The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLIV No. 40 // 2021-10-13

The Nugget Vol. XLIV No. 40

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Don’t expect a drought-buster this winter SHS

welcomes new teachers

By Ron Thorkildson Correspondent

Last summer’s recordsetting heat was adversely impactful here in the western U.S., leading to numerous wildfires that burned well into the fall. The heat worsened already severe drought conditions in our region.

Many residents are hoping for the upcoming winter season to produce generous amounts of precipitation and cool temperatures. Is this likely to happen? Is it even in the cards?

The winter of 2021-22 is forecasted to feature the second of back-to-back La Niñas (though weaker than that of last year). Most of the prognosticators foresee a winter similar to last year’s.

Temperatures should average about normal to slightly below, with precipitation levels modestly above normal. But even if the rain/snowfall is heavier than expected, it cannot possibly result in a droughtbuster. That is not in the cards.

Of the various cyclical climatic phenomena that occur over the globe, the El Niño Southern Oscillation

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

ocean is sufficiently warm, an El Niño is said to exist; when cool, a La Niña is in

It’s a year of change at Sisters High School (SHS), with the addition of six new certified staff members along with a new principal.

Steve Stancliff, most recently the principal at Pilot Butte Middle School in Bend, took over the helm at SHS this fall, replacing longtime principal Joe Hosang who is doing administrative work at the District office.

Stancliff welcomes six new teachers to the building for the 2021-22 school year.

Liz DeFranco is working as one of two counselors for SHS. A graduate of Oregon State University’s Master of Counseling program, DeFranco spent two years overseas in Vietnam (20182020) and last year worked for Oregon Online Schools.

“I love Central Oregon and it feels wonderful to be part of a community

See WEATHER on page 18

See STAFF on page 10

PHOTO BY SUE STRATER

New snow is on the Sisters. How much will they get this winter?

(ENSO) remains the most useful for forecasting weather on a seasonal time scale. The ENSO describes the condition of the tropical

Pacific Ocean with regard to water temperature and the strength of surface winds, and it comes in one of three phases. When the

Sisters homes damaged by fires St. Charles to require vaccination for visitors Starting next week, all visitors to St. Charles Health System hospitals or clinics will have to be be fully vaccinated.

Effective October 18, visitors will only be allowed if they provide acceptable proof that they are fully vaccinated. On October 18, health care workers are also required to be fully vaccinated by the state of Oregon.

“We know what an important role visitors and support persons play in a patient’s healing process,” said Dr. Jeff Absalon, the health system’s chief physician executive.

“However, throughout this pandemic, safety has been

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our top priority. With this as our guide, we have had to make changes to our visitor policy to keep our patients, caregivers, and others safe.”

A person is considered fully vaccinated if at least two weeks have passed since they received their second dose of a two-dose series (Pfizer or Moderna) or a single-dose vaccine (Johnson & Johnson).

Acceptable proof of vaccination is: • A COVID-19 vaccination record card.

• A copy or digital picture of the vaccination record card.

• A printout from the See VACCINATION on page 7

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Two separate incidents last week left homes in Sisters damaged by fire.

Working smoke alarms alerted a homeowner Tuesday afternoon, October 5, of smoke and sparks shooting out of the exterior of his home on Fox Ridge Circle north of town.

Law enforcement and the homeowner attempted to extinguish the fire while the fire department responded.

When firefighters arrived on scene, smoke and flames were visible from under the house, on the first floor near an electrical meter, on an overhanging roof above the entry, and slowly pushing out of the attic space. A total of 32 firefighters responded from Sisters-Camp Sherman, Black Butte Ranch, Cloverdale, and Alfalfa Fire

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PHOTO COURTESY SISTERS-CAMP SHERMAN RFPD

A fire at a home north of Sisters caused significant damage. It was one of two structure fires Sisters firefighters battled last week.

Districts. They worked on both the exterior and interior of the home to extinguish the fire.

All occupants and two cats were safely evacuated.

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The homeowner stated that a new hot water heater had been installed recently, however a cause has not See FIRES on page 21

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Letters to the Editor…

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

Coping with COVID Editor’s Note: The Nugget will pause letters to the editor on COVID-19-related subjects for a couple of weeks, after this edition. The community needs a cooling-off period. Letters we have been receiving in recent weeks are becoming increasingly personal and hostile,

and generate more heat than light.

The subject has been thoroughly addressed from a variety of points of view, and it seems unlikely at this point that the discourse will provide new information or perspectives for readers.

See LETTERS on page 15

Sisters Weather Forecast

Courtesy of the National Weather Service, Pendleton, Oregon

Wednesday

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October 13 • Partly Cloudy October 14 • Partly Cloudy October 15 • Partly Cloudy October 16 • Partly Cloudy

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October 17 • Partly Cloudy

October 18 • Partly Cloudy

October 19 • Partly Cloudy

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If at first you don’t secede...

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

A couple of weeks ago, The Nugget published a very sad letter from a man mourning the death of his oldest friend, a loss made more painful because the friends had become estranged.

Over politics.

It’s hard to understand blowing up a relationship like that. My nature is to bring people together. Lately, that’s been harder and harder to do, and I’ll tell you, I grow weary of the effort. So many people have lost all perspective. I doubt whether conciliation is even possible anymore.

The University of Virginia (UVA) Center for Politics published polling data* that points to a stark conclusion: A whole lot of Americans want a divorce from one another.

The most startling finding is that “roughly 4 in 10 (41 percent) of Biden and half (52 percent) of Trump voters at least somewhat agree that it’s time to split the country, favoring blue/red states seceding from the union.”

Americans increasingly see political differences as irreconcilable, reflected in the 75 percent of Biden voters and 78 percent of Trump voters who see those who ardently support the opposing party as a “clear and present danger to the American way of life.” (43 percent of Biden voters and 47 percent of Trump voters believe this “strongly.”)

That’s the language of civil war. Of course, a lot of it is just talk. But civil wars don’t start with one big explosion; there’s a long powder train laid down by hostile rhetoric and the demonizing of the political and cultural “other.” If we do slide into some kind of civil war, it’s liable to look a lot more like the chaotic English Civil Wars of 1642-1651 than our own North/South struggle of the 1860s.

In the English conflict, political tension — largely over taxation — between Parliamentarians and an autocratic King Charles II was overlaid with profound religious contention between Puritans and High Church Anglicans. Conspiracy theories abounded, primarily around Puritan fears of a secret plot for a Catholic takeover of Protestant England. Political adversaries became enemies, and enemies were called heretics. There could be no compromise.

Agitators worked hard to make it impossible to reconcile. Swords were drawn, cannon unlimbered, and the realm was plunged into an abyss. Families and communities were ripped apart by conflicting allegiances. As so often happens in revolutionary situations, the Puritans who cut off the head of the highhanded and foolish King Charles II in 1649 replaced his rule with a harsher, more dictatorial regime than he ever dreamed of.

Change the stage dressing to make things contemporary, and they are us. UVA Center for Politics poll finds that “more than two-thirds support — and one-third strongly — emboldening and empowering strong leaders and taking the law into their own hands when it comes to dealing with people or groups they view as dangerous.” Do we really want a Cromwell — a “Lord Protector”?

Talk about an existential threat to the American way of life.

This is on us. All of us.

The greatest peril we face comes from darkness we carry within: Self-righteous certainty that we hold the truth and those who dissent are either stupid or malevolent. The lure of conspiracy theory that “explains” all things that cause us fear and anxiety.

The impulse to empower a self-appointed Witchfinder General to sniff out heresy.

The petty satisfaction that comes with seeing some sinner clapped in the stocks in the town square…

We can choose a different path. We can unplug from the social media and cable TV that both feeds and feeds on those dark impulses. We can talk to each other — about anything except the plague and politics. Talk about that magical hike or that wonderful musical experience. Share that spectacular meal or that fantastic piece of art at the gallery in town…

We can reach out to that old friend or family member from whom we’ve become estranged — not to convince them of anything, not to prove them wrong, but simply to tell them that they matter to us, that our differences ultimately don’t mean so much.

And I will strive to keep my faith, to believe that it’s possible to bridge divides. It’s better than dying estranged. *https://bit.ly/UVAPoll

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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Sisters’ Roundhouse Foundation is growing

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Central Oregon Textiles was one of the vendors who demonstrated their high-quality work on-site at Sisters Harvest Faire.

Harvest Faire draws a horde to market

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

For two generations, the Sisters Harvest Faire has offered a celebration of the season, a celebration of handcrafted excellence in a plastic world, and a celebration of the community of Sisters.

This year’s Faire felt especially celebratory as the crowds of market-goers returned after a year hiatus forced by the COVID19 pandemic. Shoppers strolled among the stalls of dozens of vendors — many of whom have been regulars at the Faire for as long as 20 years. Judging from the

burdens they carried back to their vehicles parked all across Sisters, they weren’t just looking.

The juried artists are noted for the quality of their goods, and shoppers find unique items of art, décor, or food and drink to take home with them. Many of them find their way under a Christmas tree in a couple of months’ time.

The Sisters Harvest Faire is held across several blocks of Main Avenue in Sisters, around Fir Street Park, where Dry Canyon Stampede played on the stage on Saturday, with Bill Keale performing on Sunday. Demonstrations of

glass-blowing, textile-making, metal arts, and more lend an educational aspect to the Faire.

“It was awesome,” said Jill Neal, whose “Wild (Tasteful) Women” and other works of art were on display in her tent. “[Saturday] it was wall-towall bodies in here. It was like old-home week.”

Neal closed her gallery in Sisters and has scaled back on doing shows, focusing on a continually growing online business. But the Sisters Harvest Faire will stay on the schedule, she said. She plans to be back See FAIRE on page 21

Sisters is home to a unique private family foundation that began in 2002 with a focus on supporting a creative economy in Sisters.

Today, almost 20 years later, that same Roundhouse Foundation has grown — in assets, in programs and partners, in staff, and in geographic reach.

Founder, trustee, artist, and local Sisters resident Kathy Deggendorfer, in collaboration with her mother, Gert Boyle, the matriarch of Columbia Sportswear, established the Roundhouse Foundation with

the original desire to focus on supporting ideas and projects that created positive change.

The programs they’ve supported, like the Sisters Folk Festival’s Americana Project in local schools, celebrate creative problem solving, and allowing creative people, like Americana Project founder Brad Tisdel, to serve as positive mentors for children. Creative people were also encouraged to be important forces in creating new economies.

The purchase of the former Multnomah Publishing building on Adams Avenue led to the establishment of See ROUNDHOUSE on page 22

Sisters bridge players are back in action

By Craig F. Eisenbeis Correspondent

After a year-and-a-half pause brought on by the pandemic, the Sisters Bridge Club is up and running again.

Organizers want to get the word out and are interested in recruiting — and mentoring — new players.

The local organization has been playing bridge in Sisters for more than 40 years. Some of the people who have played in the past

have migrated out of the area, and snowbird lifestyles are also creating plenty of room for newcomers.

To help players who are out of practice, such as those who may have played a little in college — or aspiring players who have never played at all — the club will be offering free bridge lessons.

The only requirement for participation is that players See BRIDGE on page 14

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. 541-231-1897. 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.

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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.

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Outlaws snap losing streak

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws football team’s hard work and dedication finally paid off this past week with a big win over Pleasant Hill. Sisters snapped their four-game losing streak with a final score of 28-26 in their road win over the Billies.

Sisters started off strong and in the first quarter, with Wyatt Maffey scoring on a one-yard run. The TD was set up by blocks on the right side of the line, which allowed Wyatt to walk into the end zone. The PAT failed, but at the close of the period the Outlaws held a 6-0 lead.

In the second quarter the Outlaws scored again.

The snap was bobbled, but quarterback Griffin Gardner made a heads-up play and forced his way into the end zone on a one-yard run.

Sean Alvarez’s kick for the PAT was good and the Outlaws extended their lead to 13-0.

