Wednesday, February 18, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Equestrian group takes on highway cleanup
Filing
deadline for
school board
positions is
march 19
By diane goble
Correspondent
Mustang horses Duncan
and Otter helped clean up
the highways and byways
between Sisters and
Redmond.
A volunteer crew from
Mustangs to the Rescue
(MTTR) filled yellow trash-
bags along Highway 126
last weekend, which Oregon
Department of Transportation
(ODOT) trucks will pick up
during the week.
Kate Beardsley, execu-
tive director of the local non-
profit located on Cloverdale
Road, said this is one of the
many service projects her
volunteers participate in as
their way of giving back to
the community that supports
MTTR’s mission. They have
been hoping to do this project
for a while and just needed
someone with the passion to
make it happen.
That someone is Lene
Banke-Fornalski, who
arranged for their Adopt-a-
Highway mile (100 to 101)
with ODOT. The volunteers
watched a safety video from
ODOT, and once a month
a crew will go out and pick
up all the trash people mind-
lessly toss out their car
On Tuesday, May 19,
Sisters will elect four board
members to fill seats on the
Sisters School Board.
Position No. 2, a two-year
unexpired term, is up for
election, along with Position
No. 5; and Position No. 3 and
Position No. 4, both carry-
ing a four-year term, are also
open.
Each candidate for
office must file a declara-
tion of candidacy or petition
for nomination for office
with the County Clerk of
Deschutes County, Oregon,
not later than the 61st day
before the date of the regu-
lar district election. The fil-
ing deadline is 5 p.m. on
March 19.
Filing forms are avail-
able at the Deschutes County
Clerk’s office, 1300 N.W.
Wall St., Suite 202, Bend,
and online at www.deschutes.
org/clerk.
photo by diane Goble
mustang horses pitched in on litter cleanup with the folks from mustangs to the rescue. They have adopted a
stretch of Highway 126 east of Sisters.
windows.
homeowners with a lot of pine and loves everything about
Board member Sandy needles to rake every year.” horses. She was going to col-
Mayernick said, “We choose
Jack Homeyer says he lege in California, but after
this project because we don’t volunteered for this project her visit to MTTR this past
just care about horses, we as his “way of giving back, summer she decided this was
care about the environment protecting the environment, where she wanted to be. She
and want to protect it as well.” making the world a better does training and helps reha-
They are also able to sepa- place, and increasing recogni- bilitate abused and neglected
rate out recyclable materials tion of MTTR.” His wife, Pat, horses. She was there on
by putting them in Duncan concurred and added, “And Highway 126 in the shadow
and Otters panniers, the they are all such nice people of the Three Sisters picking
packs the two former Ochoco to work with.” She says the up trash because she loves
Mountain wild mustangs “land and the animals are the land and the animals and
carry across their backs.
voiceless, and I get involved wants to serve them.
“They are working ani- because I want to give them
For more information
mals,” Myernick said, “and a voice.”
contact volunteer coordi-
we want people to see how
Anwen James, who is nator Angela Runk at 541-
they could be assets to ranch- Beardsley’s niece, has been 480-3540 or volunteer@
ers and farmers, even to around horses all her life mustangstotherescue.org.
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