The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLII No. 52 // 2019-12-25

News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

Vol. XLII No. 52

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Jonah Goldberg On Wednesday, during the interminable “debate” on articles of impeachment, one Republican House member after another warned, threatened, lamented or just plain promised that the Democrats’ decision to impeach President Trump would make partisan impeachments more likely in the future.

It’s not a trivial concern.

Indeed, I largely agree.

Impeachment is becoming a partisan weapon because just about everything that can be turned into a partisan weapon is “being weaponized.”

As Andrew McCarthy puts it in the New York Post, we are working under a new theory these days “that elections are won not by broadening a coalition, reaching out to attract or convincing opponents and undecideds.

No, they are won by stoking grievance on one’s own side and electrifying one’s base — which is never more united and enthusiastic than when it opposes a political enemy.”

The Democrats, according to McCarthy, are feeding their base a heaping bowl of impeachment because that’s what the base craves. To a large extent, I think he’s right.

But I have a problem with this analysis, because it leaves out the fact that Trump invited this — and so many other problems — on himself.

I should be fair to McCarthy, whom I respect.

He opposes impeachment, and that’s a reasonable point of view. But he’s also perfectly willing to criticize the president’s behavior in the Ukraine scandal—also reasonable.

But here’s the thing: Reasonableness is not what the president demands, particularly from GOP members of Congress. If you listened to them Wednesday, you heard not only that Trump did absolutely nothing wrong, but that his innocence is so profound, and the Democrat-run process so cruel and unfair, that no one has been so wronged since Jesus was sentenced to death.

No, wait, scratch that.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) actually said Jesus

got off easy compared to Trump.

“During [Jesus’] sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president in this process,” Loudermilk explained on the House floor.

I have no problem entertaining the idea that partisanship plays a significant role in what the Democrats are doing. But the notion that they impeached him purely for partisan reasons ignores a glaring fact: Trump gave them the excuse they were looking for.

Whatever you think about what he did with regard to Ukraine, if he’s the master strategist some bizarrely still claim he is, his actions were a political mistake.

Why? Because they at least appeared so atrocious that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could no longer fight back the impeachment effort.

Similarly, Trump’s total refusal to cooperate with an impeachment investigation may or may not be an impeachable offense. But if he were as innocent as Jesus, he wouldn’t be behaving as if he has something to hide.

This is a good example of a larger dynamic of the Trump years. He breaks rules, precedents and norms out of contempt or ignorance, and the response from his defenders is that he has a mandate to behave churlishly or worse because he’s a “disruptor.” But when other actors, some of whom were elected to be a check on Trump, behave in partisan fashion or in defiance of norms, the president and his defenders are shocked and dismayed by the terrible precedents being established and the rules being violated.

So much of it boils down to, “My bull was elected to destroy the china shop; how dare your bull get in on the action.”

I agree that impeachments might be more frequent in the future, and that may be a bad thing. But there might be an upside as well: We might get more presidents who say to themselves, “I better stop behaving like a jackass because I don’t want to give them an excuse to impeach me.” © 2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

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Burglary suspect nabbed in Sisters A 26-year-old man was arrested Wednesday night after he allegedly broke into an occupied residence in Sisters.

According to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, at about 8:07 p.m., law enforcement was dispatched to a report of a burglary in progress near the 1600 block of Perit Huntington Road at the east end of town. A deputy arrived and spotted a man walking in between two houses in the neighborhood.

The man was identified as 26-year old Stephen Calhoun

of Redmond. He was allegedly intoxicated, and the deputy detained him.

Additional deputies responded to the residence, along with assistance from the Black Butte Police Department and the Oregon State Police. Law enforcement personnel surrounded the home and all the residents of the home were evacuated.

The homeowners believed there was still someone in the residence as law enforcement arrived.

See SUSPECT on page 10

Sisters charity provides Christmas to 3,200 kids Sisters charity World’s Children is providing Christmas to 3,200 children on December 25. All of the children live in orphanages in India, Ethiopia and Guatemala. Each year World’s Children collects funds for Christmas throughout the year and then wires whatever money it has collected to each of 29 orphanages, with a combined 3,200 kids.

Every child gets one gift, typically a new article of clothing, and a Christmas feast is cooked.

Christmas dinner in the India

orphanages doesn’t include turkey or ham, as it would in the U.S., but is comprised of rice and a special curry sauce.

This year several donors did something for the children that had never been done before. One man in California had 700 greeting cards made with a picture of Santa and Mrs. Claus on the front. He hand-wrote a personal message on each card as though from Santa. All the children in five orphanages will receive a card on Christmas morning.

See CHIRSTMAS on page 10

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Brenda Simpson, senior product development lead from Lonza Pharma & Biotech (formerly Bend Research), poses with Inventerprise winners from Sisters Christian Academy.

Students earn Inventerprise awards

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

Students at Sisters Christian Academy earned awards for their proposals on how to clean the oceans as part of the 28th annual Inventerprise Science Contest Challenge.

Brenda Simpson, senior product development lead from Lonza Pharma & Biotech, presented awards to six students at Sisters Christian Academy.

The contest is sponsored

by Bend Research, which is now a part of Lonza Pharma & Biotech, with support from Bend-La Pine Schools, Central Oregon Community College and the Riverhouse on the Deschutes.

Central Oregon students

had the opportunity to address the crisis created by the massive accumulation of discarded plastic based on this year’s competition problem statement: “Plastic, Plastic Everywhere. One of our greatest inventions is now a global threat. What will you create to address this problem?”

“This year we had 1,200 entries from students all over Central Oregon,” Simpson said. “There was a lot of competition and just over 160 students won awards and only 114 student winners in grades K-6 received specially designed T-shirts and will be invited to a special Science Night presentation at Lonza’s Tumalo facility. This includes the six students from Sisters Christian Academy.”

The Inventerprise contest was open to all Central Oregon students in grades K-12, including homeschooled students. Entries were judged on originality, usefulness and development of the concept.

D o r y K o e h l e r- K i n g , Inventerprise contest director, said, “The excitement that the students bring to this contest every year is truly inspiring.”

Inventerprise winners from Sisters Christian Academy are Emily Carnahan, second grade, for her project “River Claw”; Judy Jeppsen, Hayley Strasser, and Peyton von Pohle, third grade, for their project “The Ocean Cleaner”; and Mary Miracle, fourth grade, and fifth-grader Ally See CONTEST on page 16

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 Citizens4Community, Let’s Talk Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., 3rd Monday, 5:30 to 8 p.m. RSVP at noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran citizens4community.com 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.

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SHS graduates headed to Rose Bowl

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

A pair of Sisters High School graduates will fly south with the Oregon Ducks for the 2019 Rose Bowl against Wisconsin as workers for the U of O football program.

Thomas Arends (2009) has worked with the Ducks program since his freshman year in college in 2009. His current job title is director of player personnel and pro liaison.

Maggie Bidasolo, a junior at Oregon, was selected earlier this month as one of four interns with the program to assist during the Rose Bowl week.

Arends got on as an intern with the Ducks as a freshman in the fall of 2009 under Head Coach Chip Kelly. When Kelly left in 2012 for the NFL, Arends was hired full-time by his successor, Mark Helfrich, which lasted through the 2015 season. When Helfrich’s job was terminated, Arends was also let go, but fortunately picked up a similar job as an associate director of player personnel at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. In the fall of 2018, he got to return to Eugene under current Head Coach Mario Cristobal as the director of player personnel.

He joked, “It’s not often you get fired and a year later you come back and get promoted.”

Both former Outlaws are lifelong Duck fans. Arends graduated from U of O in 2012 and Bidasolo is in her third year as a sports business major. She has attended all but four Duck home football games since her birth.

Her parents Mo and Mike Bidasolo took her to her first game when she was six weeks old.

The two see one another from time to time and even worked on a Pro Day together earlier this year. “Our families have actually been friends for a long time,” she said.

Bidasolo began her work with the team during her freshman year as an intern with the Oregon Football Ambassadors. “We are the face of the Oregon ‘brand’ for donors, season ticket-holders, and Nike executives serving as hosts and tour guides of the facilities,” she said.

She is now deeply involved in event planning for the program, including acting as chair of the Marcus Mariota golf tournament and the Special Events and Projects program.

On game days she works on special events as well.

“In my role, I assist and plan all the events surrounding the Xs and Os on gameday.

Some examples of events I have planned and worked are NFL Pro Day, Spring Game,

Womens Clinic, Coaches Clinic, Senior Day, and many others,” she said.

As far as being selected as one of four interns to travel with and serve the team during the Rose Bowl, she explained, “Through all of these experiences, I have built relationships with a lot of the coaching staff. On December 12, I received a text from Head Coach Mario Cristobal’s assistant asking about my winter break plans. She explained that they wanted to bring four interns to the Rose Bowl as operation assistants to help with all the events taking place during the week leading up to the game and wanted to know if I would be interested. Of course, I immediately said ‘Yes!’” All of her experiences with the team relate directly to her chosen academic major in sports business. “ I am getting real-world experience in the industry and building my network,” she said.

This Rose Bowl will not be her first trip to Pasadena for the game.

“This really is a dream job opportunity for me,” she said.

