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The Nugget Vol. XLIV No. 22

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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Businesses Remembrance... grapple with Bagpiper Steve Allely played “Highland evolving Cathedral” as mask rules World War II veteran By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

Oregon made national news recently with its latest COVID-19 prevention rules. The New York Times used Oregon as its lead on its May 13 story of ways states are using incentives to increase vaccinations. Oregon has tied lifting of masking restrictions to attaining a 70 percent vaccination rate for all citizens

Cecil Hector offered a salute to the departed during a laying of the wreath ceremony, part of annual Memorial Day observances at Village Green Park. See story, page 9.

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Missing child case remains Sisters lifter is a world champion under investigation By Jim Cornelius

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Oregon State Police are still investigating a case involving a young child who went missing in Sisters and was later recovered safe. Last Sunday morning, May 23, about 9:30 a.m., a message went out to the Sisters community from Deschutes County 9-1-1 alerts regarding a 3-year-old boy who had been located near the Sisters Creekside Campground at about midnight. The Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Office (DCSO)

was attempting to locate the child’s family. Later Sunday afternoon another alert went out saying the child’s family had been located. According to Lt. Chad Davis of DCSO’s Sisters substation, Sisters deputies assisted Oregon State Patrol (OSP) Trooper Malloy who was first on scene. Davis indicated an arrest has been made in the case. OSP declined to provide any further information, noting that, “This is an open investigation and there is no information available for release.”

Bikes deployed in expanded community policing effort By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office owns a small fleet of mountain bikes, two of which are new and garaged at the Sisters substation. Lt. Chad Davis who heads the station and Deputy Brian Morris (shown in photo on page 14) inaugurated routine

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bike patrol in Sisters last week. On a few occasions over recent years deputies on bikes have only been seen during events like the Rodeo and Folk Festival ridden by countywide officers. Now, Davis says, Sisters can expect to see patrolling most every day of the week See BIKE PATROL on page 14

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Sisters resident Jennifer Banning scaled the heights of Olympic lifting in the IWF Masters World Championships. Banning, competing in the Women’s 50-54 age group and the 55-kilogram (121 pound) weight class, won gold across the board in the snatch and the clean and jerk to become the 2021 World Champion. The event was held virtually via Zoom under the auspices of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) last week, in order to adhere to COVID-19 restrictions. Banning lifted 56k (123.459 pounds) in the snatch, where the lifter “snatches” the barbell off the floor, directly overhead in one continuous motion. An above-bodyweight snatch is a remarkable accomplishment, and Banning said she is “super proud” to have achieved it. In the clean and jerk, the lifter “cleans” the barbell to the shoulders, then “jerks” it overhead. Banning’s gold-medal clean and jerk was 70 kilograms (154.324 pounds). “I almost made 74 (163.142 pounds), but not

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A personal record, above-body-weight snatch helped Jennifer Banning to an IWF World Championship. quite,” she said. “I have to save something for next time, I guess.” The virtual event was a complex undertaking across multiple time zones, requiring documentation of weigh-in and observation by judges to ensure that each lift was a “good lift.” Banning Zoomed in to the competition from her home gym, where she trains three to four times per week. “You did it through Zoom,” she said. “It’s really Fun & Games ..................... 12-13 Crossword ............................. 17

kind of amazing.” The virtual nature of the tournament had upsides and challenges, Banning acknowledged. Not having to travel to an international event was a good thing. Banning has previously traveled to Montreal, Canada, for international competition. “It takes something out of you,” she said. On the other hand, See BANNING on page 20

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Wednesday, June 2, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

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Editorial…

Growth in Sisters

Teach your children well Sisters students can benefit from grappling with difficult and controversial topics such as the persistent role of race and racism in American history, culture, and society. The community as a whole could benefit from such discourse. Actually, the conversation should be taken beyond race. What do we mean when we use the word diversity? It’s usually used in the context of race, ethnicity and/or sexual orientation or identity, but what about other types of diversity— cultural, socio-economic, religious/spiritual, etc.? What does “equity” mean? What does it mean to be truly inclusive? The Sisters School District has a pretty good template in its policy on “Teaching Controversial Issues.” The policy is published on the SSD website. Some of its key components are: • The discussion should contribute significantly to developing the skills of critical thinking and problem solving. • Teaching strategies should be objective

so that all sides of the issue are explored. • Suitable materials, including facts and concepts of all aspects of the issue, should be available. If Sisters students — or the broader community as a whole — are to have such discourse, it’s critical that no point of view be treated as above question. If we are to create a truly “safe” environment for discourse on hard topics, there has to be room to challenge orthodoxies without fear of being tagged with an infamous label. That’s a tricky assignment, especially in our current overheated climate. But the Sisters School District has another simple principle laid out in its core beliefs that can serve as a compass bearing: “Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.”

Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief

Letters to the Editor…

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

Grappling with growth

To the Editor: Your correspondent Sue Stafford’s May 26 recount of the Planning Commission meeting left me confused as to the commission’s role in protecting Sisters from rampant growth in single-family housing. Do not the citizens of adjacent properties have legitimate concerns, like increased

traffic, parking problems, snow mitigation? Ms. Stafford also reported that Habitat’s requested modifications would reduce the size of some lots with homes already occupied by real (Sisters) families? Does that even sound constitutional? And didn’t commissioner Jeff Seymour state that potential parking issues raised by the neighbors should be dealt with See LETTERS on page 16

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By Scott Woodford City of Sisters Community Development Director

Sisters is growing way too fast! I like Sisters just the way it is. I don’t want it to turn into _______ (the place I just left). It’s getting too expensive — where are my kids going to live when they grow up? I don’t want Sisters to sprawl. I like the small-town feel and don’t want to lose that. Why do we even have to grow in the first place? This is some of the sentiment we’ve heard from the community over the last nine months as we’ve embarked on the update to the Sisters Comprehensive Plan — the city’s blueprint for growth for the next 20 years. For some, growth is good. Their business may rely on it or they work in a field associated with construction. Growth can attract businesses offering higherwage jobs. Others see it as a way to increase housing supply to combat rising housing prices. Some think that if we don’t grow, we risk gentrification or, worse, stagnation. In Oregon, we cannot simply “close the gate behind us” and shut out the world — we have no choice but to plan for growth. Growing is not mandated by the State, but what is mandated is allowing the opportunity for growth. The State was ahead of its time when it passed Senate Bill 100 in the 1970s to prevent runaway sprawl and to protect our rural and natural areas by requiring urban growth boundaries (UGB) around towns and cities. It requires each community to adopt a Comprehensive Plan and comply with 19 statewide planning goals, but also maintain a 20-year supply of land to accommodate expected population growth. It’s also good planning to be proactive — rather than reactive — to ensure we have enough land for housing, commercial and industrial, schools, as well as the infrastructure (water, sewer, roads, and parks) to support it. This year is Sisters’ 75th anniversary of the town’s incorporation in 1946. The population then was around 500 and it grew very slowly for about 50 years until residents voted to install sewer infrastructure in 1998, followed closely by annexation of 341 acres in 1999, which catalyzed growth and bumped up the population to its current 3,270. Based

on projections from Portland State University, we will have 5,399 people in 2041. At an average household size of 2.4 people, our Housing Need Analysis says we will need 1,100 new housing units to house them (for perspective, we currently have 1,689 housing units). What? That’s like almost adding another Sisters! Where are we going to put all those units? I agree, it does sound daunting, but remember: this is a 20-year plan, all those units aren’t going to be added overnight, and, while we can’t stop growth, we can shape it to our liking so that it respects the smalltown, Western character of Sisters and protects our natural resources and scenic views to the greatest degree possible. So, if we have to grow, do we grow up or out — or both? You’ll be hearing a lot about that in the next couple of years. After adoption of the Comprehensive Plan, our first task is to consider implementing “efficiency measures.” Those are infill strategies to use the existing city boundary more efficiently through encouraging development of vacant or underutilized land, increasing allowed heights and permitted densities, permitting smaller single-family lot sizes, and possible rezoning of non-residential land to residential, among others. We could also reduce barriers to housing types, such as “missing middle housing” to encourage density, yet preserve community character. Efficiency measures may satisfy the need for all of the 1,100 units within the existing city boundary; however, it may be determined it’s not possible to accommodate all of them without compromising other values we hold dear, such as our urban forest and the character of Sisters. After contemplating all of that, a community can consider expanding its UGB. If that occurs, it will be part of a community process and subject to strict guidelines from the State to ensure it will not impact surrounding forest or farm lands. How that shakes out will be determined over the course of the next few years and will, again, have to be coordinated with the State so that we comply with the statewide planning rules — which encourages infill before expansion. The community of Sisters will have their say too, so that it balances our needs.

