The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLIII No. 23 // 2020-06-03

The Nugget Vol. XLIII No. 23

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Sisters Folk Festival off for 2020

SISTERS RODEO

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A Tribute to The Biggest Little Show in the World

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were busy the first day.

“We did have a lot of tourists come through during Memorial Day weekend,” Rickards said.

It is one thing to have the legal ability to reopen and another thing entirely to instill a feeling of confidence in the minds of the guests.

The Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) cannot go forward in 2020, due to the constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, SFF staff and board remain determined to safely and responsibly provide live music experiences for Sisters locals through the summer and fall, and the festival will return in September 2021.

The staff and board of directors of Sisters Folk Festival announced Wednesday that they have made the difficult decision to postpone the 24th annual Sisters Folk Festival — originally scheduled to take place September 11-13 — to September 10-12, 2021.

On May 7, Governor K a t e B r o w n ’s o f f i c e announced that concerts, major sporting events and large gatherings would not be allowed to occur without significant modifications, at least through the end of September. Since then, SFF staff has explored what those modifications might

See RESTAURANTS on page 27

See FESTIVAL on page 27

PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER

Chops Bistro, like other Sisters eateries that are back to hosting diners, is serving outside and spacing patrons to conform to physical distancing requirements.

Sisters restaurants reopening

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

Restaurants, bars, breweries, tasting rooms, and distilleries were all given the goahead to open under Oregon’s Phase I plan for recovery from the COVID-19 shutdown. After May 15, for the first time in two months, restaurants fired up their grills

and employees put on their masks, allowing people to dine in and sit outside while following Phase 1 guidelines.

The Open Door at Clearwater Gallery located on Hood Avenue opened their doors on the Friday that kicked off Memorial Day Weekend.

Co-owner Julia Rickards told The Nugget that they

Community School staff cheers senior class can help honor Class of 2020

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Many of Sisters’ trademark events are not happening this summer — but there is still plenty left to celebrate, including the “made in Sisters” class of 2020.

The local nonprofit Citizens4Community and other volunteers are hoping all of Sisters will unite behind a new project that affirms the City’s small town atmosphere while honoring hometown high school seniors.

The SHS Class of 2020 Street Banner & Keepsake See BANNERS on page 26

Inside...

In an outpouring of support for the class of 2020, staff members from all three Sisters schools lined the roadway and bus turnaround at Sisters High School cheering, ringing bells and waving signs as the seniors drove through to pick up graduation gowns and other materials on Friday, May 29.

“It was one small way we could show our love for the seniors,” said SHS Principal Joe Hosang.

High school teachers and support staff handed out packets that included graduation caps and gowns, scholarship notifications, and other materials amid smiles and a few tears.

Lynne Fendall, high

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Sisters turned cap-and-gown distribution into a small event in honor of the Class of 2020. school registrar and mother of senior Taylor Fendall, said her son had expressed disappointment in not being

able to say goodbye with the sudden shutdown in March.

See SENIORS on page 25

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Editorial…

We’re all on edge Here at the office of The Nugget — your hometown newspaper — we consider ourselves among the fortunate ones.

The press, like it or not, are deemed essential in times of crisis, so we get to work through this global pandemic.

So most of our work these days centers around this crisis, and the pain and disruption that it is causing.

All of us have seen friends and loved ones lose jobs over the past two months. One in four Americans have been forced out of their jobs. That’s pretty depressing for the out-ofwork, who may struggle to find value in their lives and to pay their bills. And it’s depressing for those of us still employed.

But people who work in the media tend to be different from most folks in that we thrive on conflict. This newspaper suffers from the same affliction.

And for good reason. It’s not that we relish bad things happening to people, it’s simply that conflict is what makes for good story telling.

So we hope you’ll believe us when we state, things are not as bad as you see, read, and hear in the national media, especially in the electronic media.

Clickbait is a term that applies to the headlines in electronic media that are specifically designed to get you to click on their link, transporting you (they promise) to a story that will change your life.

And with a fourth of us unemployed and a third of who’s left working from home, we’re

all spending more time getting our news from social media. This isn’t a harmless practice.

You know this when you lay down your smart phone in anger.

But perhaps you already scroll past all of the nonsense: speculation of what might happen or a story about how one person is incensed, usually on behalf of a third party, for what they interpret to be an offense.

Well-intended people, masons of the pathway to Hell, use social media as a platform to rise to the defense of someone who wasn’t actually offended. The Internet is well-populated with both amateur-police and amateur-journalists.

This has the effect of an Ouroboros, the snake eating its own tail.

Anger begets more anger and modern technology spreads conflict virally (excuse the pun), the effects of which are insidious, damaging our souls rather than our flesh.

As we emerge from two months of sheltering and begin the inevitable rebuilding of our society, please be kind to the people whom, for what ever reason, aren’t wearing a mask.

And be kind to those people who are wearing masks.

We’ve all been cooped up for too long, getting our news from sources designed to make us angry. Our real-world social skills are a bit rusty. Please be patient with each other and rather than condemning someone’s actions, try to help those in need.

Tom Mullen

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: As a member of and volunteer with the Sisters Rodeo for 14 years, my most special memory is this: A few years ago I was acting as an usher during an afternoon performance and just after our entertainer, John Payne the One Armed Bandit, finished his act and left the arena a woman came running up to me and

with the most urgency said she had to speak to him. As we were near the main entrance into the arena I tried to explain that there was no public access but she continued to implore me for help. She looked down to the little boy at her side and my eyes followed hers. There was this sweet boy, maybe 5 or 6 years old, See LETTERS on page 23

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A response to Richard Esterman

By Don Utzinger Guest Columnist

Thank you very much for your letter to the editor published in the May 20 edition of The Nugget. I sincerely hope that all intelligent and caring people in Sisters will read, digest and remember it. Perhaps The Nugget will even consider reprinting it closer to the Sisters City Council candidate filing date, and/or the election date, to remind potential candidates and voters.

It appears that you have a mistaken understanding of both the Oregon and United States Constitutions, as well as the legal definition of perjury. As arbiters and ultimate interpreters of the Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court has previously upheld the constitutionality of orders designed to protect public safety.

While the Constitution of Oregon specifically grants the Governor the power to declare a “catastrophic disaster” and take appropriate actions for 30 days without legislative approval, she did not declare a catastrophic disaster. Instead, she declared an emergency, which she has the statutory authority to do and to take appropriate actions under the constitution (without a time limit).

I fully expect the Oregon Supreme Court to continue to uphold that authority.

As a military veteran and a fourth generation Oregonian, I’m proud to have defended, and to continue to defend, her authority to keep us safe. On the question of perjury, I suggest you look up the definition in the Oregon Revised Statutes.

Governor Brown was initially reluctant to order any shutdown and, for a time, resisted the calls of medical professionals and public officials to do so.

However, her early implementation of effective mitigation is almost certainly responsible for the

significantly lower infection and death rates in Oregon as compared to neighboring states and other states with similar demographics.

Researchers at Columbia University, applying standard scientific and statistical modeling to known data of the county-to-county virus spread within the U.S., estimated that if measures would have been implemented nationally one week earlier there could have been approximately 36,000 fewer deaths and at least 700,000 fewer illnesses.

(Only science deniers would be dismissive of this information.)

We’ll never know how many fewer deaths there could have been if Oregon had shut down sooner. More importantly, however, how many more deaths would there have been if Governor Brown had acted later; or worse, not at all?

How many more deaths and how many more illnesses would have been acceptable to you in order to defend your perceived “right” to make money by risking the lives and health of others? Would you sacrifice members of your own family?

So you’re asking business owners to waste their time to request that all Oregon taxpayers contribute to reimburse them for taking appropriate steps (albeit mandated) to protect themselves and their customers?

In line with your invoicing suggestion, please consider this to be an invoice in the very nominal amount of $50 for my time and materials writing this response.

Rather than remitting that amount to me, please donate it to any person or persons that are risking their lives to keep you safe and healthy.

Again, thank you for your letter. The people of Sisters deserve intelligent, knowledgeable and caring leaders and I hope they can find them.

Thank you for your consideration.

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 woman hits lottery win Lorna Hewitt of Sisters didn’t expect a few hours in front of a sewing machine would produce nearly $127,000 in addition to the facemasks she was making.

After being laid off from her job at a restaurant, Hewitt found parttime work at a local grocery store. It was there she got the idea to make facemasks for her co-workers.

“They liked them so much, they started giving me some money for them,” Hewitt said. “So, I started selling them, because my boss couldn’t order any more; there was a shortage.”

Hewitt said using money

from making facemasks, she bought a Keno 8-spot ticket from Sisters Mainline Station.

“I don’t play a lot, but thought I was doing something to help, maybe I would win,” she said.

Her father, Keith Miller, used to play Keno 8-spot, so that’s what she chose. She bought $100 worth of play.

Hewitt, who lives in Sisters with her mother, Shirley Miller, said the pair were sitting on the couch and she was monitoring play on the Lottery app.

“I was on my 45th game See LOTTERY on page 24

Creating community one ‘Village’ at a time

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

In last year’s Sisters Country Vision project, one of the most important elements identified that residents care about is maintaining the livability of Sisters Country as the population increases. Currently, a group of neighbors think they have found a way to encourage creating, maintaining, and deepening the sense of community that

makes Sisters such a special place — growth or not.

While we’ve all been sequestered in our homes due to COVID-19, these community builders in Tollgate, with the assistance of the Age Friendly Sisters board of directors, have been researching, planning, and establishing what they hope will become a series of geographic “Villages” under the umbrella of the See COMMUNITY on page 31

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Grads face college altered by pandemic

By Ceili Cornelius Correspondent

This is the second of a twopart series profiling Sisters High School (SHS) graduates who have seen their college experience disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kendra Kemp, SHS Class of 2015, recently graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Marina del Ray, California, majoring in dance.

Her passion and major lie in one of the fields most affected by COVID-19: the performing arts. “This profession is going to look a lot different after this and I am looking ahead and preparing for the future,” said Kemp.

Kemp has been keeping busy doing her dance classes online and preparing for what auditions look like in the near future, post-graduation. She is in the process of buying equipment for an in-home studio set-up so she can send in audition videos versus auditioning in person.

During this time, Kemp has had some opportunities she never thought possible, including a workshop with choreographer Tina Landon who has worked on a number of musicals and with a number of famous dancers.

“I’ve gotten to have conversations and opportunities that were never on my radar before, including feedback on choreography, because professional working actors and dancers now have the time to give feedback,” said Kemp.

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Kendra Kemp, a dance major, recently graduated from Loyala Marymount University. She heads into a greatly changed performing arts field. ceremony for LMU was postponed and was held virtually.

“This time is really a fast track to post-graduation life, figuring out where to go next in an industry that is on hold,” Kemp said.

Kemp misses her in-person dance classes and her family the most while living in Los Angeles.

“I’ve enjoyed working with people virtually but I do miss human interaction the most and hope to continue making

plans for the future here in L.A.,” she said.

A junior at the University of Oregon, Maggie Bidasolo is also learning to adapt to the new instruction format for this school year.

“I have had to figure out coordinating study groups because I learn things better by talking through it,” said Bidasolo.

During the school year See GRADUATES on page 24

As the COVID-19 crisis affects gatherings, please contact individual organizations for their current meeting status or alternate arrangements. See Announcements on page 10 for more information.

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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Three council seats up for election in Nov. Three positions on the Sisters City Council are up for election on November 3.

The terms of City Councilors Andrea Blum, Chuck Ryan, and Richard Esterman will expire on December 31, 2020.

All three are eligible to apply for re-election.

The first day to file for a City Council position is Wednesday, June 3. To be eligible a candidate must be registered to vote in Oregon and must have been a resident of the City of Sisters for 12 months preceding the election.

Election materials can be

found on the City website at www.ci.sisters.or.us or picked up from the City Recorder at City Hall, 520 E. Cascade Ave. Candidates are encouraged to obtain election materials by August 10, and must submit perfected petitions by August 25, at 5 p.m. to qualify for the ballot.

For information about the application process, contact City Recorder Kerry Prosser at 541-323-5213, by email at kprosser@ci.sisters.or.us, or stop by City Hall at 520 E. Cascade Ave.

City parts ways with planning director The City of Sisters has parted ways with Community Development Director Patrick Davenport, bringing to an end his five-year tenure in the Sisters planning department.

The community development department will continue to process land use applications and permits with Nicole Mardell, senior planner undertaking the burden of the work with support from Cory Misley and City legal counsel.

Misley told The Nugget that he hopes to have a job offering out in a couple of weeks, but he does not expect a new community development director to be in place for a while.

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monitoring the situation and will be preparing draft resolutions for the June 24 City Council meeting.

