The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLV No. 12 // 2022-03-23

The Nugget Vol. XLV No. 12

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News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

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Fiber optic Internet coming to Camp Sherman

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Strong opposition emerges against Thornburgh Resort

Leaping into spring…

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Residents in Camp Sherman have the opportunity to indicate their interest in obtaining fiber optic broadband. Connectivity currently is poor, unreliable, or nonexistent.

If residents submit a nonbinding letter of interest now, before planning begins on the system, the plan can be designed right to their homes or businesses and their hookup cost will be covered by grants secured for installation of the system. Residents who choose to wait and hook up after the system is in place will be looking at charges starting at about $1,000, depending on how far their house or business is from the main fiber line.

People who submit a letter of interest now will receive notification when they can preorder their service, once the grant funding is received for construction of the system. Grant applications won’t be submitted until permits for the project are in place.

Joe Franell of Blue Mountain Networks in Hermiston and Josh Richesin of Sureline Broadband in Madras are partnering to bring the project to fruition.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Sureline was able to secure a relief grant to install a stopgap transmitter, so students were able to telecommute to Black Butte School.

Half of the rural counties in Oregon are pursuing obtaining broadband, but Camp Sherman is in a strong position because they have already done their preliminary assessment of need, which indicated that 78 percent are not happy with their current Internet connection, which is either through satellite or DSL. Twenty percent have no Internet connection See INTERNET on page 18

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By Sue Stafford Correspondent

PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG

Sisters High School freshman John Berg on his way to a close third-place finish in the 300 hurdles at the Outlaws’ first track meet of the season — a sure sign of spring.

See story, page 6.

The public raised a unified voice against the sale of 400 acres of Department of State Lands (DSL) land on Cline Buttes to the developer of the proposed Thornburgh destination resort.

DSL staff heard testimony at their virtual public hearing on March 10.

With more than 200 attendees via Zoom, there was only time allotted to take questions and testimony from about 55 attendees, all of whom spoke against the sale for a variety of reasons.

Two weeks ago, Central Oregon LandWatch put out a call to the regional community to provide input to DSL regarding the land that lies to the east of Sisters. At this See THORNBURGH on page 31

DEA makes Tree removal rattles Camp Sherman arrest in Sisters

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

On Wednesday afternoon, March 16, Sisters citizens witnessed an arrest in the parking lot at Ray’s Food Place. The Nugget sought information on the incident.

Sergeant Kent van der Kamp of the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement (CODE) Team reported: “I can confirm that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and CODE Detectives arrested two men yesterday in the City of Sisters. This remains an active investigation, and no details are available.”

The Nugget will report further information as it becomes available.

With military-like precision 15 personnel from three national forests removed a dangerous tree along the west bank of the Metolius last Thursday. The precariously perched ponderosa pine was uprooted and looming at a 45-degree angle over the popular hiking trail, one mile downstream from “downtown” Camp Sherman.

High winds were the cause, and another tree immediately next to it had been fully knocked down and lay blocking the trail.

The danger tree, as such trees are called, was leaning, roots exposed to the bank, against another ponderosa. The second tree was all that stood in the way of it crashing onto

PHOTO BY BILL BARTLETT

Blaster-in-Charge Mike Karr from Umpqua National Forest shows tools of the trade, explosive material to the left and blasting cord in hands. the trail. By all appearances it looked like something the Forest Service would routinely deal with, sending in a crew to fell the tree with a

chainsaw.

Foresters decided it was too risky to use conventional See DANGER TREE on page 25

Letters/Weather................ 2 Announcements................12 Homegrown................. 16-17 Fun & Games.................... 24 Classifieds...................27-29 Meetings........................... 3 Entertainment..................13 Obituaries....................... 20 Crossword . ..................... 26 Real Estate................. 29-32

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Editorial…

An eye-opening COVID tale He weathered the illness well enough, but the mere act of getting tested set off a cascade of troubling interactions with public health officials that raise significant questions about the level of government intrusion into our private lives and the relationship between American citizens and our government.

Dolson wrote “Profiled in Deschutes County” about his experience, which you will find under the “Opinion” tab/“Columns” at www.nuggetnews.com. Why there and not on these pages? There was no way to present the information thoroughly and well in a newspaper-sized commentary. Our website allows space for a writer to tell the story as it must be told.

There is some synchronicity in this. The Nugget is currently working on developing enhanced online-only content — not to replace the print edition, but to complement

it. “Profiled in Deschutes County” is the kind of long-form content that we want to share with readers through www.nuggetnews.com.

Additionally, we are working to develop visual content, and new ways for the community of Sisters to interact with their newspaper.

It’ll take time to create the enhanced experience we envision — our priority is to continue to provide the best newspaper we can for the Sisters community each week. But “Profiled in Deschutes County” is a move in that direction. Head over to www.nuggetnews. com and read it. Comment there; comment here — and be part of the discussion of things that matter to us here in Sisters Country.

Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief

Letters to the Editor…

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

Beware of socialism

To the Editor: For those who claim to be “secret socialists” obviously do not understand what socialism is all about. They want to control your lives. What you think, what you buy, what you say, basically to control your whole lives.

You want the government to give you free health care, free daycare, free colleges, and pay off your college loans, while some of you have six-figure incomes. Nothing is free. Someone is paying for it. The hardworking Americans would be paying for it with

the taxes we pay. The socialists said, “They didn’t have to fight us, because they will destroy us from within.” For over 50 years radicals that bombed our federal buildings in the 1970s became professors in our universities and have taught our kids to hate America.

They refused to have an honest debate. If you didn’t agree with them you were not allowed to speak.

Now the so-called progressive “woke” crowd tears down our statues that showed our history, they want to change words in our English language and try to dictate evil things See LETTERS on page 19

Sisters Weather Forecast Wednesday

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The end is a beginning

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

My friends must have thought I had seriously over-caffeinated Friday afternoon. I took a late lunch break and went out to Zimmerman Butte for some kettle-bell-and-gunpowder therapy, and on the way out there I fired up the latest episode of Jack Carr’s Danger Close podcast, featuring geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan.

As soon as I pulled into the Pit, I pulled out the phone and ordered all of Zeihan’s available books from the Deschutes Public Library. After my session, I started calling my geopolitics-nerd friends to tell them to check this guy out.

Zeihan is operating with data sets — economic, geographic, and, most importantly, demographic — that most analysts, especially those caught up in immediate political trends, either ignore or give short shrift.

He has bona fides, the most telling one being that he called Putin’s invasion of Ukraine eight years ago — to the year. (Putin went off a little early, and Zeihan offers a convincing explanation as to why).

Some of this analysis flies in the face of a narrative that I have to some degree bought into — the United States’ relative decline in a post-American world. The USA has significant challenges — but in Zeihan’s analysis, both Russia and China are in much tougher shape, mostly due to demographic (and, in the case of China, resource) challenges that he believes they cannot overcome.

Zeihan sees the Ukraine invasion as a last-gasp lashing out of the Bear — a power in steep, terminal decline. Which, of course, makes the situation very dangerous.

And Zeihan’s take on the looming food crisis accelerated by the war in Ukraine and the isolation of Russia is dire.

No analyst or pundit should ever be taken as an oracle. Their analysis and forecasting should be tested against countervailing arguments and, most of all, against developments on the ground. Zeihan’s critics believe he underestimates the power of technology, and overestimates the potential for America to step back from global leadership. Perhaps.

Still, Zeihan’s emphasis on the relentless, impossible to “tweak” influence of geography and demography make his analysis compelling and his forecasting worth taking into account.

Zeihan’s forthcoming book forecasts a massive, seismic change in the world, bearing down on us like a freight train. It’s going to be a very bumpy ride — but, in his analysis, it’s going to be less rough for America than it will be for others who are utterly dependent on the globalized world.

Because, Zeihan believes, that world is coming to the end. But, as the title of his book suggests, “The End of the World Is Just the Beginning.”

Here’s the caper: 2019 was the last great year for the world economy.

Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.

All of this was artificial.

All this was temporary. All this is ending.

Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.

The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world — from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all — is about to change.

This is really good stuff — challenging, thoughtprovoking. Carr’s podcast with Zeihan can be found at https://www.official j a c k c a r r. c o m / d a n g e r close-podcast/ or on all the standard podcasting platforms. Zeihan’s work can be explored here: https://zeihan.com. Take some time with this stuff.

You’ll be richer for it.

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Supported CSA program improves food access Artists win awards for My Own Two Hands contributions Amelia O’Dougherty’s original watercolor “Spring Portal” was chosen for the 2022 My Own Two Hands poster art.

Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) is getting ready to host its largest annual fundraiser and community arts celebration, My Own Two Hands, taking place April 29-30. Proceeds from the event support SFF’s mission of strengthening community and transforming lives through music and art.

Awards will be presented to the artists during the fundraiser festivities, and SFF has announced its Award of Excellence winners.

Theme: Amelia O’Dougherty’s original watercolor “Spring Portal” (framed by Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop) was chosen for the 2022 My Own Two Hands poster art.

“I have spent the last two years exploring the concept of portals in my creative process,” O’Dougherty said. “I love the idea of being transported and transformed by simple moments, and I use these portals as a safe place to go in challenging times.

I share them with the hope that others can experience their own transportation and reflection. I believe we are collectively in a constant state of Moving Beyond, and that the beauty of art is how it allows us to simultaneously reflect on portals of the past, sit in the magic of the present moment, and propel ourselves forward into another spring.”

Awards of Merit: • Paul Alan Bennett,

watercolor, “Blue Flower.”

• Glen Corbett, original woodcut on arches paper, “Sisters.”

• Jill Neal, watercolor, “Rounding Home.”

• Lois Pendleton, triptych mixed media collage, “Glide on Peace Train.”

Americana Folk Award: Courtney Parker, pencil, “Wild and Free.”

Spirit of Giving Award: A Sisters High School (SHS) woodshop volunteer of 10 years, Gabrielle Franke, commutes from the Salem area to support SHS students in their creative endeavors. She has donated to the My Own Two Hands art auction since 2017.

See MOTH on page 24

Local farmers are committed to a belief that everyone should have access to nutrient-dense food that is good for people and for the environment.

The effort to improve access to quality, locally grown food got a boost this season. The High Desert Food & Farm Alliance (HDFFA) is partnering with local farmers and the Pacific

Northwest CSA Coalition (PNWCSA) to launch a new supported CSA program.

A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program is one in which an individual pays a farm for a membership that entitles them to a “share” of the farm’s harvest — commonly a set quantity of fresh foods made available to the See FOOD ACCESS on page 22

Art strolls warming up for 2022 season

By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

Sisters Arts Association will do a soft kickoff to its Fourth Friday Artwalks for 2022 on Friday, March 25, as the galleries of Sisters dust off the winter doldrums. Call it Fourth Friday Warm-Up, if you will. Stop by any time during the day and reintroduce yourself to the lively arts scene. This month’s Artwalk is a prelude to the official events that begin on the fourth Friday of April.

The popular Quick Draw give-away of two $50 gift certificates to local galleries will start next month.

Stitchin’ Post will display “Colors, Textures, and Nature,” the fiber art of Robyn Gold. In “Home, Tw e e t H o m e ” R o b y n

welcomes spring with singing birds, swinging bird houses, and observant owls, perched among quilted tree branches.

“On the Wing” is an extravagant peacock whose teal plumage is quilted in gold threads.

If you haven’t yet discovered Hood Avenue Art’s expanded gallery, now is the chance. Many of the gallery artists still have small works for sale at affordable prices. The gallery’s newest artists include painters Glen Corbett, Barbara Cella, and Diane Farquhar Hallstrom, and sculptor Gary Cooley.

The Clearwater Gallery will be open until 4 p.m. with a beautiful selection of work by local artists, including Dan Rickards, David Mensing, See ART STROLL on page 26

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

Al-Anon Mon., noon. / Thurs., 10 a.m., Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays, 12:30 Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) p.m. at Sisters Community Church.

541-610-7383.

2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Email sistersbridge2021@gmail.com.

Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Sisters Caregiver Support Group Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., Sisters Episcopal Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, Church. 541-771-3258.

Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal 1 to 4 p.m. 541-668-1755.

Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., Sisters Cribbage Club Please call for Citizens4Community, Let’s Talk 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran details. 541-923-1632.

3rd Monday, 5:30 to 8 p.m. RSVP at Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, citizens4community.com Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.

Military Parents of Sisters Meetings Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., Location information: 541-549-1193.

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / are held quarterly; please call for details.

Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 541-388-9013.

Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., 7 to 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870.

Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Sisters Parent Teacher Community Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469.

Church. 541-548-0440.

SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings 2nd Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. at Sisters Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. Saloon. 541-480-5994.

Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group For Saturday meeting dates and to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation 2nd Thurs.,1 p.m. Sisters Library. location, email: steelefly@msn.com.

District. 541-549-2091.

541-668-6599 Central OR Spinners and Weavers Sisters Aglow Lighthouse Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.

Guild One Saturday per month, Jan. 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., meeting by Location information: 541-279-1977. thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217.

Zoom. 503-930-6158.

Sisters Rotary 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, Sisters Area Photography Club Council on Aging of Central Oregon Noon, Aspen Lakes. 541-760-5645.

2nd Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., at Senior Lunch Tues., Wed., Thurs Sisters Trails Alliance Board 1st Sisters Community Church.

12:30-1 p.m. Sisters Community Monday, 5 p.m. Sisters Library.

541-549-6157.

Church. 541-480-1843.

Public welcome. 808-281-2681.

East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Sisters Area Woodworkers Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon, 1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123.

541-231-1897.

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

BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS

Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All ages welcome. 541-771-2211.

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.

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.

CITY & PARKS Sisters City Council 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-549-6022.

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

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Outlaws lacrosse kicks Girls tennis packs in three matches off season with a win

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws boys team opened their lacrosse season with a 8-5 victory at Ridgeview on Tuesday, March 15. On Thursday they suffered a 5-11 loss at Marist and on Saturday fell 6-7 at home to Glencoe.

In Tuesday’s action, Gaven Henry stole the show with two goals in the first half to put the Outlaws on top 2-0.

Henry scored again in the third period, along with Mason Sellers, but the Ravens responded with four goals to knot it up 4-4 to close out the quarter.

Henry continued to hit the mark, and scored another goal for the Outlaws in the final quarter, but unfortunately, the Ravens were relentless and scored a goal of their own to again even it up 5-5.

With the score tied and seven minutes left in the game, freshman Cooper Merrill scored to give Sisters a 6-5 lead. Merrill made a nice dodge move on his defender and put a shot-fake on the goalie before firing the ball into the net from close range.

In less than a minute, Max Palanuk scored to give the Outlaws a little breathing room and a two-point lead. Gus Patton put the cherry on top with the victory-assuring goal with two minutes left. Patton made a great catch, dodged his defender, and dashed down the middle for a close-range finish.

Ricky Huffman was a big contributor at the middie position and led the team with seven ground balls.

