Wednesday, April 15, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Fundraiser to send ailing
man on ‘bucket list’ trip
Life-long Sisters resident
Geoff Pepperling is facing
stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
With chemotherapy treatment,
he may have a year to live.
His last wish is to go
to Yellowstone National
Park, Colorado, and Salt
Lake City. To help fulfill
this wish, friends, family
and supporters are hold-
ing a “Bucket List Bingo”
fundraiser for Pepperling
on Wednesday, April 22,
at 5:30 p.m. at Sisters
fire hall community hall.
There will be bingo, raf-
fles and a silent auction to
raise funds to support Geoff
on this last journey with his
family, while he can still
enjoy the sights and the wild-
life. According to his family,
“the pictures and memories
will help him through his last
months and days.”
Bingo cards are $1 each/
six for $5. A pulled pork
sandwich, coleslaw, soda and
a cookie are $10.
For information contact
Dierdre Jones, 541-306-0856.
Sisters to mark Earth
Day with clean-up
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Dixie Eckford well
remembers the inaugural
Earth Day in 1970. It was the
year she graduated from high
school in The Dalles.
“What I really remember
is feeling part of something
big… We were all really
eager to do our part in the first
wave of the environmental
movement.”
Now, 45 years down the
line, Eckford is mobilizing
folks in Sisters Country to do
their part in making our cor-
ner of the earth a little cleaner
and healthier. She’s coordi-
nating an Earth Day clean-up
Saturday, April 18 from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Volunteers meet at
9 a.m. at the Sisters Park &
Recreation District (SPRD)
parking lot (west of Sisters
High School) to receive gar-
bage bags, gloves and project
assignments.
Volunteers will clean up
along Highway 242 and on
Camp Polk Road, where there
is a fair bit of roadside lit-
ter, and in other areas of the
surrounding forest. Sisters
Trails Alliance has sponsored
a couple of clean-up sites.
Additionally, volunteers will
do cigarette-butt clean-up on
the streets of Sisters.
The “Pick Up The Butt”
challenge encourages people
to recognize cigarette waste
as litter, Eckford explained.
“Cigarette waste is toxic,”
she said. “It’s really not the
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photo by Diane Goble
Black Butte school students showed their prowess in statewide academic competition.
BBS students earn awards
By Diane goble
Correspondent
Several students from
Ethan Barron’s upper-grade
class at Black Butte School
have been recognized in state-
wide competitions for their
outstanding achievements.
Kincaid Smeltzer, a
14-year-old eighth-grader,
won an award for the best
project demonstrating the use
of water-quality principles
from the U.S. Geological Sur-
vey, Oregon Water Science
Center-Stream Health.
His project involved test-
ing sediment samples down-
stream after the removal of a
culvert in Indian Ford Creek.
The water had been diverted
through a large metal pipe
and covered with dirt so roads
could be built over the stream-
beds. Some of these are in the
process of being removed,
making them available for
testing stream recovery
downstream.
Smeltzer got to work
alongside Derrick Staab, proj-
ect manager for the Upper
Deschutes Home River Ini-
tiative; and Nat Dachetler, a
fisheries biologist, and says he
learned a lot about rivers and
fish from them.
Sixth-grader Skylar
Wilkins, who is 12 years old,
entered an essay competi-
tion created by the Securities
Industry and Financial Mar-
kets Association (SIFMA)
winning first place among all
of Oregon’s middle schools.
Walker’s essay in SIFMA’s
InvestWrite national competi-
tion is titled “Why Nike is
a Good Long-Term Invest-
ment.” She states that over
the years, the stock has been
continually going up although
the line looks “more like a
drunken mouse running for
some cheese while holding a
crayon.”
She learned quite a bit
about the stock market, but
winning the essay competi-
tion surprised her because,
she said, “It’s not usually my
thing. I play all kinds of sports
— soccer, basketball, lacrosse,
rock climbing, skiing.”
Christopher Lundgren and
Conner Petke, both sixth-
graders, 12 and 11 years old,
worked together on their proj-
ect to test rocket nosecone
designs to determine which
rose the highest and was the
most stable. The parabola
came out on top and their
project earned them the Out-
standing Science or Engineer-
ing Project awarded by a U.S.
Air Force program.
Last year the boys tested
rocket fins in different config-
urations for trajectory and sta-
bility; next year they will add
more power and look at the
effects on stability in flight.
Lundgren’s favorite part was
launching the rockets. Petke
liked making the nosecones.
SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR
Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild
4th Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For
location information: 541-549-2072.