The City is involved in the discussion at the state level regarding funding from the first stimulus package (CARES Act). There was $1.6 billion distributed to the state of Oregon. Given population thresholds, only Multnomah and Washington counties and the city of Portland received direct funding. The rest is to be allocated by the state for the other 34 of 36 counties and 240 of 241 cities in Oregon.

There is hope that clarity on this topic will emerge in the coming weeks, and include direct use of funds for economic recovery. If so, it is important to ensure that the City of Sisters maintains its eligibility and can access those funds to further support our community.

Working closely with the League of Oregon Cities (LOC), we have been able to stay connected to the conversations in Salem and lobby to be able to access those additional funds.

Last Friday, the City submitted its first COVID-19related reimbursement to the state. We will continue to stay engaged with that evolving situation in hopes of accessing additional funding.

In the meantime, regional partners like the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (COIC) have been instrumental in securing some funds for supporting our community economic recovery, and we thank them for that work.

Overall, the City has been exploring and implementing a multi-faceted approach to balancing safety and prosperity, and will be busy in June continuing in that role.

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Market opening this weekend

By Audry Tehan Executive Director Seed to Table

The countdown to the opening day of the Sisters Farmers Market is on. This Sunday, June 7 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., market vendors, volunteers, and Seed to Table staff will provide local abundance.

Under new management and increased safety regulations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, visitors can expect a slightly different experience from years past. What isn’t changing, though, is the opportunity to shop a bounty of local goods, support our hard-working farmers and producers, and tap into the resiliency that this community creates amidst challenging times.

Market management will provide new infrastructure to promote the safety of all participants, and is putting faith in new and returning customers to learn about and adhere to new regulations in order to help protect our community.

Social distancing will be in effect, with single entrance and exit points and at least six feet of space between booths and people. Online pre-ordering and curbside pick-up will be an option for even less physical contact.

Vendors will be handling all food and will not be giving out samples.

All activities and music will be postponed.

Market-goers are asked to leave pets at home, wear face coverings, and use the available hand washing stations.

And perhaps most challenging for some, the market will

not be serving as a social gathering, but rather a space to efficiently source local products and essential goods.

These changes may take some getting used to, especially to long-time market participants, but within our resilient community it is clear that the positives will outweigh the negatives. For one, the Sisters Farmers Market is still able to provide an essential service that is at its core — getting locally-produced goods to shoppers and keeping our dollars and diets local. Online orders may even provide farmers and producers growth in average sales due to increased accessibility. In addition to safety, the market will have a primary focus on food access, with Seed To Table offering discounted produce at their stand for families directly affected by COVID-19.

The mission of the Sisters Farmers Market is to support a healthier community through partnerships, educational programming, and essential infrastructure for organic farmers, artisans, and local food producers. Market Manager, Caroline Hager, shares that she is, “optimistic for the collaboration between all of those involved with the market to see beyond the temporary nuances and unite in these common goals.”

The new educational programming is another positive development being introduced through the market to the community this year.

Each week, Seed to Table will be providing free take-home Activity Kits for elementary-aged

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Stars over Sisters

By Zoey Lorusso/Lizzie Mccrystal Correspondents

As the arrival of summer is just around the corner, it is not unreasonable to expect warmer weather to be a more frequent visitor to Central Oregon. Accompanying the more comfortable temperatures are changes in our night sky. So, while you’re enjoying a slice of early season watermelon way past your bedtime, don’t forget to go outside and look up — for you might see something amazing.

Constellation families are groups of constellations that are either located in the same area of the sky, associated with the same myth or theme, or were created at the same point in history. The featured constellation for June is one of 10 other stellar groupings of the Ursa Major Family, namely Corona Borealis, which is bordered by Hercules, Serpens and Boötes.

Six of the constellation’s brightest stars form a semicircle known as the Northern Crown. Alphecca is the brightest star, glowing at an apparent magnitude of 2.23. On the magnitude scale, the lower the number, the brighter the star.

Alphecca is an eclipsing binary that lies at a distance of approximately 75 lightyears. Nusakan, the second brightest luminary in the group at magnitude 3.28, is a spectroscopic binary located 114 light-years away.

There are few deep sky objects in the constellation within range of telescopes owned by most amateur astronomers. But it does contain the Corona Borealis Galaxy Cluster. This cluster is comprised of about 400 galaxies in one degree of the sky. It is located between 1 to 1.5 billion light-years from the earth.

In Greek legend Corona Borealis is connected to the myth of Princess Ariadne

of Crete. The ring of stars that denote the crown was worn by Princess Ariadne when she married Dionysis.

Princess Ariadne is known for helping Theseus slay the Minotaur who was Ariadne’s half-brother. The king banished the Minotaur to a labyrinth from which no one could escape.

When Theseus came to Crete, he was put in the labyrinth for the Minotaur to eat. But Ariadne fell in love with Theseus, so she gave him a spool of string to bring with him as he went through the labyrinth. Once he slew the Minotaur, he followed the string out. After his escape, he and Ariadne sailed away from Crete.

Shortly thereafter, however, Theseus abandoned her on the isle of Naxos. Dionysis found Ariadne weeping on the island and they soon fell in love and married.

Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere at 2:44 p.m. on Saturday, June 20. At that time, the earth’s axis of rotation will tip toward the sun, causing the noonday sun to lie directly overhead at the Tropic of Cancer. The result is the longest period of daylight hours of the year; not good news if you’re wanting to get some evening observing done before bed, particularly when you throw Daylight Saving Time into the mix.

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Spiral galaxy NGC 6085 in the upper left and elliptical galaxy NGC 6086 lower center of photo highlight a number of more distant galaxies in the constellation of Corona Borealis.

Of the five nakedeye planets, only elusive Mercury occupies the evening sky this month. On June 4 the diminutive planet lingers above the western horizon a full two hours after the sun has set. However, by mid-month Mercury will be harder to spot as it sinks ever closer to the sun.

The two biggest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, will rise just after midnight this month.

They currently reside near the border of Sagittarius and Capricornus. Both will become evening planets next month. Mars rises after 2 a.m. local time on June 1, an hour earlier by month’s end.

After completely dominating the evening celestial stage with its brilliance over the past several months, Venus reaches inferior

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conjunction on June 3. It will emerge in the morning sky later in the month.

The Full Strawberry Moon occurs on June 5.

The “strawberry moon” got its name from Native Americans in eastern North America when they began

harvesting ripening wild strawberries in June. After this date, the face of the moon becomes progressively less illuminated before going dark on June 20. A waxing moon is in play for the remainder of the month.

Ulm named fire district volunteer lieutenant The Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District (SCSFD) has announced the promotion of Rachel Ulm to the position of resident volunteer lieutenant. Lt. Ulm will take over the senior position within the resident volunteer program on June 15, when out-going Lt. Rachelle Beiler completes the four-year resident volunteer program.

Lt. Ulm came to SCSFD in June of 2019 to begin her experience as a resident volunteer firefighter.

Prior to coming to Sisters, Lt. Ulm served as a volunteer firefighter and part-time paid firefighter in Coburg, OR where her family still resides. She is keeping up family tradition by following in her father’s footsteps.

Rachel’s dad, Benton Ulm serves as an engine captain for the Eugene/Springfield Fire Department and as training officer for Coburg Fire.

“I am excited to have Lt. Ulm take on this critical leadership role within our resident volunteer program.

Her energy and vision for the future will make a great program even better,” said Tim Craig, Deputy Chief of Operations for SCSFD. Lt. Ulm said, “I am super excited for this amazing opportunity to serve the members of the Fire District and the community of Sisters as a lieutenant. I look forward to making this incredible student program the best that it can be.”

Lt. Rachelle Beiler will be leaving SCSFD after completing four years of dedicated service to Sisters

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Country. “Lt. Beiler has been a fantastic leader in our organization. She will be deeply missed by all of us. We wish her the best in her future in fire and EMS,” said Craig.

The resident volunteer program teaches basic firefighting principles and practices to volunteers who are also enrolled in the structural fire science and paramedic associate’s degree programs at Central Oregon Community College.

Resident Volunteers live in the main fire station and respond on emergencies alongside the career firefighters as they gain knowledge and experience. The resident volunteer lieutenant serves as the lead resident volunteer, assisting the deputy chief in managing the program, and providing leadership to the other resident volunteers. Additionally, the resident volunteer lieutenant attends Eastern Oregon University, working on a bachelor’s degree in fire service administration.

New deputies on duty this summer

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Despite disruptions associated with the coronavirus pandemic, Sisters remains on course to have a dedicated force of one lieutenant and three deputies through its new contract with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office.

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.

Sisters City Manager Cory Misley told The Nugget that Sgt. William Bailey, who serves as the sheriff’s office public information officer, will likely act in

the lieutenant’s role on an interim basis for six months as the sheriff’s office navigates changed circumstances due to the pandemic. New deputies will likely be in service by August. The contract allowed 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.

The Sisters contingent will have distinct markings on its patrol cars, and the City and the sheriff’s office are still working on the details.

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Dispersed camping raises concerns Keep your campfire from starting a wildfire

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Sitting around a campfire is one of the special times we all enjoy, but campfires are also a major cause of wildfires. May is Wildfire Awareness Month, and the Pacific Northwest Coordination Group urges campers to follow these basic outdoor safety tips: • Know before you go: Before going camping, always contact the forest district, agency or landowner first to learn if there are any current campfire restrictions where you plan to recreate.

• Have water and fire tools on site: Bring a shovel and a bucket of water to extinguish any escaped embers.

When you are ready to leave, drown all embers with water, stir the coals, and drown again. Repeat until the fire is dead out. If it is too hot to touch, it is too hot to leave.

• Select the right spot: Where campfires are allowed, choose a site with an existing ring. Fire pits in established campgrounds are the best spots. If you choose to build a campfire, avoid building it near your tent, structures, vehicles, shrubs or trees, and be aware of low-hanging branches overhead. Clear the site down to bare soil, at least five feet on all sides, and circle it with rocks. Store unused firewood a good distance from the fire.

• Keep your campfire small: A campfire is less likely to escape control if it is kept small. A large fire may cast hot embers long distances.

Add firewood in small amounts as existing material is consumed.

• Attend your campfire at all times: A campfire left unattended for even a few minutes can grow into a costly, damaging wildfire. Stay with your campfire from start to finish until it is dead out, as required by law. That ensures any escaped sparks or embers can be extinguished quickly.

• Consider alternatives to a campfire this summer: Portable camp stoves are a safer option to campfires at any time of year. Areas that prohibit campfires outside maintained campgrounds with established fire pits often allow camp stoves.

• Never use gasoline or other accelerants: Don’t use flammable or combustible liquids, such as gasoline, propane or lighter fluid, to start or increase your campfire.

• Burn only local wood: Hauling your firewood

to a remote campground can potentially transport invasive species. Instead, buy it where you’ll burn it or gather wood on site where permitted. State regulations prohibit the open burning of any other material that creates dense, toxic smoke or noxious odors. Burning paper and cardboard can also easily fly up to start new fires.

Escaped campfires can be costly. State and federal law require the proper clearing, building, attending and extinguishing of open fires at any time of year. While citations and fines may apply, the biggest potential cost for an escaped campfire is firefighting costs. These can range from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars or more.

Campgrounds remained closed over Memorial Day weekend, due to COVID-19 restrictions. But that didn’t mean campers stayed home — they simply came to Sisters and set up camp dispersed out across the national forest.

And that raised concerns from local residents about trash left in the woods, trees cut down, and campfires left smoldering.

Dispersed camping is allowed in the forest, and it occurs every year. But Sisters District Ranger Ian Reid acknowledged that the ongoing closure of campgrounds made for more of the phenomenon, particularly in the popular Metolius Basin.

Reid said that campgrounds are starting to come online. Perry South and Monte Campground in the Metolius Basin opened May

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Reid also said that his staff is trying to balance the need to minimize contact with the public to meet COVID-19 prevention protocols while still maintaining a presence in the forest. They are, however, on full alert for fires.

“We are staffed seven days (a week) with our fire resources and we are patrolling for campfires,” he told The Nugget. “We found one (smoldering) last week.”

There is no current restriction on campfires, but that will likely change soon as fire season gets into full swing.

“We’re evaluating that on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis,” Reid said.

Reid noted that cutting standing dead trees is actually allowed, except for sensitive areas like riparian zones, as long as the trees are smaller then 24 inches in diameter and

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“Cutting green trees is prohibited,” he said. “It always is.”

Reid acknowledged locals’ concern about sanitation with hordes of campers disperse through the woods.

“We do patrol for sanitary conditions and we can cite for that,” Reid said.

Campers are expected to dump effluent outside the forest at approved dumpsites.

The Forest Service is also enforcing its 14-day stay limit for dispersed camping.

As state parks and national forest campgrounds reopen, campers are expected to return to those spots, although some citizens have expressed concerns that dispersed camping might become a habit. In all cases, campers are asked to behave responsibly, leave their site clean and their fires dead out, and treat the forest and the community around it with respect.

