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The Nugget Vol. XLI No. 50

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Council will hear plans for wildfire protection The impact of wildfire on forest communities has been on grim display in recent years. Last month, a fire almost entirely destroyed the city of Paradise, California. For the past year, a team of wildfire experts and planners has been working to develop strategies for Sisters to address the challenges of a community surrounded by forest and vulnerable to fire. On Wednesday, December 12, the Sisters City Council will hear the final recommendations from the Community

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Here we go a-caroling!

Comment invited on vision action plan

PHOTO BY SUE ANDERSON

Chorale Director Connie Gunterman, and Elementary School music teacher Sara Miller’s 3rd-graders join in singing a rendition of “Jingle Bells” at Sunday’s Chorale performance, “Christmas Joy” at the Sisters Community Church. See story, page 4.

See WILDFIRE on page 23

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Sisters Country Horizons has published the draft of its Vision Action Plan on the community initiative’s website and is accepting public comments on the document through the end of December. The draft Vision Action Plan can be found at www. sistershorizons.org. The Horizons project’s Vision Action Team — 32 citizens representing a broad cross section of Sisters Country — developed the community-based plan. It includes 20 strategies, along See VISION PLAN on page 23

New apartment project Car accelerates into Sisters store underway in Sisters By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Twenty-two new two-bedroom, two-bath, market-rate apartments called Cowboy Court are under construction at 154 W. Adams Ave. in Sisters, in between the existing Mountain High Apartments and the Sisters Art Works building. Designed by Mayes Architecture and Planning, they are being built by Empire Construction and Development, a Bend company headed by Kevin Spencer. When completed, the one-acre parcel of land will hold two two-story buildings, one with 12 apartments and the other with 10. Two of the ground-floor apartments are fully compliant with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines and all the other ground-floor apartments are adaptable, meaning they have things like extra blocking

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for the installation of grab bars. There are four different unit layouts, including the ADA apartments. They each have carpet and vinyl floor coverings, washers and dryers, dishwashers, and patios or decks with outside storage closets. Some units will have a kitchen pantry and builtin desk. In most units, one bathroom will have a shower and the other a tub/shower combination. On site will be 29 parking spaces, 11 of which will be in two carports. There will be 11 on-street pull-in parking spaces in front of the apartment complex. The projected completion date for the apartments is summer 2019. The rents do not qualify as officially “affordable,” but they will also not be high-end, according to the developer. The owner of the project is Cowboy Court LLC of Corvallis.

A 91-year-old driver mistook his accelerator for his brake while pulling into a parking space at Town Square in Sisters on Saturday. His car leaped into the entrance of Common Threads, doing extensive damage. There were, however, no injuries. Responding sheriff ’s deputies arrived on the scene to find a silver 2012 Subaru Outback driven by a 91-yearold Sisters man had driven over the parking lot curb and through the entrance of the store adjacent to Rainwater Café. The store was open and an employee was present. An investigation determined that the driver was attempting to park in front of the clothing store when he mistook the accelerator for the brake pedal. The Subaru drove over the curb and into the store, causing substantial damage to the building and the store’s inventory. Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District personnel arrived to assess the driver and the building. No citations have been issued.

PHOTO COURTESY DESCHUTES COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

A 91-year-old driver mistook the accelerator for the brake and ran into Common Threads on Saturday. There were no injuries.

Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Naturalist............... 5 Announcements................12 Obituaries ....................... 18 Classifieds..................26-28 Meetings ........................... 3 Bunkhouse Chronicle ......... 9 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32

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EARLY HOLIDAY DEADLINES FOR THE NUGGET

The Nugget will be closed on Tuesday, December 25 and Tuesday, January 1. Early deadline for display advertising and the events calendar for the issue of December 26 is Thursday, December 20 at 5 p.m. Deadline for classified advertising, announcements, letters to the editor and press releases for the issue of December 26 is Friday, December 21 at 12 p.m. Early deadline for display advertising and the events calendar for the issue of January 2 is Thursday, December 27 at 5 p.m. Deadline for classified advertising, announcements, letters to the editor and press releases for the issue of January 2 is Friday, December 28 at 12 p.m.

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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: As Chairman of the Sisters Kiwanis Food Share, I am writing to remind everyone involved, the day we are giving out the certificates for a Christmas Dinner, the Fire Department is handing out toys and Furry Friends are remembering pets is coming up soon: Saturday December 22 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Remember the date! If you haven’t filled out an application you can still get one at the Food Bank, Wednesday, December 12 from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday during Food Bank hours, FAN office at the school until Friday and at Sisters Fire Department. The deadline, if you have children, is Friday December 15 to give the Fire Department time to shop and wrap in time for December 22. Last year we had almost 200 applications, but at the end of the day of distribution, we

had 28 envelopes left; the Fire Department had half-dozen bags of presents and Furry Friends hauled a lot of pet food back to their storage. We spent two days calling numerous times trying to get everything where it was supposed to be. It was stressful at a time that should be joyful. So, if you sign up, PLEASE show up! Naomi and I have decided if you don’t make arrangements to pick up at a different time, we will not hold the certificates. We will make reminder calls the day of distribution, but not after. If they are not picked up on Saturday, December 22, they will be used to purchase future food for the Food Bank. This is a gift given by the community that is given with love. Hayden Homes deserves a huge thank-you for making this possible. We want everyone to have the best Christmas ever. See LETTERS on page 29

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Jonah Goldberg One of the most comforting talking points in politics is to claim that your political opponents are irrationally obsessed. I’m sure this is as old as time, but I first noticed it in the late 1990s. Many of Bill Clinton’s most ardent supporters responded to every new criticism by claiming the president’s enemies were twisted by hate for the man. During the George W. Bush administration, thanks in part to a phrase coined by my late friend Charles Krauthammer, conservatives deflected criticism of the president by claiming his foes suffered from “Bush derangement syndrome.” The term caught on, and Obama supporters hurled charges of “Obama derangement syndrome” (along with charges of “racism”— a secular term for a kind of derangement) at Obama’s opposition. Today, it’s not hard to find people claiming that Donald Trump’s adversaries are obsessed, deranged, or conspiracy-obsessed witch hunters. A search of Twitter finds an infinitely long stream of references to “Trump derangement syndrome.” Now, here’s the thing: Sometimes it’s true. Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump all had—and have—their haters. And some people do lose their bearings and immediately leap to the most outlandish interpretation of the facts (or rumors disguised as facts). The paranoid style is a bipartisan phenomenon in American life. But sometimes the people making the “derangement syndrome” or “hater” charge are the ones who refuse to see the facts, taking comfort in the fallacy that the motives, real or imagined, of a critic automatically disqualify the criticism. As Emory University political scientists Alan Abramowitz and Steven Webster have documented, we live in a moment of extreme negative partisanship: Millions of Americans are driven more by the dislike of the other party than by attachment to their own. In this kind of climate, being hated by the right people is the best way to get not just a big following but an intensely loyal one. I’ve written about this before, but I think it’s worth revisiting in the context of Alexandria

Ocasio-Cortez, the “it girl” (sorry, “it person”) of the left these days. AOC, as many call her, is attractive, young, Hispanic and almost eloquent in her passion for some ill-defined notion of socialism or social democracy. She also says many untrue and silly things. Just this week she suggested in a tweet that the Pentagon misplaced some $21 trillion in funding that could have paid for most of a $32 trillion “Medicare for All” scheme. A Defense Department spokesman told the Washington Post’s Fact Checker column: “DoD hasn’t received $21 trillion in (nominal) appropriated funding across the entirety of American history.” In recent months, she said unemployment was low because so many people are working two jobs (that’s not how it works), that the “upper-middle class doesn’t exist anymore” (it does), and that we’d save money on funeral expenses if we had “Medicare for All.” If you point out the absurdity of these things, the almost instantaneous defense is that her critics are obsessed with an incoming-freshman congresswoman. In some cases, they’re right. The fixation some conservatives have with her clothes is over the top (though I did love one wag’s phrase, “Neiman Marxist”). But what her defenders leave out is their own obsession with the woman. In other words, AOC is quite brilliantly playing a lot of people for suckers. She already has more Twitter followers than the other 60 incoming freshman Democrats combined. Ocasio-Cortez, wittingly or not, has appropriated a technique mastered by President Trump. Trump prefers positive attention, but he’ll take negative attention over no attention every time, in part because he knows his supporters will intensify their dedication to him in response to allegedly unfair attacks. AOC is doing the same thing. By forcing partisans to take sides, she generates controversy. Controversy attracts media attention. Media attention generates even more controversy. And so on. I suspect this will be the new model for years to come.

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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Starry Nights tickets on sale December 14 Tickets will go on sale for Starry Nights Presents “An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt” on Friday, December 14 at noon. The concert takes place on Tuesday, January 29 at Sisters High School and is a benefit for the Sisters Schools Foundation. Lovett and Hiatt are donating their time to support programs and activities for students in the Sisters School District. All seats are reserved, with tickets priced at $95 and $75. Tickets will be

available for online purchase at www.sistersstarrynights.org. Doors open at 6 p.m., with Sisters High School Americana, Jazz Choir and Jazz Band students performing, complimentary delights served by Sisters High School Culinary Arts students and a silent auction. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. with the two musical legends sharing the stage for a performance showcasing their songs and the stories and inspirations behind them. See STARRY NIGHTS on page 19

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

Bear and Mary Gray dedicated their new habitat for Humanity home last weekend.

Winter Blues Ball will warm Sisters night Sisters Rhythm and Brews is serving up an evening of high-energy dancing and music all in the holiday spirit on Humanity Saturday, December 15 at The Belfry in sisters. In collaboration with The Heart of Oregon Youthbuild and Habitat for Humanity, they are presenting the Winter Blues Ball, featuring this summer’s blues festival favorite, Down North. The night kicks off with some tasty bites during cocktail hour. Doors open at 6 p.m. There is a good chance

you will find the perfect gift for that special someone during the auction held after cocktail hour. There is an exciting array of items to bid on, ranging from local art pieces, massage and spa packages, to a season pass at Hoodoo Ski Area. All auction proceeds benefit local youth and affordable housing. The Heart of Oregon is a Central Oregonbased nonprofit that provides job skills, education, and leadership development to over 300 local youth each See BLUES BALL on page 29

Sisters family has a new home When Bear and Mary Gray broke ground for their future Habitat home nearly a year ago, they had a good laugh because they had to shovel snow before finding the dirt. This past weekend, only a ribbon had to be cut and the front door opened for the Grays to enter into their new Habitat home. The Grays worked hard during the past year in order to get to the point of owning their own home. As part of the homeownership program, future homeowners earn sweat equity by volunteering at the Thrift and ReStore, on the construction site and helping with office work. The Grays well exceeded

the required 500 hours by working more than 900 total, said family partners Marsha Lewis and Gayla Nelson. “Bear and Mary were always at their home ready to help, and I had to constantly find work for them to do, Construction Manager Darleene Snider joked. “Mary is painter extraordinaire and Bear is a great cabinet finisher,” she told the crowd, reminding them to check out the kitchen cabinets when they toured the new home. The Grays are well known in Sisters and more than 60 friends, family and Habitat supporters came out on the late Sunday afternoon to

celebrate. Paul Stone, the Gray’s son, blessed the home, and told the crowd how the home is a “dream re-realized” for his parents. In the past several years, the Grays have had to move often, but they always made a home no matter where they lived, he said. Now they will own a home of their own with an affordable zero-interest mortgage. “It was a delight working with Bear and Mary,” Lewis said as she and Nelson presented the couple with a basket of goodies. “Bear and Mary are huggers and I’m a hugger too, and they had a sense of joy during this entire See HABITAT on page 15

SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS Al-Anon Mon., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Wed., 6 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. 541-549-8737 or 541-549-1527. Alateen Thursday, 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. 541-549-1527. Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. & Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration / Mon., 5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. 541-548-0440. Alzheimer’s & Dementia Caregiver Support Group 1st Tuesday, 11 a.m., Sisters City Hall. 800-272-3900. Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community room. Partner required. 541-595-6236. Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild For Saturday meeting dates and location, email: steelefly@msn.com. Central OR Spinners and Weavers Guild One Saturday per month, Jan. thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217.

Council on Aging of Central Oregon Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters Community Church. 541-480-1843. East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’ Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061. Friends of the Sisters Library Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com. Go Fish Fishing Group 2nd Monday, 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All ages welcome. 541-771-2211. Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to 4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230. Military Parents of Sisters Meetings are held quarterly; please call for details. 541-388-9013. Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469. SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation District. 541-549-2091. Sisters Family Aglow Lighthouse 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., Ponderosa Lodge Meeting Room. 503-930-6158.

Sisters Area Photography Club 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library community room. 541-549-6157. Sisters Area Woodworkers 1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. 541-639-6216. Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846. Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays, 12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse. Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419. Sisters Caregiver Support Group 3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. 541-771-3258. Sisters Cribbage Club Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Ray’s Food Place community room. 541-923-1632. Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m. Location information: 541-549-1193. Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870. Sisters Meditation Group Mondays, 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays, 4 p.m. 420 N Tamarack St. Text only (no voice) to 541-207-7266. Sisters Parent Teacher Community 2nd Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. at Sisters Saloon. 541-480-5994. Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group 2nd Tuesday, 1 p.m., Sisters Community Church. 907-687-8101 or 541-668-6599. Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday. Location information: 541-279-1977.

