The Nugget Newspaper // Vol. XLII No. 31 // 2019-07-31

The Nugget Vol. XLII No. 31

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News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon

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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Sisters got a feeling called the blues

By Jodi Schneider Correspondent

More than a thousand people gathered in Village Green Park for the 2nd Sisters Rhythm and Brews Festival that kicked off Friday evening. The two-day event, packed full of outstanding artists, had folks from all over the Pacific Northwest celebrating music, local food and crafted libations.

E v e n t o rg a n i z ers Jennifer and Joe Rambo said it’s their vision to bring highquality musicians to Central Oregon while supporting the local community.

The Rambos provide electrical and equipment support to many of Central Oregon festivals, including the Sisters Folk Festival.

The Sisters Rhythm and Brews Festival supported Sisters Habitat for Humanity and the Heart of Oregon YouthBuild and helped demonstrate their positive impact upon our community.

Jennifer Rambo noted, “Having them here gives the two non-profits a unique

Correspondent

Sgt. William Bailey, public information officer for the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO), reported to the City Council last week that an investigation into the recent spate of graffiti around town is underway.

“We are making good progress in the investigation but I can’t say more at this time for risk of jeopardizing the investigation,” Bailey told The Nugget on Friday.

During his report to the Council, he indicated that due to increased traffic over the last two months, there is currently an increased presence

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EDCO shines spotlight on Sisters business activity

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

music is a very small (but important) piece of what we

The spotlight was on Sisters Thursday evening, July 25, when several hundred Central Oregon businesspeople gathered at the Three Creeks Production Facility for the EDCO Pub Talk featuring Sisters businesses.

There was a festive atmosphere surrounding the event.

Sisters Meat and Smokehouse provided the sandwiches and Three Creeks Brewing Co. the beer. People were playing Corn Hole on the lawn while others ate, drank and socialized under the canopy tent,

See MUSIC on page 19

See BUSINESSES on page 16

Eric Gales thrilled a big crowd at Village Green during the Sisters Rhythm and Brews Festival last weekend. The event featured a wide range of roots music styles.

PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

opportunity to discuss their programs in an unconventional environment. Any profit made goes directly to

Progress reported in tagging investigation

By Sue Stafford

PRE-SORTED STANDARD ECRWSS U.S. POSTAGE PAID Sisters, OR Permit No. 15

of officers in town, in both marked and unmarked cars, including the use of some overtime personnel. Once the graffiti stops, they may pull back on the use of overtime officers.

Bailey voiced appreciation for neighborhood watch efforts in town. Several citizens have been patrolling at night on the lookout for suspicious activity. The DCSO likes to work in partnership with the public. He thanked the public for making reports when they see something suspicious, saying that extra sets of eyes are always appreciated. He did, however, caution citizens to See CRIME on page 21

them.”

She added, “Our focus is on the experience we are trying to create for folks. The

Logging project opens vistas along Road 16

Dave Elpi of Sisters Forest Products is working on a commercial firewood project along Forest Road 16 near Three Creek Lake.

PHOTO BY CEILI CORNELIUS

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

Dave Elpi is proud of the work his logging outfit Sisters Forest Products is doing on a 2.5-mile stretch of Forest Road 16 (Three Creek Road) south of Sisters.

“I want whoever drives down this road to say, ‘Whoever is doing this is doing a good job,’” he told The Nugget last week. “Not just the Forest Service — we want the public to be happy.”

Elpi is working on the Melvin Firewood Timber

Sale, a 240-acre project that falls under the broader, 4,500-acre Melvin Butte Environmental Analysis.

The Forest Service has supervised a mixture of stewardship projects and commercial timber sales in See LOGGING on page 30

Letters/Weather ................ 2 Be alert to elder abuse ....... 6 Entertainment ..................13 Sisters Naturalist............. 22 Classifieds..................24-26 Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements................12 Obituaries ....................... 14 Crossword ....................... 23 Real Estate .................29-32

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Letters to the Editor…

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

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

To the Editor: A sheriff’s deputy came to my house July 24 with the remains of three bills I’d put into the outgoing mail slot.

What was returned was the envelopes of the three, one of the checks and two of the payment vouchers. Two checks are missing and one voucher which also contained my SSN. Whoever did this now has my name, address, SNN and bank information.

This is not a petty crime; this is a federal offense as well as a state felony. My cluster mail unit is across the street from the new Ponderosa Heights apartment complex on Brooks Camp Road. There has been an increase in crime since these apartments have been occupied, the deputy had another stolen

envelope besides the three mentioned above, the club house property for the Pines adjacent to this cluster mail unit was vandalized in May, there has been other instances as well.

Is this the new face of Sisters? Can we no longer feel safe about putting our mail into the outgoing mail slot? What’s next? This cluster mail unit is used by the Pines community which includes 50 homes in the 55 and over section known as Brooks Camp Village, most of the residents of BCV are well into their 70s and many in their 90s, are we putting our senior community at risk when they simply want to collect and send mail?

This is a sad state when one can no longer feel safe in a small town such as Sisters.

Chris Carr

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I want to put in a good word for partisanship.

This might sound strange to some readers.

I’ve written a lot about our problem with tribalism, including hyper-partisanship and political polarization. It was a major theme of my cheerily titled book “Suicide of the West.” So I’m happy to concede that too much partisanship — or partisanship of the wrong kind — can be very bad.

But unity can be bad too. Excessive unity cultivates groupthink and breeds contempt for dissent. It tends to ride roughshod over minorities, and not just in the sense of racial, religious or sexual groups. Ideological minorities — including the smallest minority, the individual — can get trampled by the unity stampede.

Self-described nationalists insist the country needs more unity — around their ideas. Self-described socialists also crave unity, but only around their agenda. At various times and places, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and Hindus have all strived for unity, but only on their terms. In any large society, the demand for unity is usually the demand for power in a winner-take-all contest between different groups.

Our Constitution is set up around the idea that unity is scarier than disunity. The founders designed a system that prevented any one group, or “faction,” from imposing its one-size-fits-all unity on everybody.

Ironically, the founders never envisioned political parties as a major component of this system.

James Madison eventually embraced parties, but most of the founders were closer to Thomas Jefferson’s view that if the only way he could get into heaven was by joining a party, he wouldn’t go.

Think of it this way: Courtrooms are partisan battlefields. The defense attorney is a zealous

advocate for acquittal.

The prosecutor is equally passionate about conviction. Both sides must deal honestly, but it is the competition between the two sides, the questioning of evidence, the inquiry into motives and methods, that produces a just outcome.

Of course, sometimes it goes wrong. But it’s the best system we’ve got.

This is how the good kind of partisanship is supposed to work. Partisans have all manner of incentives to poke holes in the opposition’s arguments and proposals—some patriotic and principled, some more base and selfish. But the process of political combat, which is supposed to take place in Congress, not on cable TV or Twitter, should get us closer to both the truth and a consensus about the way forward. The public is supposed to be the jury.

Unfortunately, too many jurors only want to hear arguments from either the defense or the prosecution.

It’s a cliche to note that the party out of power only cares about deficits and debt when it is out of power. This hypocrisy is annoying and at times dishonorable. But it’s better than the alternative. If it’s true that unlimited borrowing, mostly from China, to pay for things we can’t afford is bad, better to have someone saying so, even if they’re doing it for cynical purposes. Such complaints at least serve to check runaway deficit spending.

Last week we crossed a Rubicon with the new bipartisan budget deal proposed by President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It marks the end of either party even pretending to care about such things. It’s a victory of the sort of bipartisanship and unity so many claim this country needs.

And it is a perfect example of how unity around a bad thing is worse than disunity over what constitutes a good thing. ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

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

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Local art key feature of Country Fair Over the past 20 years, the Country Fair and Art Show has become an integral part of the community outreach effort of the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. It has helped provide over $250,000 to the community’s support agencies.

Last year, the fair organizers decided to experiment with a simpler, invitational format for the Art Show. This allowed the fair to host a nonjuried show with no entry fees.

“We were pleasantly surprised by the positive comments we received,” Art Show volunteer Janet Shaver

reported. “It proved to have a less crowded art display area and no restriction of times for delivery and pick-up of art. We invited artists who would give us a wide variety of media: photography, oils, watercolor, pastels, pottery, collage, scratchboard and jewelry. It also required fewer demands on our committee members and improved promotion for our artists. Each year we will strive to have less repetition with a better and more open presentation of the artwork.”

See LOCAL ART on page 26 PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK

The Islas family celebrated their new home in Sisters last week.

Book club seeks to ‘bridge divide’ Bridging The Gap Book Club.

The club, Jacobson said, “basically just aims to start the conversation — bridge the gap — between the everpolarizing left and right.”

The approximately 10 to 14 participants will be selected to reflect views and outlooks of people all along the political spectrum.

“We’re going to have a survey where people will self-identify a lot of things about themselves,” Jacobson explained.

By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief

In an arena where people increasingly retreat defensively into their own corner of the ring, real engagement among people of differing cultural and political perspectives is harder and harder to come by.

Lane Jacobson, the owner of Paulina Springs Books in Sisters, is trying to change that, at least here in the local community.

This fall, Paulina Springs Books is launching the

See BOOK CLUB on page 29

Many hands provide a home in Sisters Many hands go into the building of a Sisters Habitat for Humanity home, and when that home is dedicated those supporters show up to celebrate. It was no exception last week when Sisters Habitat for Humanity dedicated the home with the Islas family.

Nancy and Roberto Islas are well-known in the community, and the attendance at the dedication was a confirmation of that fact. The couple has lived in Sisters for 15 years, and they are the 67th family to purchase a home through Sisters Habitat for Humanity homeownership

program. Roberto works at Hoyt’s Hardware and Nancy is a stay-at-home mom with her three boys.

“I loved seeing all the people in the community that came to support us and love us. I thank the volunteers, friends and co-workers. I moved here 17 years ago to work and support my mother and brother. This is the first home that will be truly mine. I will own it. Our boys will have a yard to play in. I’m so excited for our garden,” Roberto said after the ceremony.

When a family is selected into the homeownership

program, they are teamed with family partners. Paula Reents and Bill and Wendy Birnbaum have helped the Islas family through the journey to homeownership.

“Roberto would landscape and make improvements wherever they lived even though they were rentals. Now those improvements will be on his own home – congratulations,” Bill Birnbaum told the crowd.

It can take two years from the time a family is accepted into the Habitat program until they move See HOME on page 27

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.

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, noon, 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.

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.

Friends of the Sisters Library Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays, Sisters Library.www.sistersfol.com.

12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse.

Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419.

Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday, 7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All Sisters Caregiver Support Group ages welcome. 541-771-2211.

3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., The Lodge in Sisters. 541-771-3258.

Heartwarmers (fleece blanketmakers) 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Sisters Cribbage Club Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ray’s Food Place Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to community room. 541-923-1632.

4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-719-1230.

Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board Military Parents of Sisters Meetings of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m. are held quarterly; please call for details. Location information: 541-549-1193.

541-388-9013.

Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters 8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m., Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870.

Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469.

Sisters Parent Teacher Community SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings 2nd Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. at Sisters & Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. Saloon. 541-480-5994. to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group District. 541-549-2091.

2nd Tuesday, 2 p.m., The Lodge.

Sisters Family Aglow Lighthouse 541-668-6599.

4th Saturday, 10 a.m., Ponderosa Lodge Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.

Meeting Room. 503-930-6158.

Location information: 541-279-1977.

Sisters Area Photography Club 2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library Sisters Rotary Tuesdays, noon, Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-760-5645. community room. 541-549-6157.

Sisters Trails Alliance Board 1st Wednesday, 5 p.m. Sisters Library.

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.

Sisters Middle School Parent Collaboration Team 1st Tuesday, 2 p.m., SMS. 541-610-9513.

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

541-549-6022.

Sisters Park & Recreation District Board of Directors 1st & 3rd 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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Antique and craft show draws a crowd Sisters Country birds

By Douglas Beall

By Jodi Schneider

Correspondent

Correspondent

Swarms of people browsed through hand-crafted goodies and vintage trinkets at Sisters Arts and Crafts Festival and Antiques in the Park at Sisters Creekside Park for a weekend of rare finds.

Wide assortments of collectible antiques were displayed by vendors from antique teakettles to vintage posters. Mixed in the huge treasure chest that spread across the park lawn were an array of crafts from infused glass to metal art.

The combination of antiques and crafts together made for an eclectic show for people of all ages.

Nearly 50 vendors filled their booths with artwork, jewelry, vintage furniture, and rare finds such as a 19th century gun case.

Los Angeles native Katt Desehene and Katya Gogol from Russia are best friends and think of themselves as “Cosmic Twins,” which is the name of their handcrafted jewelry business. This was their second time participating in a craft show as artisans.

“We met in Los Angeles where I was selling rocks and gems. Katt is a jewelry maker and works with a lot of copper,” Gogol said.

“We decided to learn how to design both together.”

Desehene added, “When we realized that we had so many similarities in common,

PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER

Katt Desehene and Katya Gogl are starting a new company. The Sisters show was their second craft fair. we combined our skills and Margaret Meier drives from formed our company. I help her home in Fort Lauderdale, with the jewelry and the Florida to Sisters to sell her social media marketing side unique goods at this event. as well. We both contrib- She has been selling “Vintage ute to the company, and our Fabrics, Etc.” for 45 years. strengths and skills complePeople stopped by her ment each other really well.” booth searching through a The talented duo came to variety of vintage European check out Central Oregon and fabrics for just the right color found Sisters to be just what schemes. Meier also treks to the doctor ordered.

