nugget.

Bennett had been toying with glass since the late 1970s and was working with cold glass until his wife purchased a kiln for his birthday a few years ago.

He added, “I figured out the process of fused glass and wanted to try something unique. All my cat designs are made from the likeness of the cats we have owned.”

Musical entertainment on the Fir Street Park stage enhanced everyone’s shopping experience. With a wide array of country music styles, Dry Canyon Stampede performed on Saturday while folks kicked up their boots.

On Sunday, artist Bill Keale’s smooth, soulful Hawaiian style added a special touch throughout the day.

First-time vendor Elayne Watrus from La Pine was busy with customers interested in her steampunk horse statues. Her unique business, Ranch Hands, kicked off four years ago out of her love of horses, clay art and automotive gears.

She noted, “I find stone horses or any kind of broken

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Elayne Watrus was a first-time vendor.

old model horses, I repair the damage, use some clay, then each one goes into a kiln.

They are stamped and oil painted.”

Vendor and fiber artist Sami Golden from La Pine could have won the “most colorful booth award” with her hand-knitted one-of-akind kaleidoscope shawls made from alpaca wool.

She noted, “Each one is a totally different design from the other.”

She also displayed hand puppets that everyone wanted to try.

Vendor and artist Lori Hill displayed colorful whimsical creatures painted in oils.

Hill said, “It all started about 10 years ago when we lived oversees in France. I met an artist and learned oil painting but didn’t know what to paint. So, the artist gave me a picture of an ostrich and I was hooked painting ostriches. I’ve added llamas and alpacas to my collection since my granddaughter likes them.”

You could choose from her brightly painted animal mugs, wraparound canvas, pillows, blankets or totes.

Every year for 26 years people have gathered around the booth of David Johns (aka The Spice Guy) when he gets cooking. He showcases his homemade salt-free seasonings on a variety of vegetables during his cooking demonstrations.

Tigard resident and firsttime vendor Katy Dyler, owner of Tati&me, designs children’s clothing.

“Tati is my daughter, and I make colorful cotton dresses for ages one to 8. I love to play around with different fabric combinations.”

Dyler was featured in Portland Monthly Magazine and was selected by Netflix for a backdrop on the set for a series called “Trinket.”

Autumn décor added to the ambience with handcrafted pumpkins made from wood and homemade placemats

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Sami Golden from La Pine had a most colorful display. accented with fall leaves.

Stone Vases & Functional Pottery by Dee and Barbara Adams from Pacific City is one vendor that folks can always count on seeing every year at the Harvest Faire.

“We’ve been vendors at the Faire for 39 years,” said Dee. The couple missed the first year but got their start the second year in 1980 with four inches of snow on the ground.

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Providing clean water Long fall leads to complicated rescue where it is needed most Correspondent

BEND, – Around the globe, fresh water is increasingly scarce and untreated wastewater creates mounting public health challenges. At Oregon State University – Cascades’ upcoming Science Pub, researcher Bahman Abbasi will discuss efforts underway at the Bend campus that may help communities around the world in need of clean water.

The Science Pub, “Modular and Portable: A New Way to Help Water Stressed Communities,” will take place on Tuesday, October 15 in Father Luke’s Room at McMenamins Old St. Francis in Bend.

Abbasi, who is an assistant professor in the energy systems engineering program at OSU-Cascades, researches in areas including the nexus of water and energy, control systems in thermal-fluid applications, and advanced metals and materials.

In his presentation, Abbasi will explain how existing water desalination and wastewater treatment plants around the world are large, immobile, permanent and expensive structures.

Those features can be barriers for providing clean water in rural and impoverished areas, or in locations

where water is needed urgently.

Abassi will discuss the research program he is leading to develop modular, portable and scalable technologies to desalinate water and treat wastewater at costs that are competitive with those of large-scale installations. His solutions could be housed in a vehicle and transported to difficult to reach areas, and powered via connection to a local grid, solar panels, or low-grade or solar heat.

Abbasi is the recipient of more than $4 million in research awards from the U.S. Department of Energy to turn saltwater into drinking water, and to treat hydraulic fracturing wastewater to improve the public health and environmental impact concerns associated with untreated wastewater.

Science Pubs take place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Networking, and food and beverage service begin at 5:30 p.m., and the presentation starts at 6:30 p.m.

Science Pubs are free to community members, but reservations are required. Space is limited to 100 guests.

Registration must occur by 5 p.m. the day prior to each Science Pub at w w w. o s u c a s c a d e s . e d u / sciencepubs.

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Trail to a waiting Life Flight helicopter, which flew him to St. Charles Medical Center in Bend.

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formation to scout a location to establish a system to rescue Rapp.

Four rescuers climbed a multi-pitch route to a location above Rapp, and traversed (moved laterally) to a location where they could rappel to Rapp’s location. The first rescuer, a SAR medic, made it to Rapp at approximately 6:15 p.m. He was not in an area where climbers would normally go and appeared to have fallen and tumbled approximately 150 feet from above. This area was an area of loose and unstable rock.

Rapp appeared to be seriously injured and was in a very precarious position. A technical rope system was rigged above Rapp, which was complicated by terrain and darkness. Rapp was subsequently raised to the top of the formation and transported by wheeled litter down the Misery Ridge

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A hiker at Smith Rock State Park took a bad tumble on Saturday, October 11, triggering a complicated rescue effort.

Shortly before 3:30 p.m., the Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Office was dispatched to a welfare check at Smith Rock State Park on a report of someone yelling. A Special Services/ Search and Rescue Deputy was sent to the scene. While the deputy was responding, more information was provided that aided narrowing down the subject’s location and indicated that the subject was possibly injured. The subject was later identified as 23-year-old Ian Rapp of Woodbury, Minnesota.

At approximately 3:55 p.m., Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue (SAR) was activated to the scene. Ultimately, 22 Search and Rescue Volunteers and two SAR Deputies responded to the scene along with three personnel from Redmond Fire and Rescue and Oregon State Parks.

SAR Volunteers and a Deputy hiked to the area below where Rapp was believed to be located in the area of Voyage of the Cow Dog, which is a route in the Picnic Lunch Wall climbing area. It was determined initial rescuers would have to access Rapp’s location from below, while additional rescuers went to the top of the

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

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7515 SE GENTIAN WAY, PRINEVILLE Views of the water from every nook and cranny on this 76-acre hillside property. The graveled driveway leads you up to a cozy campsite with a trailer, outdoor shower, deck and fire pit. There is a cased well (no pump or power at this time).

Power is in the road. Standard septic approval in 2004. Terrain varies with some beautiful sandy, level areas to a small canyon with animal trails. Gated driveway. Zoning allows for 5-acre homesites. One-quarter mile to the boat dock for year-round recreation. Borders public lands to the east. Owners will carry a contract. Broker owned. MLS#201907560. $229,000.

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.

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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.

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40 ACRES – 17672 WILT ROAD Private, yet close in, less than 10± miles from downtown Sisters. Forty acres with elevated building site and modest mountain views. Mix of pine and juniper. This property would be a great candidate for off-grid power, but power access is available. Call Listing Agent regarding power.

Needs septic feasibility. Conditional-use permit to build a home was recently renewed for two years. Borders government land, State of Oregon, BLM and Deschutes County on three sides Owner will consider short terms. $299,500.

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

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