With 4:20 left in the half Maffey scored on a 65-yard run that was a sweep around the left side of the Outlaws’ line with a convoy of blockers. The play was set up from key blocks from pulling-guard Hudson Symonds and fullback Adam Maddox-Castle.

Alvarez ended the first half scoring when he split the uprights for a 32-yard field goal with four seconds left on the clock. Time expired and the Outlaws closed out the half holding the Billies scoreless 22-0.

“Our boys came out redhot on offense and executed on both their run and their pass game,” said Coach Clayton Hall. “The offensive line did an outstanding job creating holes and lanes for the Outlaws’ running backs to go through. The O-line also did a great job protecting our quarterback.”

Momentum shifted in the second half. The Outlaws had two costly fumbles that set up the Billies to score and gain the momentum. Pleasant Hill scored 26 unanswered points, 13 in the third quarter

and 13 in the fourth, and took the lead from the Outlaws at 26-22.

When the Outlaws got the ball back on their own 32-yard line with 5:57 left in the contest, fans were on the edge of their seats until the final buzzer. Mason Sellers started the drive when he ran the ball on a fly-sweep around the left side for 15 yards to the 47-yard line, followed by Gardner, who ran the ball for 13 yards down to the Pleasant Hill 40-yard line.

Gardner ran the ball again on the next play, but got called for a personal foul on an offensive targeting call, which resulted in a 15-yard penalty from the spot of the foul. That penalty moved the ball to the Billies’ 45-yard line. A 39-yard run from Maffey, and a three-yard run from Gardner put the Outlaws on their 36-yard line.

Adam Maddox-Castle had a nice 27-yard run down to the nine-yard line, but on the next two plays the Outlaws were charged with penalties that put the ball back on the 21-yard line.

Gardner finished the drive with a beautiful touchdown pass to Josh Buettner to put the Outlaws back on top with 1:09 left on the clock.

Gardner threw a great pass and Buettner made a great catch as he created space from the corner and caught the ball while falling to the ground in the end zone.

Buettner described what happened.

“When Coach Hall called my number I knew I had to come through for the team,” he said. “I gave the corner a step inside and I was off to the back of the end zone. I’m just happy we could get the win. Go Outlaws!”

The crowd erupted as the Outlaws regained the lead at 28-26. With 16 seconds left in the game, the defense sealed the win with an interception

by Gardner.

Quarterback Gardner went 8 for 22 for 221 yards passing, and recorded one passing TD. Gardner said, “Everyone finally felt the feeling of

winning that we’ve been working for since July and I think everyone is ready to go get another win.”

The Outlaws recorded 190 total yards rushing. Wyatt Maffey led the team with 17 carries for 132 yards rushing.

Adam Maddox-Castle had three carries for 24 yards rushing, and Mason Sellers had two carries for 17 yards rushing. Gardner tallied three carries for 17 yards rushing.

M a ff e y c r e d i t e d h i s rushing success to his linemen, who he stated did their job with confidence and made big plays.

Maffey said, “We built off last week’s game, and I feel like we really came together as a team. We encouraged and strengthened each other as the game continued. We really believed we would win and we fought until the very end. I remember feeling a spark being lit between us at the beginning of the game and we just took it and ran with it. To me the win was seeing our team come together, and that’s what it’s all about.”

Riley Sellers had two receptions for 64 yards and Josh Buettner had two receptions for 50 yards, including one touchdown.

Maffey had two receptions for 45 yards, Jamen Schwartz added one reception for 35 yards, and Maddox-Castle one reception for 27 yards.

Henry Rard led the defense with seven tackles.

Maffey, Jesse Murillo, Ben Cooper, and Reese Larrabee all finished the night with

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Outlaws running back Wyatt Maffey had a strong game for the Outlaws. six tackles each. Maffey also forced a fumble and had two fumble recoveries. Sellers and Gabe Bailey also forced a fumble, and Austin Ekern tallied one fumble recovery.

Defensive Coordinator Hayden Hudson said, “Our defense played well against the spread. The defensive line and linebackers did a good job maintaining the run and the secondary was stepby-step with the wideouts all night.

“The defense played a great first half and when met with some adversity in the second half, held strong and fought till the end. The defense as a whole made huge strides in the last two

weeks and we look forward to next week and a rematch with the ground-and-pound of the Tigers.”

Hudson noted standout secondary players Schwartz, and Riley and Mason Sellers, who were in the right position all night and made plays on the outside.

Hall told The Nugget he was proud of his players for not folding under pressure.

“Many teams would not have had the fortitude to overcome what we did,” said Hall. “Our backs were against the wall, but we chose to fight on and win the day.”

The Outlaws will hit the road for Junction City on Friday, October 15.

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Waterston Resilient Sisters must be ambidextrous joins OSUCascades

By Mitchell Luftig Correspondent

Award-winning author and poet Ellen Waterston has joined the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Oregon State University – Cascades.

“We’re thrilled to bring Ellen’s literary voice and passion for writing and writers to the MFA in Creative Writing,” said Jennifer Reimer Recio, director of the MFA program and an assistant professor of American studies at OSU-Cascades. “She is a wonderful addition to our talented faculty authors and will be an inspiration to MFA students and alumni.”

Waterston will teach writing courses and mentor graduate student writers in creative nonfiction.

“As a former New Englander who came West to ranch decades ago, I look forward to sharing my love of writing, teaching, and this unique high desert landscape with OSU-Cascades students,” said Waterston.

Waterston has written three literary nonfiction titles, including most recently, “Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail.” Other titles include a collection of essays, “Where the Crooked River Rises,” and a memoir, “Then There Was No Mountain.” Of her four poetry titles, “Hotel Domilocos” is her most recent collection. Waterston adapted her verse novel, “Vía Láctea” to a libretto that premiered as a fulllength opera in 2016 and is slated for a second staging in 2022.

Waterston founded, and for more than a decade directed, The Nature of Words, a nonprofit based in Bend that hosted an annual literary festival and offered year-round creative writing workshops.

She was instrumental in developing the MFA program at OSU-Cascades.

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I was entering Sisters’ Bi-Mart, holding the door open for a young man to enter. When he noticed that everyone else was masked, he grumbled that he would never shop at Bi-Mart again, and left.

He is among a minority of Sisters Country residents who view mask mandates as an assault on their personal liberties and an usurpation of power by state and local officials.

On an international level, some countries have fared better during the pandemic than others.

Michele Gelfand of the University of Maryland observes that nations with “tighter cultures” have an advantage over “looser cultures” in controlling the spread of coronavirus.

Tight cultures evolved in response to ongoing threats from natural disasters, famine, pathogen outbreaks, and invasion. People in tight cultures follow strict norms that enable them to coordinate their response to collective threats.

In Taiwan, for instance, Gelfand found that citizens willingly regulated their behavior in response to norms about physical distancing, mask-wearing, and avoiding large crowds, keeping infection and mortality rates low without entirely shutting down the economy.

China slowed the initial wave of coronavirus infections by imposing a strict lockdown on Wuhan, a city of over eleven million. High compliance with top-down control measures was largely due to citizens’ trust in government institutions, a form of social capital.

Loose cultures, such as the U.S., tend to have weaker social norms, which makes it challenging to coordinate a response to a collective threat. There is also a reluctance amongst some individuals to set aside their liberty, autonomy, and freedom in exchange for constraints and

rules necessary to prevail over a threat like the coronavirus pandemic.

It may be easier to effect change at the local level.

Social capital has been linked to greater trust in the relationships within a community.

A study of 2,700 U.S. counties looked at whether individuals who lived in counties with high rates of social capital would demonstrate more concern for the welfare of others as evidenced by good hygienic practices and social distancing. This proved to be the case.

Evidence was also suggestive that social capital was effective in slowing the rate of new infections.

The authors estimated that moving a county from the 25th percentile in its distribution of social capital to the 75th percentile had the potential to decrease the cumulative number of infections by 18 percent and deaths by 5.8 percent.

The delta variant has threatened to overwhelm health-care systems across our nation, including our own St. Charles.

But Gelfand is optimistic that Americans will learn how to communicate about collective threats better, that we will learn the best way to encourage others to follow situation-specific rules. She believes that we will not only learn to better understand the dangers we face, but we will feel empowered to deal with them through collective action.

“Really, I think we need to be ambidextrous, like, using the right and the left hand when it comes to tightloose. And we need leadership to help us deploy tightness under the right circumstances and looseness under others.”

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If a neighbor’s health or disability makes it challenging for them to follow evacuation orders, we lend them a hand without complaint.

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Under these circumstances, most of us are willing to sacrifice a degree of our liberty, freedom, and autonomy to ensure that firefighters and first responders have the best chance of protecting lives and

property — our own and our neighbors’.

The pandemic is also a collective threat to Sisters Country, requiring us to make (temporary) sacrifices to protect the most vulnerable amongst us.

Resilient Sisters must be ambidextrous—tightening restrictions in the face of a collective threat and then loosening them as the threat passes.

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Astronomy club looks to Local musician releases new music the skies in Sisters Noted amateur astronomer Mel Bartels will be the featured presenter at the Sisters Astronomy Club’s virtual Zoom meeting on Tuesday, October 19, beginning at 7 p.m.

His talk is entitled “Killer Asteroids: When will the next one hit?”

Asteroid impacts are the stuff of movies and screaming headlines. But what are scientists saying about the chances of an asteroid colliding with the earth? What should you do if you find yourself, warning or no warning, in an

impact zone? What is an asteroid?

Bartels will answer these questions and many more at the meeting.

As evidence of his expertise in this area, the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 17823 “Bartels” in 1998, for Bartels’ contributions to amateur astronomy.

Everyone is invited to join this meeting. To do so, go to the link: https://bit.ly/ SistersAstro1019.

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Noted Central Oregon musician Lilli Worona has released her debut album of original songs, “Between the Lines,” on all streaming platforms.

Worona is a violinist and seasoned vocalist and has performed in a number of local bands in Central Oregon — most notably, Sisters-area favorite Dry Canyon Stampede. Worona has been playing music since she was six years old.

Her father being a classical musician, she picked up the violin and also grew up singing and touring with vocal groups in college.

“Between the Lines,” recorded at Grange Recorders in Sisters, features a roster of local musicians. Mike Biggers, a fellow Dry Canyon Stampede member, played acoustic, electric, and bass guitar.

Shireen Amini provided percussion. Jim Goodwin, a Sisters musician, played saxophone and keyboards, and helped to produce the album. Stacie Johnson sang harmonies and background vocals.

Many of Worona’s songs began life as journal entries.

“I write songs to digest life and I keep journals, so a lot of the material comes from life experience,” she told The Nugget in an interview last spring.

When Worona sits down to write a song in an evening, she flips through old journal entries and goes back two or three years in time to revisit entries.

“I often look back on them with a new perspective

and different point of view,” she said.

The title track, “Between the Lines,” was inspired by the physical act of writing in a lined journal after years of filling up a blank page.

“I had never written in a journal with lines, so I was writing about how I was writing between the lines and then looked back on it later and thought it would be a good song,” she said.

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Everything happens all at once

By Erik Dolson Correspondent

There is something about the fall season that encourages me to become active. Change in temperature, angle of sunlight, return of rain — I have no clue why, but it’s been constant over the years.

I start to prepare the cave for winter.

I would hike South Sister in September or early October, jokingly calling the climb to 10,300 feet my annual cardiac stress test.

Exercise-induced asthma made that a challenge a couple of times, but inhalers allowed me to get to the top.

Some efforts were stymied by early snow, like that I see on the mountain this afternoon.

My friend Ali and I hoped to make that hike this year, until we ran out of time, knees, and fitness. Instead of the mountain, my chores stacked up toward the middle of September.

There was a race over Labor Day weekend that was fun, until the engine oil pressure dropped going around high-speed turns.

I came off the track. Low oil pressure results in catastrophic engine failure and is not a problem to ignore.

A concrete slab is being poured for my toolong-postponed shop. The building itself will go up as I can afford it, but it’s time to get started after 12 years of procrastination, a record even for me.

