News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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As AllPrep/Ed Choices falls under the scrutiny of the Oregon Department of Education and the Oregon Department of Justice for its financial practices, one Sisters parent told The Nugget that the Sisters Web Academy - which the troubled charter school company oversees, has been a valuable asset to her two children. Nathan and Emily Woodworth have been homeschooled for their entire school careers and are outstanding students. "Nathan went into the early college program, so he fi... Full story
The future of Aspen Lakes as a destination resort is once again in the hands of the Deschutes County Commissioners. More than a dozen local citizens gave often emotional testimony at the Deschutes County Commissioners public hearing on the county's destination resort remanning on Monday, April 5. Most of those testifying opposed five new recommendations of the Deschutes County Planning Commission. Supervisor Tammy Baney indicated several times that she had expected the number of potential resort sites to be refined to a... Full story
The path to becoming an Olympic gold medalist can take quite a few twists and turns, but seldom does an athlete create a technique largely on his own that leads him to the heights of Olympic glory. Such is the case for Dick Fosbury, the 1968 Olympic high jump champion, who began experimenting with a new method for high jumping while he was a high school student in Medford, Oregon. Fosbury conducted a clinic and shared a message Friday, April 2 at Sisters High School as a... Full story
To the Editor: I have the following comments regarding back-in angle parking. Back-in angle parking will be problematic for a large number of reasons and will discourage people from stopping in downtown or, if a new visitor does stop, will discourage them from returning. 1. It is always easier to back out into a larger space (the street) than into a smaller space (a confined parking stall). 2. The crown of the street slopes toward the sidewalk. Thus, the street falls away as you back into your parking space. This will substan... Full story
In 1979, photographer Jay Mather rented a car in Thailand and drove deep into Southeast Asia, and into the middle of one of the bloodiest events in history. In January of that year, the Vietnamese-backed Cambodian forces had seized the Cambodian capitol, Phnom Penh, and war was raging. Hundreds of thousands of refugees poured into camps along the boarder with Thailand; starvation and disease were ever-present, and in the end the Khmer Rouge murdered 1.7 million Cambodians. Journalist Joel Brinkley, son of acclaimed news broad... Full story
Sisters is gearing up for its annual celebration of arts and community next weekend. My Own Two Hands, a fundraiser for the Americana Project, will take place on April 9-10. The two-day event includes the community parade, art stroll and Performing Arts Evening held April 9, and the art auction and party on April 10 at Ponderosa Forge & Iron Works. There are still a few tickets left for the art auction and party. "The Saturday night event has garnered quite a reputation for being the party of the year in Sisters and a... Full story
A local soccer outreach program started at Sisters Elementary school last Friday evening. TOPSoccer, "The Outreach Program for Soccer" is a community-based soccer program designed for children with disabilities, serving ages 4 to 19 to help them gain motor skills, balance, and social skills through soccer activities. Cheryl Stewart and her daughter Elizabeth recognized a need for Sisters children last year while participating in Oregon Rush Soccer in Bend. "We wanted to start... Full story
Sophomore Cameron Brown started to motosport race when he was just eight years old. After nine tough years of racing - which included several concussions, a cracked sternum, surgery on his arm and several shoulder dislocations - Brown has achieved one of his goals: competing at the World Minis. Brown's top-place finishes (two first and two seconds) at the Northwest Arena Cross at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds on March 5-6 earned him recognition. Cameron was able to secure s... Full story
The boys baseball team spent spring break in Scottsdale, Arizona, and came home as champions of the Salt River Baseball Classic Tournament. Sisters and Santiam Christian, out of Corvallis, joined 22 teams from Arizona for the annual event. The Outlaws won all four of their games. They defeated Fort Thomas 7-2 on Friday and won three consecutive games in the championship round to win the tournament. Due to the number of teams, all games went just five innings, with the... Full story
Bruce Brown has learned a lot about coaching in a long career - enough to know that he could have been a better coach when he was a younger man. "I have lots of former players who are now coaches," said Brown, a resident of Camano Island, Washington. "And when I look back at those first six, eight, 10 years as a coach, I wish I could do it over. The first thing I do is apologize to those kids!" Although Brown thinks he could have done better by his early student athletes, there are those who say he's more than made up for it... Full story
Sisters naturalist Jim Anderson will be featured in this week's airing of Oregon Field Guide, talking about one of his favorite subjects: turkey vultures. They're not pretty but they just may be one of the smartest birds in the world. Oregon Field Guide will seek out the turkey vulture on Thursday, April 15 at 8:30 p.m. Often reviled and feared, most people consider the turkey vulture ordinary at best and repulsive and gross at worst. Not Jim Anderson, who has studied them for years. This retired pilot and Nugget columnist... Full story
Last Friday afternoon was one of those windy, snowy days in the Sisters Country. But that didn't stop three stalwart young men from Sisters Boy Scout Troop 188 from braving the blowing snow, cold and wind. They took on the much-needed project of establishing safe houses for bluebirds out in the old Delicious Burn. Miriam Lipsitz, of Tumalo, and Rachel Cornforth, of Sisters, have spent several years monitoring and replacing bluebird nesting boxes that Don McCartney put up in... Full story
