News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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To the Editor: Recently The Nugget published letters lambasting the results of a City Council vote that hasn't been taken yet. These critics have heard stories about who is going to be selected mayor, and they aren't happy about it. Perhaps it is time for a civics lesson: The Sisters City Charter specifies that "At the first meeting of the Council in each odd-numbered year beginning with the first odd-numbered year after the adoption of this Charter, Council shall elect one of its members to serve as mayor for a term of two... Full story
December 24, 1914. Since August, the great nations of Europe have been mauling each other in a suicidal frenzy. The assassination of the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has, through a series of miscalculations and misjudgments among the Great Powers, spiraled into a massive European conflict that is spreading like a virus to engulf the world. The slaughter has been unprecedented. Modern, quick-firing artillery and machine guns have turned the battlefield... Full story
Books are a treasure in the outlying villages of Nepal. In a place where goods must be packed in over rugged mountain roads, books are a scarce commodity. Now, thanks to the efforts of a Sisters girl, the village of Simma has its own library. Chloe Frazee raised $1,200 over the past two years, which is enough for the Sisters-based nonprofit Ten Friends to build a library in one of the villages in Nepal that the charity serves. Ten Friends names the libraries after their... Full story
For a frantic nine days in December, the Kiwanis Key Club at Sisters High School leads a canned food drive to benefit the Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank. No matter that it is in the midst of holiday activities, or end of the trimester, or final exams; these student go all out to gather as much as they can as quickly as they can. The completion is intense and school-wide, with the seniors besting their underclassmen again this year with more than 1,100 cans collected. "It's a great project that everyone can really get into,... Full story
Whychus Creek ran high, wide and powerful Sunday, but residents escaped significant damage. Cris Converse of Pine Meadow Ranch reported that, while the creek south of town was up to its banks - and came over at PMR's new irrigation diversion - there was no damage. "Me and my handy shovel took care of things," she said. The ranch manager was in high spirits after a day of work in the rain and mud. "I love high-water events," she said. "The power of nature." Jeff Wester, who... Full story
Sisters Rodeo announcer Wayne Brooks was chosen the 2014 Announcer of the Year at National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas in early December. This was a back-to-back win for the Texas cowboy professional, who has received the award four times in ten years. The One Arm Bandit, John Payne, was awarded the 2014 Specialty Act of the Year in the same ceremony. The talented, inventive entertainer has received that honor 12 times. He has become a worldwide legend in Western entertainment.... Full story
Dozens of Sisters Country families had a merrier Christmas thanks to the efforts of volunteers who put together the Sisters Kiwanis Holiday Food Share program, the Sisters fire volunteers' Spirit of Christmas toy drive and the Furry Friends Pet Food Drive. All day long on Saturday, folks arrived at the Sisters fire hall community room to pick up gift cards for Melvin's Fir Street Market and Food 4 Less, so they could pick up the makings of a Christmas feast. Those with... Full story
The girls basketball team attended the Seaside Invitational Thursday through Saturday, December 18-20, and walked away with a third-place finish. Seaside took championship honors, and Madras finished runner-up. Sisters earned a big 42-10 victory over Central Linn (CL) in the first round of the tournament. The Outlaws came out strong defensively and pushed the tempo on CL. At the close of the first quarter Sisters held a 9-7 lead. CL was able to stay with the Outlaws the first... Full story
Whychus Creek is slowly but surely "rewilding" to a state the first mountain men to trek across Sisters Country might recognize. No longer do irrigation dams impede its progress. The once-dry creekbed in town now sees water flowing year-round. Through the Deschutes Land Trust's Camp Polk Preserve, the stream once again winds and meanders as it did in days of old. In coming years, perhaps, steelhead will spawn in these waters. Sisters Ranger District fisheries biologist Mike... Full story
Food carts are popular in cities across the U.S., from New York City to Bend, Oregon. Sisters businessman Brad Boyd plans to test their popularity in Sisters, siting food carts in the courtyard of Eurosports on the corner of Hood Avenue and Fir Street. Boyd's site plan for the siting of food carts was approved by planning staff late last month. Each food cart will be required to conform to the City's Western theme requirements, and Boyd must make some additional improvements... Full story
Sisters brought 15 of their 22 wrestlers to the Adrian Irwin Invitational Friday and Saturday, December 19-20 at Ridgeview High School. Twenty-one teams participated, and at the close of the two-day tourney Redmond was crowned tournament champion. The Panthers finished with a team score of 303.5, Bend finished second at 229.5, and Nyssa was third with a score of 219. The tourney allows two scoring wrestlers per weight class so more wrestlers were able to compete at the varsity level. Nine freshmen Outlaws stepped into... Full story
The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is testing two alternative fixes to the Cascade Avenue streetlights to bring them into compliance with Sisters' dark skies ordinance. Under that ordinance, lights are supposed to be shielded to cast their light downward to avoid light pollution that interferes with enjoyment of Sisters Country's signature star-filled sky. The streetlights were installed by ODOT as part of the Cascade Avenue renovation project earlier this year. Th... Full story
Earlier this month, Sue and I went wandering around between Phoenix and Las Vegas, visiting family and enjoying the wild things of the Southwest. In our travels so far, nothing can hold a candle to the trip over the Colorado River, near Marble Canyon in northern Arizona. Preparing to leave Phoenix for Vegas, we called Grand Canyon National Park to ask about the whereabouts of California condors along the route. (Grand Canyon's South Rim has a condor-viewing area all summer.)... Full story
The other morning I was driving into Bend to pick up some supplements from my naturopath. I left early so I wouldn't miss any more work than necessary. I was listening to a CD full of songs from my teenage years. "Dust in the Wind" was playing and I was thinking about the lyrics and how they still ring true. With cancer slowly receding in my rearview mirror, the idea that we all return to that former dust-like state really hit home. I was thinking how I'd really prefer to become dust in the wind a long time from now and that... Full story
You've been working from home for two years and have a year-old dog that you are able to give lots of attention to. Then one day things change and you have to work outside the home. A latchkey kid is a child who returns from school to an empty home because his or her parent or parents are away at work, or a child who must spend part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work. There are now many afterschool programs that offer a safe place for the... Full story
Born August 9, 1928, risen peacefully, surrounded by family, on November 16, 2014. Born in Detroit, Michigan, to Josephine and Elbert Marcum, he grew up in the Hazel Park area with his parents, brother Raymond and three sisters Carrie, Patsy, and Ruth. Don graduated from Hazel Park High School in 1946. He received his master's in theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1957. He was also ordained as a minister at that time. Don met the... Full story
Barbara Jean (Alford) Ehman was born in Seattle, Washington, to Eugene and Leila Mae (Croft) Alford. She spent her early youth in Spokane and moved to Portland as a teenager. She graduated from Washington High School and Oregon State University. Barbara met Fred Ehman at a dance at Timberline Lodge, and they were married in 1950. They raised their family in the Portland area and retired to Central Oregon, where they were founding members of the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Sisters. Fred preceded her in death in... Full story
Sharon Nadine Anglea passed away on December 20, at the age of 75, in Sisters. She is survived by her husband, Mike, and children (grandchildren), Kirstin Anne Anglea (Anya Anglea Race), Stacey Anglea Zawel (Max Anglea Zawel and Zakary Anglea Zawel), Steve Michael Anglea (Greyson James Anglea, Sydney Geneva Anglea), Katryn Amundson Chansley, and Anna-Liese Amundson ('Io Mele and Laila Amundson); and her dog, Bailey. Sharon and Mike's kids are sprinkled across the United... Full story
