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Wednesday, January 6, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Training volunteers
to mentor children
Central Oregon Partner-
ships for Youth (COPY), a
program of the Deschutes
County Sheriff’s Office, is
offering a class to prepare
volunteers to become mentors
for children with an incarcer-
ated parent.
After initial training and
comprehensive background
checks, volunteers are
matched with children in Sis-
ters that share similar inter-
ests and activities and com-
mit to spending a few hours
a week together for a mini-
mum of one year. This time
is often spent going to com-
munity events, working on
homework, attending art pro-
grams, participating in sports
or hanging out and talking.
On Sat., January 16, COPY
will offer an orientation/train-
ing class. This six-hour class
covers program policies, how
to establish a mentor relation-
ship, the impact incarceration
has on families, and commu-
nication skills. There is no
cost to attend.
For more information
call 541-388-6651 or email
COPY@deschutes.org Addi-
tional program information
is available at the Sheriff’s
Office website at www.
sheriff.deschutes.org/copy.
Anvil Blasters to play
at The Open Door
The Anvil Blasters will
bring their Americana,
Western-folk-based music to
The Open Door on Monday,
January 11, from 7 to 9 p.m.
The songs of The Anvil
Blasters are peopled with
border renegades and des-
ert dreamers, poets, pirates
and ghosts of the old, weird
America. It’s a rollicking rec-
ipe of gunpowder, twang and
tequila that has earned The
Anvil Blasters a loyal follow-
ing across Central Oregon.
The Anvil Blasters are Jim
Cornelius (vocals, guitar),
Mike Biggers (vocals, guitar,
mandolin), Lynn Woodward
(vocals, mandolin, fiddle) and
Jeff Wester (banjo, vocals).
Wester named the band
for an old-time holiday cel-
ebration known as “blasting
the anvil” (also “blowing”
or “shooting” the anvil).
Celebrants would stack a pair
of anvils on top of each other,
the bottom one upside down
so that cavity at the bottom
of each anvil met. The result-
ing opening was packed with
black powder and lit off to
blast the top anvil into the air.
“No anvils will be blown
at The Open Door,” said
Cornelius. “Too much glass.
But we will have a blast.”
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Is running one of your
New Year’s resolutions? Are
you interested in participating
in one of Bend’s many races
but not sure how to start?
The New Year is the per-
fect time to begin training
for races in 2016. Healthy
Beginnings is partnering with
FootZone to offer a 10K train-
ing group that not only pre-
pares you to run a 10K, but
also helps a charitable cause
through participant fundrais-
ing. 5K runners and walkers
are welcome as well.
Coached by Healthy
Beginnings’ own Angela
Saraceno, this training group
will prepare runners to suc-
cessfully complete the Grin
and Bear It in Bend on March
5. There will be mentors for
pace groups ranging from 8 to
17 minutes/mile. Instruction
will be provided on form,
nutrition, injury prevention,
gear, stretching, warming up,
and much more.
Participants receive:
• Weekly motivational
blogs.
• Entry fee and tech shirt
for the 10K race (or the 5K if
preferred).
• Training plans (walk-
ing, novice and intermediate/
advanced).
• Training swag including:
tech tee, socks, and more.
• Individual attention
in a group setting with fun
group training runs beginning
January 9.
• 10 percent discount at
FootZone while session is
active.
The fee for the 10K for
$10K Challenge is $100 (non-
refundable) and includes Grin
and Bear It race entry, and
counts toward the participants
fundraising goal. All proceeds
will support health and devel-
opmental screenings at one
of Healthy Beginnings’ 18
community screening clinics
or one of its many pre-school
screenings.
Healthy Beginnings pro-
vides key services to young
children, ensuring children
are healthy, ready to succeed
in school, and can develop
to their full potential. Each
year Healthy Beginnings
holds 18 screenings through-
out Central Oregon with the
Breakfast 6-11
Soup 11-2 daily
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help of its hundreds of profes-
sional volunteers. During the
free screenings, children birth
through age five are offered
a “12-point kid inspection”
that assesses vision, den-
tal, speech, infant & toddler
development, concepts, hear-
ing, social skills and behav-
ior, health, nutrition, car-seat
safety, motor, and much more.
The program also provides
abbreviated preschool screen-
ings as well.
The screenings are not just
designed for low-income fam-
ilies; it’s a program designed
for all families with young
children.
Improving access to health
and educational services is
fundamental to the program,
and Healthy Beginnings can
also help with health insur-
ance applications.
Supported by community
donations and fundraising
efforts like the Grin and Bear
It, all services are provided at
no cost to the family. For more
information or to sign up to
be part of the 10K for $10K
Challenge visit www.myhb.
org or call 541-383-6357.
Fishing to end carp invasion
BURNS (AP) — Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge
managers say they’re hop-
ing a commercial fishing
endeavor will curb a carp
invasion at the migratory bird
sanctuary south of Burns.
The Oregonian reports the
common carp have created
an out-of-balance ecosystem
that no longer supports the
plant and insect life birds rely
upon for food and habitat.
The refuge has partnered
with the Oregon Wildlife
Heritage Foundation and
the owner of Pacific Foods,
a Tualatin company best
known for boxed soup and
soymilk, to begin a massive
Stay warm with a
hot espresso and enjoy
a homemade delight!
Sales • Service • Installation
Dale Lester
Training to run for a cause
carp commercial fishing
operation.
By spring 2016, the team
hopes to begin removing
thousands of fish from the
water each day.
The meat, which most
A m e r i c a n s w o n ’t e a t ,
will be used to fertilize
crops.
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