The Nugget Newspaper September 20, 2017

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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

A red sunrise...

City, Chamber work on fire impact

By Cody Rheault Correspondent

By Andrew Selsky Associated Press

SALEM (AP) — Wildfires that are blackening the American West in one of the nationʼs worst fire seasons have ignited calls, including from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, to thin forests that have become so choked with trees that they are at “powder keg levels.”

The destruction has exposed old frictions between environmentalists and those who want to see logging accelerated, and itʼs triggered a push to reassess how lands should be managed to prevent

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Sisters’ persistently smoky skies have made for a lot of breathing problems, negative economic impacts and some dreary days. But sunrise and sunset can be exceptionally beautiful.

The effects of smoke and a decrease in visitors have impeded businesses over the summer. The City of Sisters and the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce are making efforts to minimize the economic impact.

Local companies and City leadership met last Tuesday for a closed-door meeting at the Chamber of Commerce to discuss options leading into the fall season following a summer short on expected profits.

The convergence of a heavy winter, the Milli Fire, the shortage of eclipse traffic, and the cancellation of the Sisters Folk Festival has put many businesses in a

See THINNING on page 24

See ECONOMY on page 31

How did the Milli Fire get so big?

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

“Perfect storm” is a term being bandied around lately in the reporting of wildfires, floods, hurricanes and other natural and man-made catastrophes.

Unfortunately, at the time of a lightning strike nine miles west of Sisters on August 10, the situation meteorologically, coupled with heavy deployment of firefighting resources elsewhere, both nationally and locally, combined to create the perfect firestorm dubbed the Milli Fire.

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As the fire grew in size, locals were asking, “Why didnʼt they jump on the fire when it was small and put it out?” Seems like a logical solution to avoid losing over 24,000 acres of forest.

At last weekʼs Sisters City Council meeting, representatives from the Central Oregon Fire Management Services (COFMS), and employees of the Sisters Ranger District, presented a detailed explanation of how the fire started and why it grew in size. Their PowerPoint presentation was See FIREFIGHTING on page 18

Inductees welcomed to Hall of Fame

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Guests at the third annual Sisters High School Hall of Fame banquet heard firsthand tales of early Outlaws history as well as reflections of more recent times as nine individuals, teams, and organizations were honored for contributions to the spirit and culture of Sisters.

The event, held in the high school commons Saturday, September 16, was catered by Tate and Tate.

Dennis Dempsey served as the emcee for the evening.

Following introductions

by Athletic Director Gary Thorson and Hall of Fame

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

The 2017 class of the Outlaw Hall of Fame. board member Don Pollard, Gordon Mouser — an inductee to the hall of fame last year — stepped to the

podium and delivered a message to the crowd focused See HALL OF FAME on page 30

Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Salutes .................. 7 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Crossword ....................... 25 Classifieds..................26-28 Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements................12 Sisters Naturalist.............20 Obituaries ....................... 25 Real Estate .................28-32

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Letters to the Editor…

The Nugget welcomes contributions from its readers, which must include the writer’s name, address and phone number. Letters to the Editor is an open forum for the community and contains unsolicited opinions not necessarily shared by the Editor.

The Nugget reserves the right to edit, omit, respond or ask for a response to letters submitted to the Editor. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. Unpublished items are not acknowledged or returned. The deadline for all letters is noon Monday.

To the Editor: The recent events associated with the Milli wildfire have caused me to wonder about the Forest Service, both state and federal, and their management policies and practices and the resulting impact on budgets, jobs and air quality.

I do not understand how environmental groups could endorse a no-cut timber program that results in huge wildfires. This does not seem to be an environmentally sensible thing.

I cannot help but wonder about the environmental damage caused by an out-of-control wildfire in our forests as compared to a wellmanaged logging program.

Wildfires do provide some short-term employment in a very hot and dangerous profession and a great deal of air pollution, while destroying hundreds of thousands or millions of board feet of valuable timber. Wildfires are

also a huge drain on the forestry departments’ already strained and meager budgets. I also wonder if the heat generated by a wildfire contributes to global warming.

Wildfires do an incredibly huge amount of damage to wildlife and their habitat, while a well-managed logging program may do some minor damage for a very short time with minimal wild life loss.

I believe a well-managed logging program that logged 1 percent of our forestlands every year would provide a renewable and sustainable never-ending supply of 100-year-old trees and result in a vibrant and diverse timber industry.

Furthermore, a well-managed logging program would also reduce the ladder fuels that contribute to wildfire growth. Logging roads See LETTERS on page 28

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I used to worry that D o n a ld Tr u m p w as Lonesome Rhodes in a better suit. I’m starting to wonder if he’s Chance the Gardener in a worse one.

Just in case you don’t get the references, Rhodes was the lead character, played by Andy Griffith, in Elia Kazan’s 1957 film “A Face in the Crowd,” the best movie ever made about the dangers of populism and mass media. Chance the Gardener was the lead character, played by Peter Sellers, in Hal Ashby’s “Being There,” a brilliant 1979 film based on the Jerzy Kosinski novel about a simple-minded gardener who had never been outside his employer’s home until the man died. Because Chance speaks in fortune cookie aphorisms about gardening (and has one impeccable custom-tailored suit), he’s mistaken for a man of deep wisdom and is lifted to heights of power in Washington.

President Trump isn’t nearly as kind-hearted as Chance, nor as dimwitted, but there are two relevant similarities. First, both have an unhealthy addiction to television, preferring it to reading. Second, neither really understands what’s going on around them but benefits from being surrounded by people who see what they want to see.

Last week, the president took the opening offer on a debt-limit deal from Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leaders in the Senate and House, respectively. A person close to the GOP leadership told Axios, “He accepted a shakedown when he was holding all the cards. ... This is quite literally a guy who watches ‘ER’ trying to perform a surgery.”

According to reports, the president was ecstatic over the favorable coverage he received for his “bipartisanship.”

“I got a call early this morning,” Schumer told the New York Times. “He said, ‘This was so great!’ Here’s what he said: ‘Do you watch Fox News?’ I said, ‘Not really.’ ‘They’re praising you!’ Meaning me. But he

said, ‘And your stations’ — I guess meaning MSNBC and CNN — ‘are praising me! This is great!’”

Despite his “fake news” refrain, Trump doesn’t hate the mainstream media the way his most ardent supporters do. They sincerely believe it’s a hostile opponent in the culture war, while Trump’s anger is more that of a jilted lover.

His whole life has been marked by an obsession with publicity.

His supporters, though, are oddly blind to that fact.

Normally, when conservatives or Republicans deviate from the party line, the knee-jerk assumption among activists is that they are doing so out of a desire to win praise from the liberal media and invitations to Georgetown cocktail parties. If that’s often unfair, it may actually be the case for Trump, and yet his base insists that if he “wins,” it must also be a win for conservatives. So deep is the desire to see the Trump they thought they were getting, they bend the facts to fit their heroic narrative.

In his “60 Minutes” interview, former White House strategist Steve Bannon insisted that the establishment is “trying to nullify the 2016 election.”

Never mind that the House has passed most of Trump’s agenda (Obamacare repeal and replace, funding the wall, etc). Bannon is working on the assumption that Trump has a mandate for Bannon’s potted theories of “economic nationalism.”

The truth is that Trump’s real mandate was to be “not Hillary Clinton” —and he fulfilled it on Day 1. With the exception of appointing conservative judges, all of Trump’s other scattershot policies earned only partial support from GOP voters.

The other truth is that Trump craves praise more than he cares about implementing his defenestrated strategist’s political fantasies. And his supporters want Trump “wins” more than conservative ones, which is why we can expect more of what we saw last week. © 2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

Opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the writer and are not necessarily shared by the Editor or The Nugget Newspaper.

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A ringside seat for Milli Fire fight

By Emily Woodworth Correspondent

When the Milli Fire burst onto the Sisters horizon in August, Doug and Jessica Mohr occupied a front-row seat. Situated past the Cow Camp off J-15, the Mohr residence commands a stellar view of the mountains. From the comfort of their porch, they remember watching the flames during a party on Saturday, August 12.

“On August 16, I sent Doug a picture of the fire burning behind our house,

saying ‘should we now be concerned?’” Jessica recalled. A contact in the Forest Service let them know an evacuation of their property was likely, what Jessica called an “informal Level 1.”

By the next day they were given the official Level 2, which soon turned into a Level 3 as Milli fed off the winds and dry conditions to make a run at their property.

The Mohrs focused on evacuating their large animals first. Jessica and Doug See MOHRS on page 29

Sisters Science Club blasts off with NASA Gabe Gabrielle is a believer — in the magic of believing in yourself.

The former director of engineering for the U.S. Air Force’s Special Operations Command, Gabrielle is currently assigned to NASA’s Speakers Bureau. Using NASA’s space program as his vehicle, Gabrielle’s motivational message “To Infinity and Beyond” will launch the Frontiers in Science lecture series on Tuesday, September 26, at 7 p.m. at The Belfry.

Gabrielle is noted for his inspirational talks, not only for scientists and other

space “junkies,” but also for his ability to connect with students. During his stay in Central Oregon, he will visit with classes at Sisters High School, speak at all-school assemblies at Sisters middle and elementary schools, and appear at schools in Redmond and Bend.

Gabrielle has traveled the world for NASA. He has been at Kennedy Space Center as a contractor for NASA as an engineering programmer for approximately 17 years; a member of See SCIENCE on page 22

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Sisters Middle School students are celebrating the success of their monarch butterfly project — including the creation of a waystation and a book that has earned them international recognition.

‘Journey’s Flight’ was educational

By Erin Borla Correspondent

Sisters Middle School students can be proud of what they have accomplished: raising and releasing a record-setting Western monarch butterfly, creating a monarch waystation to help the dwindling monarch population — and now a published book.

“Journey’s Flight — One Western Monarch’s RecordSetting Migration” went on

sale to the public through Paulina Springs Books in Sisters and Amazon.com last Friday. The book project, a collaboration between Susie Werts’ reading class and other Sisters students; the United States Forest Service; representatives from U.S. Fish and Wildlife; and local writer Jean Russell Nave, is a celebration of an amazing accomplishment.

After reading a story about the Western monarchs’ winter migration in

the spring of 2016, Werts’ class decided to create a monarch waystation at the middle school. Local businesses and community members donated their time, products and services to help create the waystation with milkweed and nectar plants.

These two plants created the perfect home for the monarch to grow, feed and thrive.

On September 15, 2016, Werts and her students See BUTTERFLY on page 21

SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS

Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild 4th Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For location information: 541-549-2072.

Al-Anon Mon., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Wed., 6 p.m., Central OR Spinners and Weavers Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. Guild 4th Saturday, 1 to 3 p.m. Sisters 541-549-8737 or 541-549-1527.

Library (Jan.-Oct.). 541-639-3217.

Alateen Thursday, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration.

541-549-1527.

Central Oregon Woodworkers Guild 2nd Tuesday. 541-639-6216.

Sisters Area SketchUp Users Group 2nd Wednesday, 7 p.m., Earthwood Timber Frame Homes. 541-549-0924.

Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon, Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123.

Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.

Sisters Walking Group Fridays, 10 a.m. at Village Green Park. All are welcome to come walk! 541-410-9245.

Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays, 12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse.

Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419.

Three Sisters Irrigation District Board of Directors 1st Tuesday, 4 p.m., TSID Office. 541-549-8815.

Three Sisters Lions Club 1st Sisters Caregiver Support Group Thursday, noon, Ray’s Food Place 3rd Tuesday, 10 a.m., Ray’s Food Place Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & community room. 541-419-1279. community room. 541-771-3258.

Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the VFW 8138 & American Legion Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal Friends of the Sisters Library Board Sisters Cribbage Club Tuesdays, Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Ray’s Food Place 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-903-1123 or 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Sisters Library. 541-977-8285. community room. 541-923-1632.

541-549-1132.

Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board Weight Watchers 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.

Thursdays, 9 a.m. (weigh-in 8:30 a.m.), Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Location information: 541-549-1193.

Sisters Comm. Church, 541-602-2654.

Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran 4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230. Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., SCHOOLS Military Parents of Sisters Meetings Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870. noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran are held quarterly; please call for details.

Church. 541-548-0440.

Black Butte School Board of Sisters Parent Teacher Community 541-388-9013.

Directors 2nd Tuesday, 0 p.m., 3rd Wednesday, 3 p.m., Sisters Black Butte Macintosh Users Group Black Butte School. 541-595-6203.

Elementary C-wing. 971-570-2405.

3rd Thursday, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Sisters Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Library community room. 541-549-1471. Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., Sisters Christian Academy Board Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.

Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-408-5594. of Directors 2nd Thursday, 8 a.m., Location information: 541-279-1977.

Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club RE/MAX Out West Realty office at SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community & Enrichment) Wednesdays, 1 to Sisters Rotary Tuesdays, noon, Outlaw Station. 541-549-4133. room. Partner required. 541-595-6236.

Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-977-6545.

4 p.m. at SPRD. 541-549-2091.

Sisters School District Board of Directors One Wednesday per month, Central Oregon Council on Aging Sisters Trails Alliance Board Sisters Area Photography Club SSD Admin Bldg. See schedule at www.

Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library 1st Wednesday, 5 p.m. Sisters Art Community Church. 541-678-5483. community room. 541-549-6157.

Works. Public welcome. 541-719-8822. sisters.k12.or.us. 541-549-8521 x4011.

East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.

CITY & PARKS Sisters City Council 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall.

541-549-6022.

Sisters Park & Recreation District Board of Directors 1st Tuesday, 6 p.m., SPRD building. 541-549-2091.

Sisters Planning Commission 3rd Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-549-6022.

FIRE & POLICE Black Butte Ranch Police Dept.

Board of Directors Meets monthly.

541-595-2191 for time & date.

Black Butte Ranch RFPD Board of Directors 4th Thursday, 9 a.m., Black Butte Ranch Fire Station. 541-595-2288.

Cloverdale RFPD Board of Directors 3rd Wednesday, 7 p.m., Station 602, 67433 Cloverdale Rd. 541-548-4815.

See the agenda at cloverdalefire.com.

Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday, 5 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 541-549-0771.

Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Drills Mondays, 7 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St. 541-549-0771.

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Luz leads win over Cowboys

Quilters seek ‘Shelter’

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

Christopher “Pherry” Luz was the star of the first half in the Outlaws’ 24-14 win at home over the Crook County Cowboys on Friday, September 15.

Luz scored on a 30-yard pick-six to get the Outlaws on the scoreboard with just over two minutes left in the first quarter, and midway through the second, scored again on a 64-yard fly sweep pass to put the Outlaws on top 14-0.

The Outlaws scored twice more in the second quarter to go up 24-0 at the half. Pherry threw the ball to Turner Stutzman on a fly sweep pass for a 57-yard TD with 3:48 left in the quarter, and Luz wrapped up the first-half scoring at the buzzer, when he scored on a 73-yard flysweep pass.

Sisters missed two PATs and failed on two two-point conversion attempts.

The Cowboys scored twice in the second half, a one-yard TD run by Knutzon in the third, and another by Knutzon with 1:50 left in the game. Time ran out and the Outlaws recorded the win.

Sisters brought up sophomore Taylor Fendall to play quarterback, and he did a great job in his varsity debut against the Cowboys.

Outlaws starting quarterback, Zach Morgan, separated his shoulder early in the first quarter of last week’s game

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Turner Stutzman receives a pass from Taylor Fendall and runs for a touchdown against Crook County. against Cascade and will be out for six to eight weeks. Luz had been stepping in to fill the position, but Coach Neil Fendall told The Nugget that Pherry was getting too beat up at quarterback, and the team needed him at receiver.

Coach Fendall said, “Taylor didn’t throw a lot in his first varsity game, but we thought he managed the game well, and he showed a good knowledge of our calls and formation.”

Fendall was pleased with the team’s overall play, but did note areas where the squad needs work.

“Overall, we played better in a lot of areas than a week ago, and our overall performance has improved,”

said Fendall. “But we had 10 penalties in the second half, which slowed us down.

We need to get that cleaned up for sure, and our defense in the secondary still needs improvements.”

The Outlaws kick off league play at Sweet Home on Friday, September 22, at 7 p.m.

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exhibit their work annually.

Each member shows their individual work at the local, regional and national level, but the group’s annual show of collective work is really quite impressive. A viewer can appreciate the varying fabrics, fiber, stitching, and embellishments applied in 15 differing ways.

The 15 artists in the group include: Betty Gientke, Catherine Beard, Charlene Kenny, Donna Rice, Helen Brisson, Jan McBrien Tetzlaff, Jean Wells-Keenan, Jody Rusconi, Judy Beaver, June Jaeger, Marion Shimoda, Martha Sanders, Mary Stiewig, Sheila Finzer, and Tonye Phillips.

