Shootouts a success for
players, community page 10
Firefighters raise funds
to fight cancer page 19
The Nugget
Vol. XXXVIII No. 7
SPRD programs create a
lively time for seniors page 21
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
The Sisters School District
and the Deschutes County
Sheriff’s Office are acting to
enhance security at the three
local public schools.
Some of the funding from
a bond that failed to pass in
November was designated
to improve entrance security
in the schools, which have
poor sight-lines and were not
designed with security con-
siderations at the forefront.
While the current actions do
not directly tackle those issues
through remodeling, they
would mitigate them.
Schools superintendent Jim
See SECurITy on page 28
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Breaking ground...
District,
sheriff act
on school
security
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Food cart
battle
intensifies
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
photo by Jim Cornelius
david and Leah Tolle (with shovels) were joined by architect Chris mayes (left), friend Terry Bliven,
property owner Sam Blackwell and builder doug Hull as they broke ground on a future adult foster care
facility. (See story, page 13.)
A group of local citizens
wants to overturn a staff deci-
sion allowing food carts at a
downtown Sisters business
owned by former mayor Brad
Boyd.
Critics say that the
approval was flawed because
former senior planner Eric
Porter approved Boyd’s
application with no notifica-
tion to the Sisters Planning
Commission, which would
have allowed them to call it
up for review if they thought
it necessary. It was sup-
posed to be a standard prac-
tice to inform the planning
See Food CarTS on page 30
City and neighbors work SPRD taps Borla for board slot
on campground issue
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Lynn Baker, representing
the residents of the Buck Run
and Coyote Springs neighbor-
hoods, closed his testimony at
the February 12 joint work-
shop of the Parks Advisory
Board (PAB) and the Sisters
City Council with a reminder:
“The character of a city
is reflected by the ways in
which the city protects the
quality of life of its resi-
dents,” he concluded.
The neighborhoods,
adjacent to the Creekside
Campground, have been
actively involved in organiz-
ing, testifying, and petitioning
the City regarding the impact
of past decisions and actions
regarding the campground
and their concerns for pro-
posed future changes.
The 104 petition-signers
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living around the campground
fear those impacts will con-
tinue to increase. They
believe that previous pro-
cesses allowing for expansion
of the campground did not
allow for prior public input,
and they want to assure that
won’t happen again.
They are asking for a
good-faith moratorium on the
opening of the campground
this spring until there is a
resolution to their petition.
They are insisting on repre-
sentation of their neighbor-
hoods in any future processes
and decisions regarding the
campground. They have not
only identified the problems
as they see them; they have
suggested solutions to a num-
ber of their concerns.
Mayor Chris Frye and
PAB chairman Liam Hughes
See CampgrouNd on page 18
Erin Borla is taking a
chair on the Sisters Park &
Recreation District (SPRD)
Board of Directors. The
SPRD board appointed her
to fill an interim position on
an open seat until June 30.
Election for the seat will take
place in May, and Borla said
she plans to run.
The lifelong Sisters resi-
dent served as executive
director of the Sisters Area
Chamber of Commerce 2009-
2014. She has three children,
ages 15, 5, and 3, and that
led her to SPRD for the next
phase of her community
involvement.
“I think SPRD is a fan-
tastic organization, and I’m
just excited to be able to give
back to the community,” she
said. “I think having kids in
the programs opens a new
perspective other than what’s
been on the board recently.”
photo by Jim Cornelius
Erin Borla will bring her marketing expertise to Sprd as an interim board
member. She plans to run for the position.
In her role with the cham-
ber, Borla worked hard to
raise Sisters’ regional pro-
file as a tourist destination
and to enhance the cham-
ber’s role in the community.
She sees herself doing simi-
lar work as a SPRD board
member.
“My skill set is certainly on
the marketing side,” she said.
She said that SPRD offers
a wide variety of programs
and serves a broad demo-
graphic — which is not nec-
essarily common knowledge
in Sisters.
“They provide this great
service and I don’t know if
people know everything they
do,” she said. “And I’d like to
help share that story.”
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Business at Glance.............4 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Sisters Naturalist ............. 23 Classifieds .................. 25-27
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Obituaries .......................20 Crossword ....................... 24 Real Estate ................. 27-32