Sisters won the ground-ball battle 43-32, and dominated the face-off battle

(13-3) thanks to the efforts of Tanner Pease and Mason Sellers.

Coach Paul Patton said, “Our attack and middies worked well together on the ride getting the ball back after a change of possession.

The defense didn’t see a ton of action on their end of the field, but were effective in limiting them to just 10 shots on goal.

It was good to get a win in our first game, and we learned a lot about what we need to improve on.

— Coach Paul Patton “It was good to get a win in our first game, and we learned a lot about what we need to improve on,” added Patton. “An area we’ll need to clean up on before our next game is penalties. We spent six minutes playing with a man down due to fouls, and better teams will make us pay for that with goals against us.”

O n T h u r s d a y, t h e Outlaws suffered a loss at Marist in a very physical game that was filled with penalties. Both teams spent eight minutes in the penalty box and often teams played with one to three men down.

At the half the Spartan held an 8-1 advantage.

Sisters played better in the second half and outscored Marist 4-3, but it wasn’t enough to get the win.

Scoring was distributed among five different Outlaws, including Mason See LACROSSE on page 6

The Lady Outlaws opened their season with a 1-8 loss at home against Ridgeview on Monday, March 14. Later in the week they had backto-back matches; a 3-5 loss at home against Caldera on Wednesday, and a 6-2 road win at Crook County on Thursday.

Sophomore Juhree Kizziar (No. 1 singles) notched the only win in the Outlaws’ match against Ridgeview on Monday. Kizziar played an impressive match and easily defeated Kylee Rost 6-0, 6-1.

Coach Bruce Fenn said, “Juhree’s new improved topspin serve kicking up high was giving her opponent trouble. Her consistent ground strokes and court coverage was too much for Kylee Rost.”

On Wednesday, Brook Harper played No. 1 singles and dominated play in her 6-2, 6-0 win over Sierra Wall. It was the first time for Harper at No. 1 singles and Fenn told The Nugget he liked how she stayed calm and focused for both sets.

Jenna Kizziar and Josie Patton teamed up at No. 1 doubles and beat Grace Salbo and Shelby Hagann 6-1, 6-1.

Sophie Rush and Andriana Luna tallied a 6-1, 7-5 win over Kaden Atkinson and Emilee Baumnschschein at No. 4 doubles. The duo fought hard after they were down five games to four in the second set, and came back for the win.

The highlight in the Outlaws’ 6-2 victory over the Lady Cowgirls at Crook County were the three tiebreakers they posted to win the match.

The No. 2 doubles duo of Lanie Mansfield and Leah O’Hern came from one set down to win 6-3, and then 14-12 in the tiebreak.

Lindsay Scott and Charlotte Seymour (No. 3 doubles)

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Josie Patton makes a shot in Outlaws tennis action. also went down in the first set but bounced back to win 7-6, 10-4 (tiebreak).

Maddie Pollard (No. 3 singles) won the first set in a 7-6 tiebreaker, and then won the second set 6-2 to secure the match.

“The girls’ competitive efforts got us our win tonight,” said Fenn. “The team is learning to make

better choices and less unforced errors. I felt they really gelled and came together at this match. It was very fun to see!”

The Outlaws will take off a week for spring break and resume play on Wednesday, March 30, with a match at home against Mt. View. They will travel to Redmond on Thursday, the following day.

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Sisters woman seeks to prevent mass shootings

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

We’ve gotten all too used to the news: At a school in Somewhere, USA, a teenager brings a gun to class and opens fire. In the following days, the story comes out about a troubled youth who felt alienated and/or bullied, who was reading about mass shootings online and had found a way to acquire a weapon. If only people had picked up the signs…

For Lezlie Neusteter of Sisters, a country in which mass shootings at schools are commonplace isn’t acceptable — and she has set out to build a culture and systems that can prevent them.

Neusteter is a forensic social worker by trade — her work is in homeless prevention and crisis intervention.

But she comes at the problem of mass shootings first and foremost as a mom. She has a daughter in first grade and a son in second grade in Sisters schools.

“Honestly, I moved to Sisters for that sense of safety and security,” she told The Nugget. “I don’t want to raise my kids in a country where mass shootings are normalized. I think we’ve become desensitized to them. We just wait for the next mass shooting.”

Neusteter knows full well, however, that no community is immune from the tragedy and horror of mass shootings.

They happen in big cities and small towns. They happen everywhere. So, Neusteter got to work.

She delved deeply into research on the phenomenon of mass shootings, and is in the midst of launching the nonprofit Prevent Mass Shootings Now (www.prevent m a s s s h o o t i n g s n o w. o rg ) , which will help communities build the tools and protocols to prevent mass shootings.

While it’s important to prevent someone in crisis from having easy access to a weapon, Neusteter’s work is not about gun control. Nor is it about enhanced security measures. Prevent Mass Shootings Now seeks to move far upstream from an incident, to intervene long before violent fantasies and plans become a horrible reality.

“It struck me as a social worker… that, ultimately, mass shooters are people in crisis… that we can actually reach them before they reach for a gun,” she said.

While Neusteter’s background and training give her significant insight, her work is founded on a vast body of research that has been accumulated over decades from work done by the FBI and the Secret Service, and the organization Sandy Hook Promise, founded in the wake of a

2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 26 people were killed. Twenty of the victims were children between six and seven years old; six were adult school staff.

“Report after report pointed to [the fact] that mass shootings are preventable if you know the warning signs,” Neusteter said. (See sidebar.)

Protocols exist for threat assessment, and for peer awareness and “say something” programs that encourage students to alert adults if they see troubling behavior in or out of school and online.

Neusteter notes that warning signs of potential violence usually track with warning signs of suicide.

“They’re suicidal before

they’re homicidal,” she said.

Awareness and alertness among school staff and peers — and a culture that promotes taking warning signs seriously and acting on them — is essential to effective prevention.

Neusteter noted that Sisters is already on track with preventive measures, from threat assessment to anti-bullying policies and protocols.

“We’re extremely fortunate that the Sisters School District has prioritized threat assessment, that it has prioritized social-emotional learning,” Neusteter said.

Intervention can’t rely on punitive measures, Neusteter believes. Those in or headed into crisis need psychological help to get at the underlying factors that have put them

Warning signs & risk factors Parents, school officials, and community members should be alert for signals that a youth is troubled and contemplating violence. Neusteter notes that individual risk factors in

isolation are not necessarily cause for alarm. When assessing risk factors, look for a constellation of multiple risk factors coming together.

RISK FACTORS • Childhood exposure to trauma/violence.

• Victim of bullying.

• Substance abuse.

• Social isolation.

• Specific personality disorders/psychosis.

• Extremism/hatred.

• History of suicidality.

• History of noncompliance with limits/boundaries.

• Access to/fascination with weapons.

• A punitive environment at home/school/workplace.

• Fascination with mass shootings.

• History of violence, particularly domestic violence.

• History of stalking/harassing/ threatening/menacing.

• Environmental factors/ negative family dynamics/ instability.

• Excessive time on social media.

WARNING SIGNS • Suicidal thinking/talk of death.

• Recent acquisition of weapons.

• Interest in explosive devices.

• Fascination with previous mass shootings.

• Drastic changes in appearance.

• Recruiting accomplices or an audience.

• Sudden withdrawal.

• Sudden cessation of medications/substances.

• Increased anger/irritability.

• Change in social media behavior.

• Recklessness.

• Farewell writings or manifestos.

• Recent personal loss/ humiliation.

• Experimental aggression.

• Approaching the target/ surveillance.

• Signs of researching/planning.

• Leakage: hinting at a plan of attack.

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“Basically, we can’t punish our way out of this epidemic,” she said. “It’s not going to work. If you expel a student or fire a worker, it doesn’t remove the threat; it can actually exacerbate it. It can throw them into crisis and trigger the attack. You can lock somebody up for threatening behavior, but they’re sure to get out in a pretty short period of time, more angry and determined to do harm than ever. We need to look at where their seething anger is coming from. It’s a paradigm shift. It is. But it’s necessary.”

Neusteter seeks to provide community education through seminars, to raise awareness of the underlying causes of violence and to encourage people to know the signs and to “say something.” She will host a webinar on the subject on April 20.

She also wants to promote the creation of regional “crisis corps” centers that include fully funded and resourced threat assessment teams and

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Lezlie Neusteter. people qualified to intervene in effective ways. Because individual communities have uneven resources and capacity, she says, “ultimately, I think, this is something that the federal government needs to provide.”

Neusteter is currently at work establishing Prevent Mass Shootings Now as a nonprofit. She is seeking volunteers to help with fundraising and to build capacity. For more information on how to get involved, visit www.preventmassshotings now.org or email Neusteter at Lezlie@preventmass shootingsnow.org.

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Track team begins competition

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

An uncommonly mild day greeted the Sisters Outlaws track and field team at Bend High School for the first meet of the season, which normally features at least one snow shower. The athletes responded with strong early season performances against the Lava Bears along with the Hawks of La Pine.

Outlaws placing first in their events included Ella Bartlett in the 1500 (5:25.21), Hollie Lewis in the long jump (15 feet, 6.25 inches) and high jump (4 feet, 8 inches), Ila Reid, Gracie Vohs, and Kiara Martin, who tied for first in the pole vault (7 feet, 6 inches) and Reid, Vohs, Lilly Sundstrom, and Kiara Martin in the 4x400-meter relay (4:33.37).

Other top marks included runner-up finishes by Ila Reid in the 200 (29.24), Delaney McAfee in the 400 (1:10.44), Breanna BozarthWhite in the discus (87 feet, 1 inch), and Lilly Sundstrom in the long jump (14 feet, 1 inch).

Taine Martin won the high jump (5 feet, 8 inches) and Carson Brown the javelin (136 feet, 8 inches) as the two winners for the boys’ team.

Kaleb Briggs took second with a personal best in the 800 meters (2:12.61), Brown nabbed second in the 300 hurdles (51.82) just .03 seconds ahead of freshman John Berg, and Brown also was the runner-up in the long jump (16 feet 5 inches).

First year head coach Cailen McNair said, “Our team competed with spirit and heart at this first meet.

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Ila Reid clears the bar in pole vault.

For many of our athletes the meet was an introduction to high school track and field and our veterans got a chance to display their abilities and to lead by example.”

Overall, both the boys and girls teams are quite young, with only a handful of seniors, so McNair sees nothing but continued improvement ahead.

“These early meets help the kids build a foundation as part of their training and the coaches are able to identify areas of growth and potential,” he said. “The athletes and the coaches get a lot of good information from meets like this as we move forward in our training.”

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The Outlaws return to competition following spring break on Wednesday, March 30, when the team hosts its only home meet of the season, a 10-team affair including Burns, Culver, Grant Union, La Pine, Madras, Pleasant Hill, Santiam, S h e r m a n C o u n t y, a n d Summit.

“We hope to have a good crowd and plenty of volunteers to keep the Outlaw tradition of putting on a high-quality meet,” said McNair.

Sellers, Wyatt Maffey, Max Palanuk, Cooper Merrill, and Charlie Irlam. Firstyear senior player AJ Scholl played well in his first game as a defender.

“I was proud of our boys who, with one exception, kept their composure in the face of a physical and mouthy opponent,” said Patton.

Sisters wrapped up their week with a home contest against Glencoe on Saturday.

The Outlaws played shorthanded as they were down 10 players who missed due to spring break and injuries.

The Outlaws started strong and were up 6-3 in the third quarter. Glencoe scored with 12 seconds left in the period, when they scooped up a ground ball off a goalie deflection.

Sisters held the lead until midway through the final quarter. An Outlaws player got checked to the ground and another Outlaw retaliated, which resulted in a penalty. A second penalty quickly ensued against the Outlaws and immediately they were two men down. To make matters even worse, the Outlaws goalie was called for slashing, deemed intentional by the official. That call put the Outlaws three men down, and playing with a backup goalie.

Glencoe, with six offensive players, quickly scored and closed the gap to 5-6.

Sisters got their starting goalie back, but still were two men down. Glencoe scored twice in quick succession to take a 7-6 lead, all within a couple of minutes.

The Outlaws got back to full numbers and had some opportunities to tie it up, including a minute when they were two men up, but they just couldn’t convert.

Henry and Merrill scored two goals each, and Palanuk and Gavin Christian added one goal each.

Goalie Justin Blake got some pregame pointers from 2018 graduate and ex-goalie Casey Warburton, and used it to make 11 saves. Scholl stepped into a starting role and played four full quarters of solid defense, and Gus Patton did a superb job in leading the team with eight ground balls as a midfielder.

I’m really proud of the boys who were there. They stepped up and competed hard.

— Coach Paul Patton “I’m really proud of the boys who were there,” said Patton. “They stepped up and competed hard.”

The Outlaws will take time off for spring break and resume play on Wednesday, March 30, with a game at home against Mt. View.

They will hit the road for a game at Century on Friday.

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Bull by Bull

By Judy Bull Columnist

• The first phone call I received on January 1, 2022 was at 6 a.m. from ADT, announcing that my ADT receiving unit was getting too cold. The unit was in a bedroom, which I close off in the winter. It was only 40 degrees in there, certainly too cold for an ADT unit.

• Make no mistake about it, Maggie Bull is the original Bull in Sisters; I am “the other Bull,” not Maggie.

When Vernon and I moved here in 1986 we joined the Sisters Rodeo Association and Bill and Maggie Bull were two of our favorite people. Years later, when Bill became ill, I was one of their Hospice volunteers. Try as we might, we couldn’t quite connect the dots of our Bull ancestry, though we felt very connected to one another.

• I keep everything that’s going to the dump in my old stock trailer. It makes for the perfect storage shed. After returning from the dump the other day, I couldn’t find my fave garbage can, so I headed right back to the Fryrear Road Transfer Station to retrieve it. To no avail. When I got home I checked the trailer once more and there it was, hiding in plain sight.

Out of place. My OCD at its worst.

• Recently I had to take an ambulance ride to the emergency room, for a nosebleed of all things. Turns out it is very important not to lie down with a nosebleed (duh), which I did for 45 minutes, creating all kinds of problems for myself. What I really want to write about, though, is the slip of paper I carry at all times: a record of my pertinent medical info. The EMTs and the emergency room docs were thrilled to have this vital information written out, and only wish everyone would carry a summary of their medical history, prescriptions, etc. It’s easy to put together and ensures that those treating you have this crucial information immediately, doubly so if you are in dire medical straits.

• There’s nothing new about celery and peanut butter. You either love it or you don’t. I do and I’ve recently made it my go-to evening snack. Quite likely it’s the healthiest no-cholesterol 300 calories of my day.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Website offers clarity on cannabis To help citizens better understand what is legal and what is not when it comes to cannabis, the Deschutes County Illegal Marijuana Market Enforcement (DCIMME) team has launched a CANNAFACTS website at www.canna-facts. com.

