News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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I am involved with the Citizens4Civility (C4C) non-profit here in Sisters Country. For about 18 months we have been hosting quarterly Civility Project/Speak Your Peace meetings to share ideas and techniques for how we can all be more respectful with each other. We have been focusing on nine core tenets of civility. I've noticed the word "civility" sometimes gets a bad rap as an antiquated, puritanical or heavy-handed concept - one that will quash debate or somehow curtail the human spirit. In today's culture it's often consid... Full story
Beginning as soon as this week, fuels specialists on the Sisters Ranger District will begin prescribed burning throughout the district. Depending upon weather conditions and resources, fuels specialists hope to ignite 1,200 acres of prescribed burns this spring. Burn units are located in four separate project areas called: Highway 20, Sisters Area Fuels Reduction (SAFR), McCache (Highway 242) and Metolius Basin projects. More detailed information, through future press... Full story
The search for Sisters' new city manager is moving forward and on schedule, according to recruiter Erik Jensen of Jensen Strategies in Portland. The names of all the candidates will remain confidential until the finalists come to Sisters for a series of meetings with the Sisters City Council and senior staff, the community, and active and retired local government officials. Many of the applicants are currently employed in other communities, and the recruiters don't want to... Full story
There are children living in the hinterlands of Oregon who have never had their teeth brushed, who go to bed at night with a bottle full of juice or soda; children whose teeth are in terrible shape. They need dental surgery, but there's no way their parents will ever get them to a dental clinic or hospital. So, early in the morning, often several times a week, Jessica Slaughter flies out of Sisters Airport to reach these children and bring dental surgery to them. Slaughter is... Full story
The Oregon Department of Transportation has extended the deadline on their demand for repayment of $377,152 in ConnectOregon V grant funds and payment of an additional $13,033 to meet the minimum requirement for matching funds for grants entered into in 2015 by Sisters Eagle Airport. The state agency alleges that the airport "misexpended" grant funds allocated for specific airport improvement projects. Benny Benson told The Nugget earlier this month that "the Sisters Airport... Full story
President Trump did the right thing in striking an airbase in Syria in response to the Assad regime's chemical weapons attack on its own civilian population in Idlib Province. President Obama should have rained tomahawks down on the Assad regime's assets when Assad flagrantly crossed the president's firmly-stated "red line" in a far worse Sarin attack in 2013. We must keep the use of chemical weapons stuffed in the verboten box, otherwise it will become normalized in that laboratory of hell once known as Syria, and we'll see... Full story
A great idea is floating around Central Oregon: Why not join with California and Washington in a West Coast universal healthcare system? It's time for healthcare to be treated as a human right, not a luxury. After all, we aren't living in a Third World country but in the greatest nation on earth. All of us would receive services that fight the biggest causes of disease and death. Universal healthcare also protects us from the bankruptcy and poverty that can result from huge medical bills. We currently risk using up our life... Full story
Children from infants to 11 years of age are invited to participate in the annual Easter egg hunt co-sponsored by the Sisters-Camp Sherman and Cloverdale fire departments. The event will take place on Easter Sunday, April 16 at 1 p.m. at the adjoining Creekside City Park and campground. The event will go off regardless of weather. The Easter Bunny will be present. Parking is limited, so plan to arrive early. Children wishing to participate are asked to be at the parks at 12:40 p.m. so they can be divided into the appropriate... Full story
Things got pretty heavy in Sisters last week with the delivery of the new precast concrete restroom/shower building to Creekside Campground. Three lowmax tractor/trailers, each carrying a 75,000-pound section of the building, rolled into town at 10 a.m. and, by 5:30 p.m., workers had hoisted the sections off the trucks and swung them into place over the new foundation and stubbed-in plumbing, precisely hitting their mark with all three sections. The restroom/shower building,... Full story
Linda Hanson, professional photographer and painter, spent many of her adult years in the San Francisco Bay Area, but has called Sisters home for the past four years. Examples of Hanson's artistic endeavors are currently on display in the Sisters Library Community Room as part of the Friends of the Sisters Library monthly art exhibit for April. After a short stint at University of California - Riverside, right out of high school in Portland, Hanson returned to school later in... Full story
Citizens4Community is presenting its sixth free skill-building presentation on Thursday evening, April 20, at the Sisters Fire Hall. The evening will be a community conversation about civility, to help one another improve skills and understanding. Local volunteers who care about community, communication, and civility will facilitate the conversation. "In their lives, these volunteers work to help people in many different ways. The facilitators are not there as trained... Full story
The Good Time Travelers will perform their original music at The Belfry Thursday, April 13 with local opening act Brad Tisdel and Brent Alan. The duo of Pete Kartsounes and Michael Kirkpatrick come together as The Good Time Travelers, with a high voice, smoky and soulful; paired with a low voice, rich with bravado. United by a passion for performing, this songwriting and pickin' duo presents original songs about "the journey." Michael hails from Colorado and Pete resides in... Full story
Sleep is one of the foundations of health, along with diet, exercise, and breath. Its contributions to our health are often undervalued in our society. At different times in our lives competing needs to be entertained or productive or present for little ones take precedence over sleep. Being better-rested helps memory, mood, and weight control and lowers stress and inflammation. We are less accident-prone and tend to make better decisions when we are well-rested. Changes in our environment have affected the sleep of many of... Full story
10 has not been easy. From the get-go it's been rough. Regardless of your politics, the presidential transition has been anything but smooth. It's been unsettling - and motivating. I've gotten more involved in politics; more interested in what's happening. The stakes seem higher and more fraught with potential disaster than ever before. When I feel out of control I don't always choose the healthiest ways to cope. All I have to do is look in the mirror to know that's been the case this year. Instead of choosing meditation... Full story
Sean Meissner, long-time director of the annual Peterson Ridge Rumble 20- and 40-mile trail run here in Sisters, watched the weather reports for the past weeks, wondering whether the course this year would be covered in snow. "These runners are ready for anything, but I am glad the course was snow-free and actually in really good shape," he said. Below-freezing temperatures greeted the participants at the starting line, but before long runners shed some layers and gloves and enjoyed the perfect trail conditions. "Many... Full story
Strength athletes from five states converged on Sisters High School last weekend for what turned out to be the largest sanctioned powerlifting meet ever in Central Oregon. Some 105 athletes competed in the USPA Oregon Outlaw Open. High Desert Power Team from Redmond and Prineville took top honors in the two-day meet, with Sisters' own Level 5 Barbell Club taking second place. Coach Ryan Hudson of Level 5 reported that Sisters' 20 lifters set 26 new state records and made 34... Full story
One of the more reliable signs of spring is the return of the redwinged blackbirds. No matter what the calendar says, it's only when I see them down in the meadow below our place, the males singing on a fenceline, or ganging up on ravens to chase them off the nesting territory, that I'm ready to call it spring and actually believe it. Redwings are a migratory bird, and can travel up to 800 miles from their summer homes to winter in better climes. Lucky bastards. Last week my... Full story