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

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Author recounts frontier battle By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

“I do love that there is still a lot of mystery about the Fetterman Fight that will never be resolved,” author Michael Punke told The Nugget. “It’s a perfect place for historical fiction to fill in the blanks.” Punke will explore how he filled in the blanks on one of the most compelling episodes in American frontier history in a Books in Common NW virtual event on Thursday, June 3. The event, featuring his brand-new novel “Ridgeline,” is presented in partnership between Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, Madison Books,

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City of Sisters personnel helped to hang Class of 2021 banners along Cascade Avenue on Thursday, May 27.

Student banners fly over Sisters Following a successful community fundraising effort, senior banners are flying high on downtown lampposts to celebrate Grad Week and the Class of 2021. After graduation, each student will be able to pick up his or her banner to have as a keepsake.

The senior banner project, now in its second year, is a collaborative effort led by SHS and the local nonprofit Citizens4Community. A Go Fund Me online campaign held in April helped push the project just over its total fundraising goal of $2,850.

More than 40 individuals and several organizations — including the Sisters Rodeo, Black Butte Ranch, and the City of Sisters— helped make the 2021 project possible. More information about the project is available at citizens4community.com.

and Country Bookshelf. To attend, sign up at www. booksincommonnw.com. Punke previously earned accolades for his historical novel recounting the epic quest for survival of Mountain Man Hugh Glass, who was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his trapping companions in 1823. “The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge” was the basis for the Academy Award winning film “The Revenant,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass. Punke’s novel, Ridgeline, recounts the military disaster that befell an expeditionary force dispatched into the See NOVEL on page 22

Historical Society needs housing By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Three Sisters Historical Society and the Sisters History Museum currently find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. As pandemic restrictions are finally easing, and tourist season is heating up, the museum housed in the historic Wakefield bungalow on East Cascade has been told they must vacate the premises by June 15. For $3,000 rent (they now pay $1,000/month)

they can stay until July 15. The owner of the building, Chris Boxwell, made extensive improvements prior to the museum moving in. He gave them a deal on the rent for the first year and a donor provided $10,000 to cover most of the first year’s rent. They have the main floor of the house for the museum. Boxwell used the full basement (complete with lava rock walls) for storage and See MUSEUM on page 21

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

SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ Al-Anon Mon., noon, by Zoom. / Thurs., Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061. 10 a.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Friends of the Sisters Library Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Church. 541-610-7383. Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com. Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal ages welcome. 541-771-2211. Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., 1 to 4 p.m. 541-668-1755. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., Citizens4Community, Let’s Talk 3rd Monday, 5:30 to 8 p.m. RSVP at noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran citizens4community.com Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., Military Parents of Sisters Meetings noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran are held quarterly; please call for details. Church. 541-548-0440. 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. Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings & 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. Council on Aging of Central Oregon Sisters Area Photography Club Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., meeting by Zoom. 541-549-6157. Community Church. 541-480-1843.

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Sisters Area Woodworkers 1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. 541-639-6216. Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.

Sisters Trails Alliance Board 1st Monday, 5 p.m. Sisters Library. Public welcome. 808-281-2681.

Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon, Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123. 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 Three Sisters Lions Club 2nd Sisters. 541-771-3258. 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 Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m. Location information: 541-549-1193. Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870. Sisters Parent Teacher Community 2nd Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. at Sisters Saloon. 541-480-5994. Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group Meeting by Zoom. 541-668-6599. Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday. Location information: 541-279-1977. Sisters Rotary 1st and 3rd Thursdays, Noon, Aspen Lakes. 541-760-5645. Sisters Speak Life Cancer Support Group 2nd & 4th Monday. Call Suzi for location and time: 503-819-1723.

Post 86 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-903-1123.

Weight Watchers Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, Sisters Community Church. 541-602-2654.

SCHOOLS Black Butte School Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 3:45 p.m., Black Butte School. 541-595-6203. Sisters School District Board of Directors One Wed. monthly, SSD Admin Bldg. See schedule online at www.ssd6.org. 541-549-8521 x5002. 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

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Young stroke survivor seeks to be a light By Sue Stafford Correspondent

“ Yo u n e e d t o b a c k up now,” is what Alesha Goodman of Bend remembers hearing her father’s voice telling her as she headed toward the Bend Parkway after leaving work in 2019. His voice came to her as she approached the spot where her father had died suddenly seven years earlier. Without questioning the message, she backed up and parked her car seconds before experiencing a stroke in which her body went numb from the top of her head to her toes. When EMTs arrived, they assessed her as being dehydrated and having a panic attack. They elected to take her home rather than to the emergency room, despite her right eye being fixed to the left and her speech slurred. Her boyfriend had put her in his truck to take her to the hospital, when she experienced a second stroke. The stroke Goodman suffered was caused by her two vertebral arteries dissecting. Dissection occurs when a tear in the artery wall allows blood to leak between layers of tissue. Those arteries, which run up either side of the cervical spine, provide the blood supply for the upper part of the spinal cord, brainstem, cerebellum, and posterior part of the brain. As the blood collects in the area of the dissection, it forms a clot that limits blood flow through the artery. If the clot is large enough to completely block blood flow, the result can be a stroke. For several weeks prior to the stroke, then 34-year-old Goodman had been experiencing a burning pain at the base of her neck which was getting worse. She had a CT scan, which showed no irregularities, so she tried massage and chiropractic treatment for relief. She decided to go ahead with plans for a nine-day deer-hunting trip where she was without cell service. She had just returned home from that outing the night before her stroke. Goodman had several factors that may or may not have contributed to this otherwise healthy young woman’s unexpected strokes. She has a medical condition known as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), which is a genetic connective-tissue disease generally characterized by joint hypermobility, skin hyperextensibility, and/or tissue fragility. She has always had extremely flexible joints. The EDS quite possibly led to the spontaneous dissection of her vertebral arteries. A car accident in 2015 caused whiplash to Goodman’s neck and she has experienced degeneration in

her first and second cervical vertebrae, giving rise to cervicogenic headaches (referred pain in the head coming from the neck). Since her strokes, Goodman no longer experiences those headaches. Whatever caused the strokes, the double artery dissection is not common, and Goodman has accepted the fact she probably will never know for sure why it happened. Not one to accept setbacks, Goodman has vigorously worked to get back to her normal pre-stroke activities. She underwent all kinds of therapies – vision, speech, occupational, and physical. The first year post-stroke she experienced severe neurological fatigue, would forget words, “trip over her tongue,” and had difficulty staying asleep. Goodman still is dealing with those issues but says she is “getting better every day.” If she gets overly tired, her right

foot has a tendency to drag. She is working out again, running and jogging. Her stamina is improving while she remains mindful of how she is moving due to some balance issues. She works part-time at a Bend food cart lot, doing inventory, organizing, and managing supplies. She also assembles fine jewelry. She will be working some of the shows at the Les Schwab Amphitheater this summer. Since January of this year, she has had a benefactor who has gifted her with a neuromuscular therapy program known as the Feldenkrais Method which has helped greatly. Acupuncture treatments are working well, and she continues physical therapy. Graham was using a walker until February 2020, when she traded it for a cane. Then in April 2020, she put down her cane. This May she

has been dedicated to running a 5K every day. Not being sidelined by her strokes is of great importance to Graham. She is involved with Stroke Awareness Oregon in Bend, working with people who train paramedics and EMTs to be able to correctly identify stroke patients. She is also writing a book with people who have survived a stroke. “I want to bring awareness of strokes to the public,” she explained. Graham is part of the Broken Brain Club, an informal gathering for young adults who are dealing with brain issues from stroke, Parkinson’s, traumatic brain injury, and other conditions. She plans to start a young stroke survivors’ group. She has let go of “challenging the world, because it’s not worth it. I don’t want any negative energy in my life,” Graham said. “I try to stay

