The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLVI No. 45 // 2023-11-08

The Nugget Vol. XLVI No. 45

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News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Outlaws are state volleyball champs

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaws volleyball squad battled through three opponents to take first place at the state tournament last weekend in games. The tournament was exciting and nerve-racking to the very end.

Sisters started their run with a 25-5, 25-20, 25-14 sweep against Corbett in the 8 a.m. quarterfinals on Friday, November 3. Sisters advanced to the semifinals and came back from a 0-2 deficit against Valley Catholic (VC), and won the next three sets to post the win in a match that was a nail-biter to the finish. In the championship game they faced league foe Pleasant Hill and came out on top in a four-set match.

In the quarterfinals, the Outlaws demolished the Corbett Cardinals in the first set, led the entire way, and held them to just five points.

Jordyn Monaghan had an 11-point serving run midway through the set that took Sisters to a 17-3 advantage.

“I was able to stay calm

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Health insurance changes a concern in Sisters

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Gracie Vohs had an outstanding playoffs for the Outlaws, who beat tough opponents to claim the state championship in volleyball. at the serving line because I they came ready to play. We in the semifinals. They knew my teammates would responded well and used all struggled with serve-receive help with the rest of the of our coaching from the past and quickly found themplay,” Monaghan said. “The two weeks to get the win.” selves down in the set. They win felt so good. We didn’t The Outlaws started out See CHAMPS on page 26 underestimate Corbett and slow against theVC Valiants

Citing concerns related to patient care, access, and affordability, St. Charles Health System is evaluating its participation in all Medicare Advantage plans, including those from Humana, PacificSource, HealthNet, and WellCare, the regional health care provider said in a notice to its patients and caregivers in August.

However, the news is now coming as a surprise to many.

St. Charles continues to accept original (or traditional) Medicare, which is funded and operated by the federal government.

Medicare Advantage plans See INSURANCE on page 22

Recycling conditions raises eyebrows

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

Several users of the Sisters Recycling Center are raising objection to the seeming lack of good housekeeping in recent weeks and months at the facility on Sisters Park Drive.

“Recent?” scoffed Emmy Burnham, when The Nugget stopped to ask users their impressions. “It’s almost always like this.”

The Recycling Center was a scene of overflowing bins, blowing debris, and rickety stacks of discarded petroleum products, mostly motor oil.

The area of greatest concern is not in plain sight.

It’s around back where an industrial-size, heavy steel tank receptacle sits, wherein users can discard bulk motor

Inside...

oil. The tank is nearly four feet tall and appears difficult to reach, in large part as it is surrounded by discarded five-gallon pails of assorted industrial fluids, and a tilting 55-gallon drum, contents unmarked.

The vat-style tank’s sides are heavily stained with spilled oils and/or grease.

There are no clear instructions on its use. The Nugget showed photos and videos of the tank and its surroundings — which, at the time, included discarded batteries sitting on a puddle of oil within a foot of the tank — to Chief Roger Johnson of Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District.

Johnson was not alarmed, given that oil and lubricants as compared to gasoline or See RECYCLE on page 21

PHOTO BY CODY RHEAULT

The City of Sisters is expected to accommodate double its current population in 20 years. The Sisters City Council is in the beginning phases of deciding how they might expand the urban growth boundary.

How will Sisters grow?

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

The City of Sisters is starting to tackle the key issue facing Sisters over the coming decades: How will

the city accommodate significant expected growth?

Population projections from Portland State University say that the population inside the city limits will hit 7,108 in 2043

— more than double the current population of 3,475.

Sisters currently does not have room to accommodate that kind of population.

See GROWTH on page 22

Letters/Weather ............... 2 Announcements...............10 Ranger’s Corner ...............13 Cultivating Community .. 20 Crossword ...................... 28 Meetings .......................... 3 Entertainment .................12 Obituaries .......................14 Flashback ....................... 24 Classifieds................. 29-30

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Letters to the Editor…

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

Hunters in the forest

To the Editor: There were a few misconceptions promoted in T. Lee Brown’s column of November 1. She stated that a hunter had fired off 12 rounds without looking. Since hunters are limited by regulation to a maximum of five rounds, one in the chamber and a magazine that can hold no more than four cartridges, it was clearly not a hunter who was shooting.

The second misconception is that hunters take over the entire forest during the fall of the year. In fact the rifle deer season in this area was October 7th to October 18. The vast majority of hunters have taken hunter safety courses, and handle firearms responsibly.

Incidentally, I am a bow hunter and don’t really have a dog in this fight. I just hate for inaccurate information to be published in the media, where uninformed members of the public are influenced by it.

I walk on forest trails near Sisters on a nearly daily basis and have never been in a situation where a hunter has shot in my direction.

The greatest danger I have experienced is from cyclists who come zooming up behind me on trails without warning and seem to think they own the whole trail.

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Sisters Weather Forecast Wednesday

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A fine little fire

By Kevin Statham Guest Columnist

On a rainy Rogue River trip, Jim and I contemplated a fire. A fire would offer warmth even if drying out was not possible. My ammo can contained kindling, and I set about making a fire in our tiny Weber barbecue turned fire pan. I was about to flick my Bic….

In early adulthood I was lucky to learn a trade.

I worked as a framing and finish carpenter in Fresno, California. A lasting takeaway from that job was an abiding love of wood.

Especially redwood. Fresno is in the heart of redwood country. West, along the coast, are the sempervirens.

East, in the Sierra Nevada, are the gigantea. During the unregulated heyday of California logging in the late 19th century, the central valley hummed with mills turning the most magnificent trees on earth into millions of grape stakes, house siding, fencing, outdoor chairs and tables, decking material… When I was swinging a hammer in the 70s there weren’t many gigantea left to murder. The surviving Sierra groves were protected and commercial redwood came from the coast. Clear redwood was very costly and it was common to replace old redwood siding with cheaper cedar or synthetics. It was on a remodel that I began collecting redwood. Stripping 40-year-old redwood siding off a home, I broke a piece in two. Inside the wood was blood red. Oxidation and “preservatives” had dulled the exposed surface but a sixteenth of an inch under that aged patina was “red” wood—that we were pitching into the waste bin. I retrieved all the redwood from the bin. That night I ran a piece through my planer. It was beautiful. Thus began my “rescue” plan. Over the years I saved any redwood I found.

Piles of it. Today, each time I run redwood through my planer I am rewarded and dismayed. I marvel at the wood’s beauty while bemoaning the fate of the gentle giants. I fret about how many natural wonders on our ever-shrinking planet are viewed only in terms of dollars by titans of business. My wife and I often skied through an area that 100 years before contained

the largest contiguous stand of redwoods in the world— The Converse Basin Grove.

Thousands of years of accumulated growth ended when nearly the entire grove was felled in a few short years.

The largest tree was left untouched and named the Boole Tree. That spared giant today suffers the indignity of bearing the name of the foreman of the logging crew. Skiing through the remains of the grove on a silent, snowy winter day is an eerie experience. Stumps, 10 feet tall and 10 to 20 feet in diameter, silently thrust up through the snow—giant tombstones reminding us of what once was and is now gone.

On the river I hesitated.

The redwood scraps came from my table saw and I wanted closure for them in their final moments. I hesitated to let what they represented be forever gone.

A flick of my Bic would end centuries of redwood existence. Tiny remnants of once true kings, the scraps remained tangible connections to a distant past.

Left alone those redwoods would be thriving today. I thought about the destruction of other American wild areas forever altered by the heavy hand of man.

Can we stop future destruction? Possibly, if we do the work. You can help.

Many organizations work to save wild places from development and destruction and to rehabilitate areas used up and cast aside. In America there is a fraction of untouched lands compared to a couple centuries ago, and in today’s wired society people need nature to calm and nurture bodies, minds, and souls. It’s hard but rewarding work (thank you CATS for your work on Sisters’ gas station issue). So pitch in. Charity Navigator can teach about organizations in your area.

Do your homework and get busy! Mother Nature needs your help.

Hunched over the Weber to shield the kindling from rain I considered a truism in my life: “Man can collect and store only so much wood before he begins hearing the ‘H’ word.”

I prefer the term “collector,” but… I thanked the redwood for its life and for the heat I was about to receive. I flicked my Bic. It was a fine little fire.

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

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

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Hall of Fame event on tap November 12 Fame’s mission is to honor those who have contributed to the rich heritage and traditions of the Sisters School District.

Inductees into the Hall of Fame come from different categories, including individual athletes, coaches, special contributors, teams, organizations, and alums who have done exceptional things in their adult lives.

Inductees this year i n c l u d e D r. A m b e r Leis (1998), Dr. Judah Slavkovsky (1999), Ryan Pollard (2013), Jeff and Scott Barton (coach and athlete), Steve Hodges (coach), and

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

The ninth annual Outlaw Hall of Fame ceremony is set for Sunday, November 12, at 3 p.m. in the high school commons.

A change from previous years is a move from a full dinner to an afternoon event with appetizers. There is no charge for the event, though donations to the sponsor, the Outlaw Booster Club, will be gladly accepted according to the Hall of Fame Chairman Don Pollard. Any proceeds from the event are used in support of student activities in the Sisters schools.

The Outlaw Hall of

See HALL OF FAME on page 25

PHOTO BY KATY YODER

Joe Schneider and Iris Rivas with Yukon Jack, Brandy, and Rosie.

Bringing puppy love to Sisters

By Katy Yoder Correspondent

For Joe Schneider, dogs have always brought companionship, calm, and renewal. Many times during his 30 years as a police officer, the welcoming wags and paws of his four-legged family members helped him shake off the day’s work.

Schneider began working at Black Butte Ranch (BBR) in 2020 after 20 years as a City of Bend police officer. When Schneider started bringing his blackand-white Newfoundland, Yukon Jack, to work with

him at BBR, people began coming by to see the giant bundle of goofy love.

Yukon’s popularity at BBR inspired Schneider to learn more about therapy dogs and training them.

“Enhancing my knowledge, made me more valuable when we were out in the community,” said Schneider from his home.

After starting a therapy dog program on The Ranch, Schneider now has three trained dogs and has formed his own nonprofit called Paws 4 Love Oregon.

“We’re no longer a part of the BBR police

department. This is a whole new thing where I’m creating the framework for growing and funding our community service as a nonprofit,” said Schneider.

“Our objective is enhancing wellness through the animal-human bond.

We’re bringing dogs to people and places in the Sisters community who are in need of comfort, support, and love — which these animals share unconditionally. We want to have other people with therapy dogs join us in that realm as we grow and See PAWS 4 LOVE on page 28

Groundbreaking set for new ranger station on the same parcel of land.

The new building will be designed for a 21st century workforce that requires increased connectivity and technology to accomplish the agency’s mission.

“It’s been kind of cobbled together over the last 50 years,” said Sisters District Ranger Ian Reid. “We’re currently spread out in three buildings.”

Reid said that just having all the personnel under one roof will make operations

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

A brand-new Sisters Ranger Station will begin to rise from the forest floor at the west end of Sisters, starting with groundbreaking on the headquarters site this month.

The new building is expected to be completed in 2025.

The building contract was awarded in September.

This new Ranger Station will replace the current one that was built in 1962, rising

See USFS on page 25

SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR Sisters Area Photography Club 2nd Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., at Sisters Community Church. 541-549-6157.

Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday. For location information, please call: Al-Anon 541-848-1970.

Mon., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Sisters Rotary 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, Sisters Area Woodworkers First Lutheran Church. 541-610-7383.

Noon, Aspen Lakes. 541-760-5645.

Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. 541-231-1897.

Alcoholics Anonymous Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd Tuesday, Sisters Veterans Thursdays, Thursday, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of East of the Cascades Quilt Guild noon, Takoda’s Restaurant.

7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846. the Transfiguration / Saturday, 8 a.m., 4th Wed. (September-June), Stitchin’ 541-903-1123.

Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays, 12:30 Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.

Sisters Trails Alliance Board / Monday, 5 p.m., Shepherd of the p.m. at Sisters Community Church.

Meetings take place every other month, Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday Hills Lutheran Church / Big Book Email sistersbridge2021@gmail.com.

5 p.m. In-person or zoom. Contact: study, Tuesday, noon, Shepherd of the 7 p.m., Sisters Community Church.

Sisters Caregiver Support Group info@sisterstrails.org.

541-771-2211.

Hills Lutheran Church / Gentlemen’s 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., Sisters Episcopal meeting, Wednesday, 7 a.m., Shepherd Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) Three Sisters Irrigation District Church.

541-719-0031. of the Hills Lutheran Church / Sober Board of Directors Meets 1st Tuesday, 2nd Tuesday, 1 p.m., Sisters Sisters Women’s meeting, Thursday, Community Church. Materials provided. Sisters Cribbage Club Meets 11 a.m. 4 p.m., TSID Office. 541-549-8815. every Wed. at SPRD. 509-947-5744. noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran 541-408-8505.

Three Sisters Lions Club 2nd Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Spoons Sisters Garden Club For monthly Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, Friday, noon, Shepherd of the Hills meetings visit: SistersGardenClub.com. Restaurant. 541-419-1279.

1 to 4 p.m. 541-668-1755.

Lutheran Church. 541-548-0440.

VFW Post 8138 and American Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board Military Parents of Sisters Meetings Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild Legion Post 86 1st Wednesday of of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m. are held quarterly; please call for For Saturday meeting dates and the month, 6:30 p.m., Main Church Location information: 541-549-1193. details.

541-388-9013. location, email: steelefly@msn.com.

Building Sisters Community Church.

Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 Oregon Band of Brothers Sisters 541-549-1462.

Citizens4Community New neighbor a.m., at Aspen Lakes Golf Course.

Chapter meets Wednesdays, meetup, last Tuesday of the month, 541-410-2870.

SCHOOLS 11:30 a.m., Takoda’s Restaurant.

5 to 6:30 p.m. at The Barn in Sisters.

541-549-6469.

Sisters Parent Teacher Community Black Butte School Citizens4Community Community 2nd Tuesday, 6 p.m. at Sisters Sisters Aglow Lighthouse 4th Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, Builders meeting, 3rd Wednesday, Elementary School Commons.

3:45 p.m., Black Butte School.

Saturday, 10 a.m., meeting by Zoom.

10 to 11:30 a.m. Visit 541-595-6203 503-930-6158. citizens4community.com for location.

917-219-8298.

BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS

Council on Aging of Central Oregon Senior Lunch In-person community dining, Tues. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Grab-and-go lunch Tues., Wed., Thurs.

12:30 to 1 p.m. Sisters Community Church. 541-480-1843.

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

Sisters School District Board of Directors One Wednesday monthly, Sisters School District Administration Building. 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 Tues., 4 p.m., Coffield Center. 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 Thurs., 9 a.m., BBR 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.

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Outlaws compete at state XC meet The Sisters Outlaws boys and girls teams wrapped up the 2023 cross-country season at the OSAA State Championships at Lane Community College on Saturday, November 4, finishing fifth and seventh respectively.

Intermittent downpours of rain added an extra challenge to runners and fans alike, but the 60-degree temperatures kept conditions tolerable, according to Coach Charlie Kanzig.

“It was hard to see the runners across the course at times,” he said.

