News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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"If you guys weren't there on April 15, I wouldn't be here on July 5." That was the message delivered by an emotional Ed Pond to the citizens and first responders who literally brought him back from the dead on that spring day. Pond was present at an award ceremony honoring the friends and emergency personnel who saved his life, held at Sisters Fire Hall on Tuesday, July 5. Pond, 72, who lives in Redmond, had come out to the Sisters area to help his friend Jim Morrell fall... Full story
Catherine (Kitty) Dawson was born in 1875 and grew up on a farm in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains learning all the required skills to run a household and raise children. When she married Josey Jackson (Jackie) Johnston in 1898, she learned that the best way to keep her family warm on cold winter nights was sewing quilts using wool and any other scraps she could find. Catherine Johnston died in 1941 and left a legacy of 27 unique hand-stitched quilts that were... Full story
East Main Avenue will be closed between Elm Street and Cedar Street on Saturday, July 16 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. as it becomes a concourse for dozens of spectacular classic cars, hot rods, and pickup trucks. Sisters Park & Recreation District will be hosting the 2016 Sisters Glory Daze Car Show. This year's event will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., sponsored by FivePine Lodge, Sno Cap Drive In, Takoda's Restaurant, Van Handel Automotive, and 3 Sisters Shell. The event splashes Sisters with shining chrome and brilliant colors... Full story
To the Editor: My wife and I visited Sisters in June 2016 and stayed at the Sisters Creekside Campground. While there I went for a run on the Peterson Ridge Trail. Unfortunately, I fell and needed EMT and ambulance assistance to retrieve me and take me to the hospital in Bend. A few days later I had surgery to repair a ruptured quadriceps tendon, am spending two weeks in a hotel in Bend recovering and returning to the orthopedist for the follow-up visit, and then will return home to Colorado to begin physical therapy and... Full story
About that noisy Sisters airport... I was able to spend the better part of last Sunday at the Sisters Airport 4th of July party. Boy oh boy was it noisy. Can you hear a smile? I like to think you can. If so, those smiles were loud. I heard old friends reconnecting, new friends being made. I heard grownups acting like children, gleeful while being able to look over a hot rod or an airplane. I heard children acting like grownups, getting to sit in an airplane for the first time. Listening to a pilot explain the controls and... Full story
The City of Sisters was awarded a 2016 Oregon Parks and Recreation Department Local Government Grant for Creekside Campground improvements and Whychus Creek riparian area enhancements. The project will include replacing the restroom and shower facility, adding a dishwashing station and making improvements to the riparian areas adjacent to Whychus Creek. The restroom portion of the project will be completed prior to the opening of the campground in 2017. The Upper Deschutes Watershed Council will participate and leverage some... Full story
Christmas in July has come for the firefighters of the Cloverdale Fire District. After an election two years ago in which the voters of the fire district authorized the purchase of two new fire engines to provide more reliable protection for the constituents and improved safety for the firefighters, the first of two new engines arrived on Tuesday, July 5. Firefighters, under the guidance of Fire Chief Thad Olsen, put the new pumper through its paces, spending 12-1/2 hours... Full story
Jon Rumgay saw a need in Sisters, and he set about filling it. Sisters Self Storage is now open in the Sisters Industrial Park along Barclay Drive, offering 214 units ranging in size from five-by-five feet on up to 15-by-50-foot motorhome storage units - which are highly desirable in Sisters Country. Rumgay's road to opening a storage facility reflects the classic entrepreneur's light-bulb moment: He and his family needed storage and there was nothing to be found in a... Full story
Jessica L. Simonich, 37, passed away on Saturday, July 2, 2016 from complications of asthma. Jessica was born on November 17, 1978, in Los Angeles, California, and has been a long-time resident of Central Oregon. In keeping with Jessica's loving and generous spirit, it was her decision to be an organ and tissue donor and donate life, so that others may live. She worked hard as a single mother, doing various jobs with pure joy. In Jessica's spare time, she enjoyed hiking,... Full story
Our beloved Hannah died on Monday, June 27, at the young age of 15 years old. A daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, and friend, Hannah lived her short life to the fullest, excited about her future, with such a strong passion and love for her country, and politics. Dare we say if you ended up cornered in a room with dearest Hannah, you no doubt would have been overwhelmed with her intelligence, enthusiasm and intensity as she drilled you about your beliefs and values. And... Full story
The Food Cart Garden at Eurosports has a variety of music planned for July and a new, free trivia night on Wednesday evenings. "Last year we started with Friday-night music from 5 to 7 p.m.," said owner Brad Boyd. "It's a more convenient time for families and anyone who'd like entertainment during dinnertime. Then, they can go off and enjoy any other Friday-night plans they have. The Food Cart Garden is hosting a weekly trivia night this year. "When we started out, David Staley, who co-owns The Lot in Bend, told us that of... Full story
Years ago I heard stories of large fish that lived just west of Santiam Pass in one of over 19 lakes in Oregon that harbor the name Lost Lake. Perhaps this is the most fitting lake for the name because it nearly vanishes from sight every year. The water migrates down through cracks in the ground causing the lake to empty out each summer. Even so, I wanted to see for myself if the fish story held any bait. With a snorkel and mask, I surveyed the lake for fish, pulling myself... Full story