The enforcement team is a partnership between the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, and Bend Police Department.

CANNAFACTS will provide Deschutes County residents and visitors with a better understanding of: • Which recreational cannabis activities are legal and which are not.

• Which agency is the best to contact with questions or concerns based on the specific cannabis activity.

• Why and how to report serious illegal cannabis operations.

There are a lot of questions and confusion surrounding which cannabis activities are legal, since many counties and cities have rules in addition to state law. Many community members have incorrectly assumed that when cannabis became legal all cannabis activity was legalized.

Others have assumed that any unusual or suspicious cannabis activity should be reported to 911. Neither of these assumptions are accurate, the team reports.

To address this misinformation, the DCIMME team, with help from community volunteers, state and regional agencies, and local recreational cannabis businesses, created CANNAFACTS – a one-stop location with easily digestible information on our community’s cannabis laws and regulations. Through an interactive “Is It Legal?” decision tree, frequently

asked questions, a quiz, and a comprehensive list of resources, the website guides Deschutes County residents and visitors through which elements make a cannabis activity legal or illegal, and who to contact with questions or concerns.

The site also offers a portal for community members to submit anonymous leads on serious illegal cannabis operations.

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel said, “We know from 911 calls, conversations with community members, and a law enforcement survey that Oregon’s cannabis laws are confusing. If we expect our community to be knowledgeable on the laws we need to do everything we can to clarify them.

“Are we spending money to stop a legal activity?

No. As a supporter of the decriminalization of marijuana, know that I am not out for the person who is growing five versus four plants.

The goal of our enforcement team is to end largescale illegal operations that too often are run by cartels, use banned pesticides, steal water rights, require workers to live and work in inhumane conditions, and undercut the legal marijuana businesses in Deschutes County.

“We want Deschutes County to remain a safe place to live and to run a prosperous legal business. When illegal operations threaten these values, it is the job of my office and local law enforcement to put an end to that type of activity. With the help of community members reporting suspicious activity through CANNAFACTS, we can keep our community safe, and help ensure the available cannabis products are safe and legal.”

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Outlaws swing into season with win

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws baseball team had a good performance in their first outing of the season with a 5-4 win at La Pine on Tuesday, March 15. They suffered a tough 1-2 loss at home against Cottage Grove on Friday.

In Tuesday’s action the Outlaws came out with a lot of energy and scored three runs in the first inning.

Brody Duey doubled on a line drive to left field to score Sisters’ first run.

Patrick Silva followed with a ground ball to left field for a single and scored Duey to put the Outlaws up 2-0.

Kai Jackle singled on a fly ball to right field and advanced Silva to third, and then Jack Weston singled on a hard-hit grounder to right field that scored Jackle for Sisters’ third run in the inning.

The Outlaws added a run in the third and La Pine answered with a run of their own in the bottom of the inning to make it a 4-1 game.

In the bottom of the seventh the Hawks scored three runs to tie it up 4-4.

In the top of the eighth, Brody Fischer led off with a walk, and Ben Cooper was subbed in as a pinch runner. Weston hit a sacrifice bunt, and advanced Cooper to second. Hudson Symonds stepped up to the plate and his hard-hit single to left field scored Cooper and gave the Outlaws the go-ahead run, 5-4, which held to the

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The Outlaws won one and lost one last week, playing tough defense in both games. hit a single that scored end of the game.

Silva finished the game Austin Dean for Sisters’ lone with four hits and one RBI, run in the game.

“Once again our pitchJack Weston had two hits and one RBI, and both Duey ers pitched well, and our and Fischer had one hit and defense was solid and much improved from the one RBI. Sisters’ three pitchers, first game,” said Croisant.

Duey, Dean, and Silva also “Offensively, we struggled had an impressive showing at the plate. I have to give for the first game of the sea- credit to Cottage Grove’s son. All three threw the ball pitcher, who kept us off balwell, combined for only two ance with an above-average walks in the eight innings fastball and a breaking ball played, and recorded nine he could throw for strikes.

“Our focus is going to be strikeouts.

Coach Kramer Croisant improving on the offensive said, “We had a few too side of the baseball,” added many strikeouts (12), and Croisant. “We need to make defensively we have a few adjustments at the plate and areas that need improve- capitalize on opportuniment, but we will improve in ties when they are given.

I have confidence we will both those areas.”

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Air ambulance service saves lives

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

What happens when you are, say, over on the Owhyee River fishing or halfway up Mount Thielsen and have a serious health emergency — and the nearest hospital is three or four hours away?

Sounds like maybe you’d need or want to get an air ambulance. Not necessarily, even if you have a membership with one of the two providers offering such policies to residents in Sisters Country.

It’s just not that simple no matter what the brochure says. First of all no helicopter or plane will come get you just because you or a companion asked them to. It takes a licensed doctor or EMT (emergency medical technician) to authorize such a rescue, and then approval by the insurer. Then it can be a fairly complex project of finding a “bird” as they are called with a ready crew, and determining just exactly where they will transport you as the closest hospital may in fact not be able to treat the injury or have room.

It might be a three-hour drive or a 30-minute flight, but that’s once you get the “bird” at the scene, which is not instantaneous. A ground ambulance can average 55 mph and a helicopter up to 170 mph, giving the bird an obvious advantage.

Air transport may be required if you’ve been in an accident, or you might not survive a trip in a land ambulance. Like their ground counterparts, air ambulances have medical professionals on board, along with a minihospital in which they can begin treating you as you fly.

You may need air transport when the alternatives would be dangerous to your health or would risk the success of

a needed procedure. You may need it if you’re bleeding beyond the control of regular services or if you need oxygen, life support, or other aid during transportation.

Air ambulances are often used in cases involving stroke, heart attack, burn care, head or spinal cord injury, and transplant, where speed is of the essence. It’s also common when injury occurs in a remote place where ground transport isn’t accessible, say, deep in the woods or high in the mountains.

It can be complicated to say the least. That’s not to say that such insurance is an unwise investment thirdparty experts say. It’s like any insurance — a careful examination of risk and reward.

And, as Chief Roger Johnson said: “You don’t need it until you do.”

Then like all insurance there is the dreaded small print. Deductibles, co-pays, out-of-service areas coverage. Will Medicare reimburse? And much more.

On that point, Medicare Part B will pay 80 percent of “approved” costs for air ambulance services.

According to the American Journal of Managed Care, the average charge associated with fixed-wing air ambulance transports rose 27.6 percent, from $19,210 in 2017 to $24,507 in 2020. The average Medicare reimbursement rose 4.7%, from $3,071 to $3,216.

The average charge associated with helicopter air ambulance transports rose 22.2 percent, from $24,924 in 2017 to $30,446 in 2020. The average estimated allowed amount rose 60.8 percent, from $11,608 to $18,668.

The average Medicare reimbursement rose 4.7 percent, from $3,570 to $3,739.

In Sisters, we have a

choice of two subscription providers: Life Flight Network and AirMedCare Network. Life Flight Network, a nonprofit air medical transport service, has helicopter, fixedwing, and ground ambulance bases throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Life Flight Network has administrative offices in Aurora, Oregon, and employs over 750 people.

AirMedCare boasts 3 million members with 320 locations in 38 states. They are a unit of Global Medical Response, Inc., a large, privately held, investor-owned enterprise based in Colorado.

Premiums for the two range from $65 to $110 per year.

These are not part of a trip or travel insurance, an entirely different scenario.

Life Flight and AirMedCare are meant primarily for year-round use near to where you live, although the AirMedCare plan will work in 38 states. Life Flight covers four states – Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Helicopters typically operate in a 175-mile range.

Change the scenario and let’s say you are vacationing in Costa Rica or even Canada and need an air ambulance. You will need to have

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Air ambulance service uses Sisters Eagle Airport in Sisters. purchased a higher-level trip insurance policy or an international air ambulance policy from one of dozens of commercial providers.

Let’s say you fall off the roof and live in Sisters.

Or experience a stroke or heart attack. You call 911.

Paramedics from SistersCamp Sherman Fire District respond. What happens next? Ninety-nine out of 100 times, you will end up at St. Charles, Bend, and on rare occasion, St. Charles may ask that the patient be diverted to Redmond.

Depending on severity a patient may request an alternate destination, say to a clinic or their doctor’s office.

What does a ride in the

ambulance cost? $1,500 plus $20/mile. In 2021 SistersCamp Sherman Fire EMS transported 509 patients by ground and six by air.

In some cases it will be an air transport regardless of insurance or patient desires.

If it’s serious enough, truly life-threatening, 911 might dispatch a bird simultaneously with the ground unit: “A motor vehicle accident at Santiam Pass or a serious ski accident at Hoodoo would be good examples,” Chief Johnson said.

So, it’s unlikely you will ever be deprived of a lifesaving air ambulance. It’s merely a matter of how much you will pay.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

A man and his dog’s odyssey

By Katy Yoder Correspondent

Tony Palacio will tell you he’s not a writer; not even a storyteller. But the ground he’s walked, people he’s met, and places he’s laid his head are rich with stories. Describing himself as nomadic, Palacio grew up in broken homes, foster homes, and shelters.

“Being nomadic became natural to me,” he said.

His journey to Oregon began in Florida. He knew if he didn’t leave, his life would spiral beyond his control. Before it was too late, he gathered a small kit, which he would later realize was insignificant, and headed west.

He had a plan, but he soon understood, the universe had another.

He learned listening to inner wisdom revealed unknown paths with better destinations than he could imagine. His journey away from a difficult past was circuitous, puzzling, and affirming.

He met lifelong friends, spent time with generous strangers, and found a walking partner in the small bundle of a wise, rambunctious puppy he’d later name Nature.

As he grew, it was clear that Nature was a natural-born therapy dog. He has worked with veterans and folks who are physically challenged, and loves visiting local retirement homes.

Palacio’s odyssey with Nature crossed desolate territory with landscapes that tested their endurance.

“Near Winnemucca, it was one hill after another. We’d get to the top of a hill and realize there’s nothing there.”

All he and Nature could do was start down the other side and hope the next hill would lead them to a safe place to rest.

“You’re up and you’re down. It’s like an analogy for life,” said Palacio during a break at his job at The Lodge in Sisters.

At The Lodge, Nature visits residents and Palacio works in the kitchen. They’ve lived in Central Oregon for

the last 10 years, except when Palacio is doing work as a wildland firefighter.

Memories of their adventures on the road are still fresh for Palacio.

“I look back on our walk and the trials and tribulations we went through,” he said.

“I learned if you keep going, you get what you need; if you trust in whatever you believe in. If you keep putting one foot in front of the other, the Universe will say, ‘Here you go.’”

Palacio left Florida right after Valentine’s Day in 2011.

Newly single, he knew it was time to leave.

“It was suddenly just me.

My mistakes, my own blame and sorrow, and a big pityparty were running around in my head,” he recalled.

No stranger to being alone and moving often, a walk across the country seemed like a good way to find answers.

Before his walk across the U.S., he had a little computer business in Florida. Not really happy with how his life was going, he knew his choices hadn’t been the best.

“I knew there was something else out there, but I didn’t know where I’d find it,” he said. “Obviously, I wanted to find it in myself and challenge myself a little bit. It got to the point where I had two options. The first option wasn’t a good one at all. The second one was the one I went with, which meant heading west.”

Palacio packed a backpack that he got from Walmart with what he thought he’d need on the journey. He carried basic survival supplies, like a snakebite kit, an emergency shelter, some canned goods (which he learned was a really bad idea when you’re walking hundreds of miles).

“I didn’t have a tent, but I did have a sleeping bag. I had a gallon jug of water and that was my kit. I just started walking,” he said, laughing at his first attempts at packing.

After walking through Florida, Palacio went through Louisiana, where he saw all kinds of activities going on

after Hurricane Katrina. He helped out for a week, then walked to Texas, and up in New Mexico. He decided to live for a while in Taos and Ruidoso, where he met some new friends and found out about wildland fire work.

Some memories remain fresh, like the pain and pleasure of a cold drink while sitting next to burning asphalt. He was walking between Roswell, Arizona and Ruidoso, New Mexico on Highway 70. He’d probably walked 15 miles that day. The blisters on his feet were so bad he had to force every step. All he wanted was to find shelter before it got dark. The highway was long and extremely desolate with nothing on either side except fences, cow pastures, and hills. The miles and miles of nothingness went on forever. All he had to look forward to was ascending the next hill and the hope it led to someplace to sleep in peace and safety.

“I was sitting on the side of the road when a road construction crew drove up and asked if I was okay. I said I was and that I was just resting. They mentioned they’d seen me walking the prior day but couldn’t stop. The gentleman asked if I was thirsty and of course I said yes, because even at 6 p.m. it was 80-plus degrees… or at least it felt like it,” he said.

The man reached into a cooler and tossed Palacio a can of very cold soda, with bits of ice coming off it. He said goodbye and took off down the road.

“I sat on the side of the

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Tony Palacio and Nature are a beloved part of the community at The Lodge in Sisters. road in the heat, with sore while he’s gone. He’s not legs, an aching back, and sure of the duration; that all those damned blisters, but depends on how fire season nothing mattered once I unfolds.

Nature and Palacio are a popped the top and took the first sip. Let’s just say it was forever family. Only work can separate the two. Palacio beyond refreshing,” he said.

Sometimes, Palacio tried to knows Nature will provide hitchhike but also just wanted love and comfort wherever he’s living. That’s his gift, to keep walking.

“I felt if I hitchhiked, I was given freely to everyone he still looking for someone to meets. help me again,” he said. “I really wanted to do it on my own. If I really needed help, I would definitely ask for it.

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Your Story MATTERS

Audry Van Houweling, PMHNP Columnist

The consequences of unbridled entitlement It was September 1939.

My maternal grandmother was 15 when the wails of air raid sirens broadcasted throughout her home city of Warsaw, Poland. The Nazi invasion had begun. Targeted as “intellectuals” by the Nazis, my great grandparents were killed in short order.

My grandmother, spared for her youth, was shipped to a forced labor camp, where she later escaped, joined the underground resistance, was apprehended again and imprisoned in Germany, where she remained until the end of the war.

Intergenerational trauma has been scientifically traced back to the womb. In-utero exposure to maternal hardship, fear, and trauma can have long-lasting impacts

on how a person processes and perceives stress. We may even be primed to respond to certain triggers never directly experienced, but through a sort of pre-programmed warning system passed down from our ancestors. When the first round of bombs fell on Ukraine February 24, and the sirens wailed once again, I felt like I was standing in the shoes of my grandmother. It felt personal. I couldn’t stop thinking about her — and now the people of Ukraine.

The terror. The shock.

They say history repeats itself, but maybe I hope that with the passage of time and human advancement, our morality might also advance...

We are living in a world where vicarious and secondary trauma can be experienced en masse. Once upon a time, delayed wartime reports were delivered on horseback.