Show starts Friday, September 22 and will continue through November 2. An artists’ reception is set for September 22, from 4 to 7 p.m.

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The word “Shelter” has many synonyms: Protect, shield, screen, cover, shade, guard, and insulate. Beginning in September and continuing through October, Journeys Art Quilt group will present their new show “Shelter” at Sisters Art Works in Sisters.

While each member has her own skills and style, the creative direction taken is quite diverse. Some artists approach the subject literally, others abstractly. Helen Brisson’s piece, “Thru the Storm,” is based on a trip she made to Switzerland. Betty Gientke used the Japanese technique “boro” to create her quilt.

Mary Stiewig and Jean WellsKeenan’s pieces are based on nature’s gift of protection for wildlife.

Journeys Art Quilters is a group of 15 artists who

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TO INFINITY AND BEYOND…

To share the magic of the space program… shuttle launches, astronauts on the space station, rovers on Mars and the future of the space program with astronauts going to Mars Gabe Gabrielle is an engineer, educator, and a motivational public speaker.

He tells stories wrapped around the space program at NASA which inspire kids, teachers, professionals, and others.

Gabe’s laid-back and honest approach reaches people at all levels. Gabe’s lecture includes short videos on shuttle launches and stories of space station astronauts, Mars rovers, and NASA’s future. Building on these inspirational tales of adventure and achievement, Gabe encourages listeners to believe in themselves, to turn dreams into goals, to have fun and, above all, to have hope.

Tuesday, September 26 At The Belfry, 302 E. Main Ave., Sisters One-hour lecture begins at 7 p.m.

Doors open at 6 p.m. for community hour!

Admission: $5; Science Club Donors, Teachers and Students - FREE Save the Date: Tues., Oct. 24 Dr. Larry Sherman, OHSU Lecture: “The Neuroscience of Pleasure and Love”

Bring your curiosity and an appetite for food, drink & knowledge!

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Sisters Arts Association Fourth Friday Art Stroll

By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

Fall is here, so why not step out and support local artists and merchants during the Fourth Friday Art Stroll, Sept.

22, from 4 to 7 p.m.

Sisters Arts Association w e l c o m e s Wi l d f l o w e r Studio on its grand opening.

Wildflower incorporates an art boutique, artist studios, and custom picture-framing shop. The boutique features local handmade items, and the frame shop is up and running.

Stop and see Chris Nelson and Wendy Rickards to discuss art, jewelry, and framing.

Last month, Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop featured the latest of Dennis McGregor’s original paintings in the series called “You Stole My Name.” This month, all 22 of McGregor’s original paintings (18 of which will make up a book by the same name) are on display in the Sisters Library Community Room. McGregor launches his Kickstarter campaign at the library on Friday, and he will play and discuss his new work in the community room at 7 p.m. All of the paintings are available for purchase, and since some have already been sold, this will be one of the final opportunities to see all of them simultaneously.

In the library’s computer

room, Sisters quilters Sharon Carvalho and Torrie Gordon display art quilts that reflect their personal experiences and individual processes.

This month at Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop, Paul Alan Bennett is the featured artist, with many samples from his designer clothing line. Bennett has transformed many of his most popular paintings into wearable art: leggings, shirts, skirts, dresses, and more.

Fiber Artist Sharyl McCulloch is featured at Gary Cooley’s Collection Gallery.

McCulloch emphasizes quality materials — and a sense of fun. Her one-of-a-kind accessories are knitted or woven with the spirit of Sisters.

At Cowgirls and Indians Resale, author Jill Stanford will be signing her book, “Cowgirls In The Kitchen,” with cookies and treats on

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Music of the Trees by Barbara Berry. hand. Kate Aspen is featuring her own Red Necklace Series, along with furniture and décor from Junk Yard Stella, and needle-weaving necklaces by Marlene Hasler.

Studio Redfield has paintings and hand-painted ceramics by Randy Redfield and hand-painted Kibak tile.

N a t u r e ’s B l i n g j u s t imported more than 20,000 pounds of amethyst from Brazil and Uruguay and four new major fossil imports: two from Montana, and two from Africa. Candyce Park will show her jewelry designs, and be available for jewelry repair.

The Clearwater Gallery highlights woodworker Bob Bousquet, fused-glass artist Edie Shelton, and jewelry artist Wendy Vernon, between 4 and 6:30 p.m.

Twigs’ featured artist is art quilter Helen Brisson, “Sketching in Fabric.” She uses personal photos and sketches as stepping-stones to dying, painting, and printing on her own fabric, and experiments with commercial fabrics, finishing her work with “Maxine,” her quilting machine.

Raven Makes Gallery has new acquisitions from a recent

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Quick Draw Sign up for this month’s Quick Draw, a $100 gift certificate to The Depot Café.

Check out the house-made chili, fresh baked pies, burgers on cheese-onion Kaiser rolls, wide sandwich menu, and the train that runs around the room.

Southwest buying trip: Navajo silver and precious-stone jewelry from the Lister family, gold and silver bracelets from Cody Hunter, and a curated sample of Pueblo pottery.

Barbara Berry, the featured artist at Ken Scott’s Imagination Gallery, captures subject, time and place with vibrant colors. During the Art Stroll, she offers a 10 percent discount on her art.

Jewelry artist Sharon Reed is featured at Hood Avenue Art. Her stunning jewelry combines textured sterling with stones she has collected from around the world.

Journeys Art Quilt Group presents its annual show at Sisters Art Works. The theme is “Shelter,” as interpreted by 15 quilters. Some of these unique works are for sale.

Also open for the Art Stroll – Beacham’s Clock Company, Dyrk Godby Gallery, Disney Fine Art Gallery, Grizzly Ridge Upcycle, and The Jewel.

New maps are available in all of the galleries. This month’s Quick Draw is a $100 gift certificate to The Depot Café.

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Festival announces Developer rallies option for partial refund support for victims Those who bought passes for the cancelled Sisters Folk Festival (SFF) may seek a partial refund or donate the price of the pass to the nonprofit. The festival was cancelled due to wildfire smokerelated air quality concerns in Sisters in the week leading up to the event.

The festival announced on Monday: “Cancelling the Festival two days before it was to start means we incurred a significant portion of the expenses of the event. Between the expenses we have incurred, the programs we are committed to funding and the refund we are able to offer, we will have fully expended the pass revenue we received — and then some.

“After much deliberation and soul-searching, we can offer pass-holders these options: 1. Make your pass purchase a tax-deductible donation to support the arts and music programming of SFF. We ask you, if your circumstances allow, to use this option as it will help us continue the arts and music programs we’ve committed to our community.

2. Accept a nominal refund of 35 percent and a donation acknowledgement for the balance of your pass price.”

Many people in the community have already expressed their intent to donate the full cost of their pass in support of the event.

“I would say the majority of the communication I have received (has been) people choosing to donate their ticket rather than seeking a refund,” Managing Director Ann Richardson said. “However, I have received some inquiries from people interested in a refund.”

The festival organization notes that contributions — including the value of an unused pass — are generally tax-deductible (the festival suggests consulting with a tax advisor regarding deductibility).

Sisters Folk Festival, Inc. is assessing the impact of the cancellation of what amounts to its biggest fundraiser of its educational outreach programs. The nonprofit invests over $250,000 every year into programs in grades K-12 in the Sisters schools — programs like the Americana Project where students learn to play guitar, write and perform their own songs; and the luthier program at Sisters High School that teaches young people math, engineering and woodworking skills while they craft their own custom guitar or ukulele.

Underserved youth in Sisters are able to take piano, dance or other arts-based lessons thanks to a scholarship program funded by SFF. Plans are already underway for the 2018 festival.

To donate or to request a partial refund, visit https:// sistersfolkfestival.org/ donationrefund-receipt-form/.

Grand Peaks at Sisters, the nation’s newest pickleball community based in Sisters is asking for its sister pickleball communities across the nation to donate to help victims of the various natural disasters across the United States. Close to home, the forest fires across the state of Oregon are raging, along with destructive fires in Montana.

Further afield, victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida are also in need of assistance.

With millions displaced and without basic services, monies raised from this campaign will go directly to Lutheran Disaster Response.

This long-established team provides direct communitybased relief and collaborates with other organizations to meet immediate needs all the way through long-term recovery.

Neil Amondson, partner in Grand Peaks, said, “With a long track record of supporting those affected by natural disasters, we are now drawing on our shared love of pickleball to bring this campaign to fruition. Our goal is to raise significant funds to help anyone in need affected by recent

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Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) has cancelled its annual buried beef and brew event originally scheduled for September 23.

SPRD Executive Director Liam Hughes said, “There have been a variety of factors that influenced our decision to cancel, with one of the major ones being that an event that involves us building a giant smoky fire in the middle of town and burning a cord of wood doesn’t seem to excite the residents of Sisters right now, and I can certainly see why.”

The fundraising event for SPRD was to feature beef slow-cooked in a fire pit overnight.

“We apologize to anyone that was looking forward to the delicious slow-cooked beef, but we will reevaluate, and may be able to hold the event in the spring instead,” Hughes said.

Those who purchased tickets will receive a full refund and should contact SPRD at 541-549-0291.

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One hundred percent of funds donated to the campaign will go directly to the national Lutheran Disaster Response. (PayPal fees will be absorbed by Saint Luke Church.)

This organization: • Provides care for people who have been affected by a disaster and for leaders who respond to a disaster; • Coordinates volunteers through its local affiliates; and • Provides long-term recovery efforts by addressing the unmet needs months or even years after a disaster strikes.

Donations can be made online via PayPal by visiting www.grandpeaksatsisters. com.

Grand Peaks at Sisters is being developed by Hunter Renaissance Development LLC. The company has a history of philanthropic giving that includes spearheading support for victims of natural disasters and have co-founded nonprofits honoring and supporting military veterans and troops. For more information visit www.grandpeaksat sisters.com.

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Members of the Sisters VFW and American Legion held a successful fundraising raffle for a Remington Model 700 7mm magnum long rifle. Over $500 was raised. The drawing was held September 4; the winning ticket belonged to a resident of Washougal, WA. Ruth Raizin of Three Sisters Floral writes: I would like to say thank you and commend this community

for stepping up to support local businesses. Following our smoke-filled summer, Jim Cornelius wrote a strong editorial in The Nugget issue of September 13, “We are our own disaster relief program,” and the community is answering the call. As a business owner, I’ve seen an immediate and encouraging response. So to Sisters-area locals: we notice, and you do make a difference.

Over 1 million fish evacuated due to Columbia gorge fire PORTLAND (AP) — State officials say more than 1 million fish were evacuated from the Cascade Hatchery because of the threat of debris from a wildfire burning in the Columbia River Gorge.

The Oregonian/ OregonLive reports Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said about 1.65 million coho salmon and 132,000 spring Chinook salmon were to be evacuated Friday and Saturday.

Officials say rain in the Columbia River Gorge over

the coming days could cause mudslides and increased debris in the water that could clog screens on the hatchery’s water intake and cut off water to the fish.

About a million coho salmon will be moved to the Leaburg Hatchery where they will remain until they are released into rivers next spring. The remaining fish will be sent to the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, Willard National Fish Hatchery and Sandy Fish Hatchery.

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Girls soccer ties Cottage Grove

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaws played well in their league opener and finished the game in a 1-1 tie at home against Cottage Grove on Thursday, September 14.

Cool temperatures and a 6:30 p.m. start made for ideal conditions for both teams.

Sofia Affatati scored at the four-minute mark for the Outlaws, with a nice assist from Brianna Bachmeier, and Sisters took an early 1-0 lead.

The game went back and forth, and with eight minutes left in the half the Lions were able to knock in a goal to even the score 1-1.

Sisters started to dominate play in the second half, and had three to four good opportunities to score.

One of those opportunities was a fast-break throughball, where Rylee Weber received a pass from Mirjam Ehrler. Weber dribbled the ball into the 18-yard box, but the Lions’ keeper came out and made a huge save to keep the game level at 1-1.

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The Lady Outlaws battled to a tie in their league soccer opener.

Outlaws, did a great job and played extremely well, and finished with eight saves on the night.

Coach Jaron Jacobsen said, “Rheanna was quick to come off her line multiple times to clear the ball.”

Two days earlier, the Outlaws fell 9-0 on the road at Henley.

Coach Jacobsen said, “The girls played hard in a very physical game. They have been improving, given the circumstances with all the smoke and indoor practices, and are looking forward to next week’s games.”

Sisters was to play at Sutherlin on Tuesday, September 19. The Lady Outlaws will host the Sweet Home Huskies on Thursday, September 21.

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Wildflower Studio blooms in Sisters

By Katy Yoder Correspondent

After a tough retail season, business owners in Sisters have taken a significant hit.

To succeed in such an environment takes business savvy, a great product and a proven track record.

For Chris Nelson and Wendy Rickards, the seed of their idea was to create a studio where they could both make art and sell it directly to their customers.

“We didn’t want to be a gallery,” explained Nelson, “we’re a workspace studio.”

Their new business, “Wildflower Studio,” is a place for them to produce work for their shop as well as other venues. They love the chance to sell their work while they’re producing new things. Seeing people’s reactions helps them be more creative. That interaction fuels new ideas that reflect what they hear from their customers.

Chris is known for her paintings of landscapes, songbirds and flowers. She loves the blur of impressionistic art blended with her eye for detail and color.

Her career in the arts didn’t start as a painter. Chris is well known for her mastery as a framer. With 27 years of experience framing art, she knew her business endeavor had to include that passion, too. Opening the new business has brought back a sense

of fun and creativity when she’s framing. She’s excited about what her customers bring in and the joy of working toward the perfect frame for a beloved artwork.

A recent empty-nester, the roles have reversed for Chris.

“Now the kids are supporting me in my new endeavor as a business owner,” she said.

Wendy is a three-dimensional artist. Her jewelry offers a fresh and unique look for her customers. She also loves working on bigger projects. When you visit the studio, check out the tables in the shop. She built them, and plans on making more metal art in many forms.

Along with being a framer, Wendy has another job that gets her up before sunrise and hard at work for 12 to 16 hours a day.

“Two or three days per week, I drive a log truck,” she said. “I don’t have kids but I do have three Peterbilts!”

Wendy has been driving trucks for as long as Chris has been framing. It’s tough physical work and she’d like to begin the transition into more metal work and less hours behind the wheel. For both women this new business allows them to finally be who they have wanted to be from the beginning. Instead of working all day for someone else, they will be able to make art during the day and spend time with their customers, too.

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Chris Nelson and Wendy Rickards have launched Wildflower Studio — an artists’ workspace in Sisters. other Sisters artists as well.

Their plan is to be a boutique versus a gallery.

“There’s so many multifaceted artist in Sisters, we want to support them,” said Nelson. “We’re not a huge space but we will be varied in what we feature.”

Framing will be a big part of what the Wildflower Studio offers.

“Sisters is growing,” said Rickards, “and we think there’s room for us. We hope to connect with people who want someone with design expertise and years of framing experience.”

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Rancho Viejo marks 10th anniversary

By Jim Williams Correspondent

Workin in the fields till you get your back burned, workin ’neath the wheels till you get your facts learned, baby I got my facts learned real good right now.

The lyrics to “Badlands,” written over 30 years ago

by Bruce Springsteen, apply just as easily now as they did then: Just ask Javier Luna.

Now in the midst of celebrating Ranch Viejo Mexican Restaurant’s 10th anniversary, Luna is a testament to hard work and perseverance.

“This is without a doubt one of the biggest accomplishments of my life,” said Luna. “Other than going to college. I was actually born in the United States, but because my parents were migrant workers, I spent a lot of time growing up in Mexico.”

After having spent the better part of 11 years in Mexico, the family eventually landed in the San Francisco Bay Area where Luna went to school. While very much enjoying the area, he could see things changing and the competitive disadvantages of staying in the area.

Eventually, Luna’s parents settled in the Redmond area; after completing college, Luna was offered an opportunity to join his family here.

“We left the Bay Area because of the power and the expense I saw all over, and I just didn’t see a future there,”

Luna explained. “Moving here I felt right at home because we are from a small town in the Jalisco province in Mexico, and now this is a small town that me and my family have adapted to and really love.”

Even though Luna waited tables and worked in the restaurant business while in school, it was not his intention of owning or managing a restaurant until his father approached him with the idea.

“My parents actually made a pitch while I was still going to school that if I moved up here they would help me buy a house, which was out of the question in the Bay Area,” said Luna. “On top of that, he said he’d help me buy a restaurant business.

