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Foster parent heroes in our midst

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Out with the old, in with the new...

By Bonnie Malone

Sisters facing COVID-19 impacts

By Jim Cornelius

Correspondent

Editor in Chief

From a desire to have a daughter to join their two sons, Shellie Souza’s life took a turn that the best of us would find incredibly challenging. With her husband, Brad, theirs is a story of changing 102 young lives.

At the end of a quiet lane of dirt and pine needles in a serene country setting is the home of the Souzas, where foster children have found a place of solace and security.

When they still lived in California, the Souzas wanted to adopt a girl. Through a myriad of loops, they were

PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS

A City of Sisters Public Works crew is installing upgraded playground equipment at Village Green Park.

The City, its parks advisory board and Sisters Park & Recreation District collaborated on the design, seeking input from children on desired features.

City signs off on law enforcement contract

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Sisters will have a lot more law enforcement coverage starting this summer, when a new contract between the City of Sisters and the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office takes effect.

The Sisters City Council signed the contract at its Wednesday, March 11 meeting. It now goes on to the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners and Sheriff Shane Nelson for their approval — which is expected to be readily forthcoming.

Nelson expressed his satisfaction with the contract in an interview with The Nugget last week.

“I’m excited about it,” he said. “I think this is going to be a great opportunity not just for the City but for the residents out west. I think this is

Editor ’s note: As the impact of COVID-19 is a rapidly unfolding situation, The Nugget will update information at www.nuggetnews. com and on Facebook as it becomes available.

Sisters was caught up during the past week in the floodtide of closures and cancellations accompanying efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Sisters schools closed as of Friday, March 13, and will remain closed until April 6 as a mandated statewide closure overlapped with Sisters’ See COVID-19 on page 21

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a great moment for the sheriff’s office and the Sisters Country out here.”

The contract calls for Sisters to have a dedicated force of one lieutenant and three deputies. Consistency of staffing was a critical component of the agreement — as close an approximation to having its own police force as Sisters can realistically afford to come.

The Sisters contingent will have distinct markings on its patrol cars.

“We want anyone who lives in Sisters to be able to see a law enforcement vehicle and understand that is a deputy who is serving our community through this contract and the taxpapers are paying for,” said City Manager Cory Misley.

Misley said that the emphasis will be on building See CONTRACT on page 16

A wildfire campaigner retires

By Ceili Cornelius Correspondent

Jinny Reed has been working fire for 32 years. She has been with the Sisters Ranger District for 19 of those years working in wildfire prevention, education and suppression. After a career spanning most of her adult life after high school, Reed hung up her uniform and retired as of February 29.

Reed’s primary role as assistant fire management officer for Sisters has to do with prescribed burns and fire prevention and education.

“My passion is to get the best information about fire and preventative fire out to the public,” Reed told The Nugget.

Her main focus over the years has been on planned ignitions, treatments on certain areas of the forest, and mitigation of the impacts of wildfire.

“I really feel like I have done my part in my career

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Jinny Reed worked in wildfire management for most of her Forest Service career. She retired at the end of last month. in the planning, educating, and post-fire rehab stuff,” she said. “I do feel a sense of accomplishment when I drive through Sisters Country and see the areas that we have treated or worked on.”

Reed estimates that she has been a part of treating 75,000 to 100,000 acres of land.

She has worked on more than 19 campaign wildfires

in her career and focuses primarily on rehabilitation after fire. She is actively a part of proactive treatment services and getting the forest back to “pre-Euro settlement” conditions.

“The forest and trees are where my roots are growing up in Deschutes County,” she See REED on page 16

Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Job Walk................. 6 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 18 Classifieds...................19-21 Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements................12 Obituaries ....................... 18 Sudoku ............................ 19 Real Estate ..................21-24

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A time to pull together Just as a wildfire can create its own wind, whipping up a firestorm of destruction, the public health crisis surrounding the COVID-19 virus has the potential to have far-reaching and long-lasting effects on the Sisters community.

And just as Sisters has weathered the impacts of wildfire, we will weather this crisis, too. Hopefully, the aggressive measures being taken now will mean the crisis will fade and Sisters, the nation and the world can return to our normal lives. But it will require pulling together to get there.

It’s natural in the face of fear and uncertainty to withdraw into the safety of hearth and home; in fact, it’s a prudent safety precaution.

But there are things we can — and should — do to support our local community even while we’re protecting ourselves.

Local businesses are going to be hit hard by a severe contraction in economic activity.

Every little bit of support will help them. If a lot of us do a little, we can together weather this crisis. Quarantining yourself? Stock up on a bunch of good books (the bookstore will

deliver). Don’t want to go out to a restaurant?

Order a meal or two a week to go from a local restaurant (some offer curbside pickup). Call a local shop and buy a gift card to use after the crisis has passed.

Local families with children are going to be under duress due to the three-week closure of Sisters’ schools. Perhaps, if your circumstances allow, you can reach out and help them with childcare — or maybe just keep an eye on your neighbor’s kids while they stay at home.

This crisis is also likely to increase the need at the Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank; donations, especially of cash, are welcome there.

Sisters prides itself on being a tight-knit, resilient community. There is no time like the present to demonstrate that to the world.

Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief

Letters to the Editor…

The Nugget welcomes contributions from its readers, which must include the writer’s name, address and phone number. Letters to the Editor is an open forum for the community and contains unsolicited opinions not necessarily shared by the Editor. The Nugget reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for a response to letters submitted to the Editor. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. Unpublished items are not acknowledged or returned. The deadline for all letters is 10 a.m. Monday.

To the Editor: Indivisible Sisters had our first Get to Know the Candidate meeting of 2020 at Sisters Public Library the evening of March 4. About a dozen Sisters citizens met Carina Miller, who hails from Warm Springs, graduated from the University of Oregon, and is running for Oregon’s District 30 Senate seat. That is the seat that Senator Cliff Bonham vacated to run for Representative Greg Walden’s seat in U.S. House for District 2. It is currently occupied

by Lynn Findley.

Carina (or any candidate, for that matter) has courage because campaigning for a public seat in this political world is very difficult to say the least. Just ponder running for office yourself and what that would put you and your loved ones through. On the campaign trail, some people can be very uncivil; it is no longer uncommon. Yet, there she was in her

first “get to know” meeting, sharing her experiences, motivations, fielding questions and building a following.

Carina is an impressive individual.

There is little room in a Letter to the Editor to share her many specific qualifications, substantial experience, or the brilliance of what she’s already accomplished. I do encourage you to take the time to read through her website, www.carinamiller.com.

My impression, after our two hours together, is she will work to address concerns of all Oregonians for the greater good, will hit the floor running, educate herself in any areas she does not already have knowledge or expertise, will work in a multi-partisan way, will be dedicated to her job and will NEVER walk out because things did not go her way.

Susan Cobb See LETTERS on page 10

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Age Friendly Sisters Country brings vision to life

By Janel Ruehl Guest Columnist

Before becoming a nonprofit organization, the founding members of Age Friendly Sisters Country (AFSC) listened to local seniors, heard their concerns, and compiled data about their needs. What they learned in those early days was that the same issues facing aging adults affected people of all ages.

Thus, AFSC was born with the guiding principle: “good for everyone, 8-80!”

When the 2018 Sisters Country Vision surfaced many of the same issues and needs, AFSC realized there was real synergy between their mission and the vision goals. Since securing nonprofit status in 2018, AFSC has taken a lead on several vision strategies. With the support of the City, they helped Sisters officially join the worldwide network of Age-Friendly Communities, a project of the World Health Organization (WHO) and AARP. This month, they are launching a new, free local transportation initiative, dubbed Sisters Transportation and Ride Share, or STARS. STARS was designed to meet the needs of local community members who are struggling to access medical services because they don’t drive.

“We realized that many folks in our community were simply not availing themselves of medical services and becoming increasingly isolated,” shares AFSC Board President Toni Landis.

Before STARS, getting to the dentist in Sisters, or to Bend for a test, was a daunting task. Working with Landis under the AFSC umbrella, a team of volunteers created a FREE ridesharing program grounded in person-to-person connection. On the surface, STARS looks similar to Lyft or Uber: users schedule a ride aided by software. But in practice, every contact point connects human to human and relies on an allvolunteer team. Passengers schedule a ride by calling a volunteer dispatcher. After the dispatcher enters their information into the software program, an email is sent to a pool of volunteer drivers. The available driver then calls the passenger to make a one-on-one connection ahead of their ride.

For now, the free service is only focused on medical rides, but AFSC hopes to see it expand over time, to help community members participate in local events, shop for groceries, or meet other needs as they arise. STARS officially launched on March 1, and they currently have 20 trained volunteers. Landis estimates they will need a pool of at least 25 drivers and 7-10 dispatchers to be able to provide consistent service.

Looking ahead, AFSC would like to expand their outreach to be more diverse and inclusive, with a focus on collaboration with younger community members and business owners.

“What’s good for a senior crossing the road also works for a young mom with a stroller!” says Landis, emphasizing AFSC’s commitment to finding solutions that make Sisters Country more livable for all ages.

AFSC’s seven board members each share this commitment but have different passions and areas of focus.

Defined under the 8 domains of the Age Friendly framework, these include outdoor spaces and buildings, social participation, respect and social inclusion, work and civic engagement, communication and information, community and health services, and housing — in addition to transportation. “ We ’ r e w o r k i n g t o expand our outreach via social media, and would love to have help with how to do this better. We would also like to hear from the community: How are we doing? Do you see a need that needs to be met?” asks Landis.

AFSC is also working collaboratively with other local organizations on additional vision strategies.

Landis says they are especially excited about participating in the development of a multi-purpose community center where all ages can gather together.

“Turns out, our mission fits really well with the vision!” says Landis, “If you give people an opportunity to help, they will find a way.”

If you’d like to help AFSC or STARS, check out the AFSC facebook page or email agefriendlysisters@gmail.com for more information.

To learn more about Sisters Country Vision, visit sistersvision.org

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

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Sisters ‘flattening the curve’ of virus spread The painful measures undertaken in Sisters and across the globe during the past week — school closures, event cancellations and “social distancing” measures — are part of an effort to “flatten the curve” in the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

While cases of COVID19 remain few in Deschutes County, the aim of active measures is to prevent an explosion of cases such as what occurred in Italy.

As NPR reported last week, “The idea is to increase social distancing in order to slow the spread of the virus, so that you don’t get a huge spike in the number of people getting sick all at once.

If that were to happen, there wouldn’t be enough hospital beds or mechanical ventilators for everyone who needs them, and the U.S. hospital system would be overwhelmed.”

