The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLV No. 24 // 2022-06-15

The Nugget Vol. XLV No. 24

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News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Sisters Rodeo return makes big splash

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

Sisters Rodeo’s return made a big splash — literally.

As in the sight and sound contestants and animals made as they splashed about in a wet, soggy, yet exhilarating event.

J.J. Harrison, rodeo clown, made the best of it, with antics ranging from belly flops on the soaked field to mud bathing.

We d n e s d a y n i g h t ’s Xtreme Bulls started out with a roar in overcast but dry conditions with two arena records set. The raging bulls may have had the better of the night, however, sending three riders limping off the field and a fourth so dazed he had to be propped up and pointed to the exit.

There was stunned silence on the third ride, when bullfighter Logan Blasdell took a full-force, direct hit to the face from the hind leg of a bucking bull. The ferocious kick resulted in a fractured cheek. In true cowboy fashion, Blasdell was back in action the next day.

Bullfighters, often dressed in clownlike costumes, as was Blasdell, are the two cowboys on foot who get between the bull and the

Correspondent

After a winter of low snowpack and rainfall, with dire warnings regarding continuing drought and high wildfire risk, Mother Nature has let loose a lot of moisture of late. But she just might be toying with us.

For making yearly comparisons, the water year begins on October 1. Sisters is located in the Upper Deschutes and Crooked River basins. On June 1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Services issued their Oregon Basin Outlook Report, the opening paragraph of which

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Planners to grapple with growth issues

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

CoBurn Bradshaw of Beaver, Utah, set a Saddle Bronc arena record with an 89.50 ride. rider when the rider has been tossed off.

That same night, J.J. had to retreat to his padded barrel no less than six times as angry bulls knocked over his safe space, occasionally rolling him as if for the sport of it. Likewise, one of the two pickup men was

It doesn’t feel like drought in Sisters

By Sue Stafford

PRE-SORTED STANDARD ECRWSS U.S. POSTAGE PAID Sisters, OR Permit No. 15

contained this statement: “Much of central and southern Oregon are experiencing continued below to well-below median streamflow and reservoir storage volumes. These regions are being impacted by drought with impacts persisting through the summer.”

A p p a r e n t l y, M o t h e r Nature doesn’t check with the Department of Agriculture before turning on the faucet.

A good share of early June has seen gray skies, heavy rainfall, and swollen, rushing creeks. On Saturday, June 11, Whychus Creek in Sisters was reported at 455 cubic feet/second compared See DROUGHT on page 23

knocked from his horse after a marauding bull hit his horse full speed from the rear. As both were moving, the horse escaped damage, but the crowd held their breaths for what seemed like minutes.

“In all my years (30-plus), I’ve never seen bulls this wild,” said Bonnie Malone

of Sisters. That was the sentiment of many veteran rodeo fans as well as Jerry Baldock, well-known Sisters photographer, who has covered Sisters rodeos for decades.

“That was wild, nothing ever before like it,” See RODEO on page 5

The rubber is meeting the road, literally, here in Sisters.

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) announced last week that Sisters has been selected to receive $5 million from the “Enhance” portion of the 2024-27 Statewide Transportation Improvement Plan (STIP), to build a roundabout at Highway 20 and Locust Street.

Projects in this category are aimed at improving safety and reducing congestion on some of Oregon’s busiest roadways. Highway 20 at North Locust Street project will replace the troublesome intersection with a single-lane roundabout that will help traffic flow smoother on both streets.

The roundabout installation is the second part of See GROWTH on page 15

Grateful seniors wrap up high school

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

One by one, as the four student speakers delivered their addresses Friday, June 10 at the 74th Sisters High School commencement, a clear theme emerged: gratitude.

Perhaps having the final months of senior year return largely to normal following nearly two years of pandemic tumult gave the class of 2022 enough breathing room to allow them to reflect on the good in their lives.

From start to finish, thankfulness, joy, and celebration marked the ceremony, which was held in a packed Sisters High School gym after two years of socially distanced commencements at the Sisters

PHOTO BY CRAIG MAY

The Senior Ensemble performed at Sisters High School’s Class of 2022 Graduation Ceremony on Friday. rodeo grounds.

The Sisters High School jazz choir set the tone for the evening with

a moving delivery of the national anthem. Principal See SENIORS on page 16

Letters/Weather ............... 2 Obituaries ........................ 8 Entertainment ................. 11 Fun & Games .................... 17 Classifieds................. 20-21 Meetings .......................... 3 Announcements...............10 Jim Anderson ...................14 Crossword .......................19 Real Estate .................21-24

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Editorial…

The value of vigilance

The murder of Tina Lynn Klein-Lewis is a tragedy and a terrible shock to the community of Sisters. A woman of generous spirit was senselessly robbed of her life in a manner that left her friends and neighbors deeply rattled.

Neighbors in the Cloverdale area are understandably upset that they were left unaware that Klein-Lewis’ killer was abroad in their neighborhood for several days before he was apprehended. They believe that the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office should have been more forthcoming with information that would have alerted them to danger. They’re right.

The DCSO says that they kept initial information sparse to protect the integrity of a complex investigation. Protecting a homicide investigation is obviously critical, but it is hard to see how telling the community they should be vigilant and to report any suspicious activity would have compromised the investigation

— and the neighbors would have gotten the message.

There is something to be said for vigilance as a default setting. Sisters remains a very safe place to live, but no place is immune from trouble and danger, and recent events across the nation drive that point home. Operating in a state of “relaxed alertness,” aware and vigilant to potential threats — “Condition Yellow” as it is defined by many self-defense instructors — is actually a good and surprisingly satisfying way to live.

That might seem counterintuitive to some folks — too much like “living in fear.” But vigilance is not the same thing as fear. Vigilance is the art of tuning in to the environment, and it can make a person feel vibrantly alive. On those terms, the vigilance the times demand is something we should all embrace.

Jim Cornelius, Editor in Chief

Letters to the Editor…

After reading the article in The Nugget and also living on Cloverdale, I have several questions. Why weren’t we as residents notified that there was not an arrest made until four days after Tina was murdered?

We live less than a mile away from the home she lived in and was murdered at.

Safety should have been more of a priority.

Very disturbing that the killer was in the area, and located not far from the crime scene four days later.

Kristy Raasch See LETTERS on page 10

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Al Krause caught a lovely image of a mule deer doe with a couple of fawns in the Cloverdale area.

PHOTO BY AL KRAUSE

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Renew the ban on assault-style weapons

By Mitchell Luftig Guest Columnist

The semiautomatic rifles that have been used in 23 percent of mass shootings in the United States are variations of the AR-15 “assaultstyle rifle.”

According to an NPR report, “In 1963, the U.S. military selected Colt to manufacture the automatic rifle that soon became standard issue for U.S. troops in the Vietnam War. It was known as the M-16…Colt ramped up production of a semiautomatic version of the M-16 that it sold to law enforcement and the public, marketed as the AR-15… other manufacturers began making similar models… the popularity of the AR-15 turned it into a generic term for all types of AR-15-style rifles.”

Fully automatic weapons have been tightly restricted in the U.S. since the 1934 National Firearms Act, which was directed against machine guns. However, a bump stock — a legal device in many places — can be added to a semiautomatic weapon to approximate an automatic rifle. The Las Vegas shooter had a bump stock, which brought the device to national attention, and has led to calls to ban it in the current gun debate.

Although mass shootings account for a small percentage of gun deaths, 135 percent more people were shot in mass shootings than in other gun incidents, and 57 percent more deaths resulted from mass shootings than other gun-related incidents.

The following is a partial list of the most highly publicized mass shootings using an AR-15-style weapon: May 24, 2022: Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas;19 students and two teachers dead. May 14, 2022: Buffalo, New York market; 10 dead.

Feb. 14, 2018: Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida; 17 dead. Oct. 1, 2017: The Las Vegas slaughter of 58 people. The Pulse nightclub, Orlando, Florida; 49 dead. Dec. 2, 2015: San Bernardino, California; 14 dead. Dec. 14, 2012: Sandy Hook Elementary School; 27 dead.

A federal ban on assault weapons was in place in the United States from 1994 to 2004.

A study that compared mass shooting deaths from

assault-style weapons during the ban to the 13 years before the ban went into effect and the 13 years after the ban was allowed to sunset, estimated that a prohibition on assault weapons would have prevented 314 of 448 mass shooting deaths.

Drawing upon the Justice Department’s database of mass shootings, James Kitfield writes that over the past half century, nearly 98 percent of mass shooters have been male, many of whom have experienced childhood trauma and nurse an identifiable grievance; they often study and find inspiration in past mass shooters, and they increasingly are radicalized online.

They also tend to leak their plans for mass murder before acting.

Other developed nations also have troubled young men with similar backgrounds. The frequency of mass shootings in the United States can be explained by troubled young men having ready access to firearms, particularly assault-style weapons.

Eleven million variations of the AR-15 are estimated to have been sold by gun manufacturers. Ryan Busse, former gun industry executive: “There was lots of discussion in marketingplanning meetings about how you could get your gun model placed in a movie or a video game. That represented a solution to the problem, which was: How do we attract a new market segment away from this graying, older market segment that’s not growing?”

Busse says gun manufacturers have embraced military-style weapons and tactical gear, branding them as symbols of masculinity and patriotism.

According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in April 2021, gun owners are roughly as likely as nonowners to support preventing people with mental illnesses from obtaining guns.

And sizable majorities of adults who own guns and those who do not both favor background checks for private gun sales and sales at gun shows.

Let us take one more step together, and insist that congress renews the assault-weapons ban, saving American lives

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

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The forest is a productive ‘farm’ on permittees, those authorized to harvest. Our first visit was alongside Tollgate, where Maria Guadalupe and her crew were gathering cones at a voracious rate.

They fill hundreds of 37-gallon clear plastic bags a day, each holding four to five bushels of cones.

Over a month-long period, they will harvest upward of 2 million cones. And they are but one of several contractors or permit holders farming the cones. There is nothing mechanized about it, all back-breaking stoop work.

Although Maria, who lives in the Willamette Valley and has

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

PHOTO BY BILL BARTLETT

Sisters Rodeo Queen Mary Olney charged into the arena last weekend, to the roar of a sold-out crowd.

Rodeo royalty: Queens of hearts

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

Balancing the grit and rough-and-tumble of rodeo are the young women who with grace and style promote the sport. They are the goodwill ambassadors for the deeply rooted American tradition of rodeo. They are rodeo royalty.

Their roles vary to a degree and they can be found selling tickets, appearing at local Western stores, or marketing rodeo at civic association meetings, schools, 4H, FFA, or just mingling — in full regalia — at community holiday gatherings.

They sign autographs, serve barbecue, even talk to politicians when needed.

It’s a rich and colorful heritage that would need a book to explain adequately.

A book in fact, the definitive history, was written in 2006: “Riding Pretty, Rodeo Royalty in the American West,” by R e n ee M .

Laegried.

Rodeo royalty has its origins in Oregon. When Pendleton held its first largescale rodeo, it introduced a new kind of rodeo queen— not a traveling cowgirl performer like Annie Oakley but a young, middle-class woman from the hometown.

Her name was Bertha Anger.

She won her title from a ticket-selling competition.

Anger ’s responsibilities were simple: look as regal as possible while riding

along the parade route on a float. As rodeo queen then, Anger had little to do with the rodeo, and was not an equestrienne.

In 1910, social norms and expectations for women focused less on her ability to ride a horse (female rodeo competitors were still a novelty at this point) and more on her ability to represent the morals of the community and the town’s Western heritage.

The model for community-sponsored rodeo queens that originated in Pendleton gradually spread to other rodeos throughout the West, giving young women the opportunity to See QUEENS on page 11

It’s easy to forget that the Forest Service is part of the Department of Agriculture.

Our forests are the largest farms in the country, producing dozens of harvestable crops — trees primarily. In our own Sisters District of the Deschutes National Forest, over $13,000 was collected in May alone for permits to harvest inside its borders for items other than trees.

Chief among those are pine cones and mushrooms.

