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The Nugget Vol. XLII No. 49

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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Sisters parades its holiday spirit

Winter driving conditions have arrived

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

Snowfall framed the picturesque 42nd annual Sisters Christmas Parade on Hood Avenue last Saturday. Horses and dogs, Zumba dancers and firefighters braved the cold, waving and handing out candy to a thin but enthusiastic crowd. “Horse, and Santa Claus,” were the parade’s highlights, according to local resident Iliana Gonzales, age four. She had many gorgeous equines to choose from. Many pulled festive carts and carriages. Sisters Rodeo Queen Riann Cornett rode by on her horse, Tequila. There was a fuzzy miniature horse named Monty, from Natural Hoofcare of Bend. Monty was shod in handsome hoof boots to protect his bare feet from the hard pavement, instead of traditional horseshoes. The classic small-town parade was led by veterans bearing flags and waving to the crowd. Red light swirled from atop fire trucks, their sturdy tires clattering with chains. Dogs could be seen in abundance, from corgis

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Santa Claus closed the Sisters Christmas Parade, then adjourned to the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce Visitors Center to visit with Sisters Country youth. to Newfoundlands to a St. rockin’ Christmas carols atop wished visitors “Merry Bernard. Some pulled mer- a float from Sisters Church of Christmas from 1863.” Clad rily decorated mini carriages. the Nazarene. Sisters Park & in beautiful costumes evokRecreation District’s Zumba ing the 19th century, they Others pulled their owners. The Pacific Northwest fitness dancers grooved down asked longtime emcee Bob Newfoundland Club showed Hood Avenue, following their Buckmann to tell the crowd off their “gentle giants.” Some banner. It was carried by about their annual Civil War of the dogs were so friendly, SPRD kids Amaya Wyrick enactment in Camp Sherman. At the end came Santa’s the owners could hardly pull and Paxton Seeley, dressed in candy-cane-striped stockings. picture-perfect, old-fashioned them away from the crowd. The High Desert Brigade A singer-guitarist and keySee PARADE on page 22 board duo played and sang and NW Civil War Council

Severe winter weather arrived early in Sisters Country last week, bringing with it hazardous driving conditions. There were multiple slideoffs on Camp Polk Road north of Sisters and spinouts in the roundabout and on intersections with sharp turns. A Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office sergeant averted a near-tragedy east of Sisters in Tumalo (see related story page 3). Traction tires and allwheel or four-wheel drive can only marginally improve your chances on the roads when they’re slick with snow and ice. Four-wheel drive does not equate to “four-wheel stop”; increase your following distance and above all, See DRIVING on page 29

Comments still accepted Man rescued from deep snow, cold on wilderness permit fee The Deschutes and Willamette National Forests are extending the public comment period 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 original ending date of the public comment period was November 25. The new ending date for the public comment period will be January 10, 2020. 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. The limited entry

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system is designed to alleviate impact from the increased traffic in wilderness areas, but it has drawn some fire from some local people who objected to restrictions on access to what they consider their backyard. Others object to paying additional fees. Comments on the special recreation permit fee can be mailed to the Willamette National Forest, ATTN: Recreation Fees, 3106 Pierce Parkway, Ste. D, Springfield, OR, 97477. Comments can also be submitted by email to WillametteRecFeeComments @usda.gov or dropped off at any Willamette or Deschutes National Forest office during See COMMENTS on page 30

With the snow piling high and temperatures plunging well below zero on Sunday night, a man camping at high elevation in the forest near Camp Sherman decided he had better get out. “He’d been fairly prepared,” Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Manager Sgt. Dave Pond told The Nugget on Monday. “He was there during the initial snowstorm. He’d finally had enough and was running out of supplies and he thought ‘I’d better leave.’ I believe it was -12 degrees last night where he was at.” The man, in his mid-30s, tried to drive out in his truck but got stuck in a deep snowdrift. He was able to call 911 and Sgt. Pond responded. The sergeant tapped Brett Miller of the veterans assistance

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Sgt. Dave Pond and Brett Miller of Warfighter Outfitters came to the aid of a man who was stranded in deep snow in the forest near Camp Sherman. organization Warfighter Outfitters for assistance. Miller, who lives in Camp Sherman, used his Jeep to get himself and Sgt. Pond to the location where the man was camped. Pond and Miller transported the man out of the woods unharmed and left him in Camp Sherman.

“He has family there, so that’s where we took him,” Pond said. Anyone traveling in winter conditions, regardless of how short the planned excursion, should plan for adverse conditions and be prepared with emergency supplies and equipment.

Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituaries ......................8-9 Entertainment ..................11 Sisters Naturalist............. 25 Classifieds.................. 27-28 Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements............... 10 Holidays in Sisters ...... 13-23 Crossword ....................... 26 Real Estate .................29-32

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Happy Holidays from The Nugget! As we enter the holiday season, please be mindful of our deadlines and special closings that allow our staff time with family (while still delivering The Nugget to each of you every week).

Thursday, December 12 ... Closing at 3 p.m. Tuesday, December 24 ... Closing Early Thursday, December 26 ... Closed Tuesday, December 31 ... Closing Early Due to adjusted press times in December, we are unable to accept advertising or content past deadline. Display Advertising, Announcements, Events, Meeting Calendar ... 5 p.m. on Friday Classifieds, Letters to the Editor ... 12 noon on Monday

Letters to the Editor… The Nugget welcomes contributions from its readers, which must include the writer’s name, address and phone number. Letters to the Editor is an open forum for the community and contains unsolicited opinions not necessarily shared by the Editor. The Nugget reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for a response to letters submitted to the Editor. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. Unpublished items are not acknowledged or returned. The deadline for all letters is noon Monday.

To the Editor: I am an avid reader of letters to the editor in this paper, as well as other towns I visit. This section of the paper yields meaningful insight as to the character of the community as well as their wants and needs. The information gleaned from a few paragraphs and the follow-up responses paint a picture of the community’s feelings on a variety of subjects. The shortcomings that I find in almost all these letters are they address problems but lack solutions to those problems. Obviously, here in Sisters there is no scarcity of problems or opinions. Within the last four months there have been several editorials and letters to the editor regarding the proposed construction of the Dollar General Store and its adjoining development of multi-housing and more unneeded shops and restaurants. When my wife and I moved to Sisters about six months ago the population was estimated at 2,500. A wild guess on my part is the 2020 census will show it closer to 4,500; this is not what we

moved here for. So I’ll cut to the chase with a suggestion that could lead to a possible solution to our current problem. The City buys the subject land from its current owner at fair market value. That land is then re-zoned to agricultural or whatever zoning is required to grow Christmas trees (see page 32, last week’s Nugget article “Tree supply is tight”). The procured land could be leased to a tree grower or the City itself takes on the task of “how hard could it be to grow Christmas trees?” OK, it’s out-of-the-box thinking, but that’s what it takes to win over Big Business. Stop wasting your time blaming current City management, their hands are somewhat tied due to existing zoning having been approved years ago. Each and every person that is against this “urban sprawl” needs to get involved in preventing it from going any further or at least help slow it down. Don’t wait to see what happens, be what happens. Terry Coultas

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A failure of civic duty By John Chase Guest Columnist

The evening of January 18 of this year my daughter and her friend were struck by a moving vehicle making a left turn onto North Oak Street from East Cascade Avenue. The two teen girls were walking inside the crosswalk when the vehicle struck my daughter from behind directly on the outside of her right leg, which threw both girls onto the paved surface. Stunned, in shock and wounded, the girls got up to find the driver asking if they were OK and that she could not call for help because she had no phone. The injured teens in shock stated they would be OK. The driver proceeded to drive her vehicle away from the scene. Simultaneously the girls moved down the road toward safety and entered Sisters Saloon where they were received by a helpful staff and patrons. Thank you, Sisters Saloon! They were cared for immediately and I was contacted about the incident. I arrived shortly afterwards to find both girls visibly shaking and wounded with abrasions from being struck and hitting the pavement. The local ambulance had been contacted. The girls were evaluated in short time and interviewed by a Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office deputy. While the girls were being interviewed I set out on foot to possibly find the vehicle. It was a Friday night and I had a hunch the vehicle might be found nearby. After the girls settled down and exited the ambulance, I drove my daughter by the vehicle I found that fit the description. She confirmed it immediately and I sent the info through dispatch to the deputies. Many months passed, the girls’ injuries mostly healed and, despite lost opportunities with sports, things are relatively back to normal. Although the emotional and physical injuries were not life-threatening they were significant and remain in a recovering status. The bruises incurred where the vehicle struck my daughter are shocking. I pushed the sheriff ’s office to follow up and issue a citation. Shortly

after the accident I spoke with the officer and he indicated that the D.A. would review the case. About four months later we found that the District Attorney was not seeking hit-and-run, and this was not a criminal offense. Personally, I agree with the D.A.’s decision declining a criminal charge. However I am unsettled that the driver was not cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. The driver carries on with no consequences nor record of an accident that was frighteningly close to severely injuring not one but two people in downtown Sisters that night. Our community citizens suffered injury that night, for how will the laws be upheld if they are not enforced? Especially when the law was clearly violated and — admittedly so — by the driver. The officer lost my support by not following through with his duty. A driving infraction in this circumstance was necessary to uphold the law for all of the people who walk the streets of Sisters. I followed up with the deputy and other deputies from Deschutes County many times, demanding the driver be cited. The citation was never given and the sixmonth limitation has long passed. I personally called the non-emergency line and left messages to the deputy three times this summer. He never took the courtesy to call me back nor did I receive a message from him. As a community I ask you to question whether you are being served appropriately by those who are sworn to protect and serve. I ask you to be intuitive and engage with what is right legally and civically. I have personally provided information to police that upholds law, order, and good civic duty. My daughter is doing the same, recently helping police find a runaway. I am grateful to those who serve our community. Whether you serve as a firefighter, police officer, EMT, teacher, volunteer citizens, etc., we can’t have a good community without your service. It takes all of us doing the right thing to maintain the high-quality community Sisters is known for.

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

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Suicide prevention resources available Deschutes County Health Services – Suicide Prevention Program reminds local residents of available resources as we enter the holiday season. While the holidays can be a season of cheer, it can also be a difficult season for those who have lost a loved one — whether to suicide or other means. Local suicide prevention resources are available at www.deschutes.org/ suicideprevention or on the Central Oregon Suicide Prevention Alliance’s website at www.preventsuicideco.org. The Deschutes County Crisis Line is also available 24/7 at 541-322-7500, select option 9. “Suicide is a very complicated act,” the health department noted in a press release. “No one single thing causes it. However, in many cases, a mental-health condition can be part of it, and these conditions

are treatable. It is important to reach out for help. There are signs that may mean someone is at risk for suicide.” Suicide warning signs are: • Talking about wanting to die or to kill oneself. • Looking for a way to kill oneself, such as searching online or buying a gun. • Talking about feeling hopeless or having no reason to live. • Talking about feeling trapped or in unbearable pain. • Talking about being a burden to others. • Increasing the use of alcohol or drugs. • Action that is anxious or agitated; behaving recklessly. • Sleeping little or too much. • Withdrawing or feeling isolated. • Showing rage or talking about seeking revenge. • Displaying extreme mood swings.