“The Rose Bowl, ‘The granddaddy of them all,’ is a special event to my family. I have

been to every Rose Bowl the Ducks have played in since I was born. I am looking forward to getting a behind-thescenes look at what all it takes for a team to be there and all of the hard work the coaching staff and employees have to put in beforehand just to make it to the stadium on game day.”

In California, Bidasolo will serve as an operations assistant.

“The Rose Bowl is not just a game, it’s a week-long event,” she explained. “There will be a world of events from big dinners to team outings (maybe even Disneyland) that are going to take a lot of coordination and planning to execute smoothly. I get to fly on the team plane and stay at the team hotel all week.”

For Arends, the Rose Bowl itself is a bit of a break in the frenetic pace of his normal job, which is especially busy this time of year due to the early signing period for recruits taking place while the team is simultaneously preparing for the Rose Bowl.

To give a hint as to how rushed coaches and other personnel are at this time of the season, Coach Cristobal celebrated only briefly with his

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Thomas Arends with Nike co-founder Phil Knight. team after beating Utah in the Pac 12 Championship game before having to leave on a recruiting visit scheduled for the next morning.

“At the Rose Bowl I just get to be a number-one fan as much as anything…,” Arends said.

Arends, the son of Susan and Phil Arends, both of Sisters, has had a passion for football since a young age — he played for the Outlaws during high school — and was

known to be the announcer for freshman and junior varsity games as a student.

Arends looks forward to his upcoming week in Pasadena. “I am on the team charter, staying at the team hotel, watching practicing and hanging out with the guys,” he said. “I am in a unique role that I actually get to develop relationships with these young guys. It’s going to be a lot of fun, and then it will be back to a lot of busy work weeks.”

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Fourth Friday end-of-year artwalk this week

By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

It’s time. The month, the year, and the decade are all coming to an end, but it’s hardly the end of good times.

Take yourself, your family, and your friends on a stroll through the galleries of Sisters on the fourth Friday, December 27, from 4 to 7 p.m. It will be a time to ring out the old and get ready for the New Year.

Hood Avenue Art is once again showcasing “Small Wonders.” These perfectly sized and priced art pieces are promoted during November and December. Meet the artists, hear live music, and sample light refreshments.

A t G a r y C o o l e y ’s Collection Gallery, Gary has special pricing on his sculpture kits for kids, a year-round favorite activity for family company.

Clearwater Gallery will be featuring the entire gallery of

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“Gold Finch,” by Chris Nelson, at Wildflower Studio.

artists, including Saving Grace.

Sarah B. Hansen, Antler Arts is Garth Williams, featuring the fanVicki Shuck, and tastic feathered Elizabeth Ganji. jewelry of Kristi Say “Hello” Moomey, and the to and congratuwriting of outlate Ed and Kathi door author Gary Beacham at Lewis. Wines by Beacham’s Clock Faith, Hope and Company, choCharity Vineyards sen by the Sisters are featured.

Area Chamber Sisters Cascade of Commerce as at 150 W. Cascade PHOTO PROVIDED Business of the “7 Horses and a Cowgirl,” by Jill Neal, at Jill Neal Gallery.

Ave., is featuring Year.

“Unchained With Sisters Gallery and Frame enjoy the season.

Love,” jewelry that contains Shop will have a new penThe art of the SHE Project a link of a chain from a dog cil drawing by Mike Stasko, is continuing in Good Day set free by Fences for Fido, a framed silk print by Wendy Café at Bedouin. The paint- Northwest nonprofit. All proBirnbaum, and pastels of ings and collages created by ceeds from the sale of these Northeastern Oregon land- local artists were sold and items, designed and made by scapes by Antonia Carriere. auctioned to benefit Saving Sana Hayes, are donated to Friends and fans of Kimry Grace, a women’s emergency the organization.

Jelen can pick up her 2020 shelter and support center in This will be the last art Calendar, and choose from Bend. Saving Grace is often stroll for the Jill Neal Gallery, her new (and old favorite) the proverbial “last straw” as Jill will be closing the first note cards. when women in troubled rela- of January, moving to online Wildflower Studio will be tionships have no place else to sales and enabling her to paint celebrating the holidays with turn. Although the art is spo- full-time. Since the gallery wine, appetizers and art this ken for, generous donations will be closing, there will be Fourth Friday! Stop by and will be accepted to benefit some terrific sales. Stop in

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“Terra,” cover of Kimry Jelen’s 2020 calendar, at Sisters Gallery.

and see the new work, and save big time on the old!

SAA will miss Jill, the fine wine and chocolates, and the happy gatherings of Wild (but Tasteful) Women!

The final Quick Draw of 2019 will take place this month, with two $50 gift certificates to participating artwalk galleries. Sisters Arts Association, which sponsors the monthly event, welcomes new artists, supporting businesses and art patrons for 2020, online at www. sistersartsassociation.org, or at Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop. Visit as many galleries as you like, and sign up one time per gallery.

SAA wishes to thank its current members, galleries, business sponsors, and patrons for their support as we conclude our fifth year. Special thanks to the 2019 Quick Draw sponsors, ZoselHarper Realtors and R.A. “Dick” Howells Company, LLC; and to Sisters Saloon and Hayden Homes for supporting this monthly event.

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Iconic civilization of mind and matter

By Chris Morin Correspondent

This is the first of a twopart reflection on Sisters art gallery proprietor Chris Morin’s visit to the cradle of Western Civilization.

“How will our most positive efforts be regarded in just a few generations?

Will anyone remember me 50 years from now?”

Unanticipated questions burst into my consciousness.

After 45 minutes of hiking through avenues, neighborhoods, and back streets of Athens, Greece, I’ve arrived at a one-acre, longabandoned attempt of a treeringed park. Now trashy, graffitied, overgrown with weeds, and a home for the homeless in the underbrush, this northern corner of the block is a depression six feet below the sidewalk level because it was once partially excavated.

Arguably, this marks the spot where dawn broke on Western Civilization.

Under my feet previously stood a school, known then as a gymnasium, that history books refer to as Plato’s Academy.

Founded in 387 B.C., the overarching philosopher, theologian, idealist, and political theorist himself both developed and recorded the first respected concepts that served as the intellectual foundation for the most powerful civilizations humankind would ever come to know,

including the United States.

I suppose that when you have a vast orchard not every apple makes it into the harvest basket. Such must be the case with Greece given the absolute plethora of respectfully conserved ancient sites, artifacts, and historical landmarks that do exist within this exquisitely traditional civilization.

Hallowed, well-preserved ground can be viewed from almost anywhere in Athens due to the cliffs of the Acropolis rising 250 feet above the engulfing city. Upon the flat sevenacre summit, the remaining columns of the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena, the Erechtheum, and Propylaea ascend beyond the fortress walls—so vast that legend holds they were built by a race of enormous Cyclops.

Estimates suggest this fortress may have contained 100,000 smaller “art” objects at its height, which does not include the vast number of utilitarian commodities required to support and sustain the population.

Rather extraordinarily as it turns out, minute pigments of residue have revealed that the bronzes and marble sculptures were meticulously painted, with white marble the preferred surface.

Walking through the Acropolis, humankind’s greatest achievement combining both art and architecture, simply overwhelms the mental faculties and certainly

goes beyond my ability to comprehend the grandiose scale of the citadel.

Despite the breadth and depth of antiquities, Greece beckoned to me because of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

Commencing college at age 30, then being exposed to them time and again in various coursework, I immersed myself in their writings, beliefs, and the ramifications of what they started.

Figuratively speaking, intellectual and emotional chains became unshackled, like the finally freed slave in Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave.”

Museums in Athens offer such an enormous volume of work from the ancient times that surveying exhibition after exhibition, hall after hall becomes mentally draining. Sculptures, friezes, sepulchers, gods and goddesses of the old myths dominate these collections, along with vases, gilded ornaments, pottery, small brass figures, tools, coins, and jewelry. Just describing the level of workmanship, design, detail, and ingenuity of the multitudes of once-flawless statues could fill an encyclopedia set.

The small objects made of gold, bronze, marble, copper, ivory, and clay cause me to envision ancient hoarder-like homes. Did they, and not us, first conceive the concept of downsizing? These pieces are intricate, delicate works that defy rationale about how people that long ago could

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The site of Aristotle’s Lykeion. have had the understanding or technology to accomplish such things.

Many objects were created in workshops and guilds for the purpose of burial rituals or to be placed in temples thus honoring and appeasing the Grecian gods and

goddesses. Subsequently, temples overflowed with such works and each site of significance had treasury storerooms.

Three days after the museum visits, I hiked to See GREECE on page 22

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Sisters citizens explore affordable housing issues

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

The question of housing affordability looms large in Sisters and across the Pacific Northwest. Last week, 28 people explored the topic in Citizens4Community’s December Let’s Talk session.

City Manager Cory Misley provided an overview for the participants on the affordable housing picture in Sisters, including data on housing in Deschutes County from the Oregon Housing Alliance.

There is a serious shortage of affordable housing in Deschutes County. For every 100 families with extremely low incomes, there are only 13 affordable units available. To meet the need, 3,525 units are needed countywide.

One out of four of all renters are paying more than 50 percent of their income in rent.

Three out of four renters with extremely low incomes are paying more than 50 percent of their income in rent.

Countywide, a one-bedroom apartment requires a yearly wage of $29,320. A household must earn at least $34,289 to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent. The mean renter wage is $13.06 an hour. In order to rent a two-bedroom apartment they would need to work 64 hours a week.