Europe twice a year to buy Gogol noted, “We have only the best homegrown faba lot of appreciation for this rics to sell at shows all over pretty little town of Sisters. the nation.

The locals seem to know She told The Nugget, a lot about gemstones and “They’re all spun and woven are very interested in our on farms in Europe, which craftsmanship.” means no chemicals or By 1 p.m. on Saturday the machine processes. I have park overflowed with people been collecting homespun and their canines carousing linens for years and have five through the show listening to warehouses full in Florida. classic rock tunes by live per- I lived in Europe in the late former Scott Brown. ’60s and then again in the Once a year textile dealer early ’80s.”

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It spends its winters within its breeding range, including Central Oregon and farther east into the Great Plains states. Their preferred habitats include dry plains, sagebrush, desolate mountains and prairies.

Prairie falcons in summer eat mostly small mammals, particularly ground squirrels. They also eat pikas, birds, and insects.

During courtship, the male and female spend a month or more visiting

potential nest sites together.

The site they select is most often in a natural crevice, pothole, or ledge on a cliff or steep bluff, with an overhang to protect the nest. It often shares its nesting cliff with ravens, golden eagles, and red-tailed hawks. Two to six creamy white eggs are laid and incubated for 29-39 days, and the young leave the nest in approximately 45 days.

The prairie falcon was first described in 1850

by Hermann Schlegel, a German ornithologist, and is similar in size to the peregrine falcon, 15 to 19 inches tall with a wingspan of 35 to 45 inches.

A group of falcons are referred to as an “eyrie,” “tower,” “bazaar,” “stooping up,” or a “ringing up.”

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Whispers from the past — Camp Sisters

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps established Camp Sisters, Project F-110, Company #263, #1454, and #1648.

The camp was located two miles upriver from Camp Sherman on the east bank of the Metolius River, in a meadow surrounded by ponderosa pine trees.

It was a CCC camp from 1933-1942.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the CCC “for the relief of unemployment through the performance of useful public work” while preserving the nation’s natural resources.

The projects mostly involved forestry, flood control, prevention of soil erosion, and fighting forest fires.

CCC camps were located all over the country, employing unmarried young men between the ages of 17-24.

Other than California, Oregon had the largest number of CCC camps west of the Mississippi. According to state records, in 1940 there were more than 2,000 men in Oregon CCC camps.

While working mainly in rural areas, they helped build, improve, and restore the national forests and parks, and other public lands. They fought fires and removed beetle-kill trees, all the while developing selfconfidence, learning new skills, and providing income for their families.

The CCC provided housing, food, clothing, and medical services, in addition to educational and vocational training. The young men served for six months to two years and earned $30 a month. In a period in the U.S. when the races were usually segregated, at the Oregon camps young black and white men all worked together.

During the spring of 1933, the first company of workers arrived at the head of the Metolius River and constructed a summer camp, which was abandoned that fall. While there, they built several miles of forest roads, did a lot of hazard reduction, campground improvement, fire fighting, and other forest work.

The following spring, 25 members from Company #1648 arrived to construct a permanent camp to replace the temporary one built the previous year. The camp consisted of buildings built

in a rectangle, including three barracks and a mess hall, with a kitchen at one end. In another building there were mechanic, carpentry, and sign shops. A separate garage housed the trucks. There were quarters for the Army officers who ran the camp, as well as Forest Service personnel.

By fall and winter of 1934-35, a full company of 200 men was working at Camp Sisters. One of their major projects during that time period was controlling the pine beetle, which had infested approximately 127,000 acres of forest.

From then on, companies arrived and left until 1942.

During that time period, a number of Sisters residents were employed at the camp, teaching a variety of skills.

One Sisters man in particular had a huge influence on the lives of the young men who passed through Camp Sisters.

Sisters High School principal Lloyd B. Baker became the educational advisor at the camp in 1937, serving for about four years. His responsibilities included developing the educational program for the young men and securing teachers to staff the program. Baker was also in charge of the camp recreation program, and served as the company commander or his assistant when either was gone from camp.

Baker also found himself in the classroom, helping boys with no formal education to learn reading, writing, and math. He also taught high school math and camp administration to key personnel.

Another Sisters resident and Forest Service employee, Robert Wakefield, worked with boys in the carpenter’s shop, carving and painting signs, and building tables and benches for campgrounds. They even constructed a portable house on skids, in sections, complete with plumbing and wiring, to be used by the Forest Service during timber sales.

Archie Brown, of Sisters, and other Forest Service personnel were assigned to Camp Sisters to work as instructors and foremen.

They included Bes Estes, Ray Dempsey, Gilbert McCleary, Ray Moore, Keats Hunter, and Cleon Clark.

Jonas Hammack, who later worked as an Oregon Highway District See CAMP SISTERS on page 23

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Be alert to elder abuse — Part IV

By Betsy Leighty-Johnson Correspondent

This is Part 4 of a multipart series on elder abuse awareness, intended to raise community awareness and to provide resources for individuals who are themselves vulnerable or are caregivers, family or friends of vulnerable people.

The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) has Adult Protective Service (APS) offices statewide to coordinate and conduct abuse investigations and provide services to reports of neglect and abuse of vulnerable adults, including: adults over the age of 65, adults with physical and/or developmental disabilities, adults with mental illness, and children receiving residential treatment services.

Verbal or emotional abuse is the second leading type of elder abuse in Oregon, representing 26 percent of all substantiated cases in 2017.

Verbal/emotional abuse often coexists with other types of abuse including financial exploitation and physical abuse cases.

DHS’ web page provides definitions and warning signs for the abuse of vulnerable adults. Verbal or emotional abuse includes threatening significant physical harm or threatening or causing significant emotional harm to an adult through the use of: derogatory or

inappropriate names, insults, verbal assaults, profanity, or ridicule; or harassment, coercion, threats, intimidation, humiliation, mental cruelty, or inappropriate sexual comments.

Some of the warning signs of verbal or emotional abuse include: • Humiliating, insulting, or threatening language directed at the person.

• Being emotionally upset or agitated.

• Being extremely withdrawn and non-communicative or non-responsive.

• Unusual behavior usually attributed to dementia (e.g., sucking, biting, rocking).

• An adult’s report of being verbally or emotionally mistreated.

Verbal and emotional abuse often takes the form of bullying and threats if the vulnerable person does (or does not) do something. An example would be if someone was to threaten or bully a vulnerable person into signing a document that would not be to the vulnerable person’s best interest “or else ...” Or, stating if the vulnerable person did (or did not) do something, they would be made miserable for the rest of their life. Or, stating if a vulnerable person does (or does not) do something, they will never see something important (i.e., their pet, grandchildren, or home) again.

Verbal and emotional abuse is particularly persistent in cases involving other types of abuse, such as physical or financial abuse, when the perpetrator tries to control the victim from reporting the abuse. Often, the victim is made to feel guilty or somehow responsible for the behavior and actions of the perpetrator such that the vulnerable person becomes a reluctant or unwilling participant in the abuse investigation.

Physical abuse represents 15 percent of all substantiated abuse cases of Oregon’s vulnerable population in 2017 and is any physical injury to an adult caused by other than accidental means that may result in bodily injury, physical pain, or impairment.

Some of the warning signs of physical abuse include: • Cuts, lacerations, punctures, wounds.

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• Dehydration and/or malnourishment without illnessrelated cause.

• Unexplained loss of weight.

• Burns, possibly caused by cigarettes, caustics, acids or friction from ropes or chains.

Victims of physical abuse may excuse away their injuries by stating that they injured themselves. Regular check-ups by medical professionals, including routine physical and vision exams, can assist in determining whether injuries are signs of abuse or reflect a need for changes in medication or other accommodations.

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D r. B e t s y L e i g h t y Johnson has a PhD in Human Services with a specialization in Social and Community Services. In September 2014, the author and her husband discovered his (then) 96-year-old mother had been the victim of financial elder abuse. They were very involved in the collection of evidence assisting in the felony prosecution of the victim’s daughter for the crime. Since that time, the author has become an elder abuse advocate, currently assisting the Deschutes County District Attorney’s office with elder abuse cases.

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SPRD hires new executive director

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Nina Walz, left, is shifting her career from the food services industry into wellness counseling.

Kiwanis grant helps woman change careers Sisters Kiwanis is helping a Sisters-area resident shift her career path.

Sisters Kiwanis awards grants to Sisters-area adults who are seeking a career change or who wish to enhance their career opportunities. The program, known as the Kiwanis Career Opportunity Fund (COF) assists adults (25 or older) who are financially unable to return to school or retrain for a career change. In the last 10 years, since its inception, the fund has awarded more than $70,000 in assistance to help residents reach their educational goals.

Nina Walz was the most recent recipient of a COF grant. She currently works in the food service industry and retail, but due to medical issues she needs to pursue another career avenue.

She has chosen to pursue a degree toward becoming an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor. This will involve both in-class and online classroom formats, with some travel involved. Once she has accomplished this educational goal, she will be able to employ Ayurvedic practices to determine a client’s body constitution, conduct consultations, give Ayurvedic guidance on daily routines and meditation, and offer advice on special

therapies and home remedies.

The COF grant will provide some of the funds necessary for Walz to take this course beginning in fall 2019 through the Kerala Ayurveda program. Nina shared with Kiwanis that she enjoys Ayurveda’s emphasis on diet and lifestyle, and sees this career of helping others as a positive step in influencing positive change in our community.

The Kiwanis Career Opportunity Fund is designed to provide assistance to start, augment or complete a career that may include vocational, technical, artistic or general fields of study. Funds are available to qualified residents within the Sisters community regardless of age, gender, disability, marital status, race or current occupation. Kiwanis does not set limitations on potential use of the award.

COF applications are available on the Kiwanis website: www.sisterskiwanis.org/ about-us/career-opportunityfund; at the Sisters Habitat for Humanity office, from Family Access Network, or by calling 541-410-2870. Kiwanis is actively seeking applicants for COF grants.

To donate to the COF, make checks payable to Sisters Kiwanis COF and post to Sisters Kiwanis, P.O. Box 1296, Sisters, OR 97759.

The Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) Board of Directors announced last week that Jennifer Holland of Springfield will serve as the organization’s executive director .

In April, the board received 19 applications for the open executive director position.

Holland applied at the time but withdrew her candidacy due to an illness in the family. The board reported that when that process did not yield a new executive director, the board reached out to Holland to ask if she would reconsider her decision to withdraw. In May, Holland visited the District for interviews with the board, community partners, and staff.

According to SPRD, everyone involved in the process, including Holland, thought she would be a good fit for the position and Sisters Country.

Board President Jeff Tryens said, “the board is thrilled that Jennifer has agreed to lead our team. Our 18-month journey in search of a new executive director has culminated in finding someone who is superbly qualified to take SPRD to a new level of service to the community.”

Holland has been employed with Willamalane Park and Recreation in Springfield, Oregon for 17 years, most recently as the program manager of the Bob Keefer Center for Sports and Recreation.

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Jennifer’s son, Cal, will be entering sixth grade at Sisters Middle School and enjoys baseball, video games, and spending time with his dog, Griffin.

“I am so honored to be given the opportunity to lead Sisters Park & Recreation District,” Holland said. “Cal and I consider ourselves very lucky to be moving to such a warm and welcoming community.”

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Appaloosa to pony up the tunes at Fir Street Park

By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

A pickup truck full of used music gear. A love of the high desert landscape. A guitar class at SPRD. These three elements were crucial to the formation of Appaloosa, a lively Americana act playing a free show in Sisters this Sunday.

Dottie Ashley and her husband, Eli Ashley, retired from their careers about seven years ago. Dottie told The Nugget, “Eli said, ‘You know, I think we should play music,’ and I thought it was a big joke. Then he came home from Olympia, Washington with a pickup full of used gear. I realized he was serious!”

They took a beginning guitar class at Sisters Park & Recreation District, taught by Brent Allen. They found that songwriting was “easy, super fun, and wonderful for us.”

One of their classmates was Katy Yoder, a local writer and singer.

One day, Yoder was talking about playing at a My Own Two Hands (MOTH) event.

“We had done quite a bit of work for Sisters Folk Festival and My Own Two Hands, as pro bono volunteers,” Dottie explained.

Both she and Eli had marketing experience; they donated their time to the festival for that along with emceeing various stages.

“So I just horned on in,” Dottie said, laughing. “Katy said, ‘Of course you can play!’ That was six or seven MOTHs ago.”

Appaloosa has been playing ever since.

Said Dottie, “Sisters was inclusive of us even though we lived down the road a ways.”

Appaloosa members call their music High Desert Americana, “harking back to a Hank Williams sound, pre-Nashville in the fifties.”

Dottie said, “We grew up in the ‘60s with the folk music scene. I remember Mother bringing in Willie Nelson and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan.”

Dottie came to love the California Country style of the Laurel Canyon scene in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

Eli, meanwhile, lived in the town of Woodstock, New York. “He lived in there during Woodstock,” she said, referring to the famed festival. “And so he had a much more electric vibe. The Band lived there. He brings that element to our sound.”

Prolific songwriters, the Ashleys have penned well over 100 songs and produced several CDs. Sometimes they play as a duo. Other times a full band rounds out their sound.

