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The Nugget Vol. XLIV No. 25

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News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Crest the Cascades

ODOT will look into tree die-off along highways

offers cyclists spectacular ride

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Cyclists crested the Cascades in a ride over Highway 242 in support of Sisters Park & Recreation District on Saturday. PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

More than 50 cyclists started a journey on Saturday at the Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) Coffield Center and rode the Oregon Scenic Bikeway over Highway 242 to the top of the old McKenzie Pass last weekend in the annual Bjarne Holm Crest the Cascades event. Some riders went as far west as Camp Yale on the west end of the highway. Crest the Cascades returned to Sisters last weekend after riders took a year off

due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hosted by SPRD, the cycling event brings together friends, families, and fellow cyclists to experience some of the most majestic views in Central Oregon. This year’s event brought many local riders, who were thrilled for the return of Crest the Cascades. In addition, it also drew people from all over the Pacific Northwest, including many from Portland and Washington. As riders gathered to share stories

Citizens’ initiative seeks nonpartisan commission By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Deschutes County is currently the scene of a citizendriven effort to place an initiative on the ballot that, if approved, would make the office of Deschutes County Commissioner a nonpartisan position. Of the 36 Oregon counties, only 10 (including Deschutes County) have partisan county commissioners running as either Democrat or Republican. The initiative effort is being led by Susan Cobb, Democrat, of Sisters; Mimi Alkira, former Republican, now independent and vice president of the Deschutes County League of Women Voters; and Drew Kaza, independent

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of previous events that saw snow, hail, and more, they were grateful for the pristine weather that greeted them the morning of June 19. While it was a hot day in Sisters, the higher temperatures and low winds made for a spectacular ride and even better views. Established in 2010, the Crest the Cascades ride was originally created as a fundraiser for projects on the Deschutes National Forest. It has since been renamed in memory of Bjarne Holm, who

passed away after serving the Sisters community for many years as a dedicated ride volunteer. With the support of Sisters Chamber of Commerce and Sisters Trail Alliance, SPRD began hosting this event in 2016 with funds now going to support district activities in beautiful Sisters Country. For more information about SPRD and upcoming events, visit www. sistersrecreation.com or call 541-549-2091.

Trees are dying along Highway 20 and Highway 126 east of Sisters. That sets off alarm bells in a community that saw a large-scale die-off in recent years tied to the use of the herbicide Perspective. That die-off led to the felling of some 2,100 trees — mostly ponderosa pines — along Highway 20 from Sisters to beyond Black Butte Ranch in 2019. The problem with the trees near Sisters began developing from 2013 to 2015 when the herbicide Perspective was used along the highway corridor to remove brush within the Oregon Department of Transportation right of way. The herbicide harmed See TREES on page 14

Fire Chief Roger Johnson named

‘Community Champion’

and owner of Sisters Movie House. These three citizens stepped forward after the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners voted down placing a referendum on the May 2021 ballot, with Patti Adair and Tony DeBone voting against. Commissioner Phil Chang fulfilled his campaign promise of bringing the issue of a nonpartisan County Commission before the commissions and was the only one supporting it. Chang said, “Deschutes County is a leader in so many ways. In this particular area we’re lagging.” He reported that DeBone may be open to the possibility, but was not in

Sisters Fire Chief Roger Johnson has been named a Community Champion by the Sisters Country Vision Implementation Team (VIT) for his efforts in helping Sisters become a more resilient community. Team members surprised Chief Johnson with the award last Wednesday. In its citation, the team stated that: “Chief Roger Johnson is the fearless leader of the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District who calmly and humbly manages a very high level of responsibility and a very demanding workload, never more so than during the pandemic, a year that also included devastating

See COMMISSION on page 16

See JOHNSON on page 15

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Chief Roger Johnson was presented with a Sisters Country Vision Implementation Team (VIT) Community Champion Award for his efforts in making Sisters a more resilient community. Johnson is pictured with Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District public information officer Julie Spor, left, and Tammy Baney of the VIT and Emme Shoup.

Letters/Weather ............... 2 Obituaries ........................ 4 Announcements...............10 Fun & Games ....................16 Classifieds.................. 19-21 Meetings .......................... 3 News nuggets ....................7 Entertainment ................. 11 Crossword .......................18 Real Estate .................21-24

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

Appreciation to SPRD

To the Editor: My term on the board of directors of Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) will end June 30. Before leaving I wanted to share my experience on this board with the Sisters community. I have served on other boards where they mostly rubber stamp whatever the Executive Director presents to them; not so on the SPRD Board. Jennifer Holland, our SPRD director, prepares a board packet for each meeting, which

the board reviews before they meet — voluminous pages of budget spreadsheets and decisions to be made! At the board sessions, questions are asked, and, if needed, Jennifer is asked to procure more information. Most importantly, SPRD involves the community when formulating their strategic plan. SPRD’s commitment to the community is evident through their programs and events. Check it out! New programs will be rolling out soon — for kiddos and adults. See LETTERS on page 8

Sisters Weather Forecast

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Sisters Dance Academy dancers hit the stage at Sisters High School Auditorium in a long-anticipated live performance. See story, page 4. PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

A wrecking ball By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Hyper-partisanship and political tribalism distills into a caustic cocktail that is burning holes in American culture and dissolving the social fabric. Anything that dilutes that bitter acid is welcome — and a bid to make the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners nonpartisan offers just such a tonic. (See related story, page 1.) There is no reason for local issues to be engaged through a red or blue lens. There is no reason for party apparatus to be brought to bear to secure positions on local commissions, councils, and school boards. The more local institutions become corrupted by hyper-partisanship, the less people will trust them or wish to engage with them. Trust in all manner of institutions has plummeted, and many of those institutions — from government to education to the media — have no one but themselves to blame. When the public perceives that an institution is committed more to advancing a partisan agenda than to serving its constituents, an erosion of trust is inevitable — and deserved. Journalist Matt Taibbi recently delivered a scorching column on Substack, noting that the media in recent years became so obsessed with whether or not an issue helped or hurt Donald Trump that many lost sight of their real mission: to seek truth and inform the public. Taibbi decries the resulting “countless stupidities over the course of the last five years, with no better example than the latest uproar over the ‘lab leak hypothesis’ about the origins of COVID-19.” Taibbi writes: “Without taking any position on whether or not the theory is true, it’s undeniable that media professionals denounced the possibility for over a year largely because Donald Trump happened to believe it. Now that conventional wisdom has shifted gears on this story … we have people like ABC’s Jon Karl coming out and saying things like, ‘Some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them.’ The way Karl announced that the concept was now discussable was particularly hilarious: ‘Now, serious people are saying it needs a serious inquiry.’ “Karl’s statement was meant to be profound and bold, but it’s actually a damning admission of incompetence on the part of a press corps that spent years turning hundreds of non-Trump

questions into referenda on Trump.” Gazing at the world through a partisan lens colors and distorts what we see. Insisting that our lens is the only correct lens deforms understanding, and insistence on conformity of view and the suppression of dissent will ultimately mangle the Republic beyond repair. For the Republic is founded upon classical liberalism, which is breaking down in the face of a variety of forms of totalitarian thought. It may be “soft” totalitarianism — for now – but it is nevertheless a deadly toxin. Many Americans of varying political stripes (or none) are fed up with it. As Taibbi notes, “The traditional liberal approach to the search for truth, which stresses skepticism and freeflowing debate, is giving way to a reactionary movement that Plato himself would have loved, one that believes knowledge is too dangerous for the rabble and must be tightly regulated by a priesthood of ‘experts.’ It’s anti-democratic, un-American, and naturally unites the residents of even the most extreme opposite ends of our national political spectrum.” A reckoning may be at hand. The controversy around the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis may turn out to be a wrecking ball when it comes to faith in experts and institutions, as Thomas Franks of The Guardian points out: “If it does indeed turn out that the lab-leak hypothesis is the right explanation for how it began — that the common people of the world have been forced into a real-life lab experiment, at tremendous cost — there is a moral earthquake on the way. “Because if the hypothesis is right, it will soon start to dawn on people that our mistake was not insufficient reverence for scientists, or inadequate respect for expertise, or not enough censorship on Facebook. It was a failure to think critically about all of the above, to understand that there is no such thing as absolute expertise.” Hyper-partisanship breaks down the ability to think critically, leads “experts” into the temptation to be “players” and lend their credibility to an agenda, and makes “winning” a zero-sum game more important than seeking truth. If there is a moral earthquake on the way, maybe it’ll shake us hard enough to spill out the bile of hyper-partisanship and hurl us back onto common American ground. Let it begin here.

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Volunteers aid stranded couple

PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG

Zoe Falk has compiled what she calls an “autobiographical self-help book.”

Young writer publishes unique book By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

The average 24-year-old is not a published author. But then, Zoe Falk is not your average 24-year-old. Though young, Falk has experienced enough highs and lows, and done enough personal introspection, to put together what she describes as “an autobiographical self-help” book. “The Adventure Guide to Living a Kickass Life,” which Falk self-published, launched Monday, June 21. She says the book is largely targeted at her own age group — from late teens to mid-20s — but she believes all ages can find it useful. “We can’t assume that

young people haven’t had a lot of challenging experiences, and they need to pay attention to their mental health,” she said. “Young people facing real-life challenges may actually feel overwhelmed and experience more intense struggle because they haven’t had the life experience to help them know how to cope. They may not have as much resilience.” Falk arrived in Sisters from California as a nervous, unconfident, 12-yearold seventh-grader, taken in by her aunt and uncle, Debbie and Greg Willitts, and their sons, Gabe and Sean, to get respite from an unstable, dysfunctional living situation. Over the next six years,

the safe home that the Willitts’ provided, which included routines and healthy expectations, helped her to transform from being a struggling pupil with low self-worth to a successful high school student and champion athlete. Falk also credits the close relationship she developed with her grandparents Zoe and Bill Willitts for allowing her to grow and flourish. The book chronicles her teen years in which she not only won a state championship in track, but also became strong academically, resulting in an offer to run for Northern Arizona University (NAU), which has one of the strongest See FALK on page 17

