Wednesday, October 21, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
music: International
show is set for
Friday, October 30
Irrigation: A variety
of interests gain from
district’s work
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on a Can’s Found Sound
Nation.
The musicians join
together to create collab-
orative cross-genre works,
record innovative music,
produce short-form videos,
engage with local commu-
nities and practice music as
civic engagement to promote
resilient civil societies.
OneBeat fellows are life-
long ambassadors for their
communities and cities; their
combined voices create origi-
nal works and projects that
speak to audiences across the
globe.
OneBeat fellows will
be teaching at Sisters High
School and Middle School,
at The Museum at Warm
Springs, and at Pilot Butte
Middle School.
T h i s y e a r ’s f e l l o w s
include: Ng Chor Guan, an
accomplished sound designer,
composer and theremin
player from Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia; Samer Etienne
Chami, aka. Etyen, a producer
on the forefront of Beirut’s
electronic music scene;
Dragana Tomi, a traditional
Balkan vocalist and ethno-
musicologist from Belgrade,
Serbia, who is one of Serbia’s
first professional female kaval
players; Vieux Cissokho, a
Senegalese Griot musician
specializing in the kora; and
Katherine Suavita Niño (aka.
La Real Esa), a circus per-
former and cumbia accordi-
onist from Bogotá, Colombia,
who works with communities
affected by violence.
enabling many to get a second
cutting of hay. And Whychus
Creek never went dry, with a
minimum 20 cfs (cubic feet
per second) of flow main-
tained despite the drought.
TSID, partnering with
the nonprofit Energy Trust,
have also built the Watson
Hyrdroelectric Facility, which
was dedicated on Friday. The
plant generates about 3.1 kilo-
watt hours annually.
The piping of TSID’s open
canals has not been without
controversy. It’s generated
legal actions and demonstra-
tions and protests over the
perceived loss of established
watercourses and habitat.
Some did not like what they
considered a heavy-handed
approach to the work.
But those on hand at
Friday’s ceremonies touted
TSID’s work as an example
of how modernizing irriga-
tion systems can bring a
variety of benefits to a broad
community.
“Three Sisters Irrigation
District has demonstrated
resourcefulness and innova-
tive leadership,” said Dionne
Thompson, deputy commis-
sioner of the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation.
Over the last 10 years,
TSID leveraged more than
$15 million in grant funding
to do more than $25 million
worth of work on its projects.
Margi Hoffmann, energy
policy advisor to Oregon
Governor Kate Brown, noted
that current environmen-
tal conditions point up the
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Marc Thalacker describes the new turbine at TSID’s plant as Senator Jeff
Merkley and Bureau of Reclamation official Dionne Thompson look on.
critical importance of agen-
cies and organizations work-
ing together.
This is an opportunity
to recognize that we
really can come together
and move forward. It
takes a lot of blood,
sweat and tears to make
the world go ’round…
— Margi Hoffmann
“The Governor has issued
more drought declarations
than ever in the history of
Oregon,” she said. “This is an
opportunity to recognize that
we really can come together
and move forward. It takes
a lot of blood, sweat and
tears to make the world go
’round… We are very lucky
to live in a state that is chock
full of innovators.”
Sen. Merkley acknowl-
edged that projects on the
ground like the TSID work he
celebrated Friday are a kind
of antidote to the gridlock
associated with Washington,
D.C.
“The perception of DC …
is basically spot-on,” he said.
“Too much partisanship and
too much paralysis.”
But in the irrigation and
energy work done in Sisters
Country, “there is an enor-
mous sense of urgent coop-
eration,” Merkley said. “This
shows the environmental,
energy and agriculture com-
munities all coming together
in a real win-win.”
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