Wednesday, April 29, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Guitar-maker and
music fest team up
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
It’s a natural harmony: a
nationally renowned premier
guitar maker and a nation-
ally renowned music festival.
The duo has come together in
Sisters to hit a sweet note of
mutual support and benefit.
Preston Thompson Guitars
has made a rapid and impres-
sive mark in the world of
quality acoustic instruments
since opening its manufactur-
ing facility on Main Avenue
in Sisters at the end of 2013.
It’s a return to a career that
Thompson started in the
1970s, recreating the classic
American sound produced by
Golden Age Martin Guitars of
the 1930s.
Meanwhile, the Sisters
Folk Festival has built a rep-
utation as one of the finest
music festivals in the country,
attractive to audiences and art-
ists alike for the beauty of the
setting, the quality of the ven-
ues and the commitment to the
music.
Next week, the festival
will host its “other” major
event — the annual My Own
Two Hands (MOTH) fund-
raiser, which features an art
stroll and party on Friday,
See Moth on page 15
community prayer
breakfast set in Sisters
Members of the Sisters
community will gather in fel-
lowship on Thursday, May 7,
for the third annual Sisters
Community Prayer Breakfast
sponsored by Sisters Christian
Academy.
Doors open at 7 a.m. at the
Sisters Community Church
auditorium and the program
will end by 8:45 a.m. The
event will include a conti-
nental breakfast and feature
regional participants. The
event is held in conjunc-
tion with the 64th National
Day of Prayer, which is cel-
ebrated each year on the first
Thursday of May.
The keynote speaker is
Olympian Dave Johnson,
bronze medal winner in the
decathlon in the 1992 Summer
Olympics. Johnson was part
of Reebok’s Dan & Dave
advertising campaign leading
up to the 1992 Olympics. He
was inducted into the Oregon
Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
Dave presently is a moti-
vational speaker, author of
“Aim High: An Olympic
Decathlete’s Inspiring Story,”
and serves as director for
the Fellowship of Christian
Athletes.
This year’s program facili-
tator is John Roberts. Roberts
See BreAkfAst on page 31
photo provided
sisters little league play got underway this month.
Scholarship fund gets kids on the field
Since its inception in 2010,
which grew from a terrible
tragedy for a Sisters fam-
ily in 2009, the Ian Ferguson
Memorial Scholarship Fund
has helped more than 75 ath-
letes play baseball in Sisters.
Approximately 125
girls and boys play Little
League ball in Sisters, and
the Ian Ferguson Memorial
Scholarship Fund has been
able to scholarship nearly 10
percent of those players every
year.
Ian “Fergie” Ferguson, a
standout athlete for the Sisters
Outlaws (1997) died in a
2009 car accident in Fresno,
California. Many of Ian’s co-
workers asked the family how
they could honor his memory.
Ian loved baseball and Little
League, and a scholarship
fund was started in his name
in 2010. This special fund is
to be held for the exclusive
purpose of providing league
“We have been so honored
membership dues or equip- to manage this scholarship
ment to children in need that fund for the last five years for
would otherwise be unable to the children of Sisters,” said
play Little League baseball Jamie Vohs, secretary/trea-
for financial reasons.
surer for Sisters Little League.
Over the past five years, “Ian was a special young man
Sisters Little League has who was dedicated to Sisters
gifted over $5,900 in schol- youth and his passion for
arships to Sisters Country baseball was infectious. This
youth; including both full is a great way to honor his
and partial registration fees memory.”
and equipment for athletes in
The 2015 Little League
need.
season kicked off on Saturday,
“It’s hard to think of some- April 18 with opening cer-
one who better represented emonies on the Little League
the ‘ideal’ character of not south field (directly behind
only our town of Sisters, but Sisters Community Church).
also youth sports,” said Mary Sisters Little League invites
(Ferguson) Dethlefs, Ian’s Sisters Country residents to
sister. “He was fun-loving, come out and support our
loyal, hard-working, fair and young athletes at a game.
honest; these are the qualities Games are held throughout
we hope to help encourage by the week for different age
helping kids from this com- groups; a complete schedule
munity participate in such a
See sCholArshIps on page 17
great organization.”
SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR
Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild
4th Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For
location information: 541-549-2072.
ALANON Monday, noon, Shepherd
of the Hills Lutheran Church •
Central Oregon Spinners and
Wednesday, 6 p.m., The Episcopal
Weavers Guild 4th Saturday, 1 to
Church of the Transfi guration.
3 p.m. Sisters Library. 541-639-3217.
541-549-8737 or 541-549-1527.
Central Oregon Woodworkers
Alcoholics Anonymous Thursday &
Guild 1st Monday. 541-610-9022.
Sunday, 7 p.m., The Episcopal Church
East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th
of the Transfi guration • Saturday,
Wednesday, September-June, Stitchin’
8 a.m., The Episcopal Church of the
Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.
Transfi guration • Monday, 5 p.m.,
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
Friends of the Sisters Library
• Tuesday, noon, Big Book study,
Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday,
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church • 9 to 11 a.m., Sisters Library. Public is
Thursday, noon, Sober Sisters Women welcome. 541-977-8285.
Meeting, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Heartwarmers (fl eece blanketmakers)
Church. 541-548-0440.
1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City
Authors Support Group 2nd Friday,
Hall. Just bring scissors! 503-880-5832.
10 a.m., Sisters Area Chamber of
Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to
Commerce. 541-588-0081.
4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-548-3304.
Black Butte Macintosh Users Group
3rd Thursday, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Sisters Military Parents of Sisters 2nd
Library community room. 541-549-1471. Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Ray’s Food Place
community room. 541-647-7483.
Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club
Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters
Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., Black Butte
Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.,
Ranch community room. All welcome;
Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-408-5594.
partner required. 541-595-6236.
SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings
Central Oregon Council on Aging
Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters & Enrichment) Wednesdays, 1 to
4 p.m. at SPRD. 541-549-2091.
Community Church. 541-678-5483.
BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS
Sisters Area Photography Club
2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library
community room. 541-549-6157.
Sisters Area SketchUp Users Group
2nd Wednesday, 7 p.m., Earthwood
Timber Frame Homes. 541-549-0924.
Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd
Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.
Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays,
12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse.
Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419.
Sisters Cribbage Club Tuesdays,
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Ray’s Food Place
community room. All are welcome.
541-923-1632.
Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board
of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.
Location information: 541-549-1193.
Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 a.m.,
Brand 33 Restaurant at Aspen Lakes.
541-410-2870.
Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.
Location information: 541-279-1977.
Sisters Rotary Tuesdays, noon,
Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-977-6545.
Sisters Trails Alliance Board of
Directors 2nd Wed., 5:30 to 7 p.m.
The Pines Clubhouse. 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 Offi ce. 541-549-8815.
Three Sisters Lions Club 2nd
Tuesday, noon, Ray’s Food Place
community room. 541-595-6967.
VFW 8138 & American Legion
1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters
City Hall. Service offi cer available.
541-903-1123 or 541-549-1132.
CITY & PARKS
Sisters City Council 2nd &
4th Thursday, 7 p.m., Sisters City Hall.
541-549-6022.
Sisters Park & Recreation District
Board of Directors 1st Tuesday,
5:30 p.m., SPRD building. The public is
welcome. 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 Wednesday, 7 p.m., Main Station,
George Cyrus Rd. 541-548-4815. See
the agenda at www.cloverdalefi re.com.
Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD
Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday,
5 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St.
541-549-0771.
Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Drills
Mondays, 7 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall,
301 S. Elm St. 541-549-0771.
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 Revolution offi ce at Outlaw
Station. 541-549-4133.
Sisters School District Board of
Directors One Wednesday per month,
SSD Admin Bldg. See schedule at www.
sisters.k12.or.us. 541-549-8521 x4011.
This calendar is for reg
scheduled meetings; ularly
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