Sisters Rotary Tuesdays, noon, Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-760-5645. Sisters Trails Alliance Board 1st Wednesday, 5 p.m. Sisters Art Works. Public welcome. 541-719-8822. Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon, Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123. Three Sisters Irrigation District Board of Directors 1st Tuesday, 4 p.m., TSID Office. 541-549-8815. Three Sisters Lions Club 1st Thursday, noon, Ray’s Food Place community room. 541-419-1279. VFW Post 8138 and American Legion Post 86 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall. 541-903-1123. Weight Watchers Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, Sisters Community Church. 541-602-2654.

SCHOOLS Black Butte School Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 5 p.m., Black Butte School. 541-595-6203. Sisters Christian Academy Board of Directors 2nd Thursday, 8 a.m., RE/MAX office. 541-549-4133. Sisters School District Board of Directors One Wed. monthly, SSD Admin Bldg. See schedule online at www.ssd6.org. 541-549-8521 x5002.

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 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m., SPRD bldg. 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 Wed., 7 p.m., 67433 Cloverdale Rd. 541-548-4815. 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 Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St. 541-549-0771. This listing is for regular Sisters Country meetings; email information to lisa@nuggetnews.com

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Local video Chorale brings ‘Christmas Joy’ to Sisters showing their appreciation My granddaughter says she Deirdre Kanzig, a teacher urges users to By Jim Anderson for the chorale’s performance likes to watch my fingers at Sisters Elementary School, were Richard Franklin and fly over the keys. If I would remarked, “Of course I loved share trails The annual Christmas his family, who said, “Tonight let them, they would be sit- hearing my third-grade stuCorrespondent

“Stop, Speak and Smile!” That’s the message delivered by horse, of course, in two new trail etiquette videos produced by a partnership of Sisters Trails Alliance, Oregon Equestrian Trails, Back Country Horsemen and Central Oregon Trails Alliance. Funding for the project was provided by those organizations and Deschutes Trails Coalition and Your Store. The videos were professionally produced by Wahoo Films of Bend and shot on the Green Ridge Trail. Two videos were created to demonstrate safe trail sharing between different user groups. A short, PSA-length video is a nod to a classic Western standoff with mountain bikes and a horse staring each other down. The longer video depicts four scenarios where different users share the trail safely — bicyclists encounter and yield to hikers and equestrians, hikers yield to equestrians, and downhill bicyclist meets and yields to uphill bicyclists. Safe trail sharing is demonstrated and voiceover narration details the rules of etiquette and highlights the importance of talking to each other when meeting on the trails. STA is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect people and communities to each other and their natural surroundings. The organization maintains the Peterson Ridge Trail System, produces a free trails map, hosts an annual speaker series, and supports trail-related activities and events throughout the year. STA is currently in the midst of their year-end appeal. Donations can be made at www.sisterstrails.org/getinvolved. Links to the two videos can be found on the home page at www.sisterstrails.org. For more information about STA, membership or volunteering, contact Kate Donovan, program manager, at kate@sisterstrails.org.

Season concert put on by the Sisters High Desert Chorale at the Sisters Community Church, Friday evening and Sunday afternoon, was quite a treat. Friday’s performance began with the Sisters Bell Choir, under the direction of Lola Knox, playing such favorites as “Carol of the Bells” and “Sleigh Ride.” Young Naomi Bennette sang a solo with the bell-ringers when they played ”Once Upon a December,” and chorale member Marilyn Anthony sang a stirring rendition of “O Holy Night” with them. This year marked the 10th anniversary of the bell choir playing with the singers. The chorale, led by director Connie Gunterman, began with “Let There Be Peace on Earth” by Sy Miller and Jill Jackson in honor of the infamous date of December 7, 1941, the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War II, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. From there on, the chorale carried the Christmas Joy theme with four beloved tunes: “Sing We Now of Christmas,” “Carols Around (and A Round),” John Rutter’s “Candlelight Carol,” and “Alleluia,” by Randall Thompson. Among the audience

my wife and two daughters, Victoria and Alexis, attended the Chorale’s performance. We quite enjoyed the bell choir. The sound was quite unique, yet familiar in a very soothing manner. Their timing was amazing. “The singing was also amazing. It really made you feel good, and created a wonderful desire to sing along with each song, remembering the times throughout your life when you sang each of these songs. And for me it is ‘Noel.’ It is such a moving song, and it stirs your most inner being. “The sing-a-longs were quite fun. Our daughters really enjoyed it, especially our 10-year-old, Alexis, who got to go on stage with the group and sing ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.’ So full of memories.” Donna Moyer, the pianist for the chorale, came with her granddaughter, Joslynn, who made herself useful handing out programs to audience members as they came through the door. “I love playing for the chorale each year, as I always want to use the talent that God has given me,” Moyer said. “I love learning from the many directors I have worked with. Musicians can learn from each other. “My grandchildren always want to attend the concerts.

ting beside me on the piano bench.” Sunday’s performance began with the Sisters Ukulele Players, led by Peggy Tehan. Their first tune was “Here Comes Santa In a Red Canoe.” Decked out in colorful Hawaiian shirts, leis and Santa hats, they went on to plunk out such favorites as “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth,” and “I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas,” and ended appropriately with “Mele Kalikimaka” — “Merry Christmas” in Hawaiian. After the intermission Sunday, third-graders from Sisters Elementary School, led by music teacher Sara Miller, delighted the audience with “Rock the Holly,” and “Let’s Make it Shine.” They then remained in place as the chorale members joined them in a sing-a-long that included “Jingle Bells,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.”

dents sing, but I equally appreciated that the event crossed the generations by including the 9-year-olds all the way through to senior citizens.” Sue Owen and her 11-year-old daughter, Jilly, took part in the Fridayevening performance, and they had this to say to the Chorale: “I want to thank the choir for a lovely evening. The music was wellchosen — Jilly said some of the songs were her favorites — and we both agreed it put us in the Christmas mood. It was a great way to enter into the season. I especially appreciated the quality of the performances. The voices and arrangements were excellent, and we could tell that lots of work went into the production. “Thank you also for inviting the kids to sing. Jilly is shy but being asked was important to her. We wish you a joy-filled and wonderabundant Christmas.”

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Tales from a

Sisters Naturalist by Jim Anderson

Woodshed butterfly The temperature outside my nice warm, wood-heated old double-wide shakyshanty was very cool the other night: 18 degrees to be exact. Inside the temperature was lingering around 60. Imagine my pleasure and delight when my wife, Sue, shouted above the classical music coming from my radio, “Hey, Jim, take a look at this butterfly on the inside of the kitchen window.” I thought, “A butterfly in the house in the start of winter? Awwww…come on!” But I went to take a look anyway — right in the middle of Rossini’s “William Tell Overture” — and holy cats, there it was, a living and breathing adult California tortoiseshell butterfly! “I think it came into the house with our last load of wood from the woodshed,” Sue said. And I knew she was right. For almost 30 years — ever since Sue started tagging monarchs and conducting butterfly studies for the National Park Service in nearby parks and monuments — I’ve been hearing about wintering butterflies found in woodsheds, under logs, and other sheltered places outside, but never observed it. Until now. A few species — mainly tortoiseshells (Nymphalis)

and anglewings (Polygonia) — spend the winter as adults, “hibernating” in holes in trees, crevices and man-made structures — like woodsheds. Hibernating? Really? All those California tortoiseshell butterflies we saw flitting all over this side of the Cascades last summer were not migrating; just moving about looking for new places to make new butterflies. In winter, many of them sleep it off right here — even when the temperature at night goes down to 30 degrees below zero. As I was writing this on Friday, November 16, the temperature and sunlight outside reached almost 60 degrees, and a very lively adult California tortoiseshell was bumping against the outside of my office window (probably looking for her sister who I’d kidnapped from the woodshed.) How do they do it? Here’s a clue: An article I just read was titled, “This Newly Discovered Alaskan Butterfly Has Antifreeze in Its Blood.” The butterfly was scientifically described in the Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, and features it as a new species, Oeneis tanana, named for the Tanana River valley where it was discovered. The work is being carried out by lepidopterist Andrew Warren at the University of Florida. The new butterfly appears to be a cross-breed of two other known species, the white-veined Arctic, and the brown arctic, both of whom produce some kind of antifreeze. Lepidopterist researcher Warren’s statement leaves the door wide open for future studies. “This study is just the first of what will undoubtedly be many on this cool butterfly.” He hopes to use this new

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The Outlaws girls basketball squad played a tight game at Elmira on Tuesday, December 4, but just couldn’t pull off the win, and had to record the 34-29 loss to the Falcons. Two days later, they suffered a 52-36 loss at home to La Pine. On Tuesday, Sisters got off to a great start and at the close of the first period held an 11-6 lead. The Falcons chipped away the Outlaws lead in the second quarter and took the lead, but Isabelle Spitler hit a critical three-pointer at the buzzer to end the first half and put the Outlaws on top 19-18. Sisters went a bit stagnant offensively at the start of the third quarter. They had some good looks at the basket, but weren’t able to convert on their shots. The score was even at 24-24 at the end of the third. With four minutes to go in the contest, Elmira was up by two. They converted a turnover into a four-point lead, and then extended their lead to six. Payden Petterson drilled a shot from behind the arc to cut the lead to three, but Elmira converted on two free throws to beat the Outlaws by five. Spitler and Petterson each scored nine points in the contest, with Isabelle scoring all her points from behind the arc. Sydney Head recorded six points, and Alexa Stewart and Rylie Reece Morgan combined for five. Head led the team with 11 rebounds, Petterson grabbed seven, Olivia Hougham tallied five, and Spitler and Meaghan Greaney each had three.

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Coach Brittaney Niebergall said, “I thought that collectively as a team we played a solid first half. We had a couple of fourthquarter turnovers that really hurt us. We did not shoot the ball extremely well, but the girls played hard throughout the entirety of the game. They hung in there and gave themselves a chance to win the game.” Two days later, Sisters lost at home to the Hawks. Sisters dug themselves into a hole at the start of the game, and after five minutes of play they were down 12-1, and at the close of the period trailed 17-7. The Outlaws fought back in the second quarter, outscored the Hawks 14-8, and closed the gap to 25-21 at the half. Spitler and Head led the comeback charge, with Head scoring eight points in the quarter. In the second half, the Hawks were able to extend their lead and held on for a big win over the Outlaws. Head led the Outlaws with 15 points, followed by Spitler who scored nine. Petterson recorded six points, and

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just made silly mistakes. We made bad passes, our shots didn’t fall, and we struggled with our rebounding. We will definitely work on these things and hopefully get better as the season progresses.” Sisters was to play at home on Tuesday, December 11, in a non-league contest against Burns. They will participate in the Les Schwab Tournament held at Marshfield High School, Thursday through Saturday, December 13-15.

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Church Wrestlers compete at Culver Invitational reaches out to those who mourn at Christmas By Rongi Yost Correspondent

A special service will be held at Sisters Community Church at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, December 21. The service, with music, devotion and reflection, is intended for those for whom the holidays are not joyful. “For many, this season is not happy, but painful, or sad, or lonely,” said Steve Stratos, pastor of Sisters Community Church. “We invite any who are mourning, who are separated from family or friends, anyone feeling depressed or sad. Blue Christmas welcomes those whose hearts are heavy as we seek peace and comfort for our souls.” The service includes music, readings from the Bible, prayers, and a message of hope on the longest night of the year. Sisters Community Church is located at 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy.

The Outlaws participated in the two-day Culver Invitational on Friday and Saturday, December 7 and 8, and were able to enter nine wrestlers in the varsity tournament. After a grueling first day, only three wrestlers were still in the competition, Dylan King (145 pounds), Damian King (285 pounds), and Ethan Martin (195 pounds). Martin proved to be the Outlaws’ standout wrestler for the tourney. Ethan won three straight matches to get to the first-place finals match on Saturday night. In his first match, Ethan pinned Joan Tapia from Harrisburg, and then won by a fall over No. 4-seeded Hayden Hilderbrand of Crook County. Martin went on to win by two points over No. 3-seed Michael Heutzenroe of La Pine. Martin faced senior Dax Bennett of Harrisburg in the championship match. Bennett entered the tournament with a career record of 161 wins and just seven losses. Dax has also been a state champion and Reno’s world champion. “This match was a true test for Ethan, and he stepped on the mat with no fear,” said Coach John Downs. “But that

was not enough to help him. Bennett’s experience was too overwhelming for Ethan, and at the end Bennett was able to pin Ethan in the first round.” Downs added, “I was very proud of Ethan this weekend. As a junior, he won some very difficult matches and ended up with a silver medal. He did so well he even caught the attention of Southern Oregon University Head Wrestling Coach Mike Richie, who spoke with Ethan and gave him a college wrestling package. This was awesome for Ethan, and gave him even more motivation to improve.” Earlier in the week, on Tuesday, December 4, the Outlaws hosted a dual meet with Summit. The Storm won the dual with a score of 48-18. Varsity results were: Dalton Ford (126 pounds) pinned Titus Nagle, and Anthony Randolph (152 pounds) won by a fall over Mitchel Parel. Ethan Martin

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Ethan Martin had a strong meet against Summit on December 4 and was the Outlaws’ standout wrestler in the Culver Invitational last weekend. (195 pounds) won his match due to a forfeit. Three JV wrestlers also posted wins on the night. Wyatt Maffey (138 pounds) won by a fall over Kurtis Parks, and sophomore Chaz Patterson (132 pounds) won by a fall over Peter Raley.

