News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The spirit of collaboration and cooperation filled the chambers of City Hall on Wednesday, July 9, when the City Parks Advisory Board held its regular meeting to discuss the Creekside Campground Master Plan. In 1990 Sisters City Park, located south of Highway 20 on the east end of town, was deeded to the City of Sisters by Oregon State Parks. The largest area, the Three Sisters Overnight Park, now known as Sisters Creekside Campground, consists of 13 acres on the east side of... Full story
The largest outdoor quilt show in the world grew in size this year, when over 1,400 quilts took over downtown Sisters in walls of bright colors that hung over every fence and rail. Sisters Outdoor Quit Show Executive Director Jeanette Pilak and a host of volunteers began putting up orange cones at 4 a.m. Saturday morning to make sure the entire city of Sisters would be safe. "We had huge help and support from the City of Sisters, ODOT, and the public works department," said... Full story
To the Editor: It's hard to figure out what's going on with the school district. A year ago, all was rosy. There was plenty of money to restore the reduced number of school days and to add well-paid administrators. The community even extended the additional tax levy for the district for another five years. Then, out of the blue, came word of a projected $800,000 deficit for this year and the specter of a four-day school week at the expense of district support staff. And now we have the announcement of the addition of yet... Full story
Sisters High School Athletic Director Tim Roth last week announced the hiring of a new head football coach heading into the 2014-15 football season. "After an extensive search this spring we have hired Gary Thorson to lead our football program," Roth announced. Thorson graduated from Toledo High School in Toledo, Washington, in 1986. He attended Linfield College and played running back for head coach Ad Rutschman from 1986-1989. He was part of the 1986 national championship team his freshman season and was named... Full story
After failing three times since January to get a planning commission recommendation for approval, an amended proposal for the rezoning of a major portion of North Sisters Business Park to single-family residential sailed through the city council with no comments or discussion offered by either the public or council members. The plan approved by the council will allow for the construction of a little more than 100 homes on the property and the adjacent and already-approved residential lots to the north of the park. The revised... Full story
Long Hollow Ranch, a Sisters Country dude ranch and bed and breakfast, received a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award. The accolade, which honors hospitality excellence, is given only to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveller reviews on TripAdvisor. Establishments awarded the certificate of excellence are located all over the world and represent the upper echelon of businesses listed on the website. "Winning the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence is a true source of pride for the entire... Full story
Sisters photographer H. Tom Davis has received prestigious second-place honors in the category Fine Art in the Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3) for his entry entitled "Ice Abstracts." The jury selected PX3 2014's winners from thousands of photography entries from more than 85 countries. Davis notes that the prize was for a series of photographs taken in Tollgate "during freezing periods that resulted in many interesting patches of ice from frozen puddles. Our area has a... Full story
After watching her boyfriend Keegan Bloff play rugby for about a year-and-a-half now, Sisters High School student Samantha Wavrin decided that she wanted a hand in the action. Since the only high school rugby team in Central Oregon was the Bend Blues (a boys team) she decided to make a few phone calls to Rugby Oregon, the statewide rugby association, to find out how to get a girls team started. Once Wavrin found out that it was possible for her to start a Girls Rugby 7s team,... Full story
Local firefighters battled hot temperatures as well as flames knocking down a structure fire east of town last week. At about 1:20 p.m. on July 7, Cloverdale firefighters were dispatched to a reported structure fire on Highway 20 near Rabbitbrush Dr. Firefighters arrived to find a 1,500-square-foot wooden garage ablaze, with flames extending out of a side door. With help from Sisters-Camp Sherman fire personnel, firefighters saved the building and a majority of its contents.... Full story
Sisters' 17th annual self-guided "Quilts in the Garden" Home and Garden Tour showed that when you combine quilts and gardens it's beneficial and rewarding for both gardeners and quilters. One of the event coordinators for the Sisters Garden Club, Marsha Lewis, traveled around to the different homes on tour during the day to make sure everything was going well with their hosts. "It is a fundraiser, but our main goal is to provide an event for our community and our visiting... Full story
Hundreds of Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show visitors were treated to a fun, high-energy "flash mob" dance Saturday morning at the intersection of Cascade and Elm in downtown Sisters. Thirty-plus dancers ranging in age from 5 to 73 showed up at Sisters Dance Academy on Friday morning for a 90-minute rehearsal choreographed by owner and dance teacher Lonnie Liddell. Along with two of Liddell's children, Charley and McKenna, several of her dancers brought along family members to take... Full story
A new indie comedy showing this week at Sisters Movie House has some interesting Sisters connections. "The Discoverers," partially shot in Oregon, features Griffin Dunne in the lead role. Dunne is the son of Dominick Dunne, who rather famously put a shattered life back together during a year-long sojourn in Cabin #5 at Twin View Resort in Camp Sherman. The film also features songs in the soundtrack by Gregory Alan Isakov, who was a hit at the Sisters Folk Festival a couple of... Full story
The theme of this year's Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show, and the 2014 poster created by Sisters artist and business-owner Dan Rickards, "It Takes A Village," held true for animal portrait quilter Diane Rickenbacher of Pollock Pines, California. Rickenbacker and her husband, Rick, have a summer home in Sisters that they rent out, and every year they return for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. Rickenbacher is a friendly sort, and she just loves animals - especially dogs - and at... Full story
You return home after being gone for a few hours. Fido is at the door to greet you wagging his tail with "Squiggles," his favorite rubber squeak toy, clenched between his teeth, ready to play. Dogs play, snuggle, and sleep with their toys; some even bury their toys. Toys are important for puppies and young dogs. Dogs that have toys to play with are less bored. Often, dogs that have behavior problems have lots of energy and nothing to do. Toys can direct your furry friend to he... Full story
For 28 years, my wife, Sue, our family, and her team of volunteer helpers have been counting butterflies in Central Oregon for the North American Butterfly Association (NABA). The season begins with the Ochoco count in late June, when the team conducts a day-long search in a 15-mile circle that includes Big Summit Prairie, east of Prineville. In July comes the Metolius count. Three of the main goals of NABA's Butterfly Count Program are to gather data that will monitor... Full story
My grandfather Frank, my father's father, popped in to say hello the other day, and I was reminded how much I regretted not talking to him more about what life was like for him and Grandma Jo back in the early 1900s. He used to write me long letters, many pages on both sides, in pencil on yellow legal paper, over the years because after about age 16, I rarely saw them when we moved from Long Island, New York, to Miami Beach, Florida. All I remembered hearing as a child was that they had many adventures traveling across the co... Full story
Quilters had an exceptional opportunity to combine their affection for cats, dogs, and horses and their artistic quilting abilities into pet portrait patterns at Sisters High School in June Jaeger's Best Friends Pet Portrait Quilts class last Wednesday and Thursday. Jaeger has drawn animals since she was 5 years old. She has been in the quilting business for over 30 years and designs patterns of subjects that she enjoys and is familiar with: pets and nature. Imagine preserving... Full story
Does a funny-looking little dog have the power to change people's hearts and minds? It would seem "Ugly Benny" does. The adorable family movie had its second screening in Sisters Sunday evening to a packed house at The Belfry. Producer Michael Gough started off the program by thanking Angeline Rhett for her support. Gough told the audience that he and his friend writer/director Richard Brandes were vacationing with their respective partners in Napa Valley when Gough asked Brandis why he was taking so many pictures of small to... Full story
