The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLIV No. 24 // 2021-06-16

The Nugget Vol. XLIV No. 24

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Volunteers tackle trail work in Sisters Country

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Sisters athletic director earns honors

Celebrating eighth grade...

By Bill Bartlett

By Charlie Kanzig

Correspondent

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This past weekend saw 20 volunteers from the Sisters Trails Alliance (STA) and OTTA (Oregon Timber Trail Association) conduct their first joint trail-improvement work party. Judging by the smiles and laughter exhibited by the group, it was partylike as they toiled in three sections. The weather added to the joy being expressed by the workers who ranged in age from 13 to 66. The work group came from as close as Sisters and as far as Bellingham, Washington.

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Sisters Middle School’s eighth-grade class gathered at Scout Lake last week for the Eighth Grade Olympics. Events included arts and athletics and gave the students and their teachers an opportunity to mark the end of the middle-school years and the transition to high school. See story, page 4.

Outlaws Athletic Director Gary Thorson is the Oregon 4A Athletic Director of the Year for 2020-2021.

The Oregon Athletic Directors Association (OADA) state athletic director of the year award was established to recognize outstanding athletic directors in recognition of contributions to interscholastic athletics at the local, state, and national levels made while serving as an athletic director at an Oregon high school.

See THORSON on page 22

See TRAIL WORK on page 14

Sisters youth is a rodeo champion Folk festival kicks off summer concert series

By Jim Cornelius Editor In Chief

The Sisters Summer of Festival series kicks off on Friday, June 25 with a cobill featuring Americana songstress and singer Sierra Ferrell playing as a trio, and the dynamic Freddy & Francine with a full band.

Ferrell has made waves in the acoustic music world with her signature singing style and aesthetic, while Freddy & Francine are celebrating a new record, “I Am Afraid to Die,” recorded pre-pandemic.

The Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) has made a reputation for introducing artists to its audience just as their star is rising. That’s very much the case with Sierra Ferrell.

Crista Munro, the Festival’s executive director, said that a friend who promotes events in Colorado urged her to get Ferrell booked.

“He said, ‘You’ve got to check her out; you’ve got to book her while you still can.’”

Sure enough, Ferrell has caught fire.

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“She is the most-booked artist in the AmericanaBluegrass-folk festival scene this summer,” Munro said.

The Festival’s audience is primed to get back to a regular diet of live music.

“Can’t wait,” said longtime Sisters Folk Festival attendee Kay Grady. “I just can’t wait to all be back together again, and see all the people we love and have missed.”

Paul Bertagna is especially excited to see the return of Freddy and Francine. The artists have performed at the Sisters Folk Festival — and also turned in an epic performance when rain forced them to move from Fir Street Park into The Belfry, where they proceeded to share the history of their artistic collaboration in a cycle of song.

“I saw them when they came to the festival — blew the doors off,” Bertagna said. “How can you not like these guys? Unbelievable.

See SFF on page 6

Gabby Bartolotta of Sisters rode her 7-year-old quarter horse Jess to a state championship in pole bending in Oregon Junior High Division Rodeo competition in Burns May 28-30. The 14-year-old rodeo champ is headed to nationals in Des Moines, Iowa, June 20-27.

Pole bending is a timed event in which the horse and rider run a weaving course between six poles set up in a line — similar to a slalom course in skiing.

Bartolotta’s championship came down to the last go-round.

“I was doing pretty good,” she said. “Me and this other girl were neck-and-neck. It was really close. If I’d have knocked a pole, I’d have been out of it.”

A clean, fast run gave her the title.

In the championship crunch, success often comes down to managing nerves.

That’s something Gabby knows how to do.

“That’s the main thing, no

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Gabby Bartolotta won a state championship in pole bending in Oregon Junior High Division Rodeo. matter what,” she said. “And be happy with your horse no matter what.”

It’s the love and connection between horse and rider that forms the foundation of the sport for Bartolotta. It’s a passion she discovered on her own.

“It’s her,” said her mom Julie. “It’s her passion; her journey.”

“I’ve been around horses all my life,” Gabby said,

“but I just got into rodeo six years ago, seven years ago...

It’s just the bond, the connection with your horse. It’s hard to explain.

“She matches my energy.

Whenever I’m having a bad day, she’s having a bad day… When I’m having a good day, she’s the best horse ever.”

Jess is just one of 17 See BARTOLOTTA on page 22

Letters/Weather ............... 2 Announcements................ 8 At Your Service.............11-13 Fun & Games ....................16 Classifieds................. 18-20 Meetings .......................... 3 Entertainment .................. 9 Obituaries .......................15 Crossword ....................... 17 Real Estate ................ 20-24

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Adapt and overcome

Letters to the Editor…

By Jim Cornelius

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.

Climate Change To the Editor: It is a fact that the climate crisis is advancing because our atmosphere is too full of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Excesses of GHG particulates in our atmosphere inhibit the suns’ heat from reflecting back into the stratosphere. Trapped heat increases the average temperature, causes ice to melt

(permafrost, glaciers, and polar caps), which increases atmospheric moisture, which increases cloud cover, which in turn traps more heat — a dangerous feedback loop.

Effects of climate crisis in Oregon are seen in more frequent and increasingly extreme fires, less and shorter snow seasons, extreme and frequent floods west of See LETTERS on page 23

Sisters Weather Forecast

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Rodeo spirit…

It was supposed to be Rodeo weekend in Sisters — and some folks got into the spirit with a little rodeo-themed entertainment. Sisters is looking forward to 2022.

PHOTO BY BILL BARTLETT

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Editor In Chief

Last weekend, my wife, Marilyn, and I celebrated our daughter’s graduation from the University of Oregon with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Many Sisters parents are celebrating similar milestones for college or high school grads.

It struck me powerfully during all the speeches and ceremonies that Ceili and her diverse and wonderful group of friends have truly learned perhaps the most critical life skill of them all: the ability to adapt and overcome.

Despite disruptions and disappointments, opportunities substantively altered or lost, they made the most out of every experience. They rolled with the punches. They didn’t proclaim themselves victims of life’s circumstances — they got behind the mule and plowed.

It would be nice to assure them that the hard part is over, that things are going to get easier from here on out. But that would not be honest. Our 2021 graduates are entering a world full of grave challenges and looming uncertainties that will continue to demand the qualities of resilience and adaptability they have honed in 2020-21.

The National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, issued in March, is titled “A More Contested World.”

And, let’s be honest, anybody who thinks that this deeply divided society and grievance-obsessed culture is in shape for a serious contest is likely smoking some of that legal Oregon weed.

Here’s the abstract: During the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded the world of its fragility and demonstrated the inherent risks of high levels of interdependence. In coming years and decades, the world will face more intense and cascading global challenges ranging from disease to climate change to the disruptions from new technologies and financial crises.

These challenges will repeatedly test the resilience and adaptability of communities, states, and the international system, often exceeding the capacity of existing systems and models. This looming disequilibrium between existing and future challenges and the ability of institutions and systems to respond is likely to grow and produce greater contestation at every level.

In this more contested world, communities are increasingly fractured as people seek security with like-minded groups based on

established and newly prominent identities; states of all types and in all regions are struggling to meet the needs and expectations of more connected, more urban, and more empowered populations; and the international system is more competitive — shaped in part by challenges from a rising China — and at greater risk of conflict as states and non-state actors exploit new sources of power and erode longstanding norms and institutions that have provided some stability in past decades.

These dynamics are not fixed in perpetuity, however, and we envision a variety of plausible scenarios for the world of 2040 — from a democratic renaissance to a transformation in global cooperation spurred by shared tragedy — depending on how these dynamics interact and human choices along the way.

That last bit is lined out in a set of well-crafted, intriguing scenarios, described thus: Three of the scenarios portray futures in which international challenges become incrementally more severe, and interactions are largely determined by the U.S.-China rivalry.

In ‘Renaissance of Democracies,’ the United States leads a resurgence of democracies. In ‘A World Adrift,’ China is the leading but not globally dominant state, and in ‘Competitive Coexistence,’ the United States and China prosper and compete for leadership in a bifurcated world.

Two other scenarios depict more radical change…

‘Separate Silos’ portrays a world in which globalization has broken down, and economic and security blocs emerge to protect states from mounting threats. ‘Tragedy and Mobilization’ is a story of bottom-up, revolutionary change on the heels of devastating global environmental crises.

Don’t mistake this for a cry of despair. I remain the most optimistic of pessimists.

It’s always worthwhile to foreground one of my favorite statements from Dougald Hine, co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project: “It’s not the apocalypse, of course, it’s just history, but if you thought the shape of history was meant to be an upward curve of progress, then this feels like the apocalypse.”

It seems that the best we can do for our children is to inculcate in them some classical values: a heroic mindset as opposed to a victim’s mindset; a belief in community and serving something greater than self; a spirit of cheerful persistence in the face of adversity.

Stay strong, Class of 2021.

You’ve got this.

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Community to provide bond oversight The Sisters School Board will be appointing five community members to fill the Bond Facilities Oversight Committee; term could be as long as three years.

To be eligible for appointment the candidate must live in the school district, must not be an officer or employee of the district, and must be a qualified voter of the district.

Qualifications include ability to solve problems in a positive manner, participation in school activities and committees, ability to attend facilities oversight committee meetings, and

PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG

Teri Ast smiles from her familiar perch — the driver’s seat of a Sisters School District bus.

Beloved bus driver hangs up her keys

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

When Teri Ast began driving a school bus in 1994 for the Sisters School District, she couldn’t have fathomed the thousands of miles she would end up accruing behind the wheel.

Her daily bus route alone likely adds up to a half a million miles, not to mention the innumerable trips she took with sports teams,

field trips, and other assignments over 26 years.

She had been working at Tektronix as a welder when Fred got the opportunity to become a surveyor in Sisters, which he is still doing today. Her kids, Jeremy and Jennifer, were aged three and two at the time.

Ast worked in a variety of capacities in Sisters, including in the meat department at Sentry Market, which

later became Ray’s, where she stayed 14 years.

It was her friend and colleague from Sentry Market, Angi Gardinier, who first put the idea of becoming a bus driver into Ast’s mind.

“The selling point was having summers off,” said Ast. Ast remembers from her early days that she realized she would have to handle a See AST on page 21

willingness to commit time to conduct checks and balances to help create transparency and oversight in the allocations of bond monies.