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Stars over Sisters By Molly Greaney & Paola Mendoza Correspondents

Each year during the month of June, the sun ascends to its northern-most point above Earth’s equator. When this happens, we celebrate the beginning of summer. Take advantage of the warmer evenings to gaze into Central Oregon’s star-studded night sky, for there are wondrous sights to behold. There is a strip of sky, centered on the ecliptic, that passes through twelve constellations. Called the zodiac, this piece of celestial real estate is where the sun, moon, and the solar system’s major planets are always found. One of these zodiacal stellar groupings of late spring/early summer is Libra. Libra is situated just below the celestial equator between its zodiacal neighbors, Virgo to the west and Scorpius to the east. To find it start at the Big Dipper and follow the arc of its handle to the bright star Arcturus in Boötes. From here continue this arching path southward to Spica, the brightest star in Virgo. Libra lies approximately 15 degrees to the east. Look for it in the southeastern sky after dusk. Unlike every other zodiac constellation, Libra does not represent an animal or character, but instead an object. The four major stars that comprise Libra form a sort of lopsided geometric shape, which denotes a set of weighing scales (the meaning of the word “Libra” in Latin). Libra was thought of as a balanced constellation, and the Romans associated it with steady seasons and an equal amount of day and night. But the ancient Greeks knew this part of the sky as Chelae, or “claws,” and considered it part of Scorpius the Scorpion. In fact, the two brightest stars in Libra are

Zubeneschamali and Zubenelgenubi, Arabic for the northern claw and southern claw, respectively. Not only is Libra devoid of bright stars, but there’s a scarcity of deepsky objects as well. The brightest of them is NGC 5897, a respectable globular cluster with a diameter of over 170 light-years lying about 40,000 lightyears from Earth. The other three objects are all dim galaxies. This year ’s summer solstice arrives on June 20 at 8:32 p.m. PDT. At that time, the sun will stand directly above the Tropic of Cancer, resulting in the longest period of daylight of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. On June 11, Venus and a slender crescent moon will meet in Gemini, providing an attractive evening sight. Mars is there too, a little higher and farther to the east as it begins cruising through Cancer. By the end of the month both Venus and Mars will lie near the Beehive Cluster. Saturn in Capricornus the Sea Goat rises shortly after midnight local time, while Jupiter in the neighboring constellation of Aquarius appears an hour later. Catching sight of Mercury this month will be difficult; just too close to the sun. Early in the month the moon will be on the wane until June 10 when the new moon arrives. The face of the moon will then progressively brighten, culminating in the Full Strawberry Moon on June 24. This month’s tip to help reduce the growing problem of light pollution in our community is to shield your outdoor lights so that the fixtures only direct light where you need it. By talking to your neighbors about what you’ve done, you will serve as an example of how to properly use outdoor lights and suggest they do the same.

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Outlaws have a rough week on the hardwood By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws had a rough week and dropped three straight games: a 36-43 loss at home to Newport on Tuesday, May 25, and a day later a 28-53 road loss at Philomath. They fell 34-51 at home to Cascade on Friday in a non-league contest. On Tuesday the Outlaws held the lead over Newport until the final quarter when the Cubs hot scoring pushed them ahead and got them the win. Sisters started off well and at the close of the first quarter held a 11-7 lead. Scoring was almost nonexistent in the second period as both teams only scored three points each. At the half the Outlaws were on top1410, and held a slim 22-19 lead at the close of the third. The Cubs hit five threes and outscored the Outlaws 24-14 in the final period and recorded the victory. Camden Froelich finished the night with 17 points, Nate Weber tallied 10, and Ricky Huffman added five. Coach Rob Jensen said, “Overall, we were the aggressors defensively in

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Max Palanuk drives for two in Outlaws basketball action. the first three quarters, but couldn’t hit shots in the last quarter. We also had some turnover problems throughout the game.” O n We d n e s d a y t h e Outlaws lost on the road to Philomath. The Warriors boast two 6-foot-5-inch centers and the Outlaws

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struggled to rebound against them in the first half. In the first quarter one of the Warrior ’s guards hit three triples and the Outlaws found themselves down 8-21 at the close of the first quarter. Sisters was outscored 11-3 in the second period and entered

the half trailing 11-32. Sisters battled hard in the third and won that quarter 12-10, but just couldn’t finish the looks they got on the offensive end. Weber finished with 13 points, Max Palanuk scored six, and Froelich added five. J e n s e n s a i d , “ We improved our shot selection and got good looks, but they just didn’t fall. Our adjustments defensively helped hold them back in the second half, but we just couldn’t finish the looks we were getting on the offensive end. The effort was solid.” On Friday against Cascade, the Outlaws executed their game plan fairly well in the first quarter. In the second period Sisters did even better. The guys hit their shots, got stops, outplayed the Cubs, and won the quarter 14-11. Sisters was unable to sustain that effort and pace and the Cougars recorded the win. “Defensively they hurt us on the offensive boards

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Lady Outlaws post win over Newport By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaws started their week with a 48-35 road win at Newport on Tuesday, May 25. On Wednesday they suffered a tough 25-61 loss at home to Philomath and on Friday fell 28-37 at Cascade in a non-league matchup. On Tuesday against the Cubs, Sisters sisters, Emma and Maggie Lutz, had a great game, and combined for 19 points in the contest. Emma (junior) got the Outlaws rolling in the first half, with eight of her 10 points in the first half, including two big shots from behind the arc. Maggie (freshman) pulled the trigger and hit three consecutive triples during a stretch in the second half that extended a seven-point lead to double digits and buried the Cub’s chances. Coach Carl Click said, “Maggie’s shots were these high-arcing rainbows that you thought would never come down, but when they did there was no rim — perfect swish all three times. Her teammates on the bench went crazy, which was fun, because we were all alone four hours from home.”

Josie Patton led the team with 10 points. Payden Petterson scored eight points, and her rebounds from the guard position were crucial in securing a comfortable lead for the Lady Outlaws in the final period. Haleigh Froelich tallied six points and Ila Reid and Hadley Schar each added two. Click said, “We committed way too many turnovers with bad passes in the first half that kept the game closer than it could have been. We talked about it at halftime and made some improvement in the second half. Not as much as I would have liked, but we’ll work on it.” At home a day later, the Outlaws were taken down by

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the Philomath Warriors in a final score of 61-25. Sisters kept the game close in the first quarter and only trailed by three at 8-11 at the close of the period. The Warriors stormed ahead in the second quarter and outscored the Outlaws 22-4 to take a 33-12 advantage as teams headed into the half. Philomath continued their offensive onslaught and easily recorded the win. Petterson led the Outlaws with 15 points, and Froehlich added six. “Philomath is a really strong team, beating all their opponents by 20-plus points,” said Click. “Our kids played a strong first quarter and stayed with a very athletic and skilled team, but eventually the difference in experience and skill showed.” On Friday against the Cougars, the Outlaws played a great first two quarters and entered the half knotted up 18-18. Sisters got to the line in the first half, and converted on 10 of their 17 free-throw attempts. The Outlaws had a rough third quarter and only put two points on the scoreboard. They had some open looks inside, but just weren’t able to

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having monthly floral design classes with different styles and fun ideas for the holidays. Tracy has such a good eye for décor and design,” said Beech. No job is too small or too big for Beech. The store has gifts focused on home décor from bedroom sets to home offices.

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Sisters honors the fallen By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

In a quiet ceremony at Village Green, American Legion Post 86 marked the solemn purpose of Memorial Day — remembering and honoring those who have fallen in military service to the nation. Post Commander Katie Downey served as master of ceremonies for the event, which was unpublicized and conducted without sound reinforcement to limit crowd size due to COVID-19 restrictions. She introduced veteran Lee Hulse, who explained the symbolic meaning of the POW-MIA table, honoring those not present. Keynote speaker was U.S. Navy veteran Jeff Mackey, who noted that the effort made to stage the second year of reduced-scale events is evidence of local veterans’ commitment to honor the fallen, no matter what. The day has a personal impact for Mackey, who recalled a dear childhood friend who was killed while piloting helicopters

in Vietnam. He displayed a memento of remembrance for his friend — a rubbing he took of his name engraved on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC. Mackey urged the assemblage to heed words of warning from 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” He asserted that “to truly honor our fallen we must now fight for, protect, and hand down the truth of our nation’s history to our children. Evil exists and is ever present to subvert truth. Revisionist historians are trying to rewrite the meaning of our past so that our youth hate their own

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Outdoor Worship Services

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Sisters Church of the Nazarene invites you to join them on Sundays at 10 a.m. for outdoor worship services this summer! As long as the weather holds, they will gather to worship God outside together in the open air! You’re welcome to bring your blanket, shade, or chair, or you can feel free to use one of their chairs. Sisters Naz is located 5 miles east of Sisters on 67130 Harrington Loop. Call 541-389-8960 for info.