Entering the meet both teams had hopes of a trophy finish (top four), but it was not meant to be.

The boys team missed out by just three points in the 3A race, finishing with 137 points to 134 for nemesis Siuslaw. As expected, Valley Catholic rolled to the team title with 63 points, followed

by Oregon Episcopal (117), Enterprise (117), and Siuslaw.

“We did all we could, but

couldn’t pull off a strong enough last mile,” said Kanzig. “As the scores indicate, second through fifth place were up for grabs.”

Thomas Hamerly, a freshman, ran the best race of his young career to pace the Outlaws in 15th place in 17:28.

“Thomas ran an amazing race and I couldn’t be happier for him,” said Kanzig. “For a frosh to perform like that at the state meet was simply amazing.”

Colton Middlestetter (17:37) came through next in 20th, and Spencer Tisdel crossed the line in 26th (17:49).

John Berg (18:21) and Will McDonnell (18:48) completed the scoring for Sisters while George Roberts (19:04) and Broderick Womack (20:54) finished sixth and seventh for the team.

“These guys spent a bit of time after the meet lamenting how tiny a margin of three points is between getting a trophy and not getting

PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG

Spencer Tisdel strides through a curtain of rain in the Outlaws’ State cross country effort.

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a trophy, but like in all sports sometimes things come down to the smallest things. We knew going in that scores would be tight.”

Trevor Stewart outkicked Jett Leavitt of Enterprise to win the individual title.

Stewart earned the crown in 16:18.9, just one second ahead of Leavitt.

With all seven Outlaw varsity runners returning, the narrow loss may serve as extra incentive for next season, according to Kanzig.

“I have every reason to believe these guys will be able to run with anyone next year,” he said. “Another year of maturity and a summer of running, and they’ll be ready to rocket.”

For the girls it was farewell to senior Ella Bartlett, a leader on the team for the past three years. After a good start, Bartlett faded over the last half of the race and ended up in 25th place (20:51).

“Ella has had a great cross-country career, making it to State all four years,” said Kanzig. “I am bummed for her to not meet her goal, but proud of how she has been such a cornerstone of this team for these years.”

In the meantime sophomore Brooke Duey and freshman Josie Ryan moved up to finish thirteenth (20:31) and eighteenth (20:51) to lead the Outlaws.

“Brooke and Josie finished where we expected and I am sure they gained great confidence for the future in the process,” said Kanzig. “Both of them showed a lot of strength and belief when it mattered.”

PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG

Brooke Duey and Josie Ryan power up the hill in state cross-country competition.

Freshman Kolby McMahon finished as the fourth runner for the Outlaws, a little further back than anticipated in 57th place (22:16).

Mae Roth (23:21), Naomi Bennette (23:27) and Kiara Martin (24:56) all had solid performances, according to Kanzig.

“Kolby, as a first-year runner, had a fantastic season and will only get stronger,” Kanzig said. “Everyone always wishes they could go faster, but in the sloggy conditions times are less important than places.”

Even so, Martin ran a personal best, while Roth ran over two minutes faster than last year and Bennette improved as well.

And despite things not going as well as hoped, the girls still finished within striking distance of a trophy in a very deep team race.

Oregon Episcopal, the heavy favorite to win the team title, did so with 66 points. Siuslaw placed second with 95 and then the next five places were only 31 points

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apart and four were from Special District 3 in which Sisters competes.

Heppner placed third (125) just ahead of Enterprise (128). Bandon placed fifth (144), Union sixth (156), and Sisters (156).

“Given that we beat both Heppner and Union at District a week earlier tells how tough our district is and how tight the competition has been,” said Kanzig.

Jaya Simmons of Valley Catholic demolished the rest of the field in a time of 18:20.9. A total of 14 3A/2A/1A girls teams raced in the meet.

PAULS TOUTONGHI presents The Refugee Ocean, an epic of two refugees from 1940s Beirut and 2014 Aleppo who are connected across time by music.

THURS., NOV. 16 • 6:30PM

POETRY OPEN MIC with featured poet AMELIA DIAZ ETTINGER presenting Self-Dissection, an anatomical

journey to find answers about heritage, environment, family, and the nature of being an immigrant. Sign-ups to share begin at 6 p.m.

Share a poem you have written, or a poem you love!

EVERY SATURDAY AT 10 AM!

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Bring a game or play from our library!

MON., NOV. 20 • 5:30PM

PSB FICTION BOOK CLUB discussing True Biz by SARA NOVIC. Meeting third Monday of every month; details at paulinaspringsbooks.com.

WED., DEC. 6 • 6:30-7:30PM

FIRST WEDNESDAY COMMUNITY OPEN MIC NIGHT

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Sign-ups open at 6 p.m., 5 minutes per person. All-ages event.

252 W. Hood Ave., Sisters • 541-549-0866 • PaulinaSpringsBooks.com

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Girls soccer advances to semifinals

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaw soccer squad defeated St. Mary’s in the quarterfinals of the state tournament at home in Sisters on Saturday, November 4. Coach Brain Holden told The Nugget he believes this is the first time in approximately 16 years that the Outlaws have made it to the semifinals. They were to travel over the hill and face No. 1 Valley Catholic in the semifinals on Tuesday, November 7.

Both teams battled hard.

In the 25th minute Sisters got their first goal. The ball was mis-cleared by the St. Mary’s defense, and Juhree Kizziar found the ball and tapped it in for the score to give the Outlaws a 1-0 lead. That score held until halftime.

Five minutes into the second half, Coach Holden told The Nugget the Outlaws scored one of their best goals of the season because of the vision and generosity of the players.

Zoee Bafford, on the right side, found the midfield, made a pass to Kizziar, who shifted the ball to Marley Holden, who then kept the momentum going and swung the ball over to Ella Davis.

Davis fed the ball in front of the goal to Ella Eby, who tapped it in to the back post.

Holden said, “It’s prideful as a coach to see the girls move the ball that quickly. For them to switch the field out of pressure and within seconds be an offensive threat on the other side of the field is pretty soccer.”

Ten minutes later, Kizziar scored her second goal of the game from a Katie Ryan assist and pushed the Outlaws to a 3-0 lead.

In the 70th minute Kizziar scored, thanks to an Ella Davis assist and recorded a playoff hat trick.

Holden said, “I thought

that in the previous playoff game Juhree was a little unsettled and trying too hard in front of the net. This game was far different as she found the net far easier with simple goals.”

The Outlaws’ last goal of the game came with two minutes left on the clock.

Bafford had the ball out wide and cut to the inside,6 where Lilly Sundstrom had the vision to push forward and overlap her.

Sundstrom’s speed quickly placed her at the 18-yard box and she cut into the goal. She could have taken the shot but selflessly laid the ball off to a slashing Katie Ryan, who tapped it in for the fifth and final score of the contest.

“I’m proud of these girls for sticking to their game,” said Holden. As playoffs advance, teams become more difficult to play. Passing, shooting, and tempo is not as easy as it is against lower ranked teams.

It’s easy to get rattled and frustrated and change your style of play. The second half of every game is an example of how our girls wear teams down with their passing, patience in front of the goal with shooting, and their work ethic, which doesn’t stop until the end of the game.”

Once again, the Outlaws’ defense deserves a lot of credit for their great play and communication, which shut out St. Mary’s.

Holden said, “St. Mary’s has a fast girl who kept trying to get by Shae (Wyland). The coach switched her to the other side, where she had to try and get past an ever faster Lilly (Sundstrom). The one or two times she did manage to get by she had to get around a fast and even more physical Izzy (Schiller).”

Holden praised his wingers, Bafford and Davis, for their selfless play, and noted they’ve become very unpredictable players. He also

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noted midfielders Maggie Lutz and Marley Holden, who work very well together.

He stated that Lutz’ defensive intelligence allows Holden to be the engine of the team and to be able to distribute balls to her teammates all over the field.

Captains Izzy Schiller and Marley Holden shared their comments on the game.

Schiller said, “We went into today’s game with the mindset of leaving everything on the field. No matter the outcome it was the last time the seven seniors will ever play at home, and that brought out a lot of emotion. The score was 1-0 at the half, so we went back on the field ready to put the game away. I am so proud of how much every player dug deep to advance to the semifinals.

Holden commented, “We just played our game, which is simple and all about passing. When we connect with each other, and let the ball work, we have success.”

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Juhree Kizziar scored a hat trick for the Outlaws, who won their quarterfinal matchup with St. Mary’s in a shutout.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Housing market continues to feel headwinds

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

The market for single family homes in Sisters Country remains depressed as compared to the heady 2021 sales picture. Sales for September and October of this year are eerily similar to the same months for 2022 – a stagnation of sorts as buyers retreat in light of 30-year fixed mortgage rates that sat Friday at a breathtaking 8.09% having exceeded 8.5% two weeks earlier.

These are the highest rates since November of 2000.

The table to the right gives an overview of transactions according to analysis from Oregon Datashare.

In October of 2021 there were 31 sales, seven of which topped $1 million for an aggregate of $24.94 million.

That’s a drop in total market sales of almost a third in two years.

A further look at the data shows that approximately 20 percent of all closings the last two months have been in the Sisters Woodlands and Hayden Homes’ McKenzie Meadows. The former has sold out its Phase One and has a waitlist for Phase Two. The latter is now completely sold out.

The bulk of sales are now in what realtors call the sweet spot: $500,000 to $700,000, closer to being affordable for the Oregon median income.

However when rates hit 6

percent, a $500,000 home becomes difficult to afford for the average buyer, and at 8 percent nearly impossible for any family with an income under $100,000.

Realtors tell The Nugget that they expect no rebound until possibly next summer and that will probably be modest. Realtor.com economist Jiayi Xu said: “As the Federal Reserve’s revised economic projections signal the high likelihood of another rate hike within the year, we expect mortgage rates will continue to exceed 7 percent and even climb higher.”

Adding to buyer’s anxiety are the rapidly increasing rates for homeowners insurance in Sisters Country.

Due to catastrophic losses by insurers in the state from wildfire, some carriers have dropped insuring Oregon properties altogether while others have steadily raised

As the Federal Reserve’s revised economic projections signal the high likelihood of another rate hike within the year, we expect mortgage rates will continue to exceed 7 percent...

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An overview of housing transactions in Sisters Country Total Homes Sold Value of All Sales

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rates 25-plus percent in just the last year and over 40 percent in the last two, residents report.

The real estate industry took a major blow last week when a federal jury in Missouri found the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and two of the largest real estate brokers in the country guilty of colluding to inflate real estate commissions. The verdict could change how Americans purchase homes, or more specifically, how they pay for realtor broker fees.

The jury, following two weeks of testimony, ordered

the NAR and real estate franchises Keller Williams and HomeServices of America to pay $1.78 billion in damages to plaintiffs — the sellers of more than 260,000 homes in Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois.

The case is just one classaction lawsuit against the defendants, and the guilty verdict, if upheld, could spur legal action in other states.

The commercial real estate market in Sisters remains bleak, with over 100,000 square feet of unfilled space for lease.

Some has sat idle for over a year, although EDCO

(Economic Development of Central Oregon) reports three companies are currently working through lease agreements, all new to Sisters.

And a sale is pending on the long-vacant property at 320 W. Cascade next to Sno-Cap. Apartment seekers continue to have a choice of oneand two-bedroom traditional apartments available to them at rates of $1,325 to $1,450 for one-bedroom units and $1,650 for two-bedroom layouts. Just six months ago it was nearly impossible to find rentals in Sisters under $2,000.

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Cycling team on a roll in Sisters

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

PHOTO BY KELLI CARTER

Sisters High School’s choir, band, art, and audio/video programs produced a successful run of “SpongeBob: The Musical” last week.

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The Sisters Outlaws Mountain Bike Team pedaled to a fourth-place finish in State competition this fall — an outstanding result considering that the team has only five high school riders.

Coach Jon Fogarty has been building the program since its inaugural season in 2022, when they didn’t field enough high school riders to represent their school. They started with 10 total — four middle school and six high school riders. One dropped out, but that still left enough to represent SHS. Senior racer Will Fogarty took overall honors in the South Conference, and was poised to make a hard run at the state title.

“I flatted on lap one — while leading,” he told The Nugget, his frustration evident. “It was fun though, and I guess that’s what counts.”

Fogarty recounted what led to the flat.

“I pushed a little too hard on this one section and got a little bit off the line I should have been on,” he said.

He hit a small rock and popped his tire. A rider from Corvallis stopped and helped Fogarty fix the flat, and they rode together to the finish.

“Which was nice,” Fogarty said. “I think winning would have been a little nicer, not gonna lie.”

Sisters Katie and Josie Ryan were satisfied with their season’s conclusion.

“It ended on a pretty high note,” Katie said. “It was

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Josie Ryan on the trail for the Outlaws Mountain Bike Team. the second-to-last race in Madras that I beat the person I had been coming in second behind.”

Josie said the season “was pretty good. I got third in state in my division, which is pretty competitive.”

Katie, a senior in high school, said that racing for her isn’t all that different from riding her bike for pleasure. That’s her approach to all her sports — including playing soccer for the Outlaws.

“Winning isn’t the goal for me, really,” she said. “It’s like soccer for me; I do it because it’s fun.”

She acknowledges, however, that “winning is more fun.”

Josie, a freshman, acknowledges that she’s a more competitive person in general. She’s a varsity runner for the Outlaws crosscountry team (see related

story, page 4).

“It’s really good crosstraining,” she said in regards to mountain bike racing. “I think it was just something to do in middle school, and I stuck with it. Now I love it, because it’s a challenge — and I’m pretty decent.”

All of the athletes cited the culture of mountain bike racing as part of the draw.

It’s an atmosphere where athletes tend to encourage each other and bring out the best in their fellow riders.

The sportsmanship displayed by that Corvallis rider is not uncommon.

“Most of the time, people are pretty hyped up for other people’s success,” Will Fogarty said.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Boys Soccer Falls in first round of playoffs

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaws took on a tough Delphian team on the turf at McMinnville High School on Saturday, October 28, and suffered a 2-1 loss.

The turf field and nerves played a factor as both teams took a bit of time to settle into the game.

Delphian was a counterattack type of team and had two very fast and dangerous strikers. Coach Jeff Husmann stated that the Dragons plan was to play out of the back and then try to engage the Outlaws, defending deep in their defensive third, and then play a big ball into their strikers.

Senior Austin Dean had scouted the Dragons’ and information he gathered helped the Outlaws defense to play a tough, smart game.

Of the defense, Husmann said, “They truly have been at the backbone of this team.

We were finding space on the flanks and relative weaknesses in their outside backs.

Our spine players were trying to expose these advantages, yet we couldn’t combine to find the goal. It was the first time we’ve played on turf this season, and the speed of turf played a part as at times we just couldn’t catch up to the ball.”

Sisters got on the scoreboard first when Jesse Polachek took a goal kick from the Outlaws’ goal and Vince Christian timed his run perfectly from the half.

The Dragons’ keeper hesitated to come off his line and Christian placed it just over his head for the score.

The Outlaws were energized by the goal but knew they were in for a tough battle. Sisters got more chances in front of the goal but just couldn’t capitalize.

Husmann explained how the Dragons got their first goal.

