News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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A car-vs.-truck accident at the west edge of Sisters last Wednesday morning, January 11, ruptured a fuel tank on the truck, spilling approximately 50 gallons of diesel fuel and closing Barclay Drive for about five hours. About 11:30 a.m. a small passenger car struck the side of a truck turning into a service station at the intersection of Highway 20 and Barclay Drive at the west end of Sisters. The impact broke open the truck’s fuel tank. The driver pulled into Barclay Drive and parked between Crossroads Shell and Sisters I... Full story
As more and more houses are built in Sisters, tension has grown between the need to supply affordable, efficient electrical power and the urge to preserve the natural beauty that draws people to the city. A group of local residents testified before the Sisters City Council on Thursday, January 12, seeking the council’s support to resist a planned Central Electric Cooperative (CEC) project that would run an overhead power line down Jefferson Avenue to Pine Street. The r... Full story
Sisters Elementary School needs a long list of repairs and the school district must pay for remodeling the administration building, remodeling and furnishing Sisters Middle School and more. The bill is steep — over $1 million — and thanks to lucrative real estate transactions, the money is there to pay it. “It’s just good fortune that leaves us in this position…The (school) district got a winning lottery ticket, so we’re able to pay off our Visa bill.” That’s the way Sisters School Board member Mike Gould summed up the s... Full story
Sisters was roiled by controversy last spring and summer over whether “formula food” restaurants should be allowed in the city. The rhetoric on both sides of the question grew heated. Some citizens thought Sisters’ very essence as a community was threatened; others thought restrictions on such establishments violated basic American tenets of free enterprise. The battle came to a head in June when the Sisters City Council rejected a proposed ordinance limiting the number of fo... Full story
To the Editor: Wouldn’t a world without prejudice based on appearance or first impressions be a wonderful change of pace? We are all guilty of it, in some form. Some however take this to the extreme by voicing their unwarranted rude opinions leaving a trail of hurt and total misunderstanding in their wake. To these blind few: I hope you find compassion in your heart. Open your mind and look beyond the skin that is not the same color as yours, the special needs child that is different than your child, or the man with dread-loc... Full story
Sisters’ new public library is already a haven for Sisters residents and visitors, with expansive space, more computer stations and a comfortable reading area. The library will host an official grand opening ceremony on Saturday, January 21. The ribbon cutting for the 8,300-square-foot library begins promptly at 10 a.m. The new library is located at 110 N. Cedar St. “We are inviting the community of Sisters to join us for a week-long celebration of its new and improved Library,” said Sisters Public Library Manager Peg Berme... Full story
Sisters High School wood shop students are learning one of the most difficult and prestigious skills in the world of woodworking: building a premium guitar. Teacher Tony Cosby has partnered with Breedlove Guitar Company of Tumalo, one of the top guitar makers in the world, to introduce this art to his students. Cosby’s first-year students begin by making chairs to hone their woodworking skills. For second-year students, Cosby wanted a project that would capture their i... Full story
Local cyclist Jim Hammond took the Friends of Black Butte Ranch (BBR) audience on a 90-minute color slide tour of his bike ride from Washington, D.C., to the Oregon coast at their meeting on Thursday, January 12. His 90-day trek (May-July, 2005) started by dipping a wheel in the Potomac and then rolled through Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Yellowstone, Montana and Idaho. He crossed Oregon, visiting the John Day Fossil Beds and finally hit... Full story
• Deputies arrested a man after a traffic stop because he was found to be out of compliance with his reporting requirements as a sex offender. • A vehicle rolled on Camp Polk Road after hitting ice. There were multiple slide-offs in the area due to rain, snow and ice. • Someone stole tools from a local construction site. • A man was cited after a deputy found a marijuana pipe during a traffic stop. • A local resident reported damage to outdoor lights. • A deputy cited a man and seized four untagged beer kegs after a tra... Full story
Theresa Slavkovsky has been the lead “family advocate” for the Family Access Network (FAN) since that unusual agency opened an office in Sisters 10 years ago. She and the second Sisters advocate, Shawna Bell, were recognized for their work at the last school board meeting, on Jan. 9 (see The Nugget, January 11, page 1). Interviewed in her office a day before that meeting, Slavkovsky was typically modest and straightforward. At a reporter’s urging, though, she talked a little about her personal background, which few people kno... Full story
The congregation of Christ’s Church of New Beginnings must seek a new name in order to legally incorporate. The church congregation, rocked by sex abuse allegations against Pastor Jeremy Shane Hall, is seeking independent status. In the wake of the allegations, it was discovered that Christ’s Church of New Beginnings is an “assumed business name” of Sue Hall Evangelistic Ministries, Inc. Sue Hall is the mother of Jeremy Shane Hall and the widow of the founding pastor, Rodger H... Full story
• Three Sisters Fellowship will be offering a video presentation of Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. Ramsey’s show claims insight to financial freedom, ridding debt and lessons on how to communicate with a spouse about financial situations. Contact Dan Bray at 390-4332 for more information. • Mud Flats Espresso, at the corner of Fir and Main, has officially closed its doors. • January is National Eye Care Month and Metabolic Maintenance is stocked with products that support ocular health. Visit their vitamin c... Full story
