The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLIV No. 35 // 2021-09-08

The Nugget Vol. XLIV No. 36

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REMEMBERING 9.11.01

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Looking back on September 11

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Twenty years have passed since September 11, 2001, when 19 terrorists affiliated with the radical Islamist terror organization al Qaida flew hijacked aircraft into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York and into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Passengers in a fourth

plane attempted to take it back from the hijackers and it plummeted into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Some 2,977 Americans were killed in the attacks, and many others later succumbed to injury or illness sustained on that terrible day.

The United States invaded Afghanistan, from whence the attacks originated, and overthrew the Taliban regime

that had sheltered al Qaida’s leader, Osama bin Laden. In March 2003, the U.S. invaded Iraq.

The march of time has made the events of that September day recede from memory, as the intervening years brought other challenges — a severe recession, deepening political and cultural division, a global pandemic — and the accumulated joys and

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burdens of everyday living.

The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban has brought the global war on terror back into focus in recent weeks, but in large part, America has moved on.

Yet, for some Sisters residents, the events surrounding September 11, 2001, mark major milestones in their lives. Some would fight to stave off the threat of further attacks; some would work to

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heal the wounds and salve the scars left by the attacks. Some have played significant roles in shaping a post-9/11 world.

Their memories remain sharp and strong. In this edition of The Nugget, we tell the stories of several of those local people, and we thank them for sharing their memories of events that shaped the lives of every one of us living here in Sisters today.

ODOT has plans for cinder pit City won’t support shelter funding request

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

The city government is not supporting the local Cold Weather Shelter’s effort to purchase a house in Sisters.

The Sisters City Council will not send a letter of support regarding the Cold Weather Shelter’s request to Deschutes County for $1 million to purchase a building on Tall Fir Court.

A l etter f r om C ity Manager Cory Misley to the Cold Weather Shelter board last week outlined several reasons why “at this time, the City will not provide a letter of support for this specific request.”

Misley wrote, “To our knowledge there has not been outreach to the neighborhood or a broader community conversation regarding a

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permanent shelter in Sisters.

It is critical that we best understand the needs…of our homeless population and in the almost three years I have been here that question is unanswered. Those answers help us to understand what we need versus what we want and the size, form, and arrangement of how it...is provided.”

Misley noted the “successful, right-sized approach” of the local churches hosting the shelter prior to COVID19. He indicated also that the City has “not been involved in the development of this application (to the County) and the thought process behind its specifics.”

The City has a “steadfast commitment to supporting and expanding affordable See SHELTER on page 23

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) wants to store highway maintenance materials at Zimmerman Cinder Pit, which is a popular recreational shooting area west of Sisters.

The Sisters Ranger District is inviting citizens to review and comment on the Zimmerman Cinder Pit Storage project proposal.

Information on how to provide comments and a map of the proposal is available at https://www.fs.usda.gov/ project/?project=60729.

The Zimmerman Cinder Pit is under contract with ODOT. The site has been used as a material source for road building and maintenance material since the 1950s. More recently the Sisters Ranger District has authorized ODOT’s continued use of the site to produce winter traction aggregate — the red cinders that are spread

on Sisters’ roadways.

Deschutes County Road Department and permitted private users have removed cinders at this site for local road improvements and winter traction, as well as landscape and driveway aggregate for many years.

The current project proposal is for ODOT to store various highway maintenance-related materials within the designated project site. Asphalt concrete grindings as well as soil and rock materials would be temporarily stockpiled at the site.

No structures would be constructed, however a loading ramp may need to be located on site. Some areas used would be fenced to protect the stockpile against unauthorized removal of commercially valuable aggregate.

Placement of the storage piles of construction aggregate and ditch-and-slide material would be located to

minimize effects to vehicle traffic and other uses such as recreational shooting in Zimmerman Pit, while still allowing for efficient operation within the site. The map for the proposal shows that what shooters know as the “lower pit” would be used for materials storage and fenced off.

No changes would occur to the current use and management of the main cinder pit.

Submit comments by email to comments-pacific northwest-deschutes-sisters@ usda.gov. Put the name of the project in the subject line of the email. Comments must be submitted as part of an actual email message, or as an attachment in Microsoft Word, rich text format (rtf), or portable document format (pdf) only. Comments submitted to any email See CINDER PIT on page 6

Letters/Weather ............... 2 Sisters Country Birds .........7 Announcements...............10 Obituaries .......................18 Classifieds.................. 19-21 Meetings .......................... 3 Fit for Sisters .................... 8 Entertainment ................. 11 Crossword .......................18 Real Estate .................21-24

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Thoughts on Critical Race Theory

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.

Response to the pandemic

To the Editor: In response to Richard Esterman’s letter of August 11: There is a thorough review of studies supporting the effectiveness of masks in reducing transmission of the COVID-19 virus which was compiled by CDC available on their website CDC.gov. It is titled “Human Studies of Masking and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission” and includes reviews of 16 different studies.

A brief search online led me to this information, so it is readily available to anyone. Now that the delta variant is here we need to return to wearing masks outdoors since people refuse to stay over six feet apart! Standing side-byside, even out in the open air, is simply not

safe. It’s unknown whether cloth masks will prevent the delta from spreading, so I’m going back to N-95s.

The response to the pandemic is a work in progress. The world has not seen a crisis of this magnitude since the Spanish Flu, which was prior to vaccines and only stopped by masking and a (fortunate) decline in potency of the flu virus not fully understood. Meanwhile, there have been 150,000 new cases and 1,000 deaths every day in the last week in August in the U.S., according to the New York Times!

Sharon Booth, M.D.

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Sisters Weather Forecast

Courtesy of the National Weather Service, Pendleton, Oregon

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Big red sun blues…

Air quality in Sisters Country was dire over the weekend, with conditions ranging from unhealthy to hazardous. Outlaws football had to cancel a contest with Burns, and locals were constrained in their outdoor activities. Conditions are expected to slowly improve through the week.

PHOTO BY CEILI CORNELIUS

By Janie Martin Guest Columnist

“Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.”

— Peter Kreeft While studying to receive my MA in counseling, I was introduced to Critical Race Theory the first time through my textbook, which is being used in counseling curriculum throughout the country, “Counseling the Culturally Diverse” (7th ed.); author: Chinese American, Derald Sue and Sue, who served on Bill Clinton’s President’s Advisory Board on Race in 1996. The book was harsh and confrontational to those of white skin. I gained a much-needed understanding of what people of color experience in America’s dominant culture! However, the book leaves people of any other race feeling angry and resentful toward whites. It offers no movement toward understanding, reconciliation, or forgiveness.

Through articles, books, and discussions on CRT I discovered everyone has a life story we must listen to. Some people of color have genuine experiences of injustice and prejudice and have suffered psychologically. I empathize with my kind, law-abiding Black friends’ feelings of oppression when they get stopped several times a year by police asking if it is their car.

I don’t downplay the genuine challenges many people of color face due to hidden stereotypes whites can carry.

On the other hand, I’ve experienced some people of color offended by whites’ apologies when they have worked their hearts out for their good job, saying: “If I hear one more white person apologize I am going to explode.”

A young minority man who got a sought-after position in the university later discovered they were awarding his position only to people of color. He was disappointed! He thought he got it because of his hard work and character — not simply because he was a certain race.

I lived in China for 10 years, starting in the mid1990s. Between the 1960s and late ’70s, China followed Marxist thinking to the core.

Marx observed that the people around him were discontent over who had what.

He saw economic inequities as the source of all societal ills. He understood the rich had privilege and power. If everyone were financially equal, then everyone could

be happy and get along.

Sounds good. The problem was that people would not voluntarily do this, so the Communist Party enforced it, overthrowing the ruling, rich, privileged class. It failed miserably in its goals and it murdered millions.

Everyone had equity now!

They were all equally poor, except the Communist Party, who was now the privileged class oppressing everyone equally.

This was any nation that adopted Marxist philosophy of how to create equity (i.e.: Cambodia, Soviet Union, Vietnam, North Korea). The Chinese today are embarrassed by the cultural revolution, where they took jobs from professionals, doctors, teachers, and sent them to the countryside to experience a peasant’s life. The country underwent famine and many more millions died because of an economic system that does not work.

The founders of BLM (Black Live Matter), strong advocates for CRT, admit they are Marxist-driven — America is experiencing Marx-like, anti-racist training. Shame, intimidation, resentment, and forced confessions across the nation are similar to the “struggle” meetings of the Chinese cultural revolution.

Definitions of CRT found online are soft and truly sound good. But activities which have stemmed from years of the teachings reveal it is no longer merely for lawmakers. It’s throughout universities and flows to k-12 as well (e.g. Tualatin, Beaverton, Tigard).

Good news. We are not beyond reconciliation. We still have time to discover better options, which can bring flourishing to our nation! We must be willing to hear and enter into others’ stories, discover their experiences, and seek to understand and be familiar with cultures other than the dominant one. We must learn to enjoy one another.

Let’s ask ourselves: What are we personally doing with our money, time, and possessions? Can we give time to tutor someone, mentor the broken or oppressed? Can we wisely give money to help others less privileged build their skills, talents, and intellect? Can we be thankful for what we have? Can we respectfully speak when feeling oppressed without accusation or destroying others? Can we keep seeking ideas that work, that promote flourishing and unity in our communities worldwide?

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

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Writers to host acclaimed author for workshop

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Tony Cosby speaking to Ethan Kennedy about the guitar he built in 2018.

Retiring SHS teacher plans

reunion for guitar builders

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Since 2005, Tony Cosby has directed hundreds of Sisters High School students through the detailed process of building their own guitars. As he eases into his last year of teaching the class on his way to full retirement, Cosby has come up with a plan to bring his former students together for a reunion.

A reunion for students from over all the years is scheduled to take place on Sunday, October 17 at the Sisters Artworks building from 4 to 7 p.m.

Cosby sees it as a way

to celebrate the program, the relationships that were formed in the process, and as a perfect way to close out this chapter of his professional life.

According to Cosby, the guitar-building class was created after Cosby met Jayson Bowerman of Breedlove Guitars during a river clean-up activity.

The two started talking and before long the brainstorm became a plan and soon the plan became a reality.

“Both of us think it was our own idea,” said Cosby, laughing. “Seriously, Jayson deserves a ton of credit because without him none of

this would ever have taken hold.”

The Sisters Folk Festival has been a supporter of the program from the outset as well, along with the many adult volunteers who have stepped in to help over the years.

“Sisters turned out to be the perfect community for something like this to happen,” said Cosby. “The enthusiasm, the focus on the arts, the support for experiential learning all came together to make this program what it is today.”

Cosby explained that, See REUNION on page 23

Sisters Writes, a small read-and-critique writing group in Sisters, is sponsoring a craft workshop with acclaimed author, Amanda Skenandore.

Skenandore is known for her ability to create mood and tone using pace, setting, dialogue, syntax, and character. She is the author of three historical fiction novels published by Kensington Books Publishing. “Between Earth and Sky,” her first novel, was named winner of the American Library Association’s reading list award for Best Historical Fiction.

Publisher’s Weekly said, “Skenandore’s intensely

emotional debut reveals the difficulties faced by Native Americans who were torn from their culture to integrate into a white society where they were not accepted...

[Her] deeply introspective and moving novel will appeal to readers of American history, particularly those interested in the dynamics behind the misguided efforts of white people to better the lives of Native Americans by forcing them to adopt white cultural mores.”

The workshop on “Mastering Mood” will be held at Brand 33 Restaurant, Aspen Lakes Golf Club, See WORKSHOP on page 22

Middle school mural embraces community

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Sisters Middle School Principal Tim Roth believes that “when you walk into a building, the walls speak to you about what the people who work there (staff and students) believe and stand for.”

Upon entering the middle school commons, the message is simple, yet impactful.

There, 20-feet up on the wall, to the right of the stage, is a 10-foot-high by 28-foot-long

painted canvas mural emblazoned with the words, “You are loved.”

This summer, middle school art teacher Judy Fuentes worked with a group of approximately 20 middle school students for five afternoons (about 18 hours) to create this message.

They designed and created it, working cooperatively at every phase of the project.

“I am impressed with how See MURAL on page 22

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

Sisters Area Photography Club 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., meeting at Sisters Community Church.

Al-Anon Mon., noon. / Thurs., 10 a.m., 541-549-6157.

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, Sisters Area Woodworkers 541-610-7383.

7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All 1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. 541-639-6216. ages welcome. 541-771-2211.

Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.

Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays, 12:30 p.m., Email: sistersbridge2021@ 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, gmail.com.

Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, 1 to 4 p.m. 541-668-1755.

Sisters Caregiver Support Group Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Citizens4Community, Let’s Talk 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., Village Green Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., Park. 541-771-3258.

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / 3rd Monday, 5:30 to 8 p.m. RSVP at Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., citizens4community.com Sisters Cribbage Club Please call for details. 541-923-1632. noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Military Parents of Sisters Meetings Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., are held quarterly; please call for details. Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.

541-388-9013.

Church. 541-548-0440.

Location information: 541-549-1193.

Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469.

Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870. room. Partner required. 541-595-6236.

Prayer Shawl Group 2nd & 4th Sisters Parent Teacher Community Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Call for 2nd Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. at Sisters For Saturday meeting dates and location: 503-819-1723.

Saloon. 541-480-5994. location, email: steelefly@msn.com.

SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group Central OR Spinners and Weavers & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. Meeting by Zoom.

Guild One Saturday per month, Jan. to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation 541-668-6599. thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217.

District. 541-549-2091.

Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.

Location information: 541-279-1977.

Sisters Aglow Lighthouse Council on Aging of Central Oregon Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., meeting by Sisters Rotary 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, Community Church. 541-480-1843.