Home ownership is out of reach for many. The average home sale price in 2017 was $437,107 up 8.2 percent

from 2016. The average home price an individual can afford includes $163,526 for a construction laborer and $298,991 for a teacher. A person earning the area median income for Deschutes County ($59,152) could afford a $288,673 home.

Misley explained the impact of Oregon land-use laws that were instituted to avoid urban sprawl into agricultural lands. The tension now exists between the goal of preserving rural land versus the increasing demand for buildable land all over the western U.S. He described the role of the City Comprehensive Plan, which contains 12 goals for the City which was last updated in 2005. Comp Plans are required by the state. In 2005, Sisters citizens voted to annex lands in the Urban Growth Boundary to be brought into the city, and it is those lands that are currently being developed. The citizens in Sisters are required to vote any time annexing of land into the city for development is proposed.

In 2010, a Housing Plan was created which included how the City could play a part in affordable housing.

A Housing Policy Advisory Board was also established to advise the City Council and Planning Commission on housing issues. Planning documents are currently being reviewed for clarity, relevance, and needed changes.

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Tax (TRT), which is charged on hotel/motel/short-term rental units, was increased by 0.9 percent, a percentage of that 0.9 percent was earmarked for an affordable housing fund. It amounted to about $40,000 last year. The City is offering an affordable housing grant program in 2021 to assist builders who want to build affordable housing in Sisters. The grant proposals are due next spring and will be awarded in Fiscal Year 2021.

In small-group discussions last week, participants shared their perspectives on affordable housing, followed by a large-group summarizing of perspectives discussed. The object of the exercise was to develop and practice nonjudgmental listening skills and civil conversation, not to find solutions to the problem of affordable housing.

Some of the perspectives reported out included: • The lack of affordable housing in Sisters is an issue that needs to be addressed.

• The lack of affordable housing impacts all ages and stages.

• The cost of living in Sisters is an issue for many people.

• Everyone deserves shelter/housing.

• There are often a number of underlying issues surrounding the unaffordability of housing, including healthcare issues and expenses, student debt, mental-health issues, transportation expenses, and more.

• Everyone agreed that terms need clear definitions for affordable housing, lowincome housing, and workforce housing.

• How do we know when enough affordable housing has

been built?

• Everyone needs a home.

Not everyone needs a house.

• People want growth to be a thoughtful process, providing for a mix of housing and not concentrating affordable housing all in one place.

• Increase density within the city, don’t expand out.

• City-owned housing.

• The problem is bigger than just shelter.

• Why are third-party investors who aren’t part of the community involved in affordable housing? What does that say about our culture?

• What makes a healthy community?

Citizens4Community is looking for more people to serve as group facilitators and skill builders for their activities. If interested, visit citizens4community.com and share your name, email, and message.

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Of a certain

AGE Sue Stafford Columnist

Joy to the World As I write, the calendar will turn to December 21, the winter solstice, and a time that brings me joy every year as we begin the climb out of shorter days and longer darkness toward the light and warmth of spring and summer.

The cold and dark of winter has always been my time of remembering and reflecting. As I listened to Christmas carols the other day, I was struck by the word “joy” in “Joy to the World,” one of my favorite carols that always ended the midnight Christmas Eve service at Trinity Episcopal Church in Portland, before we streamed out into the cold of early Christmas morning.

My reflections turned to what brings me joy. After a week of rolling the question around in my mind, gradually adding to my list, I was able to put joyful things into categories and came to realize that most of the things that give rise to joy come as a result of making myself “available” – to myself and the world around me. By pausing, slowing down, and quieting my mind, I am able to not only listen but to hear, to not only look but to see.

The creations of Mother Nature are the most common sources of joy for me.

My view of the Three Sisters when they don their winter coats of snow each fall never gets old. The appearance each spring of the gangly spotted fawns, frolicking around their watchful mothers down on the creek bed, gives me pause to watch in wonder. I never tire of the breathtaking azure sky punctuated by the tops of stately green ponderosa as I look up in my back yard. The purring of my old kitty, Maeve, as she touches my nose with hers in a morning greeting reins in my busy mind.

Then there are those sensory joys, so easy to miss if I am not paying attention. The fragrance of fresh lavender as I brush against it in my yard captures me every time. The rich taste of that first spoonful of coffee ice cream (straight from the carton) delights my taste buds. The sense of release is great as tears fall while listening to harmonic

strains of beautiful music that fill my soul. Snuggling into my bed warmed by the electric blanket on a cold winter night is heavenly.

Perhaps my most rewarding joys come from interactions with other people. There is nothing that brings me greater joy than time spent talking and laughing with a life-long friend who knows me better than I know myself.

I have always enjoyed hearing people’s stories, so my former counseling practice, and now my interviews for newspaper articles, give me great satisfaction when someone has shared a part of their story with me. In my days as a therapist, I had the pleasure of working with people that some might find difficult. But there is something in me that is deeply touched by working with wounded individuals. As a substance

abuse counselor, I worked with low-income elderly clients who lived in public housing around Pike Place Market in Seattle. Eddie, the native Alaskan, a man of intellect and talent whose battle with alcohol derailed him early in life, shared with me his gifts and challenges, enriching my life while I offered him acceptance and encouragement.

As a horticultural therapist, I helped adults recently released from the Washington State Hospital, and living in transitional housing, discover the joy and healing power of planting, tending, and harvesting their own garden plots. Minds controlled by mental illness and the drugs used to treat it, found freedom and healing in the garden.

For three years I was part of a three-woman team that went into the Monroe Correctional Complex for

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These men, some of whom were there with life sentences, moved me in ways that very few have. The laughter and tears and acceptance that we experienced together provided a deep joy that is with me still.

The human condition, with all its messiness and pain, is also the source of great joy and satisfaction for me often found in the most unlikely places. Some of my greatest lessons in living came from my Transitions clients at Hospice of Redmond as they approached the end of their lives. I learned so much about living, and preparing

to die, from them. We shared moments of pain and regret, but also times of joy and laughter. They gave so much to me and I hopefully was of assistance to them.

In all of those different parts of my life, I learned that I am here to walk alongside my fellow man and woman as we journey together through this life. It is the sharing of the journey that gives me my greatest joy.

As I share with you, my readers, it brings me sweet joy when something I have written touches you. Thank you for sharing with me how you have been moved by my words. It means a lot to me.

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Robotics Team is headed to State The Three Sisters Robotics Team (formerly known as Outlaw Robotics) earned a berth in state competition after an excellent performance at regional robitcs competition last week.

This is the fourth year that the team from Sisters has participated in the First Lego League (FLL) regional qualifying tournament, held this year at Mountain View High School on Saturday, December 14. It’s the third time they have advanced to the state tournament to be held at Lincoln High School in Hillsboro on January 18.

The team consists of three seventh-grade boys from Sisters Middle School (SMS) — Micah Dachtler, Cooper Merrill, and Lex Jeffrey — who have been working on their robot, programming, and completing an Innovation Project since September, when this year’s theme and missions were announced.

The boys worked hard to get the bot ready; they struggled perfecting its back wheel, which didn’t leave a lot of time for programming missions. While they were not in the top scorers for mission completion, their robot was very sophisticated, their innovation project was impressive, and they excelled in demonstrating the FLL

Core Values, all of which is taken into account to advance to the state tournament.

They are excited to have a month to improve on their programming and aim to double their mission score at state.

In addition to the robot and programming component of FLL, teams are tasked with finding a problem in their community and presenting an innovative solution to the judges. The boys decided that a problem that impacts them daily is the intersection at Highway 242 and Hood Avenue, which many kids use to walk from town to school and back. The intersection is foggy in the morning, poorly lit, and very wide, with long crosswalks. With new housing being built and possible relocation of the elementary school near SMS, the pedestrian traffic at that intersection is only going to increase in coming years.

The team met twice with City Manager Cory Meisner to discuss problems facing the City and then to propose their solutions before the qualifying tournament. The City heard the students’ suggestions for better lighting, bulbouts that decrease the distance across the street to walk, and lighted stop signs.

During the project judging

at the qualifying tournament, the team emphasized that the most innovative part of their community solution was communication between the youth and the leaders who can actually make changes.

Meisner was not aware of how many students used that intersection daily, and with that information he brought their ideas to the next City meeting and they are looking into working on that project.

Meghan Flaherty started the Outlaw Robotics team five years ago when her son Bodie Dachtler showed a passion for robotics and there weren’t any teams in Sisters.

Bodie helped mentor the team this year and also advanced to State with his First Tech Challenge team, The Quasar Alliance.

Meghan Flaherty notes that she has absolutely no experience with robots, technology, or science and won’t be coaching in the future.

She said that if anybody wants to continue with FLL robotics and make a team, contact her; she says if she can do it, it must be easy, and they have all of the gear to pass along to make it happen.

Meghan and the Three Sisters Robotics team want to thank The Roundhouse Foundation and The Sisters Science Club for funding this year’s registration fees. You can see the team and their robot at the Sisters Science Fair this spring. They will

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FBI: Cybercrimes on the rise due to sophisticated scams

By Andrew Selsky Associated Press

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Patrol deputies, along with members of the Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Office SWAT Team, utilized an armored vehicle and DCSO patrol K9 Ezel to enter the home and determine no one was inside. According to DCSO, an investigation revealed Calhoun had broken a window to the occupied home trying to gain entry. Calhoun left the first residence after breaking the window and later unlawfully entered a nearby neighboring residence just before being detained by the deputy.