On Sunday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called for the cancellation of in-person events of 50 or more people for the next eight weeks to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

As of Monday afternoon, Governor Kate Brown mandated that restaurants be restricted to take out and delivery only. She also banned gatherings of more than 25 people, though encouraging no more than 10.

SOAR Foundation relaunched programs The SOAR Foundation has relaunched to support the programs of Sisters Park & Recreation District.

The SOAR Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation based in Sisters, has relaunched with the appointment of three new board members and a revised mission statement. Its updated mission is to help secure funding for designated programs and projects benefitting the Sisters community, primarily through the Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD).

New board members

Tom Bracken, Rosemary Vasquez and Karinda Boone join member-at-large Darren Layne as the nucleus of the revitalized organization. All are residents of the Sisters community and have volunteered to continue to support the growth and demand for programs offered through SPRD. Bracken was appointed president, Vasquez vice president, and Boone serves as secretary and treasurer. Each new member was appointed to a three-year term.

See SOAR on page 18

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Transactions can be conducted at the sheriff’s office where cameras will record activity.

Blue Line Safety Zone now in Sisters Need to make a legal exchange of goods with a stranger, or exchange child custody in a tense relationship? There’s now a safe place in Sisters to conduct that kind of business.

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office has established a Blue Line Safety Zone in Sisters. This clearly marked and well-lit location is for the Sisters community to use for the various kinds of exchanges that occur every day in Central Oregon. By providing a location in the parking lot of the sheriff’s office substation in Sisters, the sheriff’s office hopes to deter those that would take advantage of or do harm to those in our community.

Sheriff Shane Nelson said, “Law enforcement is

known as the Thin Blue Line, protecting our community by delivering superior public safety and service. Our office strives to be as proactive as we can be in delivering this service. The Sheriff’s Blue Line Safety Zone provides a safer, video-recorded public area for parent exchanges of children as well as in-person transactions following online sales.”

Deputies will not get involved in or directly monitor transactions; however, they will have video surveillance available to refer back to in the event of need.

Community members should call 911 from this location should an emergency arise.

Meeting a person unknown to you to complete an online transaction

comes with inherent risk.

Community members should always use caution and choose a public location to complete any online transaction, the sheriff’s office notes.

The Sheriff’s Blue Line Safety Zone provides a safer, videorecorded public area for parent exchanges of children as well as in-person transactions following online sales.

— Sheriff Shane Nelson

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. / Thurs., 10 a.m., Friends of the Sisters Library Board Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., 541-549-8737 or 541-549-1527.

Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com.

Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal ages welcome. 541-771-2211.

Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505.

Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / 4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230.

Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., Citizens4Community, Let’s Talk noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., 3rd Monday, 5:30 to 8 p.m. RSVP at citizens4community.com noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. 541-548-0440.

Military Parents of Sisters Meetings are held quarterly; please call for details.

Alzheimer’s & Dementia Caregiver 541-388-9013.

Support Group 1st Tuesday, noon, SPRD bldg. 800-272-3900.

Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469. room. Partner required. 541-595-6236.

SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.

Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation For Saturday meeting dates and District. 541-549-2091. location, email: steelefly@msn.com.

Sisters Aglow Lighthouse Central OR Spinners and Weavers 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., Ponderosa Lodge Guild One Saturday per month, Jan. Meeting Room. 503-930-6158. thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217.

Sisters Area Photography Club Council on Aging of Central Oregon Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library Community Church. 541-480-1843. community room. 541-549-6157.

BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS

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 Monday, 5 p.m. Sisters Library.

Public welcome. 808-281-2681.

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 2nd Tuesday, 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, 3:30 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 1st and 3rd Thursdays, 5:30 p.m., Takoda’s. 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, 4:30 p.m., SPRD bldg. 541-549-2091.

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

FIRE & POLICE Black Butte Ranch Police Dept.

Board of Directors Meets monthly.

541-595-2191 for time & date.

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

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

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

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

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

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Wednesday, March 18, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

In the

PINES

By T. Lee Brown

Hurts like a banshee I’ve been wanting to write a column for weeks. Folks around town have asked about Part Two of my musings on the book “In Defense of Elitism.” Well, some stuff came up.

Health has a funny way of keenly focusing one’s priorities. Medical care and emotional well-being float to the top, right up there with family.

Can’t drive, due to vertigo? Meetings and errands are limited. Can’t type, due to excruciating pain in the hand?

Writing assignments lie fallow. (The dictation software I’m reluctantly attempting to use just offered up, “Writing assignments life fellow.”

Sounds like a new faculty position at Cambridge.)

Ain’t got health, or, as my computer would have it, “Eight got health?” Ain’t got much. Many of us are thinking about that these days. If we are not worried about the state of our own bodies, we

are worried about spreading viruses to vulnerable people in our community.

Today, as I write this, St. Charles has announced the first case of COVID-19 coronavirus in Central Oregon.

People are dying far away.

Closer to home, events and gatherings are being canceled right and left (I use those particular words with intention).

It’s hard to focus on “elitism” with all this going on.

The uncertainty is maddening. As of today, my son is still instructed to go to school, so it seems fairly likely that my family could get the virus.

I like to think that our particular health issues won’t put us at risk for being seriously damaged by this thing.

Nagging at the back of my mind, though, is the knowledge that I could be wrong.

We could pull him out of school, hole up out here in the woods, and disappear.

It might be better for us. It might be better for our friends and compatriots, some of whom are older.

If the virus grinds school and capitalism to a halt, my son and I could have fun.

Health allowing, and assuming that the grownups didn’t have to work much, we could do real things. Bake muffins and build forts. Sing songs and read books.

We could spend some time writing our play, “Butterbean!

The Musical.”* Experiment with new uses for the pine needles we gotta rake up, or heck, just burn ‘em as usual.

On the other hand, we might drive each other nuts.

When our family lived in a

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small travel trailer, on the road or in the woods, I sure had some omg-get-me-outof-here moments. Though we were in motion, our tiny circle of togetherness sometimes made me stir-crazy.

Holing up might be overreactive, self-indulgent paranoia. Might lead to a fearbased, isolated life where relationships beyond our immediate household are reduced solely to what technology can deliver.

We’ve seen how technology has affected our society, weaseling its way into our every interaction. It ain’t pretty. It’s splintered us. It’s set us up to be heavily, relentlessly manipulated—for political gain and financial profit.

P e o p l e ’s c o n v e r s a tions used to be meaningful, private or small-group exchanges, punctuated here and there by the public talk of books, newspapers, and lectures. Now interpersonal conversation on all levels is extracted by Big Data corporations.

Relationship is beautiful, natural, maybe even sacred. A true connection between real human beings emits a holy spark of wonder and joy.

But now, relationships are fodder for mind control and advertising, thanks to our reliance on our ever-spying phones, apps, and devices.

Read Jaron Lanier’s “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” or Doug Rushkoff’s “Team Human” if you think I’m exaggerating. Or just cheat and check out their

TED talks.

If I hide out in my pines, conducting work, friendships, and community relationships via Internet—would that be a noble sacrifice for the betterment of humanity, slowing the spread of the virus?

Or just another capitulation to media paranoia and social fragmentation? Or, as the computer prefers, “social fermentation”?

Realizing that my alleged column is going nowhere, I indulge my habit of checking my email too often. A message arrives, a friend wondering whether the spring equinox walk at Sisters Community Labyrinth on March 19 will be canceled.

C’mon, I think. It’s usually just a handful of people, not trapped in an airplane or a big city. We’ll be outside, where mountain air circulates. Won’t that be safe?

It occurs to me that I won’t have to hole up completely in the weeks ahead. Maybe we can socialize outside, under the pines. That’s my favorite place anyway. We could even turn off our personal tracking devices, errr, I mean, our phones.

My word-count is way over and my hand hurts like

heck. Knowing I overuse the word heck, I type “hurts like a —” into the environmentally friendly Ecosia search engine.

It pops up hurts like a mofo, a knife, a thorn, and a banshee.

Hurts like a banshee? Is that really a thing?

I prefer columns that are well-written, thought-provoking, nicely edited. I sure don’t have that in me this wild, confusing week. Maybe next week everything will settle down and I can get back to contemplating elitism and other abstract issues.

For now? I’m right here, in my difficult but miraculous body, surrounded by trees that smell of sun-heated vanilla and birds that chirp and chatter—achingly aware that all this is a powerful gift, one that can be taken away at any moment. *If you happen to be a composer/arranger who wants to work for free on a mother-son musical about a fictitious small town in Oregon—by all means, get in touch! Also, anyone who wants to share how they’re dealing with the virus, or with their technology and devices, is welcome to contact me, too. Yes, via email: tiffany@plazm.com.

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The Bunkhouse Chronicle Craig Rullman Columnist

The new silk roads A few summers ago, while lounging around the Munich Airport waiting for a flight to Reykjavik, I bought a book: “The Silk Roads: A New History of the World,” by Peter Frankopan.

Frankopan is a senior fellow at Oxford University, and has written a convincing reassessment of world history. It is also a poignant and extraordinarily well-considered forecast of our possible future as a broader, Western culture.

It’s a good enough read that, while spending the weekend moving horse manure from one spot to another on one of the last American-made tractors, I kept coming back to Frankopan’s ultimate conclusion: that what we are witnessing today, in the realms of business and geopolitics and the obvious confusion and impotence of Western foreign policy, is a dramatic shift in the center of gravity, a return of power to the places it resided for thousands of years — the ancient kingdoms and cultures along the old Silk Roads.

From China to Ukraine, from Russia to Iran, from Uzbekistan to Kygyrzstan, a new center of power, anchored by the availability and abundance of natural resources, the home-grown ability and willingness to exploit them — and with a military parity with the global powers not seen since the collapse of the Ottomans — is poised to reassert itself.

I would argue that power is already reasserting itself, and has been since the Iranian revolution and the fall of the Shah.

I don’t know what this dramatic shift, which I believe is real — and which we can read in the tea-leaves of the world’s headlines every day — portends. I doubt it is good, at least for those of us who have grown accustomed to the ease and convenience of modern Western living.

Which is, if we are being honest, all of us.

We have grown accustomed to having most

everything we want, when we want it, and we could afford that luxurious way of thinking because — for better or for worse — we controlled the resources and the energy, and backed that control with unparalleled military might.

Not so, anymore. In regions of the world that may well dominate the future, and how we live in that future, we have wildly, and repeatedly, misplayed our hand. We have misplayed it so badly, and so often — from Kiev to Beijing — we risk becoming entirely irrelevant as a respectable player, incapable of supporting our own interests, and held in perpetual contempt and disdain by entire regions of people who consider us liars and thieves.

Sadly, at this point, it doesn’t even matter if they’re right or if they’re wrong.