Zoom. 503-930-6158.

Noon, Aspen Lakes. 541-760-5645.

BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS

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 Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Spoons Restaurant. 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.

CITY & PARKS Sisters City Council 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall.

541-549-6022.

Sisters Park & Recreation District Board of Directors 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 4:30 p.m., SPRD bldg. 541-549-2091.

Sisters Planning Commission 3rd Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-549-6022.

FIRE & POLICE Black Butte Ranch Police Dept.

Board of Directors Meets monthly.

541-595-2191 for time & date.

Black Butte Ranch RFPD Board of Directors 4th Thursday, 9 a.m., Black Butte Ranch Fire Station. 541-595-2288.

Cloverdale RFPD Board of Directors 3rd Wed., 5:30 p.m., 67433 Cloverdale Rd. 541-548-4815. cloverdalefire.com.

Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday, 5 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 541-549-0771.

Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Drills Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St. 541-549-0771.

This listing is for regular Sisters Country meetings; email information to lisa@nuggetnews.com

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History repeats itself at Clear Lake

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

Clear Lake in neighboring Linn County is a popular recreation site with Sisters Country folk. The 142-acre lake with a maximum depth of 175 feet is one of the clearest and coldest lakes in the Cascades. It is the source of the McKenzie River. The bottom of the lake, one of the premier freshwater diving spots in North America, is a perfectly preserved, ancient forest.

While situated inside the Willamette National Forest, the lake and its resort, trails, boating (non-motorized), camping, and lodging are designated as a Linn County park. A hallmark feature of the lake is its picnic pavilion constructed in 1938 by the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) the Depression-era voluntary public work relief program for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18-25.

During its nine years of operation, three million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a wage of $30 (equivalent to $600 in 2020) per month ($25 of which had to be sent home to their families). Much of the work of the CCC was constructing buildings, trails, foot bridges, and camp sites on federal lands.

One of those projects was the Clear Lake picnic shelter and warming hut constructed entirely of local, natural materials. It is a rustic-style,

humble edifice about 75 feet from the lakeshore with a shaded view.

No doubt, thousands of picnickers, scouts, church and youth groups, and occasional wedding parties have availed themselves of the 1,500-square-foot roofed structure.

The building is typical of the times built with handhewn timber up to 16 inches in diameter. The round logs with interlocking corners weigh up to 1,500 pounds each. Most of the logs have withstood the test of time, but not all. And the hand-split, cedar-shake roof was all but a disaster waiting to happen.

The impressive masonry fireplace was no longer usable, with warning signs posted.

Enter HistoriCorps and Northwest Youth Corps, who are rehabbing the iconic structure to its former grandeur before winter and the snows set in. HistoriCorps is a Colorado-based foundation committed to preserving historic structures on public lands across America.

Vo l u n t e e r s w o r k w i t h HistoriCorps field staff to learn preservation skills and put those skills to work saving historic places that have fallen into disrepair.

“HistoriCorps works to ensure America’s cultural and historical resources exist for generations to come,” said Executive Director Bart Berger.

Northwest Youth Corps (NYC), founded in 1984 and headquartered in Eugene, offers challenging education

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and job-training experiences that help youth and young adults from diverse backgrounds develop the skills they need to lead full and productive lives.

“Our programs stress teamwork, inclusion, and leadership while promoting a solid work ethic and individual achievement. Youth leave NYC knowing that they can overcome obstacles, solve problems, make friends, and attain their objectives in life,” said Executive Director Jeff Parker.

Jason Benson is the onsite project supervisor. He is himself a master carpenter with 20 years’ experience working in public lands. His role might best be described as classroom teacher, showing students traditional building skills using tools more common to the era of original construction. His Youth Corps students appeared eager to learn and demonstrate their newfound skills when The Nugget visited last week.

“This is a typical project for us,” Benson said. “We are removing and replacing about 40 percent of the roof and walls.”

Next week masons will work to restore as much as 20 percent of the all-stone chimney.

When asked what was most satisfying about his work, Benson replied: “I really enjoy engaging with volunteers of all ages and abilities to accomplish a common goal. It’s fun to see the satisfaction on their

Skillfully fabricating…

Brakes • Axles • Ball Joints • Suspension • Shocks • Struts

PHOTO BY BILL BARTLETT

Young workers with HistoriCorps and Northwest Youth Corps are restoring a CCC-built shelter at Clear Lake west of Sisters. faces when they learn how to use a new tool or traditional technique, then use that newfound knowledge to help preserve unique historic structures like the Clear Lake shelter. Everyone goes home feeling good at the end of the week.”

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A tragic new normal on display at the grocery store

By Carol Statton Correspondent

Our world today feels like it is spiraling out of control. Locally, nationally, and worldwide, there are so many things that seem to be elevating to a degree never experienced before. Stress levels are intensifying, and because of that, we are seeing disrespectful and potentially harmful human behavior being triggered.

Last Friday, while waiting at a Safeway deli counter, I witnessed such behavior and it made me understand my own increasing anxiety at a deeper level. This encounter also made me realize that we all need to be the best version of ourselves, no matter what.

Imagine overwhelmed and understaffed employees, trying their very best to do the job that would normally be handled by three times as many people. Employees that have been working like this for months. Trying so hard, despite incredible fatigue. Finding patience when met with myriad of impatient souls. Doing their best even when there isn’t enough supply to meet the

needs.

While I waited in line, I noticed an agitated man approach the counter.

Suddenly, this man started spewing expletives as he looked at some empty bowls within the salad case. The man was interrogating the poor young boy behind the counter as to why the “expletive” there wasn’t a plentiful amount of every choice.

He yelled the “F” word at this boy repeatedly. The boy came around the counter to explain to the man that even the delivery trucks don’t have enough workers and that they just aren’t getting stock. More “F” words — but now they weren’t being directed to the boy, but about the condition of life with all the worthless people in the world.

The boy continued to look up into the face of the man who was towering over him, determined to defuse this hostile situation. He succeeded and the man got his large container of coleslaw and headed off for other parts of the store. The boy just stood there, staring into the great unknown, trying to regain his composure.

This young man came to me next and I could feel the fear he had just pushed through in order to handle the situation. He looked maybe 15 years old (I found out later that he is a very young-looking 20-year-old).

I wanted to give him a hug and tell him this wasn’t representative of the whole world — but I could tell he needed to just focus on fulfilling my order and continue pushing through. I thanked him wholeheartedly, trying to communicate my anguish over what he had just endured.

So much is escalating. The idea of control is evaporating. Stress and fear are building, and even just seeing limited supplies of what we are used to having can trigger an unbalanced response.

That man’s unleashed attack was an example of what can come from feeling vulnerable. His choice of words and lack of selfcontrol were completely out

of line, making others feel uneasy and unsafe. However, a young boy behind the counter kept his calm and did what he felt he should do, and somehow, the situation did not escalate further.

It could have, and knowing that made me feel terrified; terrified that as things continue to spin out of control, more of these encounters will happen. Worse things could happen.

When we as humanity lose sight of our responsibility to one another, we lose sight of decency. Decency means we don’t attack one another. Decency means we respect and value one another, no matter what our differences may be. Decency means we care. We must care — for one another and for the world that we all call our home.

If we run out of potato salad at the deli counter, we must remember that this is not the end of the world. If we treat it as such, we cause untold damage.

I pray for the young boy; pray that he doesn’t let this encounter scare him and make him afraid for tomorrow. I pray for humanity, that we can regain our collective heart and realize that each of us affects the whole. I pray for the ability to find my own way back to believing in the best of humanity, and not giving in to a fear I have never known before.

And as for my own way of trying to right the wrong of another, I went back to Safeway the next morning and relayed all of the details of that experience to the manager, conveying how that young man deserved to be commended for his dedicated and mature efforts.

Sadly, I realized that this had certainly not been an isolated instance, as the manager was not surprised by my report.

This must be the new norm. How tragic that is.

I was assured, however, that the brave young man would be rewarded.

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National Outlaws soccer posts first win of season Forests second goal in the 50th minBy Rongi Yost ute, which loosened up the Wolfpack defense. Husmann change The Outlaws boys soccer shifted a few players around, squad tallied their first win of and one of those shifts the season with a 5-2 home resulted in Vincent Christian mushroom win over Caldera in a non- scoring his first goal of the game on Tuesday, season in the 68th minute. foraging rules conference October 31.

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Beginning this week and continuing into early November the Deschutes, F r e m o n t - Wi n e m a , a n d Willamette National Forests will provide an authorizing letter at no cost to allow for matsutake collection, transport, and sale instead of a paid permit. This interim change to the matsutake permitting process is a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and an effort to maximize social distancing measures to the extent possible.

The Forest Service offices listed below will offer an authorizing letter for matsutake mushroom harvest rather than a permit. Packets with the authorizing letter and the requirements for harvesting the popular mushroom will be placed in the front of the offices.

The public is asked to maintain social distancing while picking up packets. The authorizing letter covers the entire matsutake mushroom season, which goes from September 7 to November 7. The authorizing letter will allow harvesters to gather matsutake mushrooms on the Deschutes, FremontWinema, Umpqua, and Willamette national forests.

Matsutake harvesters will be required to have the following in their possession while harvesting, transporting, and selling matsutake mushrooms: 1. A completed and signed hard-copy version of this Matsutake Collection Authorization Letter.

2. A digital or hard copy version of the 2021 Matsutake Collection Synopsis, included in the packet of information.

3. A digital or hard-copy version of the appropriate harvesting area map (i.e., the map covering the area where the matsutakes are harvested).

The authorizing letter, materials, and maps for the Deschutes National Forest will be available at www. fs.usda.gov/main/deschutes/ home or at Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District, 63095 Deschutes Market Road, Bend, 541-383-5300.

Harvesters need to be aware that dispersed camping is not allowed on the Deschutes National Forest for the purpose of commercial harvest of the mushrooms. Campfires are not allowed anywhere on the Deschutes National Forest.

Sisters started the game a bit sluggish and struggled to find their rhythm.

“I feel like we underestimated the Wolfpack and did not take control of the game early like we are capable of doing,” said Coach Jeff Husmann.

Caldera loaded their defense with five players, which made it tough for Outlaw striker Ricky Huffman to find space.

However, Huffman was able to score Sisters’ first goal in the 18th minute of play. The Wolfpack responded with a goal to make it 1-1 at the half.

Sisters midfielders, juniors Tate Kaczmarek and Aidan Eckert, and sophomore Vincent Christian played a great second half and provided the boost the Outlaws needed.

Husmann told The Nugget the Outlaws have been working hard at developing scoring opportunities as a cohesive unit rather than solo efforts, and that began to play off in the second half.

Huffman scored his

made big contributions.

Sophomore Will Fogarty came into the game as a midfield wing player and made an immediate impact. The scrappy player had a nose for the goal and scored in the 75th minute to make it a 4-1 contest.

Another highlight came from the Christian brothers, who connected on a goal in the final minutes. Vincent made a perfect pass from his holding midfield position to older brother Gavin, who placed it in the goal.

Caldera also scored a goal in the second half, but the Outlaws prevailed by three in a final score of 5-2.

Husmann noted that the defense played much better in the second half, and limited Caldera’s scoring options.

Seniors AJ Scholl, Noah Pittman, and Sean Alvarez all have taken a strong leadership role in commanding the Outlaws defense.

Junior Gus Patton has also developed as a reliable defenseman for the Outlaws, and has earned a starting position.

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The Outlaws recorded a satisfying 5-2 victory over the Caldera Wolfpack in a non-conference match last week.

Sisters is still a little inexperienced in goal. The job of keeper was split between sophomore Austin Dean and junior Taine Martin.

“Austin and Taine are fierce competitors and yet truly support each other in learning the position,” said Husmann.

“Early in the season it is always interesting to see how the identity of the team

evolves and who steps up as leaders on the field,” said Husmann. “We have a strong group of players this year who have been working hard in the preseason. There is a palpable energy to this team.”

The Outlaws were scheduled to play at home against Madras on Tuesday, September 7. They will travel to La Pine on Thursday, two days later.

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Hop Fest run still on

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Despite the sad news that the Sisters Fresh Hop Festival, hosted in part by Three Creeks Brewing and Circle of Friends, is not happening this year, the associated Sisters Hop Fest HalfMarathon and 5k will still be taking place, according to race director Sean Meissner.

Registration is still open for the race, which is set for Saturday, September 25. The event benefits the Sisters High School swim team.

The Sisters Hop Fest HalfMarathon starts and finishes at the Three Creeks Brewing production facility on Barclay Drive in the industrial park at 8 a.m. The course is a single 13.1-mile loop, taking advantage of rural paved and dirt county and forest service roads north of town, according to Meissner.

The 5k course begins at 8:15 on Sun Ranch Drive, just a quarter mile from the halfmarathon start. The course, which Meissner says is actually a tad over 5 kilometers, is mostly flat on a mix of paved and dirt roads.

Meissner, a former Sisters resident now living in Fruita, Colorado, said he was inspired to do a race tied to a brewfest after taking part in a similar event in Durango, Colorado.

“I figured if Durango

could create a super-fun event that includes a good, long run and a brewfest, then Sisters could, too!”

Meissner takes pride in putting together races that don’t cost an arm and a leg.

“I’m sort of turned off by the many overpriced, overhyped events that take place these days,” he said. “We are offering a lot of bang for the buck.”

On the event website Meissner has reminded people to wear masks when not running and to maintain other protocols for safety, including social distancing pre- and post-race.

All finishers receive a “super stylish” Sisters Fresh Hop Festival trucker hat or a “cool” pair of Sisters Hop Fest socks, along with a custom pint glass, according to Meissner.