Calhoun was booked into the Deschutes County Jail on multiple charges, including first-degree burglary, attempted burglary and possession of methamphetamine.

PORTLAND (AP) — On December 14, 2018, Aaron Cole was about to buy a new house and received an email that he thought was from his title company, directing him to make a $123,000 deposit.

Cole complied, not realizing that a sophisticated hacker network had likely been spying on his communications with the title company and that although the email looked like others he had received from the title company, this time, the email address was slightly different.

A week later, the title company called, advising him it was time to send money. The Oregon man suddenly realized he had given away his family’s life savings to criminals. The money was from the sale of their former house.

“It was the worst feeling,” Cole said Friday. “And then having to go home and tell my wife that I just gave away all the money. She could tell right when I walked in the house and just sat down, and I just couldn’t come up with the words to tell her.”

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“The emails have gotten well-crafted and quite detailed. They’re highly tailored to that particular victim,” said Gabriel Gundersen, an FBI supervisory special agent with the Oregon Cyber Task Force.

In one of the largest cases of its kind in U.S. history, federal authorities in Los Angeles announced an indictment in August charging 80 people, most of them Nigerians, with stealing $6 million in an email scam and money-laundering network.

CHRISTMAS: Sisters charity has an international reach Continued from page 3

And if you’ve had trouble finding postcards in Sisters lately it might be because three local women offered to send postcards with personal messages to children in another five orphanages. The

260 postcards depict scenes from Central Oregon, including downtown Sisters and the Three Sisters. One orphanage administrator wrote that the postcards the girls received were so special to them that they kept the cards under their pillows at night.

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The website notes, “Our TQS Quilting Legend for 2019 is the one and only Jean Wells.

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Merry, Happy, Fraught Merry Christmas, folks!

It’s December 25. If you’re a dedicated American consumer, especially one under 18 years old, you probably know how to feel about this day: Hooray!

If you like prezzies, stockings, marshmallow Santas dipped in a strange chocolatey substance that feels like plastic and tastes like wax… this is definitely your day.

If you’re part of a happy, archetypal, Norman Rockwell family, today is warming up your heart with joy and contentment. Your house is full of grandmas and grandpas, uncles and aunties, cousins and kiddos stomping snow off their boots as they return from building snowmen and lobbing not-too-dangerous, nonicy snowballs at one another.

There are turkeys or hams to lovingly cook and carve, a fireplace to gather ‘round, and a jolly patriarch who drinks only enough brandy to redden his nose, not so much that inappropriate stories start pouring out or fistfights commence. Little kids play with Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys, big kids join the grownups for a round of cards or Yahtzee.

No phones pollute the togetherness with their beeps and buzzes; the TV screen’s

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If you are a Christian — whether one who actually practices their religion, or a Sunday-go-to-church sorta-Christian — this is the day for you. Set aside any doubts and celebrate your beliefs, religion, and community. Sing songs about stars, drums, Mary and Joseph.

Contemplate an angel figurine or the star atop your tree.

If you are a Christian, you can watch the “Charlie Brown Christmas Special” with your kids, and chime in word for word along with Linus, “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone all about them, and they were sore afraid.

“And the Angel said unto them, ‘Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.’

“And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.’”

You can feel good about your religion’s origin story for this holiday, warmed through with the knowledge that millions of other Christians (and sorta-Christians) are celebrating along with you.

On other days, the question “What would Jesus do?” might intrude on your feelings of merriment and gratitude.

Unlike the cute baby in the manger, grown-up Jesus challenged the norms and conventions of his time.

He fed the poor — not as a wealthy man strutting around in fine robes, occasionally dispensing a dollop of charity to some wretched soul, maybe sitting on the board of a nonprofit organization when he could find the time, but as a poor person himself.

He encouraged his disciples to abandon their worldly riches.

The Jesus of the Bible overturned the tables of moneylenders. He hung out with the lowlifes of his time: publicans, harlots, sinners. He openly rebelled against the religious leaders of his time, calling them blind, fools, hypocrites.

Most extreme of all, he urged people to love not only their neighbors — regardless of any political signage they might have displayed on their lawns — but their enemies.

That’s right. “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

If there’s a “Go ye therefore and write mean-spirited rants on Facebook” in the New Testament, I haven’t run across it yet. Also, if someone asks to borrow something from you? Jesus says to let ‘em borrow it. (Surely he didn’t mean the new chainsaw

you found waiting under the tree this morning?!)

If you’re a Christian on Christmas, it’s easy to overlook the difficult thoughts, ones that might compromise feelings of pleasure and satisfaction. After all, it’s your day. Your entire country stops to celebrate your religion, as though it were the only one in the land. What an honor and a privilege.

To those who are alone today, whose families are fraught or broken… To those who have no gifts to give, no homes in which to put any gifts that might be offered…

To those who are troubled by the plastic-encased, made-inChina, disposable presents Santa brings their kids…

To those who do not practice the dominant American religion, and those who doubt their religious leaders…

I wish you all a day of peace. I wish you warmth, meaning, and nourishment, and — if it’s not too corny — love.

And I wish, meditate, contemplate, and pray that all of us might bring a spirit of grace and generosity to ourselves, our families, our town, and our nation — not just on December 25, but every day of the year.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Furry Friends Needs Help

Cash donations are down this holiday season and Furry Friends Foundation needs your support.

Please consider a donation to this vital Sisters-area program.

By operating two pet food banks, a coat and pet supply bank, sponsoring spay/neuters/ vaccination, Furry Friends helps keep pets at home and out of shelters. Donate online at www. furryfriendsfoundation.org or call 541-797-4023.

Seed to Table Seeks Board Applicants

Seed to Table is seeking applicants for an open board position. They operate a 1.5-acre nonprofit farm in Sisters educating 1,300 students a year and feeding 200 families a week nutritious and locally grown produce, in season. The mission is to increase health and wellness of the Central Oregon community through providing equal access to locally grown, nutritious foods and offering opportunities in farmbased education. The board meets monthly. Interested parties should email board chair Jeff Tryens at jeff.tryens@gmail.com to receive a board job description and application form. The deadline for applying is January 7, 2020.

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The second Tuesday of each month, Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group meets at The Lodge in Sisters from 2 to 3:30 p.m. All are welcome to learn, share, and receive support. For more info call 541-668-6599.

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Schools, churches, nonprofit recreational and community groups: this is your page to announce your free gatherings and events! Regularly occurring Sisters Country meetings are listed on the Sisters Area Meeting Calendar on page 3 and special events or featured meetings can be listed on this page. All submissions are subject to editing and run only as space allows.

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Please RSVP with Marie – marie@ sistershabitat.org or 541-549-1193.

World’s Children Speaker

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

Tai Chi/Balance Sessions

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

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

Career Funds Available

Applications are available for the Sisters Kiwanis Career Opportunity Fund to help adult residents of Sisters establish an occupational path. Pick up forms at the Kiwanis House, corner of Oak and Main, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays, and during regular hours from the Sisters Habitat for Humanity office. For more information, please call 541-410-2870.

Sisters Speak Life Cancer Support Group

This cancer support group meets the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at Suttle Tea in their back room from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Caregivers as well as patients and family members are welcome to join in.

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

Black Butte Ranch RFPD Board Meeting

The Black Butte Ranch RFPD Board meeting scheduled for Wednesday, December 25 has been cancelled. Call 541-595-2288 for more information.

Weigh-In Sisters 2020

Prevent Diabetes Central Oregon presents a free year-long program to learn how to eat healthy, be active, lose weight and prevent disease. Welcome sessions will be held Thursday, January 9 from noon to 1 p.m. and Thursday, January 23 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Sisters Library. For more info and to sign up for the program call Kylie at 541-447-3260.

CPR/AED and First Aid Class

The next CPR/AED/First Aid class is scheduled for Saturday, January 11 at 8:30 a.m. The cost is $30, which covers both the CPR and First Aid modules, a workbook and completion card. Register

by Tuesday, January 7. To register, go online to sistersfire.com and select the CPR tab, or stop by and register at the Sisters Fire station during business hours (8 to 5). Pick up the student workbook at the station after you register. If you have questions, call Beverly Halcon at 818-674-7686.

