News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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On July 18, 2005, Elizabeth Marshall and Jason Hayes were married at the Head of the Metolius, with a reception following at Lake Creek Lodge. Jason is the son of Ronald and Peggy Hayes of Sisters; he graduated from Sisters High School and served in The Marine Corp. He re-enlisted in the U.S. Army and is soon to be on another tour. Elizabeth is the daughter of William and Carolyn Marshall of San Lorenzo, CA, and works at the Ponderosa Lodge. The couple make their home in... Full story
Brad & Misty Grimm of Sisters plan to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary with a second honeymoon to Disneyland. The couple was married August 26, 1995 in Seaside after a five-year courtship. They have three children - Austin, Dawson & Madison - and have lived in Central Oregon for almost one year. Brad is a Project Manager for ODOT and Misty is a Real Estate Broker in Sisters at RE/MAX Town & Country Realty.... Full story
Elite athletes from 15 states dove into Suttle Lake last Sunday in the first leg of the Sisters High Cascades Off Road Triathlon. The 1,000-meter swim was just the start of a challenging course. Next, athletes headed uphill to get their bikes for a 17-mile mountain bike ride. The last leg of the event was a hilly 10K trail run. Athletes raced through rough terrain from logging roads to sand and rocks. They entered individually or as a three-person relay team and competed for... Full story
Sisters public school students will start a new year of classes next week. They won’t all hit the door on the same day, though. Those in grades 1 through 6 and 9 will start on Tuesday, August 30. Those in kindergarten and grades 7, 8 and 10 through 12 will start the last day of the month, Wednesday, August 31. The 2005-06 instructional calendar will be five days longer than 2004-05, thanks to a legislative appropriation that gives Sisters schools enough money to restore five days that were cut for lack of funds last year. Tha... Full story
To the Editor: The Deschutes Basin Land Trust (DBLT) recently announced it will attempt to acquire the 33,000 acre Bull Springs Tree Farm, now dubbed the Skyline Forest, via the creation of a Community Forest Authority permitted by a new law passed overwhelmingly by the Oregon legislature. This parcel consists of the foothill forests stretching from near Shevlin Park to within four miles of Sisters. This purchase is a rare win-win situation in that it would retain the scenic views, recreation and wildlife, while the revenues... Full story
The Black Butte Ranch (BBR) Art Guild will hold its annual Art at the Ranch event featuring works of local artists on Friday and Saturday, September 2 and 3. For well over 20 years, Ranch residents and artists have been sponsoring this fund-raising event to help support local school art projects and scholarships. Some proceeds have been used to support art supplies and projects in Sisters Elementary and Middle Schools. During the past year, the BBR Art Guild gave four $1,000... Full story
The Rotary Club of Sisters earned a 2004-05 Presidential Citation to Celebrate Rotary. The citation from Rotary International was “for demonstrating excellence and exceptional achievement to ensure Rotary’s transition from one century of service to another through continued efforts in club, vocational, community and international service. “It’s quite prestigious,” said Rotary member Jerry Peterson. “Not many clubs in the U.S. got one.” Sisters Rotary is a relatively small club in a small town, but it is exceptionally... Full story
Bill Boyer recently won four awards for badminton at the World Masters Games in Edmonton — two gold and two bronze medals. “These events are really the people’s olympics and they attract players from around the world in a variety of games,” Boyer said. There were 20,000 players at Edmonton — 600 in badminton, Boyer reported. People play in their general age classification which helped limit the competition. Boyer is 80 years old. He won men’s singles. Local badminton p... Full story
Saws are buzzing and hammers are pounding at the site of Sisters Art Works, the new arts center located at the former Multnomah Publishers building on Adams Avenue in Sisters. Frank and Kathy Deggendorfer bought the property from the City of Sisters and are in the midst of a remodeling project that will turn it into studios for artists and office space for healing practitioners and event production organizations. The Deggendorfers’ vision is to develop the arts as an e... Full story
Sheriff Les Stiles knows he has a big campaign ahead of him to convince Deschutes County voters to create two new tax districts to permanently fund the sheriff’s office. The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners approved a permanent tax district proposal earlier this month. “What I’m extremely gratified about is that we’re there,” Stiles said. “This has been 4-1/2 years of work.” Under the proposal, which could go to voters in May 2006, District 1 would cover the entire co... Full story
Five songwriters will vie for a $750 cash prize and an evening performance slot on the main stage at the Sisters Folk Festival September 9-11. The finalists in the Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest have been selected from some 130 entries from all over the U.S. This year’s finalists are Steve Kritzer, San Ramon, California; Eileen Hemphill-Hailey, Arcata, California; Dave Zandonatti, Bend; Anastasia Scott, Sisters; and Trevor Reichman, Portland. The contest was re-named this year in honor of the late Dave Carter, w... Full story
Intrepid antique hunters braved hot weather and heavy traffic last weekend... all in hopes of finding a treasure. Such treasure hunters have been drawn to Sisters from far and wide for years, enticed by the Sisters Antique Faire. They come to find furniture, glassware, art, bits and spurs, guns, old books and magazines. The show is sponsored by the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce and, judging from the size of the crowds at the Village Green venue, the show was a success.... Full story