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Library staff has begun the process of reopening the sorely-missed community asset.

Sisters Library starts reopening

By Kema Clark Correspondent

Tuesday, May 26, started the gradual reopening of Deschutes County Libraries.

Books that were checked out months ago, can now be returned.

The return process is a little different for each branch. Some of the library locations are able to have the book bins in an area to allow library patrons to pull in and hand the books to a library employee or toss them in the bin. People don’t have to exit their cars at all.

The Sisters Library was unable to arrange the dropoff in that fashion, since it’s on a two-way street. Patrons park in front, exit their car, follow the signs and drop the books in the bin. You will never be closer than six feet to the library employees helping, so it’s quick and easy. Saturday, May 30, was the second drop-off day.

On June 2, the library continued curbside drop-offs (the book drops will remain closed) and started allowing patrons to pick up items that were put on hold before the March closure.

Per library instructions, “items can only be picked up at the location where the hold was originally placed. All staff will be wearing masks and following social distancing protocols; we encourage the public to wear masks as well.”

Beginning June 2, the Sisters Library hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Access the Library Reopening Plan: Frequently Asked Questions at https://www.deschuteslibrary.org. Patrons can place new holds on library materials starting June 10.

If there are eBooks, audiobooks or physical books that you want, and the library doesn’t have them, you can request anything. Login to your library account, go to “My Library Dashboard” and click on “+ Submit a Suggestion” on the left side.

Provide the information and you’ll get a reply quickly from the library staff to say it’s ordered, or explaining why it can’t be ordered.

The Deschutes and Ochoco national forests and the Crooked River National Grassland will extend free personal-use firewood cutting through September 30. The same procedures announced at the beginning of May remain in effect. Firewood cutters can forego the normal requirement to obtain a permit from a Forest Service office or vendor.

This interim change to the firewood permitting process is an effort to maximize social distancing measures.

After September 30, the Forest Service plans to return to the regular process of issuing firewood permits and load tags at our offices and vendor locations.

Firewood cutters can also take an additional two cords of firewood for personal use only. This is in addition to the four cords allowed during the month of May, for a total of six cords between May 1 and September 30. Inquire by phone or email with your local district office regarding commercial firewood permits.

Firewood cutters taking advantage of this opportunity will be required to follow the same rules and regulations that are in effect during the regular firewood cutting season. These rules and regulations are found in the “2020 Central Oregon Personal Use

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2. A digital or hardcopy version of the “2020 Central Oregon Personal Use Firewood Synopsis.”

3. A digital or hard-copy version of the appropriate firewood cutting area map (i.e., the map covering the area where the firewood is being cut).

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends, a mentoring program in Sisters, is continuing to find innovative ways to reach out and assist their mentors, children and families. Current needs include childcare to allow parents to continue to work, internet/computer access for online learning, supplies for athome learning and activity kits, and even basic needs, such as food and medical access. Circle of Friends has also established an emergency fund to provide immediate response for the most pressing needs. Contact Kellie at 503-396-2572 to help.

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Black Butte Ranch General Manager Jay Head cut the ribbon on the new BBR General Store on the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend.

New General Store open for business at BBR

By Katy Yoder Correspondent

Happy childhood memories at Black Butte Ranch (BBR) often include youngsters riding their bikes to the BBR store for an ice cream cone, tasty snack, or a refreshing drink. Pedaling with friends along meandering bike trails with curious grass-munching horses and cattle watching them pass, made the adventure even more exciting.

But the general store was showing its age, with 50 years of being loved and visited taking its toll. Plans to reconfigure the building and location have been in the works for years as staff and homeowners took into consideration the needs and wants of everyone who enjoys visiting the store.

General Manager Jay Head couldn’t be more pleased with how it turned out. The new store is part of a bigger plan to offer a Ranch experience with modern amenities in an unmatched, rural setting.

“We are thrilled to complete another renovation to the many different facilities that we have on the Ranch over the last 10 years,” said Head.

The General Store is one of at least seven BBR facilities that have been finished, rebuilt, or renovated.

“We had a focus with this one to retain the traditional services offered by the original store,” said Head. “It’s an important first impression when you come on the Ranch. Customers appreciate the convenience along with our retooling of additional services. We are expanding on the product and service offerings to our homeowners and guests for the next 50 years.”

The store now offers

more convenience items like grab-and-go meals, fresh deli-style menu selections and expanded beer and wine selections. Additionally, there’s some charming BBR memorabilia for guests on the Ranch. The small selection of retail items may be new, but planners were sure to continue offering the everpopular ice cream.

“It’s halfway around the trails,” said Head. “It’s a perfect stop for a soda or an ice cream break. We can also fill growlers with great microbrews.”

Brew options will change regularly with three beers available to customers.

Part of the rebuild included moving the site of the store about 120 feet west from its old location. The new site brings more visibility to the BBR stables and ties the two services more together. The new store was relocated so when guests are in the store eating, or shopping they have a great view of the stables, which is an iconic institution on the Ranch. There are lunch options for trail rides, akin to little brown bag lunches for riders.

The attendance at the grand opening on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend was a nice surprise for Head.

“It was a successful grand opening weekend.

The homeowners’ reaction to the new facility has been positive,” he said. “The new store, and its location featuring the stables, ties in well with another project to beautify and maintain a ranch feel. Over the last two years, we’ve installed all new fencing around the entire front of the Ranch including the meadows, arena and corrals.

It’s all been done to better serve the Ranch and make it top quality when people drive in.”

Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank has made an operational change based on the evolving response to COVID-19. Visitors are now encouraged to shop for two weeks instead of one week. The Food Bank will then be closed every other week temporarily. The next open date is June 11. The Food Bank is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursdays. Questions?

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Habitat Stores Are Open!

Sisters Habitat for Humanity Thrift Store and ReStore are now open. The hours for both stores are: Monday thru Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon is reserved for vulnerable groups and noon to 3 p.m. is open to the general public.

Shoppers are required to sanitize their hands and wear a face mask before entering. A maximum of 10 shoppers are allowed in the store at any one time. Donations for the Thrift Store are only being accepted off-site at the old Thrift Store at 141 W Main Ave. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9 to 11 a.m.

Parking spaces are reserved on Main Ave. in front of the building for those donating items. ReStore donations are not being accepted at this time. For more information please contact the Habitat Office at 541-549-1193 or email info@ sistershabitat.org.

AA Meetings

As a result of COVID-19 mandates on meeting size and locations, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in Sisters are currently continuing in creative ways.

Some meeting times have moved to an online Zoom platform.

Others are not meeting at this time. To talk to an alcoholic, find out about Zoom meetings in Sisters, or any other questions about Alcoholics Anonymous you can call one of the numbers below or go online at coigaa.org.

Call Anne Z: 503-516-7650 or Jan: 541-647-8859 or Agnes: 541-588-6778.

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Do you need help with running errands or deliveries or more?

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Call Wendy at 541-389-6859. Visit the church website at www.sisterschurch.com.

Kindergarten Roundup

Sisters Elementary School (SES) is now holding their annual Kindergarten Roundup preregistration. Children who will be age 5 on or before September 1, are eligible for the 2020-21 school year. Call the SES office at 541-549-8981 if you have any questions. Due to distance learning, the office will only be open on Mondays and Fridays 10:30-12:30 to pick up and drop off enrollment forms. Forms may also be printed off the school web page. Return completed forms to the school by Friday, June 5 with your child’s birth certificate and immunization records. Once the packets are returned, your child will be given a special summer learning packet and you will be given a link to access Kindergarten Roundup virtually.

Notice of Election forr Sisters City Council

Notice is hereby given thatt a general election will be heldd on November 3, 2020, for three ee positions on the Sisters Cityy Council. The first day to filee for a City Council position is Wednesday, June 3, 2020. To be eligible one must be registered ered to vote in Oregon and must have been a resident of the City of Sisters for 12 months preceding eding the election. Election materials erials can be found on the City website at: www.ci.sisters.or.us or picked icked up from the City Recorder at City Hall, 520 E. Cascade Avenue. e. Th Thee terms of City Councilors Andrea ndrea Blum, Chuck Ryan, and Richard chard Esterman will expire on December 31, 2020. All three are eligible to apply for re-election. Candidates are encouraged to obtain election materials by August 10, 2020 and must submit perfected petitions

by August 25, 2020 at 5 p.m. to qualify for the ballot. For questions about the application process, please contact City Recorder Kerry Prosser at 541-323-5213, by e-mail at kprosser@ci.sisters.or.us, or stop

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Community Assistance During COVID-19 Pandemic

VAST church is eager to help, picking up prescriptions, delivering groceries or food, helping however they can. People in need can call 541-719-0587 and press 1 to be connected to Mikee Stutzman, Ministry Coordinator or email her at admin@vastchurch.com. VAST Church is willing to help as long as resources and volunteers allow.

Weekly Food Pantry

Westside Sisters Church has a weekly food pantry on Thursdays. For the next several weeks, food will be distributed drive-through style from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the New Hope building, 222 N. Trinity Way. People in need of food may drive through the parking lot and pick up a bag of food for their household. Other Sistersarea churches are joining with Westside Sisters to contribute financially to help sustain the program. Call 541-549-4184 for more information.

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By Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief It seems awfully strange to roll into June without the prospect of the Sisters Rodeo.

It took a global pandemic to keep the 80-year-old institution in the chutes, forcing the board of directors of the all-volunteer outfit to cancel one of Sisters’ premier events. But rodeo culture is nothing but resilient. If you get bucked off, you pick yourself up, beat the dirt off your chaps, and start looking to the next ride, when you will make the eight seconds.

Sometimes you don’t even get the opportunity to get bucked off.

Rodeo actually has a built-in protocol for getting another crack at a score when things go wrong through no fault of the rider. When a horse or a bull doesn’t perform, when it lingers in the chute or fails to buck, the judges

have the option of offering a cowboy a re-ride. Sisters Rodeo crowds are pretty certain that their cries and cheers can influence that decision, and there have been more than a few times when the stands shook with the chant: “Re-ride! Re-ride!”

Sisters Rodeo may never have made it out of the chutes in 2020 thanks to COVID-19, but surely there’s a 95-point ride still ahead — if we can just get a re-ride in 2021.

So, here’s to Sisters Rodeo: The Nugget Newspaper and the community celebrate the heritage of a grand Sisters event, and an organization that gives our town character and identity and supports the community in so many ways.

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Mary Olney is Sisters Rodeo Queen Sisters Rodeo Queen Mary Olney won’t miss out on her year representing the venerable institution — she’ll just have to wait a year. The Warm Springs rider will reign again in 2021.

Olney was chosen at Sisters Rodeo grounds from a group of highly qualified cowgirl competitors on September 22, 2019. John Leavitt, who heads up the queen selection committee, told The Nugget that the Rodeo has already determined that she’ll be back in the saddle for the 2021 events.

Mary is the niece of Warm Springs Chief Delvis Olney, Sr. She was raised in a rodeo family. Her father was a rough-stock rider and her three brothers are all bronc and bull riders. Even her grandmother, Catherine Watah, was a bareback rider.

“I was raised by some of the toughest cowgirls in the Northwest,” Olney

explained, “They instilled in me a love for animals, rodeo and the Western way of life.”

Sonia Heath, Mary’s mother, dreamed that Mary was chosen as Sisters Rodeo queen. “I couldn’t have had a better daughter than the one I have,” Sonia said. “She herself is a dream for any mother of daughters.”

The queen, a graduate of Madras High School, has served on student council and was a member of National Honor Society and FFA. She played soccer and softball, and participated in cheer.

The petite 18-year-old rides Dixie, her 5-year-old bay mare, who performed nearly flawlessly in the riding drill.

In her speech, Olney said, “Now, I’m not sure if there’s something in the lemonade, or it’s just the surrounding atmosphere, but there is a closeness that you can feel

right when you step through the front gate. When you attend Sisters Rodeo, you feel you’re part of a family.”

Her youngest brother, Josh, said that his sister is “always able to smile. Even when she doesn’t feel like it, she smiles. She is so friendly and wants to make other people happy.”

Grandmother Catherine repeated such perception of her granddaughter.

“Mary is so friendly, happy, and fun-loving,” she said. “Other people feel good just being around her.”

Friends in attendance supported these statements.

Ronnie, a family friend, said, “She is dedicated, strongwilled and has a wonderful personality.” Delia, an older friend, said, “She’s an awesome cowgirl, sweet, and anything she wants to do she does well.”

Olney plans to attend Tulsa Welding School to become a certified welder,

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Sisters Rodeo Queen Mary Olney will reign again in 2021. but her long-term goal is to be a pediatrician.

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Sisters Rodeo supports students Two big things happen in Sisters in June: The Sisters Rodeo — and the celebration of the Sisters High School graduating class.