Registration is open on www.ultrasignup.com.

The Fresh Hop Festival, which benefits Ronald McDonald House Charities, hopes to return next year at full strength. In the past, the event drew more than 20 brewers of fresh-hopped beer, and included music, food, and lots of fun.

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Gliding up- and downstream on the Metolius or Deschutes rivers, the American Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) searches for available fish, which is 99 percent of its diet. When its prey is spotted, the Osprey dives in the water and uses the barbed pads on the bottom of its talons to grip the slippery fish, and carries it headfirst to make it as aerodynamic as possible. An outer toe is reversible to enable it to grasp the fish with two toes forward and two back, which provides a more stable grip in flight.

During breeding season, males will perform an aerial “sky dance.” Clutching a fish or nest material, they hover as much as 600 feet above the nest for up to 10 minutes, with screaming calls, while slowly descending to the nest. One to four creamy to pinkish-cinnamon eggs are laid in a large stick nest and hatch in 36 to 42 days.

Chicks remain in the nest for 50 to 55 days while being fed fish by both parents. Ospreys will nest up to 12 miles from their watery hunting areas. I have observed a number of

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An American Osprey with its catch. nests on the shoulders of Mt. Jefferson.

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Fit For

Sisters Andrew Loscutoff Columnist

Research review: Metabolism and aging S p o i l e r a l e r t ! Yo u r metabolism isn’t getting slower.

If there’s one thing this fitness and nutrition professional has heard time and time again, it’s the common thought that metabolism slows down with age.

A person gets older, and they begin to gain weight, though they are eating less.

They have more body fat, but are busily doing outdoor work and recreational activities like hiking and golfing.

Contrary to popular opinion, new research shows that

our metabolism doesn’t slow down with aging; in fact, it really doesn’t change. This research provides a very good explanation as to why someone is gaining weight, by revealing the true relationship between metabolism and aging.

Metabolism is the rate at which a person’s body burns calories. It’s tied to gender, body composition, organs, and the basic life support of heart, brain, and lungs working tirelessly in the background. It varies from person to person but there’s not as much variability across the board.

These calories account for 50-70 percent of the daily calories a person eats.

Metabolism doesn’t include calories from activity, moving, thinking, or other functions other than basic life support.

A study from Pennington Biomedical featured an international team assessing 6,600 participants ranging from infants to 95-yearolds, from 29 different countries. They studied the average amount of calories people used and controlled for variables. The results: Metabolism remained the same from ages 20-60; thereafter, there is around a 0.7 percent decrease

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Where does this leave the lamenting agers who swear they have a “slow metabolism”? It’s not actually metabolism to blame.

In fact, unless a person is doing exercise to preserve muscle mass, after the age of 40 one begins to decline.

Without this muscle mass, we aren’t requiring as many calories. Also, as we age we’re likely moving about less. A mother, while raising kids, likely did more on her feet than as an empty-nester.

There was once a calorie expenditure that is not present in her current status.

This leaves the aging person with less activity and less muscle mass. If they are eating just as much as always, they will gain body fat. This will be argued with statements like, “I garden, walk the dogs, and clean up all the time.” While this may be true, a person with less muscle mass still needs less calories.

Before giving up to the “metabolism” woes, think of how we really age, and how behavioral change actually drives the mechanism. There is now research to prove this, and it’s all the better reason to begin a diet and exercise overhaul before it gets too dire.

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Oregonians could see record Outlaws corral Cowgirls in volleyball $1.9 billion ‘kicker’ next year By Rongi Yost SALEM (AP) — Oregon could send out a massive $1.9 billion “kicker’’ tax refund next year due to surging income tax receipts.

Oregon Public Broadcasting reports if the projections hold, the refund — which takes the form of credits on 2021 tax returns filed next year — would be Oregon’s largest-ever kicker.

The state’s unique kicker tax law sends money back to taxpayers whenever personal income tax revenues come in at least two percent above initial projections during a twoyear budget cycle.

The new projection was delivered to a joint meeting of state senators and representatives Wed., Aug. 25. In May, economic forecasters had anticipated the state would see a $1.4 billion kicker.

Under the anticipated kicker, the median-income taxpayer would receive a $420 credit on this year’s state taxes. The average taxpayer, with an adjusted gross income of roughly $67,500, would receive $850. Since the kicker is awarded as a percentage of income taxes paid, the top 20 percent of earners stand to receive far more: between $1,600 and $16,880.

The state last hit a record

kicker amount in 2019, the last time the refund was triggered, when more than $1.5 billion flowed back to taxpayers.

Separate from the personal kicker, the economists also expect the State to receive $847 million more in corporate taxes than initially expected. That “corporate kicker’’ will flow to K-12 schools.

“We have more money to invest in pandemic relief, childcare, and housing,’’ Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, said in a statement.

House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, called the forecast “welcome news’’ that could help lawmakers continue to focus on digging out of multiple crises.

Republican leaders, meanwhile, issued cautionary statements.

“Despite a budget that has doubled in 10 years, the State is worse off today for our students’ education, housing prices, and the safety of our communities,’’ said House Minority Leader Christine Drazan, R-Canby. “While it is great for the State that we have an increase in tax revenues, it is not the same thing as real progress for Oregonians.’’

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Monoclonal antibody treatment

To the Editor: Central Oregonians — it is so very important that you are aware we have an excellent treatment for COVID-19 that is extremely effective and may keep those positive COVID-19 patients from needing to use our hospital.

The outpatient therapy, monoclonal antibodies, must be prescribed by your physician. There are several requirements to be eligible, but please, most importantly, ask your doctor.

This outpatient treatment is available through St. Charles, and Summit BMC will have a soft opening for this monoclonal antibodies treatment by October 1.

Deschutes County had over 1,000 positive cases this past week and our health department said the supply chain of this treatment was adequate. You do want to be treated in the first 48 to 72 hours of the diagnosis.

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The Lady Outlaws volleyball squad walked off their home court Saturday, September 4, with a sweep over the Crook County (CC) Cowgirls, and notched their first win of the season.

Sisters had the jitters in the first set and it took them a bit to settle in and play in front of the home crowd. The Outlaws led 23-20 in the first set, but struggled offensively, which allowed the Cowgirls to tie the game 24-24. Sisters was able to finish and beat CC by two, 26-24.

The Outlaws had the momentum as they headed into the second set and tallied another win with a score of 25-17. With each set, they became more comfortable and confident, and held the

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Mia Monaghan dives for a dig in an Outlaws sweep vs Crook County. momentum to the end, topped by a 25-17 win in the third set.

Official stats were not kept, but senior Greta Davis definitely led the offense with her powerful and explosive

attacks. Hannah Fendall did an outstanding job offensively from the setting position.

Sisters was scheduled to match up against Ridgeview at home on Tuesday, Sept. 7.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Back-to-School Bash

Sisters Church of the Nazarene will host a free Back to School Bash September 18 at 5 p.m. The evening activities include a BBQ, fun games, back to school crafts, a family photo booth, and a chance to win a $25 Candy Corral gift card. Bring the family to Sisters Nazarene, 67130 Harrington Loop and kick off the school year together. For questions, call Jason at (575) 791-8356.

Calling All Writers

Sisters Writes, a small read and critique writing group, is sponsoring a craft workshop with acclaimed author, Amanda Skenandore. She is the author of three historical fiction novels. The workshop, “Mastering Mood” will take place at Brand 33 Restaurant, from noon to 3 p.m., September 24. Cost of the workshop is $30 and includes lunch and iced tea, and an autographed copy of Skenandore’s latest book, The Second Life of Mirielle West. Due to Covid restrictions enrollment is limited to ten, including the presenter. We ask that attendees provide proof of vaccination. For information or to register contact Linda Weber at lladd600@gmail. com or 541-350-9947

Sisters Habitat Seeks Board Members

The Sisters Habitat Board of Directors has openings for people passionate about building desperately needed affordable housing. We are seeking a diverse and talented representation of community members. Board terms are three years and start in January 2022.

If interested in serving on the board, email info@sistershabitat. org or call the Habitat office at 541-549-1193 to contact Board President, Ellie Hammond.

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Locust Street Bridge Sewer Line Relocation

City of Sisters contractors are working to move an elevated sewer line under the Locust Street bridge to underground status.

Vehicle drivers, bicyclists, and walkers should anticipate bike & pedestrian lane closure on the west side of the Locust Street Bridge during construction. Work is anticipated to be approximately 50 days. The City is working with River Design Group, HWA Engineering, and Robinson & Owen Heavy Construction to move the above-ground sewer line under the Whychus Creek stream bed. The City and its contractors are actively coordinating with the State of Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality and the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council to take every safety precaution necessary. The project is in part being paid for by a $154,000 FEMA grant.

Rimrock Ranch Restoration Tour

Join the Deschutes Land Trust’s restoration specialist Jason Grant for a tour of the Whychus Creek restoration project at Rimrock Ranch Friday, Sept. 24 from 10 a.m. to noon. Hike along the rim at Rimrock Ranch to a great overlook of the newly restored floodplain and creek. Registration is required.

Per Oregon Health Authority (OHA) guidelines, all participants (regardless of vaccination status) must bring and wear a face mask during the hike. To register and see all requirements regarding OHA face mask guidelines, go to deschuteslandtrust.org/hikes or call 541-330-0017 for more info.

Kids Falling for Nature

Bring the kids and join the Deschutes Land Trust and Mary Yanalcanlin of East Cascades Audubon Society for a fall nature exploration September 18 at noon at 210 NW Irving Ave. Suite 102.! Explore the pine forests of the Metolius Preserve and search for woodpeckers and the obvious signs they leave behind. Discover why birds are harder to find at this time of year and enjoy the fall colors of the changing season.

Perfect for kids ages 4-10 with a grown-up in tow. Registration is required. Per Oregon Health Authority (OHA) guidelines, all participants (regardless of vaccination status) must bring and wear a face mask. To register and see all requirements regarding OHA face mask guidelines, go to deschuteslandtrust.org/hikes or call 541-330-0017 for more info.

Weekly Food Pantry

Wellhouse Church has a weekly food pantry at 222 N. Trinity Way every Thursday at 12:30 p.m. until food has been distributed.

Both drive-through pick-up and shopping-style distribution are available. Call 541-549-4184 for more information.

A free, online diabetes-prevention program, sponsored by Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson County health departments, will begin Tuesday, Sept. 14. Learn to fight pre-diabetes by managing stress, improving your heart health, eating well, and staying motivated!

Participants will meet weekly until July 12, 2022. Space is limited. For information call 541-876-1848 or visit yourhealthcentraloregon.org.

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

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Sisters Transportation and Ride Share (STARS) dispatchers are booking nonemergency medical rides Tuesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rides are based on volunteer driver availability and are provided Monday through Friday beginning at 8 a.m. and ending by 5 p.m. At least 48 hours advance notice is required.

STARS dispatcher number for all rides is 541-904-5545.

Organ Donor Awareness

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

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Pet Food and pet supply pickups from Furry Friends are now one day a week, every Thursday after 12:30 p.m. If you would like to schedule your pickup for free pet food for your dog or cat call the Furry Friends pet food bank at 541-797-4023. Located at 412 E. Main Ave., Ste. 4., behind The Nugget Newspaper office.

Free Nonemergency Medical Rides

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)

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 AND SMOKY CONDITIONS. The family hopes to reschedule in the spring. A gathering for family and friends of Elmer (Moe) Kleinke will take place Sat., Sept.

11, 2 p.m. at the Camp Sherman Community Hall. .

High Desert Chorale Practices & Concert Canceled for 2021

The Sisters High Desert Chorale is canceling their practices and concerts for 2021. For more information contact Connie Gunterman at 541-588-0362.

Sisters salutes...

• Steve Stratos wrote: While the past 18 months have challenged all of us, it has been especially difficult for teachers. With a heart to bless and encourage our teachers for all they have been doing, Sisters Church of the Nazarene teamed up with VAST Church, Sisters Community Church, Wellhouse Church, and Fika Sisters Coffeehouse, to provide each teacher with $10 to local coffee shops, as well as cards of support and encouragement as the school year begins. The Church believes that teachers are some of the most important people in our community, and wanted to make sure they know they are loved and making a difference!

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SISTERS CITY COUNCIL

Mayor Michael Preedin mpreedin@ci.sisters.or.us Council President Nancy Connolly nconnolly@ci.sisters.or.us Councilor Andrea Blum ablum@ci.sisters.or.us Councilor Gary Ross g.ross@ci.sisters.or.us Councilor Jennifer Letz jletz@ci.sisters.or.us Sisters City Hall 520 E. Cascade Ave. PO Box 39 Sisters, OR 97759 541-549-6022

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Senator Lynn Findley District: 30 503-986-1730 900 Court St. NE, S-301 Salem, OR 97301 Sen.LynnFindley@ oregonlegislature.gov www.oregonlegislature.gov/ findley Senator Tim Knopp District: 27 503-986-1727 900 Court St. NE, S-309 Salem, OR 97301 DESCHUTES COUNTY Sen.TimKnopp@ BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS oregonlegislature.gov Commissioner Patti Adair www.oregonlegislature.gov/ Patti.Adair@deschutes.org knopp 541-388-6567 U.S. HOUSE OF Commissioner Phil Chang REPRESENTATIVES Phil.Chang@deschutes.org Cliff Bentz 541-388-6569 Congressional District 2 Commissioner 541-776-4646 Anthony DeBone 14 N. Central Ave., Suite 112 Tony.DeBone@deschutes.org Medford, OR 97501 541-388-6568 www.bentz.house.gov/contact

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Daniel Bonham District: 59 503-986-1459 900 Court St. NE, H-483 Salem, OR 97301

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Central Oregon hosts Seed to Table Farm to host fall tours 9/11 memorial display Through S u n d a y, September 11, there will be a 9-11 Memorial Tribute Display in Prineville. This display features canvas prints, turnout gear, fire hydrants, and thin blue and red lines honoring police and fire personnel who lost their lives 20 years ago in the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City.