At home, we are engaged in endless bouts of moralizing about energy consumption, even as we arrive at the latest protest du jour in our SUVs and $300 puffy jackets, weighted down with

laptops and cellphones. It’s no accident of irony that protestors of the Dakota Access pipeline left behind 24,000 tons of trash, mountains of human waste, dogs, puppies, cars, and dozens upon dozens of propane tanks.

Law enforcement officers were even monitoring the garbage collection on the chance there might be dead humans hidden in the refuse.

That’s not an unplanned misfortune, excusable because the motives were sound: it’s exactly who we have become, a kind of cultural split-personality, duplicitous to the point of absurdity.

Consider this: the proven crude reserves under the Caspian Sea are twice those of the entire United States.

The Karachaganak reserve between Kazakhstan and Russia contains an estimated 42 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, liquefied gas, and crude oil. The Donbas basin in eastern Ukraine has 10 billion tons of extractable coal deposits, as well as 1.4 billion barrels of oil, 2.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and the earth

itself in southern Ukraine is so rich they dig it up and sell it to the tune of a billion a year. The Uzbek and Kyrgyz mines of the Tian Shan belt are second only to the Witwatersrand basin in gold deposits. In Kazakhstan are beryllium, dysprosium, and other rare-earth metals vital for the manufacture of mobile phones, laptops, and rechargeable batteries — not to mention uranium and plutonium for nuclear warheads.

There isn’t a well-meaning environmental protest in the world that is going to stop those countries from exploiting their resources, growing tremendously wealthy from the pursuit, and wielding the fruits as both hard and soft power in the Great Game. And, disturbingly, they aren’t likely to have even the remotest hint of democratic institutions in place to restrain their considerable ambitions.

Like it or not, the real history of the world has always been, and always will be, about resources.

Last year, in my favorite

outback bar in Nevada, I saw a sign hanging over the ranks of bourbon and rye on a dusty shelf. The sign read: “If it doesn’t grow, it has to be mined.” The sign was printed as a kind of sad protest, and pasted up by a disgruntled someone who was about to lose his job at the gypsum mine.

It didn’t matter that the statement happens to be true, because truth in the 21st century has become increasingly obscure and elusive. And it didn’t help either, because the more pressing and indisputable fact remained that he was losing his livelihood to someone on the other side of the world, to some other miner, in the heart of the New Silk Roads.

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Bringing out the best in a small community

By Tom Mullen Guest Columnist

It may seem that our cousins in the big cities are overreacting, but a time of crisis generally brings out the best in people who live in small communities.

While some of our neighbors may be excessively worried, the level-headed will continue to do what they can do with the resources they have.

This is a time for generosity and leadership, and almost everyone can help.

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Create a list of your neighbors, their telephone numbers and addresses.

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When sports dreams are foiled by outside events

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Like many of you sports fans out there, my heart went out to the University of Oregon women’s basketball team whose dreams of going deep into the NCAA tournament got dashed with the precautions surrounding the novel coronavirus. I felt especially empathetic for the players in their final college seasons who won’t have another shot. The years of preparation, the team bonds and the thrill of fans, all swept away virtually overnight.

Of course, sports are not the end-all to human existence and happiness, but we can all relate to one degree or another to the loss of a dream. This pandemic is no one’s fault. It’s not based on a political decision or a declaration of war. It did, however, remind me of a similar heartbreak for athletes right here in Oregon back in 1980, the year of the Moscow Olympics.

The University of Oregon has a long and colorful history of producing elite distance runners, and the late 1970s and early 80s were no exception. This was a time when Oregon runners included athletes who were not only the

top collegiate runners, but among the top in the nation, including Matt Centrowitz, Rudy Chapa (American record for 3,000 meters while in college), Alberto Salazar among the top 5,000- and 10,000-meter runners in America and winner of three consecutive New York City Marathons after graduating in 1980, and Eugene’s own Bill McChesney Jr., who still owns the UO record for 5,000 meters at 13:14.8 — faster than Steve Prefontaine, Edward Cheserek, and the aforementioned stars.

Following his stellar career at South Eugene High School where he graduated in 1977 and won numerous state titles while becoming the best high school runner in the nation, McChesney was part of the Ducks’ NCAA crosscountry championship team along with Centrowitz, Chapa and Salazar. By 1980, when the Olympic trials were to be held in Eugene at Hayward Field, McChesney was poised to give his best shot of a finish in the top three to qualify for the Olympics.

Rumors of the United States, along with dozens of other nations, boycotting the Olympics to be held in the Soviet Union had begun to

swirl well before the trials over international displeasure with the Moscow’s invasion of Afghanistan. Pressure was being applied from throughout the world for the Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan. Negotiations on the issue continued throughout the spring of 1980.

President Jimmy Carter made the final decision to approve the boycott prior to the trials, but fans and athletes held out hope that something still might change, or they pressed on, simply to prove to themselves they were Olympic material.

McChesney had overcome a nagging Achilles tendon injury which had plagued him throughout his collegiate career, to finish third at the NCAA meet three weeks earlier, but most track and field aficionados did not consider

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Among the field were the former Duck Centrowitz, who had won three consecutive U.S. titles and was among the top in the world, fellow Duck Rudy Chapa, who had run 7:37 to break the 3,000meter American record earlier in the season, and Marty Liquori, formerly ranked first in the world for 5,000, among others.

Regardless of the boycott and the high level of competition, as McChesney toed the line on a wet evening on his home track in front of a partisan crowd for the 5,000meter final, his mind was on one thing: finish in the top three.

According to newspaper accounts of the race (I did not attend this day of the trials, for which I am eternally regretful) the pace was slow

and the pack remained tight through the first two miles of the 3.1-mile race. With four laps to go McChesney demonstrably spit on the track and took off, a bold move reminiscent of the legendary Oregon runner and American record-holder Steve Prefontaine, and soon had opened up a 40-meter lead.

The Hayward Field crowd went wild as the hometown boy led the field, but their cheers dimmed in the last lap as he was passed first by Centrowitz and then by Dick Buerkle. McChesney found one more bit of gutsiness, for which he was well known, to hold off Jerald Jones by .29 seconds to finish third in 13:34.42.

He then kneeled down on

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Paw Prints Jodi Schneider Columnist

2020 goals for your pet Few things in life give us more joy than our furry friends. On top of the emotional benefits our pets give us, there are health benefits as well.

The new year is well underway, but we can still resolve to make life healthier and happier for our furry companions.

Make this year a fresh start for your pet — perhaps a new diet and exercise regimen or more play time with you. Whether you need to get back on track with his daily walks or make that vet appointment you’ve been meaning to schedule, there are plenty of ideas to help your pet have a happier and healthier 2020.

One resolution could be to be more aware of how much your pet is eating.

And one way to do that is to measure out their food each day. Many pet parents “eyeball” their pet’s daily intake and pour that into their food bowl, which can result in overfeeding and weight gain.

Try using a measuring cup.

Cut down on the amount of treats you dish out or consider swapping in a fresh treat instead, such as blueberries or small pieces of sweet potato.

Another goal is to give your pet more exercise.

Exercise is beneficial to keeping your pet happy, active, and at their optimal body condition.

Taking your dog for a walk or hike is one of the best ways to release some excess energy. When our lives get busy, it’s easy to let the dog out in the fenced

yard to “exercise himself.”

Going for a stroll with your pooch instead can be a great stress reliever for you both, not to mention it will get your hearts pumping. Your dog will be endlessly fascinated by the smells, sights, and sounds of your neighborhood, while you both get a chance to socialize with others.

While taking your cat hiking isn’t a practical approach to upping the step count of your feline friends, incorporating more playtime definitely is. Cats love the thrill of chasing a laser toy, and toys that trigger a cat’s predatory instinct are a great way to get them off the couch and engaged in a little aerobic activity. It’s great fun watching your kitties play and pounce, and if you’re a dab hand with a smart phone, you could end up videoing the next YouTube sensation.

Resolve to groom your pet every day. Brushing your cat or dog serves many purposes. It removes excess fur from the coat, reducing the amount you find on your clothes and furniture.

It helps distribute oils from the skin to the fur, keeping the coat shiny and healthy.

It will give you a chance to look over his coat and skin to check for any potential

problems. Daily grooming is also a bonding activity that demonstrates to your pet how much you love him by taking care of your pet in a soothing manner.

If your dog or cat hasn’t been spayed or neutered, this year is the time to schedule that appointment. There are plenty of health benefits, including avoiding certain cancers and other medical problems. There are behavioral benefits as well, especially with neutered male dogs, who are less likely to mark, roam, or hump. You will also avoid adding to the overpopulation of homeless pets in the United States.

Keeping a basket of toys for your dog will occupy his time when you aren’t around and give you a chance to play together when you are. Play also keeps your pet’s mind sharp. Even five minutes a day spent tossing a ball or dangling a toy mouse for kitty can mentally stimulate them.

Training your dog is one of the kindest acts you can do for him. Well-trained dogs end up spending more time with the family and are welcomed more places than untrained dogs. A trained dog is a pleasure to be around, and he’ll benefit from those positive feelings.

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Resolve to bring more joy into your pet’s life this year.

One easy way is by setting up pet play dates. Play dates for your dog will help socialize him and get Rover used to new faces and other animals and people. Call up a friend with a pooch that is similar in size to yours and get together

at a nearby park. Interaction with other animals is great for your pet’s mental health and can help improve their social skills.

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Building a better immunity The COVID-19 virus is a public health scare that has many people flocking to their local bulk surplus stores and cancelling travel plans. It’s infecting people with fear and will be upsetting a lot of people in the next few weeks.

A healthy body can fight, if not prevent, the virus from taking hold — but there’s little to no attention being paid to supporting a healthy immune system in the time of clickbait news and sensational media.

Supporting a healthy immune system is one major reason why diet, exercise, and healthy living are a core value. The basic tenets of immune support are diet, exercise, and rest.

Ensure that the body is being nourished with healthy food. Protein is vital to an immune system. Too little protein may lead to symptoms of weakness, fatigue, apathy, and poor immunity. Get a good amount of protein from lean meats, beans, whole grains, and dairy as part of a whole foods meal plan.

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Exercise promotes immune support but, there’s a few considerations. A low steady state endurance pace will give the body a boost in circulating fluids in the body. It also supports white blood cells and antibodies against bugs. Too much intensity or too much weight will suppress the immune system because the immune system will respond to the exercise making a person susceptible to other infections. It’s recommended to keep exercise in the moderate intensity for steady state endurance and use moderate weight lifting loads. There is no reason to forgo exercise.

