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The Nugget
Vol. XXXIX No. 6
Mentors
make a
difference
for youth
Habitat announces new
board president page 11
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
One Act wonder...
Car stolen,
crashed
near
Sisters
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Circle of Friends makes a
significant difference in the
lives of Sisters youth. And
they find that in uplifting the
life of the child, their own life
is uplifted.
“It’s that old cliché,” says
mentor Mark Maboll. “I get
more out of it than they do.”
Sisters’ youth mentorship
program Circle of Friends is
seeking volunteers to mentor
Sisters youth.
Circle of Friends uplifts
See meNtORS on page 24
photo by Jerry baldoCk.
angela Dean Lund, mia Burton, and Shawn O’hern in “Waiting For Dingleman’s Comet.” Local actors staged
one-act plays at the Belfry last weekend.
News Editor
January 26, 1700, approx-
imately 9 p.m. — The earth
ruptures, coming unzipped
along 600 miles of coastline
from what is now British
Columbia into what is now
northern California.
The whole world shakes,
and it seems like it will
never end. Massive sec-
tions of forested coastline
nearly instantly drop three to
six feet, leaving giant trees
embedded in salt water to die
and leave ghost forests that
will stand sentinel in the sand
three centuries later.
A tsunami will roll across
the ocean, taking nine hours
to reach Japan. Scribes will
leave record of this “orphan
tsunami” that arrived from
thousands of miles across
the ocean without anyone in
Inside...
A 22-year-old man is in jail
after he allegedly stole a car in
Sisters early Saturday morn-
ing, then crashed it on Wilt
Road.
According to the Deschutes
County Sheriff’s Office, a
Sisters resident reported that
her car had been stolen while
she was warming it up in her
driveway on East Cascade
Avenue just before 6 a.m.
Deputies searched the
neighborhood, but did not spot
the stolen car.
At about 6:15 a.m. a citizen
called in to report a crash on
See theFt on page 22
Roof looms large in bond discussions
Preparing for
the megaquake
By Jim Cornelius
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Japan feeling the quake that
heralded it.
The quake must have been
a magnitude 9 — one of the
most powerful in history.
It will happen again. It
could happen at any time.
Scientists estimate that there
is a 1-in-3 chance of a mega-
quake hitting in the next 50
years.
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The potentially cata-
strophic effects of a “full rip”
Cascadia Subduction Zone
earthquake have garnered
the attention of emergency
management officials, first
responders and alert citizens
of late.
L a s t D e c e m b e r, D r.
Daniele McKay, a geology
professor at OSU Cascades,
made a presentation on the
quake at a training session for
See megaquake on page 30
As the Sisters School
District seriously considers
seeking a $10.7 million bond
in May, one of the elements
that looms largest in the equa-
tion is the state of the Sisters
High School roof.
Voters rejected a $14.5
million bond request in
November 2014. A post-mor-
tem on that failure turned up a
number of voter concerns, and
key among them was frustra-
tion over the portion of the
bond — about $1.3 million
— that was to be dedicated
to replacing the now 12-year-
old roof on the high school.
The three-tab roof was part
of the “value engineering”
that attempted to push down
costs of the 2003 construc-
tion of Sisters High School.
The freeze-thaw conditions
of Sisters Country have ham-
mered the roof. Now there are
cracks that run the length of
photo by Jim Cornelius
this valley in the Sisters high School roof has been a point of problems. a
fix seems to be working effectively to prevent water intrusion.
the roof and spots that leak.
Superintendent Curt Scholl
addressed the issue of the roof
at a public information meet-
ing in late January. He noted
that the failure of the roof is
the result of a combination
of factors, none of which are
readily resolvable.
“I don’t know that there’s
one entity that’s responsible,”
he said. “Maybe it’s a combo
of all. The reality is, we’ve
got to replace that roof.”
The district has invested
quite a bit of effort and money
into mitigating problems with
the roof. In the school’s mul-
tipurpose room, there was
significant water damage
See ShS ROOF on page 21
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Salutes .................. 5 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Paw Prints ....................... 22 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Valentine’s Day ............ 15-17 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32