Junior Austin Pade (145 pounds) won by a fall over Jake Menugus in the final JV match of the night. The wrestlers will travel to Stayton High School on Saturday, December 15, for the SCTC Wrestling Invitational.

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Healthy holiday eats It’s easy to get swept up in the holiday season. By eating just 200 extra calories a day — a piece of pecan pie and a cup of eggnog here, a couple pumpkin pancakes and some butter cookies there — you could pack on a couple of pounds by the New Year. According to recent research published in the New England Journal of Medicine it takes an average of five months to lose that extra weight. It is possible to eat healthy during the holidays. A little planning can help you get through the holidays without adding unwanted pounds. Bake your holiday cookies, cupcakes and other breads with the usual recipe — but reduce the sugar that the instructions call for by a half to a third, and use unsweetened applesauce, which is fat-free, instead of butter or oil. Boost the flavor with cinnamon, nutmeg and pumpkin pie spice. Don’t go to a holiday party when you’re ravenous. Before going to a party where there will be plenty of food, drink lots of water or snack on fruit, nuts or a salad so you won’t devour sugary and

fatty or high-calorie holiday offerings. And when you’re at the party, try not to hang out near the buffet table. It may seem unlikely, but high-quality dark chocolate with a high cocoa content is actually nutritious. It doesn’t have the fat or calories of milk chocolate, which contains butter and added sugar. Also, it offers high amounts of iron, magnesium and copper, plus is a rich source of antioxidants. Mix raw almonds, dried apples, whole dried cranberries, dark chocolate chunks and raw English walnuts into a bowl for a heart-healthy snack. Kathleen Zelman, a registered dietitian based in Atlanta, Georgia said, “Any time you can incorporate healthy ingredients, like fruit or whole grains, you can essentially make your snacks and desserts count toward your healthy diet.” Instead of piling your plate a mile high with things that don’t tantalize your taste buds, pick only the foods that give you true enjoyment. If something doesn’t really catch your fancy, leave it on the sideline. Holiday party spreads may offer plenty of dips and chips, but one way to fill up and feel satisfied when faced with all those endless little unhealthy bites is to make protein one of your plate’s primary features. In the morning, before any holiday parties begin, whip yourself up a morning entrée that contains about 20 grams of lean protein, as well as a whole grain, a fresh fruit or vegetable, and a dose of healthy fats, such as a spinach omelet with avocado, it will work together to keep you full until your next meal — and help you steer clear of the Christmas cookie tray. Alcohol increases your appetite and diminishes your

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The Bunkhouse Chronicle Craig Rullman Columnist

Good citizenship in the Age of Lying Liars My detective brain tells me that President Donald Trump is lying, though it’s unclear to me exactly what he’s lying about. It also seems clear that fired FBI Director James Comey, too smug by a country mile, is lying also — either actively or by omission, and who knows which. But that’s not unusual in any caper involving a cast of variously costumed crooks, particularly one with so much at stake, and it remains the purpose of independent investigations to sort it all out. And the investigation bit, important as it is, hinges on the integrity of the allegedly independent investigators — which there is at least some evidence to

suggest is tarnished, or at least questionable. There are a lot of investigations swirling about our nation’s capitol — they have become a kind of perpetual motion machine — and it’s increasingly difficult to figure out who in Washington tells the truth. About anything. Ever. If you believe, and some do, that your political party only tells the truth, or has some lock on sanctity and good will, I’ve got a pet baboon I’d love to sell you. At any rate, I’m convinced Trump is lying. I don’t think he’s lying about collusion with Russians to swing an election — that’s just too big of a lie to have left no solid evidence in its wake — something so big we would surely have evidence of, leaked or otherwise, by now. But it does seem likely that he was burning the candle at both ends up in the Trump Tower, trying to strike a shady hotel deal with the Russian Bratva in the midst of a presidential campaign that no one on earth thought he was going to win, including himself. If that analysis is at all accurate, and it may not be, that bad idea is probably catching up to Trump Inc., as the sleazy people he surrounds himself with

— the Flynns, Manaforts and Cohens of the world — now line up for their individual sessions in the American judicial dunk tank. In most investigations, what the principles don’t say is often as important as what they do say, and while Trump Tweets and reTweets his “No Collusion!” mantra with extraordinary confidence he is also dead silent about the sleazy business he was conducting with even sleazier Neo-Czarist Russians. And then, of course, there is the whole Stormy Saga, which shares the slimebaggery of Bill Clinton’s claim that he didn’t “have sexual relations with that woman.” Maybe it’s exactly like that, only one lying jerk gets a pass and the other lying jerk doesn’t, for reasons that remain a mystery. I can admit to one prejudice: I just assume an athletic level of lying and philandering is commonplace among politicians at the federal level. I love it when I’m wrong. Regardless, Robert Mueller has been relentless in leveraging Trump’s sad cohort of Deep State caterpillars, though as of yet we’ve seen no slam-dunk evidence — at least any that has been made public — that Trump cut a deal with agents of the

Russian government to win an election. Sadly, most of us regular, average-citizen-type people just don’t know what the truth is, and we have a difficult and important task to navigate the information available to us. We have to make judgment calls based on limited, often contradictory, and heavily shaped public information, informed by our own experience or political proclivities. And we have a responsibility to keep those opinions based on evidence rather than emotion, something altogether forgotten during the hashtagpique of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. That’s true if we want to teach our kids anything about fairness, discretion, and good judgment, at any rate. And there is another hard slider in the mix, because one thing Trump isn’t lying about is the Fake News phenomenon. For that, at least, we have solid evidence, a lot of it, and both of the major political party mouthpieces — CNN and FOX — have had some excruciatingly bad at-bats as they’ve gone about the puerile business of swinging for their political side. Another thing Trump isn’t lying about is the systematic Chinese theft of American wealth and intellectual property by way of

egregious trade practices and deals that harness the power of an entire nation to rip off American companies, workers, and ultimately consumers. We still live in a cutthroat world of nation-states where the projection of power matters, and if we intend to hold onto our own fine experiment in self-governance, to say nothing of our standard of living, maybe we should be willing to punch back at Borg Machines like Xi’s increasingly predatory China. Even if it hurts, which it undoubtedly will. We do our shared future a long-term disservice by focusing on cry-closets and Crayola parties in a world that will only get more, rather than less, dangerous, difficult, and relentlessly competitive. But for you and me, the hardest part may be holding onto faith that our institutions are strong enough to withstand the continual battering they receive as we send wave after wave of self-serving liars up to Congress and into the Oval Office. Emerson, who remains one of our best thinkers, warned us a long time ago that: “Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but a stab at the health of human society.” Boy howdy.

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Artists prepare for upcoming exhibit By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

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Sisters Outlaws Cheer Team kicked off competition season with a first-place trophy at the Cottage Grove Cheer Challenge on December 8. They also received a $200 Judges Choice Cash Award. On top, Ana Cole and McKenna Brinkman. Middle row: Rachelle Dale, Victoria Shellswell-White, Errin Hongel and Roy Gannon. Bottom row: Abbey Busick and McKenzie Shellswell-White.

Current exhibitors Paul Alan Bennett and Carly Garzon Vargas, along with many other artists, are likely candidates to submit work next month for the 12th Annual Sisters Library Art Exhibit. Looking forward to the 2019 show is Mary Moore of Eagle Crest, who creates figurative clay sculptures. “I do this to bring beauty and humor into people’s lives,” she said. “I like to share my process with them, and talk about the art itself.” Sponsored by Friends of Sisters Library (FOSL), this annual show takes place January 9 through February 22, 2019. The reception will be on Friday, January 25, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. with hors d’oeuvres and beverages served. Results of public voting for the three People’s Choice Awards will be announced. This is always a popular event, and coincides with the Sisters Arts Association’s Fourth Friday Art Stroll in January. The submission date is Saturday, January 5, 2019, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the library’s Community Room. Due to limited space, just two

pieces of wall-hung art, and five pieces of other art forms such as jewelry, ceramics, or sculpture may be submitted. Artwork must not have been shown in the Annual Art Exhibit in the past three years.

I do this to bring beauty and humor into people’s lives. I like to share my process with them, and talk about the art itself. — Mary Moore Previously participating artists have invitations, but those who have not entered in the past are welcome to download an invitation from the website, www.sistersfol. com, or pick one up at the library’s information desk. All artwork to be hung must have secured wire (no sawtooth) hangers. All artwork must be identified with labels on either the back or bottom of the piece. No piece may exceed 30

by 40 inches, unless space allows. Quilts and other fiber art must have a sleeve secured on the back for hanging. Large quilts, which will be hung on the rafters, cannot exceed 84 inches wide by 75 inches long. Threedimensional art will be shown in locked cases in the entryway, or if too large for that space, on a shelf or table in the library. Artists are asked to submit a one-page biography that includes their name, description of their work, and contact information. This will go into a notebook that accompanies the show. Artists are also asked to sign the library’s art agreement, which includes the value of the work, and if it is for sale. The Deschutes Public Library System insures the artwork during the time it’s in the library building. All submitted art must be approved by the FOSL Art Committee, and will remain on display for the entire show. The Friends of Sisters Library will receive a 10 percent commission from the artist for any artwork sold during the exhibit, which is a fundraiser for FOSL.

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Christmas book benefits dog adoption By Jim Anderson Correspondent

If you’re not a fan of Bernie and his adventures with his fellow Scottie pals, Harry and Lola — or even if you are — here’s your chance to catch up with what his creator, local author Jean Russell Nave, is doing with him — and how the world’s treating him. Nave has taken us back into Bernie’s past before he knew what Christmas was, or what a “Good Dog” was to dogs and humans alike. The book, “Bernie’s First Christmas” is number 6 in the Harry and Lola Adventures series, and is available at Paulina Springs Books. Author Nave introduced her Scottish Terriers Harry, Lola and Bernie back in the 1980s after she retired from working as a corporate motivational speaker and trainer, and as a cable television host for two series and publishing numerous self-help books. She and her husband, Claude, retired to Central Oregon in the 1990s. After retirement, they became involved with adopting rescued Scottish terriers and learned how badly rescue organizations needed financial support. After a short time, Nave got to know her adopted pals Harry and Lola so well, she began writing and illustrating what became a series of children’s books about them, her bonded pair of rescued Scotties. There was no question in Nave’s mind of where the money would go from the sales of her books: right to Aberdeen Scottish Terrier Rescue (ASTR). Unfortunately, Nave had to take a break from writing books while dealing with

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Swim team off to strong start By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

The Sisters High School swimming team plunged into the season with back-to-back meets last weekend. Friday, December 7 at the Newport Quad meet, the Outlaws faced league rivals Newport and Sweet Home, along with 2A Kennedy High School. As the first competition of the season, the meet served as a conditioning check for the swimmers and gave Head Coach Bryn Singleton her first real look at how her veterans and newcomers look as a team. On the girls’ side, Sweet Home flexed its muscles, winning all but one event for the day, while Sisters produced a number of runner-up finishes. The Outlaws 200-yard medley relay of Brooke Robillard, Cambrie Leaver, Lydia Bartlett, and Meredith Mandal clocked 2:11.02 for second place. The foursome of Robillard, Bartlett, Mandal, along with freshman Laura Clem also took second in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 4:14.5. Individual highlights included Brook Robillard in 50-yard freestyle (27.44) and the 100-yard breaststroke (1:17.08) and Meredith Mandal in the 100-yard butterfly (1:09.15). In addition, Lydia Bartlett came within a blink of winning the 200-yard freestyle, as she was edged by .05 second to finish second in 2:02.25.

The boys’ top performance came in the 200-yard freestyle relay where Gavin Todd, Sam Mayes, Austen Heuberger and George Bates placed third in a time of 1:52.16. “Sweet Home is loaded again this year,” said Singleton, “and it was good for the kids to see top-quality competition early in the season as we keep working on where we want to be when it counts.” Six teams converged at the Salem Salvation Army Kroc Swim Center for Saturday’s meet, and Sisters, out of the shadow of Sweet Home, picked up a number of wins and other top places. Other teams participating in the meet included Salem Academy, Stayton, Molalla, Kennedy, and Junction City. The team of Clem, Robillard, Mandal and Bartlett started the meet with a win in the 200-yard medley relay 2:08.8, an improvement of three seconds from the day before. Mandal, Bartlett, Robillard and Ella Hayden captured the 200-yard freestyle later in the meet in 1:51.66. Individuals on the top of the awards stand included Meredith Mandal in the 200-yard individual medley (2:28.63), Lydia Bartlett in the 500-yard freestyle (5:28.09), and Brooke Robillard in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:16.02, where she edged Bartlett by just over one second. Salem Academy won the

team title with 479 points, while Sisters took second with 326. Molalla was third with 300, followed by Stayton (271), Molalla (187) and Kennedy (54). Highlights for the boys team included the 200-yard freestyle relay of Todd, Bates, Aaron Johnson, and Felix Leahy which picked up second place in a time of 1:59.2. As an individual, Sam Mayes took second in both the 100yard freestyle (1:00.27) and the 50-yard freestyle (25.85) Salem Academy and Molalla battled hammer and tongs for points with the Crusaders, prevailing 546 to 529. The Sisters boys placed third with 229 points, while Stayton (194) Junction City (152) and Kennedy (58) followed.

