News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Jesse Crawford Edgington, born on the Edgington Ranch near Sisters on September 22, 1918, died on the Fourth of July, at Green Acre Foster Care Home in Redmond. One of four children of Ellis and Ellen Edgington, he grew up living a robust outdoor life of ranching, farming, hunting, fishing and exploring the Cascade Mountains. He loved, and was intimately familiar with, the back country of the Central Cascade Mountains and surrounding areas, having roamed over much of it from the ranch on Squaw Creek. Jesse was the Class... Full story
Those of us who live in the Sisters country watched the catastrophic forest fires in Colorado and Arizona with a cold thought in mind: That could be us. "What's going on in Colorado and Arizona could happen here," said Sisters District Ranger Bill Anthony. Sisters and its outlying community are vulnerable. We are surrounded by a forest filled with summer campers and their fires. Stiff winds blow west to east and could push a growing fire right into Black Butte Ranch, Camp... Full story
Be careful up there... A Florida man suffered a broken ankle and dislocated shoulder in a fall on Tam McArthur Rim on Sunday, July 7. According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office reports, Roger Wall, 44, of Winter Park, Florida, fell down a snowfield. Sheriff's search & rescue personnel, U.S. Forest Service personnel, Camp Sherman's Hasty Team and Sisters fire district EMTs responded to the scene. Sisters fire personnel and the Hasty Team located the hiker and paramedics and a Forest Service employee activated Air Life to... Full story
Little by little, Squaw Creek is getting wetter. Farmers are getting plenty of water this summer -- and taking less out of Squaw Creek -- since the Squaw Creek Irrigation District piped the Cloverdale Ditch. According to SCID Manager Marc Thalacker, the piping is saving anywhere from four to six cubic feet per second (1,796 to 2,694 gallons per minute) of water that used to seep through the bottom of the ditch. Three cubic feet per second (1,337 gallons per minute) are left to flow in Squaw Creek. Though the district won't... Full story
A burglar broke a window at The Gallimaufry on Thursday, July 4, and stole an estimated $2,000 worth of liquor and some merchandise. According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office reports, several hundred dollars worth of "custom" knives were also stolen. A deputy described the knives as having bone handles, except for a couple that were snakeskin wrapped. A four-foot long bone-handled sword was also stolen. The burglary is under investigation.... Full story
Sisters will be the center of activity for Stage Two of the annual Columbia River Bank Cascade Cycling Classic as the elite men and women riders race through town tomorrow on their way to the finish line at the Upper Three Creek Lake Sno-Park. Two Sisters men, Greg Zadow and Rich Hummel, will compete representing the Sisters Cycling Club in the Category 3/Masters races, which include four stages over three days. Hummel, a personal trainer at Sisters Athletic Club who moved to Tollgate seven months ago from Tacoma, has raced... Full story
This little girl found some treasure at the Sisters Gem Show. All through the long holiday weekend, visitors and Sisters folk filtered into the tent city at Sisters Elementary School to hunt for treasure. Whether it was $1-a-dozen glass beads to thrill a three-year-old or an exceptionally beautiful geode worth every bit of $50 to a wandering rockhound, or a piece of carving that caught the eye of a collector or decorator, the Sisters Gem Show had something for just about every... Full story
RVers pitch in to help Habitat for Humanity. Some 40 to 50 RV enthusiasts rolled into Sisters with a mission this week. The "Wandering Individuals Network" (WIN) is camped out at the Sisters Rodeo Grounds while members work on donated Habitat for Humanity houses on a vacant lot at Locust Street and Main Avenue. The club is an affiliation of single RV drivers, many of whom are more-or-less permanent denizens of the American road. "We wander around," said incoming club... Full story
Paulina Springs Book Company will host three authors during the week of the annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. On Thursday, July 11, at 4 p.m. Gail Tsukiyama will be at the store to read from her new book "Dreaming Water." On Friday, July 12, again at 4 p.m., Earlene Fowler and Jo-Ann Mapson will do a joint reading. On Saturday, Quilt Show Day, all three authors will be at the store from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for book signing only. Gail Tsukiyama is the author of the best-selling book "The Samurai's Garden" as well as several... Full story