Volunteers and sheriff’s deputies lent a hand — and a tow — to help a family that was stranded on the highway just west of Sisters earlier this month. Lt. Chad Davis of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office reported that on Saturday, June 12, a couple relocating from Oklahoma to Eugene broke down at milepost 99, about a mile west of Sisters at the Deschutes National Forest sign. “The pickup that was towing them blew a motor, leaving them stranded,” Davis said. “They were relocating to Eugene, where they had located a property to live in their travel trailer. They had

two other vehicles with them and two dogs.” Davis said that citizens lodged complaints to the Sisters patrol office, believing the couple was beginning to set up a camp. According to Davis, deputies made contact with the couple on Monday, June 14, and learned about their circumstances. Deputies then reached out to Mandee Seeley with the Sisters Houseless Networking Group (SHNG), seeking assistance in helping tow the couple’s trailer to Eugene. Jim Pritchard, who volunteers with the SHNG and See STRANDED on page 16

Age Friendly Sisters acts as ‘incubator’ By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Age Friendly Sisters Country wants ideas — but only ones that have real action tied to them. “We are not an idea orphanage. Don’t bring your idea [for a community program or service] to our door and leave it on the doorstep. Age Friendly Sisters Country (AFSC) is an incubator, where a shared idea is nurtured along,” said Chris

Laing, AFSC president. Sisters Transportation and Ride Share (STARS) is an example of an idea that was nurtured as an action team by AFSC, which provides the administrative support to get a good idea off the ground. AFSC acts as the fiscal sponsor for an action team, providing their 501(c)(3) nonprofit designation, a bank account, insurance, and grant preparation assistance. They See AGE FRIENDLY on page 18

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

SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ Al-Anon Mon., noon, by Zoom. / Thurs., Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061. 10 a.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Friends of the Sisters Library Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Church. 541-610-7383. Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com. Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal ages welcome. 541-771-2211. Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., 1 to 4 p.m. 541-668-1755. Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., Citizens4Community, Let’s Talk 3rd Monday, 5:30 to 8 p.m. RSVP at noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran citizens4community.com Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., Military Parents of Sisters Meetings noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran are held quarterly; please call for details. Church. 541-548-0440. 541-388-9013. Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., room. Partner required. 541-595-6236. Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469. Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild Prayer Shawl Group 2nd & 4th Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Call for For Saturday meeting dates and location: 503-819-1723. location, email: steelefly@msn.com. SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings Central OR Spinners and Weavers & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. Guild One Saturday per month, Jan. to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217. District. 541-549-2091. Council on Aging of Central Oregon Sisters Aglow Lighthouse Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., meeting by Community Church. 541-480-1843. Zoom. 503-930-6158.

BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS

Sisters Area Photography Club 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., meeting at Sisters Community Church. 541-549-6157. Sisters Area Woodworkers 1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. 541-639-6216. Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846. Sisters Bridge Club In-person gathering suspended until further notice. For free online bridge info, call Barbara 541-914-6322. Sisters Caregiver Support Group 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., Village Green Park. 541-771-3258. Sisters Cribbage Club Please call for details. 541-923-1632. Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m. Location information: 541-549-1193. Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870. Sisters 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 Tues, 1-2:30 p.m. Call for location: 541-410-9716. Sisters Trails Alliance Board 1st Monday, 5 p.m. Sisters Library. Public welcome. 808-281-2681. Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon, Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123. Three Sisters Irrigation District Board of Directors 1st Tuesday, 4 p.m., TSID Office. 541-549-8815. Three Sisters Lions Club 2nd Tuesday, noon, Ray’s Food Place community room. 541-419-1279. VFW Post 8138 and American Legion Post 86 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-903-1123. Weight Watchers Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, Sisters Community Church. 541-602-2654.

SCHOOLS Black Butte School Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 3:45 p.m., Black Butte School. 541-595-6203. Sisters School District Board of Directors One Wed. monthly, SSD Admin Bldg. See schedule online at www.ssd6.org. 541-549-8521 x5002. Sisters Middle School Parent Collaboration Team 1st Tuesday, 2 p.m., SMS. 541-610-9513.

CITY & PARKS Sisters City Council 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-549-6022. Sisters Park & Recreation District Board of Directors 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m., SPRD bldg. 541-549-2091. Sisters Planning Commission 3rd Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-549-6022.

FIRE & POLICE Black Butte Ranch Police Dept. Board of Directors Meets monthly. 541-595-2191 for time & date. Black Butte Ranch RFPD Board of Directors 4th Thursday, 9 a.m., Black Butte Ranch Fire Station. 541-595-2288. Cloverdale RFPD Board of Directors 3rd Wed., 5:30 p.m., 67433 Cloverdale Rd. 541-548-4815. cloverdalefire.com. Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday, 5 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 541-549-0771. Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Drills Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St. 541-549-0771. This listing is for regular Sisters Country meetings; email information to lisa@nuggetnews.com

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Obituary Leslie Doyle Bolton

September 19, 1933 — June 11, 2021

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

“School Newspaper Squad” by the Hip Hop 8-10 class.

Dancers deliver the news Have you heard the news? Live dance performance is back in Sisters. Some 110 dancers aged three to 18 hit the streets with the latest edition last Saturday, June 19, in Sisters Dance Academy’s “Extra! Extra! Dance All About It!” recital held before a live audience at Sisters High School Auditorium. “It was definitely a great event that was long anticipated,” said Sisters Dance Academy founder and teacher Lonnie Liddell. The newspaper theme came out of a desire to “spread

good news” after a long and challenging year and a half of virtual instruction. “I brainstorm all the time about themes,” Liddell said. “Since we do two shows a year, usually, I kind of have a list.” Developing dances around the newspaper theme and different sections (like sports) “was a fun, creative process,” she said. Dancers performed in ballet and point, contemporary, jazz, and hip-hop. The Academy was allowed a 50-percent-capacity audience in the large auditorium, so dancers got to hear the

applause of a live audience for the first time in a long time. Organizing and setting up the event was made easier by working with a dance-recital ticketing outfit that blocked out where people could sit and what rows had to remain empty. For Liddell and the dancers, the recital was a welcome step toward getting back to normal. A six-week summer session is set for July, and “we’ll hopefully be back to full swing in the fall,” said Liddell. For information on classes visit www.danceinsisters.com.

Leslie Doyle Bolton died June 11, 2021, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. Leslie was born on September 19, 1933, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to parents Laurance and Helen Doyle. She grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She attended Randolph Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia for two years and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Pennsylvania in 1955. On March 25, 1961, she married John Robert Bolton, and they remained married until his death in 2008. They had three children, Lee Bolton Petmecky, Robert Doyle Bolton (married to Amy), and Jennifer Bolton Burroughs (married to Roy), who are still living. She is also survived by three

grandchildren, Benjamin Bolton, Jacklyn Bolton, and Alexandra Burroughs, all of whom she was very proud. Leslie traveled the world with John, was an avid reader, and hosted many celebrations at her home, Many Pines, in Sisters. She will be missed dearly by her family and friends. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Rotary Club of Sisters or Partners in Care are appreciated.

Gallery Exhibit

Opening Friday, June 25 PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Hip Hop Tots class, ages 3 to 5, presented “Boston Red Socks Win the World Series!”

Featuring the Art Quilts of Jean Wells

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Fourth Friday Artwalk continues for summer Helen Schmidling Correspondent

Sisters Arts Association’s (SAA) Fourth Friday Artwalk occurs this week. Galleries are open and welcome you to visit with their featured artists. This is an all-day Artwalk, with some galleries open for extended hours and artist demonstrations up until 7 p.m. Maps are available in all gallery locations. When you stop at each one, register (or sign up) for SAA’s Quick Draw. Two $50 gift certificates will be awarded after the Artwalk, and may be redeemed at any of the participating galleries. A donation from Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty in Sisters funds the Quick Draw. Starting at the west end of Hood Avenue, here is what Artwalk offers this month. Hood Avenue Art’s featured artists are painter JoAnn Burgess, jewelers Elyse and Steven Douglas, and jeweler Sharon Reed. JoAnn explores her love of nature, color, and texture in pastels. Elyse and Steven’s favorite gem is the Oregon sunstone with its amazing array of colors. Sharon fashions jewelry using beautiful stones and fossils from around the world. From 4 to 7 p.m., JoAnn will break out her pastels for a hands-on demo where you can explore your inner artist and pick up some tips from a pro. Fiddler Bob Baker will provide entertainment.

The Collection Gallery fundraiser for J Bar J Youth welcomes you to see new Services in Central Oregon. works by sculptor and painter Kimry’s work is closely assoGary Cooley, painter Clarke ciated with the annual event Berryman, and photographer in Bend, but it also tells her Lisa Belt. own story of a young girl, Marigold & True is a infatuated with horses, who boutique focusing on artisan rejected a career as a fashion products that support makers, graphic designer in favor of a with an emphasis on small life filled with training horses, batch production, including painting horses, and travel. beautiful dresses, scarves, She will be the featured artbaby clothes and toys, hand- ist at Sisters Gallery & Frame bags, blankets, and more. Shop this month, and will This month, Clearwater be showing “Capilano,” this Gallery is hosting a private year’s J Bar J poster boy. party on the fourth Friday, but Capilano and Lindsey Garner, welcomes visitors to stop by his owner/trainer, have won at any other time to see the the Grand Prix four years in featured work of landscape a row. Kimry will be sellpainter Dan Rickards. ing and signing collectable Beacham’s Clock Co. is High Desert Classics postfeaturing clocks by J. Steven ers, and Eva Gill will be Hunt, an artist from Salem representing J Bar J and who makes whimsical, one- their many youth programs. of-a-kind, fun clocks in many themes. This month, Stitchin’ Post Fabric Arts Gallery features new work by Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS) founder Jean Wells and her daughter, Valori, as they anticipate this year’s “R e ne wa l” e ve n t on July 10. Pick up SOQS merch, including posters, tote bags, and T-shirts. 2021 marks the 13th year Kimry Jelen’s art is the centerpiece of Oregon High Desert Classics, PHOTO PROVIDED a hunter-jumper show Kimry Jelen’s “Capilano.” that is the primary