Sheriff’s sergeant averts tragedy A sheriff’s deputy pulled a man out of harms way during a response to an accident east of Sisters in Tumalo. On Wednesday, November 27, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office responded to a multiple-vehicle crash at Tumalo Road near Swalley

Road. According to a sheriff’s office social media post, Sgt. James McLaughlin was assisting with traffic control when a pickup began sliding down the grade toward See CLOSE CALL on page 30

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Dustbowl Revival returns to Sisters in one of a series of winter concerts staged by Sisters Folk Festival.

Festival announces winter concerts Tickets are now on sale for Sisters Folk Festival’s 2020 Winter Concert Series. A three-show series pass and individual concert tickets are available. This year’s series features compelling bands all fronted by dynamic women — including standout mandolin player Sierra Hull — bringing timely and innovative Americana music to Sisters this winter. The dates of the three-show series are January 15, February 21 and April 9, 2020. On Wednesday, January 15, Las Cafeteras will return to Sisters with their socially engaged show and uplifting, positive message. A product and reflection of the diverse, hard-working, politically active neighborhood of East Los Angeles, Las Cafeteras presents songs of activism and celebration on their second studio album, “Tastes

Like L.A.” The album offers a powerful counterpoint to the current dominant news narrative, while encouraging people of all backgrounds to cherish both what makes them unique and what unites them all. With open hearts and open minds, Las Cafeteras offers a timely and affirmative statement to confront a troublesome time. Over the past decade, Las Cafeteras has demonstrated that in art as in life, borders are meant to be crossed. Las Cafeteras’ new album includes songs about longing for home, love, joy, community and the fight for a better world. Citing inspiration from Nina Simone’s quote, “It is an artist’s duty to reflect the times,” members of Las Cafeteras use their music to tell stories about the streets where they were raised, the communities they live in today and their dreams for

the world they hope to see in the future. With their infectious and uplifting spirit, Las Cafeteras demonstrates that while the struggle for peace, justice and equality is a serious matter, it doesn’t mean that you can’t have a good time along the way. If anything, the joy they bring to listeners offers an inspirational soundtrack for the march toward a better future. On Friday, February 21, Dustbowl Revival will perform their horn-driven, uptempo Americana music that spans genres and topics with ease and intention. Dustbowl Revival has always been about pushing the boundaries of what American roots music can be. In many ways, they could have continued creating joyful, booty-shaking songs and cut-to-heart folk-rock ballads that lift up See FOLK FESTIVAL on page 26

SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061. Al-Anon Mon., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. 541-549-8737 or Friends of the Sisters Library Board 541-549-1527. of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com. Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., ages welcome. 541-771-2211. 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., 4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230. noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Let’s Talk, Sisters 3rd Mon., 5:45 p.m., Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., Paulina Springs Books. 541-815-2088 noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Citizens4Community.com/events Church. 541-548-0440. Military Parents of Sisters Meetings Alzheimer’s & Dementia Caregiver are held quarterly; please call for details. Support Group 1st Tuesday, noon, 541-388-9013. Sisters City Hall. 800-272-3900. Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469. room. Partner required. 541-595-6236. SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. For Saturday meeting dates and to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation location, email: steelefly@msn.com. District. 541-549-2091. Central OR Spinners and Weavers Sisters Aglow Lighthouse Guild One Saturday per month, Jan. 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., Ponderosa Lodge thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217. Meeting Room. 503-930-6158. Council on Aging of Central Oregon Sisters Area Photography Club Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library Community Church. 541-480-1843. community room. 541-549-6157.

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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. Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays, 12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse. Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419. Sisters Caregiver Support Group 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., The Lodge in Sisters. 541-771-3258. Sisters Cribbage Club Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ray’s Food Place community room. 541-923-1632. Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m. Location information: 541-549-1193. Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870.

Sisters 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

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

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

Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group 2nd Tuesday, 2 p.m., The Lodge. 541-668-6599.

Sisters Christian Academy Board of Directors Monthly on a Friday. Call 541-549-4133 for date & time.

Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday. Location information: 541-279-1977. Sisters Rotary Tuesdays, noon, Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-760-5645.

Sisters School District Board of Directors One Wed. monthly, SSD Admin Bldg. See schedule online at www.ssd6.org. 541-549-8521 x5002.

Sisters Speak Life Cancer Support Group 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 1 p.m. Suttle Tea. 503-819-1723.

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. This listing is for regular Sisters Country meetings; email information to lisa@nuggetnews.com

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Stars over Sisters By Paola Mendoza Correspondent

December is upon us, bringing with it shorter days and longer nights that hold the promise of many hours of dark sky viewing. The month offers a very prominent constellation, dazzling deep-sky objects, a parade of planets and a change of seasons. After the Big Dipper, Orion is probably the most recognizable arrangement of star patterns. Its size, comprising 594 square degrees of the sky, and bright stars simply make this constellation nearly unavoidable in an outdoor nighttime setting. It is located in the east southeast at about 8 p.m. local time, climbing higher in the sky as the night progresses. Orion is bordered by Taurus and Eridanus to the west and Monoceros to the east. Orion’s two brightest stars are Rigel, a blue supergiant, and Betelgeuse, a red supergiant, and are the fifth and eighth brightest stars in the sky, respectively, not counting the sun. Rigel marks the hunter’s left foot while Betelgeuse signifies his right shoulder. Although evolving differently, both stars are

believed to be approximately 8 million years old. These two stars also play a role in defining the wintertime asterisms of the Winter Triangle and the Winter Hexagon. Betelgeuse teams up with Sirius in Canis Major and Procyon in Canis Minor to form the large triangle. Rigel is part of an even bigger hexagon, along with Aldebaran in Taurus, Capella in Auriga, Pollux in Gemini, Procyon and Sirius. Embedded in the sword that hangs below Orion’s belt is M42, one of the brightest diffuse nebulae in the entire sky, easily visible to the naked eye. It is a region of interstellar gas and dust where new stars are currently being born and is located at a distance of about 1,344 lightyears. The nebula is truly an impressive sight through almost any telescope. Orion is rich in sky lore. One account of Greek mythology states that Orion was a talented hunter who would brag about being able to get rid of all the wild animals on Earth. His boasting made Gaia, the Earth goddess, angry so she sent out a scorpion to battle and defeat Orion. When the two

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started to fight, Orion realized he wouldn’t be able to overcome the scorpion so he decided to escape by jumping into the sea. Apollo then ordered his sister Artemis, goddess of hunting, to slay Orion by shooting him. But after doing so, she became upset and asked the gods to bring him back to life. Her request was denied. Artemis then decided to put a picture of Orion in the sky so she could always see him. Winter officially arrives in the Northern Hemisphere on Saturday, December 21 at 8:19 p.m. At that time the sun will reach its southernmost latitude on its annual journey through the skies, resulting in the shortest day of the year. Early in the month Jupiter, Venus and Saturn are nicely aligned low in the western sky, but before Christmas the two gas giants will disappear into the sun’s glare, leaving Venus to rule the evening skies for months to come. Mercury and Mars are currently morning objects and can be seen in the predawn skies. The final two planets,

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M42 is a diffuse nebula located at a distance of 1,344 light-years in the constellation of Orion where new stars are being born. Neptune in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces, are evening planets but are too dim to be seen with the naked eye. As December begins the moon is waxing (brightening), a condition that will continue until the 11th when the full Cold Moon arrives. From this point our only natural satellite starts to wane (gradually dims) until going dark on the 25th at new moon. What a timely

Christmas gift to serious stargazers everywhere!

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Sisters Library exhibits celebrate ‘bravery of art’ By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

Every month, Sisters Library displays work by local artists, with exhibits coordinated by the Art Committee of the Friends of Sisters Library. This month, Linda Hanson’s large paintings hanging in the computer room, and the community room display of holiday art by Rachel Moore deliver great contrasts, both in the work displayed and the vision of these two artists — one seasoned and one youthful. Large paintings by Linda Breese Hanson are part of her early and mid-career collection. “Art takes a long time,” says Hanson, whose career spans more than 50 years. “It takes time and intention. The energy of your life is going into that painting, during the time you are painting it.” Most striking is Hanson’s self-portrait, about six by four feet, done in the 1980s, when she lived in the Bay Area. She tells its story: “I was driving up to the snow, going skiing. I looked in the rear-view mirror and I saw half my face. I thought ‘what if you did a self-portrait where you couldn’t see the whole person?’ and that’s what I did. That red coat was my signature coat for so long, but I no longer have it. I still have the big glasses, though.” The newest piece in this collection is a portrait of

Hanson’s granddaughter, Summer, at age 6. Summer, who was born on the Winter Solstice, is now a teenaged soccer player. A native Oregonian, Hanson packed up her worldly possessions and young son, Aaron, and headed south to a new home in Berkeley, California in 1965. “I wanted to do art, so I went to Berkeley College of Arts and Crafts,” as it was known then, she said. “I worked in graphic design jobs, and raised my son. I took art classes when I could afford them, and spent a lot of time drawing.” At one point, she decided she really needed to go to school and earn a degree, as she’d gone as far as she felt she could on her own. “So I went to San Francisco State, and studied with Bob Bechtle, an amazing California oil painter, and Richard MacLean, who painted horses. Both taught, and both were master painters,” she said. “I got my undergraduate degree, and decided to go to graduate school. I was accepted at San Francisco Art Institute, but the week before I was supposed to start, I came across an ad, looking for someone who wanted to travel and talk about art.” She took that job, which was a combined public relations, art ambassador and recruiter for the San Francisco Art Institute. She deferred the

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graduate degree studies for a few years, and in return got to travel around the country talking about the art school and the wonders of doing art. She left her son, Aaron, back home in Berkeley, where he launched a career as a member of the thrash metal band Laaz Rockit (“Fire In The Hole”). Eventually, she returned to SF State, got her masters, and has since created many large (and small) paintings that have been shown and sold in galleries around the country. She continues to travel around the world, from Europe to South America, from the Palouse to Yellowstone, to her favorite hiking grounds along the Metolius in Camp Sherman. Hanson is an equally gifted photographer. Since acquiring her first camera at age 13, Hanson has traveled widely as a photographic artist, and earned awards for her

photographic images. “I use my camera as my sketchbook, too,” she explained. Hanson returned to Oregon seven years ago, settling in Sisters. She continues to explore new avenues of art, most recently completing a workshop in the process called encaustic. You can see more of her work and read her story online at learningtodrawwater.com. In the library’s community room, you’ll find Rachel Moore’s playful display of traditional holiday drawings done with black ink and marker on white paper. Moore is a young artist whose whole young life has been about art. Along with the black-andwhite illustrations hangs a “blank” canvas, stretched, and ready for artists (young and old) to create a work using their own impressions. There are 11 pieces, each for sale at $55, and the huge canvas that – with the help of the Sisters