To be relocated... The City of Sisters will eventually have to move its recycling center out of the current space located behind the Sisters Fire Hall. The Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District has purchased the property from the city for expanded facilities. "We know we'll have to move it," said Sisters Public Works Director Gary Frazee. The move won't be immediate, and the city isn't sure just where to put the recycling facility, which has grown into a bustling enterprise over the past few years. The site... Full story
Two Sisters high school cross country runners out for a summer training run had an encounter with a cougar on the Suttle Lake Tie Trail west of Sisters at about 9 a.m. on Saturday, July 6. Jordan Beck and Alex Templar, both seniors at Sisters High School, started at the west end of the trail off of George McCallister Road across from the Camp Sherman Junction. The two ran 5.5 miles up to the entrance to Suttle Lake, then turned around to make the return trip. Just before the Camp Tamarack Road on the way down, the pair saw... Full story
Variable temperatures, mostly sunny days, and sparse precipitation characterized the weather in Central Oregon last month. Several exceptionally warm -- make that hot -- afternoons gave local residents a taste of summer. Maximum temperatures during June averaged 76.2 degrees F., in Sisters. This was 1.1 degree F., higher than the long-term average maximum and, incidentally, was 5.3 degrees F. warmer than June 2001. Elsewhere in Central Oregon, June maximums this year were similar to Sisters with 77.6 degrees F. at Black... Full story
(Left-right): Eric Dolson, Dave Byrum, Kurt Kallberg, Jerry Taylor and Jim Santimaw named their group in honor of Dick Bech, who retired after 40 years of racing Corvettes. Bech's Big Bore Bad Boys of Central Oregon made quite a noise at the Pacific Northwest Historics Race at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Washington Fourth of July Weekend. Kurt Kallberg drew applause from the crowd in Saturday's warm-up as he emerged from a plume of dust, spinning his 1967 Corvette. Not many of his fellow Oregonians were convinced that it was... Full story
Jeff Smith was named chairman of the Sisters School Board at the board's annual organizational meeting on Monday, July 8. Smith, who has taken a year-long leave from his college teaching position in California, will lead the board through the challenging task of building the new Sisters High School. The board acknowledged some additional costs in the project, including a water system loop required by the City of Sisters for fire protection. Constructing that loop will cost... Full story
The Sisters Folk Festival is offering the chance to own a unique Breedlove collector's guitar signed by Sisters Starry Nights performers Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Karla Bonoff, and Hal Ketchum. The Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation purchased the beautiful Oregon Myrtlewood Concert Breedlove Guitar for the Sisters Folk Festival. The guitar is a hand-built custom Breedlove SC20 guitar with a myrtlewood body; deep bodied concert, non-cutaway shape; Oregon myrtlewood back and sides; Sitka spruce top; abalone rosette; ebony... Full story
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Ted Goodwin, who spends his summers in Sisters, told a Central Oregon reporter last week: "You just have to hunker down, like a jackass in a hailstorm, and let this thing happen." That was vintage Goodwin; he's still part cowboy. He was talking about his role in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision declaring the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional. Well, not quite. But that's how it was perceived. In truth, Goodwin has been outhunkered by members of Congress, the President and... Full story
- Three planter boxes were stolen from a Sisters business. 'Tis the season. - A man called the sheriff's office to deal with a transient canine that had taken up residence at his house. Deputies couldn't catch the pooch, who doesn't seem to know where he's not wanted. - Deputies were called to a possible domestic episode. They found only an intoxicated man who was upset about problems at work. There was no domestic problem. Deputies told the man to lay off the booze and go to sleep. - A citizen reported spotting a saddled hor... Full story
Quilters began arriving in Sisters last week for classes and activities leading up to the annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show on Saturday, July 13. The Quilt Show has become one of the most famous and well-attended shows in the world, drawing some 20,000 hobbyists and professionals to town. During the week, quilters hit the sewing machines in a series of classes known as "A Quilter's Affair." The instructors' quilts will be displayed on the lawn at Town Square. The one-day show on Saturday features about 1,000 quilts hung on Si... Full story