Sometime soon, Jake and I will drive down to Chico, California to pick up Jake’s new (to him) race car, a pretty Spec Miata. We’ll use my trailer and I think we can make the round trip in two days. Jake is anxious to bring the car home and start racing — he ran a fine time of 1:30 at Portland International Raceway in his daily driver Mustang.

My boat Foxy has to be moved off my buoy and to a moorage in the next couple of weeks. There’s work to do on her, too, before weather really sets in. In years past she’s spent winter in Victoria, B.C., but I just don’t see that as an option. Canada could close again at any time with the boat on one side of the border and me on the other.

It happened to friends.

I still thought I might try South Sister this year, but my training after the 10k last April was not successful. My wind was gone and would just not return, no matter how often I hit the trails.

Ali and I hiked up Black Butte in early August and it was slow and laborious for me (though easy for her).

It was the same up Tumalo Mountain a couple of weeks later. A couple of 10k runs up Whychus Canyon failed too, becoming 5k walks, and at the end of August in Friday Harbor, I walked 10k after running became impossible.

In denial that I was growing old, I decided asthma was kicking in again, though my go-to drugs didn’t much help. The last time I’d had this kind of difficulty, I’d eaten a bite of the “little apple of death” in Costa Rica and lost a third of my blood. So I decided to get a blood workup done again and see my doctor. We had an appointment a week ago Thursday.

She scheduled me for a stress test, which occurred late the next day, Friday. They hooked me up to an EKG and took an electrocardiogram of my heart. This showed that, at rest, my heart was fine. But during exertion, I had a 35-percent “ejection fraction” from the left ventricle that supplies blood to the body, instead of 60 to 70 percent.

Which explained my difficulty in hiking up my mountains. The doctor in charge of the stress test scheduled an angiogram for the first thing Monday morning, when they pushed a catheter into my wrist and up into my heart.

The left anterior descending artery (“widow maker,” one nurse called it) was nearly 90-percent blocked. So, they used a balloon to push out the

walls and accumulated milk shakes, and put in a stent to keep it open.

Ali took me home 10 hours later, not much worse for wear. I was told not to lift heavy things with my right hand (where the catheter went into my wrist), and if I had a squirting bleed there to put pressure on it and call 911. So far, no leaks.

There’s no pain and a couple of (doctor approved) twomile walks were easier than a couple of weeks ago.

I’m about as lucky as a man can be. Cardiologists were emphatic that I’ve not had a heart attack. Tests indicate no heart damage.

Blood flow simply could not keep up when demand went up. Like that oil pressure problem in the race car: lines just not flowing fast enough, but no engine damage.

My facetious “I climb mountains as a cardiac stress test” turned out to be true, giving me early warning and preventing a fatal or disabling coronary. Until last week I was lifting weights and walking my trails, and will do so again.

And it’s fall. I do love the fall, even though the season sometimes puts more on my plate than I can possibly consume. A week after doctors rammed a supporting mesh into an artery of my heart, I’m contemplating what I’ll do next instead of mourning what I no longer can.

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Virtual visits for COVID-19 patients are still encouraged to support the family’s involvement.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Tony Cosby Reunion Event The retirement party for Tony Cosby and reunion of students involved in the Luthier program is set for Sunday, October 17, 4-7 p.m. at Sisters Art Works. Former students are encouraged to come, along with the guitar they built.

The event also features live music and food carts. RSVP is strongly encouraged. Contact Cosby at tony.cosby@ssd6.org or 541-410-1018.

Volunteer with Sisters Habitat for Humanity Have fun, make new friends, and be involved with an amazing organization! Positions are available at the Thrift Store, ReStore, and on the construction site. All areas follow strict COVIDsafety guidelines. New volunteer orientations are offered each Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday at 12 noon at the Sisters Habitat office, 141 W. Main Ave (upstairs).

Please RSVP at 541-549-1193 or Kristina@sistershabitat.org as space is limited.

Free Weekly Grab-N-Go Lunches For Seniors The Council on Aging of Central Oregon is serving seniors (60+) free grab-n-go lunches on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays each week. The lunches are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis drive-through style from 12-12:30 p.m. at Sisters Community Church, 1300 W. Mckenzie Hwy. Seniors may drive through the parking lot and pick up a meal each day of service.

Come on by; no need to make a reservation. For more information call 541-678-5483.

Why is childcare so hard to find in Sisters Country?

Citizens4Community invites the community for a Let’s Talk! panel discussion 6-7:30 p.m.

Monday, October 18. Panelists and attendees will share about the challenges and possible solutions to the childcare crisis in Sisters and the surrounding area.

Diverse perspectives are welcome.

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

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 and pedestrian lane closure on the west side of the Locust Street Bridge. 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.

Sisters Habitat Seeks Board Members

The Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors has openings for people passionate about building affordable housing in Sisters.

They are seeking a diverse representation of community members with a variety of talents. Board terms are three years and will start in January 2022. If you are interested in serving on the board of directors you can email info@ sistershabitat.org or call 541549-1193 to contact Board President Ellie Hammond.

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.

Free Pet Food Budget tight this month, but you still need pet food for your dog or cat? Call the Furry Friends pet food bank at 541-797-4023 to schedule your pickup. We have all sorts of pet supplies too. Pickups available Thursdays, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Located at 412 E. Main Ave., Ste. 4, behind The Nugget office.

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.

Free Legal Assistance in Sisters The Council on Aging of Central Oregon and Legal Aid Services of Oregon are working together to offer legal services to low-income adults 60 years and older living in Central Oregon. These services are provided to adults with preference to those in greatest social and economic need. The next Legal Assistance sessions will be held virtually or by telephone October 11-15; specific days and times TBD by individual attorney offices. There are five client appointments available in Sisters/ Bend, limited to 30 minutes each.

To make an appointment call Bob Bailey at 541-678-5483.

Social Security: Unlock Its Potential Presented by guest expert Casey Miller on Wed., Oct. 13 at 5:45 p.m. Outdoors, with social distancing at Eurosports Food Carts, 223 E. Hood Ave. RSVP, as space is limited, by calling Karen Kassy with Edward Jones at 541-549-1866.

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, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. At least 48 hours advance notice is required. STARS Dispatcher number for all rides is 541-904-5545. Those interested in volunteering may complete the STARS application form at www.agefriendlysisters.com/starsapplication.

The City of Sisters is accepting applications for eight volunteers for its boards and committees until October 29.

More information can be found at www.ci.sisters.or.us or email kprosser@ci.sisters.or.us

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

SISTERS-AREA CHURCHES Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (ELCA) 386 N. Fir Street • 541-549-5831 10 a.m. Sunday Worship www.shepherdofthehillslutheranchurch.com Sisters Community Church (Nondenominational) 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. • 541-549-1201 10 a.m. Sunday Worship www.sisterschurch.com • info@sisterschurch.com St. Edward the Martyr Roman Catholic Church 123 Trinity Way • 541-549-9391 5:30 p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass 9 a.m. Sunday Mass • 8 a.m. Monday-Friday Mass The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 452 Trinity Way • Branch President, 541-420-5670; 10 a.m. Sunday Sacrament Meeting Sisters Church of the Nazarene 67130 Harrington Loop Rd. • 541-389-8960 www.sistersnaz.org • info@sistersnaz.org 10 a.m. Sunday Worship Outdoors Baha’i Faith Currently Zoom meetings: devotions, course trainings, informational firesides. Local contact Shauna Rocha 541-647-9826 • www.bahai.org or www.bahai.us

Calvary Church (NW Baptist Convention) 484 W. Washington St., Ste. C & D • 541-588-6288 10 a.m. Sunday Worship • www.ccsisters.org Chapel in the Pines Camp Sherman • 541-549-9971 10 a.m. Sunday Worship Wellhouse Church 442 Trinity Way • 541-549-4184 https://wellhousechurch.churchcenter.com 10 a.m. Sunday Worship Vast Church (Nondenominational) 6 p.m. Saturday Worship 1300 W. Mckenzie Hwy. (Sisters Community Church Fireside Room) 541-719-0587 • www.vastchurch.com 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)

Beginning Bridge Class by Sisters Bridge Club If you enjoy figuring out the best way to do things, bridge is for you. It offers a lifetime of enjoyment. When and where: TBA. If interested, email sistersbridge2021@gmail.com.

No email? Call 541-549-1150 and leave a message.

Crafters Wanted Quality craft consignors wanted for the 45th Snowflake Boutique, November 5-6. Juries will be held on October 9, 9:30 a.m. at Highland Baptist Church in Redmond and October 18, 6 p.m. For information visit www.snowflakeboutique.org; or call Jan, 541-350-4888, or Tina, 541-447-1640.

Sisters Museum Seeks Volunteers Three Sisters Historical Society, now open Sat. and Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at a new location, the Maida Bailey Building, 151 N. Spruce St., seeks volunteers. Training provided for volunteers interested in Sisters history to host visitors for 3-hr. shifts. Email threesistershistoricalsociety@ gmail.com or call 541-549-1403.

Holiday Faire Vendors Wanted Quality crafters and artists wanted for the 10th annualThree Sisters Lions Club Holiday Faire. They will begin jurying October 16.

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Outlaws win division at Clearwater Classic

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaws volleyball team won their division and finished ninth out of 24 teams in the Bend Clearwater Classic on Saturday, October 9.

The teams were divided into gold, silver, and bronze divisions. Sisters played three tough matches to win the silver division. The Outlaws were one of two 4A teams in the tournament, which was filled with tough 5A and 6A teams from all over the state.

Sisters faced Summit in the first round of bracket play in the silver division, and lost a close first set. It was tied up 22-22, but three consecutive errors by the Outlaws allowed the Storm to close out the set with a 25-22 win.

The second set was also very tight at the end. Scores were tied 23-23, 24-24, 25-25, and 26-26. The tournament had a 27-point cap and so the first team to 27 got the win. Summit went back to serve with the score tied 26-26. Gracelyn Myhre made a perfect pass to Hannah Fendall, who set the ball to Bri White. White went up with an aggressive approach and sent a short tip right over the block for the win.

Sisters kept the momentum in the third set, and started with a powerful kill from White to the back corner.

The set went back and forth, and then a kill down the line from Sydney Myhre tied it up 13-13. Mia Monaghan stepped up to the service line and served two aces to win the match and send Sisters into the semifinal game.

In the semifinal game against Dallas, the Outlaws prevailed with scores of 27-25, 23-25, and 16-14.

With the score tied 25-25 in the first set, White hit a sharp-angle kill that gave the Outlaws the serve. Sisters closed out the set with a kill from White and a tip kill from Gracie Vohs for the 27-25 win.

The second set was once again a back-and-forth game.

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The set was tied 23-23 when a controversial call by the official gave Dallas the advantage and the serve at 23-24. Sisters made a passing error and lost the set 23-25.

In the third and final set, the Outlaws were up 14-11, but let the Dragons creep back in and even the score 14-14.

Vohs recorded a kill to give Sisters a 15-14 advantage and the serve. A great dig by Monaghan set Vohs up for the winning kill.

Sisters advanced and played North Medford in the championship game. The Outlaws defeated the Black Tornados in two straight sets with scores of 25-21, 25-22.

The win earned them a championship trophy in the silver division.

White led the Outlaws with 40 kills for the tournament.

Vohs tallied 35 kills, and had 11 blocks and five aces.

Coach Rory Rush said, “After losing to the Huskies on Thursday we wanted to regroup and refocus mentally heading into the tournament.

For us, this tournament was about gaining confidence, and learning and finding momentum as we head into our last two weeks of the season. This team has dealt with the ups and downs from Covid since the beginning of the season, as well as injuries, but each time they have proven themselves resilient. While losing to Sweet Home was tough, we were determined to not let it define us.

“I am so proud of the girls for spending their day Saturday in the gym, working so hard each match to finetune and learn how to be the team we want to be.” Rush added, “Our quote for the season, picked by the seniors, ‘Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do!’ has never been more true for this group of girls. They work every day to not just be teammates, but treat each other like family.

