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Wednesday, May 13, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
reed at work in city
planning department
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
The new face at Sisters
City Hall is that of Darcy
Reed, associate planner in
the Community Development
Department.
The Bakersfield transplant
moved north with her fiancé
when he received a job offer
in Central Oregon, where they
also have family. They are
living in Redmond with their
dogs. Reed’s dog, Deuce, a
border collie, can occasion-
ally be seen around City Hall
when he comes to work with
her.
Reed graduated from
California State University
– Fullerton with a bachelor’s
degree in sociology. After
experiencing difficulty find-
ing a full-time job, and work-
ing part-time as an afterschool
activity leader, she decided
to return to graduate school
at California Polytechnic in
San Luis Obispo, where she
graduated in June 2013 with
a master’s in city and regional
planning. She then worked for
a civil engineering/land sur-
veying firm before accepting
the position here in Sisters.
Coming from a large met-
ropolitan area of 800,000
residents, Reed loves Sisters;
where she can take a nature
walk along the creek right in
town. She finds Sisters quaint
and, although she didn’t
know what to expect, she is
delighted to find it clean, well-
kept, and friendly. Reed joked
that Sisters being a Western
town, she was surprised that
no one had a “country accent.”
Reed is pleased with the
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darcy Reed.
way things are going in the
planning department.
“I feel like we are mak-
ing headway … attempting to
work cooperatively…” with
the public, “mending discour-
agement” they may have pre-
viously felt.
She said the department’s
desire is to work coopera-
tively with applicants, asking
them what they need, how the
department can be of assis-
tance, and then providing
helpful answers and appropri-
ate direction.
An occasional challenge
that faces Reed is “connecting
all the dots between old land-
use approvals.” She some-
times runs into a lack of clar-
ity as to how decisions were
made. The department is get-
ting busier, with several new
building permit applications a
week being submitted.
Reed describes herself as a
homebody who enjoys cook-
ing and watching movies. She
and her fiancé are still getting
acclimated, but this summer
they look forward to hikes
with their dogs and attending
some country music concerts.
Reed can be reached at
541-323-5208 or dreed@
ci.sisters.or.us.
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not, and the engines are by definition substan-
dard because they don’t meet current industry
safety standards. The fire service has changed
greatly, and what was acceptable 50 years ago
has been left in the past. During the bond cam-
paign, Keith refused to allow signs supporting
the bond on Aspen Lakes property because he
said they needed to stay “non-political,” but
now you can find many political signs on the
same “non-political” property.
I’m also not sure how it’s poor fiscal
accountability to replace an engine which was
damaged, with an engine which improves your
capabilities, and is now planned to be sold for
more money than was spent from fire district
funds. The engine has become unnecessary
with the passage of the bond. Although arm-
chair quarterbacking is always 20/20, it rarely
recognizes the factual realities at the time of
the decision. The fire district simply didn’t
have the funds to purchase what was needed,
but thanks to the voters, now it does.
Here are the transparent facts. The
Cloverdale voters overwhelmingly support
equipping their firefighters into the next 20
years. If you voted for the bond then please cast
your ballot for John Thomas, Jerry Johnson,
and Tom Barrier to make sure your firefighters
have the equipment they need.
Damon Frutos
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To the Editor:
Paved trails, single track, get outside into
the woods, allow neighbors their privacy, pro-
vide wheelchair access, use money wisely,
connect communities, divide communities . . .
A small town in Colorado has yet another
interesting take on trails. Installing what they
call Single Track Sidewalks, the town of Eagle
is gaining recognition for its extensive trail sys-
tem. Read the article in the February 25 edition
of Outside Magazine or at www.outsideonline.
com/node/1930586.
Lorna Clarke
To the Editor:
Just a letter of thanks to all that attended the
family memorial fundraiser for Shemiah Gillan
last Saturday at Hardtails Bar & Grill. We had
an awesome turnout and through donated
goods, services and help from friends and fam-
ily, we were able to raise $4,137!
Way to go, Sisters and the biker community!
Thank you,
Steve & Darcy Macey
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To the Editor:
Thank you for the wonderful coverage
of the Sisters Seed to Table program in (last)
week’s paper (“Kids get their hands dirty on
the farm,” The Nugget, May 6, pg. 1). Your
article vividly captures a busy day of field trips
at the Tehan property, and illustrates the impact
that hands-on garden education can have on
kids.
That said, I feel that it is important to give a
little more due credit to the founder and tireless
leader of the Seed to Table Program, Audrey
Tehan. Over the last two years, Audrey has
humbly built this program from the ground
up — writing grants, developing curriculum,
teaching in the classroom, chopping and serv-
ing lettuce in the school cafeteria, and manag-
ing the substantial Seed to Table garden—all
for a very “modest” salary.
Audrey’s dedication —to her program and
to the Sisters community — is inspiring, to say
the least. In her subtle way, she is helping to
shape an entire generation of Sisters students.
Benji Nagel
Mahonia Gardens
To the Editor:
I and my family, a son and daughter liv-
ing in Sisters with their families, all eight of
us seriously support and request a roundabout
at the intersection of Barclay/McKinney Butte
drives with Hwy. 20.
This community has been home since 1966
for us.
The information open house showed excel-
lent preparation and presentation; safety and
functionality were effectively presented as
prime considerations!
The character and qualities of our commu-
nity, important for us to sustain, call for round-
abouts to the exclusion of traffic lights and a
traffic-light strip. Sisters is a small town, sen-
sitive to retain that mark in a magnetic locale
and environment; a haven for art, and/or/but
with a need to remain local, and all the good
that can come with that.
Emil Smith