Chuck Pore was a Lake County Deputy Sheriff who was deeply moved by the events of September 11, 2001, and felt compelled to create the display. He died in 2016 as he was getting ready to set up the display on the lawn of the Lake County Courthouse. After his passing, the display was gifted to Roland and Mona Glade, longtime friends with Chuck and instrumental in helping set up the tribute in Lakeview. The couple moved to Prineville in 2016 and brought with them the tradition of honoring all who lost their lives in the attack.

“I feel very strongly, as Chuck did, that we never forget what transpired that day and that we pay tribute to all the fallen heroes, as well as

all the innocent people who died,” said Roland Glade. “I was an EMT for 25 years, a firefighter, and I’m a retired fire chief. All those men and women who went into those buildings to save others were my brothers and sisters. With all the events that are currently unfolding in the world, it seems particularly fitting that we stop and honor all those who gave their lives on that day when America was attacked.”

Roland’s wife, Mona Glade, who has also been a firefighter and EMT, added, “All of us who are patriots and love America want to do all we can to make sure we never forget what happened, and that we honor those who lost their lives in that terrible tragedy. At the same time, we also pay honor to all those men and women who have given their lives for our freedom to live under the rights granted to us by the U.S. Constitution.”

Visit 9/11 Memorial Tribute Display at the Rick Steber – MAKERS showroom, located in Prineville at 131 N.E. 5th St. The display is free and open to the public.

Seed to Table Farm is inviting the Sisters community onto the farm for a free fall tour. The once-ayear opportunity is a chance to see beans growing to the ceiling in the greenhouses, walk through fields, and ask questions of the farmers who steward the land to grow nearly 45,000 pounds of produce on just a few acres.

Building community through fresh vegetables is at the heart of the Sisters-based nonprofit, Seed to Table Oregon. Tucked in behind a long row of townhouses, just a short walk from Sisters Elementary School, Seed to Table Farm sits on three acres.

Founded in 2013, the mission of the organization is to increase the health and wellness of the Central Oregon community through providing equitable access to farm-fresh produce and through providing opportunities in farm-based education. Seed to Table envisions

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Seed to Table will show visitors how they manage to grow 45,000 pounds of food on a small acreage in Sisters. a community where people of all races, ages, sexual orientations, genders, abilities, geographies, and socioeconomic statuses have access to fresh produce and farm-based education.

The board and staff are dedicated to growing and providing organic, fresh veggies that are nourishing, locally grown, and reflect the preferences of those we serve. The mission is brought

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Outdoor Stage at Sisters Depot Singer-Songwriters with Jesse Meade 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.

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Outdoor Stage at Sisters Depot Live Music with Tom Bergeron & Friends 6 to 8:30 p.m. $5 cover charge.

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

Sisters Saloon Patio Stage Live Music with The Mostest 6 p.m. For additional information call 541-5497427 or go to www.sisterssaloon.net.

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

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

Sisters Community Church Free Community Concert with The Eagles Tribute Band 6 p.m. on the front lawn.

For information: www.sisterschurch.com or 541-549-1201.

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.

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

Sisters Saloon Patio Stage Live Music with Brian Odell Trio 6 p.m. For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to www.sisterssaloon.net.

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

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

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Oregon Flight for Freedom linked country from sea to shining sea

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Jack McGowan was up early on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, listening to NPR as he does most mornings.

The broadcast faded out and a bulletin announced that a plane had hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York.

McGowan’s first thought was that there had been a terrible accident. Then a second plane hit a second tower — and the world changed.

“You’re rocked back on your heels,” he recalled. “I yelled to [wife] Jan, ‘Oh, my God, Jan — we’ve got a terrorist attack!’”

McGowan had been living in Oregon since 1970, and was serving as co-executive director of the environmental nonprofit SOLV (Stop Oregon Litter and Vandalism). But he was a native New Yorker, and the attack hit home with great force.

“I watched the towers being built,” he recalled.

“Two years before, I took Jan and [son] Travis to see my New York, and we went out to lunch at Windows of the World (the restaurant at the top of the North Tower of the WTC).”

The dark events of September 11, and the wound it inflicted on his country and the city of his birth came down hard on McGowan.

“All of a sudden, I just broke loose,” he said. “I cried and cried and couldn’t stop crying. The initial shock settled into profound grief.”

Flickering in his heart, beneath the grief, was a desire to do… something… a need to take some positive action in the face of tragedy. An opportunity soon presented itself.

Tapping his background in media, the TV station KGW asked McGowan to host local cutaways that were part of a national telethon to support 9/11 relief. At that telethon broadcast, McGowan connected with Sho Dozono, owner of Portland-based Azumano Travel and his wife, Loen.

Loen Dozono had an idea, what McGowan characterizes as “a bold act of perseverance, of looking terrorism in the eye and not blinking.”

Dozono proposed enacting a “reverse Oregon Trail,” bringing Oregonians east to New York to show solidarity and provide an economic shot in the arm for a city that was pummeled, shut down, and reeling. They mulled the possibility of a bus caravan, but that seemed too slow and cumbersome.

“This had to be immediate,” McGowan said.

They had to fly. Planes had been grounded across the nation in the wake of the attack, and no one really knew what was going to happen with air travel in the coming weeks, or what threats civilian airliners might yet face. But they had to fly. And the idea for the Oregon Flight for Freedom was born.

McGowan put every bit of passion and emotion that had washed over him into

helping make it happen. He wasn’t sure he could leave his responsibilities with SOLV to make the trip, but Jan insisted that he had to go. He needed to be “part of something that was larger than just grief.”

He was assigned to an advance team to prepare the ground in New York for what was swiftly becoming an enormous event.

In a 10-year retrospective published in The Oregonian in 2010, Sho Dozono recalled: “A thousand Oregonians responded to our call, from all over Oregon and southwest Washington. There were folks who had never been to New York; some had never flown before. World War II battle veterans joined. Grandparents brought their grandkids.

Whole families flew together.

Roger Hinshaw, president of

Bank of America, took his two children out of school to join us. Mayor Vera Katz had to overcome her fear of flying to lead us. Nick Fish, a New York transplant, used all of his contacts in New York and arranged for a memorial at Union Square to honor the victims. Firefighters; police officers; mayors from Eugene, Hermiston, and other small towns joined the growing number of political leaders.”

The organizers had to weigh the impact of what they were doing.

“The responsibility suddenly weighed so heavily on us,” McGowan recalled.

Was bringing 1,000 Oregonians to New York really the right thing to do?

Was it too much of a burden on a city that was still reeling?

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Oregon Flight for Freedom representatives rang the bell at the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange after the September 11 attacks.

Would they be making the Oregonians a target for a follow-on terrorist attack?

But it quickly became apparent that New York didn’t just welcome the Flight, “they were desperate for it,” McGowan said.

McGowan arrived in New York on October 1, where the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel waived room fees to put the Oregonians up. McGowan helped set up an international press office for the Flight, and liaised with a range of New York officials and media.

Then, he took a bit of time for himself.

“I went down [to lower Manhattan] the next day by myself because I needed to decompress — but I also needed time to mourn,” he said.

The area around what was being called Ground Zero was covered in thick layers of dust, and there was paper everywhere, scattered from thousands of offices in the collapsed Towers. There was a terrible smell of pulverized concrete, burning, and decomposition.

“Below Canal Street, the city had stopped,” McGowan said. “You could feel the oppressive sense on every single thing. People didn’t even look at each other… it was this unbelievable sense of shock and mourning.”

The pall of grief and mourning contrasted with an exuberant welcome for the Oregon delegation. Broadway entertainers performed for them at the Waldorf. The welcome created a very human

Air National Guard patrolled Oregon’s skies

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

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Oregon Flight for Freedom participants marched down Fifth Avenue in the 2001 Columbus Day Parade, a powerful symbol of unity from sea to shining sea in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in New York City.

Jack McGowan of Sisters is front-row center, holding the American flag. roil of mixed emotions — resilience and the desire for joy contending with the somber weight of events.

“There was a certain sense of guilt,” McGowan said.

“You’re not supposed to smile.

But there was such a sense of welcome and sheer relief, I think, that we were there.”

McGowan reckons that the economic impact of a thousand Oregonians was welcome, but just “a drop in the bucket” in an effort to get the city back on its feet.

The real impact of the Flight for Freedom was in knitting the country together, in making a tangible statement of solidarity.

“It was the psychological embrace that told New Yorkers, ‘You’re not alone,’” McGowan said.

A n d N e w Yo r k e r s responded. The entire staff of the Waldorf-Astoria turned out on the steps and the sidewalk to welcome the Oregonians,

waving American flags and cheering. Flight participants were invited to ring the bell at the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange, and were asked to participate in the city’s legendary Columbus Day Parade.

In his Oregonian retrospective, Dozono recalled, “Certainly the highlight of the trip for many was marching down Fifth Avenue in the Columbus Day Parade.

Enthusiastic New Yorkers [yelled] ‘We love you, Oregone.’ We gave the T-shirts off our backs — ‘Oregon Heart NY’ — to our newfound friends along the parade route.”

Oregonians were treated to standing ovations in New York restaurants.

For McGowan, the unity and solidarity on display during the Oregon Flight for Freedom represents a precious moment and an opportunity

to stand upon the best of our ideals, a moment that he fears Americans have allowed to slip away.

“To say that we squandered it, maybe that’s too harsh,” he said. “But we missed it. Without a compass, we wandered into the wilderness that is America today.”

Jack and Jan McGowan have lived in Sisters for more than 14 years now. Jack continues his public service with the Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District Board of Directors.

And no matter how far we’ve wandered in the 20 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, McGowan recalls the Oregon Flight for Freedom with deep emotion and profound gratitude for the opportunity to help bring Americans together.

“I’m still so proud of that,” he said. “I’m so thankful I was part of that.”

Sisters Country artist memorialized fallen of September 11 One of the great challenges in coping with terrible events like the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 is finding a way to appropriately memorialize the fallen.

It fell to Sisters Country artist Lawrence Stoller to help create a memorial to 11 American Express employees who were killed when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed after being struck by planes flown by al Qaida terrorists on that Tuesday morning 20 years ago.

In an article in Lapidary Magazine, Stoller recalled: “Shortly after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, my wife, Sunni, and I pictured a giant crystal installed at Ground Zero. We shared a vision of a monument that would bring badly needed light and healing to our country’s collective wound. Nearly a year later a friend in the

mineral business called from New York. Harvey Siegel, owner of Aurora Minerals, asked if I would be interested in being part of a project to memorialize the 11 employees from American Express who had died in the World Trade Center attacks.

Before my mind could formulate an answer, my heart said, ‘Yes, of course.’ I was humbled by the extraordinary opportunity and the profound honor of being part of such an undertaking…

“The memorial was to consist of an 11-sided pool of water, around which the names of those who had died would be inscribed, one to each side. Behind each name, a five-line description of each person, supplied by family members, would appear etched beneath the surface of the water, with the words ‘September 11, 2001,’ inscribed in the center. The

pool would be mirrored by a matching, 11-sided canopy in the 35-foot ceiling. Both uniting and creating tension between this heaven and earth, an 11-sided crystal suspended by 11 cables would hover two inches above the water, the crystal’s image mirrored in the reflecting pool.

Drops of water would intermittently fall from 11 small holes in the ceiling symbolizing tears for each of those lost; thus the name, Eleven Tears.”

The work was intense and demanding. Looking back on it, Stoller sees how the terrible events of the time, and the effort to appropriately memorialize the fallen, created a sense of unity and solidarity that is often missing from our discourse today. In a note to The Nugget, Stoller reflected on his relationship with his colleague Peter W. Small, a Sisters resident who died in

2010: “Peter W. Small and I had a relationship which stands as a touchstone for me as I watch our country and our world become ever more polarized,” Stoller said. “Peter was an exceptional craftsman, engineer, and metal worker. We joined forces in the late 1990s when I commandeered him to do bronze and metal work to compliment my lapidary and large gem and crystal carvings. When I was commissioned by American Express to do the centerpiece for their Eleven Tears Memorial, they asked how long the project would take. I told them the last large project I did took three years. They said, “you have seven months to get this done,” in honor of those who were lost.

Peter was there to help me with the intricate metal work and engineering of the sculpture. We would work

for hours at a time problemsolving and doing the tedious work of bringing the sculpture to form.

“Our time working was spontaneously laced with humor and observations about what was important in life. But when it came to politics and religion, Peter and I were diametrically opposed.

If we started riffing on either a political or religious topic, we would quickly become embedded in our ingrained, righteous beliefs. While these discussions could get heated, one or the other of us would artfully break the spell of our entrenched positions with a joke, usually at our own expense.

“As staunch as our individual beliefs were, we always surrendered them to the overriding truth that our friendship and creative process were far more real, and important than our well-worn, unbending

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beliefs. I think I can speak for Peter in saying that we both learned and grew from the creativity of our relationship.

Working on the memorial was a symbol and reflection of the destructive power intolerance can proliferate. And that it is incumbent upon each of us to set our own intolerance aside for our own good, and the greater good.”

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A crystal shaped by Sisters Country artist Lawrence Stoller is the centerpiece of the Eleven Tears Memorial, honoring 11 American Express employees killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.

For days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the only planes in the skies over Sisters were the F-15s of the Oregon Air National Guard.

Sisters resident Jim Cunningham was responsible for those planes.

