News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Scott Cotter of the Sisters Ranger District talks about salmon with Sisters Middle School students. The students gathered along the Metolius River for the Salmon Watch program. photo by Conrad Weiler Five classes of Central Oregon students learned about the life of the Metolius River last week through Salmon Watch, an Oregon Trout-sponsored educational program. The program raises awareness of fish life cycles, ecology and protection of river resources. Tom Tattum, educational coordinator for the conservation group Oregon Trou... Full story
Oregon schools have a big problem with too many absentees, according to a recent report of the Chalkboard Project, based in Portland (see story page 35). The project's recent report on absenteeism was featured in an Associated Press story distributed across the state last month. The story said: "Average daily attendance in Oregon public schools was 88 percent of total fall enrollment in the 200-01 school year, the Chalkboard Project reported. Only Kentucky reported a lower number." If that is true across the state, it would... Full story
Arranging dried flowers at Sisters in Sisters. photo by Conrad Weiler Sunny, warm weather greeted nearly 300 women last weekend for the seventh annual Sisters in Sisters event. Headquartered in a large tent at Main Avenue and Spruce Street, the women also used Sisters Elementary School for Saturday workshops or had options for walking along the Metolius River and touring the Old McKenzie Highway during their busy weekend. Incredible Edibles Catering served dinners under the tent on Friday and Saturday evenings and a wind-up... Full story
The Street Maintenance Fund for the City of Sisters is in need of repair. According to City Manager Eileen Stein, available funds have declined while maintenance and projected repair needs have gone up. At a September 30 Sisters City Council workshop, Stein said that when she came to Sisters in April, 2002, no up-to-date inventory of street conditions existed. She said, "I didn't know if we were headed towards an incline or towards a cliff." Without knowing the condition of the city's streets, no projection could be made for... Full story
Young actors from Sweet Home portray teen drinkers at a party in the woods for a commercial warning parents about the perils of teen drinking. photo by Jim Mitchell Last Saturday night, a sheriff's deputy and a Forest Service law enforcement officer approached a campfire in the woods behind SOAR to find a party going on: 30 to 40 teenagers with red plastic beer glasses, a beer keg in the back of a battered red pickup. And there was more. The scene included a couple of dozen adult observers and a professional film crew from... Full story
The 23rd annual Sisters Harvest Faire will be held October 9 and 10 on Hood Avenue. More than 200 fine arts and crafts booths will be set up on the closed street, featuring painting, ornaments, drawing, metal sculpture, country handicrafts, woodwork, pottery, textiles, glass, candles, specialty foods, furniture, handmade beads, jewelry and more. The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Meals and snacks will be available at the food court and there will be live music at the adjacent Barclay Park. There will also be a... Full story
Hal Salwasser, OSU Dean of the College of Forestry, will speak on Thursday, October 14 at 3 p.m., at the Black Butte Ranch (BBR) Fire Hall. His talk will focus on forest health. The presentation is the first in this season's series of presentations by Friends of Black Butte Ranch. "Western forests with historic short-return-interval fire regimes, i.e., ponderosa pine and mixed conifer, are in very dangerous conditions regarding insects and uncharacteristic fires drought and bugs actually make the fire risk even... Full story
Four Sisters citizens will vie for three Sisters City Council positions in the November 2 election. Three are incumbents; the fourth is a retail store owner. The Council consists of five members. Four serve for four years, one for two years. Three positions come up for election every two years. The two highest vote getters serve four-year terms, the next serves two years. Brad Boyd, 43, has owned Eurosports, a retail store in Sisters, for 15 years. He has lived in the City of Sisters for nine years. He has been on the boards... Full story
Four City of Sisters staff members and councilors studied water and land use issues at the Central Oregon Summit, held last Thursday and Friday, September 30-October 1 at the Riverhouse in Bend. The summit included two days of forums, discussions and tours. The forum was conducted by the Central Oregon Cities Organization (COCO), which includes Madras, Sisters, Bend, Redmond, Culver, Prineville, and Maupin. Those attending from Sisters were City Manager Eileen Stein and Councilors Dave Elliott, Judy Trego and Sharleen Weed.... Full story