On Saturday afternoon, about 3 p.m., the pool at Sisters Athletic Club was turned over to Doug and Peg Bermel for a special launching of the beautiful hand-built kayak he and his friends scratch-built - a 17-foot thing of beauty made from strips of Western red cedar, Alaska yellow cedar and Peruvian walnut. Doug purchased Joe Greenly's "The Spring Run" kayak plans from Redfish Custom Wood Kayak & Canoe Company of Port Townsend, Washington. Three months later, some 725 hours... Full story
Women have been wearing aprons for over 200 years, and then some. That's what Bobbe Schafer, of Nellie Jane Designs in Powell Butte, shared with a group of apron-wearing women in the Sisters Library community room last Saturday. According to Schafer, the whole apron thing got started with men. They wore protective clothing over their work clothes when they were butchering animals for markets; accordingly, their garb was called a butchering apron. Over the years women adopted... Full story
• A woman complained that she had been scratched by a fluorescent bulb held by an employee at a store. She further noted that the employee had been rude to her. She wanted the security tapes from the store seized as evidence of a crime, but a deputy explained that nothing of a criminal nature had occurred. This was not satisfactory to the woman. • The sheriff's office posted notice of the presence of a registered predatory sex offender living near Sisters Elementary School. • A woman reported... Full story
The City of Sisters has a vision statement that says, in part, "We create our future through a strong planning process." The Sisters City Council is trying to live up to that standard in its revision of the city's development code. The council has stepped up the number of workshops held during March and April to prepare for the first public hearings, which begin April 15. The city hopes to wrap up development code hearings by April 23, with the code possibly not being finalized until June. To aid in the decision making... Full story
Sisters Family Access Network (FAN) is leading a hygiene drive at Sisters High School, April 5-16. FAN strives to guarantee that all children and teenagers have basic needs met in food, shelter, medical, etc. to help them attend school ready to learn. Advocate Dawn Cooper came up with the idea for a hygiene drive with Nickolas Saba, a senior at Sisters High School. Saba had approached Cooper asking what SHS could do to support FAN and the families in need in the community of Sisters. Cooper explained that many of the... Full story
The Lady Outlaws tennis team lost their first match of the season 2-6 to Cascade at Black Butte Ranch on Wednesday, March 31. Exchange student Marine Tresnie (No. 1 singles) and Becky Thomas (No. 2 singles) both won their matches in three sets. Tresnie defeated Yolanda Hernandez 0-6, 6-0, 7-5. It took Tresnie some time to adjust to the asphalt court, as she is used to the clay courts she played on in Belgium. "Marine was excited to play her first match in America, and it took... Full story
Ben Fullhart (No. 1 singles) and Jared Schneider (No. 3 singles) won their matches as did the No. 1 duo, Luke Gnos and Colby Gilmore, but the Outlaws could not quite overcome Cascade last week at Black Butte Ranch. Fullhart easily won his match over Dennis Reaton in two sets with scores of 6-3, 6-0. Reaton was a dangerous opponent because of his consistency, but Fullhart played smart to win the match. Schneider defeated Bruce Roller 7-5, 6-2. "Jared improved his topspin which... Full story
HarmonyHouse in Sisters will host Sisters Folk Festival stalwarts Jonathan Byrd and Chris Kokesh in an intimate house concert on Saturday, April 17. Both Byrd and Kokesh have played the festival multiple times, earning a strong following in the Sisters Country. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Byrd grew up singing in the Southern Baptist church, where his father preached and his mother played piano. After four years in the Navy, he returned to Chapel Hill to play in rock bands in that city's legendary underground... Full story
The Oregon Public Broadcasting show Oregon Field Guide (OFG) explores the wide variety of flora and fauna across Oregon - and it usually offers something that piques the interest of local naturalists. That's what happened when Al St. John of Bend, Oregon's best-known herpetologist (one who studies reptiles and amphibians), was watching a recent OFG segment about the Deschutes Land Trust's work in Camp Polk Meadow. He spotted a tiny glimpse of a frog. "Whoa," he muttered,... Full story
Black Butte Ranch will open Robert's Pub, A Gathering Place, at Big Meadow Golf Course, on Saturday April 10. The new Northwest-style family pub takes the place of the former Big Meadow clubhouse restaurant. Dean Ecker, food and beverage director for Black Butte Ranch, said, "We are excited to share this new culinary concept for the Ranch with our guests, homeowners, golfers and the local community. We focused on creativity, variety and value, as we continue to see our... Full story
Cars aren't the only things slowing down when the 35 mph speed-limit sign appears on the road into Camp Sherman. Visitors and residents alike begin to feel the serenity of this beloved area soon after they turn off Highway 20. Those headed to Lake Creek Lodge continue the wind-down as they pull into the parking area adjacent to the main lodge. The staff at the resort are happy to encourage that sort of attitude as they show guests to their accommodations and conduct tours of... Full story
Sheriff's deputies made two arrests and a construction crew pulled pipe across disputed territory on Monday as a wrangle over piping the McKenzie Canyon irrigation canal turned confrontational. Protesters determined to halt construction of the irrigation pipeline in McKenzie Canyon moved heavy equipment into the canal on Jan Daggett's property on Monday. The move was the second time in less than a week that Daggett and her allies attempted to block excavation for the pipeline... Full story
She was born in Fresno, California. She married Hubert Bazel Herring and they were married for 61 years. They had two children together, Jackie Dewayne Herring and Norma Fay Herring England. Adopted three children - The Edwards Sisters - Lorene Goddard, Janet Julian and Jean Walker. While Hugh managed cattle ranches, Opal cared for over 80 foster children through the years and considered most of them their own. After Hugh Herring's death, Opal remarried Jonathan "Johnny"... Full story