Now real-time footage is available one click away. We can bear witness to devastation 24/7. We have a proximity to trauma that can be both intoxicating and exhausting all at the same time. Hard to look and hard to look away. Layered with all other calamities of recent times, I find myself sitting with the paradox of how to reconcile deep concern and deep longings to help, alongside deep cravings for escapism. I find myself clicking through the tabs on my laptop — CNN,

anxiously reading up on the Russian offensive; then to taxes; then respond to a handful of emails; then some window shopping on Zillow; then on to the best beaches in Mexico; back to an anxious bout on the news … and reluctantly, back to taxes. A lingering sort of survivor’s guilt is often in the background. Who am I to deserve such ease?

Meaningful action seems distant from my small town.

It is hard not to get lost in existential dread, but then I reflect on my sincere belief that global transformation starts at the dinner table.

Small gestures can have big consequences.

While there is much to be concerned about in our world, what haunts me most at the end of the day is the prevalence of unbridled entitlement. Unbridled entitlement is often matched with a deep sense of victimhood. When mixed with power, greed, and resources, the combination of entitlement and victimhood can become, well, very ugly.

We can all theorize the reasons behind Putin’s heartless wrath as he disregards global condemnation, but what is clear is that he demonstrates a profound sense of victimhood, of being historically wronged, of feeling entitled to reclaim the myth of his territory regardless of the cost. Putin has equated the global projection of his

victimhood with power. And unfortunately, he has one of the world’s largest militaries and nuclear arsenals to fuel his tantrum.

Unbridled entitlement that often blinds a person from self-responsibility is not just a Putin problem, it is a societal problem. We see entitlement projected through violence, manipulation, deceit, greed, abuse, and environmental destruction. Our society makes it easy to feel persistently aggrieved. In our quick-fix, dopamine-driven society we have labeled negative feeling states as bad or even unwarranted — feelings to distract away, numb away, or escape from. We can raise a big fuss around temporary discomfort or rally troops when life doesn’t quite go our way. Preserving our ego can override concern for consequences. We become territorial and assume that folks should see the world through our eyes. We become rigid, angry, and more prone to division.

And now back to the dinner table and to our local communities. What we are exemplifying for future generations has global consequences. Putin’s road to rage was not predestined, but cultivated through a series of perceived grievances, of losses, of insecurity, failures, and a culture that did little to demand self-reflection and accountability. When

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we can exemplify and teach self-responsibility and compassion (the antidotes to entitlement), we do the world a favor, and we fight the foundational ills that plague Ukraine and so many places in our world.

How are we teaching our youth (and ourselves) to manage negative feeling states? How are we teaching resilience in the face of discomfort? What about sustaining kindness in the face of adversity? Are we able to discern between needs and wants? How are we teaching gratitude and perspective?

Can we be brave enough to demand accountability?

The world does not owe us much at all in the end.

This may sound cold but can also be liberating. To have our emotional well-being tied to the whims of others, or external circumstances, takes away from our internal sense of grounding. It tethers our stability to a volatile world.

It is when we can take radical responsibility that we can better identify our own internal compass, afford more grace to others, and positively redirect the remnants of intergenerational trauma in our own lives.

As big and scary as problems may seem, please remember the ripple effects that can emanate from within the walls of our own home, one dinner conversation at a time.

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Applicants for One Planning Call 541-549-4184 for more Commission Member information.

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Wednesdays, and Thursdays each Applicants must reside within the week.

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If you are interested on a first-come, first-served basis, in serving on the Planning drive-through style, from 12:30-1 Commission, please complete an p.m. at Sisters Community Church, application and return it to Kerry 1300 W. Mckenzie Hwy. Seniors Prosser, City Recorder at City Hall, may drive through the parking 520 E. Cascade, or mail to P.O. Box lot and pick up a meal each day 39, Sisters, OR 97759, kprosser@ of service. Come on by; no need ci.sisters.or.us by March 30, 2022, at to make a reservation. For more 5:30 pm. information call 541-678-5483.

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Three Sisters Historical Society is looking for volunteers to greet visitors to our Sisters Museum at 151 N. Spruce St. Open hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Volunteer shifts are three hours in mornings or afternoons.

Two volunteers scheduled per shift.

We will provide the training you need. For more information, please call 541-549-1403, send email to tshsvolunteers@gmail.com, or stop

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City of Sisters Seeking Applicants for One Planning Commission Member

The City of Sisters is accepting applications for an open position on the Planning Commission.

This position has a twenty-onemonth term beginning April 2022. Commission meets the third Thursday of every month.

Applicants must reside within the Roll out theare redinterested carpet for city limits.

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City snapshot

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

• A preferred candidate has been identified for the new City position of Compliance Officer and an offer for employment extended. If the offer is accepted, the person should be on the job by April.

• The second City Council meeting in March will be held on Wednesday, March 30 with a workshop at 5:30 p.m. and the Council meeting at 6:30 p.m.

Council meetings are normally the second and fourth Wednesday but because the fourth Wednesday in March is during spring vacation, the meeting was moved a week later to the fifth Wednesday. Check the City website to see if the meeting will be available on Zoom.

• County Administrator Nick Lelack presented to the March 9 joint meeting of Sisters City Council and the Deschutes County Board of County Commissioners, the Deschutes County and City of Bend five-year strategic plan to address houselessness, one of eight pilot projects in the state.

The vision for the plan states, “In 2032, housing instability in all forms is rare, brief, and non-recurring in Deschutes County.”

Elected officials will work with a broad base of service providers, people with lived experience, businesses, school districts, and other partners to ensure that the region’s houseless service system is adaptive to challenges and opportunities and is structured to achieve the 10-year vision. There will be a Collaborative Office and an Advisory Group made up of representatives from key sectors and partners.

More information is available on the website: www.

HouselessnessinDeschutes. org, which includes basic facts, narratives, and an outline of the strategic plan.

• Deschutes County received a $38.4 million grant from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to help support responses to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, the County has received $19 million of the $38.4 million grant. $36.7 million has been obligated to date, leaving $1.7 million uncommitted. Almost all contracts with chosen applicants have been issued, most have been fully executed. Through January 2022, $2.3 million has been spent. Affordable housing ($7.8M), childcare

($7.675M), and homelessness ($6.389M) are the three areas receiving the largest funding amounts and they each include projects benefitting Sisters.

• The County Commissioners and the Council discussed the fact that the County has no parks department. Commissioner Phil Chang would like to change that to promote destination stewardship.

He mentioned the County has 500 acres northwest of Bend that would make a good destination recreation area.

• City Manager Cory Misley explained the City’s plan for a destination mana g e m e n t o rg a n i z a t i o n (DMO) to the joint meeting on March 9. He said the work of the DMO would include tourism promotion, development of the built environment (facilities, etc.) and stewardship to actively manage the area’s sustainability. Balancing of funding, interests of visitors, and needs of the residents are the goals.

• In the February 23, 2022 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Sisters was described as one of five “lesser-known mountain hubs, which serve as gateways to other areas that are just as gorgeous” and a way to escape the crowds of places like Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Aspen, Colorado. The other four towns were Packwood, Wa s h i n g t o n ; D u b o i s , Wyoming; Del Norte, Colorado; and Carrabasset Valley, Maine.

• One of Council’s goals for FY 2022/23 is to address Wildfire Mitigation and Community Resiliency. A consultant is currently surveying the physical structures, critical infrastructure, and property in the city and will be preparing a report for Council with suggested mitigation.

This week a joint meeting of the City Council, the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District, and all relevant partners like Oregon Department of Forestry, U.S. Forest Service, Central Electric Cooperative, and others was held to share information and identify ways to collaborate to improve public awareness and safety compliance with defensible space requirements and Senate Bill 762.

They also addressed identifying funding sources for wildfire mitigation and natural disaster preparedness.

A recording of the meeting can be found on the City website under “Agendas and Meetings.”

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Commentary...

Sleep and the pandemic

By Mitchell Luftig Columnist

Even before the pandemic, more than 50 million Americans suffered from a sleep disorder, most commonly insomnia — trouble falling or staying asleep, waking early or throughout the night, or poor sleep quality.

Since the pandemic began, two in three Americans report they are sleeping either more or less than desired.

Pandemic-related sleep problems have become so prevalent that sleep specialists coined the term “coronasomnia.”

Several factors have contributed to coronasomnia — upended routines, more screen time, increased alcohol consumption, and dissolving boundaries between work and private life.

As sleep deteriorates, so may physical and mental health, contributing to further sleep disruption.

If you have insomnia that has persisted for three or more months, occurring at least three times per week, you may benefit from strategies that help to relieve chronic insomnia.

Sleep experts would suggest that you try cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) to improve your sleep. Here are some evidence-based strategies: Stimulus control therapy removes factors that condition your mind to resist sleep — setting a consistent bedtime and wake time, avoiding naps, using the bed only for sleeping and sex, getting out of bed when you cannot fall asleep within twenty

minutes, and then returning to bed only when you feel sleepy.

Sleep hygiene teaches you to change basic lifestyle habits that influence sleep such as smoking or drinking caffeinated beverages later in the day, drinking alcohol close to bedtime, not getting regular exercise, and implementing calming bedtime routines.

Sleep environment improvement prepares the bedroom for optimal sleep — keeping it quiet, dark, and cool, not having a TV in the bedroom, hiding the clock from view.

Relaxation training is used to calm the mind and body through meditation, imagery, or progressive muscle relaxation.

Remaining passively awake reduces worry about falling asleep by removing any effort to will yourself to dreamland.

Cognitive reframing and worry management Falling asleep depends upon sleep pressure that builds up every hour that we are awake, and our circadian rhythm, which affects the timing of sleep.

According to Diane Macedo in her book “Sleep Fix,” worry and anxiety can trigger our brain’s arousal system, short-circuiting sleep pressure, resulting in insomnia.

Part of the problem is that our logical, problem-solving brain goes offline at night (even when we can’t sleep), leaving only our brain’s ability to ruminate about what’s bothering us, jacking up our arousal system, and causing disrupted sleep.

Several interventions might help you calm a

worried mind: • Constructive worry: A few hours before bed, write a list on the left side of a notebook page about anything worrying you; on the right side of the page write the very next step to resolving the problem.

• Journaling: Write a stream-of-consciousness account of whatever you’re thinking and feeling; if you need a prompt, start with “I can’t sleep because…”

• Gratitude journal: 15 minutes before bed write about how a recent positive experience made you feel or write down what you’re grateful for.

Some people misperceive how much sleep they get. A sleep study may reassure you that you’re getting more zzzs than you realized. You may also find it reassuring that despite a few nights of suboptimal sleep, you can still function adequately the next day.

Supervision from a sleep specialist may be warranted for the following strategies: • Biofeedback teaches you how to lower your heart rate and reduce muscle tension in preparation for sleep.

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A biofeedback device may be sent home to record sleep patterns that affect sleep, to fine tune strategies.

• Sleep restriction: Your brain may associate going to bed with an inability to fall asleep, stay asleep, or get back to sleep. A sleep specialist may recommend restricting your sleep to six hours, with the idea that the following night you will feel so sleepy that you more easily fall asleep. When you become efficient at sleeping for six hours, increase sleep time by thirty-minute increments.

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Challenging the Old Man Test

By Maret Pajutee Columnist

They say getting older is not for sissies. If we are lucky, things go along pretty smoothly for a long time.

But suddenly, we notice we are on a bit of a downhill slide. Then, one thing after another seems to go wrong.

When I told my husband, Rod, about an Internet video proclaiming to test agility and strength as we age, he was ready to try it. Yes, it’s called “The Old Man Test,” but it’s open to old ladies too. You start by standing in bare feet, with a pair of untied shoes and a pair of socks in front of you. Lifting one foot off the ground and holding it up, reach for a sock, put it on, and then grab a shoe, put it on, and tie it, all while standing on one foot without touching down. Then repeat this on the other side. It may sound simple (or impossible), and it is a serious challenge for balance, hip mobility, and core strength.

My husband is pretty strong and active and still on the sunny side of 70.

As a former bike racer and frontline firefighter, he still loves his bike rides and works summer wildfires on the Central Oregon Team as an operations chief. He stays in shape to pass the required cardio fitness tests wearing a 45-pound pack, and works on his balance to keep fly fishing those slippery wild rivers he dreams about. He is my most faithful yoga student, taking my Zoom yoga class from his library as I teach online from our

sunroom every week. He is an ace at tai chi “flamingo pose,” standing on one leg while adding slow up-anddown arm movements.

So, we watched an Internet video of tough guys in the gym demonstrating the moves. He was confident he could nail it. But many years at a desk job, sitting for hours, has taken its toll.

The first time he tried it, while reaching for the first sock, he tipped over.

It’s unstoppable and inevitable that as we age our body goes through changes, including loss of muscle mass, loss of the fast-twitch fibers that help us move quickly, and changes to our nervous system that affect our sense of where our body is in space. As a teacher of yoga for seniors, I focus on four key elements: flexibility, agility, balance, and strength (a useful acronym is FABS). Change in these abilities as we age affects our quality of life, our independence, and can lead to the big health risk of falling.

Falls happen to all of us on occasion, but they become a more serious affair as our bones become more brittle, our muscle mass shrinks, and we don’t bounce as well.

The chance of falling increases with age. One in four people over 65 may fall in a year, or 25 percent.

When we are over 85 the risk increases to one in two or 50 percent. Falls can lead to a broken hip, one of the factors that can start a rapid decline in mental and physical health. More studies are linking hip fracture with

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declining mental function, dementia, and depression.

Many people never really recover their previous quality of life.

So what can we do? A key is to keep moving so you can use it and not lose it. Teacher and physician Baxter Bell says, “We don’t stop moving because we age; we age because we stop moving.” Walking, strength training, gardening, dance, whatever you enjoy is good. And many find yoga helpful.

Unfortunately, people often try a frisky yoga class full of flexible, bendy people, feel embarrassed, and say “never again.”

Others say they are afraid they aren’t strong or flexible enough to practice. But take heart and try again. The practice of yoga is a big tent with many styles and variations, so it may take a few tries to find a class that feels right. You might start with a gentle yoga class, often with names like Golden or Senior Yoga or Yoga for Healthy Aging. A favorite class in Sisters is called “Tight Cowboys.” Many classes can be found free online. If getting up and down on the floor is an issue then Chair Yoga is an option.

The variety of poses and movements in yoga can tune up our spatial awareness so we are better at obstacle avoidance, and help stimulate nerve receptors to know where our body is in space.

Movement of any kind will improve blood flow to nerves and muscles. Some

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Rod Bonacker is a strong and active man, but he knows he’s not impervious to the effects of aging. recent balance classes I have taken talk about the benefits of training for “cognitive distraction,” or trying to do two things at once. You work on your balance, for example, standing on one foot while doing multiplication tables, counting backwards from 100, or singing your favorite Bob Dylan/ Adele song.