“It came from a scrum in our box where we didn’t do a good job of clearing the ball,” said Husmann. The ball squeezed out and from about 20 yards out their striker ripped a nice shot.

There was no chance of stopping it.”

At the half the score was even at 1-1.

Sisters came into the second half with energy, but did get away from their game plan of playing tight in the midfield.

Husmann stated that the Outlaws let up on finding and exposing the Dragons’ weaknesses, which allowed them to gain confidence in their kick-and-run type of play.

The momentum shifted when the Outlaws drew a foul in their box midway through the second half. As has been the norm, Vince Christian took the penalty kick. Sadly, the Dragons’ keeper got his hands to it and made the save.

A short time later, the Outlaws fouled the Dragons just outside of the box, on what Husmann stated was a very soft and questionable foul considering how much the center official was letting things play.

Delphian took a set piece about 22 yards out, and their player hit a laser shot, which gave them the 2-1 advantage.

The score held until the final whistle.

“In many close contests this year, we have found a way to get that goal that puts us back into the game,” said Husmann. “We couldn’t find that answer this time. It was a tough loss to a great season.”

Husmann added, “I love this group of boys, especially these seniors. They have been at the core, not only of the team this year, but in helping develop this program. It’s been an honor to be their coach.”

Language achievement honored The word avanza in Spanish means to move forward, progress, or to advance.

The Sisters School District celebrated that forward progress at the monthly school board meeting on Wednesday, November 1, honoring Olivia Trotter and Mariana Luna for their demonstration of high levels of proficiency in English listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The students are also successful in their core content classes.

Trotter and Luna each received a certificate and a $100 gift certificate to mark the Avanza Award. Then they, their families, and local supporters celebrated with cake.

The Avanza Award is designed to honor students with any non-English first language who acquire English language skills at a level that allows them to “graduate” from the English language learners program.

The students have developed language skills comparable to native speakers.

Trotter is of Norwegian descent and Luna is of Mexican descent.

Community member Wendy Birnbaum noted that each student continues to

Olivia Trotter and Mariana Luna were honored for their work achieving English language proficiency at the Sisters School Board meeting November 1.

They were each presented with an Avanza Award.

PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS

speak their native language and enjoy the traditions of their culture, even as they master the English language.

The students have become truly bilingual.

Bruce and Marleen Rognlien of Sisters are key founding supporters of the Avanza Award, believing that developing English language skills is a key element of future success for children.

Sisters Elementary School Principal Joan Warburg noted that Trotter, a first grader, and Luna, a fifth grader, have achieved proficiency exceptionally quickly, as it typically takes five to seven years of study to achieve proficiency. Both students have officially met the Oregon state criteria to exit the English Learners program.

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Outlaws lose a heartbreaker

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Outlaw football squad battled through injuries the entire season to finish with a perfect league record, but fell 22-26 in the final seconds in the first round of the state playoffs.

The Outlaws squared off against Yamhill-Carlton (YC) at home in Sisters on Friday night, November 3.

Sisters opened the scoring in the first quarter with a field goal from Reid Woodson to take a 3-0 lead.

In the second quarter, carries from Hudson Beckwith and Tony Gonzalez and a big catch from Landon Scott took the Outlaws down the field. The drive was capped by an 11-yard touchdown run by Ethan Eby and the Outlaws went up 9-0, with a failed point-after-touchdown (PAT) attempt.

With just under one minute left in the second quarter the Tigers were able to score.

Their PAT failed and teams entered the half with Sisters on top 9-6.

As the third quarter ticked down, YC scored again. The extra point was good and the Outlaws found themselves down 9-13.

The fourth quarter got underway, and in under

a minute Sisters went the length of the field and scored on an Eby four-yard run.

Woodson kicked it through the uprights for the PAT and Sisters regained the lead, 16-13.

Yamhill Carlton answered midway through the period with a touchdown of their own, and the Tigers took the lead at 20-16.

The Outlaws were bruised and battered, and some were even limping, yet they stayed in the game and continued to fight. With just under three minutes left in the fourth, Eby scored on a one-yard run. The PAT failed, but the Outlaws again regained the lead at 22-20.

With just 35 seconds on the clock, the Tigers threw a long pass, caught just inside the end zone to recapture the lead.

Still the Outlaws wouldn’t give up. They used their timeouts effectively, and went downfield. Sisters had time for one last play and threw one last pass. The Tiger defense was able to bat it away, and the game ended in a heartbreaking loss for the Outlaws.

Sisters finished the night with 217 yards rushing and 115 yards passing, while YC finished with 156 yards rushing and 149 yards passing.

Eby had 12 carries for 85 yards and three touchdowns, and Gonzalez finished the night with seven carries for 57 yards. DeSmet had 13 carries for 63 yards, and Beckwith and Kolbi Cotner both had two carries for six yards.

Hunter Bronson went 11 for 15 for 115 yards passing. Landon Scott had eight catches for 85 yards, and deSmet one catch for 19 yards.

Roberson had one interception and Kalvin Parker had a fumble recovery.

Coach Gary Thorson told The Nugget the Outlaws had some great performances in the backfield from Eby, Gonzalez, and deSmet in the run game. He also noted that Bronson had one of his best games and did a great job leading the team down the field to have one last shot in the final drive.

Thorson mentioned several other players.

“Landon Scott once again showed how big a weapon he is and I look forward to seeing what he can do next year. Kalvin Parker and Antonio Guzman had great games on the offensive line. Defensively, Kolbi Cotner and deSmet had some big plays in the secondary and Eby played well

PHOTO BY OLIVIA KENNEDY

Justin deSmet eludes a pursuer in Outlaws football action. from his linebacker position.

Woodson had some great punts for us in the kicking game, and did well on our kickoff also.”

Of the heartbreaking loss, Thorson said, “This was a rough end to a great season, but I could not have been prouder of this team. Just like they have all year long, they fought and battled back and had no quit in them, even in the last play of the game.

“No question that was a game we could have won, but similar to the last few weeks, we made some costly penalties and mistakes and this time it cost us on the scoreboard,” added Thorson.

“You are bound to have some every game, especially with a team as young as we are,

but the timing of them was bad. We put the ball on the ground several times again, which gave them more opportunities to score and YC made some big plays on offense down the stretch that was the difference.

“While all of us were very disappointed in the score and the season coming to an end, we had a great run and a great foundation was laid for the next few years,” said Thorson. “We are already looking forward to next year.

We lose some very good seniors and some great leadership out of the senior class, and we would not have had the success we had without them. All eight of them contributed to the program this year, and are going to be missed.”

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

A N N O U N C E M E N T S City Council Meetings Holiday Schedule

Due to the holidays, the Sisters City Council has moved its Wednesday, November 22 meeting to November 29 and has canceled its Wednesday, December 27 meeting.

School-Based Health Center Open House

All are invited for this familyfriendly event celebrating the opening of Mosaic Community Health’s newest School-Based Health Center — now in Sisters!

The existing Health Center will expand its operations from two days a week to four days a week.

The open house will be held on Thursday, November 9 from 4 to 6 p.m. at 535 North Reed St., next to Sisters High School. Tour the facility, meet the team, and enjoy light refreshments.

2023 Three Sisters Irrigation District Board of Directors Election

Three Sisters Irrigation District will hold a mail-in election for a TSID Board of Directors Division 2 position. The election will be held at the District Office, 68000 Hwy 20 W., Bend on November 14. Polling location will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Panoramic Access Special Road District Board

The Panoramic Access Special Road District (PASRD) has an opening on its 3-member Board of Commissioners beginning January 1, 2024. The term of service is three (3) years: Jan/2024 - 12/31/2026. Interested candidates should contact the PASRD Board of Commissioners at panoramicroads@gmail. com for information about the position and the application process. Applications requested no later than Nov. 30, 2023.

Free Lunches for Seniors

For those 60+, the Council on Aging of Central Oregon offers a fun, no-cost social lunch every Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Sisters Community Church, 1300 McKenzie Hwy. No reservations needed. No-cost Grab-N-Go lunches take place weekly on Wed. and Thurs., from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Call 541-797-9367.

Weekly Food Pantry

The Wellhouse Church hosts a weekly food pantry Thursdays at 3 p.m. at 222 N. Trinity Way. Both drive-through pick-up and shopping-style distribution are available. Call 541-549-4184 for information.

Garden Club Journal

Sisters Garden Club has a Garden Journal that is available for $15 at Paulina Springs Books, The Gallimaufry, Three Sisters Floral, Home Styled & Metamorphosis, all in Sisters.

The multi-year journal includes pages for notes on weather, monthly garden activities, plant details, and more. Sales support the Club and other local nonprofits. Get your copy now.

They make great gifts. Please call 971-246-0404 with questions.

Sisters Roundup Newsletter

The City of Sisters has launched a monthly newsletter! Sign up to stay up to speed on local projects, programs, and happenings at City Hall.

Go to www.ci.sisters.or.us/ administration/page/sistersroundup-newsletter.

City of Sisters Advisory Boards

The City of Sisters is actively seeking community members to apply for its advisory boards.

Please go to www.ci.sisters. or.us/bc for more information.

Applications will be taken until Friday, November 10.

Republic Services Fall Clean-Up

The week of November 6 to 10 Republic Services will be providing Sisters residential customers only with “Fall CleanUp” services. Customers may place additional items curbside on their regular garbage day, including yard debris, appliances, bagged garbage, and furniture.

There are some restrictions and limits, such as no large furniture items (table chairs but no recliners, etc.) and no dirt or sod.

Call Republic Services at 541-5484984 for additional guidelines.

Sisters Community Thanksgiving Dinner

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Dinner is offered from noon to 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 23, at Sisters Community Church, 1300 Old McKenzie Hwy. Dine-in or carry-out options are available.

To volunteer to help, contact Deri at 541-419-1279. To donate to the community dinner contact Jennifer at 541-390-4597.

STARS Seeks Dispatch Volunteers

While working from home, help STARS transport Sisters Country residents to nonemergency medical appointments. Needed: A computer, the ability to use online apps, and a telephone.

Call 541-904-5545. STARS is an AFSC Action Team.

Sunday School for Children

Church of the Transfiguration is now offering Sunday School for children, ages 5 to 12, regardless of church affiliation, during both Sunday worship services.

Protestant/ecumenical service is at 8:30 a.m. and Episcopal service begins at 10:15 a.m. The church address is 121 Brooks Camp Rd. Sisters. For info call Margaret Doke at 541-588-2784.

Sisters French Club

For people interested in French culture and language, Sisters French Club meets the second Monday of each month at 6 p.m. at The Barn, 171 E. Main Ave. All levels are welcome. The next meeting will be August 7. For more information, visit Facebook @SistersFrenchClub.

Habitat for Humanity Open House

The public is cordially invited to Sisters Habitat for Humanity’s Open House on Friday, November 17 from 4 to 6 p.m. for three homes in the Village Meadows neighborhood: 314 to 322 N. Desert Rose Lp. Each home is in a different phase of completion to enable viewing of the progress and high quality of construction. Please park at the Episcopal Church’s parking lot or along Brooks Camp Road so it does not impact current residents on N. Desert Rose Lp.

Women’s Impact Investing

Learn about the special needs women have when investing and saving and also socially responsible and sustainable options, with guest expert and presenter Kristin Grant of Calvert Funds. Wednesday, November 15, 6 to 7 p.m. in downtown Sisters. Food and beverage included. The event is free, but RSVP is required. To register & confirm location, call the Edward Jones office of Karen Kassy, 541-549-1866.

League of Women Voters Student Essay Contest

League of Women Voters of Deschutes County is sponsoring the 2023-24 Y-Essay Contest for senior HS students. Winners get $500 each. The group is hoping to raise enough to give out five awards. Donate online at www. bit.ly/Y-Essay-Contribution.

Sisters Caregiver Support

A facilitated support group for caregivers of those with chronic or life-shortening diseases meets 10 to 11:30 a.m. on the third Tuesday of every month at Sisters Episcopal Church of The Transfiguration, 121 Brooks Camp Rd. For more info, please contact Kay at 541-719-0031.

Free Weekly Meal Service

Family Kitchen hosts weekly togo hot meals on Tuesdays, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Sisters Community Church, 1300 McKenzie Hwy. Visit www.FamilyKitchen.org.

Calling All Submariners

Central OR Submarine Base quarterly meeting will be held on Sunday, Nov. 12 at 1300 hours at the Redmond Post 4108 Veterans of Foreign Wars, east on Veterans Way from Highway 97. All submariners, spouses, and friends are welcome to attend to discuss the Nov. 24 parade in Redmond, a site for a memorial in Redmond, and the Western Regional gettogether next spring. Come and find out how you can help support submariners and other veterans who may be in need.

For further information, call Base Commander Rick Neault 530434-1102 or Secretary Fran Davis 541-527-5484.

12th Annual Lions Club Holiday Faire

The Lions Club is accepting applications from local crafters and artists for the upcoming Holiday Faire in Sisters. For more information please email Angi at boardstuff20@gmail.com.

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Alzheimer’s and Dementia Family Caregiver Support Group

Thelma’s Place Adult Day Respite Program in Redmond hosts a monthly support group for those caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or another dementia-related disease. The support group is held every third Wednesday of the month from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. This is a free family-caregiver support group featuring local organizations. Call 541-548-3049.

STARS Seeks Volunteers to Transport Patients

Help Sisters Country residents get to nonemergency medical appointments in Sisters, Redmond, and Bend. Attend a free two-hour training. Emails from STARS dispatchers allow you to accept dates and times that work for your schedule, and a mileage reimbursement is included. Learn more at www. starsride.org. STARS is an AFSC Action Team.

Sisters Habitat Volunteers Needed

Now that the children are back in school, are you looking for something fun to do with your free time? Come volunteer with Sisters Habitat for Humanity!

Call 541-549-1193 to get started.

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JV football brings end to successful season

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The 21 players on the JV football squad finished their season at 8-1, their only loss the first game of the season. Jim Gurney and Jordon Wilkins teamed up to coach the Outlaws, Gurney primarily as a defensive coach, and Wilkins as the offensive coach.

Gurney said, “We outscored our opponents 330-80 and that number is just ridiculous. Our average score was 40-6 of the games we won.”

The offensive line consisted of Wyatt Szesze, Emmit Buller, Isaac Dunn, Kayden Morris, Finn Stancliff, Jackson Spor, and Jesus Quero; the final three all first-year players.

“This group of guys put in a lot of effort and grew in their fundamentals and as a unit. Isaac and Kayden played out of position and stepped in on the offensive line to help the offensive line be successful,” said Wilkins.

Reese Moore, Jace Owens, Spencer Davis, Kayden Morris, Keegan Dunn, Nate Palmer, Wyatt Szesze, and Sean Moffat all saw time at running back, and they all showed vast improvement over the course of the season. In total the running backs only fumbled the ball once all year, and for a

team that’s based on running (30-40 yards per game), that is really remarkable at the JV level.

Coaches particularly noted Moore, Owens, and Davis as exceptional running backs.

“These guys were absolutely dominant any time they touched the ball, and they blocked well for one another,” said Wilkins.