Our tenacity and perseverance shined on Saturday. I couldn’t be more proud of this team and look forward to what these next two weeks will bring.”

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Coldwell Banker announces merger Coldwell Banker Bain has merged with Coldwell Banker Reed Bros. Realty of Sisters.

Owner Mike Mansker will continue with Coldwell Banker Bain of Sisters as a broker, mentor, and local advisor.

Coldwell Banker Reed Bros. Realty has served the Central Oregon area since 1974, establishing the longest-serving real estate firm in Sisters. The merger expands Coldwell B a n k e r B a i n ’s b r a n d in Oregon to five total offices (the company has two offices in Portland, one in Lake Oswego, and one in Bend). This newest office serves clients in Sisters and the surrounding communities.

“The merger is the absolute right strategic move for our clients and brokers, at the right time,” Mansker said. “I’ve really loved the challenge and many blessings of running a quality brokerage, but it’s time to pass the reins to an organization that can provide fresh energy and perspective, as well as a huge network of offices in top feeder markets like Portland, Lake Oswego, Seattle, and many others.

“Our sellers will especially benefit from top notch global marketing and immediate exposure to over 1,300 Coldwell Banker Bain brokers who work in the markets most likely to produce strong buyers for their Sisters property. My real estate career is far from over. I am really looking forward to focusing on serving my best clients over the coming years and enjoying the bucket list concept while I am ‘young’!”

Brian Houston, with Coldwell Banker Bain for 10 years, most recently serving as principal managing broker for Coldwell Banker Bain of Portland West, has been named principal managing broker for both the Coldwell Banker Bain of Sisters office and the nearby Coldwell Banker Bain of Bend office.

Houston has served on the local, state, and national boards for the Portland Metropolitan Association of Realtors (PMAR) and for nine years has served on the board of directors for the Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS), including one year as board chair.

Prior to joining Coldwell Banker Bain, he worked as a vice president for Prudential NW Properties, where he oversaw 23 principal managing brokers.

“We couldn’t be more excited about merging with such a well-regarded brokerage that has been led so expertly by Mike,” said Mike Grady, Coldwell Banker Bain CEO. “We have found Central Oregon to be an amazing and active market since our acquisition of our Bend office (formerly Coldwell Banker Morris) nearly two years ago, and we’re thrilled to

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that values education and the future of our kids,” she said. “I am enjoying getting to know students and feel excited for all the challenges, successes, and growth this year will bring.”

In her free time, DeFranco spends time outdoors as much as possible and says that “traveling and adventure are a huge part of who I am.”

Jason Chinchen is taking over much of the course load in the wood shop at SHS as Tony Cosby transitions into retirement. Chinchen, a longtime Central Oregonian, has extensive background in construction, woodworking, furniture design — and guitar building.

Chinchen said, “I am thrilled to be a part of the Sisters School District family and have felt so welcomed and appreciated already. I hope to be able to fill the shoes of Tony Cosby and find a way to be as corny and awesome as he is with the students, while inspiring them to find solutions to some of the big problems we face as a world.”

Simon Axten, a Stanford and University of Washington graduate, taught four years in Bellevue, Washington at Sammamish High School. He and his wife, a Bend native, moved to Bend earlier this year.

Axten will focus on social studies, including U.S. History, but will also dabble in language arts during the year.

“I love the community, and it reminds me in many ways of the small town in Massachusetts where I grew up,” he said.

He says the career change to teaching has been a good choice for him.

“Before I became a teacher, I worked for Facebook, but I decided I wanted to do something that better aligned with my values, involved more personal connection, and where I could more directly see the impact of my work,” he said.

“I like teaching social studies because I think the skills we build in class (questioning sources, corroborating evidence, building arguments, and disagreeing respectfully) are so needed in today’s society and world.”

Madisson McGuffin joins the SHS staff as a first-year teacher after completing her student teaching at Ridgeview High School in Redmond. An undergrad at Northern Arizona University, McGuffin completed her master ’s degree through George Fox University.

A lover of the outdoors

and her dog, McGuffin lives in Bend and appreciates Sisters being “such a closeknit, artsy community.”

McGuffin is teaching related courses including Sports Medicine; Mindfulness, Fitness, Health Occupations; and general health courses.

“As a brand-new teacher, I am really eager to bring in new perspectives and practices to the world of teaching,” she said. “I love connecting with my students and centering student voice and perspective in and outside my classroom.”

Dan Oliver, in his fourth year of teaching, comes to Sisters from Powell Butte Charter School where he taught science. At Sisters he is teaching physics, general physical science, and some math.

Oliver holds degrees in civic and structural engineering from Northern Arizona University and the University of Colorado, along with a master’s in teaching from George Fox University.

After eight years of working as an engineer, Oliver decided to make a change.

“I chose to become a teacher after volunteering at a science museum for a few years and falling in love with education,” he said. “It is the most important thing in the world to empower others with knowledge and the skills necessary to make their lives and the world a better, more enlightened place.”

After nine years of working along the Oregon coast, where she taught for the Taft and Newport school districts, Brittney Hilgers made the move to Sisters High School, where she is teaching language arts.

H e r b a c h e l o r ’s a n d master’s degrees are from George Fox University.

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Sisters High School has a large and talented cadre of new teachers this year.

Hilgers, whose husband, Matthew, is teaching social studies at Sisters Middle School, wanted to come to Sisters to work for a number of reasons.

“I’ve always admired Sisters for its small, tightknit community, as well as the way the school focuses on connections with students and bringing all the High Desert has to offer into the school,” she said. “The school is really special and I have been made to feel very welcome here.”

Clayton Hall became immersed in Sisters High School life mid-summer when he took over as the head football coach. His main area of focus in teaching is physical education and health.

“We couldn’t be more excited about the new teachers we have on our staff this year,” said Stancliff.

“They all bring unique talents to our team, and they have already developed a strong rapport with our students. I know they are excited to be at Sisters High School and our kids are in good hands!”

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Sisters School Board snapshot

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

The Sisters School Board met for its monthly meeting on Wednesday, October 6 via Zoom. Board members present included Edie Jones, David Thorsett, Jenica Cogdill, and Jeff Smith.

Vice-chair Thorsett conducted the meeting in Don Hedrick’s absence.

• Thorsett opened the meeting and the evening’s agenda was amended to move community comments to the end of the meeting.

• Building administrators Steve Stancliff, Tim Roth, and Joan Warburg reported through powerpoint and video on each school’s building-based goals regarding the District’s focus on the concepts of “Belong,” “Prepare,” and “Inspire.”

• “Belong” goals centered on ways that staff can ensure that all students feel welcome, connected, and safe. The “Prepare” goals included continuing to offer relevant education using meaningful assessments and offering all students the opportunity to formulate future goals. Related to that, the “Inspire” goals included the announcement of new curricular offerings that include STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) courses, as well as other new electives at the middle and high schools.

• The special programs report focused on the summer school offerings that included skill support, internships for students at Laird Superfood, and other aspects of the extended school year.

• Superintendent Curt Scholl presented an update on the building bond for

the new elementary school, which included the official hiring of the architectural firm of BLRB. Scholl indicated the volunteer bond oversight committee is in place and will be meeting in the near future with representatives from BLRB and other involved parties.

• According to Scholl, enrollment is down a bit from what was expected, but pointed out that in each of the last four years the district enrollment has actually grown during the year.

• Scholl gave an update on the Student Investment Account (SIA) which will be fully funded this year after last year coming in at about 30 percent. It is targeted in part toward reducing class sizes, providing adequate social/emotional support, and the English language learners in the District.

• The Board approved Scholl’s professional goals 4-0.

• Discussion ensued regarding the question of what will be done with the current elementary school property as well as that of the district office (district assets) once the elementary and other offices move to the new campus. Scholl said that it is his intent to engage Citizens4Community (C4C) in helping facilitate community input on what should happen with these properties.

This is one way that community ideas and concerns can be gathered, according to Scholl. Edie Jones volunteered to act as a liaison/representative of the Board for any future community meetings regarding this issue.

• Sally Benton, a Sisters resident since 1978 and a retired nurse who worked for 13 years for the Sisters

School District, expressed her full support for the District’s “Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services Plan.”

She quoted from the plan that, in part, states “returning all students to full-time, in-person instruction is a priority.” She said, “I am in total agreement with these principles. I want to thank all the School Board members, administrative staff, teachers, and support staff, and especially our school nurses.

They are doing the very best they can to ensure our children, teachers, and other employees of the District can stay safe and healthy. By following these health protocols, they are also helping to keep all of us in the community safe and healthy.”

The next Board meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 3 at 6 p.m. The agenda can be found on the school district website. It is not known yet if the meeting will be held in person.

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Girls soccer ends in deadlock

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The girls soccer squad traveled to Woodburn on Tuesday, October 5, and came away with a score deadlocked 0-0. To date, the Lady Outlaws are 3-1-2 in league and 4-2-2 overall.

Sisters played well against the talented and well-coached Bulldogs.

The Lady Outlaws defense played a physical and well-organized game and kept Woodburn from scoring. The midfield players also did a great job as they stayed compacted and forced the Bulldogs to attack wide and from outside the 18-yard box.

The Outlaws did have a few counterattacks, but primarily played a very defensive game. Coach Brian Holden credited his entire team for their physical and calm play throughout the contest.

Hollie Lewis showed incredible stamina as she played on both offense and defense the entire game.

Keeper Josie Patton had one of her best games of her high school career. She played on-point the entire game and made several important, crucial saves.

The Outlaws were to have a road game at Stayton on Tuesday, October 12. They will host Sweet Home on Thursday, October 14.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Tillman Glaze’s fiddle.

The ghosts

of Glaze Meadow

Elijah Barnes House

By Maret Pajutee | Correspondent

Glaze Meadow today.

I

magine walking in a grove of pine trees on a summer evening. Thereʼs a large meadow nearby and you are drawn toward it and the sunset colors. As you walk, you hear the soft crunch of fallen pine needles under your feet. But suddenly you hear something else. A sweet thread of violin music, sending an old tune soaring across the grasses and wildflowers of Glaze Meadow.

In front of you is an old

with his violin.

He settled in the Willamette Va l l e y, i n Dallas, and grew up t o m a r r y, PHOTO BY MARET PAJUTEE a n d run a saloon. Then, split-rail fence; as you step beginning a pattern that would over it and walk toward the follow so many in this story, shadow of Black Butte, you he shot a neighbor during a could step into a complicated feud, in what was ruled selfstory of outlaws and murder defense. When the manʼs rivaling any tale of the Old father came after him a few West. years later, Till shot him too, Glaze Meadow, at the base and was again cleared. of Black Butte, was named for To put some distance Tillman Glaze, the first settler between himself and the on the meadow near Indian feuding family, he moved to Ford Creek back in 1881. As Prineville in 1878. He opened a young boy, “Till” crossed the Glaze Saloon and a livery the plains with his parents and stable. After the stable burned entertained fellow travelers down, he built Glaze Hall

in 1884, a spot that became the center of community life for many years. Tillʼs love of music spread and he organized the first band in Central Oregon. The hall was used as an opera house, and a theatre and dance hall for masked balls and events. Till was described as a favorite colorful character around Prineville, always in demand for his music. His wife and four children were all accomplished musicians.

Till acquired 160 acres on Glaze Meadow to raise horses and a few cattle and built a cabin on the north meadow edge. According to his youngest son, Warren, every summer from 1881 to 1889 the Glaze family took the 40-mile trip to Glaze

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OF BOWMAN MUSEUM

Meadow, which took two days by wagon. They would start off on July 5, the day after the Fourth of July festivities in Prineville. Tillʼs brother Joe Glaze settled nearby with a cabin on Indian Ford Creek and was often there watching over the animals.

Local writers Jean Nave and Peggy Lucas recounted a strange wrinkle that occurred during the idyllic Glaze family summers at the meadow.

The story was that in 1882 a fellow named Mossy Barnes shot a rancher in Prineville and was advised to come to Glaze Meadow to hide out.