The Sisters Rodeo supports students in Sisters through the Sisters Rodeo Association Scholarship.

The Association offers scholarships that may be used at an accredited trade technical or vocational school; two- or four-year college or university.

The scholarships are to be awarded to Sisters High School graduates with financial need, but who may not be eligible for tuition assistance programs, who have exhibited a commitment to the Sisters community through their volunteer involvement, have shown a good work ethic in their school and community, and have demonstrated an attitude and aptitude to be successful in post-high school educational choices.

This year ’s recipient of the Sisters Rodeo Association Scholarship was Gracen Sundstrom. Gracen is a multi-sport athlete and honor roll student.

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Sisters Rodeo creates lifelong memories

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Sisters Rodeo is the highlight of the year for thousands of people. Many have built lives around it.

Sisters Rodeo Association President Curt Kallberg lives in Sisters in large part because of the Sisters Rodeo.

In the mid-to-late 1980s, back when he was young and limber as the Ian Tyson song goes, he was a participant in one of the most thrilling — and risky — events in the “Biggest Little Show in the World.”

“We lived over in the Valley,” Kallberg recalled.

“And we’d come over here and wild horse race.”

In the Wild Horse Race, teams vie to get a wildly uncooperative horse saddled and get one of the team aboard to race him bucking and jigging around a barrel.

The Wild Horse Race opens the Rodeo and it’s usually a chaotic scene with far more cowboys crawling up out of the dirt to limp away than there are in a saddle. And it’s addicting. “(Sisters) was about the crown jewel of wild horse racing,” Kallberg said. “We never could win, but we’d come year after year. It was kind of a pilgrimage to the Sisters Rodeo. If you did one

rodeo, you did Sisters. You’d come and camp and it was the best.”

Eventually, Kallberg moved here and became a member of the Sisters Rodeo Association. He’s now president, succeeding the longserving and greatly admired Glenn Miller.

Tanya Jones is literally a child of the Sisters Rodeo.

Her grandfather was Mert Hunking, who was the stock contractor for the Sisters Rodeo for many years before it became a PRCCA Rodeo.

“I grew up in that arena, more or less,” she said. “I started carrying the American flag there in 1980.”

Jones started barrel racing at Sisters in 1990, and has had many memorable runs in her home arena.

She also recalled the epic challenge between the bull Red Rock and champion bull rider Lane Frost in 1988 (see related story, page 14).

Red Rock had not been ridden through his career, and rodeo promoters staged a Challenge of the Champions series pitting the undefeated bull and the young champ against each other in an exhibition.

Jones had a special connection to Red Rock — he was her grandfather’s bull.

And despite his fearsome reputation for mercilessly

unseating riders, Red Rock was a gentle creature. He only turned on the power when he went to work.

Jones used to sit on Red Rock in the pasture when her grandfather fed him hay. She admitted that she had mixed feelings about the outcome of the challenge, when Frost stayed on the legendary bull for the full eight seconds of a qualifying ride.

“That was a pretty cool experience,” she said. “We were all kind of sad, because we really didn’t want him to be rode, but it was pretty amazing to witness that.”

The rodeo is entertainment, and nothing adds to the entertainment more than a talented clown. For years, JJ Harrison kept the crowd in stitches with his antics — and with his athletic dance moves and stunts.

Mike Biggers recalled a moment in the 2010 Sisters Rodeo when a bull treated JJ like a soccer ball or hockey puck. After a ride where a tough bull had dumped a cowboy, Harrison taunted the bull into charging him where the clown sat in his protective barrel.

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Tanya Jones was raised in the Sisters Rodeo arena — and rode there as a competitive barrel racer. bull knocked it over, then proceeded to head-butt it over and over till it got a good roll going — across a third of the arena and right through the gate into the chutes. Gooooooaaaaalllll!

Such moments of hilarity meld with significant moments like raising record amounts of funding for Sara’s Project, a local nonprofit that fights breast cancer. Legendary Saturday nights on the town in Sisters meld into warm Sunday mornings with family and friends at Sisters Kiwanis Buckaroo Breakfast.

It all makes for an event

that brings many people back year after year, decade after decade.

For many Rodeo volunteers, the camaraderie of staging the event each year is the highlight. John Leavitt leads the Queen selection committee and participated in the Rodeo for many years as a team roper. He can’t separate out any one favorite memory that stands out from the others.

“After 40 years, I don’t know what it would be,” he said. “There’s so many of them. I just love the Rodeo and I love the job I do.”

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Rodeo roots stretch back to Spain

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Like Bluegrass or jazz music, the sport of rodeo has roots that stretch far back in time, blending a variety of cultural influences to create something uniquely all-American.

The very name “rodeo” speaks of Spanish roots.

Late-medieval Spain was one of the premier equestrian cultures in history; indeed, it was the Spanish who brought the modern horse to the Americas, as Western singer Ian Tyson recounts in his magnificent anthem, “La Primera”: I am a drinker of the wind I am the one who never tires I love my freedom more than all these things T h e C o n q u i s t a d o r, Comanche and the Cowboy I carried them to glory I am La Primera — Spanish mustang Hear my story

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Bill Pickett invented the sport of bulldogging (steer wrestling).

The Spanish tradition found its fullest expression on the massive ranchos of California, where vaqueros rode among the live oak and swung long, rawhide reatas.

In the 19th Century, the Spanish tradition met and mingled with an ancient Anglo-Celtic drover culture that pushed north and west out of the American South, especially Texas. The Texans had already absorbed other Spanish/Mexican influences in the border brush, and they brought them north with massive herds of cattle in the post-Civil War years.

Cowboys were made part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show & Congress of Rough Riders of the World, setting the stage for the exhibition of cowboy skills as a performance. But, as the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame notes, “The cowboys in these shows were paid performers and it wasn’t a contest like modern rodeos.”

You could get yourself into a scrap arguing over who gets the claim to fame as the first real rodeo in America.

Prescott, Arizona, may have the best claim, which is reinforced by The Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame: “It is very hard to trace the first rodeo in America.

Many places make this claim including: Sante Fe, New Mexico in 1847, Deer Trail, Colorado in 1869, and Pecos, Texas in 1883. All early rodeos varied greatly by events and most were free to the public. Prescott, Arizona held their first rodeo on July 4, 1888. Much of what we know today in the sport of rodeo grew from the Prescott Rodeo. The committee established the following that still hold true today: prizes awarded, rules for competition, admission charged, cowboys invited to compete and a committee to organize. The events included bronco riding, steer roping and cow pony races.

In 1889, the first steer riding competition was held, later this event evolved into

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Rodeo’s origins lie in practical skills of trail drivers and ranch hands who needed to be able to rope and ride with wild stock in rough terrain. modern bull riding. By 1917, in 1949 the age of 19. He in Livermore, Calif. went to calf roping was added to the was profiled in the 2017 Frost. On June 12 (after both list of events at Prescott.” award-winning documentary cowboy and bull had traveled Rodeo events grew out “Floating Horses.” all night to Oregon), the fight of ranching skills — roping; Larry Mahan, born in continued in Sisters, where bucking out a rank horse. But Salem, Oregon, was a six- Red Rock was originally some of them were stunts. time world champion in the from. It was the last ride of Riding a steer or a bull has 1960s and ’70s, and he was the night, and the adrenaline no practical ranching appli- among the first modern stars and anticipation was thick by cation, but it’s not hard to of the sport, parlaying his the time Frost nodded. The imagine how that got started. fame as a roughstock rider crowd cheered them both on.

Hall-of-Famer Bill Pickett into a boot collection and “It was an atypical leftis credited with the creation clothing line. hand delivery for Red of the event that would be Hall of Fame barrel racer Rock, but Frost hung on and known as bulldogging and Charmayne James took fought the bull all the way now is called steer wrestling. Rookie of the Year honors in to the whistle. The cowboy “Legend has it that Pickett 1984 at the onset of a long described it as one of the best resorted to biting the lip of a and astoundingly successful rides of his life. ‘I’ve made recalcitrant steer to wrestle career. Her trail led through a couple of 91 point rides it to the dirt to get it into the the Sisters Rodeo season in my life,’ said Frost at the corral,” the Pro Rodeo Hall after season. time, ‘and this one felt a good of Fame recounts. “Pickett Other legends have com- three or four points higher.’ moved from ranch work into peted here, from champion Frost, just 25, was killed the show arena in the 1890s, roper Joe Beaver to cham- a year later at the venerwhen he and his brother pion bull riders like Ty able Cheyenne Frontier Days began the Pickett Brothers Murray and Lane Frost. rodeo, when the bull Takin’ Bronco Busters and Rough F r o s t c o n t r i b u t e d a Care of Business plowed into Riders Show that toured fairs moment that will live forever his back, breaking several and rodeos. In 1907, Pickett in Sisters Rodeo folklore ribs, which punctured the was hired as a cowhand on when he rode the previously cowboy’s heart and lungs as the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma unridden bull Red Rock in a he fell to the arena dirt. and participated in the Miller seven-rodeo “Challenge of At 80 years old, Sisters Brothers’ 101 Ranch Wild the Champions” exhibition Rodeo is part of a long and West Show. He worked on in 1988. historic tradition — not only the ranch when he was not As the Professional Bull of sport, but of a way of life traveling with the Miller Riders Association (PBR) that grew out of the workBrothers for more than 25 recounts: ing of livestock in a rugged years. He died April 2, 1932, “Frost and Red Rock bat- landscape, where grit and after being kicked in the head tled each other back-to-back determination are the keys to while breaking a colt at the June 11-12. The first event survival and success. ranch. He was later honored by the U.S. Postal Service, who featured Pickett on a stamp as part of its Legends of the West series.”

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Rustlin’ up cowboy grub

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

Cowboys on chuckwagon in the late 1800s and at the beginning of the 20th century mostly ate beef, beans, biscuits, dried fruit and coffee.

Occasionally, a type of bread known as pan de campo (or “camp bread”), which was cooked on a cast-iron skillet was also available. It was sort of like a biscuit version of cornbread. These, along with a little bit of sugar, were the staples of the chuckwagon pantry.

After spring roundups in the 19th century, cowboys herded their cattle out on the trail on a cattle drive heading to a cowtown with a railroad station where the cattle could be corralled and loaded. To herd cattle on a long drive (such as Texas to Kansas) a crew of 10 or more cowboys was needed. And most ranch owners wanted their cowboys fed well so that they would stay healthy along the trail.

The crew also included a cook. But as cattle drives increased in the 1860s cooks found it harder and harder to feed the 10 to 20 men who tended the cattle. That’s when Texas-Ranger-turned-cattlerancher Charles Goodnight created the chuckwagon.

Herding cattle on the trail would often last two or more

months moving cattle miles each day, with some drives lasting up to five months.

Goodnight, knowing the importance of daily meals for his crew, had an idea. He took a surplus army wagon made

by Studebaker and added a large pantry box to the wagon rear with a hinged door that laid flat to create a work table. The cook would then have everything he needed at arms-length.

The larger pots (which included a cast-iron Dutch oven), cast-iron skillets, and utensils would be carried in a box mounted below the pantry called the boot. The Army wagon merely was a light supply wagon of that period with Goodnight’s added design creating the invention of the chuckwagon.

The cook, often known as “Cookie,” managed the wagon and performed all the needs for the campsites along the cattle drives. He was one of the most wellrespected members of the crew. Chuckwagon cookies were the lifeblood of cattle ranches that dotted the Old West frontier like a cowboy tapestry.

You might be surprised how well cowboys were fed after the chuckwagon arrived on the scene.

Chuckwagon staples had to travel well and not spoil.

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Cowboy Cookies

1/2 cup margarine 1/2 cup vegetable shortening 1 cup sugar 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups uncooked oatmeal 1 (12-ounce) package chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream margarine, shortening, sugar and brown sugar in mixer bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; mix well. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in separate bowl. Stir flour mixture into dough until combined. Add oatmeal; mix well. Fold in chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet.

Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until done. (Bake for 10 minutes for soft cookies.) Let cool on wire rack.

The list included flour, sourdough, salt, brown sugar, beans, rice, cornmeal, dried apples and peaches, baking powder, baking soda, coffee and syrup.

Fresh and dried meat were essential to the cowboy diet, providing protein and energy for their exhausting work.

Their dried meat was like modern jerky but drier, not as heavily seasoned, lightweight and nonperishable. The meat was cooked into stew, soup or added to chili beans.

Fresh beef was readily available, but cowboys also hunted wild game and fished in streams along the trail and during roundups. The cook used bacon grease to fry everything, but bacon also served as the main meat when supplies ran low.

Beans made up the bulk of a cowboy’s protein intake.

Since beans were readily available, there were loads of simple recipes that were shared along the cattle trails of the American West, including chili, mashed beans and bean soups. Cooked overnight in a Dutch oven, beans would last for many meals.