Dane Mock, Grant Roberson, Isaac Dunn, Ian Landon, and Cinch Chew made up the wide receivers.

Coaches commented that in the offense the Outlaws run these players have to be committed to being a blocker first. As a group they understood that being a good blocker opened up the passing game.

Mock broke his finger at the start of the season and still showed up for practice every day.

“Dane really grew into his own,”said Wilkins. “He is very committed to the team, and as a receiver he caught everything that came his way.”

Tabor Garcia played at tight end and Wilkins described him as a “crusher.”

“Tabor could throw blocks and catch the ball, and he worked hard and was coachable,” said Wilkins. “We could always count on him to do his job.”

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R e e d Wo o d s o n a n d Trent Gordon both played at the quarterback position.

Woodson led the offense and was consistent and steady.

Wilkins noted that Woodson made calm decisions in the midst of chaos. Gordon stepped up toward the end of the season as a passer, and Wilkins stated that from last year to this year his confidence and mental game has improved tenfold.

Of the offense Wilkins said, “As an offensive coordinator I could literally pick any play and was so confident in the guys that no matter the situation or scenario I knew they’d be successful.”

On the defensive side, Finn Stancliff, Wyatt Szesze, Jackson Spor, and Emmit Buller played on the defensive line.

“These guys grew in their aggressiveness,” Gurney said. “They’d get a great push at the line of scrimmage, which allowed the linebackers to make tackles and

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Gurney said, “Coach Thorson has a coaching point for every practice plan and that is ‘demand perfection.’

It’s shocking to me to see how many of these JV players have taken this to heart and want to get better every single play, every single practice, and every single game. For a JV group to respond like they do is very impressive, and that’s putting it mildly.”

The future of Outlaws looks bright, and several of these JV players will make a significant contribution to the varsity squad next year.

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Ten players saw time at linebacker, including Sean Moffat, Trent Gordon, Jace Owens, Reese Moore, Keegan Dunn, Isaac Dunn, Nate Palmer, Kayden Morris, and Tabor Garcia. Gurney noted that this group of guys were students of the game, understood their assignments, and flew to the ball.

Gurney especially noted Garcia, Morris, Moore, and Owens.

“They were butt-kickers,” said Gurney. “They made this defense dominant.”

Reid Woodson, Cinch Chew (Ace), Ian Landon, Spencer Davis, Grant Roberson, Dane Mock, and Wyatt Szesze all saw time as defensive backs.

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Sisters-Area Events & Entertainment

Hillstomp brings country blues Portland junkbox blues duo Hillstomp will play The Belfry on Friday, November 10.

The band is infamous for digging through the dumps and forgotten backwoods of American music, recycling traditional elements into a refreshing and distinctive brand of do-it-yourself hill country blues stomp. North Mississippi trance blues, a bit of Appalachia, and a dash of punkabilly come clanging and tumbling from assorted buckets, cans, and BBQ lids, all drenched in rambunctious slide guitar.

Somehow it works.

Despite their homemade instruments and novel approach, Hillstomp is no novelty act.

Hillstomp’s memorable live performances tap into a magic that cannot be rehearsed, converting outlaws and traditionalists alike from skeptics into preachers.

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Bernard Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe series Bernard Cornwell has a very interesting life story that got him to the point of writing several fictional series. He was born in England in 1944 and adopted when he was six weeks old. His new parents were members of a strict fundamentalist sect called the Peculiar People, who forbade just about everything kids and young adults were interested in. Cornwell definitely expressed his rebellion toward all those restrictions when he started to write historical novels about war, realistic wartime relationships, and fighting.

He tried to enlist in the service several times, but was denied entry due to poor eyesight. After getting his college degree, he started working for the British Broadcasting

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Sisters Movie House Autumn Arts & Adventure Movie Series: “Klimt & The Kiss” What lies behind the appeal of The Kiss by Gustav Klimt (one of the most recognized and reproduced paintings in the world), and just who was the artist that created it? 7 p.m. Tickets: www.sistersmoviehouse.com.

Hardtails Karaoke with KJ Mindy 7 to 11 p.m. For more information call 541-549-6114.

Paulina Springs Books Book Talk Glenda Goodrich presents “Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions.”

6:30-7:30 p.m. Info: PaulinaSpringsBooks.com.

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Hillstomp brings their unique brand of country blues to Sisters. musical collage from Sisters native Trevor Martell. Never using a set list, each night is adapted to the room. From dance rock ’n’ roll, to moody love tunes, to space spoken word, you can expect a oneof-a-kind performance to Company, but fell in love with an American and moved to the U.S. around 1980. After the move, it took a while for him to get his green card, so he spent the waiting time by beginning his series about a fictional 19th-century military hero, Richard Sharpe. This was a lucky break for the millions of readers who like military fiction. Cornwell has written more than 20 novels featuring Sharpe, plus several other fictional series. A new book in the Sharpe series is coming out next year.

I chose “Sharpe’s Tiger” to read for this review, since it was the first of the Sharpe series (in historical order, not in the order it was written). Sharpe is a good soldier and leader. He reminds me of Horatio Hornblower, but he’s definitely hardcore compared to Horatio — plus he’s Army, not Navy. I’ll do a review on C. S. Forester soon — the Hornblower series is fantastic.

Back to Sharpe. This first book places Sharpe as a private in the British Army, stationed in India in 1799. He’s bored with the time spent doing nothing, he wants to fight, and he has one of the worst sergeants in the army over him. I’m sure most military people out there in the U.S. (and beyond) have probably lived through similar times in the military when you wonder, “What the heck was I thinking when I joined up?” Sharpe wonders that a lot, and privately

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The Belfry is located at 302 E. Main Ave. in Sisters. thinks about how he can get out and go make a life in the civilian world.

Through circumstances beyond his control, Sharpe ends up being sent on a nearly impossible mission to free captured Colonel McCandless. His objective is to free the colonel, hopefully without getting killed by the enemy or his own military. Other than the military leaders who give the assignment to Sharpe, and his sidekick, rookie lieutenant William Lawford, everyone else thinks Sharpe and Lawford have deserted.

The story is great, and made even better by knowing it’s based on real battles and history. It is graphic and disturbing in parts, but any military person will tell you that disturbing things happen in real life as well as fiction.

Cornwell has a good personal sense of humor. In one of his past interviews with The Guardian he said, “I look back on it and I think this was insane. One, moving to America without a job, and two, throwing myself on the mercy of writing a novel. But here I am 40 years later.” I wish he would write a book starting from when he was born, and on to this day. The way he found his birth father and mother, the difference it made in his life and the history of both, the addition of more “real” history to his books.

I like the way he puts it: “Historical fiction is a gateway to real history.”

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Paulina Springs Books Magic: The Gathering nights 5 to 9 p.m. Booster Draft at 5:15 p.m. Info: PaulinaSprings.com.

Tollgate Clubhouse Holidays in the Pines 10 a.m.-6 p.m. A marketplace featuring handmade and homegrown with a touch of vintage. A portion of proceeds benefit Sisters Habitat and Central Oregon Veterans Ranch.

Info: holidayinthepines@outlook.com. 15004 Saddle, Sisters.

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Paulina Springs Books Game Night 5 to 9 p.m.

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Tollgate Clubhouse Holidays in the Pines 10 a.m.-6 p.m. A marketplace featuring handmade and homegrown with a touch of vintage. A portion of proceeds benefit Sisters Habitat and Central Oregon Veterans Ranch.

Info: holidayinthepines@outlook.com. 15004 Saddle, Sisters.

SUNDAY • NOVEMBER 12

Paulina Springs Books Scrabble Club 11 a.m.

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MONDAY • NOVEMBER 13

Ski Inn Taphouse Hotel Live Music: Jacob Westfall 6-8 p.m. Info: www.sisterstaphousehotel.com.

TUESDAY • NOVEMBER 14

Ski Inn Taphouse Hotel Live Music: Mark Barringer & Bob Baker 6-8 p.m. Info: www.sisterstaphousehotel.com.

Three Creeks Brewing Hoodoo’s Wintervention 6 to 8 p.m. Kickoff party! Thousands in prizes including lift tickets, gear, skis, boards, and more. Games, SnOlympics, trivia, and Snowballers Bingo. Help raise scholarship funds.

Hosted by Harold the Hodag and his friends Yeti and Sas. Free for all ages and fun for the whole family. Info: www.hoodoo.com.

Paulina Springs Books Book Talk Pauls Toutonghi presents “The Refugee Ocean,” an epic of two refugees from 1940s Beirut and 2014 Aleppo who are connected across time by music. 6:30 p.m. Info: PaulinaSpringsBooks.com.

WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 15

The Belfry Live Music: AJ Lee & Blue Summit California bluegrass band drawing from influences such as country, soul, swing, rock, and jam music. Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. Presented by Sisters Folk Festival. Info: www. sistersfolkfestival.org. Tickets: https://aftontickets.com/ajlee.

THURSDAY • NOVEMBER 16

Sisters Movie House Autumn Arts & Adventure Movie Series: “Full Circle: A story of post-traumatic growth” 7 p.m. Full Circle is an unblinking examination of the challenges of spinal cord injury, and a celebration of the growth that such tragedy can catalyze. Info and tickets at www.sistersmoviehouse.com.

Paulina Springs Books Poetry Open Mic with featured poet Amelia Diaz Ettinger presenting “Self-Dissection,” an anatomical journey to find answers about heritage, environment, family, and the nature of being an immigrant. Sign-ups to share begin at 6 p.m. Share a poem you have written, or a poem you love! 6:30 p.m. Info: PaulinaSpringsBooks.com.

Hardtails Karaoke with KJ Mindy 7 to 11 p.m. For more information call 541-549-6114.

FRIDAY • NOVEMBER 17

The Belfry Live Music: Hubby Jenkins 7 p.m. Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist who shares his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Presented by The Whippoorwill Presents. Tickets, $20, at www.bendticket.com.

Paulina Springs Books Magic: The Gathering nights 5 to 9 p.m. Booster Draft at 5:15 p.m. Info: PaulinaSprings.com.

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

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Fall is a time for a transition

“Another fall, another turned page…”

—Wallace Stegner With frosty nights, some rain, and a wee bit of snow, we have indeed turned the page on another fire season; one marked by a paucity of dry lightning storms, quick detections, and aggressive initial attack.

For the 2023 fire season, the Sisters Ranger District had 22 fires for a total of 2.8 acres burned, with only one of those fires caused by lightning. Of those humancaused fires, 13 were related to camp or bon/party fires.

In 2023, the greater Central Oregon region was well below the 10-year average in number of ignitions and total acres burned.

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The three Sisters public schools will honor local military veterans at each school in observance of Veterans Day, having the students assembled to say ‘Thank you for your service.”

Veterans Day is observed on November 11, marking the date of the armistice that ended World War I in Europe in 1918. However, this year, because it’s a Saturday, Sisters Middle School and Sisters High School are holding their veterans recognition events on Thursday, November 9. All veterans and their spouses are welcome to attend.

Sisters Middle School has scheduled their event on Thursday, November 9, with coffee and snacks for veterans at 2:15 p.m., and the assembly starts at 2:30 p.m.

Sisters High School’s Veterans Day observances begin at 9:20 a.m. Veterans and their spouses are welcome to have coffee and “something sweet” at 9 a.m., before the student assembly.

Sisters Elementary School will honor veterans on Friday, November 17 with a breakfast at 8 a.m., followed by an assembly.

blading and brushing other popular road systems in the coming months using a mix of forest employees and contractors.

Last summer, our natural resource specialists in botany, fisheries, hydrology, soils, and wildlife continued the steady effort of restoring Black Butte Swamp through constructing beaver dam analogues, planting native vegetation, and treating invasive plants. If you haven’t checked it out yet, fall is a wonderful time to take a walk and explore as these wetlands come back to life.

We made excellent progress over the summer, with the aid of skilled contractors, on renovating the Sisters administrative site, with a new warehouse constructed and a new ranger station construction contract awarded. Look for a detailed follow-up on this project soon.

We also initiated the Sisters Trails Addition and Realignment (STAR) project over the summer that proposes to construct, reroute, adopt, or abandon a suite of non-motorized trails across the District. We received over 70 public comments on this project; many of them thoughtful, informative, and substantive. We will take

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have paid dividends to help keep those human-caused fires small. To that end, we will be advertising a stewardship contract next year to expand our previous work in two former project areas: Sisters Area Fuels Reduction (SAFR) and Melvin Butte. The contract, called Space, will use funds from national Wildfire Crisis Strategy appropriations to accomplish additional thinning/logging, mowing, and prescribed burning close to Sisters.

Forest products, such as saw timber, biomass, and firewood, will also be created from this contract. Once that contract is awarded, likely in mid-2024, expect to see log trucks and heavy equipment on the 16 road and other areas close to town.

Speaking of the 16 road, I couldn’t be prouder of the work our forest engineers and road crew performed this summer reconstructing a difficult section of Forest Service Road 16, aka the Three Creek Road. The gravel section had degraded to the point that it couldn’t be graded, and our skilled employees brought in thousands of yards of aggregate, replaced culverts, cleaned ditches, and restored the road surface—improving access for thousands of annual visitors to the Three Creek Lake area. If you have towed a camper, boat, or stock trailer up there this fall, you know what I am talking about. We plan on

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those comments into consideration as we start laying out trail alignments on the ground and conducting environmental analysis. We expect to have a decision signed on this project in 2024.

And speaking of 2024, If you are interested in a temporary job with the Forest Service in Central Oregon or elsewhere next summer, November 8th is the last day to apply. Check out this link for types of jobs available and application tips: https:// www.fs.usda.gov/main/ deschutes/about-forest/jobs.

We have welcomed some excellent new permanent employees to the District since summer. We recently hired Madison Anderson as environmental planner, Kyland (Ky) Carlson as support services specialist, Ryan Gregg as battalion chief-operations, Lorelei Mariana as customer service representative, and Erik Taylor as special use permit administrator.

Fall gives us an opportunity to reset and take pause, the transition between light and darkness marked by our solstices. And if you haven’t yet cut all your firewood for the winter, please remember that season ends on November 30. Take care and be well.

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Obituaries Jaden Harvey Wiles

November 24, 2003 – October 21, 2023

Jaden Harvey Wiles walked his dusty cowboy boots out of this world on October 21, 2023. Jaden’s easy laugh, charming smile, bright green eyes, and broad shoulders belied his big heart that he shared generously with so many of us.

Hard work and good friends are what brought Jaden his joy. His thick blonde hair was usually barely restrained by a sweatstained ball cap. Dirty and oily Carhartt overalls over a white T-shirt bespoke a young man that literally dove into his work with all his being. Jaden wore that working man’s tuxedo proudly.

Jaden was a hand at the Cole Ranch for several years, and tended the wheel lines, ditches, and whatever needed done. But Jaden found pure joy in working the cattle and calving season. If something needed done in the dead of a cold Sisters winter night during calving, he was proud to be the first hand pulling on his boots and out to the fields or barn to nurture a momma or new calf. Caring for those fragile calves spoke to Jaden’s tender heart. Jaden was an enterprising guy and wanted to expand his skills

and work with equipment.