Hang time… that instant during a big jump when a horse is suspended in air, before he begins the descent back to the arena floor. A moment when time literally stands still and adrenaline rushes to fill the void. Sisters rider Carli Redfield, 15, experienced hang time in a big way at the Brawley Classic hunter-jumper show in Salem on August 13. The Sisters High School sophomore won the open high jump class aboard Odysseus, a gelding owned by her trainer, Nicole Cobb. The p... Full story
Michael Kinnicutt creates beautiful images with camera and computer. The photographs he takes near his Sisters home of mountains, sagebrush and clouds need no explanation. But the art Kinnicutt creates with his computer is hard to explain. He said people not familiar with fractal art often stare and ask, “What IS it?” Fractal art starts with a mathematical formula rendered on a computer that produces infinite repeating patterns. The artist searches for the most int... Full story
Thousands of acres of forest land between Sisters and Bend are up for grabs — and the Deschutes Basin Land Trust is trying to make sure it falls within its grasp. If the land trust is successful in acquiring a massive block of land south and east of Sisters, it will create a “community forest,” a concept new to the western United States — and never before done on a scale such as the Land Trust is proposing. At stake is a 33,000-acre block of land known as either the Bull Springs Tree Farm or Skyline Forest. It is part of... Full story
The thunderstorms that rolled and grumbled across the Sisters area on Sunday evening, August 21, left one fire in their wake. A lightning strike sparked a small blaze near Squaw Creek Falls, according to U.S. Forest Service fire specialist Jinny Pitman. The blaze was about 1/4- to 1/2-acre in size on Monday. A six-person smokejumper crew responded. “They jumped it first thing this morning,” Pitman said on Monday. A hand crew was hiking into the area on Monday to assist. According to Pitman there were 12 confirmed lig... Full story
Cindi Rauch pedaled into Sisters on Monday, August 22 — Day 69 of her coast-to-coast trek from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Pacific City, Oregon. The 53-year-old Vancouver, Washington, resident spent two years planning her adventure, gathering equipment and reading online journals of other cyclists’ treks. This summer, she was ready. “I tried to talk my husband into taking three months off to do it, but he owns a business and it didn’t sound fun to him the same way it sounded... Full story
Marguerite Doris Bouchie of Bend died on Wednesday, August 17, of natural causes. She was 96. Services will be held on Friday, September 2, at 6:30 p.m. at St. Edward the Martyr Catholic Church in Sisters. Mrs. Bouchie was born October 2, 1908, in Keene, New Hampshire, to William and Olive Martin. She attended St. Joseph Catholic High School. She married Edward Bouchie on September 10, 1928, in Keene. She worked as a shoe factory supervisor and a prep cook at Black Butte Ranch. She retired in 1985. She enjoyed crocheting,... Full story
Fish can now move from Suttle Lake to Blue Lake thanks to the installation of a unique new fish ladder at Camp Caldera. The fish ladder will allow bull trout to move from pools on Link Creek near the west end of Suttle Lake into Blue Lake. Instead of constructing a traditional fish ladder out of concrete, this one was built using stainless steel. “We wanted to install a fish ladder with minimum impact on the stream bank,” said Chuck Newport of Construction Management Services... Full story
• Officers responded to a reported domestic assault near Sisters. • A man contacted the sheriff’s office to ask what to do with a dead fawn he found in his yard. He was advised to have the homeowners’ association maintenance personnel dispose of it. • A girl reported as a runaway returned home — intoxicated. • Someone stole a bicycle from in front of the Habitat for Humanity Thrift Store. • Deputies stopped a driver and impounded the vehicle because the driver was on a suspended license and had an open container of alcohol. ... Full story
As a conservationist, I find the idea of human-caused species extinction incomprehensible and unforgivable. We know better. When we cause the extinction of a species, whether it be insect or whale, we are overstepping our role as stewards. When a species is extinct, it’s gone. Done. Kaput — dead forever. Our ability to send a species into oblivion was documented in 1598 when Portuguese sailors landed on the shores of the island of Mauritius and slaughtered a previously unk... Full story
• Mud Flats Espresso will sponsor a flea market on August 27 and 28. All vendors are welcome. Call Don at 549-1711 for more information. • The Black Butte Ranch Art Guild presents Art at the Ranch Friday, September 2 from 4 to 7 p.m. This a silent auction and artists’ reception featuring the works of Black Butte Ranch homeowners, employees, family and friends. • Tony Lompa will perform at Coyote Creek this Saturday, August 27 at 8 p.m. • High Desert Hair welcomes new nail technician Holly Faludi. • Lindy Gravelle will be per... Full story
The ZX Ranch, headquartered in Paisley, covers 1.3 million acres. You may want to get up off the sofa and just drive down to Paisley. Its scenery rivals that of the movies, but you won’t see much Western-style love and rivalry. For that you need to get back on the sofa. The 1800s ranch-style love quadrangle in The Big Country (1958) involves characters played by Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker and Charlton Heston. The movie’s downright un-neighborly rivalry is fought out by Charles Bickford and Burl Ives (who won a... Full story