The Nugget accompanied Jeremy Fields, the special forest products officer, as he made his rounds of checking

See FOREST on page 7

Sisters Folk Festival to host free concert Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) will present a free concert by FY5 & Eli West at Fir Street Park on Saturday, June 25, at 7 p.m. Both artists have performed at the Sisters Folk Festival in years past and return for this stand-alone show as part of the annual Bluegrass Jam Camp taking place June 23-26 at the Sisters Art Works building.

Colorado’s FY5 proudly swim in the deep currents of American music, playing new songs, well-informed of country and bluegrass traditions, but not bound to them.

Their fourth studio album, “The Way These Things Go” was released in early 2018 and features thoughtful arrangements as well as strong singing and musicianship. As with all their music, the band strives to connect listeners with stories of common struggles and big ideas. The band’s guitar player and primary songwriter, Mike Finders, won the Merlefest-Chris Austin songwriting contest in 2005 and 2006. While FY5’s See CONCERT on page 19

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.

Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs., 7 p.m., Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Sisters Caregiver Support Group 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., Sisters Episcopal Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, Church. 541-771-3258. / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal Church of the 1 to 4 p.m. 541-668-1755.

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

3rd Monday, 6 to 7:30 p.m. RSVP at study, Tues., noon, Shepherd of the citizens4community.com Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board 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: 541-848-1970. 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 every Sisters Community Church.

12:30-1 p.m. Sisters Community other month, 5 p.m. varies from 541-549-6157.

Church. 541-480-1843. in-person to zoom meetings Contact East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Sisters Area Woodworkers info@sisterstrails.org in advance for 1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ meeting info.

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.

Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon, Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123.

Three Sisters Irrigation District Board of Directors 1st Tuesday, 4 p.m., TSID Office.

541-549-8815.

Three Sisters Lions Club 2nd Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Spoons Restaurant. 541-419-1279.

VFW Post 8138 and American Legion Post 86 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall.

541-903-1123.

Weight Watchers Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, Sisters Community Church.

541-602-2654.

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

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

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

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

FIRE & POLICE Black Butte Ranch Police Dept.

Board of Directors Meets monthly.

541-595-2191 for time & date.

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

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

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

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

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

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

No raining on this parade

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

As if by a magic wand, Saturday’s steady and occasionally heavy rains were magically dispersed for the Sisters Rodeo Parade. A few drops, a fine mist made it through the wall of answered prayers intermittently, but not enough to dampen crowd enthusiasm — a smaller crowd than in past years, especially for the last rendition in 2019 which saw parade watchers stand two and three deep.

“Hey, it’s Oregon. This isn’t our first time at the rodeo,” quipped Dwight Tully from Prineville, who brought along a half dozen little cowgirls and cowboys, assorted kids, nephews and nieces. “We were ready for whatever Mother Nature would throw our way,” he said pointing to a roll of 37gallon trash bags they were prepped to don had the need arose.

The Coburn family from La Pine was in flip-flops and tank tops, figuring if it rained, they’d not have so much to get wet.

“Life’s a beach in Sisters,” said mom, Cindy. “No way we miss this parade. My kids would never forgive me.”

Dad, Wheeler, reckoned this is their seventh parade. “My father brought me to the parade when I was six and I never forgot it,” he said as he hoisted his own six-year-old, Maddy, on his shoulders for a better view.

They, like many spec-

tators, came early to stake out not the premier curbside viewing spots as in the past, but to be under awnings and overhangs provided by several merchants on both sides of Cascade Avenue.

The Nations’ extended family from Springfield posted themselves on Fir Street as it intersects Cascade Avenue, fully exposed to the elements that were long on clouds, some quite dark, next-to-nothing winds, and a meandering drip.

“Rain?” they said collectively. “We’re from the Valley. We know something about rain and this isn’t it.”

They smiled in unison, all with cowboy hats and drover coats.

Durbin from Central Point, Oregon thought the best “float” was the stagecoach festooned with Oregon Ducks paraphernalia, an apparent dig at her friend Amy, an OSU alum.

There were 75 parade entrants, some with multiple vehicles like Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District, who had the biggest presence on the route. In all, some 100 various and sundry means of conveyance traveled the eight-block route, with horses dominating the numbers.

Rodeo royalty past and present was a clear crowd favorite, with queens and a few princesses stopping frequently to engage the crowd and pose for photos while promoting their own rodeos or county fairs. Outfitted in their full regalia, smiling

PHOTO BY BILL BARTLETT

An Oregon Duck-themed stagecoach was a highlight of the Sisters Rodeo parade. broadly as they passed by, they lit up little girls, who were perhaps wishing that they too would someday sit atop a horse and ride down main street. (See related story, page 3).

Parading this year was 9 2 - y e a r- o l d D e s c h u t e s Pioneer Queen, Shirley Kilpatrick, who beamed as she rode down the avenue garnering cheers. Born in 1930 in Terrebonne, Shirley has lived in Central Oregon her whole life. Growing up on the High Desert, she lived part-time with family in Fort Rock on the McCallum homestead, attending elementary school in Silver Lake. Her father later moved the family to 350 acres in Deschutes Junction o ff D e s c h u t e s M a r k e t Road. Shirley attended the Deschutes Market grade school and Young School east of Bend.

An unscientific poll suggested that only about 10 to 20 percent of parade watchers were also going to the

rodeo itself, indicating the appeal of the parade itself as a stand-alone event.

The key takeaway from the parade was the crowds’ collective joy for the return to normalcy after a two-year hiatus. The word COVID was seldom uttered. Having the parade and rodeo back in action seemed to express a defeat of the pandemic and newfound freedom.

Sisters Rodeo Board members were awake on and off throughout the night checking apps and radar tracking. Rodger Dwight is the board member whose area of responsibility includes the parade. He was pleased with

the outcome.

“I was going to drive my old Corvette in the parade but when I got up and saw the weather, I decided against it,” he said. “Turns out it would have been just fine.”

He noted that there were about half as many spectators as usual this year, yet the Board was grateful for the number of younger fans and families with kids that chanced the ominous skies.

“The looks on the faces made all the long work worth the while,” he said.

The parade was led by the three Sisters High School seniors supported by the Rodeo with scholarships.

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RODEO: Crowds were excited to be back in the saddle Continued from page 1

he marveled in the media gallery.

Friday night was uneventful by comparison, essentially dry. The crowd, like Wednesday’s, was large with few if any tickets remaining.

They roared with approval as cowboys and cowgirls delighted them with strong performances.

Saturday afternoon was set to drenching rain. Both performers and spectators took it in stride. Rain didn’t alter the schedule, which starts with the wild horse race. Ten or more teams of three cowboys, each with their own job, attempt to saddle the untamed horse and ride it across the finish line.

The mugger’s job is to keep control of the horse’s head, so it doesn’t rear back.

The shanker holds the lead rope so the horse doesn’t run away, while the rider must saddle the horse and race it around the field. The first team to successfully ride the horse across the finish line wins.

There were audible gasps as several horses fell in the rain-soaked arena, one falling completely over on its back. Concern for the horses — none for the riders — was rewarded as cowboy after cowboy was dragged through the mud, soaked to the bone.

A winner was eventually declared.

Saturday night, a sellout, remained wet, the arena floor largely a pond. The crowd was nonetheless enthusiastic.

A new arena record was set for saddle bronc riding and one of the 10 best-ever bull riding scores.

Rain or shine, special attraction Felix Santana and his Lusitano and Iberian warmblood cross, Gallahan, gave impressive demonstrations for all performances.

The duo performed a series of movements with roots in classical horsemanship, also known as haute ecolé or Alta Escuela training. Horse and rider behaved as if they were working on Astroturf.

A number of barrel

racers withdrew Saturday and Sunday for fear of injury.

Horses for this speed event typically sell for $100,000 or more.

“It’d be like driving your Porsche in a demolition derby,” mused Hank Lambert from Chemult, Oregon, making his 12th Sisters Rodeo. “I don’t blame them one bit.”

There are over 600 rodeos in the U.S. every year, nearly 15 last week. The payout for the Sisters Rodeo topped $200,000, a new record and the highest payout of any rodeo for the week. Ted and Lucy Garner from Tillamook who were taking in their eighth Sisters Rodeo, took note of the roster of entrants.

“Sisters Rodeo is the real deal,” Lucy said, with Ted elaborating: “You always get some of the best cowboys in the game. We can count on it.”

Indeed, among this year’s entrants was Stetson Wright of Milford, Utah,

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PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Steer wrestlers had a steep laundry bill after the 2022 Sisters Rodeo. ranked number one allaround through Sunday with $211,738 in winnings so far.

He’s number three in saddle bronc riding with a take of

$105,821.

His neighbor, Spencer Wr i g h t , e n t e r e d w i t h $69,926 as the fifth-ranked saddle bronc rider. Team roper Wesley Thorpe of Throckmorton, Texas is the number-five-ranked team roper. John Frost, another Utah cowboy is the

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Wandering like wolves: an interview with Rosanne Parry

By Gusty Berger-Brown and T. Lee Brown Correspondents

Award-winning author Rosanne Parry came to Sisters last weekend to speak about wolves (see story page, page 18). Her middle reader fiction title “A Wolf Called Wander” echoes the travels of a gray wolf known as OR7, a.k.a. Journey, who walked across much of Eastern and Southern Oregon and into Northern California.

Fifth-grade student Gusty Berger-Brown interviewed Parry on a walk along the Metolius River, near the habitat of two wolves who have recently begun to call Sisters Country home. Their conversation contains minor spoilers and has been lightly edited for space and clarity.

GBB: In “A Wolf Called Wander,” how many of the events that happen in the book on Wander’s journey were actually inspired by OR7’s journey?

RP: OR7 was tracked at a distance, right? No one was looking at what he was doing every minute. So what I did is I found out the places that he went, and I visited all those places. Then I learned as much as I could about how wolves behave in the wild.

You’re always looking for trouble when you’re writing a story, because there has to be some conflict— GBB: —or else it’s a boring story.

RP: Yeah, otherwise it’d be very dull. So I had my list of things that could happen along the way. For example, cougars are particularly dangerous ‘cause they’re ambush hunters. I don’t think they take wolves very often, but I thought, ooh, that would be cool, if they ran into the cougars.

GBB: And you kind of intertwined that with the horse story.

RP: Right! I knew that there were wild horses in

the country that OR7 was passing through. I knew he would’ve had to come near Malheur Wildlife Refuge, with all of those birds that cross through the middle of our state. It gave me a chance to highlight those whooping cranes with the red on their heads. Although he passed through some cattle and sheep ranches, he didn’t actually hunt any cattle or sheep.

I thought about his having an encounter with the ranch dog that he really wanted for company, and then the ranch dog wasn’t willing to leave with him.

GBB: That’s a very powerful part.

RP: Yeah, because wolves need company, just like people. If you were traveling all alone for weeks on end, the prospect of making a friend would be hard to walk away from. So that’s how I put the events together. I thought about what’s possible for a wolf to do, and then I just put them together in the most adventure-y order I could think of.

Let’s stop. [They stop.]

The places that I went, I was always asking myself: If you were a wolf in this habitat, what would this look like to you? [She crouches down; he crouches, too.]

You’d be about this tall if you were a wolf. What could you see, and what could you smell, and what could you hear?

GBB: You’re looking for prey beyond the bracken.

RP: Yeah. Wolves, their eyesight is specially adapted to sense movement. They don’t care very much about what color things are. Does it matter whether they eat a brown rabbit or a black rabbit or a gray rabbit? No, it doesn’t. Whereas if you were a berry-eating animal, like a bear, then it matters—whether the fruit is ripe or poisonous.

So bears have color vision, like us. Wolves are more oriented towards, “I can see that

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Author Rosanne Parry and fifth-grader Gusty Berger-Brown walked and talked along the Metolius River. thing moving.” So I’d say to myself, “What is moving out there?”

GBB: That ties in to my next question. Do you think that the illustrations help readers? For example, it helped me to know what you were talking about when Wander calls roads “black rivers” because he doesn’t know what a road is...

RP: That’s right. Where he was from originally, there were only small, narrow, dirt roads. No pavement. I’m super-grateful to the illustrator, didn’t she do an amazing job? Her name is Mónica Armiño. She is from Madrid, Spain.

The editor who bought this book was from England.