Coffee was one of the few luxuries given to cowboys on long trail rides. The enamelware coffee pot was large, holding at least 20 or more cups. Cowboys relied on coffee to keep them alert and warm in the wilderness.

The cowboys rose from their bedrolls, put on their hats and boots, and straggled over to the chuck wagon for their morning coffee.

On July 4, 1936, the

Willamette Valley town of St. Paul, Oregon held its first rodeo. Lasting four days, the rodeo included a parade, a western art show, and a barbecue cook-off. The rodeo cowboy’s fare consisted of mainly beef, with beans and sourdough bread and canned vegetables and plenty of coffee, and maybe a cowboy cookie for dessert.

They say that cowboy cookies originated back in the 1800s and were a popular treat for cowboys to enjoy while out on the trail, kind of like an old-fashioned power bar. Now, there’s little to no evidence that this is true in any way. After all, the chocolate chip cookie itself wasn’t even invented until 1938. But cowboy cookies are still a delicious treat.

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‘Biggest Little Show In The World’ started in 1910

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

For the past 79 years, nothing has derailed the Sisters Rodeo — until this year, the 80th. The cowboys and cowgirls who travel every year to Sisters the second weekend in June to compete in the rodeo, all got bucked off this year by the toughest bronc — COVID-19.

Whenever early cowboys and ranch hands gathered to socialize, some kind of contests with animals were usually involved. The first record of a rodeo in Sisters was detailed in the local history book, “That Was Yesterday” (available from the Three Sisters Historical Society).

The authors wrote, “Jesse Scott recalls a bucking contest that was held in 1910 on Fir and Adams streets. This used to be the old ball diamond. There was no corral.

The wild horse was snubbed up to the saddle of one horseman, the contestant got on the wild horse and the horse was turned loose… There was no admission charge (for spectators) and no entry charge (for participants). The spectators watched from any vantage point which they considered safest.”

In a second entry, the authors relayed a story about another early rodeo held in the vicinity of Main and Oak streets about 1922: “This rodeo was sponsored by the Commercial Club. The women of the group served dinner in the schoolhouse at noon on the day of the rodeo. This rodeo consisted of races, bucking contests and bull riding. The money raised by the dinner and the rodeo was to be spent on promoting the town of Sisters.”

Since the first formal rodeo in 1942, much about the rodeo has remained unchanged, although the location of the rodeo grounds has moved a number of times. The first two years, the rodeo was held on the Creighton place, which adjoined property that now houses the Sisters airport.

Twenty head of horses were rounded up from the wild herds roaming the countryside, and pastured at the original Black Butte Ranch, for use in bareback and wild horse riding events. Over the years, a number of local stockmen provided livestock and, nowadays, professional stock companies supply the animals.

An added feature of the second rodeo was a barbecue dinner served at noon at the rodeo grounds. In addition to the regular rodeo crowd, many Army soldiers who were on maneuvers in the

area training to enter World War II, attended both the rodeo and barbecue.

After two years on the Creighton place, a rodeo association was formed and incorporated in 1944.

Following the purchase of ground adjoining the city on the northwest (near present day Hoyt’s Hardware & Building Supply), the association and many of the local citizens did the carpentry on the grandstand and prepared the arena. Lumber for the corrals, chutes, bleachers, and 2,500 grandstand seats was donated by Maurice Hitchcock, association board member and owner of the Sisters mill. The association continued to put on shows there until 1956.

The rodeo weekends usually began with the Queen’s Ball on Friday night in the high school gymnasium when the rodeo queen was crowned. Saturday morning was the rodeo parade down Cascade Avenue. In the early years there was a horse show for locals at the rodeo grounds featuring riding skills and children’s pony races prior to the afternoon’s rodeo. Novelties included barrel races, relay races, wild-cow-milking contests and pony-express races. One highlight was the chariot races.

Rodeo clowns, some with pet donkeys and one with a chimpanzee who played in Tarzan movies, and bull fighters who entertain and protect the cowboys, have always been popular with the fans as are the special performers like the trick riders, precision equine drill teams, and the One-Armed Bandit.

A buckaroo dance was held Saturday night at the high school gym (sometimes known to get a little rowdy) followed by the Buckaroo Breakfast Sunday morning.

The rodeo program Sunday afternoon followed the same pattern as Saturday’s.

In 1955, Sisters rodeo fans were introduced to the Brahma bulls imported from Mexico. The program that year described them this way, “Brahmas are fast as deer, mean as wolves, and can jump as though their legs were a combination of springs and India rubber.”

Several years ago an evening of Xtreme Bulls was added on Wednesday night of rodeo week. There are now four rodeo performances and no organized dances.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 8138 and their Women’s Auxiliary sponsored the rodeo in 1956 and 1957 after making needed repairs and constructing new concession stands. The money made those two years went toward the purchase of the Sisters Cascade Theater.

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Some members of the 1944 Sisters Rodeo Association. Left to right: Lewis Luckenbill, Ellis Edgington, Maurice Hitchcock, Pete Leithauser, Charles Boardman and Carl Campbell.

The rodeo court and queen, usually young women in their teens and twenties, have represented the rodeo since the beginning. They are now selected based on their horsemanship, speaking ability, and presentation, whereas in the first years, the girls competed for the title by selling raffle tickets for a steer. The most tickets sold earned the queen’s crown.

One year, in 1961, the court was made up of Sisters girls 10, 11, and 12 years old.

Food has always played a role in the rodeo, including concession stands on the rodeo grounds and the Buckaroo Breakfast held on Sunday morning on the grounds. The breakfast menu over the years has consisted of fried potatoes, ham and

bacon, hotcakes, eggs and coffee. For a number of years, Ellis Edgington’s pioneer pan bread was always served. In the 1940s and early ’50s, buffalo steak or buffalo burgers were on the menu.

With new governmental regulations and the need for costly improvements to the grounds, the decision was made to sell the property with the grandstands and all the buildings. Not wanting to see their rodeo disappear, the citizens of Sisters reorganized, with Homer Shaw as the president of a new rodeo association. For several years in the late 1970s, the rodeo was held on private property with borrowed bleachers and temporary fences. Finally, in 1979, the rodeo found its

permanent home on 33 acres purchased from Carl and Virginia Campbell who were 1940 original rodeo association members.

From the very beginning, the planning and execution of the rodeo has always been conducted by a large cadre of local volunteers. To this day, the rodeo is known far and wide as “the biggest little show in the world” because the rodeo purse is the largest one in the country offered on the second weekend of June, making it popular with the best rodeo contestants.

For a town of less than 3,000 residents, that’s an accomplishment — with deep roots going back 80 years.

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Sisters Rodeo enters the big leagues

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

The rodeo of 1980 marked the beginning of the modern era in the history of Sisters Rodeo, as they opened their new permanent rodeo grounds, four miles southeast of town off Highway 20. That year there were three rodeo shows, rather than the two of the early days, with an addition of a Friday night performance, which allowed 5,000 more people to experience the excitement of rodeo.

They still had both Friday and Saturday night dances at the elementary school gymnasium as well as the Buckaroo Breakfast on Sunday morning, the wild horse race, and the wild animal scramble.

Rabbits and chickens were released in the arena to be captured by the children.

They were allowed to keep the animals they captured.

The arena had been purchased three years earlier at cost by Sisters’ John Leavitt, long time team and calf roper and proprietor of the then Leavitt’s Western Wear store. Leavitt in turn sold the arena equipment to the rodeo association, with his being paid out of revenue generated from the “Biggest Little Show in the World.” Leavitt went on to serve as Rodeo Association president in 1990 and ’91 and again in 1997 and ’98.

The entire spring of 1980, right up to rodeo weekend, work parties were held every Saturday, starting at 8 a.m., in order to finish the construction of the arena fence.

That first rodeo on the permanent grounds set a high bar for all the years to follow.

They enjoyed near perfect weather and arena in perfect condition. Record crowds attended each day with standing room only on Saturday and Sunday. Contestants from

all over the United States competed for about $20,000 in prize money.

From 1980 forward, success seemed to breed success as the rodeo kept growing in prestige and recognition. In the early 1980s, Sisters joined the International Professional Rodeo Association. World champions in the IPRA competed every year in Sisters.

By that point, the Sisters Rodeo Association had about 60 members and an experienced group of volunteers.

The year 1988, the first time Glenn Miller served as association president, the association attained the big prize — acceptance of membership in the highly soughtafter Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association — where they joined the likes of St. Paul and Pendleton rodeos.

This distinction was an indication of the impressive reputation Sisters had built over 50 years of quality rodeo.

Since that time the association has continued to improve the quality of the physical rodeo grounds.

The land near the entrance gate to the grounds has been meticulously manicured to provide shaded areas of lawn where contestants are able to camp with their horses and motorhomes.

Not that long ago, the Plaza Level seats were added directly above the chutes providing an eagle’s eye view of the contestants and animals.

“Miller’s Place” provides food and drink on the Plaza.

A fourth rodeo performance on Saturday night was added and about six years ago they added the Wednesday night Extreme Bulls show.

The current available seating capacity is in the neighborhood of 7,200 since the construction of the Plaza Level seats.

In 2009, Sisters Rodeo, as a member of the Columbia

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Glenn Miller, center, served many years as Sisters Rodeo Association President and has been a guiding force in making the Sisters Rodeo “The Biggest Little Show in the World.”

River Circuit of rodeos throughout the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, was recognized as the Rodeo of the Year.

It has also been featured in The New York Times and on The Late Show with David Letterman, as well as numerous local programs.

The quality of the rodeo stock procured, and the size of the purses offered every year by the Sisters Rodeo, attracts the best in the sport.

The Rodeo offers the richest purse in the nation for the second weekend in June and the second highest in the nation for the entire month of June. World champions return to our small town year after year.

With nearly 200 dedicated members who support the rodeo in numerous meaningful and necessary ways, the Sisters Rodeo Association from its earliest days forward

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A dedicated all-volunteer association handles every chore, from maintaining the Rodeo grounds to actually managing the big event.

has been a valuable member of the community by promoting Sisters and the rodeo, making Sisters a destination that attracts visitors again and again — visitors who eat in our restaurants, stay in our lodging, and shop in our stores.

In addition to the members and volunteers, a great deal of credit for the continued success of the rodeo over the last 80 years is owed to the dedicated leadership of rodeo presidents and board members and their passion for the rodeo. Glenn Miller, local contractor, has faithfully served the rodeo for 40 years, 20 years as the board president from 1999-2019 and two previous years as president in 1988 and ’89.

The former association president cited the

opportunity to meet so many interesting people whom he really enjoyed and respected as one of the reasons for his longevity with the association.

“What I did with the rodeo was so far away from my everyday construction business, it was a nice change,” he said.

Miller credits the continued success of the rodeo to the continuity of members, volunteers, and leadership, allowing the whole organization to run like a well-oiled machine.

The rodeo’s absence from this year’s summer calendar will leave a big hole in Sisters, but no one doubts the organization’s resilience.

The community will be back for the 80th Sisters Rodeo June 9-13, 2021!

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Film will capture life and legacy of buckaroo artist

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

“I learned to draw as soon as I could hold a pencil,” Len Babb The Nugget last year.

“My father taught me how to paint a horse when I was about six or seven.”

Len Babb’s life as a Western artist and buckaroo will be turned into a documentary film — at the hands of a crew of Sisters artists.

Sisters writer Craig Rullman conceived of the project, which carries the working title, “Running Iron: The Len Babb Story.” Rullman will write and direct; Sam Pyke of Hill Shadow Pictures will film the piece, which will have a soundtrack created by Mike Biggers and Jim Cornelius.

Rullman and Pyke headed down to the Murphy Ranch in Paisley to begin filming last weekend. They are initially working on a trailer that will act as a vehicle to raise funds to complete the project.

“I’m trying to put out a culturally significant documentary film that reflects the life of a big-outfit cowboy who’s also an accomplished artist,” Rullman said.

Rullman worked for several years as a buckaroo on big horseback outfits in northern Nevada, and he feels a strong connection with Babb and his art. “(Babb is) just a good man, whose life is very quiet, very calm and very productive on a lot of fronts,” Rullman said. “I think it has value, especially in an era that is so partisan, so divided. Len’s work transcends all of that.”

He believes that Babb’s story “fits beautifully in the tradition of Teddy Blue Abbott and Charley Russell.”

Sisters has played host to several of Babb’s one-man art shows, organized by his nephew Lance Richardson and his wife Rebecca, who own and operate Richardson Log Homes in Sisters.

Rebecca Richardson told The Nugget that she and the whole family are very excited about the project.

“Craig is a gift to Len in so many ways,” she said.

The two men have a strong camaraderie and share a passion for the landscape and the buckaroo life.

“There’s nobody I’ve ever known that would be more perfect for doing this for and about (Len),” Richardson said. “I just think he’s the perfect man for the job — and I think he’ll take so much pleasure out of it, too, which makes it even more special….

