Warren Miller ski movie
to show at SHS page 8
Spiders on my
keyboard page 12
The Nugget
Vol. XXXVIII No. 48
So who is Santa
Claus, anyway? page 16
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Sisters celebrates with Christmas parade
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Hundreds of spectators
lined both sides of Main
Avenue on Saturday for the
38th Sisters Christmas Parade
sponsored by the Sisters Area
Chamber of Commerce.
T h i s y e a r ’s t h e m e
was “Red, White & Blue
Christmas,” representing our
national colors for a tribute to
our active military men and
women, and veterans, during
this Christmas season.
And it was Red, White &
Blue lawn chairs for Pat and
Elaine Eastman from Albany
as they waited for the parade
to begin.
“We stop in for a visit at
our vacation home in Sisters
every year to celebrate the
holidays, and the Christmas
Parade is one of the high-
lights,” Elaine Eastman said.
As for their chairs match-
ing the theme for this year’s
celebration, Pat Eastman
added this: “People want to
get back to what’s important.”
U.S. Army medic and 2009
SHS graduate Marc Peck
kicked off the celebration,
Correspondent
A 2013 Oregon Arts
Commission report says
arts education plays a vital
role in developing students
who become innovators and
engaged citizens. Yet many
Oregon communities are
still struggling to integrate
arts programming into the
school day. In 2012, one in
five elementary-aged stu-
dents in Oregon attended a
school with no access to arts
curriculum.
Sisters Elementary School
is not one of those schools.
In 2014, through a
Inside...
City to hear
remand of
TUP issue
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Buckmann said. “We are very
proud to have Mark here pre-
senting our colors, and we
also pray for those who are
The dustup over the appli-
cation for a temporary-use
permit (TUP) for proposed
events on a vacant lot in
Sisters will go back before the
Sisters City Council at their
December 10 meeting.
The Council will hold
a public hearing on a par-
tial remand of the matter as
handed down by the Oregon
Land Use Board of Appeals
(LUBA) last month. The hear-
ing is set for 7 p.m. at City
Hall. The hearing is limited to
the issues that were the sub-
ject of the remand.
Controversy over the mat-
ter arose earlier this year
when Celia Hung and/or
Richard Esterman sought a
temporary-use permit to host
events on a vacant lot that
Hung had leased on the cor-
ner of Cascade Avenue and
See paraDE on page 30
See Tup on page 25
photo by Jodi Schneider McnaMee
The Big Guy has arrived — it must be holiday season in Sisters Country.
presenting our flag while
marching down the avenue in
military uniform.
Parade announcer Bob
Buckmann was moved by the
spirit of the celebration.
Arts are alive at
elementary school
By Erin Borla
PRE-SORTED STANDARD
ECRWSS
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
community partnership with
Sisters Folk Festival (SFF)
and a grant from the Fred W.
Fields Fund of the Oregon
Community Foundation, SFF
hired a contractor to assist
with arts integration at the
school.
Karen Williams began
her work last year, the first
year in a three-year program
coordinated by SFF, by help-
ing elementary school teach-
ers create an “art path” in
their classrooms. Each day
she was tasked with attend-
ing different classes, work-
ing with both the students and
See arTS on page 31
“Marc Peck has been
deployed to Afghanistan
three times. He’s a battlefield
medic and has saved many
lives, and has helped many
soldiers who were wounded,”
Could get sloppy in Sisters Country
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
That winter wonder-
land we experienced over
Thanksgiving is turning
sloppy this week.
A winter storm that
dropped several inches of
snow across the region on
Tuesday, November 23, left
Sisters wrapped in a mantle of
white through Thanksgiving,
thanks to frigid temperatures
that plunged into the single
digits and below zero in some
spots.
But that mantle of white
will slough away under
warmer temperatures and rain
showers this week. Weather
forecasts call for daytime
temperatures in the mid-40s,
photo by Gary Miller
Sisters got its first taste of winter last week.
with rain showers likely on
Wednesday and Thursday.
Hoodoo Ski Area didn’t
get quite enough snow to open
last week, but Mt. Bachelor
opened over Thanksgiving
weekend. Winter sports enthu-
siasts and irrigators alike are
hoping for more snowfall than
the region got last winter.
See WEaThEr on page 25
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Salutes ..................4 Movies & Entertainment ....11 Holidays in Sisters ...... 13-20 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ............... 10 Sisters Naturalist ..............12 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32