The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLIV No. 16 // 2021-04-21

H e & Garden IN SISTERS COUNTRY

The Nugget Vol. XLIV No. 16

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Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Burning to protect and restore forest

By Jim Cornelius Editor In Chief

Sisters residents get jittery when they see a big plume of smoke on the horizon. Two decades of wildfires that have seriously disrupted life in Sisters Country will do that.

But the smoke that billowed up to the south of town last week bodes well for Sisters, fuels specialists and fire managers say. The smoke came from a multiday prescribed fire in the Sisters Area Fuels Reduction (SAFR) project area, approximately three miles southwest of Sisters along the 1505 Road.

“It looked to me like a beautiful, textbook burn,” Rod Bonacker told The Nugget.

Bonacker has years of firefighting for the U.S. Forest Service under his belt — and first-hand experience with the way in which prescribed fire helps firefighters battle wildfire. In 2012, Bonacker was part of the team that was trying to get ahead of the Pole Creek Fire, building fire breaks at night. The fire was

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Local golf pro celebrates at the Masters

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

get containment lines around it. Areas treated in SAFR provided an opportunity for fire crews.

“Thatʼs where we elected

Even nongolfers know the importance and prestige of the “Masters” held the first week every April at the legendary Augusta (Georgia) National Golf Club. Augusta is to golf as Wrigley Field or Fenway Park is to baseball, as Churchill Downs is to horse racing, as the Daytona Speedway is to auto racing.

Even in non-COVID years, admission to the Masters, one of the four ʻmajorʼ world golf tournaments, is one the most sought-after tickets in all of sports.

Attendance at the pandemic-restricted 2021 event where players competed for an $11.5 million purse was

See BURNING on page 4

See GOLF on page 31

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Fire managers touched off a series of prescribed fires southwest of Sisters last week. The project treated about 600 acres, part of a buffer protecting Sisters from wildfire. a real threat to Sisters.

L a s t s u m m e r, h e recounted the fight to members of a field trip out to the SAFR project area.

“Strategically, we needed to stop the fire spreading east

and southeast,” he told them.

When a moving wildfire hits previously thinned and treated areas, it tends to drop to the ground and slow down, giving firefighters an opportunity to fight it safely and

Sisters Ranger District Rodeo canceled for second year unveils HQ plans

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Initial plans for the proposed new Sisters Ranger District headquarters were outlined at last weekʼs virtual open house. (Video of entire meeting available on Deschutes National Forest Facebook page.)

The current office was built in the 1950s and has a number of safety and accessibility issues. According to Sisters District Ranger Ian Reid, “The new station is necessary to keep us here (in Sisters).”

By dividing the 80-acre parcel of Forest Service property into three pieces and selling them separately,

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while retaining the southeastern part of Parcel 2 for the new headquarters, money will be available to construct the new buildings.

It was necessary to get special authority from the U.S. Forest Service to divide and sell the property.

Parcel 3, on the north side of Barclay, will be the site of 14 light industrial buildings.

The center portion, Parcel 2, between West Barclay, North Pine, and Highway 20, has been sold for a multiuse development. Parcel 1, located south of Highway 20, is currently for sale with negotiations for purchase underway.

See PLANS on page 30

In the face of rising COVID-19 cases in Deschutes County, and restrictions limiting capacity enforced by local and state government agencies, the Sisters Rodeo Association (SRA) Board of Directors announced a unanimous decision on Tuesday, April 13, to cancel the 2021 Sisters Rodeo.

This is the second year in a row that the coronavirus pandemic has forced cancelation of the event.

The Association reported that they have worked diligently with State and County officials for the past several weeks and looked at the situation from all angles, including feedback from community businesses, fellow rodeo associations, stock contractors, and sponsors. Sisters

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Sisters Rodeo Association President Curt Kallberg delivered the news that the Rodeo cannot go forward this year.

Rodeo Association thanked the Deschutes County commissioners for their effort in support of Sisters Rodeo during this process. The Board of County Commissioners had requested that Oregon

Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) issue a provisional permit to Sisters Rodeo, a key step if the event was to move forward. OLCC reportedly would not issue such See RODEO on page 29

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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.

Vaccine priority To the Editor: For the record, we have found no one in Sisters nor in our wide circles of friends in five major cities in Oregon who object to teachers given vaccine priority over seniors!

It is sad to know a few loud voices have lumped the rest of us into a genre of crotchety old people who think only of themselves. We want kids back in school, which means teachers have no choice, so we want them and their families to be safe.

The truth is that we seniors have the option of staying safely at home with no obligation to go anywhere. We can wait a few weeks for

the sake of kids and all educators, and think Governor Brown is doing the best anyone could with all the unknowns, changes and demands of this pandemic.

Mike and Wendie Vermillion

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Support Sisters School District Bond To the Editor: I have two boys: ages 6 and 4. My 6-year-old is in his first year of kindergarten and is having a blast. He loves his teacher and seeing his friends. I want him to continue to love school and thrive. Sisters is a See LETTERS on page 24

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Housing and jobs are in crisis in Oregon

By Craig Wessel Guest Columnist

I would like to convey a response to Bill Bartlett’s article in last week’s issue of The Nugget, regarding the affordable-housing crisis in Sisters, Central Oregon, and arguably the U.S. (and world) as a whole. I have read his article and I fully agree with his statements. And there are certainly plenty of wellpaying jobs in Sisters, and around Central Oregon as a whole.

However, we cannot deny that, at least in Central Oregon, people in very skilled professions, like a teacher or a doctor, will take a significant pay cut to come work for Sisters School District, or St. Charles Health System, compared to what they could make if they were to work for a school district or medical group in the Portland Metro Area, or Salem or Eugene.

Couple this with the fact that our housing costs are out of control, and the reason we have a shortage of workers in all industries, including skilled professions, becomes clear.

To add to this, I would also like to point out that, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a lot of people would rather sit on their duff and collect unemployment, because it pays more than most jobs here currently will. Yes, I know there are people who are having a significantly hard time finding a job, even something as simple as a cashier at McDonald’s or Bi-Mart. But a lot of people are just collecting unemployment because it pays more than any job currently will.

Returning to the housing subject. As someone who works retail at $13.15 per hour, I should qualify for the low-income housing units at Ponderosa Heights or Tamarack Village. However, I do not. A single person will only qualify for those apartments if their income is less than $26,000 per year. My current income is over that.

Which means I don’t qualify. And that is wrong, as I am quite clearly in poverty.

Maybe not federally, but for sure in Oregon.

I sadly believe it is likely I will have to be living with my parents for the foreseeable future, as I just cannot afford to live in this town otherwise. Regrettably, I am also looking at moving to other areas in the northwest, in hopes of pursuing more gainful employment in my trade, the tech industry, as we do not have enough tech opportunities in Central Oregon.

We have the Facebook and Apple data centers in Prineville, but they don’t hire technicians very often, and that is quite likely because the people who are working there as technicians, are holding onto those jobs with a death grip, as they are probably some of the best paying, best benefits jobs in Central Oregon as a whole. Outside of Facebook and Prineville, there is Ibex in Bend and also BendBroadband and Century Link. But that is about all I can think of for most of this area.

Housing and jobs in this town, Central Oregon, the U.S., and quite possibly the world as a whole is a real problem, especially among the younger generations. Millennials and Zoomers simply do not have the advantages the Baby Boomers and Generation X did with housing and jobs. A lot of Millennials and older Zoomers have crippling college debt that they can never hope to pay off, and have not found a job with their degree, which further hinders their ability to find a place of their own to live.

There needs to be something we can do. I am not sure what it is we can do, but it has to be something.

We cannot continue on with a terrible job market and out-of-control costs of living. People my age really are getting the short end of the stick. While there are people my age who are definitely lazy, most are not, and just want a share of the pie that their parents and grandparents got. I would also like to iterate that I say these things as a moderate-ish libertarian, and not a conservative or a liberal. We are in a housing and job crisis, and it is going to continue to get worse, and something must be done.

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

Car enthusiasts heralded the arrival of spring, turning out for a causal cruise-in at Eurosports.

The informal gathering of classic cars takes place each Friday evening from 4 to 7 p.m.

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Local woman approaches grief with creativity

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

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Our Hands, Our Work by Carly Garzón Vargas was awarded the Americana Folk Award.

MOTH announces award winners Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) is getting ready to host its largest annual fundraiser and community arts celebration, My Own Two Hands. The event will be held virtually May 10-15.

Proceeds from the event support SFF’s mission of strengthening community and transforming lives through music and art.

Selecting this year’s MOTH award winners was both challenging and humbling with nearly 80 incredible pieces of art donated by generous artists and organizations to choose from, SFF reported.

Awards of Excellence Design Award — Toni Del Guidice’s mixed

media original, aptly titled “Holding Hope” was chosen for the 2021 My Own Two Hands poster art.

“Holding Hope is literal to me: Hope for our planet.

Hope for the pandemic.

Hope for integrity in government. Hope for equity,” she said.

Theme Award – Jan Hansson’s wood sculpture on swiveling platform, “Together We Are Hopeful.”

“Born and raised in Sweden, I am inspired by the clean lines of Scandinavian design,” Hansson said. “Less can often tell you more. I hope to inspire people to look beyond the sculpture itself.”

Awards of Merit • David R o c k ’s acrylic painting on board, Chrysalis.

“A monarch butterfly chrysalis,” Rock explained.

“It seems to me to be the epitome of ‘Holding Hope.’

A cocoon is a perfect symbol of the promise of re-creation from old to new, from past to future. Yet the form itself is completely alien to its previous existence or future manifestation. It is at once: sarcophagus, jewel, and egg. The image in this painting is separated from any reference to the natural world so that it can be considered and contemplated See WINNERS on page 22

When the Institute of Happiness in Copenhagen sent out a call for submissions last year, Sisters resident Katie Diez was intrigued. People around the world were invited to submit objects that made them feel happy. Winning objects would be displayed at the institute’s new Happiness Museum.

Diez, an occupational therapist who works with children, had a unique object to send: a packet of seeds. Her “Comfort Seeds” project, a collaboration with visual artist Manda Bryn Severin, explores grief and regeneration. Comfort Seeds had already brought happiness

to Diez, her young students, and dozens of participants.

Why not bring them to the world?

The Institute of Happiness accepted only 18 objects out of hundreds submitted. To be included at all would be an honor. Diez received an email from the museum that her Comfort Seed project was not only accepted—it was the Grand Prize winner. The prize included an all-expensepaid trip to Denmark to tour the Happiness Museum, after COVID. “I was kind of screaming I was so excited,” Diez said.

“And then I got hit with, ‘Wait, is this real?’” Katie messaged See DIEZ on page 8

The challenges of online learning at SMS

By Kale Gardner Correspondent

The challenges of online learning from school has taken a toll on many students in the Sisters School District, especially at Sisters Middle School (SMS).

Sisters Middle School student Holly Davis told The Nugget that, “one of the only positive impacts online learning had on me was having less classes during the day, simply because there was a lot less

stress and anxiety hanging on my shoulders, I was and felt more free, but there was definitely a lot more cons to the story than pros.

“With online learning the hardest part about it was just simply not being able to connect with great teachers on a day-to-day basis. It was also really frustrating because a lot of people who learn differently were not at a level playing field, and it was so sad.”

See ONLINE on page 14

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to affect gatherings, please contact individual organizations for current meeting status

SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR Council on Aging of Central Oregon Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters Al-Anon Mon., noon, by Zoom. / Thurs., Community Church. 541-480-1843.

10 a.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ Church. 541-610-7383.

Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.

Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & Friends of the Sisters Library Board Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com.

Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, ages welcome. 541-771-2211.

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505.

Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran 1 to 4 p.m. 541-668-1755.

Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., Citizens4Community, Let’s Talk noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran 3rd Monday, 5:30 to 8 p.m. RSVP at Church. 541-548-0440. citizens4community.com Alzheimer’s & Dementia Caregiver Military Parents of Sisters Meetings Support Group 1st Tuesday, noon, are held quarterly; please call for details.

SPRD bldg. 800-272-3900.

541-388-9013.

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

SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.

For Saturday meeting dates and to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation location, email: steelefly@msn.com.

District. 541-549-2091.

Central OR Spinners and Weavers Sisters Aglow Lighthouse Guild One Saturday per month, Jan. 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., meeting by thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217.

Zoom. 503-930-6158.

BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS

Sisters Area Photography Club 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., meeting by Zoom. 541-549-6157.

Sisters Speak Life Cancer Support Group 2nd & 4th Monday. Call Suzi for location and time: 503-819-1723.

Sisters Area Woodworkers 1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. 541-639-6216.

Sisters Trails Alliance Board 1st Monday, 5 p.m. Sisters Library.

Public welcome. 808-281-2681.

Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.

Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon, Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123.

Sisters Bridge Club In-person gathering suspended until further notice. Three Sisters Irrigation District For free online bridge info, Board of Directors 1st Tuesday, call Barbara 541-914-6322.

4 p.m., TSID Office. 541-549-8815.

Sisters Caregiver Support Group 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., The Lodge in Sisters. 541-771-3258.

Three Sisters Lions Club 2nd Tuesday, noon, Ray’s Food Place community room. 541-419-1279.

Sisters Cribbage Club Please call for details. 541-923-1632.

VFW Post 8138 and American Legion Post 86 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-903-1123.

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.

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, 3:45 p.m., Black Butte School. 541-595-6203.

Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group Meeting by Zoom.

541-668-6599.

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

Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.

Location information: 541-279-1977.

Sisters Rotary 1st and 3rd Thursdays, Noon, Aspen Lakes. 541-760-5645.

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., 5:30 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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BURNING: Fire plays critical role in forest health Continued from page 1

to do our work,” Bonacker recalled. “We were essentially linking those treated units that we already had. We essentially put a U-shaped control line around the southeast and the south end of the fire.”

Without those previously treated areas, “we would have had 10 times more work to do,” Bonacker said.

Last weekend, Bonacker told The Nugget that the recent burns help complete a treated strip southwest of town, what Bonacker called “a pretty significant barrier.

“The completion of that work really makes a tremendous difference,” he said.

“It gives a place to fight the inevitable [wildfire] from.”

Prescribed burning consumes fuels on the ground and brush and low limbs that create “ladder fuels” that let fire climb into the crown of trees. A crown fire is a nightmare for firefighters.

In treated areas, “you have a fire that stays on the ground and is controllable by the ground troops,” Bonacker said.

The mass of smoke from last week’s burns may have looked ominous, but it was indicative of success.

“In this country, you don’t get to burn on a northeast wind very often,” Bonacker said. “They were able to take advantage of the wind and get things done.”

While it makes citizens nervous to see the Forest Service burning on days with wind, the fires are fully staffed with wildland firefighting crews. And wind is actually essential to doing the work effectively, according to Oregon State University Extension Service Regional

PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG

Smoke effects from last week’s fires were pretty minimal — except for a period on Thursday morning when cold, still air pushed smoke into town.

Fire Specialist Ariel Cowan.

“You need some wind to help push the fire in the direction you want it to go,” she said.

Cowan noted that wind disperses smoke and lifts it

out of the tree canopy, where it otherwise might hold in heat that can damage or kill trees.

The health of the trees in Sisters’ forests is a key consideration in prescribed

burning. Done effectively, Cowan notes, prescribed fire helps build resilience in individual trees and the forest as a whole. Ponderosa pines, which dominate Sisters’ forests, are adapted to fire.

When touched by low intensity burning, they actually get stronger.

“It’s kind of like an immune boost for the trees,” Cowan said. “It encourages thicker bark growth.”

And the thinning of stands reduces competition among trees and allows robust trees to thrive.

If fire burns at the lowintensity level that it should under natural conditions, it’s good for soil, too.

“Really, there’s a beneficial release of nutrients into the soil from combustion of the material on the forest floor that you wouldn’t get from just cutting the trees.”

Some local residents who have suffered from the impact of heavy wildfire smoke over the years might prefer that the Forest Service stick to cutting small trees and mowing brush. Fire managers are cognizant of smoke impacts and try to burn when they are minimized. Although last week’s smoke mostly stayed out of Sisters, there was a period of a few hours on a cold, still Thursday morning when the smoke settled in

— and the lungs felt it.

Cowan said that mechanical thinning is an important component of forest treatment — but it’s not sufficient. In a fire-adapted landscape, burning is necessary to consume the fuels left on the ground g.

Burning for safety and for forest health will be an ongoing process. Areas that have been treated need to be reentered every 10 to 20 years or so to mimic the natural fire regime.

“It’s not a one-and-done kind of thing,” Cowan said.

“It’s tricky, because we have so many acres to treat.’

Burning continues Wednesday and Friday near Black Pine Springs Campground seven miles south of Sisters.

There’s a beneficial release of nutrients into the soil from combustion of the material on the forest floor that you wouldn’t get from just cutting the trees.

— Ariel Cowan

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Collaborative promotes City of Sisters bulletin forest restoration

By Cory Misley

The prescribed fires touched off southwest of Sisters last week are representative of the kind of work the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project is built to promote.

The Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project aims to restore local forests to a healthier, more resilient condition through science-driven restoration projects. The Collaborative is comprised of a volunteer stakeholder committee of 19 community members representing land management agencies, tribal groups, the timber industry, environmental nonprofits, recreational and tourism interests, scientists, government officials, and wildlife specialists.

Rod Bonacker of Sisters is part of that steering committee.

“The conversations that are had there are very open and very science-focused and they really forward the mission of forest restoration and fuels reduction,” he said.

The Collaborative plays an active role in community education about the need for active forest restoration — and in lobbying to get the funds allocated to actually do the work.

“The Forest Service can’t lobby for more funding for forest restoration and fuels reduction,” Bonacker said. “But the Collaborative can — and has.”

The Collaborative seeks to promote safer communities, and improved wildlife habitat, and to protect water resources. By promoting forest projects, they seek to grow opportunities for jobs working in the forest, while protecting local economies from the often devastating effects of disruption from wildfire.

Dave Stowe has been a part of the Collaborative for a dozen years, through his affiliation with the Sierra Club.

“I grew up on this forest and I’ve loved it my whole life,” he said. “And my family has lived on this forest for generations before me.”

Stowe didn’t like a lot of the changes he was seeing on the forest as the area grew, and he sought a way to engage effectively in protecting and enhancing the landscape he loves. The Collaborative seemed like a place to do that.

Initially, he said, “it wasn’t much fun.” There was a lot of the traditional head-butting between environmentalists and loggers. But gradually, simply through the process of working together, relationships developed, and common goals emerged.

“It was extremely challenging at the start,” he said.

“It went from that to having

really great relationships with all these different members of the community… you start to trust people and see their point of view.”

Bringing together people from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests, and working with people at the cutting edge of forest science, the Collaborative was able to move onto a wide swath of common ground.

What that common ground amounts to is a pretty simple proposition, Stowe notes: Whether you want to work in the woods, ride your bike, hike, fish in the streams and lakes, “the common ground in all that is, you need a healthy forest to do that in.”

Defining what a healthy forest is requires a deep understanding of the science, which Stowe feels he has received.

“The decisions we make in the Collaborative are deeply science-driven, which I really appreciate,” he said.

“I’ve learned a ton in this Collaborative. I’m a richer person for it and I have a better understanding of the forest.”

For more information on the Collabvorative and its work and how to get involved, visit http://deschutes collaborativeforest.org/.

The conversations that are had there are very open and very science-focused and they really forward the mission of forest restoration and fuels reduction — Rod Bonacker

City Manager

The City of Sisters is celebrating its 75th anniversary of incorporation this year.

Over the decades, there have been many topics and issues that have created conversation, and sometimes controversy, in the community. Fortunately, the people here and now in Sisters are willing to come together for vibrant discussion, putting the bigger picture above their perspective and interests, acknowledging the challenges of balancing many factors and constraints.

Most notably are those at the City who volunteer to be elected on City Council or appointed to a City committee. There are several dozens of these community members dedicating their time to shape Sisters through countless past and current projects.

Over the past few years, the City and numerous other community partner organizations have reached out to hear how we can best shape the future of Sisters. It was a year-long planning process in 2018/19 to create the Sisters Country Vision led by the Vision Action Team consisting of 31 members.

The vision we created for ourselves is “the overarching aspiration for this place we call home. Incorporating input from participants across the community, it reflects the ideas and words of Sisters Country residents themselves — and their intentions for a more prosperous, livable, resilient, and connected community.”

It includes 20 strategies, five per focus area, that were thoroughly developed, vetted, and ranked by the community. Under “Prosperous” there is the strategy

Forest Service Property Development: “Facilitate the development of a masterplan on the U.S. Forest Service property that is compatible with the community’s character and identity, combining mixed-used commercial, residential, and recreational facilities that anchor and define the community, create new jobs, and provide housing options.”

Balancing factors and constraints, there has been progress towards that strategy. To get a good sense of where the community is going refer to the strategies in the Vision as the Vision Implementation Team (VIT) continues to work together to further those community priorities through action items.

Everything is more complicated than it seems and often it is not easy to understand. The people that make up the organization at the City of Sisters want to educate, engage, and empower the community — we work in public service for those reasons.

The ongoing Comprehensive Plan Update that started last fall is incorporating the Vision and other community feedback into the City’s overarching legal planning document. It is the “teeth” that allows us to manage and

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shape growth.

It is too simplistic to say either pro-growth or antigrowth. We must plan intelligently for the community we want tomorrow and pull the levers within our control.

Among other things, we cannot defy the state’s land-use planning system, and Sisters does do not exist in a bubble immune to a global pandemic creating “Zoom towns.”

I enjoy working in Sisters for a variety of reasons.

One reason, especially in the political culture lately, is that the distance between constituents and representatives is measured in feet and city blocks, not hundreds or thousands of miles.

Unfortunately, some do not see the value of that distinction. I can say confidently that the City is made up of people who are welcoming and want to help. We offer invitations to participate and proactively engage to the best of our ability. The reality is if you want to get involved you can, and it is as simple as calling me if you want to learn more about anything related to the City.

I may not have all the answers, or tell you what you want to hear, but I will always have an open, honest, fact-based conversation, and thank you for your input.

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SMS Peterson Ridge Rumble returns to live action filmmaker shares talents with FAN

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Family Access Network (FAN) received an unexpected helping hand from 14-year-old filmmaker Jack Turpen to create compelling content for their virtual luncheon. Turpen, a student at Sisters Middle School, offered to use his videoproduction expertise after working on a shirt design for Sisters Middle School (the proceeds of which benefitted FAN). When Turpen reached out to Sisters FAN Advocate Theresa Slavkovsky to donate his services, the organization quickly took him up on his offer.

With minimal direction, Turpen used his skills to produce a compelling and inspiring video sharing the impact of FAN on a local family. Turpen was first introduced to film four years ago and fell in love with the art. He owns and operates his own production company, Turp Studio. His work can be seen on his website, www. turpstudio.com, and includes samples of his videography, photography, and graphicdesign work.

“FAN is such a cool organization with such an inspiring mission. I’m so thankful that I was given the opportunity to be part of it,” Turpen said.

FAN features Turpen’s work on the virtual FAN Annual Luncheon website, https://familyaccessnetwork. org/bend-luncheon-2021/ beginning Monday, April 12.

For more information on FAN, visit www.family accessnetwork.org or call 541-693-5675.

All runners agree that doing a race virtually is no comparison to the real thing. The participants in the 19th Annual Peterson Ridge Rumble, held Sunday, April 11, couldn’t have been happier to be back on the trail after the event was derailed last year due to the pandemic.

R ac e Dire ct o r S ean Meissner said, “The Peterson Ridge Rumble was a huge success! There were a lot of COVID protocols that had to be met and all of the participants and volunteers graciously complied.”

Runners started in smaller waves this year in order to keep distancing more manageable, according to Meissner, and finishers spread out further than normal after the race, according to Meissner.

While the total number of runners was down by about 150 from pre-pandemic years, Meissner felt grateful to have the event take place at all.

“People love coming to Sisters for this race and despite having to make changes (such as cutting the 40-mile course down to 36 miles) we had a great day with perfect weather,” he said.

Colton Gale of Bend won the 20-mile race in a close finish in a time of 2:06:14 over Alastair Thurlbeck of Corvallis, who finished second in 2:07:36.

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Three runners smiling in the early stages of the Peterson Ridge Rumble. over 20 minutes, with a time of 2:14:40, finishing sixth overall.

In the 36-mile race, Brett Hornig of Ashland took top honors in 3:55:38, while Keely Henninger of Portland finished fifth overall and first

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Local finishers included Tim Roth (2:56:02), Jonathan Kelly (2:58:17), Ramon Alonso (3:20:49), and Gene Trahern (3:59:52).

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Meissner said a record number of dogs, 40, took part in the 20-mile race with their human partners and two canines actually did the entire 36 miler.

Finishers feasted on burritos from Longboard Louie’s of Bend and treats from Sisters Bakery. Dogs munched on pig ears following the race. All human finishers received a pair of commemorative running socks.

Proceeds from the race largely go to the Sisters Schools cross-country programs, which provided many of the volunteers at aid stations, road crossings, the finish line, and clean-up.

“Even though we had to keep things more low-key and follow protocols, looking around I could see people were still really glad to be here and I can’t wait until next year,” said Meissner.

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Sisters School Board spotlight

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

The Sisters School Board held its monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 7, at Sisters Middle School.

Board members Edie Jones, Jeff Smith, Don Hedrick, and Jay Wilkins were in attendance. Dr. David Thorsett was absent.

• Revenue showed a slight downturn due to adjustments the state made on enrollment, due to questions about total number of students in attendance. It is expected to be adjusted due to information on actual attendance being impacted

by COVID-19. Scholl reported that overall enrollment stands at 1,159 students, which is up four students from last month.

• Superintendent Curt Scholl spoke on behalf of the high school as Joe Hosang recuperates from some health issues, and updated the Board on the move made April 12 to all students being in attendance four days a week from the “hybrid” of two days in person and two days comprehensive distance learning. Fridays will remain planning and development days for teachers and staff.

• Scholl explained that the school metrics for the county are based on 200 cases per 100,000 population which is what has allowed Sisters to lower the social distancing of desks and students to three feet from six, meaning that more students can be in classrooms at a time now. If the numbers bump up again, the district would have to reinstitute the six-foot spacing rules.

• Sisters Elementary School (SES) Principal Joan Warburg reported that five more students will be returning to the elementary school from full-time Comprehensive Distance Learning and homeschooling. Kindergarten Roundup started earlier this year to help ensure that SES knows as accurately as possible how many students will be coming in order to make proper staffing and space adjustments.

• The current count for next year is 80, which is a record number. Some of that stems from parents holding out kindergarteners this year due to COVID. All current and future kindergarten parents have a chance to come in person to the school to see the facilities and make connections in order to build community.

• The preschool enrollment is 11 students and Warburg plans to work closely with the other preschool providers in the weeks ahead to help ensure that students get the opportunity to be in preschool in Sisters next year as part of the continuing Oregon Preschool Promise grant.

New hires at the elementary school include music, STEAM, and third grade.

Finally, Warburg reported that the school is hoping to keep as many spring traditions as possible as the year comes to a close.

• Alison Haney, whose resignation as Sisters Middle School (SMS) principal was accepted later in the meeting, started her report saying she feels humble, thankful, and fortunate for the three years she got to spend in the district. Her first child, which will be her main focus in the years ahead, is due in late May, meaning her school year will be ending about three weeks early.

She expressed a desire to be involved in the district in the future. Staff members are planning some day-trip outdoor school experiences for grades six and seven this spring.

Haney concluded saying that the “iReady” assessments will be used to measure student success since state assessments, which are

still mandated in a limited fashion this year, will not be able to supply meaningful, comprehensive information.

• The district has hired a new director of student services, Lorna Van Geem.

• Sisters Middle School will begin screening applications for its new principal and arranging interviews over the next two weeks.

• Scholl reported that the vote for the school bond to build a new elementary school is coming up on May 18 and the citizen committee is working toward getting information out over the next weeks. The Bulletin’s editorial board has endorsed the approval of the bond.

• The school calendar for 2021-22 was adopted unanimously and features a start date of September 7, a five-days-a-week schedule, a one-week spring break (3/284/1), and an ending date of June 15 for SES and SMS and June 16 (half-day finals) for Sisters High School.

Future discussion is planned about whether to go back to a late start on Wednesdays as has been done for many years for teacher development, or to move to an early release one day a week.

• Budget committee members were approved and appointed and will be led by former superintendent Steve Swisher.

The next School Board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 5 at 6 p.m. at Sisters Middle School.

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Battling hunger with fresh vegetables According to Susannah Morgan, director of the Oregon Food Banks, “our state is in the 100-year flood of hunger.” Confirmed data from Neighborhood Impact and Feeding America show the number of our neighbors in Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook county who worry about feeding their families has increased by nearly 30 percent since the onset of the pandemic. Many were already struggling to get food on the table before the pandemic hit.

The numbers have skyrocketed to nearly 40,000 families in our area who have relied on food pantries on a monthly basis in 2021.

In comparison, 28,000 individuals were utilizing food pantry resources each month pre-COVID-19. Many dimensions and factors overlap and contribute to hunger; in the face of this complex issue, the nonprofit, Seed to Table Oregon (S2T), is increasing efforts to ensure that a lack of

fresh foods is not a symptom of the COVID-19 pandemic.

When funds get tight, often one of the first things cut is low-calorie items, such as fresh veggies. Nutritious, organic and local produce not only contains a vast array of vitamins and minerals, but also brings a sense of community connection. Decreasing consumption of these foods can impact overall health and vitality. Local food banks and the community have done an amazing job of stepping up to support increased demands at the two local food pantries. However, local produce offerings still face various challenges due to the need for refrigeration, weekly deliveries, and quicker expiration.

The food pantries cannot simply receive a month’s worth of lettuce in one go, unlike other staple items.

Seed to Table Oregon believes access to fresh food See HUNGER on page 22

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DIEZ: Project has taken on a life of its own for Sisters woman Continued from page 3

ILLUSTRATION BY MANDA SEVERIN

the museum and made sure she’d really won. “They said it was real!” The museum launched last summer, with her seeds on display.

“The museum looks really neat — it’s a small place in downtown Copenhagen,” said Diez. “Simple, clean lines, very tastefully done. Someday we’ll get to go.”

Comfort Seeds began with the tiniest impetus: a tomato seed, dried out and clinging to one of her father’s old shirts. He had passed away from cancer ten years before, and Diez was ironing the shirts, intending to make a quilt. The stuck seed caught her eye. She planted it and, astonishingly, grew a healthy tomato plant in her laundry room.

She saved seeds from the plant, and gave some away

to people who were grieving. Now Diez replants the seeds every year — together with her students. Many of the kids she works with are in behavior-intervention programs and have experienced trauma and grief in their young lives.

“These kids are all in their own processes of healing,” she said. “There’s something so magical about their little hands planting the seeds.

Two years ago, every single plant came up. Like 50 seeds — and every plant germinated. There’s something behind that.”

Diez doesn’t consider herself an artist. A generator of ideas, she enjoys collaborating with Severin, whose colorful, earthy illustrations give Diez’s concepts new dimension. Together they are working on a book and have launched a website, comfortseeds. com.

On the website, visitors of all ages are invited to share memories of loved ones passed. People can download a beautiful page to color and decorate in their memory. Grief stories and resources sit alongside friendly paintings.

“We want this website to be a place where multi-generations can come and submit stuff. Grief, beauty, healing, art, and poetry,” said Diez.

Punchy, garden-bright tomatoes and cool nighttime owls are among the site’s recurring illustrations. Some are available as merchandise,

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Katie Diez combines art and healing with the Comfort Seeds project, which recently won an international prize. such as shower curtains and coin purses.

Seed requests come from people who have lost loved ones themselves, and from their friends and families.

Diez wanted to make something that would be appropriate to give a grieving person: a little story with a packet of seeds, something meaningful a friend could easily slip into a greeting card.

“When my dad died I was relatively young, and people just didn’t know what to do,” Diez said. “They were afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing, so they didn’t do anything.”

Sometimes people are shy about asking for the seeds, which do not cost money.

Diez noted that accepting an item that is free of charge benefits the person giving.

“By receiving,” she said, “you’re giving a gift as well.”

Diez is very observant and takes time to be in the present. “Through this whole process, it’s been about noticing and paying attention to the little things, and being curious,”

Diez said.

She came to hone her powers of observation and appreciation through the practice of mindful meditation. Reading the words of Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh inspired her to take a class on teaching mindfulness for children.

Diez figured she would learn the practice in order help her students. The practice changed her life and outlook, and enhanced her students’ experience and education. The practice can be difficult, though. “I still struggle,” she said.

Giving away the seeds continues to be rewarding for Diez.

“It’s been a wild ride, not anything I expected when I planted the tomato seed!” she exclaimed. “It’s taken on a life of its own.”

That wild ride connects her to one she loves. Said Diez, “It feels like my dad’s behind it.”

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Grief in tough times

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

The death of a loved one.

A global pandemic. Senseless violence. An attack on our nation. Sisters Country has experienced waves of collective grief in the last year.

Along with the national-level issues, we faced tragic accidents, economic struggles, extreme fires and smoke, and health problems.

Carrying high levels of stress pushed some people to their limits. Some of us snapped and said regrettable things. Some parted ways with friends, family, churches, charities, and businesses over differences in politics, COVID safety, or equity.

Some kicked up a fuss on their way out. Others unfriended, blocked, or ghosted without a whisper.

That’s a whole lot of loss to process.