The season of Len’s life is also timing-perfect for a project such as this.”

Rullman and his team are actively raising funds for the project. A GoFundMe campaign can be accessed at https://www.gofundme.com/f/

len-babb-movie-project.

“I had a guy come and stick a check on my truck window, which was kinda cool,” Rullman said.

The Richardsons are providing a Len Babb print for donors of $100 and are working on a special reward for contributions of $500 or more. (Direct donations to Figure 8 Films may also be dropped off at The Nugget.)

“You can’t make a movie of any quality on the cheap,” Rullman acknowledged.

Quality is what he’s after.

“I want to debut this thing at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada,” he said.

“That’s its true home.”

The film will feature Austin-based photographer John Langmore, who produced the book “Open Range: America’s Big-Outfit Cowboy” (Twin Palms Publishers 2018); Sisters author and Western Heritage Wrangler Award-winner Larry Len Peterson; and five-time PRCA World Champion steer wrestler Luke Branquinho.

“It’s always guys like Len that rodeo cowboys tip their hat (to),” Rullman noted.

Rullman first met Babb

when he was asked to interview him for a story in The Nugget.

“I really wanted to go meet him,” Rullman recalled. “It was a big honor to meet him.

And it just so happened that we really hit it off.”

Rullman’s artistic ventures have generally centered around the written word, although he has always had an interest in photography.

He decided that he wanted to tell Babb’s story in film because the art and landscape lend themselves to a visual medium. And he wants as many people as possible to meet Len Babb.

“I think it presents an opportunity to reach a wider audience,” he said. “More people are watching films than reading books.”

Rullman is excited to bring a diverse array of Sistersbased talent together to fulfill the vision.

“I like pulling things together and building teams,” he said.

The key member of the team is Pyke. The cinematographer and producer grew up in Sisters and has built an impressive portfolio

IMAGE COURTESY LEN BABB

Len Babb’s art evokes the classic era of the American Cowboy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. of outdoor films through Rullman said. his company Hill Shadow Filming will take place on Pictures (www.hillshadowpic- the ranches where Len Babb tures.com). continues to work on horse“Having a guy with that back even into his 70s, and in kind of background and expe- the spaces where he displays rience is just irreplaceable,” his Western art.

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Rodeo is sport, entertainment, cultural heritage rolled into one Rodeo is a unique sporting culture. It’s not a game with a winner and a loser, and the contestants have to pay entry fees and are only paid with prize money for placing successfully. It’s not an invented ball game — the events that a rodeo is comprised of evolved out of everyday work activities of ranch hands and drovers, and part of rodeo’s purpose is to honor and preserve that ranching legacy.

And the entertainment component — a rodeo clown and intermission specialty acts — are a major part of the action.

As the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association lays it out: “Professional rodeo action consists of two types of competitions — roughstock events and timed events — and an all-around cowboy crown. Each competition has its own set of rodeo rules and order of events.”

In the roughstock events — bareback riding, saddle bronc riding and bull riding — contestants are scored by judges. The rider’s performance and the animal’s performance are equally important. As PRCA notes: “To earn a qualified score, the cowboy, while using only one hand, must stay aboard a bucking horse or bull for eight seconds. If the rider touches the animal, himself or

any of his equipment with his free hand, he is disqualified.

The timed events are steer wrestling, team roping, tiedown roping, barrel racing and steer roping; cowboys and cowgirls compete against the clock, and against each other.

Many of the events can clearly trace their lineage to practical ranching practices, like roping or working the kinks out of a cranky horse (see related story, page 14).

Others owe their existence to the wild, daredevil spirit of the young men who turned the cowboy into an American icon.

Steer wrestling is a little wild, but bullriding is just plain crazy.

As PRCA notes: “Bull riding, which is intentionally climbing on the back of a 2,000-pound bull, emerged from the fearless and possibly foolhardy nature of the cowboy. The risks are obvious. Serious injury is always a possibility for those fearless enough to sit astride an animal that literally weighs a ton and is usually equipped with dangerous horns. Regardless, cowboys do it, fans love it and bull riding ranks as one of rodeo’s most popular events.”

In fact, bull riding is so popular that in recent years, the Sisters Rodeo has added a

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Bull riding is perhaps rodeo’s most popular event — spinning off stand-alone competitions.

Wednesday night event titled XTreme Bulls dedicated solely to watching cowboys trying to stay aboard for a few seconds as a ton of muscle and attitude bucks and spins in the dirt of the Sisters Rodeo arena.

It’s not an even competition: There are some sessions where not one rider stays on a bull for eight seconds. And that’s part of what makes it all so exciting.

While nothing rocks the arena like bull riding, for some folks the true essence of rodeo is in watching the teamwork of horse and rider in the

roping events. Team roping is a ballet of header and heeler.

Tie-down rewards perfect timing and coordination.

“A cowboy’s success in tie-down roping depends in large part on the precise teamwork between him and his horse,” PRCA notes. “The calf receives a head start that is determined by the length of the arena. One end of a breakaway rope barrier is looped around the calf’s neck and stretched across the open end of the box. When the calf reaches its advantage point, the barrier is released. If the roper breaks the barrier before

the calf reaches its head start, the cowboy is assessed a 10-second penalty.”

A cowboy has to be quick on his feet to get to the calf, then dexterous and quick in getting it tied down securely.

The horse has to keep the rope taut so the calf can’t slip it.

Sisters Rodeo has hosted legendary ropers like Hall-ofFamers Joe Beaver and Fred Whitfield showing the speed, grace and equestrian teamwork that makes rodeo events special — and keeps people coming back to Sisters to see it all unfold again.

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Jim Bickers riding Billy Be Damned at 1948 Sisters Rodeo.

Photo sparks memory of ‘outlaw horse’ The photo on page 2 of The Nugget in the March 27 edition sparked a memory for the Goodwin family of Sisters.

The photo depicted saddle bronc rider Jim Bickers coming off of a horse named Billy Be Damned during the 1948 Sisters Rodeo.

An alert reader thought that horse once belonged to Ted Goodwin. His son Jim confirmed it.

“With the picture blown up, it was easy for Dad to recognize his old mount,” Jim Goodwin reported. “Dad was hoping the left side of Billy’s face would have been visible because there was an L7 brand on his jaw. Dad said some horses which were branded on the jaw became ‘foolish about the head,’ but that was not the case with Billy Be Damned.

“Here’s the story as best as Dad could recall it: A classmate owed a third party $18 and gave Dad Billy Be Damned, and Dad made some arrangement to pay the third party the $18. Dad was working on the Melvin Weberg ranch in Suplee for $1.50 a day at the time. It was 1939.

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“Dad left Billy and all his tack with his dad when he went to The University of Oregon in 1940. His dad promptly sold Billy Be Damned and the tack, ostensibly to the local rodeo stock contractor who was well known in the Upper Country as the guy who would buy ‘outlaw horses.’”

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Top left, DeVere Helfrich; right, Cody Rheault; bottom left, Jerry Baldock with J.J. Harrison.

HATS OFF TO RODEO PHOTOGRAPHERS! Rodeo photography requires a good eye and a steady nerve to capture explosive action in the arena. The Nugget’s coverage of the Sisters Rodeo — including this heritage edition — would not be possible without the contributions of ace rodeo photographers, including the historic work of the Dean of Rodeo Photographers DeVere Helfrich and his wife and partner Helen. For many years, Gary Miller was a key contributor and we also tip our hat to Jerry Baldock and Cody Rheault.

The Nugget Newspaper brings “A Tribute to The Biggest Little Show in the World, Sisters Rodeo” with financial support from the City of Sisters and Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce, and participating advertisers. Historical photographs and data generously provided by Three Sisters Historical Society. And thanks to photographers Jerry Baldock and Cody Rheault for amazing photos from their archives.

LETTERS

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who also happened to have only one arm.

Change of plans. I excused myself to the other ushers and led these two to another gate close to where Mr. Payne’s trailer was parked. She was explaining to me that her son was just finishing his first year of school. It had been so rough because of the way the kids were treating him that he said he never wanted to go back to school.

John was in his tack room still catching his breath, but without hesitation, he came out, introduced himself with a big, warm smile that I will never forget, and sat down on the step of the trailer so he could talk to the boy face to face. As John was explaining what he had been through, there was such empathy and compassion that the boy’s mother and I were in tears. She was squeezing my arm (and for days there was a slight bruise — which I didn’t mind at all).

This little guy went from sad and defeated, sharing his stories of all the bullying, to smiling and hopeful…

When they were done John pulled out an eightby-10-inch color photo, autographed it with a lovely personal note of encouragement, and as he wrote a phone number on it he said, “this is my cell number which very few people in the world have, and it is for you to call anytime day or night if you want to talk.”

I was so impressed. There were no cameras, no audience, just a world-class man making a young boy’s day, and quite possibly changing his future.

Still gives me goose bumps.

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Also, I so appreciate Wendie Vermillion’s very thoughtful and well-said Letter to the Editor that expresses, among other things, concerns I, too, have about those times I need to shop for necessities and be among “the public.” I think we need to take this COVID-19 pandemic seriously and, much as it’s a bother and can feel like an infringement on our personal rights in this free country, adhere to the precautions and mandates we’ve been given.

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To the Editor: Governor Andrew Cuomo’s almost-daily admonition to his New York citizens is: “Wear a mask.

It’s the smart and right thing to do.” With the tragic worldwide pandemic virus ever present among us, this admonition clearly applies to the citizens of the Sisters community.

This responsibility is all the more needed while patronizing our local stores which have the good fortune of remaining open for business during this crisis. However, during numerous visits to some of our local merchants these past days, it has been distressful and agonizing to observe the cavalier attitude of some of these merchants and their helpers failing to wear any kind of face covering.

I am disdainful of confrontation and have restrained from a polite comment asking them to be responsible and wear a mask. These merchants should realize the mask is for their protection and for the protection their customers. Further, we have a sizable senior citizen population whose vulnerability is exacerbated by this thoughtless type of conduct. To our much needed and hard working merchants of Sisters: Don those masks!

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To the Editor: I am putting in a plea to the Chamber of Commerce to quickly organize some kind of July 4th parade through downtown Sisters with all the trappings of a Rodeo parade and more.

We need some kind of celebration during this period of time. Everything of any fun has been canceled.

Let’s not give up on fun for young and old alike.

We need the stimulation and the merchants need business.

This will just be for us Sisters folks not for the tourists.

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GRADUATES: Resilient Sisters folks adapt and overcome Continued from page 3

and beyond, Bidasolo is often running a very busy schedule with a full class load, a football ambassador position with the Oregon Duck Football team, and many other extracurricular activities.

“The social piece of school is huge for me, and it’s been a mental struggle to accept that that has been stripped away,” said Bidasolo.

Bidasolo is trying to keep up with having some sort of structured schedule to her day to cope with the change being home.

“I’ve learned that I have to continue to use my Google calendar and figure out a balance to not work on school all day and take breaks,” she said.

Bidasolo believes that after this period of isolation, it will be interesting to see what the system will look like.

LOTTERY: Keno 8-Spot did the trick for Sisters woman Continued from page 3

and I thought, ‘Oh, this is not good; I’ve only won $6.’ All my numbers came up and I said ‘Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!’ Then I wasn’t sure it was really real. I wasn’t sure I’d really won it.”

But win it she did, which was verified at Sisters Mainline Station the next day, where the clerk exclaimed “It was you?!”

Hewitt claimed her prize after making an appointment with the Oregon Lottery. The Oregon Lottery offices in Salem are still closed pending guidance from Gov. Kate Brown.

Her first stop after claiming her prize at the Oregon Lottery headquarters was Joann Fabrics in Salem for more mask-making supplies.

“My masks are popular, and I want to keep making them – and maybe some other things,” she said.

As for the funds, Hewitt plans to be conservative.

“It’s my retirement,” said the 65-year-old, who recently divorced. “I might buy a little camper so I can go camping and have a little fun.”

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“Hopefully after this time, we can assess what is truly necessary in education and the value of professor’s and student’s time,” said Bidasolo.

Bidasolo has had extra time to reflect on the life she led while in Eugene and feels an immense sense of gratitude.

“I ran at 100 mph during school in Eugene, with school and meetings and socializing, and now I am able to sit and relax and breathe and appreciate that way of doing things, but also slow down and be cautious about what I add back into my schedule because I can’t continue to work that pace,” she said.

Bidasolo plans to continue her work as a football ambassador even with an altered football season.

She is also continuing her work as executive director of Youth Movement, developed by the University of Oregon’s Warsaw Sports Business Club, whose mission is “to ignite a generation to be active, motivated and

connected to the power of community.”

It is a field day event for Native American youth, which this year went virtual to raise funds for COVID-19 relief in native communities.

