News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The father of an 18-year-old Sisters youth is planning legal action after his son was cited as a minor in possession of alcohol Saturday, March 29. The 18-year-old was one of more than a dozen teens cited after police responded to a complaint about a party at 69430 Green Ridge Loop. The young man was cited for MIP "by consumption," which means that police allegedly smelled alcohol on his breath and/or saw visible signs of intoxication. That is, by law, deemed sufficient cause... Full story
Laurie Simpson brought an array of talents to bear in capturing the Sisters Rodeo Queen crown. A straight-A senior at Redmond High School, Simpson is a slim brunette whose horsemanship skills cannot be questioned. The rodeo queen competition held Saturday, April 5, featured a private interview with the panel of judges, a speech before the judges and the audience, and a demonstration of horsemanship skills. When the dust settled after the horsemanship patterns, it was far from clear which of the four competitors would take... Full story
Sisters area residents got a good look at what a city sewer system would look like and what it would cost at a series of public meetings last week. The meetings, held April 2,3 and 5, were part of the final phase of a sewer study that will take Sisters through planning a system and getting approval from county and state agencies. The final deci sion whether to build a sewer could be made by the city council or, more likely, by a vote of the city residents. Dick Nored, president of HGE, Inc., the engineering firm in charge of... Full story
Volunteer firefighters' rewards come in the satisfaction of helping their community and from the respect of their comrades. Last month, the Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District honored their own at their annual awards banquet held at the Sisters Rodeo clubhouse. Firefighters John Thomas and Jim Corfield were cited for performance beyond the call of duty for th eir actions at the Simnasho blaze on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation last summer. According to Cloverdale... Full story
A Black Butte Ranch fire truck was struck broadside as it was making a U-turn across Highway 20 west of Sisters on Thursday, April 3. According to the Deschutes County Sheriff's Department, the small "brush" fire truck had been traveling up and down the highway, assisting the Forest Service in monitoring a controlled burn near Bl ack Butte Ranch. Heading east along the highway with its overhead lights on about 3/4-mile from the ranch entrance, the fire truck signaled to make a left U-turn to travel back to the west,... Full story
Forty-one Sisters community members have been suggested as possible members of a team that will chart Sisters' course for the future. The names of suggested "Community Action Team" members came from surveys handed out at a March 12 meeting in which Mike Hernandez of the US Forest Service introduced a project to devise a "community action plan" for Sisters. Sixteen surveys were returned. The surveys also indicated 21 interests that should be represented including seniors, suingle parents and schools. Hernandez will notify... Full story
* * * To the Editor: In last week's Nugget, Connie Morris wrote an editorial in favor of putting our district's sixth and seventh graders at the same site, and grades 812 at the current middle/high school site. While this proposal may indeed make sense arithmetically, it is a poor choice educationally. As a teacher and a parent, I support a separate middle school, primarily because it is the best way to keep the focus on the unique needs of young adolescents, both educational and social. Despite the best efforts of staff and... Full story
Real Soup It is an urgent season. Dawn, so brutal on the weekends, is ushered in with choruses of jubilant bird-city music and a glowing cleft moon. We are on the butterfly circuit. For days, monarchs have been fluttering by, northward, full of insect geography and sun angles and a high sense of purpose. There is fresh dirt in the yard, and a lawn chair positioned beside it. This is where I sit next to my proposed work. Where the tension between ambition and indolence distracts me from both. Truly, I want to loll and bask.... Full story
Sisters teachers have proposed a 4.8 percent base salary increase for the 1997-98 school year, guarantees of seniority protection in the event of layoffs and modification of discipline procedures. In a negotiating session on April 2, teachers and the district began bargaining over the terms of employment for the last year of a four-year contract that spans 1994 to 1998. Despite the four-year nature of the contract, salary, fringe benefits and two non-economic issues (from each side) can be renegotiated each year. The April 2... Full story