Brigadier General Cunningham didn’t yet live in Sisters full time, but he was visiting his parents at their home in Crossroads when the attacks went down.

“I got a phone call,” he recalled. “You are the only general officer in Oregon right now.’”

Jim’s wife, Dana, drove him to Salem, and he got to work assessing the state of the nation’s air defenses, which are entirely the province of the Air National Guard.

“You don’t know if what’s happening on the East Coast is all of it or not,” he said.

“You don’t know.”

So his pilots had to be ready for anything — another terrorist strike or an opportunistic attack when the U.S. was vulnerable and distracted.

Cunningham was utterly confident in the readiness of the defenses for the Pacific Northwest.

“The two best fighter wings in the U.S. are in this state,” he said. “Portland had 15 of their planes combatready in 15 hours.”

The rest were operational within 24 hours.

“They were the first in the nation to be up and ready,” he said.

Part of Cunningham’s role was to address the media, and to offer reassurance that the skies in the region were protected.

He recalls being struck by the immediate outpouring of patriotism, including in Portland, where noise complaints about military jets were more common than displays of patriotism.

“I was just amazed at the community response the day after,” he said. “Flags went up everywhere.”

Command in the Oregon Air National Guard was a part-time gig, and Cunningham remained a commercial pilot with United Airlines. He recognized that it could easily have been him in the cockpit of one of the doomed airliners. That gave him yet another perspective on readiness. He returned to the civilian cockpit a month after the 9/11 attacks.

“You could cut the atmosphere with a knife,” he said.

United had taken immediate steps to improve security,

PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS

Brigadier General Jim Cunningham of the Oregon Air National Guard was responsible for air defense over the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. He lives in Sisters and has served many local community organizations. including offering Taser training and installing air marshals on flights. Cockpit doors were hardened.

Twenty years down the line, though, Cunningham is dissatisfied with the level of security. He notes that hardened doors are not enough to secure the cockpit. There are still moments of vulnerability, such as when a pilot has to leave the cockpit to use the restroom.

“Most of it has to do with opening and closing that door,” Cunningham said.

“Airport security — that’s like locks: it keeps out the honest people.”

He sees complacency setting in.

“I don’t believe the nation thinks another 9/11 can happen,” he said.

Cunningham is also appalled at the outcome of 20 years of warfare in Afghanistan, where the 9/11 attacks originated. A Vietnam veteran, he is dismayed to see the lessons of that conflict forgotten so quickly, and to see military and political leaders deceiving the American people.

“We haven’t had an exit plan for warfare since World War II,” he said. “National security has become a political issue that divides instead of uniting the nation.”

After his career in the Guard and the airlines, Cunningham has continued to serve his community through organizations from Habitat for Humanity to the Sisters Folk Festival to Kiwanis. He believes in country and community and service — but he worries about the future and the nation’s level of readiness, especially in cybersecurity.

“We’re behind China, we’re behind Russia,” he said, “And the evidence is everywhere.”

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Wednesday, September 8, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Oregon Flight for Freedom linked country from sea to shining sea

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Jack McGowan was up early on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, listening to NPR as he does most mornings.

The broadcast faded out and a bulletin announced that a plane had hit one of the towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York.

McGowan’s first thought was that there had been a terrible accident. Then a second plane hit a second tower — and the world changed.

“You’re rocked back on your heels,” he recalled. “I yelled to [wife] Jan, ‘Oh, my God, Jan — we’ve got a terrorist attack!’”

McGowan had been living in Oregon since 1970, and was serving as co-executive director of the environmental nonprofit SOLV (Stop Oregon Litter and Vandalism). But he was a native New Yorker, and the attack hit home with great force.

“I watched the towers being built,” he recalled.

“Two years before, I took Jan and [son] Travis to see my New York, and we went out to lunch at Windows of the World (the restaurant at the top of the North Tower of the WTC).”

The dark events of September 11, and the wound it inflicted on his country and the city of his birth came down hard on McGowan.

“All of a sudden, I just broke loose,” he said. “I cried and cried and couldn’t stop crying. The initial shock settled into profound grief.”

Flickering in his heart, beneath the grief, was a desire to do… something… a need to take some positive action in the face of tragedy. An opportunity soon presented itself.

Tapping his background in media, the TV station KGW asked McGowan to host local cutaways that were part of a national telethon to support 9/11 relief. At that telethon broadcast, McGowan connected with Sho Dozono, owner of Portland-based Azumano Travel and his wife, Loen.

Loen Dozono had an idea, what McGowan characterizes as “a bold act of perseverance, of looking terrorism in the eye and not blinking.”

Dozono proposed enacting a “reverse Oregon Trail,” bringing Oregonians east to New York to show solidarity and provide an economic shot in the arm for a city that was pummeled, shut down, and reeling. They mulled the possibility of a bus caravan, but that seemed too slow and cumbersome.

“This had to be immediate,” McGowan said.

They had to fly. Planes had been grounded across the nation in the wake of the attack, and no one really knew what was going to happen with air travel in the coming weeks, or what threats civilian airliners might yet face. But they had to fly. And the idea for the Oregon Flight for Freedom was born.

McGowan put every bit of passion and emotion that had washed over him into

helping make it happen. He wasn’t sure he could leave his responsibilities with SOLV to make the trip, but Jan insisted that he had to go. He needed to be “part of something that was larger than just grief.”

He was assigned to an advance team to prepare the ground in New York for what was swiftly becoming an enormous event.

In a 10-year retrospective published in The Oregonian in 2010, Sho Dozono recalled: “A thousand Oregonians responded to our call, from all over Oregon and southwest Washington. There were folks who had never been to New York; some had never flown before. World War II battle veterans joined. Grandparents brought their grandkids.

Whole families flew together.

Roger Hinshaw, president of

Bank of America, took his two children out of school to join us. Mayor Vera Katz had to overcome her fear of flying to lead us. Nick Fish, a New York transplant, used all of his contacts in New York and arranged for a memorial at Union Square to honor the victims. Firefighters; police officers; mayors from Eugene, Hermiston, and other small towns joined the growing number of political leaders.”

The organizers had to weigh the impact of what they were doing.

“The responsibility suddenly weighed so heavily on us,” McGowan recalled.

Was bringing 1,000 Oregonians to New York really the right thing to do?

Was it too much of a burden on a city that was still reeling?

PHOTO PROVIDED

Oregon Flight for Freedom representatives rang the bell at the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange after the September 11 attacks.

Would they be making the Oregonians a target for a follow-on terrorist attack?

But it quickly became apparent that New York didn’t just welcome the Flight, “they were desperate for it,” McGowan said.

McGowan arrived in New York on October 1, where the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel waived room fees to put the Oregonians up. McGowan helped set up an international press office for the Flight, and liaised with a range of New York officials and media.

Then, he took a bit of time for himself.

“I went down [to lower Manhattan] the next day by myself because I needed to decompress — but I also needed time to mourn,” he said.

The area around what was being called Ground Zero was covered in thick layers of dust, and there was paper everywhere, scattered from thousands of offices in the collapsed Towers. There was a terrible smell of pulverized concrete, burning, and decomposition.

“Below Canal Street, the city had stopped,” McGowan said. “You could feel the oppressive sense on every single thing. People didn’t even look at each other… it was this unbelievable sense of shock and mourning.”

The pall of grief and mourning contrasted with an exuberant welcome for the Oregon delegation. Broadway entertainers performed for them at the Waldorf. The welcome created a very human

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Oregon Flight for Freedom participants marched down Fifth Avenue in the 2001 Columbus Day Parade, a powerful symbol of unity from sea to shining sea in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in New York City.

Jack McGowan of Sisters is front-row center, holding the American flag. roil of mixed emotions — resilience and the desire for joy contending with the somber weight of events.

“There was a certain sense of guilt,” McGowan said.

“You’re not supposed to smile.

But there was such a sense of welcome and sheer relief, I think, that we were there.”

McGowan reckons that the economic impact of a thousand Oregonians was welcome, but just “a drop in the bucket” in an effort to get the city back on its feet.

The real impact of the Flight for Freedom was in knitting the country together, in making a tangible statement of solidarity.

“It was the psychological embrace that told New Yorkers, ‘You’re not alone,’” McGowan said.

A n d N e w Yo r k e r s responded. The entire staff of the Waldorf-Astoria turned out on the steps and the sidewalk to welcome the Oregonians,

waving American flags and cheering. Flight participants were invited to ring the bell at the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange, and were asked to participate in the city’s legendary Columbus Day Parade.

In his Oregonian retrospective, Dozono recalled, “Certainly the highlight of the trip for many was marching down Fifth Avenue in the Columbus Day Parade.

Enthusiastic New Yorkers [yelled] ‘We love you, Oregone.’ We gave the T-shirts off our backs — ‘Oregon Heart NY’ — to our newfound friends along the parade route.”

Oregonians were treated to standing ovations in New York restaurants.

For McGowan, the unity and solidarity on display during the Oregon Flight for Freedom represents a precious moment and an opportunity

to stand upon the best of our ideals, a moment that he fears Americans have allowed to slip away.

“To say that we squandered it, maybe that’s too harsh,” he said. “But we missed it. Without a compass, we wandered into the wilderness that is America today.”

Jack and Jan McGowan have lived in Sisters for more than 14 years now. Jack continues his public service with the Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District Board of Directors.

And no matter how far we’ve wandered in the 20 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, McGowan recalls the Oregon Flight for Freedom with deep emotion and profound gratitude for the opportunity to help bring Americans together.

“I’m still so proud of that,” he said. “I’m so thankful I was part of that.”

Sisters Country artist memorialized fallen of September 11 One of the great challenges in coping with terrible events like the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 is finding a way to appropriately memorialize the fallen.

It fell to Sisters Country artist Lawrence Stoller to help create a memorial to 11 American Express employees who were killed when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed after being struck by planes flown by al Qaida terrorists on that Tuesday morning 20 years ago.

In an article in Lapidary Magazine, Stoller recalled: “Shortly after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, my wife, Sunni, and I pictured a giant crystal installed at Ground Zero. We shared a vision of a monument that would bring badly needed light and healing to our country’s collective wound. Nearly a year later a friend in the

mineral business called from New York. Harvey Siegel, owner of Aurora Minerals, asked if I would be interested in being part of a project to memorialize the 11 employees from American Express who had died in the World Trade Center attacks.

Before my mind could formulate an answer, my heart said, ‘Yes, of course.’ I was humbled by the extraordinary opportunity and the profound honor of being part of such an undertaking…

“The memorial was to consist of an 11-sided pool of water, around which the names of those who had died would be inscribed, one to each side. Behind each name, a five-line description of each person, supplied by family members, would appear etched beneath the surface of the water, with the words ‘September 11, 2001,’ inscribed in the center. The

pool would be mirrored by a matching, 11-sided canopy in the 35-foot ceiling. Both uniting and creating tension between this heaven and earth, an 11-sided crystal suspended by 11 cables would hover two inches above the water, the crystal’s image mirrored in the reflecting pool.

Drops of water would intermittently fall from 11 small holes in the ceiling symbolizing tears for each of those lost; thus the name, Eleven Tears.”

The work was intense and demanding. Looking back on it, Stoller sees how the terrible events of the time, and the effort to appropriately memorialize the fallen, created a sense of unity and solidarity that is often missing from our discourse today. In a note to The Nugget, Stoller reflected on his relationship with his colleague Peter W. Small, a Sisters resident who died in

2010: “Peter W. Small and I had a relationship which stands as a touchstone for me as I watch our country and our world become ever more polarized,” Stoller said. “Peter was an exceptional craftsman, engineer, and metal worker. We joined forces in the late 1990s when I commandeered him to do bronze and metal work to compliment my lapidary and large gem and crystal carvings. When I was commissioned by American Express to do the centerpiece for their Eleven Tears Memorial, they asked how long the project would take. I told them the last large project I did took three years. They said, “you have seven months to get this done,” in honor of those who were lost.

Peter was there to help me with the intricate metal work and engineering of the sculpture. We would work

for hours at a time problemsolving and doing the tedious work of bringing the sculpture to form.

“Our time working was spontaneously laced with humor and observations about what was important in life. But when it came to politics and religion, Peter and I were diametrically opposed.

If we started riffing on either a political or religious topic, we would quickly become embedded in our ingrained, righteous beliefs. While these discussions could get heated, one or the other of us would artfully break the spell of our entrenched positions with a joke, usually at our own expense.

“As staunch as our individual beliefs were, we always surrendered them to the overriding truth that our friendship and creative process were far more real, and important than our well-worn, unbending

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beliefs. I think I can speak for Peter in saying that we both learned and grew from the creativity of our relationship.

Working on the memorial was a symbol and reflection of the destructive power intolerance can proliferate. And that it is incumbent upon each of us to set our own intolerance aside for our own good, and the greater good.”

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A crystal shaped by Sisters Country artist Lawrence Stoller is the centerpiece of the Eleven Tears Memorial, honoring 11 American Express employees killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.

For days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the only planes in the skies over Sisters were the F-15s of the Oregon Air National Guard.

Sisters resident Jim Cunningham was responsible for those planes.

Brigadier General Cunningham didn’t yet live in Sisters full time, but he was visiting his parents at their home in Crossroads when the attacks went down.

“I got a phone call,” he recalled. “You are the only general officer in Oregon right now.’”

Jim’s wife, Dana, drove him to Salem, and he got to work assessing the state of the nation’s air defenses, which are entirely the province of the Air National Guard.

“You don’t know if what’s happening on the East Coast is all of it or not,” he said.

“You don’t know.”

So his pilots had to be ready for anything — another terrorist strike or an opportunistic attack when the U.S. was vulnerable and distracted.