He signed on with High Desert Utilities, and then with Tewalt & Sons, where at the grizzled age of 19 he was trusted to run his own crews and call the shots. His paystubs are a testament to his passion for this work and the Tewalt crew, all showing generous amounts of overtime. Even with that, Jaden burnt little daylight but much diesel pulling loads of hay from Central Oregon in his dually F350 to the four corners of the state. He simply felt best when working.

Jaden loved the red cinder roads of Sisters Country, bonfires with friends, and briefly a cheap Craigslist Volvo station wagon, where all three of these treasures were combined by him and his fun-loving friends for a grand misadventure. The “Volvo rally” was frowned upon by local authorities, but it makes us smile now.

“Jaybird” to his mom Effie, “Harve” to Grandma Deb, loved his older sister, Hailey, who was more his buddy, confidante, and occasional partner in mischief, with the full of his big heart. His black lab, Hank, will miss sniffing those boots and overalls, and Jaden’s head scratches.

Born on November 24, 2003, in Corvallis, our Jaden

Marilyn Losli Brownawell February 11, 1933 — November 2, 2023

leaves us all too soon. His mother, Effie Ogan, father Corey Wiles, sister Hailey Wiles, step-dad John Ogan, grandma Deb Branson and grandparents Melody and John Wiles have a void we can only try to fill with memories, stories, and love for Jaden that will not ever diminish. So many dear friends must find a way to heal as well, and we share our love of Jaden with yours.

We are grateful beyond capacity of expression for the love and friendship Jaden’s large tribe shared with us and one another during his Celebration of Life on November 29, 2023.

Jaden’s mortal being will be laid to rest at the family’s Fern Ridge Cemetery in Seal Rock, Oregon but his light will shine within all of us forever.

On Thursday, November 2, Marilyn Losli Brownawell, beloved wife of Darrell Brownawell for 68 years, passed away at Touchmark in Bend. She was 90 years old. She is survived

by Darrell, her two sons, David (and wife, Susan) and Mark (and wife, Carolyn), four grandchildren, Tim, Dan, Kristin, and Max, and two great grandchildren, Ernest and Dianna.

Born to Ernest and Marguerite Losli on February 11, 1933, Marilyn graduated from Reed College with a bachelor of science and became a research chemist and a teacher.

Marilyn was an avid hiker and enjoyed hiking with Darrell in the Olympic National Forest and on Mount Rainier. She travelled extensively in Europe,

visited Africa, and lived for two years with her family near Oxford, England. When she retired, she and Darrell moved to Black Butte Ranch, where they had vacationed often.

She took an interest in teaching Sunday school at the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in Sisters.

A service will be held on Friday, November 10, at 10 a.m. at the Shepherd of the Hills Church, 386 N. Fir St. in Sisters.

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become pretty friendly with the competition.”

And, she noted, “It helped foster some mental toughness, and it’s helped their other sports, for sure.”

Coach Fogarty is continuing to build the program, which will lose two seniors next year. Will Fogarty plans to attend Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado next year, where he will race collegiately among many elite riders. He also plans to enter some 100-plus-mile events.

The coach encourages young people in Sisters to consider racing, where they can build skills in a lifetime sport.

“We’re not here to churn out pro cyclists,” he said.

“We’re here to turn out people with lifelong healthy habits.”

His son concurred.

“Cross-country at least gets you ridiculously fit and living healthy lifestyle — and boosts your mental health,” he said. “It’s Type 2 fun, ’cause it’s really hard, but it’s really rewarding.”

To learn more, email Jon Fogarty at dcmtbteam@ gmail.com.

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MYTHS vs. FACTS

MYTH: Choosing hospice means giving up all medical treatment.

MYTH: Hospice is a place.

MYTH: Hospice is expensive.

MYTH: Hospice care is only appropriate in the last few days of life.

Learn more about the benefits of hospice, eligibility, and services. Can’t join in person?

Email us to request a video link invite at Andrea.gauntlett@LHCgroup.com or call us at 541-508-4036.

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Master Permitting keeps track of forest resources Gardener program takes applications

By Bill Bartlett Correspondent

Applications for the OSU Master Gardener Program in Central Oregon are now available. The program targets individuals interested in becoming a trained volunteer who wants to learn and share research-based gardening information.

Program will be a hybrid training with both online and in-person learning.

Once an applicant has been accepted, they will be considered an OSU Master Gardener trainee. Trainees will participate in weekly hybrid (in person and online) training conducted by qualified OSU Extension faculty, specialists, and certified OSU Master Gardeners.

Training days occur once a week for eight weeks.

Trainees are required to attend a minimum of seven classes in person.

In-person classes will be held on Wednesdays, January 17 through March 20, with no class on February 14 and March 13, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Classes are held at OSU/ Deschutes County Extension Service, 3800 SW Airport Way, Bldg. 3, Redmond.

Cost is $280 and includes tuition and supplies. Partial scholarships are available.

Applications are due by December 18.

More information is available at https://extension.oregonstate.edu/mg/ central/how-join.

CORRECTION An ad in the Partners in Giving special section listed an incorrect phone number for Sisters Kiwanis Club.

The correct contact information is 541-632-3663 or info@sisterskiwanis.org.

A look at the price board at area firewood sellers is not for the faint of heart. Your basic cord of pine is going to cost you $260 to $295 plus a delivery and/or stacking fee depending on your location and quantity ordered. Fancy some juniper? That’ll run you upwards of $360.

It’s no wonder then that many a log burner will head to the Deschutes National Forest to save a bundle. The vast majority in Sisters Country will stop by the Sisters Ranger District headquarters and obtain the necessary permit, free of charge. It entitles a household to up to eight cords of personal use firewood a year — about $2,500 in value — all free.

The season ends November 30 having started May 1, so the rush is on.

As always, there are those who blow off the permit, thinking the forest, being public lands, is there for the taking. No. These are public lands, true, but they are

managed. Forest managers say that it is critical to habitat and forest health that the Forest Service institute best practices to ensure that there’s enough for everybody, and that fire risk is minimized.

The Nugget received a call recently from Sisters Trails Alliance to report one of its volunteers discovering bark stripping on Green Ridge cedars. A day later, a hiker walked into the Ranger Station to report the same thing.

Bark stripping is a relatively rare issue in the Deschutes National Forest, but one that is of great detriment to its trees. Bark stripping is the illegal stripping and harvesting of the bark of a tree for individual profit or prohibited use.

Cedar bark is prized for its durability, flexibility, and water resistance. It is peeled from trees with straight trunks by making a single cut and pulling upward on the trunk. Strips can be as long as 25 feet, and are carefully separated into layers. Soft cedar bark fibers have been used for all sorts of things

including basket making and Christmas ornamentation and scenting.

Stripping bark from trees is illegal. The trees need their bark to help protect them from drought, disease, and insects.

It turned out, upon investigation, that it was not bark stripping, but some boughs, probably for wreaths or mantles, and completely legal to harvest. Stripping, usually done indiscriminately, can kill a tree. Cutting a few boughs here and there is unlikely to injure a heathy tree.

It seems reassuring to know that everyday citizens are being observant and protective of the forests. Poachers might want to take that into consideration when in Sisters Country.

In general, a permit is required to gather most forest products. Permits can be obtained at Forest Service

district offices. Several forest products may be gathered without a permit — pine cones, boughs, fruits, and nuts — in small quantities for personal use.

A permit is required to gather or collect any forest product in bulk or for commercial purposes. Permits must be properly completed, including the Product Quantity Removal Record, prior to transporting products. When collecting forest products, be aware that national forest lands are highly interspersed with state and private land.

Jamie Olle, public affairs specialist for the Deschutes National Forest, said: “Forest Service staff conduct regular patrols to ensure the public is adhering to permit guidelines.”

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Four decades of

serving Sisters

By Sue Stafford | Correspondent

Dr. Bonnie Malone, longtime Sisters chiropractor, is retiring and closing her clinic as of November 27. For over 42 years in Sisters, Malone has been deeply engaged in the life of the community, well beyond her chiropractic practice.

Malone, her dog, Morgan, and her horse, Caesar, arrived in Sisters in late May 1981, when the population was around 800 and the speed limit through town was 30 mph. In those days, Sisters was a logging town. The major employers were the U.S. Forest Service and logging companies.

Malone moved to Sisters because her sister lived in Tumalo, and every time she came for a visit, Malone fantasized about riding her horse across the wide-open Central Oregon countryside. Hull Dolson,

owner of The Nugget Newspaper, had a spot in his building where Malone opened her chiropractic practice on June 8, 1981, in what is now part of The Nugget office.

After her first year in practice, a Redmond medical clinic opened in the other end of the current Nugget building (The Nugget was at that time housed in the building behind).

Malone and the clinic shared that small space until 1989.

“Dr. Steve Spear, DMD, offered space to me when he

planned a medical complex on Adams and Pine. It was too large for my needs, so he invited the medical clinic as well. Dr. Spear also fenced the back of the clinic so I could ride my horse to work,” Malone said.

“I missed the medical clinic when they sold it to another provider. I had purchased my home in 1988, less than a mile from town, so I built a clinic next to my home after more than 18 years in the city limits,” Malone said.

Malone joined the Sisters Rodeo Association in 1982 wanting to be involved with community service.

She served for 30 years as a member of the Rodeo Board.

After Sisters Rotary was established, she became an active member. Malone also became a member of her church council. She served on the Oregon Board of Chiropractors Peer Review Committee for six years and as the chair for four years.

When Sisters Kiwanis invited members of local organizations to begin discussions about a project to bring a latchkey program for youth, and eventually an activities district, to the community, Malone was the representative from Rodeo. Within a few years of diligent effort, they had formed Sisters Organization for Activities and Recreation (SOAR) as a nonprofit.

Malone added, “The School District was a great partner in this, giving us a building (which was their mechanical storage facility)

to begin after-school care and then ‘renting’ us land to build our own facility near our new high school.

We became a very lightly funded tax district in the mid-1990s, so fundraising was an ongoing need.

“There are so many generous people in Sisters Country, with an extraordinary focus on enhancing the lives and education of our youth,” Malone recounted. “That kept us afloat at SOAR for many years. In 1999, we held a fundraiser for the new building with a New Years Eve party at Hotel Sisters called ‘SOAR into the Millennium.’

It was hugely successful, thanks to so many people, businesses, individual donors, and organizations.

We built our building with no taxpayer funds. It is now home to Sisters Parks & Recreation District (SPRD), a name change from SOAR. “I continued to feed my original degree, my ‘journalism child’ by being invited to write an anonymous gossip column for The Nugget throughout the 1980s called ‘Around Town.’ I also wrote freelance stories and, for a few decades, all the press

releases for the Rodeo Association,” Malone said.

Probably one of the most wellknown facts about Malone is her avid support of the University of Oregon Ducks, having season football tickets for years. She also served on the Central Oregon Duck board for 10 years, the mission of which is to generate support for the university and to fundraise.

Anyone who knows Malone knows that animals have always been a big part of her life — both at work and play. When she purchased a potbelly pig in 1989, he became quite well-known in Sisters. Market (the pig) was often entertainment on the lawn of the Adams Avenue clinic for all providers’ patients.

Her once-in-a-lifetime horse Caesar was born in 1968, and accompanied her to college, to Portland, and to Sisters. He was an Arab, Morgan, and Tennessee walker mix and a well-known resident of Sisters who celebrated his birthday at Yukon Jack’s with large parties complete with gifts from his friends.

While in Portland, Malone acquired a great Dane/English

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pointer mix puppy who weighed 105 ponds at five months. After moving to Sisters, Morgan used to visit the elementary school, where one student was concerned by his skinny frame.

Malone had a tag made for his collar that read, “My name’s Morgan. I’m not skinny. I’m old.” He lived to be 16. When he died in the straw in Malone’s loafing shed, Caesar stood guard over him, and nuzzled Malone’s face when she came out and found Morgan.

Malone and her horses have been a constant in Sisters for over 40 years. She moved here with Caesar and later had Windy, Rage, Stella, and now Bill. She has covered hundreds of miles of trails around Central Oregon. She rode her horses in the Rodeo Parade for 16 years, winning first place in the equestrian division in elaborate costumes for 12 of those years. After that, she rode as part of the Rodeo Board.

Malone has enjoyed many great riding partners.

“In the mid-1980s, three of us decided to do ‘moonlight rides’ during the full moon from May to October. The group grew every month over the next few years until we had one ride with 32 people.

Returning from one of our rides, we rode the highway through town at about 2 a.m., tied up at The Gallery, and went in for a breakfast cooked by owner Jim Cheatham,” Malone said.

Growing up on the Oregon Coast, Malone spent her childhood riding her horse on seven miles of beach and jumping driftwood. At Taft High School, Malone served as the editor of the high school yearbook and wrote a gossip column for the high school newspaper, planting the seeds for her attending the University of Oregon, where she double majored in journalism and

political science.

After graduation, Malone put her journalism degree to work at The Oregonian in the advertising department, hoping to work her way up.

She also worked as vacation relief at Albertson’s and Fred Meyer, where she knew the original Fred. But those jobs just didn’t rev her engine.

Malone began her chiropractic studies in January 1978, finishing up in 3.5 years by attending summer school. Upon graduating, Malone relocated to Sisters and the rest is history.

“My practice kept me so busy that I wonder how I managed to do such a variety of activities and work full-time,” Malone admitted.

“Yet I had the luxury of waking with a smile every Monday morning, excited that I was going back to work.”

“I don’t feel guilty about retiring and leaving my patients because we have several great chiropractors in town,” she concluded.

Malone is an example of a longtime resident who loves Sisters and has generously given back to the community both professionally and with her time, talent, and resources as a dedicated volunteer.

Editor’s Note: A longer, more detailed version of this story is available to online subscribers at www.nuggetnews.com.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Four decades of

serving Sisters

By Sue Stafford | Correspondent

Dr. Bonnie Malone, longtime Sisters chiropractor, is retiring and closing her clinic as of November 27. For over 42 years in Sisters, Malone has been deeply engaged in the life of the community, well beyond her chiropractic practice.

Malone, her dog, Morgan, and her horse, Caesar, arrived in Sisters in late May 1981, when the population was around 800 and the speed limit through town was 30 mph. In those days, Sisters was a logging town. The major employers were the U.S. Forest Service and logging companies.

Malone moved to Sisters because her sister lived in Tumalo, and every time she came for a visit, Malone fantasized about riding her horse across the wide-open Central Oregon countryside. Hull Dolson,

owner of The Nugget Newspaper, had a spot in his building where Malone opened her chiropractic practice on June 8, 1981, in what is now part of The Nugget office.

After her first year in practice, a Redmond medical clinic opened in the other end of the current Nugget building (The Nugget was at that time housed in the building behind).

Malone and the clinic shared that small space until 1989.

“Dr. Steve Spear, DMD, offered space to me when he

planned a medical complex on Adams and Pine. It was too large for my needs, so he invited the medical clinic as well. Dr. Spear also fenced the back of the clinic so I could ride my horse to work,” Malone said.

“I missed the medical clinic when they sold it to another provider. I had purchased my home in 1988, less than a mile from town, so I built a clinic next to my home after more than 18 years in the city limits,” Malone said.