Her thought was, “Climate change is the fight of our lifetime. Human beings are organized to defend what they care about, what they love. So I want a book that will help young people love the wilderness.” She said, “Obviously we need to have lots of illustrations, because there are many things in Oregon that seem very exotic to people from other places.” For example—and I was shocked to learn this—there are no

hummingbirds in Europe.

So they took a big risk and spent a lot of money hiring an illustrator, and the risk completely paid off, because the book has just been translated into its 16th language.

Parry is working on a historical book about a wild mustang on the Pony Express, and has a picture book, “Big Truck Day,” coming out this fall. Learn more at rosanneparry.com

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been farming cones in Sisters for 35 years, has resorted to a leaf blower to corral the sharp-pointed critters that will end up as holiday or cinnamon-scented candle adornments shipped all over the world.

She likes coming to Sisters, having a vast choice of where to pick.

“Everybody is so nice to us here,” she said. “Hikers and bikers wave to us and often stop and say hello.”

“Anybody can pick cones or pretty much anything in the forest — with limits,” Fields said.

Free permits allow a picker to collect four bushels a day, a bushel being about the size of a laundry basket.

Want more than four bushels?

Well, that’ll cost you $20 for a 10-day no-limit permit or $100 for 60 days, no limit.

Per picker.

Contract pickers, like Guadalupe, negotiate a season agreement with Fields on behalf of the District.

Twenty-two thousand acres are set aside for farming the forest. This saves both parties the time and administrative cost of having to get a slew of individual permits.

Given the size of commercial operators like Guadalupe, industrial camping permits are also issued for her and her crews, who spend months every year in the woods sleeping in tents. Fields, who is also a FPO — forest protection officer — has among his many tasks keeping campers and permittees within compliance of Forest rules and regulations.

Ponderosa cones are the ideal size and color for wreaths, boughs, garlands, bird feeders, woodworking, and medicinal teas and tinctures. Guadalupe and her crew are looking only for grade A cones, meaning

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B-grade cones look good from one viewing angle but are flawed on one or more sides.

Medium cones such as are more typical in the Sisters District are three inches to four inches, and sell in bulk by wholesalers for $290 per thousand, a far cry from what the pickers get. On Amazon and eBay, ponderosa cones routinely sell for 50 cents to $1 each, with free shipping.

N o r t h w e s t Wr e a t h Company in Gresham is one of the largest pine cone buyers in Oregon. They sell only wholesale to customers worldwide including Europe and Asia. Pine cones are a large cash crop, albeit without any reliable estimates of sales volume.

Our next stop was “mushroom camp” just on the edge of Camp Sherman. For a few months every May and June, dozens of professional mushroom pickers comb the forest under Fields’ supervision rounding up chanterelles, matsutakes, morels, and oyster mushrooms, with morels being the dominant variety by far.

Morels fetch up to $100 per pound in restaurants.

Most of our Deschutes National Forest-harvested mushrooms will end up in Asia by way of Washington, where buyers camped with the pickers will send them once dried.

The vast majority of

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Sam Sene at mushroom camp near Camp Sherman.

Deschutes National Forest permittees are themselves of Asian descent. Sam Sene, whose family origin is Lao, has been buying and drying area mushrooms for 20 years. Notwithstanding their high value, Sene describes the comradery among pickers and buyers.

“We all know and trust each other,” he said. “There’s plenty for everybody.”

Sene and Fields both gave praise for this year’s abundant crop made favorable by a wetter and cooler spring.

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Camp is an apt definition with four- to eight-person tents neatly organized around the perimeter. Covered by an industrial camping permit, permit holders can actually dry their harvest with regulated wood- stoves located inside the tent walls but vented to the outside.

In order for the Forest Service to maintain good data and best management practices, you need a

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Fields reminds us that these are public lands and citizens can harvest any number of edible or wood products from Christmas trees to native plants to firewood and more. Just be helpful and get the right permits, which usually come with a bushel of free, helpful guidance.

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Obituaries Gilbert Lyman Daniels

Thomas F. Craven

Gilbert Lyman Daniels, born November 1, 1943 in Corvallis to George and Ruth Daniels, passed away May 31, at his home near Tumalo.

Gib is preceded in death by sisters Vivian Moye and Wanda Stills, and wife Lula Daniels. He is survived by his brother Kenny, son David, daughter Amber Craig, five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and current wife, Victoria.

Gib graduated from Sisters High School in 1961. He attended Eastern Oregon State College, where he played football and chased Lula Stirewalt until he caught and married her in 1963. After graduating, they moved to Ft. St. John, BC, where David and Amber were born. In recent years Gib has contacted many of his friends, former students, and players from Canada. This brought him great joy in reconnecting and learning the significant impact he had on many lives.

Gib was a jack-of-alltrades and master of many.

He taught high school, coached basketball (which continued long after he left the sideline for the bleachers :-), ran excavation and construction companies, and raced horses. He was also a mechanic, artist, plumber, electrician, storyteller, card shark, fly tier, ammo reloader, chief chef and bottle washer, hunting and fishing guide, welder, horse/gun/car trader, school bus driver, commercial fisherman, all-around horseman, and hunter of anything that moved. He truly lived out one of his signature sayings, “I’m not a plumber or a plumber’s son, but I’ll do the plumbin’ til the plumbin’s done!”

The Danielses moved back to Oregon in 1984.

First to Spray, where he

To m w a s b o r n i n Portland to Frederick and Louis Craven. He lived in Mill City until moving to Sisters in the early 1950s.

Tom attended Sisters High School and went on to Central Oregon Community College, where he graduated in 1964 with honors and an associate’s degree of science.

After a brief time in California, Tom reported to the U.S. Navy in October of 1965. Tom went on to be an aviation antisubmarine warfare technician.

While in the Navy, Tom married the love of his life, Gaylene. Tom and Gaylene got married on April 16, 1966. After his honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy August of 1969, Tom and Gaylene moved to Canby, Oregon, but eventually settled in Sisters permanently.

Tom’s career was with Tektronix, where he traveled the world building and establishing new Tektronix facilities. He was wellknown and highly respected for his knowledge and intelligence in the industry.

Tom was also very involved in various organizations, including the Oregon Business Advisory Council, the Oregon Employment and Training Association, and the Sisters School Board.

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worked on the Stirewalt ranch, then to Sisters in 1987, and finally Tumalo.

Gib enjoyed calling Central Oregon home, as he loved the outdoors and was a fervent hunter and fisherman.

Although not a churchgoer, Gib had a strong belief in his Creator and recently shared about his quiet, private, and personal belief in Jesus.

He was a beloved husband, father, and grandfather, and the last few years of his life were dedicated to his family, particularly his grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. He will be missed greatly!

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, June 18 @ 2pm at Sisters Middle School. A potluck will be held following the service at the Tewalts’ residence in Sisters. Bring a chair, food, and stories to share as we celebrate the life of Gilbert Daniels.

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When not working or volunteering, Tom loved spending time with his wife, Gaylene, and their three children at their cabin in Camp Sherman on the Metolius River. His dog Paris was everything to him and he loved taking her out on walks and snuggling.

Not only was he a fantastic and involved community member, but he will be remembered as a loving husband, father, and grandfather.

Tom is survived by his wife, Gaylene Craven, son Christoper Craven (Eva Craven), and daughters Rebecca Wells and Kelly Craven, and grandchildren Hunter, Lawren, Kylie and Eathan.

Please join us for a celebration of Tom’s life on Saturday, June 18, at 1 p.m. at the Camp Sherman Community Hall. Light refreshments will be served.

The Sisters Eagle Airport will continue its unique Fourth of July tradition this year with a variety of events for all ages.

The day begins early Monday, July 4 with the Sisters Rotary Club Pancake Breakfast at 7 a.m., which is offered for a $5 donation.

Registration for the Rumble on the Runway 5-kilometer run and walk also opens at 7 a.m., and the race itself commences at 8 a.m. with the “Plane versus Hot Rod” challenge as the starting gun. All registration for the 5k will be done in person, with a cost of $20 per person or $40 for a family. All proceeds benefit the Sisters High School cross-country team.

The event also features a car show, helicopter rides by Leading Edge, aerobatic ride

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Scottie Wisdom&Faith Jean Russell Nave

Scottie personality All dogs have personality, and most dog-people choose their breed based upon that breed’s general personality traits. Scotties are known for having strong traits.

Stubborn, independent, opinionated, and devoted would pretty much cover their general character. Each individual dog builds around those characteristics, creating the pet we know and love.

When adopting rescued dogs, we find that we become heir to a number of traits from their earlier home environments. Our little girl, Piper, came to us with a very subdued yet loving personality. After fixing her longinfected teeth, she quickly turned into a high-energy, affectionate little girl. But it turns out, we didn’t see all of her inner being until her bonded buddy, who we adopted with her, passed on this winter.

Chewy had a high-energy, obsessive personality. No one could play with either of the other Scotties without Chewy demanding center stage. We loved him mightily. He was a lot of fun for our grandchildren. But his passing dramatically opened up Piper’s personality; she became more expressive, with less stress in her life, and the Scottie trait of opinionated, flourished.

Dogs, like people, seem to develop coping abilities.

Coping means that personality traits build up which enable one to deal with stress or fear more effectively.

Piper’s personality transition started me exploring an interesting avenue of spiritual thought: the concepts of personality and individuality.

I recently finished reading a book on the subject

by Mark Thurston, Ph.D., a renowned psychologist and explorer of many spiritual topics.

From a spiritual perspective, personality is the selfprojection that we present to the world. Thurston says, “Jungian psychology calls (it) the persona—the mask that each of us wears and that we use to interact with the people and situations of daily living.” The mask can

contain many characteristics that help us cope with difficult situations. Personality also contains inner elements, such as the self-talk used when coping with challenges.

Personality is generally me-centered, focused on self-interest and self-preservation.

The older brother in the Bible story of the Prodigal Son demonstrates the mecentered worldview of personality. The older son, who stayed at home with his father, resented his younger brother who left and squandered his inheritance and then returned home.

Big brother wanted to receive what he was “owed” for staying with his father.

So, when the younger son returned and was welcomed by the father, the older brother showed his true cards and got mad. He demonstrated that he had only stayed with his father to gain a large inheritance. The older brother had been building “credits” from his good behavior, which he expected to cash in on. As demonstrated in the tale, in the long term, the older brother’s behavior, which may have looked like generosity, was actually selfish conduct.

In other words, personality carries a me-centered worldview, though for a time it may act in a generous

manner.

Individuality, on the other hand, in a spiritual sense, is the authentic you. It’s the soul we constantly work to train to rise above our humanness, or as some say, take ourselves above all the human fear and darkness.

People like me believe God is our core, our soul, but we must travel a long spiritual road to fully release that distinctive individual piece of God which is our true self.

Our soul is the deep, beautiful, and purely unique being that we each really are.

Each of us is like a leaf on an eternal and infinite tree.

Each of us is like a leaf on an eternal and infinite tree.

As the vein patterns in each leaf on an earthly tree are as unique as any fingerprint, so are all people totally unique in our expression of God’s energy and spirit as we live in this world.

Our individuality is wecentered with a very different worldview from our personality. Individuality is focused on doing good, thinking of others’ needs, looking for the greater good, and always

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Individuality’s focus is what I used to call “the double-win.” It does not put everyone else ahead of itself.

Though, it may put another’s life ahead of its own safety in an emergency or it may put others’ needs first, knowing that it will receive joy and satisfaction from doing so. Generally, the concept is to value others’ needs as an equal to self. “Love thy brother as thyself.”

Individuality has a wecentered worldview. God is we-centered. He receives pleasure watching us when we are filled with joy and when we are kind and loving toward our brothers. God wants all of us to have peace and happiness.

Like little Piper, we tend to build our personality, the mask, based upon what we see in the world around us and how we think we can best cope with its challenges.

As challenges change, our personality’s approach may change. This lifestyle tends to keep us locked in a mecentered survival mode, because we believe we are

constantly dealing with stress and fear.

There is another way. We can begin to reach deeper into our individuality and access our we-centered core, which leads us toward God’s love and peace. Life’s real purpose for all of us, whether we recognize it or not, is to travel in search of divine love, ultimately finding God’s peace. (This philosophy is shared by many faiths and cultures besides Christianity, including Buddhists, Muslims, and many Native Americans.)