I think we are off to a good start. I am pleased with the kids’ competitiveness and attitudes. — Coach Bryn Singleton “I think we are off to a good start,” said Singleton. “I am pleased with the kids’ competitiveness and attitudes.” The Outlaws get to stay local this week for the Bend Invitational on Saturday, December 15.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

A N N O U N C E M E N T S SHS Jazz Choir Holiday Showcase

The community is invited to the Sisters High School Jazz Choir Holiday Showcase on December 14 at 7 p.m. in the SHS auditorium. This will be a community talent show with a holiday theme. There is a $5 suggested donation, which benefits the SHS Jazz Choir, though no one will be turned away for not paying. Snacks are available at intermission and Santa is expected to visit! Call 541-5494045 for information.

Kiwanis and See’s Candy

The Kiwanis Club of Sisters will be holding their annual See’s Candy Fundraiser in a trailer in the Ray’s Food Place parking lot. Sales will begin Thursday, November 15 and run through Christmas Eve Day or until all candy has been sold. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. Stop in to purchase some of the best chocolate and to help support Kiwanis in efforts to provide scholarships for the community as well as a number of other service projects. Every penny of profit goes back to the community. Call 541-588-6255.

Mom-to-Mom Meeting

Moms are invited to get connected with other moms for support and fun! First Tuesday of each month, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hangar at Sisters Community Church. Also meeting the third Tuesday of each month 10 a.m. to noon in the Fireside Room at Sisters Community Church. Childcare available in morning session — RSVP if needed. For information call 970-744-0959.

Dementia Caregivers Group

A free support group for caregivers of those suffering with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia takes place the first Tuesday of each month from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Sisters City Hall. Sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association, meetings provide emotional, educational, and social support. Call 800-2723900 or go to alz.org/oregon.

Support for Caregivers

A free support group for those who provide care in any capacity meets at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 386 N. Fir St. at 10:30 a.m. the third Tuesday of each month. Call 541-771-3258 for additional information.

Renaissance Sisters Christmas Concert

Renaissance Sisters presents a free concert during the worship service at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 387 N. Fir St., on December 16 at 10 a.m. Joining the recorders this year will be a special guest harpist, a singer and a percussionist. There will be a complimentary buffet-style luncheon directly following the service! Call Lola Knox at 541-3904615 for info.

Paradosi Ballet

A free performance of Paradosi Ballet will be held at Highland Baptist Church, 3100 SW Highland Ave. in Redmond on Saturday, December 15 at 6 p.m. and Sunday, December 16 at 9 & 10:30 a.m. Call Highland Baptist 541548-4161 for more information.

Wreaths Across America

All Sisters veterans and families,are invited to attend the third annual Wreaths Across America ceremony at Camp Polk Cemetary Saturday, December 15 at 9 a.m. Subject to change depending on weather. Call Lance at 541-903-1123 for information.

CPR and First Aid Class

Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD will offer the AHA “Heartsaver” CPR/ AED class on Friday, Januay 11 at 9 a.m. and the First Aid module on Saturday, January 12 at 9 a.m. at the Sisters Fire Hall. The cost is $30 which includes both modules, a student workbook and completion card. Register no later than Tuesday, January 8: online at sistersfire.com (CPR tab) or at the Sisters Fire Hall weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pick up the student workbook at the station after you register. For more information call 541-595-5712.

Sponsor an Impoverished Child from Uganda

Hope Africa International, based in Sisters, has many children awaiting sponsorship! For more information go to hopeafricakids. org or call Katie at 541-719-8727.

Healthy Living Information for Seniors Seniors and caregivers are invited to drop by the SAGE room at SPRD on the second Monday of every month from 1 to 3 p.m. to meet local service providers and gather free information about aging in place from foot care to end-of-life planning. Call Diane Goble at 541-588-0081 for information.

A Bell Choir Christmas Card!

To celebrate our 10th year of ringing, the Sisters High Desert Bell Choir will present a free Christmas concert at the Sisters Library this Saturday, December 15 at 1 p.m. Come join in the celebration of beautiful music, including two very special guest soloists, audience sing-alongs and participation! Call Lola Knox at 541-390-4615 for info.

Sisters Cold Weather Shelter Donations

Local Girl Scouts are hosting a supply drive for the Sisters Cold Weather Shelter. They will have a box at Sisters Middle School from November 26 through December 21. Needed items include coffee (regular and decaf), powdered creamer, sugar, disposable cups, plates, napkins & utensils, thermal base layers, wool socks, individual snacks, laundry, hand and dish soap, dryer sheets. For info call 541-610-9513.

Blue Christmas Service

This season can be hard for those who mourn and those going through painful passages in their lives. Blue Christmas welcomes those with heavy hearts. In this quiet service of music, devotion, and reflection, we acknowledge our sadness and seek peace for our souls. All are welcome. The service will be held at Sisters Community Church on Friday, December 21 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Call 541-549-1201 for more information.

Donate Antiques & Jewelry

Sisters Kiwanis takes donations of antiques & vintage jewelry throughout the year for its annual Antique & Collectibles Sale, held on Saturday every Memorial Day weekend. Your donation is taxdeductible! For more information call Leart at 541-410-2890; to arrange for pickup of large items, please call Pam at 541-719-1049 or Roger at 541-430-7395. You may also drop off small items at Essentials at 492 E. Main Ave.

Parkinson’s Support Group

The second Tuesday of each month, Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group meets at Sisters Community Church from 1 to 2:30 p.m. (following the Senior Luncheon). All are welcome to learn, share, and receive support. For more info contact Lenetta at 907-687-8101 or Carol at 541-6686599.

SISTERS AREA CHURCHES Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church (ELCA) 386 N. Fir Street • 541-549-5831 10 a.m. Sunday Worship shepherdofthehillslutheranchurch.com Sisters Community Church (Nondenominational) 1300 W. McKenzie Hwy. • 541-549-1201 10 a.m. Sunday Worship (with signing) sisterschurch.com | info@sisterschurch.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 Calvary Chapel (Nondenominational) 484 W. Washington St., Ste. C & D • 541-588-6288 10 a.m. Sunday Worship New Hope Christian Center (Assembly of God) 222 Trinity Way • 503-910-9069 10:30 a.m. Sunday Worship Chapel in the Pines Camp Sherman • 541-549-9971 10 a.m. Sunday Worship

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 Church of the Nazarene 67130 Harrington Loop Road • 541-389-8960 | sistersnaz.org 10:45 a.m. Sunday Worship | 2sistersnaz@gmail.com Westside Sisters 442 Trinity Way • 541-549-4184 | westsidesisters.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 Seventh-Day Adventist Church 386 N. Fir Street • 541-595-6770, 541-306-8303 11 a.m. Saturday Worship The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 68885 Trinity Way • Branch President, 541-420-5670; 10 a.m. Sunday Sacrament Meeting Baha’i Faith Meetings Devotional Gatherings, Study Classes and Discussion Groups. Call for location and times • 541-549-6586

Author Melody Carlson Presentation

The Creativity, Culture & Faith discussion series continues with local author Melody Carlson leading a conversation about her novella, “Christmas by the Sea.” This is a beautiful story of personal and spiritual growth. Wednesday, December 12 at 7 p.m. at Sisters Community Church. 541-549-1201.

Jazz Cafe for Youth

The SHS Jazz Combo, under the direction of Tyler Cranor, will be playing at The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration on Sunday, December 16 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Admission is free. Students in grades 7-12 are invited to dance, play games, and listen to friends jam. Food and drinks free for youth. Adults welcome, too! Call 541-549-7087 for more info.

Alzheimer’s Class

The Central Oregon chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association is holding a class on Effective Communication Strategies. Class will be held at the Sisters Library on Tuesday, December 18 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Call 800-272-3900 for information and to register.

Health Insurance Counsel for Seniors

The Council on Aging of Central Oregon will offer free Senior Health Insurance Benefits Association (SHIBA) counseling sessions during the upcoming 2019 Medicare enrollment period, which runs from October 15 through December 7, 2018. Adults aged 65 and up can schedule appointments with an Englishor Spanish-speaking certified volunteer counselor. Call 541-6785483, x211 to leave a message and receive more information.

Thich Nhat Hahn Sangha Meditation Group

Weekly on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. at 737 E. Black Butte Ave. For more information please email Kathyn at Katindahood2@gmail. com.

Call to Artists for Library Annual Art Exhibit

The Sisters Library Annual Art Exhibit, sponsored by the Friends of the Sisters Library (FOSL) is happening, January 9 through February 22. All Sisters Country artists who want to participate are invited to submit work. The submission date is Saturday, January 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the library’s Community Room. Due to limited space, just two pieces of wall-hung art, and five pieces of other art forms such as jewelry, ceramics, or sculpture, may be submitted. Invitations may be downloaded from the website sistersfol.com, or are available at the library’s information desk. People’s Choice Awards will be announced at a reception on Friday, Januay 25, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, please call Zeta at 541-549-6157.

Free Spay & Neuter

It’s as easy as 1-2-3. Stop by the Furry Friends Foundation (FFF) office to fill out a simple form, call to make your appointment at Bend Spay & Neuter, transport your pet. FFF also sponsors vaccinations and chipping. Located in the Sisters Art Works building, 204 W. Adams Ave., Suite 109. For information call 541-7974023.

Organ Donor Awareness

A new nonprofit is in the planning stages to educate the community on the importance of organ donation. Fundraisers and events will be discussed. If interested in taking part, please call Fifi Bailey at 541-419-2204.

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Live animals, stories, crafts with High Desert Museum for kids ages 3 to 5. It’s 30-45 minutes of adventure! Limited to 30 children and their caregivers. Sisters Library on Tuesday, December 18 at 11:30 a.m. Info: 541-312-1072.

Family Fun Story Time

Family Fun Story Time for kids ages birth through 5 takes place at the Sisters Library on Thursday, December 13 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., with songs, rhymes and crafts, all designed to grow young readers. Caregivers must attend. For more information call 541-6177078.

Snowman Cards

Design your own snowman card with buttons, falling snowflakes and colorful paper supplies. Sisters Library on Saturday, December 15 at 10 a.m. For kids ages 0 to 11. No registration required. For more information call 541-617-7078.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

SHS presents holiday showcase The Sisters High School Jazz Choir presents The Holiday Showcase — A Community Talent Show with a Holiday Theme on Friday, December 14, 7 p.m. at Sisters High School Auditorium. There is a $5 suggested donation benefiting the Jazz Choir. The musical evening features: • Belinda Kachlein, Darlene McGRady, Shelli Zulauf and Rebecca Smith (Harp Choir). •  R u t h B a r r i o s , E l i Matteson, Louella Beiler, and Rachelle Beiler. • Sisters Dance Academy. • Local Boyz (Barbershop Quartet including recent graduate Noah Eckstine). • Alessandra and Jeanne Wentworth. • The Ukuladies. • Libby Harig; Sarah Bothum and Rebeccah DeKeyser (SHS Graduates); Tyrell Beatty; True Duerden; Sarah Kissinger and Rebecca French. • Choirs and band from Sisters schools. The event organizers are also expecting a visit from Santa.

Sisters Country birds By Douglas Beall Correspondent

The Western meadowlark (Sturnella negleckta) with its bright yellow breast is found in many varied habitats, from high desert sage, wetlands, to the shoulders of Mt. Jefferson. Its flute-like songs can be heard throughout the day. Nests are built on the ground and covered with a roof of grass and contain five to six white eggs with rust and lavender spots which are incubated for 13 to 16 days, and the chicks

are in the nest for 10 to 12 days before fledging. A male usually has two mates, and the female does the majority of the young chicks’ maintenance. Insects, seeds, and berries are the mainstays of their diets. It is the state bird of Oregon and Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming. A group of meadowlarks are referred to as a “pod.” To view more images of the meadowlark, visit http:// abirdsingsbecauseithasasong.com/recent-journeys.

CORRECTION The name of the management company for The Lodge at Sisters was reported incorrectly in the caption on the story “Tour reveals senior living facility,” (The Nugget, December 5, page 3). The management company is Seasons Management.