Duncan Campbell has a story to tell. As the founder of the mentor programs Friends of the Children and Sisters' Circle of Friends, he has seen the power that a caring mentorship relationship has to change lives of children for the better. Campbell is sharing the stories of this power in his new book, "The Art of Being There: Creating Change, One Child At A Time," written with Craig Borlase. Campbell told The Nugget that the book is a tool for expanding the reach of the program... Full story
It was cold day in 2005 and snow covered the ground when Lisa Clausen and her eight-week-old puppy, Ruby, drove a golden shovel down, breaking ground on the Sisters Movie House. Fast forward over 11 years and Lisa, along with now-12-year-old Ruby, are moving on. Recently, Clausen quietly sold the Sisters Movie House to Drew Kaza; the ownership change will take place at the end of July. Clausen did not make the decision to sell quickly. "I was approached by several chains," she... Full story
Raman Ellis is one of Sisters' premier musicians. A multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, Ellis recently released a new CD entitled "The Tides." The recording features Ellis' musical compadres from Tumbleweed Peepshow, among others - local musicians who bring Ellis' vision to life: Brent Alan, Benji Nagel, Justin Veloso, Nick Patterson and Laurenne Ross. "The development was just years of trying to get songs written," Ellis said of the genesis of his CD. "It was just... Full story
The political parties, for many of us, are increasingly irrelevant. The problem is, they don't seem to represent the very many of us who feel that certain planks of the platforms on either side could be combined to make a much more interesting, relevant - and moderate - political party. For instance, I'm for guns, lots of them, but I'm also for women's reproductive rights. Under the current arrangement, I don't get to have them both. Isn't that just stupid? If I want to have m... Full story
Nugget Newspaper editor Jim Cornelius was born and raised in the suburbs of L.A., but as a child his family had a cabin in the Angeles National Forest, where he roamed the woods with a pellet gun and stories of Apache warriors, Daniel Boone, and Davy Crockett informing his imagination. "The first time I ever saw a movie in a theater was when my brother took me to see Jeremiah Johnson," Jim says, and from those experiences his fascination with the frontier, and the men and wome... Full story
Angeline's Bakery will host Abbey Road LIVE! for the July 15 entry in the Festive Friday Series. Abbey Road LIVE! is not your typical Beatle look-alike tribute act; don't expect mop-top haircuts and vintage Rickenbacker guitars. Rather, this show is about bringing to life some of the more mature and complex Beatles material in a raw and spirited fashion, while remaining true to the original recordings. Combining attention to detail with a creative exuberance, the band always... Full story
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on a foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. - G.K. Chesterton My wife and I are truly blessed. Since we retired we have had an opportunity to pursue our favorite hobby - travel. Our last trip, in May and early June, took us to Ireland for three weeks. If you have heard good things about Ireland double them, it is fabulous. We leased a car and drove extensively throughout the country. In three weeks you can cover a lot of territory in a coun... Full story
You'd think, with all the hoopla we hear about caring for our forests and being careful with fire, people either living in and/or visiting Sisters Country would be more in line with the Conservation Ethic. Not so! Last Memorial Day weekend some idiotic ATV-user tore down the rail fence set up to protect Prairie Farm meadow from mud-boggers and ran an ATV all over the meadow - that was healing from past mud-bogger damage - leaving more ruts and torn-up toad, frog, salamander,... Full story
Veteran athletes and young guns will represent the U.S. at the Olympics in track and field. The Olympic trials for track and field concluded Sunday, July 10, in Eugene, following 10 days of intense competition to determine the representatives for the U.S. in Rio next month. When it was all said and done, some veterans prevailed as champions, but there were plenty of young guns who made their mark as well. Additionally, a boatload of athletes with Oregon ties qualified for the Olympic Games. My favorite of the "old-timers,"... Full story
The entire town of Sisters was wrapped in walls of bright colors for the 41st annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS) presented by Kaufman Fabrics. The plethora of quilts that spilled across streets were hung by over 500 volunteers beginning at the break of dawn on Saturday. "Infinite Stitches" was the theme of this year's quilt show and of the 2016 poster created by Sisters artist Kathy Deggendorfer. She was inspired to create the poster by the hanging flower baskets that... Full story
At one time or another, almost everyone makes a pilgrimage of patriotism to Mt. Rushmore. While much of South Dakota is eminently forgettable, there are lots of things to do and see in South Dakota's Black Hills. So, once there, don't just gaze at the massive stone faces of the presidents and leave. Devote some time to take in all that the Black Hills have to offer. The Black Hills have been revered by Native Americans for hundreds of years; and, in the mad rush of... Full story
You've been busier than normal and haven't had time to groom or brush your long-haired Shetland sheepdog in quite a while. You've started to notice that he's been scratching a lot, even though he's already been treated for fleas and ticks. So you decide to bring him for a visit to the groomer, and what she discovers after bathing your furry friend is an underlying skin condition causing him to feel very uncomfortable and itchy. Grooming isn't a canine luxury, it's a necessity... Full story
Golf is a popular activity in Sisters Country - but it brings with it some aches and pains. A quick review of the statistics reveal a common trend: Low back pain, elbow tendonitis, plantar (foot) tendonitis, knee pain, and shoulder pain. The repeated stress of twisting and explosive swinging put unaccustomed stress on the joints and surrounding tissues. These aches and pains can be avoided with a little preventative maintenance. To understand how to avoid these injuries one must first understand the mechanics of a golf... Full story