Contact Mel Petterson, school board secretary, at mel.petterson@ssd6.org to receive an application packet, or download it from the district’s website. You may also pick up the application packet at the district office. The completed application must be turned in to the District Administration O ff i c e b y 4 p . m . o n Thursday, July 1. Candidates will be notified of interview dates and times.

Land Trust has new executive director Rika Ayotte will become the next executive director of Deschutes Land Trust on July 6, Since 2015, Ayotte has served as the executive director for Discover Your Forest, a Central Oregon nonprofit partner to the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests.

She holds an MBA in nonprofit management and is also the founder and CEO of Forest Path Consulting, a nonprofit organizational development firm. She has more than 15 years of experience working in nonprofit

organizations. She was a leader in the foundation of both the Deschutes Trails Coalition and Ochoco Trails Strategy groups helping to convene dozens of partners and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for sustainable trails in Central Oregon. She has led multiple strategic planning processes and organizational development efforts for public lands partners and conservation organizations across the western United States.

See LAND TRUST on page 23

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 / Citizens4Community, Let’s Talk Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., 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.

Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club 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.

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

Sisters Area Photography Club Council on Aging of Central Oregon 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., meeting Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters at Sisters Community Church.

541-549-6157.

Community Church. 541-480-1843.

BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS

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

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

Sisters 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 Post 86 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.

Sisters City Hall. 541-903-1123.

Location information: 541-549-1193.

Weight Watchers Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, Sisters 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at Community Church. 541-602-2654.

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.

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

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Eighth graders celebrate graduation with ‘Olympics’

By Kale Gardner Correspondent

Students at Sisters Middle School can go through a lot of emotions, adversity, and hardship leaving the eighth grade, especially this past year with the Class of 2025.

Having to deal with COVID-19 was beyond challenging. When you create a lot of great friends and memories at the school, it can be hard to leave.

One big thing to look forward to being an eighthgrade student and graduating is the Eighth Grade Olympics — a one-day getaway for all of the students. It consists of challenges such as running and kayaking across a lake, an outdoor scavenger hunt, a Frisbee disk challenge, and a competition where each cohort splits into two groups to create a song that the teachers vote on to choose the winner.

Each group has to make their own song with lyrics, and music equipment.

Student Jack Turpen told The Nugget, “It can be quite challenging at the Olympics, but it is a great experience for so many kids like myself.”

Once all of the competitions are over, the teaching staff adds up points to see who wins the competition.

The Eighth Grade Olympics is an opportunity

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

The Eighth Grade Olympics included a canoe-and-foot race and other activities that celebrate the end of middle school for young students. to get one more great middle school experience before heading off to high school.

It is a time to bond one more time with classmates. It is

Doing a final activity for the eighth grade allows for a kind of a culmination of the students’ four years at the middle school.

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U.S. history teacher Michelle Hammer said, “Doing a final activity for the eighth grade allows for a kind of a culmination of the students’ four years at the middle school. In a normal school year, we’ve done retreats and trips that build up to the Olympics, so it was somewhat strange this year since this was the first

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“The best thing that I observed was watching students who were reluctant to come and participate, came and had a great time,” she said. “When I asked them about their experience, they all commented, ‘It was

so much more fun than I thought it would be.’ While the Eighth Grade Olympics is a competition, it’s all about working together to achieve a common goal and have fun doing it. Watching groups learn how to steer a canoe as a team or creating their team chant I hope is a memory that they will have for many years. It’s all about creating lasting memories and realizing what you can achieve.”

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Sisters ministry distributes 20 million free books

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

The 1687 Foundation based in Sisters has completed the consolidation of its activities at a new 16,000 sq. ft. location in Sun Ranch Business Park. The unmistakable, two-story building, developed by Art Blumenkron dominates the park’s growing list of occupants.

Registered as a 501(c)(3) charity in Plano, Texas, the Foundation has from its inception made Sisters the base of its principal mission: providing books of hope and encouragement to the incarcerated, first responders, and the military.

The Foundation was established as a direct result of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings and the founders’ desire to reach the hurting. What started with a few boxes of donated books has now grown exponentially with over 20 million books given away at zero charge. The Foundation is self-funding and does not accept donations.

Books for prisoners is the largest channel for its Christian outreach. Other recipients include food banks, homeless shelters, and soup kitchens. Even shipping is free. There are more than 30 titles available, hard and soft cover, including seven for children, three of which are bilingual — English and Spanish — plus three coloring books.

With few exceptions the books are from other publishers, such as the highly popular “Karla Faye Tucker Set Free: Life and Faith on Death Row,” published by Penguin Random House. It was Random House who acquired struggling Sistersbased Multnomah Publishing

in 2006. Many readers will remember Multnomah Publishing who had some 65 employees at the time housed in the building opposite the Post Office now occupied by Metabolic Maintenance.

Renee Akaka manages the Book Ministry Division for the 1687 Foundation. She came to the Foundation in 2006 from Multnomah following its move to Colorado Springs. Akaka is on the board of the Foundation and is a vice president. The founders, a married couple (the husband is now deceased) are highly protective of their identity, preferring their works to speak for them. The very name and significance of 1687 is closely held by the publicity-shy Foundation, which lists assets of $37 million in a recent IRS filing.

On the other hand, Akaka and her staff of five, all women, gladly welcome visitors to the new facility by appointment. “We would like to share our work and its impact with the community,” Akaka said. Visitors will see a state-of-the-art warehousing operation. The pallet-racking system can handle 760 pallets, each holding an average

PHOTO BY BILL BARTLETT

The 1687 Foundation supports a variety of charitable outreach operations, including books for prisoners, a horse therapy ranch, and a retreat center. of 2,100 books. When full, the warehouse can hold more than 1.5 million copies.

The day The Nugget visited about 500,000 books were in storage.

By comparison the entire Deschutes County Library system houses 255,000 copies. Because books have a higher degree of risk from fire, the building’s fire sprinkler system incorporates a sub-suppressant system within the rack bays as well.

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A fully automated postageaddressing system and automatic pallet wrapper are among the technical features that make it possible to ship about 1 million books a year.

Prior to the new Sun Ranch facility, the Sisters footprint for the 1687 Foundation consisted only of an office on North Arrowleaf Trail. Storage and fulfillment of the books themselves was provided by a third party in the Midwest. Truckloads of

books have been transferred in the last three weeks to the new building with more on the way. The operation will now be fully integrated in Sisters, from title selection to distribution.

Beside its book operations, 1687 supports a number of charitable endeavors including a Texas ranch that offers horse therapy, a retreat center, and even a 22,000-squarefoot classic car and baseball museum.

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Vohs earns top baseball honors

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

Garrett Vohs did an extraordinary job for the Outlaws baseball squad this year and was rewarded for his performance. He was named first-team, all-league infield and second-team, all-league pitcher. In addition, he was named first-team, all-state infield.

Garrett has played baseball from the time he could walk.

It all started with learning the game in the backyard with his dad, and his first team experience was T-ball in kindergarten. After T-ball Vohs played shortstop in Little League through the eighth grade.

Vohs was a varsity starter all four years in high school.

He started at second base as a freshman and then played at shortstop his sophomore through senior year, and was also in the pitching rotation.

This year as a senior Garrett batted fourth all year and finished league with a .487 batting average. He only struck out three times in his 46 at-bats. He recorded two home runs and knocked in 23 RBIs. On the mound, Garret pitched 33 innings, recorded 49 strikeouts, and only walked two players. He finished with a 4-1 record and a 3.36 ERA (earned run average).

Coach Kramer Croisant said, “Garrett was really impressive this year. He’s a great player and a leader on and off the field. He was our No. 1 pitcher and played shortstop when he wasn’t on

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Garret Vohs earned all-league honors with a stellar year on the diamond for the Outlaws. the mound. He threw tons of strikes, had a pretty good fastball, and could throw a curveball for a strike whenever he wanted. He hit with quite a bit of power and for good average. Garrett finished in third place for Player of the Year.

“Garrett had some really cool moments this year,” added Croisant. “At Newport we were down by two in the top of the seventh and he hit a three-run homer with two outs and two strikes. Against Sweet Home he pitched a complete shutout. He threw 82 pitches and 71 of them were strikes.”

Garrett was really impressive this year.

He’s a great player and a leader on and off the field.

— Kramer Croisant

Garrett shared with The Nugget his love of baseball.

“I love that baseball is an individual sport, but it takes nine players to make a team,” said Vohs. “It’s on you, but you need the other eight to help. I love the pressure situations, the close games, and the big at-bats. I love that the team can fail 50 percent of the time and still win.”

Vohs was selected by coaches around the state to play in the 4A All-Star Series which will be held Father’s Day weekend, June 19-20.

There will be a nine-inning game on Saturday and on Sunday two seven-inning games. Garrett will play at shortstop and also pitch.

“I was surprised when I got the news about the All-Star game,” said Vohs. “I’m very excited for the opportunity to play with kids with similar skill levels and interests.”

Vohs was asked to play for Boss Sports Performance, a select 18U team in Bend. His first game was Friday, June 11, and he told The Nugget he will play 40 games through the end of summer at whatever position he’s needed.

Garret is currently in communication with Chemeketa Community College and Lane Community College about playing baseball for them next year. At this time Vohs has not made a commitment to either college.

Vohs expressed his thanks to everyone who made this past baseball season possible, and also wanted to thank his teammates who made the season fun and memorable.

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On Saturday evening, June 26, the series will feature songwriter and multiinstrumentalist Jenner Fox

and award-winning singer, songwriter, and SFF alumna Anna Tivel, both of whom will play as a trio.

Sisters Folk Festival is excited to introduce recent Sisters transplant Jenner Fox to the Central Oregon audience and welcome the artistry of celebrated writer and fiddle player Anna Tivel back to Sisters.

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Lady Outlaws win back-to-back games

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaws basketball squad won two of their three games this past week. They started with back-to-back-wins on backto-back nights, with a 43-31 road victory at Sweet Home on Tuesday, June 8, and then a 49-35 win at home against Newport on Wednesday. On Friday they fell 19-44 to Philomath, who is at the top of the pack in league play.

In Tuesday’s action the Outlaws had an outstanding defensive performance that earned them the victory. The first quarter was back-andforth and at the close of the period it was tied up 11-11.