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Carly Garzon Vargas: Local artist with a global message By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

Using paper and an X-acto knife, artist Carly Garzon Vargas cuts to the core of the resilient, painful, proud aspects of human experience. “The humble, impermanent medium of paper connects with the impermanence of life, and our connection to each other,” she said. Her paper-cut art is on display through early January in the Community Room and elsewhere in the Sisters Library. Garzon Vargas works at the library and facilitated bilingual programs throughout Deschutes County this summer. Garzon Vargas uses paper as her art medium because it’s humble, relatable, and impermanent. She chooses people and human rights as her subject matter because she studied literature in Spanish, anthropology, and humanitarian law. “Art can be a powerful tool of dehumanization or humanization; the danger is leaving people out of our collective conversations and visions,” she said. Her art often includes people from marginalized groups, and she said, “By representing people, I show hope to show their shared humanity, that they matter and they contribute to our shared story.” Garzon Vargas’ art is influenced by Latin American culture. She traveled extensively

in Latin America and has lived, worked and studied in Colombia, where she pursued graduate studies on the nature of armed combat, international humanitarian law, human rights, and the culture of peace. She asks, “How do we build a culture of peace? What does that even mean and how do we move away from relying on armed conflict as the solution?” Upon returning to the United States, she started working in housing and financial nonprofits, in an effort to apply her education working with marginalized communities. In so doing, she learned about how culture and art intersect to support the effort of community-building. She is inspired by the work of Jesus Abad Colorado, an award-winning Colombian photojournalist who has documented the effects of his country’s armed conflict on its people and the environment. Colorado’s photographs tell stories of the aftermath of disaster and desolation by portraying his peoples’ resilience and strength. Garzon Vargas’ “Strong Back, Soft Front,” starts with a tribute to Brene Brown’s work on vulnerability as strength, showing a strong man gently holding an infant; and a mated image portrays a strong, tattooed woman climbing an obstacle. “The two-piece work is a gender role reversal – the woman’s strong back and the

man’s soft front, holding a child,” she explained. “It values all possibilities beyond gender norms.” She is further inspired by Girls Rising, a global initiative to end poverty by getting girls into schools, because they affirm, “an educated girl is more likely to stay healthy, save money, build a business, have fewer and healthier children, innovate community solutions, and educate her sons and daughters equally.” Her image, “Rising from the Ashes,” depicts a book, rescued from destruction, and shows the power of something so small to rebuild a community. Girls Rising has documented the success of girls who have pursued their education despite huge obstacles including threats of violence, poverty, and societal norms. “They are refugees in their own areas, and Girls Rising provides housing, safety and support.” So how does this passion for art relate to Garzon Vargas’s work in libraries? “When I was working in housing nonprofits, I spent a lot of time in libraries, and I realized that’s more my calling. I’ve self-published two bilingual children’s books, and my passion is books and storytelling. I view libraries as a safe place, a center for community building and culture, through literature, stories, and art,” she said. She is a bilingual resource librarian at the Deschutes

Carly Garzon Vargas’ art focuses on human rights. PHOTO BY HELEN SCHMIDLING

County Library and continues to support work in all six of the county’s library locations. In January, she will be facilitating mixed-media art classes at the libraries in Sisters and downtown Bend. Her exhibit also includes greeting cards, and proceeds from her “home” cards are donated to Sisters Habitat for Humanity. She’s been selected as an Artist in Residence at The Suttle Lodge in April, culminating with a presentation on April 14. Garzon Vargas hand-dyes watercolor paper using a weton-wet process, and chooses colors afterward, as they fit her pieces. She’s recently begun working in metal, to

create more permanent pieces. “I take my subject matter and the role of art in community seriously,” she said, “but art is personal and fun, and a way for us to connect, despite our differences. Curiosity and play are very important in art. We can never take ourselves too seriously, and we can always work toward a better tomorrow.” While thinking globally, she is working locally. Wildflower Studio does almost all of the framing, Xpress Printing prints her note cards, and Ponderosa Forge does the metal work. More of her work can be seen at www.carlygarzonvargas.com.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Running commentary By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

Winter weather has descended on Sisters Country, which can make outdoor running a challenge when things get icy and slick. Cold temperatures and long, dark nights can make staying in your cozy bed quite attractive — as opposed to putting on your winter running gear and heading out the door. A little extra motivation through some goal-setting and race planning always seems to help me through this season. I have decided to address this issue myself this winter by signing up for a race in February, which will give me that extra incentive to keep moving through the deep mid-winter. I added the extra bonus of registering for a race on the west side in order to give myself a break from the white stuff in the event that snow invades Central Oregon. After some research using running-related websites such as Race Center N o r t h w e s t ( w w w. r a c e center.com) and the Bend Foot Zone (www.footzone bend.com/events), I came up with a list of half a dozen races that look fun, diverse, and interesting. Of course there are many other local and regional races listed on these sites to choose from as well. You will see that I picked some races that are sort of off the beaten path. I like to support events in rural areas as well as races that have been long established. Here are some of my picks in calendar order: The first on the list happens this Saturday, December 15. It’s always fun to go to Eugene, known as the running capital of Oregon and the Eugene Holiday Half-Marathon and Hustle 10k/5k, which runs on paved paths along the Willamette River, has

something for everyone. Considered a “community favorite” and put by an organization called Pink Buffalo Racing, it looks like a fun, well-established event. The website includes a good idea of registering friends and family as part of the giving spirit of Christmas. I sort of skipped past January and all of the resolution runs to get to the core of my list, but this does not mean there aren’t a number of good local runs with which to start the New Year. The core of my focus is on February, but for a race outside the area, I do recommend the Cascade Half Marathon (also 10k and 2 mile) in Turner, Oregon on January 20. The flat course on country roads has become a favorite winter race for runners around the Salem area, but Central Oregonians have discovered it in recent years as well. On February 2, The Roaring Run at Roaring River Park, in Scio, Oregon features distances of 5k, 10k, and half-marathon on scenic, lightly traveled country roads. Scio is a small town in Linn County, 100 miles west of Sisters via Highway 20 or 22. Runners will find this course to be scenic, mostly flat, with some rolling hills. Also on February 2 is the Bristow Trail Run in Dexter, Oregon, which includes a 50k for those ultra runners out there, but also includes 25k, 10.4 and 5.2-miles distances. Dexter is slightly south of Eugene. The loop course is 5.2 miles per loop, so you get the idea, six loops for the 50k, three loops for the 25k, two loops for the 10.4 mile and one loop for the shortest race. On Sunday, February 10 is The Truffle Shuffle in Eugene which has been going strong for 37 years and benefits veterans through St. Vincent De Paul. With distances of 2 and 4

miles, it is unique. Courses start and finish at Alton Baker Park in Eugene. Oh, and age-group winners get decadent chocolate truffles from Euphoria Chocolate Company. A good race to go to with your Valentine. February 17 is the day of one of my favorites on the list. The Zena Road Run has been taking place for 50 years, making the event a grandfather of road races in Oregon. Distances include 5k, 10k, and 15k, but to get the full experience I encourage you to do the long one, which was designed back in 1969 by Willamette University’s track and crosscountry coach Dr. Chuck Bowles. Bowles designed the hilly course to test his young runners in the offseason. At its inception racers dropped a quarter into a tin can as their race fee. It is still affordable compared to most races at $25. The race starts and finishes at the Noble Mountain Tree Farm, which is about 12 miles northwest of Salem. Saturday, February 23 is the race I am registered for, which takes me back to my old stomping grounds at Silver Falls State Park for the Buck Mountain Mudslinger 6.6-mile trail race. I grew up in Sublimity, just off of Highway 22 east of Salem. Silver Falls is 13 more miles northeast off of 22 and is the largest state park in Oregon. The course does not run near any of the waterfalls, but does include scenic beauty and a hilly and potentially muddy trail. Part of the fun is for entrants to dress up in their best cowboy garb. This race is put on by Run Wild Adventures, which puts on a number of other races each year. Their website is www.runwild adventures.com . Getting out of town for a race can be a lot of fun, but let’s be sure to support all the many local runs as well as we move through winter toward spring.

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process,” Lewis said. The Gray’s new neighbor, Clara Eberius, was ecstatic as she welcomed them to the community and shared how thankful she was to have her friends living next door. Eberius, who lived next door to the Grays in the past, originally told them about the homeownership program. She moved into her home last December and has been helping at her neighbor’s house through the entire process. As Mary hugged Eberius and shed tears of joy, she and Bear cut the ceremonial ribbons to their home. “Thank you to all of the people who came out of the woodwork to support us,” she

said. The doors were open and inside friend and musician Doug Williams greeted the crowd with banjo music. “Welcome to our home,” Bear said to everyone who entered. Sisters Habitat for Humanity is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating and preserving homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions. Those interested in the homeownership or homerepair program can review the qualification brochures for each program at www. sistershabitat.org and then schedule an appointment with Marie Clasen by contacting her at 541-549-1193, marie@sistershabitat.org.

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Whispers from the past… to market By Sue Stafford Correspondent

In the early days of Sisters, and Central Oregon in general, roads had a variety of origins, from Native American or immigration trails, to territorial roads, toll roads, or forest roads. An important road in the settlement of Sisters was the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Military Wagon Road built by a company of the same name in 1866. Covering 448 miles, it started in Albany, heading easterly to the Deschutes River, to Camp Harney, then to Crane Creek, and on to the eastern Oregon/Idaho boundary. An inquiry was recently received in The Nugget office regarding the “market roads” in our area and how they came to be named. The ones we are probably most familiar with are those which lie between Sisters and Bend – Couch (pronounced cooch, not cowch), Innes, and Gerking market roads. There’s also Reed Market and Butler Market in Bend and Deschutes Market between Bend and Redmond. In the early days farmers had difficulty on rudimentary roads getting their agricultural products to town to sell them. According to the Oregon Department of Transportation, beginning in 1919, “the State Market Road Act was to provide State aid for the construction of a system of main county roads from the producing centers to the market centers.” The 30th session of the Oregon Legislature passed the act, which went into effect in 1920. To finance the construction of the roads, a one-time state property tax levy was

enacted. From 1920-1931, Deschutes County spent $368,238 for 51 market roads in the county. The first market road in the county connected Bend to the Tumalo Fish Hatchery near what is now Shevlin Park and was called Shevlin Park Market Road. Then came the Central Oregon Highway and Northwest Redmond Market Road, now called Northwest Way in Redmond. Market roads were named after the family who lived on the road, as in Butler and Couch, or for a farm or ranch such as Pilot Butte Ranch, or after geographical landmarks such as Deschutes or Camp Polk. The roads made it possible for ranchers, farmers, fishermen and lumber companies to get their goods to markets. The Couch family raised beef cattle and milk cows, requiring a satisfactory road to get their animals and goods to Redmond markets. Therefore, Couch Market Road was built and still exists today. Like Couch, Reed and Gerking are old family names from the early days of Central Oregon, just like Sisters’ Harrington Loop, Fryrear Road, George Cyrus Road, and Goodrich Road are named after Sisters’ early residents. By the end of 1930, there was a total of 6,030 miles of market roads in the state made with a variety of surfaces: 266 miles of bituminous pavement; 125 miles of concrete pavement; 259 miles oiled; 3,033 graveled; and 1,826 miles unimproved. By 1932 the County Market Roads funds were exhausted. Many of the market roads became secondary ODOT highways while others remained county roads.

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The power of connection The holiday season can be a mixed bag of emotions. In the best case, it is filled with joy and merriment; however, feelings of grief, stress, and loneliness are also common. In either case, what makes the season most meaningful for most of us is celebrating the connections we share with those we love. In these digitalized times, establishing and maintaining social connections that allow for face-to-face contact has become more challenging. It has become the norm — especially in our younger generations — that social “connection” is most commonly mediated through a device or screen and “everyone is doing it” so it creates its own unique social pressure to follow suit. While our digitalized social connections and tribes may have merit, they cannot substitute for genuine face-to-face human contact. Furthermore, the profiles of individuals we are “connected” to are most generally filtered and edited facades that often do not allow for authentic relationships. We too create facades for ourselves of which we may feel a pressure to live up to, which can limit our opportunities to let our guard down and display emotional vulnerability. Altogether, the loss of

face-to-face contact can create a void of social isolation, which I believe is one of the great public health concerns of our time. At our core we are social beings. Having a tribe or community has evolutionary roots in being central to our survival, defense, and welfare. Amid individualism and modernism, close connections have withered for many of us. Social integration or the frequency of which we have face-to-face social contact with others — from the grocery clerk to our spouse — has in fact been found to be a major social determinant of health and longevity. In reviewing over 148 studies and 308,849 middleage participants, researchers from Brigham Young University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2010) found that close interpersonal relationships in addition to social integration were the primary factors predicting longevity even superseding substance use, exercise, and diet. Face-to-face contact has genuine neurochemical and physiological benefits that cannot be mimicked via social media, text messaging, or other forms of digitalized forms of communication. Eye contact, a good handshake, and high fives all release oxytocin otherwise known as the “bonding hormone.” Oxytocin can reduce cortisol — our primary stress hormone. Dopamine is also released, which promotes feelings of reward and pleasure. Additionally,

face-to-face contact provides opportunities for empathy far more than via social media or texting, where you are removed from the emotional consequences of your communication. In other words, you have more reign to be a schmuck without having to bear witness to the sadness, tears, fear, or anger you may inspire. Our digital devices have also become great distractions, and might I say, time-suckers that allow us to procrastinate and postpone confronting emotional struggle. They have also in many ways become the modern-day pacifier for children (and adults), and the preferred solution for awkwardness and conversational pauses. Basically, they have thwarted emotional resilience and the art of conversing. Given that social media and device addiction is, in my opinion, very legitimate, we all must be a bit more intentional about giving ourselves opportunities for face-to-face interactions. Schedule routine coffee visits with a friend, join a club, take a class, go on date nights with your spouse, or simply surround yourself with human energy at the gym, mall, or local park. And remember, your smartphone is not your best friend. Wishing everyone a safe and healthy holiday season. Give yourself the gift of connection, allow yourself a digital detox, and soak in the beauty of the human spirit. Happy holidays!