Senior Luncheons & More

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

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

Dementia Caregivers Group

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

Support for Caregivers

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

SISTERS-AREA CHURCHES Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (ELCA) 386 N. Fir Street • 541-549-5831 10 a.m. Sunday Worship shepherdofthehillslutheranchurch.com Sisters Community Church (Nondenominational) 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. • 541-549-1201 10 a.m. Sunday Worship (with signing) sisterschurch.com | info@sisterschurch.com St. Edward the Martyr Roman Catholic Church 123 Trinity Way • 541-549-9391 5:30 p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass 9 a.m. Sunday Mass 8 a.m. Monday-Friday Mass Calvary Church (NW Baptist Convention) 484 W. Washington St., Ste. C & D • 541-588-6288 10 a.m. Sunday Worship | ccsisters.org The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration 68825 Brooks Camp Road • 541-549-7087 8:30 a.m. Ecumenical Sunday Worship (Sunday school, childcare) 10:15 a.m. Episcopal Sunday Worship (Sunday school, childcare)

Chapel in the Pines Camp Sherman • 541-549-9971 10 a.m. Sunday Worship Sisters Church of the Nazarene 67130 Harrington Loop Road • 541-389-8960 | sistersnaz.org 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship | 2sistersnaz@gmail.com Westside Sisters 442 Trinity Way • 541-549-4184 | westsidesisters.org 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship 6 p.m. Worship the 3rd Tuesday of each month Vast Church (Nondenominational) 1700 W. McKinney Butte (Sisters High School) • 541-719-0587 9:37 a.m. Sunday Worship | vastchurch.com Seventh-Day Adventist Church 386 N. Fir Street • 541-595-6770, 541-306-8303 11 a.m. Saturday Worship The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 452 Trinity Way • Branch President, 541-420-5670; 10 a.m. Sunday Sacrament Meeting Baha’i Faith Meetings Devotional Gatherings, Study Classes and Discussion Groups. Call for location and times • 541-549-6586

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 info, please call Zeta at 541-549-6157.

NeighborImpact’s Homebuyer Workshop

NeighborImpact’s Homebuyer Workshop will help prospective homebuyers successfully navigate the homebuying process from start to finish. The workshop is being held Saturday, January 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Sisters Library. Learn about what the homebuying process entails including how to improve your credit, how to find safe mortgage loans and discover first-time homebuyers. Don’t disqualify yourself! Hear from experts in the field. Call 541-548-2380 or info.

Save the Rubberbands

Business owners: Are you the recipient of a bundle (or more) of Nuggets each week? Those huge, fat rubberbands are nice and stretched out, and highly valued by the Nuggeteers that bundle your papers each week. If you can save them, we’d love to use them again. And to those of you who already return them to us: thank you! Questions? Call Kema at 541-549-9941.

Sisters Library

Dark Sky Project

Sisters High School Astronomy Club, Sisters Astronomy Club (SAC), Sisters Movie House, Paul Alan Bennett, and International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) Oregon Chapter are sponsoring a screening of “Saving the Dark” at Sisters Movie House on Wednesday, January 15 at 7 p.m.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. This free event will include the film screening, along with a Q&A panel, public outreach tables, ukulele music, and the book “Night Skies” for sale by Paul Alan Bennett. Questions?

Contact Rima Givot at rima. givot@ssd6.org.

Organ Donor Awareness

A new nonprofit is in the planning stages to educate the community on the importance of organ donation. Fundraisers and events will be discussed. If interested in taking part, please call Fifi Bailey at 541-419-2204.

Sponsor an Impoverished Child from Uganda

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

Announce Your Celebrations!

Birth, engagement, wedding and milestone anniversary notices from the Sisters community may run at no charge on this Announcements page. All submissions are subject to editing for space. Email lisa@nuggetnews. com or drop off at 442 E. Main Ave. Deadline is noon, Mondays.

PET OF THE WEEK Humane Society of Central Oregon 541-382-3537

January events

Family Fun Story Time

Family Fun Story Time for kids ages birth through 5 takes place at the Sisters Library on Thursdays, January 9, 16, 23, and 30 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.

Know ’20s — Modern or Modernistic?

Consider art deco architecture and design with Keith Eggener, professor of Architectural History at University of Oregon.

Friday, January 17 at noon at Sisters Library. No registration required. Call 541-312-1032 for more information.

The Library Book Club

Read and discuss “Arctic Dreams” by Barry Lopez with other thoughtful readers at the Sisters Library on Wednesday, January 22, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Info: 541-617-7078.

Music in Public Places

Enjoy an hour of music from the Central Oregon Symphony at Sisters Library on Saturday, January 25 at 2 p.m. No registration required. Call 541312-1032 for more info.

Meet COAL, a dapper cat who is eager to find his forever family! Coal is a little shy with new people, but once he knows you he is a real snuggle bug. This chubby and friendly lump has already put on a few holiday pounds and would benefit from some healthy weight loss. If you are looking for a friendly and charming kitty to add to your family, then warm your heart and home with some Coal this winter!

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Wednesday, December 25, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Tales from a

Sisters Naturalist

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First it was rumors, “The barred owls are coming, the barred owls are coming…”

Next, it was the dire warnings that the barred owls were going to either chase all the northern spotted owls out of the Northwest, or breed with them and bring forth a whole new sub-species called “sparred owls.”

Then the warning was the feathered invader would compete with the spotted owls for prey and eat them out of house and home — which seems to be the case.

In any event, the last I heard, Wildlife Services — the arm of the Federal Department of Agriculture that uses deadly force to solve wildlife problems — was assassinating barred owls in the Pacific Northwest.

Way back in the 1980s, one turned up in Alfalfa, and then about five years ago I found one spending some time in Tumalo State Park on the Deschutes River, and another was seen near Crescent, then recently another was observed hanging around the Old Mill District in Bend. And now theyʼre in Peggy Tehanʼs backyard in Sisters, roaming around Tumalo and the countryside in between.

Unlike the spotted owl who is a specialist and concentrates feeding on small boreal rodents in old-growth forests— with an occasional gopher or two for variety — the barred will gobble up just about anything it can find, maybe even a chicken or two.

We humans have played a big role in allowing the barred owl to migrate from the east to the west. It is our logging practices that opened the gate. Clear-cutting became a way of life for the logging industry in the Northwest, and Canada enjoys that method of cutting trees as well. So we have created a forested freeway for them to travel.

Barred owls are mostly cavity nesters, which puts them in direct competition with our native screech, sawwhet and pygmy owls for breeding sites. The barred owl being the larger of the group means it may win that battle as well.

As far as I know, the barred owl is the ONLY owl that sings an eightnote call. I have heard birders humanize the call to, “Who cooks for you, who cooks for all,” with a drop in the tone on the last part. Itʼs normally pretty noisy in spring — but if a great horned owl responds to

the barredʼs call it will shut down immediately and may even leave the country. Great horned owls are the chief predator of barred owls.

Donʼt be surprised if youʼre out fly-fishing and you come upon a barred owl standing in the creek or edge of a lake. They will occasionally wade into water to gobble up a few spawning fish, pollywogs, frogs, salamanders or crayfish. Barred owls will even come to a campfire if it illuminates large insects, such as June bugs and the like.

If you ever find yourself back in Brooklyn, New York, take a few minutes and visit the art museum. John James Audubonʼs original illustration of the barred owl stalking a gray squirrel — engraved and colored by Robert Havellʼs London workshop — is on display there.

Anyway, keep your eyes peeled for an owl about the size of our local great horned, but without any “horns.”

Donʼt be bashful about sending me an email if you see one; I promise, I wonʼt shoot it or tell anyone from Wildlife

Services where you live. And if it sings that eight-note song to you, consider yourself one of the lucky ones.

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

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Downtown Sisters 4th Friday Art Stroll 4 to 7 p.m.

Galleries and shops feature live entertainment and refreshments, every fourth Friday of the month! For additional information go to sistersartsassociation.org.

Fika Sisters Coffeehouse Sisters Classic Old-Time Radio Experience 6 p.m. Free presentation of 2 holiday classic radio shows, along with food, beverages and wine for purchase. Call 541-588-0311 for more information.

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

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

The Belfry Live Music with Sassparilla 8 p.m. Punk Americana PDX band. For tickets call 541-815-9122 or go to BelfryEvents.com.

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31 TUES Sisters Saloon Roaring 20’s Party 9 p.m. to midnight.

TUE Live music with Jazz Folks. For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net.

The Belfr Belfry Roaring 20’s New Year’s Eve Speakeasy 8 p.m. Live music with local band Company Grand. For tick tickets call 541-815-9122 or go to BelfryEvents.com.

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

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

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KIDS IN PRINT Sponsored by Kid Made Camp A Service of The Nugget T. Lee Brown, Kids in Print Page Editor kidsinprint@nuggetnews.com Jess Draper, Kids in Print Designer jess@nuggetnews.com Due to space limitations, publication of submissions is not guaranteed. We seek to showcase a wide range of ages, styles, and abilities that represent the diverse talents of the youth of our greater Sisters community.

Privacy Statement: The Nugget Newspaper LLC does not ask children to disclose more personal information than is necessary for them to participate in Kids in Print. The Nugget limits its collection of information from children to non-personally identifiable information (e.g. first name, last initial, age, school).

Luke, age 4, Sisters Christian Academy Preschool.

Jasper Jensen and Kennedy Davis called their design “Elves.”

Christmas Crafts Night — By T. Lee Brown —

Katie Van Handel helps put on crafts nights with the Parent-Teacher Organization at Sisters Christian Academy.

“This is the first one we’ve done at the Christmas season,” she said.

“We usually have nine to 10 booths that have different crafts set up. We usually have a meal with it, too, so families can come eat and then make the crafts.”

Eric G., pictured with a “Hello Winter” mural, is in sixth grade. He said of his craft,

“I OWLways love winter!”

Fourth-grader Mary M. said, “I loved making this craft because it has Jesus and I like tissue paper.”

Katie said she likes to see kids do something new that they haven’t done before. She likes “seeing them getting excited about making something, taking it home and remembering. With Christmas crafts, they can give them as gifts, or keep them for memories every year on the holidays.”

Students added holiday cheer to windows along Cascade Avenue, including these at Stitchin’ Post.