Cunningham was utterly confident in the readiness of the defenses for the Pacific Northwest.

“The two best fighter wings in the U.S. are in this state,” he said. “Portland had 15 of their planes combatready in 15 hours.”

The rest were operational within 24 hours.

“They were the first in the nation to be up and ready,” he said.

Part of Cunningham’s role was to address the media, and to offer reassurance that the skies in the region were protected.

He recalls being struck by the immediate outpouring of patriotism, including in Portland, where noise complaints about military jets were more common than displays of patriotism.

“I was just amazed at the community response the day after,” he said. “Flags went up everywhere.”

Command in the Oregon Air National Guard was a part-time gig, and Cunningham remained a commercial pilot with United Airlines. He recognized that it could easily have been him in the cockpit of one of the doomed airliners. That gave him yet another perspective on readiness. He returned to the civilian cockpit a month after the 9/11 attacks.

“You could cut the atmosphere with a knife,” he said.

United had taken immediate steps to improve security,

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Brigadier General Jim Cunningham of the Oregon Air National Guard was responsible for air defense over the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. He lives in Sisters and has served many local community organizations. including offering Taser training and installing air marshals on flights. Cockpit doors were hardened.

Twenty years down the line, though, Cunningham is dissatisfied with the level of security. He notes that hardened doors are not enough to secure the cockpit. There are still moments of vulnerability, such as when a pilot has to leave the cockpit to use the restroom.

“Most of it has to do with opening and closing that door,” Cunningham said.

“Airport security — that’s like locks: it keeps out the honest people.”

He sees complacency setting in.

“I don’t believe the nation thinks another 9/11 can happen,” he said.

Cunningham is also appalled at the outcome of 20 years of warfare in Afghanistan, where the 9/11 attacks originated. A Vietnam veteran, he is dismayed to see the lessons of that conflict forgotten so quickly, and to see military and political leaders deceiving the American people.

“We haven’t had an exit plan for warfare since World War II,” he said. “National security has become a political issue that divides instead of uniting the nation.”

After his career in the Guard and the airlines, Cunningham has continued to serve his community through organizations from Habitat for Humanity to the Sisters Folk Festival to Kiwanis. He believes in country and community and service — but he worries about the future and the nation’s level of readiness, especially in cybersecurity.

“We’re behind China, we’re behind Russia,” he said, “And the evidence is everywhere.”

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Supporting the fire service in wake of Sept. 11

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

T h e S e p t e m b e r 11 , 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of a plane into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, took the lives of 2,977 people — Americans and international citizens from all walks of life.

No single group took a heavier hit than the firefighters who responded to the World Trade Center. A total of 343 firefighters were killed when the towers collapsed, firefighters of all ranks, most of them from an elite cadre of highly trained rescue teams.

In the wake of the attacks, five fire chiefs from across America were tapped to help the devastated New York City Fire Department (FDNY) recover from its losses. Among them was Jeff Johnson, who is now CEO of the Western Fire Chiefs Association and principal of Sisters Meat & Smokehouse.

In 2001, Johnson was chief of Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue.

“I was driving in to work and listening to the radio when it happened,” he recalled. “I called [wife] Kay and said, ‘Get the kids up and turn on the TV.’” He suspected “bad actors,” and the second plane hitting the second tower of the World Trade Center confirmed it.

America was under attack — and Johnson had work to do.

Even in a fire district remote from New York City, the immediate response was to prepare.

“We didn’t know how extensive this was going to be,” Johnson said.

Even if there were no follow-on attacks elsewhere in the nation, Johnson knew that departments like his were going to be affected. Many of his personnel were serving in the National Guard and would likely be called up as part of a national response, which would mean changes for his crew.

“No matter what, we had work to do and needed to get going,” Johnson recalled.

The chief and his firefighters were well aware that their brothers in the service were in mortal danger from the attacks. The planes that impacted the towers had exploded, and intense fires were burning. The world watched as smoke billowed from the towers into the blue New York sky.

“I knew when the first building came down that there were a lot of firefighters in there,” Johnson said.

“Because, where else would they be?”

Johnson well understood what the firefighters in New

York were facing.

Command decisions were acutely fraught, and the logistics of a rescue effort daunting.

“Do you keep your people out or do you send them in?”

Johnson said.

As fire chiefs set up command posts, bodies began falling from the sky as people jumped to their death to escape the flames and smoke engulfing the top floors of the towers. With 911 operators telling frantic callers in the towers to stay in place and await rescue, firefighters simply had to go in. And they had to climb, because elevators were either inoperable or unsafe to use.

“You knew it was going to be harder than it seemed,” Johnson said. “Just think of the fitness required for those guys.”

Johnson was not in the least surprised that hundreds of firefighters shouldered the load and climbed straight up into mortal danger.

“When you’re faced with that moment, there’s not a lot of contemplation or philosophy and theology of what you’re doing,” he said.

“You’re not going toward that building and turning your back on the four guys you’ve worked with your whole career. Your attitude is, you win together and you lose together, and whatever happens, happens to all of us.”

What happened was as bad as it gets. The towers collapsed, with hundreds of firefighters inside still trying to get to trapped people and get them down the stairs and out.

“The pancake collapse made perfect sense,” Johnson said. “We’re trained to understand that.”

It took days to tally the toll, and weeks and months to come to terms with it.

In late October, Johnson received a call from the U.S. Fire Administration asking him to travel to New York City as part of a team helping the fire department address the strategic considerations that had developed in the wake of a devastating loss of personnel. Recovery teams were still finding bodies of firefighters in the rubble of Ground Zero, and the department was in the midst of months of funerals and memorials.

Tom Von Essen was FDNY Commissioner of the City of New York on September 11, 2001. He and Johnson remain friends. Von Essen told The Nugget that the help from Johnson and his colleagues was deeply appreciated.

“They were so valuable to us, because most of our guys were just an emotional wreck at the time,” he said. “All they wanted to do was go to the site and dig.”

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The New York City Fire Department presented Jeff Johnson with a leather fire chief’s helmet signed by New York City public officials as a token of their appreciation for his post-9/11 work in helping to restore their department. Johnson’s crew at Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue built a display case to house the helmet.

From a strategic perspective, the challenge the department faced was not simply replacing lost personnel.

“Replacing the experience we lost was the hard part,” Von Essen said.

Johnson noted that most of the firefighters who perished were “the special forces, those were the rescue teams.”

Command personnel who came up through the ranks and were lost carried a unique depth of experience.

According to Von Essen, the years 1965-75 were the busiest in the history of the FDNY. “Anybody who was around at that time had an enormous amount of experience nobody will ever have again,” he said.

Johnson’s team was tasked with helping to come up with a plan to get personnel recruited and trained and out on the street quickly. Many firefighters were promoted into higher ranks and greater responsibility.

Promotion is usually a celebratory time in the fire service, but Von Essen recalled that this one was wrenching.

“It was not a happy time; there was no way to make it a happy time,” he said. “That promotion ceremony was a nightmare, looking back on it.”

Von Essen was awash in a sea of grief. He was fully engaged with the operational work of getting his department back into shape, which he described as a challenge that was “everything a leader wants to do.”

But that work was overshadowed by his duty to preside over dozens of funerals and memorials. He was the right man for the job, because he loved his people and knew the job inside out — but it was very tough duty.

“The grief was something I wouldn’t wish on anybody,” he said. “It really was the hardest thing I’ve done in my life.”

Johnson recalled seeing massive impromptu memorials created by New Yorkers in front of every fire station.

He noted that the fire service is “a family business,” and some families had lost multiple members on September 11. The wreckage of fire apparatus was stark testament to the maelstrom that had taken those lives.

“There were holes in the sides of fire trucks that you could put your head in,” Johnson said.

Communications had been disastrously flawed on September 11, 2001, and Johnson would go on to work for years with legislators to fulfill a 9/11 Commission recommendation that firstresponder public safety communications be overhauled.

“Now public safety has its own broadband network,” he said. “That’s what you now know as FirstNet.” The legacy of 9/11 includes a much deeper appreciation for the “service over self” ethic of fire fighters.

“People treated firefighters differently after 9/11,” Johnson said.

He sees firefighters as “ordinary people with a very strong sense of mission and an unbelievable level of loyalty.”

In a public speaking career that takes him around the world, Johnson says he often reminds audiences of what the 343 firefighters who died on September 11, 2001, represent.

“I remind them of the sacrifice of those 343 and how every single one of us in one way or another has been a beneficiary of their sacrifice.”

“There, on my left in a small grove of trees, I recall finding three dead Iraqi Special Republican Guard soldiers. They had been killed during the fight for Saddam International Airport. They had died hard, their corpses swiftly decaying in the 130-degree heat.

Their bodies had been overlooked during the battlefield clean-up still underway. I’d located them by the ancient aroma of Death. I reported where their remains were to be found and taken away for burial. Regardless of ideology or cause, they’d been soldiers and they’d fought hard. They were due the honor and respect of those they’d fought against.”

— “Special Forces soldier from Astoria reveals how freedom has a cost,” SFC Greg Walker, May 8, 2003, Daily Astorian.

Civilized men sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

– George Orwell On September 11, 2001, I and 81 other “Green Berets” from Company A, 1/19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), filtered in and out of our temporary orderly room at Fort Polk, Louisiana. We were grimly watching CNN as the Twin Towers were being hit and beginning to collapse.

I called my wife, Carol, and asked if she was watching what we were.

“Yes,” she replied quietly. “You guys are going, aren’t you?”

“Yes,” I replied.

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Major Greg Allen — one of the finest officers I have served with.

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Dark days of September 2001 set a path to Central Oregon

By Vicki Curlett Guest Columnist

Long before my coming to The Nugget, I had my own business in strategic meeting, incentive, and special events planning, working mostly with corporations and midsize businesses.

For nine months prior to September 11, 2001, I was at work on a custom-designed incentive trip for a client in Michigan that was taking 200 people on a trip rewarding them for their sales efforts with his distributorship. The destination for that group was Santa Fe, New Mexico.

I’d made several trips out to New Mexico as I planned the trip, and then a few days prior to the scheduled arrival of the group, I flew out and settled in on-site with preparations for their arrivals, flights in from Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Fortunately, there were no flight delays and everyone was put on charter bus transportation from Albuquerque as they arrived.

We opened the trip that night with a Native American feast high up in the mountains. I had worked with the hotel chef on a special menu.

And after dinner, I’d arranged for live eagle handlers to fly them around the perimeter of where the group was and then perch them so guests could get a closer look. After dinner, we did a roaring fire with Native American storytellers and dancers. It was a great opening for the trip, as I was always known for my original ideas and activities.

Two days into the trip, I was up early before checking on breakfast arrangements and turned on the TV to see planes flying into the Twin Towers. Meeting and incentive planners are trained in crisis management but there was no way anyone could anticipate an event of this magnitude or what was to follow. I rushed downstairs

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The panic and uncertainty, with each guest walking into the suite, was evident. As the day wore on, and I tried to keep the group on track with the tours activities we had planned, and their anxiety levels down, it was obvious I was going to have to make some major modifications to the trip originally planned for seven days. All flights were grounded nationwide, people around the country who were traveling by car had to find a hotel and stay put, and emergency management efforts were in full swing as officials tried to determine whether this was just the first of other attacks.

For starters, some guests were National Guard and indicated they would have to get back home as quickly as possible in case they were called up for duty. Others just thought the world was going to end and wanted to rent cars to drive cross-country for fear of never seeing their children and families again. I advised against it, noting they might not find hotels or food or other necessary services,

depending on the outcome.

Interesting how people react in times of crisis.

I called a meeting of the entire group and indicated we would need to prioritize getting those like National Guard back as quickly as possible, asking other guests to remain for the duration of the trip if they could and be patient as I tried to get airline seats as they became available. For some it would mean extending their stay depending on where their hometown airport was. With all flights grounded, I was up all night most nights with airline agents trying to change tickets and get a seat or two on any given flight when it became available. When you have to do that with 200 seats it is a monumental task!

Others needed rental cars or vans to drive out, but at a steep price the rental companies were charging.

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WORTH IT?: Recent events have impacted veterans Continued from page 14

Battalion and 1st Special Forces Group at Fort Lewis, Washington. He is one of the very few who make the cut for DELTA, our premier counter-terrorist unit. Allen told us that evening that the powers-that-be were looking at our company moving directly to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, with possible deployment to Afghanistan.

A year later, in 2002, we deployed to Kuwait in the knowledge we would become “boots on the ground” in Iraq.

Once he’d launched our operational detachments Major Allen headed into Iraq by vehicle, where he participated in the liberation of several Iraqi towns and later in the rescue of PFC Jessica Lynch.

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– Sheriff Les Stile, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, April 18, 2002 Putting our lives on hold As we continued to train and prepare for war, I’d interviewed with Sheriff Stiles and his staff for the open sergeant’s position with the agency’s search and rescue capability. I’d shared with him our unit’s upcoming deployment projection and that I would be part of that deployment. Carol and I were looking forward to returning to Central Oregon when the towers came down. Stiles needed the position filled – I could not in good faith accept his offer of employment at that time. Sheriff Stiles understood. He is a former Green Beret himself.

It wouldn’t be until late 2004, after multiple deployments to Iraq and Malaysia in support of the global war on terrorism, that I would join the Sheriff’s Office.

In 2005, I would honorably retire from the U.S.

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Company A, 1/19th Special Forces ramping up for war in Kuwait 2002. Operation Iraqi Freedom was the author’s (kneeling third from the left, front row) second U.S. wartime campaign.

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In 2006, I would medically retire from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office due to my serviceconnected wounds and injuries incurred over 24 years of honorable service to our great nation.