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Bidasolo wants to keep busy during this time, but also take time to be with her family and slow down and lighten up the crazy schedule she had kept during school.

College students around the world are feeling the effects of COVID-19 in different ways, but these Sisters High School graduates, now college students, are finding ways to adapt and embrace this time before exiting college into the great big world.

These students, through their own adaptation and coping mechanisms, are learning things about themselves and their ways of life and what’s truly important — insight that will have an effect on how they conduct themselves in the future.

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“As a staff we pictured this day as being a day that they could at least drive through, see people and wave and say goodbye in some fashion,” she said. “As a parent I am really glad they got this opportunity along with the upcoming graduation ceremony at the rodeo grounds.”

High school teacher Kristy Rawls said, “Once again it’s the amazing contact and relationships that we have with our students that are so important,” she said.

“I think the seniors appreciated it and it made me equally happy.”

Senior Addiegrace Schutte said, “It was cool to see everyone and made me realize how much we actually missed school.”

Science teacher Rima Givot is mother to graduating senior George Chladek.

She said, “I think this was an opportunity to make a celebration out of getting the kids their certificates and collecting their items in a fun, informal way.

Just watching their faces it looked like the kids were

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really happy and excited to see people and they seemed pleasantly surprised. It was so cool that the elementary and middle school staff joined in as well.”

Due to Covid-19 restrictions the class of 2020 will have a unique commencement ceremony Friday, June 12 at the Sisters Rodeo grounds. The one-of-a-kind ceremony will take place at the Sisters Rodeo grounds at 7 p.m.

We continue to do what we can to honor the class of 2020.

— Principal Joe Hosang The plans for the drive-in ceremony, in which graduates and their guests will remain in their cars, are being finalized, according to Hosang. Unlike normal years, the live event will be limited to seniors and their guests—just two cars per graduate, but audio will be broadcast on FM radio 104.7 and the event will be posted online following the ceremony.

“We continue to do what we can to honor the class of 2020,” Hosang said.

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BANNERS: Community stepping up for 2020 grads Continued from page 1

project has been in the works for about a month, and the banner project fundraiser officially kicked off Monday, June 1, with an online Go Fund Me campaign and a goal to raise $1,600.

C4C, the City, SHS, students, parents and others are collaborating with the goal to gift each graduating senior with a keepsake banner.

Organizers envision the festive, cheering effect of having more than 100 banners —one for each senior — flying from lampposts throughout downtown Sisters on or around Graduation Day, June 12.

Banners are set to feature students’ first names and photographs. After they are displayed, the banners will be offered to the graduates as keepsakes.

C4C’s youth board member, Olivia Bertagna, first suggested the project as a way to boost community spirit and recognize local students during what has been a difficult period.

“COVID-19 has taken so much away from local students,” said Bertagna, a junior at Sisters High School. She said the senior class especially has missed out on many once-in-a-lifetime activities.

“This project will show the seniors their community loves and supports them through this time. It gives them something new to be excited about.

We really want to give them and the whole community something to celebrate,” Bertagna said.

Bertagna joined the C4C team this past winter. As youth board member, her goal has been to find ways to strengthen ties between students and the greater community.

She had seen the banner idea implemented well in Sweet Home. Bertagna said she was inspired by that and further encouraged by C4C’s

recent Let’s Talk! discussions, where the focus has been on finding ways to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19 and to help people, businesses and community morale in general.

C4C has donated $1,250 as seed money toward the project, which will cost about $2,850 in total. The project team hopes to raise the additional $1,600 this week. Any donation amount is welcome, and donations are 100 percent tax deductible.

“This type of fundraiser unites us as a community as we come together to honor our senior class,” said Bertagna.

“I hope to see the community want to help and to give the seniors something special as their high school experience wraps up.”

The fundraising campaign can be found online at Go Fund Me under the title: “Sisters High School 2020 Graduate Banners.” Any money raised beyond the $1,600 goal will be set aside for future collaborative projects with the high school.

For its banner project, Sweet Home was able to fund-raise around $3,000 within days, Bertagna said.

She and other organizers are hoping for a similar community response in Sisters.

Organizers have reason to be optimistic, Bertagna said, noting response to project outreach efforts has been very positive. “Everyone seems truly thrilled that the community is working on this for the students. And students are eager to see the banners hung up.”

“We all want to help offer our Class of 2020 a warmhearted community send-off,” added C4C board member Amy Burgstahler.

“We think of our local graduates as the ultimate expression of ‘Made in Sisters.’ We’re glad to have them representing our hometown as they go out and take on the next chapters of their lives.”

Bertagna and Burgstahler both also serve on the Sisters Country Vision I m p l e m e n t a t i o n Te a m .

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Visioning process included an informal survey of soonto-be graduates. While most students said they planned to leave after graduation, they also hoped to return to live in Sisters within 10 years.

“This banner project is an investment in that possible future,” Burgstahler said. “It’s one small way to say not only, ‘Hey, Congratulations!’ but also: ’Yes, please do come back home to Sisters!’”

Usually Sisters Rodeo banners fly on street poles

this time of year. But with the rodeo canceled, the rodeo offered its banner space to the Class of 2020.

“We really appreciate the rodeo’s support,” said Burgstahler.

SHS Principal Joe Hosang, Registrar Lynne Fendall (also a Class of 2020 parent) and yearbook advisor Susie Seaney are among the many community members who have offered valuable support. And the City’s Public Works crew has volunteered to install the banners.

Bertagna and Burgstahler said several people have suggested that Sisters repeat the High School banner project every year — that maybe this project marks the start of an annual tradition. It would take another good collaboration, Burgstahler said, noting that access to banner space will be different when next year’s summer events resume.

“But it’s definitely a great cause—honoring our hometown students—so maybe the community can find a way to

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Olivia Bertagna originated the banner project.

make that happen in 2021.”

As a nice bonus to that idea, she added: “Then we could make a banner to honor Olivia. She’s a Class of 2021 student, and without her this year’s banner project would not have happened.”

(Note: If donors would prefer to send in a check for the banner fundraiser, they can mail it to: Citizens4Community, P.O. Box 2193, Sisters, OR, 97759.

Put “Banner Project” in the memo section. For more about the nonprofit C4C, visit citizens4community.com).

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look like for the Sisters Folk Festival, including requiring face coverings, lowering overall venue capacities to allow for social distancing, eliminating indoor venues and increased sanitation measures.

Even with those modifications in place, there is no guarantee that statewide restrictions won’t be reimposed if there is a significant increase in COVID-19 cases in Oregon over the next weeks and months.

“Lots of our people travel here from outside of the area, including the performing artists. They need to know, with certainty, what is happening with the festival this fall,” said SFF executive director Crista Munro.

“Unfortunately, certainty is something that no one can provide right now. We know that this news is very disappointing, and we had hoped to not have to deliver it, but the well-being of our entire community is our primary concern. It’s clear that no matter how much we want to have a festival this September, the scientific and medical community doesn’t yet understand enough about how this disease is spread for us to safely bring a lot of people together with confidence.

“We don’t even know for sure what phase of opening our state will be in four months from now; it all depends on how these first few weeks of re-opening go.

I think people will understand that we held off on making this call for as long as we could, hoping for a

RESTAURANTS: Patrons will need patience for restrictions Continued from page 1

“It was great being open but a little scary,” Rickards said. “We value our community so much and are trying to be so careful. We were learning the guidelines and wanted to keep people safe.”

She added, “We are just beginning to see our regulars coming back, and they have been hugely supportive. We feel fortunate that we have the extra spaces to expand outside at this time of year.

Our biggest goal right now is how to care for our community whether it’s take out or dine in. What we are planning is a take-out menu for those who still don’t feel safe dining out.”

For the month of June, The Open Door will be open Wednesday through Saturday,

breakthrough that would allow us to proceed with the festival.”

Creative Director Brad Tisdel added, “Each year we carefully curate a festival lineup that includes musical and cultural diversity. With 40-plus musical acts coming from all over the country and world, it’s clear we can’t make the 2020 festival happen as planned. I’m currently working with agents and artists to bring this lineup to next year’s festival, with all the collaboration and musical alchemy coming together to create an extraordinary experience. We look forward to celebrating it with you in 2021 and thank you for your support and belief in Sisters Folk Festival.”

Munro told The Nugget that the Festival is working on plans to provide live music on a small scale in a way that conforms to guidelines for the prevention of the spread of COVID-19.

Last month, the Festival sent out the Sisters Folk Festival Bandwagon, featuring local musicians touring local neighborhoods while playing music on a flatbed trailer towed by a truck. Plans will be announced as they are firmed up.

Sisters Folk Festival is still planning to have some type of event over the September 11-13 weekend, most likely a livestreamed program with a small live audience if state guidelines allow it.

Tickets to this year’s festival will be automatically rolled over to the 2021 event, unless the purchaser elects to get a festival loyalty package; to donate their ticket purchase price to Sisters Folk Festival, a nonprofit organization; or requests a refund by June 30.

For more information visit www.sistersfolkfestival.org.

We value our community so much and are trying to be so careful. We were learning the guidelines and wanted to keep people safe.

— Julia Rickards with a slightly smaller menu with all the favorites.

As the gradual reopening of the county’s dine-in services rolled in on May 15, some restaurant employees and managers expressed concerns about patron complaints regarding restrictions.

The Gallery restaurant employee Tammy Kirshner said that some guests are frustrated having to wait a little longer to get seated.

“They have to wait until See RESTAURANTS on page 30

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Full kitchen, wood-burning readers are hereby informed that all Pics will be on the website utilities. Unit B: One bedroom, stove, electric lights. Fully dwellings advertised in this before the auction starts. one-bathroom ADU, 528 sq. ft. newspaper are available on an equal furnished. Cabin updates opportunity basis. To complain of – Hosted by Happy Trails – with luxury fixtures and completed in summer of 2018 discrimination call HUD toll-free at appliances, outdoor parking Happy Trails Estate Sales!

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Call Lori at 541-549-7132 placed in the Public Notice section Affordable Rental Criteria for Sliding windows. Burgundy.

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Copies $300. Call 541-549-6337. rate.

CASCADE STORAGE DEADLINE: MONDAY, noon (541) 549-1086 • (877) 540-1086 will be provided to each applicant 401 Horses preceding WED. publication. when applying.

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VISA & experienced rider and grew up Full details, 24 hrs./day, go to: MasterCard accepted.

Billing Ground-floor suite, 290 sq. ft. riding in Camp Sherman and I PonderosaProperties.com available for continuously run 581 N Larch St. Available now, am looking for a good trail horse.

Printed list at 221 S. Ash, Sisters classified ads, after prepayment of $325/month. Call 541-549-1086.

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Ponderosa Properties LLC first four (4) weeks and upon SNO CAP MINI STORAGE approval of account application.

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

701 Domestic Services 702 Sewing 703 Child Care 704 Events & Event Services 801 Classes & Training 802 Help Wanted 803 Work Wanted 901 Wanted 902 Personals 999 Public Notice

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NOTICE – CUSTOM OF PUBLICHOUSE CARE – HEARING TLC for your Home. Let us Notice is herebysparkle given thatyour the house for City ofa Sisters fresh Planning start! Call to schedule an Commission immaculate will conduct ahome cleaning. public hearing Emilee at Sisters Stoery, City 541-588-0345 Hall, 520customhousecare@earthlink.net E. Cascade Avenue, Sisters, OR 97759 on June 18, Help 2020 at 5:30 p.m.802 regarding the Wanted Part time secretarial, applications listed below.

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Prior to and the clean driving schedule public hearing, written$15/hr. comments541-410-0722. record. may be provided to Sisters City TAKING APPLICATIONS for Hall at 520energetic, E. Cascade Avenue, dependable persons Sisters (mailing address PO or couples to Box clean Black Butte 39, Sisters, OR 97759) or and condos now Ranch homes emailed to nmardell@ through September. ci.sisters.or.us.

Comments should Experience preferred but will be directedtrain; towardexcellent the criteriapay. Year-round that apply at to this partrequest time and is possible for the must reference the file number.Must be able to right person(s).

Public comments will continue and to provide your work weekends be received until the official own transportation. Call Darcy record isorclosed but must be Brenda at 541-549-5555 ext 2. submitted by June 10, 2020 in Wanted: Property Manager order to be included in the staff Assistant. Assist in management report. A copy of the application, of several vacation homes at all documents and evidence Black Butte Ranch. Must be able submitted by or for the applicant, work weekends and holidays. and the applicable criteria and Schedule is somewhat flexible, standards can be reviewed at especially between October – Sisters City Hall at no cost and May. Starts at $15/hr. Call copies are available at a Brenda or Darcy at reasonable cost. A copy of the 541-549-5555 ext. 2.

