News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The Sisters School Board is having second thoughts about naming the auditorium in honor of the late Lloyd Brogan, father of Marlene Rognlien of Sisters. “The school board realizes that we have created a hornet’s nest in the community and we are going to revisit the naming of the auditorium,” said school board member Jeff Smith. The board will meet Monday, September 26, at 7 p.m. to discuss the naming procedure and to hear public comment. The meeting will be held at the Siste... Full story
Charlotte Sproat of Sisters died on September 13 of natural causes. She was 71. Services were held on September 19. She was born in Dayville, Oregon, to parents David and Ruby (Blitz) Ladrow. She was raised and educated in Central Oregon and had lived in Sisters since 1948. She started working for The Gallery Restaurant when it was known as Ruth’s Café. She was a waitress and then manager at the restaurant for many years. She married George Sproat in 1951 in Redmond. She was active with Sisters Christian Church and the La... Full story
Thomas P. Marshello died on September 10. He was born October 29, 1961, in Salem to parents Donald and Bina Marshello. He attended North Salem High School. He moved to Sisters in 1984, where he lived until 1994. He had many friends in Sisters. Tom is survived by his mother Bina Marshello; his sister Lisa and her sons Max and Sam; brother Joe Marshello and his son Zack. A mass will be held at his mother’s retirement home chapel at Laurelhurst Village, 3120 S.E. Stark St. in Portland on Saturday, October 8, 11 a.m. A m... Full story
Connie Cyrus grew up singing the beloved standards now featured on her CD “Falling in Love.” The matriarch of a pioneer farming family, Connie has always loved to sing. “I started singing as just a child,” she said. “My mom had a beautiful voice — an operatic voice — and my dad was a Swiss yodeler, so we had music and singing around the house.” And in the fields, too. “You ought to hear her when she’s out baling hay,” said her husband Keith. Connie never really thought of doi... Full story
The Sisters boys and girls cross country teams got a close-up view of many of the best 3A teams in Oregon this week at the Marist Invitational on Thursday and the Molalla Invitational on Saturday. Sisters joined the eight teams of the powerhouse Sky-Em League, along with North Bend, Sherwood and Crook County on Pre’s Trail in Eugene on September 15 for the Marist Invitational. Among girls teams, Siuslaw, North Bend and Marist are currently ranked one-two-three in the state a... Full story
A Sisters artist is branching out to a new medium — giclee. This newest print technique combines art and technology to provide the highest quality reproduction of an original painting. Working with High Desert Gallery, artist John Simpkins is reproducing one of his favorite paintings called “Peaceable Kingdom.” “I give everything I can — but then I know I need to let them go,” said Simpkins of his original paintings. He adds they are like children, “my DNA is mixed up in t... Full story
This is the time of the year when you might step over not just one, but perhaps two of three Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes. Why? Because you might cross trails with them when they are bunched up and heading “home” to spend the winter. Sunlight and air temperatures are dictating to reptiles that it’s time to head for their winter dens and rock piles. There are about four good-sized rattlesnake dens around Sisters in which both rattlesnakes and gopher snakes like to spend the wi... Full story
• Kay Nelson of The Elder Sister Antiques located on Hood Avenue directly across from Sisters Post Office will host her end-of-season sale September 21, 22, 23 and 25 (NOT Saturday, September 24). She is closing the shop for the winter. • Navigator News will host the traditional bluegrass band Log Jammers on September 24, from 4 to 7 p.m. • The Substitutes will perform live at Coyote Creek Café this Friday, September 23, and Saturday, September 24. • Cascade Fitness is offering a special student membership for $40 per mont... Full story
If the folks attending the Sisters Jazz Festival last weekend felt the chill of an early fall, it didn’t slow them down. They danced it off to the hot jazz of Titan Hot 7 and the jump blues of High Street and cut a rug with the blues of DK Stuart and the Cajun and zydeco sounds of Gator Beat. The weekend was an upbeat and joyful one, though tinged with sadness at the destruction of the city that gave birth to jazz at the beginning of the 20th Century. The musicians made f... Full story
Triumph of the Will is the most powerful piece of propaganda every produced. Leni Riefenstahl’s magnificent 1935 record of the 1934 Nazi Convention in Nuremberg documents how Adolf Hitler used his personal charisma to exploit Germans’ economic and psychological plight after World War I. The film opens with Hitler’s plane flying above the clouds. We watch his god-like descent as the plane soars above the city, its shadow enveloping everything below until it lands in the midst of a waving crowd. To the accompaniment of trium... Full story
• Ruth Davis of Corvallis wrote: I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation and thanks to some of the most amazing people in Sisters. To the young gentleman who stopped along the way about 30 miles west of Sisters for letting me use his cell phone and tinkering with my car to see if he could get it going; I think he lives in Redmond. What a great listener! His family would be proud of him. To the wonderful and efficient young gentleman from Davis Towing who came to my rescue and brought me on into town with my car a... Full story
Chelsie Hoyt and John Gloeckner were wed on June 25 at the Metolius River in Camp Sherman. Chelsie, a Marylhurst University art graduate and life-long Sisters resident, has a photography business and volunteers with kids’ art classes and works at her family’s lumber yard. John, from Caliente, Nevada, is an electrician who recently purchased Dave Byrum Electric. He is retired from the PRCA bull riding circuit as an active bull rider, but remains involved in rodeos. The Glo... Full story