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Linda Hanson’s work is hanging this month at Sisters Library. Community – will be filled by the end of December. “The grouping is inspired by Christmas and the holiday season,” Moore said. “The optics depict Christmas in a way that is both traditional and playful.” Moore is from south-central Idaho, the foothills of the Rockies near Twin Falls and the Snake River Valley. She See EXHIBIT on page 31

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‘One Tree – Many Songs’ unveiled in the woods near Sisters By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

Young Frankie Borla gave a drum roll and 40 hardy souls clapped mittened hands at the grand unveiling of “One Tree – Many Songs” on the sawdust-covered snow outside the studio of master chainsaw sculptor J. Chester “Skip” Armstrong on Sunday. Before Jan Hansson and David Hough moved the tarp, Armstrong called for a moment of silence, then revealed the sculpture’s final name. Luck was with everyone at the December 1 event. It wasn’t snowing; in fact, temperatures warmed up to around 32 degrees, and the sun came out. Dozens of Sisters residents trucked up Edgington Road to the compound where Armstrong lives and creates his masterpieces, and only one vehicle got stuck (but rescued). The Sisters Arts Association sponsored the gathering, and served hot mulled cider and cookies to visitors. “I came to see the sculpture made out of a 100-yearold maple tree,” said Cathy Bullis of Sisters. “This is my first time here,” said Tollgate resident Melanie Rose Dyer, a singer-songwriter with roots

in Nashville. “I’ve been following Skip’s work on video and in newspapers, and now I get to be here,” she said. Armstrong led guests through his studio, full of years worth of wood sculpture, much of it soon to be loaded on a trailer for destinations in Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Every year, about this time, once Armstrong and his assistant Jan Hansson, the Great Swede, have finished their major projects, the work gets delivered to its new destinations. Guests got to see and touch and admire his work, up close. Visitors chuckled at Armstrong’s self-portrait as a prehistoric man with a chisel, proudly sporting a Boy Scout sash full of badges. “Yes, I was an Eagle Scout,” Armstrong said, displaying dozens of woodcarving badges on the sawdustcovered sash. “I was inspired because my mother collected wood carvings from around the world. I grew up around them, and I eventually discovered my perfect carving tool — the chainsaw!” Sometime this month, his big new work will go to its new home in West Linn. It is special, and it has intimate ties to Sisters.

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The Sisters arts community gathered last weekend for the unveiling of a project that turned the loss of a tree into the gain of a sculpture. Sisters Artist Kathy Deggendorfer’s sister, Sally Bany, rescued an old church in West Linn, Oregon, and turned it into a music school. Bany co-founded the Youth Music Project, as a way to celebrate youth playing music, after her daughter, Annie, attended (and fell in love with) Sisters Folk Festival’s Americana Song Academy. The nonprofit Youth Music Project now enrolls 3,000 kids a year, from around Clackamas County, teaching rock, pop, and country music via group and private lessons

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Early-bird tickets for folk festival announced A limited number of discounted tickets will go on sale on Monday, December 9 for the 24th Sisters Folk Festival. The dates for next year ’s highly-anticipated event are September 11-13, 2020. In the past, the organization has held an early-bird lottery and the winners were then given the opportunity to purchase their festival tickets at a discount. Inevitably, not everyone who “won” the lottery would claim their earlybird tickets, so this year the organization will be selling the allotment on a first-come, first-served basis beginning promptly at 10 a.m.

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UNVEILING: A dying tree was turned into an art piece Continued from page 6

the match between Bany and Skip Armstrong, and the flame of creativity was struck. The tree was loaded and moved to Armstrong’s property, where he spent the better part of a year dreaming up a concept for the piece. This past summer, right after Quilt Show, Bany, Deggendorfer and Armstrong met and put their plan into action. Carving began about Folk Festival time in early September, and the piece was finished in November. Everyone agreed, “We have to honor the tree.” The base of the sculpture is a bed of roses, in honor of Bany’s and Deggendorfer’s grandmother, Marie, who loved roses. From there on up are tens of carved musicians, playing guitars, keyboards, and more, all singing silently (though you could swear you hear music) from the tree. Armstrong captures the rhythm of music in motion along with the energy and rebellion of youth. Close inspection reveals some “familiar” figures,

including Elton John, wearing big glasses and playing keyboard, and Armstrong’s great friend, Zac Brown (of the Zac Brown Band) on lead guitar, with his trademark beard and black bowler hat. The arm of the tree that depicts country music acknowledges its roots in both soul and Celtic traditions. The arm depicting pop music has graphic guitarbased carvings. Off to the right, on the edge of the country branch, a carved red robin sits on its nest. This is a tribute to the history of West Linn, which was originally called Robin’s Nest. Carved music notes rise up the entire sculpture, floating on the backs of butterflies. “The butterflies represent imagination,” Armstrong said. Way up at the top are Armstrong’s muses — Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul; top-selling pop and country artist Taylor Swift; and Hank Williams, the Father of Country. These major characters are forever atop “One Tree – Many Songs” to inspire the thousands who study now, and will pursue and perform music in the years to come. An opening ceremony is planned for sometime in early 2020 at the Youth Music Project in West Linn.

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Obituaries Lorel Berg

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Lorel Berg (Lolo), 72, died October 25, at Hospice House in Bend, from COPD exacerbating respiratory failure and pneumonia. Lorel died peacefully in her sleep. She leaves her daughter, Sheryl Timm; son-inlaw, Brian; granddaughter, Annika; grandson, Anders; as well as her beloved dog, Lucy; and cat, Honey. Born in Eugene on October 16, 1947, to Roberta and Orel Hopper, Lorel lived in the Eugene area until 1978. Lorel had a love of all animals, particularly horses. Her horse was her great escape, a way to explore while bonding with her four-legged friend. Her horse eventually led her to meet her husband, John Berg, in Alvadore, Oregon. Their relationship grew over four years, and the couple married in 1965. They had a daughter in 1966, the joy of their lives. They divorced in 1969. Lorel’s love of horses continued as she bred, raised, and trained horses in the Eugene area. This led to a move to Sisters, to work at the Patterson Ranch. There she was a first-string team member nurturing horses, elk, llamas, and camels. She loved this work and the joy it brought her. She even bottle-raised two baby elk in her home that had been rejected by their mothers. It was an honor for her to deliver Arabian horses to Italy from Peach Creek Equestrian Center. Later,

Barry “Jim” Hurt was born in Wichita, Kansas to Robert and Bonnie Hurt and was the second of three sons. The family moved to San Diego and purchased a home on Sunset Cliffs where all three boys grew up. Jim graduated from Point Loma High in 1965 and went on to San Diego State where he earned a degree in biology in 1972. He married Patricia Walmsley and they had four children: Michelle, Kathleen, Ian, and Danielle. The marriage ended in 1987. Jim worked for 30 years as a laboratory technician for Mesa College, City College and Grossmont College in the areas of biology, chemistry and physics. In 1994, Jim married Darla Newman and they began their life together in San Diego which lasted for a total of 34 years. During their life together they traveled a lot, and fell in love with Central Oregon as far back as 1988. With every visit he would say, “We have GOT to move up there. It’s beautiful, peaceful and the perfect representation of God’s country.” After Darla retired they began to seriously think about relocating.

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she worked for Willows Ranch where she imported and trained the first Friesian horses in Oregon. She had an eye for horses, wisdom, and a reputation built on hard work and a love of learning. She had such fond memories of the times she was involved with importing and exporting horses between the U.S. and Europe. After an injury, Lorel was retrained at COCC and began working as a phlebotomist at St. Charles where she worked primarily in the emergency room for 16 years. Lorel was an artist, gardener, cook, photographer, singer and trumpet player. But above all she loved Jesus, her family, her friends, and the beautiful creation that God made. She was particularly intrigued by clouds and waterfalls. A memorial service was held at Christian Life Center in Bend on November 30.

The Sisters area was particularly compelling so that is where they focused their search. They purchased a home in Sisters in December 2018 and moved in on January 7, 2019. Just in time for the big snow dump! Jim passed away from cardiovascular complications on October 31, after a routine surgery. He is survived by his wife, Darla; her three children: Darren, Cassandra, and Danielle; his four children; 11 grandchildren: Randall, Kristal, Nicholas, Tiffany, Joshua, Ti m o t h y, C h r i s t o p h e r, Anastasia, William, Michael, and Jonathan; and his only surviving brother, Robert Hurt. He will be remembered

for his dry sense of humor, his passionate interest in all things science, his love of science fiction/fantasy books as well as his abiding love for his family. He can now enjoy his rest with his parents; brother, Tim; grandson, Joey; and his beloved Yorkie, Woogie. We imagine he is now “Fine as frog’s hair”.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Pet Photos with Santa

Join Furry Friends for their annual Pet Photos with Santa fundraising event on Saturday, December 7 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bring your furry friends to Sisters Art Works Open House at 204 W. Adams Ave. Get your pet’s photo taken with Santa, purchase a fundraiser wreath from Black Butte School, browse Kathy Deggendorfer’s open studio and visit with Three Sisters Historical Society. For information call 541-797-4023.

Mustang Rescue Christmas Tree Hunt

Mustangs To The Rescue will hold their Annual Christmas Tree Hunt from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, December 7 and 8. Have a family adventure searching for and cutting your own tree, enjoy some s’mores and warm snacks, sledding and crafts for the kids, and wreath-making for the adults. Look for signs on the back side of Black Butte Ranch — on McAllister across from the road to Camp Sherman. Call 541330-8943 for more information ahead of time. Call 541-350-2406 for help on the days of the event.

Camp Sherman Holiday Bazaar

Join in a festive community gathering at the Camp Sherman Community Hall with wreaths, crafts and goodies for sale on December 6 and 7. Enjoy a soup dinner while you browse on Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come find that special gift! For more information call 541-595-2719.

SPRD Board Meeting Changes

Sisters Park & Recreation District Board Meetings for the month of December will not be held on their normal schedule on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. Instead, the meetings will be held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays. The next board meeting will occur on Tuesday, December 17 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Call 541-549-2091 for info.

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Letters to Santa can be dropped off at the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce, 291 E. Main Ave. across the street from First Interstate Bank. Please make sure you have a return address on them so Santa will know where to answer. Deadline is December 19 in order to receive a letter back. Call 541-549-0251 for more information.

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Thursday, December 5 Understanding Dementia noon to 1:30 p.m. at Sisters Library

Thursday, December 5 Holiday Craft Night 5 p.m. at Sisters Christian Academy Friday, December 6 Sing In Christmas 7 p.m. at Sisters Community Church Friday, December 6 Camp Sherman Holiday Bazaar 5 to 9 p.m. at Camp Sherman Saturday, December 7 Ladies Wreath Event 10 a.m. to noon at Sister Fire Station Saturday, December 7 Mustang Rescue Christmas Trees 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. near Camp Sherman Saturday, December 7 Pet Photos with Santa 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Sisters Art Works Bldg. Saturday, December 7 Camp Sherman Holiday Bazaar 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Camp Sherman. Sunday, December 8 Mustang Rescue Christmas Trees 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. near Camp Sherman Sunday, December 8 Sing In Christmas 2:30 p.m. at Sisters Community Church Tuesday, December 10 Senior Holiday Meal Event noon at Sisters Community Church

See’s Candy Sales

The Kiwanis Club of Sisters will be holding their annual See’s Candy Sales fundraiser in a trailer in the Ray’s Food Place parking lot ending on Tuesday, December 24 (or sooner if all the candy is sold). Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. Stop in and purchase some of the best chocolate and support Kiwanis in their efforts to provide scholarships and career-change assistance as well as a number of other service projects. Every penny of profit goes back to the community. Info: 541-588-6255.

