News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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A memorial in Camp Sherman honored fallen firefighters. As news of terrorist strikes in New York City and Washington, D.C. reverberated across the nation on Tuesday morning, September 11, residents of Sisters felt the shock. At Sisters High School, some 150 students and staff gathered around the school's flag pole, its banner quickly lowered to half-staff, in an impromptu show of sympathy for the victims and support of the nation in crisis. Sisters residents of all faiths... Full story
Residents of Buck Run Phase III in Sisters protested being left off the city's sewer system at a heated city council meeting on Thursday, September 13. The homeowners in the 17-lot subdivision at the south end of Sisters are being required to put their own main lines and laterals in neighborhood streets to hook up to the system. Most of them were never told that they were responsible for building their own infrastructure. The cost of running mains and laterals is estimated by... Full story
A Monmouth, Oregon, man drowned at Three Creek Lake on Friday, September 14. According to Deschutes County Sheriff's Office reports, Donovan Burbank, 62, was riding horseback near the water's edge when the horse slipped and both horse and rider went into the lake. Bystanders tried but failed to rescue the man. A sheriff's dive unit recovered the drowned man's body in about 20 feet of water 25 feet from the shoreline. Burbank was a member of the Polk County Sheriff's Posse and a Search & Rescue member.... Full story
The Sisters area will not see heavier coverage than its getting now from a short-staffed Deschutes County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Les Stiles told a small audience at a town hall meeting on Wednesday, September 12, that under current budget constraints, the sheriff's office may not be able to hire more patrol deputy positions in the next three years. However, Stiles pledged to fill the office assistant position in Sisters so that the sheriff's substation can remain open to th... Full story
Suzanne Ard, Art Guild co-chair, admires Connie Mulligan's painting of Tumalo Falls. It's too big to actually put in a barn anymore, so the 14th annual Black Butte Ranch (BBR) Art in the Barn show is actually staged in a small portable tent set up near the recreation building. But the spirit of the show featuring ranch residents, visitors and employees remains the same. This year's Friday/Saturday show featured a pot pourri of creativity ranging from children's wooden pull toys created by Wally Hunter to unusual hats... Full story
Central Electric Cooperative will boost its overall rate for all customer classes 20.3 percent, effective with the October billing. According to CEC officials, the rate hike was brought on by a 56 percent wholesale rate increase imposed by the Bonneville Power Administration Al Gonzalez, president and chief executive officer of the Redmond-based utility, said the co-op regrets imposing the rate increase -- its first since 1984 --but that it had no other option. "The 'good old days' of infrequent and relatively small rate... Full story
Tom Landis enters the English Channel from a fishing boat. Tom Landis of Camp Sherman likes a little challenge with his summer vacation. In July the talented swimmer took on a relay swim of the English Channel with "Team Gaffney." "We had two relay teams of six swimmers each, eight from Portland and four from Central Oregon," Landis said. "Leaving Dover, England, at 10 a.m. we started across the channel with two fishing boats and a media boat. "Each swimmer was in the water for one hour and it took our team slightly over 14... Full story
The American Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Sisters on Thursday, September 20, at the firehall, 301 S. Elm Street from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. The response of citizens to the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, have included massive turnouts at Red Cross blood donation centers. The demand is likely to continue in the weeks to come and citizens are encouraged to continue to donate through the coming weeks. For more information or to schedule an appointment at another time, call 382-4630. How to help Sisters residents,... Full story
The small, gray building at 160 S. Oak Street is the hub of Community Education in Sisters. Staffed by Director Celeste Douville and Ronni Duff, the building buzzes with excitement as students enroll in a variety of courses this fall. This is Central Oregon Community College's (COCC) educational gift to the Sisters area. Fifty-eight Community Ed classes begin this week. "We have new classes offered in Appreciation of Modern Art by Sisters favorite Mike Wonser; a delicious course 'For the Love of Chocolate' (Marda Stoliar);... Full story