Now, I just didn’t see myself running a restaurant business having just completed school.

I was familiar with the business, having waited tables, and was familiar with managing a bit, but I really didn’t see having my own company at the time.”

After giving it some thought, a newly married Luna left the Bay Area for the challenges of Central Oregon.

Initially, Luna looked for work in accounting and payroll, but soon discovered a couple of things about the area.

“When I got up here, I realized how hard it was going to be to get into my chosen field, and how low the

wages were compared to the Bay Area,” said Luna.

Luna met a restaurant owner who offered him a job in Redmond, which helped kick-start his career. Starting as a server, Luna eventually learned every aspect of the restaurant business, including managing. After a stint as the manager at El Rancho Grande in Redmond, Luna was offered the job as manager at the Sisters location.

“Things were starting to go downhill for them in Redmond, so they offered me the restaurant here, and closed the Redmond location,” Luna said. “That is when my father and one of my sisters came on board as partners in the Sisters location.”

Of course by 2007 the nation-wide economy started to wobble, and eventually Central Oregon and the rest of the country were hit with one of the longest, deepest recessions in history.

“We knew it was going to be hard. I mean there were other, already established restaurants in town and we were all having issues, but we just kept trying to get the local community behind us until people started to support us and really liked what we were doing,” Luna said. “But it was extremely difficult.”

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Javier and Loraina Luna have persevered to the 10-year mark with their Mexican restaurant in Sisters. was good enough that Luna could buy out his partners, and he and his wife, Loraina, found themselves as sole owners of the restaurant, now called Rancho Viejo.

After having bought out the previous owners and his partners, it was important to Luna to put his own stamp on the identity of the new restaurant.

“Even though the name was part of the purchase, initially, it was very important to get our identity out there,” explained Luna. “We started doing our own menus, writing new recipes, and just adding our own touches wherever we could. We’ve reinvested a lot of profits back into the restaurant, which has helped continue to make us profitable, and continue our high-quality food and atmosphere. And believe it or not, I really enjoy and appreciate the competition with the

other restaurants in town.

People have choices, and choices mean that people are in my restaurant because they love my food, or atmosphere, seeing their friends, or even enjoying visiting with us and my staff.”

Luna is also very aware of the impact that he has on the local economy not with just taking care of his customers. In the summer months he employs as many as 25 fulland part-time employees, and during the slower months about 13. Being small, with a lot of skillsets, helps Luna act quickly if need be and helps keeps his costs down and overall quality high to meet demand.

Now with a young family of four and all the responsibilities that go with it, Luna is still “working ’neath the wheels,” while contributing to the success of his community.

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Outlaws sweep Cottage Grove in league opener

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The Lady Outlaws played a solid match in their sweep over the Cottage Grove Lions at home in the Sky-Em League opener on Thursday, September 14. The match concluded with scores of 25-11, 25-14, and 25-15.

It was a tight start for both teams in the first set, and after the first rotation the Outlaws held a slim 10-8 lead.

When freshman Sophia Silva stepped up to the service line, Sisters was up by five, 15-10.

Sisters went on a six-point scoring run, gained momentum, and forged ahead to get the win. During that run, Hawley Harrer posted three kills and Silva recorded two aces.

In the second set, with the Outlaws down 12-13, Harrer took control serving, and Sisters scored 12 consecutive points to go up 24-12. Harrer had five aces, and Kendra Sitz contributed three kills in the run. During the run, the Lions took two timeouts to try and stop Sisters’ momentum, but the Outlaws stayed strong to the end. Erynn Ricker ended the game with a great kill from the middle. Sisters didn’t miss a single serve in the set.

Jessie Brigham broke the game open for the Outlaws in the third set, with her sevenpoint serving run. Freshman Ellie Rush had seven assists in the set, Brigham recorded five digs, and the Outlaws posted

the win.

Jessie Brigham said, “Our chemistry is getting stronger as the season progresses and teamwork is continuously building. We felt confident going into our first league game and we feel like we had a strong start. We hope to continue to come together and play as one team throughout the rest of the season.”

Harrer led the squad with 13 kills, 12 digs, 10 assists, and six aces. Brigham logged 15 digs, five aces, and a kill.

Cantwell contributed 10 kills and six digs, and Sam Silva added five kills and four digs.

Sitz tallied four kills, and Ricker finished with three kills and two blocks.

Coach Rory Rush said, “It was a great way for us to start league play. We were able to play in-system better than we did in previous games. We only missed two serves the whole match, which is something we have been focusing on a lot leading up to the match. Our strong play also allowed us to get some younger players some playing time, which will certainly help us down the road.”

Two days earlier, the Outlaws wrapped up preseason at home with a fourset win over the Ridgeview Ravens with scores of 25-18, 22-25, 25-12, and 25-19.

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the Outlaws to a 20-12 advantage, and Sam Silva closed out the set with three kills and two serving aces.

Sisters had trouble in the second set, and quickly found themselves down 11-1. The Outlaws did climb back in to make it a closer match, but couldn’t get the win. Ashlynn Cantwell had some key kills during Sisters’ run and ended up with five kills for the set.

Silva contributed four kills as well.

The Outlaws took an early 5-2 lead in the third frame.

Harrer expanded the lead during her first serving rotation, going on a five-point run, including two aces, and brought the score to 11-3.

Sisters controlled the attack and the net, and really never allowed the Ravens into the game. Silva brought the set to an end with a game-winning kill.

The first half of the fourth set was tight. Cantwell stepped up to the service line with the Outlaws down by one, 13-14.

When Ashlynn was finished, she’d pulled the Outlaws to a 22-14 advantage, and taken the wind out of the Ravens sails. Cantwell had four aces during her serving run.

Cantwell said, “As a senior I wanted to lead my team and fight back as a team. After our losses last week, I didn’t want to lose another game. We did the things we’d talked about before practice, which was playing as a team, being very talkative, staying positive, and

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Sisters’ players racked up some serious stats in the match. Harrer recorded 18 kills, 10 assists, and was 100 percent from the service line with three aces. Silva tallied nine kills, 16 digs, and was also 100 percent from the line with three aces.

Cantwell finished the night with eight kills, 16 digs, and six aces. Erynn Ricker had

four kills and five blocks, and Kendra Sitz had five kills.

Brigham led the team with 23 digs, along with two kills and two aces.

The Outlaws tallied 15 serving aces, and committed only eight serving errors.

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Make sure child passengers are safe in vehicles September 17-23 is National Child Passenger Safety Week. The primary goal is to make sure parents and caregivers are correctly using proper car seats for their children.

According to Safe Kids Worldwide, car seats and booster seats are the basic protection systems for passengers who are too small to get the full safety benefits from adult seat belts. The goal of car seats is to provide small children with the same protection, or better, than adults obtain from seat belts and other safety equipment built into a vehicle. They are designed to keep children within the vehicle and close to their original seating position, prevent contact with harmful interior surfaces or other occupants, and provide “ride-down” by gradually decelerating the child as the vehicle deforms and absorbs energy from crash forces. For this to work properly, the correct seat must be selected for the child’s height, weight, and developmental levels.

Many children are advanced to the next seat stage before they are truly ready, which puts them at

greater risk for injury in a crash. Children between the ages of 12–24 months are up to five times better protected by riding rear-facing to the limits of their convertible car seat. Oregon’s child passenger safety seat laws changed earlier this year requiring child passengers under age 2 to use a child seat with harness in a rear-facing position, unless the child turned one year of age prior to May 26, 2017. Convertible seats with higher rear-facing weight and height limits allow many children to ride rear-facing well past the age of 2. Children are also being moved prematurely from harnessed car seats into booster seats, as well as from booster seats into adult seat belts, which puts them at greater risk for injury if the seat belt does not fit them correctly.

For all children under the age of 13, the back seat is the safest place for them to ride. They are better protected from head-on collisions, which constitute about 60 percent of all crashes.

In addition, they are not at risk for being injured by the passenger air bag, which is designed for adult protection

in conjunction with a seat belt. Familiarize yourself with the location of the air bags in your vehicle, with the help of your vehicle owner’s manual.

A rear-facing car seat should NEVER be placed in front of an active air bag. Considering the best location for your child’s car seat should also include the needs of other passengers who ride in the vehicle and the seating position that will provide an optimal installation for your child’s car seat. The middle seat in the back is often referred to as the “best” location for car seats because of the protection from side impact crashes, but any back-seat position is a preferred location to install car seats.

Also consider the needs of your family; for example, if you often park on a busy street, place your child’s car seat on the curbside as opposed to the street side for optimal protection for you and your child when entering and exiting the vehicle.

It is estimated that 46 percent of car seats on America’s roads are installed incorrectly.

A car seat that is incorrectly installed will not provide optimal protection in a crash

situation, and may put your child’s safety at risk. While great strides have been made in reducing child fatalities and injuries since the 1970s, over half of children killed are either improperly restrained or completely unrestrained.

Car seats can be installed with either the seat belt or the lower anchors, and forwardfacing seats should always utilize the tether. Tether nonuse in forward-facing car seat installation is one of the most common installation errors, yet correct use can significantly decrease the risk of head injuries in a crash.

Correct harnessing or seatbelt fit ensures your child is securely positioned in a car seat, booster seat, or vehicle seat, and able to take advantage of the crash protection that the harness or belt provides. The harness holds the child down low in the car seat so he/she does not slide up and out of the car seat in a crash. Incorrect harnessing — often a loose harness or a retainer clip that is too low — is an extremely common misuse. Correct seat-belt fit, for children in boosters or transitioning out of boosters is very important and also a

common error.

Oregon state law requires children less than 40 pounds be restrained in a child seat.

• Children under 2 years of age or weighing less than 20 pounds must be restrained in a rear-facing child seat.

Children who turned one year of age prior to May 26, 2017 AND weigh more than 20 pounds may be forward-facing. It is encouraged to leave them rear-facing as long as possible.

• Children over 40 pounds must be restrained in either a forward-facing five-point harness with a tether or a booster seat appropriate for their size until they reach 8 years old or 4 feet 9 inches tall AND the adult seatbelt system fits them correctly by passing the fivestep test: 1. Back against the seat.

2. Knees bent comfortably at the edge of the seat.

3. Shoulder belt rests on the collar bone.

4. Lap belt across the hips.

5. And the child stays like this for the whole trip.

For more information or to schedule a car-seat check, contact Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District or visit www.childsafetyseat.org.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Stars Over Sisters Star Party

Learn about the night skies!

Stargazers are invited to gather at the Sisters Park & Recreation District building on Saturday, September 23 at 7:30 p.m. for a free presentation and slide show. If weather permits, the group will then head out to the Sisters High School sports fields to observe the night sky through powerful telescopes.

For more information call Ron Thorkildson at 541-549-8846.

Parents’ Night Out

The Sisters High School Dance Team will host a Parents’ Night Out, babysitting for children ages 4-13 at Sisters Elementary School on Friday, September 29 from 5 to 9 p.m. Your kids will enjoy pizza, drinks, snacks and dessert, along with arts & crafts, music, a magic show, games and dancing! Cost is $25 per child for pre-registration (less if more than one sibling).

Forms are at the front offices of the elementary, middle and high schools (cash or checks only). This is limited to 50 children. For more information on this fundraiser call Coach Kayla at 704-622-9339.

Children’s Choir Begins

A Christmas choir, rejoice!

Share your heart and voice!

Sisters Children’s Choir begins practices again, 4 to 5 p.m. on Monday, October 2 (and meets every Monday at that time) at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 386 N. Fir St. For more info call Lola Knox at 541-390-4615 or email sisterschildrenschoir@gmail.com.

Free Annual Grief Retreat

Tom’s Rest in Sisters will be holding a “Support in Grief” gathering for those dealing with the loss of a spouse. The free retreat will run Saturday & Sunday, October 7 & 8.

Registration is open to 10 people. For additional details, call Cheryl at 503-332-2114.

Career Funds Available

Applications are available for the Sisters Kiwanis Career Opportunity Fund to help adult residents of Sisters establish an occupational path. You may pick up forms at the Kiwanis House, corner of Oak Street and Main Avenue between the hours of 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Thursdays, and during regular hours from the Sisters Habitat for Humanity office. For more information call 541-410-2870.

Land Trust Walks & Hikes

Through November, Deschutes Land Trust volunteer naturalists lead free walks, hikes, and bike rides. Explore birds, wildflowers, and geology at various protected lands in small groups. Registration online is required, and each outing opens one month prior to its date. Once registered, directions are provided. Go to deschuteslandtrust.org/hikes for details, or for additional information call 541-330-0017.

Serve in the National Guard

Interested in serving in the Oregon Air National Guard?

You may serve part-time while you obtain vocational training in a variety of career fields. Call the recruiting team at 541-3311228 or learn more online at goang.com/careers/explore/or.

Bingo & Community Dinner

On Monday, October 2, all are invited to Sisters High School for a family-friendly night hosted by Sisters Park & Recreation District and Outlaws Together. From 5 to 6:30 p.m., enjoy a delicious dinner, just $2 per plate from Los Agaves Mexican Grill. Bingo will follow at 6:30 p.m., $15 for 11 games.

There are great prizes, with a grand prize of an iPad Air 2!

For more information call Gary Thorson at 541-549-4050.

Books in Stock!

At the Friends Book Corner, find the best and newest gently read books at low, low prices!

A huge selection of like-new children’s books just arrived.

Elementary school teachers: come by and shop to replenish your classroom library! There are also books on tape, CDs, DVDs, large-print books, fiction and non-fiction. You may donate two bags or boxes of books, 10 years or newer, Tuesdays and Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m. at the corner of Main & Cedar. Questions? Call Lynne Wood at 541-588-6077.

Parenting Seminar

A seminar presenting ways to work through difficult moments of parenting and teaching will be held at Sisters Community Church Saturday, October 7, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Learn simple techniques using love and logic. Cost is $20pp or $30 for couples. Registration is required no later than Wednesday, October 4 at 541-549-1201 or sisterschurch.com/events. Some scholarships are available; request when registering.

Death in Poetry

At the Sisters Library on Saturday, October 7 at 1 p.m., the subject of how poets have viewed death will be explored. Associate Professor of Composition at Central Oregon Community College, Chris Rubio, will look at poems – from Emily Dickinson to Richard Blanco – in the presentation. For more information call the Sisters Library at 541-312-1072.

Food Assistance at the Kiwanis Food Bank

Your family may be eligible for food assistance at the Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank. Eligibility rules may be found online at fns.usda.gov/tefap or visit the food bank for complete information. The food bank is located at Main Avenue and Oak Street and is open once a week, every Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. You may also get cat and dog food weekly during those hours at no charge, provided by Furry Friends Foundation of Sisters.

Death, Dying and Great Compassion in Buddhism

In Buddhism, death and dying are part of the larger cycle of life. At 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 28 at the Sisters Library, Mark Unno, Associate Professor of Japanese Buddhism at the University of Oregon will explore death, dying, and grief within the cycle of life; and the oneness of great compassion beyond life and death. For more information call the Sisters Library at 541-312-1072.

Habitat Needs Volunteers

Sisters Habitat for Humanity is seeking volunteers to help in its ReStore and Thrift Store. At this time, many regular volunteers are out on vacations and extra hands are needed at the stores.

Interested in volunteering?

Please contact Store Volunteer Coordinator Jen Binks by calling her at 541-549-1193.

Senior Lunches and More

Sisters-area seniors are invited to join others at the Sisters Senior Luncheon! Lunch is served every Tuesday at noon at Sisters Community Church with a $3.50 suggested donation for those over 60. The espresso hour runs 11 a.m. to noon, and BINGO is played after lunch until 2:30 p.m. A free blood pressure clinic is offered the last Tuesday of the month from 11 a.m. to noon.

Questions? Call 541-678-5483.

Taking “Bling” Donations

Sisters Kiwanis is taking donations of antique or vintage jewelry and watches, even costume and broken pieces, all year long in preparation for next year’s Antique & Collectibles Sale. Questions, or to arrange for pickup of larger items, please call Leart at 541410-2890. You may also drop off small items off at Essentials Skin Care, at 492 E. Main Ave.

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Sisters Walking Group

Enjoy walking with others? All are welcome to meet every Friday at Village Green Park for a walk from 10 to 11 a.m.

For additional information call Gennifer at 541-410-9245.