This is the road Jesus worked to show us. He knew we could achieve the same closeness to God’s love that he found, and he told us so.

My personal mission, in learning to love all people, is to always see everyone’s individuality rather than their personality. This we-centered approach then makes others easy to love.

“Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I am going to the Father.”

(John 14:12, NASB).

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LETTERS

Continued from page 2

To the Editor: The Senate is in the process of implementing a bipartisanship agreement on gun legislation. It’s a watered-down version of a bill that the Democrats passed in the House last week. If it passes, President Biden will sign it even though there will be no assault weapons ban and will not even raise the age from 18 to 21 to buy one and would do little to stop mass shootings. The Democrats feel that passing it will be better than doing nothing. Some Republicans will sign it to make it look like they’re doing something, but most Republicans are spineless cowards and won’t sign it because they’re afraid of offending some gun owners.

What is it about gun culture in America? How is it that so many men’s identities are so connected to guns that even just banning one type of gun is too much to ask? Why is the “well-regulated militia” part of the Second Amendment always ignored in an amendment written when assault weapons didn’t even exist? Why are we, the majority, being held hostage in this testosterone-fueled nightmare?

The mental gyrations made to justify this insanity are impressive. Craig Rullman’s column “Slouching toward Uvalde” in last week’s Nugget is a prime example. Rullman’s credentials are a “SWAT team leader, a qualified expert on law enforcement responses to terrorism and active killer incidences.” What he feels is necessary is equipping police officers and school police officers to a “gold standard” which would require millions of dollars, thousands of hours of training and basically militarizing our police and our schools. But his entire premise is about dealing with active shooters. This is not about stopping a shooter from shooting; it’s about limiting the numbers killed. In Rullman’s own vast experience his ‘interagency” of “qualified experts” stopped an active killer who went on a rampage killing six people. They couldn’t prevent six people from getting killed.

So, that’s the deal. We have to accept that people will die.

This isn’t about Mr. Rullman. I don’t know him, but I bet he would be the first person in line to try to take out an active shooter. He would be a hero or he’d be dead — either way he believes that what he’s proposing is some sort of solution. I guess it is, as long as we accept the premise that school shootings are just a consequence of living in America.

Well, I refuse to accept it.

I don’t think there is one person in Sisters who thinks a mass shooting couldn’t happen here. We know it could because anybody, even an 18-year-old kid, can legally get an assault weapon and high capacity magazine, go anywhere and kill a whole lot of people in seconds.

It has to stop.

Terry Weygandt

A N N O U N C E M E N T S Deschutes Public Library Online Discovery Pass Starting June 15, customers can use the Discovery Pass system to check out a Wilderness Pass, which is now needed when hiking certain trail systems in the Central Cascades from June 15–September 15. Discovery Pass streamlines the system, making it easy for customers to check out available passes online from anywhere they happen to be with internet access. Passes, much like books and other items in the Library’s collection, are limited in number, but viewing available dates is easy with the online system. For more information visit www. deschuteslibrary.org/books/ beyond-the-books.

Community Celebration Join us for a community celebration at Sisters Creekside Park, Tuesday, June 21 from 4 to 6 p.m. Sponsored by Citizens4Community. For more information call 541-306-9797.

Electric Bike Raffle Three Sisters Lions Club is having an electric-bike raffle. We are raffling a 2022 Giant Roam E + STA electric bike. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at Deri’s Hair Salon, Davis Towing & Tire, and Spoons. Only 250 tickets will be sold! Drawing will be July 1, 2022. For more information contact Deri 541-419-1279 or Kathleen 541-410-6831. Must be 18 or older to purchase tickets.

Free Weekly Meal Service Family Kitchen is hosting a weekly to-go hot meal service on Tuesdays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Sisters Community Church, 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. No reservations required. For more information visit www.

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Ladies Golf League, 18 holes At Aspen Lakes. Experience required. Call Debbie at 813-8187333 or the Pro Shop, 541-5494653, to sign up by noon the Monday before play.

Mosaic Medical Mobile Community Clinic The Mobile Community Clinic will be coming to the Family Kitchen feeding site at Sisters Community Church. The Mobile Clinic provides health care for acute and chronic problems for those who are houseless, or anyone in need. For more information, contact Elaine Knobbs at 541-383-3005.

Round Up for Students at Oliver Lemon’s For the entire month of June, shop at Oliver Lemon’s and “Round Up” for the students of Sisters School District. Every dollar and cent goes to benefit the Sisters Schools Foundation to support, enhance, and enrich learning in our Sisters Schools.

Invitation In-home believers’ meeting Sundays at 5 p.m., for those who know and love the Lord Jesus Christ. All are welcome. Call Richard at 541-410-2462.

Sisters Quilts in the Garden 25th Anniversary Tour Thursday, July 7. Tickets on sale now through the Garden Club website, www.sistersgardenclub. com. Limited number of tickets available. Info: 971-246-0404.

Sisters Garden Club Puzzle Sales Thank you to our Sisters Community for supporting our club in helping us sell our 25th Anniversary Edition “Quilts in the Garden” Puzzle. You can currently purchase the puzzle for $20 at the following locations: Metamorphosis Salon & Spa, Fika Sisters Coffee House, Ray’s Food Place, Common Threads, and The Gallimaufry.

We are so thankful to these stores for their support.

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Free Lunches For Seniors The Council on Aging of Central Oregon is serving seniors (60+) free lunches on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at the Sisters Community Church located at 1300 McKenzie Hwy, Sisters. The Tuesday meal is sit-down from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and also offers activities and information about health, community resources, and nutrition. On Wednesdays and Thursdays lunches are offered drive-through style, from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m., and seniors can drive through the parking lot to pick up a meal on those days.

Come on by; no need to make a reservation for any of the free lunch meals. For more information call 541-678-5483.

Solstice Gathering Wear bright colors, bring your sun hat, and walk the labyrinth!

Celebrate the longest day of the year on June 21. The gathering will begin with a circle at 7 p.m., followed by a labyrinth walk. The labyrinth is located within East Portal on W. Hood Ave., where Highway 20 and Highway 242 meet. Contact: Sisters Community Labyrinth on Facebook or at 503-997-0301.

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Changing Futures Fundraiser Circle of Friends will be hosting a “Changing Futures” fundraiser at Pole Creek Ranch on Saturday July 23. It will feature Kristi & The Whiskey Bandits, live and silent auctions, kids cook-off, and whiskey tasting by Cascade Spirits! Food and beverages will be provided. For more information contact Karen@ 808-281-2681 or visit our website: www.circleoff riendsoregon.org.

Sisters Transportation and Ride Share (STARS) Dispatchers are booking non-emergency medical rides Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Rides are based on volunteer driver availability and are provided Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

At least 48 hours advance notice required. STARS Dispatcher number for all rides is 541-9045545. STARS is an Age Friendly Sisters Country Action Team.

Go Fish Group meeting Go Fish Group will meet on Monday, June 20 at Sisters Community Church at 7 p.m.

The speaker will be Denny Rickards of Fort Klamath and will present a program about “Stillwater Presentations” – information on where, when, and how to fish lakes. For more information call 541-771-2211.

Sponsor an Impoverished Child from Uganda Hope Africa International, based in Sisters, has children awaiting sponsorship! For information go to hopeafricakids.org or call Katie at 541-719-8727

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This Coyote Cutie came from a home that had way too many other pets to supply her with all those creature comforts she desires. She now wishes for her one and only family to give her that lifetime indoor home where she will be loved and safe. Coyote Cutie loves to play and jump at furry mice and balls that have bells in them.

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SISTERS-AREA CHURCHES Chapel in the Pines Camp Sherman • 541-549-9971 10 a.m. Sunday Worship Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (ELCA) 386 N. Fir Street • 541-549-5831 10 a.m. Sunday Worship www.shepherdofthehillslutheranchurch.com St. Edward the Martyr Roman Catholic Church 123 Trinity Way • 541-549-9391 5:30 p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass 9 a.m. Sunday Mass • 8 a.m. Monday-Friday Mass The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 452 Trinity Way • Branch President, 541-420-5670; 10 a.m. Sunday Sacrament Meeting Calvary Church 484 W. Washington St., Ste. C & D • 541-588-6288 10 a.m. Sunday Worship • www.ccsisters.org Seventh-Day Adventist Church 386 N. Fir St. • 541-595-6770, 541-306-8303 11 a.m. Saturday Worship

Baha’i Faith Currently Zoom meetings: devotions, course trainings, informational firesides. Local contact Shauna Rocha 541647-9826 • www.bahai.org or www.bahai.us Wellhouse Church 442 Trinity Way • 541-549-4184 https://wellhousechurch.churchcenter.com 10 a.m. Sunday Worship The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration 68825 Brooks Camp Rd. • 541-549-7087 8:30 a.m. Ecumenical Sunday Worship 10:15 a.m. Episcopal Sunday Worship www.episcopalsisters.com Sisters Church of the Nazarene 67130 Harrington Loop Rd. • 541-389-8960 www.sistersnaz.org • info@sistersnaz.org 10 a.m. Sunday Worship Sisters Community Church (Nondenominational) 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. • 541-549-1201 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship www.sisterschurch.com • info@sisterschurch.com

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QUEENS: Rodeo royalty has illustrious local history Continued from page 3

participate both in rodeo and in their communities. From 1910 to 1956, the community-sponsored rodeo queens’ role expanded, both in terms of her responsibilities and in PR for the communities they represented.

While each community adapted the rodeo queen phenomenon to suit the characteristics of its own celebration, the main characteristics of the role remained: the rodeo queen as a symbol of the local rodeo and as a metaphor for Western women.

Sisters Rodeo has a long and storied legacy of rodeo royalty since its inaugural rodeo in 1940. Four were also named Miss Rodeo Oregon and four Miss NPRA (National Professional Rodeo Association). Since 1983 there have been only queens.

For many years prior to that there were both queens (1825) and princesses (13-17).

Applicants for queen apply online in September.

Queens are chosen by a panel of judges who interview each candidate with a list of questions. The candidates then present their prepared speeches to a crowd of rodeo guests. After the speeches, they take their horses into the arena to ride a designated pattern that shows the skills and communication between the horse and rider, in a series of figure eights at fast and slow canters. The horse must also stop, stand still, and back with consistency. Finally, a rider demonstrates her handling of her horse running at high speed around the arena, with the classic rodeo wave to the crowd.

The entry of the queen at full gallop carrying a five-foot-wide American flag is one of rodeo’s favorite moments. This year’s rodeo was no exception, as Queen Mary Olney charged into the arena, sparking a

crowd eruption.

Few in Sisters Country have more rodeo royalty DNA than Patti Adair, now 70. Her aunt, Judy Currin, was Roundup Queen and Miss Rodeo Oregon the same titles that went to Adair’s sister, Janice.

Adair herself was a princess in the Morrow County rodeo, and princess and queen in the Pendleton Roundup, the latter in 1971, roles also held by her mother, Kathyrn Lazinka Healy Thorne. Two nieces and a cousin have been princesses or queens.

The entry of the queen at full gallop is one of rodeo’s favorite moments.

Sara Marcus-Deraldine was Sisters Rodeo Queen in 2012. She became Miss NPRA in 2013 and Miss Rodeo Oregon in 2014. Now married and a 911 dispatcher in Eugene, she will never forget her rodeo life.

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She credits the Sisters Rodeo Board for her success.

“They were amazingly supportive, much more I learned when competing than similar boards,” she said.

The royal lifestyle is not inexpensive. Wardrobe expenses alone can run $15,000 a year, she reported.

Then there’s travel and horse and tack upkeep. It’s a major commitment in time and money, putting queens on the road as much as 26 weeks a year. Miss Rodeo Oregon contestants must attend a minimum of eight statewide rodeos. Marcus-Deraldine was able to attend 15 with the added help of the Sisters Rodeo Board.

Rodeo royalty is rigorous, with competitive age brackets. In Oregon there’s Miss Rodeo Sweetheart for four- to eight-year olds, Junior Miss Rodeo for ages eight to 13.

Miss Teen Rodeo for royalty 13 to 18. To be Miss Rodeo Oregon, contestants must be 21 to 27.

