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Wednesday, April 8, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters’ annual hunt egg-citing for all
By Jodi Schneider mcNamee
Correspondent
Threatening clouds gave
way to sunshine as hundreds
of ambitious children from
infant to 11 years old awaited
the siren for the 37th annual
Sisters Easter Egg Hunt to
begin in Creekside Park.
The park overflowed with
4,000 colorful plastic eggs
hidden in the grass, behind
trees, on rocks, and nestled in
the pine needles.
The Easter Egg Hunt
was co-sponsored by the
Sisters-Camp Sherman and
Cloverdale fire department
volunteer associations. Early
on Easter morning they hid
the eggs and divided the park
into four areas, one for each
age group.
Sisters-Camp Sherman
firefighter student Kyle
Sharek and volunteer fire-
fighter Hayden Jones orga-
nized this year’s egg hunt.
“This was fun, especially
because the volunteers from
last year left really good
notes to follow,” said Sharek.
“And we really appreciate all
the help from Cloverdale fire
department.”
And of course, the Easter
Bunny was on hand to delight
the children as they waited in
line to greet him and receive
a treat from his basket.
The 1 p.m. siren went off
without a hitch and the hunt
began. Older children raced
over hills and dales as fast as
rabbits, and the toddlers took
their time picking them up
with eggstra-special care.
Sisters-Camp Sherman
Fire Chief Roger Johnson
smiled when the hunt ended
in less than 10 minutes,
although it took lots of volun-
teers almost two hours to hide
all the eggs.
“This is a fantastic event
that brings the community
together,” said Johnson.
“It was awesome how the
weather broke and the sun
came out when it was time to
begin.”
The egg-citement con-
tinued as some of the kids
shrieked for joy after finding
a golden egg.
“This year we have over
twenty golden eggs which are
the prize eggs,” said Sharek.
Young Joslyn Moyer was
all smiles when she brought
her golden egg up to the pic-
nic table full of prizes and
picked her favorite, a stuffed
elephant.
Shay Rice found so many
eggs, she decided to use the
math she learned in school to
High-tech
mapping
finds mines
in forest
photo by Jodi sChneider mCnamee
Shay rice counts her eggs after a whirlwind hunt.
count each one, as she care-
fully took them out of her
Easter basket and lined them
up in a row.
“I am counting all the col-
ored eggs, so I know how
many I found,” said young
Moyer, who had her aunt
Samantha helping her.
Julia Hottel, a young tod-
dler, tried to hold up her full
basket of eggs as a family
friend’s young son shared a
few of his eggs with her.
“I got all these, but some
of them aren’t mine,” said
Hottel very seriously, as she
glanced at the young boy
attempting to toss more of his
eggs into her basket.
The sunshine held out for
entire egg hunt, and there
were plenty of happy faces
and heavy Easter baskets to
see as the egg-stravaganza
came to an end.
STAYTON (AP) — A
project to determine the loca-
tions of abandoned mines
in the Willamette National
Forest could help firefighters
and others avoid injuries.
The Statesman Journal
reports that the four-year proj-
ect initiated by the U.S. Forest
Service found 226 abandoned
mine features in the North
Santiam Mining District.
Those features include
mine entrances, exploration
pits and waste rock areas.
The Oregon Department of
Geology and Mineral Indus-
tries used an airborne laser to
scan the Earth’s surface in a
technology known as lidar.
Combining the results with
other information created a
three-dimensional map that
workers used to go into the
field to pinpoint abandoned
mining areas.
U.S. Forest Service
spokeswoman Ruth Seegar
says the information can help
protect firefighters if there’s a
forest fire.