The Ashleys write their songs separately, then come together to work out arrangements and harmonies.

“Because we have two songwriters in the band and

we’re really versatile in the stories we tell,” Dottie said.

She characterized some songs as “hard-driving, socially driven, and conscious.” Disheartened by the divisive political landscape, Ashley said, “We’re doing everything we can as individuals to keep everything hopeful and healthy and alive and wonderful.”

They write plenty of yarnspinnin’ tunes of a lighthearted nature. Women who like trucks? Appaloosa has written about one. Trains?

Gambling? Whisky? All accounted for. Babysitters who run away to take LSD? They’ve got that covered, too.

“We also write enduring love songs, broken-hearted love songs, best-friend love songs, everyday songs,” Dottie added.

The Ashleys consider themselves to be of the troubadour lineage.

“We’re really organic, intimate storytellers first,” Dottie said.

Both Ashleys honed their skills at the Sisters Folk Festival’s songwriting camp.

Dottie described it as “an incredible, nurturing, loving, wonderful environment.

Jeffrey Martin was my mentor. He made me feel like what I was doing had potential and was worthwhile. It gave me a great leg up.”

A fifth-generation Oregonian who grew up in Portland, Dottie has spent

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Appaloosa brings their High Desert Americana music to Sisters. time in Sisters since childhood. She went to Camp Tamarack as a camper, then worked there.

“So I always had Central Oregon in my blood,” she said.

The couple moved to land near Bend in the early 2000s.

“We’re out in the land and we can see 360 degrees around us,” Dottie said. “I don’t think these songs would have ever come into being if we still lived in Tacoma, Washington.”

Despite the pressure of population growth, she said of Central Oregon, “It still is really God’s country, the

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We’re still so fortunate and lucky to have this beauty of nature around us.”

Dottie injured her arm, thrown off her horse when he spooked recently. They’ll still play their scheduled set at the Farmers Market.

She recounts, “The first thing I said was, ‘Don’t worry, Eli, I can still hold a pick.’ I couldn’t stand up or anything, but I could still hold a pick!”

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Sisters grad operates ‘Hopservatory’

By Ceili Cornelius Correspondent

Grant Tandy, a Sisters High School graduate, is the manager at the Worthy Brewing Company “Hopservatory” in Bend.

The observatory contains a 16-inch reflecting telescope, a Ritchey-Chrétien reflector made by RC Optical systems.

The scope is a research-grade telescope capable of viewing planets and galaxies that are far away.

Tandy graduated from Sisters High School in 2011 and attended COCC for two years and obtained general education requirements while trying to figure out what he wanted to do. He always had a fascination for the night sky and viewing the stars.

“Growing up in Sisters with dark starry skies triggered my interest in astronomy. I was always a curious kid wondering how things worked, and astronomy was an interest for me,” said Tandy.

He took Rima Givot’s astronomy class in high school as well as IEE (Interdisciplinary Environmental Expedition) and was grateful for the opportunities brought forth by IEE, being a hands-on learning program focused on the outdoors.

Tandy got his astronomy and telescope training from Oregon Observatory manager Bob Grossfield. Tandy worked for the observatory in Sunriver while living in Bend after going to COCC. “I learned everything from working at the observatory under Grossfield, who has multiple PHDs. I was more working on the side of speaking to the public about astronomy versus the research aspect of astronomy, which was Grossfield’s area as a physicist,” said Tandy.

Ever since his high school days, it was in the back of

Tandy’s mind that he wanted to work in an observatory.

“I loved the idea of looking at the stars and getting paid for it,” he said. “I never cared about a degree, I just care about being able to inspire and educate people about the sky.”

The Oregon Observatory hosted many school events and Tandy loved seeing the inspiration on kids’ faces.

“I get cute letters back from kids saying they want to be scientists when they grow up; it is great to plant that seed,” he said.

Tandy explained that astronomy is a sort of gateway science and it is fun to be the one explaining the sky to the public, and locally affecting people.

“I like to talk to the public about the sky, and it is fun to talk about something I am passionate about and learn from the people around me all the time,” he said.

The idea for the Hopservatory came about when Rodger Worthington, owner of Worthy Brewing Company, was inspired by events at the Oregon Observatory. The Garden Club, the sustainability center and 501 nonprofit foundation at Worthy Brewing operates the Hopservatory, which Tandy now manages.

The Garden Club is separate from the brewery itself, and rents out space and runs off donations as a nonprofit while working in conjunction with the Oregon Observatory.

Tandy heard the idea for the “Hopservatory” coming about and started emailing the managers at Worthy and the Garden Club to try and get the job running the observatory, based off his knowledge and experience at the Oregon Observatory.

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A few months later, the Hopservatory, three stories above Worthy Brewery, became a reality, opening in May 2017.

Tandy runs the events and viewings five days a week at the observatory. He works split shifts where he comes into the brewery in the late day and begins figuring out what is visible on a given day and what he may show for the evening. Tandy also plans events for the garden club and works on promotional materials and event planning for the club as well as the Hopservatory. Then, in the evening, announces to guests that the observatory is open for viewing.

“I guide guests who come up as to what we are looking at on the given night and explain the details of the telescope, and that it can look into deep space and what is visible to us,” he said.

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Sisters man presents paper in Iceland

By Jim Anderson Correspondent

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The ancient art of stone carving will be on display at Suttle Lake.

Stone carvers gather at Suttle Lake

By Kathryn Godsiff Correspondent

There aren’t many permits being issued these days for the construction of vast cathedrals made of stone. There is, however, a need for skilled stone sculptors to do repairs on existing buildings around the world. And as the world watches the revival of the cathedral at Notre Dame, the focus will be on the artisans who bring it back to its former glory.

The United Methodist Suttle Lake Camp is set be the site of a gathering of stone carvers from the Northwest and beyond during the week of August 11. Organized by the Northwest Stone Sculptors Association, Oregon’s 25th Annual International Stone Carving Symposium is in its fifth year at the camp. It is a week of education, skill building, fellowship and ideas exchange. Participants and instructors hail from the Pacific Northwest, Canada, California, and from as far away as Norway and Iraq.

The symposium isn’t limited to experienced carvers.

The NWSSA raises funds each year for scholarships for aspiring and student stone carvers. Novices are welcome to attend the event and tools are available for those who don’t have their own.

There is a meditative aspect to stone carving, despite the power tools and dust and scale of some of the pieces being created. During the symposium, the artists work outdoors, taking them out of their studios and into a collaborative, energetic experience.

“Stone carving is a subtractive method of sculpture,”

said Doug Wiltshire, symposium director. “We find the sweet spot in stone by removing stone. And I think there’s going to be a resurgence of interest in what we do.”

The public is welcome to visit the symposium and see the carvers’ work on Saturday, August 17 from 1 to 5 p.m.

The area near the lower parking area will have the projects on display. To get to the Suttle Lake Camp, head west toward Salem and turn left at the signs to the Suttle Lake Resort and campgrounds. The camp is on the left past the resort and there will be signs for the NWSSA Symposium.

For more information, go to www.nwssa.org.

Ron Thorkildson, Sisters’ local weather guru, and his wife, Sharon, recently took a trip to Iceland, where Ron presented a scientific paper on structural icing.

Living here in Sisters Country, ice on structures is not an uncommon phenomenon, but it is also something Thorkildson confronted throughout almost his entire professional life.

Thorkildson was employed with the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) as an environmental engineer, and icing of the lines and towers that carried the electric energy generated by BPA could become a serious hazard.

“My paper was about the formation of radiation fog in the Columbia Basin of Central Washington that can lead to accumulations of rime ice that can damage electrical transmission line towers and other structures,” Thorkildson explained. “My knowledge of this phenomenon was gained when I investigated line outages in this area while working for the Bonneville Power Administration, the federal agency responsible for distributing electrical power throughout the Northwest.”

The conference was held June 24-28 under the auspices of the International Workshops on Atmospheric Icing of Structures (IWAIS).

About his calling today as the weatherman of Sisters, he said, “My fascination with weather comes

honestly. The Bergen school of Meteorology, founded in 1917 in Bergen, Norway b y Vi l h e l m B j e r k n e s , Tor Bergeron, and other Scandinavian scientists, did groundbreaking work in early development of numerical weather forecasting in the 1940s and 1950s. I still remember learning about some of their achievements, with a touch of shameless pride, as part of my atmospheric science curriculum at Oregon State University.”

His interest in visiting Iceland went way beyond that of an engineer wanting to further the knowledge of structural icing — or just being an average tourist. He was and is always interested in finding out more about his Scandinavian ancestry.

Although his grandfather immigrated to America from Norway in 1900, Ron notes that his surname is said to have originated in Iceland. From about 800 to 1200 AD Vikings often traveled between the two countries, establishing/sharing ethnic customs.

And indeed, while visiting Iceland Ron discovered there are many variations of “Thorkildson” in Reykjavik.

While there, he and Sharon decided to take a restaurant walking tour. The name of their tour guide was Thor, his dad’s first name. This discovery led Ron to share this quip: “If I ever get in trouble with the law, my best bet might be to flee to Reykjavik. They’d never find me there; it would be like looking for a ‘Smith’ here.”

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Ron Thorkildson and his wife, Sharon, visiting the grand statue of Ron’s famous Nordic ancestor, Leif Erikson in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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Hoodoo Challenge has record turnout the half marathon, Ryan Bak, 37, arrived at the bottom of Hoodoo simultaneously and, though in different categories, raced to the top in the true spirit of competition.

Bak captured the title in the half marathon by just over 10 minutes with a time of 1 hour 31 minutes and 25 seconds, an impressive time on a tough course. Singleton crossed the line as the winner of the 5k in 33:41, a testament to the challenge of the final mile of the race.

Kevin Cave came through as the runner-up in the half marathon with a time of 1:41:33, and Kirby Garlitz finished third overall in 1:45:36.

The top local finishers were brothers Jadon and Asher Bachtold, who finished together in 1:52:28 in seventh and eighth place respectively.

Perhaps the most impressive performance of the day came from Lynette Patterson, 64, who finished first among women with a time of 1:55:49, which was 30 seconds ahead of Patti Mode (1:56:18) and two minutes ahead of Whitney Rich (1:57:50).

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By Charlie Kanzig Correspondent

The 2019 edition of the Sisters Kiwanis Run to the Top Hoodoo Challenge trail race held Saturday, July 27 had the best turnout in the event’s three-year history under nearly perfect conditions.

Course designer Eugene Trahern made adjustments to both the 5K and half marathon (13.1-mile) courses this year. Both courses started in the Hoodoo parking lot and finished at the top of Hoodoo Butte giving the competitors and both races the opportunity to climb the steep road to the top.

The half marathon started in the cool of the morning at 8 a.m. sharp, and included 65 total finishers among the 81 who originally entered, while the 5-kilometer race began an hour later. The half-marathon included mostly dirt roads and passed near Island Lake, Link Lake and Sand Camp Lake.

Total elevation gain of the course totaled 1,920 feet.

As it turned out the leader of the 5K, Ryan Singleton, 47, of Sisters, and the leader of

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Runners had a choice of a 5K or half-marathon distance in the grueling Hoodoo Challenge. and Patterson received season passes to Hoodoo for next season.

Eric Liddell of Sisters took second overall in the 5-kilometer race (39:36) with Eric Davis just a step behind in 39:39 for third.

Colleen Oliver, 33, the first female, reached the summit five seconds later in fourth place overall in 39:44. Heather Beyel (40:04) and Tamara Zelen (41:32) rounded out the top three, finishing fifth and seventh respectively.

After completing the courses runners had to hike their way back down the mountain, but the Sisters Kiwanis

club made all the effort worth it with a generous barbecue lunch along with cold drinks down at the Hoodoo lodge.

Matt Kirchoff served as race director and reported that with all the volunteer support

from the club, the event came off “flawlessly.”

Proceeds of the race help support services and scholarships offered by the Sisters Kiwanis Club, according to member Suzy Ramsey.

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S Country Fair and Art Show

The Country Fair & Art Show includes an art show and sale, silent auctions, music, food, homemade marionberry cobbler, games, bouncy house, animals, cake walks, face painting, country store, book sale and more. Free admission! All proceeds are donated to local community support agencies. Art show/artists’ reception is Friday, August 9 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m; art show and country fair on Saturday, August 10 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Held at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration at the corner of Hwy 242 and Brooks Camp Road.

For information call 541-549-7087.

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Highlights Thursday, August 1 River Rats Social Group 5 p.m. at Three Creeks Brewing

Friday, August 2 Starshine Kids Performance 3 p.m. at Fir Street Park Saturday, August 3 Friends of Metolius Walk 10 a.m. in Camp Sherman

Quilt Fundraiser for FFF

This year’s fabulous fundraising Calling all River Rats quilt for Furry Friends Foundation, Join other river rats at Three designed & quilted by Valerie Creeks Brewing on Thursday, Fercho-Tillery, is on display on August 1 at 5 p.m. to talk rafting, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 11 rivers, paddling, and all other a.m. to 2 p.m. at 204 W. Adams river running adventures. Casual Ave. Ste. 109. Purchase tickets conversation, no “club” stuff, no at the office or online at www. volunteers needed. Contact Kathy furryfriendsfoundation.org for at 541-912-0750. $1, 6 for $5, or 25 for $20. Info: Crafters Wanted 541-797-4023 or email info@ Share your creativity! Qualityfurryfriendsfoundation.org. oriented crafters are being sought Music in the Garden as consigners for the 44th Annual An evening of free music from the Snowflake Boutique (November 1 local group Skillethead will be held & 2). Jury will be Saturday, August in the stunning mountain-view 10 at 9:30 a.m. at Highland Baptist location of the Sisters Community Church, Redmond. Info at www.

