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The Nugget
Vol. XXXIX No. 2
Teacher releases
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P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Sisters donates tons to food bank
Bright and early on a
chilly morning last week, 21
members of Sisters Kiwanis
Club picked up and delivered
over 7-1/2 tons of food for
the local food bank.
It was hard work, but done
with great pleasure; the vol-
unteers reported the “Stuff
The Truck” food collection
program sponsored by Ray’s
Food Place during the month
of December was an out-
standing success.
The supermarket manager,
Kiwanian Jeff McDonald,
coordinated the food collec-
tion for the food bank. Local
shoppers made a $20 contri-
bution, and Ray’s added an
additional $5, which filled a
grocery bag with basic foods.
Over the past seven years,
over $100,000 worth of food
has been collected through
this program, and this year
alone, $20,550 was donated.
Some 822 bags of grocer-
ies were filled and donated —
the most ever.
When things were all
totaled, the poundage was
quite substantial.
Green and black beans
weighed in at 4,820 pounds;
Kiwanis volunteers unloaded tons of food donated through the “Stuff The Truck” program at Ray’s Food Place.
Retaining students
in Sisters schools
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Sisters schools receive
their state funding based on
student enrollment. A healthy
budget requires increasing
enrollment — and that means
it’s very important to retain
students.
That’s not so easy to do.
Students are coming in — in
pretty decent numbers — but
other students are leaving,
some to other local districts;
some migrating to online
education; some departing as
families seek job and housing
opportunities elsewhere.
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juices at 5,585 pounds; pan-
cake mix and spaghetti at
1,625 pounds; mac & cheese,
oatmeal, and jams at 1,656
pounds; and mixed fruits at
528 pounds, plus some mis-
cellaneous items.
Sisters schools made a pre-
sentation to the school board
last week on student retention.
According to the district’s
enrollment report as of Friday,
January 8, Sisters Elementary
School (SES) is up two stu-
dents from where they left off
at the end of 2014-15 (346) ;
Sisters Middle School (SMS)
is down 6.5 (325); and Sisters
High School (SHS) is up 9.5
students (432).
Total enrollment is 1,103,
up four students overall from
end-of-year 2014-15.
The principals recounted
their conversations with
See STudeNTS on page 30
Sisters Kiwanis Food
Bank Coordinator Naomi
Rowe was delighted with
such a large volume of food,
but said “we almost ran out of
storage space.”
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Suzanne Carvlin was
amazed by the energy, vol-
unteers’ pickup trucks and
forklift that made a swift
delivery of 11 pallets of
food from Ray’s to the food
bank.
Sisters High School stu-
dent Logan Miller remains
in critical condition at St.
Charles Medical Center
in Bend after suffering
head injuries in a wreck on
Highway 20 the morning of
January 6.
There is guarded optimism
about 16-year-old Miller’s
condition, given the severity
of his injuries. Sisters High
School Principal Joe Hosang
reported that though “the
doctors seem to be very care-
ful with how they talk about
Logan’s recovery ... they
state he is where they would
hope that he would be.”
Oregon State Police
reported that Miller was driv-
ing a Ford pickup westbound
around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday,
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School district mulls seeking bond
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
The Sisters School Board
is considering asking voters
in May for a bond for facili-
ties repairs and upkeep. No
decision has yet been made,
but the board took action last
night to preserve eligibility
for potential state “matching
funds.”
Sisters could be eligible
by lottery to receive as much
as $4 million in grant fund-
ing to supplement a bond. In
order to retain that eligibility,
the board passed a resolution
on January 6 calling for a
bond election for an amount
not to exceed $10.7 million.
“The grant application is
due at the end of this month,”
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The community is invited to forums on school facilities needs.
Superintendent Curt Scholl
told the board Wednesday.
“The resolution is really a
formality in that process.”
The board unanimously
approved the resolution,
See SChool BoNd on page 24
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