A summer tradition, the annual Sunriver Art Fair takes place in the Village in August Page 3
SROA Annual Membership Meeting Saturday, August 20, 1pm at SHARC
The Village Bar & Grill under new ownership
Learn more about current as well as upcoming projects and what the association has accomplished in the past year.
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S U N R I V E R
S C E N E A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSOCIATION
AUGUST 2022
VOLUME XLV • NUMBER 8
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) and statewide wildfire risk map is now available through the Oregon Explorer online tool, as required by Senate Bill 762 (2021). The map is a tool to help inform decision making and planning related to mitigating wildfire risk for communities throughout Oregon. Oregon State University (OSU) has produced a map based on administrative rules adopted by the Board of Forestry at their June 8 meeting. The rules – developed in consultation with a rulemaking advisory committee comprised of 26 members representing a wide variety of stakeholder interests –outline: • boundary criteria for the WUI • how each of five wildfire risk classes are assigned to individual properties • how property owners in the extreme and high risk classes are to be notified • how property owners may appeal their assigned risk class. With the rules in place, OSU has been working diligently to create the map. Out of a total number of 1.8 million tax lots in Oregon, Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) and OSU currently estimate the map will identify: • 4.4% of Oregon’s land area is in the wildland-urban interface, which includes 956,496 tax lots. • 8% of total tax lots in Oregon are in the wildland-urban interface and in high or extreme risk classifications, which is 120,276 tax lots. Approximately 80,000 of the 120,276 tax lots in the WUI and high or extreme risk classifications currently have a structure that may be subject to new codes or standards, which is about 5% of tax lots. T M,
Sunriver Music Festival summer series presents dynamic duo Brett Mitchell met Timothy Jones 20 years ago, working together at the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. They performed a few pieces there together during that first summer (the world premiere of “A Lyric’s Tale” by Maurice Wright and “Eight Songs for a Mad King” by Peter Maxwell Davies) and ever since have continued to work together symbiotically on stage and in life as close friends. They have similar work ethics and passion for what they do. “Making music is such an intense process that musicians often become instant friends when working together. That said, when the music-making is over, those friendships often fade. But once in a great while, you meet and make music with a kindred spirit who becomes a deeply important part of your life, and that’s who Jones is to me,” said Mitchell. “We’ve been making music and sharing laughter together now for 20 years, and I’m thrilled that our audiences in Sunriver and Bend will get to experience his exquisite artistry this summer.” Audiences in Sunriver and Bend are now blessed to experience these kindred spirits working together to create magic
Maestro Brett Mitchell leads the Sunriver Music Festival’s summer concerts.
this August at multiple Sunriver Music Festival concerts. The Summer Festival runs Aug. 1021. Timothy Jones will be featured in Classical Concert IV on Aug. 21, the Pops Concert on Aug.12 and even as the delightful narrator in Prokofiev’s beloved “Peter and the Wolf” on Aug. 17 during the Discover the Symphony Concert.
PHOTO COURTESY GEORGE D. LEPP
It’s a cygnet… and a cygnet!
Although the genders won’t be known for sometime, it has been officially announced that Sunriver’s resident trumpeter swans, Gus and Val, are the proud parents of two, bouncing baby cygnets. The eggs hatched July 14. The family can be seen paddling around Lake Aspen at the Sunriver Nature Center.
The festival’s full schedule and details are available at www.sunrivermusic.org About Brett Mitchell Mitchell was born and raised in Seattle. He lived in Snohomish County just north of the city, then attended Western Washington University. Brett began his music career on the piano as a small child and it is still his primary instrument. He then picked up the saxophone in 4th grade and loved that as well. He started conducting and composing when he was a student at Lynnwood High School in the mid 1990s, conducting his first performance in October 1995 at age 16. He holds masters and doctoral degrees in conducting from the University of Texas at Austin and composition from Western Washington University, which selected him as its Young Alumnus of the Year in 2014. He also studied with Leonard Slatkin at the National Conducting Institute and was selected by Kurt Masur as a recipient of the inaugural American Friends of the Mendelssohn Foundation Scholarship in 2008. Mr. Mitchell was also one of five recipients of the League of American Orchestras’ American Conducting Fellowship from 2007 to 2010. T F, SUNRIVER SCENE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSN. VOLUME XLV • NUMBER 8 P.O. BOX 3278 SUNRIVER, OR 97707
Statewide WUI, wildfire risk map released
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