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16 Wednesday, June 3, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon City keeps a wary eye on water Get your firewood in during spring By Sue Stafford Correspondent Bill Hall, newly appointed member of Sisters City Coun- cil, was sworn in at the May 28 Council meeting and hit the ground running, as he was voted to become the new Council president by his fel- low councilors. Public Works Direc- tor Paul Bertagna informed Council that due to the dis- ruptive nature of the Hood Avenue lighting and water improvements, the project will be delayed until the fall, to avoid impacting the sum- mer tourist season and to allow for more outreach to the effected businesses. Bertagna also made Coun- cil aware of the recent decla- ration of drought in Deschutes County by Oregon Governor Kate Brown. Sisters is for- tunate that none of its water comes from surface sources; rather the city’s water is all supplied by wells. Bend, on the other hand, relies on sur- face water for 50 percent of its water supply, and will be adversely affected by the drought. Despite the wells, iStockphoto.com Water is a precious resource. Bertagna stated, “We must be respectful of a very precious resource.” He reported that the City installed drip irrigation in its Main and Cascade avenue landscaping projects, which is one way to help conserve water. He also recommended that the City consider reduc- ing the hours of operation for the splash pad in Fir Street Park and perhaps reduce the run time of individual cycles to 30 seconds. A portion of the splash pad water runoff is captured in a reservoir and reused for park irrigation. Council adopted a supple- mental budget and estab- lished appropriations within the 2014/15 City budget to cover expenses in four areas: maintenance for painting of the recycling center; $10,000 to parks for a traffic study related to proposed improve- ments at Creekside Overnight Park; increased expenses in the planning department as a result of increased revenue; and expenses related to the Barclay Drive water project bringing water to the airport. At the end of June, Coun- cil will be inviting Sisters nonprofits to apply for the annual Community Assis- tance Grants. There will be a call-to- action meeting as a follow-up to the Economic Vitality Sum- mit, scheduled for Tuesday, June 23, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at FivePine. All interested par- ties are invited to attend. It’s getting warm. The says Dave Vitelle of Bear grass is greening up, the sage Mountain Fire. “Ponderosa is blooming and you’re get- pine, by the second year it ting your yard and garden deteriorates by 50 percent. ready to enjoy through the Third year, it’s garbage.” summer. You can rent a splitter Time to be thinking about and get the job done quickly … firewood. Seriously? Yep. and efficiently and have Springtime is the season to your woodpile all stacked be getting next winter’s fire- up neatly when your yard wood in. There are many is ready for summer activi- firewood cutters in Sisters ties. And when the chilly Country who can deliver for weather rolls around again, you, and you can make get- as it does before we know ting it neatly stacked part of it, you’ll already have your your springtime chores. wood in, stacked, and cured “A good woodpile should and ready for the fireplace or be stacked and covered on woodstove. top so that air can flow around the split pieces,” says Dave Elpi of Sisters Forest Products. “Even cut green, split firewood stacked in this manner will cure quickly and will be bone-dry next win- ter. It’s easy if you do it now!” “If you get it photo by Jim corneliuS split by the 1st of July it’ll burn best,” Don’t wait ‘til it gets cold. Get your wood now. 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