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The Barn in Sisters Live Music: Oregon Fryer 6 to 8 p.m. Weather permitting. For more information find The Barn in Sisters on Facebook.

The Suttle Lodge Live Music: Jenner Fox Band Thursday House Band, 6 to 8 p.m., free, all ages. More information at www.TheSuttleLodge.com/Happenings.

Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Trivia Night 5:45 to 6:30 p.m. Family-friendly trivia. Free. For additional information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471.

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FRIDAY • JUNE 17

Sisters Depot Live Music by Bob Baker & Mark Barringer 6 to 8:30 p.m. $5 cover. For info call 541-904-4660 or visit www.sistersdepot.com.

Eurosports Food Cart Garden Car Show 5-7 p.m. bring your cool or vintage car for the free Friday car show.

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

Hardtails Karaoke with KJ Mindy 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. For more information call 541-549-6114.

SATURDAY • JUNE 18

Hardtails Karaoke with KJ Mindy 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. For more information call 541-549-6114.

Sisters Depot Jacob Camara 6 to 8:30 p.m. $5 cover.

For info call 541-904-4660 or visit www.sistersdepot.com.

The Barn in Sisters Live Music: Haymakers 6 to 8 p.m. Weather permitting. For more information find The Barn in Sisters on Facebook.

SUNDAY • JUNE 19

Sisters Saloon Live Music: Grits & Gravy 6 to 8 p.m. All ages. Free. For more information see facebook.com/SistersSaloonAndRanchGrill.

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

Featuring live music, community booth, vendors, kids activities, and more. For info visit www.sistersfarmersmarket.com.

MONDAY • JUNE 20

The Suttle Lodge Live Music: Jacob Miller Big Lawn Series, 6 to 8 p.m., free, all ages. More information at www.TheSuttleLodge.com/Happenings.

WEDNESDAY • JUNE 22

Sisters Depot Trivia Night Fundraiser for Jazz Choir 4 to 8 p.m. 15% of sales will be donated to Sisters High School Jazz Choir. For more info visit www.sistersdepot.com.

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THURSDAY • JUNE 23

The Suttle Lodge Live Music: Skillethead Thursday House Band, 6 to 8 p.m., free, all ages. More information at www.TheSuttleLodge.com/Happenings.

The Barn in Sisters Live Music: Cuchulain 6 to 8 p.m. Weather permitting. For more information find The Barn in Sisters on Facebook.

Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Trivia Night 5:45 to 6:30 p.m. Family-friendly trivia. Free. For additional information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471.

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FRIDAY • JUNE 24

Juicy Steaks Chops Chicken Seafood PILLOW PALOOZA!

Downtown Sisters 4th Friday Artwalk 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Galleries and shops feature art and demonstrations.

For additional information go to sistersartsassociation.org Hardtails Karaoke with KJ Mindy 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. For more information call 541-549-6114.

The Belfry Tyler Craynor and Friends...farewell to a legend! More information at www.BelfryEvents.com.

Eurosports Food Cart Garden Car Show 5-7 p.m. bring your cool or vintage car for the free Friday car show.

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

SATURDAY • JUNE 25

Hardtails Karaoke with KJ Mindy 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. For more information call 541-549-6114.

Fir Street Park Live Music: FY5 & Eli West 7 to 9 p.m.

Sisters Folk Festival presents a free bluegrass concert as part of Bluegrass Jam Camp. More info at sistersfolkfestival.org.

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Sisters teen is training a wild mustang

By Ceili Cornelius | Correspondent

Olivia Pulver, a sixth-grader at Sisters Middle School, is training a wild Oregon mustang.

Her mustang, Ronan, comes from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land outside Paisley, Oregon. Prior to this training, Ronan had never been touched by humans and had never been out of his wild homeland.

Pulver is already making strides with training her mustang for the upcoming Teens and Oregon Mustangs competition that takes place in September. The final competition will include showmanship,

overall body conditioning, in-hand trail, and for those in the riding division an additional riding class.

Each division will be competing for the title of Mustang Adoption Challenge Champion and a trophy saddle.

Pulver applied to be a part of this competition last Christmas. She got involved in horses and horseback riding with her mom at the Jude Creek Arabian barn and took lessons, and fell in love with the sport.

Olivia has been riding for about a year and trains for hunter/jumper twice a week.

“I kept going and then I found out about this Oregon Mustangs program and wanted to apply,” said Olivia Pulver.

Applicants have to fill out an extensive form stating why they are worthy of adopting and training a mustang. Olivia, at 12 years old, had to have the support of her parents behind her to go through with being able to keep and train the horse.

Any competitor under the age

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PHOTOS BY GRACE PULVER

Olivia Pulver is doing extensive groundwork with a mustang horse. of 14 can only do a walk-through of the obstacle course; they cannot ride their mustang. There is a division of competition for older kids and adults that involves riding their yearling.

Pulver was selected to pick her mustang and begin training in April, and she has been training Ronan ever since. Her family picked him up at the Burns Corrals in Burns, and transported him to their home in Sisters. Transporting a wild mustang in a trailer was the first challenge Pulver faced with him “It was a challenge, but you kind of have to just run ’em into the trailer and go,” she said.

Within the first day, Pulver had removed his tag, gotten close enough to touch him all over, begun to lead him, and removed his

dragline. The second day, Pulver was able to change his halter, brush him, and pick up his front feet. They have been working on lunging in the round pen, changing directions, and learning about voice commands.

“The biggest place to start is to get them to trust you — you have to start working from there and take them through all of the steps,” said Pulver.

Pulver has until September to master the elements of training with Ronan.

“I don’t know what to expect for the competition; you aren’t supposed to know going in. They set up an obstacle course for you and your mustang to walk through, as well as trailer entrance and a lot of other obstacles and tasks,” she said.

A big aspect of this competition

is that during the process of training these horses, the teens become more patient and learn the art of patience with an animal.

“You can’t just walk and jump into it, you have to take it a lot slower,” she said.

Ronan recently had his first-ever bath.

Pulver is excited to continue the training process through the summer.

“I am excited, and it will teach me how to be better with my other horses, because they need just as much attention and training. It really teaches you to read your horse and to see how they express themselves and what I have to do to figure it out,” she said.

Another big mission of Teens and Oregon Mustangs, and something Pulver is passionate about people

knowing, is the positive impact training wild mustangs can have on not only the horses but the land as well. There are over 82,000 wild horses and burros living on national public lands in 2022. With that many animals on the land, the ecological impact is massive, as the land cannot support that many animals.

According to the BLM, “Overpopulated herds threaten land and herd health. Too many wild horses and burros can lead to: starvation and thirst, less native vegetation, and more invasive weeds, such as cheatgrass, more wild horses and burros on highways and private property in search of food and water.”

The BLM is striving to solve the challenge through reducing overpopulation, implementing

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fertility control, as well as finding good homes and providing longterm care for these animals. Teens and Oregon Mustangs is one of the organizations striving to help find these mustangs a forever home and provide them with necessary care that will in turn benefit the horse and the land from an ecological and population standpoint.

“A lot of people feel negatively about removing horses from the wild,” said Grace Pulver, Olivia’s mother, “but the land literally cannot sustain that many, so this program and competition is encouraging the youth to get involved with horses, while also providing care and a forever home for the horses.

We are just trying to bring awareness to this area about what BLM and Teens and Oregon Mustangs are doing.” The competition provides an incentive for the youth to be able to train and potentially own their own horse afterward.

At the conclusion of the final competition, a live auction adoption will be held on September 4, to place the mustangs into new forever homes. Proceeds from the auction of the mustangs will go directly to the trainer.

“It’s cool to be able to say, that horse was picked, trained and trained right by me,” said Olivia Pulver.

Pulver is currently working on getting sponsors from around the area to support her during the training season with things such as supplies, feed, and other items to help training. She is selling raffle tickets for the items up for auction at the competition in Albany in September.

Pulver has been working hard every day before and after school training Ronan and getting him competition ready, but also becoming best friends.

“I am really excited to get this opportunity to be a part of it and being able to train my own horse,” said Pulver.

Reach out to Grace Pulver regarding sponsorship and raffle tickets at graciepulver@gmail.com.

Learn more about Teens and Oregon Mustangs at www.teens andoregonmustangs.org/back-story/ our-program/.

Horses will also be available for pre-bidding online throughout the 100-day competition at the Teens and Oregon Mustangs website, www.teensandoregon mustangs.org/events/live-auction/.

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Sisters teen is training a wild mustang

By Ceili Cornelius | Correspondent

Olivia Pulver, a sixth-grader at Sisters Middle School, is training a wild Oregon mustang.

Her mustang, Ronan, comes from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land outside Paisley, Oregon. Prior to this training, Ronan had never been touched by humans and had never been out of his wild homeland.

Pulver is already making strides with training her mustang for the upcoming Teens and Oregon Mustangs competition that takes place in September. The final competition will include showmanship,

overall body conditioning, in-hand trail, and for those in the riding division an additional riding class.

Each division will be competing for the title of Mustang Adoption Challenge Champion and a trophy saddle.

Pulver applied to be a part of this competition last Christmas. She got involved in horses and horseback riding with her mom at the Jude Creek Arabian barn and took lessons, and fell in love with the sport.

Olivia has been riding for about a year and trains for hunter/jumper twice a week.

“I kept going and then I found out about this Oregon Mustangs program and wanted to apply,” said Olivia Pulver.

Applicants have to fill out an extensive form stating why they are worthy of adopting and training a mustang. Olivia, at 12 years old, had to have the support of her parents behind her to go through with being able to keep and train the horse.

Any competitor under the age

THE NEW EDITION OF THE SISTERS OREGON GUIDE IS AVAILABLE ONLINE! Scan the QR code and get all the up-to-date Sisters Country information right at your fingertips!

PHOTOS BY GRACE PULVER

Olivia Pulver is doing extensive groundwork with a mustang horse. of 14 can only do a walk-through of the obstacle course; they cannot ride their mustang. There is a division of competition for older kids and adults that involves riding their yearling.

Pulver was selected to pick her mustang and begin training in April, and she has been training Ronan ever since. Her family picked him up at the Burns Corrals in Burns, and transported him to their home in Sisters. Transporting a wild mustang in a trailer was the first challenge Pulver faced with him “It was a challenge, but you kind of have to just run ’em into the trailer and go,” she said.

Within the first day, Pulver had removed his tag, gotten close enough to touch him all over, begun to lead him, and removed his

dragline. The second day, Pulver was able to change his halter, brush him, and pick up his front feet. They have been working on lunging in the round pen, changing directions, and learning about voice commands.

“The biggest place to start is to get them to trust you — you have to start working from there and take them through all of the steps,” said Pulver.

Pulver has until September to master the elements of training with Ronan.

“I don’t know what to expect for the competition; you aren’t supposed to know going in. They set up an obstacle course for you and your mustang to walk through, as well as trailer entrance and a lot of other obstacles and tasks,” she said.

A big aspect of this competition

is that during the process of training these horses, the teens become more patient and learn the art of patience with an animal.

“You can’t just walk and jump into it, you have to take it a lot slower,” she said.

Ronan recently had his first-ever bath.

Pulver is excited to continue the training process through the summer.

“I am excited, and it will teach me how to be better with my other horses, because they need just as much attention and training. It really teaches you to read your horse and to see how they express themselves and what I have to do to figure it out,” she said.

Another big mission of Teens and Oregon Mustangs, and something Pulver is passionate about people

knowing, is the positive impact training wild mustangs can have on not only the horses but the land as well. There are over 82,000 wild horses and burros living on national public lands in 2022. With that many animals on the land, the ecological impact is massive, as the land cannot support that many animals.

According to the BLM, “Overpopulated herds threaten land and herd health. Too many wild horses and burros can lead to: starvation and thirst, less native vegetation, and more invasive weeds, such as cheatgrass, more wild horses and burros on highways and private property in search of food and water.”

The BLM is striving to solve the challenge through reducing overpopulation, implementing

SISTERS KIWANIS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS SIXTH ANNUAL…

5K RUN/ WALK & HALF MARATHON Sat., July 23 • 8 AM-2 PM Registration deadline is July 21

Recreation • Dining Lodging • Events • Arts Things for Kids Day Trips • Food Carts and Much More!

(Registration fee goes up June 22)

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO CHARITY!