“Grief is so personal and so subjective, and grieving is such a touchy subject,” said Katie Diez, whose Comfort Seeds project engages with grief (see article, page 3). She describes grief as a “lonely place to be, even if we’re in a group that’s experienced loss together.” Here she shares what helps her: Spending time outside “Getting out in nature is one of the biggest things that helped me,” said Diez. “Get my hands in the dirt, walk on the dirt, touch a tree, observe what is happening in nature.

You certainly see the cycle of life as you go through the seasons.”

Accepting Diez believes it helps to understand that whatever you’re feeling at any given moment is “not unusual, that it’s normal, really truly —whether you’re feeling intense sadness or even joy.”

Dark humor came naturally to Diez after her father’s death. “I made some jokes in the throes of grief, much to people’s [shock]. All of it

is normal. We go in and out of all those stages at our own pace and in our own time.”

Feeling heard Finding an ear can help: “someone to listen, not to give you advice, but to listen.” It can be a problem when well-intentioned friends say they understand what you’re going through because, for example, their cat died. “People try to connect, to show empathy,” with such statements, but Diez said comparisons can feel hurtful.

Being generous Watching people go through collective grief on social media, Diez noticed that there’s a tendency to judge how others experience loss. “If someone is finding a lot of gratitude, that may be a lifeline for them, not ‘toxic positivity’… it’s part of their grieving process,” she noted.

On the other hand, there are folks “who just really need to say, ‘This sucks!’ and really embrace that reality.” Either way is okay. Diez recommends that everyone “be generous in our assumptions and our judgments toward each other through this time.”

Walking the path Writer and farmer Wendell Berry inspired Diez to “find a path, and walk that path.”

She thinks about it when she walks Peterson Ridge, which has changed greatly over the years. “He had a hollow, a holler, on his family property that he would walk,” said Diez. Berry watched the land change with the seasons and noticed how the environment changed, which trees fell.

“You can watch the nuances of the change, as humans have wrought upon that path, or nature has changed,” Diez noted. “That can be in the city, in the country, anywhere.”

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artistic pursuits, helping others, and physical movement such as dance or yoga are just a few. Creativity can unlock a sense of purpose as we process our tough times.

Being “artistic” is not a prerequisite. Diez, despite the success of Comfort Seeds, doesn’t consider herself an artist.

Writing it down Likewise, being a writer isn’t a requirement for the act of journaling. Diez found that “having paper and pen handy, to be able to journal whatever comes to mind, has been huge.” Research shows that directed writing in particular can be helpful for those suffering a loss. A bereaved person might respond to prompts in a grief workbook, for example, writing about certain memories.

Growing Gardening through grief has made a big impact on Diez. “It’s kind of an oxymoron: embracing the impermanence,” she said, “to hold and to love and to admire, to hold lightly, knowing it will pass.” Every fall, she looks at her dahlias, knowing they could all be gone the next week. Then that fateful day arrives. “Now they are these blackened flowers on these blackened stalks,” she said.

“I mourn a little bit for that beauty that has passed. The garden will not look the same next year, it will change, but it will be back.”

Finding more help See www.comfortseeds. com/resources for ways to process grief, and help others do so.

City COVID-19 relief grants

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Small business relief assistance grants totaling $40,000 have been awarded by the City to 17 local businesses that have been severely impacted by the pandemic.

In the FY 2020-21 budget, the City allocated up to $40,000 for that purpose. On March 10, The City Council approved Resolution 202103 authorizing the Grant Relief Program and designated Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce as the administrator.

A grant committee was formed including Councilor Andrea Blum for the City, Judy Trego and Turi Shergold for the Chamber, and Caprielle Foote-Lewis for Sisters Country Economic Development, and program criteria were established.

Eligibility required a net operating loss due to COVID-19 of 25 percent or greater (demonstrated by end-of-year financials for 2019 and 2020). Seventeen of 20 applicants qualified, meeting all four of the criteria. Because there was some money left over after each

business was granted $2,000, the extra was divided among five businesses that had a net operating loss of 50 percent or greater. Those five each received $3,200.

Those businesses receiving $2,000 included: Alpaca

by Design; Cascade Fitness/ Premier Fitness; Clearwater Gallery; Common Threads Sisters, Inc.; Hardtails Bar & Grill DBA Mullets, Inc.; Cottonwood Café; Metamorphosis Hair Salon; MSKL Investment DBA Mackenzie Creek Mercantile; Shanti Management, LLC DBA Sisters Inn & Suites; Spoons of Sisters, LLC; Suttle Tea, LLC; and Team Rambo Events Electrical, LLC. Businesses receiving $3,200 each included: Belfry Events, LLC; Central Oregon Shows; Gypsy Wind Clothing; Quoin Media & Entertainment, LLC; and Sisters Athletic Club.

City Recorder Kerry Prosser indicated that, following notification of the recipients last Friday morning, she received a number of very heartfelt responses from recipients indicating their gratitude for the extra help.

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Obituaries James “Jim” Gordon Fisher February 20, 1935 — April 14, 2021

James “Jim” Gordon Fisher, 86, died April 14, 2021 in Redmond after a lengthy illness.

He was born February 20, 1935 in Sac City, Iowa, the second of three children born to Ronald Gardner Fisher and Vivian Onita (Michael) Fisher.

In 1941, the family moved to Oregon, living in Portland for the summer and then settling in Klamath Falls. There, he attended grade school and high school, graduating from Klamath Union High School in 1952. Beginning at the age of 16 and continuing through college, he worked five summers for the USDA Forest Service in fire control and recreation at Lake of the Woods. One summer there, Jim met his future wife, Dorene Ann Cantrall. Just ten weeks later, on September 16, 1954, they eloped to Reno, Nevada, beginning their 66-year marriage.

In 1956, after graduating from Oregon State University with a major in forestry and a minor in journalism, Jim began a combined 34-year career with the Oregon Department of Forestry. For four years, he worked in fire control and forestry assistance in Medford. He stepped away from the department to serve one year as associate editor at the Oregon Forest Research Center in Corvallis.

Jim returned to the Oregon Department of Forestry in 1961, where he

held several positions over the years: safety officer, personnel assistant, training director, and five years as personnel director. In 1972 he became public affairs director, where he helped guide the department through the environmental issues of that time including the impact of wildfires on homes in forested areas.

He also served in a parttime capacity as an instructor in supervision and communications at Chemeketa Community College for 10 years, and as an adjunct professor for the Oregon State University Department of Technical Journalism for 10 years.

He retired in 1990 and he and his wife moved to their second home near Sisters.

Retirement did not last long for Jim. He served as executive director of the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce from 1991 to 1996 and was a public relations manager for his daughter’s public relations/advertising firm for 10 years.

Additionally, Jim was a longtime writer for The Nugget Newspaper in Sisters. He devoted much of his free time to writing, RV travel, and enjoying his extensive library of books.

From the age of 15, he was an active hiker. In 1967, Jim, his wife, and their four young children ages 6, 8, 10, and 11 hiked 366 miles of the Skyline Trail (now Pacific

Crest Trail) in just 28 days from the Columbia River Gorge to southern Oregon’s Lake of the Woods.

Jim and Dorene founded what became the “by invitation only” Sisters Reride Association in the late 1970s to welcome their children and school friends to a gathering at the family home during rodeo weekend in Sisters. Over the next 30 years, the “Reriders” grew to more than 40 members, including spouses and children of the original Reriders and they became a fixture in the gold section at the Sisters Rodeo. The group participated in the Sisters Rodeo Parade and beginning in 1993 became part of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Adopt-aHighway program, picking up litter on a portion of the McKenzie Pass Highway near milepost 76.

Jim’s volunteer activities included serving as board member and vice president of the Oregon State Employees Association, Chairman of the OSEA Services Board of Directors, Chairman of the Marion County Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission, and chair of the World Forestry Center’s Education Committee. He served on the board of directors of the Oregon State University Dads Club and was President during the club’s 50th anniversary.

He was named to the Pacific Crest Trail Advisory Council to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1978-1989),

then served on the Pacific Crest Trail Association board of directors (1991-1994) as a member, secretary, and vice chair.

Jim proposed the establishment of the Oregon Forestry Retirees Association in 1983 and later served as President and member of that organization’s executive committee.

In recent years, he was secretary and trustee for the Board of Trustees for Tillamook Heritage Forest Center, founding member and president of the Oregon State Fair Foundation, and a member of the Forest History Center board of directors.

In Central Oregon, he was chair of the Crossroads Property Owners Association board of directors, chair of the Sisters High Mountains Dixieland Jazz, member of the Deschutes County Historical Landmarks Commission, and a member of the St. Charles Medical Center Foundation board of directors. He also taught communications at Central Oregon Community College for one year.

In 1965, the Oregon Jaycees named him Outstanding Public Employee of the Year. In 1991, he received the prestigious Bronze Smokey Bear Award from the USDA Forest Service, National Association of State Foresters, and The Advertising Council for his service in wildfire prevention.

A prolific writer, Jim was the author of several

corporate histories, a centennial history of the Oregon Department of Forestry, a history of Oregon State University’s Department of Microbiology, numerous magazine articles, and hundreds of newspaper articles on history, people, and places.

In addition to his wife, Dorene, of Sisters, Jim is survived by his children: Jeff Fisher (Ed Cunningham) of Portland; Sue Fisher (Addison Jones) of Redmond; Dave Fisher (Tasha) of Keizer; and Jerry Fisher (Gina) of Canby. He is also survived by grandchildren Matt Fisher, Kim Fisher, and Tessa Fisher, and Keenen Dabney. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his brother, Robert, and his sister, Patricia.

Charitable donations in Jim’s name may be made to Hospice of Redmond (www. hospiceofredmond.org); the Tillamook Forest Heritage Trust (www.tillamooktrust. org), or to Keep Oregon Green (https://keeporegon green.org ). No services are planned at this time.

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Obituaries John Anthony Pagano

William Boland Merrill III

July 22, 1952 — April 13, 2021

April 22, 1937 — February 6, 2021

William “Bill” Merrill was born in Philadelphia to William and Mary Merrill.

His father was an Air Force officer, so Bill and his family moved frequently around the country – and the world – living in Louisiana, Florida, French Morocco, and Wiesbaden, Germany, where Bill graduated from high school.

Friends talked Bill into attending Oregon State College. Bill pledged Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and participated on the crew team and ROTC. After graduating in 1959, he was commissioned as an officer in the US Army.

While stationed at Ft. Lewis, he met Jacqueline Phillips, a nurse, on a blind date. That successful first date led to a 55-year marriage. Bill and Jacque soon welcomed son, Bill, and daughter, Kelli, to the family. Meanwhile, Bill served as a Green Beret in Vietnam.

After returning to the states, the family moved numerous times as Bill rose through the ranks, including assignments in Hawaii, Alabama, Kansas, Germany, and Washington, D.C. The family had many adventures camping, hiking, and skiing throughout Europe and the U.S. After 29 years of service, Bill retired as a Colonel.

He and Jacque moved to Oregon, living in Sunriver and Bend before settling in

Sisters. Bill became an avid fly-fisherman, learning to make his own rods and tie flies. The Deschutes and Metolius rivers became second homes. Bill also served on the Sisters City Council, helping provide direction for the City’s growth.

Bill was proud of his service to his country and local community; he felt it was important to be involved.

Bill was also proud of his children (both followed in his footsteps to OSU, and Kelli served in the Army), and especially fond of his grandkids: Ben, Griff, Abby, Aaron and Nick. Bill’s legacy is instilling in his kids and grandkids a love of travel, the outdoors, and service to others.

Bill was preceded in death by his wife, Jacque.

He is survived by his children, Bill (and Gigi) Merrill of Salem, and Kelli (and Ben) Baker of the United Arab Emirates; his grandchildren Ben (and Joju), Griffin (and Becca), Abigail (and Matthew), Aaron (and Delaney), and Nicholas; and his brother, Hank (and Marilyn), and sister Mary Jo (and Rusty) Shenk.

Due to COVID-19, a memorial service will be held later this year. In the meantime, please celebrate Bill’s long and eventful life by hiking in the woods, fishing in a stream, or sharing stories in his memory.

John was born July 22, 1952 in Portland, to Anthony and Frances Pagano, and died on April 13, 2021.

John attended Milwaukie High School and, after high school, joined the National Guard from 1971-1976, where he found his niche in working with electronics and computers. John married Madeline (Pinky) DiFabio on May 11, 1974, while living in Portland.

Ten years later, John had the opportunity to move his family to Sisters, where he and Pinky raised their family over the next 30 years.

During that time, John started his own business, Computer Cleaning and Helitronics Landing Lights for emergency vehicles.

While in Sisters, John engulfed himself in the service of his family and his community. He was a volunteer EMT 1 for the Sisters Fire Department for over 20 years. During that time you could see him roaming the sidelines of Sisters High School Football games or organizing the department’s Toys for Tots program in his spare time. John had two hobbies that he enjoyed most; working on electronics and using his HAMM Radio. His home office was scattered with tools and electronics where he was constantly “futzin” around making blinking lights or

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Always attached to John’s hip was his prized possession, his HAMM Radio.

Licensed as N7RGF, John was always on his radio, talking to friends around the state.

Later in life, John was diagnosed with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, which slowly took away his ability to enjoy his hobbies in retirement. However, surrounded by family, he could be seen scootering to soccer, flag football, school plays, bike races, and the occasional road trip to Camp Sherman or Three Creek Lake.

John is survived by an extensive Italian family in the Portland area. John and Pinky are most proud of their children and their extended families, which are spread across the state. Gabe and Heather Pagano, with grandchildren Maya, Max, and Dominic. Megan and Edward (Tank) Duckworth, with Bailey, Amari, and Khi. Finally, James and Krista Hayes, with Jaxon, Maddie, and another one on the way.

John is also survived by

his two younger brothers and their families; Ken and Marian Pagano and Dan and Tammy Pagano.

John, Dad, Maddog, Uncle Johnny, or Pappa — you will always be #1.

A mass will be held at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Redmond, on April 24. The rosary will begin at 10:30 a.m., followed by a service at 11 a.m. Cookies, coffee, and drinks to follow.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Free Rides for Vaccinations

Sisters Transportation and Ride Share (STARS) is booking free, nonemergency medical rides and deliveries Tuesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with rides available Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. At least 48 hours advance notice is required. STARS is booking free COVID vaccine rides Monday through Friday with rides available 7 days a week.

If no answer when requesting a vaccine ride, please leave your name and number and a dispatcher will call you back promptly to book your ride. Rides are based on volunteer driver availability, but people needing rides to vaccination sites are being given special attention. STARS dispatcher number for all rides is 541-904-5545.

Career Funds Available

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

Thursdays, and during regular hours from the Sisters Habitat for Humanity office. For additional information, please call 541719-1254.

Save the Rubberbands

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

Announce Your Celebrations!

Birth, engagement, wedding and milestone anniversary notices from the Sisters community may run at no charge on this Announcements page. All submissions are subject to editing for space. Email lisa@ nuggetnews.com or drop off at 442 E. Main Ave. Deadline is 5 p.m. on Fridays.

Sisters Community Church Movie Night

Friday, April 23 at 7 p.m. at Sisters Community Church.

Come enjoy a night out and a “Different Kind” of movie. Then, stay for the discussion afterward.

(Recommended ages 12+).

Contact SCC at 541-389-6859 for more information and to RSVP or go to sisterschurch.com. Social distancing and masks required.

Sisters History Museum Now Open

Sisters History Museum is open at the historical Wakefield Building, 410 E. Cascade St. (corner of Larch) on Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Entry is free, with private tours on other days by appointment.

The public is invited to visit the exhibits on Sisters-area history, gift shop and bookstore.

The museum welcomes new volunteers (training provided) and book donations (all genre).

Books can be dropped off at the porch during open hours Friday and Saturday or by prearrangement. Email: threesistershistoricalsociety@ gmail.com. or leave message at 541-904-0585.

Sisters Library Children’s Activities

Deschutes Public Library is offering virtual events and takehome activities for children.

On Tuesdays at 10 a.m. join community librarians and other preschoolers for songs, rhymes, stories and fun. Online story time is live at 10 a.m. on Thursdays, where children can develop literacy skills and join in music and movement. Parents, don’t miss the opportunity to pick up a story time activity kit for your preschooler at Sisters Library on Thursdays starting at noon.

Available while supplies last. Go to www.deschuteslibrary.org/kids/ programs or call 541-312-1032 for more info.

Organ Donor Awareness

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

Volunteer with Sisters Habitat for Humanity

Have fun, make new friends and be involved with an amazing organization! Positions are available at the Thrift Store, ReStore and on the construction site. All areas follow strict COVID-safety guidelines. New volunteer orientations are offered each Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday at 12 noon at the Sisters Habitat Office, 141 W. Main Avenue (upstairs). Please RSVP at 541-549-1193 or marie@ sistershabitat.org as space is limited.

Sisters Speak Life Cancer Support Group

This cancer support group meets the second and fourth Monday of every month, time and location to be determined. Caregivers, as well as patients and family members, are welcome to join in.