Ensure the body is resting — not in the stereotypical sense of laying in bed all day when ill, but in getting outside, unplugging, and doing things that relieve stress.

Wednesday, March 18, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Most of us aren’t getting enough restful sleep.

Constant rumination about the woes of life, electronic messages and alerts, and buzzing electronics have a big impact on sleep quality. A good sleep routine will help this. Turn down lights when it’s dark, take a walk and let the natural cool air cool the body down and relax. Do something like read a relaxing book, listen to music or podcasts, or just take a moment to reflect.

Another important immune boost is getting out in sunlight. It is theorized that the flu season coincides with the natural wane in sunlight and our bodies lack vitamin D. When flu season is the most extreme, it is also when vitamin D levels are the lowest. Time outside is the natural remedy, but a supplement can also be taken.

Perhaps this latest pandemic is a call to action.

It’s time to pay attention to wellness, as resting on the laurels of advances in public health has failed.

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the track and kissed it. An unforgettable moment for all who witnessed it.

Sadly, the boycott held and McChesney’s Olympic dreams remained unfulfilled.

He went to Europe to compete and ran incredibly well, beating both the silver and bronze Olympic medalists during the course of the summer. A year later at a race in Sweden, he beat the Olympic gold medalist from Ethiopia. He received a gold Congressional medal along with others who had “qualified” but could not compete.

But it wasn’t the same as running in the Olympic final, which he had long envisioned.

I knew McChesney slightly during my college years and would later have the great fortune to coach his younger brother Ken. It still pains my heart to think

of what might have been for Bill. He was one of the fiercest competitors I have ever seen, along with being a fine human being.

I am sure current Duck Sabrina Ionescu, Oregon’s celebrated basketball star, feels much the same as McChesney must have, never knowing if her Ducks would have made it to the pinnacle goal, the NCAA championship game this year.

Maybe it’s a little easier for Ionescu understanding that it is a global pandemic, rather than a political decision, that took away her dreams, but for both these amazing Ducks, Ionescu and McChesney, the intensity of their competitive hearts must also feel, and have felt, tremendous disappointment and grief. Just as McChesney regrouped, I am sure Ionescu will move forward as a professional player.

I suppose we all have to do some regrouping as we deal with the challenges of our present situation.

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To the Editor: Democrats and their perpetual negativity toward anything Republican is totally misguided and non-productive. While utilizing hate-filled rhetoric, misinformed rumor and conjecture to make their point, they have produced the opposite reaction.

It’s kinda like Newton’s Third Law, “For every action forward there is an opposite but equal reaction backward.”

Simply put; when all you have to say is filled with hate and lies, your desired effect becomes negative movement. In their attempt to further persuade their followers and justify their latest revelation they have merely created the opposite reaction.

A perfect example to this is their continued effort to convince the public that Chick-fil-A is

a homophobic conglomerate of Christian fundamentalists that are trying to fill your stomachs and your minds with poisoned chicken.

Never having tried Chick-Fil-A and hearing that I should boycott them, has turned me into an avid customer. There is absolutely no way that everything that Trump says or does can be taken negatively: Boycott Hate; Eat Mo Chicken and vote Republican November 2020.

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Taylor Fendall gathered with family, friends and fellow athletes last week for the official signing of his commitment to play football at Linfield College next year. Athletic Director Gary Thorson and

his coach Neil Fendall, also his proud father, praised Taylor for his commitment to his craft, his work ethic — and most of all his leadership and commitment to putting team above self.

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To the Editor: If the recent words and tweets by the president regarding the Coronavirus outbreak, his actions and level of intellectual acuity do not give the American people an insight as to how to cast their ballot in November, our country is in significant jeopardy.

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Honor Flight postponed due to virus

By Cody Rheault Correspondent

Honor Flight of Central Oregon (HFCO) postponed their annual flight to Washington, D.C. amid concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Veterans from Central Oregon were slated to depart May 6 for the four-day trip.

World War II and Korean War veterans, 22 in total, would tour the U.S. Capitol, memorials, and monuments on an all-expenses-paid trip.

HFCO observed the growing pandemic two weeks prior to making the decision and carefully considered their options. Dane Prevatt, the trip organizer, stated his concerns over exposing the high-risk age group to the virus.

“Safety of our veterans is

our number-one priority,” he said. “We couldn’t risk exposing our most susceptible generation to this virus.”

The HFCO board was summoned to find a solution on March 8, and made the decision to postpone the trip until October 14 of this year.

Three days later, on March 11, the national organization announced the postponement of all national Honor Flights to Washington, D.C. That same day the CDC officially labeled the coronavirus a “pandemic,” and Washington, D.C. confirmed cases of the virus within the city.

With HFCO having a connecting flight in Seattle — ground zero for COVID-19 cases in the U.S. — the risk was too high according to Prevatt and the trip doctor, Dr. Jana Van Amburg.

The response to the change in plans was met with understanding. Local veterans, upon receiving the news, were relieved with the decision. Prevatt says many were nervous about the outbreak.

Vendors, airlines, and hotels also worked together to adjust reservations and expressed their continuing support for the trip now in October.

Hal Busch, a Sisters resident and Coast Guard veteran, was “ready to go” but “glad they canceled,” he said.

“You’ve grown up your whole life reading about that place, and to see it would have finished that chapter in my life,” he said. “That was on my bucket list.”

Now, Busch doesn’t know if he’ll make the October trip but hopes he’ll find himself writing that chapter this fall.

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Your Story MATTERS

Audry Van Houweling, PMHNP Columnist

Sex, spirit and shame Let’s talk about sex.

Let’s talk about spirituality.

Let’s talk about shame. The interplay between the three are powerful, complex, and deserve honest discussion.

When we talk about the need to feel known, the freedom to be vulnerable, the drive to connect with and understand, to give and to receive, are we talking about sexuality or are we talking about spirituality? When we lie naked with another, versus baring our soul to a greater power, is the implied vulnerability and trust really so different? Could it be that sexuality is one of the most powerful means of expressing spirituality and that spirituality is a primary means of bringing meaning to sexuality?

Unfortunately, our society and in particular, popular culture and religious institutions do not always acknowledge, and many times deny, the implicit correlations between sexuality and spirituality.

Sexuality and spirituality are too often in opposition to each other, rather than allowed to coexist and feed each other in the symbiotic relationship they ought to.

This societally driven divorce allows too much room for tension, shame, hiding, and perversion.

Popular culture too often portrays sex as a physical transaction with the primary goal being pleasure versus intimacy. Thoughtfulness and respect can at times be lost as there may be a refusal or denial to acknowledge the meaning behind such vulnerability. Popular culture also generally prioritizes and favors the pleasure and pursuits of men versus women.

By too often depicting sex as a masculine-driven, hedonistic venture, our society diminishes the value of true intimacy, which can so too fracture the connections to soul and spirit. A person can have a lot of sex with very little intimacy and despite so many physical interactions, it can be altogether lonely.

Religious institutions too often go too far in denouncing sexual expression or feelings of pleasure. The

emphasis on modesty can too often be married with shame as women and girls especially are made to feel that the universal urge to physically connect with somebody must be suppressed and unseen. Implied in this belief is the notion that suppression of sexuality is somehow associated with an exalted spiritual state and that pleasure is an impediment to devotion. Sadly, this has at times created a culture of hiding that only bolsters feelings of shame. Particular harm can come when persons of authority representing a faith or set of spiritual beliefs exploit their power and abuse another. Too often has this happened, too many stories where simultaneously the beauty of sexuality and spirituality are tarnished amid trauma.

Popular culture too often exalts the body’s pleasure to the point of denying the spirit while religious institutions too often exalt the spirit to the point of denying the physical body. There can be severe consequences with both.

The majority of my clients are women and girls.

Both popular culture and religious institutions historically also objectify the female body. Too often, whether a woman is wearing a string bikini or head-to-toe cloak, her virtue and desirability are still reduced to her external

appearance, and either the expression, or suppression of her sexuality. She may wrestle with modesty being associated with virtue while the display of her body is associated with desirability. When it comes to sexual expression, women and girls frequently feel damned if they do, damned if they don’t. A woman’s appearance should never be the sole gauge to measure either virtue or desirability. She is ultimately far more complex. I will celebrate the day when women universally are given room to be desirable, sexual, and yes, virtuous all together.

Too often our experience with sexuality and/or spirituality is fractured by trauma, abuse, or corruption, and we can be left struggling to truly connect, find intimacy, and meaning. In extremes, we might try to deny these needs or trivialize them. Trauma can be complex, and so too can be responses to trauma.

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Rather than trying so hard to buttress the unsustainable barrier of shame our society often wedges between spirituality and sexuality, perhaps we can do a better job of acknowledging the beauty that can come when they are allowed to coexist and support one another. By continuing to divide sexuality and spirituality we are doing ourselves (men and women) no favors, as we may feel pressure to fulfill unrealistic roles that leave too much room for judgement — against ourselves and others.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Sisters Community Garden Taize Contemplative Service

The Sisters Community Garden has raised bed garden plots available for the 2020 gardening season. Application materials and information are available on the garden’s website, SistersCommunityGarden.org.

For additional information, call 503-313-3076.

Gather at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration on Wednesday, March 18 from 7 to 8 p.m. for an evening of song and contemplation. Taize prayer is meditative service that brings people together in a wonderful blend of song and silence. The short chants sung over and Furry Friends over allow one Foundation to enter into Furry Friends a beautiful office will be experience Wednesday, March 18 closed through of peace and March. At this Taize Contemplative Service healing. The time individuals 7 p.m. at Episcopal Church music comes can still pick from the up pet food Thursday, March 19 contemplative from the Sisters Equinox Walk community of Kiwanis food 6 p.m. at Sisters Community Labyrinth Taize, France, bank, Thursday, founded 9 am to 2 pm.

by Brother If you are out Roger in the 1940s.

Questions? of pet food and do not have the Contact Carol-Joy Brendlinger means to purchase during this period, call or text 541-797-4023 to caroljoyhome@gmail.com arrange for a pickup outside.

Tai Chi/Balance Sessions Free Tai Chi/Balance Classes Matter of Balance Falls based on the CDC “Steadi” Prevention Class Program to reduce injuries This community workshop will and falls in our community are teach practical coping strategies being sponsored by Sisters Drug. to reduce the fear of falling. This Taught by Shannon Rackowski evidence-based class includes every Thursday from 11-11:30 some lecture, discussion and a.m. (except holidays) at the exercises to work on at home.

