Colorado shooter had
roots in Sisters page 14
Outlaws shine at state
cross-country meet page 21
Sisters School District buys
green-energy bus page 18
The Nugget
Vol. XXXVIII No. 44
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Back to the
trailhead
for paved
path
proposal
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
New deputy
on duty
in Sisters
schools
Trick or treat...
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
The concept of a paved
path connecting local com-
munities is going back to the
trailhead.
Sisters District Ranger
Kristie Miller took the
community conversation
back several steps in a let-
ter to Deschutes County
Commissioner Alan Unger
last week (see the full text with
photo by Jerry baldocK
kids, parents, and shopkeepers all got into the spirit for Sisters’ halloween parade (see story, page 7).
Deputy Brent Crosswhite
has been in law enforcement
with the Deschutes County
Sheriff’s Office for 16 years,
as a patrolman and as a detec-
tive. Now for the first time,
he’s serving as a school
resource officer in Sisters
schools.
Deputy Crosswhite is find-
ing the experience to be “an
entirely different facet of law
enforcement.”
Law enforcement work
See paVeD path on page 30
See Deputy on page 25
Mini poodle rescues
furry companion
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Sisters resident and
Rotarian Gayla Nelson spends
a lot of her time outdoors on
her 10-acre ranch, caring
for her four horses. Her two
dogs — Louie, a 22-pound
mini poodle, and Zoe, a tiny
Yorkshire terrier — enjoy
tagging along. Last month, a
routine morning of tending to
a horse in need turned into a
terrifying ordeal for Nelson
and her two furry friends.
“Suddenly I heard Louie
start barking like crazy and
then I heard Zoe, she was
yelping loudly. Then Louie’s
bark turned vicious and he
sounded like a Rottweiler.
This all happened within a
couple of seconds,” Nelson
said. “I ran toward them,
they weren’t far away, and
Zoe came limping toward me
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yelping in pain with blood all
over her.”
A large coyote had wan-
dered into the yard in broad
daylight and nabbed Zoe,
the smallest canine. But to
the coyote’s surprise, Louie
became extremely aggres-
sive in protection of Zoe.
The coyote was intimidated
and dropped Zoe out of the
clutches of its sharp teeth.
Coyotes, an icon of the
American West, are com-
mon in Oregon, where they
are widely distributed across
the landscape. Coyotes are
commonplace in rural areas
around Sisters Country, but
have been spotted in urban
areas as well.
According to Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife (ODFW), Coyotes
are skilled hunters and will
See Coyote attaCk on page 24
Barclay Barn comes down
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
A demolition crew took
down the old Barclay Barn
along Locust Street/Camp
Polk Road on Saturday. The
site will be the new home
of Cascade Street Distillery,
which also has a tasting room
on Cascade Avenue.
Contractor Steve Keeton
said that the barn was struc-
turally unsound and could
not be retrofitted for use.
However, much of the barn
materials will be reused.
“We saved a bunch of
stuff to make trim out of,” he
said.
There are also a couple
of larger pieces that could
be incorporated into the new
approximately 3,800-square-
foot distillery.
“The barn has been
vacated and not in use for
several years,” the owners
of Cascade Street Distillery
said in a prepared statement.
photo by Kit Stafford
the Barclay Barn came down last week on a site that will be the home of
Cascade Street Distillery.
“All of us at Cascade Street
Distillery are excited to bring
the barn back to life. After
meeting with engineers, con-
tractors and architects, the
safest way to regenerate the
barn requires disassembly.
“Great care and consid-
erations will be given for
reclaimed timber, and we
will be using the timber for
the distillery. The Chamber
of Commerce has requested
some of the reclaimed tim-
bers for their own proj-
ect. The remaining of the
reclaimed timber we would
like to see be repurposed to
the Sisters art community,
and the unusable timber will
be recycled appropriately.”
Keeton told The Nugget
See BarClay BarN on page 22
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Salutes .................11 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Obituaries ....................... 23 Classifieds .................. 27-29
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Sisters Naturalist ..............17 Crossword ....................... 26 Real Estate .................29-32