Also at Sisters Gallery & Frame, Prismacolor pencil artist Mike Stasko will unveil the third in his “Seasons of Sisters” series, fresh from the framer Dennis Schmidling’s shop. Both the winter and spring pieces have been sold. Collectors, look forward to this one. Ken S c o t t ’s Imagination Gallery PHOTO PROVIDED will host oil and water“Indian Boy” by Dyrk Godby. color painter Gary McPherson. He will dem- contemporary, meaningful, onstrate and unveil his lat- and diverse mediums. est work. Gary relocated to Dyrk Godby grew up as an Central Oregon after los- Idaho cowboy, rode the rodeo ing his home and studio in circuit, and sang with artists the Paradise fires of 2018. such as Johnny Cash. Now He is a welcome addition to his life is focused on Western Imagination Gallery. art. Stop by Dyrk Godby Art Observe the fine details of Gallery for a great story, a Bryan Lee Brown’s Mokume lyrical song, or to just explore Gane work, such as the snake his fine art. pendant, in his Metals Jewelry “Americana Folk Heroes,” Gallery. Brown follows a a collection of work by textile time-treasured process using artist Leotie Richards, is disfine metals to create one-of- played through July 25 in the a-kind pieces. Upstairs in the Cindy and Duncan Campbell same building, artist Jill Neal Gallery at Sisters Art Works. will open her gallery to show The gallery will be closed this several new paintings. Friday as Sisters Folk Festival Wildflower Studio spot- (SFF) stages its first Sisters lights original paintings by Summer of Festival concert Kathy Deggendorfer. Kathy featuring Freddy & Francine uses vivid watercolors and and Sierra Ferrell. There will patterns to interpret the beauty be nine concerts between June of local landscapes. 25 and August 15. SAA artists Raven Makes Gallery will be showing and selling offers first-market Native their art at each of the SFF American and Indigenous summer concerts. For more artists’ works, including information on which artfine jewelry, from the Arctic ists will be at each event visit to northern Mexico, in www.sistersarts.org.

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Funding will help Whychus Creek flows Deschutes River Conservancy (DRC) is working with funding from Coors Seltzer to further incentivize water leasing in Whychus Creek, a reach that used to run dry two of every three years. Three Sisters Irrigation District (TSID) diverts flows from the creek for area irrigators. DRC and TSID have worked steadily over the past 20 years to bring back yearround flows through water transfers and piping to permanently protect up to 34 cubic feet per second (CFS) of water rights instream. DRC’s instream leasing program augments these flows further. Continuing to improve conditions in the stream is critical for migrating and native fish including redband trout, steelhead, and bull trout. Coors Seltzer has partnered with Change the Course to protect and restore the waterways that provide clean water to wildlife and millions of people in communities across the country. With every 12-pack of Coors Seltzer sold, the partnership is restoring 500 gallons of water through support of projects like Whychus Creek leasing. Instream leasing is a state program that enables irrigators to lease unused water back instream. These leases satisfy state water use requirements for the farmer and improve ecological flows instream. DRC and TSID have a long-running instream leasing program, but funding from Coors Seltzer will provide additional incentive to increase participation and to launch the dry-year program that has been in development for over five years. This bump in flows in Whychus Creek will occur in mid and late summer — when flows drop off dramatically and when stream temperature in the creek is of highest concern. Coors Seltzer funding

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We are committed to continue work in this partnership to restore flows and habitat in Whychus Creek. — Marc Thalacker will cover a two-year period for DRC to lease between 1000 and 1600 acre-feet. This range takes into account the variability of streamflow which is dependent on snowpack and will also allow for an increase in leasing participation. TSID will lease up to eight cubic feet per second (5,590 gallons per minute), up to a 25-percent increase over current leasing. “The Coors Seltzer funding has allowed the DRC to enhance its ability to protect flows in Whychus Creek,” said Gen Hubert, program manager for Deschutes River Conservancy. “This, in combination with the finalization of the Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) and goals over time to meet temperature standards in lower Whychus Creek, has provided an incentive to kickstart a program that TSID and DRC staff

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Leased water from Deschutes River Conservancy’s program will benefit flows below Three Sisters Irrigation District’s diversion, an important reach for migrating steelhead and native redband trout. have been discussing for a few years now.” The DRC is optimistic that two years of Coors Seltzer funding to help launch this program will give momentum to a stronger rotational leasing program in Whychus Creek. Leasing on Whychus Creek is already up 150 acres this year as a result of this new incentive. “This is a good start to the two-year agreement,” Hubert

adds, “and it’s gratifying to partner in a funding program that promotes sustainability while helping DRC develop a stronger program with TSID to meet HCP conservation goals.” Manager of Three Sisters Irrigation District Marc Thalacker said, “TSID has been working in partnership with the DRC for over 20 years to restore flows to Whychus Creek while

also improving deliveries to our farms. Since 2006, we’ve been involved with the Deschutes Partnership (DRC, Deschutes Land Trust, Upper Deschutes Watershed Council) in support of a comprehensive restoration strategy that guides habitat restoration for steelhead reintroduction. We are committed to continue work in this partnership to restore flows and habitat in Whychus Creek.”

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• And so it begins. Sisters residents woke up Sunday to the smell of smoke, even the report of ash on surfaces, as the S-503 fire located southeast of Mount Hood on the border of Warm Springs Reservation grew overnight Saturday to 4,300 acres. A smaller fire in Klamath County is threatening homes. • Three Peaks Industrial Park broke ground and is moving thousands of cubic yards of dirt and gravel for laying in utilities. Five parcels are now sold. • Sisters Trails Alliance asked to add mileage distance between junction marker posts for their map. Users would welcome the information to plan. • Whychus Creek footbridge at Creekside Park re-opens after a three-month closure that allowed for improving handicap accessibility and installing safety rails. Addition of viewing bump-outs is scheduled for fall. • Newly rebuilt Ski Inn Tap House and Hotel is now accepting airbnb.com reservations for its six boutique rooms. Christine Tolliver from Salem is the very first guest to book one of the

luxury designed and furnished rooms. • Beacham’s Clocks displays 1,000th piece. Legendary clockmaker Ed Beacham still has work to do on his most ambitious project yet, but visitors can see the work-in-process as they enter the front door. •   Wo r k e r s h o r t a g e s remain critical, with some businesses curtailing hours or days, and limiting menu choices. • Neither Deschutes County nor Oregon hit the June 21 target to lift COVID19 restrictions. Vaccinations are plummeting with nearly 50,000 needing at least the first dosage for the state to be “fully” open. • The Kitchen Table, gourmet take-out eatery on Sun Ranch Drive, clears remaining startup hurdles and pencils July 1 for formal opening. Their signature taco boxes have been intermittently available on Tuesdays and Saturdays. • Cascade Avenue will not be closed for this year’s Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. The City and Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office are undertaking a challenging traffic scenario with plans to use trained volunteer deputies to aid in the effort to keep pedestrians safe.

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Outlaws hoops lose three in a row By Rongi Yost Correspondent

Sisters boys basketball lost all three of their games last week: a 68-41 loss at Cascade on Tuesday, June 15, and a day later a 70-58 loss at Woodburn. On Friday the Outlaws fell 65-52 to Stayton. In Tuesday’s action against the Cougars at Cascade, the Outlaws started out strong and at the close of the first quarter the game was knotted up 15-15. Cascade outscored the Outlaws by five in the second period and held a 25-20 advantage as teams headed into the half. Sisters played well but had a tough time against the Cougars’ 6-foot-10-inch shotblocker in the middle. As the game progressed that became even more difficult and the Outlaws started to settle for outside shots. The Outlaws were outscored 25-6 in the third quarter, which was a deficit they couldn’t overcome. Max Palanuk led the Outlaws with 15 points. Nate Weber scored nine, Camden Froelich tallied eight, and Ricky Huffman added five. A day later the Outlaws kept the game close against a very athletic Bulldog team that loved the full-court press. At the half Sisters was down

by six, 29-35. Woodburn held on to the lead and outscored the Outlaws exactly like they had in the first half, 29-25, to beat Sisters by 12. Coach Rob Jensen told The Nugget that the Outlaws just weren’t able to sustain the effort needed throughout the whole game. “They got us in the end and pulled away with free throws in the last quarter,” said Jensen. Palanuk had a big night for the Outlaws and hit six triples for 18 points to keep the game close. Weber also had a big offensive night and recorded 16 points. Froelich scored nine, Connor Linn had eight, and Huffman added six. On Friday the Outlaws got off to a great offensive start against the Eagles, but Stayton was just a bit better, and at the close of the first period Sisters trailed 20-23. In the second quarter teams

played fairly even, and at the half the Outlaws were down by four. The Eagles came out in a zone in the third and executed the trap effectively. The Outlaws gave up some unforced turnovers and had trouble getting to the hoop. Stayton’s shooter hit three triples in the third and Sisters was outscored by eight. In the fourth, teams played pretty even but the Outlaws weren’t able to get enough stops to make up the lost ground. Froelich did a great job for the Outlaws and attacked the basket most of the game, finishing the night with 17 points. Weber scored 13, Linn recorded 11, and Palanuk added nine. Sisters was scheduled to finish up their season with a game against Bend on Monday, June 21, and La Pine on Tuesday.

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Burglary suspect sought The Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Office and the Redmond Police Department are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect involved in multiple burglaries to businesses in Sisters and Redmond. The burglaries took place overnight between June 17-18. The alleged burglar hit Takoda’s, Bi-Mart, and The Gallery Restaurant. Anyone with relevant information is urged to call 541-693-6911. Reference the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office case 21-32343 or Redmond Police Department case 21-15294.