SPRD Fitness Room next to Classes will be held at the Sisters Sisters High School. Additional Fire Station Community Hall class open to the public every on Mondays from 1 to 3 pm Tuesday at 2 p.m. at The Lodge between April 6 and June 1 (no in Sisters. Open to all ages. For class on Memorial Day). Cost is $10 for the 8-week session. Please more information call 541-5496221. contact Shannon Rackowski at shanrack@gmail.com or 541-272- Parkinson’s Support Group 0529 to register.

The second Tuesday of each month, Sisters Parkinson’s Sisters Aglow Meeting Support Group meets at The All men, women and teens are Lodge in Sisters from 2 to 3:30 welcome for an encouraging p.m. All are welcome to learn, time of worship, message and ministry. Sisters Aglow is gathering share, and receive support. For additional information please at the Ponderosa Lodge meeting contact Carol at 541-668-6599. room, Saturday, March 28 at 10 a.m. Sharing with us will be Bob Dementia Caregivers and Beverly McDaniel, Prophetic Group Prayer Leaders from Ignite Faith A free support group for Church in Redmond. Worship caregivers of those suffering will be led by Lori Roberts. For with Alzheimer’s or other forms additional information please of dementia takes place the call 503-930-6158 or email dana. first Tuesday of each month herman.54@gmail.com from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Sisters Park & Recreation District Organ Donor Awareness A new nonprofit is in the planning building. Sponsored by the stages to educate the community Alzheimer’s Association, meetings provide emotional, educational, on the importance of organ donation. Fundraisers and events and social support. For more will be discussed. If interested, call information call 800-272-3900 or go to alz.org/oregon.

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Discover Your Forest, in partnership with the Deschutes National Forest, is hosting a Volunteer Information Night on Wednesday, March 18 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Members of the public will be introduced to a wide variety of upcoming opportunities to support public lands throughout Central Oregon during spring and summer of 2020. The meeting will be held at the Deschutes National Forest headquarters: 63095 Deschutes Market Road in Bend. For more information and to RSVP for the event, contact Stacey Cochran, at 541-383-5530 or stacey.cochran@ discovernw.org.

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ART-i-facts Interactive Art Experience

Sisters Country is invited to attend the 23rd annual celebration of the arts at Sisters High School! Bring the whole family to participate and interact with the students and community at our hands-on art stations. Activities include student-printed T-shirts, collaborative art stations, silent auction, a take-away prize for “filling your passport” by visiting all stations, and more! Live entertainment from SHS music programs and refreshments.

Thursday, March 19 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at SHS Commons. $5 per person, $20 family price. Call 541-549-4045 for more info.

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Equinox Walk

Light and darkness are balanced on the first day of spring. All are welcome to gather, contemplate, and walk the labyrinth together.

Free. Gather at 5:30 p.m. Labyrinth walk begins at 6. Thursday, March 19 at Sisters Community Labyrinth, East Portal Parkk (between Les Schwab and d Bi-Mart on Highway 242/ W Hood d Ave).

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The Sisters High Desert Chorale is cancelling its Spring season set to begin on March 23 at 6:30 p.m. This cancellation includes all Monday night rehearsals and concerts. The Chorale apologizes for any inconvenience and disappointment resulting from this change. Any questions may be directed to Connie Gunterman at 541-588-0362.

Book donations are needed ed and much appreciated forr the annual Quilt Show Book SSale ale to be held on July 11. Please bring bring your bags of books to the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce erce building at 291 E Main Ave., e., Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for drop off; a receipt ceipt will be provided. Book sales es will benefit the Three Sisters Historical Historical Society. Call Karen at 415-637-7186 637-7186 for more information.

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 10 a.m. Sunday Worship 6 p.m. Worship the 3rd Tuesday of each month Vast Church (Nondenominational) 541-719-0587 • 9:37 a.m. Sunday Worship Temporarily meeting virtually. See vastchurch.com for details.

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

Food for Kids

From March 9 to 18, Sisters Girl Scouts will be collecting kid-friendly non-perishable food to help Sisters families in need through the Kiwanis Food Bank. Drop-boxes are located at Sisters Elementary School.

Call 541-549-8981 for more information.

Senior Luncheons & More

Adults age 60 and older are invited to join the Council City of Sisters Seeks Budget on Aging Senior Luncheon, Committee Members served every Tuesday at Sisters The City of Sisters is accepting Community Church. Lunch is applications for three “in-city” served at noon. Due to evervolunteers to serve on the Budget changing health precautions Committee. The appointment related to COVID-19, please call is for a 3-year term that will for current status 541-480-1843. begin in May, 2020. The Budget Sisters Speak Life Committee meets each spring Cancer Support Group to review the budget proposed This cancer support group by the city manager. The City meets the second and fourth encourages interested parties Wednesday of every month at to apply for the opening by Suttle Tea in their back room completing an application by from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Caregivers 5 p.m. on Friday, March 20. as well as patients and family Applications are available at members are welcome to join in.

Sisters City Hall, 520 E. Cascade Please contact Suzi Steele at 503Avenue, or visit the City’s website at www.ci.sisters.or.us. Please send 819-1723 for more information. applications and resumes to the following address: Joe O’Neill, Finance Officer, P.O. Box 39, Sisters, OR 97759. For additional information please contact: Joe Coming events O’Neill at joneill@ci.sisters.or.us.

In light of recent developments, all Deschutes Public Library locaBecause event schedules are tions will close to the public at 7 changing daily with changing p.m. on Monday, March 16. The guidelines concerning COVID-19, plan is for a tentative reopening we at The Nugget Newspaper date of April 1. Library material recommend that you call to due dates will be extended to confirm events and meetings an appropriate date following before attending. re-opening.

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While all locations will be closed, Deschutes Public Library offers a wealth of free online resources that th h the public can access from home hoo or anywhere they happen too be with an internet connection, including eBooks and nee audio auu books, streaming movies and an n television shows, digital magazines and music, informam tion tioo databases, and more. The library is increasing its colleclibb tion tioo of digital materials, such as eBooks and digital audiobooks, eBB during this time. Visit www. duu deschuteslibrary.org/books/ dee downloads for more informadoo tion tioo about digital resources, and www.deschuteslibrary.org/about w /news/news?NewsID=8273 to /n n explore more of what’s available exx online. on n During the closure, library staff D will work to provide online tutorials to help customers learn how to access the digital resources available to them, and will livestream via Facebook select programs that were originally planned to take place in the libraries (www.facebook.com/ deschuteslibrary). Story time videos for young children will also be available beginning March 18 on the library’s kids’ page (www. deschuteslibrary.org/kids). If the public has questions, they can phone their local library between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The phone number for Sisters Library is 541-312-1070.

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Sisters Folk Festival poster bears up

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) canceled the March 18 concert with Kacy & Clayton and the SFF poster unveiling after closely monitoring information and advice coming from state and federal health officials in respect of slowing the spread of COVID-19.

Although the SFF poster unveiling was postponed/ cancelled, the 2020 SFF poster image, “Beargrass,” by local artist and musician Dennis McGregor has been released.

This year marks the 24th anniversary of the Sisters Folk Festival and the 20th year that McGregor has been commissioned to paint original artwork for the annual SFF poster image that attracts thousands of people to the three-day music festival.

This year McGregor’s artwork depicts three whimsical bear musicians playing their stringed instruments in a meadow full of beargrass with the Three Sisters Mountains as the backdrop.

McGregor told The Nugget, “People like bears, especially when they are doing human things. Any banjo player will immediately note that the black bear is a left-handed picker, also known as a southpaw.

That’s why she’s in front of South Sister. The grizzly is just happy to be sporting his finger picks and the polar is giving her best performance despite her stress of her homeland melting.”

The bears are in a field of beargrass, a tall clublike plant whose flowers form a large white ball at its very top. Beargrass is known for

growing in mountain meadows throughout the western U.S. McGregor said his meaning behind all the beargrass is really bluegrass.

Three diverse bear musicians all performing bluegrass, now that’s synonymous with the Sisters Folk Festival.

Crista Munro, executive director of Sisters Folk Festival, said she’s admired McGregor’s work for a long time.

She noted, “Getting to watch his process of designing a poster for Sisters Folk Festival was a real treat. I love the designs he’s done in the past that feature animals — birds one year, of course the dogs and the edgy buck. When Dennis shared his concept of using bears in this year’s design, I couldn’t wait to see what he came up with.

“The final image is beyond what I could have imagined,” she added. “The detailing and artistry of the painting is wonderful, but beyond that there are fun

little details for the observer to discover. Dennis is very thoughtful about all the elements in his work and likes to include clever (and often subtle) references. I like the way Dennis whimsically included three different kinds of bears, even two species not found in the Oregon Cascades. I see it as a nod to the diversity of performers on the SFF lineup. And that’s the beauty of Dennis’ work: everyone can interpret it in their own way. It’s just great art.”

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Scottie Wisdom&Faith Jean Russell Nave

Scotties and inner peace It was a beautiful cool, crisp and sunny day; perfect Scottie-dog weather. We were just back from a long off-leash hike in a gorgeous section of giant old-growth ponderosa pines. I walked three miles. The Scotties ran six miles as they gave everything they had to exploring each rock, fallen tree, and old stump in the surrounding forest. Now they slept.

Feeling safe and loved, they were the picture of peace and contentment.

My post-cancer spiritual journey is largely about finding inner peace. I’ve met a few people who demonstrate that quality in their everyday lives: it seems to be rare.

Inner peace is probably the most precious thing anyone can gain in one lifetime. I’m making progress. I know there is a lot of work ahead.

In past Psychology 101 classes instructors often presented a perception exercise in which the lecturer drew a circle on the board that had a small section missing.

Students immediately looked at the missing section. They wanted it completed, connected to the rest of the circle.

We are almost hard-wired to focus on incompleteness in things and people. Few would be content with the fact that only 98 percent of the circle was there. We are also impatient with people who don’t live up to our standards. In other words, we are quick to judge things and people.

Sometimes as a hiring manager I would point to my water glass and ask an applicant the question: “Is the glass half full or half

empty?” One’s life perspective became instantly evident with a quick answer. Some people fervently argued for half empty.

Inner peace exists when a person reaches true wholeness in spirit. They have learned how to accept the imperfections of this world and they have mastered the ability to always find the beauty in those imperfections. That is to say they have learned how to stop judging everything and everyone as either “good” or “bad.”

Inner peace means you don’t get upset when your car won’t start and you have an important appointment.

You simply accept the situation and look for an alternative solution. You demonstrate inner peace when everyone is running away from the sound of a gunshot and you look around to see if someone needs your help.

Inner peace means you are truly glad for your neighbor with his beautiful new car even though you couldn’t afford one like it.

Wise instructors of the world’s great religions have been teaching us for eons that inner peace is available

to everyone and in fact is already right inside us. All we have to do is become whole; easily said but not easily done.

