News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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An abandoned campfire spread to become a 1/10th-acre wildfire on the McKenzie Highway Sunday afternoon, August 14. The fire started at the base of the old Skyliners ski area close to the last big rig turnaround about eight miles west of Sisters, according to Dave Robertson, suppression foreman for the Sisters Ranger District. “We had four engines, one tender and a five-man hand crew on the fire,” Robertson said. Fire vehicle traffic caused temporary delays on the highway for travelers using the McKenzie Pass highway. Des... Full story
Cinderella is “a fairy-tale heroine who is used as a drudge by her stepmother but ends up married to a prince,” according to my Merriam-Webster dictionary. Webster also says a “Cinderella” is a person “suddenly lifted from obscurity to honor or significance.” The key word here is “lifted” and it is the way most of our mothers and grandmothers expected their lives to go: either “lifted” or “let down” by men, mostly the latter because princes are in short supply. Many literary works portray young girls as Cinderellas, for exa... Full story
Frank Baldwin, a helpful watcher-of-nature living out near Camp Polk Road, e-mailed me other day regarding a phenomenon he hadn’t seen before: Numerous birds flying out of the Squaw Creek area early in the morning and returning just before sundown in the evening. My first thought was red-winged Blackbirds, as the Deschutes Basin Land Trust’s Camp Polk Preserve wetland produces a goodly population of red-wings each year. However, to be sure, I took a run over to the area Fra... Full story
