News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Walls are starting to go up at the new Sisters High School. Crews are putting up masonry blocks at a rate of 300 lineal feet per day to a height of four feet. Meanwhile, concrete slab for the classroom wing and footings for the auditorium were to be poured this week. The project remains on schedule for completion by December 2003, according to school district construction manager Bob Martin. "We're on schedule," Martin said. "I can't say we're a day ahead, but we're on schedul... Full story
Shoppers look over the wares at the Sisters Antique Faire. Antique lovers strolled among 134 vendors' stalls at the Sisters Village Green last weekend during the Sisters Antique Faire sponsored by the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce. Vendors offered everything from furniture and dishware to firearms and saddles, from books to wooden duck decoys. While the weather was picture perfect and the wares were an antique-hound's delight, not everyone was in a sunny mood. Some vendors... Full story
Sisters school children won't start school until Monday, September 9, this year. Facing the possibility of $495,000 in cuts due to the statewide budget crisis, the school board voted unanimously on Monday, August 19, to delay the start of school by four days. That will buy the district time to react to decisions in the legislature. The legislature was to vote again on Tuesday on whether to override two vetoes by Governor John Kitzhaber. The bills vetoed by Kitzhaber would... Full story
A 33-year-old Corvallis man was found little worse for wear despite wandering for two days and a night in the Three Creek area with no food, water or survival gear. Randy Nibler was located by Deschutes County Sheriff's Search and Rescue and other personnel at about 5 p.m. on Thursday, August 15, at Tumalo Falls. Nibler had gone out the day before to hike in the Three Creek/Broken Top area, according to sheriff's office reports. When he did not return, the camp host at Three Creek Lake Campground reported his absence. Ground... Full story
It went in easily enough... The crew piloting a massive truck and tanker rig from Coos Bay to Las Vegas, Nevada, made a bad judgment call in Sisters on Tuesday night, August 13. The lead pilot told the driver hauling a 95-foot, 100,000-gallon propane tank that he could pull in to the Threewind Shopping Center for a break. He could pull in all right; he just couldn't get out again. The rig was 118 feet long total -- way too big to maneuver around the 206-by-226-foot parking... Full story
Sisters will play host to 2,000 cyclists as they lay over in town on Wednesday and Thursday, September 11 and 12, during the week-long Cycle Oregon trek from Idaho to the coast. The cyclists will roll into town on Wednesday afternoon, after the 98-mile Mitchell-to-Sisters leg of the tour. Merchants may want to extend their hours that night, as local support staff hope to organize an "art stroll" for the riders. The cyclists will spend the entire day Thursday, September 12, in... Full story
A long way from full... School supplies are now being collected at Sisters Les Schwab during the month of August for the "Tools for Schools" drive. Donated materials will be distributed through Sisters Family Access Network (FAN) to local students in need of school supplies. Items needed include: ink pens, felt markers, colored pencils, pocket calculators, spiral notebooks, three-ring binders (one-inch and two-inch), Elmer's school glue, glue sticks, Fiskars school scissors, folders and backpacks. Supplies may be dropped off... Full story
Not All Related: Adam Hillis, Nathan and Noah Harpham and Jeremy Roach. Sisters may be a small town, but there is some mighty big musical talent lurking here. Local Christian band Not All Related performed their song "The Storm" at the Christian Artists Talent Search semi-final round on August 17. The event was held at a church in Los Angeles. The contest garnered entries from 45 states. Sponsored by Daywind Sountrack, Family Christian Stores, INSP Network and Salem Communications, the grand prize is a year-long recording... Full story
Lee and Jacqueline Ingham. Leeman Ingham calls Sisters his home town -- although he has spent most of his life since the 1960s living and working in Saudi Arabia. The life of an expatriate oil and gas worker has always been interesting. Its gotten considerably more so since September 11. "On September 11, I was driving across the desert to go home," recalled Ingham, who was in Sisters visiting family for a month. Initial reports made the plane crash into the World Trade... Full story
Rebecca Womack, a longtime Sisters resident who recently moved back to Sisters after nearly six years in Colorado, will lead the early education program for three- and four-year-olds at Sonrise Christian for the 2002-2003 school year. Womack, whose husband has returned as an editor and author for Multnomah Publishers, taught three years while in Colorado at Colorado Springs Christian School including a class for three-year-olds last year. "My goals include developing the early education program and giving it direction for... Full story