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The annual Rumble on the Runway 5-kilometer run and walk returns to Sisters Eagle Airport on Sunday, July 4. The Rumble is part of the Fourth of July celebration held annually at the airport. Other events include a classic car show, rubber chicken drop, pancake breakfast, and helicopter rides. Food carts will also be available. For more information visit www. sistersairport.com/events/. Proceeds of the run/walk

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To the Editor: Twisted Juniper Coffee will have a new owner on July 1st! I will continue to work here until July 9, so that I have a little time to show her the ropes, and to train the new crew. She has been a loyal customer, who already likes the way things are done here and just wants to keep it going. It’s been four-and-a-half years now since I opened Twisted Juniper, and it has been such a blessing. I hope to eventually open another one in Texas. I absolutely love what I do! I love that I get a chance to make so many people’s lives just a little bit better with a smile, some conversation, and their favorite drink in their hand. If someone is having a rough day... “I have an oil for that!” Yes... I’m one of those people. I have lived in Sisters nearly my whole life. Owning Twisted Juniper has given me a chance to get to know so many wonderful people who live in this community, and those who pass through on a regular basis. I will miss you all so very much. New adventures await. July 14, we are hitting the road. We are going to make our way to Arizona to spend a few days

with Garrett. Empty-nesting is hard, and I miss him so much already. Then we will continue on to our new home in Texas. On June 27, we would love to have a chance to say goodbye and introduce you to the new owner. From noon to close, I will have the new crew working the shop, so that Jeremiah and I can step out, visit, mingle, say our good-byes, and I will more than likely cry, a lot! Jennifer, the new owner, should be around, starting at 3 p.m. We will have snacks and drinks available. I am hoping this transition will go smoothly and that Twisted Juniper Coffee will continue to get the support of this wonderful community of loyal customers. I thank you all for your continued support over the years. I’ve truly enjoyed getting to know you! I hope I get a chance to see each and every one of you over the next few weeks. Please be patient with the new crew; they are still learning. I have no doubt they will do great! I’ve asked Jennifer to keep me in the loop, and to tell me when we make new records in sales or pass new milestones. I’m hoping this summer is our busiest yet. Mylissa Reid

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To the Editor: Dear Sisters School District, staff, students, families: Thank you so much for all the well wishes, flowers, and gifts. The last few days have been an emotional roller coaster. Love you all. Keep in touch. Teri Ast

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The other artists in Sisters struggle to put a price on their finished product primarily because the market in which they compete is dominated by freelancers working from home or small studios with low overhead. It is not just the graphic arts designer who will set up a business with a logo and stationery. Here in Sisters businesses can find highly respected book designers, fashion designers, sign makers, digital artists, photo retouchers, ceramicists, and interior designers. The list is impressive with more coming all the time, such as Faceout Studio with a roster of 11 artists who just relocated to Sisters from Bend. Their book covers would fill a small library, with a number winning prestigious awards from Graphis. BuzzFeed News cited the novel “Mexican Gothic” as one of their “Beautiful Books of 2020,” thanks to its Faceout Studio cover. Ashley Ruble-English is the creator of Ashley Makes, an online marketer of home décor, apparel, bags, hats, and gaiters with over 100 designs. Emily Head’s The Nest Design Studio has an interior design studio and showroom at 413 W. Hood Ave. Sean Calderella creates

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Sisters can boast a wellknown group of visual and performance artists, and the galleries and stages that host many of them. They range from the award-winning to the obscure. Some command large commissions or sales tags or booking fees, often with wait times of several months. A few have respectable followings on social media. They cover a waterfront in their work — painting, sculpture, jewelry, fabric and metal art, photography, songwriting, and recording. A few, like Dennis McGregor, Kathy Deggendorfer and Dan Rickards, are icons on the Sisters art scene. However, no fewer than 82 artists are members of the Sisters Arts Association and all have a resonating style with longevity and loyal patrons. It’s the other artists that have The Nugget’s attention this week. The ones significant in numbers and achievement although unlikely that you ever heard of unless a friend or relative works among them. Their art does not hang in galleries. They toil in the highly competitive commercial world. Like all artists they

cover art for the movie industry among other things. His clients include DC Comics, for whom he has designed art for “Flash, Arrow,” “The 100,” and “Galactic: Noon Dance.” Preedin Design is a fullservice drafting-and-design firm located upstairs at 178 S. Elm St. Downstairs is Ruff Hippie, who design and sell fashionable and whimsical high-end bandanas for dogs. Karen Matheson Thrower, a Sisters graphic designer and brand consultant, has done work for nearly 100 clients including Weyerhaeuser, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Northwest Bank, and Forrester Golf. Madrone Communication on Freemont designs websites as part of a full menu of technology solutions. Then there’s Zach Holmes of Little Guy Studios, whose music production

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Sisters Founders Picnic

Join the Three Sisters Historical Society & Museum on Sunday, July 11 to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the platting of the six-block town of Sisters in July 1901 at an old-fashioned picnic from noon to 3 p.m. on the museum grounds at 410 E. Cascade. There are 50 free reservations at the picnic (donations will be accepted). To reserve your spot(s), provide your name, email, and number of people in party by email to ThreeSistersHistoricalSociety@ gmail.com or by phone at 541-904-0585. Exhibits will be open and historical figures and musicians will join in.

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.

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.

Free Community Concerts

Sisters Community Church is presenting a Summer Concert Series on their lawn at 6 p.m. on selected Sundays starting July 11. The kickoff concert will feature Thunderstorm Artis, along with Bob Baker and Mark Barringer. For more information visit www. sisterschurch.com or call 541-549-1201.

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.

Prayer Shawl Group

This ministry meets to knit or crochet blankets, scarves, hats, and lap robes for people in need of comfort and love. Meeting second and fourth Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon. For additional information, please contact Suzi at 503-819-1723.

Sisters Speak Life Cancer Support Group

This cancer support group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month, 1 to 2:30 p.m. at JoAnn Roberts’ home. Caregivers, as well as patients and family members, are welcome to join in. Please call JoAnn at 541-410-9716 or Suzi at 503-819-1723 for more information.

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.

Rummage Sale for Charity

St. Thomas Altar Society is hosting a Rummage Sale at the St. Thomas Parish Center Gym at 1720 NW 19th St. in Redmond on Friday, July 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturday, July 10 from 9 a.m. to noon. The group is also seeking donations for the sale, which can be delivered to the same location on Wednesday, July 7 from 2 to 6 p.m. or Thursday, July 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Proceeds benefit a variety of community needs. For info visit www.stthomasredmond. com or call 541-923-3390.

Art at the Ranch Returns

After a two-year hiatus due to smoke and COVID-19, the annual Art at the Ranch sale will return to Black Butte Ranch, starting at 4 p.m., on Friday, July 9 on the deck of the Lodge followed by a silent auction at 5:30, accompanied by happy hour beverages and appetizers. Besides scholarships, the Black Butte Art Guild, which sponsors the event, makes donations to the Sisters School District art programs. Visit www. blackbutteranch.com/events/artat-the-ranch-2/ for more info.

65th Wedding Anniversary On June 23, Frank & Jan Baldwin will celebrate their 65th anniversary with a visit to the Oregon Coast. They were married at the Methodist Church in San Gabriel, California in 1956. They have resided in the Sisters area since 1990. In April they flew to Missouri to meet their first great-grandchild, a girl born last August.

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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). See www.vastchurch.com for details. Seventh-Day Adventist Church 386 N. Fir St. • 541-595-6770, 541-306-8303 11 a.m. Saturday Worship The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration 68825 Brooks Camp Rd. • 541-549-7087 8:30 a.m. Ecumenical Sunday Worship (Sunday school, childcare) 10:15 a.m. Episcopal Sunday Worship (Sunday school, childcare)

Summer Scavenger Hunt

Sitting all day long online for work and play? Circle of Friends has a plan to get you off-line and outside for a grand adventure. From now until Tuesday, September 7 make a donation and gain access to the first-ever Circle of Friends Scavenger Hunt! The Scavenger Hunt will take place in the Historic City of Sisters and will be guided by your smartphone. With your donation, we’ll send you details of how to play and enter you into a raffle for a gift basket valued at $200. Have fun learning about the City of Sisters History while supporting Circle of Friends! Info: 541-588-6445 or go to www.circleoffriendsoregon.org/.

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Join the Deschutes Land Trust and Jen Zalewski for a 6-8 mile, mellow, beginner/intermediate mountain-bike ride at the Metolius Preserve. Visit all three sections of the forested 1,240acre Metolius Preserve, following single-track trails and dirt roads. Along the way, riders will stop in various locations and talk about the many hidden qualities of the Preserve, including its diverse plant and wildlife communities. Registration is required. This outing will only proceed if pandemic conditions allow. Note: This ride does not take place on smooth, well-packed trails. It is a mix of logging roads and trails with loose dirt, sandy soil, rocks, and vegetation, including some climbs and descents. Register at www.deschuteslandtrust.org/ hikes-events or call 541-330-0017.

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Jenner Fox enters Sisters music scene By Ceili Cornelius Correspondent

Jenner Fox is new to Sisters, but the songwriter has already made a big impact on the local music scene. He is a starring musician at the Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) summer concert event this Saturday. Fox is a second-generation river guide, and singersongwriter by trade. He was born in Palo Alto and grew up on rivers with his parents, who were also river guides. During river trips, Fox and his family had to find ways to entertain around the campfire, so they picked up guitars and began playing music together. Fox got into playing music fulltime in high school and began telling stories through song. “My music is very dynamic in its sound, with a variety of dynamics and

changes in volume in its listening,” he told The Nugget. “And then, subject-wise, it is usually quirky portraits and stories about people around me going through all the different ups and downs in life.” Fox made his first selftitled record to sell to rafting clients, and now, four records later, he calls Sisters home. Fox had come to SFF as a spectator a number of times and loved the town. A few years later, Fox’s girlfriend got a job at Camp Tamarack and they moved to Sisters together. His time in Sisters was meant to be during breaks in the touring and rafting seasons, until the pandemic hit and he ended up staying in Sisters for an extended period of time. “It is a wonderful place to rest, and I began talking with See JENNER FOX on page 21

After a two-year hiatus due to smoke and COVID-19, the annual Art at The Ranch sale will return to Black Butte Ranch (BBR) starting at 4 p.m., July 9, on the deck of the Lodge followed by a silent auction at 5:30 p.m. with beverages and appetizers. The event will be smaller, harkening back to earlier days when artists were friends or family. The Plein Air Painters of Oregon and artists from BBR will return to the show. The works will include oil/ acrylic/watercolor paintings, jewelry, woodworking, and fabric art, as well as small items such as notecards and potholders made by Black Butte Ranch Quilters. Besides scholarships, the Black Butte Art Guild, who sponsor the event, makes donations to the Sisters School District art programs.

