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The show must go on. That famous saying can be heard backstage at many theaters when an actor gets injured or sick, stage props break, or the sound equipment fails. Of course, in 2020 that wasn’t the case when Silent Echo Theater Company’s (SETC) evening of one-acts had to be shut down after two performances. Now, after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, the producers, cast, and crew are excited to present “Now You’re Talking” Holiday Edition One-Acts beginning Thursday night at... Full story
This week and part of next week, seven people who traveled to Sisters from three different states will be making a difference for current and future homeowners in the Sisters Habitat for Humanity home-ownership program. The construction volunteers are part of the RV-Care-A-Vanners program through Habitat for Humanity International. The program started back up this past June after being put on hold because of COVID-19 restrictions. The group will be working at two new homes in... Full story
After 19 years of helping 63 families on their journey to home-ownership, Marie Clasen has hung up her hardhat as Sisters Habitat for Humanity’s volunteer and family services manager. She wrapped up her tenure surrounded by coworkers, volunteers, Habitat families, and her friends and family at a retirement party featuring David Jacobs-Strain and his band. The party was planned by Clasen herself, and it’s no surprise as she was the go-to gal to coordinate home dedications, gro... Full story
I lie on the floor crying, listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. “What have I done?” I think to myself. I just wanted a change. I wanted to live by the water. I wanted to start healing from the rough couple of years I’d left behind — the death of my dad, an empty nest, a divorce, and selling a house of 21 years. Instead I was stuck in Astoria, Oregon, during a worldwide pandemic. Oh, sure, I was by the water, but I was without a community, and for an extrovert like me it was like a sandpiper without its flock. “Chan... Full story
When you are watching a future X Games or Winter Olympics, keep your eye out for the names Anson Ricker and Keaton Green. Last week, the two Sisters Middle School students returned from the U.S.A. Snowboard and Freeski Association's National Championships in Copper Mountain, Colorado, both placing in the top 10. Ricker, 14, took second place in the overall 13-15 freestyle ski division, and Green, 12, placed eighth in the 10-12 boys division. Freestyle skiing involves tricks,... Full story
While Sisters student-athletes have been working on afterschool drills and practices, high school band members have had their own afterschool workouts, rehearsing in percussion ensembles, jazz combos and duets and quartets. To showcase their talents, high school and middle school students will host a Chamber Ensemble Benefit Concert on Thursday, February 21, at 7 p.m. at Sisters High School. Cost for the concert is $5 for students and $7 for adults. "It's my favorite time of... Full story
When band teacher Lia Morgan arrived in Sisters in August, she had only eight students registered for high school band. But that didn't stop this third-year teacher from showing her enthusiasm. She set out to build the program and enlist more kids. With a "nothing-to-lose" attitude, she switched the concert band to zero period at 7 a.m., hoping that students with class conflicts during the day would enroll. On the first day, 19 kids showed up. Currently, enrollment is at 25... Full story
Students in the Sisters High School jazz choir class were pretty excited when they found out they had $2,000 to order tuxedos and floor-length dresses for their performances. "It's nice to know that Sisters holds the arts in high regard and we're able to be professional-looking when we perform," freshman Alena Nore said recently during a 7 a.m. class. The money is part of a $5,000 anonymous donation that came to the Sisters Schools Foundation specifically for the high school... Full story
The Community 101 class at Sisters High School awarded $5,000 in grants to six groups Monday night during the Community 101 Dessert at the high school. Two awards went to high school programs: $650 to Life Skills, a program for special-needs students, and $350 to the Interdisciplinary Environmental Expedition (IEE) course. Other grants were $1,500 to Just 1X, an organization that encourages students to speak out about friends engaging in destructive substance abuse, $1,000 to Bethlehem Inn, $1,000 to Sisters Skate Park... Full story
While growing up in Utah, 9-year-old Barrett Ford and his friend watched their older brothers run high school cross-country. They looked up to their brothers and thought they should follow in their footsteps. More recently, however, Ford's feet have taken him on his own unique path. On April 16, Ford completed the famous Boston Marathon in a time of 3 hours, 55 minutes. It fulfilled a dream he's had since watching Boston's legendary runner, Bill Rodgers, in the '70s. Even... Full story
Enthusiastic applause and shouts of "Wow!" could be heard from family, friends and fellow students during the Central Oregon honor band concert Friday night at Bend High School. Eleven students from Sisters middle and high schools participated in the annual event. "It was a lifetime opportunity. I've never gotten to play in a big band before, so it was neat and exciting," said eighth- grader Hunter Blakelock. The 96-person middle school band included Blakelock on trumpet,... Full story
Sisters theatergoers can enjoy an enchanted evening with the Sisters High School musical theater class when students perform "South Pacific," Thursday through Sunday. Tickets are available at the door and are $8 for adults and $5 for seniors and students with school ID. Performances begin at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the high school. South Pacific features seniors Adam Cash and Beth Eckstine as Emile de Becque and Nellie Forbush, an older French... Full story
