Celebrating 50 years: Read the history of the Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory Page 8
INSIDE THIS ISSUE SROA News ................... 4 Calendar ..................... 13 SHARC News ............... 22
Public Safety ............... 27 Classified .................... 38
Tennis corner returns with tips on how to practice and improve your serve Page 26
S U N R I V E R
S C E N E A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSOCIATION
JUNE • 2018
VOLUME XLIV • NUMBER 6
Mosquito forecast: Season off to slow start By Susan Berger, Sunriver This year’s mosquito season appears to be off to a slower start, thanks to late winter snow and cooler spring temperatures. Even with a slow start, Four Rivers Vector Control District (FRVCD) has been busy checking and treating standing water areas in and around Sunriver. “We focus on controlling mosquitos in the larval stage with a biological control agent before they take flight,” said Chad Subblefield, manager of FRVCD. The control district covers approximately 20 square miles – stretching from Benham Falls to La Pine State Park. Mosquitos are a fact of life when living near waterways and wetlands, and there is no way to make any community completely mosquito free. Control measures help keep numbers down, but mosquitos only need a thimble of water to reproduce and there is plenty of prime habitat in and around the Sunriver area. Each year the Sunriver Owners Association contracts with FRVCD to regularly come through Sunriver to fog and/or apply larvacide to kill larvae and adult-flying mosquitos. There is also spraying done in adjacent communities and nearby forest service lands to reduce the number of mosquitos coming into the community. “Last year’s higher water levels hatched out a lot of dormant eggs,” said Stubblefield. “We fogged four times as many times last year than we did the previous year.” Stubblefield predicts that this year’s lack of local snowmelt should result in a little less work this season for FRVCD. Fogging is conducted and only effective on calm evenings between dusk and dawn when the temperature will remain around 55 degrees. Fog runs kill flying adult mosquitoes and help intercept insects flying in from surrounding forest lands. Fogging is not done during the day to avoid impacting beneficial insects such as bees. FRVCD is now running electric T M, SUNRIVER SCENE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSN. VOLUME XLIV • NUMBER 6 P.O. BOX 3278 SUNRIVER, OR 97707
This 1968 black and white aerial image shows construction of Sunriver Resort’s Lodge.
PHOTO COURTESY: SUNRIVER RESORT
A year of celebrations in Sunriver
facelift. Private property owners also play a role by maintaining their properties. By Susan Berger, Sunriver Scene out the decades and survived any ups Millions of dollars have been spent in This year marks several notable an- and downs relatively unscathed – even keeping Sunriver the crown jewel of residential and resort communities in niversaries in and around Sunriver. through numerous recessions. Sunriver Resort, Sunriver Fire & Rescue In just the last 10 years, owners and the Pacific Northwest for generations of and the Sunriver Nature Center all turn visitors have been witness to a renaissance families to come. “As Sunriver celebrates 50 years, we the big 5-0. The Second Tern Thrift Store movement within the community. In her look back with pride at being good stewis celebrating 30 years, followed by the 40s, Sunriver had started to show her age. ards of nature. And we look forward to Sunriver Library at 20 years young. Stakeholders such as the Sunriver OwnSince the 1968 groundbreaking, Sun- ers Association, Sunriver Resort and The the next 50 years because our charge is river’s residential and resort community Village at Sunriver all have been a party clear: we are all custodians of a legacy,” has experienced a lot of change through- to giving the community a much-needed T C,
Sunriver celebrates 38 years as Tree City SROA NEWS – For the 38th consecutive year Sunriver has been awarded the Tree City USA designation by the American Arbor Day Foundation. This award is to honor the recipient for its dedication to urban forestry. Of the 61 (2017) communities in Oregon to receive this award Sunriver is the only unincorporated community included due to Sunriver’s very early involvement before unincorporated communities became ineligible for the award. Only Portland, Salem and Eugene have received this award for a
longer period than Sunriver – and then only by a few years. The award criteria – as set by the Arbor Day Foundation – includes spending a certain minimum dollar amount per capita on community forestry activities, having ordinances (governing documents) that include who is responsible for tree and forest care, proclaiming an Arbor Day each year and maintaining a tree board or department. Tree City USA is only one of a number of organizations that recognize Sunriver (SROA) as a leader in natural resources
management. For example, SROA is recognized by the National Fire Protection Association as a designated Firewise Community. SROA, under the direction of Patti T T C, PRSRT STD. U.S. POSTAGE PAID BEND, OR PERMIT NO. 213