Garden on Monday, August 12 snowflakeboutique.org, or call from 6 to 8 p.m. Light snacks Randi 541-788-4452, Jan 541-350and lemonade will be provided, 4888 or Tina 541-447-1640. or you can also bring an item to share. BYOB. Some seating will be CarFit Event AARP and Sisters-Camp Sherman available, but bringing your own Fire District are sponsoring chair is good idea. Bring a nona CarFit event for drivers on perishable item to benefit Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank, and monetary Saturday, August 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Sisters-Camp Sherman donations will benefit Sisters Fire Station. Find out how the Habitat for Humanity. For more fit of your vehicle affects your info call Lisa at 541-390-9025. driving. Trained technicians will Sisters Garden Club make individual adjustments to The next meeting of the Sisters find the best person-to-vehicle fit.

Garden Club is at 9:30 a.m. on These adjustments will help you Saturday, August 10 at Sisters City benefit from your vehicle’s safety Hall. Rick Martinson of Winter features by helping you feel more Creek Nursery will present “Native comfortable and in better control Plants in your Garden.” All are behind the wheel. Event is by welcome! For more information appointment only. To schedule an call 541-549-6390 or go to appointment contact Sharon at sistersgardenclub.com.

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Talk With A Ranger

Join Discover Your Forest and U.S. Forest Service rangers in an informative talk about current happenings in the Sisters Ranger District on Thursday, August 8 at 6:30 p.m. at the East Portal Community Labyrinth. After a 30-minute talk, you are encouraged to ask questions about the topic of the night, “Restoration Work on the Forest.”

Free to the public! Please bring camping chairs for comfort. Info: 541-383-5572.

World’s Children Speaker

Sisters nonprofit World’s Children is offering a speaker for your club, church group or classroom. Topics include street children in developing countries; child trafficking; and child marriage. Each talk is given with a PowerPoint presentation that explains why these issues exist in developing countries and what can be done about them. For more information call 541-904-0789 or email info@ worldschildren.org.

Friends of Metolius Walk

Parkinson’s Benefit Hike

Saturday, August 3 from 10 a.m. to noon, enjoy a free interpretive walk along the Metolius River with amateur botanist David Miller. Learn to identify plants, trees and shrubs. Walk is approximately 2 miles. Children are welcome, but please, no dogs.

Meet near the Camp Sherman Bridge fish viewing platform. For more information please call 541550-1441.

Join Hiking Sisters & Misters on August 10 on a hike to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease’s impact on women and to benefit Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon. The hike will be to Moraine Lake on the South Sister.

Register and donate at www. parkinsonsresources.donordrive. com/index.cfm. Info: 630-564-2624.

Starshine Kids Performance

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

Enjoy a delightful original play performed by kids ages 8-13 on the Songbird Stage at Fir Street Park on Friday, August 2 at 3 p.m. For more information call 541-645-0688.

Free Astronomy Lecture cture

Sisters Astronomy Club and Sisters Park & Recreation District present a public lecture

by Professor Shane Larson n of Northwestern University: y: “Feeling Small in a Big Cosmos.” osmos.”

Dr. Larson will talk aboutt how our understanding of the universe has expanded ed with time, and how we came to understand our place in it. There is no charge arge to attend and this presentation ntation is suitable for all ages. Saturday, August 10, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the Sisters Library meeting room For more information contact Jim Hammond, drjhammond@ oldshoepress.com, 541-617-1086.

Tai Chi/Balance Sessions

Free Tai Chi/Balance Classes based on the CDC “Steadi” Program to reduce injuries and falls in our community are being sponsored by Sisters Drug. Taught

by Shannon Rackowski every Thursday from 11-11:30 a.m. (except holidays) at the SPRD Fitness Room next to Sisters High School. Open to all ages. For info: 541-549-6221.

Thich Nhat Hahn Sangha Meditation Group

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The second Tuesday of each month, Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group meets at The Lodge in Sisters from 2 to 3:30 p.m. All are welcome to learn, share, and receive support. For more info contact Carol at 541668-6599.

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A Newcomers’ Club specific to Sisters-area new residents is starting up! Call Karee at 541-719-0050.

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Use handheld ha paper punches, stamps, stamps stickers, flowers, and more to embellish handmade cards oon Tuesday, August 6 at noon aat the Sisters Library. Call 541-312-1032 for more info.

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Alexis is the daughter of Christiaan and Erin van der Velde of Bend, Oregon. She graduated from both Sisters High School and Oregon State University and works as a project manager at Tetherow.

Taylor is the son of Richard and Alison Geraths of Sisters, Oregon. The groom is also a Sisters High School graduate and owns and operates a fly-fishing outfit, Taylor Made Outfitters on the Deschutes and Grande Ronde rivers.

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 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)

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 noon to 1:30 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.

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Chapel in the Pines Camp Sherman • 541-549-9971 10 a.m. Sunday Worship 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 452 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

FFamily Fa ami Fun Story Time for kids ages a birth through 5 takes place at the Sisters Library on Thursdays, August 1, 8 and 15 from 10:30 to 11 a.m., with songs, rhymes and crafts, all designed to grow young readers.

Caregivers must attend. Info: 541-617-7078.

Project Constellation

Calling all stargazers ages 6 to 11. Discover the stories behind the stars that map the night sky at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 7 at Sisters Library. No registration required. Call 541617-7078 for more information.

Universe of Crafts

All ages are welcome to join this journey around the world and into space through stories and crafts at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August 10 at Sisters Library. No registration required. Call 541617-7078 for more information.

Pajama Story Time

Stories and activities aimed at the early learning needs of birth to 5-year-olds. Pajamas optional! Sisters Library on Tuesday, August 13 at 6 p.m. No registration required. Info: 541617-7078.

The Nonfiction Book Club Read and discuss “West with the Night” by Beryl Markham with other readers at the Sisters Library on Thursday, August 15 at1 p.m. Info: 541-617-7078.

Yoga Nidra Workshop & Meditation

Kathy Durham will guide participants in meditation to aid insomnia, anxiety and other issues on Friday, August 16 at noon at the Sisters Library. Call 541-312-1063 for more info.

Ready for Kindergarten

A special storytime just for children entering kindergarten will include songs, crafts and more. Thursday, August 29 at 1:30 p.m. No registration required. Call 541-617-7078 for more info.

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Astronomy Club talk confronts vastness of cosmos Standing in a dark country meadow, staring up at a sky full of stars and the diaphanous glow of the Milky Way arching overhead, it is easy to feel small. Staring at pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, it is easy to be stunned by the effortless beauty of the cosmos. Faced with the knowledge that our planet is only one small speck among a hundred billion galaxies and a billiontrillion stars, it is easy to feel insignificant.

Shane Larson understands the feeling. Larson is a research associate professor of physics at Northwestern University, where he is the Associate Director of CIERA (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics). He works in the field of gravitational wave astrophysics, specializing in studies of compact stars, binaries, and the galaxy. He works in gravitational wave astronomy with both the ground-based LIGO project, and the future spacebased detector LISA. “…We live at a unique moment in human history,” Larson says. “We are the first humans to ever see a picture of the Earth, hanging against the darkness of the night. We are the first humans to ever

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know what lies on the surface of Mars, or behind the thick fog of Titan’s clouds.

We are the first humans to ever know that we are deeply connected to the stars themselves. It is easy to forget how hard it was to win that knowledge.”

Sisters Astronomy Club will present a public lecture on this topic by Professor Larson in the Sisters Public Library meeting room at 2 p.m., Saturday, August 10.

Larson grew up in eastern Oregon, and was an undergraduate at Oregon State University where he received his B.S. in Physics in 1991.

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“We are stardust, wrought into complex machines of atoms that are capable of pondering the Universe itself,” Larson notes. “When faced with the cosmic vastness, it is easy to forget how awesome it is that we can understand — that is the hallmark of our relationship with the cosmos.

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Angeline’s Live Music with Dennis McGregor and the Spoilers 7 p.m. Summer music in the backyard. $5 cover.

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Food Cart Garden at Eurosports Live Music with Paul Eddy Duo 5 to 7 p.m. Dogs, children & adults all welcome!

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Cork Cellars Live Music with Gabrial 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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Fir Street Park Sisters Farmers Market 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Every Sunday: fresh local produce, lunch, live music, & yoga.

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Sisters Saloon Open Mic Night 8 to 11 p.m. For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net.

Hardtails Bar & Grill Open Mic & Jam Night 7 p.m.

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Paulina Springs Books Music, Storytelling & Poetry Open Mic 6 p.m. First Monday of every month. For information call 541-549-0866.

Sisters Saloon Trivia Night 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sign-up is at 6:15 p.m. Free, every Tuesday! For additional information call 541-549-7427 or go to sisterssaloon.net.

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Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Art Show & Artists’ Reception 5 to 8 p.m. Many pieces are for sale!

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Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church Live Music with Dennis McGregor and the Spoilers 7 p.m. On the lawn under the tent. Cash and food donations accepted for Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank. Call 541-549-5831 for more information.

The Suttle Lodge & Boathouse Live Music with Bear Clouds & Lighters as Guns 6 to 8 p.m. Big Lawn Music series with food & beverages for purchase. For additional info call 541-638-7001 or go to thesuttlelodge.com.

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Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Country Fair & Art Show 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Music, food, games, book sale, country store, art sale and more! For info: 541-549-7087.

Hardtails Bar & Grill Live Music with Syster ’Skin’Nerd 8 p.m. All-female Skynyrd tribute band. For additional information call 541-549-6114 or go to hardtailsoregon.com.

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Obituaries Jack Milam

Barbara Jean Marshall

Jack Milam, 96, of Bend, Oregon, passed away July 22, 2019, at his residence.

A memorial service is being planned at Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Sisters, time yet to be announced. In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to the Humane Society of Central Oregon or Partners In Care Hospice of Bend.

John Dale Milam, known as Jack, was born in Topeka, Kansas, on October 4, 1922, to Morris Dale Milam and Emily Jean Milam. Jack had one older sister, Jean, and a younger sister and brother, Susie and Mose. He was a boy chorister and acolyte at Grace Cathedral in Topeka, and attended Topeka High School and the University of Kansas in Lawrence; at Lawrence he was also a lay reader at Trinity Episcopal Church. During his college years he joined the U.S. Navy and was trained as an officer at Berea College, Kentucky, and Columbia University, New York, before sailing to the South Pacific as an Ensign and then Lieutenant J.G. on an LST. He served four years in the Navy during World War II. When Jack returned from the war, he finished his college education at UCLA, where he met Charlotte Kiffe.

Jack and Charlotte were married on May 20, 1949. In the fall of 1950 Jack began teaching English at Downey High School in Downey, California, and that same week his first child, Deborah, was born. Four years later, in 1954, he obtained a master’s degree in education from the University of Southern California, and became the father of his second child, Drusilla.

After several years of teaching, Jack moved into administration at the school district office in Downey, first as supervisor of and then as coordinator of secondary instruction. He remained with the Downey Unified

Barbara was born in Amity, Oregon on July 9, 1933. She attended several elementary schools in Oregon and graduated From Gervais High School.

In her younger years she was a file clerk at the State Tax Commission in Salem. Husbands Stewart Marshall, Tom Rhoads, Gene Dagenhardt and Vern Catterson; her parents Henry and Rose Kirkwood; and her sister Cecelia and brother Richard precede her in death.

Barbara has five children: Tym (Ursula), Kathy (Dennis Levine), Teresa, Lynn, Jason (Judy); and nine step children: Mary, Vicki, Alan, Debbie, Barb, Donnie, Curt, Emily and Cassie.

She also has five grandchildren: Clint, Nicholas, Lorne, Keylee, and Adam; five great-grandchildren: Antonio, Cristina, Nestor, Tavin and Ryker. One great-great-granddaughter; Cecilia. Her nieces and nephews are Susan Hagen (Lyman), Jon McDermeit (Michelle), Connie Lopes, David Kirkwood (DeeDee), and Chris Marshall (deceased).

She lived in California with her first husband, Vern Catterson (father of Tym, Kathy and Teresa).

After Vern’s death in 1962 she moved back to Gervais where her parents lived. She married Gene Dagenhardt (Lynn and Jason’s father).

In 1970 they all moved to Central Oregon.

While living in Central Oregon she worked at Black Butte Restaurant for 17 years as the lead cook for breakfast and lunch. She even had a sandwich on the menu named after her, “The Dagenhardt” (turkey, cranberries and sprouts on whole wheat).

She lost her second and third husbands during this time (Gene Dagenhardt and Tom Rhoads). After leaving employment at Black Butte

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School District for the rest of his career. He was a popular administrator, sought-after for speaking at various district events. At the Milam family’s church, St. Mark’s Episcopal in Downey, Jack served as a lay reader, homilist, lay eucharistic minister, and senior warden, among other things. He also spent much time with Charlotte and the girls on vacations, hikes, and other family activities too numerous to name. He was always ready to lend a hand to friends and colleagues.

