News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
Teachers are back in their classrooms, sports teams are on the field and on the court, and parent volunteers are sprucing up campuses as Sisters gets ready for the annual rite of fall.
It's time to go back to school.
Classes start at all Sisters schools on Tuesday, September 2, the day after Labor Day (see page 22 for schedules).
Sisters families have a chance to get themselves oriented this week. Sisters Elementary School students will attend their annual Open House on Thursday, August 28, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sisters Middle School fifth and sixth graders will have their Open House on Wednesday evening, August 27, from 6 to 7 p.m., while seventh and eighth graders will have theirs on Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m.
Sisters Middle School is selling PE clothing for seventh and eighth graders and accepting sports registrations. Parents are advised to stop by school offices between 7:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. so they can avoid long lines at Open House.
Sisters High School students were to have their orientation on Tuesday, August 26.
Parents with the Sisters Parent Teacher Committee (SPTC) completed last week a nearly $30,000 project, providing new playground equipment at the school. The Sisters Schools Foundation kicked in $10,000 for new play equipment from Smile Awhile, and a new bank of four swings.
The balance of the funding came from SPTC fund-raisers, including last year's successful Green & Gold Gala and a Buckboard Provisioning sale.
Volunteers moved huge mounds of bark to create a safe footing for the equipment, which is now ready to be swarmed by grade-schoolers.
School busses will be rolling through Sisters starting next Tuesday and drivers are warned to show extra caution around busses or in school areas.
A new crosswalk on Highway 20 adjacent to the Sisters School District Administration Building will allow pedestrians to cross the highway while avoiding the busy Highway 20/Locust Street intersection.
School officials are reminding drivers headed to the middle or high school to use caution at the intersection of Barclay Drive and Highway 20. Several serious accidents have occurred there, including one at the end of the last school year, which badly injured a woman driving her children to school.
Drivers may want to consider an alternative route that doesn't require crossing Highway 20 at that intersection.
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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