Operation Christmas Child

Do you own your home and Since 1993, Samaritan’s Purse does it need a fresh coat has delivered 135 million of exterior paint or maybe shoebox gifts to children a ramp or other repairs? affected by war, poverty, Sisters Habitat for Humanity disease, famine and disasters is accepting applications for in more than 100 countries. its home repair program. If When you buy school supplies, interested, please start the pick up extras to set aside to fill process by reading the Home your gift shoebox! For details Repair Qualification Guide, go to samaritanspurse.org/occ found online at sistershabitat. or call Joanna at 541-588-0886. org. Homeowners who think they qualify, or who have any SISTERS LIBR ARY questions, should contact calendar Family Services Manager Marie Clasen at 541-549-1193 or marie@sistershabitat.org.

Family Fun Story Time Family Fun Story Times for Sponsor an Impoverished kids ages birth through 5 take Child from Uganda place at the Sisters Library on Hope Africa International, Thursdays, September 21 and based in Sisters, has many 28 at 10:30 a.m. They feature children in Kapchorwa, songs, rhymes and crafts, Uganda, who are awaiting all designed to grow young sponsorship! For information, readers. Parents or caregivers please visit hopeafricakids.org must attend with the child and or call Katie at 541-719-8727. are encouraged to participate in all the activities! For more Panoramic Special Access information call 541-312-1072.

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STEAM Team: 3Doodler

Youth ages 9 to 17 will get to create, design, and build with a 3Doodler at the Sisters Library at 10 a.m. on Saturday, September 23. Registration in advance is required due to limited space. Register online at deschuteslibrary.org/calendar or call 541-312-1072.

Open Computer Lab

On Tuesday, September 26, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Sisters Library, all are welcome to come to the open computer lab to practice computer skills and get help with issues from library staff. For information call the library at 541-312-1072.

The Library Book Club

Read & discuss “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” by Michael Chagon with other thoughtful readers at the Sisters Library on Wednesday, September 27, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Questions? Contact Paige at 541-617-7078 or paigeb@deschuteslibrary.org.

SISTERS AREA CHURCHES Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (ELCA) 386 N. Fir Street • 541-549-5831 10 a.m. Sunday Worship shepherdofthehillslutheranchurch.com

The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration 68825 Brooks Camp Road • 541-549-7087 8:30 a.m. Ecumenical Sunday Worship (Sunday school, childcare) 10:15 a.m. Episcopal Sunday Worship (Sunday school, childcare)

Sisters Community Church (Nondenominational) 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. • 541-549-1201 10 a.m. Sunday Worship (with signing) sisterschurch.com | info@sisterschurch.com

Sisters Church of the Nazarene 67130 Harrington Loop Road • 541-389-8960 | sistersnaz.org 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship | 2sistersnaz@gmail.com

St. Edward the Martyr Roman Catholic Church 123 Trinity Way • 541-549-9391 5:30 p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass 9 a.m. Sunday Mass 8 a.m. Monday-Friday Mass

Westside Church | Sisters Campus 442 Trinity Way • 541-382-7504 | westsidechurch.org 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship Vast Church (Nondenominational) 1700 W. McKinney Butte (Sisters High School) • 541-719-0587 9:37 a.m. Sunday Worship | vastchurch.com

Calvary Chapel (Nondenominational) 484 W. Washington St., Ste. C & D • 541-588-6288 10 a.m. Sunday Worship

Seventh-Day Adventist Church 386 N. Fir Street • 541-595-6770, 541-306-8303 11 a.m. Saturday Worship

New Hope Christian Center (Assembly of God) 222 Trinity Way • 503-910-9069 10:30 a.m. Sunday Worship

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 68885 Trinity Way • Branch President, 503-932-2401; R.S. Pres., 541-549-4499. 10 a.m. Sunday Sacrament Meeting

Chapel in the Pines Camp Sherman • 541-549-9971 10 a.m. Sunday Worship

Baha’i Faith Meetings Devotional Gatherings, Study Classes and Discussion Groups. Call for location and times • 541-549-6586

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Seize some seeds from the garden

By Kym Pokorny OSU Extension Service

CORVALLIS – As the gardening season winds down and you pick the season’s last vegetables let some plants go to seed and harvest them for planting next year.

“Saving seed can be really fun and is a great way to learn about plants,” said Weston Miller, a horticulturist with Oregon State University Extension Service. “If you choose the right types of vegetables, you can keep them going year after year without buying them again.”

The key to saving seed is selecting open-pollinated or heirloom plants, which produce offspring with the same traits. Hybrids are bred from two different varieties for characteristics like disease resistance or higher yield and won’t come “true to type” in the next generation. Check seed packets or catalog information so that you know which you are buying.

The easiest crops for saving seed are annual plants that self-pollinate like lettuce, beans, peas, peppers, eggplants and tomatoes.

Collect seed from the healthiest plants and allow them to dry. Harvest lettuce seed when the seed coat turns hard and dark in color. Peas and beans are ready for harvest when the pod dries on the plant. Pepper seeds are ready when the fruit is fully mature and starts to wrinkle.

Tomatoes are a smidgen more complicated. Allow the fruit to fully ripen and scoop the seeds along with the gel that surrounds them and place in a jar of water. Allow this mixture to ferment for up to five days until the seeds sink to the bottom. Then dry seeds on a paper towel.

Seeds from annual herbs like cilantro (coriander), arugula, and calendula are also easy to save. In fact, these annual plants will often selfseed, so if you let the seeds mature on the plants and fall to the ground new plants will start next year.

Many broccoli family crops (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, collards, kale, mustard greens) are all part of the same species and are pollinated by insects. Though it is relatively easy to save seeds from these biennial crops, they tend to cross pollinate easily and you might end up with new (and sometimes tasty) traits.

It is more difficult to save seed from other crops, particularly in a garden setting. For example, beets and Swiss chard are wind pollinated and cross with each other. These plants require at least 3,200 feet of isolation to prevent cross pollination. Similarly, corn is pollinated by wind,

making it difficult to isolate without special screening.

Carrots are insect pollinated and cross with Queen Anne’s lace, a common weed. Summer and winter squash flowers are also insect pollinated and require isolation to maintain true varieties. The fruit grown from cross-pollinated squash seeds are often bitter tasting, according to Miller.

Saving seed can be really fun and is a great way to learn about plants.

— Weston Miller Store seeds in tightlysealed glass containers in a cool and dark location. Make sure that you label seeds with the type of seed and the date. A small packet of silica desiccant or powdered milk in the jar can help to remove moisture and keep the seeds dry. The refrigerator or freezer is also a good place for storing seeds that you collect and also seeds that you buy. Put small seeds in envelopes and label them.

Place the envelopes in sealable freezer bags.

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WED...SEPT. 20 Hardtails Bar & Grill Karaoke Night! 9 p.m. Every Wednesday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go online to hardtailsoregon.com.

Sisters Saloon Texas Hold ’Em Tournament 7 p.m.

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THURS...SEPT. 21 Sisters Saloon Karaoke Night! 9 p.m. Every Thursday, no cover! For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net.

FRI...SEPT. 22 Hood Avenue Art Artist’s Reception for Sharon Reed 4 to 7 p.m. Featuring her stunning jewelry with textured sterling and stones.

Plus Live Music! For additional information call 541-719-1800 or go online to hoodavenueart.com.

Downtown Sisters 4th Friday Art Stroll 4 to 7 p.m.

Galleries and shops feature live entertainment and refreshments, For info go to sistersartsassociation.org.

Sisters Library Live Music & Painting Exhibit by Dennis McGregor 7 p.m. Free show for all ages! With reading of verses from his children’s book, “You Stole My Name.”

Donations gladly accepted at the door for Sisters Folk Festival. dennismcgregor.com.

Fir Street Park Sisters Farmers Market 2 to 5:30 p.m.

Oregon-grown produce & plants, with live entertainment too! For more info go to sistersfarmersmarket.com.

Hardtails Bar & Grill Karaoke Night! 9 p.m. Every Friday, no cover! For more information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com.

Sisters Saloon Trivia Night 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sign-up is at 6:15 p.m. Free, every Tuesday!

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FRI..SEPT. 29 Paulina Springs Books Author Reading with Scott Kloos 6:30 p.m. On “Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest and Use 120 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness.” Free, with refreshments! 541-549-0866.

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Fir Street Park Sisters Farmers Market 2 to 5:30 p.m.

It’s the final market of the 2017 season for Oregongrown produce & plants, and live entertainment too! For additional information go to sistersfarmersmarket.com.

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Village Green Park Fresh Hop Festival and Live Music with The Brothers Reed noon to 8 p.m. 26 breweries with their fresh hop brews! $15 pays for pint glass and 5 tokens (token is a 4-oz. pour); additional tokens SAT...SEPT. 23 $1 each. For more info go to Rancho Viejo 10th sistersfreshhopfest.com.

Anniversary Party and Sisters Saloon Live Music Music with Mariachi Band with Burnin Moonlight 5 to 9 p.m. With prizes and 8 to 11 p.m. No cover! For specials! Come celebrate, additional information call and come early! For more or go to information call 541-549-3594. 541-549-7427 sisterssaloon.net.

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The Belfry Sisters Science Club presents “To Infinity and Beyond” 6 p.m. social hour; 7 p.m. lecture. Gabe Gabrielle, former Dir. of Eng., USAF Special Operations Command, is with NASA’s speaker’s bureau. $5 (teachers, students & science club donors free). For information call 541-912-0750 or go to sistersscienceclub.org.

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Paw Prints

Jodi Schneider McNamee Columnist

‘Dogs are people, too’ Neuroscientists have finally taken a look inside the mind of man’s best friend by training dogs to lie motionless in an MRI scanner.

After scanning the brains of dozens of dogs, neuroeconomics professor Gregory Burns said he’s left with the inescapable conclusion that “dogs are people, too.” Burns’ work is providing evidence that our furry friends experience consciousness and emotions at a level comparable to humans.

Maybe you’ve noticed that Rover seems to enjoy doing nearly everything you do. Hiking, playing, swimming, watching TV and listening to music.

Research now confirms that dogs have musical preferences and react differently to particular types of music.

Psychologist Deborah Wells, at Queens University in Belfast, exposed dogs in an animal shelter to different

types of music. The dogs’ reactions were observed when they listened to a variety of different music, which included classical, pop, and heavy-metal rock bands.

Wells found that the kind of music the dogs listened to made a difference.

When the researchers played heavy-metal music the dogs became agitated and began barking.

Listening to popular music did not produce a reaction that was noticeably different from having no sound at all. Classical music, on the other hand, seemed to have a calming effect on the pooches. While listening to it, their level of barking was significantly reduced and the dogs often lay down and seemed comforted.

You’ve probably heard of CDs and music playlists designed for babies – there are even prenatal tracks available for moms-to-be to hold against their tummy in hopes of it having the socalled Mozart effect, (supposedly) helping kids grow to be more intelligent adults.

But how about dogs?

Could our canine companions benefit from listening to music daily?

According to Charles Snowdon, an authority on the musical preferences of animals, no matter how well composers perfect their animal songs, animals will probably never appreciate music quite as much as we do because they lack an important musical ability that people possess: relative pitch. Snowdon, who is also

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Research is showing that dogs have musical preferences. an animal psychologist at the University of WisconsinMadison, has discovered that dogs enjoy what he calls “species-specific music” — tunes specially designed using the pitches, tones and tempos that fit to their particular species.

Concert pianist Lisa Spector, known as The Pet Calming Maestro, combines her passion for music with her love of dogs. She co-created “Through a Dog’s Ear,” the only music clinically shown to relieve canine anxiety issues.

Spector and her team create arrangements of classical music designed to soothe anxious dogs and cats. She is a Julliard graduate who discovered that music could help dogs. Her findings led to 15 hours of albums, a portable player, the iCalmDog, and now music for cats.

Spector explained that there’s a big difference between their arrangements and the traditional versions.

“Classical music is such a range, and our arrangements are simplified. The music

is slowed down to a lower frequency, because lower frequencies calm the canine nervous system.”

When Spector and her researchers co-founded “Through a Dog’s Ear,” they already knew anxious dogs responded well to classical music. Spector had been learning about how music could focus and calm children, so she tried it on her puppy. Spector was amazed at the results. That’s when she collaborated with Joshua Leeds, a sound researcher, and a veterinary neurologist, Dr. Susan Wagner.

Considering the great demand for new ways to please our pets, more progress is likely to be made in the field of animal music.

So, do dogs like music?

The bottom line: yes. But it seems that dogs prefer music when it’s soothing. In other words, if you turn off the Black Sabbath and try a little Beethoven, your furry friend just might thank you for it.

Dennis McGregor is set to make some noise at the library — and nobody is likely to say “ssshhhh!”

The Sisters artist and musician will play solo acoustic at the Sisters Library on Friday evening, in support of an exhibit of his paintings from a children’s book series, “You Stole My Name.” Each painting features two animals that share names — bull trout; turtle dove, etc.

McGregor promises quirky songs and stories and verse related to the book.

“I am looking forward to playing music in front of my paintings,” McGregor said.

“I’ve never done that before.

It will also be the first time I’ve played in a library. It’s a good thing that I have a bunch of really quiet songs.

This show will be different than when I play with the band in that there will be no dancing or alcohol. Is it still possible to have fun? I think so.”

The all-ages show is free, with any donations at the door to benefit Sisters Folk Festival. The performance is set for Friday, September 22, 7 p.m. at Sisters Library in the community room.

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Outlaws fall in tight soccer match

By Rongi Yost Correspondent

The boys soccer team battled hard at Cottage Grove (CG) on Thursday, September 14, in their league opener against the Lions, but with less than two minutes left in the contest, the Lions got one past the Outlaws and tallied a 3-2 win.

Cottage Grove struck first at the 18-minute mark to take a 1-0 lead, but Sisters answered five minutes later.

Gabe Patton was tackled in the penalty box and Colby Simeral converted the PK into the upper-right corner, with a shot that didn’t give the Lions’ keeper a chance to get the save.

The Lions regained the lead with 10 minutes left in the half on a hard foul by Willie Stewart in the penalty.

CG converted the PK and went into the half with a 2-1 advantage.

The contest continued back and forth, and the Outlaws finally got the neutralizing shot in the 58th minute when Simeral was fouled hard in the penalty. Colby converted the PK once again, this time to the left side, past the outstretched hands of the keeper.

Simeral told The Nugget that after he converted his second PK, the Outlaws were fired up.

“The energy was flowing, and everyone was connecting,” said Simeral. “Our energy was high, the bench was thrilled, we were all exhilarated, and we had the

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momentum.”

It was a battle to the very end, and both teams gave it all they had. With just under two minutes left in the game, the Lions were able to slot a bouncing ball to the left side.

Keaton Green and Samson Henneous both made a play on it, but the Lions’ player was able to volley the ball between them into the net.

“League play was definitely apparent,” said Coach Rob Jensen. “Samson played his career-best game and minded the net fabulously for us. I saw the team come together and play their best game of the season. They are getting better at a rapid rate, and next week should show these results.”

Two days earlier, the Outlaws wrapped up pre-season with a 5-0 loss at Henley.

Jensen said, “I felt we played an even game, however they were able to get forward in the attack a little more than us. The result showed our defense had many mental errors.”

Sisters was to play at home against Sutherlin on Tuesday, September 19. The Outlaws will travel to Sweet Home on Thursday, September 21.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has spent more than $2 billion battling forest fires that are blackening the American West. That’s a new record for the agency and marks the first time wildfire spending by the

Forest Service has topped $2 billion.

Wildfires have ravaged the West this summer with 64 large fires burning across 10 states as of Thursday, including 21 fires in Montana and 18 in Oregon. In all, 48,607 wildfires have burned nearly 13,000 square miles (33,586 square kilometers) in one

of the nation’s worst fire seasons.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the severe fire season means officials “end up having to hoard all of the money that is intended for fire prevention, because we’re afraid we’re going to need it to actually fight fires.”

More aggressive approach to prevention?

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday, September 12, directed all land managers and park superintendents to be more aggressive in cutting down small trees and underbrush to prevent wildfires as the smoke-choked West faces one of the worst fire seasons in a decade.

In a memo, Zinke said the Trump administration will take a new approach and work proactively to prevent fires “through aggressive and scientific fuels reduction management” to save lives, homes and wildlife habitat.

Wildfires are chewing across dried-out Western forests and grassland. To date, 47,700 wildfires have burned more than 8 million acres across the country, with much of the devastation in California, Oregon and Montana, Zinke said.

As of Tuesday, 62 large fires were burning across nine Western states, with 20 fires in Montana and 17 in Oregon, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

Nearly half the large fires in the West reported zero acreage gains on Monday, helping firefighters across the West make progress toward containing them, the agency said.

The Forest Service and

Interior Department have spent more $2.1 billion so far this year fighting fires — about the same as in all of 2015, the most expensive wildfire season on record.