I was a lucky one. We’d left men in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan since our deployments. Killed in Action. Others like myself had been injured, wounded, or made ill. After three intense years of care, treatment, and rehabilitation I would be blessed to transition from a law enforcement career to that of a Warrior Care case manager — first for the U.S. Special Operations Command where I worked with our most seriously wounded, injured, or ill warfighters and their families, and then in the private sector with conventional force and our veteran populations.

Was it worth it?

Even as I write this, Afghanistan has been abandoned by the President of the United States, Joe Biden.

Iraq is, likewise, a shattered country in great part due to the very poor political leadership of the Bush, then Obama, then Trump, and now the Biden administrations.

And our country is once again facing a resurgence of global terrorism, newly inspired by these incredibly poor decisions that will haunt us and the rest of the free world for decades to come.

Just prior to coming home from Iraq in May 2003 I wrote, in part, this for our local paper, the Daily Astorian, where we lived at the time: “The time has come for me – As the plane gathered

speed and headed down the darkened runway, I offered a brief prayer of thanks for our safety during the past year. We’d come over here together, gone our separate ways and done our separate missions, then come back together to enjoy the liberation of a nation from under the twin heels of torture and tyranny.

“I’d made great new friends and been privileged to serve with men [and women] – not only professional soldiers in the most elite units in the world, but with citizensoldiers who’d put their lives and families on hold and were now preparing to pick up where they’d left off when we’d watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center fall under the weight of terrorist attack.

“We knew we’d be going to war even then…and now we were coming home after delivering justice to many of those responsible for that singular act of mass murder.

“The plane lifted free from the ground and Iraq slipped away from beneath us. I shifted back in my seat, closed my eyes, and relaxed for the first time in days. It was good to be an “old guy,” good to be among friends and comrades, good to be alive and well, and especially good to be on the first leg of an 8,000-mile journey home.”

Was it worth it?

As I was given the opportunity to draft, staff, and then supervise the execution of the Friendly Forces Combat Identification System (CIS) for the U.S./Coalition, Special Operations, and other government agencies — a system officially identified as having been “a huge success during Operation Iraqi Freedom, saving thousands

of lives from possible blueon-blue fratricide situations” — then yes. It was worth it.

After becoming re-abled to enter the workforce in 2009 and in a role to provide care, treatment, and renewed hope to my fellow warfighters and their families, efforts described in part by Colonel (Ret.) David Heintz, my

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Greg Walker (Ret.) served with the 10th, 7th, USASFC, and 19th Special Forces Groups (Airborne). He is a veteran of the war in El Salvador and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He is a life member of the Special Operations Association and Special Forces Association.

His awards and decorations include the Combat Infantryman Badge (X2), the Special Forces Tab, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (X2), the Meritorious Service Medal (X3), the Joint Meritorious Unit Award (El Salvador), the Iraq Campaign and Global War on Terrorism medals, and the Washington National Guard Legion of Merit.

A DoD trained and certified Warrior Care case manager with the U.S. SOCOM Warrior Care program (2009-2013) Walker advocated for the most seriously wounded, injured, or made ill Special Operations Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen serving during the global war on terrorism.

He is the author of “At the Hurricane’s Eye – U.S. Special Operations Forces from Vietnam to Desert Storm” (Ivy Books, 1994), among other literary contributions to U.S. SOF history.

Today, Greg lives and writes from his home in Sisters, along with his service pup, Tommy.

employer during this period, noting “[his] unsurpassed level of compassion and commitment for this mission. His actions were directly responsible for the enhanced recovery of countless Wounded Warriors,” — then yes.

It was worth it.

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By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service

Andrew Thomas Niebergall, Jr. May 12, 1932 — August 17, 2021

On August 17, Tom joined his beloved wife, Molly, in Heaven. Tom was the only child to Andrew Thomas Niebergall, Sr. and Violet Veronica Kelsey of Bend.

His happy childhood included his love of playing sports, especially football. Tom enjoyed hiking and camping in the Central Oregon mountains. He participated in the Boy Scouts, where he eventually earned the rank of Eagle Scout and three Palms. Tom graduated from Bend High School in 1950.

He attended Oregon State College (now OSU), where he majored in business administration.

Demonstrating his leadership skills, Tom became student body vice president, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, and earned national honors before graduating in 1954. During his sophomore year, he met the love of his life, Molly O’Connor. Soon after graduation, Tom and Molly married and began their journey. This journey was a true love story of a devoted marriage which endured the next 66 years, before Molly preceded him in death in February this year.

They spent their first eight years together with Tom serving in the U.S. Air Force; throughout these years, they traveled 17,248 miles and moved 11 times!

During this time, Bridget was born in Tampa, Florida, and two years later Tom was born in Fairbanks, Alaska.

They then moved to Seattle, Washington where Tom completed his master’s in business at the University of Washington while flipping burgers during the night shift at Dick’s Drive-In. The growing family moved to Salem, Oregon, a n d To m e n r o l l e d a t Willamette Law School, and Molly babysat during the day and worked nights filing at a local bank. Their third child, John, was born here.

Upon completion of Tom’s law degree, they moved to Lake Oswego and built a home, where they welcomed Pete, their youngest son. Here, Tom and Molly raised their children and lived for the next 55 years. Tom began his nearly 40-year legal career at Portland law firm K i n g , M i l l e r, Nash and Yerkey.

Later, he worked in corporate law at Georgia-Pacific and at Nike, Inc. Remembered for

his strong educational and teamwork skills, Tom’s attention to detail, integrity, and expertise helped guide Nike in protecting its swoosh trademark.

Tom always demonstrated an unwavering devotion to family, a commitment to lifelong friendships, as well as a caring and kind attitude toward others. In 1999, Tom retired, which freed up more time to spend with Molly, his children, and his grandchildren. As a lifelong learner and an avid reader, Tom was a passionate supporter of the OSU Valley Library. Tom’s many interests included model railroading, stamp collecting, gardening, and being surrounded by his beloved family. Tom is survived by his children: Bridget Munson (Dave), Tom (Dolores), John (Renee), and Pete (Sonia).

He also leaves behind eight grandchildren and one greatgranddaughter. The family would like to thank The Springs at Sherwood for their loving and compassionate care.

Service and reception will be at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Lake Oswego on October 2, at 1 p.m. We ask all who attend the service and reception to be vaccinated and wear a mask.

The service will be livestreamed at OLLparish. com. Select button that says “Watch Livestream Mass” then select “Stream Spot” window. Livestream starts five minutes before start time.

Friends and family are encouraged to sign the online guest book at www.Tributes. com. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Tom’s name to Oregon State University Valley Library, www.fororegonstate.org

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

Classic Car Garages For Lease HEATED, lighted, 110 outlet, indoor wash, clubhouse, $175 monthly, call/text Jack 541-419-2502.

STORAGE WITH BENEFITS • 8 x 20 dry box • Fenced yard, RV & trailers • In-town, gated, 24-7 Kris@earthwoodhomes.com Prime Downtown Retail Space Call Lori at 541-549-7132 Cold Springs Commercial CASCADE STORAGE (541) 549-1086 581 N. Larch – 7-Day Access 5x5 to 12x30 Units Available 5x5 - 8x15 Climate Control Units On-site Management FOR LEASE – Approx.

420 sq. ft. office suite available at 220 S. Pine St. building. Suite is $600/mo., light & bright, with mountain views. Email: lorna@nolteproperties.com or phone – 541-419-8380.

Lorna Nolte, Principal Broker Lic. #200105010 MINI STORAGE Sisters Rental 331 W. Barclay Drive 541-549-9631 Sizes 5x5 to 15x30 and outdoor RV parking. 7-day access.

Computerized security gate.

Moving boxes & supplies.

Office space for lease. The Place on Main. 101 Main Ave. in Sisters. Three spaces available. $575/month and up. Call Ralph 541-390-5187

107 Rentals Wanted

LOOKING FOR RENTAL CLOSE IN TO SISTERS. I am looking for a shared rental or attached apartment; ground level or with a few stairs. I am currently living in an upstairs apartment too far out of Sisters.

Please call or text Ellie @ 503-274-0214.

201 For Sale

Tow car dolly, for mid-sized cars, new tires, works good.

Boat type dolly for easy loading. $300. 541-408-6273.

92 GMC Sierra 4-wheel drive, 5.7 eng. Comes with canopy.

Great work truck. $3,000 OBO 458-600-2043

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Home & Shop Estate Sale 15779 Steelhead Rd. CRR Fri & Sat, 9-4 Utility trailer w/ rack, scuba gear & tanks, vintage fire extinguishers, tools, antique electric meters & pressure gauges, John Deere riding lawn mower, mowers, lawn tools & art, lumber, patio furniture, household goods, furniture, antique toys, books, clothes and so much more.

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BOOKKEEPING SERVICE ~ Olivia Spencer ~ Expert Local Bookkeeping!

Phone: (541) 241-4907 www.spencerbookkeeping.com SMALL Engine REPAIR Lawn Mowers, Chainsaws & Trimmers Sisters Rental 331 W. Barclay Drive 541-549-9631 Authorized service center for Stihl, Honda, Ariens/Gravely, Cub Cadet, Briggs & Stratton, Kohler, Kawasaki Engines YOU NEED STUFF 301 Vehicles HAULED? I NEED TO HAUL We Buy, Sell, Consign Quality STUFF! SPECIALIZING IN Cars, Trucks, SUVs & RVs ~ PROPERTY CLEANUP AND Call Jeff at 541-815-7397 ITEM REMOVAL. CALL Sisters Car Connection da#3919 THE WORKIN' MAN AT SistersCarConnection.com 541-610-2926.

401 Horses

R&B Ranch Beef for Sale Grass fed. Alfalfa/grain finish.

Local grown, English-bred beef.

1/4, 1/2 or full cow available.

Butcher dates reserved in November. 541-325-3020 r.gardner@morrow.com.

202 Firewood

Ponderosa firewood for sale.

Split or round, pickup or deliver.

Call 541-350-7755.

Lodgepole Pine Firewood Intermountain Wood Energy Seasoned/split, delivered or pickup, and log-truck loads.

541-207-2693.

103 Residential Rentals SISTERS FOREST PRODUCTS 3-BDRM, 2-BA, 1408 sf, DAVE ELPI – FIREWOOD single-level, 2+ car garage.

• SINCE 1976 • 150 S. Timber Pine Pl. Doug Fir – Lodgepole – Juniper $2,350/mo.

DRIVE-IN WOOD SALES NS. Info and pics at – 18155 Hwy. 126 East – rentaroundbend.com SistersForestProducts.com A Superior Property Management Order Online! 541-410-4509 541-330-8403 PONDEROSA PROPERTIES 204 Arts & Antiques –Monthly Rentals Available– JEWELRY REPAIR & Call Debbie at 541-549-2002 CUSTOM DESIGN Full details, 24 hrs./day, go to: Graduate gemologist. Over 45 PonderosaProperties.com years experience. Cash for gold.

Printed list at 221 S. Ash, Sisters Metals • 220 S. Ash St. Suite 1 Ponderosa Properties LLC 541-904-0410 RENTAL PROPERTY 205 Garage & Estate Sales TO LEASE? Advertise it in the Nugget – HUGE Garage, Craft For great pricing, with & Horse Tack Sale no extra charge to New & used horse tack view your ad online at liquidation sale, household items, www.nuggetnews.com Stampin' Up, craft, scrapbooking, and more. Fri.-Sat., Sept. 10-11, 104 Vacation Rentals 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 69427 Crooked ~ Sisters Vacation Rentals ~ Horseshoe Rd., Sisters Private Central OR vac. rentals, ~MOVING SALE~ Property Management Services 14425 Trout Court, Sisters 541-977-9898 (Crossroads) www.SistersVacation.com Sat., Sept. 11, 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.

CASCADE HOME & IKEA cubbies, side tables, lodgeVACATION RENTALS pole twin bed frame, black Monthly and Vacation Rentals glider-rocker, Lowe's firepit table throughout Sisters Country. with 4 chairs, tabletop desk riser, (541) 549-0792 electric heater (faux fireplace), Property management Permobil C300 power for second homes. wheelchair, 3-year-old CascadeVacationRentals.net snowblower, and more.

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Certified Weed-Free HAY. Orchard Grass or Alfalfa Hay, Sisters. $275 per ton.

Call 541-548-4163 TRITICALE ORCHARD GRASS HAY New 2021 crop. No rain.

Barn stored. 3-tie bales. $190-$260/ton. Hwy. 126 & Cline Falls. 541-280-1895

403 Pets

A CARING ENVIRONMENT for your treasured Best Friends in your home while you're away!

Sisters-Tumalo-Petsitting.com 541-306-7551 Bend Spay & Neuter Project Providing Low-Cost Options for Spay, Neuter and more!

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GEORGE’S SEPTIC TANK SERVICE “A Well Maintained Septic System Protects the Environment” 541-549-2871 ~THE MOVING STARS~ Serving Sisters and Central Oregon. 20-years experience.

541-623-2223 • DERI’s HAIR SALON • Call 541-419-1279 ~ WEDDINGS BY KARLY ~ Happy to perform virtual or in-person weddings.

Custom Wedding Ceremonies 20+ years • 541-410-4412 revkarly@gmail.com 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 Andersen's Almost Anything Small home repairs, projects RV repairs, inspections.

541-728-7253 • CCB #235396

Junk removal, new home, garage & storage clean-out, construction & yard debris.

You Call – We Haul!

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501 Computers & Communications

SISTERS SATELLITE TV • PHONE • INTERNET Your authorized local dealer for DirecTV, ViaSat HS Internet and more! CCB # 191099 541-318-7000 • 541-306-0729 Technology Problems?