The neighbors of Ponderosa Cascade community had a scare Saturday when a transformer blew just after 6 p.m. and sent flames flying into the yard of Earl and Bonnie Long at 16913 Ponderosa Cascade. A steady wind was blowing the flames as high as two stories and toward a neighboring yard when Cloverdale volunteer firefighters arrived. "The neighbors were the ones that kept the fire at bay until the firefighters got here," Bonnie Long said of residents who pulled hoses from... Full story
A new beer from Three Creeks Brewing Co. began flowing from the taps and made its debut at Sisters Movie House Thursday. The one-time release of Water of Life altbier was created in support of the National Forest Foundation's "Tale of Two Rivers," a conservation campaign for the Whychus Creek and Metolius River. "It's our water that we use for brewing. It's our lifeblood here in the brewery," head brewer Pat "Patio" Shea said about water taken from the Three Sisters watershed for creating beers at the restaurant. The beer... Full story
Three sets of brothers from Sisters helped celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts this summer at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. They returned with tales of trading scout badges, seeing celebrities, visiting historical monuments and living through crazy rain and thunder storms. Christian and Daniel Hunt, Joe and Ross Grant and Will and Alex Cyrus attended the 10-day event with more than 45,000 other scouts, adult leaders and volunteers.... Full story
The Sisters Mexico Mission Team will stay in Mexico June 20-26 to help needy families. To prepare for and fund the trip, the team is seeking quality used items for a yard sale. The yard sale will take place Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1652 West Hill Ave. in Cold Springs Village, near Sisters Middle School. Call 541-549-4476 to donate items or become a team sponsor. The team hopes to raise $3,500 for construction of a house they will build for a needy family. Sisters... Full story
Sisters High School junior Joseph Schlatter has been accepted to attend a three-week pre-college summer academy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. To earn money for his endeavor, Schlatter, a certified swimming instructor, will teach spring swimming lessons at Sisters Athletic Club. "It is a privilege to be accepted to this prestigious program," Schlatter said. "I am very glad to have the opportunity to experience a highly regarded university." Schlatter has... Full story
Sisters families plan to travel to Vicente Guerrero, Mexico, this summer to build a house for a needy family and distribute food, clothing and essentials to migrant labor camps. The Sisters Family Mission Team is the idea of residents David and Debi Schlatter, who took their family to Mexico on a similar trip in 2003. Steve and Jackie Scott of Portland, co-facilitators of the Vicente Guerrero mission, will host two informational meetings for those interested in going this... Full story
For Craig Mannhalter and Ben Sparrow, nothing could be better than living in Sisters and using their trade to help others. Mannhalter and Sparrow opened Metolius Woodworks two years ago and slowly built up their business by adding tools, large equipment and software. Today, their shop is a full-service woodworking facility that can take on any or all parts of a woodworking project. "We both live in town and like the community. Our main focus is in Sisters," Mannhalter said of... Full story
Christmas came early for Carol Stotts when she and her husband Larry met Food Network host, Guy Fieri, in Portland earlier this month. "It was a Christmas present from my husband," Carol said of the tickets Larry purchased for the two Sisters residents to be on stage with 18 other guests on Fieri's road show, "Off The Hook." The traveling show took place December 12 at the Newmark Theatre, where the on-stage guests and an audience were entertained for more than... Full story
The Central Oregon Rush Strikers struck soccer gold when they won the Kohl's American Cup recreational soccer championship in the U12 division, October 18 in Salem. The youth soccer team, consisting of kids from Sisters and Redmond, beat the McMinnville YSC Grizzlies by a score of 2-1. The Rush Strikers trailed 1-0 at halftime, but rallied behind Sisters sixth-grader Colton Mannhalter's two goals and a strong defensive effort. Many of the Rush Strikers from Sisters have been t... Full story
Chivalry isn't dead when 13-year-old Cooper Gould and his fencing opponents meet each other in competition. In fact, if one forgets to salute or offer a handshake, he is marked down and can even be expelled from the bout. Remembering his manners was the least of Gould's worries, however, when he ventured to his first fencing tournament a few weeks ago. "Everything is slowed way down in practice," Gould said. But during tournament competition the pace can be up to four times... Full story
What's a retired librarian to do when she hears that the local elementary school needs volunteers? Sign up and volunteer, of course. "I love the kids and I love books, so it was a natural for me," Gen Ivie said one afternoon while helping David Hewitt's third-graders check out books at Sisters Elementary School. Ivie was a longtime librarian at Mapleton High School, even though she never earned a library science degree. She moved from Florence to Sisters nearly three years... Full story
People looking to clean out their garage and get a little cash for those skis, bikes, tools and a variety of other items now have a place to do just that. Bruce and Sharie Peasley have opened Cascade Liquidators at the site of the former Curves building, at 377 W. Sisters Park Dr. and are available to buy and sell items. "It's exciting. People were stopping by before we were officially open," said Sharie Peasley on a recent afternoon while selling an antique chair to a... Full story
Jennifer Heiden has a lifelong habit of taking dance classes. So when Central Oregon Community College (COCC) offered a belly dance class in Sisters, she had to sign up. She was so taken with the art form that she began focusing on belly dancing and helped start the Raqsafara Bellydance Troupe. Eleven years later, she and another troupe member, Julie Cash, are teaching others the belly dance style. A new eight-week class begins Tuesday, September 22, and takes place from 6:30... Full story