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Downtown Sisters 4th Friday Art Stroll 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Galleries and shops feature artists, some demonstrating their techniques, every fourth Friday of the month! For additional information go to sistersartsassociation.org. Hood Avenue Art Exploring Pastel with JoAnn Burgess 3:30 to 6 p.m. Live entertainment with Bob Baker from 5 to 7 p.m. For more info go to hoodavenueart.com. 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. 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. 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 Superball 6 p.m. Summer Sunday Nights at the Saloon. For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to www.sisterssaloon.net. Outdoor Stage at Sisters Depot Music and Spoken Word 5 to 7 p.m. Local artists are invited to share poetry and music. Submit to perform at least one day before. For info go online to www.sistersdepot.com. Outdoor Stage at Sisters Depot Singer-Songwriters on Thursdays 6 to 8:30 p.m. Reservations recommended. For info call 541-904-4660 or go online to www.sistersdepot.com. 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. 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. Outdoor Stage at Sisters Depot Live Music with Pete Kartsounces 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. Events Calendar listings are free to advertisers. Submit items by 5 p.m. Fridays to lisa@nuggetnews.com

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U.S.-based national fellowship program about leadership, professional development, and exposure to Asia. Her job with ICEM combines the technical elements of water-resource engineering with urban policy, and training in water-conflict transformation with diverse international development projects. With COVID keeping her in the U.S., she and Nathan live in Bend and work remotely. “Right now, I’m a project manager working at the intersection of water resources, climate resilience, and disaster risk management. I have projects throughout that realm. I currently have two projects in Mongolia — one’s a disaster risk-management project and one’s focused on water governance — as well as a project in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) looking at disaster risk reduction through watershed management.

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Kelsey hiking with their dog Kiska in Oregon (Iron Mountain, circa 2014). The Luce fellowship is for one year and ended in 2019. I was hired by ICEM and have been an employee ever since,” said Harpham from her home office. Harpham says she has a mixed background that includes an undergraduate degree in urban and environmental policy. She went back to Oregon State University to get a masters in Water Resources Engineering. “This work is a good fit for me because it has some technical aspects to it. It looks at large-scale water management but also how that impacts infrastructure, communities, and agriculture. A lot of my work is at higherlever socioeconomic and sector-level

planning and is providing recommendations from those angles.” For Harpham, water is always at the center of climate change. “It’s often looking at too much or too little water and the impacts on, for example, roads and how flooding and landslides and precipitation events impact transportation. There’s an ethical engineering side of my work with planning, systems. That background allows me to look at a bigger picture. I’m a project manager so I’m mostly coordinating things, encouraging people to talk to each other, and moving things along. I’m not the expert on the projects; I work with immensely talented teams from around the world and

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international experts who have spent entire careers working on these kinds of projects.” Her career has been an extraordinary learning opportunity. “I’m writing emails to people and governments coordinating meetings, workshops; and I learn from all of that,” she said. “When I edit technical reports it’s a huge opportunity to learn, and then do additional research. I’m learning how to coordinate and move things along in challenging circumstances. We’re there to help complete the projects.” Kelsey and Nathan have been on an exciting journey together. “I married my high school sweetheart. We’ll be married for nine years this summer,” said Harpham. “Right now, it’s a funny time to do this interview. Nathan’s been in law for six years. Luce supported me enough for him to come. He could relax and immerse himself in Viet Nam. He volunteered

for a nonprofit that rescues women from China in sex trafficking. Then he began working remotely for his law firm, and in person after we were back in Bend. But recently, he’s decided to take a step back and figure out what the next thing for him will be. We’re in a positive period of transition.” Harpham graduated from Sisters High School in 2007. “I am so proud of and continually inspired by all the people in my class who are doing amazing things and have truly invested in the community here, like Kate Tibbits (Nordquist) becoming a teacher in Bend, and Audrey Tehan and Benji Nagel who are feeding the community, or Kelly and Danny St. Lawrence creating a new community space, and Maren Burck and Laura Campbell giving back through their art and in so many ways. And those are just a few who I was close to in high school. I feel so inspired and privileged to know them and be part of this community where people want to come back and be here. This is always home for Nate and me. It’s the roots and foundation for us.” A favorite childhood memory was growing up with her grandmother, Betty Dyer, picking up all her grandchildren from school every day. Family has been a firm place to stand for Harpham. Like everyone, Harpham had to overcome some obstacles, too. “On the one hand, growing up in a small town like Sisters, people come to perceive you as one person,” she said. “It’s challenging to grow out of that and change. I’ve had to navigate

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the interpreted expectations by other people in my hometown.” Through the sudden and unexpected loss of Nathan’s brother six years ago, Kelsey learned grief and trauma truly change everything. “Part of that is understanding that everybody has a story and everybody has gone through different things in their life that contribute to shaping who they are but may not necessarily be evident from the outset,” she said. “My experience with grief and trauma taught me to find a different level of compassion, kindness, and empathy, which has been applicable to all parts of my life.” In both her professional and personal life, Harpham has integrated what she’s learned into everything she does. “I approach things with enthusiasm and probably too much naiveté – I want to always be learning,” she said. “I try to focus on being more observant and paying attention to little nuances.”

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Harpham’s parents shaped who she’s become more than anything else — first through connections with the Central Oregon landscape. “I grew up going out into the mountains and on the rivers,” she said. “My parents continue to do so much for the community. That’s been an incredible example for me of how to show up in the world; of contributing and connecting to a place and community. They taught me about understanding how communities and cultures are connected to physical landscape, and in this way led me to a career in water through the understanding of how water is such a part of our community and economy in Sisters and Central Oregon.” Harpham says she was impacted by teachers Rand Runco, Brad Tisdel, and Mike Baynes, all of whom deeply shaped her perspective of the world. “I was never in one box — not just an IEE (Interdisciplinary Environmental Expedition) kid or Americana kid or art kid,” she said. “Those three people and so many others in the Sisters Schools community had such a passion for teaching the next generation and exposing their students to so many different things. It’s such an incredible dedication to community and giving back. They shaped the way I move about in the world and I’m incredibly grateful.”

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Kelsey (Newport) Harpham’s childhood in Sisters fostered a love of the outdoors, travel, and an appreciation for the waterways throughout Central Oregon. She’s coalesced her education in the Sisters schools and college into a career that has taken her throughout Asia. She and her husband, Nathan, lived in Hanoi, Viet Nam, where she has been involved in water resources management planning, climate adaption policy, disaster risk reduction, and infrastructure resilience projects in Viet Nam, Nepal, Mongolia, Thailand, Lao PDR, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. Harpham is a water resources engineer and planning specialist. She works for the International Centre for Environmental Management (ICEM). She began her position with ICEM after being chosen for the highly coveted Luce Scholars program. It’s a

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Rough week for the Lady Outlaws By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The girls basketball squad had a rough week with losses in all three of their games. Sisters lost at home 44-30 to Cascade on Tuesday, June 15, and a day later fell 39-35 at home against Woodburn. At home on Friday they lost 28-37 to second-place Stayton. In Tuesday’s action the Outlaws fell behind quickly in the first half due to their numerous turnovers. At the half Sisters trailed 15-28. Coach Carl Click said, “Cascade ran a couple of different pressure defenses that I thought we handled fairly well. After that we threw bad passes, or threw good passes that we didn’t catch and convert on the other end. We were also a little tentative about taking open shots. It just didn’t seem like we went to the basket with confidence and conviction.” In the second half Sisters had less turnovers and played right with the Cougars. They were only outscored by one, 15-16, but couldn’t recover from the first-half deficit. Click was happy with the Outlaws’ defense. “There were several trips down the floor where we held them in check for 30 or 40 seconds with pressure, screen switches, and good team defense,” said Click. “It’s hard work.” Maggie Lutz led the team with nine points, all threepoint shots. Payden Petterson scored seven, and Emma Lutz added four. Gracie Vohs and Juhree Kizziar scored two points each, their first-ever varsity points. The Outlaws as a team had an impressive showing from the free-throw line, going seven for 10. A day later against Woodburn it was a much closer contest, and at the half the Outlaws were only down by one, 14-15. Sisters played a hard third quarter and took a one-point lead as teams headed into the final period. The Outlaws started the fourth quarter very well. Ila Reid hit an inside shot, and Maggie Lutz hit a triple to put the Outlaws up by six with four minutes left in the game. After a time-out the Outlaws had three bad possessions that included two turnovers and a foul. The Bulldogs got a basket, converted a three throw, and then hit a shot from behind the arc to tie the game. See BASKETBALL on page 17

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ponderosa pines and other trees in the area where it was applied. Tree mortality can have a variety of causes, and it is well established that drought is stressing trees across the West. It is not known — yet — if the problem east of town is related to herbicide use or is attributable to other factors. “Some of those trees could have been exposed to the herbicide we were using,” said ODOT spokesman Peter Murphy. “It’s possible that some Perspective is continuing to affect those trees and we have to take a look.” Murphy told The Nugget that the agency “has the same visual evidence that you do.” In order to confirm whether Perspective is a factor in the die-off, the trees will have to

It’s possible that some Perspective is continuing to affect those trees and we have to take a look. — Peter Murphy be analyzed. Murphy said that such an analysis may be conducted this fall. Then ODOT will determine what is to be done about any affected trees. While the 2019 treeremoval project was conducted on lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service, to the east there are a variety of landowners potentially affected. “We’d have to work with those partners and agencies and individuals once we see what we’ve got,” Murphy said. The Oregon Department of Agriculture severely restricted the use of the active chemical in Perspective in the wake of the Highway 20 corridor die-off.