???? Creek, Sisters, Oregon. When Oregon Senate Bill 488 became law, a significant local geographic entity was left without a name. Well, not exactly; but the name of Squaw Creek is on its way out -- along with those of any other geographic sites with "squaw" in the name. In fact, according to information prepared by the Legislative Fiscal Office, there are approximately 175 Oregon geographic features that include the term "squaw." The bill does not affect non-public uses of the name; for example, a business name would not... Full story
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory and Central Washington University, in cooperation with staff from the Willamette and Deschutes National Forests, will make surveys of ground deformation and gas emissions in the Three Sisters region of the Central Oregon Cascade Range during the week of September 17. Two local information sharing sessions for the public have also been scheduled. A Sisters session is set Tuesday, October 2, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Sisters Fire Hall, 301 South Elm, Sister... Full story
Fire prevention cooperatives throughout Eastern Oregon will sponsor hunter information booths in preparation for the 2001 Controlled Buck Centerfire Rifle Season, which runs September 29 to October 10. Community volunteers and fire service representatives will staff the booths September 27-29 for hunters seeking information about fire restrictions, road closures and current game regulations. Hunters can buy Bureau of Land Management, USDA Forest Service and Oregon Department of Forestry maps at many booths. The Sisters booth... Full story
The City of Sisters withdrew an offer to sell the Sisters Library property to the Deschutes County Public Library District last week. The city pulled the $177,000 offer off the table because the library district refused to pay some $20,000 in back rent. The library maintains that the city has no right to charge rent under the terms of the original state grant that funded construction of the library. The library proposed putting the rent question to binding arbitration, but... Full story
Koby McCorkle takes a hill in stride. Wes Hodson got the cross country season started with an individual victory as the Outlaws opened the 2001 campaign with two meets last week. Sweet Home High School hosted the rest of the Capital Conference in the annual Class Invitational on Monday, September 10, in which athletes run against others in their particular grade. The meet is designed to allow conference teams to ease into the season. Hodson took the lead in the freshman boys race about 1,000 meters into the 3,000 meter... Full story
The Outlaws ran away from the White Buffaloes 42-6 The Sisters Outlaws football team recorded its first win of the season with a barn-burning 42-6 victory over the Madras White Buffaloes on Friday, September 14. Mike Greene lit the fire that exploded into an offensive onslaught by Sisters. Greene scored three touchdowns to ignite the Outlaws. Greene caught touchdown passes of 33 and 53 yards, and returned a punt 74 yards for Sisters' third score of the night. Quarterback Pat Burke spread the offense to all of his receivers.... Full story
A fight for civilization We are at war. We have seen our homeland assailed and thousands of our citizens slaughtered, deliberately targeted in their innocence and security. This was more than an attack on the United States. This was an assault on Western Civilization by militants who hate everything we are and are willing to sacrifice themselves to destroy us. How we respond will determine whether our civilization endures in a form that we recognize. For too long we have borne attacks on our shield, deflecting the blows away... Full story
The Sisters varsity volleyball season got underway last week, with the girls splitting two league matches. The defending Capital Conference champions first went to Molalla, where they lost in three games. The game had been scheduled for Tuesday, September 11, but was rescheduled for Wednesday due to the tragic events of last week. "We opened up pretty good and won the first contest, 15-13," said Coach Chris Crosby. "But we lost the next two, 8-15 and 9-15. "We played tough, we played hard, but just made too many errors," he... Full story
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Dangerous Afghanistan Entry into Afghanistan by American troops will be dangerous, bloody and hard. The Afghanistan I remember, before the Taliban, before the Soviet invasion, was a poor country of harsh, rocky soil and generous people. In April, 1974, we'd come to Herat on the western edge of the country. It was a city of small baked mud buildings, a grand Mosque, and stood at the crossroads between China and Europe, Persia and India. It had been there for more than a thousand years. But for the Mosque it felt like a town... Full story
- A transient was lodged in Deschutes County Jail on an outstanding warrant for criminal trespass and offensive littering. - A safe taken in a Sisters burglary was recovered on BLM land near Sisters. - Someone knocked a mailbox off its perch. - A load of hay caught fire on the back of a truck. The fire was extinguished with damage to about 10 bales. - Deputies received a report of a woman walking around talking to aliens. She was thought to be from Montana. - Several deer met untimely ends at the hands of local drivers. -... Full story
