Wednesday, April 22, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters business
at a glance
U.S. to host track championships
By christopher Bodeen
Associated Press
photo by Jim cornelius
New construction is underway in sisters.
• The new construction
behind Hop N Bean will be
new residences, by Legacy
Builders.
• Rio Restaurant is plan-
ning to “pack the house” for
Geoff Pepperling, a life-long
Sisters resident, who was
diagnosed with pancreatic
cancer in November 2014.
Geoff’s cancer is Stage 4.
His dying wish is to go to
Yellowstone and Salt Lake
City as well as his mother’s
homestead in Colorado, with
his daughter and family by
his side. On Tuesday May 5,
Rio will be donating 15 per-
cent of their gross income
for the day to help Geoff and
his family accomplish his
last wish. For more informa-
tion call 541-549-6118.
• Ever wanted to paint
your own ceramic tile?
Studio Redfield is offering
the chance to do just that
during the Fourth Friday
Art Stroll in Sisters, 4 to 7
19
p.m. on April 24. Come by
for snack, wine, music, and
channel your inner artist.
Studio Redfield is located at
183 E. Hood Ave., Ste. 200.
• Blazin Saddles, now
marking their fifth anniver-
sary, is hosting Ladies Nite
Out with Blazin Saddles,
Black Butte Ranch, The
Paper Place and The
Porch on Thursday, April
23, at 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Come check out the new
women-specific items at
Blazin Saddles. Black Butte
Ranch will be bringing the
ranch to town with active
lifestyle apparel, and their
massage therapists will be
available to enhance your
overall wellness with chair
massage. The Paper Place
will have a variety of their
cycling-related products
on display, or for purchase.
Spirits and tasty samples
will be provided by The
Porch.
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BEIJING (AP) — After
nearly four decades of bypass-
ing the United States, track
and field’s marquee event is
finally headed to the country
that has been the dominant
force in the sport.
The small Oregon city
of Eugene, a northwestern
town steeped in American
track history and the home
of the University of Oregon,
was awarded the 2021 world
athletics championships on
Thursday in a surprise move
that came without a bidding
process.
The IAAF, the governing
body of the sport, said the
decision was driven by the
desire to break into the key
American market.
“We have to give it to
Eugene, to a city where ath-
letics is like a religion,” IAAF
president Lamine Diack said.
Eugene has become a
hotbed for track and field in
recent decades, just as interest
in the sport has waned. The
city hosts an annual Diamond
League meet, one of a series
of top-tier IAAF track events,
and staged the world junior
championships last year. The
2016 world indoor champion-
ships will be held in nearby
Portland.
And it was a former
University of Oregon runner
and his track coach that started
Nike in the early 1970s. Nike
Inc.’s headquarters, outside
Portland in Beaverton, are
just up the road, providing a
powerful incentive to bring
the championships to Eugene.
The 2021 worlds will be
at Hayward Field, the his-
toric stadium used by the
University of Oregon track
team and the venue that made
runner Steve Prefontaine an
iconic figure in American
track. The stadium will be
rebuilt to accommodate
32,000 spectators for the 2021
meet.
“It’s always been a prob-
lem for us to engage both
commercially and sportingly
in the U.S.,” IAAF vice presi-
dent Sebastian Coe told The
Associated Press. “The United
States is the world’s largest
sports market. We need to be
there.”
Coe is running to succeed
Diack as IAAF president in
August.
The world athletics cham-
pionships have been held
every two years since 1991,
the third edition of the compe-
tition. The first world champi-
onships were held in 1983 in
Helsinki, Finland, followed
by Rome in 1987.
The 2015 competition will
be held in Beijing, followed
by London in 2017 and Doha,
Qatar, in 2019.
Although the United States
has never hosted the champi-
onships, the country’s athletes
have dominated the medals
table.
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