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

Weekly Food Pantry

Wellhouse Church has a weekly food pantry on Thursdays. Food is currently being distributed drive-through style from 12:30 until all food is distributed at the Wellhouse Market 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 Sisters-area churches are joining with Wellhouse Church to contribute both financially and with volunteers to help sustain the program. For more information, please call 541-549-4184.

Prayer Shawl Ministry

Looking for yarn donations of any kind that are washable — even remnants — for knitting or crocheting blankets, scarves, and lap robes for people in need of comfort and love. If you are interested in joining this prayer shawl ministry, please call or text Suzi at 503-819-1723.

Sponsor an Impoverished Child from Uganda

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

Please call the church before attending to verify current status of services as restrictions are adjusted.

SISTERS-AREA CHURCHES Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (ELCA) 386 N. Fir Street • 541-549-5831 10 a.m. Sunday Worship www.shepherdofthehillslutheranchurch.com Sisters Community Church (Nondenominational) 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. • 541-549-1201 10 a.m. Sunday Worship www.sisterschurch.com • info@sisterschurch.com St. Edward the Martyr Roman Catholic Church 123 Trinity Way • 541-549-9391 5:30 p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass 9 a.m. Sunday Mass • 8 a.m. Monday-Friday Mass Calvary Church (NW Baptist Convention) 484 W. Washington St., Ste. C & D • 541-588-6288 10 a.m. Sunday Worship • www.ccsisters.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 452 Trinity Way • Branch President, 541-420-5670; 10 a.m. Sunday Sacrament Meeting Baha’i Faith Currently Zoom meetings: devotions, course trainings, informational firesides. Local contact Shauna Rocha 541-647-9826 • www.bahai.org or www.bahai.us

Chapel in the Pines Camp Sherman • 541-549-9971 10 a.m. Sunday Worship Sisters Church of the Nazarene 67130 Harrington Loop Rd. • 541-389-8960 www.sistersnaz.org • info@sistersnaz.org 10:00 a.m. Sunday Worship Wellhouse Church 442 Trinity Way • 541-549-4184 https://wellhousechurch.churchcenter.com 10 a.m. Sunday Worship (Indoor & Outdoor Venues) Vast Church (Nondenominational) 541-719-0587 • 5 and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Worship at 442 Trinity Way (Wellhouse building).

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Free Weekly Grab-N-Go Lunches For Seniors

The Council on Aging of Central Oregon is serving seniors (60+) free Grab-N-Go lunches on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays each week. The lunches are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis drive-through style from 12 to 12:30 p.m. at the Sisters Community Church, 1300 W. Mckenzie Hwy. Seniors may drive through the parking lot and pick up a meal each day of service. Come on by, no need to make a reservation. Info: 541678-5483.

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Girls tennis posts first win of season

City snapshot

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

• City Council agreed to move ahead with finalizing the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) which defines the roles and responsibilities of each party regarding acquiring all of the right-of-way areas required for the future roundabout at East Cascade and Locust Street.

An independent fee appraiser will prepare an appraisal of the property, which may take up to 60 days. That appraisal then goes to the ODOT review appraiser for approximately 30 days. Following the appraisal and review, an offer will be made to Sisters School District for purchase of the property located at the southwest corner of the elementary school property and a small piece across North Locust on the administration headquarters property.

The hope is to have a deal struck with the school district by late summer/early fall and have the transfer of the property to ODOT completed in eight to 12 months from now.

• A joint City Council/ Planning Commission meeting is scheduled for Thursday, April 22 at 4 p.m., available on Zoom at https:// zoom.us/j/92805488729 to discuss the recently completed Urban Growth B o u n d a r y S u ff i c i e n c y Report and get an update on the Comprehensive Plan project. The public may join the Zoom meeting.

• In recognition of 2021 being the 75th anniversary of the incorporation of Sisters, at the start of each City Council meeting a Jubilee Minute will be observed with the reading of a passage from Council minutes of years gone by.

• As the holding ponds at the City’s sewer treatment

plant were pumped out

by Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc., it was discovered that there was more sludge in the bottom than anticipated.

This is the first time the ponds have been pumped out since the City activated the sewer system 20 years ago, and the company that installed the system had estimated that 20 years would be soon enough.

Public Works Director Paul Bertagna told Council that from here on out, the ponds will be pumped every seven to 10 years. An additional $61,908 was approved by the Council to cover the extra days and services required to complete the job.

Even with the additional fee, the entire project has come in under the budget of $250,000.

• Finance Director Joe O’Neill told Council that his department is deep in preparations for the upcoming budget season with budget committee meetings to review the 2021-22 proposed budget scheduled for May 17-18.

• Community Development Director Scott Woodford announced there will be another virtual open house for the public regarding the updated Comprehensive Plan in late May and a survey will be available regarding City infill and the Urban Growth Boundary.

• City Manager Cory Misley noted that since the onset of COVID-19, all public events need to have a public safety plan approved by the Deschutes C ounty P ublic Heal t h Department.

• Most of the work is completed on the ADA upgrade to the Creekside Park bridge, according to Public Works Director Paul Bertagna. Due to difficulty securing the necessary materials, the railing on the ramps has not yet been installed.

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaws kicked off their season with a 5-3 win at home over Estacada.

Two days later they fell 1-7 at Cascade, and on Friday at home against Molalla they lost 1-7.

In Tuesday’s match against Estacada, Sisters got wins at all four singles spots, the fourth by default. They also earned a win at No. 2 doubles.

Juhree Kizziar (No. 1 singles) is a motivated, enthusiastic freshman and came out with a vengeance. Kizziar hustled to defeat Gracie Jossi 6-0, 6-4.

Coach Alan VonStein said, “I think Juhree is going to surprise a lot of people in our conference. She’s put in the extra time and hits on the weekends. She’s motivated and wants to be good.”

Elli Rush (No. 2 singles) just finished volleyball and jumped right into tennis. Ellie moved well on the court to

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Deschutes Public Library: Hearing in Color 7 p.m. Join a journey into the experiences of a synesthete, one who experiences intertwined sensory pathways, and learn what it is like to hear in color. Go to www.deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/.

Deschutes Public Library: Art Inspired by Art 6 p.m.

Explore art created by COCC students and inspired by “The Other Americans.” Go to www.deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/.

Deschutes Public Library: Basics of Estate Planning and Probate 6 p.m. Attorney Rich Miller shares why a will and advanced health directive are important. Go to www. deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/.

Deschutes Public Library: The Opioid Epidemic in America 5:30 p.m. Examine the history and influence of opioids and learn how their use for pain relief transformed into a national epidemic. Go to www.deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/.

Paulina Springs Books Virtual Event 6:30 p.m. Shelby Forsythia presents “Your Grief, Your Way,” offering comforting words and practical ideas for living with loss. For info call 541549-0866 or go to www.paulinaspringsbooks.com.

Deschutes Public Library: The Library Book Club at Sisters 5:30 p.m. Read and discuss“The Other Americans.”

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ONLINE: Students have moved back to in-person school Continued from page 3

Hudson Beckwith said, “I think one of the more higher points of online learning was that you had more time to do schoolwork on your own at your own pace.” He also said that “it was a very unforgettable experience to learn from home.”

Beckwith also said that the low point for him was that,“it made it much harder, not being able to talk to teachers.

It is also very sad because a lot of people have been put back in their learning due to school from home.”

He hopes that the teachers will do a review with what kids learned through online school.

“I am going to miss online school,” said Andrew Islas, “just because it was so fun getting to have an experience like we had, but it is nice returning to school (four days a week) just because it feels like we are back to normal now.”

Eighth-grade math teacher Jonathon Kelly, noted that, “Before COVID-19, my experience with online-learning education was limited to online platforms and learning tools that were either designed to be full replacements for traditional instruction, skills practice only, or supplementary or tutorial in nature without a lot of cohesion or structure.

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Hudson Beckwith.

“When we first moved to comprehensive distance learning in April 2020, it was definitely a challenge to quickly find tools, resources, and platforms that could come close to replicating the in-person experience with all of its nonverbal cues and immediate feedback.

However, some students really excelled with the more self-paced and mastery or proficiency-based learning format during comprehensive distance learning. They noticed that they were not as distracted and could follow a more flexible schedule that more closely met their needs.

“It was definitely a challenge to see students struggle with attendance, with socialemotional well-being and connection, and just not feel as motivated or excited about

“coming” to school. I think every teacher was really feeling for and worried about our most vulnerable students and families who perhaps did not have the best home environment for learning, the most accommodating internet connection, or perhaps there were other stresses in their family and home life with all of the other ripple effects of a global pandemic.”

The Nugget asked Kelly how the past year has affected him personally.

“Personally, I found it challenging to teach math in a way that made sense for students,” he said. “While there are plenty of tutorial videos or guided examples out there, nothing beats being in person and having a teacher look for engagement and understanding in

the moment. Even if students were interacting with me through a Zoom class live, as the teacher it’s hard to ensure participation, engagement, and active learning in the same way we can in the classroom. However, I have definitely gotten better at making videos and using other technology resources to better meet students’ needs, and those skills will translate well into the future, too.”

Asked about the future, he responded: “It’s very hard to make any predictions about what the future may look like, but I am optimistic that we will continue on a path to return to normalcy as it is safe to do so.

At the middle school, having students back in the building

two days a week starting the last week of January and first week of February made a huge difference, and I think that returning to four days a week of school for all students on April 12 will make another huge positive impact as well.”

The Nugget spoke with Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, She got personal, noting, “My son has had a hard time learning from home, but we just try to have grace in our family.”

She said that, “I am working very hard with Governor Brown to get kids back in the classroom.”

Kale Gardner is a student at Sisters Middle School and is working as an intern with The Nugget Newspaper.

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If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that our home place matters — a lot. Now more than ever, we want to make our living space truly our own.

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Stubbs shoulders that responsibility through his company, Alpine Land Management.

He promotes biodiversity through thinning, especially of juniper, controlled “jackpot” burning of concentrated fuels, reforesting, transplanting of native botanicals and grasses and composting. He turns cut juniper into fence posts and firewood lengths.

Where burning isn’t an option, he will haul materials away. And he will deliver firewood through the summer.

Alpine Land Management is currently engaged in fescue restoration projects, which provide excellent value for the customer, while restoring a natural feel to the landscape. Stubbs transplants the fescue evenly and top-dresses with compost to get the dryland grass established. It doesn’t require irrigation.

With Stubbs’ deep knowledge and passion, Alpine Land Management offers clients value, quality — and a sense of pride in their personal landscape.

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lived the first 60 years of my life on the west side of the Cascade Mountains where the landscape is lush and green, and gardens contain the requisite rhododendrons, azaleas, tulips, roses, and manicured lawns.

Moving to Central Oregon 17 years ago, I dutifully enrolled in the Oregon State University Extension Master Gardeners program because I realized I knew nothing about gardening on the “dry side,” and I loved to garden. But I didn’t get the message those many years ago, and continued my westside ways with a few minor alterations.

Almost two decades later, the Central Oregon environment, with its native dry soil and roaming wildlife, has convinced me to not replace the deer fencing around what used to be typical “wet side” perennial beds and the now sickly lawn (due to my desire to not use chemical fertilizers).

It started when I stopped removing dandelions from the lawn after I read they are one of the first food sources for bees in the spring.

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Lupine adds a splash of blue or lavender as part of the native plant landscape Mother Nature has made me a believer in the importance of my fitting into her landscape. Seeing as how lawns cover at least 50,000 square miles of the U.S., in my little backyard I can at least do my part to restore the native ecosystem around my house. The deer have been trying to tell me that ever since I moved in by cooperatively eating my nonnative planting choices. My perennial beds have died out due to native soil conditions, the deer, and the underground critters that actually had the audacity to pull the plants down into the ground.

This is the year I finally decided to join forces with Mother Nature

and begin to transform my backyard into a biodiverse world of native plants suited to the environment, able to provide food, shelter, water, and a place to raise their young for insects, pollinators, birds, rodents, and mammals while reducing/eliminating the need for excess watering and the use of nonorganic fertilizers.

Online can be found a myriad of resources that explain the why and how of building wildlife habitat by using native plants. Simply google either term. A whole world will open up. The Deschutes County OSU Extension office website is home to helpful local information on the topics (http://extension.oregonstate.edu/

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necessary to qualify. It isn’t difficult.

Ecologist Douglas Tallamy’s book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” explains that the best way to protect biodiversity is for people to plant native plants and promote conservation in every yard.

Kalin Emrich, of The Garden Angel here in Sisters, believes you can be a good steward while also enjoying a great garden. He says that using native plants and organic materials in the landscape can yield beneficial results over the long term for you and nature.

Emrich and his crew practice a natural approach to landscape maintenance.

Another local source, C & C Nursery, on the corner of West Hood Avenue and South Pine Street, can provide you with cold-hardy, deerresistant shrubs and perennials. You can also find butterfly-, bee-, and hummingbird-friendly plants as well as succulents and ornamental grasses.

Winter Creek Restoration and Nursery on Deschutes Market Road has an informative website (www. wintercreeknative.com) and sells native plants grown from local seed and cuttings. They also offer

knowledgeable consultation, design, and installation services for those deciding to “go native.”

Now, while we are waiting for the snow to leave Black Butte, is a great time to do your homework by researching information about native plants suited to your landscape environment. You can start small; no need to tackle the whole yard at once. We can’t change the world or stop climate change, but we can begin to restore the biodiversity in our own backyard and improve habitat for our crawling, winged, and four-footed neighbors.

California Tortoiseshell butterflies make a stop in Sisters every April to sample the sap on the River Birch in my backyard. Their numbers are dwindling each year.

Indian paintbrush is a colorful addition to a native-plant landscape, although it is hemiparasitic — has the ability to photosynthesize on its own, but it forms modified roots that draw water and nutrients from its chosen host plant, often a perennial wildflower or grass. So plant carefully.

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deschutes), as well as plant, tree, and shrub lists.

The National Wildlife Federation (www.nwf.org) offers a program that will recognize your yard or garden (or a portion thereof) as a Certified Wildlife Habitat. The $20 application processing fee and sign purchase directly support the NWF’s programs to protect wildlife and its habitat. Their website outlines what is

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lived the first 60 years of my life on the west side of the Cascade Mountains where the landscape is lush and green, and gardens contain the requisite rhododendrons, azaleas, tulips, roses, and manicured lawns.

Moving to Central Oregon 17 years ago, I dutifully enrolled in the Oregon State University Extension Master Gardeners program because I realized I knew nothing about gardening on the “dry side,” and I loved to garden. But I didn’t get the message those many years ago, and continued my westside ways with a few minor alterations.

Almost two decades later, the Central Oregon environment, with its native dry soil and roaming wildlife, has convinced me to not replace the deer fencing around what used to be typical “wet side” perennial beds and the now sickly lawn (due to my desire to not use chemical fertilizers).

It started when I stopped removing dandelions from the lawn after I read they are one of the first food sources for bees in the spring.

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Lupine adds a splash of blue or lavender as part of the native plant landscape Mother Nature has made me a believer in the importance of my fitting into her landscape. Seeing as how lawns cover at least 50,000 square miles of the U.S., in my little backyard I can at least do my part to restore the native ecosystem around my house. The deer have been trying to tell me that ever since I moved in by cooperatively eating my nonnative planting choices. My perennial beds have died out due to native soil conditions, the deer, and the underground critters that actually had the audacity to pull the plants down into the ground.

This is the year I finally decided to join forces with Mother Nature

and begin to transform my backyard into a biodiverse world of native plants suited to the environment, able to provide food, shelter, water, and a place to raise their young for insects, pollinators, birds, rodents, and mammals while reducing/eliminating the need for excess watering and the use of nonorganic fertilizers.

Online can be found a myriad of resources that explain the why and how of building wildlife habitat by using native plants. Simply google either term. A whole world will open up. The Deschutes County OSU Extension office website is home to helpful local information on the topics (http://extension.oregonstate.edu/

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necessary to qualify. It isn’t difficult.

Ecologist Douglas Tallamy’s book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” explains that the best way to protect biodiversity is for people to plant native plants and promote conservation in every yard.

Kalin Emrich, of The Garden Angel here in Sisters, believes you can be a good steward while also enjoying a great garden. He says that using native plants and organic materials in the landscape can yield beneficial results over the long term for you and nature.

Emrich and his crew practice a natural approach to landscape maintenance.

Another local source, C & C Nursery, on the corner of West Hood Avenue and South Pine Street, can provide you with cold-hardy, deerresistant shrubs and perennials. You can also find butterfly-, bee-, and hummingbird-friendly plants as well as succulents and ornamental grasses.

Winter Creek Restoration and Nursery on Deschutes Market Road has an informative website (www. wintercreeknative.com) and sells native plants grown from local seed and cuttings. They also offer

knowledgeable consultation, design, and installation services for those deciding to “go native.”

Now, while we are waiting for the snow to leave Black Butte, is a great time to do your homework by researching information about native plants suited to your landscape environment. You can start small; no need to tackle the whole yard at once. We can’t change the world or stop climate change, but we can begin to restore the biodiversity in our own backyard and improve habitat for our crawling, winged, and four-footed neighbors.