High Desert Wool Growers will be holding their 23rd annual Fiber Market Day on Saturday, June 5 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond. There will be demos and sales, live animals, spinning and weaving supplies, and much more! Email questions to highdesertwoolgrowers@ gmail.com or go to www. highdesertwoolgrowers.com.

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Throughout May residents will be able to dispose of yard debris for free during spring FireFree events across Central Oregon. Wildfire season is approaching, and now is the time to improve the defensible space around your home. FireFree events will be held at Northwest (Fryrear) Transfer Station near Sisters from Wednesday, May 26 to Saturday, May 29 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and again Wednesday, June 2 to Saturday, June 5 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be additional events in early May at Knott Landfill in Bend. Grass clippings, brush, pine needles, pinecones, weeds, trimmings and branches, stumps or trees (no larger than 12” in diameter) may be dropped off during the FireFree events. Visit the FireFree website at www. firefree.org for more information about how you can prepare your property for wildfire season.

Sisters Transportation and Ride Share (STARS) is booking free, nonemergency medical rides. Dispatcher hours are Tuesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with rides available Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. STARS asks for 48 hours or more advance notice to find a driver, as rides are based on volunteer driver availability. STARS dispatcher number for all rides is 541-904-5545.

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, call 541-549-4184.

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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. Call 503-819-1723 for information.

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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.

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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. For more information call 541-678-5483.

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Applications are available for the Sisters Kiwanis Career Opportunity Fund to help adult residents of Sisters establish an occupational path. Pick up forms at the Kiwanis House, corner of Oak and Main, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays, and during regular hours from the Sisters Habitat for Humanity office. For more information, call 541-719-1254.

The City of Sisters will undertake pavement maintenance and improvements on a number of streets throughout town in early to mid-June. Work is scheduled for Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Streets will reopen for full use after 6 p.m. each day. Signage and flaggers will be on site to assist with traffic. Personal & business vehicles will need to be removed from street parking prior to work beginning each morning at 7 a.m. Residents and businesses should consider parking on side streets the day work is performed. The following is a list of streets and dates when work will take place: • Thursday, June 3 – N. Pine St. • Wednesday, June 9 – S. Starry Skies Ct.; S. Maple St.; E. Tyee Dr.; E. Tyler Ave.; S. New Moon Ct.; and E. Coyote Springs Rd. • Thursday, June 10 – W. Black Crater Ave.; N. Pine St.; and N. Oak St. • Friday, June 11 – S. Pine Meadow St. and W. Hope Ave.

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Sisters Dance Academy hosted live performance The Sisters Dance Academy was able to hold a live performance on Thursday, May 27, at Sisters High School featuring the studio’s competitive dance teams. The dance academy now has four competitive teams: a junior and senior performance ensemble directed by Kayla Williams and a junior and senior hip-hop squad directed by Shannon Abero Guerrero. The special performance also highlighted soloists and duets who were able to compete recently, as well as some who chose to choreograph their own solos and had to audition for Director Lonnie Liddell. “What a joy it was to be able to perform for a live audience again,” Liddell said. “We haven’t been able to do that since December of 2019 due to all of the restrictions surrounding COVID19. To feel the energy and emotions of being on our home stage with a live audience cheering all throughout the performance felt so amazing for our dancers and has been a long time coming indeed.” The dance academy normally hosts two live performances a year, in June and in December, but with restrictions on performance venues and gatherings, the dance academy has only been able to do virtual performances for the past year and a half. This year, the dance academy’s competitive teams were able to attend two dance competitions: Thunderstruck in Vancouver, Washington and most recently, Turn it Up in Springfield, Oregon. “With many restrictions still hovering around these kinds of events, competition looked quite a bit different this year, and we were only able to have one attendee per dancer for support,” Liddell said. “So, to be able to have a little over 100 people in the audience at our recent spotlight performance, it was a complete thrill.” The Sisters Dance Academy has continued running classes throughout all

of the ups and downs of the COVID pandemic. From virtual classes, to classes outside, to wearing masks, to distancing restrictions within classes, the dance academy has tried to adapt to the everchanging parameters. “I am so grateful for our amazing dancers who have stuck with training and continued to attend class in spite of all the many ways they have had to adapt,” Liddell said. “I am so grateful for the many parents who also continued to have their child enrolled and have believed in us all along the way — we couldn’t have survived without this support.” Due to the recent change in Deschutes County’s risk level, the restrictions of having a live audience have also lifted. The high school auditorium can host 50 percent capacity for an audience. With this development, the Sisters Dance Academy is able to have their June recital in person for the first time since 2019. “The June shows are really the culmination of all of the hard work and training our dancers and teachers have put in all year long and to be able to bring that to a live audience this year is beyond exciting,” said Liddell. The dance academy will host four shows throughout the weekend of June 18-19. There will be a 7 p.m. show on Friday, June 18, and on Saturday three shows at 1 p.m., 4 p.m., and 7 p.m. The 7 p.m. Friday show and the 4 p.m. Saturday show will be the same, and the Saturday 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. will be the same. By providing four different shows, this allows there to be the opportunity for ample social distancing within the auditorium. The theme for this year’s event is “Extra! Extra! Dance All About It!” and the performers will be weaving this theme throughout each class’s dance number. Tickets go on sale Monday, June 7, and can be purchased through www.danceinsisters. com. This summer the dance

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Sisters Dance Academy was able to present a live performance for the first time in a year and a half on May 27. academy will have a variety of summer classes and offerings for ages 2-18 and they plan to bring some adult classes back to the schedule as well. Summer enrollment opens Saturday, June 5, 2021.

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Sisters is a compass bearing ...whether she ventures north, south, east, or west, Sisters is a compass bearing with a strong pull on her heart. Becca Rose is a traveler, poet, author, editor, student, and a 2011 graduate of Sisters High School. Her love for Sisters is deeply held. Within that appreciation, she also found a need for interrogation and understanding. Her evolving perspective came into focus after putting distance between her and Central Oregon. But whether she ventures north, south, east, or west, Sisters is a compass bearing with a strong pull on her heart. Rose reflects on her childhood in Sisters through poetry and various literary genres. She often finds it hard to explain her hometown to people she meets. “It’s a place where a quilt show, a rodeo, and a folk festival are very essential parts of your upbringing. For my friends and me, there’s still a very strong connection to the place we grew up. I know so many people who have moved back and are making their lives there,” said Rose from her home in San Diego. “If they can’t live in Sisters, at least they stay connected through events like the Folk Festival. I also have more close childhood friends than most people I meet.” Rose thought her experience was normal. After hearing other people’s stories, she realized having those close connections to her childhood home wasn’t typical. Through writing and self-reflection, Rose is examining the full spectrum of small town life in Oregon. “Growing up in Sisters there are entangled feelings of reverence for this community that held and continues to hold me, and also frustration for the narrowness of identity I was expected to embody,”

she said. Rose felt like she was only allowed to show a curated version of her identity. When she’s asked about growing up in Sisters and how it influenced her life, the answer is complicated. “It took leaving Sisters and meeting people in college and traveling to see it clearly,” she said. “I’m still stripping off those expectations and ingrained ideas. It has to do with sexuality, race, and whiteness, with Christian norms, gender, and how I viewed myself and what was expected of me as a woman.” After high school, Rose attended Western Washington University (WWU) in Bellingham. Feeling a bit lost in the size of the school’s undergraduate population, she enrolled in a small college within WWU called Fairhaven College. She designed her own major with a mix of creative writing, and women and gender studies. Primarily responsible for financing her education, Rose thought most people were taking out loans and working part-time or full-time jobs like her. Then she began meeting students who had family who paid for everything. “They didn’t have any loans and had money to live off of without having to work,” she said. “I had two to three jobs while I was going to school fulltime. I covered school tuition between scholarships and loans. I worked hard in high school to get scholarships. I’ll carry the loans for a long time. I did have some help from my parents and I’m thankful for all the support they could give.” Through Sisters GRO, Rose received a Kiwanis