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‘The Barn in Sisters’ taking shape

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Driving or walking past Main Avenue and Fir Street, the super structure of a barnlike building is beginning to show form and resembling a Sisters Country ranch building in the middle of town. Its completion date is the first week of October, just in time for Sisters Folk Festival. By all appearances it looks feasible that the due date can be met. “The Barn in Sisters” as it will be known, is a mixeduse dining and drinking enterprise with an enclosed bar and commissary kitchen. There will be a stage for music planned for weekends. Outside is where most of the action will take place according to Daniel St. Lawrence, who is developing the property. He is also the proprietor of Boone Dog Pizza, one of the food carts at Eurosports Food Cart Garden. While it is not a venue for this year’s Festival, St. Lawrence envisions it as a good location for the annual music event. “We will have a game yard, native-plant landscaping, and four food carts, Boone Dog being one,” St. Lawrence said. The others will be named shortly as lease negotiations are finalized. Seating is slated to be 50 indoor and 150 outdoor. The mostly wood structure with steel support is made from recycled logs reclaimed from a project expansion

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The Barn on the corner of Main Avenue and Fir Street is expected to open the first week of October, housing a game yard, a stage for music performances, and four food carts. at Sisters Eagle Airport. St. Lawrence and his brother salvaged the timber and cut it into lumber for the building and fence. With parking places onstreet and between both sides of Fir Street and Main Avenue, St. Lawrence projects that parking will not be an issue. Many patrons will walk to The Barn, he imagines. Hours will be 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and until 11 p.m. on weekends. There will be an offering of coffee and pastries in the morning hours available from the kitchen. The project was designed

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favor of a single-item ballot with a projected cost of $145,000. Chang said that Commissioner Patti Adair was opposed to the nonpartisan position and likes the way the system currently works. When reached by phone last week, Adair said she didn’t have feelings about the issue one way or another. She later issued this statement: “I feel so fortunate to live in America, where our citizens have the opportunity to make a change in our election process if they consider it worthwhile and necessary.” Chang asked the other two commissioners for a commitment to put a referendum on the May 2022 ballot, but again DeBone and Adair were not supportive. “That is why we are now seeing citizens organizing a signature campaign to get an initiative on the ballot. If we can get it on the ballot, I’m sure it will pass,” Chang told The Nugget. Chang thinks a nonpartisan County Commission would make a difference in the way the board functions. “More pragmatic, moderate, non-ideological people

would run for office, making the Board of Commissioners run differently,” he said. “Currently, we waste a lot of time on ideological, political grandstanding. We need to do our job and make thoughtful decisions. We have a number of challenges and no shortage of work. Because of partisan politics, we are wasting the taxpayers’ money and the community’s time.” The citizen organizers (chief petitioners) worked with Nancy Blankenship, Deschutes County Clerk, and the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office to ensure proper language for the initiative. “Nancy Blankenship was so helpful and always available. She pointed us in the right direction,” Cobb said. Cobb and Alkira made a training video for people who volunteer to collect signatures for the initiative.

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at Fika Sisters Coffeehouse at 201 East Sun Ranch Dr., 8 to 9 a.m., Monday through Saturday, starting this week, to provide the opportunity to sign the petition. So far, Cobb reports they have close to 500 signatures from just eight of the circulators in the last two weeks. To qualify to go on the ballot, the initiative requires 6,751 valid signatures. As many as 20 to 40 percent of signatures can be invalidated, so the petitioners have a goal of collecting 9,500 signatures throughout the county. If the initiative looks to be the only item on the November 2021 ballot, the petitioners will wait for the May 2022 primary election. If the voters approve the initiative, the Board of Commissioners would be required to write an ordinance making the commission positions nonpartisan.

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cross country and track programs in the nation. She describes her high school teams as being “a safe haven,” and says being a good runner became a large part of her personal identity. But things changed with the high intensity of NCAA Division 1 athletics, so she left competitive running and felt quite lost until the opportunity to study abroad in Spain presented itself. It was to become the most significant adventure she had had up to that point. She lived with a family for four months and found the experience life-changing and freeing. “Living in Spain was very humbling and taught me a lot about different ways of life and that the American version isn’t the only true one for me,” she explained. “The Spanish culture is very openminded and they don’t put as much pressure on individual success — your worth isn’t determined by what you succeed in, but rather by the person that you present to the world.” She ultimately navigated this journey of challenges, including depression, and opportunities fairly well. Then, just five days before she was to graduate from NAU in 2018, her cousin Gabe took his own life. The tragic death delivered Falk’s deepest, most significant trauma, just at a pivotal moment in her life.

Since that time, over the past three years, Falk has traveled extensively, taken part in mental health therapy, worked, and journaled. She discovered writing to be very therapeutic. “After discovering my ability to cope with my traumas through writing, I realized my words could possibly be a way of helping others, too,” she explained. “I wanted to find a way to help people in this painful world, but also be able to see the beauty that exists at the same time. Eventually I asked myself, ‘Why not write a book?’” She says her cousin’s death has taught her a lot about living. “Gabe and I were the same age — only three months apart — and we were close growing up,” she said. “His loss was tough for me, as it obviously was on so many other people. He had a very adventurous spirit and he helped me see life as the grand adventure that it’s supposed to be. By writing the book, I wanted to help motivate people to wake up and keep seeking the adventures that are true to them, just like Gabe embodied. I want people to find enriched life through their own adventures and that there is beauty in the midst of pain.” Each section of the book concludes with questions and activities designed to help the reader learn to make the most of their lives by learning to love themselves, learning to live in the present, understanding the power of time, planning adventures, overcoming obstacles, and more. The book appears to be

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon just the beginning for Falk in her pursuit of helping others. “I’m creating worksheets and other exercises for people to use as a continuation from my book,” she said. “Then, the dream would be to create courses and retreats in order to help people overcome their obstacles and to be on their way to achieving their next grand adventure. I hope my experiences as a teacher and travel guide will allow me to combine the two things I’m most passionate about. “Although I emphasize the theme of adventure throughout the book, the underlying purpose is really to expand awareness of mental health issues such as addiction, depression, trauma, and anxiety in our society and to help to destigmatize the way people view it,” she said. “I believe everyone can benefit from therapy of some sort.” Falk is scheduled to read from and sign copies of her book on Friday, June 25 at Thump Roastery located at 549 NW York Dr. #200 in Bend, from 6 to 9 p.m. The book is available in Bend at Dudley’s Bookshop and Cafe and the Austin Mercantile, and in Sisters at Paulina Springs Books and Shibui Spa. The book can also be preordered as an e-book on Amazon.

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The score went back and forth from there. Woodburn scored four points and Reid and Petterson scored baskets for the Outlaws to make it 31-31. The Bulldogs took possession of the ball with 18 seconds left on the clock. Click said, “Instead of our girls sitting back and waiting for them to take a last shot, they chased them around and pressured the ball. In the end, the Bulldogs only got off a weak shot. It was a courageous defensive effort to be aggressive instead of passive in the end, and it got us to overtime.” In overtime, the Outlaws got called for several fouls. The Bulldogs went six-forsix from the line, and added a basket. Emma Lutz went four-for-four for the Outlaws. Down by two with just 18 seconds left on the clock, the Bulldogs stole the ball and ended the Outlaws’ chances. Haleigh Froelich led the Outlaws with nine, Emma Lutz scored seven, and Maddie Lutz and Ila Reid each scored six. Petterson tallied five points, and Gracie

Vohs added two. On Friday the Outlaws were missing two of their starters, and a couple of the younger players stepped in with big contributions. Freshman Juhree Kizziar got a steal and later in the game nailed a three-pointer. Maddie Symonds and Gracie Vohs contributed valuable minutes inside, and both were a part of the Outlaws’ great defensive effort. Symonds scored her first points of the season with a strong post move and a hook shot. Click said, “We played a really strong defensive game against a strong team. We held the Eagles to two points in the final period. I was so happy and proud of the defensive effort. The girls played hard, smart defense and frustrated the other team. A few times their possessions lasted 30 seconds or more because they couldn’t crack us. At halftime we made a goal to keep them under 40 points and we did that. “We didn’t win a game in the final week, but we played three really strong opponents and competed with each of them,” said Click. “It’s a sign of improvement, which is what this season was all about.” The Outlaws finished up the season with a 4-9 record.

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also offer help with marketing and website assistance. Many great community ideas burn out because of all that is required to take the idea through a challenging and costly set of hoops to become a viable, lasting program. Laing describes AFSC as “a launchpad for transforming into actions that enhance the livability for everyone in Sisters Country.” With the support of AFSC, through their activities, action teams initiated by residents help enhance the quality of life for all people who live, work, and play in Sisters Country. Action teams are the reason for AFSC’s existence. Livability of Sisters is a hot topic currently, due to the rapid growth taking place. In the Comprehensive Plan update, Goal 4 has been added, addressing that very topic. Although in 2018 the initial focus of a Sisters group, called the Senior Alliance, was to identify the unmet needs of a rising senior population in the area, the Sisters Country Vision in 2019 articulated a new livability goal for all ages as a strategy for a resilient Sisters. At the same time, AFSC formed to help the City attain World Health Organization recognition in a worldwide effort to improve livability standards for all. The City Council voted to approve the designation and committed to use age-friendly/ livable-community criteria to identify community needs and service gaps and plan an action strategy to address those needs. “Although AARP supports and promotes the agefriendly/livable-community framework in the U.S., the goals of the framework apply to people of all ages and abilities,” pointed out AFSC Vice President Dixie Eckford. “This framework is clearly a model for diversity, equity, and inclusion that is vital for our community.” Over the past two-and-ahalf years, despite the roadblocks set up by the pandemic, AFSC has established a solid foundation on which to grow their efforts. They are incorporated with bylaws and a board of directors, have set up and acquired all the necessary facets of a wellrun business, have received at least a dozen grants to help carry out their mission, and completed a short-term strategic plan for 2021. Collaborations with other community organizations like Citizens4Community, the Ford Family Foundation, Sisters Visioning Process,

Sisters Country website, Oregon AARP, and City Club of Bend have provided valuable community activities and educational opportunities. Their work has been recognized locally, statewide, and nationally with Sisters representatives asked to give presentations before the Oregon AARP Roundtable and as a member of a moderated panel discussion on envisioning better aging for the City Club of Bend. “Through the work of AFSC, Sisters is recognized in Oregon as a leader in this effort and serves as an example to other communities of what can be achieved,” said Eckford. There are currently three citizen-initiated action teams under the AFSC umbrella. The aforementioned STARS has 34 trained drivers to provide Sisters Country residents who need rides with free transportation in Sisters, Bend, and Redmond for non-emergency medical appointments: medical, dental, vision, physical therapy, hearing, lab work, and testing. Services have also been expanded to include some local pickup and delivery of pre-ordered groceries, healthcare products, and prescription refills. Rides are available Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. To schedule rides or deliveries, call STARS dispatch at 541-904-5545 on Tuesday or Thursday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. At least 48-hour advance notice is required. For general information, email stars4ride@gmail.com. STARS drivers are community members who generously donate both time and gas so that Sisters Country residents can get muchneeded help. All volunteers are screened and trained. All drivers continue to follow a CDC-guided health protocol. STARS welcomes new volunteers, who will receive protocol training and a background check. The other two action teams include Tollgate Village, which launched during the pandemic and is currently on hold until the community is able to fully open. Their mission is to provide social activities, interest groups, and resident support among residents of Tollgate. There is also a temporary action team encouraging vaccination against COVID-19. Anyone with an idea for a program or service that will contribute to the livability of Sisters is encouraged to go to the website, www.agefriendly sisters.com, for contact information. They also have a Facebook page, Age Friendly Sisters Country. The website is also where someone can join an already active action team.