Evan Rodriguez and Riley Morgan collaborated on a painting of a green snowman and a baby Cyclops.

WINDOW PAINTINGS Spread Christmas spirit

Kyle Farrington paints with bright magenta.

Students from Clay Warburton’s fourthgrade class at Sisters Elementary School painted holiday designs on the windows of Sisters businesses. They came up with their own drawings, and then worked in pairs to make designs.

Having their art seen on the windows of Cascade Avenue and printed in the newspaper is special for the young artists. “It makes me feel just happy, trying to spread the Christmas spirit,” said Kennedy Davis.

She worked with Jasper Jensen to design a window. “I came up with the idea and we worked on it together,” she said.

“We named it ‘Elves’ because it’s puppies trying to get ready for Christmas, pulling the Santa bag closed.”

— By T. Lee Brown — Evan Rodriguez and Riley Morgan designed a “baby Cyclops and a snowman.” Evan said he thinks people will like it. “We hope so. Maybe little kids will see it, and then they’ll have an idea.”

“It could inspire them, like if they want to be a really good artist,” said Riley.

Art helps Riley learn in school. “There’s math in art, and different textures, and mixing.” When it’s hard to concentrate at school because you’ve been sitting so long, “it’s fun to wiggle your fingers drawing in school.”

Why a Christmas Cyclops? Riley explained, “Sometimes Evan draws evil creatures in school.”

Evan agreed. “I mostly draw, like, evil

Corbin Sybesma was inspired to design a snowboarder falling off a board.

stuff with sharp teeth. That’s what I like to draw.” The Baby Cyclops in their painting, however, is not evil. “Mr. W said we’re not doing evil things because it’s Christmas,” said Evan.

Corbin Sybesma and Kyle Farrington painted a window, too. Kyle said he got to select the colors. “It’s neat,” he said of the bright magenta he was using.

Corbin said he came up with the design, inspired by a “long-time-ago picture of a bigfoot snowboarding.” He said, “So I came up with the idea of falling off a snowboard.”

Painting art on a window, out where everyone can see it, was exciting for him.

“I’ve never really done something like this,” Corbin said. “It’s really fun to me.”

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JV/V Girls Basketball at Klamath Union, 2/3:30 p.m.

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CONTEST: Event promotes science education

Sisters Christian Academy helps ‘Feed the Need’

By Jodi Schneider

Continued from page 3

Gilliam for their project, “The Purple Brick.”

Carnahan, who worked solo, explained how her invention, River Claw, will automatically pick up plastic as it gets trapped in netting and will automatically transport the material into a recycle bin.

The students had four weeks of working on their projects in class, two days a week. They also had the option of working on their projects outside of class.

Science and math instructor Randy Muir has been teaching at Sisters Christian Academy for over 20 years and was there to support the six students as they presented their projects or inventions to the enthusiastic audience during the assembly.

“One of the best ways to learn and to develop a love for learning is to allow students the opportunity to be actively involved in a realworld project,” Muir said.

“As they move through their projects, they’re learning about the science behind their inventions, how to work on a project from beginning idea to end product, and how to work with others in a small group.

Inventerprise fulfills an opportunity to learn all those life-enhancing skills.”

For over a decade Muir has entered students from Sisters Christian Academy into the Inventerprise Contest Challenge.

The Inventerprise Contest began in 1992 as an outgrowth of a business-education partnership between Bend Research and the Bend-La Pine School District to promote science education and enrich students’ educational experience. Fourteen years ago, Central Oregon Community College joined the effort by helping to plan and run the contest. New this year, the Riverhouse on the Deschutes has joined the partnership by offering up space for the contest.

Correspondent

It’s the holidays, and Sisters Christian Academy (SCA) teachers and students were busy last week, boxing gifts of a different kind.

A Feed the Need packing party kicked off early in the school gymnasium on Thursday, December 19, with a full school effort participating in the process of scooping, weighing, sealing and then packing the sealed bags of high-protein dehydrated meals in a box for hungry children and orphans in Haiti.

Robbie Gilliam, SCA principal, guided students, teachers and volunteers from the community through the process of packing 10,000 meals. Approximately 1,500 of those meals will be distributed locally in Central Oregon including Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank.

The scene was exciting and filled with energy. All

the volunteers wore hairnets and gloves before handling anything. Huge bins were full of dehydrated food, with rice, soy, powdered vitamins and a vegetable mix that gets accurately measured and then goes into a plastic bag that is sealed and shipped to Haiti, where it will feed an orphanage for a year.

Gilliam told The Nugget, “This is a way for us to give back in the process of us raising money. Our biggest goal was to get the students to focus on something bigger than themselves and realize their world is bigger than Sisters, Oregon.”

Heather Commins, second- and third-grade teacher, noted, “It’s a great opportunity for them to realize how much they have and how much they can impact others in need.”

Science teacher Randy Muir added, “They get to be a part of the whole process.”

Kindergarten teacher

Sarah Carnahan watched over the kindergarten class who took on the job of drawing colorful pictures on the boxes.

“Decorating the boxes is such a fun way for the littles to get involved with being a part of this project,” she said.

“They are sending pictures and messages of encouragement to the students in Haiti.”

Haiti’s food problem is the worst in the world, with statistics revealing a fearful food crisis throughout the country. Two out of three Haitians are believed to survive on a limited sum of $2 or less per day. One in three children are stunted in Haiti, while 100,000 children suffer from acute malnutrition.

Haiti has the lowest food availability currently measured in the world.

Sisters Christian Academy has a $50,000 fundraiser

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underway until the end of the year with donations accepted at SCA, or through a Mobile Cause app.

Office Manager Lisa Gilbert noted, “A portion of this money is for the food product and supplies to pack and ship the meals to Haiti, and the other portion will help upgrade Sisters Christian Academy’s outdoor playground and PE equipment.”

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Sisters Country birds

By Douglas Beall Correspondent

A familiar resident of our ponderosa pine forests is the white-headed woodpecker (Picoides albolarvatus). Feeding on insects, cone seeds, and larva from the thick bark of ponderosa pines, they also nest in older snags of pines.

After excavating the nest cavity, two to nine white eggs are laid and the parents share brooding duties for approximately 14 days, and then the chicks are fed by both parents for another 26 days in the nest. At least some of the pairs remain together for the

winter. White-headed woodpeckers are one of the most poorly studied birds of the woodpecker family.

American ornithologist John Cassin first described the white-headed woodpecker in 1850. Cassin collected some 43,000 various bird skins which were cured in arsenic, and he died from arsenic poisoning.

A group of woodpeckers are referred to as a “drumming,” “gatling,” or “decent.”

To view more images of the white-headed woodpecker, visit http://abird singsbecauseithasasong. com/recent-journeys.

PHOTO BY DOUGLAS BEALL

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Santa visits Black Butte Ranch

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Santa Claus is extremely busy in this season, but each year he makes time to spend the weekend before Christmas at Black Butte Ranch. He visits with dozens and dozens of children, hearing about their year and their holiday wish list, then shares story and song with the 400 or so people who turn out for the Ranch’s Breakfast with Santa.

Julia Kelleher of Bend has been bringing an extended family of 20 out to Black Butte Ranch each year for the past seven years. The reason is simple: “He’s the best Santa,” she told The Nugget. “Real Santa.”

Over Saturday and Sunday morning, Santa spent hours with the children as thousands of pictures were snapped.

Then, presumably, he headed back to the North Pole with a long list of Christmas wishes in his pocket to prepare for one extraordinarily busy night of delivery.

Breakfast with Santa is part of Black Butte Ranch’s set of traditional holiday activities, which also includes tours of the Ranch in a wreath-decked carriage.

PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS

Families crowded The Lodge at Black Butte Ranch so that children could have some time with Santa Claus.

A huge thank-you to the Sisters Audry community for all your support. Van Houweling PMHNP-BC Wishing you peace & joy Now Accepting this holiday season!

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The Nugget Newspaper Crossword

By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Black Butte School told the tale of Harold the Hodag in their winter play.

Winter play packs house at Black Butte School

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

Black Butte School (BBS) students revealed the history of the Hodag and how it came to Hoodoo Ski Area in a stage production at Camp Sherman Community Hall on Thursday.

“Oregon Winter” was a variety show with holiday music and the feature presentation of the evening, “The Legendary Hodag,” was written and directed by Jennie Sharp.

The year is 1893. Eugene Shepard, played by student Jo Jo Souza, a respected timber cruiser, stumbles into a logging camp in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and the story begins.

He has encountered a vicious beast: the great black Hodag, and Souza as Shepard describes the creature to the loggers: “The first time I saw one, I came around a huge hemlock to arrive face to face with the 200 pound, seven-foot-long, lizard-like beast. Its head was large for its body, with two horns growing from its head, large fangs, and nasty green eyes. It was covered with short black hair and the body was stout and muscular. On its spine were spikes leading to a powerful tail. Its four legs were short and sturdy with three claws facing forward and one back.”

According to the script, Shepard captured a live Hodag, but it got away, so to prove its existence to skeptical folks he made a fake one.

At the end of scene four, Shepard tells the loggers, “We’ll have to make a Hodag with wood and rotting oxen hides.”

Its armor was made of horns once belonging to various bulls. Those vicious claws were bent steel rods. But to Rhinelander, Wisconsin, the Hodag is much more than a hoax. It became a local legend.