Sisters outscored the Huskies by one in the second quarter and held a one-point lead, 17-16, as teams headed into the half.

The third quarter belonged to the Outlaws as they outscored Sweet Home 11-2. Freshman Ila Reid got all five of her game points in the third, her first a crossover at the basket, where she scored, got fouled, and converted her shot at the stripe.

Payden Petterson added two buckets, and Josie Patton hit a jumper to put the Outlaws on top by ten.

Sisters shut down the Huskies’ offense, and outrebounded Sweet Home 15-5 in the third period. Haleigh Froelich was strong on the glass and was responsible for most of the boards.

Petterson started off the final period with a shot from behind the arc, and Maggie Lutz did the same. Emma Lutz scored a three-point play with a strong move to the basket, and a free-throw.

Josie Patton stole the ball, raced down the court, and scored. Sweet Home tried to keep up, but to no avail. The Outlaws held on to the lead and posted the win.

Petterson finished the night with 16 points, Emma Lutz scored 10, and Maggie Lutz recorded seven. Reid tallied five points, and Patton added four.

“This was a win in multiple ways, not just from the scoreboard, but how we all collectively came together as a team and played for each other,” Petterson said. “This was one of our best games yet. We had the drive, the determination, and the heart.”

Coach Carl Click told The Nugget that the Outlaws devised a plan to shut down Sweet Home’s top scorer, Brooke Burke. It took them two days of practice but they executed the plan to perfection.

Burke scored 20 points in the Huskie’s 15-point win over Sisters the first week of the season, but this time it was

a completely different story.

C lick said, “In th e rematch she (Burke) barely touched the ball, couldn’t get anything going, and only scored a single free throw — one point!”

Emma and Maggie Lutz were tenacious and determined and took turns denying Burke the ball, and it paid off. Burke struggled, and as a team the Huskies never were able to find their rhythm on offense because their big playmaker was taken completely out of the game.

“I was really proud of how the girls learned something new, practiced it, and then executed it perfectly,” said Click.

I was really proud of how the girls learned something new, practiced it, and then executed it perfectly.

— Carl Click A day later against Newport, Sisters recorded another win. The Outlaws started a bit sloppy, committed a lot of fouls, and only hit one three-pointer in the first half. On the flip-side, the Cubs shot the ball well,

and made seven shots from behind the arc.

Sisters post players did dominate on the inside.

Newport, who only had five players for most of the game, didn’t have a defensive answer for Froelich and Patton. The Outlaws held a slim two-point lead, 23-21, as teams entered the half.

In the second half the Outlaws took control of the game by getting the ball inside. Froelich started the half with three consecutive power moves for baskets down low.

Haleigh was on the bench for most of the first half due to foul trouble. She scored all 11 of her points in the second half.

Patton was a powerful presence and was bigger and stronger than the Cubs down low. She finished the game with 14 points.

Petterson scored 13 points, and Reid added four.

On Friday, Philomath snapped the Outlaws winning streak.

Sisters started with a great first half and held the Lady Warriors scoreless in the first quarter, and were on top 17-15 at halftime.

“The first half was a really good effort by our kids,” said Click. “We took care of the basketball and avoided turnovers, and we made some shots. Our kids played smart,

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We didn’t give them second chances, with good defensive rebounding, and played right with a very athletic and experienced team.”

The second half proved to be a different story. The Outlaws turned the ball over, and made defensive mistakes that led to many easy baskets for the Warriors. Sisters couldn’t convert on the offensive end, were held scoreless in the third period, and only put two points on the scoreboard in the final quarter.

Petterson scored five points in the contest, and Reid added four.

Click said, “It was a good 16-minute effort, but a tough lesson that you have to play 32 minutes to stay with a team as good as Philomath.”

Sisters was scheduled to play at home against Cascade on Tuesday, June 15. On Wednesday they host Woodburn and on Friday they will wrap up league play at home against Stayton.

The Outlaws currently hold a 4-6 record.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S McKenzie Meadows Dedications

Join Hayden Homes and First Story in celebrating the completion of three affordable homes in Sisters.

Meet the families and enjoy a pandemic-appropriate ceremony.

Face coverings are required.

Wednesday, June 16 at 3 p.m. in the McKenzie Meadows neighborhood near Sisters High School.

Go Fish Group

The Go Fish Group will meet on Monday, June 21 at Sisters Community Church at 7 p.m.

The speaker will be Garrett Lesko, a writer and fly-tyer, who will present a program on smallmouth bass fishing and Euro nymphing. Garrett has been featured as a master fly-tyer and has written many articles for Flyfishing and Tying Journal. For info call Gary Kutz at 541-771-2211.

Free Rides for Vaccinations

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.

Furry Friends Volunteers Needed

Furry Friends is looking for volunteers to help with a bottle and can fundraiser. This is a oncea-week commitment for about 45 minutes to put donated bottles and cans in blue fundraiser bags, then deliver to the Bottledrop at Ray’s. Done in town at our donation drop-off spot. Call or text 541-797-4023 for more info.

Career Funds Available

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

Thursdays, and during regular hours from the Sisters Habitat for Humanity office. For more information, call 541-719-1254.

Annual Book Sale

Sisters History Museum invites you to their Annual Book Sale on Quilt Show Day, Saturday, July 10 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Wakefield Building, 410 E. Cascade St. (corner of Larch). Book donations (all genre) are being sought prior to the event. Books can be dropped off at the museum porch any time. Museum is open Fridays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For info email threesistershistoricalsociety@ gmail.com or call 541-904-0585.

Sisters Habitat Extends Store Hours

Sisters Habitat for Humanity is excited to announce that the Thrift Store and ReStore have extended their shopping hours to 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday thru Saturday. Closed Sunday.

Donation hours at both stores are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday thru Saturday. Take your donation directly to both stores. No appointment is necessary.

Solstice Gathering & Labyrinth Walk

Move, smile, and drum in the new season! Bring a drum, shaker, or bell. Gathering at 7:30 pm on Sunday, June 20 for a 7:45 casual ceremony; at 8 p.m. the walk begins. Unvaccinated participants: please wear masks. Sisters Community Labyrinth, in East Portal site on West Hood Avenue at Hwy 242. For more information call 503-997-0301.

Fox Walk + Owl Eyes at Metolius Preserve

Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Susan Prince for a nature walk just for kids on Saturday, June 19 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Gather at the protected forests of the Metolius Preserve to share nature stories and learn how to enter into wild lands like the animals do. Kids will practice observation skills and group mapmaking as they learn new ways to connect with the beautiful and mysterious outdoors. Perfect for kids ages 8-14 with a grown-up in tow.

Registration is required at www. deschuteslandtrust.org or call 541-330-0017. This outing will only proceed if pandemic conditions allow.

Free Hazardous Waste Disposal Event

Deschutes County’s Department of Solid Waste is hosting a special one-day collection event in Sisters where residents can drop off household hazardous waste for free. Residents can drop off household hazardous waste products such as lawn and gardening materials, photo and pool/spa chemicals, paint, cleaning solutions, motor oil and used batteries, fluorescent bulbs and tubes, and small propane tanks (5-gallon BBQ size and smaller).

Business-generated hazardous waste, medical waste, explosives, fireworks, ammunition, drums/ barrels, compressed gas cylinders will not be accepted. The event will be held in Sisters on Saturday, June 19, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sisters Recycling Center.

For more information, residents should visit www.deschutes.org/ sw or call the Department of Solid Waste at 541-317-3163.

How do you feel about COVID-19 vaccinations? Are you struggling to understand how your viewpoint isn’t more widely held by your neighbors? Citizens4Community invites Sisters Country for a Let’s Talk! community discussion 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, June 21. This is an opportunity to move beyond stereotypes or preconceived notions and get a better understanding of what divides us and what unites us when it comes to vaccine acceptance or hesitancy. Attendees will have an opportunity to share their thoughts and ask questions.

Diverse perspectives are welcome.

Let’s Talk! is free and spotlights a local topic each third Monday of the month. To RSVP/receive the Zoom link, email director@ citizens4community.com. Read more at Citizens4Community. com.

Free Legal Aid

Free Tai Chi/Balance Class by Shannon Rackowski on Mondays from 11:30 a.m. to noon, Location: Fitness Prescription (Shannon’s studio next to Oregon Eye Care), Sponsored by Sisters Drug. All ages are welcome to attend.

Seated instruction for mobility impaired. Sign up at the class. For additional information, call Sisters Drug at 541-549-6221.

The Council on Aging of Central Oregon and Legal Aid Services of Oregon are working together to offer legal services to low-income older adults 60+. The next legal assistance sessions will be held virtually or by telephone Monday, June 14 to Friday, June 18. The specific days and times are TBD by individual attorney’s offices.

There are five free 30-minute consultation appointments available for each location. To make an appointment for a virtual session for Sisters residents, call Bonnie Hall at 541-678-5483.

You may also apply for legal aid directly by calling 541-385-6944 or find helpful resources at www. oregonlawhelp.org.

Donate to the Three Sisters Lions Club Yard Sale

The Three Sisters Lions Club Yard Sale is coming to Sisters.

Donations are being accepted on Saturdays and Sundays starting June 12 and continuing through July 11. Hours to receive donations are Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. next to Les Schwab on Highway 242. No clothing, electronics, linens, or large items, please. Closed July 3 and 4.

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

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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 Outdoors 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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VIRTUAL Calendar

Things to participate in online while staying safely at home.

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Sisters folks wear bright colors, playing drums and bells as they navigated Sisters Community Labyrinth on summer solstice in a previous year.

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Labyrinth hosts solstice gathering

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

Sisters residents and visitors are invited to “move, smile, and drum in the new season” on summer solstice at Sisters Community Labyrinth. The gathering takes place Sunday, June 20 beginning at 7:30 p.m. It’s a chance to welcome a light new season during solstice, when the sun stays up much longer than usual.

“The labyrinth has become a special place for many of us in Sisters,” said Sharlene Weed, who sits on the official committee that oversees the outdoor facility. “I especially like it when we gather there as a group to celebrate and reflect on the changing of the seasons.”

People of all beliefs — or none in particular — take part in labyrinth walks.

Events on solstices and equinoxes usually feature a brief, nonreligious talk or ceremony to help visitors engage with the labyrinth, each other, and the season.