Sing In Christmas

The Sisters High Desert Chorale Christmas concert series begins on Friday, December 6 at 7 p.m. and again on Sunday, December 8 at 2:30 p.m. The theme this year is “Sing In Christmas” and will feature the Chorale and special guests performing many beloved Christmas carols and songs of the season. The concerts are held at the Sisters Community Church at 1300 West McKenzie Hwy and admission is free. Please join us for wonderful holiday music while supporting the Sisters community chorus. More info is available from Connie at 541-588-0362.

Young Life Dessert Fundraiser

Sisters Young Life invites you to come to Sisters Community Church on Sunday, December 15 at 6:30 p.m. to hear about and celebrate the events of the past year. Enjoy desserts, coffee, and tea donated by local businesses and hear how you might be able to get involved. If you would like to attend please contact Brooke Frutos by email brooke@sisters. younglife.org or call 541-904-0588.

Holiday Craft Night

Kids of all ages are invited to make winter and Christmas crafts on Thursday, December 5 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Sisters Christian Academy gymnasium, 1307 W McKinney Butte Road. Soup and dessert available, donations accepted for SCA’s Feed the Need fundraiser. Info: 541-549-4133.

Live From Bethlehem

Sisters Christian Academy students will present their annual Christmas musical on Friday, December 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Sisters Community Church auditorium. For more information, call 541-549-4133.

Call to Artists for Library Annual Art Exhibit

The Sisters Library Annual Art Exhibit is happening January 8 through February 28, 2020. All Sisters Country artists who want to participate are invited to submit work on Saturday, January 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the library’s Community Room. Invitations may be downloaded from the website sistersfol.com, or are available at the library’s information desk. People’s Choice Awards will be announced at the Reception on Friday, January 24 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, please call Zeta at 541-549-6157.

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Ladies Wreath Event

Enjoy the Christmas season with friends by creating evergreen wreaths or swags and enjoying a hot chocolate bar. Free! Saturday, December 7, 10 a.m to noon at Sisters Fire Station Community Hall. For info call 541-719-0587.

Understanding DementiaRelated Behavior

Behavior is a powerful form of communication and is one of the primary ways for people with dementia to communicate their needs and feelings as the ability to use language is lost. However, some behaviors can present real challenges for caregivers to manage. Join The Alzheimer’s Association to learn strategies to help intervene with some of the most common behavioral challenges of Alzheimer’s disease on Thursday, December 5 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Sisters Library. To learn more or register, call 1-800-272-3900.

Senior Holiday Meal Event

The Council on Aging of Central Oregon is hosting a festive lunch that is free for adults aged 60 and older on Tuesday, December 10 from noon to 1 p.m. at Sisters Community Church. The lunch includes seasonal fare and decor, music, a raffle, and gifts for all who attend. Lunch is available for those under 60 for a small fee. Call 541678-5483 for information.

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“One Winter’s Night” Dance Performance

The Sisters Dance Academy is proud to present their dance performance, “One Winter’s Night” featuring 200 dancers ages 3 to 18 showcasing numerous styles from ballet to hip hop. There will be two performances on Saturday, December 14, a 1 p.m. matinee and a 6:30 p.m. evening performance at the Sisters High School. Tickets are reserved seats only and are $12 for adults and $7 for children ages 3-12. Two years and under are free. Tickets can be purchased online at www. danceinsisters.com

Bell Choir & Renaissance Sisters Concerts

Sisters High Desert Bell Choir, Renaissance Sisters recorder ensemble and vocalist Mary Anthony will present a series of free concerts on Tuesday, December 17 at 6 p.m. at the Lodge in Sisters; Saturday, December 21 at 1 p.m. at Sisters Library; and Saturday, December 21 at 5:30 p.m. at Black Butte Ranch. Call Lola at 541-390-4615 for more information,

Thich Nhat Hahn Sangha Meditation Group

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

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, December 5 and 12 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.

Meet the Architects — Envisioning the Library’s Future

Interactive discussions with the Library’s architects to learn more about the renovation and expansion plans for libraries throughput the county. Friday, December 6 at noon at Sisters Library. Free, no registration required. For info email chantals@deschuteslibrary.org.

Meet ROMEO, a fun-loving year-and-a-half old German shepherd pup! This handsome man is playful, energetic and loves his humans! Romeo should go to a family that has the time and energy to provide him with enough daily exercise to keep him happy and healthy. Come down to the Humane Society of Central Oregon and fall in love with Romeo today!

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Sisters folks looking to put checkmarks on their Christmas list without putting a dent in their wallet owe themselves a visit to Your Store. Give the gift of Outlaws spirit with black-andwhite Outlaws logo T-shirts and sweatshirts. Or show your college pride with Ducks or Beavers wear — all at fantastic prices, with sales from $5 to $19.99. This year, there’s a whole lot of camp options available. The selection is huge, the prices are elf-friendly, and the shop is conveniently located right on Cascade Avenue. Through December 24, get a free T-shirt with any $25 purchase.

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Christmas Eve —

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For most folks in America, the spooky season is walled off at the end of October on Halloween. The Christmas holiday season is a warm, cozy celebration of faith and family, replete with chestnuts roasting on an open fire, etc. And yet… For centuries in European tradition, the winter solstice and Christmas were a spooky time of year. For Celtic, Germanic and Scandinavian peoples, this season was the time of The Wild Hunt. It is extremely dangerous for mortals to encounter The Wild Hunt. You might be swept up into the sky and dragged off for miles on a terrifying ride. At worst, you might be taken for lifetimes, to return only in a hundred, two hundred years, when all you’ve known and loved is dust… In Germanic and Scandinavian lore: “(The Wild Hunt) swept through the forests in midwinter, the coldest, darkest part of the year, when ferocious winds and storms howled over the land. Anyone who found him- or herself out of doors at night during this time might spot this ghostly procession — or be spotted by it, which might involve being carried away

and dropped miles from where the unfortunate person had been taken up, or worse. Others, practitioners of various forms of magic, joined in it voluntarily, as an intangible part of them (a “soul,” if you like) flew with the cavalcade while their bodies lay in their beds as if sleeping normally. Sometimes, the members of the Hunt entered towns and houses, causing havoc and stealing food and drink.”* Like so much Northern European folklore and music, tales of The Wild Hunt migrated to the New World. Perhaps the best-known poetic expression of The Wild Hunt is an American song, written by Stan Jones, “Ghost Riders In The Sky.” As a holiday season tradition, the echoes of The Wild Hunt — rendered benign, of course — can readily be seen in Santa Claus riding across the sky on his gift-giving mission. In the mid-19th century, Christmas was a season for ghost stories. There were many, but the most famous is the work of the immortal Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. As Smithsonian Magazine notes: “Washington Irving helped resurrect a number of forgotten Christmas traditions in the

The Pony Express

The best place this side of the North Pole when it comes to getting your Christmas gifts where they need to go when they need to get there is right here in Sisters at The Pony Express. For a decade now, Wes and Teagan Johnston and their staff have been serving as Santa’s surrogates, sending just about anything you can imagine all around the world to make the season bright. Check with them on shipping deadlines. While you’re there, The Pony Express is a great place to find wrapping paper and cards, and more stocking-stuffers than ever. Classy journals make a thoughtful gift, and there is a great selection of art supplies for your holiday crafts. The Pony Express is a friendly, helpful one-stop-shop during the holiday season, ready to fill your packages with fun gifts — and then get them sent on their way.

Canyon Creek Pottery

If shopping local — and handmade — means something to you, a gift from Canyon Creek Pottery is as local and handcrafted as it gets. For 16 years, Ken Merrill has been at work in his pottery studio and adjoining gallery creating one-ofa-kind functional art. Come to Canyon Creek for beautiful, handmade… Mugs for your special cup of coffee. A pie plate for the baker in the house. A soup tureen. Candle-holders to spice up your holiday décor. Colorful rectangular platters for Santa’s cookies. Ken has been a potter since 1983, and opened his pottery studio in Sisters in 1998. He has won renown for his beautiful, functional handmade pottery. Each piece is handthrown on a potter’s wheel, then fired in a kiln to 2,400 degrees where it becomes stoneware. All of Ken’s pottery is made of the finest clays available and makes a gift that gives each time it is used.

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early 19th century, but it really was Dickens who popularized the notion of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve. The Christmas issues of the magazines he edited, Household Words and (after 1859) All the Year Round, regularly included ghost stories — not just A Christmas Carol but also works like The Chimes and The Haunted Man, both of which also feature an unhappy man who changes his ways after visitation by a ghost. Dickens’ publications, which were not just winter-themed but explicitly linked to Christmas, helped forge a bond between the holiday and ghost stories; Christmas Eve, he would claim in ‘The Seven Poor Travellers’ (1854), is the ‘witching time for story-telling.’” “A Christmas Carol” is, of course, the most famous Christmas ghost story of them all. The tale of the miser Ebeneezer Scrooge and the Christmas Eve visitation of four spirits whose revelations change his outlook on life permeated Christmas culture around the globe. Concern for the treatment of the poor in a rapidly changing capitalist world, and the possibility of personal redemption are themes that have resonated over 176 years, through countless film and stage adaptations. Each interpretation of the tale emphasizes different aspects of the story. Some are pretty spooky; others more lighthearted. A BBC/FX production under the creative leadership of Steven Knight (“Taboo” and Peaky Blinders”) and set

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Marley’s ghost visits Scrooge in an Arthur Rackham illustration of “A Christmas Carol.” to premier on December 19 is going all-in on the spooky take. It looks downright terrifying. So if your tastes run to chills a little deeper than mere winter’s cold, apparitions that can’t be written off, as Scrooge hopes, as an “undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato,” you are not alone — in fact, you are part of an old — even ancient — tradition. * h t t p s : / / n o r s e - m y t h o l o g y. o rg / the-wild-hunt/

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Hood Avenue Art

Hood Avenue Art is celebrating five years in Sisters, creating a beautiful space where patrons can enjoy innovative artwork in a friendly and intimate setting, while visiting with the working artists who staff the gallery. Hood Avenue Art is the perfect place to find truly unique gifts for the special people on your list. There are many small works available that are ideal for gifts and are economically priced. The gallery’s 15 local artists offer many personalized services like commissions, portraits, customized fabrication, and classes. Hood Avenue Art is home to a wide range of artists working in a variety of media, so there truly is something for everyone there. It’s also a destination for a lively party during each Fourth Friday Art Stroll, offering great wine, music from local artists and a chance to chat with creators and makers. The artists welcome you to visit and spend time searching for that perfect gift.

