Wednesday, August 12, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
SPRD goes
hawaiian at
annual luau
Sisters Park & Recreation
District’s luau on August 13
at Village Green Park will
take Sisters to the islands.
“This year’s entertain-
ment is even grander than
our first year,” said Shannon
Mokuahi Rackowski, adult
programs coordinator, cook,
and organizer of the luau. “I
am so excited to listen to the
incredible voice of Bill Keale;
Kurt Silva; dancers of Uhane
Hawaii; Sisters ukulele play-
ers; “DJ Boogie,” and spe-
cial performance by Shey
Quandt.”
The menu staple of any
luau is Kalua pig (Hawaiian
roast pork), Lomi Lomi
salmon and poi.
“Poi is an acquired taste, so
we will serve Hawaiian sticky
rice instead,” said Mokuahi
Rackowski. “Other items on
the menu are Hawaiian coco-
nut cream cake, fresh pine-
apple, lilikoi juice (passion
fruit), and Aikane Plantation
Coffee from Ka’u, Hawaii.
The luau starts at 6:30
p.m.; bring your favorite chair
or blanket and get a spot early.
Ticket sales were on a pace
to sell out. Call SPRD for
availability at 541-549-2091.
Year-round
Parks board recommends traffic change
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
If the Sisters City Council
approves the recommenda-
tion forwarded to them by the
Park Advisory Board (PAB),
the traffic ingress and egress
for Creekside Campground
(CCG) will be changed for a
trial period.
Currently, traffic both
accesses and leaves the camp-
ground on South Locust
Street, across from the east
end of the Buck Run neighbor-
hood. A secondary, unmarked
route in and out of the camp-
ground is from Buckaroo Trail
on the west edge of FivePine
onto Desperado.
Under the new proposal, all
traffic into the park will be off
of Highway 20 onto Buckaroo
Trail, with a right-hand turn
onto Desperado and into the
campground. All campground
traffic will exit onto S. Locust
Street with a right-turn only to
take them out to Highway 20.
By splitting the ingress and
egress between two locations,
the impact of the CCG traffic
is spread out over two neigh-
borhoods, rather than all of
the traffic impacting only the
residents to the west and south
of the CCG.
At their August 5 meeting,
the PAB heard the results of
the traffic study conducted by
no matter what, according to
the traffic engineer. Sight dis-
tance to the west is adequate
and there is both a right-hand
and left-hand turn lane onto
Buckaroo from Highway 20.
According to the Kittelson
report, whether leaving all
ingress/egress for the CCG on
Locust or splitting it with the
entrance off Desperado, the
Highway 20/Locust intersec-
tion will continue to fail and
the other intersection that is
adequate will continue to be
adequate.
... the highway 20/
locust intersection will
continue to fail and the
other intersection that is
adequate will continue
to be adequate.
— kittelson report
The worsening conditions
caused by the CCG for the
Buck Run and Coyote Springs
neighbors will hopefully
be reduced by changing the
entrance to Desperado, and
allowing only right-hand exit
onto Locust.
Under the proposal adopted
by the PAB — on a vote that
was not unanimous — the
change in traffic patterns into
and out of the campground
will be for a trial period, yet
to be determined, after which
the results of the change will
be evaluated.
The recommended ingress/
egress change forwarded
to the council also needs
the approval of the Oregon
State Parks and Recreation
Department. The City com-
munity development depart-
ment has been working on a
new master plan for the CCG
and is waiting to finalize it
to include any approved traf-
fic changes. The CCG Master
Plan will be incorporated into
the new overall Parks Master
Plan for Sisters.
The Highway 20/Locust
intersection will be addressed
in the new City Transportation
System Plan (TSP) but cur-
rently there is no money in the
ODOT budget to make any
major changes now.
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Kittelson and Associates, traf-
fic engineers. The study was
done in response to requests
from the neighbors closet to
the park access, in an effort to
ameliorate the impact of CCG
traffic on the neighborhood.
Residents of the Buck Run
and Coyote Springs neighbor-
hoods have long objected to
“lost” RV traffic wandering
through their streets, parking
along Locust and Tyee, creat-
ing noise, congestion, exhaust
fumes and safety issues.
The traffic study involved
the traffic volume and flow at
two intersections – Highway
20 and Locust Street and
Highway 20 and Buckaroo
Trail. To no one’s surprise, the
Highway 20/Locust intersec-
tion is failing and will con-
tinue to fail in its current con-
figuration regardless of any
CCG traffic changes. There is
decent sight distance based on
the speed of traffic. There is
potential for a sight problem
for a high vehicle possibly
being blocked by the Sisters
Pumphouse sign.
The Highway 20/Buckaroo
Trail intersection is well
below capacity and could
easily handle making that
the start of the ingress to the
CCG. There is a sight distance
problem to the east with the
current sign, fence and vege-
tation that should be corrected
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