Committee member Pat Leiser enjoys “meditating on the movement of the earth around the sun through the changing seasons, the wandering path of the moon, and the back-and-forthing of the planets as mysterious

patterns in the night sky that connect all humanity through time in a quest to understand our place in the universe.”

The word “solstice” has a connection to the town’s name, via the Latin “sistere.” The Latin “solstitium” means “point at which the sun seems to stand still.”

“Sol” means the sun. The last bit of the word is the “past participle stem of ‘sistere’... to stand still, take a stand; to set, place, cause to stand,” according to the Online Etymology Dictionary.

Where winter solstice often finds a silent meditation at the labyrinth, summer solstice is different.

Participants are invited to make some jubilant noise — regardless of whether they’re musicians. Folks are encouraged to bring drums, bells, and other instruments.

People are also invited to

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dress in bright colors or white clothes, if convenient. Some participants wear festive hats, flowers, ribbons, or leis.

The Summer Solstice Gathering & Labyrinth Walk begins at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 20, with casual gathering time. At 7:45, participants will gather for a circle. The walk begins at 8 p.m. sharp.

Unvaccinated participants are asked to wear masks.

The event takes place at Sisters Community Labyrinth on West Hood Avenue. The labyrinth is located within East Portal, the U.S. Forest Service site where Highway 20 and Highway 242 meet, roughly between Bi-Mart and Les Schwab.

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HAPPY HOUR Monday-Friday 3 to 6 p.m.

Open 10 a.m. to midnight

Deschutes Public Library: The Library Book Club at Sisters 5:30 p.m. Discuss “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid via Zoom. Go to www. deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/.

Deschutes Public Library: BBQ Beet Salad 3 p.m. Fire up the grill to make this summery BBQ roasted beet salad.

Recipe and link to the recorded presentation available at www. deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/.

Paulina Springs Books Virtual Event 6:30 p.m. Keenan Norris and Tina Ontiveros discuss Norris’s new novel, “The Confession of Copeland Cane.” Call 541-549-0866 or go to www.paulinaspringsbooks.com.

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Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Trivia Night 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Sign up 5:15 to 5:30 p.m. Family-friendly trivia. Free.

For additional information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471.

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Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Friday Car Show 5-6:30 p.m. Bring your cool or vintage car for the free Friday car show. For more information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471.

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Deschutes Public Library: “French Troubadour” Plays Americana 4 p.m. Eric John Kaiser will perform a selection of French chansons. Link to the recording will be available at www. deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/.

Entertainment & Events

JUNE

OPEN FOR BREAKFAST 10 a.m.

Paulina Springs Books Virtual Event 6:30 p.m. David B. Williams and Lyanda Lynn Haupt share from their new books, “Homewaters” and “Rooted.” Call 541-549-0866 or go to www. paulinaspringsbooks.com.

Deschutes Public Library: Beginning Birding with Chuck Gates 6 p.m. Live Zoom meeting with the basics of birdwatching. Go to www.deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/.

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Outdoor Stage at Sisters Depot Live Music with Nicky Croon 6 to 8:30 p.m. $5 cover charge. Reservations recommended. For info call 541-904-4660 or go online to www.sistersdepot.com.

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

Fir Street Park Sisters Farmers Market 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Fresh local produce. Every Sunday June to October! Go to www. sistersfarmersmarket.com for more information.

Sisters Saloon Patio Stage Live Music with Toast & Jam 6 p.m. Summer Sunday Nights at the Saloon. For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to www. sisterssaloon.net.

Sisters Depot Wine-O Bingo 6:30 to 8 p.m. Join this fun version of bingo. Free with prizes! Space limited and reservations encouraged. For info go online to www. sistersdepot.com.

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Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Trivia Night 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Sign up 5:15 to 5:30 p.m. Family-friendly trivia. Free.

For additional information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471.

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Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Friday Car Show 5-6:30 p.m. Bring your cool or vintage car for the free Friday car show. For more information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471.

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Outdoor Stage at Sisters Depot Live Music with Steve and Margot Kelly 6 to 8:30 p.m. $5 cover charge.

Reservations recommended. For info call 541-904-4660 or go online to www.sistersdepot.com.

Cork Cellars Live Music on Saturday Nights 6:30 p.m.

No cover! For information call 541-549-2675 or go online to corkcellarswinebistro.com.

Sisters Saloon Patio Stage Live Music with Superball 6 p.m. Summer Sunday Nights at the Saloon. For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to www.sisterssaloon.net.

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Outlaws basketball wins one of three

Outlaws earn all-league mention

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

In addition to honors presented to baseball standout Garret Vohs, seven other Outlaws players were selected to all-league teams. Senior Adam Harper and sophomore Patrick Silva were second-team picks, and seniors Dillon Tucker, Connor Linn, Will Grace, and sophomores Easton Moore and Brody Duey earned honorable mention.

Harper was named second-team, all-league infield.

Adam played solid at third base for the Outlaws all season and finished league with a .538 batting average.

Croisant said, “Adam is a really good hitter and is extremely disciplined at the plate. He was robbed of not getting first-team, all-league because he had the kind of season that should have got him that.”

Silva earned secondteam, all-league outfield.

Patrick has typically been a catcher, but this year was asked to play in the outfield.

He played mostly left field, but did see some time at center field also. Patrick hit extremely well for a sophomore and finished with a .308 batting average.

“Patrick was our thirdor fourth-best hitter as a sophomore,” said Croisant.

“He’s a very solid defensive player in the outfield, and if he gets to the ball he makes the play.”

Tucker earned honorable-mention first baseman. Dillon was third on the Outlaws squad in onbase percentage (.444) and finished with a .286 batting average. Coach Croisant told The Nugget that Dillon was disciplined at the plate and did a nice job of getting on base.

Linn was selected

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

honorable-mention utility player. Connor played shortstop, second base, first base, and even saw some time in left field. He finished with a .261 batting average.

“Connor was really a true utility player, and he did a great job in the lead-off spot getting on base,” said Croisant.

Grace was honorablemention outfielder, and had a .250 batting average.

“Will had a week-long COVID quarantine, so that was a challenge, but he did a solid job for us and continued to perform for us,” said Croisant.

Moore earned honorable mention at utility. Easton was the Outlaws’ designated hitter and finished the season with a .333 batting average.

“Easton was our thirdor fourth-best hitter on the team,” said Croisant. “He’s a super-aggressive hitter and free-swinging.”

Duey earned honorable mention at outfield. Brody typically plays infield, but stepped into a role where he was needed, which was primarily center field. He finished the season with a .243 batting average. Croisant stated that Brody did a great job defensively at center field for the Outlaws.

The Outlaws basketball team posted a 47-34 win on the road at Newport on Wednesday, June 9, and on Friday fell 55-48 at home to Philomath. Earlier in the week, on Tuesday, June 8, they lost at home to the Sweet Home Huskies in a final score of 51-44.

In Wednesday’s contest against Newport the Outlaws jumped out early and were up 14-3 at the close of the first quarter. In the second period the Cubs won the quarter by one, but Sisters still held a significant 23-13 lead at the half.

The Outlaws continued to hit their cutters, and Max Palanuk and Ricky Huffman received a lot of passes from the guards that resulted in easy lay-ins. Sisters was also dominant on the boards. The Outlaws held the Cubs to one point in the third quarter, and outscored them 13-10 in the final period to secure the win.

Palanuk led the team with 15 points, Huffman scored 12, Nate Weber tallied 10, and Camden Froelich added eight.

On Friday against Philomath, the Warriors jumped out early, hit four shots from behind the arc, and held a 16-7 advantage

over the Outlaws at the close of the first quarter.

From that point on, the Outlaws stayed pretty even with the Warriors. They did a great job holding the Cubs’ two big posts to one and 10 points, thanks to Palanuk, and Huffman’s great post defense. Sisters even held their own on the boards against a much bigger team.

Jamen Schwartz came in off the bench and hit three triples, which provided a spark in the second and third quarters to get the Outlaws back in the game.

In the final period, Froelich went 8-8 from the free-throw line, and Weber had eight points as well, which cut the Warrior ’s lead to three with just under a minute left on the clock. Unfortunately for the Outlaws, Philomath hit their free throws and was able to put the game away.

Froelich scored 13 points for the Outlaws, Weber recorded 12, Schwartz tallied nine, Palanuk had six, and Huffman and Linn added four points each.

Earlier in the week, on Tuesday, the game against Sweet Home was a close one, but in the end the Outlaws just didn’t have enough to pull ahead for the win.

Sisters held an 11-8 lead at the close of the first quarter, but then the Huskies

came back and outscored the Outlaws and took a 22-16 lead as teams headed into the half. The Huskies held on to the lead in the final half and won by seven.

Froelich finished the game with 10 points, Palanuk had nine, Weber and Linn tallied eight points each, and Huffman added five.

Coach Rob Jensen said, “Overall we did a good job rebounding and we held their best player to two points after he scored 25 in our last match.

We were just impatient when it counted and took quick shots instead of being patient and getting better looks. We also needed to defend in the paint a little better.”

The Outlaws were scheduled to play at Cascade on Tuesday, June 15. They will travel to Woodburn on Wednesday and finish league play with a game at Stayton on Friday.

Overall we did a good job rebounding and we held their best player to two points after he scored 25 in our last match.

— Rob Jensen

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Deschutes Recycling offers compost to help get your gardens going. Soils amended with compost will provide the benefits of water retention and nutrients needed to help your plants and garden grow. The Environmental Protection Agency notes that composting reduces the need to use chemical fertilizers and encourages the production of beneficial bacteria and fungi that break down organic matter to create humus, a rich, nutrient-filled material.

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Domestic travel is booming this summer, and if you don’t have plans yet, you may be out of luck depending on the destination, as hotels are already reporting 2019 occupancy rates. However, fall and winter are not too late to book right now. Bookings for 2022 are skyrocketing as many people have had to postpone that 2020 trip until then.

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Local Businesses are “At Your Service” Rollins & Sons Automotive

Full Service Automotive Repair Shop 117 W. Sisters Park Dr. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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For two generations, Rollins & Sons Automotive has been taking good care of the Sisters community.

They always deliver the best work they can do at a fair price. If they can fix something without “throwing a part at it,” that’s what they’ll do.