How do we get there?

Prayer and meditation are two of the most important steps. Through prayer we ask for wisdom, guidance and forgiveness so that we can find the road which leads to inner peace.

We must learn to forgive.

Forgiveness is actually the most important condition.

We need to forgive ourselves for being less than perfect and we must forgive others for being the same.

Put another way, the road to inner peace is a road of letting go: letting go of artificial limitations, letting go of negative thinking, letting go of selfishness, letting go of judging others, letting go of hate. The road to inner peace is also a road to gaining: gaining self-awareness, gaining unlimited love for others and ourselves, gaining a caring and helping attitude.

Inner peace is a habit.

Many of us have become conditioned to panic when things don’t go right. We’re

accustomed to getting mad when things don’t go our way. We build these habits upon a lack of wholeness.

The reactionary habits reinforce our emptiness. Fear is the fundamental problem. We are afraid we won’t get what we want or we’ll be seen as not good enough in someone’s eyes. Often that fear is completely unfounded.

This is where self-awareness helps. Once we accept that we are not perfect — nor is anyone else — we learn to strive to always do our best and know that tomorrow we can be ever better.

God loves us and accepts us with our imperfections.

Jesus said that we could reach His level of spirituality. That gives us our goal.

Now we can begin accepting and pursuing that goal knowing we can get better every day as we work at it.

We begin gaining wholeness and peace as we walk the Road-of-Getting-BetterEvery-Day. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” John 14:27.

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Three Outlaws skiers race in the Western States Regionals

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

Evan Palmer and George and Bela Chladek got an experience of a lifetime last week: the opportunity to race in the Western States High School Regional Championships held at Mammoth Mountain, California, on Friday and Saturday, March 13-14.

All three Outlaws did a great job racing in the giant slalom in the inaugural Western Regional Championships. Evan, George, and Bela were part of a team that included all the Central Oregon schools, and also Marist High from Eugene. The best racers from California, Nevada, Wyoming, and Oregon were at the high-level competitive event (24 total).

The course was set on Andy’s Double Gold at Mammoth Mountain, which made for the longest giant slalom run the high school kids had seen. The long steep pitch in the second half of the course made it a very challenging race. The day started off with sunny weather for the first run, but clouds and fog moved in for the second run and made the conditions more difficult.

Evan came in 14th out of 69, George was 31st, and Bela finished in 42nd place.

Coach Gabe Chladek said, “Bela got a headwind for his run, which mattered on the flats, especially because he was one of the few freshmen to attend the race, and his smaller size was affected by the wind.”

Overall, the boys team finished fourth in the giant slalom event.

The slalom race was scheduled for Saturday, but skiers woke up to heavy winds that gusted up to 104 mph on the mountain. Due to the extreme winds, the ski area was unable to operate chair lifts and the slalom race was canceled.

“This was a big disappointment as the slalom event is typically the stronger event for the Central Oregon skiers, “said Chladek. “The day ended up being enjoyable and beneficial as the racers and coaches from the different teams spent the day seeing the area together and building relationships.”

Chladek added, “The biggest take-home from the event was the bridgebuilding between teams and leagues, and I think it will set the stage for a legacy of close relationships in high

school ski racing in the western region.”

All three Outlaws commented on their experience.

George said, “Skiing at the Western States Regional High School Championships was a really rewarding experience. I really liked getting to join with the best racers from the other teams in our league and race as a team against high level competition.”

Evan commented, “It was an amazing experience to see our rival teams come together and compete as one against the other states. I never thought I’d be so successful in ski racing when I started my freshman year and am so thankful for everyone that helped me on my journey.”

Bela, the only non-senior on the boys OSSA team from Central Oregon this year, said, “I thought it was a great experience, and I’m already looking forward to the chance to qualify for the championships next year.”

Next year ’s Western Regional Race is tentatively scheduled for Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Chladek told The Nugget that the Outlaws will work hard next year to send a few racers to the big event.

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REED: Forester is looking forward to enjoying forest Continued from page 1

said. “I have a sense of soul here.”

Even with the changes due to population growth, Reed feels Sisters Country will always be her home.

Reed graduated high school in 1987 and jumped straight into college at COCC. She joined their forestry program because she always loved the outdoors.

“During one of my classes, the professor asked me if I wanted to work on a Forest Service engine during the summer and I said yes,” she recalled.

Reed then was hired on as a seasonal employee for the Forest Service in 1988 and has been doing forestry work ever since.

“The thing that was a surprise to me in this work was the manual labor aspect; I wasn’t sure at first if this was my cup of tea, but I stuck with it,” she said.

Reed’s own experience with wildfire influenced the way she approached Forest Service as a career path.

“I want to help people understand fire and its impact and help them realize it is a part of where we live,” she said.

Reed paid for college and her forestry associates degree by working for the Forest

Service as a hotshot.

After her time on the fire line for 10 years as a seasonal employee and hotshot, Reed wanted to go into a more specialized permanent job in suppression and prevention. Her first permanent job was in 1998 at Malheur, where she worked until 2001 when she returned to Sisters.

“I returned because a job in education and prevention opened up on the Deschutes area in Sisters and I wanted to return to my home and my roots, so I came back and have been working here ever since,” said Reed.

A big part of Reed’s job up to now is to talk to the public and educate and inform the people. She works with first-graders on teaching them about campfire safety with Smokey the Bear. She works on trail maintenance, forest treatment and post-wildfire rehab.

One of her biggest passions in her work is planning and executing prescribed fires.

“It takes layers and layers of planning with prescribed fire. It takes so long to get fire on the ground because we have to make sure there is a lasting long-term investment and educate the public about the importance of preventative fire for their own lasting benefit,” she said.

Reed plans to continue volunteering in public service and using her knowledge and applying it to other areas within the community. She

plans to work with the Sisters Trails Alliance and volunteer on trail restoration. Reed has an eight-year-old daughter and wants to get her involved in nature and hiking in Sisters Country and beyond.

“I haven’t been able to recreate for most of my adult life — for over 32 years my life has been consumed by fire,” she said.

She and her daughter have a list of national parks they plan to visit.

“I really want to be there for my daughter and keep busy with her and get outside with her. I want to use my work knowledge to better educate her,” said Reed.

She plans to work with the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center and volunteer with them when things get busy during fire season.

“I feel like I have learned so much in my career and I don’t want to close the book on what I’ve lived through.

I want to continue to share it where I can,” she said. “Fire is in my bones, and I will always have a connection to it even while not working for the federal service.”

CONTRACT: New deputies expected in Sisters this summer Continued from page 1

relationships between the Sisters-assigned deputies and members of the community.

The total fixed contract amount is $661,200, with a total potential amount including overtime, extended shift coverage and special services of $711,200. The lieutenant will report to the DCSO command, but will work closely with City officials.

“The lieutenant is supposed to be on board July 1, which is the effective date of the contract,” Misley said. “The deputies, hopefully some of them will be on board before July 1 or shortly after.”

The contract allows for some flexibility in timeline to allow for recruitment of the deputies.

With three deputies, there will be a coverage gap of approximately four to five hours. There will continue to be a 24-hour west-county

patrol deputy on duty, and Black Butte Ranch Police and Oregon State Police are available for emergency backup.

“It is potentially something that will be dynamic, as well,” Misley said — meaning that shift assignments could be adjusted to address specific law enforcement needs at certain times.

Misley noted that the contract is built on a cost-for-service basis, with those costs more fully lined out than they have been in the past.

“All we’re trying to do is pay for the service we’re getting,” he said. “From a budgetary perspective, this is pretty black and white. It’s pretty straightforward.”

Sisters is getting more coverage, with a directly assigned force of deputies who will know the community thoroughly. Both the City government and Sheriff Nelson consider that a significant, cost-effective improvement in law enforcement services on the west end of Deschutes County.

“This is a really good step in the right direction,” Misely said.

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Emotional support animal?

Dear Property Guy

By Mike Zoormajian

Dear Property Guy, I have a “no-pets“ policy in my rental. I have a new tenant who just announced that her emotional support dog would be joining her. She also showed me some paperwork that said I had to take it.

What’s the deal here?

— No. Just no.

Dear No: Welcome to the glamorous world of being a rental owner.

Because your property just became a dog-friendly zone.

Before we get started, please know that it could be worse. In addition to dogs: cats, goats, horses, rabbits, snakes, pigs, and hedgehogs can all be emotional support animals (ESA). Most recently a dustup between an airline passenger, her emotional support peacock, and United Airlines, led the Department of Transportation (DOT) to begin restricting service animals on airplanes. So we got that going for us.

This whole deal all starts with the Federal Fair Housing Act (FHA), which bans discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, familial

status, and disability. FHA requires landlords to make reasonable accommodations to give tenants equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling. Keep the disability part in mind here.

Ne xt, we hav e t h e Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life.

The ADA defines a person with a disability as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.

Finally, we get to how assistance animals are defined, which is: an animal that works, provides assistance, or performs tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability, or that provides emotional support that alleviates one or more identified effects of a person’s disability.

So you smash this all together and you get the fact any disabled person can’t be turned away from housing because of their service or emotional support animal.

You don’t have to like it. But there it is.

A property owner does have the right to ask for documentation proving the owner is in need of the emotional support animal. This is normally an Emotional Support Assistance letter from a licensed mental-health professional. Key word “Licensed.” There are about a million online sites from which one can order a bogus ESA letter.

To all the other followup questions, the answer is “No.” No, you cannot charge additional rent. No you cannot charge additional deposit.

No, you cannot ask about their disability. No, you cannot ask or require the animal to have specific training.

And, no, you cannot refuse them because their insurance doesn’t cover the animal.

You can refuse them if their animal would create an “undue financial or administrative burden.” The exact meaning of that phrase is very case-by-case.

My best advice? Go meet your new friend. Bring some doggie snacks, be thankful it’s not a goat, and enjoy the ride.

— Mike Mike Zoormajian is principal at WetDog Properties in Sisters. Questions, comments: letters@wetdogpnw. com. Free legal advice is worth what you pay for it.

Consult a real attorney before doing anything crazy.

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Parents with children may need you to make a grocery run for them, or a trip to the pharmacy.

An elderly person might need you to get their mail or maybe just drag their garbage pails to the curb.

If thoughts of helping other people overwhelm you, try to help just one neighbor — that person can look out for you, too. Think about the people closest to your home, on your block, in your neighborhood.

A “Get Well Soon” note can brighten a person’s day.

Volunteer: this county has many great organizations that could use an extra hand supporting those who are ill or recovering.

If you have the means, donate to a useful organization.

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If you touch something, leave it cleaner than before you touched it.

