Wednesday, June 17, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Council signs off on
Creekside fixes
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Patrick Davenport, City of
Sisters community develop-
ment director, reports that the
Sisters City Council reviewed
the CPAB recommenda-
tions for improvements to the
Creekside Campground, agree-
ing to most of them, including
performing a traffic study to
modify ingress/egress, and
constructing a berm along
Locust Street.
The proposed berm along
Tyee Drive was replaced with
enhanced landscape plantings
in order to reduce the cost of
the project.
Davenport reviewed for
the parks advisory board a
progress draft of the new mas-
ter plan for Creekside Park and
Campground, including exist-
ing conditions and overall goals
and objectives for improve-
ments. The prioritization of
the goals is outlined in the
proposed Capital Improvement
Plan (CIP) for all the City
parks. Davenport advised the
board that the overall City
Parks Master Plan has to be
completed before the CIP goes
to Council for their approval.
The final draft of the
Creekside Park Master Plan
will be returned to CPAB for
review once the traffic study
around the campground is
completed and the parks CIP
document is approved by City
Council.
photo by Jodi Schneider McnaMee
Art in the Park vendor dave Cretsinger at his Tumbleweeds art booth.
Eclectic treasures for visitors
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Forestry board:
keep ground cover
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
The Urban Forestry Board
has instructed the City of
Sisters to discontinue its cur-
rent practice of removing all
ground cover from public
treed areas, such as behind the
truck scales on the east end of
town.
City Manager Andrew
Gorayeb had directed the pub-
lic works department to do
the clearing using Deschutes
County inmate work crews
to create a cleaner look,
to reduce fire danger from
thrown cigarette butts, and
to improve visibility of deer
attempting to cross highways.
The clearing extends 50 feet
in from the edge of the road.
Urban Forestry chairman
Dave Moyer, who is retired
from 42 years with the U.S.
Forest Service, elaborated on
studies that showed such prac-
tices are bad for the health of
the forests.
“When the ground under
the trees is stripped of all
vegetation and duff (tree nee-
dles, etc.), the healthy growth
See TReeS on page 20
Sisters offered sunny skies
on Saturday for Art in the
Park, an added attraction for
visitors to enjoy during rodeo
weekend in Sisters. Creekside
Park was filled with over 85
vendor booths for folks to
take in.
Ken and Sandy Ash, first-
time vendors from Roseburg,
really stood out to the crowd
with their unusual birdfeed-
ers and flower plates that
add charm and color to your
garden.
“I recycle decorative plates
that I buy from just about any-
where, and attach them to
electrical conduit poles. Then
for the birdfeeder stacking
I use ceramic cups, saucers,
planters or vases and put it
all together with industrial
strength glue,” Sandy Ash
Snake River Net Co. booth
said.
had homemade fishing nets
Lots of folks stopped made by founder Mike Avery
by the “Tumbleweeds” from Idaho Falls. One big
home décor booth where net, full of bugs, was ready
owner Dave Cretsinger to catch every customer that
from Redmond reclaims and strolled by; you couldn’t help
restores old weathered mate- but stop and take a peek to see
rials to create original works if they were real.
of functional art from cof-
“We make handmade
fee tables to unusual frames. wood nets that are crafted
The eye-catcher was this from exotic hardwoods from
year’s Sisters Rodeo poster around the world. The handle
by Dennis McGregor, in a end widens so the fisherman
Cretsinger signature frame.
does not lose the net by it
“We love Sisters, and we slipping out of his hands. The
used to be locals when we had reason for the bugs is to show
our store, Tumbleweeds, here that you can easily “match
10 years ago,” said Cretsinger. the hatch” with our net. It’s a
Country/Western music common term for fly fishing.
and rodeo go hand in hand In fly fishing matching the
and lots of folks gathered hatch means to literally match
round in their Western gear to the hatching insects that the
listen to Briana Renea. It was trout are eating, it’s matching
Renea’s first time entertaining
See ART iN The PARk on page 24
at Art in the Park.
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 of
Directors 2nd Wed., 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. 541-419-1279.
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
scheduled meetings; ularly
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