News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Sisters students donated thousands of pounds of food for Kiwanis. photo by Jim Mitchell At this time of year, individuals, organizations, churches and businesses make an extra effort to buy and/or collect food and donate it to the Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank. This year, as in most recent years, Sisters High School has been the champion food collector. Each year the Sisters High School Leadership Class organizes and manages a food drive to collect food for the food bank. This year, inspired by competition between classes,... Full story
Sen. Ben Westlund told a gathering of school supporters in Sisters last week that the only way to solve the school finance problem is through "fundamental tax reform." He defined it this way: "Yes, I'm talking about a consumption tax. I don't care if it's a VAT (value added tax), a business activity tax or a sales tax...We need to cut the capital gains tax in half, cut the income tax in half, and lower property taxes." His own plan, which incorporates a 5 percent retail sales tax, would accomplish those goals, he believes,... Full story
Two parents urged the Sisters School Board at its December 13 meeting to improve the district's program for Talented and Gifted children. Merry Ann Moore, the head of a volunteer organization called the Committee for Sisters School Children, made a brief presentation saying the district ought to hire a TAG coordinator, a "paid professional." She sympathized with the board's lack of money for this purpose but suggested several possible sources of funds, including a foundation set up by Bill Gates of Microsoft dedicated to smal... Full story
Hal Lock communicates with the Amateur Radio Emergency System from his home in Crossroads west of Sisters. photo by Jim Fisher A new emergency radio coordinator for the Deschutes Amateur Radio Emergency Service is ready to provide radio communications for emergency services agencies in Deschutes County. Amateur radio operators jump into action if agencies' normal communications fail. Hal Lock, a Sisters-area resident living in Crossroads, was named to this volunteer position last summer. "Each Oregon county has an emergency... Full story
Angelina Bello-Tapia at La Posada. photo by Jim Mitchell On December 16 the Sisters Hispanic community celebrated a traditional Christmas-time La Posada. The date set for the monthly Hispanic community meeting at CATS coincided with the traditional date for the beginning of the nine-day celebration of the birth of Christ. "Posada" in Spanish simply means lodging or shelter. About 45 Sisters adults and children, mostly Hispanic, walked from the CATS office to two pre-arranged houses near the Village Green. Lighted candles... Full story
Heidi Schray distributes scrip money to children at Habitat for Humanity's Thrift Store in Sisters. photo by Jim Mitchell Habitat for Humanity was busy last week. The organization hosted two new home blessings and complimentary gift buying for 18 Head Start and 23 elementary school children -- all in one day. The day started with a blessing of the Harris and Shepardson homes, numbers 27 and 28 for Sisters Habitat (see related stories, pages 7 and 17). After snacks, prayers, and presentations, the Habitat focus moved to the... Full story
Sisters physical education teacher Kathy Kemper-Green is beaming. She recently received substantial donations to expand the equipment available for Physical Education classes and recesses at Sisters Elementary School. Charged with evaluating and upgrading the PE equipment, Kemper-Green reviewed the PE departments in the Bend schools. She said, "We were way behind the ball in both equipment and programs." She said a grant to the Bend schools had recently enhanced their PE offerings. Her annual budget of $200 just wasn't going... Full story
Lea McFarland-Bushnell. photo by Becky Coffield Mark Twain once gave advice to choose something one loved to do so much that one would be willing to do it for free -- that, he claimed, was the career one should seek. That is exactly the advice Lea McFarland-Bushnell seems to have adhered to her entire life. She now trains horses in Sisters. Her love of horses has proven to be the single most defining factor for who she is and what she does. Born and reared in the high desert cowboy country of Bend, Oregon, Bushnell began... 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
- A Sisters resident consulted with a deputy regarding an ongoing neighborhood dispute. - A deputy met with Sisters fire personnel to discuss filling out citations for illegal burning. The fire district is going to start citing people for illegal burns. - A resident reported the theft of a Honda motorcycle. - A 26-year-old man stopped by the sheriff's office to find out if he had a warrant out on him. He did. He was arrested. - Deputies arrested a Sisters youth for unauthorized use of a vehicle. - Deputies put down several... Full story
At the foot of the Cauberg, a butte in the center of Valkenburg in the province of Limburg, The Netherlands, you'll find the entrance to the city of Caves, a system of tunnels carved in limestone that branch off and branch off again and thus form a labyrinth of tunnels under the city with a total length of about 50 miles. For centuries people have sought a safe haven in the caves in times of war or unrest -- for shelter or because they were trying to escape capture by opposing forces. Refugees have carved out alcoves as... Full story