After Jack’s retirement, in 1991 he and Charlotte moved to Black Butte Ranch, where his sister Jean lived. He loved hiking in the forest. Jack and Charlotte also became active at Transfiguration Church in Sisters. They remained at Black Butte until they moved to assisted living in Bend in 2017.

Jack and Charlotte celebrated their 70th anniversary on May 20, 2019. They had a marriage that was a model for their children and grandchildren. When their daughters and grandchildren called to talk to Jack, and said, “I love you,” Jack always responded, “I love you more.” Those children and grandchildren say now, “We love you forever.”

Jack leaves behind his wife, Charlotte; two daughters, Debbie Berkley and Dru Winkle; five grandchildren, Peter Berkley, Mary Shadley, John Helton, Becky Clark, and David Helton; and eight great-grandchildren, Kaylin Ryan, Timothy Ryan, Elliot Berkley, Liam Ryan, Maddie Walsh, Alex Berkley, Beatrix Shadley, and Grover Shadley.

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Ranch, she worked at the Sisters School District for over 12 years. She then met her fourth husband, Stewart Marshall. When she retired from the school district, Stu and Barbara traveled all over the USA, as well as Germany, and went on numerous cruises.

Barbara valued all friends and family. She had many good friends. Her best friend from middle school remained her best friend for life. Donna preceded her in death by a year. She loved and was faithful to God and her Catholic faith. Her hobby was playing cribbage and other card games, working on puzzles, and traveling.

Barbara was considered by all to be one of the most generous, genuine, happy-go-lucky, loving persons known. She treated all with love and respect. She was the type of person who would do anything for you.

Her love was unconditional.

She also had a great sense of humor and appreciated a good laugh or joke. By her example she taught us all the balance of hard work and enjoying life. Life was not easy for Barbara, but she always looked for the good.

She didn’t waste time being angry and her attitude was “You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit.” Her love of family and friends were foremost in her heart.

She will remain an inspiration to her family. Though many may try, it will be hard to be half the person she was. It will be hard to fill her shoes.

Service will be at her long-time parish, St. Edwards, 123 Trinity Way Sisters, Oregon on August 3, at 10:30 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations to hospice are requested. Her hospice contact in San Diego is donna@ agiftkeepsgiving.com or you may mail donations to A Gift Keeps Giving, 450 E. Bradley Ave., #108 El Cajon, CA 92021.

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73-year-old Death investigation and his two underway in truck fire On July 19 the Deschutes Due to the late hour the dogs rescued County Sheriff ’s Office scene was held overnight to was notified by the allow investigators to work in after 4 days (DCSO) Central Oregon Interagency the daylight.

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Town Mountain will play on the Songbird Stage at Fir Street Park in Sisters Folk Festival’s free summer concert series on Thursday, August 1.

Bluegrass band to take Fir Street Park stage The bluegrass group Town Mountain will bring their raw, soulful swagger to Sisters on Thursday, August 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Sisters Folk Festival’s free summer concert series.

Town Mountain has earned raves for their harddriving sound, their in-house songwriting and the honkytonk edge that permeates their exhilarating live performances, whether in a packed club or at a sold-out festival.

The hearty base of Town Mountain’s music is the first and second generation of bluegrass, spiced with country, old school rock ‘n’ roll and boogie-woogie. It’s what else goes into the mix that brings it all to life — both on stage and on record — and reflects the group’s wideranging influences, from the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia and the ethereal lyrics of Robert Hunter to the honest, vintage country of Willie, Waylon, and Merle.

The Bend Bulletin’s Bri a n M cElhine y says Town Mountain, “has serious country and rock ’n’ roll DNA.” Town Mountain features guitarist and vocalist Robert Greer, banjoist Jesse Langlais, mandolinist Phil Barker, fiddler Bobby Britt, and Zach Smith on bass. Town Mountain’s latest album, “New Freedom Blues” is full of new material and features several guest artists including Tyler Childers (who co-wrote one of the songs), Sturgill Simpson, drummer Miles Miller and others.

For the summer series SFF encourages patrons to bring blankets and low-back chairs, as seating is not provided.

Picnics are encouraged.

The Fir Street Park venue is located in downtown Sisters at 150 N. Fir St. For SFF 2019 Summer Concert Series and artist information, and for information on 2019 Festival tickets, artists, schedules and becoming an SFF volunteer, visit www.sistersfolkfestival.org.

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Lake County Deputy Buck Maganzini said that the man was “out exploring” July 14 when his Jeep got stuck in a dry creek bed about 15 miles from the nearest paved road and he tried to hike out.

A mountain biker found the man July 18, nearly unconscious with one of his dogs by his side. Authorities found the Jeep and the second dog two days later using an aircraft.

Maganzini says the man had no food and very little water and was near death when found. He’s been released from the hospital, and his dogs are OK, too.

Dispatch Center of a truck fire near Mahogany Butte southeast of Bend.

USFS fire crews were on scene and extinguished the fire. A USFS law enforcement officer responded to the scene and later determined human remains were in the vehicle.

A DCSO deputy from the special services unit responded to the scene, along with DCSO detectives. DCSO was assisted at the scene by the Deschutes County Medical Examiner’s Office.

On July 20, detectives returned to the scene, along with an investigator from the Deschutes County Medical Examiner’s Office and an arson investigator from the Oregon State Police.

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BUSINESSES: EDCOsponsored event had a festive flair Continued from page 1

which provided some welcome shade. Some the Bend attendees rode the red Bend Trolley to Sisters and back.

Josie Johnson made her pitch for investors in her Josie’s Best Gluten Free Mixes (see related story page 17). Attendees then heard company updates from two other Sisters business and a keynote from Samuel Pyke of Hill Shadows Pictures (see related story, this page).

Dan Stewart and Christine Funk shared the story of company founder and master luthier Preston Thompson who passed away in April.

Six years ago Thompson was at an EDCO Pub Talk pitching for investors. He had no building, and was crafting guitars in his home.

In answer to his appeal, Craft3, a regional business that makes loans to businesses, families, and nonprofits in Oregon and Washington, and Mid-Oregon Credit Union stepped up and provided the loans that allowed Thompson to move into their present location on Main Avenue and hire artisans and craftspeople, which allowed Thompson to expand his business. They now have seven equity investors and a “woodshop on steroids,” according to Stewart.

They recently completed a $37,000 Masterpiece guitar, a special version of the usual $17,000-$23,000 Masterpiece. Regular Thompson guitars start at about $4,000 and go up from there. They are handcrafted every step of the way by a nine-member crew who Stewart described as highly skilled, independent, and self-motivated. There are currently 60 guitars in production and 68 in the cue, waiting to get in the shop.

Generally, a guitar will be in the cue for about five months, with production averaging four months.

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By Sue Stafford Correspondent

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Dan Stewart and Christine Funk shared the story of Preston Thompson Guitars at a gathering of business luminaries from across Central Oregon. special instrument with the vintage sound of the 1930s Martin D28, the gold standard for sound. Peter Rowan, who will be in town for the 2019 Sisters Folk Festival, is one of Thompson’s customers, as are a number of other well-known performers.

Inlay specialist Sima Haycraft has just been hired to join the team and they are currently looking for a set-up person.

Both Funk and Stewart issued multiple invitations to come for a visit and tour their workshop.

“Come and watch. It’s a heck of a lot of fun,” Stewart told the audience.

Jamie Eichman, chief operating officer for Laird Superfood, reported that the company is currently in a rapid growth phase since its founding in 2015 by the world-famous big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton. Sisters resident Paul Hodge, on vacation in Hawaii, met Hamilton and that’s how they ended up in Sisters.

The company’s motto is “Better Food Makes a Better World.” What began as Hamilton’s passion project to perfect his personal regimen grew into a dynamic, innovative brand with a mission to bring clean, simple, and thoughtfully formulated superfoods to the masses.

In 2018, the operation in Sisters had 37 employees. So far, in the first two quarters of 2019 they have hired an additional 34. Most of the jobs are middle-wage positions.

They are currently recruiting for a controller, customer service rep, and a project manager. Their second building is complete and they have

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“We are here in Sisters to create full-time, middle-wage jobs. We’re here to stay,” Eichman said.

Laird Superfood products are currently in a number of grocery stores and in Costco in California and Hawaii. They are establishing distribution centers in a number of locations, with their first international center in Canada. They have started installing hot beverage machines in a number of public places like hotel lobbies and at 7-11.

The Laird product line is growing rapidly, with one new product a month coming on line, like the addition of new creamer flavors. The mushroom products contain four different strains of mushrooms that can boost immunity, increase focus, and improve cognitive function.

As one of the fastest growing companies in the natural-foods arena, Laird Superfood’s offerings are environmentally sustainable, responsibly tested, and made with whole-food ingredients.

At last week’s EDCO Pub Talk, Sisters resident Josie Johnson, CEO and founder of Josie’s Best Gluten Free Mixes, explained her mission of redefining gluten-free foods.

She stressed that her gluten-free baking mixes really do provide classic tastes and textures, rather than the usual cardboard quality so many people object to in glutenfree products. She is intent on providing overall great products, not just “good for gluten-free.”

Johnson’s current lineup of products includes a gluten free (GF) pancake mix, a GF waffle mix, GF crepe mix, and GF muffin-and-more flour. The products are available in five-pound (retail) and 25-pound (food service) packages and can be found at Market of Choice across Oregon, Food4Less, Newport Avenue Market and Melvin’s, C.E. Lovejoy’s, and Central Oregon Locavore. They can also be found online at www.josiesbestgf.com and Amazon.

Not only is Josie’s Best gluten-free, it is also soyfree, nut-free, and GMO-free, which sets it apart from other gluten-free mixes.

The Original Pancake House in Bend is a loyal user of her products as well as

the Hyatt Hotel in Bellevue, Washington. Johnson reported that 90 percent of her foodservice customers used Bob’s Red Mill GF mixes before changing to Josie’s. Bob’s is their biggest competitor. All of their early success has been with Johnson as the only fulltime employee.

Johnson’s search for better GF products grew out of her own issues with gluten that showed up when she was in high school. She has been gluten-free for 20 years and she said that has changed her life.

According to Johnson, there are 32 million people in the U.S. who have food allergies, 5.6 million of them children under age 18. That means two children in every classroom are dealing with food allergies. In 2018, gluten-free was a $17.5 billion industry and is forecast to increase 9.1 percent a year through 2025.

Currently in development is a just-add-water pancake mix and a chocolate chip cookie mix. In three years Johnson is aiming to have frozen and packaged GF foods on the market.

Her pitch was for board members who can offer advice and people able to provide mentorship as the business grows and diversifies.

When asked what the Sisters community can do to help, Johnson answered, “Go out and buy our product and tell others about us.”

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Sam Pyke loves his niche in film industry

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Lifelong Sisters resident Samuel Pyke shared his passion for his work as the keynote speaker at last week’s EDCO Pub Talk (see story, page 1).

Pyke grew up in Sisters, graduated from Sisters High School, and went on to Oregon State University. He and his three brothers grew up watching movies with their father, a real movie buff. Three of the four boys have gone on to work in some aspect of the film/video industry.

One brother works on visual effects for movies, including Star Wars. Another brother produces documentaries “on the road.” Samuel’s Hill Shadow Pictures specializes in outdoor video for programs like Frontier Unlimited and other hunting and fishing shows.

Pyke also works with businesses to create videos that tell their stories. He looks for the idea behind the brand and tells the story to evoke emotions. In that way, the viewer can relate their lifestyle to what they see in the video.

He’s created incredible work for companies including Realtree, Camp Chef, Smith & Wesson, Discovery Studios, and many more.

He is particularly moved by stories about veterans out hunting and fishing, some of which he describes as “gutwrenching.” He has also filmed stories about children who have had their wishes granted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Pyke says once a year he donates what he calls a passion project.

His work has taken him all over the world from India to New Zealand to South Africa.

He enjoys the opportunities

that help him gain a global perspective of how things are done differently all over the world.

When asked what he considered his most successful project, he quietly replied, “The memorial project for my dad, who died in February.”

The best resource for storytelling? Pyke answered, “Listen. Everyone has stories. Listen to figure out what moves you. What got me and why?” He said art is about borrowing and changing it a bit.

Pyke likes to edit his own footage because he is always thinking about editing when shooting. His goal is to spend 80 percent of his time shooting and 20 percent editing.

Right now he says he spends too much time editing.

He has always been interested in the concept of story.

A 6-year-old who started with a camera, became the boy who dressed up in costumes to go to the movie theater. In the eighth grade he became serious about photography. His college major was communications. While in college he began working for his brother, who was already involved in the film industry. When it was offered, he took over his brother’s business. He was also a firefighter for five years somewhere along the way.

Another Sisters resident who worked in the industry with his gigantic boom cranes shooting overhead shots all over the world, Rick Johnson, gave Pyke a salient piece of advice. “Find a niche,” he said.

Pyke’s niche is outdoor videography. He counts himself fortunate to be able to work doing what he loves.

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County purchases Sisters building

By Sue Stafford Correspondent

Deschutes County now owns the building that houses the Deschutes County Sheriff’s administrative office that serves Sisters and the western part of the county, located on the corner of North Larch Street and West Barclay Drive (across from the post office).

Former owner and Sisters resident Jack Addison notified The Nugget last Friday that the papers had been signed, concluding the purchase of the 6,000-square-foot building for $1 million.