ALANON Monday, noon, Shepherd
of the Hills Lutheran Church •
Central Oregon Spinners and
Wednesday, 6 p.m., The Episcopal
Weavers Guild 4th Saturday, 1 to
Church of the Transfi guration.
3 p.m. Sisters Library. 541-639-3217.
541-549-8737 or 541-549-1527.
Central Oregon Woodworkers
Alcoholics Anonymous Thursday &
Guild 1st Monday. 541-610-9022.
Sunday, 7 p.m., The Episcopal Church
East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th
of the Transfi guration • Saturday,
Wednesday, September-June, Stitchin’
8 a.m., The Episcopal Church of the
Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.
Transfi guration • Monday, 5 p.m.,
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
Friends of the Sisters Library
• Tuesday, noon, Big Book study,
Board of Directors 2nd Tuesday,
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church • 9 to 11 a.m., Sisters Library. Public is
Thursday, noon, Sober Sisters Women welcome. 541-977-8285.
Meeting, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Heartwarmers (fl eece blanketmakers)
Church. 541-548-0440.
1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City
Authors Support Group 2nd Friday,
Hall. Just bring scissors! 503-880-5832.
10 a.m., Sisters Area Chamber of
Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to
Commerce. 541-588-0081.
4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-548-3304.
Black Butte Macintosh Users Group
3rd Thursday, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Sisters Military Parents of Sisters 2nd
Library community room. 541-549-1471. Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Ray’s Food Place
community room. 541-647-7483.
Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club
Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters
Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., Black Butte
Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.,
Ranch community room. All welcome;
Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-408-5594.
partner required. 541-595-6236.
SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings
Central Oregon Council on Aging
Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters & Enrichment) Wednesdays, 1 to
4 p.m. at SPRD. 541-549-2091.
Community Church. 541-678-5483.
BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS
Sisters Area Photography Club
2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library
community room. 541-549-6157.
Sisters Area SketchUp Users Group
2nd Wednesday, 7 p.m., Earthwood
Timber Frame Homes. 541-549-0924.
Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd
Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.
Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays,
12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse.
Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419.
Sisters Cribbage Club Tuesdays,
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Ray’s Food Place
community room. All are welcome.
541-923-1632.
Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board
of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.
Location information: 541-549-1193.
Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 a.m.,
Brand 33 Restaurant at Aspen Lakes.
541-410-2870.
Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.
Location information: 541-279-1977.
Sisters Rotary Tuesdays, noon,
Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-977-6545.
Sisters Trails Alliance Board
Meeting 2nd Wednesday, 5:30 to 7 p.m.
The Pines Clubhouse. 541-719-8822.
Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon,
Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123.
Three Sisters Irrigation District
Board of Directors 1st Tuesday,
4 p.m., TSID Offi ce. 541-549-8815.
Three Sisters Lions Club 2nd
Tuesday, noon, Ray’s Food Place
community room. 541-595-6967.
VFW 8138 & American Legion
1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters
City Hall. Service offi cer available.
541-903-1123 or 541-549-1132.
CITY & PARKS
Sisters City Council 2nd &
4th Thursday, 7 p.m., Sisters City Hall.
541-549-6022.
Sisters Park & Recreation District
Board of Directors 1st Tuesday,
5:30 p.m., SPRD building. The public is
welcome. 541-549-2091.
Sisters Planning Commission
3rd Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Sisters
City Hall. 541-549-6022.
FIRE & POLICE
Black Butte Ranch Police Dept.
Board of Directors Meets monthly.
541-595-2191 for time & date.
Black Butte Ranch RFPD Board of
Directors 4th Thursday, 9 a.m., Black
Butte Ranch Fire Station. 541-595-2288.
Cloverdale RFPD Board of Directors
3rd Wednesday, 7 p.m., Main Station,
George Cyrus Rd. 541-548-4815. See
the agenda at www.cloverdalefi re.com.
Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD
Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday,
5 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 301 S. Elm St.
541-549-0771.
Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Drills
Mondays, 7 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall,
301 S. Elm St. 541-549-0771.
SCHOOLS
Black Butte School Board of
Directors 2nd Tuesday, 5 p.m.,
Black Butte School. 541-595-6203.
Sisters Christian Academy Board
of Directors 2nd Thursday, 8 a.m.,
RE/MAX Revolution offi ce at Outlaw
Station. 541-549-4133.
Sisters School District Board of
Directors One Wednesday per month,
SSD Admin Bldg. See schedule at www.
sisters.k12.or.us. 541-549-8521 x4011.
This calendar is for reg
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