“I thought we could celebrate local history,” Sharp noted. “Part of the inspiration for the story first came from the social studies curriculum

— this year grades 5-8 are learning about Oregon history. I started brainstorming and wanted to focus on a local story. Last year writer T. Lee Brown helped the kids learn interviewing skills and they interviewed long-time Camp Sherman residents Leon and Sylvia Foster. There were many fun stories that they gathered through the interviews, and the transcripts were shared with me. Some of the best stories were about their time managing Hoodoo Ski Area.

“After my husband, Delany, suggested that I write about Harold the Hodag, I started researching the mascot of Hoodoo and the history of this mythical beast. It was such a fun history that I had to incorporate it into the show.”

She added, “Hoodoo owner Chuck Shepard gave me lots of information that helped me to write the play.”

Shepard was in the audience with his family. He grew up in Wisconsin knowing the story about Uncle Gene.

“The play sticks to the facts,” Shepard said. “I knew it would be good, but it was a whole lot better than I anticipated.”

After the audience cheered in awe of a delightful performance by 26 students ages 5 to 13, the cast appeared on stage and sang “Deck the Halls.”

But that wasn’t the end — Harold the Hodag from Hoodoo put in a special surprise appearance (arranged by Sharp) for the cast and everyone in the audience.

Since 2015, Sharp has directed the BBS winter performance, creating memorable experiences for the performers and their audiences.

After being approached by parents to offer summer camps many times, Sharp decided that 2019 was the year. At Starshine Theater Camp kids leap into the fantastic world of imagination for a week of designing, creating, and performing their own show. For more information visit www. starshine-theater.com

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C L A S S I F I E D S ALL advertising in this newspaper is 101 Real Estate subject to the Fair Housing Act Charming A-Frame Cedar which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or Cabin on Big Lake Road. discrimination based on race, color, Willamette National Forest religion, sex, handicap, familial Service Land Lease, quarter mile status or national origin, or an intention to make any such from Hoodoo Ski Area. 600 sq. preference, limitation or discrim- ft. main floor, 270 sq. ft. sleeping ination.” Familial status includes loft. Full kitchen, wood-burning children under the age of 18 living stove, electric lights. Fully with parents or legal custodians, furnished. Cabin updates pregnant women and people securing completed in summer of 2018 custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly with new double-pane windows, accept any advertising for real estate skylight, new outdoor stairs and which is in violation of the law. Our metal fire skirt. Price: $160,000. readers are hereby informed that all 503-358-4421 or dwellings advertised in this vabreen@gmail.com newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 102 Commercial Rentals 1-800-669-9777.

The toll-free telephone number for the hearing Prime Downtown Retail Space impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

Call Lori at 541-549-7132 CLASSIFIED RATES Cold Springs Commercial COST: $2 per line for first insertion, CASCADE STORAGE $1.50 per line for each additional insertion to 9th week, $1 per line (541) 549-1086 • (877) 540-1086 581 N. Larch – 7-Day Access 10th week and beyond (identical ad/consecutive weeks). Also included 5x5 to 12x30 Units Available in The Nugget online classifieds at no 5x5 - 8x15 Climate Control Units additional charge. There is a On-site Management minimum $5 charge for any classified. First line = approx. 20-25 SNO CAP MINI STORAGE characters, each additional line = www.SistersStorage.com approx. 25-30 characters. Letters, LONG-TERM DISCOUNTS! spaces, numbers and punctuation = 1 Secure, Automated Facility character. Any ad copy changes will be charged at the first-time insertion with On-site Manager rate of $2 per line. Standard • • • abbreviations allowed with the 541-549-3575 approval of The Nugget classified MINI STORAGE department. NOTE: Legal notices placed in the Public Notice section Sisters Storage & Rental are charged at the display advertising 506 North Pine Street rate.

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

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PONDEROSA PROPERTIES –Monthly Rentals Available– Call Debbie at 541-549-2002 Full details, 24 hrs./day, go to: PonderosaProperties.com Printed list at 221 S. Ash, Sisters Ponderosa Properties LLC House in Sisters 3BD, 2.5 BA, 1,508 sqft., $1,800. Pet ok. See Zillow.com Call 541-549-8425

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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!

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

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Sisters Urban Renewal Agency Annual Report

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290 E CASCADE AVENUE ISTERS,, OR ISTERS SISTERS, 541.588.6614 CascadeSothebysRealty.com

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Stunning Cascade Views. Main Estate is sold furnished and turnkey. Ranch: barn, indoor arena, rec barn, 9 bay shop, racetrack, livestock barn, 206 acres of water rights, guest home, managers home, stocked pond. www.randbranch-sistersoregon.com Pam Mayo-Phillips & Brook Havens, Principal Brokers 541.480.1513 | pam@desertvalleyrealtros.com

Multi-Family Residential MFR zoning with all municipal utilities and sewer to property line. Residential development could be single-family residential, multi-family or town home/ condominiums. The property is close proximity to shopping, restaurants, close to forest access, Cascade Mountain Views.

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Stately home located within 360 acre gated community of Cascade Meadow Ranch. Formal living, dining and oversized family room.

Warm, inviting chef's kitchen and nook includes Viking double ovens, new SS full sized refrigerator/freezer. Main level master & 2 separate guest suites.

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0.65 ACRES IN BLACK BUTTE RANCH

31 private acres in Sisters! Single-level, southwest-style home with upstairs recreation room. 10 acres of irrigation. 4,000 SF barn with 5-stalls, workshop & ranch hand quarters. Fenced pastures & riding area. 2 ponds & Mt Jefferson view! www.OldMilitarySisters.com Suzanne Carvlin, Broker | Patti Cordoni, Principal Broker 818.216.8542 | suzanne.carvlin@cascadesir.com

Join in tradition & adventure for an authentic Oregon experience in Black Butte Ranch. Build your ideal property so generations can gather together! Access to national forest, near Rock Ridge pool & tennis courts, 2 world-class golf courses, restaurants & more! www.rockridge76.com Suzanne Carvlin, Broker 818.216.8542 | suzanne.carvlin@cascadesir.com

3 BD | 3.5 BA | 3,456 SF | $2,250,000

ROCK RIDGE 76 | $199,000

3 BD | 2.5 BA | 3,567 SF | $ 1,495,000

Exceptional Lodge style home with Cascade Mountain views, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths on secluded 9.41-acres minutes to downtown Sisters. 3,585 SF main home + a 3,456 SF barn with guest quarters, workshop, barn stalls & much more! www.ChestnutHillSisters.com Suzanne Carvlin, Broker 818.216.8542 | suzanne.carvlin@cascadesir.com MLS MLS#201905294 #0000000

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3 BD | 2BA | 2,241 SF | $525,000

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13.33 ACRES IN SISTERS

Beautiful home has open floor plan with vaulted ceiling. The great room has propane fireplace, Dining Area has built-in cabinets. Gourmet kitchen has quartz counter tops, farm sink, breakfast bar and SS appliances. Master suite is on the main floor and has an office off the bedroom. Upstairs is a bonus room.

Ellen Wood, Broker 541.588.0033 | ellen.wood@cascadesir.com

Panoramic Whychus Creek Canyon, 3 Sisters Mtns & Smith Rock Views! Tastefully updated & well maintained home has a Great Room w/ vaulted pine ceiling, a Gourmet Kitchen & Dining Area.

Beautifully landscaped yard w/ water feature. Master has views of Smith Rock. Spacious Family Rm & office area.

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13.33 acres with end of the road seclusion just minutes from Aspen Lakes Golf Course and the town of Sisters, Oregon. A great property for building your dream home. No HOA fees or CCR's.

Adjacent to Deschutes Land Trust and Whychus Creek Canyon.

Conditional Use Permit is approved. Motivated seller!

GORGEOUS SISTERS HOME | BUILT 2017

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Learn about your forest with snowshoe/ ski tours Discover Your Forest, in collaboration with the Deschutes National Forest and Mt. Bachelor Ski Area, is beginning their annual winter interpretive programs. The programs allow visitors to the Mt. Bachelor Ski Area to snowshoe, ski or snowboard with a ranger. All interpretive programs focus on the ecology, geology and wildlife of the Cascades.

Snowshoe programs began December 21, and run through March 29, 2020.

Interested participants will meet at the Forest Service snowshoeing hut, located in the parking lot of Mt. Bachelor’s West Village.

There are two offered start times: 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

Tours are available on weekends and school-break weekdays, with the exception of Christmas and New Year’s Day. Tours last 90 minutes, and snowshoes are provided for the tour. No prior experience is needed. Participants must be eight years or older and should dress appropriately for cold weather.

On weekends beginning January 2, 2020 and running through March 29, 2020, an interpretive ski and snowboard tour will also be offered on Mt. Bachelor’s groomed runs. The tour, which lasts an hour, begins at noon. Participants are responsible for having lift tickets and appropriate equipment, as well as basic riding skills.

While both programs are free, donations are suggested to help nonprofit Discover Your Forest continue to provide educational programming and volunteer support to the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and the Crooked River National Grassland.

Reservations are not required for individual participants. Group tours for schools, youth or other organizations may be scheduled for weekdays. Tour size is limited; first come, first served. No pets.

For more information or to make a reservation for a school group or organization, please contact Karen Gentry, Discover Your Forest’s director of education at 541-383-4771 or karen. gentry@discovernw.org.