California Tortoiseshell butterflies make a stop in Sisters every April to sample the sap on the River Birch in my backyard. Their numbers are dwindling each year.

Indian paintbrush is a colorful addition to a native-plant landscape, although it is hemiparasitic — has the ability to photosynthesize on its own, but it forms modified roots that draw water and nutrients from its chosen host plant, often a perennial wildflower or grass. So plant carefully.

4 BROTHERS TREE SERVICE Trees are the pride and joy of many a property owner in Sisters Country. When winter rolls around, they can be a problem when they break and fall and crash to the ground — or on your deck, your house or your car.

Caring for your trees — or dealing with a problem — requires a wide range of knowledge and experience; the right equipment for the job; and a commitment to safety and reliability. That’s what 4 Brothers Tree Service brings to bear, with a full range of services — tree removal, pruning, stump grinding, fire fuel reduction, lot cleaning, commercial thinning. In winter, they provide snow-removal services.

4 Brothers is well-equipped to handle any treeservice job. That helps ensure that work is done

MAHONIA GARDENS

is a one-acre market garden in Sisters utilizing organic & sustainable practices.

Produce available at THE STAND, Central Oregon Locavore & Agricultural Connections.

— Family Owned & Operated —

in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible.

Now is the time to assess the condition of your trees. 4 Brothers Tree Service is ready to help.

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deschutes), as well as plant, tree, and shrub lists.

The National Wildlife Federation (www.nwf.org) offers a program that will recognize your yard or garden (or a portion thereof) as a Certified Wildlife Habitat. The $20 application processing fee and sign purchase directly support the NWF’s programs to protect wildlife and its habitat. Their website outlines what is

Gold Mountain Landscape & Construction is a company dedicated to providing high-quality lawn maintenance and has been offering outstanding landscaping and irrigation services in Central Oregon.

Gold Mountain specializes in landscape construction, lawn seeding, artificial turf installation, tree pruning, lawn maintenance, and tree planting/ removal. The services they offer are based on years of experience which come from providing professional landscaping and other services such as tree removal, irrigation installation, or repairs.

Gold Mountain completes their work in three steps: First, they receive your quote request and respond to it within a minimal timeframe. Then they schedule a date that suits you for initializing the landscaping project. Lastly, they provide

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Burn safely — or not at all The adage April showers bring May flowers is being tested this spring. And while the unseasonably dry weather is pulling Oregonians outside, it’s also spurring firefighters into action.

The year 2021 has already produced nearly three times the average number of fires to date; many of which have resulted from escaped backyard debris burn piles, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry. As of April 13, 70 fires have burned 402 acres on Oregon Department of Forestry protected lands, 40 of which came from debris burning that accounted for 154 acres.

The 10-year average for all fires by this date is 24 fires for 225 acres.

While fire season has not officially started, experts say to watch the conditions and not the calendar.

“Just because fire season has not been declared does not mean fire danger does not exist,” said ODF Fire Prevention Coordinator Tom Fields. “The window of opportunity to clean up around homes and dispose of woody debris in a safe manner is narrowing each year. Now is the time to reassess and wait for better conditions.”

Some jurisdictions, like the City of Sisters, do not allow outdoor burning of debris at all. Fields says

A FireFree yard debris disposal event is set for Sisters area:

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Dispose of grass clippings, brush, plant prunings, pine needles, pine cones, weeds, trimmings and branches, stumps or trees (no larger than 12 inches in diameter). Such debris will be accepted for free. The transfer station will not accept sod, dirt, rocks, lumber, metal, trash, or plastics of any kind, including plastic bags, and any stumps or trees larger than 12 inches in diameter.

that if burning is your choice of debris disposal, the window to burn this spring may already be closed and that it may be best to wait until late fall or winter to burn debris safely. When conditions warrant, follow these simple steps.

• Place yard debris in an open area away from structures, trees and power lines.

• Create small piles (4-by-4-feet)

to better manage the burn.

• Cover portions of piles with polyethylene plastic (landscape material) to keep a portion dry for lighting later (preferably in late fall or winter).

• When conditions improve, check with your local fire agency for any regulations in place.

• Never burn under windy conditions.

• To maintain containment, create a perimeter around the pile at a minimum of 3 feet, scraped clear to bare mineral soil.

• Keep a shovel and charged hose nearby to manage the burn.

• Make sure the pile is dead out before leaving.

Return periodically over several weeks to make sure the pile is still out: No heat, no smoke.

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here’s something happening here… Suddenly it seems that everybody in Sisters is doing projects with pavers.

It’s not hard to understand why — pavers are versatile and durable, and a paver patio can provide an option that can replace a wood deck or supplement one. You can choose among a variety of colors and textures and create an almost endless variety of attractive patterns.

Ryan Vohs of Vohs Custom Landscaping has been seeing an upsurge in interest in pavers, especially in the face of rising material costs — and scarcity — when it comes to lumber products.

“Your best investment for outdoor, usable space is going to be pavers,” he said.

Pavers have advantages in durability, longevity, ease of use and ease of maintenance. It’s simple to keep a paver patio clean, and you can readily repair or replace a broken or chipped paver here and there.

“Especially in our area, I think it’s something that really adds value to your house,” Vohs said. “It’s an extension of your living room, in my opinion.”

Outdoor entertainment spaces have become more valuable than ever in pandemic conditions.

You’re limited only by imagination and budget as to what you can do.

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constructed out of stone. Build retaining walls or seating walls crafted out of the hard stuff. You can add a fire pit. You can create a whole driveway out of pavers, utilizing high-PSI-rated materials to withstand heavy traffic.

Some care and effort is involved, and for bigger projects, it’s probably wise to tap local expertise.

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SISTERS RENTAL Seems that everybody is working with pavers this spring. Small wonder: They’re durable, aesthetic, readily available — and surprisingly easy to work with.

There are lots of contractors in Sisters who work with pavers — but it’s both cost-effective and fun to take a paver project on as a DIY effort. That’s where Sisters Rental comes in. They have recently begun to stock product from the highly respected Oregon Block and Paver out of Prineville, which means they have everything you need for a project.

You’ll need base material, a compactor, the stones you want to use, and play sand to work in the seams to settle and lock in the pavers. All of that is available at Sisters Rental — along with expert advice that will take the intimidation factor out of the equation.

And while you’re at it, you can get a kit to put together a stone fire pit — an easy project that will greatly enhance your enjoyment of your yard. Get on it — and have fun!

“It’s not just slam it in the ground and go,” Vohs said.

On the other hand, a paver project is not so complex that it’s out of reach for a do-it-yourself project.

“People get intimidated by it, but it’s one of those things that when you start it, it’s very simple,” said Eric Spor of Sisters Rental.

Sisters Rental has always had

on hand the tools and materials needed for such projects — and now they’ve added the pavers themselves, with materials crafted

by Oregon Block and Paver out of Prineville.

Spor lays out a simple protocol, using materials that are available at the shop.

Measure the area you plan to cover and stake it. Dig down about three to four inches and lay in your base material — 1/2 or 1/4-minus construction gravel and compact it, then lay in a base layer of sand.

“That allows you to manipulate the stones when you lay them,” Spor said.

Layer play sand over the top and brush it into the seams to lock your pavers in place.

You can go as simple or as complex as you like with the pattern.

“There’s probably 20 to 30 designs a [person] could do,” Spor said. “We display the simplest ones.”

Sisters Rental also offers a stone-fire-pit kit that comes on a pallet and is simple as can be to put together, with no cuts required. You simply stack the thing up, gather around and enjoy.

“You can glue them if you want, but you don’t have to,” Spor said.

Whether you do it yourself or hire it done, a paver project creates space your family can enjoy that won’t require too much upkeep and will last and last.

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Ba ling CHEATGRASS never ends Story and photo by Katy Yoder

Our son-in-love, Toby Maxwell, is a research scientist working on a project in Idaho. He’s studying invasive species like cheatgrass, and how climate change correlates with its proliferation. Since I spent many back-aching hours last year handweeding cheatgrass in our pasture, I’m well aware of its detrimental effect on the High Desert.

Cheatgrass begins as a benignlooking treat for grazers. Although it fills stomachs, it’s poorly nutritious for the animals consuming it. When it turns from green to a luscious purple and begins to dry out, it loses its allure as a food source and becomes a menace. The foxtails waving in the wind and attaching themselves to the coats of animals are an effective way to scatter seeds and expand territory.

Horses and other grazers that snatch a bite of grass and get some foxtails along with it, can get infections and even die from sharp foxtails burrowing deep into tender tissue.

At its climax, cheatgrass can decimate an ecosystem, growing in near monoculture — the dominance by a single plant in a given area. This can result in pathogens and disease which undermines the potential of a plot of land, depletes soil resources, and diminishes the

Beau roams a pasture that’s got some cheatgrass in it.

The invasive pest can’t be eliminated entirely — but it can be fought. quality of the food produced there.

I’ve asked Toby how to get rid of cheatgrass. It’s not native to Central Oregon and was accidently introduced to the U.S. in packing material in the late 1800s. It’s a winter annual grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa.

It is now invasive worldwide. It’s common for seeds, designed to burrow into the ground, to get into a dog’s skin, ears and nose which can cause infections and even death.

According to the USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service, Bromus tectorum, or cheatgrass, spreads explosively in the ready-made seedbeds prepared

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by the trampling hooves of livestock on over-grazed rangelands.

Disturbance associated with homesteading and cultivation of winter wheat also accelerated its spread and establishment.

By the 1930s, cheatgrass was becoming the dominant grass over vast areas of the Pacific Northwest and the Intermountain West regions.

It’s now estimated to infest more than 41 million hectares (101 million acres) in western states. While it’s pesky for our pets, it’s also known to increase the frequency of wildfire and disrupt habitat for a variety of native animals of interest to naturalists and hunters alike.

Learn more here: https://plants.usda. gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_brte.pdf.

Toby was clear that there’s no way to completely get rid of cheatgrass. It will always find a way to survive somehow, somewhere.

His work is in its early stages.

What he knows so far is that one way to gain some control of cheatgrass in our Central Oregon pastures is by making sure beneficial grasses are healthy and receive proper nourishment. Cheatgrass is an opportunist. It lives and flourishes when other grasses are weakened by poor soil quality, lack of water and detrimental uses like overgrazing.

I’m still going to pull up the cheatgrass. But I’m not putting down poison in its place. That will only kill living things needed for a healthy, diverse, multicultural ecology. I look at fields, mottled with snow and wet soil, and know there are foxtail seeds that I missed.

They live under the snow all winter, giving their destructive agenda a competitive edge after winter’s siege. They will be the first to push through the cold ground and rise towards the sunlight. Finding and eradicating them when they’re young and harmless will allow native plants a chance to thrive.

SISTERS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY Sisters Habitat for Humanity Restore should be at the top of your list of stops when you’re planning your home projects this spring. Indoor and outdoor furniture of excellent quality can be had here for outstanding prices — with what you spend paying forward into Habitat’s housing programs.

Need tools and supplies for your project?

Restore has an array of hand tools and some power tools available. Doors, trim, tile, paint — you can find it all at Restore. Their garden-supply room is outstanding.

The Restore yard reopened to the public on April 1, and they are again taking donations. No appointment is necessary during designated hours

— but you will need to unload yourself. Pickups are available for some donations, call 541-549-1621 to inquire.

Volunteers are needed to staff the facility — cashiers, greeters, intake, pricing/sorting, and product testing are all slots that need filling — and a camera specialist would be most appreciated.

ALL YOU NEED MAINTENANCE & REPAIR You are looking at a whole lot of chores this spring. Not to mention all of those projects you’ve been meaning to tackle for months or even years.

But you’d really like to enjoy the sunny days of spring instead of working on the house and yard.

What to do? Call All You Need Maintenance & Repair (AYN).

AYN is a full-service, locally owned family company in Sisters. They proudly serve the whole Sisters area at a very high standard. Principal Austin Selle says that his motto is that perfection is the only option, no matter the size and scope of the job.

AYN hires locally and buys its materials locally, fully committed to the Sisters community because they “very much believe in this little town.”

They are licensed, bonded, and insured, and offer fair competitive pricing, and free estimates.

They stand behind every job with pride in a higher standard of excellence.

Celebrating 75 years through collaboration

By Emme Shoup & Janel Ruehl Guest Columnists

The Sisters Country Vision is a community-led vision project, first created with extensive community engagement in 2018, which continues to incorporate new community-led projects. At the heart of implementing this community vision is supporting and celebrating inter-community collaboration. As Sisters turns 75 this year, though we can’t have a big celebration due to COVID-19 regulations, local organizations continue to find creative ways to highlight Sisters’ unique history and enduring small-town atmosphere.

In partnership with the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce, Three Sisters Historical Society, The Nugget Newspaper and other partners, the City of Sisters is coordinating projects and events that commemorate its 75th Anniversary. The City’s event posters are popping up in businesses’ windows, and the blue banners throughout downtown highlight significant historical moments, landmarks, and people.

If you’d like to learn the story behind those iconic photos, there will be many opportunities to dig into Sisters’ history and Celebrate 75!

Explore the history of Sisters downtown by following the self-guided walking tour brochure and the historic plaques on buildings, which serves as an abbreviated version of the Sisters History Museum’s guided tours.

The Three Sisters Historical Society (TSHS) and the City’s RARE AmeriCorps volunteer, Emme Shoup, developed the brochure to highlight 18 historic locations. A community partner grant from the Vision Implementation Team (VIT) helped TSHS add 13 new historical plaques this year.

You can find the brochure at the Museum, or digitally on the City of Sisters’ history webpage.

As you enjoy the historic walking tour, you may soon notice a new mural popping up later this June.

On the west wall of the Sisters Habitat for Humanity Thrift Store, the mural will highlight imagery from the beginnings of Sisters through current times,” shares Dennis Schmidling of the Sisters Art Association (SAA).

This project has been a significant collaborative effort, with TSHS

providing the visual narrative of Sisters history, and the SAA working with the anonymous donor and the artist, Steve DeLaitsch, to gift the mural to Habitat for Humanity.

Coming later this spring, TSHS with C4C (Citizens4Community) will be hosting a Murder Mystery Virtual Event to tell the story of a gold-hungry murderer, A. J. Weston, of Sisters in 1920. The Historical Actors Guild of Sisters will be re-enacting and directing the story, which is set to be filmed on the second floor of the Sisters Saloon Restaurant by the talented Sisters Middle School student and videographer, Jack Turpen.

More event details will be announced later this spring!

As a Tree City, Sisters celebrates Arbor Day every year at the end of April.

This year, the City of Sisters is getting 75 ponderosa pine seedlings from the USFS nursery and gifting them to the Sisters Middle School “ECoS” outdoor education class. Each student will be given seedlings to plant in the Sisters area!

The Vision Implementation Team is also excited to sponsor the 2021 Community Champion Awards in May. Community members can nominate any individual, business, or organization as a Community Champion. A total of eight winners will be announced in early June, and each will receive gift certificates and/ or products from local restaurants and businesses of Sisters Country. Each individual prize is approximately a $100 value, and each business/organization prize is approximately a $200 value. Your nominations help to support our local businesses who have been impacted by the pandemic and related stressors in the past 12 months, as all gifts are purchased by the VIT (not donated).

Nominations open May 1: visit www.sistersvision.org to learn more and nominate your Community Champion.

Whether you’re a tourist, a newcomer, or a long-time Sisters resident, one thing that can bring us together is the history of the place we all love. As the city and region grows, the Sisters Country Vision strives to create a more Connected Sisters by embracing its “Small-Town Atmosphere” through increasing opportunities for face-to-face contacts, and visitors-tolocals connections and commerce.

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Event focuses on wolf interaction T h e Wo l f We l c o m e Committee will continue its discussion of wolf and human interaction in the region with Rick McIntyre and Kira Cassidy in partnership with Paulina Springs Books on Wednesday, April 28 at 6:30 p.m.

They will follow that public event with a discussion of the newly published book, “Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park,” which both McIntyre and Cassidy contributed to, on Wednesday, May 12 at 6:30 p.m.

To bring the discussion to home territory, the committee invited John Stevenson, Wolf Specialist for Oregon with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, to discuss wolves in the local region and their possible future here. That discussion will take place on May 26 at 6:30 p.m.

“As human animals, we can learn a lot from wolves’ cooperation, and can live in balance with other humans and species,” said Wolf Welcome Committee cofounder Susan Prince. “As wolves re-populate Central

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Wolves are returning to a role in the natural landscape across the West.

Oregon, now is the time to reevaluate how we choose to coexist on our beautiful planet. Not only are humans harming each other, at a horrifying rate, but other species as well. Since 1970, wildlife populations have declined by two-thirds (68 percent), according to World Wildlife Fund’s 2020 report.

Specifically, humans continue to persecute wolves, the committee argues. Now, without protections previously afforded by the Endangered Species Act, it is much harder to enforce conservation guidelines.