City’s staff report and recommendation 999 to the hearings Public Notice body will be available for review Have you received someone at no cost at least seven days else's mail in your PO Box or before the hearing, and paper street address? Our letter carriers copies can be produced on do their best, but sometimes request for a reasonable cost. mistakes are made. Our office Due to COVID-19 and required represents some Sisters-area social distancing measures, the individuals who have lost City will make important PERS benefits because accommodations for remote notices from PERS never reached participation and strongly them. If you have received encourages all interested misdirected mail, please contact parties to participate remotely. our office at kim@wiserlaw.com Meeting access information will or 503-620-5577. Thank you. be posted on the City Council REQUEST agenda on June 11, 2020FOR and PROPOSALS CITY FORESTER can be found on https://www.

The City of Sisters is soliciting ci.sisters.or.us/meetings.

Request forwillProposals (RFP) for a Written comments be City Forester to provide Urban accepted via drop off to the Forestry Advisory Services to utility payment box at City City staff and the City’s Urban Hall, 520 E Cascade Avenue, Forestry Board (UFB).

Sisters prior to June 18, 4 p.m.

Responding HEARING DATE: June 18,firms/individuals shall be certified by the Society 2020, 5:30 PM of American FILE NUMBER(S): EXT 19-03Foresters as a Certified Forester and/or certified APPLICANT/ as an Arborist by the PROPERTY OWNER: Peter International Thomas, Citrus Development Society of Arboriculture (ISA) or the LLC National Association.

SITE LOCATION: 704Arborists W. PROPOSAL SUBMITTAL & Hood Avenue, Sisters, OR 97759 DUE DATE TAX MAP AND LOT: Respondents shall provide six 151008AA00800 hard copies of their proposal REQUEST: Request to extend clearly marked as “CITY OF approval period for 11-lot SISTERS CITY FORESTER subdivision and 10 detached PROPOSAL” by 2 p.m. on lodging units approved through June 9, 2020, to: SUB 16-02, SP 16-07.

Kerry Prosser, City Recorder Applicable Criteria, Standards, City of Sisters and Procedures: Sisters 520 East Avenue Development Code: ChapterCascade 4.1 PO Box 39 (Types of Applications and Review Procedures),Sisters, Chapter OR 97759 FOR MORE 4.2.700 (Site Plan Review INFORMATION, please visit the Approval Period, Expiration, andCity of Sisters website Extension), Chapter 4.2.300 at https:// www.ci.sisters.or.us/.

RFPs are (Land Divisions Approval located under the Business tab at Process). the top of website.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the City of Sisters Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing at Sisters City Hall, 520 E. Cascade Avenue, Sisters, OR 97759 on June 18, 2020 at 5:30 p.m. regarding the applications listed below. Public oral or written testimony is invited. The hearing will be held according to SDC Chapter 4.1 and the rules of procedure adopted by the Council and available at City Hall. Prior to the public hearing, written comments may be provided to Sisters City Hall at 520 E. Cascade Avenue, Sisters (mailing address PO Box 39, Sisters, OR 97759) or emailed to nmardell@ ci.sisters.or.us. Comments should be directed toward the criteria that apply to this request and must reference the file number.

Public comments will continue to be received until the official record is closed but must be submitted by June 10, 2020 in order to be included in the staff report. A copy of the application, all documents and evidence submitted by or for the applicant, and the applicable criteria and standards can be reviewed at Sisters City Hall at no cost and copies are available at a reasonable cost. A copy of the City’s staff report and recommendation to the hearings body will be available for review at no cost at least seven days before the hearing, and paper copies can be produced on request for a reasonable cost.

Due to COVID-19 and required social distancing measures, the City will make accommodations for remote participation and strongly encourages all interested parties to participate remotely.

Meeting access information will be posted on the City Council agenda on June 11, 2020 and can be found on https://www. ci.sisters.or.us/meetings.

Written comments will be accepted via drop off to the utility payment box at City Hall, 520 E Cascade Avenue, Sisters prior to June 18, 4 p.m.

HEARING DATE: June 18, 2020, 5:30 PM FILE NUMBER(S): EXT 19-03 APPLICANT/ PROPERTY OWNER: Peter Thomas, Citrus Development LLC SITE LOCATION: 704 W. Hood Avenue, Sisters, OR 97759 TAX MAP AND LOT: 151008AA00800 REQUEST: Request to extend approval period for 11-lot subdivision and 10 detached lodging units approved through SUB 16-02, SP 16-07.

Applicable Criteria, Standards, and Procedures: Sisters Development Code: Chapter 4.1 (Types of Applications and Review Procedures), Chapter 4.2.700 (Site Plan Review Approval Period, Expiration, and Extension), Chapter 4.2.300 (Land Divisions Approval Process).

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we disinfect everything and there is limited seating that goes with social distancing.”

Manager Mike Andrusco mentioned they opened Memorial Day Weekend and patrons are slowly coming back in.

“It’s been wonderful to see all their faces, although they can’t see mine,” Andrusco said, chuckling. “Our locals have been coming out and showing us support. We are running a limited menu of our top sellers. Right now, it’s 21 and older, and we will expand our hours and seating with time as permitted and are continuing to complete our remodeling to offer the best experience we can for guests.”

Some local restaurants have delayed reopening dining rooms during Phase I. Takoda’s Restaurant and Lounge manager Kyle Harbick noted that they should be open soon.

“We are getting ready to be able to stick to the governor’s guidelines and regulations but are mainly finishing up some projects,” Harbick explained. “When we reopen, we will have a full menu but no salad bar. Our regulars have been awesome and are excited about getting out on our patio to eat.”

The dining room and bar in Chops Bistro has been empty since mid-March.

Prior to shutdown, owner Tracy Syanovitz said business was up 84 percent from last year’s numbers.

“We opened on May 15.

Business was good Friday and Saturday,” she said. “The rest of week, not so busy.

We do have the same chef and same employees. This is going to be a challenge with the same amount of staff, but with limited business. Right now, due to eight weeks of shutdown and limited numbers reopening, I am down 15 percent from last year.”

She added, “I think what will help business this summer, due to limited seating, will be my outside seating.

Last night, I had one table in the dining room and a full porch. Tables are six feet apart and people feel safer in an outdoor setting. The menu is the same, and we are going to expand bar food next week, due to a renovation taking place in kitchen.”

Chops will be having live entertainment again but keeping strict with volume in the lounge area to keep within the regulations.

People are excited to be back at dine in restaurants, even if it is with a new normal.

“The amount of supportive feedback that we have

gotten has been wonderful as far as people being so grateful to be able to come to a place where they can feel normal again,” said Sarah Spaniol,” Cottonwood Café manager. “We have a new simpler temporary menu with indoor and outdoor seating.”

Cottonwood Café is open now Thursday through Monday, with additional seating on the sidestreet alongside the cottage.

Three Creeks Brewing Company is open and keeping it simple. “ We o p e n e d l a s t Wednesday and did the first two days of just online ordering to go, then we opened inside on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. It went good but business is still down,” said manager Mark Perry. “The Sisters Stampede bike race has always brought a lot of traffic. We’re keeping the menu simple; there’s always that possibility of a second wave of COVID-19.”

Cork Cellars opened its doors Friday, May 15, and manager Heather Belmont is happy to see at least half of the regulars coming back in.

She said, “It’s the same menu for Cork Cellars with a special every week.”

Co-owner Tom Buck has been thinking creatively, figuring out ways to keep their live music traditions.

“We are excited about getting entertainment back in Phase III, maybe in June sometime,” Buck said. “We plan to have two one-hour shows like the jazz clubs in the old days. An early set, clean up, disinfect then a later set.”

He added, “This town has absolutely embraced us since we moved in here and has been incredibly supportive.”

Renee Reitmeier, Fika Sisters Coffee House owner, opened her doors from curbside to inside on Memorial Day.

The support from my regulars is something I will always remember as long as I live.

— Renee Reitmeier Reitmeier said, “I love our community and hope we can continue to support each other as we each journey through this and work out how best we feel it is to live during this time. The support from my regulars is something I will always remember as long as I live. They stood in wind and rain and waited patiently while coffee was made. I am forever grateful.”

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larger “Sisters Village,” which is one of the AFSC Action Teams.

The initial Village to Village concept was developed 20 years ago by residents in a corner of Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood.

The concept was developed to help elders “age in place” in their homes. With advancing age, home ownership and/or maintenance of their lifestyle can present hurdles to the elderly for which they need assistance.

A neighborhood organization was established to help with running errands, raking leaves, and changing a light bulb or smoke detector batteries. The services, provided by neighbors for one another, created a safety net for residents and increased avenues for social connection. The Beacon Hill Village, and another one in Washington D.C., proved very successful and word spread across the country to neighborhoods in large cities and small towns.

At present, there are over 240 open Villages and more than 100 in development in 41 states and the District of Columbia. There has been a Village in Bend for 11 years.

The “Village” builders in Sisters have done a meticulous job of researching all the possible options and have crafted a Village concept they hope will be beneficial for Sisters residents – friendly for all ages, not just elders.

AFSC, which is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, already has all the pieces in place to provide an umbrella for “Sisters Villages.” The first Village to organize is Tollgate Village. Each Village will have its own organizing committee to oversee establishing of the Village; for example, Timber Creek, Coyote Springs, Rolling Horse Meadows, or perhaps a few streets in one section of town, can form its own Village.

They will be a separate organization from any established homeowner’s associations. Neighbors can opt in

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Dues are minimal, to be established by each Village individually. The bottom line is, within each Village, needs can be met, skills and talents will be shared, a sense of community will be strengthened as connections are made, and new neighbors (and old) can become easily integrated into the Village.

A buddy system allows for neighbors who live alone to arrange to receive regular, occasional, or temporary check-in calls. If a need arises or an emergency occurs, neighbors will know who to call for help — and they will be just down the street.

Social, educational, athletic, and seasonal activities can be organized around shared interests. Rather than living on a street of 12 houses, and knowing perhaps one or two other people, couples, or families, the Village concept encourages stronger neighborhood bonds, creating a deeper sense of community, regardless of overall growth occurring in the area.

Encouraging involvement of all ages — children through elders — provides the opportunity for intergenerational interactions and activities. Are you 65 years old and you just can’t manage to conquer your “tech phobia?” The teen down the street is a computer whiz.

He doesn’t have any grandparents who live nearby. He might be happy to help you learn and you each make a new friend.

Social isolation and loneliness for both teens and elders have been identified as serious health concerns. Village membership

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The preview period for the Tollgate Village has begun, with their website up as of June 1 at www.sisters villages.helpfulvillage.com.

All Tollgate residents should have received a postcard in the mail this week. Watch for people wearing T-shirts, with the words “Ask me about Tollgate Village” on the front.

Beginning the week of June 8, a series of “Chair Chats” will be held outside around Tollgate cul-de-sacs.

These chats will be socially distanced (no more than 12 people), spread out by location and time of day to fit most people’s schedules.

Any resident of Tollgate is invited to bring a chair, a mask, and their curiosity and questions to learn more about Tollgate Village. There will be four gatherings to start and then randomly as interest arises.

For more information visit www.sistersvillages. helpfulvillage.com. Tollgate resident Jane Killefer is the team leader for the Tollgate Village and Chris Laing is the AFSC board member and liaison for the Sisters Villages program. Email Killefer at tollgate@agefriendlysisters.com and Laing at villages@agefriendlysisters.com. The Age Friendly Sisters Country website can be found at www.agefriendlysisters.com.

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Volunteers acted quickly in COVID-19 crisis

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

With support from the Ford Family Foundation and The Roundhouse Foundation, Sisters Villages were able to speed up their formation in order to respond during the COVID19 outbreak.

Although planning was already underway for the Village project in Sisters, the arrival of the coronavirus in Central Oregon served as the springboard for establishing the first Village in Tollgate.

The two pillars of the Village concept — strengthening community and helping each other — will prove invaluable in these difficult times.

The person-to-person outreach will, by necessity, increase; deepening friendships and developing trusted connections among members and volunteers.

Volunteers will be offering phone check-ins and donning masks and gloves

to provide members with essential services by making sure they have food and medicines, are safe at home, and have transportation for necessary medical appointments.

With most of the organizational groundwork already done, other areas in town will benefit from an established framework on which to build their Village.

If you are interested in the possibility of establishing a Village in your neighborhood, contact Chris Laing at villages@agefriendlysisters. com or leave a message for her at 458-206-0169.

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Needs septic feasibility. Conditional-use permit to build a home was recently renewed for two years. Borders government land, State of Oregon, BLM and Deschutes County on three sides Owner will consider short terms. $275,000.

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MOUNTAIN-VIEW ACREAGE! 11.5 acres slope gently to the northwest with great mountain views and high desert beauty.

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DESCHUTES RIVERFRONT ACREAGE! Ten acres along the Middle Deschutes offers a spectacular building site with 180-degree river views with the Cascade mountains in the background. Paved access, electricity available, standard septic feasibility and an existing well.

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