Long-table Solstice Dinner: December 21

Traditional 3-course meal shared with friends! Hurry, this sells out quickly! All of our food highlights our seasonal meats, greens and vegetables!

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Affordable gifts of art, jewelry, pottery & more!

Fika Sisters Coﬀeehouse Fika Sisters Coffeehouse is inspired by the daily Swedish ritual of taking a break with a friend over coffee and a pastry. It’s all about slowing down and finding time for friends, and colleagues. There’s no time when Fika is more valuable than during the busy holiday season. Come in and enjoy seasonal treats like ginger cookies, eggnogs, and glogg cake, made with the traditional Swedish holiday drink. Fika Sisters Coffeehouse is offering some special holiday cheer this year. On December 4, all day long, you can enjoy gingerbread decorating — buy gingerbread people in groups of two, four, six or 12 and decorate them as you like. Mark St. Lucia’s Day with traditional prinsesstarta on December 13. Enjoy learning new Christmas wrapping techniques on December 16 from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. — with a visit from Santa Claus! Connect, take a break — experience Fika.

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‘Tis the season

2020 Festival Passes on Sale December 9

Sept. 11, 12 & 13

to be beautiful — By Karen Keady —

Unless you’re Santa, rosy cheeks are not necessarily a sign of robust health.

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Wintertime in Sisters can be hard on the skin, and a little knowledge goes a long way toward warding off its effects and looking and feeling our best through the holidays.

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We know that the epidermis is constantly being renewed, and it’s the cellular renewal process that forms lipids that create the skin’s barrier function. Mark Lees, PhD, clinical skin therapist, compares the epidermis to a brick wall. The “bricks” are the epidermal cells, the barrier lipid complex is the mortar between the bricks. This “mortar” holds essential moisture in the skin and blocks irritants from penetrating the epidermis. When the barrier lipid complex is damaged by extreme cold and windy weather, the skin becomes dry, chapped, sensitive, dehydrated and rough. Those clients with rosacea are more likely to suffer excessive redness as the immune system responds, due to the blood bringing immune cells to the site. Re-establishing the barrier lipids, and repairing barrier function, protecting against TEWL, (transepidermal water loss.), is what

winter skin care is all about. Unprotected environmental exposure to sun, cold, wind and dry air all contribute to TEWL. According to Shelly Burns, naturopathic M.D., biotin or, D-biotin is a commonly overlooked vitamin B which is important in supporting healthy skin. During cold months it’s especially important to protect and prevent dry skin. Biotin has been called the dry skin cure. It can also help prevent hair loss and muscle cramps. Good food sources of biotin are eggs, legumes, nuts, brewer’s yeast and oat bran. It’s very important to avoid harsh detergent cleansers or soaps on the face as well as avoid washing too often. Use a low-foaming, or a nofoaming cleanser. I advise my clients to cleanse skin at the end of the day — take off the day, the make-up, the sebum, the sweat, pollution of wood smoke or other irritants. You go to bed

Essentials Skincare

Essentials Skincare, Sisters’ exclusive Éminence Organics salon, offers advanced esthetics with master estheticians Karen Keady and Rickie Harmon. With 32 years of combined education and skincare experience, they serve their clients in a relaxing, one-on-one environment. Every service — from microneedling, dermaplaning, nano facials, to their most-requested Éminence signature facial with Euro massage — is followed by a complete make-up session. Lash lifting and tinting with Rickie is a popular new favorite. This holiday season, Éminence offers two limited-edition gift sets. Get ready, get set, glow with the cleanse and glow set including the lactic acid duo of mangosteen cleanser and strawberry rhubarb dermafoliant. A free gift set will be one of the many door prizes at Essentials’ annual Holiday Open House, Sunday, December 8 from 2 to 4 p.m. Enjoy hot buttered rum, wine, music, good friends and fun!

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Bedouin

As your caravan winds through Sisters, be sure to make a stop at Bedouin, where you are sure to find the perfect gift for those special people on your holiday shopping list. For decades, Bedouin has brought the world to Sisters. Harmony Thomas and her staff curate the treasures of the wide world — while also searching out locally created goods from Sisters and Central Oregon’s astonishing population of artisans. The result is a store that is truly unique and offers much more than a selection of clothing, gifts, jewelry and stationary. Shopping at Bedouin is a true experience, a wonderful way of being in the moment during what can too often be a hectic and harried season. Customers fall in love with the place each time they walk through the doors of Bedouin. Stop by and find out why — and put checkmarks next to those special names on your list.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Holidays clean; you wake up clean. No need to cleanse again in the morning — unless you have acne or oily skin and feel the need to gently cleanse again. The mainstay of winter skin care is an increased use of intense moisturizers, humectants and protectants. The goal is to combat TEWL and to keep skin hydrated. These are a few of my favorite things: 1. Hyaluronic acid: Don’t be frightened by the “acid” part. Hyaluronic acid occurs naturally in the skin and in the synovial fluid that surrounds our joints. It is a great plumper, holding up to 1,000 times its weight in water. The amount we produce declines with age, so topical products with this ingredient have a great effect on aging skin. 2. Collagen-boosting peptides: A 2004 study showed that subjects using collagen-boosting peptides after 2 months showed 6.5 percent thicker skin than retinol users, who showed a 4 percent increase. Retinol can cause irritation, especially during winter months. Peptides provide better results, without irritation. 3. Wetter water: A good hydrating, purifying water essence to apply along with your moisturizer. Some good natural ingredients to consider are birch water essence, calendula, shea butter, naturally rich in vitamins A, and E, a nut oil that moisturizes, revitalizes and softens the skin. 4. Glycolic and lactic acids. Both are exfoliants as well as humectants. They work to

gently remove dry, dead cells on the surface of the skin and to accelerate cell turnover. It’s during cellular renewal that natural barrier lipids are produced. This process results in healthier beautiful skin. 5. Sunscreen SPF 30: Yes, sunscreen is important even in winter. In fact, any skier can show you that sun off snow will burn the skin. Any cream or any foundation containing sunscreen must be applied every two hours in order to offer adequate protection. Cream sunscreens are not photostable, meaning they break down as soon as the sun hits the skin. Also, creams are absorbed into the skin, along with any probable carrier product that may not be good for either the environment or the body. An alternative would be a non-nano cream, or a mineral sunscreen containing micronized zinc. 6. Cream or gentle milk cleanser: An organic, gentle cleanser is especially important during winter to avoid over-stripping the skin. Suds are not necessary in order to remove makeup or sunscreen residue. If your skin feels tight or itchy and dry after cleansing, try a different product. In order to help support healthy winter skin, avoid occlusive products that contain petroleum. Avoid overcleansing, especially with harsh soaps. Avoid extremes of heat and cold. Avoid overuse of tretinoin. As always, consult your skincare specialist with concerns or questions, and enjoy this holiday season!

Mitch & Michelle Deaderick

For the past four decades, Mitch and Michelle Deaderick have been an integral part of Sisters’ ever-growing arts community. They not only create beautiful work that graces homes across the country, they also nurture the arts and fellow artists in their community. With Michelle’s artistic flair and Mitch’s experience, they create many unusual one-of-a-kind pieces. They also specialize in functional pieces to use throughout the home. On December 7 & 8, they are inviting the community to visit their studio at 17192 Jordan Rd. from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a Holiday Show. Enjoy some appetizers with the artists while you shop for truly unique, handcrafted gifts. Their work is also featured at Hood Avenue Art gallery at the corner of Hood Avenue and Pine Street, which has now been in operation for five years.

Paulina Springs Books

Sisters’ independent bookstore, Paulina Springs Books, is a local treasure. During the holidays, you will find ideal gifts for readers — with 15 percent off on high-quality books from the holiday book catalogue. You can also contribute to the SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) program in Sisters with a donation through the store’s giving tree. Make your holidays festive with games for families or for parties, from two players to multiple players. The selection of games and puzzles is dazzling, and you’re sure to find items that will facilitate that precious engaged time with family and friends. On Saturday, December 7, at 6:30 p.m. the store hosts Damian Fagan, author of “Wildflowers of Oregon,” and on Friday, December 13, Joshua Savage will present “100 Things To Do In Bend, OR, Before you Die.” Stop by to find great gifts and stocking-stuffers.

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“sleigh” — actually a sparkling white, horsedrawn carriage. Kaia Backouris, age 8, moved to Sisters recently and began attending Sisters Elementary School. This was her first time being in snow. “I just love everything about snow,” she said, eyes wide. She described the parade as “really cool and fun.” Her favorite part was “the rodeo queen and her horse.” Sixteen-year-old Hope Johnson and her dad, Jeff, were visiting from Corvallis. “Community and coming together,” is what holiday celebrations in Sisters represent to Hope. Her favorite part of the parade was “being warm and welcome, seeing everyone come together and celebrate Christmas as a community.” The Johnson family lives in Corvallis and has owned a second home in Sisters Country for “probably 30 years,” according to Jeff. “Our family’s come over here quite a bit. We come over at Thanksgiving time; it’s nice because there’s snow. That’s the fun part. Snow is Christmas!” “Seeing the different floats, seeing what people are putting together,” is what draws Jeff back to the parade every year. “It’s nice to see the little things, the new ideas. There’s always something a little different every year.” This year’s parade, with the theme “A

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Newfoundlands were a friendly feature of the Christmas Parade. Sisters Country Christmas,” was sponsored by Hayden Homes and presented by the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce. Afterward, folks gathered at the Chamber’s visitor center on Main Avenue. There, people of all ages mingled and chatted while waiting in line to meet Santa Claus. “Seeing the fire engines was my favorite part of the parade,” said Alexei Peters with a chuckle, as his kids hid shyly behind him, munching on parade candy. “And of course, Santa.” Peters said his Portland-based family comes to Sisters Country almost every Thanksgiving. “We stay at Black Butte Ranch. We always come to the parade,” he said. “Last year’s was longer, because it was a little bit better weather. Only the hardy people came out this time.”

Beacham’s Clock Co.

The venerable trade of clockmaking has one of the world’s premier representatives right here in Sisters with Beacham’s Clock Co. Since 1978, Beacham’s Clock Co. has dazzled visitors from around the world with a display of exquisite clocks. You can give the “gift of time” quite affordably with a visit to Beacham’s. There are charming novelty clock items for as little as $20. Retro clocks are popular right now, and Beacham’s has a wonderful selection. Globe clocks are a perfect desk item for the home or office, and mechanical models by UGears out of Ukraine make truly unique — and affordable — gifts. Kits for kids to make their own clock can be found here, and Beacham’s also offers watch and clock repair for those precious family heirlooms. Visit at noon and prepare to be dazzled by all the clocks chiming together. The symphony is simply striking.