In February, five wolves mysteriously died in northeastern Oregon.”

“This is very unsettling

news for a species that is only just beginning to recover in Oregon,” Kathleen Gobush, Northwest program director at Defenders of Wildlife said in a news release.

“Predators, particularly wolves, are often the target of ruthless persecution, and the killing of one wolf, not to mention five, appears to follow a growing pattern of grave concern.”

In the same month, in the space of 60 hours, hunters in Wisconsin killed 216 wolves, about a quarter of that state’s estimated wolf population, exceeding the state’s legal hunt quota of 119 animals.

To register for any or all of the events, email wolfwelcomecommitee@gmail.com.

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WINNERS: Virtual fundraising event is set for May 10

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on its own.”

• Bob Wade’s ballpoint drawing of a Sisters Folk Festival fan favorite, Ron Artis II (Framed by Clearwater Gallery and Framing, a MOTH Framing Sponsor).

Wade describes his use of PHOTO PROVIDED medium: “I draw the dark and let the light show through.” Bob Wade’s drawing of Ron Artis II won an Award of Merit.

• Mary Jo Weiss and Dennis Tower’s collabora- the tools for music-making volunteers — has produced tion in their pendant, “Hope and hope-building. I hold onto a guitar, an Adirondack chair the hope that we will stay and/or a ukulele every year Grows.”

Weiss and Tower have in the struggle and expand for the past 10 years in suptraditionally collaborated who is truly included in our port of My Own Two Hands.”

Ben Westlund Advocate for MOTH each year to put community.”

Spirit of Giving Award for the Arts Award — together a one-of-a-kind Tony Cosby, Engineering, Cascade A & E piece of jewelry that comCascade A & E has been bines Denny’s lapidary arts Construction and Woods and Mary Jo’s jewelry design teacher at Sisters High School showcasing and promoting Cosby has provided inspi- the arts and entertainment skills.

“To us, combining beau- ration and hope for so many scene in Central Oregon since tiful natural stones with aspiring creators, builders, 1995, with a print and online outstanding jewelry design and students. He co-created magazine. The COVID-19 brings beauty, inspiration and the Americana Luthier Project pandemic has impacted the hope,” they said in an artists’ with Jayson Bowerman at creative economy in a big statement. “Of special note, Sisters High School in 2005, way, resulting in significant inscribed on the back of the and has since built more than ad-revenue loss for the publipiece through the silver back- 450 handmade acoustic gui- cation over the past year.

Despite this challenge, ing is an iris, which is the tars, and helped create the ukulele-building program publisher Jeff Martin and his flower of hope.”

• Lawrence Stoller’s illu- with the late Bill MacDonald, team have soldiered on, even minated gemstone sculpture, helping to finish some 175 as other arts-focused magahandmade ukuleles built by zines around the state have “Frozen Sky.” folded under the financial Stoller explained, “I was students.

“Tony connects with his strain. first drawn to working with SFF noted, “Sisters Folk crystals because of their students as a friend and menbeauty, mystery, and mysti- tor and provides for them a F e s t i v a l a c k n o w l e d g e s cism. What started as a fas- ‘home’ in his classroom,” Cascade A & E’s generosity cination led me on a verdant SFF stated. “He gives tire- toward our organization and path through the fields of lessly to the school commu- many others throughout their mineralogy, technology, art, nity. Continually improving 26-year history, and we are and seeking best practices for thrilled to honor them with the metaphysics and healing.” classroom engagement, Tony 2021 Ben Westlund Advocate Americana Folk Award Carly Garzón Vargas was has successfully combined for the Arts Award for their honored for her dynamic engineering, math, music, dedication and ongoing conpapercut, “Our Hands, Our construction, and adventure tributions to Central Oregon’s Work” (framed by Wildflower recreation for more than two thriving arts community.”

Studio, a MOTH Framing decades to inspire students, showing that the Spirit of Sponsor).

“We have a lot of work to Giving is alive and well in do moving towards the world this tremendous teacher and we hope for,” Vargas said. friend. Tony – along with “These hands hold some of his students and dedicated

shouldn’t be a luxury, but a right. To achieve that end, S2T staff and board are striving to fill the gap in fresh food availability by increasing onfarm cultivation and distribution programming. By ramping up efforts, S2T will be able to further support longstanding community organizations, including area food banks, schools, the Family Access Network, Deschutes Public Library-Biblioteca en Camino program and more for years to come.

“Last year we grew nearly 5,000 pounds of fresh produce which was distributed to the two area food banks — that’s a lot of salad,” said Audrey Tehan, Seed to Table Oregon’s executive director.

An additional 5,000 pounds of Sisters-grown veggies were allocated to COVID-19 relief programs and an additional 30,000 pounds nourished community members through schools, outreach, partnership programs, the Sisters Farmers Market and produce shares.

“Even with all this, there’s still a vast and increasing unmet demand in our community. The waitlist for our produce shares in 2020 was 50 families and we had to cap

distribution through partnerships, despite requests, simply due to a lack of growing capacity,” said Tehan.

Prior to the onset of COVID-19, S2T had been brainstorming about a farm expansion plan to address increasing demand. Once the pandemic hit, it became apparent the time to expand production was now. Support from individuals and grantmakers were key to farm expansion, including funds from the Oregon Community Foundation, Autzen Foundation, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund, The Roundhouse Foundation, and more.

Through doubling the size of the farm plot, adding new greenhouses, and beginning to utilize mechanical cultivation techniques, the S2T team is projecting that in four years the farm’s annual output will double to nearly 100,000 pounds of fresh veggies.

“Increasing on-farm efficiency so we can focus on harvesting and getting food to our neighbors will be a key focus of our expansion,” explained Farm Manager Madeline Steen, who is in her third year of the role.

“We’re fortunate to have community support in expanding to serve our community’s local organizations, neighbors and families.

We’re ready to make our biggest impact so far in access to fresh foods,” said Tehan.

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Art goes on display Sisters Folk Festival invites the public to join the My Own Two Hands collective show opening on Friday, April 23 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Duncan and Cindy Campbell Gallery and upstairs studio space located at the Sisters Art Works building, 204 W. Adams Ave. in Sisters. All visitors will be expected to practice social distancing and proper mask wearing at all times while inside the building.

All of the MOTH art will be on display MondayFriday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from April 23 through May 14, with private art viewings available outside of those times upon request. Contact kate@sistersfolkfestival.org

to make an appointment.

“Art lovers are highly encouraged to make time to see all of the amazing artwork that has been so generously donated by the talented 2021 MOTH artists,” SFF offered.

High-quality photos of the artwork that will be available to bid on at the online auction platform from May 10-15, will be featured on SFF’s website for virtual viewing beginning Thursday, April 22.

Follow Sisters Folk Festival on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for up-to-date event information. For more information on the My Own Two Hands auction and fundraiser, visit www.sisters folkfestival.org.

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Outlaws shut out Newport in debut

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws came out firing on all cylinders in their first game of the season, and shut out Newport 11-0 at home on Thursday, April 15. A day later they traveled to Philomath and fell short 15-11, and 5-2, in the double header.

Sisters had 14 hits in their game against Newport and several players contributed big bats in the winning effort.

Garrett Vohs had two hits and five RBI, Adam Harper had three hits and three RBI, Connor Linn had two hits, Hunter Sport had one hit and one RBI, and Easton Moore also contributed a hit.

Pitching duties were handled by Will Grace (two innings), and Dillon Tucker, Vohs, and Brody Duey who each pitched an inning.

The game ended after five innings due to the 10-run rule.

At Philomath, the Outlaws lost by three in a tough battle

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Hunter Spor drives one in the Outlaws’ opener, one of 14 hits for the Sisters squad. full of missed opportunities.

The Outlaws left 11 runners on base. Vohs led Sisters with two hits and three RBI. Garrett also pitched three innings and recorded five strike outs, and one walk.

In the second match-up against the Warriors, the Outlaws had scattered hits,

with Linn and Harper each recording an RBI. Tucker and Patrick Silva combined for seven strike outs.

Sisters was to play at Newport on Monday, April 19. They will travel to Stayton on Wednesday, and then host the Stayton Eagles on Thursday.

GPS dart helps nab wanted driver A deputy deployed a GPS tracker dart in an effort to nab a driver wanted by law enforcement.

A Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Office (DSCO) deputy spotted the wanted man’s vehicle on April 18, at approximately 11:15 a.m., while he was driving in the area of Highway 20 and South Pine Street in the City of Sisters. The deputy observed a 2004 GMC Yukon on South Pine Street. The registration for the vehicle was allegedly expired. The sheriff’s office reports that there was also history of this vehicle being associated with a subject the deputy knew to be wanted on pending criminal charges.

According to DCSO, the deputy attempted to stop the vehicle and it immediately turned onto a dirt road and continued driving in an attempt to elude the deputy.

The deputy pursued the vehicle for a short distance until it turned back toward the City of Sisters. The deputy discontinued the pursuit due to safety concerns.

A deputy later observed the vehicle driving on Fryrear Road toward Highway 126.

The deputy followed the vehicle from a distance, advising other deputies of their location. Another deputy observed the vehicle near

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Buckhorn Road and Highway 126. That deputy was able to successfully tag the vehicle with a Star Chase GPS dart.

Deputies discontinued following the vehicle, and began tracking it remotely.

The GPS tracker showed the vehicle was stationary on BLM land off of Buckhorn Road. Deputies located the vehicle and made contact with the only occupant of the vehicle. The subject, later identified as Justin Merritt, age 39, of Sisters, refused to obey commands to exit the vehicle. Deputies worked to de-escalate the situation and negotiated with Merritt for close to an hour before he

agreed to exit the vehicle.

Merritt was taken into custody without incident and lodged in the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Jail on charges of Attempt to Elude (felony), Reckless Driving, and Interfering With a Police Officer.

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Climber rescued off South Sister Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Office (DCSO) Search and Rescue personnel rescued a climber stranded in a precarious spot on South Sisters on Monday, April 12.

Stephen Lamb, a 49-yearold man from Beaverton, called 911 shortly before 9 a.m. Lamb reported he had been climbing alone up the north side of South Sister, and found himself in a precarious location where he was unable to continue up and unable to climb back down the mountain. He was stranded on a small ledge in very steep terrain.

Snow, ice, and poor rock prevented him from being able to move from his position.

Tw o D S C O S p e c i a l Service Deputies responded to begin initial planning for rescue. It quickly became clear that the rescue would require technical rescuers from the DCSO SAR Mountain Rescue Unit (MRU). Three SAR volunteers were flown

by AirLink to the summit of South Sister. AirLink made two flights ferrying rescuers and a third flight to assist in locating Lamb.

Six additional SAR volunteers responded to the Devil’s Lake Trailhead via snowmobile to support the

mission and five additional volunteers supported Incident Management. The Oregon National Guard was put on standby for the possibility of a hoist rescue.

Rescuers had to proceed about 600 feet down a ridge off the northwest side of the mountain and then traverse laterally along the slope approximately 500 feet east to a location directly above Lamb. Lamb was located in a narrow chute.

At approximately 3:19 p.m., an MRU member rappelled to Lamb and secured him from falling.

Due to the precarious location, they assisted him from the chute to a safer location for the Oregon National Guard HH-60 Blackhawk helicopter to hoist from. At approximately 4:30 p.m., Lamb was hoisted aboard the helicopter and flown to a waiting sheriff’s deputy at Sisters Airport.

Lamb was uninjured, but exhausted from the long climb and from holding on to a ledge for over seven hours.

The Sheriff ’s Office thanked AirLink Critical Care Transport and the Oregon Army National Guard G/1-189 Aviation Regiment for their assistance in the rescue.

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growing community, and with that comes overcrowding in our schools as more and more families move here.

I believe the 2021 school district bond will positively benefit the Sisters elementary school-aged kids, families, and the community. Building a new school will provide a better learning environment by providing essential learning space and enough classrooms to welcome the fifth-grade class back into the elementary school.

In addition, I am looking forward to having the elementary, middle and high schools being near each other for when my kids are in different schools, as I am sure other families are. Drop-off and pick-up will be convenient. The bond will not increase the estimated tax rate, as it is based off the estimated 2001 school bond. A win-win for all of us!

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To the Editor: Routinely supporting our schools is a very purposeful choice on my part and the majority of Sisters School District voters. Let’s keep education elevated when we vote on Measure 9-141 in the upcoming May election.

Historically, Sisters residents and businesses place high value on living in a community with safe, well-maintained schools, which offer unique learning opportunities delivered by a cadre of “can do” educators. Research supports the fact that high community engagement by students and their surrounding community members creates a more meaningful quality of life and an overall feeling of belonging within the community at large.

Having witnessed the myriad of ways students perpetually interact with our community confirms that our investment in Sisters schools pays off.

Just recently, Sisters High School students raised over $15,000 on behalf of our local Family Access Network. Students throughout our school district perpetually work to maintain and improve the natural areas surrounding our community and find other creative ways to give back to the community which supports them.

Collaborations between our schools and local resources such as Sisters Folk Festival, Sisters Athletic Club, Seed to Table, The Belfry, Outlaw Aviation, Sisters GRO, Kiwanis Food Bank, Circle of Friends, Sisters Coffee, Paulina Springs Books, Ray’s, Sisters Rental, Deschutes Land Trust, and our own Sisters Parks and Recreation are all quality of life indicators which enhance lives in Sisters and make it an exceptional community in which to live. (Apologies to any businesses or nonprofits I’ve neglected to highlight.)

Please join me in supporting measure 9-141 on

the upcoming May ballot to insure that our investments continue to reap beneficial dividends for all of Sisters residents.

For more informations and FAQs, log in to: www.growingsistersschools.com Kay Grady

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To the Editor: I am writing to express my support of the upcoming Sisters Schools Bond Measure 9-141.

As a parent of three young children, ages 12, nine and four, I overwhelmingly support this measure. I have seen the substantial growth in class sizes and the growth of our preschools over the past four years.

Four of the main reasons I personally support this bill are: 1. Bring the fifth grade students back to the elementary school. 2. Reduce traffic and traffic patterns. 3. Opportunity to keep Sisters class sizes small. 4. Turning the current elementary school into a true community center for all Sisters residents.

Having just had a fifth grader last year, I can see the benefits of returning the fifth graders back to an elementary school building. While the middle school does a great job of welcoming and incorporating the fifth graders, they are really on a slightly different track than the middle schoolers. Most school districts in Oregon have K-5 at their elementary schools, and I do believe that 5th grade is still an elementary school grade.

With every school starting and getting out at different times, my cross-town trips are significantly increased and not the least bit efficient. On school days I am dropping off at the SPRD preschool, then heading to the elementary school then back to the middle school. I am definitely contributing to increased traffic through town.

It would be so much more convenient for me, and the buses, to drop off and pick up students at a consolidated school campus setting.

One of the reasons we chose to move to Sisters was because of the top-rated schools, and the small class sizes. Due to our town’s growth it has been a challenge keeping the class sizes small. If the elementary school were to expand we’ll have the opportunity to keep the class sizes smaller than most districts in Oregon. Students and teachers thrive in smaller class sizes.

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Reasons for 4-day school week To the Editor: I am writing in response to the letter submitted

by Steve Barlow regarding returning to a 5-day school week. As an educator for 36 years, the last 16 years in the Sisters School District, I take offense to many of the statements in Mr. Barlow’s letter. He implies that we are shirking our duty to our students

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and this cannot be further from the truth.

First, let me respond to his comment, “I don’t see truck drivers asking for a no drive Friday to check air pressure…” While the professions Mr. Barlow mentions are honorable and valuable occupations, they do not equate to educating the youth of Sisters.

He is comparing apples to elephants; there is no correlation between the two. Every teacher in the district is a highly qualified individual with years of education and experience to back their expertise and have nothing but the best interests of their students in mind.

He is correct in that we have moved from a fiveday instructional model to a four-day model during this past year. However, what he does not seem to grasp is that, in the past, teachers have had to shoulder all of the work required above and beyond actual instruction. This includes preparing lessons, grading, parent communication, meetings, and district expectations. We also attend trainings on our own time. These additional duties are often to the severe detriment of our own families. All of this time outside of our contracted 40-hour workweek is to provide your children with an effective and enriching education.

By allowing us Friday to plan and train, most teachers have now been able to cut that unpaid time to maybe 10-15 hours a week to provide a more integrated and thorough curriculum for students.

Mr. Barlow, before you disparage the hard work and dedication your child’s teacher provides, please walk in our shoes and talk to us instead of making grossly misleading and inaccurate statements.

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Thank you from Kiwanis Food Bank To the Editor: A few weeks ago a nice gentleman called and met with me about how he could help the Kiwanis Food Bank, with donations or whatever he could think of.

He donated a lot of money, and asked that I give it out to each customer we had the following Thursday. I did that and it was exciting to see all the different responses. We, the Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank, would like to thank all those who have since donated to us. We have received overflowing boxes of food every day and donations of money including $20,000 from anonymous persons.

