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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
STUDENT ART: Exhibit
will be on display
through the month
Continued from page 3
a time,” she said.
Stevens believes that the
SCA students who want to
continue their art in high
school are well-prepared.
“They have the skills
and fundamentals to step
into high school art classes
with confidence. They have
learned strong self-evalua-
tion skills.”
They have the skills
and fundamentals to
step into high school art
classes with confidence.
— Jessica Stevens
Clay Warburton’s third-
and fourth-graders at the
elementary school have cre-
ated drawings involving pro-
files that depict types of love
and conflict. Each drawing is
accompanied by a short story,
GOLDEN: Expect to
know status early
this month
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The board chair notes
that the Albany position
pays $50,000 more than
the $105,000 the SSD pays
Golden, and other districts
offer similarly better salaries.
using the art as the point of
entry into the story. Students
chose which piece to do in
black and white and which
to do in color. Materials
involved in the projects
include construction paper,
black Sharpies, crayons and
colored pencils. Warburton
used the profile progres-
sion technique originated
by local artist Paul Alan
Bennett.
One of the projects of
Bethany Gunnarson’s middle
school artists is handmade
ocarinas — egg-shaped
musical wind instruments
usually made from terra
cotta with a mouthpiece and
finger-holes.
Gunnarson’s high school
students’ art includes some
works that were entries in the
National Scholastic art com-
petition. A special feature
will be illustrations created
by the advanced art class in
response to six-word stories
written by the creative writ-
ing class. Each piece will be
displayed with the six-word
story next to it.
The exhibit in the com-
munity and computer rooms
at the Sisters Library will be
on display throughout the
month of March.
Hedrick thinks it is likely
that Golden will land the
position he is seeking.
“If you hire good people,
they are going to move on,”
he said. “If he doesn’t and
stays here, he’s still a good
superintendent (for Sisters)
as far as I’m concerned. I
hope there’s no backlash or
whatever as a result of his
applying for (the Albany
position).”
lawsuits keep
Governor’s scandals alive
Jonathan J. Cooper/Gosia Wozniacka
Associated Press
SALEM (AP) — Oregon’s
former first lady, Cylvia
Hayes — at the center of an
ethics scandal that forced
the resignation of Gov. John
Kitzhaber — has launched a
legal fight to keep her private
emails out of the public eye.
The lawsuit came to light
Thursday, the same day that
Oracle Inc., the tech giant
that built Oregon’s botched
health insurance exchange,
filed a lawsuit against sev-
eral of Kitzhaber’s former
campaign advisers. The com-
pany accuses Kitzhaber’s
advisers of orchestrating the
abandonment of the Cover
Oregon website to help his
re-election effort. Oracle
also served notice that it may
sue Kitzhaber and his former
chief of staff.
The flurry of lawsuits
keeps alive two controver-
sies that weighed on Oregon’s
once-popular governor.
Hayes, who is engaged to
marry the former Democratic
governor, filed a lawsuit
Wednesday against The
Oregonian asking a judge to
rule that she is not required
to turn over her emails to the
newspaper.
She’s resisting an order
from the state Department of
Justice that says emails from
her private email accounts
that concern state business
must be provided to The
Oregonian, which requested
them under the state’s public
records law. The Oregonian,
based in Portland, is the
state’s largest newspaper.
The fate of emails in pri-
vate accounts belonging to
Kitzhaber and Hayes has been
a point of contention since the
governor resigned last week.
He bowed to pressure follow-
ing months of news reports
alleging Hayes used her rela-
tionship with Kitzhaber to
land clients for her consulting
business.
State and federal authori-
ties have launched criminal
investigations. A wide-rang-
ing federal subpoena served
on the state this month seeks,
among other things, Hayes’
and Kitzhaber’s emails on a
variety of topics.
Kitzhaber has said repeat-
edly that the couple did noth-
ing wrong.
Hayes’ lawyer, Whitney
Boise, says in the lawsuit
that public records laws don’t
apply to Hayes, who was not
a paid employee of the state,
and releasing them would
violate her privacy.
He also argues disclos-
ing the emails would require
Hayes to admit that they
exist and that they relate
to state business, which he
says would violate her Fifth
Amendment right against
self-incrimination.
City launches
parking/
pedestrian
improvement
project
The City of Sisters is
getting underway with a
$48,240 project to build curb,
sidewalk, ADA-compliant
crosswalks, an asphalt-rein-
forced concrete pedestrian
bridge, street-light bases and
other improvements at Hood
Avenue and Ash Street.
The project will be
undertaken by Alex Hodge
Construction, Inc. and
funded through an Oregon
Department of Transportation
Small Cities Allotment
Program grant.
The intent of this proj-
ect is to improve pedestrian
connectivity and ADA com-
pliance, as well as parking
improvements at the inter-
section of Hood Avenue and
Ash Street. The improve-
ments will be made on both
sides of Hood Avenue at Ash
Street.
The project is expected to
be completed by mid-April.
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