Cold and flu season generally comes to a halt sometime in April and there are several theories as to why: more people are outside, which offers us the healing power of vitamin D from the sun. It also means we spend less time in confined areas where a virus can more easily spread.

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Obituary

By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service

Wayne Alan Christopherson August 4, 1959 – January 10, 2020

Wayne was born in Hillsboro, Oregon to Alan and Yvonne (Kaufman) Christopherson. He was the oldest of four children.

As a young child he was always very busy and curious. When he was a couple of years old, he would take his wrench and fix his little red wagon, laying on the ground, just like his dad did when working on cars. He always liked fixing stuff. He spent time on both his grandparents’ farms and loved riding horses, especially Blaze.

He also enjoyed his time on his uncle and aunt’s farm in South Dakota. He and his cousin Gary were the same age and would always find things to do.

In 1978, the family moved to Sisters, not long after Wayne wrecked his car and his dad bought him a 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass, red in color. Wayne fixed it up and got the nickname “Red Rocket” and was called that by all his closest friends.

Wayne also married and had two children, son Charles Wayne and daughter Tabatha Kay (Christopherson) Gainer.

After moving to Redmond, he worked in the family trucking business with his parents, but later got his own truck and had his own business. He worked primarily in the construction business, but worked a couple of years in the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota where he met and had many friends. He came back and worked a few years more, before health forced him to

SOAR: Additional funding sources will help SPRD serve Continued from page 3

“I am excited to help define the new vision for the SOAR Foundation and secure funding for the growing needs of the Sisters community,” said Bracken.

“SPRD has an aggressive vision for growing its community services, and we are eager to help deliver on its pledge to create programs and activities for all residents in our area.”

The SOAR Foundation was originally founded in 1995 and was the predecessor to SPRD. In 2004, the SOAR Foundation raised more than $1 million to build the Coffield Community Center that serves as the

stop working.

Wayne had many passions in life, but he loved snowmobiling, especially up at Three Creek Lake and the Elk Lake area. Probably his most joy was fishing for steelhead and salmon.

Another little-known fact was he loved to look at and smell flowers. He always enjoyed the beauty of them.

Wayne is survived by his father, Alan; mother, Yvonne; sisters, Carrie and Bonnie; half-sisters, Kelli and Jody; son, Charles; daughters, Tabatha and Autumn; and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother, grandparents and his aunts.

Wayne was cremated at his request and a private service will be held at a later date. Friends and relatives are welcome and encouraged to share stories of Wayne at: www.springerandson.com.

You are also welcome to leave contact information there if you would like the family to get back to you.

Wayne is deeply missed by his family and friends. In God’s hands now, until we see each other again.

headquarters for SPRD programs.

As part of its relaunch, the SOAR Foundation will focus on securing funding through corporate donations, grants and individual contributions.

It is also seeking to add several new board members and a student representative from Sisters High School.

“Having access to an additional source of funding is critical to the growth and prosperity of SPRD,” said Jennifer Holland, executive director of SPRD. “While the funding from property taxes and the local option levy help subsidize a portion of our operating expenses, the ability to increase our capabilities to better serve the community through an outside funding organization will be important to meet the needs of this growing community.”

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to receive comment from the public on the budget. This is a public meeting where deliberation of the Budget Committee will take place. Any person may appear at the meeting and discuss the proposed programs with the Budget Committee. A copy of the budget document may be inspected or obtained after April 13, 2020 at the Black Butte School between the hours of 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN The first notice of the budget that the undersigned has been committee meeting #1 has been appointed and has qualified as the posted on the BBSD website at: Personal Representative of the www.blackbutte.k12.or.us Estate of Richard David Tinney, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF deceased, Deschutes County THE STATE OF OREGON Probate Case No. 20PB00903.

FOR THE COUNTY OF All persons having claims against DESCHUTES PROBATE the estate are required to present DEPARTMENT their claims, with proper IN THE MATTER OF THE vouchers, within four months ESTATE OF IRENE A. SMITH, after the date of first publication deceased of this notice, as stated below, to Case No.: 20PB01499 the Personal Representative at NOTICE TO INTERESTED 696 Country Club Rd., Eugene, PERSONS Oregon 97401, or the claims may NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN be barred. that the undersigned has been All persons whose rights may be appointed Personal affected by the proceedings in Representative of the above this Estate may obtain additional estate. All persons having claims information from the records of against the estate are required to the Court, the Personal present them to the undersigned Representative, or the attorney Personal Representative in care for the Personal Representative. of the undersigned attorney at: Dated and first published: 319 Sixth Street SW, Albany, OR March 18, 2020.

97321 within four months after Catherine Tinney the date of the first publication of Personal Representative this notice, as stated below, or 696 Country Club Rd. such claims may be barred.

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County, State of Oregon, to DATED and first published discuss the budget for the fiscal March 18, 2020. year July 1, 2020 to June 30, Personal Representative Attorney 2021, will be held at Black Butte VIVIAN M. WARD School, 25745 FS Road 1419, 1805 Oak Street SE Camp Sherman, Oregon.

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two-week spring break. All activities, including athletic practices, are canceled.

Sisters Park & Recreation, as per their policy, is following the lead of the Sisters School District and canceling programming.

The Sisters School District is, however, providing meals for students in need. Meals are available at Sisters Elementary School.

Seating is available outside or meals can be taken “grab and go.� Breakfast is available 8 to 8:30 a.m.; lunch from 11:30 a.m. to noon.

Sisters Fire Chief Roger Johnson told The Nugget on Sunday that the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District is fully staffed with no one out for any reason, and they continue to be ready to respond to any community emergency — though they have made operational changes to account for COVID-19.

Virtually all local public activities and gatherings — from arts to athletics — have been canceled at least through the end of March.

The Deschutes Public Library is closed. The library is directing patrons to online resources at https://www. deschuteslibrary.org/books/ downloads.

Shops remain open and restaurants remain open for take-out only. All are hopeful that the local community will continue to support them through the crisis. Some businesses are offering curbside service and/or delivery.

Local businesses have instituted sanitization procedures.

The Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank seeks to remain open. “We feel so strongly that we need to keep this food bank open for the people who need it,� Tom Hespe,

shortages and high demand in stores.

A Facebook group named Pandemic Partners-Sisters has launched to assist locals with needs to include running errands, picking up groceries and prescriptions, getting help with technology to stay connected to loved ones, providing animal care, etc. Search Facebook for the name and join the group for further information.

As Sisters awaits further impacts and directives regarding the COVID-19 virus, individuals are urged to continue observing good hygiene practices, washing hands, covering coughs and sneezes and maintaining distance from other individuals.

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food bank director told The Nugget. “I can’t tell you that we may not have to close, but right now there is no plan to do so.�

Volunteers are asked to wash their hands thoroughly on a repeated basis and to regularly use hand sanitizer.

Carts are being sanitized with each use. “We only allow two clients in at a time. When they come in, we require them to hand-sanitize and we highly encourage them to put on a pair of light plastic gloves.�

He said the bathroom is also made available for thorough hand-washing.

Local grocery outlets have reported that they are unable to provide delivery services due to manpower

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convinced to foster two boys.

This inspired Souza to commit to 30 hours of certification training to become a foster parent. That was in 2002, and the number of foster children grew.

After moving to their Camp Sherman home almost three years ago, the couple picked up where they had left off with children services in California.

They have four of their own children, the older three now adults. Yet, every foster child is considered their own child for as long as the child is with them. The program is designed to be a temporary guardianship for children in need.

There is a sparkle in Souza’s eyes when she recalls the children who have come to their home. She feels like she learns something new from every child they host.

“I want them to first understand that they can walk with me and talk with me,” she said.

Their own son, 13-yearold Jojo, is a valuable asset in welcoming and supporting his foster siblings, with a special enthusiasm to help in any way he can.

“We had a foster infant when Jojo was seven years old. While I was cooking dinner, JoJo explained that he had changed the child’s diaper and burped him. That’s the kind of asset he is, with a pleasant sense of duty.”

The challenges of mental and emotional problems that come with these children make it a constant need for daily dedication by the Souzas to help their charges become secure, feel safe and find hope in their futures. For foster children, trust is a difficult leap.

“Sometimes the kids are misunderstood outside the home because they’re in a new environment and need time to adapt and get comfortable,” Souza explained.

(The diagnostic term is reactive attachment disorder.)

“For instance, a lone girl may feel left out in a house of boys, as any solo gender child could feel, before adapting to her new family.”

The rewards come from seeing these children grow and become confident, especially when the Souzas hear things such as “you’re the only person who has even been nice to me.”

She recalls warmly the time she bought a purple dress for a “daughter” for Easter. She could see in the young girl’s eyes the awe

over this dress, so she surprised her with it. The joy was unmistakable for a child that had not known support that was focused on her alone.

Souza’s husband once said to her, “The only joy you have is when you can help people.” Brad is a contractor, so he cannot invest as much as Shellie does, but he spends time with the children, reading and doing small projects.

He also adapts his schedule to her needs, taking time from a job to supervise home life when she is obliged to accomplish things outside the home.

“She wanted to do this, and she’s my wife, my best friend,” he said. “I support her decision to make a difference for some kids.”

There can also be heartbreak when a child’s life traumas make it too difficult to becoming trusting and therefore unable to accept a new lifestyle. Yet the

She wanted to do this, and she’s my wife, my best friend. I support her decision to make a difference for some kids.

— Brad Souza

rewards override the sadness and sense of loss the family sometimes experiences, at least in the Souza household.

“This is not an easy or simple choice,” Shellie warns. “Sometimes the kids have problems that are too big, and sometimes the process in the foster system is even more difficult. Being a foster parent demands strong conviction and ability to suffer huge disappointment.”

It is not a job, she said, for the faint of heart or a head in the clouds.

She herself spent time in a foster home as a child, so she knows the difficulties from both sides of the coin.

She promotes a new experience in which the kids learn that someone is actually listening.

So many children discover that their lives before, in sometimes unstable communities, “are not the only way to live.” Souza felt that this was the most valuable lesson for her when she left her own foster parents. It inspired her to find a different way and hopes this is what children take from their time within the Souza household.

Souza reports that they have had from three to eight foster children at one time, and they manage to make it work.

“People ask me if I have favorites, and I sometimes say it’s whoever is behaving,”

she said, laughing.

On this day without school, the kids were outdoors riding their bikes, petting the resident horses and playing in the barn. Two boys living there currently are from a city, so the country lifestyle is a new adventure for them.

Sometimes the kids are misunderstood outside the home because they’re in a new environment and need time to adapt and get comfortable.

