Woodpiles should be located away from structures during wildfire season Page 3
INSIDE THIS ISSUE SROA News.................... 4 Nature Center.............. 10 Calendar...................... 13
Public Safety................ 20 Letters to Editor........... 26 Classified Ads.............. 31
Is your family and home adequately prepared for an emergency? Pages 16-17
S U N R I V E R
S C E N E A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSOCIATION
MAY 2022
VOLUME XLV • NUMBER 5
SROA receives grant to perform LFR work on commons
Turn to Grant, page 3
Elle King to headline June ticketed concert at SHARC SROA NEWS – The Sunriver Owners Association is excited as the bride, Lambert as her maid of honor and a cameo from to announce a ticketed concert featuring singer, songwriter King’s real-life fiancé as the groom. King also was a special and multi-instrumentalist Elle King on Tuesday, June 21 in guest on Lambert’s 2019 Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars tour. King’s debut album “Love Stuff ” featured SHARC’s John Gray Amphitheater. More details her breakthrough single, “Ex’s & Oh’s,” which about the concert, including ticket pricing, will be posted to the website at www.sunriversharc. “Elle King is a earned her two Grammy nominations and is cercom/ticketedconcert. tified four-times platinum. The breakthrough A multi-platinum, award-winning recording little bit coun- single hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs artist, King has enjoyed more than 1.5 billion try and a little chart, topped the AAA, Hot AC and Alternative streams worldwide. Her most recent single bit rock n’ roll.” Radio charts and propelled King to become the release has her reuniting with country singer second female artist in 18 years to reach No. 1 –Rolling Stone for the latter format. Her 2016 collaboration Miranda Lambert on the infectious collaboration – “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” – with Dierks Bentley on “Different for Girls,” which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock and also scored No. 1 on the Country Airplay charts Country Digital Song Sales charts. This was the second time and won the CMA Award for “Musical Event of the Year.” these female powerhouse performers have recorded together Her single “Shame,” featured on her second studio album after their first release, “Fooled Around and Fell in Love,” “Shake The Spirit,” was King’s fourth radio No. 1 single and which won the 2020 ACM Award for “Music Event of The marked King as the only act in history to have scored No. Year.” To accompany the track, King and Lambert met up in 1 singles on the adult pop, adult alternative, alternative and Nashville to film a 1980s-inspired wedding video starring King country airplay charts.
Candidates announced for upcoming SROA Board election SROA NEWS – The SROA Nominating Committee has announced the names of four candidates that owners will vote on to fill three seats in this summer’s annual election. Over the next few months owners will have an opportunity to learn more about each candidate via the Scene, SROA website and during a live candidate
forum hosted by Sunriver You on June 23 at 4 p.m. at SHARC. The voter pamphlet and ballot materials will be mailed to each Sunriver property in early July with the election closing promptly at 12 p.m. on Aug. 13. Ballots must reach SROA by this deadline to be valid and counted, so plan the ballot mailing or delivery accordingly.
2022 Candidates to the SROA Board • • • •
Linda Beard Larry Ishmael David Williams Gerhard Beenen
SUNRIVER SCENE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSN. VOLUME XLV • NUMBER 5 P.O. BOX 3278 SUNRIVER, OR 97707
SROA NEWS – The Sunriver Owners Association was awarded $371,000 from the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) to help mitigate wildfire risks by reducing hazardous fuels on Sunriver commons. The grant is part of a larger $20 million fund authorized by Senate Bill 762. The funding will support nine projects submitted by nonprofit organizations and community partners to treat more than 156,000 acres across Oregon’s landscapes at highest risk for catastrophic wildfire. This state-funded grant program also brought more than $15 million in matching funds from federal, state, private, and like-kind investments. The projects that received funding are: • Central Oregon Shared Stewardship Landscape Resiliency Project • Lower Rogue Oak Resiliency Project • Ashland Forest All-lands Restoration • Wasco County Forest Resilience Project • Southeast Oregon Wildfire Resiliency Project • Laurel Butte Landscape Resiliency Project • Landscape Resiliency in the Upper Applegate Watershed • West Bear All-Lands Restoration • Upper John Day Valley Landscape Resiliency Project Sunriver’s grant is part of the larger $6,257,879 that was awarded to the Central Oregon Shared Stewardship Landscape Resiliency Project. Combined with $7,589,762 of match, a total of $13,847,640 will be utilized to reduce wildfire risk and increase forest resiliency throughout Deschutes, Jefferson and Klamath
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