Addison made it very clear that “in no way does the sale affect the other two present commercial tenants of the building.” Black Butte Veterinary Clinic has been in that location for 20 years and they have five more years left on their current lease. With the addition of a new vet, the office is now open full-time.

Addison said, “It was a five-year effort to get MidOregon Credit Union to Sisters and I was especially grateful to get them, with their financial backing, to come to Sisters. A credit union operates differently from a bank and serves to complement the availability of loans in Sisters.”

According to Addison, it took a considerable monetary investment for Mid-Oregon to move into the building, with the installation of their ATM a major expense.

“I feel like Mid-Oregon is my gift to Sisters,” Addison offered.

A former fighter pilot, Addison has spent 50 years buying and selling real estate.

He is particularly proud of construction standards to which the building at 703 N. Larch St. is built. Features include clear-span trusses, special air-filtration system

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Deschutes County has purchased the building that houses the Sisters substation of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office. that meets residential standards, and a diesel-powered back-up generator.

The roof has special ice dam shields and the foundation is built to support a second story on the building. Two-by-six flooring is anchored to be earthquaketremor-resistant foundation and hurricane clips are holding the trusses on.

The sheriff’s office, on the west end of the building, isn’t currently using all their space. Deschutes County Administrator Tom Anderson indicated the extra space could house other County services for the western part of the County such as veterans’

outreach, health inspections, or mental health services.

The County owns buildings in Redmond, Bend, and La Pine that provide a variety of services and the Sisters purchase fills a gap that existed. County employees could be housed in the Sisters office rather than commuting from other locations to provide services in Sisters.

The purchase of the building, made with money from a reserve fund that is specifically for taking advantage of unexpected real estate opportunities, makes sense for the County in the long run as they will now be collecting rent rather than paying it.

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By T. Lee Brown Correspondent

Ever heard of the smash hit show “Unicorns Really are Real: The Story of How They Save the Earth from Global Warming”? Not yet, perhaps.

It just debuted in Sisters last Friday.

It was all part of Starshine Theater’s debut theater camp.

Director Jennie Sharp, known locally for the winter kids’ performances she directs in Camp Sherman, saw a need for hands-on theater experience in Sisters Country.

Options in Bend often present traditional shows in classes that go on for weeks or months.

Starshine uses a different model: kids explore and invent their own characters, assemble their own costumes, and help shape the show. It all takes place in five short days.

Students registered through Sisters Park & Recreation District. They rehearsed four days in a row at The Belfry, during their three-hour-long camp. They invented their characters and some plot points on the first day.

Then Sharp set about writing a script for them.

“I had a great time!” she said.

She said it was hard to fit so many characters into one play, but she had fun meeting the challenge. Sharp narrated the plot over a microphone, and helped kids remember their lines off-mic.

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This popular event has become an enjoyable way to savor the garden’s rich environment and a way for our gardeners and public to give back to the community of Sisters.

This year the musical headliner will be Skillethead, a local bluegrass

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Young actors took to the Songbird Stage at Fir Street for the debut of Starshine Theater.

“We have a big range of ages,” said Sharp.

The group accepted kids aged 4 to 8. Next week, Starshine will work with older kids in the 8-to-13 age bracket. They will create their own original show with Sharp’s guidance.

The public is invited to come see their performance free of charge on Friday, August 2 at 3 p.m. The play, as yet unnamed, will take place on the Songbird Stage at Fir Street Park.

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and Main, one block north of Cascade Avenue/Highway 20.

Sharp thanked The Belfry, SPRD, and the City of Sisters “for providing this amazing stage.” She also thanked middle-school student Addison Russell for her volunteer work as the camp’s stage manager, and local resident Rich Hummel for providing the sound system.

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are doing. We are really interested in the public’s take on who they are excited to see or maybe just discovered.”

On Thursday morning a group of more than 10 Heart of Oregon YouthBuild and young volunteers from AmeriCorps put their labors to use by helping build the stage and fencing for the Sisters Rhythm and Brews Festival.

Heart of Oregon YouthBuild is a Central Oregon non-profit that engages local opportunities for youth, ages 16-24. The youth are working toward completing their GED, high school diploma, or college credits while also learning work readiness skills through construction.

Yo u t h B u i l d p r o g r a m director Kara Johnson noted, “AmeriCorps volunteers are young people who have graduated high school or college that will receive scholarships after serving with us for a year.”

The volunteers work directly with YouthBuild youth helping them build houses or are in the classroom assisting as a teacher’s aide.

Americorps volunteer Sonya Templeton, a graduate from Oregon State University, manned the booth along with Johnson.

Templeton said, “My longterm goal is to go back and get my master’s degree in teaching. That’s the reason I applied for this position to be a teacher’s aide helping the kids at YouthBuild. It’s on the job training and I’m getting a feel for what it’s like to be teaching.”

Habitat for Humanity had a unit of lumber at the festival and asked people to pay $5 a stud to help build the next home. Folks could write a message of encouragement on the wood.

This year’s event had a couple of lastminute changes. Sassparilla was unable make it Friday night and Oregon Blues icon Walker T. Ryan stepped up to open the Festival in their stead.

Ryan said to the crowd, “Three days ago I was retired sitting by my pond communing with herons.

The legendary White Buffalo returned to Sisters with a potent set on Saturday.

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Music lovers danced and lounged at the Village Green venue for the Sisters Rhythm and Brews Festival.

Larkin Poe turned in a fiery performance on Saturday night at Sisters Rhythm and Brews Festival.

Then my friend David JacobsStrain called and asked me to play at a really cool gig and I’ve been practicing ever since.”

Artist Jacobs-Strain, from Eugene, who was in the lineup to play on Saturday, told The Nugget, “I learned the blues from Walker. I was 9 years old and saw him play when my parents took me to see him live at a local theater. He became my teacher.”

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that you’d be surprised about.”

JacobsStrain has appeared at festivals from British Columbia to Australia. He has been a regular on the blues circuit since he was 11 years old, but he’s really come into his own on recent albums. Also known for his fierce slide-guitar playing, he plays acoustic blues in the tradition of musicians like Bob Brozman and Dave Van Ronk.

Jacobs-Strain will be returning to the Sisters Folk Festival with Bob Beach in September.

The event welcomed back last year’s festival

favorite, Castro Coleman, AKA Mr. Sipp.

“Mr. Sipp is what brought me back to Sisters,” said Laura Ludlow from Portland.

Mr. Sipp, a native of McComb, Mississippi, was the winner of the 2014 International Blues Challenge (Band), the Albert King Gibson award, BMA Best New Artist Album winner 2016, and The Spirit of Little Walter Award 2016.

Artist Joanne Shaw Taylor was unable to close out the show Friday night because of visa difficulties.

Joe Rambo noted, “Luckily for us, after joining Phil Lesh & Friends for a night dubbed ‘Dead Blues’ and releasing his See MUSIC on page 29

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A feast of books

By Mac Hay Columnist

A soon as you finish this article, go to the website of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, edbookfest. co.uk, and peruse what is available this year in Edinburgh, Scotland from August 10-26. This year’s festival, the largest in the world with over 1,000 authors, launched its theme, the lineup of authors, speakers, thinkers for 2019.

This year being no exception, speakers from all over the world will be available for your pleasure, to hear, to chat and to mingle with 220,000 people like you who appreciate and are stimulated by great subjects and presenters.

It’s not too late to book your travel, as this correspondent has done.

As the festival’s website says: “Join us for creative, joyful, interactive experiences with the world’s finest writers and thinkers.

Whether you meet a hero you’ve always loved or find a new favorite, the Book Festival brings you everything that’s exciting, inspiring and refreshing in stories, ideas and words today.� “Stories are devices that help humans make sense of a complex world,� Book Festival Director Nick Barley said. “Whether we’re listening to scientists and politicians, myth-makers or poets, to understand the world around us ‘We Need New Storie’ — our theme this year.�

A huge bonus about heading to Edinburgh in August is experiencing the warmth and genuine friendliness of both locals and fellow visitors, making we tourists feel like locals immediately. The Scots are curious and interested in Americans, our lifestyle and politics. It’s always a pleasure to chat with the people you meet on trains, busses, pubs and events.

August is festival month in Edinburgh. The Fringe

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Walking the city with the bonus of an excellent local bus system easily gets you around this compact city of 500,000. The “Hop-on-Hop Off� city tour bus will give you an outstanding overview of Edinburgh. The famous Royal Mile includes the Castle, Scotland’s Parliament, the Whisky Experience, Holyrood Castle, scary Mary King’s Close, St. Giles Cathedral, numerous museums, pubs and restaurants. The Royal Botanic Garden, Rossylin Chapel of Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code� fame and the Royal Yacht Britannia are also popular attractions.

Local touring companies offer day trips to the Stirling Highland Games, Stirling Castle, St. Andrews for golf, Â Culloden, site of Bonnie Prince Charles defeat by the British in 1746. Â

Delta has direct flights from Portland, to London Heathrow; from there either get a connecting flight to Edinburgh (EDI) or take the train to Edinburgh — a pleasant four-hour way to combat jet lag, viewing the countryside. I encourage you to put this city, the festivals and events on your bucket list.

And get ready for this fall’s Sisters-scaled version of a book festival, inspired in part by the legendary Edinburgh event. The Sisters Festival of Books is a threeday celebration of the literary culture of Central Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, featuring local, regional, and national authors and occurring across multiple venues.

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Community members can drop off new school supplies during regular business hours and help students in need begin the school year well equipped for a successful year. Les Schwab Tire Center is located at 600 W. Hood Ave., open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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• Fiskars pointed scissors. • Crayola watercolor paints (cheaper, low-quality paints are not useable). • Yellow highlighters, pens, pencils, basic calculators, dry-erase markers, white erasers. • 12-count box Crayola colored pencils. • Backpacks are needed for all ages.

School supplies distribution for those in need will begin the week before school on August 26 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Sisters Family Access Network (FAN) office located inside the Sisters School District administration building at 525 E. Cascade Ave. Sisters FAN distributes school supplies to over 100 financially struggling students/families each year. Thank you for your donations for our local students.

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A long-awaited amenity...

PHOTO BY GARY GUTTORMSEN

Sisters Trails Alliance was happy to see the culmination of a longterm effort last week as a work crew installed a new permanent bathroom facility at the trailhead for the Whychus Overlook. The amenity replaces porta-potties at the popular destination on Forest Road 16 south of Sisters.

CRIME: Citizens have been keeping an eye out for activity Continued from page 1

simply observe and when they see something, immediately contact the sheriff’s office and let the deputies do their work. Don’t attempt to interfere.

There is a curfew for minors in Sisters, which is stricter than the state curfew of midnight to 4 a.m.

City ordinance says minors should be off the streets from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Parents need to be aware of the curfew, which is easily enforceable by sheriff’s deputies.

During visitor communication at the Council meeting, new resident John Markley expressed concern about the possibility of a vigilante mentality with the

current effort by a group of citizens who are out driving around in the middle of the night looking for taggers.

On a related topic, City Manager Cory Misley reported that City staff has undertaken an extensive evaluation of public safety in Sisters. They are currently gathering data, will conduct a survey of the public around safety issues, and are evaluating all options regarding community public safety.

The current contract with the DCSO expires June 30, 2020.

To report a crime or incident, call 541-693-6911.

There is also a sheriff ’s reporting page for graffiti at https://sheriff.deschutes. org/community/crime-pre vention/reporting-graffiti/.

For an emergency dial 911.

The Sisters substation is 541-549-2302.

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Women’s health services available Starting August 1, St. Charles Center for Women’s Health will see patients at the St. Charles Family Care clinic in Sisters.

Every Wednesday, a provider from the Center for Women’s Health office will be at the clinic to provide obstetric care, well-women exams, contraceptive management, menopause treatment and other services. The Center for Women’s Health has board-certified physicians, women’s health nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives who collaboratively work together to meet patients’ needs.

Offering the Wednesday appointments at the clinic is part of St. Charles’ effort to make obstetric and gynecologic services more accessible to women of all ages in Sisters, Black Butte, Camp

Sherman and throughout the region.

“Women may suffer from problems such as pelvic pain, irregular bleeding and bladder incontinence, but delay seeing a provider because they either feel this is ‘normal’ or they encounter barriers to accessing care,” said Tricia Clay, manager of clinic operations at St. Charles Center for Women’s Health. “As women age, it’s important they see a provider yearly for preventive exams and screenings, and to address concerns they have as they get older and approach menopause.”

Women seen in Sisters who need care beyond what can be provided at the clinic will be referred to the Center for Women’s Health in Redmond to see a boardcertified OB-GYN. Any surgical procedures needed can

be performed at St. Charles Redmond.

“We are so excited to expand our services to another location, making it more convenient for women to get access to the care they need,” said Dr. Beth Murrill, a board-certified OB-GYN. “We’re very much looking forward to connecting with and supporting the Sisters community.”

We are so excited to expand our services to another location, making it more convenient for women to get access to the care they need.

— Dr. Beth Murrill

Smoke drift...

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Smoke from southern Oregon crept over the Sisters. Escaped campfires are a big threat at this time of year and Sisters has had several that were put out quickly. Extreme care is needed in Sisters backcountry.