Bob Sant teaches Evan Rickards how to throw a pot. Local gallery owners scored a success with the first Sisters Gallery Walk held Friday, August 16, from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. The free event included five galleries, each hosting a special artist feature. The event was sponsored by SistersGalleries.Com, an internet resource for Sisters area artists. Julia Rickards of Clearwater Gallery said the event was surprisingly well-attended. "We had 70-75 people through our gallery," she... Full story
The home and business of potter Ken Merrill. Canyon Creek Pottery, located at 310 Cedar Street, is now open for business. The quaint pottery shop, owned by Ken Merrill, is tucked just two blocks behind the middle school, at the corner of Cedar and Adams streets. Merrill has lived in Sisters for the past four years. He moved here from Ennis, Montana, where Ken said, "I owned and operated a pottery business just like this one....and fished a lot!" Merrill said that friends and warmer winters brought him from Montana to... Full story
A Sisters teen escaped injury when she crashed into an oncoming pickup truck on Highway 126 east of Sisters last week. According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office reports, Alicia Deaderick was headed westbound on Highway 126 in a Subaru wagon when she moved around a slow-moving vehicle in an attempt to pass. Deaderick saw an oncoming Dodge pickup and slammed on the brakes, trying to turn back to the right, according to police. She reportedly lost control of the vehicle and collided with the pickup's left wheel, then spun... Full story
Ellen Betker with "Let's Boogie." Ellen Betker has some far-reaching international connections. She is the national support team coordinator for the sport of endurance riding, working through the United States Equestrian Team. Betker's job is to organize the squad of American helpers who will travel to Spain in September to assist at the World Equestrian Games Endurance Ride. This is a 100-mile event which draws the very best endurance riders from around the world. Betker works at Greg Everson's dentistry practice in... Full story
Where to park? They're big and hard to maneuver on congested downtown streets. When they park across several parking stalls in front of a residence or business, the owners often get a little peeved. They also carry many of the tourists upon whom Sisters' economy depends. Recreational vehicles are part of the summer landscape in Sisters -- but the town has nowhere to put them. There is no designated RV parking in Sisters, according to city planner Neil Thompson. There has been... Full story
Almost done... By this fall, a driver will be able to get from Sage Meadow to the Threewind shopping center without ever driving along Cascade Avenue. The new Barclay Road extension running from the Sisters Industrial Park to Highway 20 is on schedule for completion at the beginning of November. Excavators have moved the pond at Ponderosa Lodge at the west end of Sisters to make way for the new road intersection with Highway 20. The Barclay Road extension will run across... Full story
Jim Mitchell, Susan Ramsey and Bob Grooney. Sisters Kiwanis has recently inducted a new member into their organization. Susan Ramsey is an assistant licensed physical therapist at Therapeutic Associates in Sisters. She, her husband Lance and her son Casey, who graduated from Sisters High School this year, live near Sisters. Many people in the Sisters community know and have been helped by Susan through her physical therapy work at Therapeutic Associates. Susan has 20 years of experience in physical therapy, ten of those in... Full story
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- A man was arrested for domestic harassment after he allegedly threw his wife in a creek during an argument. The man had reportedly been drinking. - A pit bull repeatedly broke out of its yard, once cornering a local man on a residential street. The dog fled when a deputy attempted to capture it. - There was a minor three-car accident on Cascade Avenue near Oak Street. - A deputy investigated a strange anonymous call in which a woman claimed to have overheard people talking about beating someone and hearing someone calling... Full story
One of the pitfalls of being from the good ole U.S. of A. is that we are not supposed to be bigots. We are not supposed to hate Blacks because they are black, Jews cuz they're smarter than we are, Piautes cuz they're Native Americans (my grandfather's favorite), Japs cuz they bombed us without our expecting it, or Chinese cuz there are so damn MANY of them. Nope, we here in the "Melting Pot" aren't supposed to hate people cuz of who they happen to be and we are not supposed to blame races or nations for the acts of... Full story