The county seat at the time was in The Dalles, and Mossy thought he couldnʼt get a fair trial so far from home, so he laid low, building a split-rail

Prineville Sheriff James Blakely fence around Glaze Meadow with Tillʼs brother Joe. Mossy later turned himself in to the new county seat in Prineville and was released with a verdict of self-defense.

But many accounts written of those years tie Mossy to the reign of the Prineville Vigilantes.

In 1902, 20 years after the events occurred, a Portland newspaper article called it “Crook Countyʼs Reign of Terror.” The Prineville Vigilantes started from a stockmanʼs association for protection from cattle thieves, but somehow evolved into masked men who left a skull and crossbones death notice on the doors of their enemies, and then killed and hung them from bridges and juniper trees. Nine or more people in Prineville were killed.

A deeper dive into accounts from that time revealed that Mossy Barnes was believed to be one of the Vigilantes. Despite his folksy name, Mossy Barnes was no poor country boy. He was James Morse Barnes, the son of Elijah Barnes, one of the founders and first mayor of Prineville. Elijah Barnes was understandably bitter because his first ranch in Prineville was lost to the governmentʼs land grant to Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon-Road Company. He was not compensated and the road company was accused of some fraud, not completing the roadwork promised. Elijah never recovered from the unfairness of it.

Mossy, his father, Elijah, and his brother George were described as a “fighting family,” and accounts alleged that young Mossy helped carry out a plan to pick a fight with Mike Mogan after a poker game, to create a quarrel and kill him. Mossy claimed the shooting was in self-defense, but the dying man identified the gun Mossy used as belonging to a leader of the Prineville Vigilantes.

Some accounts accused Mossy of other Vigilante murders. Mossy was advised to hide out at Glaze Meadow.

Public opinion was first with the Vigilantes due to frustrations with lax local

Tillman Glaze law enforcement. When the new county seat was formed in Prineville in 1883, the appointed county officers and court officials were nearly all Vigilantes. Mossy returned from his Glaze Meadow hideout and was acquitted by reason of self-defense.

After a string of killings in Prineville, the public and local rancher James Blakely had had enough. When the Vigilantes threatened him with death, Blakely formed “The Moonshiners,” citizens who rode in the moonlight looking for the masked riders.

Then the Vigilantes threatened they would break up the Moonshiners gang for good.

But many had joined Blakely, and the Moonshiners were 75 strong the night of a showdown at Glazeʼs saloon.

Till Glaze is reported to have tried to stay neutral in the dispute, considering Blakely a friend. In 1884 The Oregonian reported that Blakely said, “The gang members were looking out the windows of Till Glazeʼs saloon, I was fighting mad, and so were the rest of us. We were ready to fight it out right there. ʻIf you think you can stop us, come on out and try it!ʼ I hollered at the gang.”

They didnʼt come out, and itʼs said that on that night the Vigilantes power was broken and they never rode again.

A few months later, James Blakely was elected sheriff.

The stories of Mossy Barnes disappear after that.

His father, Elijah, still bitter over the loss of his claim, moved back to Missouri.

Brother George, a lawyer, died in a gunfight in Canyon City.

In 1889, Till sold Glaze Meadow to his friend, the new Prineville sheriff James Blakely, who reportedly used the cabin in Sisters as a retreat.

Then, in 1894, Till got into a dispute over a horse race in Burns and died in a saloon shootout. He and many of his family rest together in Juniper Haven Cemetery in Prineville.

Tillʼs gun and beloved violin are at the Bowman Museum, carefully protected

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by family and friends for 130 years. The beautifully tooled leather case is a marvel and has the words “Till Glaze Prineville” carved on the cover. The violin is inlayed with a shell flower.

And 13 years after his summer of fence-building at Glaze Meadow, 36-year-old Mossy hung himself in the upstairs of his familyʼs house in Prineville, a house that still stands today. Historian Steve Lent at the Bowman Museum and I agreed we donʼt really believe in ghosts, but then Steve paused and said “But...”

He explained that in his 20 years at the museum at least 12 renters of the Barnes house had come in asking, “What happened in this house?”

They reported sightings of a man sitting in the house and walking the hallways.

Today if you wander the wild reaches of Glaze Meadow, there is no trace of Tillʼs cabin, but a small piece of Mossyʼs fence still stands.

And on the right summer evening in July, you may think you hear a ghostly violin tune as spirits of the wild and tragic West gather and the moon rises.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Tillman Glaze’s fiddle.

The ghosts

of Glaze Meadow

Elijah Barnes House

By Maret Pajutee | Correspondent

Glaze Meadow today.

I

magine walking in a grove of pine trees on a summer evening. Thereʼs a large meadow nearby and you are drawn toward it and the sunset colors. As you walk, you hear the soft crunch of fallen pine needles under your feet. But suddenly you hear something else. A sweet thread of violin music, sending an old tune soaring across the grasses and wildflowers of Glaze Meadow.

In front of you is an old

with his violin.

He settled in the Willamette Va l l e y, i n Dallas, and grew up t o m a r r y, PHOTO BY MARET PAJUTEE a n d run a saloon. Then, split-rail fence; as you step beginning a pattern that would over it and walk toward the follow so many in this story, shadow of Black Butte, you he shot a neighbor during a could step into a complicated feud, in what was ruled selfstory of outlaws and murder defense. When the manʼs rivaling any tale of the Old father came after him a few West. years later, Till shot him too, Glaze Meadow, at the base and was again cleared. of Black Butte, was named for To put some distance Tillman Glaze, the first settler between himself and the on the meadow near Indian feuding family, he moved to Ford Creek back in 1881. As Prineville in 1878. He opened a young boy, “Till” crossed the Glaze Saloon and a livery the plains with his parents and stable. After the stable burned entertained fellow travelers down, he built Glaze Hall

in 1884, a spot that became the center of community life for many years. Tillʼs love of music spread and he organized the first band in Central Oregon. The hall was used as an opera house, and a theatre and dance hall for masked balls and events. Till was described as a favorite colorful character around Prineville, always in demand for his music. His wife and four children were all accomplished musicians.

Till acquired 160 acres on Glaze Meadow to raise horses and a few cattle and built a cabin on the north meadow edge. According to his youngest son, Warren, every summer from 1881 to 1889 the Glaze family took the 40-mile trip to Glaze

PHOTOS COURTESY

OF BOWMAN MUSEUM

Meadow, which took two days by wagon. They would start off on July 5, the day after the Fourth of July festivities in Prineville. Tillʼs brother Joe Glaze settled nearby with a cabin on Indian Ford Creek and was often there watching over the animals.

Local writers Jean Nave and Peggy Lucas recounted a strange wrinkle that occurred during the idyllic Glaze family summers at the meadow.

The story was that in 1882 a fellow named Mossy Barnes shot a rancher in Prineville and was advised to come to Glaze Meadow to hide out.

The county seat at the time was in The Dalles, and Mossy thought he couldnʼt get a fair trial so far from home, so he laid low, building a split-rail

Prineville Sheriff James Blakely fence around Glaze Meadow with Tillʼs brother Joe. Mossy later turned himself in to the new county seat in Prineville and was released with a verdict of self-defense.

But many accounts written of those years tie Mossy to the reign of the Prineville Vigilantes.

In 1902, 20 years after the events occurred, a Portland newspaper article called it “Crook Countyʼs Reign of Terror.” The Prineville Vigilantes started from a stockmanʼs association for protection from cattle thieves, but somehow evolved into masked men who left a skull and crossbones death notice on the doors of their enemies, and then killed and hung them from bridges and juniper trees. Nine or more people in Prineville were killed.

A deeper dive into accounts from that time revealed that Mossy Barnes was believed to be one of the Vigilantes. Despite his folksy name, Mossy Barnes was no poor country boy. He was James Morse Barnes, the son of Elijah Barnes, one of the founders and first mayor of Prineville. Elijah Barnes was understandably bitter because his first ranch in Prineville was lost to the governmentʼs land grant to Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon-Road Company. He was not compensated and the road company was accused of some fraud, not completing the roadwork promised. Elijah never recovered from the unfairness of it.

Mossy, his father, Elijah, and his brother George were described as a “fighting family,” and accounts alleged that young Mossy helped carry out a plan to pick a fight with Mike Mogan after a poker game, to create a quarrel and kill him. Mossy claimed the shooting was in self-defense, but the dying man identified the gun Mossy used as belonging to a leader of the Prineville Vigilantes.

Some accounts accused Mossy of other Vigilante murders. Mossy was advised to hide out at Glaze Meadow.

Public opinion was first with the Vigilantes due to frustrations with lax local

Tillman Glaze law enforcement. When the new county seat was formed in Prineville in 1883, the appointed county officers and court officials were nearly all Vigilantes. Mossy returned from his Glaze Meadow hideout and was acquitted by reason of self-defense.

After a string of killings in Prineville, the public and local rancher James Blakely had had enough. When the Vigilantes threatened him with death, Blakely formed “The Moonshiners,” citizens who rode in the moonlight looking for the masked riders.

Then the Vigilantes threatened they would break up the Moonshiners gang for good.

But many had joined Blakely, and the Moonshiners were 75 strong the night of a showdown at Glazeʼs saloon.

Till Glaze is reported to have tried to stay neutral in the dispute, considering Blakely a friend. In 1884 The Oregonian reported that Blakely said, “The gang members were looking out the windows of Till Glazeʼs saloon, I was fighting mad, and so were the rest of us. We were ready to fight it out right there. ʻIf you think you can stop us, come on out and try it!ʼ I hollered at the gang.”

They didnʼt come out, and itʼs said that on that night the Vigilantes power was broken and they never rode again.

A few months later, James Blakely was elected sheriff.

The stories of Mossy Barnes disappear after that.

His father, Elijah, still bitter over the loss of his claim, moved back to Missouri.

Brother George, a lawyer, died in a gunfight in Canyon City.

In 1889, Till sold Glaze Meadow to his friend, the new Prineville sheriff James Blakely, who reportedly used the cabin in Sisters as a retreat.

Then, in 1894, Till got into a dispute over a horse race in Burns and died in a saloon shootout. He and many of his family rest together in Juniper Haven Cemetery in Prineville.

Tillʼs gun and beloved violin are at the Bowman Museum, carefully protected

13

by family and friends for 130 years. The beautifully tooled leather case is a marvel and has the words “Till Glaze Prineville” carved on the cover. The violin is inlayed with a shell flower.

And 13 years after his summer of fence-building at Glaze Meadow, 36-year-old Mossy hung himself in the upstairs of his familyʼs house in Prineville, a house that still stands today. Historian Steve Lent at the Bowman Museum and I agreed we donʼt really believe in ghosts, but then Steve paused and said “But...”

He explained that in his 20 years at the museum at least 12 renters of the Barnes house had come in asking, “What happened in this house?”

They reported sightings of a man sitting in the house and walking the hallways.

Today if you wander the wild reaches of Glaze Meadow, there is no trace of Tillʼs cabin, but a small piece of Mossyʼs fence still stands.

And on the right summer evening in July, you may think you hear a ghostly violin tune as spirits of the wild and tragic West gather and the moon rises.

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BRIDGE: Players must have vaccinations to participate Continued from page 3

must be fully vaccinated and, for the foreseeable future, wear masks. Club members meet every Thursday afternoon (except holidays) as the guests of Sisters Community Church at 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy., near Sisters Middle School.

The club’s locations over the years comprise an interesting slice of Sisters history.

Started in 1980 by Carol Cheney, owner of the Plum Pretty store, the club’s first home was in the old Sisters fire station until the popularity of the weekly bridge gatherings grew to the point where the fire chief felt that it interfered with firefighters’ duties.

From there, the club played upstairs in the Sisters Hotel until it moved for a time into the Cloverdale schoolhouse. After that, the Episcopal Church played host for more than a decade.

That was before the church’s

expansion, and some of the older players had difficulty with the steep stairs into the basement; so, about that time, the new clubhouse at The Pines became available, which was home for many more years.

The Pines Clubhouse, however, was sold in August of this year, so Sisters Community Church stepped into the breach to provide the present home for the club.

