News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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This fall's edition of the Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society's Winter Weather Meeting is now history. But instead of information that sounded fresh and new, the message was pretty much the same as last year: the Pacific Northwest appears to be headed for another cool and wet winter. On October 29 an overflow crowd of weather aficionados converged on the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland to hear what regional weather experts had to say about... Full story
Jan Sims, founder of Hero Quilters, participated in a nationwide quilt group that wanted to do something for soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. She heard about American Hero Quilts, out of Vashon, Washington, a non-profit making patriotic quilts for returning severely injured soldierswho were triaged through Madigan Army Hospital. Jan immediately stepped up to the challenge to help and ran an ad in The Nugget soliciting quilters to answer the call. Consequently, Her... Full story
The duo Beam will play at The Barn in Sisters on Friday, November 18. Isabel and Eli met on the Soul Fire Project (SFP) bus, in San Blas, Mexico, on February 20, 2010. Eli Carlton-Pearson and Isabel Sokol-Oxman travelled for six months together on the SFP bus, which is a cooperative artistic project that survives off street performances on its circuitous journey from Hillsboro, Oregon to Brazil. They finally returned to Eli's home turf, Marin County, in the fall of 2010 where their duo, Beam, was born. They play their... Full story