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Office space for lease. The Place JEWELRY REPAIR & on Main. 101 Main Ave. in CUSTOM DESIGN Sisters. Three spaces available. Graduate gemologist. Over 45 $575/month and up. Call Ralph years experience. Cash for gold. Metals • 220 S. Ash St. Suite 1 541-390-5187 541-904-0410 CASCADE STORAGE (541) 549-1086 205 Garage & Estate Sales 581 N. Larch – 7-Day Access Huge Moving Sale 5x5 to 12x30 Units Available June 25-26, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 5x5 - 8x15 Climate Control Units 69415 Green Ridge Loop, off On-site Management Camp Polk & Panoramic Estates, MINI STORAGE west of Aspen Lakes Sisters Rental Golf Course. 331 W. Barclay Drive Estate Moving Sale - Sisters 541-549-9631 69221 Panoramic Dr. Sizes 5x5 to 15x30 and outdoor Thur. & Fri., 9-4. Sat., 9-2 RV parking. 7-day access. Vintage books, movie posters, Computerized security gate. vinyl albums, knives, cast iron, Moving boxes & supplies. Sisters Rodeo buckles & pins, antique hutch, home furnishings, clothing, cosplay costumes, small tools, refrigerator & freezer, washer/dryer, art, yard art, patio furniture, holiday decor. Lots more! Classic Car Garages For Lease View pictures at estatesales.net HEATED, lighted, 110 outlet, – Hosted by Happy Trails! – indoor wash, clubhouse, Happy Trails Estate Sales $175 monthly, call/text Jack and online auctions! 541-419-2502. Selling, Downsizing, or Deaths? STORAGE WITH BENEFITS Locally owned & operated by... • 8 x 20 dry box Daiya 541-480-2806 • Fenced yard, RV & trailers Sharie 541-771-1150 • In-town, gated, 24-7 Kris@earthwoodhomes.com 206 Lost & Found Prime Downtown Retail Space Fishing vest with contents lost at Call Lori at 541-549-7132 Three Creeks Lake on Thursday, Cold Springs Commercial June 17. 541-508-1055.

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Junk removal, new home, garage & storage clean-out, construction & yard debris. You Call – We Haul! 541-719-8475. YOU NEED STUFF HAULED? I NEED TO HAUL STUFF! SPECIALIZING IN PROPERTY CLEANUP AND ITEM REMOVAL. CALL THE WORKIN' MAN AT 541-610-2926. MOVING TRUCK FOR HIRE –COMPLETE MOVING, LLC– Sisters' Only Local Moving Co.! Two exp. men with 25+ years comm. moving. Refs! ODOT Lic. Class 1-B • Call 541-678-3332 BOOKKEEPING SERVICE ~ Olivia Spencer ~ Expert Local Bookkeeping! Phone: (541) 241-4907 www.spencerbookkeeping.com ~ WEDDINGS BY KARLY ~ Happy to perform virtual or in-person weddings. Custom Wedding Ceremonies 20+ years • 541-410-4412 revkarly@gmail.com SMALL Engine REPAIR Lawn Mowers, Chainsaws & Trimmers Sisters Rental 301 Vehicles 331 W. Barclay Drive We Buy, Sell, Consign Quality 541-549-9631 Cars, Trucks, SUVs & RVs ~ Authorized service center for Call Jeff at 541-815-7397 Stihl, Honda, Ariens/Gravely, Sisters Car Connection da#3919 Cub Cadet, Briggs & Stratton, SistersCarConnection.com Kohler, Kawasaki Engines GEORGE’S SEPTIC 401 Horses TANK SERVICE “A Well Maintained Septic System Protects the Environment” 541-549-2871 –THE NUGGET–

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Top Knot Tree Care can handle all of your tree needs, from trims to removals. Specializing in tree assessment, hazard tree removal, crown reduction, ladder fuel reduction, lot clearing, ornamental and fruit tree trimming and care. • Locally owned and operated • • Senior and military discounts • • Free assessments • • Great cleanups • • Licensed, Insured and Bonded • Contact Bello @ 541-419-9655, Find us on Facebook and Google CCB#227009 Sisters Tree Care, LLC Preservation, Pruning, Removals & Storm Damage Serving All of Central Oregon Brad Bartholomew ISA Cert. Arborist UT-4454A 503-914-8436 • CCB #218444 4 Brothers Tree Service Sisters' Premier Tree Experts! – TREE REMOVAL & CLEANUP – Native / Non-Native Tree Assessments, Pruning, High-Risk Removals, 24 Hr. Emergency Storm Damage Cleanup, Craning & Stump Grinding, Debris Removal. – FOREST MANAGEMENT – Fire Fuels Reduction - Brush Mowing, Mastication, Tree Thinning, Large & Small Scale Projects! Serving Black Butte Ranch, Camp Sherman & Sisters Area since 2003 ** Free Estimates ** Owner James Hatley & Sons 541-815-2342 4brostrees.com Licensed, Bonded and Insured CCB-215057 TIMBER STAND IMPROVEMENT Tree care and vegetation management Pruning, hazard tree removal, stump grinding, brush mowing, certified arborist consultation, tree risk assessment qualified, wildfire fuels assessment and treatment, grant acquisition, lot clearing, crane services. Nate Goodwin ISA-Cert. Arborist PN-7987A CCB #190496 * 541.771.4825 Online at: www.tsi.services

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Coco Loco Taco Bar & Shave Ice is hiring! Grill cook and line JOHN NITCHER ROBINSON & OWEN cook/finishing positions CONSTRUCTION Heavy Construction, Inc. available. Fun, fast-paced General Contractor All your excavation needs Custom Homes • Additions Complete landscape construction, environment with great pay and Home repair, remodeling and *General excavation fencing, irrigation installation & tips. Team player, attention to Residential Building Projects additions. CCB #101744 *Site Preparation design, pavers/outdoor kitchens, detail, & positive attitude a must. Serving Sisters area since 1976 *Sub-Divisions 541-549-2206 debris cleanups, fertility & water New, separate shave-ice cart will Strictly Quality *Road Building conservation management, be hiring seasonal positions for CCB #16891 • CCB #159020 *Sewer and Water Systems excavation. July & August. Email Mark at 541-549-9764 *Underground Utilities CCB #188594 • LCB #9264 John Pierce cocolocotacobar@gmail.com. *Grading *Snow Removal www.vohslandscaping.com jpierce@bendbroadband.com Holy Kakow is excited to *Sand-Gravel-Rock 541-515-8462 CASCADE GARAGE DOORS relocate our operation to Sisters. Licensed • Bonded • Insured Construction & Renovation Factory Trained Technicians All Landscaping Services Food manufacturer seeking CCB #124327 Custom Residential Projects Since 1983 • CCB #44054 Mowing, Thatching, Hauling... hard-working, detail-oriented (541) 549-1848 All Phases • CCB #148365 541-548-2215 • 541-382-4553 Call Abel Ortega, 541-815-6740. individuals to join our fast-paced 541-420-8448 BANR Enterprises, LLC small team. Must be able to lift SPURGE COCHRAN Earthwork, Utilities, Grading, LAREDO CONSTRUCTION 50 lbs. Competitive starting BUILDER, INC. Hardscape, Rock Walls 541-549-1575 wage. Full time. Mon-Fri. General Contractor Residential & Commercial For ALL Your Residential Health insurance available. Building Distinctive, CCB #165122 • 541-549-6977 Construction Needs Applicants please email Keeping Sisters Country Handcrafted Custom Homes, www.BANR.net CCB #194489 the following items to Beautiful Since 2006 Additions, Remodels Since ’74 www.laredoconstruction.com Full Service Excavation wyatt@holykakow.com: candcnursery@gmail.com A “Hands-On” Builder • Resume Keeping Your Project on Time 541-549-2345 • Reason for applying for this & On Budget • CCB #96016 – All You Need Maintenance – particular position To speak to Spurge personally, Pine needle removal, hauling, • Some general information about call 541-815-0523 mowing, moss removal, edging, yourself and work history. Earthwood Timberframes raking, weeding, pruning, roofs, Free On-site Visit & Estimate Pat Burke LANDSCAPE • Design & construction gutters, pressure washing... 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Repairs • Remodeling Beaver Creek Log Homes LLC Retrofit • New Const • Remodel medical benefits. Employment is available • New Construction 541-390-1206 Consulting, Service & Installs Contact Sheryl, 541-549-1201. immediately. The ideal candidate • Water Heaters beavercreeklog@yahoo.com actionairheatingandcooling.com will have excellent organizational Are you a student out for summer 541-549-4349 Log repairs, log railing, CCB #195556 skills, a strong work ethic, and vacation? I need some help with Residential and Commercial log accent, log siding, etc. 541-549-6464 team orientation, and be quick to home and garden projects, plus Licensed • Bonded • Insured CCB #235303 Insurance & Bond obtain an understanding of the 605 Painting light maintenance. Great pay, CCB #87587 Carl Perry Construction LLC products and materials/ flexible schedule. 541-549-1601. ~ FRONTIER PAINTING ~ Construction • Remodel R&R Plumbing, LLC production processes utilized at Quality Painting, Ext. & Int. 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Maintenance 541-350-3218 J&E Landscaping Maintenance McCARTHY & SONS LLC Clean-ups, raking, mowing, CONSTRUCTION hauling debris, gutters. New Construction, Remodels, Edgar Cortez 541-610-8982 Fine Finish Carpentry jandelspcing15@gmail.com Maybe try a classified ad in 541-420-0487 • CCB #130561 ASPEN TREE LANDSCAPES The Nugget instead. CENIGA'S MASONRY, INC. Property clean ups. We trim Deadline is noon on Monday Brick • Block • Stone • Pavers trees. Take out an old yard and Call Lisa, 541-549-9941 Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each CCB #181448 – 541-350-6068 put in a new one. 541-419-5643. lisa@nuggetnews.com row across, each column down, and each small nine-box www.CenigasMasonry.com

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Brad [Tisdel] about becoming more involved in the festival,” he said. Tisdel, creative director for the Festival, reached out to Fox, asking him to help instruct during summer camps the Festival put on last summer. Fox and a number of local musicians took part in teaching at the youth songwriting camps last year, and Fox got even more ensconced in the Sisters music scene. He met other local musicians Beth Wood and Benji Nagel and began playing music with them. “I got into the scene nicely by meeting others. It’s nice to have music as a way to get to know each other,” he said. Fox had done some teaching and songwriting instruction before, for high school boys in Washington D.C., but really delved deep into instruction last summer. “Now in Sisters I was able to really take a deep dive into teaching, and I love teaching songwriting to young people. You get to peel back the layers of the onion,” he said. “Music lessons can be challenging at times because it is hard to explain how to do something that I take for granted I can do every day.”