Lee Lucas is one of the club members who has volunteered to help teach free lessons to newcomers.

“I am drawn to bridge because of the challenges it poses of a mathematical nature,” he said. “I look at bidding as the most challenging aspect of bridge.”

With a wry smile, Lucas added, “Bridge is a game I can play no matter how old and feeble I get.”

The format for the past 40 years has been simple party bridge. Organizers stress that play is a very low-key version of social contract bridge and definitely not a high-pressure duplicate scenario. The idea is just to have fun. Participants contribute two dollars each week, half of which goes

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Sisters Bridge Club returns from pandemic hiatus. for that day’s high-score prizes and half for operating expenses. There is also a 25-cent “grand slam” pot.

The current club organizers are Jane Bubak, Barbara Brockway, Donna Carter, and Cindy Wideman, all of whom were excited to get the group together again after the COVID hiatus.

Brockaway said, “Every Thursday is a new game of strategy, both offensively and defensively. You are dealt a new hand each time. You and your partner must work together to complete your contract. At the same time,

Bridge has a long history

By Craig F. Eisenbeis Correspondent

Long celebrated as a pathway to building and maintaining brain power, the game of bridge is descended from a 16th century card game called whist, which was popular among the English nobility of that era.

In Turkey during the 1890s, the game began to evolve into its current form and rapidly spread around the globe, quickly finding a home in the United States.

The next major change occurred around the turn of the last century, in France, where the partners were

required to predict how many “tricks” their team could win.

The present form of “contract” bridge, and its scoring, was developed by the wealthy American, Harold Vanderbilt, during a steamship cruise in 1925.

Harold was the greatgrandson of the railroad and shipping tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt.

The popularity of bridge reached its zenith in this country during the 1930s and ’40s. For a time, bridge rivaled baseball as a top national interest and was frequently featured in Sports Illustrated.

friendships are made, new partnerships are created, and your brain gets that weekly workout.”

Bubak added, “I learned beginner bridge as a teenager, but then work, family, and difficulty finding the opportunity got in the way.

The Sisters Bridge Club took me in. I met friendly folks who showed me how intricate the game can be and how there

is always something more to learn. And sometimes you surprise yourself and win!”

Those interested in playing bridge — or learning to play — are encouraged to email the organization at sistersbridge2021@gmail. com. If email is not available, call Lee Lucas at 541549-1150. The club will also help newcomers find partners.

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Like the sports doping scandals of recent years, cheating scandals rocked the bridge world at international tournaments in the 1970s.

Although television and electronics have siphoned off interest over the years, the game continues to be recognized as one of the best and most popular methods of sharpening mental acuity and social skills.

Those seeking a social and challenging form of entertainment that helps build brain power, and does not involve the electronic world, should consider playing bridge.

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We will revisit this move as the COVID-19 situation evolves in Sisters and Central Oregon.

Jim Cornelius Editor-in-Chief

s s s To the Editor: To prevent further spread of the coronavirus, we should require everyone to get fully vaccinated (including a possible third dose) — unless exempted by a sincerely held religious belief or medical condition. We should write to our legislators and executives at all levels of government.

Alvin Blake

s s s To the Editor: A letter in The Nugget stated 358 children in the USA died of COVID-19 January 2020-July 2021. Inaccurately, the letter said none of those deaths were in Oregon. Furthermore, it is not correct that Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS 127.507) gives Oregon citizens the right of mask refusal. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and ORS provide clarity.

OHA defines children/pediatrics as those not yet 18 years old. CDC includes age 18. CDC reported from January 4, 2020 to October 2, 2021 there were a total of 587 deaths of children from COVID-19; 181 aged 0 - 4 years and 406 aged 5 - 18. OHA reported three pediatric deaths; April 26, 2020 to September 12, 2021.

Importantly, both CDC and OHA report a marked increase in hospitalizations of children ages 0-5 years from August to early September 2021.

OHA reports the highest number of COVID cases for children are in Grant, Harney, and Jefferson counties. Of the 334,969 cases reported in Oregon to date, 18,044 (5.4 percent) have been hospitalized, and 3,823 (1.1 percent) have died. Lucky us.

Under the doctrine of in loco parentis, schools

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and teachers are responsible for and have authority over the safety and health of children — like requiring masks.

ORS Chapter 127 is titled “Powers of Attorney; Advance Directives for Health Care; Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Registry; Declarations for Mental Health Treatment; Death with Dignity.”

ORS 127.505 is titled “Definitions for ORS 127.505 to 127.660.” Definition (9): “‘Health care’ means diagnosis, treatment or care of disease, injury and congenital or degenerative conditions, including the use, maintenance, withdrawal or withholding of life-sustaining procedures and the use, maintenance, withdrawal or withholding of artificially administered nutrition and hydration.”

Therefore, when ORS 127.507 states, “Capable adults may make their own health care decisions,” it has absolutely nothing to do with one’s right, or not, to don a mask. It means if one is in the midst of a personal health crisis requiring a life-threatening decision to be made and one is also capable of making that decision, then ORS 127.507 protects that person from others making that decision for them.

What allows the mask-less to be so is that there are no “teeth” in the mandate to wear masks; no punishment. One can choose not to wear a mask, but then the school district has the legal right to add teeth: refuse the mask-less admittance, eject them from the premises, and/or fine the mask-less. For the same reason it is not acceptable to scream “FIRE” in a theater, one is not allowed to put others’ children at risk during a pandemic.

Susan Cobb

are no side effects and/or unknown long-term side effects? What happened to “my body my choice” or “it’s between me and my doctor and family.”

If you are vaccinated, protected, and also wear a mask, where is the logic that somehow a person who has natural immunity is a danger to you?

In going to the link she referenced (concerning misinformation) I looked for her idea that The Nugget should adopt the approach taken by the Malheur Enterprise and “name and shame those who do so.” It may be there but I didn’t see those words “name and shame.” In my opinion it’s a dangerous “woke” slippery slope.

So who is the arbiter of truth — Don Lemon, WHO, Biden, Pelosi, Fauci, or Governor Brown?

People on all sides of the argument are concerned or scared and don’t agree on what “science” or “data” to believe. Therefore, sticking with the freedom to choose however your conscience leads you should be respected at this point.

Somehow, I can’t stop believing that the whole truth is tied to following the money.

Jeff Mackey

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To the Editor: In her letter to the editor of September 29, Mary Chaffin is obviously frustrated with the effect of COVID-19 and that people are not complying with her belief that taking the shot is the only solution according to science.

She claims people can safely take the vaccine and that is true. Does that mean in reality there

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Clarification To the Editor: Clarification of my letter to the editor on October 6: Although Thomas Jefferson did indeed coin the term “Separation of Church and State” in his early writings, the phrase does not ultimately appear in the final ratified text of the Bill of Rights. I apologize for any confusion this caused.

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up with spy novels and action movies to guide our beliefs and thoughts!

So the question is: how does one discern between conspiracy theory and truth? Objective evidence.

Obviously, conspiracy mom’s beliefs and fears did not produce evidence of her theory. In fact, she started from her fears and looked for facts that confirmed her fears: a “communist” gathering next door turned out to be a Tupperware party. It’s one thing to accuse someone of being Marxist and another thing completely when they claim to be Marxist.

Several weeks ago I wrote an article on CRT and its influence in the country, especially in the Portland schools. With a 700-word allotment in the guest column The Nugget had to edit out the researched websites. One site I did not include because it does not acknowledge genuine challenges people of color experience and I believe is unfairly lopsided, however it does document names and places and activities which are taking place in Portland schools which does not create human flourishing. The author risks being sued for defamation and misrepresentation if false. I’d like to list a couple of references here while you do further research. Thanks for including Conspiracy Theory Mom in the guest column! I appreciate others’ points of view.

Rufo, C. F. (2021, June 13). The child soldiers of Portland. City Journal. Retrieved October 7, 2021, from www.city-journal.org/ critical-race-theory-portland-public-schools.

Ball, J. (2020, September 23). A short history of black lives matter. The Real News Network.

Retrieved October 7, 2021, from www.therealnews. com/pcullors0722blacklives.

Wikimedia Foundation. (2021, September 18).

Struggle session. Wikipedia. Retrieved October 7, 2021, from www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Struggle_session.

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To the Editor: It may be easy for someone who is decently well off to say, “let’s keep emotions out of this conversation.” Tell that to someone who has been living out of a tent in the freezing cold.

What it really comes down to is how much do people actually care to fix this problem? I’m convinced that most people don’t care enough until

it threatens themselves.

Many hardworking Americans can barely even afford to live in Central Oregon anymore. And it’s not just a problem in this area, this problem is affecting us nationwide.

Many lower class/young people are likely to no longer even be able to afford to live in this area pretty soon. This is a time we desperately need real solutions. We need people to stop thinking the ways they always have and to start thinking outside of the box.

As rent is increased for many of the apartments in this area, typically to $100 or more per year, how does anyone simply nod their head and think that is OK? It’s not. Many economists find that even when inflation does cool down, that doesn’t mean that rent is going back down.

That has serious implications for millions of people at our current inflation trajectory. Most people I know are barely keeping up with it as it is. Many people I know are resorting to living in vehicles and their car payment is now the new rent. The fact is that the cost of living is literally outpacing the wages of a regular person in America.

One idea that should be strongly considered in the face of this issue is Universal Basic Income (UBI). The idea is that every single American would unconditionally receive a sum of money each month to help form a baseline starting point. Many have suggested $1,000 a month, other towns in America right now are running trials giving out around $500 per month. The taxes to fund such a program would be specifically aimed primarily at huge corporate entities making billions — companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google which are currently using loopholes to get out of paying their fair share.

The findings from UBI trials in other towns are very promising, and it’s been shown to be extremely good for the local economy. Aside from pure economic value, the impact it has on people’s lives is incredible. Just think of how much a financial safety net for society would help people who are currently houseless. That’s a real solution. Cash.

I would encourage the City of Sisters to look into the possibility of being a part of one of these trials.

Many of the current trials are donor-funded and they are being used as research to see what the effects of UBI would be on the nation. UBI is a pro-capitalist program that still allows America to function as the capitalist country that it is, but from a more humancentered perspective. Read about it, consider it. It’s an actual solution. ?

Andrew Roe

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Flag etiquette To the Editor: While there is diversity in our country and community, there is one thing many US citizens agree, this country was founded on the principles of natural rights that include: the right to property, the right to question the government, and the right to have free and independent thought. The Declaration of Independence was established with consideration to these natural rights. Many who still respect this principle also believe in the United States of America, in its republic, one NATION under God with liberty and justice for all. The United States flag represent these principles, rights. and the people of this great country.

Many including myself are concerned with some issues happening in today’s government and political world. Recently I noticed a local resident flying an American Flag upside down. The United States Flag Code expresses the idea concisely, stating that a flag should never be flown upsidedown except under one condition, being in some serious trouble. An upside-down flag is a signal of dire distress, in an instance of extreme danger to life or property.

Perhaps the individual who has chosen to fly the flag upside-down is actually troubled by dire distress facing the economics of the United States, state of this government, climate change of the entire planet? For whatever reason this individual has chosen to express their free speech right, to fly the American flag upside-down for a less obvious issue in this manner is actually reckless and disrespects many aspects of residents at large including the veterans in this community who serve(d) this country.

I hope a true patriot would consider the ramification of claiming dire distress in your community where new neighbors are moving in, others are trying to sell, and prospective buyers see the upside-down flag. This action is insulting to Americans and America. No matter your status in this county; legal or illegal, civilian or veteran, race, gender or creed, you have freedoms and liberties that we all should respect and be thankful for.

As a retired Navy veteran serving my country for 22 years, my flag flies proudly, out of respect for those friends who returned permanently wounded, and those who never made it back. It flies proudly for all who gave up portions of their life so that others could enjoy the freedoms of this country. It is my hope that eventually, everything will be all right.