Those figures do not include individual state spending. In Montana, where more than 90 percent of the state is in drought, the state has spent more than $50 million on fire suppression since June, with fires likely to burn well into the fall.

Oregon has spent $28 million, but expects to be reimbursed for part of that by the federal government and others.

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Beware of running-race scams and bad deals

Student’s wrongfuldeath trial begins

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

EUGENE (AP) — A lawyer representing the mother of a University of Oregon student who died during a meningococcal outbreak told jurors at a civil trial that the emergency room doctor who examined the young woman was too hasty in his decision to send her home to rest.

The doctor at the hospital near the Eugene campus diagnosed Lauren Jones with a flulike illness on Feb. 17, 2015.

Jones, 18, died later that day after being found unconscious in her dorm room.

During Wednesday’s opening statements, attorney Dave Miller said expert witnesses will testify that Jones should have been given additional tests, especially since three other students had been diagnosed with meningococcal disease in the month before Jones fell ill. Moreover, he said the hospital should have given Jones antibiotics and kept her in the hospital for a longer period of time.

“The failure to do these things fell below the standard of care for doctors and hospitals, and was negligent,” Miller told the jury.

Jones’ mother, Dorian Sanders, seeks $2 million in the suit against PeaceHealth, which operates the hospital, The Register-Guard reported.

Jeffrey Street, a lawyer for PeaceHealth, told jurors that the emergency room doctor shouldn’t be blamed.

There is an ever-growing number of running-related events throughout America, from 5k runs to triathlons and marathons. Many are longstanding reputable events.

Others are organized to raise money for a local cause. A few are “for-profit” affairs that have little concern for the local community. Finally there are some that are downright fraudulent. Runners, as consumers, need to beware.

I have always preferred local events raising money for a cause, but when I have chosen more formal races I like to be sure I am getting the most bang for the buck.

A recent news article reported that a group posing as the organizers of one of those popular “Color Runs” had collected entry fee money from dozens of runners for an event that would never happen. This apparently happened in more than one state.

While this is an extreme example, there are some guidelines to consider when looking at your next run: 1. Do some research.

How many years has the event been put on? Are there indications that the race gets return customers? What is the cost compared to other similar races? How frequent and what is provided at the aid stations? Can you talk to someone who has done the race in a previous year?

2. Larger, more established races run by nonprofits actually have a Better Business Bureau profile that you can check.

3. Even if the race website looks official, it may be fake

or misleading.

4. If you decide to take the plunge, pay with a credit card, which will increase your chance of a refund if things go haywire. However, even the most legitimate races may not offer refunds, but will typically say so in their terms of agreement on the registration form.

5. If the race is being conducted in support of a charity, it is wise to check the veracity of the charity, but it might also make you feel better to know if the charity uses its funds appropriately or uses most of the money to pay its CEO a six-figure salary.

6. If, despite your best efforts, the event turns out to be a bust, contact the Better Business Bureau in the state that the event took place and/ or where the organization is headquartered.

In a related issue, I reflect back on the summer and compare two races that my daughter Erin ran in Central Oregon while she stayed with us. The first, the Hoodoo Challenge, sponsored by our local Kiwanis club, did everything right.

For a reasonable price, she received a T-shirt, plenty of aid along the half-marathon course, friendly volunteers, and a veritable feast at the finish. In addition, she took home a very nice water bottle as a prize from the postrace drawing.

In contrast, she ran a marathon outside of Bend in August. Volunteers were few and far between, aid was Spartan, and after running 26.2 miles, the only fare left at the finish was an undercooked bean dish, bananas, lukewarm water, and beer.

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There was no place to sit in the shade, and no friendly volunteers checking on how finishers were doing. Awards were announced long before most runners finished. It was pretty tough to imagine why the race cost $65.

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PREVENTION: Western forests have a heavy fuel load

Smoke thwarts XC runners again

By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Continued from page 15

Halfway to the Northwest Classic Saturday morning, head cross-country Coach Josh Nordell got the message that the meet had been cancelled due to poor air quality in Eugene due to forest fires.

The Outlaws were forced to cancel their own meet a week earlier. Most of the team has not competed yet this season.

Within minutes of the news that the bus would have to head back home, Nordell and his assistant coaches developed a different plan for the day to give the team a good workout. Skies were relatively smoke-free around Clear Lake, so the team piled out of the bus at the top of the McKenzie River Trail and headed down to Carmen Reservoir. Some members circled the lake to add in some extra mileage.

“It’s been a season of needing to be flexible and patient,” said Nordell, noting that the team has missed numerous practice days due to poor air quality since training began August 14.

“The good news is that the kids have been great and are making most of the days when they can run,” he said.

“We had some high quality workouts last week, which is really the most important thing right now.”

Nordell was able to add a meet to the schedule as well, to make up for the two cancellations. The team will now travel to the Stayton Invitational on Wednesday, September 20, which will help the runners and the coaches gauge conditioning

Exacerbated by drought and thick vegetation, wildfires are “more damaging, more costly and threaten the safety and security of both the public and firefighters,” Zinke said.

“I have heard this described as ‘a new normal.’ It is unacceptable that we should be satisfied with the status quo.”

Zinke’s memo did not call for new spending, but he said federal officials “must be innovative” and use all tools available to prevent and fight fires. “Where new authorities are needed,” he added, “we will work with our colleagues in Congress to craft management solutions that will benefit our public lands for generations to come.”

The Interior Department oversees more than 500 million acres supervised by the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and other agencies. The Forest Service, a unit of the Agriculture Department, is the nation’s largest firefighting agency,

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Iris Diez enjoying the McKenzie River trail with her teammates. The XC team held a training run Saturday on the trail after the Northwest Classic meet in Eugene was cancelled due to poor air quality. on a 5,000-meter course in advance of competing at the Seaside Three Course Challenge on Saturday.

Such has the challenge been about juggling the practice and meet schedule. Nordell admitted that he dreamed recently that he had the team out in front of the high school for practice with a foot of snow on the ground and the air still smoky.

“I guess having to check the AQI every day numerous times has now even impacted my subconscious,” he chuckled.

Air quality aside, Nordell is seeing the boys and girls teams really beginning to coalesce and is very excited to see how they do in race situations in the upcoming weeks.

He said, “Teams throughout the state are dealing with

the smoke issue, so I have faith this will all work out for the team in the days and weeks ahead.”

Despite most of the team not having raced yet, both the boys and girls squads have gotten votes as being among the top 10 in the 4A coaches’ poll.

“Hopefully we’ll prove we belong in those rankings soon,” said Nordell.

The race in Stayton will take place at Stayton Middle School beginning at 4:30 p.m., while the Three Course Challenge is held at Camp Rilea, north of Seaside with the high school races beginning at 10:10 a.m.

with more than half its budget devoted to wildfires.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and Western lawmakers have complained that the current funding mechanism — tied to 10-year averages for wildfire — makes it hard to budget for wildfires, even as fires burn longer and hotter each year.

“I believe that we have the right processes and the right procedures of attacking and fighting fires,” Perdue said in a speech last week. “But if you don’t have the resources and the means of dependable funding, that’s an issue.”

Perdue called on Congress “to fix the fire-borrowing problem once and for all” so that officials are not repeatedly forced to tap money meant for prevention programs to fight wildfires.

“Fires will always be with us. But when we leave a fuel load out there because we have not been able to get to it because of a lack of funding, or dependable funding, we’re asking for trouble,” Perdue said.

“If we don’t start managing our forests, the forests are going to start managing us,” said Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana.

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FIREFIGHTING: Forest Service briefed Sisters City Council Continued from page 1

full of background information, explanatory data, and a clear road map of what happens, both locally and nationally, when a forest fire breaks out in Central Oregon.

They explained that the COFMS consists of four units covering land in Central Oregon: the Deschutes National Forest, the Ochoco National Forest, the Crooked River Grassland, and Prineville Bureau of Land Management (BLM). These units are managed cooperatively under combined leadership, with decision-makers from both the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the BLM. Five planning units called divisions facilitate fire-suppression and fire-management activities throughout Central Oregon. Although the areas work together to complete projects and suppress fires, each division has its own fire management officer (FMO), assistant FMO, and staff. Sisters Ranger District is located in the Cascade Division.

COFMS also partners with the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) for fire protection, and has a central dispatching facility that serves as a communications hub for fire and fuel operations.

Amy Tinderholt, acting Sisters District Ranger, reported to Council that as of September 13, all containment lines on the Milli Fire are holding, crews have moved from the rodeo grounds to the Sisters Ranger District headquarters, mop-up is continuing, and burn-area repair work has begun. There are currently 59 personnel on the fire.

Tinderholt acknowledged all the losses suffered by the community as a result of the fire — economic losses for the business community due to reduced tourism, health impairment from smoke, and the loss of the special areas within the forest and wilderness.

James Osborne, Cascade Division FMO and USFS employee, explained that the large snowpack last winter, which melted off more quickly than usual, in May rather than June, resulted in extremely low snow water levels going into summer.

The hot, dry summer with 90-plus-degree temperatures through August contributed to increased fire danger.

The forecast for JuneAugust 2017 in Central Oregon had been for temperatures two to six degrees above normal. In August,

temperatures actually ranged six to eight degrees above normal. Precipitation forecasts issued April 30, 2017 predicted 25-50 percent of normal moisture; instead, the rainfall was much below that all along the Cascade crest.

The energy release component, which indicates how much energy would exist at the head of a fire, has been well above the maximum from an earlier record since mid-June, meaning the fire danger has been extremely high all summer.

Given all these conditions, when lightning struck on August 10, the result was the outbreak of a number of fires across Central Oregon.

The Whychus Fire, burning in brush and timber about eight miles northeast of Sisters, burned 2,800 acres. It was ranked Number One for initial attack due to the threat to structures and lives, with Level 2 evacuation notices issued for Lower Bridge Road. Air tankers, dozers, and tenders were assigned to help battle the blaze.

The No. 2 and No. 3 priority fires also involved protecting structures and people. The Milli Fire at No. 4 was only at 40 acres, not threatening lives or buildings. There were no hotshot crews available to drop into the wilderness and

no air resources available.

Prior to August 10, national forests adjacent to the Deschutes National Forest, other COFMS divisions, and ODF were experiencing heavy initial attacks on numerous fires.

On August 10, the first lightning strikes hit the Cascade division, starting the Whychus Fire at 34 acres, and three other fires, each less than an acre. The Yucca Flats Fire was continuing to grow. Shared resources on a national level were heavily committed with 127 new fires, seven of which were large (six contained), and 24 of which were uncontained large fires. There was a lack of available personnel due to the national drawdown of resources.

The Yucca Flats Fire started on August 8 just outside the Warm Springs Indian Reservation on private land and quickly grew to 33 square miles, destroying two homes and threatening 70 more on the reservation. The fire burned through 40 acres of grass and dry timber before closing in on the reservation.

A Level 2 evacuation notice was issued for the 70 homes.

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Aerial recon was requested for fire detection, but both fixed-wing and rotor-wing resources were in short supply due to the number of initial attacks. Hot shot and smokejumper personnel were committed on other fires. At the same time, mop-up was occurring on other fires on the Cascade Division, further reducing resources.

High winds had been forecast for August 11 but didn’t materialize until the next day, causing the Whychus Fire to spot and burn an additional 1,996 acres, threatening

homes along Lower Bridge Road. Air resources were rerouted from other fires due to the risks to life and property.

August 12 was a high fire day with high temperatures.

The Milli Fire became visible to an aerial recon plane. It spread quickly to the east due to strong winds, bumping into the Black Crater Fire scar left from 2006.

The strategy for fighting the fire from day one was full suppression, meaning utilizing all methods of suppression available. District Ranger Tinderholt approved smokejumpers, chainsaws, helicopters with bucket work, and fixed-wing retardant, but no aerial resources were See FIREFIGHTING on page 19

Wednesday, September 20, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

“Let it burn’ scenario a myth

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Firefighting in wilderness areas is often misunderstood.

It seems that each time there is a fire in the Three Sisters Wilderness the old saw about “letting it burn” or not being allowed to fight fire in the wilderness surfaces again.

Last week, the question was put to acting Sisters District Ranger Amy Tinderholt: “Are there laws prohibiting fighting fires in the wilderness?”

The Federal Wilderness Policy Act directs that no forest treatment can be done in the wilderness. In other words, no selective cutting

FIREFIGHTING: Lack of resources early hurt Milli effort Continued from page 18

available.

Resource orders were placed with the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center (COIDC) for all approved resources. At that time, the Milli Fire was low priority due to the lack of structures and lives at risk.

The location of the fire in the Three Sisters Wilderness provided very limited access and there was danger for the firefighters from the snags and hazard trees in the Black Crater burn.

The Type 3 team ordered for the Milli Fire was diverted to the Whychus Fire due to the values at risk. Another Type 3 incident command was assigned to the Milli Fire.

Resources were stretched thin nationwide.

Requests for resources get sent from COIDC to the office in Portland and on to the national headquarters in Boise where they look at the priorities nationwide. On August 12, there were nine Type 1 fires and 19 Type 2 fires. There were more than 15,400 firefighters already on fire lines around the U.S. From August 10 to August 13, the number of firefighters on fire lines jumped from 15,000 to 21,000 nationally.

There are usually 30,000 personnel available, so the pool was smaller by 9,000 firefighters. There have been 2.5 million more acres lost to wildfire this year than the 10-year average of 5.6 million acres.

On August 13, retardant planes were finally available, but a change in the weather brought in a low cloud layer,

of timber and no planned prescribed burns are allowed.

However, should a wilderness fire start in the Deschutes National Forest, all means of fighting fires are allowed. As soon as the Milli Fire was spotted from the air, Tinderholt immediately approved an initial attack team, rapellers, hotshot crews, aerial retardant and water drops in an effort to keep the fire small — the goal of the Forest Service regarding fires in the wilderness.

Lack of resources available and then a low cloud cover kept an immediate response at bay. (See “How did the fire get so big?”

page 1.)

There are laws requiring the incident commander or official in charge to seek approval for the use of mechanized equipment on a fire in the wilderness. Due to the large size of heavy equipment like bulldozers for creating fire containment lines, it is difficult to get into rugged terrain. Space limitations amid a thick forest of trees also makes maneuvering large equipment a challenge.

In the wilderness, it is much more difficult to get firefighting personnel into the fire location and even more difficult to get them out quickly and safely, if they are threatened by fire behavior.

grounding the planes due to reduced visibility. Seven rapellers were able to get in to anchor the fire by beginning a fire line.

August 14 saw the ordering of a Type 1 team with the Type 3 team fully engaged in firefighting efforts, using mechanical equipment on the lower part of the fire and working by hand higher up.

Burnout operations were necessary as the fire moved to

the north and east. Residents of Crossroads, Three Creek Road, and the Edgington/ Remuda Road area were evacuated from their homes, but have now returned. At the peak of the fire there were over 900 fire personnel engaged.

The Milli Fire acreage remains at 24,025 with 60 percent containment. Smoke continues to impact the Sisters community.

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EUGENE (AP) — Jasper, a large snow-white American husky, jumped into the arms of animal rescuer Shafali Grewal, who said she wished she could keep him. They stood beside the Rescue Express bus, which was parked outside Almost Home Pet Boarding in San Fernando, California. Grewal petted Jasper while trying to disentangle herself from the leashes that two other dogs had wrapped around her legs.

The dogs’ lives were going to change.

Jasper, along with 24 other dogs at the San Fernando stop, were about to take a ride aboard the Rescue Express bus to the Pacific Northwest, where they would have better odds of adoption.

For almost three years, Rescue Express, a Eugenebased organization headquartered on a farm, has functioned as an escape vehicle for cats and dogs that had

been living in overcrowded California shelters, where they were under threat of being euthanized for lack of space.

Rescue Express crews help get such animals adopted into forever homes.

Since its start in February 2015, Rescue Express has expanded from one to three buses, and it transports more than 125 animals each trip, every weekend, in partnership with more than 200 pet groups between California and Washington.

As of late July, Rescue Express had transported more than 10,600 animals.

It’s not an easy trip. It’s a crowded, sometimes noisy ride to safer locations and a better future.

After the Rescue Express crew loaded up 24 carriers, the bus headed north, toward its next stop in Bakersfield, California.

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Celebrating Journey’s Flight Who would think an insect that weighs less than a paperclip could bring so many people together for such a heart-warming time? One family drove all the way from near Yakima, Washington, to attend a butterfly party in the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce Visitors Center last week.