Malone joined the Sisters Rodeo Association in 1982 wanting to be involved with community service.

She served for 30 years as a member of the Rodeo Board.

After Sisters Rotary was established, she became an active member. Malone also became a member of her church council. She served on the Oregon Board of Chiropractors Peer Review Committee for six years and as the chair for four years.

When Sisters Kiwanis invited members of local organizations to begin discussions about a project to bring a latchkey program for youth, and eventually an activities district, to the community, Malone was the representative from Rodeo. Within a few years of diligent effort, they had formed Sisters Organization for Activities and Recreation (SOAR) as a nonprofit.

Malone added, “The School District was a great partner in this, giving us a building (which was their mechanical storage facility)

to begin after-school care and then ‘renting’ us land to build our own facility near our new high school.

We became a very lightly funded tax district in the mid-1990s, so fundraising was an ongoing need.

“There are so many generous people in Sisters Country, with an extraordinary focus on enhancing the lives and education of our youth,” Malone recounted. “That kept us afloat at SOAR for many years. In 1999, we held a fundraiser for the new building with a New Years Eve party at Hotel Sisters called ‘SOAR into the Millennium.’

It was hugely successful, thanks to so many people, businesses, individual donors, and organizations.

We built our building with no taxpayer funds. It is now home to Sisters Parks & Recreation District (SPRD), a name change from SOAR. “I continued to feed my original degree, my ‘journalism child’ by being invited to write an anonymous gossip column for The Nugget throughout the 1980s called ‘Around Town.’ I also wrote freelance stories and, for a few decades, all the press

releases for the Rodeo Association,” Malone said.

Probably one of the most wellknown facts about Malone is her avid support of the University of Oregon Ducks, having season football tickets for years. She also served on the Central Oregon Duck board for 10 years, the mission of which is to generate support for the university and to fundraise.

Anyone who knows Malone knows that animals have always been a big part of her life — both at work and play. When she purchased a potbelly pig in 1989, he became quite well-known in Sisters. Market (the pig) was often entertainment on the lawn of the Adams Avenue clinic for all providers’ patients.

Her once-in-a-lifetime horse Caesar was born in 1968, and accompanied her to college, to Portland, and to Sisters. He was an Arab, Morgan, and Tennessee walker mix and a well-known resident of Sisters who celebrated his birthday at Yukon Jack’s with large parties complete with gifts from his friends.

While in Portland, Malone acquired a great Dane/English

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• Behind the scenes. Hear from our staff, and more.

And it’s a great way to support all that you love about The Nugget, your community newspaper informing and connecting the folks of Sisters Country since 1978!

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pointer mix puppy who weighed 105 ponds at five months. After moving to Sisters, Morgan used to visit the elementary school, where one student was concerned by his skinny frame.

Malone had a tag made for his collar that read, “My name’s Morgan. I’m not skinny. I’m old.” He lived to be 16. When he died in the straw in Malone’s loafing shed, Caesar stood guard over him, and nuzzled Malone’s face when she came out and found Morgan.

Malone and her horses have been a constant in Sisters for over 40 years. She moved here with Caesar and later had Windy, Rage, Stella, and now Bill. She has covered hundreds of miles of trails around Central Oregon. She rode her horses in the Rodeo Parade for 16 years, winning first place in the equestrian division in elaborate costumes for 12 of those years. After that, she rode as part of the Rodeo Board.

Malone has enjoyed many great riding partners.

“In the mid-1980s, three of us decided to do ‘moonlight rides’ during the full moon from May to October. The group grew every month over the next few years until we had one ride with 32 people.

Returning from one of our rides, we rode the highway through town at about 2 a.m., tied up at The Gallery, and went in for a breakfast cooked by owner Jim Cheatham,” Malone said.

Growing up on the Oregon Coast, Malone spent her childhood riding her horse on seven miles of beach and jumping driftwood. At Taft High School, Malone served as the editor of the high school yearbook and wrote a gossip column for the high school newspaper, planting the seeds for her attending the University of Oregon, where she double majored in journalism and

political science.

After graduation, Malone put her journalism degree to work at The Oregonian in the advertising department, hoping to work her way up.

She also worked as vacation relief at Albertson’s and Fred Meyer, where she knew the original Fred. But those jobs just didn’t rev her engine.

Malone began her chiropractic studies in January 1978, finishing up in 3.5 years by attending summer school. Upon graduating, Malone relocated to Sisters and the rest is history.

“My practice kept me so busy that I wonder how I managed to do such a variety of activities and work full-time,” Malone admitted.

“Yet I had the luxury of waking with a smile every Monday morning, excited that I was going back to work.”

“I don’t feel guilty about retiring and leaving my patients because we have several great chiropractors in town,” she concluded.

Malone is an example of a longtime resident who loves Sisters and has generously given back to the community both professionally and with her time, talent, and resources as a dedicated volunteer.

Editor’s Note: A longer, more detailed version of this story is available to online subscribers at www.nuggetnews.com.

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Commentary...

Connecting neighbors

By Lisa May Columnist

At The Nugget Newspaper, I have the privilege of manning the front desk and greeting community members as they walk in the door or call on the phone. This public contact is actually my favorite part of the job.

Even after living in Sisters for 14 years and having kids in Sisters schools dating back 18 years, I have never had the opportunity to interact with as many people from Sisters as in this role at The Nugget. I continue to meet people that, in some cases, have lived in this community even longer than I have, yet our paths never crossed until we met here. These people, including those of you who are reading these words, are my neighbors.

At this moment in time, when there are many divisions and much contention in the world, I am grateful to live in a small community where we can connect with our neighbors. The Nugget Newspaper helps people in Sisters Country and beyond come into contact with each other. The very thing that I love about my job here — connecting with community members — is made possible on a wider scale by this local newspaper.

Some of the connections are very personal. For example, there was recently a classified ad featuring puppies for sale. After the ad had run for several weeks, I checked in with the owners selling the puppies and they notified me that I could end the ad. They had been contacted by a couple who saw the ad in The Nugget, came out to pick up a pup, then promptly called another family they knew who selected a pup of their own from the litter.

It turns out these two new dog-owning families have sons that are best friends with one another, and their parents plan to teach their sons, and their pups, to hunt together. Relationships will be strengthened because of a connection made through The Nugget.

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Some of the connections are broader. A few years ago, a thing called COVID rocked our world. It changed the way we all functioned, from buying groceries to attending school. The effects are still rippling through our communities, as new habits were formed — both for good and for bad. Social isolation remains more acute than before the pandemic.

But Citizens4Community, a Sisters nonprofit dedicated to community-building, planned a forum to focus on how the epidemic of loneliness and isolation is impacting Sisters residents. The organizers turned to The Nugget to partner with them in this event. The Nugget published articles and columns leading up to the event to get readers engaged in the conversation. Many people

attended, and many of those citizens will take actions to build social connection among the isolated.

A wise Teacher was once asked, “Who is my neighbor?” The Teacher answered by telling a story, casting people from several different walks of life as the characters. At the end of the story, the Teacher asked the questioner which one of the characters proved to be a neighbor. Equipped with the information from the story, the questioner was able to answer his own query with, “The one who showed compassion.”

The interesting thing about this story is that the Teacher cast in the role of neighbor one with whom the questioner would not have associated. The one the questioner recognized

as acting as a neighbor was from a group of people that believed and worshiped differently from the questioner’s own tribe. The Teacher helped this questioner figure out that his neighbor is not necessarily the person who lives next door to him or travels in the same comfortable groups that he defined for himself. The questioner’s eyes were opened to see that his neighbor might be anyone he came into contact with, regardless of belief system, who acted with kindness.

If we define a neighbor as one who acts with kindness or compassion toward another, wouldn’t we all want to have as many neighbors as possible? Wouldn’t we want to prove to be neighbors to as many people as possible? Regardless of

our differences, we can all be neighbors to one another.

Reading the local paper helps us to push the boundaries of our personal contacts a little past our comfort zones. There is no more efficient way of forging connections with Sisters neighbors than staying informed about the members of the community and what’s going on in Sisters through the pages of The Nugget. Then, one is equipped to reach out to those neighbors with kindness.

Read your Nugget. Find a community. Be a neighbor.

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Sisters salutes...

• The Cottage Inn at Sisters won the Building a Better Oregon award for Outstanding Lodging in Sisters at the Building a Better Oregon Awards presentation sponsored by Central Oregon Association of Realtors. The owners of The Cottage Inn are Jeff and Vicki Lemos.

• Steve Stratos of Sisters Community Church wrote: We are entering into another holiday season with both Thanksgiving and Christmas just around the corner. We recognize a world where lots of pain, suffering and uncertainty exist. I am also aware that for some this holiday season is approached with sadness with the loss of loved ones. May we with sympathetic and empathetic hearts take a moment to acknowledge the heartache.

I want to thank C4C, for bringing to the forefront a conversation last week about

loneliness and alienation, and what we might be able to do to support others and build healthy relationships. Scott Crabtree, who did a great job moderating the evening, said that gratitude was the beginning of a healthy mindset.

Therefore, I want to thank the organizations in our town that provide meals for many who are elderly and for those who are homeless.

I want to thank all the volunteers who give of their time to organizations like Circle of Friends, Council of the Aged, Habitat for Humanity, YouthBuild, Young Life, Big Brother, FAN, and many more that help others in our little town. There is something beautiful about the heart of a volunteer.

Sisters Community Church is grateful to be able to serve the greater Sisters community. If you need a meal, a cup of coffee, a listening ear, or support in any

Commentary...

Bull by Bull

By Judy Bull Columnist

I just don’t get those selfdriving cars. I, myself, love to drive and can’t imagine the fun of sitting in the driver’s seat with “somebody” else making the decisions, and steering, and pedaling.

Talking cars, one thing I like about old cars is that they have wing windows.

When Jack and Reese were little kids, we were coming back from getting ice cream in Sisters and I asked one of them to crack the wing window. They thought that was the funniest thing they’d ever heard.

Come to find out I actually do have standards when it comes to my own “cooking.” I created a dinner the other night that I literally could not eat. I’ll not share my recipe, but suffice it to say, except for the dollop of mayo on each slice, it had absolutely no taste.

I watched a TV piece on Condon, Oregon, the other night and it made me think about Homer and Norma Shaw, they having retired to Condon long years ago.

Who didn’t love those two?

The Sisters Rodeo and rodeo kitchen will be forever beholden to them for their love of The Biggest Little Show in the World. Another good Condon tidbit is that one of Linus Pauling’s earliest memories was pulling his wagon around the yard of his home in Condon, where his father was a pharmacist.

I really got to know my community a while back

when my dog, Bingo, ran off. I came in contact with more people in the three days she was gone than I’ve met in years. Really good people. Jenny and Steve, the folks who corralled her, told me they had paid extra for dog-proof fencing, but Bingo found a way in and the rest of the story was all kisses.

One of the best changes I’ve made in years is eating two of those little oranges every morning instead of drinking OJ. When I lived in California an Oregon school chum, Joan, was visiting and espied grapefruit hanging off a tree in the yard.

Says she, “I didn’t know grapefruit grew on trees.” I kid you not.

After getting a shot in my knee last week and wanting to go easy on it for a couple of days, I came up with the coolest “walker” for going up the stairs. I turned the Kirkland TP package on its end; perfect height, width, and weight. Directions for use: Set it one step ahead.

Take a step up. Set it one step ahead. Take a step up.

And I especially liked the weight.

Coming down Cloverdale Road last evening, I saw Kathy movin’ her chicken house across the road with a front-end loader. Lots of moving and shaking going on over at the elk ranch lately. “Idaho or bust,” says Kathy. They’ve been good neighbors, have great fencing, and I’m glad I’ll still be able to hear the rooster.

We have been given a gift in Jesus that combats loneliness. As a church we want to be the hands and feet to bring that relationship to you in any way we can. It is not pie-in-the-sky theology. It’s down-on-the-ground relational support. That is why Jesus came and for that we are grateful. Please feel free to reach out to us over these PHOTO PROVIDED holidays for any support you Jeff and Vicki Lemos of The Cottage Inn at Sisters earned a Better Oregon might need. Give us a call or award for Outstanding Lodging. Patti LeBlanc of COAR, center. come by and see us. way, please give us a call. We loneliness is not God’s intent Thanks be unto God all can use a helping hand.

(Genesis 2:18). However, for his indescribable gift.

We r e c o g n i z e t h a t we live in a broken world. (2 Corinthians 9:15)

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Cultivating

Community IN SISTERS Steve Stratos Columnist

What’s your worldview?

Have you heard the phrase “Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses?” It’s a phrase we might not use to describe many people these days.

But what it represents is a perspective, a worldview.

This worldview shapes the way we view reality and ultimately our behavior, even the experience of our

behavior as we interact with our world.

I wonder, how often do we critically think about what has shaped our perspective?

Historically, people often developed their worldview based on who was in charge.

Whether it was Rome, the church, the scientific community, secular materialism, or the authentic psychological self. We have relied on external sources to inform us about the truth.

So, who is in charge now?

It is a dangerous thing when our critical thinking is abandoned, and culture’s virtual reality provides both the questions and the answers for our confirmation bias. When we no longer ask whether the things we believe are logically consistent, empirically reliable, and experientially relevant. We are not too far from Stepford Wives!

In a world of divided politics, echo chambers, and a dismal economy, I’m finding more and more that we tend to adopt our worldviews, rather than develop

them. If we listen to two different mainstream news channels, we find that we might as well be living in two different universes. In a world of uncertainty, we tend to mass mobilize and form tribes. But polarization occurs when individuals simply choose a camp and blindly follow it.

It is frightening to think we would make the most important decisions of our lives this way. These perspectives shape how we answer the important questions: Who am I? What does it mean to be human? What is my purpose? How do I determine what is just, what is unjust? What is my hope for the future?

Faith without reason is simply a shot in the dark.

It becomes increasingly important that we don’t just repeat what the news station tells us by faith, but we seek to stimulate our minds through learning, seeking, and reason. Since none of us was there at the beginning we all start by faith, but faith requires understanding, learning, rational thinking.

Just this week The New York Times reported record numbers of absenteeism in our schools. The value of reading in our society has steadily plummeted – 17 percent of U.S. adults read no books in 2021.

Fifteen years ago, author Christopher Hedges wrote in his book “Empire of Illusion”: “We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and ‘success,’ defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge.

Cash drives conscience. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”

We prefer to go to social media for our truth, which ends up being the same regurgitated thoughts over and over.

As we wrap up 2023, let’s challenge ourselves to reflect on our worldviews and perspectives. What lens do we see from? In a world that seems so divided and disruptive, and where our thoughts seem to be so filled with anxiety and uncertainty, is there a perspective

we could take on that would bring peace and hope and substance to our own lives, and to the lives of others?

There are four questions we need good answers to in order to develop a healthy perspective in a broken world. They are the questions of Origin (Who am I?), Meaning (What is my purpose?), Morality (How do I determine good from evil?), and Destiny (How do I make for a better future?).

Our answers need to be cohesive and to connect and correspond with the other questions’ answers. Our answers should be logical and consistent. Tested and proved by the way we live.