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Air service from Redmond to Portland ends November 4

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

The last nonstop flight to Portland, the 7 a.m. Alaska Airlines jump, will make its final flight November 3, due to lack of sufficient passenger traffic. The loss of commercial air service between Central Oregon and PDX (Portland International) is more symbolic than meaningful. Rarely would anybody from Sisters or Deschutes County fly to the Rose City unless they were connecting. It was much easier just to jump in your car or truck and arrive in under three hours, weather permitting.

Two things factored into Alaska Air Group’s decision.

One, Portland with its tourism image in tatters from more than a year of civil unrest, found airlines unable to fill seats going to Portland; thus schedules were reduced leading to fewer flights available returning from Portland. A year ago, for example, there were six nonstop flights a day from New York’s three airports. Today there are three, with many empty seats. Businesses are apparently reluctant to book meetings in the once-storied conference and convention city.

COVID-19 dented tourism and business travel everywhere. A survey conducted by the City of Portland, however, found 68 percent of respondents said their top reason for not visiting Portland was due to the riots and protests.

Scenes of a city trying to emerge from one of its most wrenching periods, one that saw its reputation go from quirky “Portlandia” to violent dystopia in the minds of a majority of out-of-state travelers on the outside looking in.

Officials have committed millions of dollars to cleaning up downtown — removing graffiti, clearing large homeless encampments, and restoring damaged buildings.

Additionally, the mayor’s office has launched a reputation and rebranding effort.

“We’re doggedly determined to recover,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said in his stateof-the-city address this year.

“Our community has what it takes to move forward to a much greater future.”

The second impact on Portland as a connecting hub from Redmond was the competition from Seattle’s airport, which offers a vastly larger map of destinations, particularly international.

A year ago, Portland had

nonstop flights to London, Amsterdam, and Tokyo, and others that no longer operate.

From Seattle you can get to 121 destinations nonstop in 17 countries compared to 75 and seven from PDX. So, what to do if you prefer PDX (Portland) or the flight times from PDX are better? You can always drive and park, do a one-way car rental, or take the shuttle.

None make much economic sense if you factor in gas or put any value at all on your time.

Seattle generally gives you the best price for longdistance travel. For example: Redmond to Boston via Denver on October 26th and returning a week later is $326. Through Seattle it is $288. Or to Paris, it’s $1,242 via Denver and $859 connecting in Seattle.

As always you have to factor in total elapsed times, number of connections, aircraft type (seating is important), meals, baggage fees, and connecting cities. San Francisco with its notorious fog is always a risk for international connections. And do you want to connect in Chicago in January?

If you are determined that Portland is your preferred gateway, and you want to

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Saturday service. The ride is in a bus that looks like most city buses.

Shuttle Oregon, based in Bend, will take you to Salem or Portland’s Union Station any day but Saturday, but not to PDX. Departing Sisters at 9:30 a.m., you’ll get to the train station, a dozen blocks from downtown, at 12:30 p.m. for $50 ($45 for seniors).

There is a $4 reduction for round trip. Service animals are free. Regular pooches are $10. For $5 more, you can take your bike. Standard services include WiFi, Sirius Satellite Radio, and complimentary snacks and beverages in a 14-person shuttle van.

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drive, then figure about $35 in gas from Sisters and parking at $6/day — long term, meaning a long shuttle ride.

Add 30 minutes. A one-way car rental will take about $102, double the pre-COVID rate, and the same gas bill.

Or, the shuttle, the method most people haven’t heard of, means getting to Redmond for the 7:30 a.m. pickup. Six stops later, you are at PDX at 10:45 a.m. The return trip is at 3:45 p.m. getting you to Redmond at 7 p.m.

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WEATHER: Sisters and PNW will see La Niña effect Continued from page 1

play. The phase is neutral when temperatures are near normal.

For those of us here in the Pacific Northwest, El Niños usually bring warmer and drier winters overall, while La Niñas tend to be cooler and wetter. This correlation isn’t as good during a neutral phase.

Currently the ENSO phase is neutral, but tropical waters are cooling, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center is expecting a 70-80 percent chance that La Niña will return this winter.

Before jumping headlong into some of the predictions, let’s pause and take a brief look back at how the 202021 winter played out.

Because the development of a La Niña was foreseen, the forecast called for a cool and wet winter with generous amounts of mountain snow. Indeed, a healthy La Niña showed up on time and persisted through the winter. So, what was the resulting weather?

In Seattle, during the five-month period November 2020 through March 2021, precipitation totaled almost two inches above normal. Temperatures were near normal. But during the same time period at Portland and Redmond, nearly two inches less than normal precipitation fell.

Temperatures averaged above normal at both stations.

The Cascade snowpack was more than 130 percent of normal in northern and central Washington, while in Oregon it ranged from near 100 percent of normal in the north to 70-80 percent in the central part of the state. It was even drier in southern Oregon. Frequent storms did indeed make their way into the Northwest (though mostly later in the season in Oregon), but it was as if the storm track was displaced to the north of its normal position.

So, here we are about to enter the second of backto-back La Niña winters.

Is there any additional predictive value that can be applied to the second La Niña in this situation?

It turns out the following La Niña is usually weaker than the first. According to Paul Pastelok, AccuWeather’s Senior Meteorologist, who leads a group of long-range forecasters, “La Niña may not come and do the same things that we typically see

because it’s weaker.”

The Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies will still experience a wet winter with plenty of snow in the mountains, but it might not total as much as last winter.

Pastelok also believes La Niña-like conditions will occur early, then fade as the season progresses. This opens the door for other factors to influence the weather later in the winter.

There are also signs that the polar vortex may weaken, allowing arctic air to sag southward into the U.S. before the official start of winter.

Pete Parsons, lead meteorologist at the Oregon Department of Forestry, has advanced a similar scenario. A highlight in his forecast for western Oregon is, “Expect alternating cool and mild periods in October and November, but the chances for below-average temperatures, cold-air outbreaks, and significant valley snowfall increase dramatically in December.”

On September 16, the Climate Prediction Center issued its forecast for the period December through February. It calls for cooler than normal temperatures in most of Washington and western Oregon, and above normal precipitation in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.

But here’s the thing: In recent years, temperatures have been on the rise nearly everywhere across the planet while precipitation levels have decreased, at least in our neck of the woods. Is climate change lowering the reliability of some of the methods seasonal forecasters have been using for decades?

In the past 11 years, there have been five La Niñas, two El Niños, and four neutral phases. In our part of the world that should have caused temperatures to trend downward, or at least shown little change, resulting in more precipitation. Instead, the opposite is true.

Arctic air intrusions (where temperatures plummet to well below zero degrees Fahrenheit) are not as frequent and don’t last as long as they used to, according to the memories of some old-timers here in Sisters Country. Since 2009, there have only been three such events, all of relatively short duration.

While these data certainly are not proof of climate change, they are consistent with the longterm warming and drying taking place in our region.

Perhaps atmospheric scientists will find a way to accurately quantify climate change in a way that can be useful to improve future seasonal forecasts.

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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 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.

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

SERVICE TO PROVIDE? BUSINESS TO PROMOTE? VEHICLE FOR SALE? HOUSE TO RENT? LOOKING FOR LAND? GARAGE TOO FULL? NEED SOME HELP? Advertise in The Nugget Newspaper's CLASSIFIEDS For no additional cost your classified goes ONLINE! Go to www.NuggetNews.com DEADLINE: Every Monday by noon. Call 541-549-9941

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

Local grown, English-bred beef.

1/4, 1/2 or full cow available. $3.25/lb. hanging weight Butcher dates reserved in November. 541-325-3020 r.gardner@morrow.com.

301 Vehicles

We Buy, Sell, Consign Quality Cars, Trucks, SUVs & RVs ~ Call Jeff at 541-815-7397 Sisters Car Connection da#3919 SistersCarConnection.com CAR TO SELL? Place your ad in The Nugget

401 Horses

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Andersen's Almost Anything Small home repairs, projects RV repairs, inspections.

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Ponderosa pine firewood Logs 24"-40" diameter, 6 - 14 foot long, $75.00 per cord, 2 cord min. Delivered local Sisters area. Call or text David 541-420-3254 Lodgepole Pine Firewood Intermountain Wood Energy Seasoned/split, delivered or pickup, and log-truck loads.

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R&B Ranch L.L.C. offering horse boarding services. Details available at rbhorseranch.com or call 541-325-3020.

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CARPETS, WINDOWS FREE Dog & Cat Food & UPHOLSTERY 203 Recreation Equipment No contact pick-up by appt.

Member Better Business Bureau J Livingston Cruiser. Barely 412 E. Main Ave., Ste. 4 • Bonded & Insured • ridden. New $1000, selling for 541-797-4023 Serving Central Oregon $500 firm. 513-260-3958 Great Pyrenees puppies, ready Since 1980 soon. 2 females, 1 male, pure 204 Arts & Antiques Call 541-549-3008 white. $600 each. 530-905-2250.

Carousel Horses M & J CARPET CLEANING Bend Spay & Neuter Project Two handcarved C1902 carousel Area rugs, upholstery, tile & Providing Low-Cost Options for dryer-vent cleaning. Established horses, restored, Sisters area, Spay, Neuter and more! crated for travel, excellent & family-owned since 1986.

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504 Handyman PONDEROSA PROPERTIES 503-702-4918 500 Services –Monthly Rentals Available– Home Customizations, LLC JEWELRY REPAIR & Call Debbie at 541-549-2002 Res. & Commercial Remodeling, CUSTOM DESIGN Full details, 24 hrs./day, go to: Bldg.

Maintenance & Painting Graduate gemologist. Over 45 PonderosaProperties.com Chris Patrick, Owner years experience. Cash for gold.

Printed list at 221 S. Ash, Sisters homecustomizations@gmail.com Metals • 220 S. Ash St. Suite 1 Ponderosa Properties LLC CCB #191760 • 541-588-0083 541-904-0410 SISTERS HONEYDO 104 Vacation Rentals 205 Garage & Estate Sales Punch lists, painting, carpentry, Tollgate. 2 bed, 2 bath, fully VINTAGE TO NEW drywall repair, plumbing, Junk removal, new home, furnished. 10/22 through 11/26.

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Part-time Sales Associate We are looking for a person who is friendly, outgoing, and reliable; someone who enjoys working with the public in a team environment. Work days would be Friday - Sunday.

Applications available at the Stitchin' Post, 311 W. Cascade Ave. in Sisters or by emailing diane.j@stitchinpost.com.

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541-515-8462 Full- and part-time positions J&E Landscaping Maintenance available including line cook, LLC Clean-ups, raking, mowing, host/hostess, and server. Pay hauling debris, gutters. depends on experience and Edgar Cortez 541-610-8982 Free On-site Visit & Estimate position. Email your resume to jandelspcing15@gmail.com Tewaltandsonsexcavation@ resumes@threecreeksbrewing. gmail.com – All You Need Maintenance – com to apply.

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CLASSIFIEDS The Garden Angel is now filling landscape supervisor and maintenance crew member positions. LCB #9583. Inquire at 541-549-2882 or thegardenangel@gmail.com Caretaker for Fourth Sister Condominium. Responsible for the security and maintenance of common buildings and landscaping. Duties include, but are not limited to: pool and hot tub maintenance, which includes opening and closing daily, cleaning, performing simple repairs and maintenance tasks, and performing security checks on the campus. Housing will be provided for the caretaker.

541-410-8833 roy.s.dean@gmail.com 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.

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equipment this fall Continued from page 1

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Jill Neal’s stall was a busy place during the Sisters Harvest Faire.

FAIRE: Event returned with a big draw to Main Avenue Continued from page 3

next year.

Saturday’s weather was just about perfect, with abundant sunshine and velvety autumn air that crested the 60-degree mark in the afternoon. Sunday brought some challenges, as gusty winds kicked up, battering tent walls and, in some cases, sending vendors’ wares crashing down. Toward the end of the Faire, spates of showers moved across town.

But none of that dampened the spirits of creative souls who make their living, or part of it, crafting art or artisan products.

Nil Organic Tea was down from Scappoose with hand-blended, organic teas that spoke to the scents and flavors of the season.