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to open the Chamber office, rearrange everything to accommodate the expected crowd coming to celebrate the insect who unknowingly inspired a book — and achieved quite an honor and set a very important record for one of its kind.

Yes, it was the fantastic journey of Journey, the monarch butterfly, that they were honoring. Little did anyone in Sisters Middle School know what would happen when Journey took to the skies last fall.

Susie Werts, teacher at Sisters Middle School, had several monarch caterpillars in the newly created monarch waystation she and her students created at the school.

Two of the caterpillars made it though metamorphosis into adults, and when Werts and her son, Kellen, discovered them hanging in their cage drying their wings, they were elated.

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On September 17, 2016, Werts and Kellen attached tags to the two adult butterflies and released them.

One went high into the air and immediately turned in a southerly direction and was gone in the twinkling of an eye, like it knew where it was going (which inspired Kellen to name it Journey. The other (named Hope) wandered off and was never heard from again.

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the book project and interviewed many of Werts’ students for their ideas on what the butterfly might have encountered on its way south.

Illustrations were provided by both middle and high school students.

The project took most of the 2016 school year to complete.

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BUTTERFLY: Students will continue monarch study

BOOK: Proceeds will benefit SMS butterfly program

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released two monarchs — Hope and Journey. Each of the monarchs had been tagged with small stickers.

55 days later Werts received a phone call — Journey had been found in Carpinteria, California — an astounding 800-mile journey from his home in Sisters, Oregon. In fact, his migration was the longest on record for a western monarch.

Journey’s journey was a remarkable one; Sisters Middle School is now included in scientific studies and included on several blogs across the country and the world, as far away as New Zealand.

With all the attention Journey was receiving, a book was developed — and it’s the first book published on the western monarch.

“This truly was a community effort,” Werts told middle school students in an allschool assembly last Friday.

“It takes a village.”

Each book includes chapters written by Sisters Middle School students, art from local students and scientific information from community partners.

“Forty-two classmates told Journey’s story; they were writers and illustrators,” said Werts. “It’s a story of Journey’s flight — where he may have gone; near Mt. Shasta, avoiding a car accident, predators and even a friend in a hummingbird.”

“It was incredible working with the students,” said Jean Russell Nave, a local author who contributed to the book and helped the students draft their chapters.

“This thing (story) turns into something that lives and breathes. Without the kids the story wouldn’t have the magic.”

In addition to simply learning about the monarchs, this hands-on project helped teach students about writing, illustrating and publishing.

“It was fun learning something interesting about an animal,” said Teegan Haas, an eighth-grader. “It’s amazing that something so small, like an insect, can go a long way.”

Others enjoyed the opportunity to work with other students on this project.

“I liked getting to hang out in class with my friends and getting to do something that means something to other people,” said sixthgrader Chloe Frazee. “I didn’t realize how big of a deal this was. I mean, we’re in a blog in New Zealand!”

Friends of the Sisters Library; artist Dan Rickards; Ray’s Food Place; Western Title and Escrow; and The Roundhouse Foundation. Many of these supporters attended the celebration, some driving great distances.

As a crowning event to the party, Werts tagged one last female monarch, supplied by Southern Oregon Monarch Advocates, and with all watching, released it into the warm sunshine outside the Chamber building. Cheers followed its flight, and Bend TV station KTVZ recorded the lift-off.

That’s not the end of the

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Students at Sisters Middle School have turned the study of monarch butterflies into an interdisciplinary endeavor.

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story. Werts and her students will continue this exciting and fulfilling conservation education program. In Werts’ words, “We have expanded our understanding and spawned a realization born of Journey’s flight that together, collaboratively, we can make a difference. In keeping with Journey’s triumphant legacy, we are elevated — and we are soaring in our commitment to preserve and protect other species for the greater good of our precious planet.”

The book is available at Paulina Springs Books for $16.95, which will keep Journey alive for many, many years to come. It is also available on Amazon. The project website is: http://sms.ssd6. org/butterflyproject/ All profits from the sales go to Sisters Middle School’s butterfly project.

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SCIENCE: Speaker kicks off Sisters Science Club series Continued from page 3

NASA’s Disability Awareness And Action Working Group improving the work environment for personnel who are differently abled; and a member of NASA’s Speakers Bureau for the last 10 years.

Known as “Gabe” to all who meet him, his job as an engineer programmer was to identify solutions for repairs to bridges, roads, mechanical systems, roofs, and elevators.

“The greatest part of this job was it gave me access to everything … launch complexes, Launch Control Center, the Vehicle Assembly Building, the Orbiter Processing Facilities, the Space Station Processing Facility, the Mars Simulation Testing Area … NASA and

the Kennedy Space Center are simply magical,” Gabe says, brimming with enthusiasm.

Gabrielle uses that “magic” to encourage his listeners to dream big dreams, to inspire them to embrace life, and to show that learning can be more fun than they ever imagined.

Dedicated to promoting the STEAM curriculum – Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. Gabrielle uses his NASA experience to promote creativity in science in the United States and around the world.

“In March I was invited to Brazil, supporting a weeklong event by participating in Science Fairs and Expos, promoting STEAM,” Gabrielle reports. “It was simply amazing. We spoke with close to 7,000 students and their parents over a 6-day period. I found the Brazilian students and their parents to

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Gabe Gabrielle. be awesome. So caring, so enthusiastic, so kind, and so giving…full of questions, hugs, and smiles.”

His travels have taken him to Qatar, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Trinidad, and South Africa – and now to Central Oregon to inspire local students and kick off the annual Sisters Science Club lecture series.

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The Bunkhouse Chronicle Craig Rullman Columnist

The shoulder season die

“Lord, let me die but not

Out.” — James Dickey, “For the Last Wolverine” A few weeks ago, on our way to the End of Summer Concert and Barbecue at the Camp Sherman Store, my wife and I crossed paths with a bear. He wasn’t a big bear, probably not much more than a yearling boar, and we surprised him at whatever he was doing. He lumbered a few yards into the brush, then stopped, sniffed the air, and sat by a rotten stump. We stopped too, and for a long time the three of us just sat there studying each other.

Maybe it was the smoke, or the heat, or the way the bear sat panting as he

watched us, but I had what alcoholics call a “moment of clarity,” a brief window of comprehension that stayed with me long after.

For whatever reason, I thought of Hiro Onoda.

Onoda, who refused to believe that Japan had lost the Second World War, finally came out of the Philippine jungle in 1974, almost 30 years late, and only after his former commander was flown in from Japan to formally relieve him from duty.

ODFW estimates that there are 25-30,000 black bears living in Oregon, which is greatly encouraging, if you believe them. But based on what we know about postindustrial human behavior, and how the chart lines of human domination and the success of other species travel in opposite directions, it may not be too far-fetched to think that in the lifetimes of our children, or our grandchildren, seeing a bear in the woods at all may be more the stuff of Onoda’s surrender than a realistic expectation.

I don’t think that’s too dramatic. The last documented grizzly bear in Oregon was killed on September 14, 1931, near Chesimnus Creek, in the Wallowas. That really wasn’t very long ago. And the sad truth about it is really much worse, given that the last Grizzly bear in Oregon

likely never surrendered, and probably died utterly alone, unknown to anyone.

And how could Lewis and Clark, who witnessed bison by the tens of thousands, believe that within 75 years of their journey some 60 million bison would have been hunted to near extinction?

I’m not pointing fingers.

As a young man I would hide in the giant haystacks of one ranch or another, working a rabbit call and cradling a rifle.

My friends and I would sit for hours in the cold, glassing the desert and calling coyotes in over the snow — so we could shoot them. We never, to the best of my memory, gave any serious thought to the rightness or the wrongness of it all. If anything, we thought we were doing a bit for predator control because coyotes can be truly vicious.

Among other appalling spectacles, I’ve seen them encircle a calving cow and drag the calf from her body even as she tried gallantly to fight off a snarling pack of murderous midwives.

But today, in my personal shoulder season — that odd space between old understandings and the search for new ones — I’m looking for ways to accommodate rather than kill, and I worry that my behavior wasn’t much better than the garimpeiros in Peru and Brazil who, for the sake

of minerals, routinely murder human beings.

Nothing says “Modern Man” quite like shooting our primitive and defenseless cousins for profit.

We’ve seen that before, too. Settlers in the country where I was raised thought nothing of taking random potshots at Paiutes or Maidus, or Bannock and Pit River natives who were usually starving, and sick, had no means to defend themselves, and were simply travelling on the wagon road.

What’s more disturbing is that in some way, with only rare exceptions, we have inherited the mindset. We are part of that lineage because we are, in a direct sense, part of the horrors in the Congo, where children are forced at gunpoint to dig up minerals such as coltan for our cell phones and computers by hand.

I know a lot of people who think that is wrong, but I don’t know a single person who is willing to give up their cell phone or computer so that kids in the Congo don’t have to do that sort of thing, or who would trade the comparative comfort and convenience of modern American life to help stop the slaughter of stoneage tribes in Amazonia. We couldn’t even manage that kind of decency in our own

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backyard. And these days we mostly don’t see it, so it’s far easier to rationalize those concerns away and to invest emotionally and financially in the anodynes that ultimately serve only to preserve the disease.

Again, I’m not moralizing here; I place myself firmly, inescapably, in the ranks of the consumer. This is simply the dichotomous web of modern life, and the more we struggle against it, the deeper, it seems, we are caught.

“Things reveal themselves passing away,” wrote Yeats.

That’s true, but only if we are paying attention. Hiro Onoda revealed himself in the last sad act of a war for domination, resources, and lebensraum that consumed the world, and a few weeks ago a bear revealed himself to us in the under-logged woods of Oregon.

He wasn’t the last bear, not yet, and he’s fighting a war for resources that he isn’t even aware of, but somehow I think these things — the bear, the natives, the minerals, and Onoda, are all related. In fact I know they are related, in the same way that I know the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, spilled out onto a table, somehow, eventually, with the due diligence that is our responsibility, fit together into a much larger picture.

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THINNING: Forest management under scrutiny Continued from page 1

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severe wildfires.

Zinke’s directive Tuesday, September 12, for department managers and superintendents to aggressively prevent wildfires was welcomed by Ed Waldron, fire management officer at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.

Waldron was exhausted after fighting two fires that have been burning since late July in or near the park, whose centerpiece is a lake that fills the remains of an erupted volcano and is the deepest in the United States.

But he wondered where the additional resources would come from to hire contractors to thin the fuel.

For now, Waldron and other firefighters have been too busy fighting blazes that forced the closure of a road into the park to thin vegetation elsewhere.

“We’ve been working hard,” he said Tuesday. “It’s day 50.”

For decades, logging was king in the West, notably in Oregon, which is famed for its majestic ponderosas and towering Douglas firs.

But restrictions on harvesting timber from federal lands to protect endangered species and lower demand led to a freefall in the industry starting around 1990.

Meanwhile, wildfires — nature’s way of thinning and regenerating forests — were being extinguished instead of being allowed to burn.

The forests grew too thick, and they began to overlap, covering meadows and other areas.

“We’ve allowed forests to develop that never developed naturally,” said John Bailey, a professor of fire management at Oregon State University in Corvallis.

There is now a record amount of fuel for fires, such as brush, and “as a result, we have longer and hotter fire seasons that drive these megafires,” he said.

He advocated thinning forests through logging, prescribed burns and allowing naturally occurring fires to be managed instead of extinguished.

A fire becomes a megafire when it reaches 156 square miles (404 square kilometers). A megafire in southwest Oregon is the largest blaze in the West, having burned 290 square miles (751 square kilometers), authorities said Wednesday. It was reported

July 12 and isn’t expected to be under control until Oct. 15.

Across the West, more than 12,000 square miles (31,080 square kilometers) have burned this season, making it among the worst in land scorched.

Oregon state Sen. Herman Baertschiger Jr. called for a work group to revamp fire policy.

“The inability to manage our forest resources due to environmental concerns is threatening the safety and well-being of Oregonians and ultimately damaging our beautiful state,” the Republican said last week.

Residents of several communities in southwest Oregon opposed to a planned federal sale of old-growth trees say logging the fire-resistant timber will increase the risk of blazes spreading to communities. They say younger, uniform trees that will grow densely there will be twice as likely to burn. A coalition of residents will protest the sale Thursday in the town of Grants Pass.

“As fires burn throughout the region, area residents believe maintaining our last fire-resistant, old-growth forest is increasingly critical,” the coalition said in a statement Wednesday.

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has denounced inadequate efforts to thin dead and dying trees, calling it a years-long pattern.

He urged smarter policies, criticized the “broken system of fighting wildfires” and complained that federal funds earmarked for fire prevention are instead used for firefighting.

“The idea of ripping off prevention, which you need most, defies common sense,” Wyden said on the Senate floor last Thursday, standing next to a large photo of flames leaping from trees in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. “Shoddy budgeting today leads to bigger fires tomorrow.”

Bailey, the fire management professor, lamented that Zinke’s directive does not recommend using fire as a tool to restore forests.

Oregon Wild, which campaigns for conservation of roadless areas, suspects an ulterior motive behind the order from Zinke, who oversees more than 500 million acres of federal land, though the Forest Service, a unit of the Agriculture Department, is the nation’s largest firefighting agency.

“Sadly, policy will be all about more logging, not better fire management,” Oregon

Wild tweeted.

In Montana, environmental groups last month sued over a proposal by the U.S. Forest Service to allow timber harvesting and some prescribed burning to reduce the risk of severe wildfires in the Flathead National Forest. The lawsuit argued the agency failed to analyze how the timber project, combined with another one nearby, would affect Canada lynx, grizzly bears and their habitat.

Forest fuels are at “powder keg levels,” Paul F. Hessburg Sr., a U.S. Forest Service research landscape ecologist, recently told an audience in Bend, Oregon, a former logging town that has remade itself into an outdoor recreation and microbrew mecca.

“If we don’t change a few of our fire-management habits, we’re going to lose a few of our beloved forests,” he said.

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Obituary

By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service

Roberta Ann Kendall April 22, 1937 — July 21, 2017

Roberta Ann Kendall passed away at her home in Sisters at the age of 80.

In Sisters and Seattle she went by “Ann,” but for her earlier life she was called “Roberta.” In Sisters, Ann was a founding board member of A Home to Share and thrilled to support and attend Sisters Folk Festival events.

She was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, to Lucile Hayworth Kendall and William Hersey Kendall. Her father worked as a supervisor in the railroad industry, so the family moved at least once a year throughout the northeastern U.S. when Roberta and her two siblings were young. Prior to Sisters, Ann lived her adult life in Seattle; Salt Lake City, Utah; Jacksonville, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; and Ellicott City, Maryland.

She graduated from Unicoi County High School in Erwin, Tennessee, and attended Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia, for one year. Ann earned her Bachelor of Science degree in occupational therapy from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

She was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority. Ann also worked on her master’s in occupational therapy at NYU in New York City.

In the early ’70s, she was one of the first occupational therapists to specialize in hand rehabilitation and had fascinating stories from her internship at Bellevue Hospital in the Iron Lung Center and 40-plus years in the field.

At age 65, she went back to school and earned her master’s degree in notfor-profit leadership from Seattle University. A lifelong learner, she continued to study the brain through

books and cadaver labs, and was always willing to share her knowledge and healing abilities with friends who might need a hand with their hands.

She loved storytelling, loved animals — dogs especially — and had a very generous heart.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother James “Jimmy” Gordon Kendall.

She is survived by her two children, Lynn Woodward of Sisters, and David Woodward of Franklin, North Carolina; Lynn’s partner, Pete Rathbun; Ann’s brother, William Thomas Kendall; his wife, Patricia, and their sons, Scott and Michael and their families in the the southeastern U.S.; their son Richard and his family of Seattle; her cousins Rolfe and Cheryl Kennedy of Maine; her cousin Warren “Butch” Kennedy Jr., his wife, Natasha, and their children of Kennebunk, Maine; her cousin Thomas Lee Post and his wife Cheryl of Arizona.

A celebration of life will be held at Ann’s home from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, October 1; call David for directions: 541-549-1749.

If you would like to honor Ann, consider a donation to A Home to Share in Sisters: ahometoshare.com, or another not-for-profit organization of your choice.

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703 Child Care LOG TRUCK LOADS 3-BDRM, 2-BA, 1,676 sf, single704 Events & Event Services YEAR-ROUND WOOD SALES level, in-town custom. $1,850 per 801 Classes & Training – 18155 Hwy. 126 East – mo. NS. A Superior Property 802 Help Wanted SistersForestProducts.com Management.

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803 Work Wanted Order Online! 541-410-4509 rentaroundbend.com 901 Wanted Cozy 3-BDRM, 2-BA on 1.2 ac.