For more information, scan the QR code or go to sisterskiwanis.org/ runtothetop/ Register at www.facebook.com/ events or ultrasignup.com

fertility control, as well as finding good homes and providing longterm care for these animals. Teens and Oregon Mustangs is one of the organizations striving to help find these mustangs a forever home and provide them with necessary care that will in turn benefit the horse and the land from an ecological and population standpoint.

“A lot of people feel negatively about removing horses from the wild,” said Grace Pulver, Olivia’s mother, “but the land literally cannot sustain that many, so this program and competition is encouraging the youth to get involved with horses, while also providing care and a forever home for the horses.

We are just trying to bring awareness to this area about what BLM and Teens and Oregon Mustangs are doing.” The competition provides an incentive for the youth to be able to train and potentially own their own horse afterward.

At the conclusion of the final competition, a live auction adoption will be held on September 4, to place the mustangs into new forever homes. Proceeds from the auction of the mustangs will go directly to the trainer.

“It’s cool to be able to say, that horse was picked, trained and trained right by me,” said Olivia Pulver.

Pulver is currently working on getting sponsors from around the area to support her during the training season with things such as supplies, feed, and other items to help training. She is selling raffle tickets for the items up for auction at the competition in Albany in September.

Pulver has been working hard every day before and after school training Ronan and getting him competition ready, but also becoming best friends.

“I am really excited to get this opportunity to be a part of it and being able to train my own horse,” said Pulver.

Reach out to Grace Pulver regarding sponsorship and raffle tickets at graciepulver@gmail.com.

Learn more about Teens and Oregon Mustangs at www.teens andoregonmustangs.org/back-story/ our-program/.

Horses will also be available for pre-bidding online throughout the 100-day competition at the Teens and Oregon Mustangs website, www.teensandoregon mustangs.org/events/live-auction/.

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Solstice gathering set for June 21 Tales from a

By T. Lee Brown

Sisters Naturalist

Correspondent

by Jim Anderson

Going batty in Bend

PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON

Dean Anderson, now a grandfather, helping his dad, Jim Anderson, count If you haven’t spent time a camp of Townsend’s big-eared bats near Bend back in the 1970s. with bats, you’ve missed out on knowing some very started a discussion that nei- bats hibernating in the cave lovely and helpful animals ther of us would ever forget. than to trap them. that share this beautiful old He argued that it was vital to For 10 years I banded bats earth with us — our home know the rabies situation in in several caves near Bend, away from home. our bats, and I argued that if but in that one specific cave I had the distinct plea- I found a dead bat he would I banded a Townsend’s bigsure of meeting Central be the first to know, but he eared male who came back to Oregon’s bats way back in was not going to collect any that cave to spend the winter the early 1950s when I met from our caves for any rea- for 10 years. Each year I’d up with one of our wonder- son — period! enter the cave with my big ful epidemiologists, scienNot more than a month flashlight, and each year I’d tists who keep an eye on dis- prior to meeting that epide- find my old pal sleeping in eases transmitted to humans miologist in Polly’s, I had almost the same spot. There through wildlife. met Bend resident and caver was no need to wake him up; The Bend paper had run a Phil Coyner. Phil fostered a I just got as close as I dared story on the front page about love of bats in me when he to look him over for scars or closing Brothers School introduced me to the little signs of problems, leave him because of a rabid coyote brown bats and the amaz- as he was, and depart. dying in the schoolyard. I ing Townsend’s big-eared On the 11th year I found was reading the story while bats that sheltered in the lava him dead on the floor of his eating my supper in Polly’s caves close to Bend. winter bedroom. Someone Café, where I ate my breakPhil and I spent hours had shot him. Yes, I cried fast, lunch, and supper, and watching those bats flash- at the loss and felt so badly remarked to the guy seated ing through air scooping up about the bat and the poor next to me that a coyote with insects in their webbed tails, person who killed him, wonrabies had caused the closing and I knew that mosquitos dering why — and still do. of Brothers School. were among the insects they One of the best ”gems” I “Oh, that wasn’t rabies,” were gobbling up. There was ever got from banding bats he replied, “that was 1080, a no way anyone was going came to me 20 years after we poison used to kill coyotes.” to capture and kill those quit the project. I received That remark, and the con- remarkable animals, for any a call from the biologist of versation that followed, were reason. the Fort Rock District of the what got me deeper into Back in the ’70s bat Deschutes National Forest Oregon’s wildlife almost 80 researchers got the idea of with a question: “Hey Jim, years ago. banding bats with a small are you still banding bats?

The guy introduced him- aluminum band imprinted The reason I’m asking is I self to me, stating he was with a series of numerals to found a banded bat today out studying rabies and would keep them separate from bird in (such-and-such) cave.” soon be capturing bats from banding, so I got into it in a He then gave me the numour caves to check for rabies. big way. I had been band- ber, which turned out to be a At that moment any possibil- ing birds since 1962, mostly little brown bat I had banded ity of our forming a friend- raptors, and felt like I might 20-years earlier. ship vanished. be able to help to learn more If you would like to place “No you’re not!” I said, about bats in this way. a bat roost on your home or very forcefully. “We don’t I decided to use a little- outbuilding, send me a note have enough bats to play that known cave near Bend to set at jimnaturalist@gmail.com game with!” up nets for capturing bats, but and I’ll send you the plans And that, dear reader, found it far easier to capture for making one.

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More sun, less night.

That’s summer solstice in a nutshell. This year, it takes place Tuesday, June 21.

Sisters Community Labyrinth invites the community to join in a free gathering at 7 p.m. that evening. Guests are encouraged to wear colorful clothes and hats; some hats will be provided for those who wish to decorate them.

Summer solstice is associated with feasts, fires, fecundity, and fairies. Marking the longest day of the year, it’s also called Midsummer’s Day. Shakespeare’s classic caper “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” riffs on the themes of scheming fairies and sprites, who use magic to interfere with each other and with the romantic shenanigans of humans.

Susan Prince, who often co-leads labyrinth gatherings, said she feels a deep connection to ancestors and to the earth’s natural rhythms when honoring “the passing of the seasons through ancient rituals.” Prince will help guide visitors in casual ritual and conversation on Tuesday.

Often, labyrinth walking is a contemplative activity, quiet and subdued. For summer solstice, a sense of celebration may reign. Folks are welcome to bring hand drums, bells, or musical instruments to accompany their walk.

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Delicate blue flax flowers bloomed among the winding lanes of Sisters Community Labyrinth.

Labyrinth encourages locals and visitors alike to participate. Everyone is welcome.

For people who are unable to walk the coiling lanes, which are surrounded by low bits of shrubbery and flowers, a finger-labyrinth is installed at the opening.

The event will begin with a gathering at 7 p.m., followed by a labyrinth walk.

The labyrinth is located in East Portal on West Hood Avenue. East Portal is the Forest Service site — soon to be a City of Sisters property — where Highway 20 and Highway 242 meet, roughly between Bi-Mart and Les Schwab.

The Sisters Labyrinth Committee maintains the labyrinth and hosts its gatherings, with Sisters Park and Recreation District providing fiscal and administrative infrastructure.

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‘Velvet & Rust’ offers antiques

By Jim Cornelius

GROWTH: Meeting gets down to work on growth issues

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Jay Bergevin’s “retirement” to Sisters has brought him back to a passion he developed in his first business in the 1980s: The hunt for exceptional antiques and unique items for the home.

“It’s just in my blood,” he explains.

Bergevin recently opened Velvet & Rust in Town Square. It’s an antique store, but it’s far from run-of-the-mill.

“I’m tired of antique stores that only have grandma’s stuff,” Bergevin told The Nugget.

Velvet & Rust features items from a Napoleon III-era desk set to a 1950s industrial cart, from a prewar Lionel train to a magnificent handcrafted walnut cabinet taller than a tall man.

There’s Western art and items of décor. Vintage sporting equipment includes a wooden French kayak dating to 1929, and a wooden paddle wielded by a Hungarian Olympian in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

The name of the new shop reflects the range of its contents.

“I wanted to do something that was for women and for men — so the velvet is for women, the rust for men,” Bergevin said.

When Bergevin says that the hunt for antiques is in his blood, he means it. And if there’s a distinct French cast to some of the selections, he comes by that as a matter of heritage, too.

“My dad was in World War II and he was with (General) Dwight Eisenhower in Paris for five years,” Bergevin recalled. “He was there long after the war ended.”

His father fell in love with Paris and with French design, a passion that would manifest itself in a father-son business venture. The two operated a furniture store, and the younger Bergevin swiftly realized that in order to set themselves apart, they must offer something more than the standard available just about everywhere. So they decided to go on a buying trip to France. The first trip was in 1980, and over the next couple of decades there were many more. French furniture became an attractive staple of a thriving interior design business, which also incorporated antiques.

The store was located in Redmond, Washington, and drew a well-heeled clientele that sought the unique.

“We were pretty high-end in the Bellevue-Redmond area,” Bergevin said. “We were just a block down the street from Microsoft.”

The business grew to

creating the alternate route around downtown Sisters.

The roundabout at Highway 20/Barclay was the first part. With roundabouts on either end of town, truck and through traffic could be removed from Cascade Avenue and redirected to Barclay.

The update of the alternate route and the City Transportation Plan (TSP) will be a topic of discussion at a joint work session of the Planning Commission and City Council on Thursday, June 16, at 4 p.m. in the Council chambers at City Hall, 520 E. Cascade. The meeting is accessible to the public in person.

Planners and councilors will also hear a presentation on efficiency measures and a housing plan update by City staff and the consultant hired to work on these projects. Drafts of both projects are available on the City website under “meetings.” Reviewing those reports prior to the workshop will provide a good understanding of what they entail.

Efficiency measures are possible strategies that

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Jay Bergevin brings a lifetime of experience to the creation of Sisters’ new antique shop, Velvet & Rust. support 42 employees before Bergevin decided it had grown too cumbersome, and he moved into a new career in commercial real estate.

“I’ve been a real estate broker for the last 15 years in Bellevue, Washington,” he said.

His wife, Karen’s, family had had a vacation home at Black Butte Ranch since 1971 — some of the first people to buy property at the Ranch — and Bergevin had always loved the area. When it came time to retire, he and Karen chose Sisters.

But Bergevin isn’t really suited to “retirement.” He wanted to keep working in some fashion — and he returned to his passion.

“I’m into vintage anything,” he explained.

“Vintage cars, vintage motorcycles, vintage boats.”

He said he’s attracted by the richness of wood and by

the exceptional craftsmanship often found in vintage items. And, he acknowledged, “It’s the thrill of the hunt.”

He’d held back considerable valuable inventory from the old store in Redmond, which became the seed for Velvet & Rust. He found the spot at Town Square, and his landlord adapted it to fit his needs.

“I’ve got to give kudos to Mike Reed for putting the shop together,” Bergevin said. “I’m just thrilled with the space.”

Bergevin won’t be traveling to Europe to hunt for unique inventory.

“I’m focusing on American items,” he said.

“I’ve got a trip to Montana in September to buy these things.”

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may help the City utilize land within the current Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) more efficiently.

This process is required by (ORS) 197.296 for evaluating potential expansion of the UGB that may be necessary to accommodate future growth. This evaluation process is required prior to proposing a UGB amendment. The strategies will be discussed at the workshop.

The other part of the discussion has to do with how the City can help ensure that residents have access to a variety of housing types that meet the needs of households and residents of all income, ages, and abilities. The updated draft of the Sisters Housing Plan includes a detailed list of strategies and timelines to help produce more affordable housing in Sisters.

City staff and the consultants are asking for feedback and direction from the City Council and Planning Commission on these two planning projects, both of which have received earlier reviews by both bodies.

Council and planning commissioners will also hear an update on the City’s water system and plans for meeting future water needs as the population of Sisters continues to grow.

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SENIORS: Speakers offered inspirational words to graduates Continued from page 1

Steve Stancliff, in his first year at the helm, then thanked a long list of school staff and community members who worked to make the ceremony happen and finished his remarks with a brief address to the graduates.

“I want to thank you seniors for welcoming me here to Sisters High School,” he said. “I don’t need to tell you that the world you are headed off to needs a healthy dose of your positive energy.”