scholarship, a veteran’s appreciation scholarship, and the Steven Connolly Memorial Grant. “That was so meaningful and special. I wrote an essay recalling a favorite memory about Steven. I also got a scholarship at my college based on my GPA,” said Rose. During college, Rose worked in a spa, sold olive oil and vinegar, worked in an assisted-living facility for adults with disabilities, and worked in a restaurant. “I often did back-to-back shifts,” she said. “I also worked to fund my travels, which I did almost entirely on my own. It was a privilege to have a U.S. passport and take time off from my studies.” For Rose it’s been important not to follow traditional timelines for school. “It took me seven years to get through undergraduate,” she said. “I took time off in-between my sophomore and junior year to travel alone in South and Central American for three months. Between my fourth and final year, I took a year to live in the Dominican Republic after receiving an Adventure Learning grant from Fairhaven College.” After graduation, Rose traveled to South East Asia, New Zealand, Australia, and Western Europe. When she returned, she came back to Sisters and lived with her mom for a year and a half. “It was a fantastic year being in Sisters and working in Bend at Spork,” she said. “I connected with so many other people who left and came back to Central Oregon. Then I moved to San Diego to start graduate school.”

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so much that the ways it harmed you are not reasons to abandon it, but actually reasons to keep loving it and wanting it to change and become a place that can evolve in the ways it didn’t serve me,” she said. “I’m pushing back now for future generations. It’s a big part of my writing.” Almost all of Rose’s writing relates to the landscape, physical place, and environment of Sisters. My reverence for the natural world and how the landscape affected me is a way to interrogate some of the things about growing up there that I want to challenge. When she was in the IEE high school class, Rose went on a backpacking trip on Middle Sister in a blizzard. The two other girls in her group got sick, leaving her as the only girl. “I was so nervous about being able to keep up and self-conscious being in the woods with people I went to school with without wearing any makeup,” she said. “I was deeply self-conscious about my body and felt I didn’t meet the beauty standards of thinness.” There was a moment, in an absolute whiteout, hiking to Hayden Glacier in full snow gear, when she couldn’t see anything. The only sound was the shuffling of people behind her. “Looking down at my legs trudging in deepening snow, I was so grateful they were strong enough to hike up to a glacier in the middle of a blizzard. That was the first moment, I was able to think about my relationship with my body based on what it was able to do, its strength, how it could take me up a

mountain rather than how it appeared and pleased other people. That was meaningful to me. My struggles with my body image would continue but it was a seed I could look back to and expand on later,” said Rose. “I write about finding overlaps or layers. The things around me in the natural environment that point to or teach ways I can relate to my body. Maybe that primed me to realize many of the answers about why we’re expected to fit in so many boxes that actually just harm us. I found a way to escape those confines by looking at the landscape of my hometown.” Rose is pursing her masters of fine art in writing. Her work has appeared in iō Literary Journal, InkSpeak, and Tides Zine. Kaleidoscoped is a new literary magazine formed by MFA students at UC San Diego with Rose as the founding editor: www.kaleidoscopedmag.com.

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Rose knows some of her experiences in Sisters are universal, especially in small towns. “We were in a town where we knew everybody. There was more pressure to be perceived in accepted ways. The conservative side of Sisters was such a norm for me that it took leaving before I finally realized I had a lot to unlearn about the world and how people are supposed to behave. This is a time where we’re being asked to reckon with our whiteness in a public way. Growing up in Sisters didn’t prepare me for what that really meant. It was such a bubble. I thought my experience of the world as a white person was the norm. I think it needs to change starting young, in our schools and communities.” Rose had a hard time during her high school years. “Going through challenging times in any family is hard, but in a small town, it feels like everyone knows about it, too,” she said. “I think about how sad it was for my mom when she came out and I couldn’t accept it. That’s heartbreaking to me. Part of that is my own responsibility but it was also such a product of my surroundings, culture, and religion. Those are things I’ve had to shed about my upbringing and community.” Rose is constantly amazed that even with the painful things she never stopped wanting to return to Sisters. “That’s pretty incredible when you love a place

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Sisters Farmers Market kicks off season

BIKE PATROL: Mode offers better community connection

Sisters Farmers Market is opening for the season this Sunday, June 6. The market will return to Fir Street Park from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Sunday through October 3. Farmers markets have traditionally been a place where community members can gather to find connection — to their farmers, producers, friends, and neighbors. Out of necessity, markets had to shift to becoming primarily essential food sources throughout the pandemic, leaving little room for collective gathering. While COVID-19 precautions will still be in place for the start of the season, market manager Caroline Hager reports that Sisters Farmers Market is looking forward to new and returning programming that will bring back a sense of community connection, in addition to remaining an essential food access point. Thanks to support from The Roundhouse Foundation, Sisters Farmers Market is now able to accept SNAP/ EBT payment, and was approved for the Double Up Food Bucks program which doubles SNAP dollars up to $10 a day to be used on fruits and vegetables throughout the market. The market will come alive this year with weekly musical performances sponsored by Metabolic Maintenance, which will kick off this Sunday with local musician Matti Joy. According to the musician’s bio, Joy is a “folk singer who

during good weather months from one to four hours per day. The patrol area will be limited to downtown and areas frequented by tourists such as Creekside Campground. “When we drive into the campground by car, people automatically wonder if something is wrong,” said Davis. “If we come in on bike, the reaction is instantly better, a friendlier encounter where campers initiate welcomes and dialogue.” It’s assumed that everybody can ride a bike, but the deputies must in fact be certified. A certification event was held May 12. Some 10-12 officers are now certified in DCSO, with more to come. Patrols will be solo or team depending on activity in town. The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show event on Saturday, July 10, will be a perfect example, Davis says, of the efficacy of bike patrols. Events like this may include deputies from other county assignments to join the bike force, enabling the officers to cover more territory more quickly and with more presence. While each bike has a

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acts as a voice for the outdoors, education, and mental health. Their songwriting and performances speak to the power of place and the way community can meaningfully change how people interact and support each other.” For more information visit pucc.io/bio. Sisters Farmers Market will offer two new educational booth spaces this year: the Community Partner Booth and the Wellness Booth, which will feature local mission-aligned organizations to increase awareness of what our area has to offer in regards to health, wellness, nutrition, movement, community, and more. Hager said, “Sisters Farmers Market is possible thanks to our amazing donors and sponsors, including The Roundhouse Foundation, Metabolic Maintenance, Black Butte Realty Group, Shibui Spa, FivePine Lodge, Roam Natural Skincare, and Noelle Fredland. The market also relies on and greatly appreciates volunteers who help with crucial day-of support.”

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Deputy Brian Morris and Lt. Chad Davis got out on two wheels to patrol in Sisters. The bikes are not out of supply of forms, notebooks and extra water in the rear- the ordinary. They are stanmounted saddle bag, the dard mountain bikes suitbikes will never be far from able for pavement, gravel, the SUV equipped with and maintained trails, not for bike racks. Calls outside the competing on Peterson Ridge. bike’s response range or need Equipped with only seven for tactical gear means the gears they still provide plenty “mother ship” must be fairly of flexibility. Any casual observation identifies them as close. “The bikes, apart from belonging to law enforcement. “Merchants seem pleased their navigational efficiency, are more about community with the bike’s presence policing and a bit of public and children particularly like encountering us on our relations,” Davis said. He is a strong advocate for bikes,” Morris offered. He hopes citizens will stop getting officers out of their cars and up close to the citi- and engage him and his patrol zens they serve. The public mates when biking the streets response is universally posi- as they try to assess community needs more effectively. tive, reports Davis.

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Riders in the Elite Women category battled over a dusty course in the Sisters Stampede last Sunday.