Customer service is more than just a business practice — it’s a personal ethic. They put themselves in their clients’ shoes. If you’re in town on a family trip and the car breaks down, you’re at the mercy of the local auto mechanic. Same if your ride to work needs repair. You want your mechanic to be responsive, ethical, and capable — and Rollins is all of those things and always has been.

Jeremy Rollins brings 30 years of experience to bear, starting work for his dad at age 17.

“We’re always here to back up our business,” he said. “We take care of our community the best we can.”

Cascade Garage Door

Making sure your garage door is functioning properly and safely is an important part of any season. Cascade Garage Door is a family owned and operated residential garage-door company that is dedicated to providing superior products and exceptional service to customers across Central Oregon.

They strive to meet the highest quality levels required for our harsh Central Oregon climate. The knowledgeable and friendly office staff and their certified garage-door professionals always strive to provide the best in professional same-day service.

Their team of Raynor Academy Factory Trained and Certified Residential Technicians can service and fix all garage doors and openers, in both residential and commercial applications. Cascade Garage Door provides garage-door maintenance services; broken spring replacement; cables and rollers; weather seal and bottom rubber replacement, as well as new garage-door installation and door retrofitting.

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Lawn care today is about a lot more than simply keeping things green and trimmed. Clean Air Lawn Care helps you build the longterm health of your landscape environment, from the soil up.

With a horticulture degree from Oregon State University and 20 years of experience as a golf course superintendent, Jeff Knutzen knows how to create and maintain a vibrant — and sustainable — landscape. Using organic, pet- and child-friendly fertilizers and weed treatments keeps your yard safe and healthy, while building the micro-organisms in your soil so that biology works to build a healthy lawn.

Your peace and quiet is important to you — and to your neighbors. Clean Air Lawn Care uses battery-powered, solar-charged equipment, so their work is quiet and doesn’t leave the stink of gas-powered equipment.

It’s all part of creating and sustaining a beautiful environment, now and into the future.

It’s a moment to dread: Your drainfield is failing. Replacing it and tearing up your yard is dauntingly expensive, running into the thousands of dollars. But what if you could restore your drainfield without replacing it?

Turn to Drainfield Restoration. As Central Oregon’s only factorytrained Terralift operator, they can restore your drainfield for a fraction of the cost of replacement. Drainfield Restoration blasts air into the soil, breaking up biomat and compaction, restoring the soil’s original leaching capacity. They can also jet inside lines and remove tree roots that are often the culprit in drainfield problems in Sisters Country.

It’s a one-day project — and it works for years.

In business since 1995, Drainfield Restoration has saved clients thousands of dollars across the state of Oregon. For tips on restoration and care of your septic system, visit www.RestoreYourSeptic. com.

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Is that greenhouse you are so proud of properly insured? Have you added all your upgrades to your deck and fencing and other improvements?

Farmers Insurance can help you make sure that everything you’ve done to add value to your home is properly protected.

Fully understanding the details of your policy is critical.

“When you get a quote, all the numbers are the same,” says Jason Rybka of Sisters Farmers Insurance. It’s what’s at the back end of the policy.” He notes that “not all companies settle at replacement value,” which could be very costly in the event of a claim.

Rybka and Farmers Insurance can give you peace of mind — so you can get on with improving your home.

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For decades, Sisters Rental has been the go-to place for contractors and DIYers alike to find the right equipment for any type of job.

It’s all right here in Sisters — with expert advice and service to back it up. Equipment need work? Sisters Rental services any and all equipment lines, with parts in stock and full-time mechanics to ensure that your mower or trimmer doesn’t sit idle while spring gets away from you.

Time to replace the old lawn mower and upgrade to a better unit? Sisters Rental has a selection of high-quality lawn mowers.

Whether your lawn is large or small, they’ve got the right piece of equipment for the job.

They also have an outstanding supply of landscaping materials — dirt, gravel, decorative bark, rock, and more.

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Local Businesses are “At Your Service” Rollins & Sons Automotive

Full Service Automotive Repair Shop 117 W. Sisters Park Dr. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

541-549-1241

For two generations, Rollins & Sons Automotive has been taking good care of the Sisters community.

They always deliver the best work they can do at a fair price. If they can fix something without “throwing a part at it,” that’s what they’ll do.

Customer service is more than just a business practice — it’s a personal ethic. They put themselves in their clients’ shoes. If you’re in town on a family trip and the car breaks down, you’re at the mercy of the local auto mechanic. Same if your ride to work needs repair. You want your mechanic to be responsive, ethical, and capable — and Rollins is all of those things and always has been.

Jeremy Rollins brings 30 years of experience to bear, starting work for his dad at age 17.

“We’re always here to back up our business,” he said. “We take care of our community the best we can.”

Cascade Garage Door

Making sure your garage door is functioning properly and safely is an important part of any season. Cascade Garage Door is a family owned and operated residential garage-door company that is dedicated to providing superior products and exceptional service to customers across Central Oregon.

They strive to meet the highest quality levels required for our harsh Central Oregon climate. The knowledgeable and friendly office staff and their certified garage-door professionals always strive to provide the best in professional same-day service.

Their team of Raynor Academy Factory Trained and Certified Residential Technicians can service and fix all garage doors and openers, in both residential and commercial applications. Cascade Garage Door provides garage-door maintenance services; broken spring replacement; cables and rollers; weather seal and bottom rubber replacement, as well as new garage-door installation and door retrofitting.

— Family Owned & Operated —

Superior Sales & Service Doors & Openers • All Makes & Models

541-548-2215 — CCB#44054 —

Clean Air Lawn Care

Drainfield Restoration

Lawn care today is about a lot more than simply keeping things green and trimmed. Clean Air Lawn Care helps you build the longterm health of your landscape environment, from the soil up.

With a horticulture degree from Oregon State University and 20 years of experience as a golf course superintendent, Jeff Knutzen knows how to create and maintain a vibrant — and sustainable — landscape. Using organic, pet- and child-friendly fertilizers and weed treatments keeps your yard safe and healthy, while building the micro-organisms in your soil so that biology works to build a healthy lawn.

Your peace and quiet is important to you — and to your neighbors. Clean Air Lawn Care uses battery-powered, solar-charged equipment, so their work is quiet and doesn’t leave the stink of gas-powered equipment.

It’s all part of creating and sustaining a beautiful environment, now and into the future.

It’s a moment to dread: Your drainfield is failing. Replacing it and tearing up your yard is dauntingly expensive, running into the thousands of dollars. But what if you could restore your drainfield without replacing it?

Turn to Drainfield Restoration. As Central Oregon’s only factorytrained Terralift operator, they can restore your drainfield for a fraction of the cost of replacement. Drainfield Restoration blasts air into the soil, breaking up biomat and compaction, restoring the soil’s original leaching capacity. They can also jet inside lines and remove tree roots that are often the culprit in drainfield problems in Sisters Country.

It’s a one-day project — and it works for years.

In business since 1995, Drainfield Restoration has saved clients thousands of dollars across the state of Oregon. For tips on restoration and care of your septic system, visit www.RestoreYourSeptic. com.

SEPTIC SYSTEM FAILING? Restore Your Septic, Don’t Replace It!

• No excavation • One-day service • Rooter & jetting service • SAVE THOUSANDS $$$

Drainfield Restoration Services, Inc.

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For free septic tips visit:

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FREE INSURANCE COMPARISON!

Auto • Home • Business • Life Get answers to your questions...

• Do you understand your policy?

• Are you overpaying?

• Can you save by packaging options?

Get to know your agent...

Jason Rybka 541-588-6245 257 S. Pine St., #101

Farmers Insurance – Jason Rybka This is the time of year when home and landscape projects are at the forefront of our minds. While you’re thinking about home improvement, you’d best remember your homeowner’s insurance policy.

Is that greenhouse you are so proud of properly insured? Have you added all your upgrades to your deck and fencing and other improvements?

Farmers Insurance can help you make sure that everything you’ve done to add value to your home is properly protected.

Fully understanding the details of your policy is critical.

“When you get a quote, all the numbers are the same,” says Jason Rybka of Sisters Farmers Insurance. It’s what’s at the back end of the policy.” He notes that “not all companies settle at replacement value,” which could be very costly in the event of a claim.

Rybka and Farmers Insurance can give you peace of mind — so you can get on with improving your home.

Sisters Rental

For decades, Sisters Rental has been the go-to place for contractors and DIYers alike to find the right equipment for any type of job.

It’s all right here in Sisters — with expert advice and service to back it up. Equipment need work? Sisters Rental services any and all equipment lines, with parts in stock and full-time mechanics to ensure that your mower or trimmer doesn’t sit idle while spring gets away from you.

Time to replace the old lawn mower and upgrade to a better unit? Sisters Rental has a selection of high-quality lawn mowers.

Whether your lawn is large or small, they’ve got the right piece of equipment for the job.

They also have an outstanding supply of landscaping materials — dirt, gravel, decorative bark, rock, and more.

They provide all that equipment and expertise with a genuine ethic of first-class, neighborly hometown service.

www.farmersagent.com/jrybka

LADY

GETS A GUN Firearms training by

MAUREEN ROGERS

• Professional, NRA-certified education in group instruction or private coaching; for women only or co-ed setting • Strong emphasis on safety, skills, marksmanship, and mindset • Hands-on learning, skill development of pistol, rifle, and/or shotgun • Live fire training at Redmond Rod and Gun Club FREE INITIAL 10-MINUTE CONSULTATION

541-604-0144

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to replace existing electric furnaces with a high efficiency heat pump from Bend Heating & Sheet Metal.* CONTACT US FOR COMPLETE OFFER DETAILS!

Esthetician/Owner

541-480-1412

Mon.-Sat. Flexible Hours SistersEssentials.com

541-382-1231

*Offer is good on replacement of non-electric heating systems and non-electric backup heat.

Reasonable delivery and installation rates! backinactionfitnessequipment.com

541-420-5985 1310 SE Reed Market Rd. Suite, 100 Bend, Oregon

The Law Office of

JOHN H. MYERS, LLC — Downtown Sisters —

Central Oregon Electric Cooperative will provide up to $1,850 in incentives

Karen Keady

492 E. Main Ave.

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By Paige Bentley-Flannery Sisters Community Librarian

Are you ready for a weekend read? Discover a new Spring 2021 fiction book at your local library.

