News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Black Butte Police Managing Board Chairman Bob Lengle (center) congratulates Officer Mitch Elliott (left) and Sergeant Harry Hawkins (right). The officers were honored for their actions during the Cache Mountain fire. Photo provided Black Butte Ranch police officers Mitch Elliott and Sergeant Harry Hawkins were honored with Medals of Valor at a ceremony on Thursday, October 24, for their actions during the Cache Mountain fire last summer. Sergeant Hawkins and Officer Elliott evacuated the Fiddleneck Lane area of the Ranch in... Full story
U.S. Bank has donated $10,000 to the SOAR project. Bank Relationship Manager Dan Jacobson (left) and Market President David Imig (right) joined Sandy Brink (second from right) in making the award to SOAR's Tom Coffield and Maureen Bidasolo. Photo by Jim Cornelius The Sisters Organization for Activities and Recreation is at about the half-way point in its effort to raise $950,000 to build a recreation center in Sisters. The complex will include ballfields and a gym/teen... Full story
Sisters High School's Interdisciplinary Exploratory Education (IEE) class pulled off its third annual fall expedition last week from October 17 to 21. The class, comprised of 57 students and four teachers, is unique. In an outdoor setting, students are taught language arts by Samara Spear; physical science is taught by Glen Herron; geography and social studies pertaining to the environment are covered by Rob Phelps, with Rand Runco taking care of physical education. "This is the toughest thing in teaching I've ever done, but... Full story
Sisters resident "pins" the location of her home for a library study. Photo by Conrad Weiler Sisters should have a new, $1.4 million library by 2008. Where that library will be has yet to be decided. The Deschutes Public Library District board approved a timeline for library development at a Wednesday, October 23, meeting held at the Sisters Fire Hall. The approved timeline calls for purchase of property during the current fiscal year with March 3, 2003 as the proposed deadline for this transaction. The new library is... Full story
Students prepare meals for A Taste of Our Own. Photo by Jim Cornelius Some school officials and community leaders got a preview of a new student-run dining room at Sisters High School on Thursday, October 24. A Taste of Our Own will provide a tasty lunch for students, staff and the public one day a week at the school. The cafe dining experience is part of a hands-on training program offered through the school's culinary arts program. The menu offers tasty sandwiches, including... Full story
Sisters High School will host the annual Veterans Appreciation Service on Wednesday, November 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the high school cafetorium. The community is invited to attend this special event that will recognize the veterans in our community. Those unable to attend in the evening may join the SHS student body for the same event at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, November 13. Veterans will speak, the Sisters High School band and choir will perform, and some students will offer poetry readings. There will be a special presentation... Full story
Top (left-right): Artists Nancy Watterson Scharf, Barbara Berry, Karen Ellis. Bottom (left-right): Artists Pam Jersey Bird, Abigail Merickel, Katherine Taylor, Vivian Olsen. Photo provided A local art show titled "Shades of Autumn" is currently on exhibit at Sisters COCC. Nature is the theme for this collection from ArtWise, a group of seven local artists displaying their diverse techniques. The artists are a collective of Central Oregon friends that formed last year. "Forest Walk Impressions" is a hand-pulled Intaglio print... Full story
Emery Meyer as Sir Francis Drake. Photo by Greg Strannigan Sir Francis Drake, El Cid, Queen Esther and others visited Sisters last week as Sonrise Christian School turned into a museum of sorts on Thursday, October 24. Nine seventh and eighth grade students participated in the school's Living History Museum. "We want students to learn information in a variety of ways," said Social Studies teacher Deborah Halsten. "The students learn about a person from history, and then must teach others about their character and create a... Full story
Sisters resident and former Senate candidate Harry Lonsdale will read from his new book "Running: Politics, Power, and the Press" at Paulina Springs Book Company on Sunday, November 3, at 4 p.m. Lonsdale, who is now retired, was the founder of Bend Research. With no political experience, but great concern about the political direction the country was taking, Lonsdale ran for the U.S. Senate three times against long-term incumbent Mark Hatfield, garnering a significant portion of the Oregon vote. "Running" is based on this... Full story
Dr. May Fan is on the receiving end of a wellness check from Heidi Jimenez. Photo by Rongi Yost Sisters High School gymnasium was transformed on Saturday morning, October 26, into a health club and information center at the first Sisters Wellness Expo. Booths, displays, and activities filled the entire area. Flu shots, bone density screening, and cholesterol screens were available, as were eye exams and testing for blood pressure, body composition and flexibility. The event was sponsored by Sisters Athletic Club (SAC).... Full story
Folks who attended the Sisters Wellness Expo at Sisters High School on Saturday, October 26, learned that how you eat can be as important as what you do to keep fit in the gym. Kathy Nagel, Life Coach at Sisters Athletic Club, shared her thoughts on "mindful eating." Nagel has a degree in sports medicine, teaches meditation and stress reduction classes and is also a nutritional counselor. She recommends simple steps to better health through "mindful eating": - Take a few deep breaths before a meal. This allows your body to... Full story
John M. Schwartz, poet. Photo by Conrad Weiler John M. Schwartz has been awarded first place in the Non-rhyming Poem category of the 71st annual Writer's Digest writing competition based on his poem "Bank of China." The Camp Sherman poet competed with over 4,300 entrants in this category. "The writer effectively clangs the vocabulary for organic, natural things (trees, birds, sky, wings, sea) against the iron and concrete. This play of opposites dramatizes the 'straining,'" said final-round judge Robert Pinsky. John and his... Full story
