It’s never too early to start preparing your property for the upcoming fire season by reducing ladder fuels and other materials
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Nature Center ............... 8 Calendar ..................... 13 SROA Board................ 22
Public Safety ............... 30 Classified .................... 38 Commentary ............... 39
Sunriver Business Park, Spring River Plaza are under consideration for Deschutes County’s Rural Enterprise Zone
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SROA to host open house in Lake Oswego
Assisted living proponent seeks extension of purchase contract
The Sunriver Owners Association invites its members who live in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington to a May 13 Open House in Lake Oswego. The event will provide Sunriver owners opportunities to find out what’s new in Sunriver for the summer, mix and mingle with SROA staff and board members, and learn about member benefits. Light hors d’oeuvres will be served and a no-host bar will be available. Reservations are required by April 29. To reserve a spot visit www.sunriverown ers.org, go to News & Notices > SROA Open House Reservation. The event will be held at the Mountain Park Homeowner Association Club House, 2 Mt. Jefferson Terrace. Information: 541-593-2411 or email keithk@srowners.org
a couple of Cycle Oregon weekend tours and for years took road bike camping rides with Krista, but never a multi-week trip of such distance. The Hornishes bought a used motorhome for support and gear, known as a SAG wagon in cycling vernacular. Al’s wife, Joyce, drove the motorhome and
By Brooke Snavely After hosting two open houses, numerous coffee klatches and meeting nearly 200 Sunriver locals face-to-face in March, Christian Myers is over half way to obtaining the number of owner signatures needed to allow assisted living and memory care uses of the former Mavericks fitness facility. With the original deadline to obtain the necessary approvals and complete purchase of the property set to expire March 31, Myers said he was working with the bank to extend the contract deadline. “We are hoping for three months more to try and see it through.” Myers and his partner need to obtain the signatures of approximately 1,500 homeowners in River Village to modify village declarations that would allow the proposed combination of 15 assisted living and 15 memory care units. As of March 27, Myers said approximately 867 owners had signed the petition. About 165 returned the petitions unsigned, accompanied by statements they were opposed. He said he was talking with another 20 property owners who were undecided. Myers said he is challenged by the lack of response from 1,000 owners in the River Village master village. “I’m shocked that there is no response from 1,000 owners. We are trying all kinds of ways to reach them. We’ve sent two letters. We’ve got an online petition and a website that make the information easy to obtain, study and decide upon. We are hopeful that as the remaining owners respond, they will fall in at the rate of the previous responses. We have 75 percent approval among those who have responded, we just need more responses.”
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Artist renderings show what the former Mavericks site could look like if it became an assisted living facility.
Sunriver resident rides bicycle 3,500 miles across the U.S.
By Brooke Snavely What possesses a person to ride a bicycle 3,500 miles across the continental United States? In Sunriver resident Al Hornish’s case, it was his daughter who asked him to accompany her. “My initial reaction was, ‘I can’t do this. No way!’ ” But his daughter, Krista Hornish, who Al described as “slightly devious,” informed Al’s friends of her plans, and they helped her talk him into it. To help Hornish commit, they custom printed T-shirts that read “Portland to Portland,” “I Have a Retirement Plan. I Plan on Cycling,” and “Adventure Before Dementia.” “Once people began seeing me wearing the T-shirts, there was no turning back,” Hornish said. Al laid out some conditions for his participation: “We ride west to east with the wind at our backs, on back roads where there’s less traffic, we take our time because it isn’t a race, and we stop to see friends in Minnesota and New York.” His daughter agreed to SUNRIVER SCENE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSN. VOLUME XLIl • NUMBER 4 P.O. BOX 3278 SUNRIVER, OR 97707
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From left: Al and Joyce Hornish, Sarah Tonna and Krista Hornish journeyed from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine in 68 days. In this photo they made a stop at an Idaho Indian reservation.
the terms and her friend, Sarah Tonna, joined them. Thus began a huge planning and logistics exercise, something that Hornish, a career human resources manager and, more recently, a Deschutes County Search and Rescue coordinator, is skilled at. Hornish had some previous distance cycling experience. He bicycled the 425mile long Oregon coast, participated in
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