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid What if one night changed your life forever?

It’s August 1983 and Nina Riva’s annual end-ofsummer party has arrived.

Everyone who is anyone wants to be at her party.

Except not the hostess — who was publicly dumped by her tennis-pro husband.

Nina and her famous siblings have been through a lot together. Their dad was on the road with his legendary rock band so Nina made sacrifices to help her siblings succeed. The result is a happy and talented family — or is it? Underneath the surface lurk secrets. That summer night, after the alcohol flows, unexpected guests arrive, and confessions spill out, Nina’s house will be up in flames. An amazing story about family connections, sacrifices, and forgiveness. Dive into a Malibu experience from the 80s surrounded by surfing,

romance, and surprises too!

The perfect weekend read.

For more debut novels and books by your favorite authors, check out a variety of new book lists at www. deschuteslibrary.org or email paigeb@deschutes library.org The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent If you had an opportunity to be someone else just for one summer, would you? While her best friend Heather, a world class wine expert is in Italy, Birdy pretends to be the wine expert and travels to a highland Scottish hotel for a summer job. But she knows nothing about wine! Can she turn into a sommelier overnight?

With a lot of coaching and new friendships, she starts to find herself and understand the business. Yet matching the right wines with the right meals remains an obstacle. Plus, she’s falling for James, the first guy she’s ever really loved.

What if her boss finds out?

Or her best friend Heather?

Dent’s debut novel is funny and romantic. A wonderful weekend read filled with laughter, bad decisions, and good wine.

News nuggets

Snippets and tidbits from Sisters Country • Faceout Studio moves f rom B end to Sisters with a team of 11 book designers…

• L o c a l m u s i c i a n’s band to be inducted into Oklahoma Hall of Fame: Jim Goodwin’s band “The Call”…

• What’s with the wind?

Old-timers agree that the steady stream of windy days this winter and continuing into summer are unprecedented…

• Ruff Hippie outfits

pooches with high quality bandanas…

• Bonta Natural Artisan Gelato parks itself in Sisters for the season….

• Adopt-A-Road could use more help in Sisters Countr y. Raise your hand if you hate litter?

• Chamber offices and Visitor Center remain closed until the July 4 weekend, after missing the Memorial Day visitor crush.

TRAIL WORK: Volunteers worked on Green Ridge last weekend Continued from page 1

Sisters Trails Alliance (STA) is well-known to Nugget readers. In a publicprivate partnership with the Deschutes National Forest, the group manages and maintains a 192-mile trail system considered vital to Sisters tourism and the physical and mental well-being of area hikers, bikers, and equestrians. Nearly 80 volunteers band with 185 members to provide leadership and stewardship of the active, nonprofit, community-based organization.

Oregon Timber Trail Alliance (OTTA), on the other hand, is lesser known.

They are relatively young, conceived in 2015. Their mission in part is to “link Oregon’s communities and backcountry landscapes through profound mountainbiking experiences.”

The Oregon Timber Trail itself consists of nearly 700 miles of backcountry from California to the Columbia River Gorge. It is genuinely a world-class bike-packing destination and considered North America’s premiere long-distance mountain bike route.

The Oregon Timber Trail is accessible to a wide variety of cyclists inspired by the Pacific Crest Trail and others within the National Scenic Trail system. It’s designed with mountain-biking in mind and consists of more than 60 percent single track.

Of its four tiers, the

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Laird Superfood was among the sponsors of a weekend of intensive trail work that drew volunteers from a wide range.

Deschutes Tier extends 129.3 miles and reaches a height of 9,491 ft. Total elevation gain is 8,000 feet-plus. Riders typically need three to six days to complete it. None of it is paved and 67 percent is single track through arguably the most dramatic portion of the long ride. This leg starts at Waldo Lake for northbound riders and includes crossing under the shadow of Broken Top and over the Tam McArthur Rim. T h e D e s c h u t e s Ti e r includes the historic Santiam Wagon Road as it skirts Black Butte and Camp Sherman. It passes Suttle Lake and heads to Big Lake before descending to Fish Lake and the headwaters of the McKenzie.

On Friday the group worked the north end of Green Ridge Trail doing logout, light brushing, and some tread work. Saturday found them south of Green Ridge Lookout with a main focus on brushing and some tread work. Sunday took them to trail 4031 (Dark Lake) and trail 4032 by Scout Lake for brushing, logout,

and tread work.

Basecamp was Indian Ford Campground, where workers set up Thursday night. Shifts were eight hours except Sunday when everybody called it a day around noon for a half-day group ride.

When asked their motivation for taking time from riding to trail maintenance, Cedar Watson of Eagle Creek, Oregon, summed up the group’s sentiment: “I use the trails and they give me great pleasure. I need to give back to the trails,” Watson said. “It’s also a place to meet likeminded people with whom I can hopefully make lasting friendships and do some good.”

Other comments included: “We use ’em, we fix ’em.”

Another said: “These trails were here before me. I want to make sure they are here after me.”

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Obituary

Sisters awaits lifting of restrictions

Verla May Swehosky January 19, 1932 – May 12, 2021

Verla May Swehosky, our beloved mother, quietly journeyed home to heaven on May 12, 2021.

She is survived by her three children, Dan Swehosky (Oregon) and his wife Pat, Frank Swehosky (Texas) and his wife JoAnne, and Susan Avny (California) and her husband David, as well as her younger brother, Lawrence Maxwell (New Mexico) and his wife Jan. She adored all of her eight grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren, as well as many nieces, nephews, and cousins scattered throughout the western U.S. Born in Klamath Falls on January 19, 1932, she later moved to Topanga, C alifor nia, w here she resided for over 20 years.

She then returned with her family to live in her favorite home state of Oregon in the Willamette Valley.

When she and her husband, Ernest, retired, they moved to the Crossroads development just outside of Sisters off the lovely McKenzie Highway. The two were so happy in their little home amongst the ponderosa pines, in the company of deer, birds, and squirrels.

Upon Ernest’s death in 2019, Verla moved into The Lodge in Sisters on Carpenter Street, where she lived as independently as she could until illness prevailed. The care she received there was amazing!

And Pat Lamoureux, her senior advocate, along with her husband, Roger, and neighbor, Gaylene Craven, did a fantastic job of being our eyes and ears when we could not be near.

Verla was in regular attendance at the Tuesday senior luncheons, helped out at the food bank, played bunco, and for a time attended the Church of the Nazarene. She was a generous soul, always wanting to give whatever she could to show appreciation of others. Many received her seemingly endless supply of banana bread and peanut brittle, which she made expressly to give away to the staff at The Lodge, Ray’s, Bi-Mart, and anyone she thought needed some sweet nourishment or appreciation. She was always handy with a ready compliment on someone’s hair or clothes, and no child escaped her

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gaze without an abundance of loving attention.

No one was a stranger to our mother and she will be greatly missed by those of us who were lucky enough to be captured in her sunny orbit.

We love yo, Mom, and look forward to being in your presence once again when our own time comes.

And we know your signature dishes of enchiladas, lamb stew, persimmon pudding, and banana bread will be all that more tasty and satisfying in God’s blessed heaven!

The mandate to wear masks in an effort to mitigate spread of COVID-19 will soon be a thing of the past.

Oregon Governor Kate Brown last week reaffirmed plans to lift most COVIDrelated restrictions once 70 percent of the state’s adults have received at least one COVID-19 vaccination. As of last week, 67.2 percent of eligible adults had been vaccinated.

Restrictions continue to ease, and activity has picked up at Sisters restaurants and businesses. As The Nugget reported last week, restaurants and retailers have struggled with confusion over mask enforcement. While the governor’s guidance has been to require proof of vaccination as an alternative to wearing a mask, very few businesses want to act as the “vaccine police.” The result is that some businesses continue to strictly mandate masks, while others are relaxing

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enforcement.

The impact of enforcement of restrictions is still being felt.

Cork Cellars Wine and Bistro in Sisters was hit with a fine in May after they had reopened to indoor dining when Deschutes County briefly returned to the “Extreme Risk” category last winter.

The Oregon Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) issued a release announcing the fine, stating that Cork Cellars “willfully chose to allow indoor dining despite a public health order limiting capacity to zero in Deschutes County.” The restaurant faces a penalty of $17,800. The citation has been appealed.

The agency noted that “if an Oregon OSHA inspection documents violations while a county is at extreme risk, but the county’s risk level drops before the citation is issued, the citation will still be issued. The change in risk levels may affect how the violation needs to be corrected,

but not whether it is cited.”

Once restrictions are lifted, it is unlikely that they will be reinstated.

The Oregonian reported last weekend that Oregon’s epidemiologist and health officer, Dr. Dean Sidelinger, said he doubts the Oregon Health Authority would recommend reinstituting mask requirements and other COVID-19 safety precautions down the road.

“But I don’t want to take anything off the table if the situation dramatically changes,” he said.

As restrictions lift, Sisters events begin to come back on line. Last weekend would have been Sisters Rodeo weekend, but the event organizers could not get definitive guidance from the State in time to make a decision to move forward.

The Sisters Folk Festival will host its first in a series of summer concerts on June 25, and the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show is scheduled to go forward on July 10 in a modified format.

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‘Nothing looks good’ preparing for summer wildfire season

By Andrew Selsky Associated Press

SALEM (AP) — Wearing soot-smudged, fire-resistant clothing and helmets, several wildland firefighters armed with hoes moved through a stand of ponderosa pines as flames tore through the underbrush.

The firefighters weren’t there to extinguish the fire.

They had started it.

The prescribed burn, ignited this month near the scenic mountain town of Bend, is part of a massive effort in wildlands across the U.S. West to prepare for a fire season that’s expected to be even worse than last year’s record-shattering one.

The U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have thinned by hand, machines, and prescribed burns about 1.8 million acres (728,000 hectares) of forest and brushland since last season, officials from the agencies told The Associated Press. They typically treat some 3 million (1.2 million hectares) acres every year.

All that activity, though, has barely scratched the surface. The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres (260 million hectares) in the U.S. All but 4% of it lies in the West, including Alaska, with some of it unsuitable for prescribed burning.

“All these steps are in the right direction, but the challenge is big and complex,’’ said John Bailey, professor of silviculture and fire management at Oregon State University. “And more needs to be done to even turn the corner.’’

The efforts face a convergence of bleak forces.

