News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Deegan Domion Ceniga was a soon-to-be graduate of Ridgeview High School and had lived in Central Oregon for his entire 18 years. On April 6, while working out at a local gym, Deegan experienced a ruptured brain aneurysm. Despite heroic efforts to save him at the gym and St. Charles Hospital, Deegan passed on April 7. Deegan was preceded in death by his late grandfather, Nick Ceniga, of Sisters and late great-grandfather, Jim Barret. Deegan is survived by his father and... Full story
Following in the tradition of men in his family becoming attorneys, Brad Chalfant enrolled at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College in Portland after graduating from the University of Kansas. “The first day of law school I knew I wasn’t interested,” Chalfant admitted. Tradition pushed him to stay the course, graduate, and go to work for a firm where he handled mostly bankruptcies. “I was miserable,” he said. Over a single-malt with his best friend, a decision was... Full story
James Nelson Standerfer passed away April 9 in Eugene. He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Barbara; his brother Rene (Kettle Falls, Washington), his four children: Dan (Joan) of Clarkston, Washington, Laura (Erric) Jones of Tigard, Andy (Natalie) of Springfield, and Tim (Elyse) of Reno, Nevada; as well as 12 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren. Jim was born February 5, 1931, to Arch and Ethel Standerfer in East Wenatchee, WA and he attended Wenatchee High School and... Full story
Al Mengert of Black Butte Ranch passed away one day shy of his 92nd birthday at his home in Carefree, Arizona. A devout Catholic, Al was born to Tillie and Otto Mengert and was raised in Spokane, Washington, along with his older brother Richard (deceased). Growing up near Downriver Golf Club, Al showed an interest in golf at an early age and learned about the game from his father. After briefly attending Stanford University, he married his childhood sweetheart, Donna Marie... Full story
The Lady Outlaws traveled to Albany on Saturday, May 1, and defeated West Albany 14-3. They turned right around and beat South Eugene 14-12. Sisters’ offense was firing on all cylinders in their game against West Albany, and goals, assists, draw controls, and ground balls were spread out over several players. Mary Root had a fine all-around game and finished with four goals, one assist, four ground balls, one interception, and six draw controls. Pearl Gregg scored three goals, had one assist, and three draw controls. Reese Ha... Full story
Linda and Susan were at the dress rehearsal for the community theater’s summer play. All was going well, until time for Kevin to walk on and begin his dialogue. There was a brief delay after the queue but no Kevin. That was strange. The actors had seen him just before rehearsal. Thinking he did not hear, they redid the scene. No Kevin. Linda and Susan walked backstage and found Kevin standing with a strange look on his face. One side of his face drooped. “Are you alright?” Kevin’s response was a jumble of disconn... Full story
The boys tennis team hosted Stayton on Tuesday, April 27, and won three of their matches. Due to a short roster, Sisters defaulted five matches, and suffered a 3-5 team loss. On Friday, the Outlaws traveled to Woodburn for their final league match of the season. In Tuesday’s action, Nate Weber continued his winning streak and persevered through a sore ankle to beat Hayden Holm 6-3, 6-1. Sisters also won at No. 3 and No. 4 doubles. Coach Carl Click said that the i... Full story
The Outlaws defeated Sprague 8-5 at home on Friday, April 30, and recorded their first win of the season. Teams played fairly even at the start of the contest and at the close of the first quarter it was tied up 1-1. Sisters poured it on and scored four goals in the second quarter to take a 5-2 lead as teams headed into the half. Connor Martin scored his third goal in the fourth quarter to get a hat trick for the game and extended the Outlaw’s lead to 7-4. Coach Paul Patton said, “Sprague was mounting a bit of a comeback so... Full story
The Lady Outlaws earned a 5-3 win at Stayton on Tuesday, April 27, and at home on Thursday defeated Corbett 3-1 to improve their record to 5-3. On Friday Sisters played host to Woodburn and lost the match 2-6. At Stayton on Tuesday, freshman Juhree Kizziar (No. 1 singles) defeated Rachel Ptacek 6-2, 6-2. Coach Alan VonStein stated that Juhree anticipated her opponent’s ball placement and did a better job of moving her feet. “She continues to improve despite her young age... Full story
Garrett Vohs pitched a no-hitter in Sisters’ win at home against Woodburn on Thursday, April 29. Garrett finished the game with 11 strikeouts, and also had one hit and one RBI in the contest that ended with the Outlaws on top 10-0. Vohs told The Nugget that his arm felt fresh throughout the game, and that the curveball and fastball worked well for him. The Outlaws got 10 hits and several players contributed in the offensive effort. Adam Harper had a double and a triple and t... Full story
John Harvey, a Central Oregon local, is releasing his debut EP in May. An EP is a medium-length album, usually four to six songs long. Harvey has lived in Central Oregon for 10 years, a few miles outside of Sisters. Harvey has always been involved in music. He works a full-time job as the national program manager for Regence BlueCross BlueShield. Harvey is releasing his first-ever EP album after releasing a few singles over the past months. Harvey has been playing in a number... Full story
• Deschutes County Sheriff’s Lt. Chad Davis reported to the Sisters City Council that summer bike patrols will resume in town as the weather improves and tourist season kicks off. In the next two weeks, local officers will receive training on the wearing and use of body cameras and they should be in use in the community within three weeks. The Sisters substation is slated to take delivery of two new Dodge Durango SUVs, which will be equipped with in-car video cameras. &bu... Full story