902 Personals 204 Arts & Antiques 2-car garage, W/D. $1,975/mo.

999 Public Notice THE JEWEL – 26 YEARS! includes water & garbage.

Jewelry Repair • Custom Design NS; pets OK. 69645 Omaha Rd. gems | 541-549-9388 | gold 101 Real Estate Call 503-332-7811 www.thejewelonline.com PONDEROSA PROPERTIES 10 ACRES with Irrigation.

–Monthly Rentals Available– Call Ralph, 541-390-5187 Cha for the Finest... Gallery Call Debbie at 541-549-2002 Sisters Hometown Realty ONLINE!! Dinosaur Fossils!

Full details, 24 hrs./day, go to: Norma Tewalt, Principal Broker www.chaforthefinest.com PonderosaProperties.com For Old-fashioned Hometown 541-549-1140 Printed list at 221 S. Ash, Sisters Service! Call 541-419-9629 Ponderosa Properties LLC 205 Garage & Estate Sales 102 Commercial Rentals Apartment above garage on Early Christmas Bazaar! view property! NS/NP. 1st & last.

Executive Office Suite ~ SAT., SEPT. 23 • 10 to 5 $795/mo. 541-420-9801.

275 sf, separate entrance, shared at 704 SW 8th St., Redmond. hall & bath, mtn. view! $600/mo.

Hosted by American Legion Aux. includes all utilities. Call Don, Unit 44. Vendor tables for $25.

104 Vacation Rentals 541-549-3172 or 541-419-9980.

Call Jennifer at 541-279-9803 In the Heart of Sisters CASCADE STORAGE or Deb at 541-604-0928.

(541) 549-1086 • (877) 540-1086 3 Vac. Rentals – Quiet 1-2 Bdrm Sleep 2-6, $115-$140 per nt.

581 N. Larch – 7-Day Access 206 Lost & Found vrbo.com/442970 or /180950 5x5 to 12x30 Units Available FOUND: Bracelet on Sunday, or /337593 • 503-694-5923 5x5 - 8x15 Climate Control Units Sept. 10, downtown Sisters. Call Gorgeous, Private, Custom On-site Management The Jewel to ID: 541-549-9388.

Lodge-style Home on 10 acres Prime Downtown Space with spectacular views.

Both Retail and Office 301 Vehicles Sleeps 2 to 12, fenced horse space available.

(2) TOYOTA Venzas, facility, ~5 mi. from Sisters.

Call Lori at 541-549-7132 2011 & 2012, low miles. Also, $425/night, min. 2-night stay.

Cold Springs Commercial Cadillac Escalade, 2007, black, 1 night + $200 cleaning dep.

– CAR STORAGE – 80K miles, fully loaded car!

Discounted monthly lease avail!

And Other Vehicles!

Call Ralph, 541-390-5187 Please call 541-420-3525 Heated 12x20 units, gated 24-hr.

We Buy, Sell, Consign Quality CASCADE security and onsite car wash.

Cars, Trucks, SUVs & RVs ~ VACATION RENTALS Call Jack, 541-419-2502 Call Robb at 541-647-8794 or Homes for up to 10 people.

Storage / Classic Car Garage Jeff at 541-815-7397 $140 and up. Monthly available.

Unique double unit in Sisters Sisters Car Connection da#3919 (541) 549-0792 • (877) 540-1086 available for classic cars, boats, SistersCarConnection.com Property management etc. 480 s.f. (24'w by 20'd). for second homes.

All amenities, secure, 24-hour 401 Horses CascadeVacationRentals.net access, heated, inside car wash R&B Ranch ~ Horse Boarding ~ Sisters Vacation Rentals ~ facilities. Scott, 415-350-6409 Premium facility, $1,000/mo.

Custom Homes to Simple Cabins, SNO CAP MINI STORAGE Indoor & outdoor arena, Some Dog-friendly / Internet www.SistersStorage.com racetrack.

503-507-8395. $100 and up • 541-977-9898 LONG-TERM DISCOUNTS! – 2017 GRASS HAY – www.SistersVacation.com Secure, Automated Facility Beautiful, 2nd cutting, quality with On-site Manager 201 For Sale horse hay. Barn stored. $225/ton • • • COLE RANCH (formerly Kenmore Fridge: Side-by-side, 541-549-3575 Patterson Ranch) • 541-213-8959 ice & water in the door, 24.5 cf, For Lease – New Block Bldg.

HORSE CORRAL CHIPS $300; Maytag Electric Double Redmond Airport Industrial Park $100/load delivered (~14 yards) Oven Range, $250; Maytag 2,500 to 6,500 sq. ft.

Also, PLAYGROUND CHIPS! Over-Range Microwave, $100.

Call Ralph, 541-390-5187 Bear Mtn. Fire • 541-549-8616 All in excellent condition!

RETAIL / OFFICE Local (at BBR). 817-219-9114. Orchard Grass Hay ~ $205/ton 352 E. Hood • 954 to 2,646 sf.

Grandee Farm • Cloverdale Road “Support Sisters” 541-741-1333 / 541-913-0916 541-504-0400 SHOP LOCAL!

Certified Weed-Free HAY. Orchard Grass or Alfalfa Hay, Sisters. $250 per ton.

Call 541-548-4163 Central Oregon 5-grass Blend HAY, 1st cutting, close-in to Sisters. $210/ton. 541-788-1226.

Black Horse Ranch Tumalo Horse Boarding: Indoor/outdoor arenas, direct access to 30K acres BLM trails. Beautiful! $390/mo. incl. premium hay. 541-280-5155 ALFALFA, TRITICALE ORCHARD GRASS HAY GRASS BLEND New crop. No rain. Barn stored.

3-tie bales. $160-$210/ton. Hwy. 126 & Cline Falls. 541-280-1895

403 Pets AKC French Bulldog Pups M & F available, many colors.

541-817-2933. See pics & price: www.puppies.mx – DOODLES – 6 chocolate, 6 black, beautiful Doodle puppies. Ready Oct. 9.

Vet checked, up-to-date on shots, and dewormed. Parents on site in Sisters. $1,000. 360-749-2879.

A CARING ENVIRONMENT for your treasured Best Friends in your home while you're away!

Sisters-Tumalo-Petsitting.com 541-306-7551 YOU CAN ASSIST OUR SISTERS-AREA FURRY FRIENDS! Donations to the 501(c)(3) Sisters, Oregon organization, Furry Friends Foundation, Inc., go toward the purchase of pet food, spay & neuter certificates and emergency medical help for pets in our community!

FurryFriendsFoundation.org 541-549-9941 BEND SPAY & NEUTER PROJECT Providing Low-Cost Options for altering and wellness!

910 SE Wilson, Ste. A-1 Bend, Oregon 97702 BendSnip.org • 541-617-1010 THREE RIVERS HUMANE SOCIETY – Where Love Finds A Home – Your New Best Friend Awaits!

1694 S.E. McTaggart Road, Madras, Oregon Go to ThreeRiversHS.org or call 541-475-6889

500 Services SMALL Engine REPAIR Lawn Mowers, Chainsaws & Trimmers Sisters Rental 506 North Pine Street 541-549-9631 Authorized service center for Stihl, Briggs & Stratton, Honda, Tecumseh ELEMENTS HAIR STUDIO ~ Holistic Hair Care ~ Sheila Jones, 503-949-0551 120 S. Elm Street SCC PROFESSIONAL AUTO DETAILING Premium services by appt.

Sisters Car Connection 102 W. Barclay Drive 541-647-8794 • Ask for Robb

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C L A S S I F I E D S BOOKKEEPING SERVICE ~ Olivia Spencer ~ Expert Local Bookkeeping!

Phone: (541) 241-4907 www.spencerbookkeeping.com • DERI’s HAIR SALON • Call 541-419-1279 WEDDINGS • CATERING ~ Willow Camp Catering ~ Call Wendy, 541-923-8675 Happy Trails Estate Sales!

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Daiya 541-480-2806 Sharie 541-771-1150 Graceful Touch Bodyworks ~ Tammy Patterson ~ Facials & Reflexology 170 W. Cascade Avenue, Ste. 5 541-977-4110 GEORGE’S SEPTIC TANK SERVICE “A Well Maintained Septic System Protects the Environment” 541-549-2871 MOVING TRUCK FOR HIRE –COMPLETE MOVING, LLC– Sisters' Only Local Moving Co.!

Two exp. men with 25+ years comm. moving. Refs! ODOT Lic. Class 1-B • Call 541-678-3332

501 Computers & Communications Gary Miller IT Services A Trusted Onsite Business & Personal Computer Specialist for the Sisters Community – 541-771-9929 – SISTERS SATELLITE TV • PHONE • INTERNET Your authorized local dealer for DirecTV, Exede HS Internet and more! CCB # 191099 541-318-7000 • 541-306-0729 Looking for something to do in the Sisters area? Visit SistersOregonGuide.com

504 Handyman THREE PEAKS BUILDERS Home Maintenance, Repairs & Improvements, large & small.

CCB #171646 • 541-556-4299 Carl Perry Construction LLC Home Restoration • Repair Kitchen & Bath Remodeling CCB #201709 • 541-419-3991 LAREDO CONSTRUCTION 541-549-1575 Maintenance / Repairs Insurance Work / Snow Removal CCB #194489 FRANCOIS' WORKSHOP Int./Ext. Carpentry & Repairs – Custom Woodworking – Painting, Decks, Fences & Outbuildings • CCB #154477 541-815-0624 or 541-549-0605 Home Customizations, LLC Res. & Commercial Remodeling, Bldg. Maintenance & Painting Chris Patrick, Owner cpatdaltx@msn.com CCB #191760 • 541-588-0083 John M. Keady Construction Home Maintenance & Repairs, Decks, Fences, Small Remodels & Upgrades. No job too small!

CCB #204632 • 541-480-2731 IN NEED OF A SERVICE PROVIDER? Always check out the Sisters-area advertisers in THE NUGGET NEWSPAPER Classifieds!

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Free Forestry Thinning & Management • US #18526 ~ 50 acres and larger ~ Call BMF, 541-420-3254 BEAR MOUNTAIN FIRE TREE SERVICE Serving Black Butte Ranch, Camp Sherman & Sisters Forestry - Fire - Fuels Reduction 502 Carpet & Upholstery Specializing in....

Cleaning High-Risk Removals, Tree FREE CARPET! Local, brown, Trimming, Storm Damage excellent cond., approx. 400 sq. & Stump Grinding ft. Just take it up! 817-219-9114.

– DEFENSIBLE SPACE – CORE CARPET CLEANING Lot Cleanups, Debris Chipping & – Carpet & Upholstery – Hauling, Free Fire Assessments.

Insured, Bonded • 541-588-6232 – FOREST MANAGEMENT – New Customer Discount!

Consulting & Resource Planning, whatslivinginyourcarpets.com Grant Writing, Forestry Thinning, Fuels Reduction, GORDON’S Logging Projects (lg. & small), LAST TOUCH Mowing, Prescribed Burning, Cleaning Specialists for Pasture/Field Burning.

CARPETS, WINDOWS Free Estimates Gladly! & UPHOLSTERY SERVING THE SISTERS Member Better Business Bureau AREA SINCE 1997 • Bonded & Insured • Lic., Bonded, Ins. Serving Central Oregon Bear Mountain Fire LLC Since 1980 DAVE VITELLE Call 541-549-3008 541-549-8616 • CCB #163462 Northwest Carpet Cleaning * Check the current status Great rates, serving all of Sisters! of your contractor Lic., Bonded, Ins. 541-390-0569 SISTERS TREE peterson.carpets@gmail.com Dude Aylor Circuit Rider Carpet Cleaning Firewood & Snow Removal “A Labor of Love” with High Risk Removal 35 years exp.! 541-549-6471 Woodland Management Sisters Carpet Cleaning Mountain View Enhancement – Call 541-549-2216 – Stump Grinding M & J CARPET CLEANING Chipping • Log Hauling • 541-549-9090 • 541-385-9299 • CCB #145520

TIMBER STAND IMPROVEMENT LLC All-phase Tree Care Specialist Technical Removals, Pruning, Stump Grinding, Planting & Consultations • Nate Goodwin ISA-Cert. Arborist PN-7987A CCB #190496 • 541-771-4825 online at www.tsi.services NuggetNews.com

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FREESTYLE HOMES, INC. 603 Excavation & Trucking Professional Building, ROBINSON & OWEN Remodeling & Home Repair Heavy Construction, Inc. CCB #165072 • 541-549-0230 All your excavation needs CASCADE GARAGE DOORS *General excavation Sales • Service • Installation *Site Preparation Res. / Comm. / Custom Wood *Sub-Divisions CCB #44054 • 541-548-2215 *Road Building CENIGA'S MASONRY, INC. *Sewer and Water Systems Brick • Block • Stone • Pavers *Underground Utilities CCB #181448 – 541-350-6068 *Grading *Snow Removal 601 Construction www.CenigasMasonry.com *Sand-Gravel-Rock LAREDO CONSTRUCTION BWPierce General Contracting Licensed • Bonded • Insured 541-549-1575 Residential Construction Projects CCB #124327 For ALL Your Residential Becke William Pierce (541) 549-1848 Construction Needs CCB#190689 • 541-647-0384 TEWALT & SONS INC. CCB #194489 beckewpcontracting@gmail.com Excavation Contractors www.laredoconstruction.com What can I create for you?

Sisters’ Oldest Excavation Co. DECKS Look at my website: Our experience will make your Trex – Timbertech – Hardwoods builderofspecialspaces.com $ go further – Take advantage Steel Framing Experts And see what dreams of our FREE on-site visit!

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Hand-crafted Log Homes & SERVICES Sand, Pressurized & Standard Design Services • Roof Systems Design / Build / Fine Carpentry & Porches • Railings/Staircases • Systems. Repairs, Tank Residential / Commercial Replacement. CCB #76888 Log Accents & Fireplace Mantels CCB #184335 • 541-948-2620 Cellular: 419-2672 or 419-5172 • Remodels & Log Restoration, bsimon@bendbroadband.com • 541-549-1472 • Log Staining & Refinishing • TewaltAndSonsExcavation.com SPURGE COCHRAN Sawmill & Boom Truck Services BUILDER, INC. – CCB #162818 – BANR Enterprises, LLC General Contractor Phil Rerat, 541-420-3572 Earthwork, Utilities, Grading, Building Distinctive, www.SwissMtLogHomes.com Hardscape, Rock Walls Handcrafted Custom Homes, Residential & Commercial Additions, Remodels Since ’74 CCB #165122 • 541-549-6977 602 Plumbing & Electric A “Hands-On” Builder www.BANR.net Keeping Your Project on Time R&R Plumbing, LLC CASCADE BOBCAT & On Budget • CCB #96016 > Repair & Service SERVICE To speak to Spurge personally, > Hot Water Heaters Compact • Capable call 541-815-0523 > Remodels & New Const.

Creative • Convenient Servicing Central Oregon JOHN NITCHER Driveways, push-outs, backfills, Lic. Bond. Ins. • CCB #184660 arena de-rocking, landscape prep, CONSTRUCTION 541-771-7000 General Contractor trenching, post holes and more!

Home repair, remodeling and Lic. & Bonded – CCB #121344 SWEENEY additions. CCB #101744 Mike Scherrer • 541-420-4072 PLUMBING, INC. 541-549-2206 “Quality and Reliability” LEAKY PIPES ?

Repairs • Remodeling JERRY WILLIS DRYWALL Find your plumber in • New Construction & VENETIAN PLASTER The Nugget Newspaper's • Water Heaters All Residential, Commercial Jobs CLASSIFIEDS 541-549-4349 541-480-7179 • CCB #69557 604 Heating & Cooling Residential and Commercial FREE EXCAVATION Licensed • Bonded • Insured on additions & garages.

ACTION AIR CCB #87587 Terms & conditions apply.

Heating & Cooling, LLC MARSHALL ELECTRIC INC. Retrofit • New Const • Remodel McCARTHY & SONS Quality Electrical Wiring CONSTRUCTION Consulting, Service & Installs New Construction • Remodels New Construction, Remodels actionairheatingandcooling.com Service Calls • 541-419-9473 541-420-0487 • CCB #130561 CCB #195556 CCB #181111 / CCB #152389 541-549-6464 SMELTZER CURTS ELECTRIC LLC GENERAL CONTRACTING 605 Painting – SISTERS, OREGON – Quality • Performance • Value Quality Electrical Installations Over 30 years Experience ~ FRONTIER PAINTING ~ Agricultural • Commercial New Homes, Remodels, Repairs Quality Painting, Ext. & Int. Residential • Industrial Mark Smeltzer CCB #190468 Refurbishing Decks 541-588-6092 studio69217.com Irrigation pumps, motor control, CCB #131560 • 541-771-5620 barns & shops, plan reviews www.frontier-painting.com Carl Perry Construction LLC CCB #178543 Home Restoration • Repair Look Sharp with a Fresh Coat!