So, to all of you who have donated we do THANK YOU so much, from the Kiwanis Food Bank workers.

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Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act To the Editor: There has been progress on the Energy

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Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (EICDA). In the U.S. House, on April 7, EICDA was reinstated and is assigned # HR2307 with 28 co-sponsors which has since increased to 40 co-sponsors and growing.

If HR2307 were to become law it would put a price on carbon emissions at the source (mining, drilling or import), revenues are placed into a fund in the US Treasury and monthly dividends would go to every legal US citizen (full share to adults and 1/2 share to each child under age 19). This bill is based on a policy of Carbon Fee and Dividend that is strongly endorsed by over 3500 economists because it is the best market-based solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and will do so very quickly.

To reduce carbon emissions, we need to have a price on carbon that addresses the costs associated with pollution and the problems created thereby.

At the same time, EICDA will protect citizens from increased fossil fuel expenses with the monthly dividends.

HR2307 will do so using existing governing agencies and therefore is efficient and beneficial to the public. Please, call US Representative Cliff Bentz to support HR2307, EICDA, 541-776-4646 or 202-225-6730.

Here in Oregon, the Senate Joint Memorial 5 (SJM5), passed in the Senate April 7, 23 to 5 (six of whom are Republicans including Republican Senators Findley and Knopp). It is exciting that this Oregon resolution is getting bi-partisan support.

It requests the U.S. President and legislators to fully support passing EICDA into law.

SJM5 is currently assigned to OR House Rules Committee, of which Representatives Daniel Bonham and Jack Zika, are members. At this writing (April 18), SJM5-A is not yet scheduled for a hearing. Encourage our representatives to follow Senators Findley’s and Knopp’s leadership and work on advancing this resolution out of committee with a vote to pass on the floor of the Oregon House. Please, call your Oregon Representative to support SJM5.

For those of us located in Sisters, call Representative D. Bonham: 503-986-1459. If you have questions about these legislations, contact info@citizensclimatebend.org.

Susan Cobb

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LGBTQ support To the Editor: An open letter to our LGBTQ+ and marginalized youth — You are normal. You are not worth less than anyone else because of whom you love or whether the gender you were given doesn’t match your own. You are not alone; there are millions of kids and adults just like you. If anyone tries to make you feel as if who you are is not OK; please reach out to someone you trust and tell them why you are hurting.

If you see other students being victimized for their race; ethnicity; sexuality or gender; reach out to them; support one another and talk to someone you trust. There are so many people in this community that DO support you and love you and want you to be happy exactly as you are. We stand in solidarity with you and want you to know that you have friends and allies in the Sisters Community who see you and welcome you and love you; just the way you are.

Supporters include Katie and Shawn Diez; Vanessa and Jay Wilkins; Annemarie and David Crosier; Julie and Paul Patton; Robine Bots and Rob Jeffrey; Nicki and Aaron Gregg; Gail and Mark Greaney; Suzy and Lance Ramsey; Deb and Mike Riehle; Amanda Van Buren and David Nunn; Dominic DeBari and Wendy Vernon; Lene Banke-Fornalski; Elizabeth Wing; Judy Fuentes; Heather and Brandon Johnson; Devin Robillard; Sophie Winter; Jan and Hank Failing; Meghan Flaherty; Suzanne and Glenn Walker; Mike Geisen and Charlotte Arnold; Tanya Young; Tiffany and Brad Tisdel; Michele Hammer; Treasure and Winter Lewis; Jonathan Kelly; Angie Pike; Jenny Duey; #lalaalways; Em Blood; Benji Nagel; Carys Wilkins; Gia Matzinger; Natalie Akers and Jenner Fox; Susie and Greg Werts; Jonathan Sattler; Molly Pearring and Kelly Powell; Rima Givot and Gabe Chladek; Sheryl Yeager; Miki McFadden and Peggy Lukens; Amber Tollerud; Tony Cosby; Springer family; Amber Dean; Khiva Beckwith; Casey Gardner; Amber and Shad Sitz; Becca Christian; Angela Sitz; Marybeth Quinn; Mary Pyke; Justin Veloso and Maren Burck; Elisabeth and Christina Kokesh; Wendy von Kalinowski and Mark Smeltzer; Jeanette Pilak; Shawna Palanuk; Tara Morris; Kirstin Anglea and Lisa Gies; Shawn Steele; Kay Grady; Kelly Sheets and Jeff Sanders; Jennifer Binks and Todd Volenand; Lynne and Neil Fendall; Johanna Bots; Loryn Cummins; Liora Mendeloff and Shore Slocum; Amber and Roy Dean; Elise and Margery Carlos; Nicole Stefano; Suzy and Dave Hayes; Samra Spear; Bethany Gunnarson; Rob Corrigan; TR McCrystal and Tyler Cranor.

If you need an anonymous helpline, please visit the Trevor Project at thetrevorproject.org or call 1-866-488-7386.

Sincerely, Annie and David Winter

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This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777.

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

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

C L A S S I F I E D S 102 Commercial Rentals

201 For Sale

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Prime Downtown Retail Space Call Lori at 541-549-7132 202 Firewood Cold Springs Commercial R&B Ranch L.L.C. offering SISTERS FOREST PRODUCTS horse boarding services. Details Office space for lease. The Place DAVE ELPI – FIREWOOD available at rbhorseranch.com or on Main. 101 Main Ave. in • SINCE 1976 • call 541-325-3020.

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Doug Fir – Lodgepole – Juniper $575/month and up. Call Ralph DRIVE-IN WOOD SALES 500 Services 541-390-5187 – 18155 Hwy. 126 East – YOU NEED STUFF CASCADE STORAGE SistersForestProducts.com HAULED? I NEED TO HAUL (541) 549-1086 • (877) 540-1086 Order Online! 541-410-4509 STUFF! SPECIALIZING IN 581 N. Larch – 7-Day Access FIREWOOD, dry or green PROPERTY CLEANUP AND 5x5 to 12x30 Units Available Lodgepole, juniper, pine.

ITEM REMOVAL. CALL 5x5 - 8x15 Climate Control Units Cut & split. Delivery included.

THE WORKIN' MAN AT On-site Management eaglecreekfire@yahoo.com 541-610-2926.

MINI STORAGE MOVING TRUCK FOR HIRE Sisters Rental 203 Recreation Equipment –COMPLETE MOVING, LLC– 331 W. Barclay Drive Treadmill Sole F63. Brand new, Sisters' Only Local Moving Co.!

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Phone: (541) 241-4907 204 Arts & Antiques www.spencerbookkeeping.com JEWELRY REPAIR & ~ WEDDINGS BY KARLY ~ CUSTOM DESIGN Happy to perform virtual or Graduate gemologist. Over 45 in-person weddings.

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• DERI’s HAIR SALON • Log Home Moving Sale Call 541-419-1279 Wanted: Industrial-area building 16431 Marmott Lane, Sisters GEORGE’S SEPTIC for lease. 1,000 sq. ft. ± Fri. & Sat., 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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HOME or CONDO Happy Trails Estate Sales TO SELL OR RENT? and online auctions!

CLASSIFIEDS! Deadline is Mondays by noon, Selling, Downsizing, or Deaths?

Junk removal, new home, Locally owned & operated by... call 541-549-9941 garage & storage clean-out, Daiya 541-480-2806 construction & yard debris.

104 Vacation Rentals Sharie 541-771-1150 You Call – We Haul!

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301 Vehicles VACATION RENTALS Black Butte Monthly and Vacation Rentals WINDOW CLEANING throughout Sisters Country.

Commercial & Residential.

(541) 549-0792 18 years experience, references Property management available. Safe, reliable, friendly. for second homes.

Free estimates. 541-241-0426 CascadeVacationRentals.net SMALL Engine REPAIR 1975 MGB Roadster - $9,995 ~ Sisters Vacation Rentals ~ Lawn Mowers, Great condition, 73,625 original Private Central OR vac. rentals, Chainsaws & Trimmers Property Management Services miles. Nice leather seats, no rust, Sisters Rental always garaged. Extensive 541-977-9898 331 W. Barclay Drive maintenance history. www.SistersVacation.com 541-549-9631 503-449-0438 Authorized service center for 107 Rentals Wanted We Buy, Sell, Consign Quality Stihl, Honda, Ariens/Gravely, Cars, Trucks, SUVs & RVs ~ I have lived in Sisters for 2 Cub Cadet, Briggs & Stratton, Call Jeff at 541-815-7397 years and I would love to stay!

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RV inspections and more.

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401 Horses 1-year licensed real estate agent.

541-728-7253 Certified Weed-Free HAY. I am clean, respect spaces and Orchard Grass or Alfalfa Hay, communicate very well.

501 Computers & Sisters. $275 per ton.

Looking for: Apt. attached to Communications Call 541-548-4163 horse barn or ADU or private SISTERS SATELLITE living space. Please contact me MEADOW GRASS HAY TV • PHONE • INTERNET if you think something might ORCHARD GRASS HAY Your authorized local dealer for work between us!

New crop. No rain. Barn stored.

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502 Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning

M & J CARPET CLEANING Area rugs, upholstery, tile & dryer-vent cleaning. Established & family-owned since 1986.

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600 Tree Service & Forestry

4 Brothers Tree Service Sisters' Premier Tree Experts!

– TREE REMOVAL & CLEANUP – Native / Non-Native Tree Assessments, Pruning, High-Risk Removals, 24 Hr. Emergency Storm Damage Cleanup, Craning & Stump Grinding, Debris Removal.

– FOREST MANAGEMENT – Fire Fuels Reduction - Brush Mowing, Mastication, Tree Thinning, Large & Small Scale Projects!

Serving Black Butte Ranch, Camp Sherman & Sisters Area since 2003 ** Free Estimates ** Owner James Hatley & Sons 541-815-2342 4brostrees.com Licensed, Bonded and Insured CCB-215057 Sisters Premier Tree & Forestry Service since 1997 (formerly Bear Mountain Fire) High-risk removals/storm damage. Pruning of all native non-native trees, shrubs. Forestry thinning, mowing, fire fuels abatement. Year-round firewood sales. Snow removal.

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Top Knot Tree Care SPURGE COCHRAN CURTS ELECTRIC LLC can handle all of your tree needs, BUILDER, INC. – SISTERS, OREGON – Quality Electrical Installations from trims to removals.

General Contractor Specializing in tree assessment, Building Distinctive, Agricultural • Commercial Industrial • Well & Irrigation hazard tree removal, crown Handcrafted Custom Homes, reduction, ladder fuel reduction, Additions, Remodels Since ’74 Pumps, Motor Control, lot clearing, ornamental and fruit A “Hands-On” Builder Barns & Shops, Plan Reviews CCB #178543 tree trimming and care.

Keeping Your Project on Time • Locally owned and operated • & On Budget • CCB #96016 541-480-1404 • Senior and military discounts • To speak to Spurge personally, SWEENEY • Free assessments • call 541-815-0523 PLUMBING, INC. • Great cleanups • “Quality and Reliability” • Licensed, Insured and Bonded • Repairs • Remodeling Contact Bello @ 541-419-9655, • New Construction Find us on Facebook and Google Custom Homes • Water Heaters CCB#227009 Residential Building Projects 541-549-4349 TIMBER STAND Concrete Foundations Residential and Commercial IMPROVEMENT Becke William Pierce Licensed • Bonded • Insured Tree care and vegetation CCB# 190689 • 541-647-0384 CCB #87587 management Beckewpcontracting@gmail.com 603 Excavation & Trucking Pruning, hazard tree removal, JOHN NITCHER Full Service Excavation stump grinding, brush mowing, CONSTRUCTION certified arborist consultation, General Contractor tree risk assessment qualified, Home repair, remodeling and wildfire fuels assessment and additions. CCB #101744 treatment, grant acquisition, lot 541-549-2206 clearing, crane services.

Free On-site Visit & Estimate Nate Goodwin Tewaltandsonsexcavation@ ISA-Cert. Arborist PN-7987A gmail.com CCB #190496 * 541.771.4825 541-549-1472 • CCB #76888 Online at: www.tsi.services Drainfield Sisters Tree Care, LLC • Minor & Major Septic Repair Preservation, Pruning, • All Septic Needs/Design Removals & Storm Damage SIMON CONSTRUCTION & Install Serving All of Central Oregon SERVICES General Excavation Brad Bartholomew Residential Remodel • Site Preparation ISA Cert. Arborist UT-4454A Building Projects • Rock & Stump Removal 503-914-8436 • CCB #218444 Bruce Simon, Quality craftsman • Pond & Driveway Construction for 35 years Preparation 601 Construction 541-948-2620 • CCB #184335 • Building Demolition Earthwood Timberframes bsimon@bendbroadband.com Trucking • Design & construction • Deliver Top Soil, Sand, Gravel, • Recycled fir and pine beams Boulders, Water • Mantles and accent timbers • Dump Trucks, Transfer Trucks, Kris@earthwoodhomes.com Belly CCB #174977 • The Whole 9 Yards or 24 Construction & Renovation Whatever You Want!

Custom Residential Projects All Phases • CCB #148365 541-420-8448 Carl Perry Construction LLC Pat Burke Construction • Remodel LOCALLY OWNED Repair CRAFTSMAN BUILT CCB #201709 • 541-419-3991 OLIN SITZ EXCAVATION CCB: 288388 • 541-588-2062 LAREDO CONSTRUCTION Call us for all your excavation www.sistersfencecompany.com 541-549-1575 needs! Now delivering rock and For ALL Your Residential other construction materials.

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(541) 549-1848 Servicing Central Oregon 604 Heating & Cooling Lic. Bond. Ins. • CCB #184660 Custom Homes • Additions ACTION AIR 541-771-7000 Residential Building Projects Heating & Cooling, LLC Ridgeline Electric, LLC Serving Sisters area since 1976 Retrofit • New Const • Remodel Serving all of Central Oregon Strictly Quality Consulting, Service & Installs • Residential • Commercial CCB #16891 • CCB #159020 actionairheatingandcooling.com • Industrial • Service 541-549-9764 CCB #195556 541-588-3088 • CCB #234821 John Pierce 541-549-6464 jpierce@bendbroadband.com

605 Painting

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

606 Landscaping & Yard Maintenance

Set up your own vegetable or perennial garden! Master Gardener/instructor at COCC in organic garden design.

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From design to installation we can do it all! Pavers, water features, irrigation systems, sod, plants, trees etc.

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701 Domestic Services

BLAKE & SON – Commercial, Home & Rentals Cleaning WINDOW CLEANING! Lic. & Bonded • 541-549-0897

802 Help Wanted

NOW HIRING FOR RETAIL ASSOCIATES Marigold & True is a small, thoughtfully curated shop in Sisters that carries a variety of lifestyle products with a focus on small-batch artisan producers.

We are now hiring for part-time positions (10-35 hours/week), specifically retail associates who have retail experience working for small boutiques/independent shops. Must have a creative eye, and willingness to work weekends in addition to weekdays. Please stop by the shop (open Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) with your cover letter and resumé to be considered for immediate employment.

351 W Hood Ave, Sisters.

Keeping Sisters Country Beautiful Since 2006 candcnursery@gmail.com 541-549-2345 All Landscaping Services Mowing, Thatching, Hauling...

Call Abel Ortega, 541-815-6740.

Black Butte School District is hiring a Transportation Specialist and Facilities Operations Manager, combined positions equal full-time position.

More info at blackbutte.k12.or.us Complete landscape construction, /employment or 541-595-6203. fencing, irrigation installation & design, pavers/outdoor kitchens, debris cleanups, fertility & water conservation management, excavation.

CCB #188594 • LCB #9264 www.vohslandscaping.com 541-515-8462 J&E Landscaping Maintenance LLC Clean-ups, raking, mowing, hauling debris, gutters.

Black Butte School District Edgar Cortez 541-610-8982 is hiring: jandelspcing15@gmail.com • District Clerk/Business Manager – All You Need Maintenance – • Counselor/Child Pine needle removal, hauling, Development Specialist mowing, moss removal, edging, • Substitute Bus Driver raking, weeding, pruning, roofs, More info at blackbutte.k12.or. gutters, pressure washing...

Lic/Bonded/Ins. CCB# 218169 us/employment or 541-595-6203.

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SISTERS LANDSCAPE is hiring for landscape SISTERS and LANDSCAPE construction maintenance is hiring for landscape positions. Full-time work construction maintenance available now.and Send resume to positions. Full-time work sisterslandscape@gmail.com available resume to or call now. for anSend interview, sisterslandscape@gmail.com 541-549-3001. or call for an interview, Holy Kakow is excited to 541-549-3001. relocate our operation to Sisters.

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Starting Pay: $17/hr. insurance available.

Full time. Mon-Fri. Health Applicants please email insurance available. the following items to Applicants please email wyatt@holykakow.com: the following items to • Resume wyatt@holykakow.com: • Reason for applying for this • Resume particular position • Reason for for about this • Some general applying information particular position yourself and work history.