GREECE: Travel to the cradle of Western Civilization Continued from page 6

Aristotle’s Lykeion — which basically translates to “high school” — archeological site.

Its discovery occurred accidentally in 1996, when the city of Athens began digging a foundation for a museum to honor the philosopher in the area where his school was known to have been. At least the Lykeion has a gate and surrounding fence along with a part-time groundskeeper maintaining it, even if the spot where dawn broke upon Western Civilization on the second day isn’t a featured destination.

Aristotle — the intellectual “grandstudent” of Socrates, star pupil of Plato, and teacher-mentor to

Alexander the Great — completed the triad of Founding Fathers of Western thinking.

He considered, explored, and then established the groundwork for what we consider to be and what he named Reason and Logic.

Aristotle’s school of thought served as the blueprint for Athens during the last decades of the Golden Age of Greece and then as the foundation and walls for Western Civilization in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Stockholm, Berlin and Washington, D.C. He directed us to comprehend the need to think about thinking, what we now view as philosophy, and how to then execute our efforts to ponder things in an orderly manner, which established the scientific method, in hope of overcoming illconsidered opinion-beliefs and the resulting so-called “facts.”

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Holidays get rolling at fire department

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

Christmas kicked off early last Saturday at the SistersCamp Sherman Fire District Community Hall.

The Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire & Ambulance Association, Sisters Kiwanis Club and Furry Friends Foundation sponsored the “Spirit of Christmas Giving Tr e e ” w h i c h p r o v i d e d Christmas gifts to families in need in Sisters Country this holiday season.

The Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire & Ambulance Association (SCSFAAA) collected new unwrapped gifts at the main fire station at 301 S. Elm St. in Sisters. Gifts were available to children, age newborn to seniors in high school, of low-income families who live within the Sisters or Black Butte school districts.

SCSFAA office assistant Sarah Bialous, who helped coordinate the event, was on hand to talk to The Nugget.

“This is such a wonderful joint effort between all three of us. We are serving close to 250 children this year,” she said.

People in the community picked up tags with items requested by families that hung on the “Spirit of Christmas Giving Trees” at Ray’s Food Place, SistersCamp Sherman Fire Station, Black Butte Ranch Post Office and Black Butte Ranch

Police Department.

Furry Friends Foundation was well-stocked with generous donations for their holiday pet food drive.

Furry Friends Foundation founder and director Kiki Dolson said, “This is our 28th year of the holiday pet food drive which has helped almost 8,000 pets over the years. I am always amazed when it all comes together. It’s a huge mishmash of boxes of treats, squeaky toys, Nylabone chews, Kongs, catnip mice and pallets of pet food. The cash donations we get during the holidays allow me to shop for special requests and what is still needed, and there is lots of shopping to do.

“Providing pet food to Sisters-area families and seniors means those dollars that would be spent are now added back into the monthly budget. That little bit of aid might mean more groceries for the family or maybe they turn the heat up a couple degrees.”

Furry Friends fed 393 pets this holiday season, mostly cats and dogs, but there’s always a few other pets too, and this year they fed a hedgehog.

Dolson added, “I want to send out huge thanks to the Cloverdale RFPD who transported eight pallets from storage to the Sisters Fire Hall for distribution. Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD were there to help unload. I really don’t

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know how I could have managed without them this year, I’m very grateful. And a big thank-you to the many volunteers who helped this past Saturday.”

Furry Friends is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) that operates a pet-food/supply bank from their office, supplies the pet food distributed through the Kiwanis Food Bank, and offers free spay/neuter/vaccinations to Sisters-area families in need.

Furry Friends is still accepting cash donations.

They may be mailed to P.O. Box 1175, Sisters, OR 97759 or individuals may donate online at www.furryfriends foundation.org. These donations will be used to stock the year-round pet-food bank and sponsor pet spay and neuter surgeries.

Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank sponsored their annual holiday meal program and volunteers Naomi Rowe and Julie Miller were very busy accepting vouchers.

Families who wanted to participate in the annual Kiwanis holiday food program filled out applications at the Kiwanis Food Bank on Main Avenue, at Sisters Fire Hall, and at Sisters Family Access Network.

Sisters Kiwanis raises funds year-round to support the community’s other nonprofits, student scholarships for sports and college, and their own community projects.

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Step off your property or ride your horse onto government land. Low maintenance landscaping. Portion of property fenced for privacy & animals. Two bay detached garage with workbench & attached storage shed.

Tiled entryway opening to the great room, inclusive of dining room, kitchen w/gas range, tiled countertops, refrigerator & custom wood cabinetry throughout. Gas fireplace in living room. Elevated ceilings throughout home.

Separate large family room with lots of windows.

Spacious master with bath, walk-in closet & walk through to laundry room. Solar tube lights in bathroom & closet. Located 3± miles from Sisters. Excellent access for hiking, biking, horseback riding, snowmobiling & more. Paved streets. Fenced back yard w/hot tub area & Trex decking. Drive through driveway. $589,000.

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THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Located in the Coyote Springs neighborhood, end of a quiet cul-de-sac bordering the forest buffer, this homesite offers the best of both worlds.

Access over 100 miles of Peterson Ridge and other forest trails right out your back door. Enjoy the nearby amenities of FivePine Lodge, Three Creeks Brewing, Sisters Athletic Club, Shibui Spa and Sisters Movie House or stroll into downtown to enjoy Creekside Park, The Village Green, art galleries, fine restaurants and gourmet markets.

Ready for your new home with underground utilities, paved streets, city sewer and city water.

CCRS and design guidelines have helped create a beautiful neighborhood of quality homes. Low HOA fees. Get your hiking shoes on or pull out your mountain bike and enjoy all that Sisters Country has to offer! $260,000. MLS#201910116

YOU BELONG HERE 2.5-acre parcels with community water, power and phone available. All lots offer you treed privacy and easy paved-road access. Be one of the first buyers in to claim a mountain view.

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LAKE CREEK LODGE, #27-U3 One-quarter shared interest in this beautiful 3-bedroom, 3-bath cabin at historic Lake Creek Lodge in Camp Sherman. Features modern amenities with the feel of yesteryear. Built in 2011, and furnished with a combination of antiques and quality reproduction pieces. The cabin features fir plank floors, knotty pine paneling, stone/gas fireplace, butcher block countertops, gas cooktop, farm kitchen sink, tile bathroom floors and showers, washer/dryer, cedar decks, stone exterior accents and locked owner storage. $215,000.

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PRICE REDUCTION! 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. $285,500. MLS#201909972

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

343 W. ADAMS AVE. Development opportunity for new construction.

120’ x 114’. Good location in NW portion of Sisters.

Located in area with mix of professional, service, and medical. $289,000. MLS#201903440

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

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

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

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

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

LAKE CREEK LODGE, #18 Turnkey in every sense of the word! Three bedroom/3 bath cabin at Historic Lake Creek Lodge in Camp Sherman. Set on a small rise overlooking the creek basin, this vacation ready cabin offers quality throughout. Knotty pine paneling, plank fir floors, stone/gas fireplace, butcher block countertops, stainless appliances, farm kitchen sink, tile bathroom & showers, cedar decks, stone exterior accents & locked owner storage. Enjoy the common area tennis, pool, creek & open spaces. The adjacent lodge serves great meals!

Options: 1/4 share $219,000, MLS#201811624 (or) 1/2 share, $429,000, MLS#201811627

GOLF HOME 245 Located on the 14th fairway of Big Meadow Golf Course, this home enjoys a serene golf course setting & view. Open floor plan w/vaulted open beamed ceilings, wood-burning fireplace, hardwood floors & ample kitchen w/updated appliances, eating bar & dining area. Main-floor guest bedroom/bath. Upstairs offers large loft common space, master bedroom suite, plus 2 additional bedrooms & bath. Separate laundry room & attached single garage. Entertain/relax outdoors on large deck overlooking golf course.

Close to Paulina Springs park, swimming pool & tennis courts. Nearby bike paths easily access all points of the Ranch. Home has been in a vacation rental program; can be rented to help offset costs. $539,500. MLS#201811380

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 OVERLOOKS THE DESCHUTES RIVER Premier building site perched like an eagle’s nest on the west rim of the Deschutes River Canyon. Beautiful river views and views of Smith Rock, the Ochocos and the southern horizon.

Paved access, existing well, utilities and septic available. Property directly fronts the Deschutes River. $295,000. MLS#201506294

Shane Lundgren 541-588-9226 Broker

Debbie Dyer 541-480-1650 GRI, Broker

MOUNTAIN-VIEW ACREAGE! 11.5 acres slope 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 PRICE REDUCTION! 14892 BLUEGRASS LOOP Quiet Crossroads is tucked away in a forested setting, yet minutes to the Western town of Sisters and to its most coveted school district. Ride your horse or hike/bike the USFS trails. Build a new home while living in the manufactured home that provides new furnace (also a woodstove), new laminate floors, new metal roof and ceilings, new tub and shower surrounds. Storage building/shop.

Spread out on the land; build a barn or garage with guest quarters. Easy ingress for RV or trailer/ boat, etc. Hold this property until you are ready to build with affordable living until then. Benefit by being onsite during construction. $229,000.

MLS#201910492

Greg Davidge 808-281-2676 Broker

Jackie Herring 541-480-3157 Broker