Sisters students play with a canilever. Photo by Conrad Weiler Using meter sticks, Central Oregon Community College Professors Jack McCown and Doug Nelson offered a mathematical balancing act at the Thursday, October 24, Lunch and Learn class at Sisters COCC. Forty community education students, in teams of four or five, were given several meter sticks and asked to stack them on tables, one on top of another, yet extending each successive meter stick to see how far off the table the final stick would extend. With classroom noi... Full story
Kady Hunt is a girl. She is in the eighth grade, and she is a good student. But what makes Kady Hunt unique is that she plays football on the school team. The Sisters eighth grade football team recently completed a 1-4 campaign. "We had only 16 players on our roster," said Coach Paul Patton. "A couple of games we played with only 12 players. Kady played both ways on the line -- she was an offensive guard and on defense, she played nose guard. "We played a lot of bigger schools -- Redmond, Bend, and Crook County. The kids... Full story
Sisters area residents can learn about a major fire-risk reduction project near Camp Sherman through a new web page crafted by the Deschutes National Forest. The website focusing on the Metolius Basin Forest Management Project is one of the first project-specific web pages created by the Deschutes National Forest. It features colorful photos, interactive maps, animation of forest changes and links to other sites that focus on fire ecology and reducing fire risk to forest homes. The site can be found at: ht... Full story
Three workshops on "Communicating Compassionately" will be offered from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on November 6, 13 and 20 in Room 151 of the Boyle Education Center at Central Oregon Community College. The workshops are free; the public is invited to attend one or all three classes. Bryn Hazell of Sisters will introduce the skills involved in "nonviolent communication" -- speaking and listening in a way that inspires compassion and increases the likelihood of peaceful resolution and quality connections. Hazell has 20 years' experience... Full story
Sisters children braved the cold to wrap up their soccer season last weekend. Photo by Jim Cornelius Two undefeated titans of the Sisters U-8 youth soccer program met on the SOAR field on Saturday in the final game of the season. Zadow Physical Therapy triumphed over the Metabolic Radicals 9-5 to close the year without a loss. The team includes: Kyler Bell, Shannon Fouts, David Houston, Trent Marks, Clara McCabe, Lucas Silva, Joshua Ward, Jordan Williams and Haley Zadow. The team was coached by Keith Williams. The Metabolic... Full story
Susan Fullhart and Debbie Williams were among the many volunteers who helped out at the book fair. Photo by Conrad Weiler The Sisters Elementary School Book Fair with Scholastic Books raised $2,200 for next spring's fourth grade field trip. Held in the school library during parent conference week, the fair displayed award winning children's books, art kits, software, posters and adult books on cooking and gardening topics. Almost 800 sale items were attractively displayed for friends, parents, students and teachers to make... Full story
Rev. Harrelson (right) and Dick Kellog in the frame of the Community Hall. Photo by Shawn Strannigan The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration sanctuary offers one of the best views in town, but the facilities have become a bit cramped in recent years. Last May, the church embarked on a building program which will revamp the existing facility and add a Community Hall which will double the church's square footage. "I came to this church in August of '95," said Reverend Larry Harrelson. "Not long after I arrived, we did a... Full story
Lindsay Chick. Photo by Sue Beck The Capital Conference District Championship cross country meet on Friday, October 25, turned out to be a banner day for the Sisters Outlaws. The boys and girls teams qualified for the state meet and the junior varsity teams captured top honors. The varsity girls' team, ranked first the entire season and favored going into the meet, defended its district title with an all-time meet record score of 25 points. Lindsay Chick and Resa Hodson led the way, finishing second and third behind... Full story
The headline and lead paragraph of The Nugget story "Judge denies attorney's fees in SCID suit" (The Nugget, October 23, page 17) overstated the scope of the judge's ruling. No court order has been issued denying attorney's fees in the case between the Cyrus family of Sisters and the Squaw Creek Irrigation District. Judge Stephen Tiktin ruled earlier this month that a May 7, 1999, letter from Cyrus family attorney Michael Peterkin to Squaw Creek Irrigation District attorney Greg Lynch "is not sufficient to entitle plaintiffs... Full story
The legacy of this summer's wildfires continued last week, as an emergency fire rehabilitation crew labored to protect severely burned slopes of the Eyerly fire north of Sisters to reduce the threat of soil erosion. More than 900 bags of winter wheat and annual rye totaling 47,000 pounds were seeded by helicopter onto steep and remote drainages of Spring and Street Creek above Lake Billy Chinook. The plants are expected to persist for three to five years and then die out, acting as a "nurse crop" for native plants... Full story
The Nugget welcomes contributions from its readers, which must include the writer's name, address and phone number. Letters to the Editor is an open forum for the community and contains unsolicited opinions not necessarily shared by the Editor. The Nugget reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for a response to letters submitted to the Editor. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. Unpublished items are not acknowledged or returned. The deadline for all letters is noon Monday. To the Editor: Your "reasoning"... Full story
- Someone ran into the Lazy Z fence at night and left the car stuck there. The car had been reported in a possible DUI out of Bend. That may have had something to do with the outcome. - Deputies responded to several complaints about dogs barking, dogs on the loose -- the same kind of stuff that goes on every day in Sisters, where every pet owner is a responsible pet owner. - Deputies placed a Police Officer Hold on a Sisters High School student who was out of control, hitting trees, the building and himself. - A deputy... Full story
