Outlaws baseball wins
three on the diamond page 4
Change, tradition mix at
longtime business page 18
The Nugget
Vol. XXXVIII No. 16
Pianos enhance Sisters’
chorale music program page 25
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Sinkhole at Lost Lake...
ODOT drives
toward
Sisters
roundabout
Lost hiker
found safe
in Sisters
Country
By Jim cornelius
News Editor
It may not be a “done deal,”
but the Oregon Department of
Transportation has a clear prefer-
ence for installing a roundabout
at the intersection of Highway 20
and Barclay Drive at the west end
of Sisters.
ODOT is seeking “concur-
rence” from the City of Sisters in
moving forward with a design for
the roundabout, which the City
indicated in 2011 was the pre-
ferred control mechanism for that
intersection.
In the intervening years, ODOT
worked with the freight industry to
ensure that a roundabout on a state
highway can accommodate large
trucks. They brought truckers in
Central Oregon and the Portland
area out to run a mock-up of the
proposed design in two separate
PRE-SORTED STANDARD
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Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
photo by eli pyke
An 18-year-old hiker who got
separated from his companions
was found safe after wandering
for several hours in the Pole Creek
drainage.
Broek Dyer of Woodburn,
Washington, called 911 and
reported that he had been wan-
dering for four hours after having
lost the trail. Dyer had spent the
night camping with two compan-
ions, then on their way back had
become separated. Dyer had been
making contact with his compan-
ions via text messages, but they
had not been able to locate him.
Dyer’s GPS coordinates were
obtained from the 911 call show-
ing that Dyer was about two
miles south of the trailhead, then
about 500 meters to the east on
the opposite south side of Soda
Creek. Phone contact was made
with Dyer to advise him to remain
at his location until Search and
Rescue (SAR) arrived.
Eli pyke was canoeing when he discovered this sinkhole sucking the water out of Lost Lake.
See hIkEr on page 22
See rouNDABout on page 31
Town Hall to focus on
‘community assets’
By Diane Goble
Correspondent
Last year Sisters Country
residents made it clear that
they did not want an amphi-
theater as a “community
asset” — a project that would
have encouraged more peo-
ple who drive through town
to stop and shop in Sisters.
At a subsequent town-
hall meeting, other ideas
were suggested for consid-
eration, and a majority of
the 200-plus attendees voted
for the following four proj-
ects: Art/Science/History
Inside...
Center; Convention Center;
Field House; Winter Sports
Park.
Then-mayor Brad Boyd
appointed 11 volunteers
to a Community Assets
Committee (CAC), and for
the past nine months mem-
bers have been analyzing the
projects systematically so
the community can compare
them side by side. During
the process, a potential fifth
project — which combines
three of the ideas into one
— emerged.
See toWN hALL on page 22
Paramedics train in Sisters
Many Sisters-area resi-
dents noticed the bright blue
Life Flight helicopter hover-
ing over downtown Sisters
last Wednesday morning
before finally settling down in
the parking lot of the Sisters-
Camp Sherman fire station.
The helicopter and Life
Flight paramedics were all
part of the recertification
training for EMTs and para-
medics with the Sisters-Camp
Sherman and Cloverdale Fire
Districts. Fire district physi-
cian advisor Dr. Peter Vraniak
also provided instruction dur-
ing the three-hour training
session.
Paramedics practiced
low-frequency, high-risk
photo provided
chad stadeli trains on a simulated patient at sisters Fire hall.
procedures including creating
an emergency tracheotomy
and decompressing collapsed
lungs by placing long needles
through a simulated chest.
Fire Chief Roger Johnson
See pArAmEDIcs on page 24
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Announcements ................12 Sisters Salutes .................13 Business at Glance........... 19 Classifieds .................. 27-29
Meetings ........................... 3 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Obituaries ....................... 16 Crossword ....................... 26 Real Estate .................29-32