And our answers should be relevant to our daily experience. Now, if all this has your head spinning, I hope to explain each of these questions in the weeks to come. I want to challenge us to put on our thinking caps, and give our children and grandchildren a better future. It is all about our answers to the big questions.

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Sisters Country birds

By Douglas Beall Correspondent

The Killdeer [Charadrius vociferus], is the largest of the ringed plovers, and the only plover with a double breast band.

In flight, the Killdeer’s long, pointed, slender wings have conspicuous white wing stripes. Killdeer frequent a variety of open habitats such as fields, meadows, gravel bars, and mudflats throughout the United States and most of Canada. Their diet includes snails, grasshoppers, worms, beetles, and other invertebrates. They can often be seen in fall in groups of four to 12 birds.

Killdeer nest on gravel roads, beaches, and along ponds and rivers. A small

depression in the gravel serves as the nest site, where they lay four to six blackishbrown eggs, which hatch in 22 to 28 days. The chicks are precocial and walk out of the nest as soon as their feathers are dry. When a Killdeer’s nest is threatened the parents will employ the “broken-wing display” to temp a predator away from the nest. Kill-deer, kill-deer is their call, and they were named using the Greek convention of “onomatopoeia,” which translates to “imitation of sound.”

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RECYCLE: Facility has frequently been overflowing

help with the capacity and collection of the recyclables, and the City recently made some repairs and safety improvements to the facility.

“Unfortunately, there is a lot of illegal dumping of trash at the site, unauthorized use, and contamination of the containers with non-recyclables.”

The Recycling Center was built in 2006 at a cost of $500,000. It was heavily used but saw a major drop in usage in 2008 when curbside pickup of recyclables — except glass — was instituted in Sisters. Many of the users are from outside the City where no options exist, such as Tollgate.

But the City foots the bill.

Joseph O’Neill, finance manager for the City, confirmed that the City pays for the Center’s waste removal under contract to Republic Services.

The City gets no share of the recovered waste the bulk of which is corrugated and glass.

Republic bales and sells the corrugated box waste, which currently fetches about $40/ton at paperboard mills in Oregon and Washington.

Recycled glass on the other hand has virtually no value despite its many uses.

The mixed waste — plastic, cans, bags, etc. — is just that: a mixed bag. Republic has to sort it, a good deal of it mechanically but with human interaction. Aluminum fetches almost $1,300 per ton while plastics range from $4 to $90 per ton, depending on type. Clear peanut butter or salad dressing jars have a much higher value than plastic shopping or bread bags.

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diesel are not that volatile.

However, he is asking the fire marshal to visit the site and assess its danger. The chief saw no immediate risk, though he agreed that were it to ignite, however unlikely, the resulting fire would be significant.

The Nugget made inquiries of the City of Sisters, who owns the Recycling Center, and some minor cleanup has been made. However, on Saturday the liquids, largely unidentified, still remained, but the batteries were not to be found. Likewise, the adjacent corrugated collection containers – 20 cubic yards each – were again overflowing and spilling.

City Manager Jordan Wheeler said: “We contract with Republic Services to maintain the Center, which includes emptying the receptacles at least twice a week, sweeping and cleaning, and responding within 24 hours when they are notified of full receptacles to be serviced.

“The agreement stipulates that Republic Services should be doing daily site visits and cleaning, but that is currently not being met due to staffing and capacity issues. Staff also monitors the property and notifies the hauler when the bins are full.

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Conditions at the Sisters Recycling Center — including oil disposal — are messy, though officials say the situation is not volatile.

There is no available information on the value of the waste Republic recovers from Sisters, and the City’s budget does not line-itemize expenses to run the Recycling Center.

Wheeler talked about the Center’s future.

“We will be working on the plans for the long-term future for the Center with the State’s implementation of the Recycling Modernization Act, and as we add additional curbside services within our city such as glass recycling,” he said.

A group of Senate Republicans who want to run for reelection despite running afoul of a voter-approved law meant to curb legislative walkouts will get their day in the Oregon Supreme Court.

The court on Tuesday, October 24, agreed to bypass the state appeals court and hear a challenge from five Republican senators to Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade’s ruling that they can’t run for reelection.

Ten senators who participated in a six-week walkout are barred from serving another term in the Legislature under last year’s Measure 113, a constitutional amendment to block lawmakers who miss more than nine days of work from returning to the Capitol.

But the affected senators, including Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, R-Bend, say the new law wasn’t clearly written, and that it applies not to the next term but the one after that. For Knopp, who’s up for election in 2024, that interpretation

would mean he could serve from 2025-2029 but be barred from reelection in 2028.

The Supreme Court’s announcement means the senators, and other politicians in their districts, should know whether they can run well ahead of the March 12 deadline to file to run for office. Knopp and five other Republicans involved in the walkout — Brian Boquist of Dallas, Lynn Findley of Vale, Bill Hansell of Athena, Dennis Linthicum of Klamath Falls, and Art Robinson of Cave Junction – represent districts with elections in 2024.

Hansell decided before the walkout that he wouldn’t run again. Linthicum and Robinson have contingency plans in place – Linthicum’s wife and Robinson’s son filed to run in their place.

Democrats have high hopes of flipping Knopp’s Bendbased district regardless of whether he’s able to run.

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are funded by the government but run by private insurance companies.

D r. S t e v e G o r d o n , president and CEO of St. Charles, explained that great thought went into the decision to reevaluate Medicare Advantage participation, and it was done only after years of concerns piled up, not just at St. Charles but at health systems throughout the country.

“The reality of Medicare Advantage in Central Oregon is that it just hasn’t lived up to the promise,” Gordon said. “A program intended to promote seamless and higher quality care has instead become a fragmented patchwork of administrative delays, denials, and frustrations. The sicker you are, the more hurdles you and your care teams face.

Our insurance partners need to do better, especially when nurses, physicians, and other caregivers are reporting high levels of burnout and job dissatisfaction,” Gordon said in a prepared statement.

Some readers of The Nugget have expressed alarm in hearing the news, worried that they will lose access to the region’s only hospitals.

St. Charles is not alone in expressing worries about Medicare Advantage plans.

According to the American Hospital Association (AHA) they are “increasingly concerned about certain (Medicare Advantage) plan policies that restrict or delay patient access to care, which also add cost and burden to the health care system.”

“We are seeing different outcomes for patients based on the type of insurance they have; with those on Medicare Advantage

experiencing higher rates of denials and longer hospital stays; meanwhile our providers must jump through hoops in order to get the care their patients need approved,” Matt Swafford, chief financial officer for St. Charles, said in a news release in August.

“We recognize changing insurance options may create a temporary burden for Central Oregonians who are currently on a Medicare Advantage plan, but we ultimately believe it is the right move for patients and for our health system to be sustainable into the future to encourage patients to move away from Medicare Advantage plans as they currently exist,” Swafford continued.

Fall is the time when seniors everywhere are asked to review and renew their Medicare coverage and some are now scrambling in light of the October announcement by St. Charles that they have declined to continue as an in-network provider for Medicare Advantage Plans from Humana, HealthNet, and WellCare for reasons cited above.

Beginning in January, the health system will accept only Medicare Advantage plans from PacificSource, Providence, Moda, and Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield. According to additional information provided by St. Charles, only those insured by Humana, HealthNet, and WellCare who are undergoing active treatment plans for cancer care, outpatient rehab, wound care, and dialysis care can continue to receive services from the health system.

Currently, an estimated 6,000 seniors in Central Oregon belong to those plans, meaning they need to switch in order to avoid increased costs at St. Charles providers.

Navigating this event can

be tricky. It falls under the disenrollment provisions of Medicare, embedded in 116 pages of complex reading.

If your health plan terminates at the end of the year, you get a special enrollment period that continues for the first 60 days of the new year. This would fall under the category of involuntary disenrollment.

Talk with your carrier — Humana, HealthNet, and WellCare in this case — and discuss your rights. You can also call Medicare at 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800633-4227), 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you are hearing or speech impaired, call 1-877-486-2048. Citing patient confidentiality, Humana representatives would not speak with The Nugget when we sought clarification.

In 2023, 30.8 million people are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, accounting for 51 percent of the eligible Medicare population and $454 billion (or 54 percent) of total federal Medicare spending (net of premiums). The average Medicare beneficiary in 2023 has access to 43 Medicare Advantage plans, the largest number of options ever.

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, issued a blistering two-page statement last month before the Senate Committee on Finance, of which he chairs.

Included in his statement: “There is a long history of rip-off artists in the private sector trying to take advantage of seniors who depend on their flagship health program, Medicare.

Since I served as the director of the Oregon Grey Panthers, something like a year or two ago, these unethical salespeople would often sell seniors 10 to 15 separate, unnecessary Medigap policies that weren’t worth the paper they were written on.”

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Sisters Community Development Director Scott Woodford, the State of Oregon requires action from cities to accommodate future growth.

“Typically, that is extension of the UGB (urban growth boundary),” Woodford told The Nugget last week.

At their November 8 meeting, the Sisters City Council is expected to give direction to City planning staff on the possibility of expanding the city’s UGB to accommodate the next two decades of growth.

Wo o d f o r d s a i d t h e Council will be asked to consider hiring a consultant to help define what a UGB expansion would look like. A UGB extension plan must look at all lands within a half-mile of the City, and identify lands for inclusion rated on priority, favoring non-farmland and non-national forest lands, or low-quality resource first.

Lands need to be adjacent to the City geographically suitable, and able to be served by utilities.

Woodford said the City would need to bring in 206 to 256 acres to accommodate need for housing and commercial lands.

“Staff could do some of that, but it really requires the help of someone who does this all the time,” Woodford said.

The Council could delay action, Woodford acknowledged.

“Could they kick the can down the road a little bit?” he said. “I suppose.”

There is anxiety among those who live in Sisters about the ability to absorb continual growth and maintain the values and quality of life that make Sisters attractive in the first place. In recent years, numerous local citizens have asked why the City can’t declare a moratorium on growth. Refusal to expand the UGB would function as a de facto moratorium — but Woodford says the City can’t do that under Oregon law.

It is not clear what leverage the State of Oregon would bring to bear if the Council took such a position.

Woodford says he can’t cite a municipality that has done so.

“That would be uncharted territory as far as I can tell,” he said.

The land-use system is designed to contain urban sprawl — but the State wants to see housing built to alleviate a crisis in affordability across the state.

“Their mantra and their goal is to make it easier to build houses,” Woodford said.

A long-standing City of Sisters ordinance requires a vote of the citizens in order to annex any development into the City. However, Woodford noted, the State passed a statute in 2015 that essentially overrides such local requirements, and means the City must approve an annexation as long as it conforms to land use requirements.

Woodford said that when a process gets underway, the City will seek public input.

“I anticipate that our public outreach with the UGB will be very robust,” he said.

The Sisters City Council work session is set for 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8, at 5 p.m. at City Hall, 520 E. Cascade Ave.

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5G concerns

To the Editor: We all need to be on the right side of history on this issue.

I have it from a very reliable source that there is at least one 5G tower erected on the site of the new elementary school, and that T-Mobile has leased the space.

Let’s start a conversation.

Who allowed the 5G tower on school grounds? We now know it is T-Mobile’s tower, (according to a very reliable source). How much did it cost? How much are they paying a month to lease the space so close to our children? (They are also close to Sisters Middle School and Sisters High School, as the elementary school is in between the other two.)

Anyone else worried about a 5G tower closest to our most vulnerable — our children?

Fact: Young children’s skulls are thinner and more vulnerable to 5G and electromagnetic frequencies than the general population.

These frequencies cause physical, neurological, and cognitive damage.

Fact: The FCC hasn’t studied the effects of radio frequencies from cell phones and other sources (cell towers) since 1997. Are these towers safe to be near our children? Look at your old cell phone from 1997 — oh my, things have changed...

Fact: Radio frequencies are cumulative; they are the silent cause of cancer, brain fog, poor health, neuro and cognitive decline over the long term.

Look at those towers next time you drive by the new elementary school site. Would you want those towers in your backyard eight hours a day, five days a week?

Let’s do an experiment! At home — unplug and turn off your TV, Wi-Fi, cellphones, and other wireless connections at night. What?! Turn off our cellphones?! Yes. See if you sleep better, wake up refreshed, and headaches gone!

It might take a while, but give it a try.

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To the Editor: As a nation we have two important days that remind us to never forget how blessed we are to live in this country: Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day. While different in intent, the bond that links both events are the individuals who selflessly take an oath secured with their own life to protect and defend America.

What is special about Veteran’s Day is that all of us have the opportunity to personally thank our veterans for their service. See a person wearing anything signifying military service; go up to them and let them know you appreciate their commitment. It will be greatly welcomed, especially if from a young child.

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To the Editor: After a successful start to the new school year, I wanted to give you a brief update from the November School Board meeting.

Two presentations were given at the start of the meeting. First, two teachers from Sisters Middle School presented a highly positive collaboration between Sisters Middle School leadership students and some of our lifeskills students during a recent fieldtrip to Shevlin Park. The goal was to encourage a sense of welcoming and belonging and continue to build an inclusive and positive school culture.

Thanks to the success of the outing, the staff plan to continue the collaboration throughout the year.

The second presentation concerned the IEE program at Sisters High School, where teacher Rand Runco and two senior interns, Presley Adelt and Lilly Sundstrom, presented on the profound positive impact that the program has on approximately 50 juniors and 10 senior interns. The curriculum includes class studies, six field studies, and two major overnight expeditions, where the students learn everything from art and fitness to navigation, team building, and leave no trace principles. The IEE is celebrating over two decades of deeply enriching the lives of participating students.

Enrollment figures were slightly up this month, particularly at the high school.

Currently, Sisters School District counts 1,188 students enrolled at our three schools.

The new Sisters Elementary School construction is on track for an official move at the end of this school year. To view the plans and videos of the construction, you may visit the website: https://district.ssd6.org/departments/ district-office-operations/operations/2021bond-new-elementary-school/. Sisters School District continues to work in close collaboration with Sisters Park & Recreation District to plan the future usage of the existing elementary school.

We are excited to announce that the District is working on developing an affordable housing pilot program for potential District staff in collaboration with the nonprofit organization, Rooted Homes. Good interest in the project was shown at both the introductory and follow-up meetings.

Congratulations to our performing arts students and staff for the fantastic rendition of “SpongeBob the Musical.” Additionally, all of our sports teams qualified for the state playoffs this fall.

Great job Outlaws!

I want to thank teachers, staff, and the community for the time and investment in all of the amazing the educational and cocurricular opportunities offered in Sisters’ schools.

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more efficient. The district ranger pushed to include a large, state-of-the-art community room that can accommodate big meetings or briefings with an incident management team — but will also be a resource for the broader Sisters community.

Reid is pleased with the design created by Steel Associates of Bend.

“We’re really lucky to get them to do it,” he said.

DSL Builders will take on what Reid described as an “aggressive timeline” for construction of the 13,242-square-foot office facility. Reid said that the

staff will continue working on-site through the demolition/construction process.

“It’ll be one of those ‘excuse the mess’ kind of things,” he said.

He believes a spring 2025 move-in date is realistic.