• Some general information about The Garden Angel is now filling yourself and work history. landscape supervisor and The Garden Angel now filling maintenance crewismember landscape supervisor and at positions. LCB #9583. Inquire maintenance crew member 541-549-2882 or positions.

LCB #9583. Inquire at thegardenangel@gmail.com 541-549-2882 or Advocates for Life Skills & thegardenangel@gmail.com Opportunity Part-Time & Advocates for LifeSupport Skills & Full-Time Direct Opportunity Part-Time & Professional - $15 per hour.

Full-Time Direct Support Providing direct care that Professional - $15 per hour. promotes independence, social Providing direct care that interaction, and person-centered promotes lifestyle independence, for the people social we interaction, and community person-centered support in our & lifestylehomes. for theTasks peopleinclude we residential support in ourpersonal community & assisting with care, residential homes.

Tasks include hygiene, administration of assisting housekeeping with personal care, medication, duties, hygiene, administration of laundry, meal preparation, medication, housekeeping duties, grocery shopping, social outings meal preparation, &laundry, thorough documentation. grocery shopping, social outings Please email & thorough documentation.

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Spencer.Brown@alsoweb.org Oregon Buy Prep and Ship is with your resumé. now hiring! We run a warehouse Oregon Prep and Shipinto is in town andBuy prep items going now hiring!

We run a warehouse Amazon Fulfillment Centers. The inwork town involves and prep prepping items going andinto Amazon Fulfillment Centers. packaging a large variety ofThe workHours involves items. are prepping part-timeand and packaging a large variety of can be during school hours. Must items.

Hours are part-time and be energetic, methodical, can be during school hours. detail-oriented and able to Must lift be energetic, methodical, about 40 lbs. Email your resume detail-oriented and able to lift to oregonbps@gmail.com. about 40 lbs. Email your resume HOUSEKEEPER NEEDED! to oregonbps@gmail.com.

Looking for an energetic, HOUSEKEEPER NEEDED! independent and experienced Looking for an energetic, housekeeper for vacation homes and experienced in independent and around Sisters.

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Good pay seasonal. Call Anna @ Sisters for good work.

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Vacasa needs housekeepers in Black Butte Ranch and Sisters!

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Reliable availability is a must! transportation and weekend $19/hr. PTO, 401k with 6% availability is adiscounts! must! match and other $19/hr.Apply PTO, online 401k with at 6% match and other discounts! www.vacasa.com/careers Apply at or textonline 97211. www.vacasa.com/careers We can't wait to meet you! or text 97211.

The Jewel is a high-end retail We can't wait to meet you! gallery selling fine jewelry, The Jewel is a high-end retail museum-quality minerals and gallerylooking selling fine jewelry, fossils, for year-round museum-quality minerals and and seasonal sales associates. fossils, looking for year-round Our customers are a blend of and seasonal new salesvisitors associates. enthusiastic and Our customers are a blend of long-established admirers, and enthusiastic new visitors our employees have beenand here long-established admirers, and from 4-10 years. Hourly $13-$16 our employees have been here DOE and long-term potential. from 4-10 Hourly $13-$16 Drop offyears. a resumé or email to DOE and long-term potential. michelle@thejewelonline.com Drop off a resumé or email to michelle@thejewelonline.com CLASSIFIEDS! It pays to advertise in The Nugget Newspaper Deadline is Monday before noon, or NOW541-549-9941 HIRING online at NuggetNews.com Cooks | Maintenance | Spa Uploaded every Tuesday BlackButteRanch.com/jobs at no additional cost to you!

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Any person may comment City Hall building isand a fully NOTICE OF BUDGET A copy of the budget document Due to COVID-19 required 999 Public Notice at the meeting. handicapped-accessible facility.

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beat Lizabeth Garcia 6-1, 6-1.

Freshman Katie Ryan (No. 3 singles), who had never touched a racket before this season, defeated Reagan Schlick 6-0, 6-1.

Ryan is athletic and played quick on the court. VonStein noted that Ryan is a natural and is exciting to coach.

Jenna Kizziar and Josie Patton earned a win at No. 2 doubles. The duo defeated Jazmyn Ceely and Ava Turner 7-5, 6-1.

Freshmen Leah O’Hern and Brooke Harper lost their match against Tie Garrison and Natalie Hunt, but in a very good match that went to a tiebreak. They won the first set 6-4, lost 4-6, and then fell 13-15 in the tie breaker. The two freshmen, who’d just picked up a racket for the first time five days ago, did a good job in their first match of the season.

Brooke Harper was Sisters lone winner in their match against Cascade on Thursday.

“Brooke is a very focused young lady who is quickly picking up the strategy and nuances behind singles play,” stated VonStein. “She places her shots appropriately in different areas of the court and covers the court

very well. It will be exciting to see her transform into a good singles player over the next few years.”

The top three singles players, Juhree Kizziar (No. 1), Ellie Mayes (No. 2), and Katie Ryan (No. 3) all played well at Molalla on Friday, and took their matches to a tiebreak. Mayes won her match over Kylie Smith with scores of 3- 6, 6-4, 15-13.

The players are showing marked improvement on a daily basis — Alan VonStein “Ellie did a phenomenal job,” said Von Stein. “She showed great resolve in a very long match against a very even opponent. Her shot placement is improving on a daily basis and it will be fun to watch her rise in the tennis ranks.”

VonStein commented on his team’s play so far.

“Overall the players are showing marked improvement on a daily basis,” he said. “All 15 cover the court well and are very coachable.”

The Lady Outlaws were scheduled to play at Madras on Tuesday, April 20. On Thursday they will face Philomath at home and on Friday the team has a road match at North Marion.

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RODEO: Event could not meet tight capacity restrictions Continued from page 1

a permit while Deschutes County remains in an elevated risk category under state metrics.

“We were not able to meet all of the standards and protocols established by the State of Oregon’s Health Authority,” said Rodeo Association President Curt Kallberg. “The recent spike in COVID-19 cases in Deschutes County put our five-day event in the high-risk category. With the limitations placed on events for capacity, we had to make our decision based on our financial capabilities to try again next year [in 2022] to have a full capacity rodeo.”

The cancellation did not come as a surprise to most — but it was a disappointment to many who love the event.

Longtime volunteer Bonnie Knox told The Nugget, “I was there Tuesday night and it broke my heart.”

She noted that the Rodeo Association Board of Directors had no other option.

“They didn’t have a choice — the board,” she said. “They tried everything.”

Knox still plans on volunteering this summer.

“We are going to have limited work parties to keep the place up,” she said. “So that’s good.”

Hardtails Bar & Grill is traditionally one of the major venues for post-Rodeo parties. Owner Steve Macey said that he had a band booked on standby and was ready to go if the Rodeo went forward — but he understands the decision.

“Of course we were all saddened by it, but I think it’s the right call, actually,” he said.

He urged people in Sisters to act responsibly in an effort to get beyond COVID-19. In that light, he decided not to go forward with any entertainment on Rodeo weekend.

Sisters Saloon hosts a locals night and other Rodeorelated entertainment.

Owner Aaron Okura said, “I wasn’t surprised (by the announcement). Financially, it’s a bummer because it makes up for a lot of the slow season… I respect the very difficult decisions these leaders have to make.”

He noted that the restaurant, which reopened last week after closing for three days due to a positive COVID case, has been “pretty busy” with diners and takeout.

He said that he and his staff have thought about providing some sort of activity on Rodeo weekend, but there are no solid plans. Much remains dependent on caseloads.

“The way cases are going up, it might not be a very good idea by then,” he said.

So, as Sisters business owners have been doing

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for over a year, he plans to remain flexible and adaptable and respond to circumstances as they evolve.

There’s no opportunity to push the Rodeo back later in the season when it is hoped the current surge in cases will have abated.

Postponing the rodeo to a later date in 2021 was not an option, according to the Rodeo Association. Due to other obligations, the rodeo’s stock contractor, announcers, and entertainment/contracted personnel would be unable to all get to Sisters at the same time. All tickets for the 2021 rodeo that have been pre-sold will automatically rollover to the equivalent dates for the 2022 Sisters Rodeo.

The decision to cancel could not be pushed any later.

The rodeo was obligated to notify the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) of the cancellation in a timely manner to allow contestants and contractors to be informed and able to make other arrangements.

“With heavy hearts, the decision had to be made,” said SRA Public Relations Director Amorita Anstett.

“The Sisters Rodeo will survive and will come back next year. We ask our fans and community to stay with us during these challenging times, and hope that come the second week of June in 2022, we will be ready to rodeo and once again present the ‘Biggest Little Show in the World.’”

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PLANS: Numerous projects are underway this spring Continued from page 1

The new headquarters will have three separate wings meant to symbolize the Three Sisters — Faith, Hope, and Charity. Reid hopes that work will begin on a new warehouse in 2022 and on the new headquarters in 2023. Within the building will be a conference room that will be made available to 501(c)(3) organizations after hours.

Housing for seasonal staff will also be located on the property.

The new station is necessary to keep us here (in Sisters) — Sisters District Ranger Ian Reid Seasonal work getting underway A great deal of work is planned or underway on the District to mitigate damage to the National Forest from fires over the last several years. Thousands of new trees are being planted in the Milli Fire scar around Highway 242 west of Sisters, which is scheduled to open on June 21.

Since the Cache Mountain Fire in 2002, the Sisters Area Fuel Reduction (SAFR) Program over the past 20 years has allowed for more successful fire suppression and safer forest operations, according to Andrew Myhra, Cascade Division Fire Management Officer and Fuels Specialist.

(See related story, page 1).

Myhra said that there were 103 fire responses on the Sisters Ranger District in 2020 including the Green Ridge Fire caused by lightning, as well as the Lionshead Fire that started in the Metolius Basin and then turned and headed west over the hill. Myhra warned that if there is a rapid spring melt-off of snow, there could

be an earlier start to the 2021 fire season.

Haley Anderson, Sisters Ranger District Silviculturist and Vegetation Manager, explained the danger tree removal project on last year’s Green Ridge fire area to provide for long-term public and employee safety along the roadside. The timber sale in that area is being used as a tool to conduct the project, and is not the reason for the project.

Danger trees are removed if they stand within oneand-a-half times their height from the road. If a danger tree (dead, dying or diseased) is 100-feet tall and it is 150-feet from the road, it is removed.

A Green Ridge Landscape Restoration Project is being undertaken on 25,000 acres to improve forest resiliency and ecological function by thinning the trees, aspen restoration, and doing some prescribed burning.

District Forester Steve Orange discussed the Suttle Lake Vegetation Project, which includes Camp Tamarack on Dark Lake south of Suttle Lake. The Forest Service hopes to be finished with the removal of dead, diseased, and danger trees around May 1.

Other work in the area that will require weekday closures, will be at Link Creek (done by Memorial Day), the Suttle Lake Loop Trail campground area, and Scout Lake (done by mid-tolate June). These areas will be open to the public only on the weekends while work is underway. Roadside work will take place between Scout and Dark Lakes to remove danger, dead, and dying trees.

According to Mike Reihle, District Fish Biologist, First Creek Road will be permanently closed and decommissioned.

Decompacting of the roadbed will enable planting of vegetation to improve wildlife habitat. That work will be undertaken later in the summer.

Areas of the Metolius River that have been restored by the instream Wood Placement Project have yielded three times as many Chinook salmon and two times as many redband trout, according to the District. More logs are scheduled for placement in the river, but they will not be in the main channel and will not block boat passage.

Campgrounds and permits All fee campsites on the Sisters Ranger District are available by reservations only on www.recreation. gov, according to Sarah B au g h m an , R ecreat i o n Team Leader for the district.

All non-fee campgrounds are first come-first serve.

Campers are encouraged when doing disbursed camping to please use already established sites to avoid creating new sites.

Baughman reminded equestrians to bring stock water with them to Graham Corral because there is currently uncertainly as to whether or not water will be available.

The new limited permitting system for the wilderness areas of Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Washington, and Three Sisters is necessary to protect the wilderness from more damage due to increased use by the public, according to Deschutes National Forest Staff Officer Lisa Machnik.

Wilderness Permits in the Central Cascades Wilderness are required between the Friday of Memorial Day weekend and the last Friday in September for all overnight use. Some day use in these wilderness areas also requires permits.

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A year after losing the entire spring track season to the shutdown of the COVID19 pandemic, the Sisters Outlaws track and field team returned to the oval for the “Breaking the Ice” meet hosted by Crook County High School on Thursday, April 15.

Head Coach Jeff Larson is approaching the season somewhat differently than normal, given how long athletes have been away from the sport, and the fact that the season is just over six weeks long.

“Our goals for the season are to have fun, provide competitive opportunities for our seniors since this is their last shot at high school track and field, and to lay a foundation which returning track athletes in 2022 can build upon,” he said. “My hope is to reintroduce the sport to our student-athletes.”

With just two weeks of training under their belts, Larson had no expectations.

“It was great to have the chance to compete in the spring sunshine,” said Larson.

The Crook County Cowboys are always gracious hosts. We competed hard, to the best of our ability after only eight practices. Despite our limited time on the track, we still had nearly 20 personal records.

Amazing!”

Top performances on the

girls side included wins by Anya Shockley (5 feet) in the high jump, Shelby Larson in the pole vault (9 feet) and Annie Cohen in the 400 meters (1:15.5).

The boys team had victories by 2019 state champion Brody Anderson in the 400 (54.52), Carson Brown in the javelin (140 feet 2 inches), Taine Martin in the high jump (5 feet 6 inches) and pole vault (10 feet), and Hayden Sharp in the long jump 19 feet 7 inches and 110 hurdles (18.13).

Larson remains optimistic about the Outlaws’ track program.

“The program lost a lot of momentum last year from the shutdown,” he said.

“I’m thrilled to see over 50 middle schoolers out on the track each day at practice, so even though our high school numbers are light, I think the future is bright ....”

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once again limited. Being at the 87th Masters for Aspen Lakes Director of Golf Operations, Howie Pruitt, took on vastly more significance than just being on hand. The PGA (Professional Golfers’ Association of America) has between 28,000 and 29,000 members. Of that number only a somewhat astonishing 169 are Black, and of those only three from the Pacific Northwest Region, Pruitt being one.

This year ’s Masters, always full of ceremony and tradition from the storied green jacket to the Champions Dinner, set aside time to honor one of

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Howie Pruitt is director of golf operations at Aspen Lakes.

golf’s greats — Lee Elder.

In 1975, Elder became the first African-American to play in the invitation-only tournament after winning the Monsanto Open.

In 1971, Elder accepted an invitation from Gary Player to play in the South African PGA Championship in Johannesburg. The event marked the first integrated tournament in that country’s history. South Africa had apartheid policies in effect at the time, but Elder agreed to participate after the government promised not to subject him or spectators to the usual segregation requirements. He also played in a number of other tournaments in Africa, where he won the Nigerian Open in 1971.

Elder often endured vile hate mail, threatening phone calls and heckling from the crowd. His contributions to the game, inspirational life story and indomitable spirit led the Masters to recognize him in the ceremonial start to this year’s tournament.

Along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, Elder who is assisted by a wheelchair, hit the honorary opening tee shots officially starting this year’s event. Elder’s health prevented him from making an actual shot yet as Pruitt witnessed his mere presence brought the attendees to their feet for an extended ovation.

Pruitt was one of 12 Black PGA members selected to honor Elder and hence his

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Howie Pruitt, far left in audience, is applauding Lee Elder, left, with Gary Player, center, and Jack Nicklaus, right. trek to Augusta. The weather was perfect and despite COVID, the limited crowd was most enthusiastic, Pruitt said upon his return. He was on hand for the Thursday night dinner and lunch Friday at the famed “Patch,” officially known as Augusta Municipal Golf Course, another dream course.

Pruitt was present for the first round. He was struck by the sheer size of the club. Walking the back nine, he put 11,000 steps on his pedometer. He said it was the experience of a lifetime, feeling honored to be honoring one of golf’s biggest names.

Pruitt speaks calmly about the slow and painful progress professional golf has taken for people of color. There is not a hint of resentment nor bitterness in his voice, though one might wonder how is that possible for somebody who started playing the game, like Elder, at 16 but who then could not play in college as Blacks in the 1960s were routinely denied playing on school teams and prohibited — often by written and openly stated rules — from joining golf clubs.

The PGA itself eliminated its “Caucasian-only clause” from its bylaws in 1961 — the same PGA to which Pruitt

is immensely devoted, serving on several committees.

He currently is President of the Pacific Northwest Section comprising Oregon, Central and Western Washington, Idaho, and Western Montana.

Pruitt was born in Columbus, Ohio, as was Jack Nicklaus, his childhood hero.

He is in his seventh season at Aspen Lakes having previously worked at Bend Golf & Country Club and Eagle Crest Resort. When The Nugget asked what he liked best about his job, without hesitancy he said, “the view,” with a gleeful smile and sweeping hand gesture across the window.

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