Stancliff shared a Latin phrase that he keeps in his office: “bonum est diffusivum sui,” which roughly translates to “goodness tends to spread.”

Do no underestimate your ability as an individual to channel and spread goodness to those around you…

“Do not underestimate your ability as an individual to channel and spread goodness to those around you,” he said.

Greta Davis, a salutatorian and the student body president, gave a welcoming address, focusing largely on her thankfulness for the

community and the staff of the school district.

“No matter where we go from here, we are grateful to know that we will always have a family here in Sisters,” she said. “I’ll be forever grateful to have grown up in Sisters. We are in this together, Outlaws forever.”

Members of the senior class performed a heartfelt rendition of Joe Cocker’s version of “With a Little Help from My Friends” before every senior moved into the audience to find a parent or other loved one to whom they presented a rose in a tradition of thankfulness.

Three valedictorians then took the stage to share words with their classmates and the audience.

Jenna Kizziar did a remarkably thorough job of thanking every single high school staff member, with genuine examples of what each provided to the class of 2022.

She concluded by saying, “I think in the same way the staff have greatly affected our lives, our class has the power to do the same to those we will encounter in the future and genuinely believe we will all be successful in having a positive impact on the lives of those around us.”

Rachel Lilley kept the thankfulness theme alive by letting her family, friends, and teachers know how much she benefited from their support.

“I know I am incredibly lucky to be so supported in my life,” she said. “My reason for sharing these examples is to inspire each of you to reflect on who supports

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Chase Frankl wrapped up the speeches with a philosophical, and humorous, approach, quoting LaoTzu from the Tao Te Ching, which was written over 2,600 years ago, “which makes it PHOTO BY CRAIG MAY almost as old as Mr. Runco.”

Sisters High School graduates stepped into the future on Friday night.

Lao-Tzu wrote: “Knowing others is intel“We all knew the day the presentation of diploligent. Knowing yourself is enlightened. Conquering oth- would come where every- mas. Principal Stancliff, ers takes force, but conquer- thing would change,” he said. assisted by Superintendent ing yourself is true strength. “This is that day. Change is Curt Scholl and school board Knowing what is enough is not an ending but a beginning members Jenica Cogdill wealth and forging ahead for us to look at our dreams and David Thorsett, delivand take the next steps into ered diplomas to the 103 shows inner resolve.”

He also shared from the the unknown. I urge you to graduates. Nineteen of the “Tibetan Book of the Dead” not settle, don’t sacrifice graduates earned honors to illustrate the necessity in dreams or goals because of diplomas life of the “will to do.” He fear of rejection, failure, or Senior class presiquoted, “Even though sesame being uncomfortable. Don’t dent Marieke Jeffrey then is the source of oil and milk just celebrate what you have instructed her classmates to the source of butter, there done, but celebrate what you move their tassels from right will be no extract if these are will do.” to left and officially preA video featuring senior sented the graduating class unpressed or unchurned.”

Frankl concluded by portraits juxtaposed with of 2022. acknowledging the big baby pictures–proof of the M o r t a r b o a r d s f l e w, changes awaiting the class of tremendous growth and friends hugged, and the 2022 as they depart the halls change of each graduate– Sisters High class of 2022 preceded the main event: moved toward the future. of Sisters High School.

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Cycling puts Sisters on the map

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

Cycling in Sisters is a big deal and getting bigger all the time. Brad Boyd should know. He owns Eurosports on East Hood, one of two Sisters cycling merchants. He started the business in 1993 and has seen it quadruple in size, estimating that the importance of cycling in Sisters has grown commensurately.

He attributes the growth to a variety of factors, citing Sisters Trail Alliance as being every bit as much a factor in Sisters’ tourism as the Rodeo or Quilt Show or Folk Festival. Down the street, Casey Meudt, who owns Blazin Saddles, has seen his business grow alongside the growth in the importance of cycling to Sisters’ economy and quality of life.

The number of events is impressive and disproportionate to a town our size.

Recent events – four in a sixweek period - draw nationally, with entrants from two dozen states, Canadian provinces, and foreign countries.

The combined economic impact of cycling on Sisters, while unable to be verified, is generally thought to approach $5 million including sales and rentals.

Visiting cyclists spend freely on lodging, food, beverages, and souvenirs, as well as gear. Boyd also sees the word-of-mouth benefit to bicycle tourism.

“They come for a race and go back home and tell all their friends how cool Sisters is,” he said. “It’s a lot of people saying a lot of positive things. And word spreads.”

Both Sisters bike shops have seen some improvement to their inventory, but basically they cannot keep up with the demand. Cycling took off like a rocket during the pandemic and collapsed supply. Ongoing supply chain issues continue to exacerbate difficulties maintaining a wide enough selection.

That is particularly true in gravel bikes and e-bikes, especially the step-through models. You can’t just walk in and get whatever size or color you want. If you are picky prepare to wait, maybe a year. Possibly longer.

The bike rental market is not a big factor, as most cyclists coming to Sisters are experienced, traveling with their own bikes. The two shops in town have a fleet of around 50 varying bikes to rent daily or multi-day.

Biking is a major draw at Black Butte Ranch, where almost 100 bikes of all kinds are available for rent. Popular are bike buggies, which range from one to six seats to course the 18 miles of paved trails.

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Cyclists love Sisters — and they contribute significantly to the local economy.

Sisters is bicycle friendly, Sisters led by cycling.

Biking is well suited a claim hundreds of small and large cities make. to our demographics, as Friendly and safe are two bikes are less taxing on different things, according joints as compared to skito Boyd. Having a bike lane ing, tennis, pickleball or on a busy street or a city with running.

Sisters, one of only 496 lots of traffic lights might be “friendly” in concept yet bicycle-friendly communities risky to riders contending as designated by the League of American Bicyclists, has with traffic.

You can get to any of attained Silver Level. Oregon Sisters trails or the iconic ranks number two of all 50 Highway 242, a cyclist’s states, boasting five univerdream road, without ever sities and 12 communities in getting on Cascade Avenue, a its rankings, Sisters among US Highway. Kids often start them.

Denise and Lewis Cooley riding here, on the street, as early as five or six. Most chose Sisters for retirement parents in Portland, Salem after 45 years in Sacramento of Eugene — Bend in some primarily because of abuncases — would never think dant biking opportunities.

“After our first ride of letting their tykes on a city from Sisters to Smith Rock street before age 10 or 12.

This is noted by touring we knew this is where we cyclists a number of whom needed to be,” said Lewis, return often and eventually referring to the 42-mile scebuy property. Realtors tell nic bikeway through farmThe Nugget that our cycling land, ranches, and historic environment contributes to places.

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Martin and Evy Wessel try. The number of golfjust moved to Sisters from the ers has declined by nearly a Willamette Valley. They have fourth in the last decade, in eight bikes between them. some cases losing enthusiTheir new home has a three- asts to cycling, which in 2020 car garage, one of which had 52.7 million riders in the is a bike barn. They are not U.S. The Outdoor Industry unique, realtors say. Some Association says that bicywould like to see more mar- cle tourism is an $83 billion keting dollars put into extol- business in the States and ling the outdoor attributes of impacts 848,000 jobs.

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Wolves and storytelling come to Paulina Springs

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

“Wolf, eat me. End my miserable life,” begs Akiko, heroine of an ancient Japanese tale. But the wolf explains that his kind do not eat human beings. Instead, the wolf gives Akiko eyelashes she can wear to see the truth about people.

Akiko’s story was one of several relayed by celebrated storyteller Susan Strauss at the Wolf Welcome Committee’s event on Saturday at Paulina Springs Books. An audience of over 40 attendees listened intently to Strauss and author Rosanne Parry, who wrote the New York Times bestseller “A Wolf Called Wander” and other popular books for middle readers.

Strauss talked of her experiences watching wolves hunt together in Yellowstone National Park.

“There was kind of a telepathy” between the wolves, she said.

Indigenous people of Europe admired wolves, she suggested, told stories about human children raised by shewolves, and gave their children wolf-oriented names to suggest nobility, stamina, and strength.

Strauss told the Norse myth of Sól and Máni, the goddess and god of the sun and moon. These deities drive their chariots across the sky because they are chased by Sköll and Hati, the wolves of Gullveig. Without them, there

would be no movement, no day and night.

Similarly, when wolves were eliminated from the wilds of North American places including Yellowstone, movement among other animals slowed. Habitats changed, and not for the better.

Once wolves were reintroduced, “Things began to move,” said Strauss.

Parry spoke of wolves and orcas — the subject of her book “A Whale of the Wild” — as “apex predators. They are incredibly strong and big.

They could easily kill human beings, but they don’t.”

She noted similarities between orca pods, wolf packs, and humans.

Living in Germany, traveling in Europe, and studying fairytales, Parry noticed that storybook bears are “pretty benign,” but wolves are portrayed as mean, dangerous, and scary. In reality, “bears are dangerous to people in a way that wolves have never been.”

She observed that the Big Bad Wolf types in the Grimm fairytales eat humans and try to get into people’s houses.

Whereas in real life, The Boy Who Cried Wolf wouldn’t need to round up his whole village for help. “One boy with a slingshot can drive off a wolf,” she said.

Parry described her intriguing theory as to why the Big Bad Wolf image permeated European stories.

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The wolf was a symbol of humans in North America. animals do who are injured,” Rome, a city founded in 753 The scary “wolves” of the old responded Parry, “He found BCE by Romulus, who was stories were actually Romans. a place to hide and held very said to have been raised by The Boy Who Cried Wolf still for a couple of days so a she-wolf. Roman society required his village not to that his bones could knit back ran on slavery. Romans made chase off a wolf, but to chase together. forays into areas including off a different kind of preda“I think it’s possible that Germany, trafficking people tor. “The moral of the story is Warm could’ve died, but if he into slavery. to keep good communication found a safe place to hide, it In Parry’s theory, fairy sto- and relationship with your is also possible that he could ries like “Little Red Riding village,” she concluded. survive,” Parry said. “I think Hood” and “The Three Little After the talk, people those brothers love each other Pigs” were cautionary tales, stood in line to have their so much, Wander would’ve teaching kids in Germany and books signed. “I love animals, never have left if he thought the Slavic countries to avoid and I love animal books,” his brother was still there... strangers (who might be said Quinn Anderson, a sixth But I have lots of hope for slave-takers) and build strong grader at Sisters Middle Warm.” houses (to hide in).

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Said Zephyr ’s mom, Now that we have radio Black Butte School kinder- Jennie Sharp, “It was very collars on the re-wilded garten student Zephyr Sharp affecting, but it was also a wolves of North America, she asked Parry a question about very good lesson—that we said, we can see that wolves “A Wolf Called Wander” love each other and we take go out of their way to avoid (spoiler alert): Warm is the care of each other when we human beings. In reality, she close brother of the main can.” said, there are zero recorded character. Did he have to die?

Read The Nugget’s interincidents of wolves killing “Warm did what most wild view with Rosanne, page 6.

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FY5 & Eli West will serve up a free show at Fir Street Park on June 25.

CONCERT: Fir Street Park event is free to the public Continued from page 3

sound evokes timelessness, it is a decidedly contemporary, well-traveled 21st-century sensibility that informs their songwriting.

A trained designer, Eli West sees music architecturally, visualizing his compositions spatially. On his new album, “Tapered Point of Stone,” West lays out original songs and tunes like houses built by hand, weaving their melodies into the setting of acoustic roots music that first inspired him. The album brings together West’s favored quartet of musicians: Andrew Marlin (Watchhouse) on mandolin and guitar, Christian Sedelmeyer (Jerry Douglas) on fiddle, himself on mandolin, guitar, and

banjo, and Clint Mullican (Watchhouse) on bass. As a noted arranger, songwriter, performer, and composer, West is crafting his own Northwest-centric roots music aesthetic.

Folk Festival sponsor First Interstate Bank will be hosting a free barbeque for attendees from 6 to 7 p.m. (or while supplies last) at their 272 E. Main Ave. location, just across the street from Fir Street Park. Inside the venue, SFF’s bar will be serving beer, cider, wine, and nonalcoholic offerings.

This is a free-admission, all-ages show. No outside alcoholic beverages are permitted. Chairs are not provided; bring your low-back festival chairs or blankets.