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Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of cycling season in Sisters. Estimates are that a thousand riders visited Sisters over the holiday weekend. Five hundred took part in the annual Sisters Stampede on Peterson Ridge. Event officials told The Nugget that entrants from at least nine states registered for this year’s ride. A cyclist from New Jersey traveled the farthest and a rider from Tucson made the 1,250-mile journey to compete in one of two timed events — the short course (14 miles) and the long course (25 miles). Close to an equal number appear to have made the McKenzie Pass ride on Highway 242, even though the road remains closed nine miles from town. While cars could not get past the snow gate, cyclists navigated their way around it and did in large numbers. On two different occasions The Nugget observed between 40 and 50 eastbound bikes in a one-hour period, most having started at McKenzie Bridge. Sunday morning saw groups gather in town for an out-and-back ride on the iconic byway. Bikers report

that there are still patches of snow to the side of the road. “Landslide debris and fallen trees are minor obstacles that increase the thrill,” said Molly Samuels from Eugene. She and her partner, Brian Wells, make the trip every year and cite the Sisters atmosphere for why they choose that course. They met riders Leanne Jacobs and Sean Arden, both from Woodburn, at the Dee Wright Observatory and they all joined up for the downhill “adrenaline run,” as Arden delighted in telling. Jacobs said that at least 30 riders were mingling at the observatory’s parking lot exchanging stories, tips, and map checks. Rick Goldman and five of his riding buddies made the trip to Sisters from Beaverton for the McKenzie ride. It’s an annual affair. “Sisters is our tune-up ride for the season,” he said, adding, “The ride is great and the coffee and beer are even better.” It was impossible to be in town for the long weekend without encountering cyclists. Creekside Campground was home to several dozen bikes including those of a family of five – ages 8 to 35 — from Portland cruising the side streets with two

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well-mannered dogs leashed to the lead bike. As with others with whom The Nugget spoke, this was an annual family camping/biking event. Mike Allen of Spokane eagerly awaited the start of the Stampede long course. “The weather could not be better,” Allen said — though he was wondering what the dusty trails would do to times. “I did a trial run Friday and I don’t remember the sandy conditions I’m seeing compared to past year’s,” he observed. “I’d never miss the Stampede with the chance to get to Sisters,” said Meghan Duval from Sandy Point, Idaho. “I bring two bikes, one for Peterson and one to just ride around town and take in the scene and connect with my friends after the run.” The only complaint anybody expressed was the wait for food at the food court where long lines of hungry,

thirsty cyclists were adding to the local economy. Not all cyclists were pedaling. The Nugget counted upwards of 45 motorcycles on Sunday, dispersed around the shopping and dining streets. All were in showroom condition even as some were vintage 1970s and ’80s models. Astride the chrome and leather was an eclectic mix of riders taking in the nearperfect weather with a mix of traditional holiday eats and drinks. Mitch Oberman of the riding club Bike Knights from Wenatchee, Washington, spoke for his group of nine classic Triumph riders. “We were running 97 from Yakima to Weed (California) and when we stopped in Madras everybody told us, ‘You gotta detour to Sisters,’ and we did, and darned glad we found you. Quite a place you got yourselves here.”

Sisters Stampede Results TOP THREE FINISHERS: LONG COURSE — 25 MILES Women: 1. Emma Maaranen, Bend — 1:49:47 2. Paige Edwards, Camas, Washington — 1:51:18 3. Serena Gordon, Bend — 1:51:21 Men: 1. Cody Peterson, Bend — 1:35:10 2. Ian Brown, Bend — 1:36:10 3. Carl Decker, Bend 1:36:23 TOP THREE FINISHERS: SHORT COURSE — 14 MILES Women: 1. Stella Scholtz, Winthrop, Washington — 58:13:00 2. Tessa Beebe, Boise, Idaho — 58:15:00 3. Emily Klinger, Vancouver, Washington — 59:23:00 Men: 1. Sean Garcia, San Jose, California — 52:12:00 2. Mike Arrera, Bend — 52:16 3. Nicholas Woodward, Portland — 54:11

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by a future homeowners’ association? Sounds like the commission is not taking our citizens’ concerns to heart, and is even arrogant enough to kick the can sideways, hoping these significant issues will be handled by somebody somewhere else. Sounds like bureaucracy at work, which in itself is an oxymoron. Sincerely, John Stettler

To the Editor: I was disappointed to read that the Sisters Planning Commission approved the request from Sisters Habitat for Humanity (SHFH) to make 10 lots from an existing six lots in the Village Meadows subdivision despite the concern from local citizens. A similar situation has taken place in the SHFH neighborhood on Cowboy Street. SHFH homes/duplexes were built on lots before the sewer. Some of these homes were sold back to SHFH by the homeowners and SHFH cut the lot size (post sewer). Dense housing was constructed for the new SHFH homeowners. The City of Sisters built asphalt sidewalks with no curbs in front of several of the homes. Parking quickly became an issue. Homeowner vehicles, business vehicles, and utility trailers are often parked in the streets or on the sidewalks. Homeowners and/or their guests use the sidewalks as an extension of their driveways causing blocking of the sidewalks. I have seen children walking presumably to and from Sisters Elementary School having to enter the street due to vehicles and/or trailers blocking the sidewalk. Often pedestrians have to enter the street, since the sidewalk is often blocked. And once entering the street due to a blocked sidewalk one has to walk around several parked cars or trailers along Cowboy Street. Yes, it is a safety concern. Rick Slavkovsky

To the Editor: In response to Gary Leister’s letter last week suggesting we stop development and form a “Committee to Protect Sisters from Urban Sprawl” I would like to offer the following: The growth projection he ridicules is not done by some pro-development group as he suggests, but by Portland State University. In addition, every municipality is required by state law to plan for projected growth based on the PSU report. This projection does not take into account the change in lifestyle created by the pandemic and the increased urban crime that is funneling additional people into our community. The PSU projection of 1,100 new households is a gross underestimate of what the current economic climate will require over the next 20 years. Even if it were legal to “close the door” after all of us moved here, the result would be a disaster as we can see from other cities that tried to do this. For example, Santa Cruz, California, decided if “they didn’t build it, they wouldn’t come” with consequences that have led to no new roads being built in 40 years, no new housing developments of any size, and median home price of $1.1 million. Vail, Colorado, made the decision decades ago that they liked their little village just the way it was and did everything to discourage growth. The result is a median home price of $1.9 million. Sure I miss Sisters when we had a population of 900. It was an amazing time, but there is no going back, or stopping people from moving here for the same reasons we all did. It isn’t legal, and it just doesn’t work. Best that we all speak up and help guide what Sisters will look like when the populations hits 5,000 or 10,000 people because it is going to happen,

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To the Editor: Our beloved Sisters Athletic Club recently required proof of vaccination in order to drop the mask requirement. This is a result of a state law influenced by the CDC’s recommendation. People who have not taken the vaccine, or those unwilling to share their status, are still required to wear masks to enter the gym. The same law applies to all businesses in Oregon and includes proof of vaccination even to enter church unmasked. At first glance, it seems like an innocuous rule, one could even say it makes sense for safety reasons; however, viewed from another angle one can see this is a gross overreach of the power of the state. For vaccinated people, even those in the most fragile category, the chance of serious issues from the coronavirus are about the same as getting the flu. Logically it follows that for those who choose to be vaccinated, the danger is over. You don’t need to fear COVID-19 any more than the flu. Life can go back to normal and no one needs to wear a mask. Unvaccinated people have made a choice regarding their own health and are not putting others at undue risk. Even more convincing, we need look no further than our fellow citizens in Texas and Florida to see that reduced mask mandates do not result in any measurable increases in infection rates. Some may still argue that it is better to err on the side of safety and hence ask unvaccinated folks to mask up. It is a slippery slope when people are asked to relinquish freedom in the name of safety. This law is not merely an inconvenience for those who have not gotten the shot, rather make no mistake this is a vaccine passport. There are most likely a series of increased restrictions to follow. How long until they start prohibiting those without a vaccine passport to even enter the gym, to even go to church? How long until they require more secure authentication of vaccination, like a microchip implanted beneath the skin? It is time to wake up and see that this initiation of the vaccine passport is a significant step down the path toward a world where the government exerts ever more control, constricting the freedom of the people. Steven Rudnitzky