The Outlaw wrestlers lost 59-24 to the North Marion Huskies on Thursday, January 12. Individually, four Outlaw wrestlers recorded falls including Kody Johns, Nick Head, Jake Kleint and Nate McFarland. Johns (112 pounds) won by a fall over Brandon Moore in 1:53. Head (130 pounds) won by a fall over Symon Poulson in 5:03. Head led the match 14-2 at the end of the second period. Volunteer coach Jeff Smith said, “A match ends if a wrestler is ahead by 15 points but more points are scored for the team if a wrestler wins by p... Full story
The Outlaws lost 59-53 on the road at Philomath on Tuesday, January 10. The game started out evenly matched and at the end of the first quarter the score was tied at 13. Sisters outscored the Warriors in the second period to take a 23-17 lead at the half. Sisters was outscored in both the third and fourth quarters which resulted in the loss. In the first half of the game the Outlaws pressured the Warriors and forced turnovers. “We led by six at the half because of our execution and defensive pressure,” said Runco. Runco sai... Full story
After last week’s twilight race tune-up, the Outlaw Nordic Ski team showed it is definitely ready to compete with a very strong outing at the first league meet of the season Saturday, January 14, at Hoodoo. The Sisters girls had three racers in the top nine to take second place among seven Northern Division teams in a classic-style event measured at just under five kilometers. Redmond won the meet with 14 points by placing three racers among the top four. Sisters scored 48 p... Full story
Deschutes County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a string of vandalism incidents that took place in the early hours of Monday, January 16, along Holmes Road. According to sheriff’s office reports, someone or several people damaged mailboxes and a vinyl fence, smashed up newspaper delivery boxes and stole a U.S. Marine Corps flag. Neighbors reported shattered glass and slashed tires. The owner of the fence said it appeared to have ben battered with a bat or an ax. By Monday evening there had been 13 separate inc... Full story
Kari Shehan showed up for work as a dishwasher at The Gallery Restaurant back in 1979. It was her first job. “(Then) in the early ’80s I started waitressing here and I’ve been here ever since,” she said. Now, on Friday, January 20, Shehan will celebrate her last day at the venerable Sisters eatery with colleagues, customers and friends. “I’m just ready to take a little break and make some changes in my life,” Shehan told The Nugget. “I want to do something completely diff... Full story
When the weather outside is frightful, the Camp Sherman Community Hall is delightful — a warm winter haven of activity for folks who live in the community, which is often blanketed in a thick carpet of snow. This January through March, the Camp Sherman Community Hall will be open on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for coffee, conversation and cards. The hosts are Jake and Vaughn Willoughby, Betty and Lee Farm and Beth Van Campen, all Camp Sherman residents. Local residents w... Full story
The Outlaw swimmers racked up one first-place and several top-six spots in an invitational competition at the Stayton Community Pool on January 12. A slightly reduced team of eight boys and 12 girls swam several best times individually and in relays during the meet against Gladstone, Valley Catholic, Junction City, Stayton and Cascade. Brittany Baldessari finished first in the 100-meter backstroke. Her converted time of 1:08 put her almost eight seconds ahead of Stayton senior Brianna Schumacher and Gladstone’s Chelsea T... Full story
A Sisters area resident is promoting a statewide drive to limit political campaign contributions in Oregon. Harry Lonsdale, founder and former president of Bend Research, is encouraging the gathering of signatures for two campaign finance reform initiatives for the November 2006 ballot. Lonsdale was a three-time unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in the 1990s. The signature-gathering drive to place the two initiatives on next fall’s ballot was announced in Lonsdale’s letter to the editor in last week’s Nugget. “Oreg... Full story
“Hey! Hey, you! There’s nothing you can do! ’Cause the black and the white is gonna stomp all over you!” The Sisters Middle School gym reverberated with that cheer and dozens of others as 53 junior cheerleaders spent the day learning the art and sport of cheerleading on Monday, January 16. The junior cheerleading camp was organized by cheerleading coach Sarina Henderson and staffed by assistant coaches drawn from the Sisters Middle School cheerleading squad. The camp ran fro... Full story
The Lady Outlaws basketball team defeated Philomath 57-53 at home on Tuesday, January 10. The following Saturday, January 14, they earned a 63-52 victory over Crook County. Sisters took an early 6-2 lead in Tuesday’s game with Philomath and then lost their momentum. Coach Bill Blevins said, “We had the lead and from there we didn’t play very hard or smart.” The Outlaws found themselves down by double digits for most of the second quarter and then had a two-minute flurry to cut... Full story
Local residents and businesses are invited to weigh in on the future of Art Stroll events in Sisters. The Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce will host two special meetings on the subject — one on Wednesday, January 18 at 5:30 p.m. and one on Thursday, January 19, at 9 a.m. Both meetings will be held at the Chamber office, 164 N. Elm St. According to chamber events coordinator Jeri Buckmann, this will be an open forum for all businesses and galleries. Buckmann noted that the Sisters Galleries Association has disbanded. The Chamb... Full story
Driving home from Eugene Tuesday night, Don and Corrine Pray happened on an interesting sight. The parking lot at Sahalie Falls was jammed with trailers and, as Pray described it, “lit up like a football field.” Naturally and professionally curious, Pray, who is a Sisters sheriff’s deputy, stopped in to see what was up. The falls were a film set. A security guard told Pray they were filming a James Bond movie with Pierce Brosnan. Pray knew that couldn’t be right, since Brosnan has been retired as Bond. The Oregon Film &... Full story
Sisters ski teams fight for championship bid. In the absence of team anchor Liz Dale, the Sisters High School Alpine Girls performed well in their Saturday, January 14, races — but not to the level required to secure a State Championship berth. With two of six races complete the Sisters Girls find themselves tied for second place with Summit High School with first or second place required to transfer to the Championship. Sisters’ Annie Hancock skied to a personal best thi... Full story