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Northwest climate could see more years like 2015 Correspondent

CORVALLIS – By most accounts, 2015 was a very bad climatic year in the Pacific Northwest, with early flooding followed by severe and prolonged summer and fall drought. The results included irrigation shortages and crop losses, fish die-offs, large wildfires, record cases of infectious diseases and reduced recreation. A new federal report on the impacts of climate change release in November — that includes a chapter focusing on the Pacific Northwest — warns that more years like 2015 may lie ahead for the region and they may be even worse. “Unless we rapidly reduce the amount of carbon we’re putting into the atmosphere on a global basis, we will increasingly experience extreme weather events – and the Northwest will not be exempt,” said Philip Mote, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University and a co-author on the Pacific Northwest chapter. “The impacts in 2015 were profound and affected natural resources, public health and local economies. I wish I could say that year was an anomaly, but it is likely that those conditions will become more and more frequent.” The report is the fourth National Climate Assessment under the U.S. Global Change Research program and the first since 2014. Representatives from 11 federal agencies constitute the Subcommittee on Global Change Research of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources within the National Science and Technology Council. The Northwest chapter included authors from Oregon, Washington and Idaho representing universities, state and federal agencies, Native American tribes, and private industry. They organized the chapter by looking at the impacts of climate change on natural resource economy, the natural world and cultural heritage, infrastructure, health, and frontline communities. “Although we are looking at same great challenges in the future – especially if we have repeated years like 2015 – there are things resources managers, businesses and citizens can do to increase their resilience to climate change,” said chapter lead Christine “Kris” May of Silvestrum Climate Associates. How bad was 2015? The Northwest experienced its

warmest year on record, with the annual average temperature 3.4 degrees (F) warmer than the 30-year average. Winter was worse, with temperatures averaging 6.2 degrees (F) above normal. The report notes that “the warm 2015 winter temperatures are illustrative of conditions that may be considered ‘normal’ by mid-century.” As a result of the high temperatures and sparse precipitation, snowpack levels in Oregon and Washington were the lowest on record: Oregon was 89 percent below average, Washington, 70 percent. This “snow drought” led to lower river levels that affected many farmers, who received reduced allocations of water for irrigation or had their water shut off early. In Eastern Oregon’s Treasure Valley, for instance, farmers received only a third of their normal irrigation water because the Owyhee Reservoir received inadequate river inflows to fill the reservoir for the third year in a row. Among the other impacts of 2015: • Estimated agricultural losses were between $633 million and $773 million in Washington alone, with heavy losses in blueberries, red raspberries and the dairy industry; • The combination of low snowpack and extreme precipitation deficit in spring and summer led to the most severe wildfire season in Northwest history, with more than 1.6

million acres burning in Oregon and Washington; • Ski areas struggled to remain open, especially at lower elevations. Hoodoo Ski Area in the Oregon Cascades closed for the season in midJanuary, experiencing its shortest season in 77 years of operation; • The lack of snow affected summer recreation as well. Visitation to Detroit Lake in Oregon decreased by 26 percent to due to historically low water – that was as much as 70 feet below capacity in July, rendering most boat ramps unusable. Low stream levels and warm water resulted in fish die-offs in the Columbia and Snake River basins. Mote said the region has warmed substantially — nearly two degrees (F) since 1900 — with a corresponding reduction in mountain snowpack. The shorter winters and earlier springs may make for nice weather, he says, but increasingly provide challenges because of reduce stream flows in summer and fall. It also has a costly effect on winter recreation. “The skiing industry is being hit hard by climate change because what used to fall as snow around the 5,000-foot level increasing is falling as rain,” said Mote, who was a lead author on two Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. “The difference between a low snowfall year and a high snowfall year

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Churches offer Christmas services Christmas is a holiday of fellowship and gift-giving. For Christians, it is also the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, as recounted in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Vast Church will host its annual service at Fir Street Park on Christmas Eve. The brief service begins at 4:30 p.m. and is expected to run for about 45 minutes. There will be Christmas songs, and the balance of the service will focus on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The observance will close with a candle-lighting.

Pastor Ryan Moffat told The Nugget that the Fir Street Park service has become a tradition that resonates with the broad Sisters community, drawing many who are not affiliated with a particular church. The park is located on the corner of Fir Street and Main Avenue. Sisters Community Church (1300 McKenzie Hwy.) will host a Christmas Eve candle-lighting service from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The church is also hosting a “Blue Christmas” service on December 21, for those whom the holiday season is not a joyful time (see related story, page 7). Sisters Church of the Nazarene (14674 S. Bluegrass Ln.) will have singing, stories, puppets, candles and a special gift for the kids at an all-ages, family-friendly service starting at 4 p.m. The service will be done within the hour so that families may continue on to other events. Westside Church (442 Trinity Way) will host a Christmas Experience Sunday Service on Sunday, December 23, and a candlelight service on Christmas Eve, December 24. Light refreshments will be served at 4 p.m. in the student center.

Doors to the main auditorium open at 4:30 p.m. and the service begins at 5 p.m. St. Edward the Martyr Roman Catholic Church (123 Trinity Way) will hold Christmas Mass at 5:30 and 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve, December 24, and on Christmas Day at 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. Shiloh Ranch Church (15696 Bussett Rd, Powell Butte) hosts Christmas Eve services December 24, 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. Highland Baptist Church (3100 SW Highland Ave., Redmond) features Paradosi Ballet Company in a gospelcentered performance on December 15 at 6 p.m. and December 16 at the 9 and 10:30 a.m. services. The church hosts family-friendly Christmas Eve services on December 24 at 4 and 6 p.m.

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Chester (Chet) Kaczenski was born in Sweet Home to Mary Lillian and Henry Anthony Kaczenski. He grew up in Milwaukie and graduated from Clackamas High School. He attended art school and Clackamas Community College. Chet was a firefighter for Clackamas Fire District and then for Portland Fire Bureau, retiring from the Hayden Island station as a lieutenant. He was proud of his 28 years as a firefighter. He loved the camaraderie and brotherhood of firefighters where his sense of humor and personality fit right in. He spent most of his retirement years in Sisters, Oregon. He leaves behind his wife, Debby; daughters Tessa Richards and Meghan Kelley; sons Lou and Joe Kaczenski; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and his sister, Mary Ann Brandon. Chet’s parents and his sisters Alice McHugh and Joanna Johnson predeceased him. Chet was physically active all his life: ran marathons, Hood-to-Coast, fun runs, snow-skied,

snow-shoed, water-skied, backpacked, canoed and kayaked, fished, hunted, herded buffalo (in Halfway, Oregon), flew small planes — so it is especially tragic that he died from pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease that severely restricted his activities. It was directly attributed to his firefighting job which he loved. A service, which will include a Portland Fire Bureau Honor Guard, will be Saturday, January 5, 2019, 11 a.m. at Milwaukie Lutheran Church, 3810 SE Lake Rd., Milwaukie, OR, 97222. Lunch will follow. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to BrightSide Animal Center. 1355 NE Hemlock Ave., Redmond, OR, 97756. It is a no-kill animal shelter.

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is a show that has long been in the works. “Lyle and John let us know years ago that they wanted to come back to Sisters, and we’ve been in touch since then to find a time in their schedules that would work for everyone involved,” said event co-chair Jeri Fouts. “With new dates for them starting in January in the Northwest, they generously offered to kick off their 2019 tour at Starry Nights, and we can’t wait to welcome them back!” Starry Nights events have raised over $1.3 million in net proceeds for the Sisters Schools Foundation since its inception in 1997. Among the artists who have performed in the series are Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Keb’ Mo’, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Karla Bonoff, Kim Carnes, Rodney Crowell, Lee Ann Womack and Christopher Cross. Ray’s Food Place, St. Charles Health System and The Roundhouse Foundation are the Platinum Sponsors for “An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt.” Other key sponsors include FivePine Lodge and Spa, Alaska Airlines, Bi-Mart, Yo u r C a r e , M e t a b o l i c Maintenance, Hawks Haven Reserve, Capstone Wealth Management Group, X-Press Printing, Gearbox, Robberson Ford, Niblick & Greene’s and The Nugget. For more information, visit www.sistersstarrynights. org or email sistersstarry nights@bendbroadband.com.

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Kimry Jelen’s love affair with horses By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

Artist Kimry Jelen has a life-long love affair with horses. At the tender age of three, while attending a local fair, she slipped away from her parents, who found her at the pony rides. By the age of five, she was visiting Galaxy, a stallion that lived on an Arabian farm, next to her grandfather’s home. She recalls the following: “Galaxy was my friend. He was a national show champion, and he and I would have conversations as I fed him grasses along his horse fence. One time, he invited me to see where he lived. So I climbed the fence, and then he invited me to climb on his back. He walked me around his pasture, and he pointed out where the mares live behind the barn, the feed room and the grain. He stopped and showed me where everything was. He walked around the perimeter of the fence line and stopped right where I got on.” Jelen climbed back down, but the neighbor had seen her, and called her grandfather. “I didn’t want the horse to get in trouble since it was his idea,” she said. She would not admit to riding the stallion. The evidence was clear, however, because the fence had just been painted, and there was paint on Jelen’s dress, and paint on Galaxy. A mostly self-taught artist, Jelen has been painting colorful images of horses nearly as long as she has been riding. She began putting her work out in the world at about

the time social media came into its own. Commissions came her way, and to share with others, she decided it was time to create calendars. Because of the amount of work involved, she’s done one about every other year. This year, Jelen got so many calendar requests that she got permission from owners to include some commissioned work, and put other images up on Facebook to ask followers for their preferences. This generated a buzz, and even though a recent move to Creswell has occupied much of her time, she compiled a new calendar, which will be available around December 15, at Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop, Sisters Feed and Supply, Absolute Horse in Bend, Wagon Wheel Feed and Grain in Creswell, and at Silvertail Farm. The 2019 calendars are 11 by 17 inches, and hang flat with no fold. The single-sided pages are printed on thick, glossy white card stock. Jelen grew up in Albany, on the west side of the Cascades, and for many years, lived and created art in Sisters. She recently moved back to the “wet side,” taking a position as young horse development specialist at Silvertail Farm in Creswell, 10 miles south of Eugene. Owner-manager Laura Frederiksen Park breeds spectacular horses there, in addition to training them and matching them with suitable riders. “Yes, it seems strange to give up what I had, with my studio in the high desert, but

I took stock of how many years I have left, and this was a perfect opportunity,” she said. Wanting to become the best rider that she can be, Jelen gets to ride with some very well-respected clinicians. She also gets to have her own two horses, Dhiaa (which means splendor or light in Arabic) a registered Westphalian Filly; and Theo, a Lipizzaner, who is like a giant teddy bear. Jelen’s apartment is on one end of the 12-stall resident horse barn, literally next door to Dhiaa. Laura is also building a painting studio onsite, so that Jelen can continue to create her art there. Jelen works with young horses, from weanlings to age five and up, showing each horse how to be a good citizen. “This includes anything from picking their feet up and leading, getting them used to a halter, all the way up to going on outings and being ridden in strange places,” she explained. “It’s fun, because when you start from scratch, just leading them to and from a pasture, you work on the same cues you’d use in riding. “Horses have to learn to be bathed and groomed, and to understand the human world. There are a lot of things they have to tolerate that they’d rather not, like getting shoes on and taking a bath,” she said. “If not done with a certain level of kindness when they are babies, horses can turn sour about these things or learn bad habits.” As with horses, Jelen

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A cheery fire is almost as important a symbol of the Christmas holidays as the Christmas tree or lights. For centuries, the burning of a Yule log was an integral part of the season’s observances. What exactly is a Yule Log — besides a sponge cake dessert? Like many of our Christmas traditions, the Yule log has its origins in Northern Europe and pre-dates Christianity. In the Nordic and Germanic lands, it was customary to bring an entire tree inside a longhouse and feed it slowly into a central fire through the two weeks or so of the Yuletide celebration. Among pre-Christian Germanic peoples, the Yultide season corresponded with parts of December and January and was often associated with the Wild Hunt, when a nocturnal horde thundered across the winter sky, led by one of the many manifestations of Odin,

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She turns out canvas after canvas, mostly colorful horses painted in acrylic. Years ago, her first professional solo show, with more than 25 paintings, finally instilled the confidence she needed. “That was the biggest show I ever had,” she recalls. “I invited my horse friends to see the show. One man came up and said ‘I have been with my wife for five years, and I never understood her love for horses, but when I look at your paintings, I now see what she sees in them.’ I realized I was not just painting for myself, but I was being an advocate for the horses by painting them.” Commissions make up a good portion of Jelen’s work. The 2019 calendar cover is a commissioned painting of Mighty Montecito, or “Cito,” a Friesian owned by Sharon Amestoy of Sisters. Kathy Blossom of Bainbridge Island, Washington, has been collecting and commissioning Jelen’s work for many years. “Her work moved me before I ever met her,” Blossom said. “I can feel the emotional content of it.” She commissioned Jelen to paint Snickers, for her daughter, Sarah. “Before she painted Snickers, I asked Jelen to talk to Sarah about how she feels about this horse, because her horse was ill. That emotion comes across in the painting,” she said. Snickers is featured as the January horse in the calendar. Jelen will be the featured artist during the December 28 Fourth Friday Art Stroll at Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop, and on Facebook, where she posts a link to order calendars.