Stitchin’ Post

You’ve got a whole lot of people on your nice list — and they’ll all be delighted that you stopped in at Stitchin’ Post. Stitchin’ Post is justly world-renowned for its fabrics and quilting supplies — but it is actually one of the most eclectic shops you could find, its gift department offering a wide range of hand-crafted items from local artists and craftspeople. Here you’ll find creative gift cards; lotions that make wonderful stocking-stuffers; plaques; painted handtowels and tablecloths. Your season will be made with a selection of specialty teas, mulling cider — and chocolate. Come in and browse from the eclectic selection — you’ll surely find unexpected treasures that will make all of those nice people on your Christmas list smile this holiday season.

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Fit For

Sisters Andrew Loscutoff Columnist

A recent fitness and health report indicated one commonality that diet, exercise, and rest are affected by. It’s one thing everyone can work toward improving. It’s intuitive, yet the first thing many people forego. It takes little time and focus, but the return is well worth the investment. What is it? Relaxation, de-stressing, and recovery. Over 100,000 clients in a nutrition program were polled, and asked what their biggest obstacles were for the big three categories: diet, exercise, and rest. On the diet category 63 percent of respondents said that their biggest challenge was stress, or emotional eating. Surely, everyone reading this can think of a time when the Oreo sundae helped

with a tough week, or the extra few glasses of wine were needed to unwind. This leads to binge eating, stressmanagement snacking, and over-indulgence thanks to the hedonistic voice in our heads. Next time life is getting stressful and that piece of candy looks entertaining, ask: Is this going to end the stress? Over 60 percent of people when asked about exercise replied their biggest challenge was the demands of everyday life. In our times, there is always something demanding attention. E-mail, meetings, volunteering, local PTA, social events. Most of these are put before exercise. Once our schedule is bursting with activity, the need to exercise creates a stressful resentment toward our own self-image. Last of the three is rest, and in this category nearly 60 percent reported lying in bed feeling stressed, upset, or nervous. This isn’t the ideal restful night and often creates sleeplessness. All of these emotions stem from not taking the time or energy to relax and de-stress. A restful night includes eight hours of sleep. According to this report, only 50 percent of people even get seven hours.

This makes the challenges discussed above even more unbearable. And those challenges can be exacerbated by the sometimes-hectic pace of the holiday season, with all of its obligations and temptations. The solution, while easy to lay out, is harder to practice. Rest and relaxation mean something different to each person. A few common traits of a good relaxation technique include: • Light exercise or activity which allows for uninterrupted quiet time. This can be a walk, bike ride, swim, hike, etc. An activity in which screens and distractions aren’t present. Talking with someone, playing with the dog, crafting, cooking, knitting, all of these get someone away from the screen for a time to let the mind create its own happy space.

• Taking the focus away from the inner voice and conscious reel of thought is another relaxing technique. Lie down, sit, or relax and focus on one breath at a time, deep breath in and out, focusing on the body, rather than thought. • Before bed, turn off the screens, enjoy a book or a

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Donations to Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank are dramatically down this holiday season. We may not be able to meet the needs of our community. Tax-deductible cash donations provide the greatest flexibility to fill exact need. Food donations are also greatly appreciated.

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magazine, listen to music, turn the lights down low, sip tea and let the body relax before taking its muchneeded rest. Don’t take this advice as a one-size-fits-all solution. Find what works for you. The most important thing is that a moment or two of real relaxation can go a long way.

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sisterscoffee.com | customercare@sisterscoffee.com Just in time for the holidays, Chops Bistro has added a new specialty food and drink shop in its lounge. Come shop for wine, chocolates, nuts, gourmet cookies, charcuterie, cheeses, olive oils, balsamic more. Choose your favorites and create a gift mic vinegars and more basket extraordinaire anyone would love to receive!

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Of a certain

AGE Sue Stafford Columnist

The Unexpected Life Growing up in the southwest hills of Portland, in an area that used to be the country, I was a child of nature. Animals, flower and vegetable gardens, and the “Hundred Acre Wood” behind our house provided hours of outdoor adventure to engage my vivid imagination. We were never without cats and dogs, and I even raised a baby raccoon to his full adult size. Once I mastered riding a bike, I rode for miles on twolane roads with little traffic. I also spent many happy days with my cousin in Hillsboro, riding her horses for long

distances in the very rural Tualatin Valley. Portland was pretty provincial in those days – a great place to grow up. My intact nuclear family was part of a much larger extended family, 90 percent of whom also lived in Portland. The role modeling provided for me was to work hard in school, plan on going to college, and, because I was a girl, become a teacher or a nurse – until I got married and had a family. Of course, there would be grandchildren, and my husband and I would grow old together. The mold started to show cracks when I was about 10 or 11, when I announced I wanted to marry a rancher and have five sons. At about the same time, my career dreams centered around veterinary medicine. I didn’t receive much encouragement for either path. My individuality showed up in my choices of schools. My two older brothers had attended Lincoln High School in the Portland School District. I had another option with the opening of the new Sunset High School in the Beaverton district, so I chose Sunset over

Lincoln – rural and suburban over city kids. My first two quarters of college were at Portland State University and I lived at home, to be closer to a boyfriend who wasn’t a boyfriend by the beginning of fall quarter. I transferred that spring quarter to Oregon State University, not to the U of O where my brothers had studied. I pledged a sorority at PSU but, when they found out I planned to transfer, they wouldn’t initiate me. I had always thought I would be part of the Greek experience and make life-long friends like my brothers had. College is when my “expected life” really began to include the “unexpected.” With no sorority life, I lived in three different dorms and an apartment with different people every year. My social life was on the fringes of the action — a very different experience from being a big fish in a small pond in high school. I went into college thinking I would be a high school English and journalism teacher. After three or four changes of major, I graduated with a degree in clothing and textiles with a business

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the storms. Raising children is what rounded off my corners and vanquished my perfectionist tendencies. I never expected to live in Seattle for 33 years, after moving there with my first husband. I did hope to live in Central Oregon at some point in my life, and 15 years ago I chose to make that a reality. It was with that move back to Oregon that I truly found home and peace. Now, at age 75, I am entering that period of agerelated challenges. A recent fall resulted in a broken nose (the first break of my life), which could have been so much worse. My doctor and I are working on reducing my blood pressure. The pain in my lower back is being helped by pain relief patches.

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minor, prepared to be a buyer for a retail store. Instead, I joined the National Teacher Corps, one of LBJ’s Great Society programs. I spent a year at Highland Elementary School in Portland’s Albina district. Then I moved on to training as a stewardess for Western Airlines. The progression of my life from there has included many unexpecteds. My first husband died of a heart attack at age 39, after we were divorced. For 10 years, I was a full-time stepmother to four children, something never on my radar. That marriage ended in divorce. My greatest joys, the births of my two sons, have been followed by some very difficult periods in both their lives. It is those times that have provided the real-life education and skills needed to weather

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My feathered foster son — Part 3 In spite of Owl’s one blind eye, for a number of years we continued to give numerous programs for the residents and guests of Sunriver and the greater Central Oregon area. He was also a regular fixture in my office, fascinating all who came to the “Ecologium,” bad eye notwithstanding. When he was at the mews I fed him his lab rat and that went on without any more problems as we presented wildlife programs. Then we moved to a pole house adjacent to the main highway on the southern borders of Sunriver. Owl was anxious to get out of his mews, but I kept him inside for a week and took him for walks on the leash to get him familiar with the new location. When I finally turned him loose the first thing he did was try to cross the highway at night and he was struck by a motor vehicle. I found him lying next to the house and highway the next morning, alive but badly hurt. He didn’t have any broken bones, but his good eye didn’t look all that good, so back into the mews he went to recover, which he did after several weeks of my soaking his eye with warm water and watching it slowly begin to look like it was getting back to normal. What I didn’t know was his sight in that eye was ruined. When I thought he was OK, I turned him loose again and he immediately flew to the top of the tree next to the house. He sat up there hooting and the response he received were three ravens

who immediately started to maul him. As he tried to get away, he floundered in the tops of the trees, making it all too obvious he couldn’t see. I immediately called out to him and he flew towards me, blindly crashing into branches with the ravens hot on his tail. I noticed each time I called him he’d immediately make a course correction and turn toward me, so I kept a steady conversation going as he bounced off this and that limb, slowly descending my way. In a moment he was out of the branches and glided right down, following my voice, landing on my outstretched bare hand, making small chittering noises as he gently got his feet under him. That was one of the toughest moments of my life. For years his actions had been without flaw, his health was never in question. His mews were not heated, just covered with a tarp in

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon winter, and he never complained or showed any trace of being handicapped. And through my negligence he was now blind. What would you do if you saw one of your kids in a fix like that? I started to soothe Owl the best way I could, by softly stroking his neck and back. He moved toward me, with what I would have said was a sigh if it came from a human, and suddenly I couldn’t see him clearly anymore; my tears got the best of me. That was the last time my feathered foster son and I had a one-on-one personal moment. Life soon meant nothing to him; I could see it in his attention span, his stance and in his breathing. And then he just quit eating. Three days later I found him lying on the floor of his mews, his beautiful spirit having gone out among the stars. Perhaps, if I’ve done things mostly right in this life, when I cross over that gulf between here and the spirit world, I’ll find it as my

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their transcendent live shows, while mining new energetic material from the place where folk music, funk and soul meet. The band’s newest album, “Is It You, Is It Me” — coming January 31 via their own Medium Expectations label and Nashville’s Thirty Tigers — is something different entirely and represents the latest stage in a band that never stops evolving and refuses to stand still. The result is a sonic revelation and a reckoning. After celebrating more than a decade of sonic adventuring, playing thousands of shows together in 10 countries and counting, and collecting a devoted and growing fan base coast to coast, the six core members — founder Z. Lupetin, Liz Beebe, Josh Heffernan, Matt Rubin, Ulf Bjorlin and Connor Vance — knew they had to create something bigger. With a big brass-andstrings band building the sets around them, Is It You, Is It Me isn’t afraid to explore the personal and political tension that the group may have shied away from facing before. The group’s signature intertwined vocal leads star on the opening track, “Dreaming,” which tackles the deep vulnerability of revealing your secrets and your soul every night in front of an audience. But where the band really sets on a new course is on lushly cinematic, orchestrated set pieces like “Mirror,” “Runaway” and, most notably, the current fan favorite and live showstopper “Sonic Boom,” about the struggle to reveal who you really are in the hidden, rose-colored world of social media. On Thursday, April 9, stellar mandolin player Sierra Hull will perform with a full band, demonstrating her wide-ranging and exceptional musical talent as a writer, singer and performer. Hull’s stellar career started early. She had her Grand Ole Opry debut at age 10 and was called back to the famed stage a year later to perform with her hero and mentor, Alison Krauss. Sierra played Carnegie Hall at 12; at 13 she signed with Rounder Records and issued her debut, “Secrets,” garnering the first of many nominations for the IBMA’s Mandolin Player of the Year designation. She played the Kennedy Center at 16 and the next year became the first bluegrass musician to receive a Presidential Scholarship to the Berklee College of