This may seem silly, but just as they say an airplane crash usually has more than one reason for happening, so does a fall. People often report they were momentarily distracted: it was icy, it was dark, a dog barked, the phone rang, there was a

bulge in the sidewalk, and then they went down.

Safety first if you try the test. Stand on a stable, clear surface away from things you might hit if you wobble or tip. Start cautiously and slowly and maybe have a wall nearby. My husband is a goal-oriented person, and is determined to extend the years he can fly fish, hike, bike, and fight fire. He proudly reported that with daily practice he is now good with the first sock and is working on the shoe. Yoga is not a magic bullet against aging, but it can keep us out there doing the things we love a little longer.

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Sarah B. Hansen, and more, on display.

Metals Jewelry Studio will be open all day. Stop by to see new pendants, rings, and small items in mokume gane, created by jeweler Brian Lee Brown. Other locations open during daytime hours include Wildflower Studio, Dyrk Godby Gallery, Beacham’s Clock Company, and Sisters Coffee Company.

Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop has new works by three debut acrylic artists: Brad Earl, a retired Philadelphia architect with a penchant for Indian motorcycles and antique typewriters; Lynne Myers, whose love for color dances across the board, depicting everything from owls to lakes and mountains; and Summer Derrickson, painting native birds and wildlife.

LaRita Chapman and Chris Morin of Raven Makes Gallery recently returned from an art buying trip to the Southwest, their first in more than two years. The gallery acquired unique, inspired, and beautiful works from Native American artists and jewelers.

“To our Pueblo, Hopi, Zuni, and Navajo artists behind each piece we curate, we thank you for the face-toface visits and warm hospitality,” Chapman said. “We’ve added to our offerings: new contemporary creations that include pictorial weavings,

storyteller pottery dolls, a Mongolian black marble sculpture, and fine jewelry.”

Check www.ravenmakes gallery.com for current hours.

The fourth Friday in April will not only be the official kickoff event for 2022 Artwalks, but on that day, the galleries in Sisters will also be featuring auction items for My Own Two Hands, a community fundraiser auction to support art programs in Sisters Schools.

Online bidding will begin that day during the Artwalk. A Community Arts Celebration will take place on April 29 at Sisters Art Works, and the Art Auction and Party will happen the following day.

Details are available online at www.sistersfolkfestival.org/ my-own-two-hands. April will be a very good month for art in Sisters.

To our Pueblo, Hopi, Zuni, and Navajo artists behind each piece we curate, we thank you for the face-to-face visits and warm hospitality.

— LaRita Chapman Sisters Arts Association began in 2015 as a way to unite artists and strengthen the arts in Sisters. The organization welcomes new members including artists, supporting businesses, and the general public. Details are online at www.sistersarts association.org.

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FARM FRESH PRODUCE

M MAHONIA AHONIA GA GARDENS ARDEN NS

is a one-acre market garden in Sisters utilizing organic & sustainable practices.

Produce is sold through THE STAND, Central Oregon Locavore, and Agricultural Connections.

2022 CSA is a membership through THE STAND! Sign up at:

www.MahoniaGardens.com THE STAND

Open Daily, May through October

254 E. Adams Ave., Sisters | 541-420-8684

Fresh, local food available to all Like spotting the first crocus blooms, it’s a sure sign of spring when The Stand gets set to reopen for the season at 254 E. Adams Ave. in Sisters.

The Stand features only local products — such as carrots, beets, arugula, spinach, lettuce — mostly grown at Sisters’ own Mahonia Gardens, but also featuring other local growers. Look for pastureraised eggs, berries, flour, honey, flowers, and more.

Mahonia Gardens offers a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program where an individual pays the farm for a membership that entitles them to a “share” of the farm’s harvest. Memberships are still available to the public. New this year, Mahonia Gardens’ CSA is more accessible to people using SNAP benefits through a collaborative supported CSA program with the High Desert Food & Farm Alliance. Visit www.hdffa.org/snapcsa to learn more or fill out an interest form.

(Mahonia Gardens can’t accept SNAP for day-to-day purchases at The Stand).

Get some homegrown goodness into your life. Sign up for a CSA now, and get ready to make The Stand a regular shopping stop on your rounds through Sisters.

Homegrown

Regenerative practices make good food

DD Ranch in Terrebonne is rightly famous for its annual fall pumpkin patch and as a gorgeous setting for weddings.

It is also a working ranch producing highquality meats and honey, using practices that make for good food that is good for you — and good for the environment.

DD Ranch is available year-round for meat and honey sales. They raise 100-percent grass-fed/finished beef and lamb, heritage pork, eggs from free-range hens, and raw honey from happy bees.

DD Ranch honey is wholesaled through Central Oregon Locavore and other markets, and you’ll find DD Ranch meats in many Central Oregon restaurants.

You can buy meat in quarters, halves, and wholes, and can purchase meat and honey through a CSA, or buy direct from the Ranch (call for an appointment for pickup at the farm store).

The pastures are not sprayed and they don’t use chemical fertilizers. Intensive grazing and regenerative practices mean that DD Ranch is providing food that is good for you and good for the environment.

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GRASS-FED BEEF & LAMB HERITAGE PORK FARM FRESH EGGS RAW HONEY For more information or to join our CSA program, visit

DDRANCH.NET 541-548-1432 3836 NE Smith Rock Way, Terrebonne

Taking a stand for healthful food

JUNE 5 OCTOBER 2

LOCAL VEGGIES

EVERY SUNDAY 11AM TO 2PM

PANTRY STAPLES

FIR STREET PARK

LOCAL MEAT AND FISH

Market builds Sisters’ community A lively buzz in our community can be found Sunday afternoons at the Sisters Farmers Market, running from June 5 through October 2. With nearly 28 vendors filling Fir Street Park, visitors have access to fresh, local foods and products in a festive and welcoming atmosphere.

Sisters Farmers Market accepts SNAP, and the Double Up Food Bucks program, which will match $20 of SNAP spending throughout the market.

The Sisters Farmers Market is striving to help be a building block of the community. The market is a program of local nonprofit Seed to Table Oregon, who envision a community where people of all races, religions, ages, sexual orientations, genders, abilities, geographies, and socioeconomic statuses have access to fresh produce and farm-based education.

Seed to Table welcomes our neighbors and community visitors to bask in the bounty of the vendors, bring the family to join in kids’ activities, listen to live music, and explore new community relationships.

New manager Michelle Jiunta is welcoming and encouraging inquiries from potential vendors. Visit www.sistersfarmers market.com for more information.

For the past 22 years, Richard’s Farmstand has been providing the Sisters community with access to locally sourced fruits, veggies, and berries.

The farmstand, located on the west end of Sisters, behind Space Age Gas, will open (weather permitting) in early April, kicking off another season of shopping for local folks who want to fill their meals with quality foods, including vegetables and lettuce grown by local farmers. The season will start with local asparagus, freshly picked morel mushrooms, and Oregon strawberries.

This year, Richard’s Farmstand will be featuring local Oregon Marionberry and wild huckleberry jams and Prescott Honey (which is considered a great remedy for seasonal allergies).

Richard’s open-air produce stand pioneered what has become a movement in Sisters toward locally grown products — organically grown whenever possible.

Richard’s Farmstand was an early leader in a farm-to-table trend that enhances lives in Sisters Country.

The stand is highly ghl hl accessible, and for those osse who wh ho have have ha ve a hard har ard time tim ti mee venturing out, delivery deelilive d very ry sservices ervviice er ervi cces es are are available. ar aavvaaiiila labl la blee..

come visit us when we open in early april!

Open-air market O i Sisters featuring in top-quality

berries, fruits & veggies

Local and organic products available whenever possible!

Behind Space Age Gas as iin nS Sisters isters 411 W. Cascade Ave. • 541-815-3366 81 155-3 5-33 33 36

10% senior discount!

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LOCALLY RAISED MEATS

Straight from the farms!

FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM FOR OUR OPENING DATE!

NEW LOCATION 64677 Cook Ave. Tumalo Open Daily, 10-6 • 541-610-7733 3

Sign up for our newsletter and order online at...

www.tumalofarmstand.com

Local goodness in the heart of Tumalo Tumalo Farmstand has moved to a new location at the former El Caporal building right in the heart of Tumalo. The move means that Tumalo Farmstand remains a convenient stop on the drive between Bend and Sisters — with a lot more space to offer a wider variety of locally produced goodness.

Delicious, fresh produce is sourced from Central Oregon, Eastern Oregon, Northwest Oregon, the Tri-Cities and Yakima. And with more space available, new goods are being added to the market. There will be a selection of dry goods, and patrons can look for market items like bread and flowers.

At the Tumalo Farmstand you can expect amazing produce at affordable rates.

Founded on owner Molly Hughes’ love for fresh fruit and vegetables, the Tumalo Farmstand was established in May 2017.

“As the owner and founder of the Tumalo Farmstand, I believe in providing the community with exceptionally greattasting produce,” says Hughes. “You are guaranteed to have an amazing experience in taste!”

CSAs feature local meat and produce Rainshadow Organics offers folks in Sisters a regular feast of foods all grown and raised on their full-diet farm located at 71290 Holmes Rd. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares are available. Visit www. rainshadoworganics.com/community supportedagriculture for CSA options and find the share that works for you. SNAP benefits can be used on CSAs or at the Farm Store and are part of Rainshadow Organics’ commitment to food accessibility and the belief that everyone deserves local, organic, nutrient-dense food.

Vegetable CSAs feature organic seasonal vegetables, and meat CSAs feature grass-fed beef, pastured pork, and whole roasting chickens.

All are welcome to visit the farm store and purchase certified organic vegetables, herbs, flowers, grains, and 100% grass-fed beef and pastured, chemical, and GMO-free pork, chicken, and eggs (when in season).

The farm hosts many food-centered events. Visit the website to keep abreast of what’s coming up; tickets go on sale for upcoming events on or about the 15th of each month. mo on nth h. Inquire In nq qu uire about aab bou bou out private prriv p ivaatte events. e

CSA VEGETABLE AND/OR

MEAT SHARES

20 WEEKS • WEDNESDAYS JUNE 1–OCTOBER 12

SNAP benefits & Double Up Food Bucks accepted

For share info and pricing, go to

RAINSHADOWORGANICS.COM and click on “Join our CSA” FARM STORE Open June-October RAINSHADOW ORGANICS KITCHEN Opens April 9 for dinner (reservations required)

71290 Holmes Rd., Sisters • 541-977-6746

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FARM FRESH PRODUCE

M MAHONIA AHONIA GA GARDENS ARDEN NS

is a one-acre market garden in Sisters utilizing organic & sustainable practices.

Produce is sold through THE STAND, Central Oregon Locavore, and Agricultural Connections.

2022 CSA is a membership through THE STAND! Sign up at:

www.MahoniaGardens.com THE STAND

Open Daily, May through October

254 E. Adams Ave., Sisters | 541-420-8684

Fresh, local food available to all Like spotting the first crocus blooms, it’s a sure sign of spring when The Stand gets set to reopen for the season at 254 E. Adams Ave. in Sisters.

The Stand features only local products — such as carrots, beets, arugula, spinach, lettuce — mostly grown at Sisters’ own Mahonia Gardens, but also featuring other local growers. Look for pastureraised eggs, berries, flour, honey, flowers, and more.

Mahonia Gardens offers a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program where an individual pays the farm for a membership that entitles them to a “share” of the farm’s harvest. Memberships are still available to the public. New this year, Mahonia Gardens’ CSA is more accessible to people using SNAP benefits through a collaborative supported CSA program with the High Desert Food & Farm Alliance. Visit www.hdffa.org/snapcsa to learn more or fill out an interest form.

(Mahonia Gardens can’t accept SNAP for day-to-day purchases at The Stand).

Get some homegrown goodness into your life. Sign up for a CSA now, and get ready to make The Stand a regular shopping stop on your rounds through Sisters.

Homegrown

Regenerative practices make good food

DD Ranch in Terrebonne is rightly famous for its annual fall pumpkin patch and as a gorgeous setting for weddings.

It is also a working ranch producing highquality meats and honey, using practices that make for good food that is good for you — and good for the environment.

DD Ranch is available year-round for meat and honey sales. They raise 100-percent grass-fed/finished beef and lamb, heritage pork, eggs from free-range hens, and raw honey from happy bees.

DD Ranch honey is wholesaled through Central Oregon Locavore and other markets, and you’ll find DD Ranch meats in many Central Oregon restaurants.

You can buy meat in quarters, halves, and wholes, and can purchase meat and honey through a CSA, or buy direct from the Ranch (call for an appointment for pickup at the farm store).

The pastures are not sprayed and they don’t use chemical fertilizers. Intensive grazing and regenerative practices mean that DD Ranch is providing food that is good for you and good for the environment.

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CUST

s A CS

IInventory t updated d t d monthly, thl EACH ORDER SELECTED BY YOU! Order monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly.

GRASS-FED BEEF & LAMB HERITAGE PORK FARM FRESH EGGS RAW HONEY For more information or to join our CSA program, visit

DDRANCH.NET 541-548-1432 3836 NE Smith Rock Way, Terrebonne

Taking a stand for healthful food

JUNE 5 OCTOBER 2

LOCAL VEGGIES

EVERY SUNDAY 11AM TO 2PM

PANTRY STAPLES

FIR STREET PARK

LOCAL MEAT AND FISH

Market builds Sisters’ community A lively buzz in our community can be found Sunday afternoons at the Sisters Farmers Market, running from June 5 through October 2. With nearly 28 vendors filling Fir Street Park, visitors have access to fresh, local foods and products in a festive and welcoming atmosphere.

Sisters Farmers Market accepts SNAP, and the Double Up Food Bucks program, which will match $20 of SNAP spending throughout the market.

The Sisters Farmers Market is striving to help be a building block of the community. The market is a program of local nonprofit Seed to Table Oregon, who envision a community where people of all races, religions, ages, sexual orientations, genders, abilities, geographies, and socioeconomic statuses have access to fresh produce and farm-based education.

Seed to Table welcomes our neighbors and community visitors to bask in the bounty of the vendors, bring the family to join in kids’ activities, listen to live music, and explore new community relationships.

New manager Michelle Jiunta is welcoming and encouraging inquiries from potential vendors. Visit www.sistersfarmers market.com for more information.

For the past 22 years, Richard’s Farmstand has been providing the Sisters community with access to locally sourced fruits, veggies, and berries.

The farmstand, located on the west end of Sisters, behind Space Age Gas, will open (weather permitting) in early April, kicking off another season of shopping for local folks who want to fill their meals with quality foods, including vegetables and lettuce grown by local farmers. The season will start with local asparagus, freshly picked morel mushrooms, and Oregon strawberries.

This year, Richard’s Farmstand will be featuring local Oregon Marionberry and wild huckleberry jams and Prescott Honey (which is considered a great remedy for seasonal allergies).

Richard’s open-air produce stand pioneered what has become a movement in Sisters toward locally grown products — organically grown whenever possible.