City residents will get a break on their utility bills starting in October. The $6 bond fee that was imposed for water bond payoff and was then transferred to sewer debt is being discontinued. Eileen Stein, City Manager, presented figures to the city council that showed a savings to the city of nearly $600,000 in interest by paying off the water bond 32 years early, utilizing the $6 bond fee. With the dropping of the fee, sewer bond debt will be paid off from normal sewer service fees. As reported earlier the $6 water bond... Full story
Monet Tyler (third from left) taught summer camp at Darmsalla. photo provided Monet Tyler, Sisters High School senior, has experienced the joys and pains of traveling in a foreign country. This summer she spent almost three months traveling and working in India. Tyler says, "I went to India because it was the most diverse country that I could think of that was relatively safe. I'm really interested in Islam and different religions like Hinduism and Buddhism. And I had heard it's really crazy and I wanted a challenge. And I... Full story
Lee and Marti Kufchak. photo by Conrad Weiler Co-chairs Marti and Lee Kufchak of the Black Butte Ranch Art Guild recently announced two local schools will each receive $1,000 awards from their group. Sisters Elementary School's award will be used for obtaining art supplies and supporting visiting artists to work with children's art projects at the school. Parent Lauren Stoery heads the parent group at the school. Sisters Middle School's award will support the Caldera visiting artists program, which provides art projects and... Full story
Rose Slavkovsky (left) recieved a warm welcome in Africa. photo provided Eleven years ago Rose Slavkovsky became involved in the Sisters Act, a local talent show aimed at supporting the work of the Good Samaritan Ministries (GSM). This summer the Sisters High School senior became the first ambassador from Sisters to visit African countries that have benefited from the Sisters Act. A group of six, mostly from the Portland area, were led by Betty Mitchell, International Director and founder of GSM. Their primary mission was to... Full story
Flu shots will be very hard to come by in Sisters this season. Due to contamination of some 50 percent of the vaccine doses supplied to health practitioners in the U.S., flu shots are in short supply across the nation. High Lakes Heath Care in Sisters has no vaccines at all, according to nurse Sue Humiston. She urged high-risk patients to seek a shot at flu shot clinics, which are dwindling in numbers and are also short of doses. Bend Memorial Clinic expects to have 100... Full story
Detectives from the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office are investigating the apparent suicide of a Sisters man on Sunday, October 10. The identity of the man had not been released at press time. According to sheriff's office reports, deputies received a cell phone call from the Sisters resident at about 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, instructing them to respond to a house in town. There, the caller allegedly said, they would find directions to a suicide that would occur within five miles of the city. The caller hung up and attempts to... Full story
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- City Council Meeting 7 p.m., 2nd and 4th Thursday each month, Sisters City Hall. 549-6022. - School Board Meeting 7 p.m., 2nd Monday each month, middle school lecture/drama room. 549-8521. - Black Butte School District Board of Directors meets 2nd Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., Black Butte School. 595-6203. - Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD meets for drill every Monday, 7 p.m. Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St. 549-0771. - Sisters Kiwanis Club meets every Thursday, 7:30 a.m., Sisters Fire Hall. 549-1223. - Sisters Habitat for... Full story
Randy Gordon for county commissioner Randy Gordon is the clear choice for the position of Deschutes County Commissioner. The La Pine resident's insistence on planning, goal-setting and moving the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners from acting as a managerial body to its true role as a policy-setting body bodes well for a county government that has too often lately found itself reacting to crises instead of moving toward the future. We wholeheartedly support Gordon's desire to create a more "transparent" county... Full story
Governor Ted Kulongoski asked us to place our American flags at half-mast in honor of the American warriors from Oregon who have been killed in President Bush's war on Iraq. If you drive past my home, you will see that my flag of the United States of America is still at half-mast, and I'm going to leave it there for the duration of this senseless war that is killing thousands of Americans, Iraqis and innocent people of the world. Every night, after Jeopardy! I switch to PBS for the evening news -- and every night the debacle... Full story