Music. As a 20-year-old, Hull played the White House and in 2010, captured her first IBMA award for Recorded Event of the Year. All the while, she was shedding the prodigy tag, turning virtuoso, and recording her second album, “Daybreak,” with seven of her own original compositions. By 2016, Hull had reached a more mature place in her life and in her art. She tapped legendary bluegrass musician Béla Fleck to produce her third album, “Weighted Mind.” A departure from her opening pair of records that blended progressive elements with traditional structure, Hull let go of whatever preconceptions existed — both hers and those of her audience — and birthed a Grammy-nominated masterpiece. Enlisting bassist Ethan Jodziewicz (and Fleck on two cuts), and harnessing vocal contributions from Krauss, Abigail Washburn, and Rhiannon Giddens, Hull trusted her foundation of influences to support this artistic leap. Months later she was taking home the IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year award. After a near-decade of consecutive nominations, Hull broke that last glass ceiling, becoming the first woman to win the prestigious title, then she took home a pair to join it, winning again in 2017 and 2018. Sierra Hull has maintained a rigorous touring schedule. Even when off the road, she is frequently guesting with friends and legends, joining such icons as the Indigo Girls, Garth Brooks, and Gillian Welch, and performing at the Country Music Awards with Ricky Skaggs, Brad Paisley, and Marty Stuart. She says she’s ready now for something new. Currently in the midst of work for the follow-up to “Weighted Mind,” her next album will consist of all original songs. Beyond that, there are compelling ideas she won’t divulge for collaborations and, perhaps, an all-instrumental record. “I love playing music. It’s all I ever wanted to do. I don’t see it, necessarily, as a bad thing that I’m slow on making albums. I want my albums to be something I can be proud of,” said Hull. For more information on the 2020 Sisters Folk Festival Winter Concert Series visit www.sistersfolkfestival.org/ winterconcertseries. Tickets can be purchased online in advance or at the door. SFF Winter Concert Series season passes are $55 for adults or $40 for youth 18 and under. Tickets are also available for individual shows. All shows are at the Sisters High School auditorium and start at 7 p.m.

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101 Real Estate Charming A-Frame Cedar Cabin on Big Lake Road. Willamette National Forest Service Land Lease, quarter mile from Hoodoo Ski Area. 600 sq. ft. main floor, 270 sq. ft. sleeping loft. Full kitchen, wood-burning stove, electric lights. Fully furnished. Cabin updates completed in summer of 2018 with new double-pane windows, skylight, new outdoor stairs and metal fire skirt. Price: $160,000. 503-358-4421 or vabreen@gmail.com

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103 Residential Rentals PONDEROSA PROPERTIES –Monthly Rentals Available– Call Debbie at 541-549-2002 Full details, 24 hrs./day, go to: PonderosaProperties.com Printed list at 221 S. Ash, Sisters Ponderosa Properties LLC 3-BR, 2-BA apt. w/mountain view, $1,450/mo. 2 BR apt. $1,150/mo. Call Jeff at 503-510-4468. SISTERS OREGON SistersOregonGuide.com

104 Vacation Rentals ~ Sisters Vacation Rentals ~ Private Central OR vac. rentals, Property Management Services 541-977-9898 www.SistersVacation.com CASCADE HOME & VACATION RENTALS Monthly and Vacation Rentals throughout Sisters Country. (541) 549-0792 Property management for second homes. CascadeVacationRentals.net

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201 For Sale “Support Sisters” SHOP LOCAL! 8N FORD TRACTOR w/blade & chains. Runs good. $2,500 OBO. 541-903-1298 FOR YOUR HOLIDAY TABLE Mikasa "Black Tie" china set Service for six (30 pieces) $100 Firm 541-350-2272 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 THE NUGGET SISTERS OREGON

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, dry or green Lodgepole, juniper, pine. Cut & split. Delivery included. eaglecreekfire@yahoo.com

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403 Pets PET SITTING Providing professional, reliable care for your dog, cat, horse and home in the city of Sisters and the Camp Polk Rd area. Call to schedule a complimentary consultation! 805-404-0748 Furry Friends Foundation helps pets in our community! Open Tues. 11-2 & Thurs. 2-5 204 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

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502 Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning AIR-DUCT CLEANING Improve indoor air quality! M & J CARPET CLEANING Family & locally owned since 1986. 541-549-9090 BULLSEYE CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Cutting Edge Technology Over 30 years experience, specialize in rugs & pet stains. Licensed & Insured – Sisters owned & operated – bullseyecarpetcleaning.net • 541-238-7700 • Circuit Rider Carpet Cleaning “A Labor of Love” with 35 years exp.! 541-549-6471 M & J CARPET CLEANING Carpet, area rug, upholstery & tile cleaning. Senior & Veterans Discounts. Family & locally owned since 1986. 541-549-9090 GORDON’S LAST TOUCH Cleaning Specialists for CARPETS, WINDOWS & UPHOLSTERY Member Better Business Bureau • Bonded & Insured • Serving Central Oregon Since 1980 Call 541-549-3008

504 Handyman Home Customizations, LLC Res. & Commercial Remodeling, Bldg. Maintenance & Painting Chris Patrick, Owner homecustomizations@gmail.com CCB #191760 • 541-588-0083 JONES UPGRADES LLC Home Repairs & Remodeling Drywall, Decks, Pole Barns, Fences, Sheds & more. Mike Jones, 503-428-1281 Local resident • CCB #201650 LAREDO CONSTRUCTION 541-549-1575 Maintenance / Repairs Insurance Work CCB #194489 FRANCOIS' WORKSHOP Int./Ext. Carpentry & Repairs – Custom Woodworking – Painting, Decks, Fences & Outbuildings • CCB #154477 541-815-0624 or 541-549-0605 –CLASSIFIEDS– It pays to advertise in The Nugget, your local "Yellow Pages" for Sisters! Deadline to place your ad is Monday before noon... Call 541-549-9941

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disapproval of the vacation by the 999 Public Notice City Council will be based upon Noticeand of these city initiated vacation these requirements a public requirementsofonly. At the utility easement at W McKinney Butte Road hearing, it is1680 important that Notice is hereby comments relate specifically to given that on December 11,The 2019, in the applicable requirements. accordance complete application in thewith aboveORS 271.130, City for of Sisters City Council noted file isthe available be holding a public hearing inspection atwill no cost at City Hall. to initiate vacation of recorded There is a small fee associated easement with makingutility and providing a located in the hard-copy. McKenzie Meadow Village subdivision. Anyone wishing to present Legal description of location is Southwest written testimony on this One-Quarter proposed action may do so inof Section 5, South, Range 10 writing priorTownship to, or at the 15 public hearing. AllEast, writtenWillamette testimony, Meridian, City ofother Sisters, Deschutes County, objections, or documents submitted toOregon. the Public Works The by easement to be Director’s office 5:00 p.m.proposed on vacated commences at the December 10, 2019 will be corner presented toSouthwest the City Council for of Parcel 1 of Partition 2014-24 being a consideration. All otherPlat written 5/8” rod in with yellow plastic materials must be iron presented marked person at thecap hearing. Oral “LS 60068”; thence along the North testimony may be presented at right-of-way line of McKinney Butte Road, North the public hearing. At the public East 168.48; thence hearing, the89*59”13” City Council will leaving said North receive a staff presentation, and right-of-way line,andNorth invite both oral written0*39’18” West 44.68 feet; Thence testimony. The City Councilalong may a curve to the withto radius of 470.00 continue theright publicfeet hearing feet;toaobtain length of 18.81 feet; another meeting thence North East 3.82 additional information, leave1*38”16” the to the true point of record openfeet for additional beginning; evidence, arguments, or thence North East 31.06 feet; testimony, or89*59’13” close the public South hearing andthence take action on the0*00’42” West 15.00 feetbytostate a line that is offset application as provided from law. Failure10.00 to raisefeet an issue in parallel to the person or byNorth letter atright-of-way some point line of Butte Road; thence prior to the McKinney close of the hearing, parallel line, South or failure toalong providesaid sufficient West 64.33 feet; specificity to89*59’13” afford the decision thence leaving said parallel line; maker an opportunity to respond 58*59’55” to the issue,North precludes an appeal West 111.21 to the true point of based on thatfeet issue. beginning. The above described land contains 4,617 square feet, more or less. The Basis of Bearings is per Deschutes County Survey Number CS18750. l Please contact in writing by email Paul Bertagna, City of Sisters Public Works director at pbertagna@ci.sisters.or.us for more information. Comments may be provided in writing prior to the public hearing at Sisters City Hall at 520 E. Cascade Avenue, Sisters (mailing address PO Box 39, Sisters, OR 97759) or email the Public Works director. File #: VAC 19-01 Petitioner: City of Sisters Petition Filed: October 31, 2019 Site Location: Public Utility Easement location: 1680 W McKinney Butte Road, Parcel 1; Lot 4, McKinney Butte Ranch, Tax Map ID 151005CB05500 Request: City initiated vacation of one public utility easement Applicable Criteria: ORS 271.130 Questions or concerns regarding this application should be directed to the Public Works Department at Sisters City Hall. The decision by the City Council f shall consider the requirements of ORS 271.130. Approval or

disapproval of the vacation by the City Council will be based upon these requirements and these requirements only. At the hearing, it is important that comments relate specifically to the applicable requirements. The complete application in the above noted file is available for inspection at no cost at City Hall. There is a small fee associated with making and providing a hard-copy. Anyone wishing to present written testimony on this proposed action may do so in writing prior to, or at the public hearing. All written testimony, objections, or other documents submitted to the Public Works Director’s office by 5:00 p.m. on December 10, 2019 will be presented to the City Council for consideration. All other written materials must be presented in person at the hearing. Oral testimony may be presented at the public hearing. At the public hearing, the City Council will receive a staff presentation, and invite both oral and written testimony. The City Council may continue the public hearing to another meeting to obtain additional information, leave the record open for additional evidence, arguments, or testimony, or close the public hearing and take action on the application as provided by state law. Failure to raise an issue in person or by letter at some point prior to the close of the hearing, or failure to provide sufficient specificity to afford the decision maker an opportunity to respond to the issue, precludes an appeal based on that issue.