Severe drought has turned forests and grasslands into dry fuels, ready to ignite from a careless camper or a lightning strike. More people are building in areas bordering wildlands, expanding the so-called wildland-urban interface, an area where wildfires impact people the most. Invasive, highly flammable vegetation is spreading uncontrolled across the West.

“I’m seeing probably the worst combination of conditions in my lifetime,’’ said Derrick DeGroot, a county commissioner in southern Oregon’s Klamath County.

“We have an enormous fuel load in the forests, and we are looking at a drought unlike we’ve seen probably in the last 115 years.’’

Asked how worried he is about the 2021 fire season, DeGroot said: “On a scale of one to 10, I’m a 12. Nothing looks good.’’

In other prevention measures in the West, utility companies are removing vegetation around power lines and

are ready to impose blackouts when those lines threaten to spark a fire.

Armies of firefighters are being beefed up. And communities are offering incentives for residents to make their own properties fire-resistant.

Still, much work remains to change the region’s trajectory with fire, particularly in two key areas, said Scott Stephens, professor of wildland fire science at the University of California, Berkeley.

“One is getting people better prepared for the inevitability of fire in areas like the wildland-urban interface.

That includes new construction,’’ he said. “And the second is getting our ecosystems better prepared for climate change and fire impacts.’’

On the local level, individuals and communities need to

create defensible spaces and evacuation plans, he said. On the government level, more resources need to go toward managing forests.

“I think we’ve got one to two decades,” Stephens said.

“If we don’t do this in earnest, we’re frankly just going to be watching the forest change right in front of our eyes from fire, climate change, drought, insects, things of that nature.’’

Part of the issue is that increasing wildfire resilience often requires trade-offs, said Erica Fleishman, professor at Oregon State University’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

Cities or states could require defensible spaces around homes. Building codes could call for fire-resistant materials. That would drive up construction costs but also mean homes would

be less likely to burn and need rebuilding, she said.

“The insurance industry and the building industry and communities and lawmakers are all going to need to have the will to create these changes,’’ she said.

Fleishman also believes more prescribed fires could be conducted in the wildland-urban interface, but said “society is risk averse.’’

“Right now, there’s not, in many cases, a whole lot of will to do it,’’ she said.

Prescribed burns target vegetation that carries flames into forest canopies, where they can explode into massive wildfires.

Planning and preparing for them can take two to five years. And carrying them out is a never-ending task, said Jessica Gardetto, spokeswoman for the National

Interagency Fire Center, in Boise, Idaho.

While targeting one forest, other forests continue to grow, creating “this vast buildup across the landscape,’’ she said.

Besides overgrown forests, the West faces a newer threat: cheatgrass, which grows prolifically after a wildfire and becomes incredibly flammable.

Gardetto said trying to get rid of the invasive grass is like the endless toil of Sisyphus, the Greek mythological figure who was forced to roll a boulder up a hill, only for it to roll down as it neared the top, over and over again.

After a fire is put out, the first thing to come back is cheatgrass.

“It starts this horrible See WILDFIRE on page 17

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Scottie Wisdom&Faith Jean Russell Nave

Scottie Help Yesterday was a clean-up day in the yard.

The Scotties are like t h r e e - y e a r- o l d s . T h e y always want to help Mom in their yard. If I’m digging, they want to dig right next to me. If I’m raking, they want to help by playing with the rake. If I’m blowing leaves, they think it’s great help to bite the end of the blower and chase the blowing leaves.

It seems to me that God gives all of us—humans and animals—a pure desire to help, at least when we are young. If children are denied the chance to help or criticized about the work they do, they’ll lose that helpful aspiration. Yet, if they are encouraged to help and praised for their results, children grow up to lead happy lives and they become wonderful contributors to society.

The young man who often helps me with heavy yard work is a case in point.

This delightful 29-yearold grew up in a home of addiction. Both parents were alcoholics. His brother became an alcoholic and addicted to drugs. He followed his brother down that rabbit hole until he met God and Alcoholics Anonymous.

Despite his early home’s conditions, as a child he tried to help his mother, whom he dearly loved; and she encouraged him.

Once sober — and now sober for more than three

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cycle that is really difficult to combat,’’ she said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Forest S e r v i c e C h i e f Vi c k i Christiansen signed an agreement last August committing the state and the federal agency to scale up treatment of forest and wildlands to 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) annually by 2025.

They have a long way

years — this enjoyable young man’s helping nature bloomed. I love to work with him. He is always kind; always looking to do the best job. He’s just a uniquely beautiful person. He says he still struggles with depression but his church and his relationship with God help him get out of his moods.

Controlling “moods” is one of the great keys to building a successful spiritual life. The beatitude “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled,” offers us guidance on that success key, if we understand the full meaning of one word: righteousness.

Many Christians think righteousness means simply doing the right thing. Jesus, many times, including in this beatitude, tells us that we must also think right.

Remember, He said that if you commit adultery in your heart, you have already done the deed.

The reason behind this admonition is simple. If we think about doing bad things often enough, we’ll do them, or something nearly as bad, in the long run.

If my yard-working friend thinks about drugs too much, he’ll be doing them again soon. When he tells me that “God helps him,” a lot of the help he gets is simply taking his focus off drugs and putting it on the love and glory of God, thus changing his mood.

Helping others is the most powerful thing I know, other than deep prayer, for drawing us out of wrong thinking, sadness, and depression. Helping others changes our focus from self and moves us up spiritually, bringing us closer to God. It is always easy to find people to help. They are our neighbors, our friends, and strangers too. We all need some help, and we all need to help others. After all, help is just one form of love.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2

to reach that goal. The Oregon Office of Emergency Management advised residents on Monday to have a bag packed and have an evacuation plan.

“Abnormally dry conditions and pre-season fires on the landscape are causing concern for the 2021 wildfire season,’’ the agency said. “Now is the time for Oregonians to prepare themselves, their families, and their homes for wildfire.’’

Associated Press writers Don Thompson in Sacramento, California; Thomas Peipert in Denver; and Daisy Nguyen in San Francisco contributed.

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A naturopath’s path to vaccination

By Kim Hapke Guest Columnist

Being a naturopath invites health questions in conversation. Recently, people have been asking me about the COVID vaccines. I am not sure what people expect to hear. I imagine they hope I know a natural way to make the immune system so robust that any vaccine is rendered unnecessary.

Alas, my immune system is a feeble thing. My health history sounds like multiple episodes of “Little House on the Prairie,” with the fortunate addition of antibiotics.

Before I could walk, I tested positive for tuberculosis. This was confounding because at that time tuberculosis rates were plummeting, leaving a source of exposure a mystery.

In addition to ritual childhood illnesses, I had other issues.

When I was five, I had a virus that caused my body to ache so badly I remember Pa — I mean my dad — carrying me to the bathroom because it hurt too much to walk.

At seven I was thrown delirious into an icy bath, where I listened to some poor soul’s teeth chattering in the distance for 10 minutes before coming to and realizing that poor soul was me. I had scarlet fever.

As a teenager I had recurrent boils on my face. This culminated in my waking one night to a face that was utterly unrecognizable. My right eye was swollen shut, my nose flat due to the swelling of my cheek, my lips grotesquely misshapen. I spent a full week in the hospital on IV antibiotics.

Modern medicine has come through for me.

Notably missing from this list of woes are all the conditions for which I was vaccinated.

Everything about my history suggests I am one untreatable microbe away from certain

death. Losing an aunt and an uncle to COVID-19 furthered my feelings of vulnerability.

While I have worked to shore up my pitiful immune system with nutrition and herbs, all those interventions have given me what I imagine to be the resilience of an undernourished traveler near the end of the Oregon Trail.

In short, I was happy to take my place in line to get vaccinated.

That does not mean I was without reservations, in part due to my highly suggestible nature. My immune system treats a list of possible side effects like an overambitious spouse with a travel brochure.

Immune system: Fever, let’s do that.

Me: We don’t have to do any of it. We could just rest.

Immune system: That’s silly. Of course, we want the full experience! Hmm, maybe just a little nausea.

Me: Why —?

Immune system: Body aches, check. Let’s really spend some quality time there. Oh, and swollen lymph node in left armpit-yes!

Me: Wait, that’s not even on the list! That was just one friend who got the vaccine weeks ago!

Immune system: Oooh, exotic!

Me: It’s not exotic, it is a normal response to an immune challenge in the arm — agggghh!

My first vaccine was largely unremarkable with some arm soreness and fatigue. I received my second dose from a lovely woman who asked me how the first went and warned me my second could be different.

“Don’t suffer needlessly, though” she said and mentioned Tylenol. Wait, what?

Suffer needlessly? Challenge accepted! Whatever credibility I had lost as a naturopath through my inability to manifest robust immunity I

could regain through needless suffering.

My medicine is built on a foundation of questionable suffering. Naturopathy began in part in the 1800s at German health spas, at which a major treatment involved either being sprayed with, plunging in, or resting nether regions in icy cold water. No one suffers more enthusiastically than a naturopathic student. During school I burned myself with mustard plasters, fasted, and used purgatives for simple colds.

I was considered moderate. Though we are gentler on our patients, as doctors we continue to be hard on ourselves. Recently a colleague lamented her out-ofcontrol sugar binge, which consisted of a pint of local organic strawberries. As self-flagellators we have few rivals.

So, I wandered home to enjoy the trip my immune system had planned with nothing but chicken soup to get me through. Perhaps my former experiences worked to console me. Unlike my mysteriously sourced tuberculosis, all my symptoms were attributable to my recent vaccine. Though the body aches were formidable, I could still convey myself to the bathroom to the relief of my dog, the only helpful creature about. My fever did not require an ice bath. And when I saw myself in the mirror, though I looked like a waxen doll replica of myself, my normal features were readily discernible.

The symptoms subsided remarkably after 36 hours.

And I am prepared both to encounter the virus and with another story for my grandkids of how tough things have been. It doesn’t have to be your story, however. For those not living with one foot in the 19th century I hear tell of a thing called “Tylenol.”

Oregon legislator expelled

By Andrew Selsky Associated Press

SALEM (AP) — Republican lawmakers voted with majority Democrats in the Oregon House of Representatives to take the historic step of expelling a Republican member who let violent, far-right protesters into the state Capitol on December 21.

