News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Some 167 families utilized the Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank throughout the month of January. Oftentimes donations can slow during the months after the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season. The need for food donations is still there. The community of Sisters always steps up to help and donate food as well as volunteer hours. For the second year in a row Sisters Elementary School students are hosting their Peanut Butter and Jelly Drive during the month of March for Sisters... Full story
A major fire at a large home east of Sisters tested firefighters from across the region last weekend. On Sunday afternoon, March 19, at about 3:30 p.m., Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District units were dispatched to a structure fire at 17655 Varco Rd. Upon arrival, firefighters found "heavy fire conditions" in the center portion of the 17,000-plus-square-foot, three-story home. While responding from an earlier medical call, Cloverdale Fire Chief Thad Olsen began calling... Full story
The Sisters High School commons transformed into a giant science laboratory buzzing with activity last Saturday, as students from all three Sisters schools demonstrated their projects. From fishing for magnetic fish to trying to ride a backward bike, folks of all ages got a charge as they made their way around the maze of educational experiments. Sisters Science Club President Bob Collins was having a great time watching students engage hundreds of spectators in learning the... Full story
After voting unanimously on March 7 to add Sisters Eagle Airport to Oregon's list of airports of state concern, the Oregon Department of Aviation decided to unwind that action last week after written testimony was left out of the record. "We got a whole bunch of emails and somehow we left about 31 of them out of the packet and the staff report that the board voted on (on March 7)," ODA director Mitch Swecker told The Nugget. "We're adding them (the emails) to make it fair to everybody." The board will revisit the issue again... Full story
To the Editor: In reference to Jeff Mackey's letter of March 15, here's just one thought out of all the head-shaking and confusion I experienced reading it. I find it amazing how little people actually know about the history of their own civilization, even including relatively recent times. Hitler didn't start rounding up "liberals, gays, immigrants, woman, transexuals, Jews or Muslims" until several years after his democratic election in 1933. So Trump still has time. First Hitler had to send out continuous propaganda... Full story
Re: Steve Nugent's op-ed "An understandable reaction," in the March 8 edition of The Nugget: After reading Mr. Nugent's column, my first reaction was, how, after only one month in office, could he come to such negative conclusions, with no redeeming values whatsoever. In fact, according to the opinion piece, he ends with the statement "all of these things bring serious doubt as to the legitimacy or fitness of President Trump." Really? Reality check - half the country feels otherwise, that a change was needed and needed badly,... Full story
The Sisters Country Firefighters Team made up of 10 firefighters from Black Butte Ranch, Cloverdale and Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire districts participated in the 26th Annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb in Seattle last weekend. Firefighters must climb 69 floors - or 1,356 steps - in full firefighter gear including: boots, turnouts (fire-resistive clothing), helmet and SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus - weighing approximately 50 pounds). The event takes place in the... Full story
The 2017 Sisters Rodeo poster was an inventive collaboration by three celebrated Sisters artists: classic Western painter Dyrk Godby; international photographer Gary Albertson; and lifelong graphic designer Dennis Schmidling. The concept was developed by Schmidling to maintain the rodeo's tradition of presenting the landmark Three Sisters Mountains as a backdrop to a rodeo action scene. The finished work draws on the strongest qualities from the artistry of Godby and... Full story
The Sisters Library will say goodbye to a long-time treasure on March 31, when Public Service Specialist Sandy McDonald retires, after 35 years as an employee of the library. The public is invited to stop by the library on Friday, March 31, 2 to 4 p.m., for an open house celebrating McDonald's long service and her retirement. She is leaving as the longest-serving employee in the entire Deschutes County Library System. McDonald began her work at the little Maida Bailey... Full story
Singer-songwriter Caitlin Canty returns to Sisters for her third time for the last installment of the Winter Concert Series. Rose Cousins will also be performing on Thursday, March 23 at Sisters High School. Canty is an Americana/blues/folk artist from small-town Vermont. She now lives in East Nashville, Tennesee. This is Canty's third visit to Sisters. She came for the Winter Concert Series alongside Darlingside last year, and participated in the Sisters Folk Festival's Ameri... Full story
A private school student and an online student have teamed up to finish second in regional competition in the Central Oregon Community College Regional Science Expo in Bend. Spencer Bordonaro, who studies online through Baker Web Academy, and Redmond Proficiency Academy's David Novotny earned runner-up honors Friday, March 10, at COCC in Bend. Both boys won a $2,000 scholarship to Oregon State University for the showing. They'll compete for the state title at Portland State... Full story
Rainwater Café, which opened recently in Town Square shopping center, has a full menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But many customers won't get past the display case filled with tempting pies, cobblers and jumbo cookies - all made by hand by co-owner Dera Rainwater. She and her husband Gary bought the restaurant January 6 and set about turning the former Ali's Deli space into their own culinary world. They report that they've been embraced by the Sisters community.... Full story
A Celebration of Life for Dalton James, 27, of Sisters, will be held at 5 p.m., Tuesday, March 28, at the Sisters Rodeo Clubhouse. Dalton passed away Wednesday, March 9, 2017 in Dunn Center from injuries sustained in a motor-vehicle accident. Dalton Ray James was born January 30, 1990 to Stacy James. He grew up in Central Oregon and graduated from Sisters High School in 2008. Dalton built his first guitar during his junior year, which added to his love for music. He wrote a... Full story
After 22 years of providing Sisters with delectable baked goods, Melissa Ward is turning over Sisters Bakery to new owners. Handing off the baton for an iconic business is not something to be taken lightly. "The right people came through the door," Ward said. Jeff, Stephanie, Andrew and Michaela Bourgerie, late of Wisconsin and Indiana, are those "right people," and they took the baton and ran with it starting last week, after working with Ward on a transition. Melissa sat in... Full story
Sisters Elementary School students got a special visit from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland on Tuesday and Wednesday last week. Thanks to a grant from the Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation, Chuck Barnes, an outreach coordinator for OMSI, spent Tuesday afternoon in an assembly talking about "Wild Weather" with all of the students. Barnes immediately captured the students' attention with his energetic style and outgoing personality. His presentatio... Full story
The organizers for Sisters Folk Festival's annual My Own Two Hands Community Arts Celebration (MOTH) have chosen the poster art for the 2017 event. "We received some amazing donations to choose from this year," said Sisters Folk Festival's Development Director Katy Yoder. Casey Gardner's piece, "Follow Your Bliss," captured a sense of whimsy, possibility and adventure that opens the door to imagination. Gardner has a penchant for vintage Volkswagen buses and made that the... Full story
You don't have to live off the grid to benefit from designing your living environment for energy efficiency and self-reliance. "It makes sense to engineer your house, to engineer your living environment," says Jack Addison, who designed his home east of Sisters with those qualities in mind. From choice of construction materials to the manner in which you choose to heat and cool your home to the way you orient it toward the sun, any homeowner can improve their efficiency,... Full story
Much of last week was dedicated to moving manure. I should be more precise: it was dedicated to breaking up fields of ice-manure, 8 or 10 inches deep, by hand with a pick, then coming along behind with the tractor to pick up the mess and move it away from the barn. It was a lot of hands-on work, as you might imagine and, eventually covered from head to toe in it, I could hear my granddad reminding me from beyond the grave: "Nothing to worry about, kid, it's just grass and... Full story