— Shellie Souza The boys like school, especially math, but their greatest pleasure is their swimming classes in Bend almost every afternoon. The seven year old had a couple weeks of swim lessons when he came across the pool in a self-taught breaststroke that even surprised the instructor.

“I didn’t teach him that,” he exclaimed.

The girl in the household is an avid reader who likes teen novels and adventures, bundled up in her private bedroom.

“The day I met Shellie, she took me to lunch in Sisters and then bought me cowboy boots,” she said.

“This is one of the best foster homes I have been in.”

The Souzas have learned that most of the children who have lived with them do not tend to keep in touch after they either return home or go to a new home.

“It is understandable that they want to invest themselves in a return to their former home or concentrate on the next new thing,” Shellie said.

However, a former foster child in the home, who remains a good friend of Jojo’s, described Shellie this way: “This house was great.

She took care of me and my sister. She just kept being nice. She just really cares for all of us.”

Regardless of the outcomes, what is happening in the Souza home is a chance for hope in young children.

Their futures are dependent on their own choices, and that is a message the Souzas want to help them learn.

There is always a shortage of available foster parents in nearly every state, Oregon included. The Oregon Department of Human Services has information about the program on its webpage: oregon.gov/dhs/ children/fostercare.

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Commentary...

Five strategies for parenting for resilience

By Mitchell L. Luftig, Ph.D Correspondent

Parents who want their children to grow up to be strong independent adults must learn to parent for resilience. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from stressful events and hardship—a kind of emotional toughness that enables a child to handle their sadness and emotional pain in a healthy way so that a challenging situation does not overwhelm them. A child who practices the foundational skills for resilience improves the odds that as an adult they will be able to stand up to whatever challenges they face.

Resilience is something a child must develop over time; it cannot be awarded like a gold star. The proving ground for resilience is the neighborhood, schoolyard, classroom, and home where a child must learn to cope with taunting, being ignored, being picked on, being excluded, and being bullied. As children attempt to navigate this proving ground, they will often feel sad, upset, hurt, mad or disappointed. Unable to tolerate their children’s painful emotions, parents may be tempted to swoop in to end their children’s ordeal.

However, children who learn to depend upon adults to fight their battles for them may never acquire the self-confidence and skills they need to stand up for themselves.

Parents can learn to tolerate their children’s emotional pain by practicing new strategies to support their children and help them grow into resilient adults. Here are five strategies offered by Ruth Wyatt, MA, LCSW at Good Therapy (www.goodtherapy.org):

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• Empathy: Let your child know that you understand their feelings, even when their own behavior caused hurt to another; let them see that you can accept and handle their feelings, that you are not overwhelmed by them, no matter what they are. As Mr. Rogers put it, “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”

• Meaning Making: Ask questions about a difficult event (rather than offering advice or an opinion); this will help your child make sense of what happened, which in turn will enable them to feel less frightened, upset, or overwhelmed by the situation.

• Problem Solving: Brainstorm possible solutions to a problem or conflict. Role-play the most promising solutions so that your child can decide which one is most viable.

Alternatively, speculate with your child about how they

would feel if they were to employ each strategy.

• Tolerating Uncertainty: Help your child learn to manage situations outside of their control (e.g., serious illness of a parent) by offering hope and reassurance.

• Modeling Resilience: Ensure that personal insecurities don’t interfere with your own ability to model resilience by examining habitual responses to failure, loss, disappointment, and uncertainty. Courageous parents turn toward the source of their distress, rather than away, and by desensitizing themselves to their emotional pain they learn to respond adaptively to stress and hardship.

Parents who wish to increase resilience should model their behavior after those who already demonstrate considerable resilience in their lives. Resilient individuals cope with failure by viewing misfortune as an invitation to act compassionately towards those who are dealing with similar difficulties, by viewing failure as an opportunity to demonstrate courage in the face of adversity, and by maintaining a realistic view of their setbacks (no building

mountains out of molehills).

Resilient individuals manage loss by accepting change as part of life (e.g., children grow up and leave home, parents age and die). Resilient people rebound from disappointment by drawing strength and motivation from memories of past successes and by remaining optimistic that over time their actions will lead to success.

Rather than clinging to a memory of the way things used to be, resilient individuals address uncertainty by acknowledging a change of circumstance (e.g., an elderly person may no longer be able to drive safely).

Resilient people practice regular self-care. Resilient individuals surround themselves with a network of supportive individuals; when they find themselves struggling they seek help and

understanding.

Parents can play an active role in helping their children practice resilience. However, children only learn to bounce back from adversity through direct experience, requiring parents to learn to tolerate their children’s upset feelings and restrain themselves from stepping in to manage their children’s problems for them. Parents best support the growth of their children’s resilience through acts of empathy, meaning-making, problem-solving, tolerating uncertainty and modeling resilience.

Mitchell L. Luftig, Ph.D. is a semi-retired clinical psychologist living in Sisters, Oregon. He is the author of the Kindle book “Six Keys to Mastering Chronic LowGrade Depression.” You can visit his website at: www. masterchronicdepression. com.

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SOUTH MEADOW 175 • $540,000 • MLS 202001928 Updated and turn key furnished. Backs to large common area.

Exclusive Onsite Realtor for the Ranch Don Bowler, President and Broker 971-244-3012 Gary Yoder, Managing Principal Broker 541-420-6708 Ross Kennedy, Principal Broker 541-408-1343 Carol Dye, Broker 541-480-0923 | Joe Dye, Broker 541-595-2604 Corrie Lake, Broker 541-521-2392

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Open daily, 9 to 5, by the Lodge Pool Complex 541-595-3838 Black Butte Ranch 541-549-5555 in Sisters, 414 W. Washington Ave. see all our listings at blackbutterealtygroup.com

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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: $135,000-$180,000.

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

69114 BARCLAY LANE Beautiful 10 acres with Cascade mountain views! Close to town with paved access, natural sub-irrigated meadow, ponderosa pines, septic approval, excavated pond and shallow well depths.

The building site offers views of Broken Top, the Three Sisters and Black Crater. There are views from the property of Mt. Jefferson, Black Butte, 3-Fingered Jack and Mt. Washington. An early morning walk through the meadow is spectacular with chest-high meadow grasses, wildflowers, grazing deer, circling raptors and countless native birds. This rare setting has Indian Ford Creek along its east boundary.$399,000. MLS#201906185 GOLF COURSE FRONTAGE Caldera Springs - Resort living at its finest. Build that custom home for full-time or vacation use.

A nicely treed lot with a view of the 16th hole, common area with a cart path and tee box for the 17th hole just across the street. Ponds, pool, hiking and bike trails, tennis, pickleball and a clubhouse for your enjoyment. $278,000. MLS#201910968

Kevin R. Dyer 541-480-7552 CRS, GRI, Principal Broker

Rad Dyer 541-480-8853 ABR, CCIM, CRB, CRS, GRI, Principal Broker

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NEW TOWNHOME! Three bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Ultra-modern interior design features upper-level living. Light and bright greatroom with south-facing windows, cozy propane fireplace and high vaulted ceilings.

Sunny patio with mountain view and feeling of openness. Comfortable upper-level master suite with high ceilings, plenty of closet space and spacious bathroom. Also, a half-bath plus utility room upstairs for convenience. Lower level has 2 bedrooms plus guest bathroom. Heat pump on upper and efficient in-floor radiant heating on lower level. Single attached garage. $449,000.

MLS#202000015

PEAKS AT PINE MEADOW Wonderful townhome complex in Pine Meadow Village. Like-new, 2-level unit with upstairs reverse living. Lots of windows and natural light. Greatroom space with modern design features gas fireplace and access to upper-level patio. Master bedroom is on lower level and has functional and practical workspace cubby. $397,000. MLS #202000483.

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221 S. Ash St. | PO Box 1779, Sisters

SOUTH MEADOW #8 One-third ownership! Enjoy an 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. Wood detail throughout gives off the classic BBR feel. Black Butte Ranch amenities include restaurants, golf courses, spa, indoor and outdoor pools and hot tubs, fitness facilities, tennis and pickleball courts, hiking and biking trails, and more! $185,500.

MLS#201909261

GOLF COURSE & MOUNTAIN VIEWS Spacious 3,598 sq. ft., 5+ bedroom /5.5-bath home perched high above Glaze Meadow 12th green & fairway & the 13th fairway with Mt. Jefferson & Black Butte views. Updated in 2017, featuring open greatroom, gourmet kitchen, separate family room, river rock fireplace & oak hardwood floors.

Warm natural wood paneling & steamed European birch & cherry wood cabinets throughout, natural polished stone slab countertops. Four master suites, each with private bath, additional bedroom & bonus room, could be 6th bedroom, each sharing 5th bathroom. Large utility room & staging area with 1/2 bath, storage & workshop. Attached double garage & extensive decking for outdoor living on all sides of the home. $1,650,000.

MLS#201905530

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

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

OVERLOOKS THE DESCHUTES RIVER This premier building site is 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, and BLM lands are nearby offering hiking and/or fishing opportunities. $295,000. MLS#201506294

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

Catherine Black 541-480-1929

CRS, Broker, Realtor Emeritus 40+ years

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

Shane Lundgren 541-588-9226 Broker

Debbie Dyer 541-480-1650 GRI, Broker

LIKE-NEW TOWNHOME! Three bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Ultra-modern interior design features upper-level living. Light and bright greatroom with south-facing windows, cozy propane fireplace and high vaulted ceilings.

Sunny patio with mountain view and feeling of openness. Comfortable upper-level master suite with high ceilings, plenty of closet space and spacious bathroom. Also, a half-bath plus utility room upstairs for convenience. Lower level has 2 bedrooms plus guest bathroom. Heat pump on upper and efficient in-floor radiant heating on lower level. Single attached garage. $449,000.

MLS#202000010

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Just minutes from town with filtered mountain views. Prairie-style home in Indian Ford Meadows features vaulted ceilings, open beams and style.

Well-built but dated interior ready for your dreams of renovation to make this special home and property your own. 4-bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 3,014 sq. ft. with oversize double garage. Weathered vintage barn. Gorgeous setting amid mature ponderosa pines. Fenced and cross-fenced and set up for your horses with access to National Forest. $799,000. MLS#201910970

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 16676 JORDAN ROAD Mountain views! Part of the original Lazy Z Ranch. Fenced on two sides with Kentucky black fencing. Power close by. Septic feasibility in place, may need new evaluation. Close to town, yet off the beaten path, overlooking a 167± acre site of the R&B Ranch, which currently is not buildable. Needs well. Owner will consider short terms. $385,000.

MLS#201802331

Greg Davidge 808-281-2676 Broker

Jackie Herring 541-480-3157 Broker

Guy Lauziere 541-410-9241 Broker

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