Legislators said on the House floor that this could be the most important vote they ever cast. They then proceeded Thursday night to expel an unapologetic Rep.

Mike Nearman with a 59-1 vote, marking the first time a member has been expelled by the House in its 160-year history. The only vote against the resolution for expulsion was Nearman’s own.

“The facts are clear that Mr. Nearman unapologetically coordinated and planned a breach of the Oregon State Capitol,’’ House Speaker Tina Kotek, a Democrat, said after the vote. “His actions were blatant and deliberate, and he has shown no remorse for jeopardizing the safety of every person in the Capitol that day.’’

Republicans, who are often bitterly opposed to Democratic initiatives on climate change and some other bills, said the crowd outside the Capitol that day was not made up of constituents who wanted to peacefully engage in the democratic process.

Some were carrying guns. Some shouted false QAnon conspiracy theories about Democrats kidnapping babies. They broke windows and assaulted journalists.

Nearman also faces two misdemeanor criminal charges and has said he will seek a trial by jury.

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lot of different situations with kids.

“I remember, early on, pulling up to a bus stop and two brothers were fighting tooth and nail and I thought to myself, ‘What am I getting into?’”

She also remembers being caught off guard when some high school students stepped onto the bus in the morning cradling babies wrapped up in blankets. “I didn’t know what to do because I didn’t think babies could ride on the bus,” she said. “It turned out the kids were in a child development class and the ‘babies’ were life-size models,” she said.

Ast reflected on the many trips she drove for, including outdoor school, the fourthgrade “Oregon Trail” field trip, every sport — including rooter buses, IEE and ECOS ventures, band trips to Reno, Hoodoo ski excursions, and trips to Fred Hutch Cancer Institute in Seattle. Once she and her fellow bus driver and dear friend Kathy Levine flew

to Georgia where Blue Bird buses are manufactured and each of them drove a brand new bus all the way back to Sisters.

“We had a great time doing that,” she said.

“The training is pretty extensive for becoming a bus driver and I remember being taught that bus drivers are the first people many kids see to start their school day and that it makes a big difference to their day when the bus driver knows them, greets them, and interacts with them,” Ast said.

Ast made a point of going the extra mile at times with kids.

“We had homework club on the bus at times,” she said.

“I had pencils and paper and would get older kids to help younger kids. I explained to the kids that if they could get some of it done before they even got home they would have more time for some fun.”

When she drove on sports outings and field trips Ast would engage with what was happening.

“The kids liked it that I would be interested in what they were doing and I became more than just the bus driver,” she said.

The most noticeable change she has seen in

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon students over the past years is the use of cell phones and other technology.

“I am concerned that kids don’t ever really disconnect from the screens — they are occupied every second,” she said. “I think that life for kids and adults was much simpler when I first began driving.

Everyone seems to be in a rush nowadays.”

Despite the changes, Ast insists she fully enjoyed her job all the way through her career.

“Being in a small town you really do get the chance to know a lot of people,” she said. “I feel very lucky to have made friends with so many parents, students, and school staff members. Many of them I consider as close as family.”

Ryan Stock, the transportation supervisor for the past few years said, “Teri’s career operating a school bus for the last 26 years has been a wonderful experience for Sisters families and schools.

She cares for the students and looks out for their safety everyday.”

It goes beyond just being a good driver.

“She shows children compassion and kindness with the patience found in a mother’s

love,” Stock said. “This has given us and our parents peace of mind. Teri is truly a priceless gift for our community. So many of us have shared heartfelt experiences of laughter, hope, and inspiration with her — she has enriched our lives.”

He concluded, “Teri’s next trip is taking the only fork in the road she has not traveled yet, retirement. We wish her only the best on her next journey.”

Ast is grateful for the many years she got to serve the school district. “The district has been very good to me,” she said. “I love the people I have gotten to know here.”

“Anyone who knows Teri understands she is a worker and someone ready to help,” said one staff member.

She is very active.

“I never sit around long,”

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Life-skills teacher and coach Josh Nordell got emotional when asked to comment on Ast’s retirement.

“She has been a real constant and supportive companion to me and my programs,” he said. “Her willingness and ability to jump in and help with anything is amazing. It’s hard for me to imagine not spending afternoons with her.

I am going to miss her more than I can really express.”

Ast clearly intends to keep on helping. She plans to volunteer, perhaps with Habitat for Humanity, the Kiwanis Food Bank, and the community garden. She also intends to travel, whether by plane, car, or bicycle.

“And, I won’t have to get up at five in the morning if I don’t want to,” she said with a smile.

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THORSON: AD has been a whirlwind of activity in trying times

BARTOLOTTA: Rider is headed to national competition

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“This recognition is long overdue for Gary,” said Sisters High School Principal Joe Hosang. “The guy can’t say no and works so extremely hard. Most people don’t see what he does to keep athletics moving forward. He will come in early on Sundays and work late at night to schedule, reschedule, make phone calls, set up transportation, connect with officials, and then do it all again when a game is changed. He works countless hours to help the coaches fundraise, ordering and ensuring every coach has the appropriate training.”

Hosang went on, “On top of his full-time position, he teaches a physical education class, coached football, coached wrestling, and still organized events at school.

He does all of this for the high school and he is also the middle-school athletic director. Gary does this quietly and very rarely asks for any help.

He is amazing, and the Sisters School District is a better place because of him.”

The selection process for the award begins with nominations submitted by current and former associates, school personnel, community members, which are then evaluated by an awards committee and approved by the OADA executive board.

Longtime friend and colleague Neil Fendall said, “Gary Thorson is one of the hardest working people you will ever encounter. He never stops — literally — he is always moving.”

Fendall added, “I don’t know what drives his work ethic, but from observing him over 7-8 years, I believe it comes from his enjoyment of kids. He truly loves providing experiences for kids. Most people will never know how much he does for Sisters High School and Sisters School District.”

horses Gabby cares for, some of them rescues. She comes home from school and gets to work, often putting five or six hours of riding to build her skills.

“I ride every day, and I take really good care of my horses,” she said. “I treat them like an athlete. I think my horses appreciate me for that.”

While rodeo is Gabby’s particular passion, success requires a lot of family support, which Gabby is quick to acknowledge. She offered a particular shoutout to her brother Nick.

“He stays awesome and super-supportive of me,” she said. “He’s the best

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Gary Thorson helping young wrestlers learn new techniques.

Thorson reflected on the honor.

“Growing up I had such a positive experience in athletics so it drives me to want to do the best I can to give our students a great experience as well,” he said. “From the start of my athletic career to the end, along the way I had multiple coaches who pushed me to not only be a better athlete but more importantly a better person as well. I would be a shell of the person I am had I not had some of the coaches in my life that I did, and it energizes me to get to see our students in the district get those same influences and experiences as well.”

The 2020-21 school year presented incredible challenges for high school sports.

The regular three seasons were jammed into less than half a year leaving athletic directors like Thorson scrambling to make schedules that could work. COVID-19 protocols made travel a challenge. No fans were allowed for some time. Athletes had to train and compete with masks on.

And Thorson pushed through, helping ensure Outlaws athletes had a chance to have an experience this year.

Thorson said, “It was important for everyone in the role of an AD or coach to give the athletes the best experience they could despite the pandemic. And I think here in Sisters, and across the state, a lot of good things happened for kids.”

He continued, “I am humbled by getting this award and

I can honestly say anyone who has sat in an athletic director’s chair this year was deserving of it. I could never put into words how much of a zoo it was with all the rescheduling, starts and restarts, restrictions, guidelines, etc.”

Thorson appreciates the support he has had from his colleagues and family.

“As ADs we were all stretched more than ever, and luckily I had the support and help of our office staff and an understanding group of coaches to help get me through the year. With me coaching two sports this year, I also got to feel the pains and frustrations that our coaches felt, and they are well deserving of recognition as well.

“I have to mention my gratitude and appreciation for my wife, Lisa, as well,” he said. “More than ever she had to bear the burden of an AWOL husband and father and pick up the slack for me this year. She was very supportive and understanding and I cannot thank her enough.”

brother ever.”

Julie Bartolotta confesses that competition is tougher on her than it is on her daughter. She admits to be “100 percent more nervous” watching from the stands than Gabby is in the saddle.

Gabby also qualified in breakaway roping and ribbon roping, which are actually her favorite events. Her roping horse is a six-yearold named Holly.

“I love roping so much,” she said.

Bartolotta is aiming for a slot on the elite Cal Poly San Luis Obispo rodeo team, and she has hopes of becoming a professional barrel racer or roper. Whatever the future holds, horses will be at the center of it.

“I want to stay with horses my whole life,” she said. “It’s just what I love to do.”

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“The Land Trust is fortunate to have a talented leader like Rika join the organization,” said Glenn Willard, board president for the Deschutes Land Trust.

“Rika’s thoughtful management approach, demonstrated financial leadership, experience building partnerships, and enthusiasm to foster engagement with diverse communities to support land conservation made her our top choice. Our entire board felt inspired and confident that she was the person to lead the Land Trust in the future, and we know she’s prepared to hit the ground running to build relationships with our community of supporters. We are honored to welcome Rika to our team of talented staff.”

Ayotte was born and raised in Southern Oregon and has been in Central Oregon for the past six years. She holds a BA in history from the University of Washington, an MA in museum management, and an MBA in nonprofit management from John F. Kennedy University. She serves on the boards of The Children’s Forest of Central Oregon, and the Global Leadership Adventures International Foundation, and sits on the Bend Cultural Tourism Fund Commission. When she’s not working or volunteering, you will find her hiking and camping with her family and her dog, and chasing after her energetic toddler.

Ayotte will succeed Brad Chalfant, who served as the Land Trust’s executive director for 25 years. With Chalfant’s leadership, the Deschutes Land Trust has

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“I’m very honored to join the Deschutes Land Trust and help them achieve this ambitious vision for the future,” said Ayotte. “I look forward to building on Brad Chalfant’s amazing legacy, and to working with the dedicated staff, board, supporters, and community partners who are so committed to conserving and caring for the lands and waters of Central Oregon.”

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On April 6, the Mauna Loa Observation reported 419.76 parts per million of carbon dioxide (one of the major GHGs); up 3.18 ppm in one year. Federal Bill, HR2307 — the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (EICDA) is an excellent solution to efficiently and effectively reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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