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Wednesday, February 11, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
SEWER PIPE:
Difficulty, cost of fix,
depend on location
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district Facilities Manager
Leland Bliss. “That belly has
filled up with grease. It has
plugged the pipe up.”
The clog caused a backup
into the kitchen at the ele-
mentary school on January
27. A contractor came out
and pushed the grease plug
through the pipe, but it
didn’t clear sufficiently and
a second backup occurred on
January 29, Bliss said.
“It backed clear water into
the kitchen,” Bliss said. “It’s
hard to know what you’ve
got coming up. It is a (sewer)
pipe.”
Bliss said that both inci-
dents occurred at times when
the kitchen was not serving
food.
If you have
something like that
happen when you’re
serving food, that’s an
issue — and that’s not
what happened.
— Leland Bliss
“There was no risk of
food contamination or any-
thing like that,” he said. “If
you have something like that
happen when you’re serving
food, that’s an issue — and
that’s not what happened.”
All areas affected were
thoroughly sanitized, Bliss
said.
With help from City of
Sisters Public Works, the
district ran a camera down
the pipe after the January 29
incident, and found the belly
in the pipe.
“We’re going to run a
tracer line through it and
locate the belly underground
and then we’ll dig it up and
replace that section of line,”
Bliss said.
The complexity, timeline
— and cost — of the opera-
tion all depends on the loca-
tion of the belly. If it’s under
the grass area adjacent to the
school buildings, it will be
a relatively easy and quick
repair.
“If it’s an easy fix, I’d
replace as much of that cast-
iron pipe as I can,” Bliss said.
If the location is under
concrete, the work will be
more complicated, take lon-
ger, and cost more.
The expense will come
out of a tight district facilities
maintenance budget.
Bliss hopes to get the
problem resolved as soon as
possible. If it requires a lot of
time and removal of concrete,
the project will probably
have to wait till the school
is closed for spring break. If
it’s an easy fix, it might be
achievable in an afternoon’s
work, after school lets out.
In any case, the district
was to “jet” the pipe this
week to give it a thorough
cleaning and — hopefully —
prevent a recurrence of the
messy problem before a per-
manent fix is in place.
Therapists at work in Sisters
By Jim cornelius
News Editor
Green Ridge Physical
Therapy & Wellness has
added two new practitioners
to their growing roster.
Chuck Booth, a licensed
massage therapist, has deep
roots in Central Oregon, and
after a stint living and working
in Hawaii, he returned here to
be near family. He renewed a
professional relationship with
Greg Zadow of Green Ridge
and signed on with the practi-
tioner in Sisters.
“My specialty is deep tis-
sue manipulation,” Booth said.
He also works a lot with
herbs, hot towels — “a lot
of hot stuff.” Booth is also a
Doula, working with pregnant
women.
Booth put his feet on a new
career path 20 years ago after
a serious kayaking injury at
Steelhead Falls. He cracked
his T11 vertebrae.
“I opted out of surgery and
did acupuncture and massage
therapy,” he recalled.
The alternative treatments
were successful, but Booth
could not resume his profes-
sional career as a river guide.
So he took his experiences
and turned to massage therapy
himself.
“I couldn’t do it anymore,
so I sold my company to my
partner and went back to
school,” he said.
His work provides for oth-
ers the relief and healing he
experienced himself, years
ago. His deep tissue massage
lengthens muscle tissue and
photo by JiM Cornelius
matthew cole and chuck Booth have joined the green ridge team.
releases tension on ligaments
to promote healing and recov-
ery from injury.
Like Booth (and many
other practitioners) an expe-
rience of injury also shaped
Matthew Cole’s career path.
Attending the University
of Vermont, he thought he
wanted to become a sur-
geon. Then he had to rehab
an injured elbow — and his
course changed.
“That was my first expo-
sure,” said the new Green
Ridge physical therapist. “I
really liked the one-on-one
interaction, dealing with the
whole person instead of just
cutting them open and send-
ing them on their way.”
He was recently working in
Central California, in a senior
home health setting, which
gives him experience and
expertise in working with the
issues that confront all of us as
we get older. But he’s enjoy-
ing working in all aspects of
his field.
“I’m still early in my
career, and kind of trying to
tease out what compels me
most,” he said.
Cole went to school with
fellow Green Ridge therapist
Jason Gulley. Like his buddy,
Cole likes the outdoors and
is a cyclist, skier and hiker. A
couple visits with his college
friend easily got him hooked
on the area.
Both men are happy to be
here. Booth lives in Bend with
his girlfriend, Melissa, and
enjoys the fact that his grand-
kids are nearby. Cole also
lives in Bend, with his fiancé,
Kaylin. Both men are happy to
be part of the growing roster
of practitioners at Green Ridge
Physical Therapy & Wellness,
where they can treat the whole
person and help them fully
enjoy the Central Oregon
way of life they both love.
For more information call
541-549-3534.
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