Jennifer Hartwig offered a large display of her scratchboard art. She fell in love with the technique — where an artist uses a blade to scratch into a dark surface, leaving white or colored lines beneath — when she was in high school. She gave up art for a time as she raised a family, but returned to it about 20 years ago.

She offers exquisitely

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detailed original works, with a particular affinity for animals.

“She’s able to really capture something special in the eyes of these animals,” said Amy Terebesi, who was assisting Hartwig at her stall.

“It’s more lifelike than anything you’ve ever seen… it makes me tingle inside.”

Hartwig offers her work on coffee mugs and greeting cards, so that there is a low price-point opportunity for people to take home her art.

“Not everybody can afford a $1,000 original,” she said.

Her philosophy might have been a watchword for many of the artists and artisans at the Sisters Harvest Faire, who are producing unique, original work: “Everybody needs to have a piece of art in their house.”

been determined, and the Oregon Office of the State Fire Marshal is conducting an investigation. Damage estimates are yet to be determined.

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office and Oregon Department of Forestry assisted at the scene and Bend Fire and Rescue assisted with ambulance coverage from the SistersCamp Sherman Fire District’s main station during the incident.

A homeowner breaking in a new exterior propane fireplace, installed during a remodel in progress at her home on Jordan Road, noted an occasional smell of smoke and then visible smoke near the roof of a new addition on Wednesday evening, October 6, and alerted 911.

Firefighters arrived to find light smoke in the area of the driveway and smoke seeping through the stone masonry around the chimney chase, the ridge vent of the covered patio area, and the recessed light fixtures on the underside of the covered patio roof. The interior of the house had no visible smoke or fire.

A total of 26 firefighters responded from SistersCamp Sherman, Black Butte

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Ranch, and Cloverdale Fire Districts. Firefighters accessed the exterior chimney and found flames after removing the large sheet-metal cap in place to cover the chimney chase.

Personnel worked with chainsaws and other tools to remove the chimney chase and roofing materials adjacent to the chimney to ensure all fire had been extinguished before covering holes created by the removal to prevent damage from the elements.

The cause of the fire is currently under investigation.

Damage estimate is yet to be determined.

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene.

As temperatures drop going into fall and winter, local fire officials encourage residents to have existing heating equipment including woodstoves and fireplaces cleaned and inspected by a certified technician prior to their first use. New equipment should be installed by a qualified professional according to local codes and manufacturer’s instructions.

In addition, residents are encouraged to clear roofs and gutters of leaves and pine needles and keep anything that can burn at least three feet away from heating equipment.

For more information, contact the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District at 541-549-0771.

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ROUNDHOUSE: Local foundation has extended its reach Continued from page 3

Sisters Art Works, a two-story building with offices and studio space for artists and those practicing the healing arts.

That same building is now owned by the Sisters Folk Festival, a repeat recipient of Roundhouse funds. The vision of that area of town becoming an arts district, however, didn’t materialize.

One of Deggendorfer’s dreams was to create a beautiful space where people could meet, create, and collaborate. The Roundhouse Foundation provided funds for 30 working artists to attend residencies or classes at world-renowned arts centers and report back on their findings of how their experiences could be replicated here in Sisters. The consensus opinion supported the concept of a campustype residential setting where artists and others could work and collaborate.

Over the past several years, the mission of the Foundation has grown to encompass all types of creative problem-solving throughout Oregon’s rural communities and tribal nations. Roundhouse now offers support in distinct yet interconnected areas that are fundamental for thriving rural communities.

In 2020, they granted over $1 million to organizations and communities across rural Oregon in the following focus areas: arts and culture, 25 percent; environment,

agriculture, and fire relief, 11 percent; community development and education, 34 percent; and health and social services, 30 percent.

Although that is the most granted in a year in the Foundation’s history, they are on track to gift $12 million in 2021.

This year alone, they have provided gifts of $6 million to the High Desert Museum, $2 million to the Oregon Coast Aquarium, and $750,000 to Partners in Care for their new Hospice House.

One very noticeable characteristic of the Roundhouse Foundation can be found on their website.

The current grant application process is designed to be simple and straightforward.

They encourage applicants to contact them with questions.

According to the website, “The Roundhouse Foundation prides itself on collaborative and trust-based philanthropy; our organization seeks to ensure innovative ideas find encouragement and support.

When organizations work together in partnership, communities benefit.”

After Deggendorfer invited her husband, Frank, and daughter Erin Borla to join the trustees in 2014, big changes continued.

Borla became the executive director of the Foundation in January 2020. She spends considerable time making site visits and meeting the personnel involved in the work of their many partners.

“We like to go to sites and see their enthusiasm,” said Borla. “That allows for building synergy between us.”

Deggendorfer calls it “work beyond the check,”

making visits, phone calls, and connecting partners with other funders and nonprofits. She explained the Roundhouse philosophy of philanthropy.

“We like to partner with other funders, so we are not the only funder,” she said.

“We don’t want to be the ‘only horse to ride.’ Building networks and funding other funders can be game changers as we build a community of leadership. Where there are holes, we help build relationships.”

The Foundation staff reviews all grant applications to be sure they meet the grant criteria, and pass those qualifying onto the grant committee, made up of members from across the state. They review and make final recommendations to the trustees for final approval.

When the Foundation purchased Pine Meadow Ranch as their headquarters in 2017 (see story on pg. 23), there were two employees. Today, between the Foundation and the Ranch there are 14 employees and counting, depending on the season.

There are two different grant programs available from the Roundhouse Foundation.

Small grants under $2,500 help support grassroots, innovative work and offer opportunities to explore and test new approaches and projects, which can then be replicated for broader impact.

Applications are evaluated each month, with funding for the selected proposals usually disbursed within two to three weeks after the funding decision.

There are two open-call grant cycles, in the spring

Generations of collaborative spirit

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

“One of Mom’s famous ‘Gertisms’ was, ‘It is better to give with a warm hand than a cold one,’” Kathy Deggendorfer, founder of the Roundhouse Foundation, remembers.

In that spirit, Gert Boyle, the “one tough mother” of Columbia Sportswear fame, funded the Roundhouse Foundation in 2002.

According to the Foundation website, “Gert was no stranger to challenges as she immigrated from Nazi Germany in 1937, took over Columbia Hat Company with her husband, Neal, and then quickly had to transition the family business after Neal’s sudden death in 1970. Gert recognized the need for hard work and collaboration to ensure the family business and the greater community

was successful.”

That success became Columbia Sportswear.

That hard work and collaborative spirit are evident in Gert’s offspring of several generations.

Deggendorfer has made a myriad of contributions to the community of Sisters and beyond while maintaining h e r o w n a r t c a r e e r.

Deggendorfer’s daughter, Erin Borla, is a graduate of Sisters High School, Oregon State University, and George Washington University. She served as the executive director of Sisters Chamber of Commerce as well as being a wife and mother of two children. And she is now the Foundation’s executive director.

“I live and work in Sisters, Oregon, and Mom was a frequent visitor,” said Deggendorfer. “We love rural Oregon, its scenic beauty, and the creative

community of artists who live throughout our regions.”

With Gert’s death in 2019, the Foundation received a portion of her estate, enabling them to rework and broaden their mission and reach.

The name Roundhouse was explained by Borla: “Kathy’s father, Neal, used the phrase, ‘Run to the roundhouse, they’ll never corner you there.’ Kathy’s image of the roundhouse surfaces multiple times in many different iterations about change and community references.

Tribal recognition and work Kathy has done in the South Pacific – the shape of the community spaces are round houses. Community comes together there to discuss and collaborate.”

At Pine Meadow Ranch there just happens to be a round barn built by earlier inhabitants.

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A roundhouse barn at Pine Meadow Ranch is symbolic of the foundation headquartered there. and fall of each year. The requested amount isn’t to exceed $100,000. Median awards range from $5,000 - $20,000. One open-call proposal a year may be submitted for programs that fit the Foundation’s four focus areas and the eligibility guidelines (on the website).

All proposals, regardless of the applicant’s location, must have a clear and compelling benefit to rural Oregon.

Visit www.roundhouse foundation.org.

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PMR becomes a center for creativity

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Located on the outskirts of Sisters, out Three Creek Road, is a hidden gem: a working ranch with just about the best view of the Cascades you could wish for. This parcel of ground has a storied history reaching back into the 1800s when some of the first farming in the area was done right there.

Today, this 260-acre working ranch serves as a place of beauty, historical significance, and creativity. In 2017, the ranch was purchased by the Roundhouse Foundation as its new headquarters and the home of Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture (PMRCAA). The Foundation’s trustees had been dreaming of establishing a campus-type arts center where artists could create in a state-of-the-art studio space with access to all the proper tools. (See story on page 3.)

The Ranch provides all of that and more. It has allowed the Roundhouse Foundation to establish its flagship program, offering residencies not only for artists but also for conservationists, scholars, and ecological scientists to come together to share space and ideas while working in an inspirational setting.

Pine Meadow Ranch serves as a model for interconnected work and the basis for collaborative economies and creative problem-solving in rural communities.

Intersecting at the Ranch are connections with nature, land conservation, historic preservation, sustainable agriculture, and communitybuilding projects, and how they all relate to traditional and contemporary crafts and skills integral to ranching life.

Those crafts and skills include metal, glass, wood, and leather work, ceramics, fibers and textiles, writing, painting, photography, film, and music.

“The Ranch provides an open laboratory for all types of people and endeavors,” according to Roundhouse Foundation Executive Director Erin Borla. “Here we see the intersection of all four of our program areas. We are able to bring our partners here, provide demonstrations, and ‘walk the walk’ we are encouraging with our funding.

At the same time, we are able to conserve our green space and the Ranch history.”

Residencies are available from mid-March to midNovember. They offer a space where cultural practitioners, ecological scientists, and creative thinkers can immerse themselves in their work and/

or research through access to studios, open space, and beautiful scenery, working alongside PMRCAA staff, volunteers, and community members to preserve the natural environment and historic buildings of the Ranch for years to come.

Generally, two residents at a time are hosted at the Ranch for two or four weeks. They are provided studio space in one of the Ranch buildings and a private room with a shared bathroom, kitchen, dining, and laundry area. As more buildings are remodeled, more residencies will become available.

The theme for the 2022 residency program is “On Coexistence and Regeneration.” Applications are currently available on the website at https://roundhouse foundation.org.

While at the Ranch, residents are given time and space for their own artistic practice. At the same time, they are asked to contribute either to the Ranch by helping with chores and/or in the local community by presenting a workshop or artist’s talk.

Besides the residency program, the Ranch offers classes and events for the local community as well.

The natural beauty and resource of Pine Meadow

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Pine Meadow Ranch has become a location for Roundhouse Foundation’s flagship programs promoting art and ecology.

Ranch includes not only the unsurpassed view, but Whychus Creek meanders through on its way into town.

The open agricultural fields are surrounded by Deschutes National Forest.

In the 20th century, this haven belonged to a successful contractor from Portland who farmed it and built many of the buildings still standing. Those structures include a bunkhouse, caretaker’s cabin, woodworking shop, sheds, tack rooms, and the round barn. Renowned Oregon architect Ellis F. Lawrence designed the large Ranch house for contractor Ross Hammond, for whom the house is now named.

Lawrence was known for many of his historic buildings around the state as well as cofounding the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts in 1914, and

then serving as its first dean until his death in 1946.

After Hammond, the Ranch was owned very briefly by a Portland hotelier.

For many years, Sisters aviatrix and public figure Dorro Sokol owned, lived, and worked on the Ranch, which she called Pine Meadow. In the early 2000s, Sokol and her daughter Cris Converse partnered with the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council in efforts to restore Whychus Creek to its original natural state, removing a dam and improving the riparian areas along the creek where it runs through the Ranch.

A portion of the Ranch was used to create the current Pine Meadow Village housing area developed by Dorro’s son, Doug Sokol. The fields of the Ranch still grow crops and provide grazing for cattle.

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