News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
Dennis Luke gives a boost to a young recycler.
It just got a whole lot easier for Sisters residents and businesses to get rid of their recyclables. The City of Sisters opened a brand new recycling center in the industrial park last Wednesday.
The $416,000 facility features covered concrete bays where recyclers can deposit their materials in bins and trucks can readily hook up and haul the bins away. There is also a used motor oil storage container that can be pumped out for hauling.
The facility also has an office for an attendant who is provided by Deschutes County.
The new center replaces an ad hoc facility on Ash Street that was crowded, inefficient and a major annoyance to neighbors in its residential setting. The new center has greater capacity, an efficient layout and fits in well in an industrial setting.
The siting of the new recycling center is part of an agreement with the Sisters-Camp Sherman Rural Fire Protection District that will allow the fire district to use four acres at the city's municipal wastewater treatment facility as a training site.
In the opening ceremony at the facility, Mayor Brad Boyd acknowledged that the cooperation between the city and the fire department made the creation of a new center possible.
G.J. Miller Construction built the facility, which has a façade sided in Hardiplank.
The facility was in use as soon as local dignitaries cut the ribbons. Several citizens dropped by with loads for deposit, and preschoolers from Duck Duck Goose in Sisters got a boost up to toss plastic into a trailer or cardboard into a big bin.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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