Richard’s Farmstand was an early leader in a farm-to-table trend that enhances lives in Sisters Country.

The stand is highly ghl hl accessible, and for those osse who wh ho have have ha ve a hard har ard time tim ti mee venturing out, delivery deelilive d very ry sservices ervviice er ervi cces es are are available. ar aavvaaiiila labl la blee..

come visit us when we open in early april!

Open-air market O i Sisters featuring in top-quality

berries, fruits & veggies

Local and organic products available whenever possible!

Behind Space Age Gas as iin nS Sisters isters 411 W. Cascade Ave. • 541-815-3366 81 155-3 5-33 33 36

10% senior discount!

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

LOCALLY RAISED MEATS

Straight from the farms!

FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM FOR OUR OPENING DATE!

NEW LOCATION 64677 Cook Ave. Tumalo Open Daily, 10-6 • 541-610-7733 3

Sign up for our newsletter and order online at...

www.tumalofarmstand.com

Local goodness in the heart of Tumalo Tumalo Farmstand has moved to a new location at the former El Caporal building right in the heart of Tumalo. The move means that Tumalo Farmstand remains a convenient stop on the drive between Bend and Sisters — with a lot more space to offer a wider variety of locally produced goodness.

Delicious, fresh produce is sourced from Central Oregon, Eastern Oregon, Northwest Oregon, the Tri-Cities and Yakima. And with more space available, new goods are being added to the market. There will be a selection of dry goods, and patrons can look for market items like bread and flowers.

At the Tumalo Farmstand you can expect amazing produce at affordable rates.

Founded on owner Molly Hughes’ love for fresh fruit and vegetables, the Tumalo Farmstand was established in May 2017.

“As the owner and founder of the Tumalo Farmstand, I believe in providing the community with exceptionally greattasting produce,” says Hughes. “You are guaranteed to have an amazing experience in taste!”

CSAs feature local meat and produce Rainshadow Organics offers folks in Sisters a regular feast of foods all grown and raised on their full-diet farm located at 71290 Holmes Rd. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares are available. Visit www. rainshadoworganics.com/community supportedagriculture for CSA options and find the share that works for you. SNAP benefits can be used on CSAs or at the Farm Store and are part of Rainshadow Organics’ commitment to food accessibility and the belief that everyone deserves local, organic, nutrient-dense food.

Vegetable CSAs feature organic seasonal vegetables, and meat CSAs feature grass-fed beef, pastured pork, and whole roasting chickens.

All are welcome to visit the farm store and purchase certified organic vegetables, herbs, flowers, grains, and 100% grass-fed beef and pastured, chemical, and GMO-free pork, chicken, and eggs (when in season).

The farm hosts many food-centered events. Visit the website to keep abreast of what’s coming up; tickets go on sale for upcoming events on or about the 15th of each month. mo on nth h. Inquire In nq qu uire about aab bou bou out private prriv p ivaatte events. e

CSA VEGETABLE AND/OR

MEAT SHARES

20 WEEKS • WEDNESDAYS JUNE 1–OCTOBER 12

SNAP benefits & Double Up Food Bucks accepted

For share info and pricing, go to

RAINSHADOWORGANICS.COM and click on “Join our CSA” FARM STORE Open June-October RAINSHADOW ORGANICS KITCHEN Opens April 9 for dinner (reservations required)

71290 Holmes Rd., Sisters • 541-977-6746

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INTERNET: Early indication of interest is important Continued from page 1

and 12 percent have Sureline, part of the school emergency connection. Ninety-five percent in the assessment said they would be interested in acquiring high-speed Internet service.

Sureline has already invested significantly in a feasibility analysis, as well as applied for a conditional use permit with the U.S. Forestry Service (USFS).

They plan to use existing poles running through the Deschutes National Forest that are being decommissioned by Central Electric Cooperative. Central Electric Cooperative already conducted all the necessary studies and surveys regarding environmental impact and possible archeological sites. The only thing needed is a special use permit from the USFS for use of the poles through the forest. The local USFS office has expressed preliminary support for the transfer.

Jennie Sharp at Black

Butte School has been involved in the effort to bring broadband to Camp Sherman since she worked on the Black Butte School District Community Broadband Needs Assessment prepared by Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council.

She will be collecting the letters of interest from residents and is asking for one letter per address.

A letter of interest form is available at www.camp shermanfiber.com/letter, where more information is available about the entire project. The form can be submitted right from the website. Copies of the form can also be printed and given to people who don’t have internet capability. Those forms can be mailed to Sharp at the Black Butte School, PO Box 150, Camp Sherman OR 97730 or dropped off in the black mailbox in front of the school. Grant funders will be looking for buy-ins from the community, so it is important that everyone who is interested submits a letter. Over 50 percent support is good information for funders.

In a Zoom meeting last Thursday night, Janel Ruehl

of COIC outlined where the project goes from here: Black Butte School will collect the letters of interest.

In-community connections will be designed. The USFS permit will be secured.

Sureline and Blue Mountain will create the plan and cost estimates. Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council will help prepare and submit grant applications. Grant funding will be awarded. The middle section, from Sisters to Camp Sherman, will be constructed on the old Central Electric Cooperative poles that run over Green Ridge into Camp Sherman.

The final step will be running the fiber line to each subscriber. The expected timeline for the project will depend on when permits and funding are granted.

Blue Mountain’s Franell indicated that of all technology, fiber optic is by far the most reliable, at 99.9 percent reliability. He said their first step in construction will be to add fiber optic in Sisters.

For more information email Sharp at jsharp@ blackbutte.k12.or.us. A message can be left for Sharp with Lori Gleichman at 541-350-3106.

Looking for lunch…

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

An American kestrel perched up high to get a good view of the buffet.

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The pandemic changed everything Prior to the pandemic, most Internet users were primarily interested in download speed – how long it took to download information to their computer.

Joe Franell of Blue Mountain Networks, at last week’s Zoom meeting, provided some background on how the uses of the internet have changed, especially since the pandemic.

With employees and students working from home on their personal computers during the pandemic, upload speeds became equally or more important than download speeds. Fiber

optic Internet provides fast synchronous speeds – data uploads and downloads at the same speed with great reliability. With reliable high-speed internet access, many employees can elect to work from home, and that home can be wherever that reliable high-speed Internet reaches.

Over the last 30 years, Franell said, there has been an outflow of young people from rural areas. Even if they want to return to their rural town, they don’t want to lose their ability to stay connected to friends and work with poor or no Internet.

Seniors living in rural areas and needing more immediate medical care have had to move to urban areas. Three months into the pandemic, 70 percent of ambulatory patients were being seen via telemedicine.

That has changed medical care. Seniors who could have reliable, high-speed Internet might not have to move to the big city.

Rural broadband is now a hot topic, and efforts are being made on a variety of fronts to bring connection to rural areas that up to this point have had poor or no service. Camp Sherman is hoping to change that.

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Commentary...

Zombie living through COVID

By Bren Gates Columnist

I never got flu shots because I preferred to have my immune system do the work. COVID was different.

Too many people in my life were vulnerable. I wanted them to live.

Though I’d been vaccinated, I hadn’t been boosted.

On October 31, yes, Halloween, and barely able to drive to the clinic in Redmond, I was given a rapid test. Moments later I was ushered out the back door, a sheaf of papers tucked under my arm. COVID. I’m pretty sure it was Delta, with the temperature spike for days, dark dreams, and a lost sense of smell and taste. I fought a feeling of flatness that lasted for weeks, dead inside, no energy, someone just going through motions. The word zombie came to mind. That I got diagnosed on Halloween only made it more ironic. I hated feeling passionless. It was an effort to get up for a drink of water.

I’ve had other illnesses — food poisoning and such — where I secretly wished to die, escape the agony. This was different. After the first few days, it wasn’t about the pain anymore. I struggled with a bleakness of spirit,

a lack of desire. It was as if this virus attacked not just my body, but my brightness, my life force. My taste and smell gone, the world dark, I felt cut off from everything rich and beautiful. With still a bit of virus struggling deep in my chest, I stayed away from people through Thanksgiving.

During this time I occasionally talked to friends here in Sisters on the phone.

I found it interesting that they also felt numb inside. Maybe not to the same degree, but the dark days of a restricted winter seemed to have everyone in a funk.

Outwardly, I pretended positivity. On the inside I felt dead. After six weeks, I wasn’t contagious anymore.

I ventured out, but I still felt flatlined, afraid I’d feel that way forever. People in masks looked like impersonal bugs wandering the supermarket.

People without masks seemed indifferent, like they didn’t care about anybody but themselves — at least that was my perspective. Detachment everywhere.

All I knew was that I wanted to feel vibrant again, greet people with enthusiasm over the holidays, so I got boosted. Bam, I was back in bed with more pain than the worst day of COVID. I realize now I still had a bit of virus in my chest. The

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to be taught in our schools. They hate America because we are unique. Our founding fathers were brilliant. Most of them lost their fortunes and their lives. Our country was founded on religious freedom and life, liberty, and justice for all.

God bless America.

Pat Farr

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Supporting McLeod-Skinner

To the Editor: I encourage you to endorse Jamie McLeod-Skinner in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District. Jamie is running against Kurt Schrader in the Democratic primary election this May. Oregon’s new 5th Congressional District crosses the Cascades, from Clackamas and Linn Counties over to Deschutes. In order to represent this diverse district, you need to wear a lot of different hats. Growing up in Eastern Oregon, there were few representatives listening to their constituents.

Big money always trumped the little guy, and the little guy was never heard. Jamie grew up in a working-class background and she knows the challenges of working to make ends meet. Her experience is one of bridge-building, listening, and working to heal the urban-rural divide.

Jamie has been a tireless worker for all Oregonians, not just the more affluent city dwellers. Year by year, her professional and civic experience has shown what she is made of and why she deserves to represent Oregon’s 5th District. The other Democrat in the race has been in his role far too long and just doesn’t listen to the variety of folks in the district.

Kurt Schrader voted against stimulus checks, voted against raising the minimum wage, and has accepted over $600,000 from Big Pharma and voted against allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. Jamie doesn’t take and has never taken corporate PAC money, including Big Pharma corporate PAC money. Jamie will represent her constituents in the 5th District, not corporate PACs. Please endorse Jamie McLeod-Skinner this May. Mike Davidson

booster wiped out the last of it, and within a few days I found myself grateful to feel alive again. The brightness had returned.

In the past I took my life force for granted — just went through my days unaware of it. I don’t do that now. I can honestly say that having had the virus has changed my perspective. Over a relatively

short period of my life, I didn’t feel, and I learned how precious it is that humans are feeling beings. We rely on our senses and our attitudes to get us through the day. It’s given me empathy for those with mental challenges, those who struggle to feel, or live with detachment and aloneness.

One of our greatest teachers once said, “I came to

bring life, and bring it more abundantly.”

Each one of us has a life energy to offer. If only we could look at each other in our community with eyes of vitality, instead of detachment or judgment. Each interaction is an opportunity.

Spring is coming. It’s time. I intend to bring life to the day, and bring it more abundantly.

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Obituary Shirley Jean von Kalinowski 1926 – March 12, 2022 One should not be surprised to read of one’s passing at the proud age of 95, but Shirley Jean von Kalinowski was only 95 years young, full of love and the joy of life. She passed on a picture-perfect Saturday morning in Sisters, peacefully and quietly exhaling from our world into another new world. She passed as she hoped. She was our amazing, beautiful mother, treasured grandmother and great-grandmother, favorite aunt, loyal sister, and cherished friend. She was loved by all that knew her (including our pet families). Above all, she was our family’s matriarch, exceptionally caring and kind, compassionate, insightful, generous to no end, wise, and understanding. She had a great sense of humor and could be a true jokester; her melodious laugh was always followed by her classically beautiful smile.

Shirley was known by her radiant, upbeat smile, which one could easily assume knew no life hardships or challenges. She chose to overcome her own obstacles and pursue life fully and optimistically.

She was a first-generation Californian, her parents Allison Kincaid S. and Beatrice Louise P., moved from Chicago and New York respectively in the late 1800s. As a child of the Great Depression, she grew up having to do without, as her father lost his job and the family was eventually evicted; losing not only their home and many personal possessions, but a sense of pride as they were forced to live with the “in-laws.” It was not easy or happy times, but Shirley was not only a survivor, she developed into an independent young woman. At the age of 15 she was driving her uncle’s borrowed car to help do errands for her mother, who was dealing with her first attack of cancer when she “dropped the clutch,” and hopped through the intersection only to be observed by a policeman. She would recall this as the day that changed her life, as she had to go to driving school and her lifelong love of driving began.

During high school in Los Angeles, she was president of the Etiquette Club, performed as the lead role in a play, struggled so much in French that her teacher encouraged her to quit (she didn’t) and at home would make up dance steps with her older sister Louise to teach “the boys” for the

community civic dances.

However, WWII was looming and blackouts became more frequent and dances even less. High School graduation was marked by the young men going to war, and with no family funds to pursue her college dreams she worked as a telephone switchboard operator and a “girl Friday” for an oil company. Her sister became a wartime bride, and eventually Shirley, through her sister’s new Southern family connection, met her future husband, “Kali” von Kalinowski.

At 18, Shirley, a new and young wife of an attorney, joined many volunteer associations, including St. Mary’s Guild, The Assistance League of Pasadena, and was even one of many pink-andwhite smocked volunteer “Candy Stripers” at the then Huntington Memorial Hospital. She developed a passion for travel, which sparked her deep interest in the world at large. Early on she learned to play golf and tennis, with golf as a favorite activity, second only to driving.

She said the greatest gift of her marriage was her two children, her son, Sim, and daughter, Wendy. Shirley remained practical throughout her life and applied frugal home economics with humor. When color TV was first available she opted to tape color cellophane over the TV screen so her kids would stop asking for a new color TV. Although her marriage to Kali did not last, she parted respectfully with renewed sense of independence and a passion for women’s equality, specifically in education.

Shirley never gave up on her desire to attend college and eventually received her BA from San Diego State University two days before her son, Sim, graduated from law school. In the 80s she became president of the San Diego Chapter of NOW (National Organization for Women) and secretary of OWL (Older Women’s League). Her drive for independence and equality was matched by her favorite car a ’69 red Corvette Stingray.

She was a speed demon, a Mario Andretti, and an Indy 500 fan, and loved every mile she drove, sometimes doing laps between LA and San Diego. Shirley was the “Little Old Lady from Pasadena.” She only gave up her beloved “Vette” due to her concern for the safety of her new baby granddaughter,

because the baby car seat would not fit properly.

When it came to her family’s needs: care, kindness, wellbeing, and safety were paramount, and of course lots of love.