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401 Horses CascadeHomeRentals.com 402 Livestock 403 Pets PONDEROSA PROPERTIES 500 Services –Monthly Rentals Available– 501 Computer Services Call Debbie at 541-549-2002 502 Carpet Upholstery Cleaning 503 Appliance Repair & Refinish Full details, 24 hrs./day, go to: 504 Handyman PonderosaProperties.com 505 Auto Repair Printed list at 221 S. Ash, Sisters 600 Tree Service & Forestry Ponderosa Properties LLC 601 Construction 602 Plumbing & Electric 104 Vacation Rentals 603 Excavations & Trucking 604 Heating & Cooling Vacationing in Maui?

605 Painting Vacation Condos in Maui…Call 606 Landscaping & Yard Maint.

Donna Butterfield, Realtor, (S), 701 Domestic Services RSPS, ILHM, RS-74883 702 Sewing 703 Child Care Coldwell Banker Island 704 Events & Event Services Properties, The Shops at Wailea 801 Classes & Training Phone: (808)866-6005 802 Help Wanted E-mail: 803 Work Wanted 901 Wanted donna@donnabutterfield.com 902 Personals ~ Sisters Vacation Rentals ~ 999 Public Notice

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107 Rentals Wanted

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Mature female, quiet, clean, non-smoker, no pets.

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201 For Sale

Thomasville Couch & Loveseat

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202 Firewood

SISTERS FOREST PRODUCTS DAVE ELPI – FIREWOOD • SINCE 1976 • Doug Fir – Lodgepole – Juniper DRIVE-IN WOOD SALES – 18155 Hwy. 126 East – SistersForestProducts.com Order Online! 541-410-4509

204 Arts & Antiques

JEWELRY REPAIR & CUSTOM DESIGN Graduate gemologist. Over 45 years experience. Cash for gold.

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205 Garage & Estate Sales

Moving Sale 69550 Pine Ridge Dr., Sisters. Sat. & Sun. June 18 & 19, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Happy Trails Estate Sales and online auctions!

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403 Pets

FURRY FRIENDS helping Sisters families w/pets.

FREE Dog & Cat Food No contact pick-up by appt.

412 E. Main Ave., Ste. 4 541-797-4023 Three Rivers Humane Society Where love finds a home! See the doggies at 1694 SE McTaggart in Madras • A no-kill shelter Go to ThreeRiversHS.org or call 541-475-6889

500 Services

MOVING TRUCK FOR HIRE –COMPLETE MOVING, LLC– Sisters' Only Local Moving Co.!

Two exp. men with 25+ years comm. moving. Refs! ODOT Lic. Class 1-B • Call 541-678-3332 ~ WEDDINGS BY KARLY ~ Happy to perform virtual or in-person weddings.

Custom Wedding Ceremonies 20+ years • 541-410-4412 revkarly@gmail.com GEORGE’S SEPTIC TANK SERVICE “A Well Maintained Septic System Protects the Environment” 541-549-2871 Andersen’s Almost Anything Handyman services. Small home repairs, RV repairs, hauling, cleaning, etc. No plumbing or electric, sorry. CCB#235396 541-728-7253 call or text SMALL Engine REPAIR Lawn Mowers, Chainsaws & Trimmers Sisters Rental 331 W. Barclay Drive 541-549-9631 Authorized service center for Stihl, Honda, Ariens/Gravely, Cub Cadet, Briggs & Stratton, Kohler, Kawasaki Engines

301 Vehicles

2003 Dodge 1500 4x4 4.7 L gas, 8' bed, regular cab, 111,600 mi., A/C, CD, very good condition, maintenance records, mechanically fresh. $8,500 • 541-549-4619 We Buy, Sell, Consign Quality Cars, Trucks, SUVs & RVs ~ Call Jeff at 541-815-7397 Sisters Car Connection da#3919 SistersCarConnection.com

402 Livestock

WORKING DOG Illness forces sale. Great Pyrenees. 5 months old. Has all shots including rabies. Ready to go to work. Natural herder.

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

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501 Computers & Communications

SISTERS SATELLITE TV • PHONE • INTERNET Your authorized local dealer for DirecTV, ViaSat HS Internet and more! CCB # 191099 541-318-7000 • 541-306-0729 • • • • • • • • • • • LIKE The Nugget on FACEBOOK! • • • • • • • • • • •

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502 Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning

GORDON’S LAST TOUCH Cleaning Specialists for CARPETS, WINDOWS & UPHOLSTERY Member Better Business Bureau • Bonded & Insured • Serving Central Oregon Since 1980 Call 541-549-3008 M & J CARPET CLEANING Area rugs, upholstery, tile & dryer-vent cleaning. Established & family-owned since 1986.

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504 Handyman

SISTERS HONEYDO Small project specialist.

Repairs, painting/staining, carpentry, drywall, lighting, grab bars, screen repairs.

25+ yrs. Maint. exp./local refs.

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

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

600 Tree Service & Forestry

Tree Services: Tree Removal, Tree Pruning, Stump Grinding, Emergency Tree Services.

ISA Certified Arborist Owner / Operator: Erin Carpenter lolotreeworks.com Call / Text: 503-367-5638 Email: erin@lolotreeworks.com CCB #240912 4 Brothers Tree Service Sisters' Premier Tree Experts!

– TREE REMOVAL & CLEANUP – Native / Non-Native Tree Assessments, Pruning, High-Risk Removals, 24 Hr. Emergency Storm Damage Cleanup, Craning & Stump Grinding, Debris Removal.

– FOREST MANAGEMENT – Fire Fuels Reduction - Brush Mowing, Mastication, Tree Thinning, Large & Small Scale Projects!

Serving Black Butte Ranch, Camp Sherman & Sisters Area since 2003 ** Free Estimates ** Owner James Hatley & Sons 541-815-2342 4brostrees.com Licensed, Bonded and Insured CCB-215057 TIMBER STAND IMPROVEMENT TREE SERVICES: tree removal, trimming, stump grinding, brush mowing, Firewise compliance.

— Certified Arborist — Nate Goodwin 541-771-4825 Online at: www.tsi.services CCB#190496 • ISA #PN7987A

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ENJOY WORKING Specializing in tree assessment, OUTDOORS? Custom Homes Keeping Sisters Country hazard tree removal, crown Hot tub servicing Residential Building Projects Beautiful Since 2006 reduction, ladder fuel reduction, technician needed.

Concrete Foundations candcnursery@gmail.com lot clearing, ornamental and fruit PAID TRAINING Free On-site Visit & Estimate Becke William Pierce tree trimming and care.

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Drainfield mowing, moss removal, edging, • Great cleanups • FULL- or PART-TIME • Minor & Major Septic Repair raking, weeding, pruning, roofs, VALID drivers license required.

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Commissioners review criteria for new landfill On Monday, June 13, the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners reviewed proposed criteria to help evaluate potential locations for the County’s new solid waste management facility.

There is not yet a list of potential sites under consideration. The County’s only landfill, Knott Landfill, is expected to be at capacity by 2029. As a result, the County is working to identify a site for a new disposal facility to serve the growing region.

The County developed the proposed siting evaluation criteria in collaboration with the Solid Waste Advisory C o m m i t t e e ( S WA C ) , which will continue to support an open and transparent process to identify a site. The criteria includes environmental considerations, land use, site characteristics, and engineering considerations.

While the need for landfill capacity is driving the siting effort, opportunities for related amenities such as waste diversion for recycling, bio-digestion for the production of renewable natural gas, organics composting, and other waste management-related operations may also be considered as part of the final site design. The transfer station, recycling center, composting facility, and household hazardous waste facility at Knott Landfill will continue to operate at the current location, and be open to the public even after the landfill closure.

The County will accept public comment on the proposed siting criteria through Monday, June 20. Interested parties can learn about the proposed criteria in detail by accessing the Board’s meeting packet at https:// bit.ly/DC-6-13-22 and provide written comments by emailing managethefuture@ deschutescounty.gov. The Board of Commissioners is expected to deliberate and may approve siting criteria at their meeting on Wednesday, June 22.

After Board of Commissioners approval, the criteria will be applied countywide to evaluate potential sites and then narrow to a list of three to five options by March 2023 for more detailed site analysis.

In 2018, anticipating the need for a new facility, the County began proactively exploring options to manage its future solid waste and worked with the SWAC to develop a roadmap. The

resulting Deschutes County Solid Waste Management Plan (Plan) was adopted by the Board of Commissioners in 2019. The Plan’s direction to site the new landfill within the county, as opposed to paying to truck waste to a regional facility, or employing costly alternative technologies, was strongly supported by Deschutes County residents in public surveys and community outreach.

“In the early planning, we heard a desire from the community to keep our solid waste management local to help manage costs and reduce our impacts on the environment. Now, with support from the SWAC, we’re turning to the hard work of finding a location for the facility that will help us manage our waste for the next 100 years,” said Chad Centola, director of solid waste.

Board of Commissioners meetings are held in person and online.

Vandals disrespecting the forest

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

The Whychus Creek watershed has undergone an amazing amount of restoration and stream improvement over more than a decade. The riparian areas have been improved and replanted. Old dams and barriers have been removed to encourage fish passage.

More water runs in the creek year-round. Millions of dollars have gone into these projects.

Local citizens and visitors are enjoying these improvements. However, there have been recent incidences of dumped trash, graffiti, and vandalism that mar the area’s natural beauty.

Sisters District Ranger Ian Reid and a Sisters Trails Alliance trail steward both reported finding graffiti on a large rock along the Whychus Creek trail south of town, which will be removed as soon as the best method to do so is determined.

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If residents or visitors see damage or witness destructive acts along the creek or anywhere in the forest, they are urged to notify the appropriate officials.

Officials repeat the mantra: If you see something, say something. Reid said reports can be made to the following offices: Sisters Ranger Station 541-5497701; Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office non-emergency number 541-6036911; and Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center 541-316-7700. For damage along the creek in Creekside Park and Campground, contact the City Public Works

Department – Troy Rayburn 541-323-5220 or afterhours emergency on-call 541-480-7634.

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DROUGHT: Welcome moisture hasn’t made up for dry winter yet Continued from page 1

to 65cfs on June 3. The creek was running fast and muddy, and flooded outside its normal banks.

Even with May having 200 percent of the median precipitation, it doesn’t have much of an impact on the water year-to-date totals, which is a little below 100 percent of median. The snowpack for February, March, and April was well below the median, and that missing snow impacts overall totals.

In the report’s summary of water supply conditions, the following points were made: Snowpack: As of June 1, the basin snowpack is rapidly melting out. Snowpack is 51 percent of the peak on April 21, and 40 percent of the median peak on March 28.

Precipitation: May precipitation is 200 percent of median. Precipitation since the beginning of the water year (October 1 – June 1) has been 98 percent of median.

Reservoir: As of June 1, storage at major reservoirs in the basin ranges from 21 percent of median at Crescent Lake to 107 percent of median at Crane Prairie.

Steamflow forecast: The June through September streamflow forecasts in the

basin range from 57 percent to 103 percent of median.

Overall, forecasts increased significantly from last month’s report. Water managers in the basin should expect well below median to near median streamflows this spring and summer.

A valuable website is www.drought.gov/states/ Oregon by county, maintained by the National Integrated Drought Information System.

This site is updated every Thursday and is loaded with lots of relevant information with color-coded maps. You can get notified when conditions change by signing up for alerts.

...You can track current drought conditions using a five-category system…

On the site you can track current drought conditions using a five-category system, from abnormally dry to exceptional drought. Shortterm and long-term drought indicators are monitored.

Another map tracks agricultural commodities statistics for crops and livestock in drought conditions.

A third map depicts

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Whychus Creek was running high and muddy on Saturday, as steady rain fell. real-time streamflow conditions compared to historical conditions for the day of the year.

The social vulnerability index is tracked alongside the drought designations to help local officials identify communities that

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may need support in preparing for or recovering from hazards, like drought.

The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center’s Monthly Drought Outlook is issued at the end of each calendar month and is valid for the upcoming

month. The Outlook predicts whether drought will persist, develop, improve, or be removed over the next month.

For the month of June, all of Deschutes County, except for the far western edge, was expected to see the drought persist.

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