Lady Outlaws win two
on the hardwood page 6
Outlaw Robotics
advances page 11
The Nugget
Vol. XXXIX No. 4
Restoring bighorn
sheep page 13
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Quilts for funds...
Protecting
Sisters
youth from
concussion
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Permit No. 15
City
council
setting
its goals
By Jim Cornelius
By Sue Stafford
News Editor
Correspondent
We’ve learned the hard
way about the effects of con-
cussion. From seeing NFL
football players develop
brain disease from years of
hard hits to the head, to the
life-changing debilitating
experience of young athletes
like Sisters’ elite skier Jenna
Sneva, to military personnel
who have suffered traumatic
brain injury in service to their
Improving community
outreach, addressing housing
affordability and maintain-
ing Sisters’ infrastructure are
goals the Sisters City Council
plans to tackle this year.
The Council met last
week for their annual set-
ting of goals they will work
on in 2016. All five members
were in attendance: Mayor
Chris Frye; Council President
photo provided
Sisters outdoor Quilt Show donated a raffle quilt to raise funds for the fire department, see story page 10.
See CoNCuSSIoNS on page 20
See goalS on page 22
Sisters resident rescues Sisters honors local artists
abandoned kitten
By Helen Schmidling
Correspondent
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Imagine driving into a
snowstorm late at night on a
highway in a rural area with
no cell service. Then after
you pull your vehicle over in
a wooded area to put chains
on your tires, you notice
something on the side of the
road that does not belong —
something so inappropriate
it’s surreal.
A few weeks before
Christmas, Sisters resident
Peggy Frye was driving back
from Portland and had just
passed the Detroit Lake area
when the weather took a turn
for the worse and it started
to snow. The roads were get-
ting icy, so she pulled over to
get the chains on her tires as
quickly as possible.
“I saw a cardboard box
over to the side of the road,”
she recalled. “It was hard
to believe, but inside the
Inside...
box were lots of kittens,
about eight or nine. At first
I thought they were all dead,
so I tipped the box and one
stayed on the bottom of the
box and one took off running.
Only those two were alive. I
picked up the one in the box
who was barely alive and put
it in the car. It was so awful, it
didn’t seem real. Even though
it was late at night and snow-
ing, I stayed to find the one
that ran away.”
Frye finally found the very
cold and frightened kitten
almost an hour later.
“I finally coaxed her over
to me. I got back in the car
and put both of them into my
sweatshirt and zipped them
in so they would warm up.
The drive back to Sisters was
slow. By the time I got home
one kitten had passed away
but the one I had to search for
was still alive.”
See kItteN on page 16
A horse and rider on a
frigid winter night, a Cuban
t o b a c c o f a r m e r, s o m e
whimsical fish with faces
and feathers in their fins,
and a magnificent view of
Steelhead Falls — all took
People’s Choice Awards
at the 2016 Sisters Library
Annual Art Exhibit.
“Ghost Rider,” by Jennifer
Hartwig; “Louis, the Tobacco
Farmer,” by Linda Hanson;
“Don’t Be Koi,” by Steve
Mathews; and “Steelhead
Falls,” by Randall Tillery
took the four awards of equal
merit this year.
All four artists are from
Sisters.
More than 300 people
attended Friday night’s
exhibit reception, sponsored
by the Art Committee of
Friends of the Sisters Library
(FOSL). Because of a tie,
this year there were four —
not three — People’s Choice
Awards, said Zeta Seiple,
photo by jim anderson
linda Hanson, left, shares a joyous moment with amy abramson. Hanson’s
photograph of a tobacco farmer won a People’s Choice award.
chair of the art committee.
There are 168 pieces by 68
local artists in the show.
Scratchboard artist
Jennifer Hartwig specializes
in wildlife and pet portraits.
Totally self-trained, she
described her winning piece
as a study in shadow, adapted
from a black-and-white
photograph.
“There’s just a sugges-
tion of scratch, and it’s the
horse’s breath that captivated
me most,” she said. “There
are no faces, no cute eyes to
draw you in.”
Hartwig created this piece
See artIStS on page 18
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