Misleading on Medicare

To the Editor: In his May e-newsletter, Congressman Bentz states he voted for H.R. 1868, the Medicare Sequester Bill as amended by the Senate. Bentz claims The American Rescue Plan (H. R. 1319), included cuts to Medicare and that he voted for the Senate-amended bill (H.R.1868) because he voted against Democrats’ first attempt to undo their own cuts to Medicare. H.R. 1319 did not include cuts to Medicare. However, it could have triggered the “PAYGO” legislation. The PAYGO act stipulates if new legislation increases projected deficits, cuts to services including Medicare can result. But PAYGO is not a real concern, because the legislature routinely exempts PAYGO. The Trump tax cuts fell into this category and PAYGO was waived/suspended. According to CRS R45106 (Congressional Research Service), PAYGO sequester has never been triggered as Congress finds a way to avoid its use. H.R. 1868 exempts Medicare from sequestration through December 31, 2021. Bentz insinuates that the Senate version of H.R. 1868 somehow corrected the House version regarding cuts to Medicare, and that by voting for the Senate-amended version he See LETTERS on page 21

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Sisters got a fine display of a lunar eclipse in the last full moon of May, known as the “flower moon.” The “supermoon” eclipse that turned the moon reddish is known as a “blood moon.

County reaches out to Sisters’ homeless By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Deschutes County Health Services (DCHS) employees Colleen Thomas and Katie DeVito have begun local homeless outreach in the national forest surrounding Sisters. They have consulted with Lt. Chad Davis, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Sisters office, Sisters District Ranger Ian Reid, and Family Access Network’s Dawn Cooper concerning the local situation to better coordinate their efforts. Forest Service law enforcement officer John Soules accompanied Thomas and DeVito as they visited about 20 camps in the last few weeks to meet the people and begin to build rapport. DeVito and Thomas hope to bridge the gap between the campers and support services available to them such as accessing the Oregon Health Plan, Social Security benefits, food stamps, energy assistance, veteran’s benefits, and birth certificates. The overall goal is to help them find long-term stable housing, which 95 percent say they want. DCHS is partnering with St. Charles to offer pop-up clinics where the unhoused can receive free vaccinations. The biggest common denominator among the unhoused is unaffordable housing in Central Oregon coupled with needing access to showers and transportation. Twenty to 30 percent of the campers are employed and their demographics include families with children, multigenerational families, and singles, both male and female. DeVito said their contacts with the campers are not a one-time stop; they will be making regular visits to provide a safety net of services.

With funds from several different sources, including the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic’s Demonstration Program and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, DCHS is able to provide the personnel to staff specialized homeless services, including Project in Assistance for Transition from Homelessness (PATH), which provides direct street outreach and case management. They also coordinate and develop services for unhoused individuals and track progress on housing for all clients. According to the County, homelessness is not a onesize-fits-all challenge. It should be addressed with person-centered, individualized approaches. Officials contend that the best approach to addressing homelessness is as a continuum of options, from managed camps to permanent supportive housing and multifamily units, and everything in between. As a region, the focus needs to be on the gaps in that continuum of housing and services to ensure choices and options are being given to those experiencing homelessness. Experience has shown that unhoused individuals do best when supported in their community as opposed to displacement outside their community. According to Thomas, in Sisters, most of the unhoused have lived here at least six months, many much longer. Mayor Michael Preedin told the County representatives, “We want to help any way we can.” For more information contact Colleen Thomas, homeless services coordinator, at 458-292-6397 or Katie DeVito, PATH homeless outreach coordinator, at 458-292-6160.

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PONDEROSA PROPERTIES –Monthly Rentals Available– Call Debbie at 541-549-2002 Full details, 24 hrs./day, go to: PonderosaProperties.com Printed list at 221 S. Ash, Sisters Ponderosa Properties LLC

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Sisters House for Rent Great for Quilt Show or any C. O. vacation. 3 BR, 2 BA, 1,700 sq. ft. on .44 acre, large kitchen, great room for quilting! Porch, outside dining on deck. Close to shops and park! $1,500 for a week. Professionally sanitized! Taking pre-bookings for Sisters Folk Festival. Call 503-537-4221 for more info. CASCADE HOME & VACATION RENTALS Monthly and Vacation Rentals throughout Sisters Country. (541) 549-0792 Property management for second homes. CascadeVacationRentals.net ~ Sisters Vacation Rentals ~ Private Central OR vac. rentals, Property Management Services 541-977-9898 www.SistersVacation.com • • • • • • NEED A CHANGE? Use The Nugget's HELP WANTED column to find a new job! NEED ASSISTANCE? Use the Help Wanted column to find the help you need! The Nugget Newspaper Call 541-549-9941 to place your ad by noon, Mondays or submit your text online at NuggetNews.com • • • • • •

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there’s no electricity in the air from being at a major event, no outside impetus to deliver competition-level performances. “It’s super different, because you’re not in the heat of battle with somebody beside you. You don’t have that energy,” Banning said. “That’s something you have

to manufacture.” Banning was able to build her own energy and deliver on her best efforts. The above-bodyweight snatch was a personal record. Olympic lifts require excellent technique as well as main strength. Banning trains with the local lifting club, Drive Barbell. “Adam Hamilton is my coach,” she said. “He’s really great — also a good friend.” Having a support network of lifters is important in keeping at it when training

gets tough. “Sometimes, in the middle of a training cycle, you think ‘Why do I do this?’” she said. As with any challenging endeavor, pushing into the space where those dark doubts abide makes breaking through all the sweeter. “To actually do hard work and see the fruits of your labor is super gratifying,” Banning said. Especially when the fruits of labor are accompanied by the laurels of a world champ.

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there is a recently finished apartment space upstairs, though City code does not allow for a residential use. No one is occupying the “carriage house” on the back of the property and Boxwell made no improvements to it. Several months ago, Boxwell listed the property for sale for $1.25 million. The museum was hopeful whoever bought it would continue to allow them to rent the first floor. Boxwell temporarily removed the listing but put it back on the market several weeks ago for $1.245 million. Following an inspection last week, a potential buyer withdrew their offer. For now, the historical society finds itself between a rock and a hard place. They can’t afford $3,000 a month rent for the entire property and they don’t have $1.245 million to purchase it. They already have big plans for the week of the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, complete with quilts displayed inside and on the porch plus a big usedbook sale on the lawn on Saturday, July 10. They also have plans for

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a Founders Day Picnic on Sunday, July 11, to celebrate the original platting of the city in 1901. Guided walking tours of historic Sisters have begun again for the summer as well. The property on the corner of East Cascade Avenue and North Larch Street is actually two lots. The corner lot contains the house and is listed for $995,000. The other lot is a flag lot consisting of the lawn area between the museum and Suttle Tea plus the entire back area where the carriage house is located. That lot would sell for $250,000 if combined with the other lot. To split those two lots evenly from Cascade back to the alley would require a lot-line adjustment. If that was done, the lot line would probably run right down the middle of the ADA ramp on the house. Ideally for the museum, they would like to have the entire house and the carriage

house to provide them with both sufficient display space as well as onsite storage and no need to move to a larger space. According to the City codes, the carriage house needs fire walls installed and needs to be connected to the bungalow. Whoever purchases the property has some work to do to meet City codes. In a perfect world, a generous benefactor(s) could become a history angel and provide a permanent home for the museum. The Wakefield property has historical significance having been built in 1929 by a leading Sisters citizen. It is in a convenient location right downtown, easily found by the public, with on-street parking. For information about the museum call 541-904-0585. For information about the property contact Tim Kizziar at Stellar Realty 541-419-5577.