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slow down. Even when the temperatures rise, icy conditions can persist on shaded curves and over bridges. Twilight falls early over Sisters Country — right on time for most people’s commute home from work. At this time of year, pedestrians are especially hard to spot. Shoppers rushing home with their treasures are especially vulnerable on Sisters’ streets. It is often difficult to discern pedestrians even in a crosswalk at this time of year, and there have been incidents in the past of pedestrians being hit while crossing Cascade Avenue. Residential streets can be even darker. While pedestrians have the right-of-way, it is wise for those on foot to exercise extra caution. Don’t assume that because you can see an oncoming car that the driver can see you. If you’re wearing dark clothing, you may be all but invisible, even in a crosswalk or under streetlights. Carry a flashlight and stay alert to your surroundings. Distracted walking can be almost as dangerous as distracted driving. Some precautions when driving boost your chances of getting to your destination whole and hearty. • On the ice: At 30 degrees

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ice is twice as slippery as it is at 0 degrees. It forms first and lasts longer on bridges and in the shade. If you hit an unexpected patch, don’t try to brake, accelerate or downshift. Let up on your accelerator and let your vehicle roll through the slippery area. • Skidding: If you go into a skid, act quickly by taking your foot off the accelerator. Keep your foot off the brake and steer in the direction the rear of the vehicle is skidding. Use a light touch. • Braking: Brake SMOOTHLY! • Chaining up: Put your chains on in a place where you will be safe, and not a hazard to others. • Dead batteries: When jumping batteries connect one cable to the (+) terminal of each battery. Then connect one end of the second cable to the (-) terminal of the booster battery and the other end to a nut or bolt on the engine. Do not connect it to the (-) of the discharged battery. Start the engine of the

helper vehicle and let it run a few minutes, then start the disabled vehicle engine. Remove cables in the exact REVERSE order. • Stay clear of plows and sanders: Slow down. Plows and sanders will pull over periodically to let traffic pass. • Stay in line when traveling to or from a snow zone. Don’t blaze your own trail, especially going downhill. • Clear all windows of snow, ice or fog before starting out. Also clear any snow off the hood - it comes loose when driving. • Dirty headlights can cut visibility by 50 percent or more. Keep all lenses free of dirt. • Tires need adequate tread for traction in snow and to reduce the risk of hydroplaning in rain or puddles on the road. • Following distance: Maintain at least three times the normal following distance on snow or ice. If conditions are too harsh, and beyond your abilities, stay home till they improve.

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COMMENTS: Permits and fees go into effect in 2020 Continued from page 1

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A sheriff’s sergeant pulled a man to safety during a traffic incident in Tumalo on Wednesday.

CLOSE CALL: Sergeants quick action saved motorist from injury Continued from page 3

another vehicle that was stuck in snow. “A passenger from the stuck vehicle got out and realized the truck was sliding toward him,” the sheriff’s office reports. “He tried to run but fell down onto the road.” “Sgt. McLaughlin ran between the two vehicle (at

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It really feels like when I turned 75 last June, my life careened around a corner into uncharted territory that appears to be filled with many more unexpected events. For now, I count my blessings that I live in a small town I love, filled with people I enjoy, and freelancing at a job

CORRECTION The photograph accompanying the story “Artist carves century-old maple as ode to music,” (The Nugget, November 27, page 31) should have been credited to Scott Cordner.

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I like and that provides necessary income to keep me in my home. I am still facing painful challenges regarding my younger son but am fortunate to have friends who are supportive and understanding. No one promised me a trouble-free life. I am thankful that a lifetime of experience has equipped me to deal with the next “unexpected.”

business hours. 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 Forests 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 will be available through the Recreation.gov website. Limited-entry reservations would include the special recreation permit fee, plus the reservation fees charged by Recreation.gov. The reservation fees are currently $1 per person for day use and $6 per overnight group. Public input will inform the Forest Service’s final proposal for the special recreation permit fee structure, how the fees should be invested, and any concerns or suggestions related to the special recreation permit

fee. 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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is one of six children, and has grown up learning art from her father, Robert Moore, the impressionistic oil painter whose work dominates the art scene in galleries of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Park City, Utah. Moore works at Clearwater Gallery in Sisters. She was the gallery attendant for more than a year, but is now exploring the art of food as she works in the restaurant of The Open Door.

She attended Utah State University, but says she really learned how to see, how to design, and how to do art from her dad. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve taken to it on my own, but the foundations of art are always the same,â&#x20AC;? she said. In a YouTube video interview, Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, Robert, reveals that he is both ambidextrous and colorblind. He paints en plein air, and relies on an assistant, often Rachel, to aid with color layout and selection. Robert Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landscapes are both large and rich in color, which is a story in its own. Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work is this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s featured artist at Clearwater Gallery.

The 13th Sisters Library Annual Art Exhibit sponsored by the Friends of Sisters Library (FOSL) is happening January 8 through February 28. All artists in Sisters Country are invited to participate. Entry forms have been sent to artists who participate annually, but any other artists may obtain an invitation and entry form at the library or online at www.sistersfol.org. The artwork submission date is Saturday, January 4, 2020, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Sisters Library community room. The exhibit opens Wednesday, January 8 and runs through Friday, Feb. 28. A reception with hors dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;oeuvres and beverages will be held Friday, Jan. 24, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., coinciding with the Sisters Arts Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fourth Friday Artwalk. The Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice Awards will be presented during the reception. Voting will take place during library hours Jan. 8 through 24, up until votes close during the reception. Library hours are Tuesdays to Fridays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Unless otherwise specified, all artwork will be for sale

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Wednesday, December 4, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Serving th e Sisters, Camp Sherman and Black Butte Ranch Areas

Ponderosa Properties R E A L T O R S

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The Locals’ Choice! M A N A G E M E N T

At Ponderosa Properties… …It’s About th e People IN-TOWN AFFORDABILITY Vaulted ceilings, new wood flooring and fresh paint throughout this 3-bedroom, 2-bath manufactured home. New heat pump and water heater, oak cabinets, a bay window, and a walk-in tub. Singlelevel living with a covered front porch and enclosed back porch for an extra utility area. A 720 sq. ft. garage/shop with an RV-height door. On a large lot with a fenced backyard, on a quiet street in the SW part of Sisters. $299,500. MLS#201909972

69114 BARCLAY LANE Beautiful 10 acres with Cascade mountain views! Close to town with paved access, natural sub-irrigated meadow, ponderosa pines, septic approval, excavated pond and shallow well depths. The building site offers views of Broken Top, the Three Sisters and Black Crater. There are views from the property of Mt. Jefferson, Black Butte, 3-Fingered Jack and Mt. Washington. An early morning walk through the meadow is spectacular with chest-high meadow grasses, wildflowers, grazing deer, circling raptors and countless native birds. This rare setting has Indian Ford Creek along its east boundary.$399,000. MLS#201906185

Kevin R. Dyer 541-480-7552

Rad Dyer 541-480-8853

Debbie Dyer 541-480-1650

Shane Lundgren 541-588-9226

CRS, GRI, Principal Broker

GRI, Broker

ROCK RIDGE #37 (1/2 SHARE) Vacation location at Black Butte Ranch! One-half ownership for all of the fun at half the expense! 3 bedrooms plus a bunk room in this 1,528 sq. ft. Rock Ridge home. So many upgrades, including granite countertops in the kitchen, new decks, efficient propane stove and more. Easy access to several pools, tennis courts, bike paths and the Glaze Meadow Sports Center. $239,500. MLS#201905281

DESCHUTES RIVERFRONT ACREAGE! Ten acres along the Middle Deschutes offers a spectacular building site with 180degree river views with the Cascade mountains in the background. Paved access, electricity available, standard septic feasibility and an existing well. The property gently slopes from the street to the northwest forming a flat bench with a premier building site before rolling off to the river. There are two adjacent parcels also available that create the possibility for a multiple-home estate. With great mountain and river views, this is a rare opportunity to build your dream home. $299,500. MLS#201910338

MOUNTAIN-VIEW ACREAGE! 11.5 acres slopes gently to the northwest with great mountain views and high desert beauty. Paved access, electricity and approval for a septic system, this acreage is ready for your Central Oregon dream home. The property offers views of Mt. Hood, Mt. Jefferson, Three Fingered Jack, Black Butte, Mt. Washington, Black Crater and the Three Sisters, plus elevated views of the surrounding area. There are adjacent parcels for sale on either side that expand the possibilities. BLM lands are nearby and the fishing is great along this stretch of the Middle Deschutes. $239,500. MLS#201910345

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

Broker

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

Catherine Black 541-480-1929

CRS, Broker, Realtor Emeritus - 40+ years

Greg Davidge 808-281-2676 Broker

Jackie Herring 541-480-3157 Broker

541-549-2002 1-800-650-6766 NEAR THE DESCHUTES RIVER Climb the slight ridge and the mountain views open big and wide from Mt. Hood to Broken Top. Every peak is visible as well as the valley below. Bordering BLM directly on the eastside. Paved access, underground utilities, existing well and septic available. Enjoy the quiet setting and night sky in this beautiful secluded corner of Deschutes County. $395,000. MLS#201506281

16676 JORDAN ROAD Mountain views! Part of the original Lazy Z Ranch. Fenced on two sides with Kentucky black fencing. Power close by. Septic feasibility in place, may need new evaluation. Close to town, yet off the beaten path, overlooking a 200-acre site of the R&B Ranch, which currently is not buildable. Needs well. Owner will consider short terms. $385,000. MLS#201802331

GREAT CAMP SHERMAN LOCATION Updated 3-bedroom, 2-bath, 1,440 sq. ft. cabin near Lake Creek in Metolius Meadows. Beautiful views of treed meadow & Black Butte. Open greatroom floor plan, vaulted beamed ceiling, wood burning fireplace, completely updated efficient galley kitchen & natural grain hard surface laminate flooring. Extensive covered decking & porches, built-in wood storage, oversized double garage & rear patio w/hot tub overlooking creek basin. Ntl. Forest nearby & adjacent trail offers a beautiful stroll along the creek. Community pool, tennis courts & large common areas. Close to Black Butte Ranch golf, Metolius River & Hoodoo Ski area.$399,500. MLS#201910213

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

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

735 SW SILVER LAKE BLVD. Townhome ideally located in The Bluffs at River Bend. Mountain views from living room windows & the Old Mill Smoke Stacks. Main level room currently used as a library could be home office. Spacious Great Room, vaulted ceiling & gas fireplace. Updated kitchen, concrete countertops, undermount sink, stainless steel appliances & gas range. Large master suite on main floor w/ patio door to large private deck, mountain views & large walk-in closet. Master bath includes shower, double vanities, tile faced soaking tub & linen closet. Two bedrooms upstairs w/large closets & a full bath. Large laundry & half bath just inside garage door. Oversized double garage, w/eight foot door & opener, provide ample room for storage. The HOA fees cover landscaping. MLS#201908540. $604,000.

SOUTH MEADOW #8 One-third ownership! Open floor plan with views of pine trees from the living room, featuring stone fireplace, vaulted ceilings, kitchen and dining room. Three bedrooms, 2 baths, master on ground floor, offering a private retreat for guests or a place for kids to hang out. Huge windows provide abundant natural light. Loft for additional sleeping area. Black Butte Ranch amenities include restaurants, golf courses, spa, indoor and outdoor pools and hot tubs, fitness facilities, tennis and pickleball courts, hiking and biking trails, and more! $185,500. MLS#201909261

GOLF COURSE & MOUNTAIN VIEWS Spacious 3,598 sq. ft., 5+ bedroom /5.5-bath home perched high above Glaze Meadow 12th green & fairway & the 13th fairway with Mt. Jefferson & Black Butte views. Updated in 2017, featuring open greatroom, gourmet kitchen, separate family room, river-rock fireplace & oak hardwood floors. Warm natural wood paneling & steamed European birch & cherry wood cabinets throughout, natural polished stone slab countertops. Four master suites, each with private bath, additional bedroom & bonus room, could be 6th bedroom, each sharing 5th bathroom. Large utility room & staging area with 1/2 bath, storage & workshop. Attached double garage & extensive decking for outdoor living on all sides of the home. $1,650,000. MLS#201905530