The Sisters Ranger Station is complemented by the recently finished Sisters District Warehouse. It will be used for common workspace, and storage of equipment, fire engines, and supplies.

The warehouse is compliant with Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) standards, which are more stringent than the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards for workspace, with adequate security that directly contributes to the District’s ability to perform critical work for the Forest.

The warehouse will

accommodate fire operations, recreation, and all timber and silviculture staff and equipment.

Reid noted that the Sisters Ranger District campus will be more secure than the one that has been in place for the past 50-plus years.

“It’ll look classy, but there will be a perimeter fence around it,” he said.

The District Ranger noted that the construction is partially funded by the sale of a portion of the Forest Service land along Pine Street, which has become Sisters Woodlands.

Construction of the new Ranger Station means that the local personnel will be able to continue operating in the local community.

“We’re committed for the long term for the citizens of Sisters,” Reid said.

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the Roundhouse Foundation (organization).

Leis and Slavkovsky, both medical doctors, will serve as guest speakers at the event.

The Hall of Fame has recently purchased a digital kiosk that will be housed in the commons of Sisters High School and will feature all past and future inductees.

The kiosk will help alleviate the problem of lack of space caused by the continual addition of plaques for recipients.

“The kiosk is going to be a great way for people to learn about all of our past and present recipients in an interactive format,” said Pollard. “It’s really cool.”

Pollard encourages the community to take part in the ceremony as a way to show appreciation for community partners, past graduates, and staff. “This is a very positive program that

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never could catch up and lost 17-25.

Bailey Robertson put up a great block to start the second set and give the Outlaws the first point of the set, but the Valiants took over from there. Later in the set Gracelyn Myhre had a three-point serving run followed by a great slide kill from Kathryn Scholl, to close the gap to 11-13. The Valiants forged ahead and kept extending their lead.

The Outlaws fought back but just couldn’t catch them and lost 17-25.

Sisters had their work cut out for them and knew they’d have to win the next three sets in order to advance to the championship match.

The Outlaws battled to bring the match to a final set.

With the score knotted at 4-4, kills from Vohs took Sisters to a 7-4 lead. Later, a solo block stuff from Myhre pushed the Outlaws to a 10-5 advantage. The Outlaws had the momentum and they could see the win in sight.

The Valiants won a point back, but the Outlaws were in control and closed out the match with a 15-9 fifth-set win in a grueling contest that took over two hours to finish.

On Saturday night, the Outlaws battled league foe

Pleasant Hill (PH) in an exciting championship match in a gym that was filled with fans from both sides.

The first set got underway and back-to-back-toback blocks from Bailey Robertson took the Outlaws to a 5-2 lead. By the time the score reached 13-13 it had been tied up nine times.

Toward the end a big kill from Myhre took the Outlaws to a 22-20 advantage. The PH Billies battled back and tied it up 23-23, and then got the next to points to snatch the win from the Outlaws.

At the start of the second set scores remained close until Ila Reid put up a great block to push the Outlaws to a 10-6 lead. Back-to-back kills from Kathryn Scholl energized the Outlaws even more and put them up 14-8. The Outlaws forged ahead, and took the set 25-18. The set was marked by long rallies, and both Jordyn Monaghan and Gracie Vohs laid out on the floor to get the ball up so play could continue.

Sisters came out on fire at the start of the third set and quickly went up 6-0. Crosscourt kills from Vohs and a big block from Scholl pushed the Outlaws to a 14-4 lead.

Toward the end of the set Holly Davis went on a threepoint serving run to extend the lead to 22-14. Vohs put down a great cross-court kill to the back corner to bring the score to 24-15. The Billies did get another point, but Robertson pounded down

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The Outlaws climbed to the top of the mountain, winning the state championship in dramatic fashion. a kill for the win.

At the start of the fourth set the crowd was on their feet, and Sisters could feel the win within their reach.

The Outlaws didn’t score the first point, but after Vohs’ ace at the service line to put them ahead 2-1, they held the lead the rest of the way. Kills from Vohs and Robertson put the icing on the cake and the Outlaws took the set 25-18, and claimed the title.

The Outlaws’ bench rushed to their teammates in the center of the court, and the celebration began; shouts, cheers, and tears, and everyone jumping up and down as they held on tightly to one another.

Vohs finished with 21 kills and 11 digs, and Scholl tallied 14 kills and a block.

Both Robertson and Myhre had 10 kills in the match.

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“This was the moment to have a big game and I owed it to my team,” said Scholl.

“All year they believed in me and tonight I proved it true.

I wouldn’t be here without them.”

Of their big win Coach Rory Rush said, “After playing such an intense and emotional game against Valley Catholic, and coming from behind for the reverse sweep, in tonight’s game we had confidence. We worked so hard to get to where we were and we didn’t want to let it slip away. We stepped on the court and three great offensive plays set the tone.

“Even though we lost the first set at the end, we never felt like we weren’t in control of the tempo,” added Rush.

“We just took a deep breath and said, ‘Let’s do this.’ It was a great team effort from everyone.”

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put up four blocks. Jordyn Monaghan had 15 digs and three aces, and Davis dished out 49 assists and had 10 digs.

After the trophy presentation, Gracie Vohs was named Player of the Game, and both Vohs and Gracelyn Myhre were First Team AllTournament players.

Captains Vohs and Myhre commented on the win.

Myhre said, “It was the craziest ride of all time, but winning the state championship with my best friends is the biggest gift of all time.”

Vohs added, “All of us wanted it with all of our heart and we left everything on the court, and we played with passion and love. This family is one of a kind and have worked so hard this season to get to this point.”

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PAWS 4 LOVE: Nonprofit brings dogs to those in need Continued from page 3

go to more places like businesses, senior living homes, and greeting folks around Sisters,” said Schneider.

Yukon Jack is the youngest dog in the program at two-and-a-half-years-old; he’s also the biggest at 120 pounds. Schneider describes him as silly but very soft, and able to adjust to situations and be what people need.

Joe’s partner in the nonprofit is his daughter-in-law, Iris Rivas. She’s trained Yukon and their other two dogs, with English and Spanish commands. She’s found that some Hispanic and Latin folks can be afraid of dogs or might have had a bad experience with them.

“Telling the dogs to sit or mind me in Spanish gives the people we’re visiting more of a feeling of control,” said Rivas. “I can give them a different experience.”

Brandy is a six-anda - h a l f - y e a r- o l d g o l d e n retriever. Originally she was a Father’s Day present to Schneider.

“She’s a calm, quiet golden, very social and easy.

She’s helped me train Yukon to be a better dog. I’m a firm believer that your older dogs tend to get the younger dogs in line and train them. I think the world of that puppy dog,” said Schneider.

Their third dog is Rosie, a golden retriever/springer spaniel mix.

“We picked her up in Ontario, Oregon. She was with a litter in the back of a truck where a farmer was selling puppies at a gas station. She was $40. That’s the best $40 I’ve ever spent in my life,” said Schneider.

“At one point, she was running 70 miles a week with me. She’s an incredible energizer dog. When you see her, you can’t believe that she’s 13 years old. She’s just that goofball, and she keeps Yukon in check when she has to. She really enjoys people and is still a fast runner.”

Schneider and Rivas can be found taking the dogs into businesses to give employees and customers a chance to take a few moments and pet a dog.

“I have a lot of respect for the Sisters pharmacy so we go by Ray’s Food Place and visit them and offer a bit of stress relief for all the work they do,” said Schneider.

Rivas and Schneider recently took their dogs to the Circle of Friends Halloween party, which was a big hit.

Being a man, Schneider knows he needs to be sensitive in how he moves through the community.

“I’m not going to sit with my dogs by the elementary school when I’m not in uniform. Rightfully so, that could create some questions about why I’m there.

It’s about using some common sense that God hopefully gave you to use your brain in those kinds of situations. The nice thing is Iris went with me to Circle of Friends. She’s just incredible with dogs. We’re so happy to have her in our family. She’s very passionate about doing outreach with the dogs, and the bilingual aspect helps so much. She was a cat person until she came into our home three years ago,” he said, laughing.

Currently the Paws 4 Love Oregon team spends time visiting senior living facilities like The Lodge in Sisters.

“The dogs come in and give as much comfort as they can. The residents look forward to our visits and so do the dogs,” said Schneider.

Another regular activity for Schneider and Rivas is visiting hospice patients either through one-on-one visits in their homes or at the Hospice House. Schneider and Rivas work with Partners In Care to coordinate the visits.

“The dogs are there when the patient or family members need that kind of outreach. Yukon is a ham. He’s great and a crowd-pleaser, while Brandy is my girl who will sit there calmly then slowly move closer, then maybe sit on your feet and let you know she’s there if you want to love her.

Everyone that can’t have an animal anymore has told us how grateful they are to spend time with the dogs,” said Schneider.

At the beginning of forming and learning about growing a nonprofit, Schneider is optimistic about the future of the organization.

“If I had my dream, it would be turning this into a bigger opportunity so we could reach more people and I could do it full-time. Right now, I work four days a week, so time is limited. We’d like to even help pay for people to get their dogs certified if they need those things. I’m looking forward to meeting other people who’ve done something similar so we can learn from them. Figuring out how to navigate growing a nonprofit in ways that help the community as much as possible is a big goal,” said Schneider.

Schneider and Rivas are happy to talk with anyone interested in getting involved with Paws 4 Love Oregon. Iris Rivas can be reached at 301-312-9032.

Joe Schneider can be reached at 541-408-3171 or email them at Paws4LoveOR@ gmail.com.

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CATEGORIES: 101 Real Estate 102 Commercial Rentals 103 Residential Rentals 104 Vacation Rentals 106 Real Estate Wanted 107 Rentals Wanted 200 Business Opportunities 201 For Sale 202 Firewood 203 Recreation Equipment 204 Arts & Antiques 205 Garage & Estate Sales 206 Lost & Found 207 The Holidays 301 Vehicles 302 Recreational Vehicles 401 Horses 402 Livestock 403 Pets 500 Services 501 Computer Services 502 Carpet Upholstery Cleaning 503 Appliance Repair & Refinish 504 Handyman 505 Auto Repair 600 Tree Service & Forestry 601 Construction 602 Plumbing & Electric 603 Excavations & Trucking 604 Heating & Cooling 605 Painting 606 Landscaping & Yard Maint.

701 Domestic Services 702 Sewing 703 Child Care 704 Events & Event Services 801 Classes & Training 802 Help Wanted 803 Work Wanted 901 Wanted 902 Personals 999 Public Notice

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

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103 Residential Rentals

1. Designer furnished studio apartment. Utilities paid. N/S, N/P lease, monthly rent $995.

Access to pool and rec center, near Sisters downtown, and walking paths.

2. One bedroom designer apartment, fully furnished: great room, kitchen with stainless appliances, washer/dryer, covered deck, access to pool, rec center, walking paths, walk to downtown Sisters. Utilities paid.

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Country Christmas Bazaar Fri.-Sat., Nov. 10-11 • 9-4 Homemade, affordable gifts of all kinds. Delectable array of homemade cookies, candy, jams.

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301 Vehicles

2007 Pontiac Torrent (SUV style) 130,000 miles. $4,900. 971-237-6106 We Buy, Sell, Consign Quality Cars, Trucks, SUVs & RVs ~ Call Jeff at 541-815-7397 Sisters Car Connection da#3919 SistersCarConnection.com CUSTOM CAR GARAGES HEATED, INSULATED 541-419-2502

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541-549-0792 Property management 302 Recreational Vehicles for second homes.

PARKING SPACES OPEN CascadeHomeRentals.com FOR RVs AND CAMPERS PONDEROSA PROPERTIES 34'-30'-23' for immediate –Monthly Rentals Available– move-in Call Debbie at 541-549-2002 bekah@travelersrestrvstorage.

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SUDOKU Level: Moderate Answer: Page 30

Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down, and each small nine-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

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603 Excavation & Trucking ROBINSON & OWEN Heavy Construction, Inc. All your excavation needs *General excavation *Site Preparation *Sub-Divisions *Road Building *Sewer and Water Systems *Underground Utilities *Grading *Sand-Gravel-Rock Licensed • Bonded • Insured CCB #124327 541-549-1848 BANR Enterprises, LLC Earthwork, Utilities, Grading, Hardscape, Rock Walls Residential & Commercial CCB #165122 • 541-549-6977 www.BANR.net

Free On-site Visit & Estimate Tewaltandsonsexcavation@gmail .com 541-549-1472 • CCB #76888 Drainfield • Minor & Major Septic Repair • All Septic Needs/Design & Install General Excavation • Site Preparation • Rock & Stump Removal • Pond & Driveway Construction Preparation • Building Demolition Trucking • Deliver Top Soil, Sand, Gravel, Boulders, Water • Dump Trucks, Transfer Trucks, Belly • The Whole 9 Yards or 24 Whatever You Want!

604 Heating & Cooling

ACTION AIR Heating & Cooling, LLC Retrofit • New Const • Remodel Consulting, Service & Installs actionairheatingandcooling.com CCB #195556 541-549-6464

605 Painting

EMPIRE PAINTING Interior and Exterior Painting and Staining CCB#180042 541-613-1530 • Geoff Houk METOLIUS PAINTING LLC Meticulous, Affordable Interior & Exterior 541-280-7040 • CCB# 238067 ~ FRONTIER PAINTING ~ Quality Painting, Ext. & Int. Refurbishing Decks CCB #131560 • 541-771-5620 www.frontier-painting.com HAVE A SERVICE TO PROVIDE? Place your ad in The Nugget

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Complete landscape construction, fencing, irrigation installation & design, pavers/outdoor kitchens, debris cleanups, fertility & water conservation management, excavation.

CCB #188594 • LCB #9264 www.vohslandscaping.com 541-515-8462

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Keeping Sisters Country Beautiful Since 2006 candcnursery@gmail.com 541-549-2345 All Landscaping Services Mowing, Thatching, Hauling Call Abel Ortega, 541-815-6740 J&E Landscaping Maintenance LLC Clean-ups, raking, hauling debris, gutters, thatching, aerating, irrigation.

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701 Domestic Services

MK HAINES SERVICES Excellent cleaning. Slots for new customers. Residential and Commercial. Insured, bonded, licensed. 541-977-3051 Organizing, decluttering, downsizing, moveouts Fast working/honest/$20 hr.

541-588-4186.

BLAKE & SON – Commercial, Home & Rentals Cleaning WINDOW CLEANING! Lic. & Bonded • 541-549-0897 I & I Crystal Cleaning, LLC Specializing in Commercial, Residential & Vacation Rentals.

Licensed, Bonded & Insured.

541-977-1051 House Cleaning Sisters & Black Butte Free Consult 503-750-3033

704 Events & Event Services

A marketplace featuring fall & winter items, handmade & homegrown, with a touch of vintage. Nov. 10 & 11, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Tollgate Clubhouse, 15004 Saddle.

A portion of proceeds will benefit Sisters Habitat and Central Oregon Veterans Ranch. holidayinthepines@outlook.com

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CAREGIVER NEEDED Fridays & Saturdays, 1-5 p.m. $20/hour. Call 541-668-0736.

PT/FT Server: starting at $16.50 + Tips.

Cook: starting at $17.50 + Tips.

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