Christmas tree hunting is a beloved tradition in the forests of Sisters Country. But the idea of bringing a tree into the house and decorating it for Christmas was adopted relatively late in the United States. Blame the Puritans for that. The early settlers of New England disdained anything that smacked of celebration of Christmas, as it detracted from the sacredness of the occasion, and the religious discipline appropriate to it. In 1659, they banned the holiday in New England: “For preventing disorders arising in several places within this jurisdiction, by reason of some still observing such festivals as were superstitiously kept in other countries, to the great dishonor of God and offence of others, it is therefore ordered by this Court and the authority thereof, that whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labor, feasting, or any other way, upon such accountants as aforesaid, every person so offending shall pay of every such offence five shillings, as a fine to the county.” The Puritans certainly wouldn’t abide anything so pagan as a Christmas Tree. And the tree does have pagan origins. Evergreen boughs decorated many a Viking longhouse or Germanic hall in winter — a symbol of persistence through the dark winter months. The first “Christmas tree” appears to have been erected in the Baltics, possibly in Riga in 1510. It was the locus of celebratory dancing in the market square and was ultimately lit on fire. The tradition of erecting a tree in the house and

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William E. Wild, Sr., 48, of Redmond, was sentenced last week to 120 days in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for endangering human life by manufacturing hash oil. According to court documents, on December 12, 2016, law enforcement and first responders responded to an explosion at Wild’s residence in Redmond. The explosion occurred in a detached garage where the defendant had been illegally manufacturing butane hash oil (BHO). The force of the explosion blew out Wild’s garage door. By his own admission, Wild had been smoking a cigarette in close proximity to the lab at the time of the explosion. Officers on scene reported finding burnt clothing, a pressure cooker, a Pyrex dish, a large bin of marijuana stem bud and seed as well as an amber substance later identified as BHO. Officers also found a grow room adjacent to the garage with more than 20 mature marijuana plants. In total, investigators seized 57 mature marijuana plants; scales; packaging materials and containers; ledgers containing drug amounts, debts

and receipts; approximately $20,000 in cash and several pipe bombs in Wild’s home. Wild and his 18-year-old daughter were present at the time of the explosion, and suffered burns and smoke inhalation. They were transported by ambulance from the residence. Wild’s daughter was later intubated and flown by air-ambulance to Portland for treatment. Wild, a first-time offender, previously pleaded guilty to one count of endangering human life on August 16, 2018. A restitution hearing is scheduled for February 7. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in partnership with the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement team (CODE), the Oregon State Police and the Redmond police and fire departments. It was prosecuted by Pamela Paaso, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon.

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decorating it with candles is often attributed to the German preacher Martin Luther (who famously sparked the Protestant Reformation in 1517). The candles were said to symbolize the stars of the night sky, which reminded Luther of Jesus. Certainly, the Christmas tree tradition flourished in Germany. They became popular in England after Queen Victoria’s German-born husband, Prince Albert, had one erected in Windsor Castle. It took a while to overcome prejudice in the U.S., where the Christmas tree was still regarded by respectable folk as vaguely pagan into the 19th Century. But the adoption of the tree in Great Britain and a massive wave of German immigration that started in the 18th century and accelerated through the middle of the 19th century broke down that taboo, and the tree was widely adopted across cultural lines. And now the Christmas tree is an integral part of the American tradition — with a Capitol Christmas tree selected with great pomp and circumstance each year. This year, for only the second time, the tree comes from Oregon — and made a brief appearance in Sisters on its tour of the nation.

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VISION PLAN: Actions may take five years or more to implement Continued from page 1

with numerous actions, all meant to help Sisters Country move in the direction of the community’s long-term vision and to improve residents’ quality of life. Each of the actions is intended to be championed by one or more lead partners from the public, private and nonprofit sectors. According to organizers, the Vision Action Plan is designed to be a “living plan” and a guide to future action by the lead partners who sign on to help implement it. Some actions in the plan may take up to five years or

more to fully implement, and not every action called out in the plan may ultimately be achieved. To determine the community’s long-range vision and to analyze what residents value about the community, Sisters Country Horizons engaged in an extensive community conversation in 2018 that included surveys, stakeholder interviews, public meetings and forums. Close to 2,000 participants contributed thousands of individual comments and ideas. The draft plan was presented to the Sisters City Council on November 28. The City Council is slated to take up a final draft on January 9, with adoption anticipated on February 13. Sisters Country Horizons is sponsored by the City of

Sisters, Deschutes County and the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council. The City of Sisters, which will be the lead on a number of action items, will be approaching other potential partners seeking their help in implementing the plan. In addition to Deschutes County and the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council, those partners are expected to include the Sisters Ranger District/U.S. Forest Service, Sisters School District, SistersCamp Sherman Fire District, Sisters Park & Recreation District, Economic Development for Central Oregon (EDCO), Sisters Chamber of Commerce, Sisters Arts Association, Citizens4Community, and others.

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Sisters artist launches Kickstarter campaign By Helen Schmidling Correspondent

On the morning of his 69th birthday last week, Paul Alan Bennett woke up and opened a Kickstarter campaign to finance publication of “Night Skies,” a book that is his legacy. Night Skies includes 48 of Bennett’s night sky paintings, accompanied by poetic text. “During a childhood camping trip, I held a flashlight up to the night sky. A fellow camper told me the light from my flashlight goes on forever, as long as it doesn’t hit anything. It will just go on in space. So that light from my childhood could still be going on now,” Bennett said. The night sky continued to fascinate Bennett. As a young man, he lived in Greece and studied its ancient history, created art, and taught art history. Through it all, his thoughts evolved around the wondrous legendary characters of Greek mythology. Who were they, and how are they portrayed? “Take Hercules … he had 12 labors to make amends for killing his wife and kids. Or Jason and the Argonauts. One of the people who helped Jason was a sorcerer, Medea, and they became lovers. At one point, she killed her brother, so Jason left her, married and had kids. Medea became jealous and killed Jason’s wife and children. So she is seen as the personification of evil, but Hercules did the same thing, yet we think of Hercules as a hero. Isn’t it interesting how men and women – who commit a similar crime – are perceived differently by society?” Thirty years ago, Bennett’s childhood camping memory flashed back to him, when he was teaching art in schools from Joseph all the way to Jordan Valley in Eastern Oregon. “That involved a lot of driving, alone, looking up at the night sky,” Bennett recalled. So he made his first nightsky painting, “The Road to Joseph,” showing a tiny blue car on a red mountain road, headlights piercing the inkblack sky, surrounded by five bright stars. Light going on forever. Over the years, Bennett continued to paint from his memories and imagination – often but not always returning to those night skies. “When I left Greece, I felt I was leaving that world behind,” Bennett said. “Then I realized that all that Greek stuff is right above me. We share the same skies.”

After he retired from teaching, Bennett began a focused study that yielded a series of paintings depicting constellations that the ancients named for their mythical heroes and villains: Hercules, the Pleiades, Capricorn, Gemini, Taurus, Pegasus, and many more — 24 in all. After launching the Night Skies Kickstarter on his birthday, Bennett hung eight of his new constellation paintings in the Sisters Library computer room, where they will remain throughout December. More original paintings and prints can be seen at Sisters Gallery & Frame Shop, The Tumalo Art Company in Bend’s Old Mill District, and online at www.paulalanbennett.com. Bennett’s Kickstarter (at kickstarter.com and search Night Skies Book) has a lofty goal of $15,000, but offers generous rewards to donors, in the form of note cards, books, giclee prints, and even original paintings. The book itself will be available in April 2019, but the Kickstarter campaign closes January 12. Bennett is a longtime resident of Sisters. He has an MA from the University of LaVerne in Athens, Greece, and a BFA from the Maryland Institute of Art. He’s had numerous one-person shows, developed a series of tapestries for Pendleton Woolen Mills, and made many paintings for posters, cards, and

book illustrations. He’s known throughout Oregon and beyond as an artist in the schools, and taught for many years at Central Oregon Community College in Bend. In addition to being famous for his night skies, Bennett is known as the “knit” painter, for a personal style that began with a pair of woolen gloves purchased at the Great Bazaar in Istanbul. “I was fascinated with their folk patterns and colors,” he recalled. “Doing a painting of such a subject intrigued me. Could I re-create this look in watercolor?” Using gouache paint gave Bennett the control he needed to make the yarns look real. “I liked the look, and quickly realized that all cultures have some form of knitting and weaving.” This led to knitted patterns in hills, mountains, bodies of water, animals, and even knitted sweaters, that tapped into Bennett’s interest in travel and history, overlapping with the world of fabric design. Bennett has a clothing line available at artofwhere.com/ artists/paulalanbennett. Bennett continues to be involved in the art world of Sisters, as a member of the roundabout art committee, and the art committee of Friends of Sisters Library, and he plays ukulele with the Bend Ukulele Group. You can see him perform as a member of Triage Improv at Cascades Theatrical Company in

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Veterans find community in rare firefighting crew By Andrew Selsky Associated Press

SALEM (AP) — After being in firefights in Afghanistan and Iraq, members of one of America’s newest elite wildfire crews are tasked with fighting fires in rugged country back home. On the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s only hotshot crew focused on recruiting veterans, members have traded assault rifles and other weapons of war for chain saws and shovels. But, like in the military, they have camaraderie, structure and chain of command. And the occasional adrenaline rush. “Being in a firefight is way different than being in a wildland fire, but both are mentally taxing,” said Chris Schott, who served two tours in Afghanistan with the Army’s 7th Special Forces Group. “In a wildland fire, no one’s shooting at you, but conditions can go favorable to unfavorable very quickly.” The Lakeview Veterans Interagency Hotshot Crew, based in Klamath Falls, Oregon, received its hotshot certification after rigorous training and testing, the Bureau of Land Management announced last week. It’s now among 112 elite U.S. wildland firefighting teams and the only targeting veterans for recruitment, the agency said. Crew superintendent Michael McGirr said he and other managers took thenPresident Barack Obama’s initiative to hire veterans to heart. “We felt it was important for them to transition back home,” McGirr said. Their maturity and ability to follow and lead are benefits that quickly became apparent when the crew started operating in 2012 as a lower-classification unit, McGirr said. Their military experience also means they’re used to enduring tough missions. “It’s a lot of arduous hiking in nasty terrain,” McGirr said. Kenn Boles, a member of the crew since 2012 who did three tours in Iraq as a Marine, agreed that veterans can withstand the intense work. “You’re working hard, sweating; the fire doesn’t stop because of those things,” he said. “It’s like in combat — just because you’re hungry, tired and thirsty doesn’t mean the firefight stops.” The crew is on leave and hasn’t been battling the recent deadly wildfires in California. Of the 25 positions on the crew, 17 are filled by veterans, McGirr said. There are

three additional openings, and McGirr said he wants to recruit female veterans, too. Schott, the Army veteran, said the crew felt they had the potential to achieve elite hotshot status after fighting fires in 2015, including one in Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park that they almost had contained when winds picked up and changed direction, pushing the flames behind them. They worked two weeks in a row, digging fire lines and doing prescribed burns to deprive the fire of fuel. After three days off, they worked another two weeks straight. “After that, we thought we could be the first veterans hotshot crew in the nation,” Schott said. The crew usually works for nine months, with three months off. “We spend more time together than with our families,” McGirr said. “It’s a grueling pace. We eat together, sleep together.” That creates a camaraderie that allows the veterans to share their wartime experiences with those who understand what they endured. Boles lost a close friend a week after he left Iraq. That was the biggest contributor to post-traumatic stress disorder that hit him later, he said, describing it as “a lot of survivor’s guilt.” The veterans have each other’s backs when PTSD issues arise, acting as a support group. “Instead of bottling it up, we’re really receptive to hearing people’s stories and problems,” said Boles, who was in the invasion of Iraq and in heavy fighting in Fallujah and Ramadi. Schott, who served in Afghanistan’s Urozgan Province north of Kandahar, said, “A lot of times you think, this can’t get any worse. And yet you made it through.” He was in an operations center when he heard radio traffic about someone killed in action. It was his best friend. “Myself, I was in denial for quite a long time about my PTSD,” Schott said, adding that joining the crew and opening up to other veterans “helped me get my life back on track and where it needs to be.” The Bureau of Land Management is proud of the crew and efforts to develop a workforce of veterans, said Jeffrey Fedrizzi, agency deputy director for fire and aviation. He said the men attaining hotshot status “demonstrates the exemplary quality and performance ingrained in this crew.”