541-480-1404 Kitchen & Bath Remodeling Residential / Comm. Painting CCB #201709 • 541-419-3991 MONTE'S ELECTRIC Carl Perry Construction LLC • service • residential CCB #201709 • 541-419-3991 CUSTOM CABINETS • commercial • industrial Design, Build, Install Black Butte Painting LLC Serving all of Central Oregon – Bison Construction – Free estimates! • CCB #209860 541-719-1316 CCB #209860 • 541-390-0769 Call Nick at 541-848-8214 lic. bond. insured, CCB #196384

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Landscape Maintenance, F-T: 606 Landscaping & Yard Sisters Landscape Co. is now Maintenance hiring! Must have valid ODL. Will train, starts at $17/hr.

Call Affordable Handyman & Yard 541-549-3001 or email résumé Care with distinction & integrity. to: sisterslandscape@gmail.com NEEDLE cleanup! 541-514-1190 Exp. SERVERS for Los Agaves. CLEANUP AJ's PROPERTY P-T or F-T. Need food handler's Lawncare • Thatching • Edging card andAerating OLCC permit.

• Hauling Debris Also, P-T Cook &Licensed Dishwashers. & Insured Apply at 541-279-0139 291 E. Cascade Ave.• 541-306-0761 Solid RockTHE Granite, LLC in GARDEN ANGEL Sisters is seeking full-timeMaintenance Landscape Slab Countertop Fabricator/ and Irrigation Installer, and#9352 full-time • 541-549-2882 LCB CNC Programmer/Operator.

“Your Garden’s Best Friend” Prior construction experience All Landscaping Services a plus.

Pay DOE with Mowing, Thatching, Hauling... paidCall holidays, vacations, Abel Ortega, 541-815-6740. bonuses. Submit résumé to – All You Need Maintenance – mike@solidrockoregon.com needle removal, hauling, or callPine 541-549-8550. irrig., mowing, edging, raking, Home moss Health removal, Professionalweeding, ~ pruning, Good salary, 12-hour shifts. roofs, gutters, pressure washing For interview call 541-420-0501. & much more. Lic/Bonded/Ins. MONTE'S ELECTRIC now Austin •is541-419-5122 hiring experienced Journeyman Metolius Lawn Maintenance Electrician.

Hiring Bonus & care, pruning, Cleanup, lawn Benefits! Call 541-719-1316. hauling, etc. 541-508-9672 COOK: Exp. preferred but will Domestic train. Need 701 organizational and Services time-management Up to KIM'Sskills.

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SNO CAP DRIVE IN seeks P-T Property Maintenance Manager, Counter Help, and Short-order Cooks (exp. pref.).

Come in person for app/drop off résumé, 380 W. Cascade Ave. – TIRE TECH – Davis Towing, Pay DOE. Apply in person at 188 W. Sisters Park Dr. M-F, 9 to 5, ask for Kathleen.

Black Butte Painting is now hiring. All experience levels, pay DOE. Email blackbuttepainting@gmail.com Fifi's Hauling Service seeks a hardworking, reliable manual laborer. Call 541-971-1714.

Landscape Maintenance, F-T: Sisters Landscape Co. is now hiring! Must have valid ODL. Will train, starts at $17/hr. Call 541-549-3001 or email résumé to: sisterslandscape@gmail.com Exp. SERVERS for Los Agaves.

P-T or F-T. Need food handler's card and OLCC permit.

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Apply at 291 E. Cascade Ave. Solid Rock Granite, LLC in Sisters is seeking full-time Slab Countertop Fabricator/ Installer, and full-time CNC Programmer/Operator.

Prior construction experience a plus. Pay DOE with paid holidays, vacations, bonuses. Submit résumé to mike@solidrockoregon.com or call 541-549-8550.

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MONTE'S ELECTRIC is now hiring experienced Journeyman Electrician. Hiring Bonus & Benefits! Call 541-719-1316.

COOK: Exp. preferred but will train. Need organizational and time-management skills. Up to $14/hr. DOE. Apply in person at La Magie, 473 E. Hood Ave. GREAT NIGHT JOB! Choose P-T or F-T, Fri. & Sat. or more!

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999 Public Notice PUBLIC NOTICE In compliance with current state and federal regulations covering asbestos in schools, Sisters School District has on file all asbestos information at the facilities office at 525 E. Cascade Avenue, Sisters, OR. All information is available for public inspection during normal business hours.

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not only provide access to the timber but also provide a firebreak and enable better, more prompt routes to a wildfire.

Logging programs provide a broad spectrum of long-term jobs and payroll tax revenue. The forestry department would receive revenue for the logging operations that could be used for reforestation and to improve trails and campgrounds for use by the public, and coincidently provide much cleaner air quality.

The state would also receive revenues from timber sales that could be used to provide financial aid to our school systems that are in desperate need of financial assistance.

The way we have been managing our forests for the last 30+ years is not working for the people, the economy, the animals and their habitat, and the environment.

We need to make a change.

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Fortunately we made a successful transition and Sisters is a desirable place to live as a result.

However, we risk all that we love about this place if the current forest management (or lack of) continues. The debate over whether to let National Forest and wilderness burn, as we have done for decades now, should be over.

It is obvious that fires are much more intense due to the current forest policies, including the failure to treat burned areas after a fire.

Snags, fallen trees, and large areas of manzanita growth make each successive fire more intense, destroying everything in its path.

Forget about increasing school enrollment, affordable housing, or whether we need another roundabout. None of those will matter if we continue to let our forests burn, because no one will want to live here or visit. It is time for our city representatives (and the Chamber) to gather the public for a discussion on forest management, and then push for a new way forward. This needs to happen now, along with calls to Wyden, Merkley, and Walden, demanding action.

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have two horse trailers, and always keep one hooked up for such situations.

“Our horse trailer has living quarters that we keep well-stocked,” said Jessica.

With their lodgings and animals secure at a ranch outside of Sisters, the Mohrs turned their attention to their property.

“We asked friends and family to help pack some valuables,” said Doug.

“While Jessica oversaw that, I was doing defensible space techniques, testing our generators, preparing our water truck, setting up fire hoses around the house and turning on our sprinklers. We have an active management plan for our 340 acres, but it’s not fully automatic. We have to engage it.”

By August 17 the Mohrs were officially out, remaining evacuated for the next 11 days. The fire crept ever closer, eventually drawing within less than a mile of their structure. During those uncertain times, the Mohrs attended the community meetings, and remarked on the professionalism of the management teams, often under the pressure of understandably upset residents.

“The leadership team was impressive, and we got to meet face-to-face with a lot of frontline people and management,” said Doug.

Although their structure was one of the closest to Milli’s path, the Mohrs felt assured of its safety, both because of their own duediligence management, and the reassurances of people like the Oregon State Fire Marshal.

“The green team was extremely helpful, kind, and kept us well-informed,” said Jessica.

The Mohrs did have a rough evacuation plan in place before Milli, but would make a few practical adjustments based on this experience.

“Have a checklist,” said Doug. “As more people got involved helping us, there were more opinions about what to take.”

He recommends thinking through two scenarios: one similar to Milli, where distance and time are in the fire personnel’s favor, and one quick-strike scenario in which structure survival is not as assured.

Jessica recommends remembering everyday practical items.

“I realized after we were out that I had only taken one

pair of pants, and left food in the freezer!” she said, laughing.

A Forest Service employee escorted her in to get some necessities that were overlooked in the hustle and bustle.

“I learned how unattached we are to our stuff. We did take videos for insurance purposes, just in case,” said Jessica. “You realize what’s important.”

With the community support, even if our house did burn and everything in it, we have what is important.

— Jessica Mohr On returning to their house, before even unpacking, they first went through and evaluated their belongings, donating many things that had seemed so “necessary” before to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore.

The couple also plans to adjust their own forest management strategy for their property.

“I was following the codebook and law, which says

every 10 years you manage so many acres, but you really need defensible space management on a more regular basis,” said Doug, who now plans to engage in management annually. “I think this is a good opportunity for the Forest Service and ODF to revisit their readiness and management plans for wilderness fires, especially for times when resources are scarce.”

“My dad was a big advocate of forest management and worked in the Forest Service,” said Jessica. “He always taught us it was important to take care of our forests. Forest management for our property is based on that. It does include controlled burning to remove fuels. We thin trees out. A lot of the people in the forest service are advocates of the same principles. They are working to improve the system, not succumbing to it.”

The biggest lesson that the Mohrs learned, though, was just how much they can rely on their community of friends and family during perilous times.

“With the community support, even if our house did burn and everything in it, we have what is important,” said Jessica.

“Friends, family, and community involvement

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Doug and Jessica Mohr’s home was very close to the path of the Milli Fire. are essential,” Doug added.

“We felt secure with the information that was

provided and the support we received from those closest to us.”

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HALL OF FAME: Wide range of people, groups honored Continued from page 1

on the idea that both his athletic and artistic interests were nurtured in Sisters and that he is heartened that this tradition has continued for Sisters school students to this day.

Following Mouser, AJ Demaris, a 2015 inductee, introduced the members of the 1957 State Champion six-man football team and their coaches as the first honorees of the evening.

This group included six of the seven seniors in the class of 1957, who had been quite successful throughout high school, but could not get past the Culver Bulldogs, who won consecutive state titles in the years leading up to 1957. But, after an opening season loss to Mohawk, the Outlaws streaked through the remainder of the season, including a thrashing of Culver, and captured the first state title in school history.

Members of the 1957 team included Stan Williams, Denny Reece, Steven Seigner, Gary Benson, Doug Hockett, Mike Smith, Sam Hewitt, Donnie Mouser, Lee Thomas, Colen Reinecker, Jack Lowery, Rick Bowers, Doug Doffenbarger, John Shaw, Fran Morton, and Butch Larson. The team was coached by Tom Cox and Wayne Pierce.

The second inductee, Brad Bulloch, was honored for his two decades of

service to the Outlaws volleyball program, where he served as a mentor, assistant coach and head coach since arriving in Sisters in 1995.

He retired last year, leaving an indelible print on a program that has seen more championship-level success than any program in Outlaw history, including five state titles.

Miki McFadden spoke about Bulloch before calling him to the microphone as “that guy who wears the straw hat who is a pillar of the Sisters volleyball family.” Bulloch was also part of the 1996 volleyball title team that was inducted in the Hall of Fame two years ago. “He has always put the interests of the students first and foremost and helped innumerable students meet their full potential.”

Ever humble — and true to his word that he would keep his acceptance speech short — Bulloch simply said, “I sincerely thank you.”

The next inductee, Willis Winkle from the class of 1957, was honored as an individual athlete for a high school career that included a whopping 15 varsity letters from football, basketball, track and baseball, for which he is most remembered due to his being signed to a professional contract in the farm system for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Jody Henderson, who taught music in the Sisters School District for many years before moving to New Hampshire in 2011, was recognized for his tremendous impact to the arts program and to the spirit

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and vitality of Sisters High School. Henderson, who was unable to attend, shared a short video expressing his gratitude to the Sisters community, with the Outlaws fight song playing softly on piano in the background. To conclude, the video showed Jody donning an Outlaws sweatshirt, playing the fight song on his beloved trumpet, bringing the crowd to its feet to clap along with the tune.

Three athletes from the 1990s were also enshrined in the Hall, including TK Phelps (’96), Shelly Greene (’98), and Cortney Ellis (’99).

Phelps, a three-sport athlete, was best remembered for his leaping ability, which helped him become the favorite passing target of quarterback Nick Fouts, and led him to a state title in the long jump and a school record of 6 feet 8 inches in the high jump. His father, Rob, accepted the award on TK’s behalf since his son is finishing his master’s degree in Texas and was unable to attend.

Another three-sport athlete, Shelly Greene, competed in track, basketball, and volleyball, where she was named 3A Player of the Year and was a finalist for the Wendy’s High School

Heisman award in her senior year. Greene tearfully thanked the community for its amazing support during her school years and offered to give back now that she has returned to live in the area.

Cortney Ellis traveled from Arizona in order to attend the banquet. She admitted that she wasn’t too sure about the move to Sisters from Southern California as a freshman, but ended up accomplishing things she never imaged, including being part of a state championship volleyball team and going on to compete at the Division 1 level as a pole vaulter for Montana State University.

One of the most poignant presentations of the evening came when Ronald “Ronnie” Olmstead was honored for his outstanding athletic career that concluded with his graduation in 1956.

Olmstead was described by his brother Don as a tremendous middle distance runner and student who received a scholarship to attend Linfield College and also continue his athletic career.

T r a g i c a l l y, R o n n i e drowned in the Metolius River at age 17, just days after graduating. His brother encouraged the audience to cherish each day because,

“You really don’t know what tomorrow might bring.”

The final presentation of the evening honored Sisters Folk Festival as an organization, bringing the banquet full circle in recognizing the long history of the Sisters community valuing and investing in academic, athletic, as well as artistic excellence. Brad Tisdel accepted the award as the creative director of Sisters Folk Festival, underlining the organization’s mission to provide arts education throughout the school system through programs including the Americana Project, music education, visual arts, and events such as My Own Two Hands.

According to the SHS Hall of Fame website, part of the mission of the group is “to engage with alumni of Sisters High School and develop a culture of Outlaws pride that continues after high school. Celebrating former students, teachers, and coaches that have made a significant contribution to our high school is one way to accomplish this mission.”

Committee member Kris Kristovich summed up his interest in the Hall of Fame: “My interest is in preserving Outlaw history.”

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Families invited to ‘Discover Nature’

ECONOMY: Business owners are resilient in face of fire season Continued from page 1

tough spot. According to City leadership at the meeting, the effects vary greatly from business to business, but some companies have noted a 50 percent decrease.

“September is critical for business,” said Sisters Mayor Chuck Ryan. He noted the cancellation of the Folk Festival and smoke from the Milli Fire has deterred customers and diminished what businesses depend on as a profitable season.

“The smoke wasn’t just from our fires though, it was a culmination of many surrounding ones,” he stated. “All of Oregon was impacted.”

Sisters also lies in the wake of negative media influence affecting the economy directly. The steady flow of customers has nearly cut in half as news from neighboring counties cast a grim view of Sisters. Inaccurate signage in the Valley has also been reported, misleading travelers into believing that Central Oregon is inaccessible.

“Some people in Portland don’t know the difference between Highway 242 and 20. So when they hear 242 is closed, they think Sisters is inaccessible,” said Judy Trego, executive director of the Sisters Chamber of Commerce. “We need to get the message out: We are open.”

In an effort to mitigate the negative attention and draw visitors, the Sisters Area Chamber of Commerce has increased its efforts in

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Local officials are trying to find ways to mitigate the economic impacts of a tough fire season in Sisters. advertising. Utilizing radio advertisement in Portland and Bend, and broadcasting TV commercials on two Bend channels, the Chamber is focused on getting the attention back to our community. Drawing in visitors, in hopes of benefiting local businesses, is the Chamber’s priority.

“We want to get the message out: Sisters is here and open for business,” said Trego.

On the list of options for mitigating financial impact is the consideration of a disaster loan through the Small Business Association and Federal Emergency Management Agency. During the Tuesday meeting, members of City government and the Chamber discussed with businesses the option of applying for the loan.

The disaster loan would be assessed as a whole within Deschutes County, not just the town of Sisters.

Applications would be assessed at the county level then passed through the Governor ’s office. Once approved, it would then be handed over to FEMA for evaluation.

Businesses interested in

applying would be granted a low-interest loan, helping them cover cost deficits incurred over the slow months. At the conclusion of Tuesday’s meeting, six businesses were interested in applying for the loan.

“The loan is positive, marketing is positive, and the meeting was very positive,” said Ryan.

The economic impact of a bad winter and slow summer has brought about a closeknit community as well. The City and Chamber are working closely together in an effort to bring about hope and change for the local economy while encouraging businesses to work together.

“We have not received a ton of calls,” said Ryan, admiring the durability of local businesses. “These people are really resilient. They need our help, but don’t have their hands out.”

Chris Wilder, owner of Sisters Log Furniture and Home Décor and president of the Chamber’s board of directors, admired the sense of community and encouraged the continued support of one another.

“We are truly in this together,” he said.

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