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Wednesday, January 21, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters grad nears
Gonzaga mile record
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
GraphiC by Chris mayes
an elevation depicting a future assisted living center in sisters.
APPROvAl: Commission
vote was unanimous
in favor
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chance for public comment.
There was no public commen-
tary offered at the commission
hearing on the application.
The 77,000-square-foot
facility will include 82 pri-
vate-residence rooms. Each
room will have a door to the
common area, and a door to
the outside. The common area
will include a dining facil-
ity, a chapel/theater, a fitness
center, a library and laundry
facilities.
The exterior will include
a series of 13 individually
themed landscaped gardens
with water features.
Both the gardens and the
individual outside access are
optional features added by
ALF developer Mark Adolf.
They are included to fit with
the more active outdoor life-
style of Central Oregon resi-
dents of all ages. The moni-
tored exterior doors from each
room add to the fire safety of
the residents.
In keeping with its down-
town commercial zoning,
there will not be parking
lots between the street and
the building. The primary
entrance will be off Public
Way — a street that is mapped
on the city’s master plan, but
not yet completed between
the post office and the north-
ern boundary of the ALF com-
plex. There will be a second
entrance off Larch Street.
A similar project has been
on the books for several years
for the property on McKinney
Butte just east of and adjoin-
ing Sisters High School. The
Agenda
Sisters City Council
520 E. Cascade Ave.
January 22, 6 p.m.
Joint workshop — Sisters
City Council/Community
Assets Committee
1. Community Assets
Committee update.
2. Other business.
Regular meeting
7 p.m.
• Staff report: Deschutes
County Sheriff’s Office.
McKinney Butte project was
to include low-maintenance
senior housing off McKinney
Butte, an assisted-living com-
plex in the center of the prop-
erty, and low-income housing
at the north end of the prop-
erty. The ALF drawings for
the Carpenter property are for
the most part identical to the
McKinney Butte project plans.
The developers of the
McKinney Butte project
included Mark Adolf and a
group of local developers rep-
resented by Bill Willitts. At
that time, the plan for the ALF
was also to include a senior
center to be donated to Sisters
by the developers.
With the Carpenter prop-
erty development, the status
of the McKinney Butte proj-
ect is unclear.
In his first outing at a
collegiate runner, Brandon
Pollard entered the record
books for Gonzaga University
when he ran 4:10.6 in the
indoor mile to become the
fastest frosh of all-time for
the Bulldogs. His time was
the second-fastest ever for a
Bulldog miler indoors.
Running in the University
of Washington Preview Meet
in Seattle, Pollard surprised
even himself with how good
he felt as the race progressed.
“I just kind of hung on
with the lead pack of my heat
and with a lap to go (300
meters) I felt really good
and went into second place
and kept a fast kick to make
4:10,” he said.
Two other runners well-
known to Pollard, Brett
Willyard of Seaside High
School and Travis Neuman
of Summit High, sophomores
who both now compete for
the University of Oregon,
ran in a different heat and
ran 4:10.06 and 4:10.89
respectively.
“It felt good to know I ran
up there with those guys and
now I have a new goal to get
down to 4:05-4:06 so that I
can own the overall school
record,” Pollard said. “I have
set a high bar for myself for
the rest of the season, so I just
hope to stay consistent and
keep running good times.”
Pollard is no stranger at
meeting high standards. He
is the school record holder at
Sisters High School for 800
and 1,500 meters and won
the state title in the 800 and
placed second in the 1,500 at
the 4A state meet last May.
... I felt really good
and went into second
place and kept a fast
kick to make 4:10.
— Brandon pollard
Pollard is one of four for-
mer Outlaws competing col-
legiately in track this season.
Taylor Steele is a senior at
Whitworth College, Hayley
Palmer is a senior at Pacific
University, and Zoe Falk is a
freshman at Northern Arizona
University.
Looking for good news?
Council business:
A. Public Hearing and
Consideration of Resolution
No. 2015-01: Adopting a sup-
plemental budget.
B. Accept public improve-
ments for Pine Street
Commons.
C. Accept public improve-
ments for Three Creek
Brewing.
D. Merit increase for the
city manager.
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