News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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The arts camp at Caldera will host a fun-filled family event at Blue Lake on Saturday, October 1. Admission to Family Arts Day is free and the public is invited. The event will run from 1 to 5 p.m. and feature art-making activities for kids and grown-ups, ponderosa tree planting, outdoor activities and a performance by local musician Brad Tisdel, director of the Americana Project. The event also celebrates fish passage to Blue Lake with an innovative fish ladder designed by artist Lee Kelly. The design conserves fragile... Full story
As an encore to the series of summer hikes led by women from Three Sisters Fellowship Church, three autumn hikes are scheduled in upcoming weeks. Thursday, October 6, a group will depart at 9 a.m. from the church and drive west to traverse the five mile loop around Clear Lake located along the highway to Eugene. This level hike encircles sparkling Clear Lake and meanders through a lava flow and shady forests. Vine maples should be in full color, providing a real taste of... Full story
• There were two separate reports of residential burglaries in the Sisters area. • Someone fired off a fire extinguisher in the Village Green bathrooms and the jazz festival tent. • Someone reported a driver moving slowly and flipping people off. So there. • An alert lodge employee reported an attempt at fraud over the phone. • A couple of bicycles were stolen at a Sisters apartment building. • A resident reported shots fired and screaming in the woods. A deputy located a man who was apparently expressing his frustration... Full story
The Sisters School Board Monday received an updated enrollment count for the current school year showing an overall increase of 6.4 percent compared with the start of school a year ago. The new total for all three schools is 1,370, up 83 students from last year. The total is slightly smaller than was reported a week ago (see The Nugget, Page One, Sept. 21) because it now includes most of the “leaves,” students who have moved elsewhere but whose paperwork is not received until two weeks or more after school starts. But the... Full story
Some of the artists and business people who will be stationed at Sisters Art Works on Adams Avenue took on an art project as “floorists” on Saturday. John Simpkins, Ron Glanville, Kathy Deggendorfer and Sandy Mayernik spent the weekend painting the large studio floor. “It was fun and looks great,” Deggendorfer said. “We hope that it will be coated and finished for walk-ing on by week’s end.” The arts entrepreneur said that “John came up with the design and the four of us impl... Full story
Thirteen-year-old Drew Harrison, a 4.0 student at Sisters Middle School, was born and raised in Central Oregon. He has always had horses in his back yard. And his father, professional polo player Dan Harrison DVM (of Bend Equine), has been anxiously awaiting the time when his son would take enough interest in the sport to seek out his wealth of polo skill and experience. But like so many young kids who are raised around something all their lives, Drew didn’t show much i... Full story
The boys soccer team shut out the Indians 3-0 at Molalla on Tuesday, September 20. The matchup was played in the evening under the lights and many fans were able to make it to the game. According to Coach Rich Hummell his boys started a bit slow but then began to give a clinic on how to play soccer. “This is the best I’ve seen the kids play this year,” said Hummell. “We were spreading the field, passing and being patient.” Twenty-five minutes into the first half Eli Callan pa... Full story
The City of Sisters is taking a look at the fees it charges for new houses or commercial buildings to hook up to water and sewer systems and to use the city street network. Such fees, called Systems Development Charges (SDCs), are designed to make growth pay for its impacts on city infrastructure. The city is revising its SDCs to make sure the charges are adequate and are fair. A six- to nine-person citizens advisory committee is being formed to take a look at the SDC plan. “We’re still in need of people for our SDC adv... Full story
Dan Price worked for 10 years in Kentucky as a harried photojournalist before he reached the conviction that his life was out of balance. He felt assaulted by over-building, sprawl and the American rat race. For years he had searched for an “authentic” lifestyle among the hill people of Kentucky, but in 1990 he walked away from his conventional life to discover a meadow in Joesph, Oregon. In his book, “Radical Simplicity,” Dan chronicles his evolution from tipi dwelling to hobbit huts, and the building of “several small str... Full story
The Sisters School Board Monday night began the task of improving its 27-year-old policy for naming facilities — new schools, parts of schools or ancillary facilities such as playing fields. The board’s policy committee, Glen Lasken and Mike Gould, will draft a proposal and bring it back to their colleagues as soon as possible. The need for this arose unexpectedly when the board recently voted to name the high school football field for former board member Bill Reed and his wife, Jan, who were killed in a July private pla... Full story
Ben Sombogaart’s 2002 Dutch film Twin Sisters (De Tweeling) visualizes Tessa de Loo’s popular (more than 3.5 million Dutch and German readers) “nature vs. nurture” novel. Twin Sisters, supposedly a fictionalized version of true events, explores the responsibility of common Germans, especially women, for the 50 million lives lost (six million murdered Jews) during World War II. In 1926, German twin sisters are separated at age six. Lotte, sick with consumption, is claimed by upper-middle class Dutch relatives. Anna remains... Full story
The Sisters volleyball team hosted the Outlaw Invitational on Saturday, September 24. Sixteen top teams attended. Burns repeated as the tournament champion and Estacada repeated as the runner-up. Sisters played three teams in pool play in the morning, losing 24-26, 16-25 to Marist and losing 17-25, 20-25 to Phoenix. The Outlaws split with Seaside losing 19-25 in the first game and coming back to win the second 25-22. Sisters beat Yamhill Carlton in their first match of the Consolation bracket. Sisters won with scores of 25-11... Full story
When I was a kid growing up on the farm in Connecticut I was a wasteful little brat. Time and time again, I would attempt to hide things under the rim of my plate that I didn’t want to eat. Time and time again, my Grandmother — whose family name was “Hawkeye” because she never missed anything — would find crusts of bread, bits of spinach and beets I stashed away. One time, when she discovered an especially large cache of crusts under my plate, she put her lovely old arms aroun... Full story