No matter her age she was always ready for new adventures. She traveled to Alaska alone to see the Aurora Borealis, went snowmobiling in the winter in Yellowstone National Park to see how nature endures the extremes, tent camped in Yosemite for a family Thanksgiving only to have a bear break into her car. At 60 she became a “racewalker” and won first place in her age group, and trekked in Nepal with her daughter, crossing suspension bridges with yak “trains” coming the opposite way. She toured Stonehenge and the ancient ruins of the Anasazi, Maya, and Aztec cultures. She passed through the Panama Canal and visited many national parks and countless monuments and memorial sites, always curious about their history. Shirley was fascinated by the earth sciences and humanity, and continued to read about geology, astronomy, archeology, and anthropology until her last days. She loved learning, loved sharing her interests and finding ways to inspire others. She was very effective in finding that article of special personal interest and sending it accordingly to her children and grandchildren throughout their lives.

After her four older grandchildren were in college, and her last grandchild and family decided to move to Oregon in 2007, she decided to venture north with them. Lucky for us she fell in love with the High Desert and the Sisters community. Shirley said often that although she greatly missed San Diego, the ocean, and especially her son, Sim, and his wife, Judy, and the grown grandkids, she also felt at home in Sisters.

The peaks of the Three Sisters, the multitude of old volcanic buttes, lava beds, and the fossils of John Day

were of constant fascination and wonder to her. Shirley loved the Painted Hills and would have happily explored them if her hip hadn’t given her “some trouble,” Even with her troubled hip she made it three-fourths of the way up Black Butte at 88.

Eventually she had her hip replaced, at 94, and happily “cruised” like she was driving her Vette again.

In Sisters, Shirley made new life friends that welcomed her easily, that made her laugh, and laughed with her. She created a new chapter in her long life, with friends that she deeply treasured and looked forward to their special time together for collected activities of bingo or bunco, or some fun golf — the activity didn’t matter but sharing their friendship did. The community of Sisters gave her so much new joy and happiness that she decided to return that by supporting a Sisters GRO scholarship for graduating seniors. Her own delay in fulfilling her education inspired her to want to help others succeed. She was always thinking of other’s needs.

Shirley von Kalinowski was our dear mom, our sweet grandmother, but she was so much, much more. I know I speak for our collected families that we are so grateful for her long, loving life with us, and that we were given a rare and precious gift in her. She loved picnics, especially desserts, her favorite was vanilla ice cream, and of course, a glass of cabernet sauvignon. We will miss her so very, very much!

She was like a hummingbird, spreading joy and beauty, and she did every day. She was in her own way classic, ageless, and regal; as well as humble, proud, generous, funny, smart, elegant, witty, fiery, sweet, kind, mighty, loyal, responsible, sensitive, courageous, wise, and true.

She leaves behind her children: Sim and his wife, Judy, of San Diego; Wendy and her husband, Mark, of Sisters; her five grandchildren: Keri and her husband,

Zach; Johnny and his wife, Maria; Desiree and her husband, Josh; Craig and his wife, Anita; and Kincaid.

Also surviving are Shirley’s precious great-grandchildren: Lily, 10; Lucca, 4; Koto, 4; and little Nara, 2.

She was a favorite aunt to Tucker and his wife, Liz; Peter and his wife, Sandy; Linda and her husband, Billy; and many grandnephews and grandnieces.

Her legacy is best described by her grandchildren: “Grandma was a beautiful soul and the world was a better place with her in it.

She will be remembered for her smile, her laugh, and her kindness.”

“I always think of how happy everyone would get and be when Grandma Shirley would be around us. Warmth, sweetness, kindness, joy, laughter, and smiles fill my memories of our times with Grandma Shirley. Her smiles and happiness were truly contagious and filled the room up with positive energy. She had such a love-filled shining soul; we’re all blessed to have had her in our life.

Her thoughtfulness, caring, and consideration to think of others is an inspiration she leaves with us. She made everyone feel so wonderful and accomplished and took great interest in what everyone had going on in our lives.”

“She lived a great life.

A long, healthy life. We’re very grateful to all have the warm, love-filled memories of her in our lives. She was very kind and always really nice. She always thought of us, even from afar. She still remembered us on special dates and was very thoughtful, sent us kind birthday messages and books with special notes in them.”

“Grama was/is all of this… it is very hard for me to put into words, but she made everyone feel so special. I also feel she was a woman before her time. Just a strong, funny, beautiful person, and we were lucky to have her in our lives for so many years.”

“It hurts so much to lose her, but that’s because I loved her so much.”

A community celebration of her life will be planned for early April. Date, time, and place will be announced as soon as accommodations are made available.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to cancer charities; Ukrainian emergency medical relief: MedShare, GlobalGiving, World Vision; Sisters High School programs; and/or the Humane Society.

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Tales from a

Sisters Naturalist

by Jim Anderson

The fishing sparrow

Last year, my wife, Sue, and I completed a 10-year survey of the golden eagle populations in a huge area of Central and Eastern Oregon. Throughout the survey, when we came to a nest site with apparently nothing going on, Sue told me, “Let’s wait a little longer.”

Sometimes it would take an hour, but in time the head of a baby eagle would often slowly rise out of the empty-looking nest, or the feathers of an incubating eagle’s wing would come into view.

Waiting is a wonderful discipline to use even when you’re just watching little birds, as in “bird-watching,” or the term used most today, “birding.”

“Birding” has been a part of my life since the mid-1930s when I lived on my grandfather’s farm in West Haven, Connecticut.

And it will be until I go out among the stars. Being close to nature will still be a part of my life — and death.

When my dear pals Brent McGregor and Kara Mickaelson built my beautiful pine coffin, they made sure the lid would be loose so the critters could come and feast on my old body.

This poem by Harley Poe, (which I infamously edited) says it better than I can: Did ya’ ever think When the hearse goes by That some sweet day you’re gonna die?

They’ll put you in an old pine box And cover you over with soil and rocks Well, all goes well for about a week

And then the box begins to creak The bugs crawl out, the bugs crawl in And the worms play pinochle on your chin…

Having that deep desire to be close to nature really paid off the other day. Sue and I were parked in our old 4-Runner having lunch at a small, shallow springfed pond in the Coyote Unit of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (ODFW) Fern Ridge Reservoir near Eugene.

Marsh wrens, thousands of cacklers, many raptors, and other birds are plentiful there, along with one of our favorite singers, pictured below.

I became my usual restless self and wanted to get going after eating our lunch, but Sue convinced me to sit tight and watch, so we did. Then, without warning, a male song sparrow appeared in a shrub above the pond, singing its beautiful head off.

If you’re a music lover as I am, you can’t help but thrill at the talents of song sparrows. One of their songs in their beautiful repertoire has beginning notes that sound just like the opening four notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Can’t beat that with a stick!

So there I was, enjoying the beautiful talents of that musical genius, when it suddenly dropped off the limb it was perched on and not only stepped into the shallow water, but ducked its head underwater and came up holding some kind of critter.

I sat open-mouthed and watched as it crunched up the gray object and then with the finesse of a juggler, flipped it over to show yellow on the animal’s body, and swallowed it.

“Sue!” I exclaimed, “Have you ever seen a song sparrow eating things it has caught in the water?”

She hadn’t and neither had I. So, old “let’s get moving!” Jim spent the next hour sitting there watching that talented sparrow as it

PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON

A Northwestern Song Sparrow (Melospiz melodia) searching for aquatic prey.

snatched those gray things from the shallow pond, crunched them up, and then, with that artful flourish, spun them ’round in its beak to show the critter’s yellow bottom, and swallowed ’em down.

When we got home I dove right into everything I could find about the natural history of song sparrows, and sure enough, as I perused the data from Wikipedia there was the comment: “These birds forage on the ground, in shrubs, or in very shallow water.”

Then to make this sparrow story even more fun, Sue was serenaded by a number of them last week while pulling nails on some old lumber. The birds decided to sing for her and flitted within reach of her hammer, scurrying around the boards looking for spiders and moth cocoons.

What a way to spend the day pulling nails!

So, the next time you go into song sparrow country, please don’t be in a hurry.

Sit, listen to their beautiful music, and watch them as they go about their daily business; you may witness something new about them.

Perhaps a male will surprise you with a Mozart sonata.

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FOOD ACCESS: Program helps everyone afford nutrient-dense food Continued from page 3

member for pickup on a periodic basis. This has become a popular way to buy tasty, seasonal fruit and vegetables, directly from the farmer.

There are many benefits, but also often large barriers, to programs such as these, including financial hardship, and transportation limitations.

This new program will make CSAs more affordable for families and individuals that utilize SNAP/EBT (formerly known as food stamps).

The cost is paid for by three sources: SNAP, a program that doubles your SNAP

called Double Up Food Bucks, and by HDFFA, for up to a 75 percent discount.

Seed to Table and Mahonia Gardens are both involved in this program in Sisters.

Although Seed to Table has paused enrollment for this season, Mahonia Gardens still has shares available for SNAP users.

“As small farmers, we are very excited to have a way to make our food more accessible! We relate to the need for financial support as we had food stamps for over 10 years,” said Carys Wilkins and Benji Nagel of Mahonia Gardens. “Living in Ashland in our 20s we would get $60/ week of EBT tokens at our farmers market to buy veggies. We were so grateful that this was an option for us.

Since we started our farm 10 years ago, we have been trying to find the best way to support low-income families in getting fresh, nutrientdense food. Every human has a right to quality food.”

Program participants will receive a weekly or biweekly box of fresh produce, as well as nutrition information, recipes, pickup support, and guidance on the share that will best meet their needs. CSA share sizes vary to meet a family’s or individual’s needs.

Participants can be referred by their medical care provider or can express interest to HDFFA or the farm directly. They must currently be receiving SNAP/EBT to participate. To learn more or fill out an interest form, visit https://www. hdffa.org/snapcsa.

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Author shares book — and story behind it — with students

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Bethanne Blann of Camp Sherman, aka “Mrs. Snowplow,” visited Sisters Elementary School on Friday, March 11, to share her book “Mr. & Mrs. Snowplow Are Back!” She explained the story behind the story, and provided insights on the writing process.

All Sisters Elementary School students K-4, in two separate groups, heard Blann read her book aloud, with illustrations from the book displayed on a large screen behind her.

At the outset of her talk Bethanne said she had three rules: 1. Have fun. 2. Make someone smile, and 3. See rule number 1.

According to Bethanne, who has written three books related to business productivity, the idea for the book came from her late husband, Dave Blann, after he came home from plowing the roads around Camp Sherman and told her, “I have a really good idea for a children’s story.”

Th e couple decide d then and there to work on it together, which they did over the course of time. The story centers around a town called Snowville that bears uncanny resemblance to Camp Sherman, where the Blanns have been part of the community for many years.

Mr. Snowplow and the family dog, Snowball, help save the day when a local girl needs medicine to be delivered to the hospital where

she is being treated.

Dave Blann worked in Camp Sherman for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office beginning in the 1990s, but passed away in February 2019, about two years before his planned retirement. While he never got to see the final book with illustrations, the writing was completed just a few weeks before he died.

“He would have absolutely loved the completed project with the illustrations,” said Bethanne.

“We worked on it and tweaked it and then put it aside from time to time, because we both had other things to do since we were not professional authors,” she explained. “It took about a year before we felt happy with it, but then we had to come up with someone to do the pictures since neither of us were artists.”

After a number of contacts with artists the Blanns did not feel they had found the right one, but when a friend suggested her nephew in North Carolina, and the hunt was over.

The artist, Max Huffman, had never visited Camp Sherman, but used photographs to produce the drawings for the book.

Bethanne pointed out to students that every author has to figure out what works best for them.

“Some people get up very early and write, others do it late at night,” she said. “I prefer the mid-morning when I feel most awake.”

Hands shot up in the air

when Bethanne asked the kids how many of them thought they would like to write a book. According to one teacher, after the assembly two third-graders were overheard talking about how one of them could be the writer and the other the illustrator of a book together.

She made a recommendation to the students about how to collect ideas for a book in a journal so that when they are ready to actually write the book they will have all sorts of ideas already recorded. When asked whether she had plans to write another book, she said, “I don’t know, but maybe a great idea will pop into my head and I will do it again.”

Having an author visit the school touches on a number of goals the school has, including providing career interests as well as showing relevancy to what is being learned in the classroom.

PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG

Dave and Bethanne Blann’s book was a hit among Sisters Elementary School students.

School media manager/ librarian Alicia Hall said, “Being able to see a real author in real life makes kids think, ‘Hey maybe I could do that,’ and to have an author who lives right here in our area makes that even more real.”

The book is self-published and is available locally at Paulina Springs Books in Sisters. Bethanne donated two copies to the Sisters Elementary School library so all children would have a chance to hold it in their own hands.

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MOTH: Donated art will be auctioned off Saturday, April 30 Continued from page 3

Ben Westlund Advocate for the Arts Award: Aaron Switzer started the Source Weekly in 1997 as an arts, entertainment, and cultural publication for Central Oregon — and, in spite of the many threats to journalism, endured since then. This publication is now celebrating its 25th anniversary this summer.

Switzer’s commitment to elevating the arts and culture of this community continues not only through the stories The Source produces on music, art, culture, the outdoors, and more every single week, but also through his work producing events like Oregon WinterFest, SummerFest, and other free events where local artists can put their works on display. On top of that, The Source is a regular sponsor of artists, art events, and community cultural events.

My Own Two Hands donated art will be on display and available for online bidding beginning April 22 during the Sisters Fourth Friday Art Stroll, 4 to 7 p.m. Art can be viewed at the Campbell Gallery inside Sisters Art Works, The Barn, Bedouin, Wildflower Studio, Paulina Springs Books, Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop, Sisters Coffee Company, Clearwater Gallery, and Hood Avenue Art during the stroll. Art lovers are

highly encouraged to stop by the various art host locations to see the amazing artwork that has been so generously donated by the talented 2022 MOTH artists.

On Friday, April 29, from 5 to 8 p.m. the entire community is invited to celebrate the arts at a free event. The evening will include a new public art unveiling in front of Sisters Art Works (204 W. A d a m s A v e . ) , music by True Loves, food from the kitchen of Oliver Lemon’s, family-friendly art-centered activities, Sisters student performances, and the opportunity to view MOTH artwork that will be auctioned the following evening, Saturday, April 30.

Tickets for the Saturday, April 30, art auction and party are on s a l e n o w.

Tickets are $90, which includes a catered dinner, drinks, live music by the True Loves, and an evening of fun and community. The party will take place at the Sisters Art Works venue under a big tent. To reserve your spot, go to https://sff moth2022.ggo.bid, then click on the “Get Started” button to register through G r e a t e r Giving. You’ll then be able to add tickets to your cart.

Alternatively, call Teresa at 541-588-7065 and she’ll get you registered.

High quality photos of the artwork will be featured at www.sisters folkfestival.org for viewing, and online bids can be placed as early as Friday, April 22 at 4 p.m. Follow Sisters Folk Festival on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for upto-date event information.

