News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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A Sisters Post Office employee was shot to death by a Bend police officer on Saturday, July 5, after he allegedly attacked the officer with a pair of scissors at St. Charles Medical Center. Kenneth Ross Coleson, 46, was at the hospital Saturday evening to be examined in a rape investigation. Bend Police had arrested him Saturday afternoon for kidnapping and raping his estranged wife. Police reported that Coleson was handcuffed in front and guarded by an officer in an... Full story
By October the Sisters Ranger District should have a new ranger at the helm. Until then, Mike Hernandez will continue to act as ranger. When Karen Shimamoto took a new assignment in the Forest Supervisor's office in January, Carolyn Wisdom replaced her in Sisters, but the assignment was only temporary. According to Jim Golden in the Deschutes National Forest Supervisor's Office, "Carolyn agreed to act as ranger for a limited period of time. The agreement up front was for a period of four months." Golden said that "Everyone... Full story
ByJo Zucker Heavy, late rains in June may cause wild grasses to flourish, increasing fire hazard later in the summer. According to Mike Carnahan of the Sisters Ranger District, "Rains have held things down at this point, and kept humidity high, so large fires have not been a factor yet because grasses are still green. But as the grasses dry out, the probability of fires increases." Sisters area June precipitation from 1990-1996 ranged from .13 inches in 1994 to 2.64 inches in 1993. This year's June total of 1.07 inches was... Full story
A golden shovel will be put to work when school officials and volunteers host an official ground-breaking ceremony for four new elementary school classrooms on Wednesday, July 9 at 5:30 p.m. Volunteers are key to the project, which would cost $400,000 if put out to bid. Instead, the four classrooms will be added to the west wing of the school toward the parking lot primarily with volunteer labor and donated materials. School Superintendent Steve Swisher said the short ground-breaking ceremony will be followed at 6 p.m. by a m... Full story
Pat Burke, a star of the Sisters Little League all-stars, has earned the opportunity to participate in the 1997 Continental Amateur Baseball Association World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The CABA World Series begins August 7 and goes through August 16. The CABA hosts 24 to 32 teams in each World Series, with teams from the U.S., Puerto Rico Brazil and other nations. It is recognized as the finest age-group world series in the nation. Burke, already a four-time all-star at the age of 12, was playing for the Oregon Baseball... Full story
Sisters will experience its annual metamorphosis into the center of the quilting universe Saturday, July 12, as thousands of quilters flock to the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. Over 700 quilts will be displayed in the one-day show, now in its 22nd year. The Sisters Quilt Show has become legendary in quilting circles because of its unique setting. Most quilt shows are held indoors, often in a museum-like white glove atmosphere. In Sisters, the quilts hang on storefronts, porches... Full story
Michelle Elpi is asking Sisters area residents to create a logo for the ongoing students' Great Penny Drive, which will help fund local charities. The winning design will go on the display container which will ultimately contain one million pennies. The original plan was to have all of the coins collected and on display by rodeo weekend. "Progress has been slow," Elpi said. Right now the container is about four inches deep with pennies. This amounts to about 100,000 pennies or one tenth of the goal. The collection period... Full story
* * * To the Editor: Betty was right! The late Betty Marquardt was well informed, articulate, studied issues carefully, and knew the laws of land use planning. Time after time in public hearings and in letters she brought up points of law on what could and could not be done. These were pointed out to the city council, to the planning commission, to Deschutes County, to the Sisters Planning Department, and just as often ignored or swept aside. One of her favorite sayings was, "Hey, I didn't write the laws. I am pointing them... Full story
Ticks, like almost every parasite that requires a blood-meal, have the potential of spreading disease among humans, livestock and pets. And, unless you never go outdoors - or never touch your dog or cat - there is no way to absolutely prevent contact with a tick. In our neck of the woods, ticks are found in just about any place where there are plants, except under the surface of a lake, stream or pond. A tick attached to your child, companion or pet has the slight chance infecting he or she with any number of tick-borne... Full story
On Moving into Blue Sky We move in circles. Orbits. Little closed and semi-closed systems that wander about among similar entities, seeking to intersect in different ways. Inheriting these revolutionary tendencies from our host, the sun, itself but a flicker in the vast universe, we spin internally with atoms, with mixed symmetries of breath, blood, protein, and electricity as we spiral down out of the past. Waltzing along the familiar paths in our homes, in the workplace, through the landscape, we tend to pivot and return,... Full story
There was a good sized trout just ahead of us within easy casting range. I had seen him rise several times, but we weren't getting the job done. It was almost as if there was a lid over the spot - some sort of magic dome that kept repelling our flies. My client, Bill, cast again and again to the left and right, all around the spot, but he couldn't seem to hit it. The situation was becoming increasingly tense; we both knew the trout would not endure too many more bad casts in his territory before he was gone. "The wind is... Full story
