Maxwell family
breaks ground page 6
Jelen painting selected
for MOTH poster page 7
The Nugget
Vol. XXXVIII No. 11
Seed-to-Table Program
sprouts again page 17
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News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Cooking fire destroys Sisters home
Sisters Residents Jeff
and Gina Kendall narrowly
escaped their burning home
Sunday afternoon when a pan
being used to cook French
fries ignited on the stove. The
residents told fire department
personnel that the pan caught
on fire and then the cabinets
caught on fire. Jeff and Gina
were able to evacuate the
home and run to the house
across the street and call 911.
The home was located at 703
S. Ash St. in Sisters.
The Sisters-Camp
Sherman Fire District
received the call for a pos-
sible structure fire at 12:30
p.m. Sunday. First arriv-
ing fire units found a 1975
double-wide manufactured
home fully involved with fire.
Flames were extending to
large pine trees and adjacent
outbuildings. Firefighters
quickly deployed hose lines
to prevent the spread of fire to
adjacent structures and extin-
guished the home. Twenty-
one firefighters with Sisters-
Camp Sherman Fire District
were assisted by Black
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Permit No. 15
City to
reverse
back-in
parking
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Johnson said, “The fire com-
pletely engulfed the home in
Back-in parking is backing
out of the Sisters downtown
in approximately 90 days.
Despite some avid supporters,
the parking has proven unpop-
ular with a large majority of
citizens and visitors. It will be
removed from Pine and Larch
streets and Main Avenue.
City Council approved
removal of back-in parking
and a number of amendments
and ordinances at their March
11 meeting, including the call-
up provision for all Type II and
Type III planning decisions.
The Planning Commission
and City Council will be
emailed those decisions by the
Planning Department on the
See FIre on page 21
See cIty on page 31
photo by Cole Davis
Firefighters from three agencies responded to a major blaze in Sisters that consumed a small house.
Butte Ranch Fire District
and Cloverdale Fire District.
A total of 29 firefighters
responded to the fire with five
fire engines, three support
units and two chief officers.
Sisters-Camp Sherman
Fire District Fire Chief Roger
Public records requests Sisters Rodeo names Grand Marshal
have increased sharply
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Public records requests
have increased dramatically
since 2011, placing an added
burden on City staff, espe-
cially City Recorder Kathy
Nelson who handles all those
requests in addition to her
other duties.
The Sisters City Council
addressed the issue at a work-
shop last Thursday.
Currently, anyone can fill
out a request form for any
City public record, such as
plot maps, recordings of pub-
lic meetings, and development
documents. If the staff time
required to fill the request is
less than 15 minutes, there is
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no charge. If it will cost more
than $25 to fill the request, a
written cost estimate is pro-
vided to the requester who
must provide confirmation
that he wants staff to proceed.
The City may require pay-
ment of estimated charges
before taking further action
on a request. Actual costs
can end up being much more
than the amount collected,
staff reports. They can include
the cost of the time spent by
staff to locate the requested
records, reviewing the records
in order to delete exempt
material, copying records,
certifying documents as true
copies, or sending records
See recordS on page 29
For thirty-five years, R.L.
Garrigus has stood on the
sidelines announcing the
Sisters Rodeo Parade. This
year, the celebrated radio
broadcaster will ride at the
head of the parade as the
rodeo’s Grand Marshall.
“R.L. has done so many
things for us, especially as our
volunteer parade announcer
for so many years,” said Tom
Crowder, past director of
the parade, who nominated
Garrigus.
“I was a Radio Ranger
with Ralph McNulty at KICE
beginning in 1979,” Garrigus
said, “and Ralph, who was
the Sisters Rodeo Parade
announcer, invited me along.
McNulty finally said ‘it’s all
yours’, and I’ve been there
since. It’s fun.”
The outdoorsman with a
photo by Gary Miller
r.L. garrigus is a familiar face — and voice —at Sisters rodeo.
heart as big as Central Oregon
finds fun in many acts of
assistance.
In 2004, Deschutes County
Commissioners and Bend
City Council declared January
See garrIguS on page 22
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Announcements ............... 10 Focus on Health .......... 13-20 Sisters Salutes ................ 25 Classifieds .................. 27-29
Meetings ........................... 3 Movies & Entertainment ....11 Business at Glance........... 24 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32