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is a depressive condition linked to the time of year. Symptoms of SAD include: irritability, fatigue, sadness, trouble sleeping, decreased concentration, low enthusiasm, and guilty thoughts. If this sounds familiar, there are some viable options for treatment aside from pharmaceutical antidepressants. First, part of our environment that’s tied to mood is the amount of sunlight we see daily. There is a benefit to seeing more sunlight. Get outside and try to get in 30 minutes of sunshine when the sun is out. Also, there are devices which emit a very bright light that mimics sunlight. These also have been effective. Light therapy lights with 10,000 lux (a measure of light power) with an exposure of 20-30 minutes are recommended. They can be found online and are not too expensive. The next step in treating the winter blues is to ensure adequate exercise. The recommendations are 40 to 60 minutes at 50 to 85 percent of

heart rate max, three times a week. This intensity can better be described as moderate with a difficulty of 6-7 out of 10. This provides a good stimulus to the aerobic system. Studies have reported that with exercise more than 80 percent of those feeling depression showed improvement, while with drugs alone only 60 percent showed improvement. Exercise’s other benefits of reduced blood pressure, increased positive brain chemistry, and better sleep also coincide with a better mood. BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factor) is a chemical which strengthens and builds brain cells; when exercising there is a rush of these chemicals, particularly to the hippocampus, the area of the brain which is seen as compromised in depressed individuals. The other master chemical is serotonin. This is a “feel-good” chemical which is also known to be lacking under depression, and many of the drugs prescribed are working to promote

serotonin. This can also be achieved with exercise. Other good advice is to eat healthfully. A clean diet contains micronutrients and energy that the body can use to ward off the depressed inertia of winter. It also can be noted that the psychological momentum of one healthy behavior leads to another which may help promote an exercise or activity habit. If your depression is severe, ongoing and hard to shake, seek medical attention. For many of us, it could be argued that exercise ought to be treated like medicine. However, it’s hard for doctors and psychiatrists to prescribe. They have no way of knowing whether their patients are compliant, and are likely not trained to describe and administer an exercise program. Still, knowing that exercise is effective is a step in the right direction and it ought to be promoted more. This season, fight off the winter blues — and use exercise as the way to succeed.

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LETTERS

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So, from the Sisters Kiwanis, the Sisters Camp Sherman Fire Department, Furry Friends and the most amazing citizens of Sisters, we wish you a Merry Christmas! Shirley Miller Naomi Rowe

To the Editor: Re: “Take another look at room rental,” (The Nugget, December 5, page 2): Another example of government control. Those in power picking winners and losers. Private property rights taken away. It’s no longer about “Land of the Free.” Ben Ehrenstrom

To the Editor: The Pet Evacuation Team volunteers were happy to help with the rescue of Warley. Volunteers from P.E.T. spent a total of 24 volunteer hours in this effort. P.E.T. is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our continued operations depend on donations from the communities that we serve. To make your year-end donation for all the services provided by P.E.T. in the Sisters community, please go to www.petevacuationteam. com and click the secure donation link. Thank you for your support! Jamie Kanski

To the Editor: I would like to give a HUGE thank you to The Nugget and their staff for the fantastic

support of the Sisters Food Bank. Because of the exposure we received with the ads and promotion in The Nugget, we had record food donations and cash donations. These will go a long way to helping folks in need for Christmas. I also wish to thank the many business that are doing the food drives and drop-off points: Washington Federal Bank, Aspen Lakes Golf Course, Deschutes Public Library, just to name a few. Reed Brothers Coldwell Banker Reality located at 291 W. Cascade Ave. will also continue to be available to drop off food and donations until December 23. Washington Federal Bank will have a bin to accept food and donations all year long. Thank you for your help. The Sisters Food Bank has a box located in front of the food bank to put in the donations. Or, you can drop them off on Wednesdays between noon and 2 p.m. I know they are many people in Sisters Country that are aware of the needs of our homeless and low income residents. Sisters Food Bank addresses the food needs of these folks. We buy the majority of our food each week, so the cash donations are extremely helpful. The food donations allow us to purchase less food so our dollars will go further. Tax-deductible checks can be made out to Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank, P.O. Box 1296, Sisters, OR 97759. The Sisters Food Bank is run by all volunteers; 100 percent of the money donated is used at the Food Bank. In addition to the Kiwanis, we have several members of the community that are not members of Kiwanis that volunteer their time. Thank you all for your continued support. Doug Wills President Elect Sisters Kiwanis

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year. Young adults ages 16 to 24 who face social or economic barriers are empowered to believe in themselves and achieve self-sufficiency through this program. Together with Sisters Habitat for Humanity they will share the auction proceeds. After you have filled your belly and done some lastminute holiday shopping, get ready for a truly entertaining musical treat. Seattle-based Down North performed at the first Sisters Rhythm and Brews festival and quickly won the hearts of the Sisters community. Anthony Brisco, lead singer and dancer

extraordinaire with a background in ballet, has been performing since he was five. One might associate his moves with James Brown with a sense of grace, but he will tell you his true inspiration is Jackie Wilson. Drummer Conrad Real can truly deliver — wicked beats fresh with intentional breaks keep you on your toes and begging for more. Lead guitarist, Nick Quiller, gives us a jazzy-sounding, highenergy feeling time after time. Their covers and originals come through with the emotional power and slap pop bass riffs from Brandon Storms. The band just released their new album, No Retreat Vol. 1. Tickets are on sale now for $15 at Bendticket.com and $20 at the door.

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Hazelnuts improve older adults’ micronutrient levels By Steve Lundeberg Correspondent

CORVALLIS – Older adults who added hazelnuts to their diet for a few months significantly improved their levels of two key micronutrients, new research at Oregon State University indicates. In the study, 32 people age 55 and older ate about 57 grams of hazelnuts – 2 ounces or about one-third cup – daily for 16 weeks. Results showed increased blood concentrations of magnesium and elevated urinary levels of a breakdown product of alpha tocopherol, commonly known as vitamin E. The findings, published in the Journal of Nutrition, are important because many Americans do not eat adequate amounts of either micronutrient. Older adults are at particular risk – lower concentrations of the micronutrients are associated with

increased risk of age-related health problems including Alzheimer’s disease. “This is one of the first times a study of this type has focused only on older adults,” said co-author Alex Michels, a researcher at OSU’s Linus Pauling Institute. “We wanted to fill in a piece of the puzzle – can hazelnuts improve the nutritional status of older adults specifically?” Michels also noted few hazelnut studies have involved Oregon hazelnuts, which account for 99 percent of U.S. production of a nut also known as the filbert. “Not that we think Oregon hazelnuts are much different than other sources,” he said, “but now the booming crop that we have in this state finally has science behind it. Perhaps other benefits of Oregon hazelnuts are awaiting future study.” Maret Traber, the study’s corresponding author, notes

that she and her collaborators used a novel biomarker – an alpha tocopherol metabolite – to determine hazelnuts had improved the research subjects’ vitamin E levels. “It’s hard to determine changes in alpha-tocopherol levels in the blood of older adults because they tend toward elevated cholesterol levels which leads to more alpha-tocopherol being retained in the blood,” said Traber, a professor in the OSU College of Public Health and Human Sciences and the Ava Helen Pauling Professor at the Linus Pauling Institute. “So what we did instead was look at the urine to see how much of a vitamin E catabolite was in it. The catabolite should only increase if the body is getting enough vitamin E.” The catabolite is alpha carboxyethyl hydroxychromanol, abbreviated to alpha-CEHC.

“It’s basically a vitamin E molecule where the tail has been chewed up into nothing, part of the natural breakdown process of vitamin E as the body uses it,” Michels said. “We saw urinary alphaCEHC levels go up in almost every participant.” In addition, blood analysis showed decreases in glucose and low-density lipoproteins, also known as “bad” cholesterol, in addition to increases in magnesium. “All of which says that hazelnuts are good for you,” Traber said. “The findings demonstrate the power of adding hazelnuts to your diet, of just changing one thing. Vitamin E and magnesium are two of the most underconsumed micronutrients in the U.S. population, and there’s much more to hazelnuts than what we analyzed here.

They’re also a great source of healthy fats, copper and B6. People don’t like taking multivitamins, but hazelnuts represent a multivitamin in a natural form.” J o i n i n g Tr a b e r a n d Michels on the study were Scott Leonard, Sandra Uesugi, Gerd Bobe and Balz Frei, all of the Linus Pauling Institute. The Oregon State University Foundation and the Hazelnut Marketing Board of Oregon funded this research.

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Increased highway speeds in rural Oregon mean more deaths By Antonio Sierra East Oregonian

PENDLETON (AP) — It started almost as soon as the Oregon Department of Transportation began posting the new signs on March 1, 2016. For the first time in decades, the state was raising speed limits on some of Eastern and Central Oregonʼs most traveled highways. The Eastern Oregon section of Interstate 84 and Interstate 82 were now 70 miles per hour. Nearly the entire length of Highway 97 and several other segments of highway in the region were bumped up to 65 miles per hour. Five days later, the first person died on one of the affected roads. According to Oregon State Police, a man from California was driving his 1998 Honda Civic northbound on Highway 97 near La Pine when the vehicle lost control on the icy pavement and collided with a 1994 Mitsubishi 3000GT. The driver and passenger in the Mitsubishi were taken to a local hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Authorities pronounced the man from California dead at the scene. In the first three months after the state raised speed limits, 18 people died in 11 crashes in the targeted roads. Interstate 84 took a particularly heavy toll. There was the man driving a milk tanker on Interstate 84 before it overturned and caught fire east of Boardman, leading to his death at a Portland hospital. And the man who died after his motorcycle struck a guardrail east of Pendleton. And the wrongway driver who collided with another car outside Pendleton, killing two. The crashes didnʼt discriminate by age or origin. Victims ranged in age from 3 years old to 80. Some victims came from familiar dots on the map — Hermiston, La Grande, Portland and Kennewick — while others were traveling through the state from California, Kansas, Idaho and Illinois. ODOT made an adjustment, and re-lowered the speed limits on some stretches of highway a few months after the law went into effect. The blistering pace of fatal traffic collisions on these roads started to wane through the second half of 2016 and through 2017, only to pick up again in 2018. As of Thursday, 37 people have died in 2018 on roads that had their speed limits raised, the most in a year since the speed limits were boosted. Hundreds of people die

from vehicle crashes every year in Oregon in myriad circumstances, most of them on the interstates, U.S. routes, and state highways that stretch like veins through the stateʼs wide-open spaces. Speed may or may not have been a cause of the individual crashes listed above, but the speed limit raise has had a noticeable effect on the roads where it has been implemented. The East Oregonian analyzed ODOT crash data and OSP press releases to get an idea of how many people died on the roads 26 months before and 26 months after the speed limit increase went into effect. Total deaths went up from 60 to 66, representing a 10 percent increase. Over the same time frame, traffic deaths on other state roads fell by 3.5 percent. ODOT didnʼt unilaterally raise the speed limits in 2016. In fact, the department warned lawmakers that such a move has a history of leading to more fatalities.

Instead, the speed limit increase was the result of a bill with bipartisan support, signed into law by the governor. House Bill 3402 was intended to bring Oregon closer together. Co-sponsored by state Rep. Greg Barreto, R-Cove, in 2015, the bill was consolidated with more ambitious legislation from Cliff Bentz, then a Republican representative from Ontario, that would have raised all major highways to either a 65 or 75 mile per hour speed limit. Although the new bill only targeted parts of 10 highways, the goal remained the same: increase expediency and boost productivity by allowing commuters east of the Cascade mountains to drive to the west side a little faster. “In sort of a weird way, to the extent that we can increase the speed without increasing danger, we should do so, because it makes our state closer,” Bentz told the House Committee on Transportation and Economic Development

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during testimony in 2015. “To the extent that we donʼt do that, itʼs sort of a weird way to discriminate against rural folk.” A freshman representative, who forged through a contentious primary to win his seat, Barreto said raising the speed limit was a popular proposal from constituents. In a legislature controlled by Democrats, a Republicanbacked bill needs bipartisan support to survive. Luckily for HB 3402, it got it in spades. The bill passed the House 52-5 and the Senate 22-6 before Democratic Gov. Kate Brown signed it into law. A year later, during the short session, lawmakers passed a supplementary bill that raised the limits on Interstate 82 and Highway 97 from Klamath Falls to the California border. ODOT said doing this would avoid creating “speed traps” where

lengths of slower roads are surrounded by faster ones. But before the first bill was passed, the Legislature received a stark warning about its potential impacts. The East Oregonianʼs analysis of total deaths before and after implementation of the bill comes with some caveats. T h e a n a l y s i s d i d n ʼt account for designated areas on some highways below the speed limit, utilized a relatively small sample size, and relied on OSP press releases for 2017 and 2018 traffic deaths, which isnʼt as comprehensive as ODOT data. Chuck Farmer, the vice president of research and statistical services at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, said a larger sample size would be needed to make conclusions about the effects of HB 3402, but the early data could be an indicator of whatʼs to come.

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