The Sisters Country Vision Implementation Team (VIT) is sponsoring the 2021 Community Champion Awards. Sisters Country community members can nominate any individual, business, or organization. You can submit as many nominations as you like, but you can’t nominate the same person/organization more than once, and you can’t nominate yourself. Winners will receive gift certificates from one or more local restaurants and businesses of Sisters Country. Each individual winner prize is a $100 value, and each busin... Full story
The Indigenous peoples of North America have been painting for millennia. They applied pigments on boulders and rock walls, on carved wooden masks and totem poles, buffalo hides and teepees. In the latter half of the 1800s, as autonomous tribes relinquished most of their traditional ways when forced onto reservation lands, the surfaces for art were replaced by paper. Initially, important narrative imagery was applied onto closed-out accounting-ledger pages. During the past... Full story
The Sisters Arts Association’s (SAA) Fourth Friday Art Walk is returning this month, focusing on featured artists and their work throughout the galleries of Sisters. This year the event is a little different. The Art Walk takes place during each gallery’s regular hours, generally 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., on the Fourth Friday of each month, May through September. Gallery Walk maps are available in any of the galleries. The maps also indicate where good food can be enjoyed. The foc... Full story
The Outlaws track and field teams have been busy over the past two weeks and many on the team are achieving tremendous early-season success, including school records. At a meet at Summit Wednesday, April 21, two current Outlaws’ girls’ high jumpers took possession of the Sisters High School record in the high jump. Senior Anya Shockley and junior Hollie Lewis followed the lead of Summit jumper Isabella Sanderi — who won the event at 5 feet 5 inches — by each cle... Full story
All four board candidates for Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District know about firefighting. Both incumbents have served as volunteer firefighters for the District, as has the challenger for Position 5, who has volunteered since 2009. The other challenger’s husband was a volunteer for the Woodburn Fire District and her two sons are career/volunteer firefighters. The District has candidates who can bring directly applicable service to the five-member board. Deanne Dement i... Full story
“She’s Speaking,” a new YouTube channel for women songwriters, is hosting “In Celebration of All Mothers,” a live online tribute to mothers and grandmothers on Facebook Live, Thursday, May 6, at 7 p.m. “Moms make the world go around; they deserve to be celebrated more than just one day a year,” said Sisters poet and songwriter Beth Wood, co-founder and host of She’s Speaking. “So, this is an invitation to all mothers and grandmothers — and anyone who’s ever had one — to join us on the Thursday before Mother’s Day... Full story
Karen Ellis and her family have lived in Central Oregon since the late 1990s and have been involved in the community art scene ever since they arrived. Ellis is one of 76 artists donating a piece of art for the My Own Two Hands (MOTH) community arts fundraiser put on by the Sisters Folk Festival. The auction event will be held virtually May 10-15. Ellis is contributing a cyanotype series of four connected nature prints. To create a cyanotype print, she uses objects placed on... Full story
On Friday, April 30, Deschutes County entered another COVID-19 lockdown. Restaurants closed to indoor dining, gyms are limited. Lives are disrupted. Governor Kate Brown announced she was moving 15 Oregon Counties into the “extreme risk” category. Deschutes County made the list because of a rate of nearly 467 cases per 100,000 residents (from OregonLive.com), above the 200 cases per 100,000 set as a cut-off by the governor. If I’m doing the math right, the governor says that... Full story
Response to Wessel column To the Editor: I am responding to Andy Sichler’s letter to the editor appearing in the April 28 edition of The Nugget. I agree with most of what Mr. Sichler has to say in his response to Craig Wessel’s guest column in the April 21 edition. However, I take issue with his closing argument that “Many of us worked our way through college …” Yes, we did, but our summer earnings and much lower tuition and fees made getting a college degree much easier to pay for. I went to OSU and graduated in 1972... Full story
There are plenty of job openings in Sisters. The lack of applicants is reaching critical proportions for area businesses, however. Help Wanted signs appear all over town and in The Nugget there have been multiple ads in the classified section for a range of jobs. Some employers have taken to running color ads in the main news section of the paper in hopes of drawing even more notice. The problem has been building for a year and the reasons are numerous. The best illustration... Full story
The Sisters School District decided on an “in-house” hire in naming current assistant principal Tim Roth as the principal at Sisters Middle School. Roth, a native of Bend, takes over from Alison Haney who stepped down from the position after three years. Roth is no stranger to the community; he worked as the athletic/activities director at Sisters High School from 2012-2017, including one year as vice principal. From 2017-2019 Roth and his family lived in Hohenfels, Ger... Full story
Sisters is currently experiencing unprecedented growth. That growth is to be managed under a system of land-use laws. The state of Oregon is unique for any number of reasons and since the 1970s, the state has been particularly unique when it comes to managing land use and development. Land-use planning in Oregon consists of a system of laws and government collaboration that is rare in the United States. Voters approved the framework for the system in 1973. The system now... Full story
There will be smoke on the Sisters skyline on Wednesday and Thursday, as fuel specialists will conduct prescribed burning operations approximately seven miles south of Sisters adjacent to Forest Service Road (FSR) 16 and near Melvin Butte. Specialists will underburn approximately 197 acres on two units. Ignitions will begin at 9:30 a.m. each day. Smoke will be visible to residents of Sisters and nearby areas.... Full story
