News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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When dollars are short, it's important to have sensible priorities. In a public school district, where different parents want different things for their children of differing abilities, setting priorities is a complicated task. A parent walked into The Nugget a few weeks ago, wanting to know why his child had to share a Spanish book. Apparently there are Spanish books for only about half the seventh and eighth graders taking Spanish this year. "This means our child has to travel in order to share the book. It takes time out... Full story
Sisters Elementary School teachers lent their support to the school district's proposed bond issue at the March 11 school board meeting. Carol Boudreau read a letter signed by 42 elementary school staff members urging the board to pursue the full $5.5 million bond and pledging support. The school board approved the ballot title for the bond, which will go before Sisters voters in May. The bond issue would provide $3 million to construct eight new classrooms at the elementary... Full story
To the Editor: The Sisters community will have another opportunity to pass the bond issue that will permit our schools to avoid both a space crisis and a serious decline in academic excellence brought about by lack of funds for equipment and maintenance over the next six years. Many community citizens have worked long and hard over the last two years on a school board-appointed committee to develop a plan that will provide the education our children need at the lowest conceivable cost. The middle/high school is overcrowded... Full story
Never chic, never gracing the pedestal, never enduring the merciless glare of public adulation, the inglorious bean, our action-packed legumous pal, has a potent flaw that keeps it, if anywhere, on many back burners. This meek and simple-hearted seed, whose dignity is born of its prolific growth, its easy storage,and its subsequent usefulness to the proletariat, is largely shunned by the humorless gourmand because of its lush engagement with the average digestive system. We are social creatures. We want to be noticed, we... Full story
Sisters schools are studying how year-round education works in other districts and how it might be implemented here. The Sisters School District invited Ruthann Audritsh, Director of Curriculum for Woodburn schools, to appear at a March 11 forum on YRE and tell about how YRE has worked in her district. Audritsh also made a three hour presentation to Sisters teachers during their "in-service" day. Woodburn instituted multi-track YRE for grades K-8 in the 1993/94 school year.... Full story
A request to take about 80 acres of Pine Meadow Ranch just west of Sisters out of an urban area reserve zone and rezone it for residential development was continued during a public hearing before a Deschutes County hearings officer in Bend March 5. Hearings Officer Karen Green continued the hearing until April 2 after hearing arguments for and against the zone change. The continuance came at the request of opponent Howard Paine of Sisters. Paine said the opponents to the zone change (and comprehensive plan amendment) had not... Full story
The Sisters Ranger District is looking for public comments on the East Portal Project which will develop a self-service visitor information area in one of three areas on the west side of town. The triangle of land at the intersection of highways 20 and 242 is one of the locations under consideration. Mike Hernandez, project manager for the United States Forest Service, Sisters Ranger District, said residents who have contacted him are concerned about the social aspects of the plan. "People don't want the portal in the... Full story
You can't tell many people they don't look a day over 70 and mean it as a compliment. Clifton Clemens doesn't, and he turned 90 on March 6. What has he learned in 90 years? "You learn how short 90 years can be, for one thing," Clifton replied. He paused, and in a more serious vein added, "The friends that you make are certainly important. They become a part of you." Clifton, who owns the Sisters Airport, remembered the first time he saw an airplane, in Iowa. It was in 1912, four years after the Wright brothers flew. He was... Full story
There are kids in Sisters getting drunk. Others use other drugs: pot, crank and LSD. While most will survive, some will kill themselves or others, especially if they are driving. Can anything be done? Probably not. Teen-agers have been getting drunk for hundreds of years, and parents, many of whom got drunk themselves (and used drugs, and survived) as teens, have been worried about it. Not that much has changed through the generations. Adults often send children mixed messages about whether it is appropriate to use drugs,... Full story