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DANGER TREE: Explosives were used to remove tree Continued from page 1

removal techniques, so they called for ordnance.

The explosive type. Sixteen pounds of it, in fact, seven sausage-shaped tubes attached to the side of the “support tree,” the one holding the leaning tree from crashing onto the trail.

Detonation cord stretched for several hundred feet, ending at the controls of certified Blaster In Charge Mike Karr from the Umpqua National Forest. He was teamed with Shane Kamrath from the Willamette National Forest.

In the river itself, two Forest Service wildlife biologists using pole nets scoured for bull trout and gently nudged them out of harm’s way.

On the opposing bank, a worker placed a protective plywood shield in front of the river gauge station. The explosion was planned to cause the least possible disturbance to habitat, although one wonders if the presence of so many humans in brightly covered vests wasn’t disturbance enough.

Methodically, yet nonchalantly, the blasters went about their work while 13 other Forest Service staff cordoned off a full square mile of access to civilians, including and especially hikers and anglers. The entire operation lasted three hours.

It was over in a thunderous second.

“I undercharged the blast,” Karr told The Nugget.

“I needed to keep the decibels to no more than 120 so as not to unduly disturb the neighbors or cause sound blast damage to nearby weak trees.”

One hundred twenty decibels is a big bang: rock concert level. Sound is measured in decibels (dB). A whisper is about 30 dB, normal conversation is about 60 dB, and a lawn mower running is about 95 dB. Noise above 70

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Explosives “cut” the tree and brought it down safely.

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The awkward position of a hazard tree looming over a trail along the Metolius River meant unconventional methods were required. dB over a prolonged period of time may start to damage your hearing. Loud noise above 120 dB can cause immediate harm to your ears.

No doubt most of Camp Sherman heard it. Black Butte School had been prewarned so that children would understand. Sisters District Ranger Ian Reid was taking no chances. His team included a trained paramedic and a provisional standby for air evacuation, in the remote event that injury occur.

“We’re not so much worried for our own personnel,” Reid said. “We’re prepared just in case a wandering hiker slips past us.”

It might have appeared to the uninformed that it was a bit of overkill for one leaning tree but Reid articulated the unique situation and need for extreme measures to protect the public and forest workers.

The Nugget asked Reid if the Forest Service ever gets sued for injury to public land users. His short answer was yes, and Reid explained at

length the complicated nature of liability for recreational use. It was clear that public safety is a major component of the agency’s mission and one Reid takes seriously with usage of public lands increasing every year.

The tree was not blown up as in the movies, blasted to smithereens. It was a controlled charge designed with success to cut the tree and let gravity do its thing.

Crews will come in now to clear the downed timber in a conventional manner. The trail will be uninterrupted in a matter of days, with no evidence that explosives were involved.

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Oregon DOJ hires antipoaching prosecutor A new legal force has been brought to bear in Oregon’s fight against poaching: an anti-poaching special prosecutor.

Jay D. Hall, hired last month as a new assistant attorney general with the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ), will prosecute fish and wildlife crimes.

The new prosecutor role is the final strategy of a threeprong approach legislators mapped out in 2019 to reduce poaching crimes across the state. Increasing detection of poaching through a public awareness campaign, and increasing enforcement of wildlife laws by hiring additional Oregon State Police (OSP) fish and wildlife troopers were the first two strategies.

The anti-poaching prosecutor will work with OSP and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) to locate, investigate, and prosecute poachers. Hall will support investigations and prosecutions by providing law enforcement with training and access to resources that will build stronger court cases.

He will advise law enforcement agencies in evidence collection, case process, and penalty options and guide and assist county prosecutors in the nuances of trying fish and wildlife criminal cases.

Representative Ken Helm, co-chair of the Legislature’s Wildlife Caucus, is pleased the position has been filled.

“This is a bipartisan effort that is important to all Oregonians,” Helm said.

“Now that all three components of the legislative strategy are in place, our ability to tackle poaching across the state is greatly enhanced.”

Hall hails from Eugene, where he prosecuted major crimes for 12 years through the Lane County District Attorney’s office. Hall is an expert on using state Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statutes to hold poaching rings accountable.

In 2010, he received the OSP Prosecutor of the Year award for using those statutes to prosecute an organized poaching ring that took more than 300 deer and elk in Oregon.

As a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, Hall served in FAST (Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team) Company. Following deployment on various missions in the Middle East, his unit earned the Navy Unit Commendation and the Joint Meritorious Unit Award for their efforts in thwarting terrorist activity in theater. His platoon commander nominated him for the Bronze Star.

Hall then instructed officers in advanced combat training in Quantico, VA. Near the end of his military service, Hall accepted an offer from Congressman C.W. Bill Young to be a member of his traveling security detail and to handle veteran and constituent legislative issues. During the two years he served on Congressman Young’s staff, Hall discovered his passion for the law and following his military obligations, returned to Oregon to earn his law degree.

Hall initially worked as a reserve deputy sheriff in Deschutes County before going to Eugene, where he was an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon. He graduated magna cum laude, went on to earn his Juris Doctor degree from the U of O School of Law, and joined the Lane County District Attorney’s prosecution team.

Hall’s experience will serve him well as Oregon grapples with poaching problems that span the state, according to OSP F&W Captain, Casey Thomas.

“It is great to see the final piece of anti-poaching legislation in place,” Captain Thomas said. “The Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division has already collaborated with Mr. Hall on several important topics. Mr. Hall brings an impressive resume to this position, including being a former recipient of the Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division Prosecutor of the Year award. He will be working with our agency, ODFW, and prosecutors around the state to provide training and resources that will help combat poaching in Oregon.”

Stop Poaching Campaign coordinator Yvonne Shaw agrees.

“Fulfilling this role increases our chances of holding poachers accountable,” she said. “Prosecuting crimes against fish, wildlife, and their habitats preserves natural resources that belong to all Oregonians.”

The Stop Poaching Campaign educates the public on how to recognize and report poaching. This campaign is a collaboration among hunters, conservationists, land owners, and recreationists. The goal is to increase reporting of wildlife crimes through the TIP Line, increase detection by increasing the number of OSP fish and wildlife troopers and increase prosecution through the DOJ. Contact campaign coordinator Yvonne Shaw for more information. Yvonne.L.Shaw@odfw. oregon.gov.

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Scottie Wisdom&Faith Jean Russell Nave

Scottie consciousness

Why are dogs man’s best friend? When they are operating at their highest conscious level, they demonstrate angelic qualities. Dogs don’t judge us. Dogs forgive us for our errors. Dogs often show us unconditional love.

And dogs have given their lives to save those they hold dear.

Dogs represent many of the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Don’t we wish all humans operated at that level of consciousness? That would make the world a better place.

Our 11-year-old rescued Scottie, Bernie — whose antics were the inspiration for my children’s book, “Bernie’s First Christmas,” and who was the Scottie that became my service dog for three years when I wrestled with two rounds of cancer — spent his first six months of life sitting in a small cage surrounded by humans.

Being a very smart dog, he invested that time in studying how humans communicate and behave.

When Bernie is with people, he is in that angelic mode. When he is with dogs, he generally operates at his lower consciousness level and acts more like the wolf

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that is also in him. He steals food from his mates. He snarls if they don’t give him what he wants. He even bites a friendly dog if it has something he would like. He never does any of these things with humans.

Where does that higher, angelic consciousness come from? God, of course. All living creatures on Earth have the spark of God in them.

It was God’s “thought” that created them. Then through long and close association with humans, dogs adopted the best of man’s behaviors as their way of living happily with us.

Let’s take a quick look at Earth’s creation story to remember again how that spark of God became a part of all of us. As a devout follower of the teachings of Jesus, I love quantum physics. In this tiny, amazing world, at the subatomic level, there is something called “wave-particle duality.” Wave energy, such as light and particle energy, something you can touch, can behave interchangeably, depending upon the experiment.

Mankind has searched for the cause of creation and life for a long time. In more recent times, quantum physics has discovered possible answers to what was written thousands of years ago as an allegory: the opening chapter of the book of Genesis.

The book says that Earth’s creation began when God “spoke” the Word. Note that “speaking the Word” can be done by voice or with deliberate conscious thought.

Genesis says God “spoke.” God poured his “thought” into vibrating swirls of energy as it transformed into the Earth’s creation. Energy turned into

Earth. To learn more about this, a good read is “Quantum Glory,” by Phil Mason.

Our physical world is filled with invisible vibrating energy. Just think of the many invisible energies we know about that are vibrating around us all the time: electricity, radio waves, microwaves, cell phone waves, and many forms of light waves, just to name a few.

It is that kind of energy which our creator turned into Earth’s material matter: hard, liquid, and finally, living matter. God changed energy into matter with the focus that the physicists use when monitoring a quantum experiment that changes electrons to matter. Thus, each and every living thing on this planet has a little spark of God’s “thought” in it.

Now let’s go back to what we can learn from Bernie and all our dog friends. At one level, just like dogs, we have a consciousness, which is very base and selfish. It believes in taking what it can get when it can get it. It deems that judging others harshly makes it feel better about itself. And it considers vengeance as the solution when it feels it has been harmed. Ultimately, it considers fear and hate useful ideas.

Also in each of us is that spark of divine life, that little piece of God that made us living matter. When we decide to take the time to develop that spark, as Bernie did in his own way so that he could live happily with people, something beautiful begins. We learn to love, and love, when realized intensely enough, brings you to a higher consciousness level.

That new, higher level of consciousness rises above greed, hate, fear, and a desire

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Like Bernie, when we work every day to live at a little higher consciousness level, life becomes better, easier, and healthier. We learn to give and receive love from all those around us. This becomes a different and more enjoyable world to our eyes.

Through that conscious effort to grow the divine spark within, we become new. We become the creator of a new life for ourselves. We become “born again” as defined in the New Testament.

Take a good look at your dog. Even if you don’t believe in God, you can find a new life just by following his lead to be the very best and most loving person you can be.

“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.” Proverbs 3:3-4

Sisters pickleball players win gold Tug Atwood and Cheryl Pellerin of Sisters teamed up to win the gold medal in last weekend’s pickleball tournament at Widgi Creek in Bend.

They were undefeated in the Mixed Doubles 4.0 event, comprised of 14 teams.

Beth Erickson of Sisters won the bronze medal in Women’s 4.0 with her partner, Leslie Mills from Redmond.

The tournament hosted 178 players from Central Oregon.

Pickleball is a fast-growing sport with over 4.8 million players in the U.S. The Sisters Country Pickleball Club is working with City of Sisters and SPRD to provide public courts for the community. To find places to play, visit www. sisterscountrypickleball.com.

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time, more than 4,150 businesses, groups, and individuals have signed a community letter opposing the sale.

According to DSL, more than 1,800 written comments were submitted into the public record as of the March 10 hearing. All comments, written and oral, will be part of the report prepared by DSL staff for the State Land Board.

The opposition to the land sale is based on several water concerns, the current use of the land by many for recreation, its use by large wildlife as a winter range as well as habitat for other nongame wildlife species, and its proximity to the already established Eagle Crest Resort. Thornburgh proposes the development of three golf courses and six manmade lakes requiring millions of gallons of water daily, as well as over 900 homes.

According to Central Oregon LandWatch, the enormous withdrawal of water will adversely affect Whychus Creek and the Deschutes River. To withdraw water from the aquifer, Thornburgh Resort must demonstrate that it has mitigation water to offset

any negative impacts to surrounding rivers and streams.

In an initial application, Thornburgh identified what those cold-water sources would be. That application was approved.

But something has changed. The mitigation water the resort promised may no longer be available.

The resort says they have it, but they won’t tell anyone what the source is. If the water sources have changed, it must be publicly demonstrated the new source meets the standards requiring full mitigation of the effects on fish and wildlife.

The period to submit written testimony to the DSL has now been extended to April 15. Comments can be submitted via email to realproperty.dsl@dsl.oregon.gov or by mail to 951 SW Simpson Avenue, Suite #104, Bend OR 97702.

The next scheduled hearing on the land sale is planned for June 2022, most likely in Salem, as the threemember State Land Board that will meet to deliberate and make a decision is made up of Governor Kate Brown (chair), Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, and State Treasurer Tobias Read. After the comment period is closed on April 15, citizens may still send letters directly to the members of the Board voicing their support of or opposition to the land sale.

Opponents include not only private citizens, but many nonprofit organizations and state government agencies, including Central Oregon LandWatch, Eagle Crest residents, Oregon Land and Water Alliance, and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW).

During the hearing, Bend City Councilor Anthony Broadman stated, “Generations to come will look back at this moment in Oregon’s land use history, at the decisions we’re making now in rooms all across our state and ask whether we’ve upheld Oregon land use system and honored the land. So, I would ask [that] you would consider what we need as a region instead of what a very few want.”

Andrew Walch, district wildlife biologist for ODFW in Bend, in a letter regarding the Cline Buttes tract, wrote, “The parcels in question lie within biological mule deer and elk winter ranges. Big game winter range is an essential and limited habitat type that supports wildlife through the winter months.

In areas, such as Central Oregon, with large amounts of land use development, alterations, and human disturbance, big game species are often forced to alter historic patterns and utilize winter habitats that are less suitable and more fragmented. This makes remaining tracts of

winter range habitat essential to the long-term preservation of these wildlife species…

ODFW is concerned about the potential conversion from public to private ownership and the subsequent possibility of future development, increased human presence, and associated loss of habitat functionality.”

The land overseen by the DSL was granted to Oregon following statehood by the federal government for the purpose of generating revenue for the Common School Fund for K-12 education.

The DSL and the State Land Board are responsible to manage, control, and protect the common school grazing lands to secure the greatest permanent value of the lands to all people of the state.

According to ORS 273.051(2)(b), the State Land Board must “give due consideration, in the sale, exchange or leasing of any state lands under its control, to the protection and conservation of all natural resources, including scenic and recreational resources, of such lands, so as to conserve the public health and recreational enjoyment of the people, protect property and human life, and conserve plant, aquatic and animal life.”

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400 acres – Thornburgh Resort Company LLC and Kameron DeLashmutt, manager and founder, and Central Land and Cattle Company (CLCC), applicant for the purchase of the 400 acres. Up until recently, DeLashmutt was listed as the agent for CLCC but as of 2022, that has been changed to AW Services in Portland, although the contact address is DeLashmutt’s Redmond address.

Central Land and Cattle Company has been leasing the state-owned land it is seeking to buy, for annual lease payments of $28,720, which have been repeatedly deferred and later paid. If the sale is approved, there are no water rights or permits associated with the land in question.

The Thornburgh development has been a contentious issue since the early 2000s, with Deschutes County decisions appealed to the State Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) and remanded by LUBA back to Deschutes County, with other appeals going to the Court of Appeals and one all the way to the Oregon Supreme Court, which sent it back to the Court of Appeals to hear. Deschutes County did approve the master plan for the 1,970-acre destination resort southwest of Cline Buttes, but there are several appeals still pending.

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