Fox finds teaching very rewarding and enjoys doing the work. He finds that he learns even more as he teaches and is able to relearn/reimagine aspects of songwriting and guitar playing when seeing it through the eyes of young people. “It’s really nice to have the opportunity to dig deeper and be able to teach and explain songwriting,” said Fox. Fox started river guiding while studying cognitive science at Yale University, and since graduating has worked on rivers in California, Oregon, British Columbia, Bhutan, and Chile. During the summer season, Fox works as a river guide and does two to three trips a year, usually musicthemed in some way. During the winter months, pre-pandemic, Fox was working in Patagonia, Chile, doing raftguiding work with Bio Bio Expeditions based in Chile. Now that Fox has put roots down in Sisters, this is his home base for the year. “Touring is back in the equation this year, which is awesome, and I will be doing some shows in Colorado and California and parts of Oregon, but my base is now in Sisters,” he said. Fox is putting out his latest record this summer — one that is three years in the making. He is working with a producer in Nashville and will be releasing the

the equation this year, which is awesome... — Jenner Fox first song off the record on July 14. Jenner Fox and Anna Tivel are on the bill for the second summer concert series event put on by the Sisters Folk Festival. Fox has never met Anna Tivel, but has seen her play a number of times. “I’ve seen her play a few times and at one of the camps, Beth Wood performed one of her songs and I really loved it,” said Fox. “I think Brad was really intentional with our pairing for this show,” he said. Fox will be performing with what he calls “the hyper-local band” alongside Beth Wood, Benji Nagel and Aaron Moore. Fox, Nagel and Moore have been playing a few local gigs together as things have begun to open up. “There is so much talent kicking around Sisters and it’s awesome to be a part of it,” said Fox. Jenner Fox (and guests) and Anna Tivel will be playing at the Sisters Folk Festival summer concert event on Saturday, June 26 at 7 p.m. at Sisters Art Works on Adams Avenue. Tickets for the event are

still available for purchase at: https://www.aftontickets. com/SFFJune26/. Tickets are split up by tiers set at different prices based on the distance from the stage. Food, beer, wine, cider and nonalcoholic beverages will be available to purchase. Outside food and drink may not be brought in. Empty water bottles are allowed and there is a free H 2O filling station in the venue. Dogs are not permitted. SFF will be following all Oregon Health Authority public-event guidelines in place at the time of the concert. Currently, masking and social distancing will not be required since the event is outdoors, but SFF is encouraging guests to make use of the ample space on the lawn to spread out, especially those who are not yet fully vaccinated. The first concert event is June 25 with Freddy and Francine and Sierra Ferrell. Other musicians on the bill for the summer concerts include Eilen Jewell and Caleb Klauder & Reeb Williams; Steve Poltz and Madison Cunningham; David Jacobs-Strain and Tony Furtado Trio; The Mother Hips and The Coffis Brothers; Sway Wild and True North; and Making Movies and Raye Zaragoza. For more information visit https://sistersfolk festival.org/sff-presents/.

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Stars over Sisters

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There’s nothing more beautiful than a summer night sky in Sisters. While you’re soaking up the spectacular, starry canopy above, keep an eye out for the snake charmer, er… the snake handler… okay, officially known as Ophiuchus (pronounced of-ee-yoo-kuhs), the Serpent Bearer. This sprawling constellation is the 11th largest in the sky, and ranges from 14 degrees above the celestial equator at its northernmost extent to 30 degrees below at its southern border. While Ophiuchus is big, it’s not particularly bright. Its brightest star, Rasalhague (Arabic for “the head of the serpent collector”), shines at second magnitude, about as bright as Alkaid, the end star in the handle of the Big Dipper. Rasalhague is about 49 light-years from earth. Look for Ophiuchus in the southsoutheast at nightfall. There are many ancient lores and legends connected to Ophiuchus. One of the best known of them asserts that Ophiuchus was Asclepius, son of Apollo, who had healing abilities that could bring people back from the dead. It is said that Asclepius learned this skill after watching a snake bring healing herbs to another. Afraid that he might render all men immortal, Zeus (king of the gods) slew Asclepius with a thunderbolt and placed him among the stars. Ophiuchus is home to the famous Barnard’s Runaway Star. It is a low-mass red dwarf star that astronomer Edward Barnard found and measured in 1916 at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. After the sun and the three components of the Alpha Centauri system, it is the closest star to Earth, a mere 6.1 light-years away. It is also the fastest moving star known, with an annual proper motion of 10.31 arc-seconds. Unfortunately, at a visual magnitude of 9.5, Barnard’s Star is far too dim to be seen by the unaided eye.

• Every morning I treat myself to two pages of Charlie Mackesy’s “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.” So simple. So true. • Having spent all of her five years in a cage, my rescue dog, Bingo, has a definite opinion about her bedding now that she has bedding. Even if I add a new blanket to her digs, she pulls it out and drags it away, making sure she gets down to the plaid flannel sheets off the downstairs bedroom bed. • It appears the fence du jour around here is “clean fill dirt wanted.” The berms formed by this clean fill dirt apparently work for privacy, but weeds always seem to find their way up and out. I, myself, still marvel over my old X=X=X=X=X fences that Vernon and I built back in the late 1980s. • I was lucky enough to vicariously enjoy the graduations of some friends’ kids this spring. Such an exciting time in life. Perfectly said: Jim’s words celebrating Ceili and her generation’s graduation, wishing them, “a spirit of cheerful persistence in the face of adversity.” • Our cribbage club gathered a while back for a sack lunch followed by an afternoon of fifteen-twos. I got

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Lying at a distance of 14,300 light-years, M10 is the brightest star cluster in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Just like many other large constellations, Ophiuchus has its fair share of deep sky objects. In fact, seven of them are Messier objects and all are globular clusters. The biggest and brightest of these is M10, a compact cluster that spans 83 light-years across and lies approximately 14,300 lightyears away. It glows at a magnitude of 6.4. There are also two open star clusters and one planetary nebula for amateurs to glimpse, but no galaxies. At 3:27 p.m. PDT on July 5, the earth will reach aphelion, the point in its orbit when it is farthest from the sun. The two bodies will be separated by 94.5 million miles at that time. While Venus dominates the evening sky, dimmer Mars is there, too, in the twilight. At the beginning of the month, both planets are in Cancer, with Mars in the lead. But the speedier Venus quickly blows by Mars as July progresses, and is well ahead of the Red Planet at month’s end as both cruise into Leo. On July 12 Mars and Venus will be separated by half a degree in the sky. At that time, both planets can be seen together in a telescopic field of view. Saturn is now an evening object, rising around 10 p.m.

local time on July 1. Jupiter is also an evening object, but just barely, rising after 11 p.m. on the first of the month. Early in July is a good time for evening stargazing as a waning moon will be in play. After new moon on July 9, the moon will gradually become more illuminated until the Full Thunder Moon arrives on July 23. Thereafter, a progressively dimming moon will close out the month. Here’s this month’s darksky awareness tip to help fight light pollution here in Sisters: Please consider changing out your cool-colored light bulbs with warmer-colored white and yellow ones. Lights that have a Kelvin rating greater than 2,700 should be replaced with bulbs that are 2,300 Kelvin or lower. Encourage you neighbors to do likewise.

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Wrestling team shines at Districts By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

The Sisters Outlaws wrestling team exceeded expectations with six state qualifiers advancing from the 4A Special District 4 Wrestling Championships held June 12 at La Grande High School. The six moving on to state include Hayden Kunz (132), Wyatt Maffey (145), Carson Brown (152), Jared Miller (160), Henry Rard (220), and Hunter Spor (285). “I couldn’t be more proud of these kids for the way they competed,” said coach Gary Thorson. The top four wrestlers in

each weight class advanced to state. Maffey came through as the district champion and Rard took the runner-up spot, as the highest placers on the team. Kunz and Spor each placed third and Brown and Miller placed fourth. Spor, who entered the meet with a 17-5 record, wrestles in the heavyweight division, which, Thorson explained, includes wrestlers weighing between 221 and 285 pounds. “Hunter weighs in the low 220s, so he often is giving up a lot of weight and his only loss was a 2-1 decision in the semifinals.”

The District Meet normally runs over two days, but due to COVID-19 restrictions everything happened in just one day, meaning that the State qualifiers competed in five separate matches each. “These guys had a long day and it just shows how tough they are,” said Thorson. “Many of them have been working since last summer and it really paid off.” The team placed fourth among the eight represented at Districts. “The team really came together at Districts and bonded even more as a team, which was awesome to see,” said Thorson. “They wrestled

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Wyatt Maffey turned in a first-place performance in the 145-pound weight class in District wrestling competition. at a new level and I think they caught a few teams by surprise. All the hours and hard work they have put in, going all the way back to last

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The Outlaws had a strong showing at Districts. Several wrestlers are ready to compete at State next weekend.

summer, paid off for them.” Now, Thorson wants to see the boys go to the State Meet at Cascade on June 25-26 and keep the momentum going. “I don’t want them just being glad that they are at the State Meet, I am expecting them to give it their all and see what happens,” he said. In a separate meet for girls, Daisy Patterson represented Sisters at the 4A Girls Regional Championships in Cottage Grove on June 18 and took seventh place in her weight class. “Daisy wrestled well,” said Thorson, “and she got to go up against girls from all six of the Oregon classifications who were vying for spots in the Girls State Championships. It was a great opportunity for her and all the girls.”

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