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Wednesday, July 31, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

Tales from a

Sisters Naturalist

by Jim Anderson

A hummingbird wannabe Well, Good People, hummingbird moths are in season. Yes, they can fool you; some people think they’re actually hummingbirds, while others don’t know what they are, as evidenced by an email I received the other day with the question, “What, pray tell, is this?”

But before we go into the what, why, where and when of hummingbird moths I gotta share one of the events that took place associated with them years back…

All through my professional life I have had the good fortune to work with young people, introducing them to various components of the Natural World around us. This really got started during the years I was staff naturalist for the

Tomato hornworm.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in Portland and when I started the Sunriver Nature Center — or as Bob Royston, the landscape architect called it, The Ecologium.

I was standing in the right place at the right time when the young person was not only ready and willing to learn, but was seeking a greater understanding of the world of Nature.

Take the Janelle Orsillo young lady who shot the hummingbird moth photo above. This came about while I was out on a North American Butterfly Association count with my wife, Sue, over in the Ochocos. Janelle came up to me and asked, “Jim, I would like to learn to take photographs of insects, can you help me?”

That sounded like a wonderful idea to me, so I got my camera rigged up with the close-up lens and we sat down in the shade of an aspen tree and started on the whys and wherefores of insect photography. Janelle is a very bright young lady and caught on quickly. We shot a couple of insects close by and I thought she was ready to go and away she went.

As we neared the end of the butterfly count route,

PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON

near Big Summit Prairie, I was about 50 yards from Janelle and her group of young people when I heard one of them exclaim, “Oh, look at the beautiful hummingbird!”

We were in the wrong place at the wrong time for hummingbirds, so I knew something was off-base. I happened to have my binocs around my neck so I focused in on the group. I watched as Janelle stooped over to see what someone was calling a hummingbird. Then, suddenly I caught an image of a brilliant sparkle of wings.

I didn’t know what they had going on, but it had to be something I had never seen in that spot before, so I hot-footed it over to them.

The closer I got the more that sparkling image began to become something more recognizable. Then, at about 10 feet from her I watched Janelle raise the camera and slowly move toward the subject.

She got closer and closer and by the time I arrived at the scene I could see a brandnew, freshly emerged clearwing hummingbird moth hovering in a flower blossom. My first instinct was to snatch the camera away from her and shoot that magnificent moth myself. After all, it was an insect I had never seen before— a “lifer” if you will.

But better judgement took over and I whispered, “Go get it dear heart! Shoot it!”

And she did. Oh boy! Did she ever! Every one of the images she put on the memory card of that old Canon was a winner. She’s a professional museum photographer today. I’ll always be grateful to her every time I look at those images.

So, lets talk for a little about hummingbird AKA sphinx moths: The one most noticeable

PHOTO BY JANELLE ORSILLO

Clear-wing hummingbird moth, aka hawk moth, aka sphinx moth. right now is the lined hummingbird moth, which occurs from Canada to Central America. They feed on a number of plants, and are one of the more colorful pollinators of a wide variety of wildflowers and domestic plants. Like most hummingbird moths, they don’t stay in one place very long, but zip between flowers pretty rapidly.

The caterpillar is very distinctive; it can be green or black and has a very obvious spike sticking up from the rear of the animal that looks pretty deadly.

But it’s not! It’s a device to scare off predators, and I’ve heard people exclaim about how deadly it looks, so that works to keep humans away,

as well.

The most obvious hummingbird moth larva is AKA the tomato hornworm.

It is very destructive to tomato plants and not at all enjoyable to find in one’s greenhouse or back porch tomatoes.

Be that as it may, our wild sphinx moths are beautiful to observe as they zip around in our flower gardens, or just plain old sagebrush and rabbitbrush backyard.

If you happen to come upon my favorite, the clearwing hummingbird moth, please send me a note and let me know when and where: Email jimnaturalist@gmail. com. If you want to include your photo, please, by all means, do so.

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The Nugget Newspaper Crossword

By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service

PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD

A fireplace installation at Camp Sisters.

CAMP SISTERS: Citizens restored Depressionera CCC structures Continued from page 5

maintenance supervisor, was a CCC enrollee in 1935, coming to Camp Sisters as part of a company from North Dakota. When he was discharged in March 1937 in North Dakota, he returned to Bend with two other former CCC boys to live and work.

Sadly, when the CCC program ended in 1942, Camp Sisters was abandoned. All the buildings were removed by a salvage company and the meadow returned to its natural state. However, the projects undertaken by the young men of the CCC remained as their legacy.

While at Camp Sisters, they completed, among others, the following projects: • Road construction to Three Creek Lake with improvements to the campground.

• Nine experimental plots and experimental station development at Pringle Falls.

• Seven miles of

forest trail built along Tumalo Creek 11 miles west of Bend.

• Amenity development along the Metolius River, at Suttle and Dark Lakes, and along the Santiam and McKenzie highways.

Those amenities included outdoor kitchens with fireplaces, cupboards and cooking units, tables and benches, and toilets and garbage pits for picnicking and camping by the public.

In 2006-2008, local citizens restored the CCCconstructed shelters along the Metolius to once again be used by the public.

The work accomplished by the CCC companies at Camp Sisters made it possible for the public to get to and enjoy many of the beautiful recreation areas on the Deschutes National Forest, because of the many miles of road they built and the improvements made to camp sites. They also helped curb the pine beetle and fire damage to the ponderosa pine, on which the local loggers and sawmills depended. Along the way, they learned valuable skills and life lessons.

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C L A S S I F I E D S

ALL advertising in this newspaper is 101 Real Estate subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such 5 acres, borders forestry, preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes beautiful custom 1-story children under the age of 18 living home (2,018 sq. ft.), huge shop, with parents or legal custodians, MLS 201904472, $540,000 pregnant women and people securing 16443 Spunky Dr., A&A Realty, custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowingly Tracy Duncan, Licensed Oregon accept any advertising for real estate Realtor, 541-480-0346. By appt. which is in violation of the law. Our HEATED CAR STORAGE readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this Gated, w/clubroom & car wash. newspaper are available on an equal Purchase or Lease Option. opportunity basis. To complain of 541-419-2502 discrimination call HUD toll-free at For Sale By Owner $145,000.

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The toll-free telephone number for the hearing Build your dream home on this impaired is 1-800-927-9275. beautiful 2.5-acre very private CLASSIFIED RATES and quiet corner lot in the desired COST: $2 per line for first insertion, Squaw Creek Canyon Estates. $1.50 per line for each additional Septic has been approved and insertion to 9th week, $1 per line 10th week and beyond (identical community water and utilities are ad/consecutive weeks). Also included at the lot line. Please call in The Nugget online classifieds at no 541-588-2299 for more info. additional charge. There is a 70260 Mustang Dr., Sisters minimum $5 charge for any classified. First line = approx. 20-25 HAVE A characters, each additional line = PROPERTY TO SELL? approx. 25-30 characters. Letters, Advertise it in The Nugget spaces, numbers and punctuation = 1 character. Any ad copy changes will 102 Commercial Rentals be charged at the first-time insertion rate of $2 per line. Standard MINI STORAGE abbreviations allowed with the Sisters Storage & Rental approval of The Nugget classified 506 North Pine Street department. NOTE: Legal notices placed in the Public Notice section 541-549-9631 are charged at the display advertising Sizes 5x5 to 15x30. 7-day access. rate.

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581 N. Larch – 7-Day Access CATEGORIES: 101 Real Estate 102 Commercial Rentals 103 Residential Rentals 104 Vacation Rentals 106 Real Estate Wanted 107 Rentals Wanted 200 Business Opportunities 201 For Sale 202 Firewood 203 Recreation Equipment 204 Arts & Antiques 205 Garage & Estate Sales 206 Lost & Found 207 The Holidays 301 Vehicles 302 Recreational Vehicles 401 Horses 402 Livestock 403 Pets 500 Services 501 Computer Services 502 Carpet Upholstery Cleaning 503 Appliance Repair & Refinish 504 Handyman 505 Auto Repair 600 Tree Service & Forestry 601 Construction 602 Plumbing & Electric 603 Excavations & Trucking 604 Heating & Cooling 605 Painting 606 Landscaping & Yard Maint.

701 Domestic Services 702 Sewing 703 Child Care 704 Events & Event Services 801 Classes & Training 802 Help Wanted 803 Work Wanted 901 Wanted 902 Personals 999 Public Notice

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Black Butte SchoolBlack is recruiting Anderson Perry &Anderson Associates, Butte School isADVERTISEMENT recruiting ADVERTISEMENT Perry & Associates, Street, FORInc., BIDS1901 N. FirInc., 1901LaN. Fir Street, La pool. Maintenance pool. Maintenance workers CITY workers OF SISTERS, OREGON Grande, Oregon CITY OF SISTERS, OREGON Grande, Oregon are needed for current HOODand/or AVENUE NORTH Anderson Perry &Anderson Associates, HOOD AVENUE NORTH Perry & Associates, areand/or needed for current future vacancies. PT.future Duties ALLEY WATER LINE Inc., 2659 S.W. 4thInc., Street, Suite ALLEY WATER LINE vacancies. PT. Duties 2659 S.W. 4th Street, Suite include light maintenance, IMPROVEMENTS - 2019 200, Redmond, IMPROVEMENTS - 2019 Oregon 200, Redmond, Oregon includerepair, light maintenance, repair, ers, Pageant Manners, Training, Pageant Training, and groundskeeping.and groundskeeping.

City of Sisters, Oregon Anderson Associates, City of Sisters, OregonPerry &Anderson Perry & Associates, hrs/$49. Call Karee 3 hrs/$49. Call Contact Karee Shawn Russell E. Cascade Avenue / Cascade Inc.,Avenue 214 E. / Birch Inc., Street, Walla 520 E. 214 E. Birch Street, Walla Contact Shawn520 Russell 719-0050 for brochure 541-719-0050at srussell@blackbutte.k12.or.us for brochure P.O. Box 39 Walla, P.O. Box 39Washington Walla, Washington at srussell@blackbutte.k12.or.us or 541-595-6203 for more info.

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LOCAL ART: Format change opens up fair art show Continued from page 3

For 2019 The Art Show newly includes painter Sylvia Avenius-Ford, potter Diane Miyauchi, pastel artist Norma Holmes, watercolorist Sue McLaughlin, photographer Conrad Weiler and collage artist Linda Wolff.

An artists’ reception is set for Friday, August 9, from 5 to 8 p.m.

The Art Show and Country Fair continues on Saturday, August 10, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the Art Show/Sale, the Marketplace, and more silent auctions. The Country Store offers homemade preserves, fresh produce, candy, pies, cakes, home-baked breads and cookies, potted plants, and handmade craft items.

The Good Book store offers a great selection of gently read books.

The Sweet Tooth Booth dishes up famous homemade marionberry cobbler with ice cream.

Face painting, a bouncy castle, children’s games, cake walks, fire truck tours and animals can be followed by hamburgers and hot dogs, coleslaw and chips at the Café Transfig.

All proceeds go back to the Sisters community through donation to various community organizations.

All funds earned at this event are distributed to community support agencies including Family Action Network, Kiwanis Food Bank, Neighbor Impact, Sisters Habitat for Humanity, Healthy Beginnings, Bethlehem Inn, Circle of Friends, and Saving Grace.

The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration is at 68825 Brooks Camp Rd, at the corner of Hwy 242 just west of Sisters. Admission and parking are free! Information: 541-549-7087

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Easy ways to be sustainable in the garden

By Kym Pokorny Oregon State University Extension Service

CORVALLIS – In the midst of the gardening season, you may want to think about how you can be kinder on the environment – and your wallet, too.

“Everyone can be sustainable,” said Ross Penhallegon, a horticulturist for Oregon State University Extension Service. “If you use drip irrigation, you’re doing your part to save this resource. If you take leaves and make compost and put that compost in the soil, we’ve won.

Penhallegon shares these tips for being more sustainable in the garden:

• Instead of putting yard debris in the recycling cart, start a compost pile. If a hot compost pile (http://bit.ly/ OSUcompost) seems overwhelming or too time-consuming, use the cold composting method, where you throw yard debris in a pile and wait until it breaks down in a year or more. Composting keeps all the nutrients stored in yard debris in your garden on site and feeds the soil. It also saves you money since buying compost isn’t necessary.

• Switch from standard sprinklers to drip irrigation or soaker hoses. You can reduce your water use by up to 80 percent. Also, consider using drought-resistant plants to

save water – for your wallet as well as the environment (see http://bit.ly/OSUplantlist).

Another publication – Conserving Water in Your Yard and Garden (http://bit.ly/ OSUconservewater) – offers additional ways to save water.

• Plant larger seedlings, which will fend off pests and diseases better than small ones, making it easier to control problems without using pesticides.

• Save seeds of your healthiest plants, which is a fun way to see what develops the next year. If they turn into healthy plants, that will mean less problems. Saving seeds also saves you money. Find out more in the Extension

article Seize some seeds from the garden for planting next year (http://bit.ly/OSUseeds).

• Practice Integrated Pest Management (IPM), which uses the least-toxic methods for controlling pest and disease problems while minimizing risks to the environment, humans, animals, pollinators and other beneficial insects.

Some easy ways to use IPM are to manage pests by squishing them, washing them off with a strong spray of water, using fabric cloth and planting plants that attract good bugs to help take care of the bad ones (learn more about IPM at http://bit.ly/OSUfightbugs).

If you must use a pesticide, use a low-toxicity one.