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somehow protected Medicare. That is not what happened. The House version fully addressed this issue. The Senate didn’t change that. So when he voted against the original H.R. 1868 he was voting to allow cuts to Medicare. Bentz voted against H.R. 1319 (American Rescue Plan) which was a lifesaver for people needing PPP and extended unemployment. Bentz’s February 27 statement defending his no vote on 1319 addressed excess expenditures, not Medicare benefits. It is a stretch to say he saved Medicare. Bentz’s carefully worded newsletter included half-truths that divide the country. Both parties do it and we are being used as pawns. It is up to you to spend the time to seek the truth if you care about democracy. Nancy Buffinton-Kelm

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Powder River Country, east of the Bighorn Mountains in the area of what is now Buffalo, Wyoming, in the summer of 1866. Col. Henry Carrington was assigned to construct a fort along the “Montana Road” (aka The Bozeman Trail) to protect miners and teamsters on their way to recently-discovered goldfields in Montana. The Lakota Sioux, who had, in the 1850s, conquered the territory from the Crow Indians, were having none of it. The Oglala Lakota Red Cloud built an alliance with Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes to throw the invaders out of the Powder River Country. They relentlessly harassed the under-supplied and poorly armed garrison of Fort Phil Kearny, and repeatedly attacked travelers along the road. By winter, some 70 civilians and soldiers had been killed, and Carrington and his officers were under orders to pursue the Indians more aggressively. On December 21, 1866, a force of decoys — traditionally believed to have been led by the young Tashunka Witko, known to whites as Crazy Horse — lured 79 soldiers and two civilians out of Fort Phil Kearney, over Lodge Trail Ridge, and out on a long north-south finger of ridge some scholars call High Backbone (better known as Massacre Hill) where a force of more than a thousand Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors boiled up out of the gullies and draws flanking the ridge, overran the disorganized American force and rubbed out the soldiers to a man. Ridgeline does a remarkable job of humanizing the iconic Crazy Horse. “Crazy Horse has always been one of my heroes,” Punke told The Nugget. “I love that in 1866 he is still a young man, and while already respected as a hunter and warrior — he is just beginning to emerge as the great leader that he will become. To me, the fact that he is not perfect makes him more interesting. How did he learn and grow from his mistakes? I also was intrigued with his relationship with his brother and friend — and exploring those relationships also helped to make him more human.” Punke, who was born in Wyoming and now lives in Missoula, Montana, is a former Deputy United States Trade Representative and U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has long had an interest in frontier history and was drawn to recount this relatively littleknown tale.

“I have been interested in the Indian War era since I was a boy,” he said. “As a teenager, I worked for the National Park Service as a ‘living history interpreter’ — dressing up in an 1876 cavalry uniform, firing Springfield rifles and an 1841 mountain howitzer, and baking army bread in a woodburning oven. As for the story of the Fetterman Fight itself — I think it is one of the most dramatic incidents of the 19th century: a great adventure story, history story, and a cast of amazing, real-life people. And with some great lessons for contemporary America to boot.” The “official narrative” for over a century blamed Captain William Fetterman, who commanded the detachment that chased the decoys over Lodge Trail Ridge, for falling into the ambush that resulted in the “Fetterman Massacre.” Punke delved deeply into recent scholarship that casts Fetterman in a different light — and shifts blame for the disaster to another officer.

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“Ridgeline is historical fiction — but I take the research seriously,” Punke said. “For me, the best scholarship (I list sources at the end of the book) makes it far more likely that Lt. George Washington Grummond was the brash officer whose arrogance led others to calamity.” A large number of women accompanied Carrington’s expedition to build Fort Phil Kearny — from officers’ wives to laundresses. Punke reveals their experience through the device of a pair of journals — one “public” and the other “private” — kept by Lt. Grummond’s young, pregnant wife, Frances. “Women are often underrepresented or ignored in telling the history of the West,” Punke noted. “In my time working at Fort Laramie, I learned a lot about the role of women in a 19th-century U.S. Army post — especially the laundresses and officers’ wives. So I was eager to portray those characters in Ridgeline. Frances Grummond actually wrote an autobiography, which gave me a feel for her voice and the idea of presenting her character through fictionalized journal entries.” Physical ridgelines loom large in the story — as vantage points, points of exposure, and, fatally, lines of demarcation. Those ridgelines gave the novel its title. “I live in Montana and stare every day, from my home, at a couple of evocative ridgelines,” Punke explained. “The fateful battle in Ridgeline occurs when the U.S. Army rides over Lodge Trail Ridge — against orders and after Crazy Horse brilliantly leads a group of decoys. The idea of ‘ridgeline’

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16 and over. Nathaniel Brown, spokesperson for Oregon Business and Industry, told the Times that they “have serious concerns about the practicality of requiring business owners and workers to be the enforcer…We are hearing from retailers and small businesses who are concerned about putting their frontline workers in a potentially untenable position when dealing with customers.” The Washington Examiner ran a headline: “Oregon nears full reopening as ‘vaccine passport’ debate flares up.” US News & World Report, ABC, and USA Today were among others pointing to Oregon’s latest effort to control the virus’ spread. Jason Brandt, CEO of the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association, says there is no consensus in the hospitality industry about how to move forward. Some, he said, plan to maintain their mask rules until the state reopens. “It’s quite a mixed bag out there,” Brandt said. “We have operators who have committed earlier on in the pandemic to never ask for employees’ or customers’ vaccination status.”

The Nugget set about to sample Sisters businesses and organizations as to how the newest rules were impacting their operations or changing the way they served. Much of the public’s emphasis is on retail, especially dining, but the rules cover a spectrum of settings including houses of worship. The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration has resumed in-person worship after more than a year’s absence. Ushers check vaccination cards before worshippers are admitted to the sanctuary. Across the street at St. Edward the Martyr Catholic Church, congregants, some masked, most not, enter without any verification of immunization. Both churches have dispensed with the communion cup, offering only the traditional communion wafers. In the retail sector, it’s a stew. Dollar General, a national chain operating in Sisters, takes direction from corporate headquarters. In this case, masks are still mandatory for shoppers, as is their right to require per Oregon Health Authority mandate. At Bi-Mart, all employees have face coverings as did three out of four patrons when The Nugget visited. There was no obvious enforcement of masks, nor asking for proof of vaccination. Store Manager Joey

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Braw-Ewry, told The Nugget, “We do the best we can asking anybody who comes in (the controlled entrance) to put on their masks. Once they are in the store and remove their mask, we simply don’t have the staff to police it. And some customers come in through the exit only door and we can’t be sure they are masked.” Employees, who asked not to be named, said they did not feel it was appropriate to ask customers about their vaccination status. The scene was nearly identical at Ray’s Food Place, although masking and distancing signage was still front and center. About six in 10 customers were masked, with all employees’ faces covered. Neither the Habitat Thrift Store nor Paulina Springs Books had relaxed their prior policy requiring all to be masked, with six feet of separation and a limit on how many can be in their store at one time. Oliver Lemon’s was the only store we found to display the most recent signage taken directly from the Oregon Health Authority website. Here, it was virtually 100 percent mask wearers as it was at Sisters Meat & Smokehouse where nothing has changed. No mask, no service. Travelling up and down Cascade, Hood, and Main avenues, there was a variation

It just seems unfair to put store owners in this position. — Carly Matthews on a theme: mostly masked employees, the entire gamut of masked/maskless patrons, and an apparent prevailing “don’t ask” honor system. Kara Lappe, owner of SweetEasy Co. and Cascade Gifts, shared her frustration. “In a word: confusing,” Lappe said. “Being regulated both by OSHA, who enforce mask rules, and the county health department because we serve food, it’s even more daunting to keep up.” She added: “Our employees have been in masks over a year and they’re reaching mask burnout, as are most of our customers.” Marilyn Reed from Lebanon, maskless at SweetEasy Co., said: “We like coming to Sisters where we don’t feel judged or shamed if we don’t wear our masks.” Carly Matthews, masked and day-tripping from Keizer, shared her sympathy as she exited Lappe’s gift shop. “I love coming here to sample the fudge, which I can’t with my mask,” she said. “If I take it off, I worry that one of the workers will get in trouble. It just seems

unfair to put store owners in this position.” Sisters Athletic Club requires members wishing to be on the premises without a mask to show proof of vaccination, which is marked in the member’s file. No copy of the vaccination card is kept, only the notation. Members still have the obligation to sanitize any equipment they use. Laird Superfood, the presumptive largest employer in Sisters, is offering their vaccinated employees to be mask-free. “A sticker is placed on their ID badge,” according to Angela Linker, an administrative manager. “Early response has been enthusiastic,” Linker said. Employers and shopkeepers express quiet frustration and anxiety in being faithful to the rules, wanting to be good citizens, while not upsetting customers or workers in the process.

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