I can fix them for you.

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502 Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning

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

541-549-9090 GORDON’S LAST TOUCH Cleaning Specialists for CARPETS, WINDOWS & UPHOLSTERY Member Better Business Bureau • Bonded & Insured • Serving Central Oregon Since 1980 Call 541-549-3008

504 Handyman

Home Customizations, LLC Res. & Commercial Remodeling, Bldg. Maintenance & Painting Chris Patrick, Owner homecustomizations@gmail.com CCB #191760 • 541-588-0083 SISTERS HONEYDO Small projects, paint, stain, punch lists, carpentry, drywall, plumbing, deck restoration.

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JONES UPGRADES LLC Home Repairs & Remodeling Drywall, Decks, Pole Barns, Fences, Sheds & more.

Mike Jones, 503-428-1281 Local resident • CCB #201650

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LAREDO CONSTRUCTION 541-549-1575 Maintenance / Repairs Insurance Work CCB #194489

600 Tree Service & Forestry

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 TIMBER STAND IMPROVEMENT Tree removal, trimming, stump grinding, brush mowing, lot clearing, crane services, certified arborist consultation, tree risk assessment, fire risk assessment/treatment Nate Goodwin ISA-Cert. Arborist PN-7987A CCB #190496 • 541.771.4825 Online at: www.tsi.services 4 Brothers Tree Service Sisters' Premier Tree Experts!

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Specializing in tree assessment, hazard tree removal, crown reduction, ladder fuel reduction, lot clearing, ornamental and fruit tree trimming and care.

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602 Plumbing & Electric

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604 Heating & Cooling

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SIMON CONSTRUCTION SERVICES Residential Remodel Building Projects Bruce Simon, Quality craftsman for 35 years 541-948-2620 • CCB #184335 bsimon@bendbroadband.com 601 Construction SPURGE COCHRAN Free On-site Visit & Estimate BUILDER, INC. Tewaltandsonsexcavation@ General Contractor gmail.com Building Distinctive, Custom Homes 541-549-1472 • CCB #76888 Handcrafted Custom Homes, Residential Building Projects Drainfield Additions, Remodels Since ’74 Concrete Foundations • Minor & Major Septic Repair A “Hands-On” Builder Becke William Pierce • All Septic Needs/Design Keeping Your Project on Time CCB# 190689 • 541-647-0384 & Install & On Budget • CCB #96016 Beckewpcontracting@gmail.com General Excavation To speak to Spurge personally, • Site Preparation call 541-815-0523 • Rock & Stump Removal Beaver Creek Log Homes LLC • Pond & Driveway Construction 541-390-1206 Preparation beavercreeklog@yahoo.com Custom Homes • Additions • Building Demolition Log repairs, log railing, Residential Building Projects Trucking log accent, log siding, etc.

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J&E Landscaping Maintenance LLC Clean-ups, raking, mowing, hauling debris, gutters.

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605 Painting

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701 Domestic Services

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802 Help Wanted

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606 Landscaping & Yard Maintenance

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Mid Oregon Credit Union is accepting applications for a full-time Teller in Sisters.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: processing member transactions, verifying cash totals, and ensuring members are promptly and professionally served.

Qualified applicants should possess good customer service skills, cash handling experience and computer skills.

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CLASSIFIEDS The Jewel is a high-end retail gallery selling fine jewelry, museum-quality minerals and fossils, and alabaster home decor.

Our customers are a blend of enthusiastic new visitors and long-established admirers. We are seeking a new, long-term sales team member to help us grow into the future. Immediate part-time available with opportunity for full-time.

Hourly pay starts from $14-16 DOE. Drop off a resume or email to michelle@thejewelonline.com.

AQUA CLEAR SPA SERVICE Hot tub servicing technician needed. Training provided with opportunity for advancement.

Competitive pay. Clean driving record required. Call or email for interview: 541-410-1023; aquaclearoregon@gmail.com.

Part-time companion/caregiver for very functionable younger adult with short-term memory loss. Client goes to caregiver residence. 541-419-2204

Help Wanted Please send an email to sistersfencecompany@gmail.com with letter of interest. ~ Now Hiring ~ Three Creeks Brewing Join our crew and help deliver the finest beer, food and service to Central Oregon and beyond!

Full-and part-time positions available including line cook, host/hostess, and server. Pay depends on experience and position. Email your resume to resumes@threecreeksbrewing. com to apply.

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L A S S I F I E D S NewsC nuggets Snippets and tidbits from Sisters Country

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

• August home sales continue blistering pace. A total of 34 homes transacted last month in Sisters Country for a combined value of $27,914,989. The median sales price was $697,000 as compared to July when it was exactly $600,000.

August saw eight homes sell for more than $1 million. A five-bedroom, threebath home on Chicaree Lane posted at $2.2 million.

There’s no longer such a thing as dirt cheap to be found as even a lot in Coyote Springs garnered $339,000.

• Builders lament permit delays. Home builders are distressed by the time to get a building permit from the County. A canvas of five contractors concludes that permitting times are now 16 weeks on average. Three weeks was typical just six months ago. Builders complain that they can’t even get through to the Community Development Department who approve applications.

The Nugget had the same experience in trying to obtain comment from a Department spokesperson. Matt Douthit of MCD Homes who have nine lots in varying degrees of development in Sisters said, “We can build a home now faster than we can get it planned and permitted.”

• COVID-19 cases among vaccinated continue rise. The most recent update from OHA (Oregon Health Authority) reports that 2,592 vaccinated persons in Oregon have tested positive for COVID-19. That is 15.9 percent of all cases. Of those, 4.9 percent have been hospitalized and 0.9 percent have

died at a median age of 81. As of September 3, the sevenday running average of vaccine doses is 8,795 per day.

• Running out of dewormer. Sisters Feed and Supply on East Main Avenue is out of over-the counter horse dewormers made with Ivermectin, as customers who do not own horses are grabbing them up. Their supplier is out of stock with no indication of when they can re-supply.

The paste formula for equines is available as a cream and in tablet form for humans to treat a range of skin and parasitic ailments — by prescription.

• N e w S i s t e r s B u s Shelter nears completion. A weather protected, handicapaccessible bus stop located at the west terminus (in front of Ray’s Food Place, across from McDonald’s) will be ready within a week. The new Cascade East Transit mini-station’s concrete ramps and pads have been laid. The glass enclosure will be set in place in a few days affording protection from the elements for buses serving Route 28 (Redmond) and Route 29 (Bend).

• $90 million project lands at Eagle Airport. Evensol, LLC – Environmental Energy Solutions – headquartered at the Sisters Tech Center on the grounds of Sisters Eagle Airport has entered into a joint venture with Duke Energy (DUK NYSE) to develop two renewable natural gas projects in North Carolina each valued at $45 million. Sisters Tech Center anchor tenant, ENERGYneering Solutions, will design, build, commission, and operate the

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Vine maples at the summit and in Camp Sherman are popping already, as we had such a hot summer. state-of-the-art BioGas processing facilities which are expected to come online mid next year.

• The ins and outs at the Post Office. Entering and exiting Sisters Post Office from Larch continues to baffle many patrons. It is counter intuitive with the entry on the left and the exit on the right. Many a motorist has caused a near miss in going out the “in” and going in the “out.” Many a heads are shaken and tempers often flare.

It is designed this way so that motorists will be able to deposit mail at the drive-up

drop box from the driver window. The signs are clear.

• Highway 20 to close for three days east of Sweet Home. September 8-10, there will be a threeday full road closure east Sweet Home to the Santiam Junction, 24 hours per day starting at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, September 8 through 12:59 p.m. Friday, September 10. There will be detour routes in place and signed. No through traffic will be allowed on Highway 20. Plan ahead as there may be additional delays on the alternate routes due to wildfire recovery efforts.

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MURAL: About 20 youth at art camp created welcoming message

WORKSHOP: Acclaimed author to teach at Aspen Lakes Sept. 24

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the students worked together to get it done. I was amazed with their performance,” said Fuentes.

She relied on some of the incoming eighth graders to provide the leadership on the project, including Brooke Duey, Olive Morris, Cash Jordan, and Serafina Smith.

Fuentes worked with them the week before to plan and make preliminary sketches of the mural.

The project was part of an art camp made possible freeof-charge with funding from the state to encourage summer programs to get students back in the schools. Fuentes led a clay camp every morning and then, after lunch, students worked on the mural.

The size, colors, and message of the mural certainly accomplish what Principal Roth was after when he shared his idea with Fuentes. Roth had earlier been working with Lindy Weddel, former Sisters High School counselor, on ways to counter all the negativity bombarding students on a daily basis.

“I wanted to try and create an atmosphere where kids, and anyone else, walking into school feel welcomed and loved,” Roth explained.

“I think the mural has totally changed the way that room feels. People are suggesting we create another one with a positive message to go on the wall on the other side of the stage.”

Fuentes and Roth both expressed their great satisfaction with the project.

“The kids had a huge voice in the content of the mural,” said Roth. “It has surpassed anything I ever envisioned, 10 times what I had expected.”

Fuentes is hopeful the mural will act as a prompt for the students to talk about its message.

“I hope they talk about it. Art is always a prompt, whether one is participating in its creation or viewing it,” she said.

The manner in which the mural was created is remarkable in itself, with 20 middle schoolers working in a communal, supportive fashion.

The background blocks of the quilt-like mural were drawn on and then painted in a variety of hues of purple, turquoise, green, and blue.

Then the lettering was drawn on over the top of the color blocks. Students then decorated the color blocks with hand-drawn images, stencils, and woodblocks, layering paint on top of the original color blocks. Finally, the large script was painted in shades of yellow and orange. The middle of the “O” in “love” is the

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Students worked together to create the Sisters Middle School mural — an effort that was as valuable as the outcome. shape of a heart and the “A” snacks for the painters. The in “are” is a dynamic yellow students who participated in the project include: Abrianna, star.

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because it takes the better part of a school year to complete a guitar, he and the students, as well as the volunteers, really got to know one another through the process.

“We did a lot of connecting and problem-solving together so I think a lot of friendships developed among the students and myself,” he said.

With so many former students stretching over 17 years of the program, Cosby has found it challenging to get the word out to everyone who built a guitar. He is working through contact lists from each year of the program and decided to expand his efforts through an article in The Nugget.

“I would like as many people to come as possible,” said Cosby. “I look forward to hearing about what all these ‘kids’ are doing nowadays, but I am not hearing back from very many of the former students yet. I will keep chipping away.”

He has sent out an electronic “e-vite” to as many contacts from the list as he has been able to find, but he has not yet contacted directly the majority of the former students. He hopes to further spread the word among locals

who know people who built a guitar in the program through this article.

“I get that a lot of those former students no longer live in the area, but this is such a tight-knit community, I hope that others will help me get the word out when they see this story,” he said.

“We want to get ready ahead of time on how many people to expect,” said Cosby.

“I want every single person who was part of the program to have the opportunity to be there.”

Cosby officially retired at the end of last year, but signed on to do one more year with the luthier program as a transition to a new teacher, Jason Chinchen, who is taking over the other career/technical classes that Cosby has also taught over the years.

“We will be working closely together to make the transition as seamless as possible,” said Cosby.

Food carts and music will be featured at the event.

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Contact Cosby directly by phone at 541-410-1018 or email tony.cosby@ssd6.org.

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workforce housing in Sisters.”

They contributed $300,000 of general fund dollars to the development of the Housing Works 42-unit low-income apartment project known as Ponderosa Heights. Council has created an affordablehousing grant program to encourage builders to build more affordable-housing units in Sisters.

Misley pointed out that the City is constantly forced to decide what to prioritize and where they have responsibilities and/or can have the most impact. He said, “We are working on addressing homelessness from the other end when we are prioritizing expanding affordable workforce housing – it has and is an ongoing City Council goal with many projects supporting each other toward that end.”

Besides the City, others involved in the conversation regarding homelessness in Sisters Country include the U.S. Forest Service, which has responsibility for the thousands of acres of the Deschutes National Forest surrounding Sisters where many of the homeless live.

The City and Deschutes

We are working on addressing homelessness from the other end when we are prioritizing expanding affordable workforce housing...

— Cory Misley County Board of Commissioners will be holding a joint meeting in Sisters on October 13, where an update on the homeless situation will be received from the Deschutes County Public Health Department. The City Council hopes to continue the conversation with the County regarding the best allocation of dollars and highest needs, to support the homeless in Sisters Country.

Misley reminded the Cold Weather Shelter board that the County has several years to allocate and spend the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. He believes this topic is “worthy of a thorough, thoughtful conversation including all partners and our community.”

“They (the County) may have additional resources to provide toward staffing levels or alternate properties in Sisters. We must have a broad, diligent conversation on this issue and varying

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needs/opportunities,” Misley urged.

Wanting to reply to the Shelter’s request for the letter of support sooner than the next Council workshop, councilors individually voiced their opinions to Misley, who sent the response.

According to Bonnie Rose, Shelter board of directors co-chair, the board met after receiving Misley’s letter.

“As our response, we will be asking the Sisters City Council for a work session to allow us an avenue to provide answers to the City’s stated concerns,” Rose said.

Additionally, they issued the following response: “Perhaps we, as a board, have not provided the City Council with all the statistics, data, and interaction they required to feel assured that supporting a permanent shelter is in the best interest of the City as a whole. With their negative response to our request for a letter of support, however, they have provided a more clear outline of the further data and statistics they require to be assured. We have the data and are prepared to provide answers to their concerns at a work session.

It must be remembered, too, that we are a volunteer board, having worked successfully and diligently in the past with the community at large to save lives by providing comfort, dependable shelter, and meals during winter months.”

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