Oregon liquor license cost raised for 1st time in 70 years SALEM (AP) — The cost of a liquor license in Oregon is going up for the first time in 70 years after newly passed legislation doubled the amount the agency will charge bars, restaurants, breweries and wineries for the right to sell alcohol to customers.

The law moves Oregon’s liquor fees from among the cheapest in the nation to just below the national average for such fees, but the agency says getting on a par with other states was not the motivation.

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) wants to use the new revenue to move

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its license renewal process online, deal with the increase in applications statewide as the population grows and create a more efficient, two-year renewal option.

“Our fees were set in 1949, as far as we know, back when bread was 10 cents a loaf,” said OLCC spokesman Matthew Van Sickle.

Starting Oct. 1, a full liquor license will be $800, up from $400, and winery or brewery license fees will increase from $250 to $500.

OLCC’s revenues from distilled spirit sales and beer and wine privilege taxes,

forecast at more than $1.5 billion for 2019-21, are the thirdlargest source of revenue for the State of Oregon.

The increase in licensing fees is projected to raise an additional $9 million for the 2019-21 biennium.

The agency processes an average of 454 new licenses a year, adding to a load of more than 18,000 active licenses.

Another goal for the new revenue is increased stings where the State sends in underage people to attempt to purchase alcohol at licensed establishments. The Legislature sets the benchmark

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for compliance, recently raised from 80% to 90%.

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into their house. The future homeowners attend classes and earn sweat equity hours by working at the Thrift Store, ReStore and working on their house. Nancy spent time painting her home during Women Build Week and Roberto would often be at the house at the end of his work day working on various projects.

Sisters Habitat for Humanity is an option for qualified families to achieve strength, stability and the independence they need to build a better life for themselves and their families.

Those interested in homeownership or the Sisters Habitat home repair program can visit www.sistershabitat.org and review the qualification guidelines, or call the Habitat office at 541-549-1193.

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Thankk you tto th Th the amazing i community it we call home!

To the fire hall and firefighters who shared their space with us for the weekend.

To Angeline Rhett and the rest of the Rhett family who went above and beyond to accommodate artists, transport, assist with setup and teardown and be a shoulder to cry on if needed. Bill Moss, JJ Jones, Jon Fox and The Heart of Oregon for transporting everyone safely to and fro.

Thank you to Kerry Prosser and Shawn Diez for welcoming folks and managing volunteers. All the entry gate folks scanning with a smile. Roise Dahms and Katie Diez for being the green room queens. To Meghan Flaherty, Heather Walden, Lynn Bancroft, Mardy Hickerson, Teresa and Chris for holding down the fort in the gazebo. Ara and Michelle for amazing vendor coordination and backstage traffic flow.

David Jacobs Strain, the stage-managing king!

Jim Goodwin, Katie Cavanaugh and Jim Cornelius for pumping up the crowd.

Elias Munro, the volunteer of the year, what a great addition to the team!

Jimmy Miller and Chance Dahms, on opps, we wouldn’t do it any other way.

Drew and Erin from the Trail Stop, the Porch and Sisters Meat and Smokehouse, thanks for feeding us all!

To all our sponsors, volunteers, friends and family thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

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Scientists warn Oregon is lagging in disaster preparedness Legislature fails to approve hemp commission

By Sarah Zimmerman Associated Press

SALEM (AP) — Oregon state lawmakers abandoned a multimillion-dollar project to develop early warning systems for earthquakes and wildfires, and scientists warn that the funding shake-up could endanger public safety and put Oregon further behind other West Coast states in preparing for natural disasters.

Researchers were shocked when nearly $12 million to expand ShakeAlert and AlertWildfire — early warning systems to help detect significant earthquakes and wildfires — unexpectedly went up in smoke last month, just days before the end of the legislative session. Money for the projects was included as part of a larger funding package, but was stripped in a lastminute amendment.

Disaster preparedness has continually been a focal point as western states are poised to enter the hottest and driest months of wildfire season.

And two massive earthquakes in remote areas of Southern California this month reminded the public it’s only a matter of time before the next destructive quake hits.

“We don’t know when the next big earthquake or wildfire will strike, but we know it will happen at some point,” said Douglas Toomey, a seismologist and earth sciences

professor at the University of Oregon who helps run both early warning detection systems. And Oregon is “woefully” unprepared, he said.

Gov. Kate Brown, who included the $12 million in funding for the projects in her proposed budget last year, has told reporters the decision not to expand the early detection systems was one of the “biggest disappointments” of this year’s legislative session.

ShakeAlert and AlertWildfire are designed to detect natural disasters as they start and alert responders and the public before significant damage occurs. They are managed by a consortium of public universities and funded through state, federal and private partnerships.

In Oregon, the programs are in the initial phases and need significant state investments to expand to a point that they’ll be useful to the public, Toomey said.

AlertWildfire is a system of cameras stationed in some of the most remote and fire-prone parts of Oregon, Nevada and California. It has provided critical information to first responders in over 600 fires during the past three fire seasons, allowing firefighters in some cases to contain blazes before they spiral out of control.

ShakeAlert, meanwhile, is a sensor system being built out across California, Oregon

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and Washington. The sensors pick up on faster-moving but less-damaging energy waves that emerge during the start of an earthquake. They can then sound the alarm before the stronger, more destructive secondary wave, giving people seconds or minutes to prepare depending on the size of the earthquake and their distance from the epicenter.

Other western states have thrown significant cash behind the two systems, allowing them to build out hundreds of earthquake sensors and wildfire cameras.

Cities and states need at least 75 percent of their earthquake sensors in place before officials can begin alerting the public through the ShakeAlert app.

Los Angeles became the first U.S. city to make the app available in January. The system could be sending alerts to the rest of California by the end of the year thanks to a $16.3 million investment from state lawmakers.

Additional emergency management funds also have allowed California to expand its use of AlertWildfire, and the state is expected to install 200 to 300 new wildfire cameras by October.

Washington’s ShakeAlert system could be ready by October 2020, and the state contributed $1 million this year to enhance the network.

Meanwhile, only three

wildfire cameras have been installed in Oregon, and the state still has to build over 100 more earthquake sensors before alerts can be sent through ShakeAlert.

Without any additional money from the state, ShakeAlert will remain dependent on federal funds.

That could mean the system won’t be online until 2021 at the earliest — far later than Oregon’s neighboring states.

State lawmakers didn’t specify why funding for ShakeAlert and AlertWildfire was abandoned, but it’s common for last-minute funding shake-ups to happen based on available resources, according to the office of Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, who chairs the legislative committee in charge of funding decisions.

Lizzy Atwood Wills, chief of staff to Steiner Hayward, said ShakeAlert and AlertWildfire were some of the many projects not to receive funding this year.

Investments are prioritized “within the limited resources available,” she said.

Toomey said he still doesn’t understand why it wasn’t considered a priority, saying the money would have created jobs and attracted additional federal matching funds besides possibly saving lives.

“It feels like the State is demoting public safety,” he said. “There are lives at stake here.”

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The East Oregonian reported Friday that the proposal for a commission to raise research funds for Oregon’s hemp industry failed to pass the Joint Ways and Means Committee in June. The committee approves budget measures in each legislative session; a similar proposal was rejected by the committee two years ago.

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MUSIC: Last-minute changes in line-up worked for festival Continued from page 19

new album ‘Off at 11,’ contemporary blues phenom JD Simo packed up his gear and flew across the country to get here in time.”

Simo was a hit for Walt Lewis from Boise, Idaho. He grew up in Chicago listening to the blues.

“My wife and I really loved JD Simo. He seemed to channel so many blues greats throughout his act!” he said.

Simo brought down the house, closing the first night of Sisters Rhythm and Brews Festival.

From Issaquah, Washington, Bruce Fish took a couple of days off for the festival to hear Larkin Poe. He said, “I saw them in Seattle and they’re good old blues even with some of the new stuff they write. They are a variety of blues and I love the way Megan (Lovell) plays slide guitar.”

Larkin Poe stars sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, who began their career in 2005 as teenagers with their bluegrass/Americana group, The Lovell Sisters. They are an American roots rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, featuring strong Southern sibling harmonies and heavy electric guitar riffs.

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram blew the doors off to close the festival, bringing up fellow guitarslingers Eric Gales and Mr. Sipp

for crowd-pleasing extended blues jams.

Jennifer Rambo said, “I think the thing that means the most to me is the feedback we have gotten from the artists and crew. They are taking time out of their lives to be here for us. Many of them thanked us to be here and appreciate our professionalism. Joe and I wanted our musical tastes to be expressed, and knowing that the artists were impressed and excited to be a part of this experience is fantastic.”

She reflected on some changes made for this year’s festival — changes that paid off. The festival went to a single venue at Village Green, and they offered single-day tickets as well as weekend passes. There were more than 1,200 ticket-buyers, not counting walk-ups.

“Having one venue certainly helped us run a tighter ship,” Rambo said. “We stretched ourselves too thin last year… Through all the hard work, tears, and laughter at the end of the day knowing we put on a good show for the ticket-holders and artists combined is a pretty epic feeling.”

BOOK CLUB: Program will ‘bridge divide’ among viewpoints Continued from page 3

Books will be selected by Jacobson and a professional moderator to represent differing points of view on a variety of challenging political and cultural subjects.

“It will very specifically not shy away from the difficult discussions,” Jacobson said.

The sessions will encourage vigorous but collegial discussions.

“Of course further discussion is encouraged,” Jacobson said. “Go grab a beer at the saloon afterward…”

In fact, that is a desirable outcome — getting to a point where people can get past sound bites and memes and slogans and really talk with each other about often complicated issues. Jacobson notes that delving into books encourages greater depth of understanding and discourse.

“You’re not getting shown those complexities in a threeminute thing on whatever cable news you’re watching,” he said.

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“This is not meant to change anybody’s mind,” the bookseller noted, but rather to “illuminate things that people might miss when they’re in their echo chambers.”

The first book on the curriculum is a means of laying the groundwork for what Jacobson hopes will be an ongoing Sisters cultural institution. It is titled “Think Again: How to Reason and Argue.” The publisher notes that author Walter SinnottArmstrong “says there is such a thing as a ‘good’ argument: Reasonable arguments can create more mutual understanding and respect, and even if neither party is

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convinced by the other, compromise is still possible.”

“As much as they hoot and holler about stuff, I think people really do want these discussions, and when you have it in an environment where they don’t feel like they’re walking into a trap, they’ll engage with it,” Jacobson said.

The survey will be available this week either on the paulinaspringsbooks.com web site or by emailing Jacobson at Lane@paulinasppringsbooks.com. The selected members will be notified by Monday, August 19, and the first session will be scheduled for mid-September.

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LOGGING: Project is part of broad program on Sisters forests

area was hit hard by mountain pine beetle infestation and the 2012 Pole Creek Fire, leaving dense areas of standing dead trees.

“This is where the fire was stopped or held for Pole Creek,” Orange noted.

A commercial firewood sale is bid out exactly like any other timber sale, Orange and Elpi explained. Prior to the Pole Creek Fire, the area was a popular site for public firewood cutting. Orange explained why the Forest Service decided to bid the project out as a commercial sale rather than opening up the area for public cutting.

“We can regulate slash cleanup; we can regulate stump heights; we can regulate safety of cutting near one of our busiest roads,” he said.

The project is designed to minimize impact on the landscape. The sale requirements allow for only 20 percent of the sale area to be disturbed by logging operations. The project area runs to a depth of 1,000 feet from Road 16.

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the area.

Sisters Ranger District Timber Sale Manager Steve Orange explained that the current effort is “removing large amounts of dead fuel adjacent to one of the busiest recreation roads on the District.”

Forest Road 16 leads from Sisters to Three Creek Lake.

Orange also notes that “providing quality firewood — and forest products generally — is something that is an asset to the community.”

A side-effect of the project is that it opens up some impressive mountain vistas west of the roadway.

The project, which allows cutting of lodgepole up to 21 inches in circumference, is part of an overall effort to improve ecological health and reduce wildfire risk along that corridor. Lodgepole pine in the

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The Melvin Butte Project on the Sisters Ranger District has opened up vistas along Forest Road 16, removing lodgepole timber and providing for better conditions to fight potential wildfire.

There is a detailed plan lining out how far apart skidding trails have to be and there are only three landings along the 2.5-mile stretch where logs are stacked to be limbed and bucked for hauling.

“I’m skidding a long, long ways,” Elpi said.

Elpi is operating a twoman crew “when it’s not me, myself and I,” hauling the logs to the two-acre Sisters Forest Products woodlot along Highway 126 where they will be processed into firewood.

While the current work is a straight commercial sale, Elpi said he particularly enjoys working on stewardship projects, where the focus can include restorative efforts as well as timber cutting.

“If you go back in history, he said, stewardship forestry dates back to Europe in the Middle Ages,” he said.

The object was to maintain forests as a sustainable resource for wood and for hunting and recreation (then, of course, restricted to the nobility).

“We as a people benefit more from stewardship than

from timber sales,” Elpi said.

Orange said that the Deschutes National Forest produced about 44 million board feet of timber last year, about evenly divided between timber sales and stewardship projects.

“That being said,” he

noted, “Sisters has favored stewardship over the past decades.”

A variety of stewardship projects based on improving ecological health and reducing fire risk have been conducted in a sweeping arc from the west to the south of Sisters.

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