Wednesday, February 10, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Starry Nights tickets
on sale February 15
Tickets go on sale on
Monday, February 15 at 8
a.m. for a concert featuring
the return of one of Starry
Nights’ most beloved artists
— acclaimed singer-song-
writer Karla Bonoff.
“Starry Nights Presents
An Evening With Karla
Bonoff” takes place on
Sunday, April 3, at The
Belfry in Sisters. The event
is a benefit for the Sisters
Schools Foundation and will
raise funds for classroom and
co-curricular programs at
Sisters elementary, middle,
and high schools. Bonoff
was the first performer to
ever grace the Starry Nights
stage when she appeared in
1997 to kick off the long-
running concert series, which
has raised more than one mil-
lion dollars in net proceeds to
date.
Bonoff has been described
as one of the finest singer-
songwriters of her genera-
tion. With a career spanning
four decades, Bonoff is cel-
ebrated for a songwriting
catalog that includes such
hits as “Someone To Lay
Down Beside Me,” “Lose
Again,” and “All My Life”
for Linda Ronstadt, “Home”
for Bonnie Raitt, and “Tell
See CONCeRt on page 19
Outdoor science to be
featured February 20
Are you smarter than a
monkey? COCC will hap-
pily test you and let you
know. Can you ride a bike?
Jon Renner is betting that
you can’t do it. Can you fly
a plane? ENERGYneering
Solutions will let you try to
stay in the air on their flight
simulator. Once you’ve gotten
your wings on the simulator,
you can go to the real thing
and try your hand at flying a
paper airplane from one end
of the gym to the other end.
All this will happen at the
Sisters Science Fair at Sisters
High School on Saturday,
February 20, from noon to 4
p.m. This year’s theme is out-
door science and students and
community members will be
showing off their best.
The outdoor science
theme is evident in the mul-
tiple displays for astronomy.
The Sisters Astronomy Club
will be on hand with tele-
scopes, and the Sun River
Observatory and the Central
Oregon Rocket Club will
dazzle you with the rich
See SCIeNCe FaIR on page 31
photo by Craig rullman
Brent mcgregor has been a key member of expeditions exploring glacial caves.
Leading journeys into the ice
By Craig Rullman
Correspondent
Brent McGregor came
to Oregon for the junipers,
he says, but stayed for the
adventures.
At 63, he has climbed
every volcanic peak in the
Cascades, topped all three
Sisters in under 12 hours,
explored into the deep
reaches of Central Oregon’s
extensive network of lava
tubes and, most recently,
along with his partners at
Glacier Cave Adventures,
has become a world-famous
explorer and photographer.
As a young man growing
up in San Diego, Brent felt
drawn to the wilds. In his
20s, he spent a year living
in a canvas teepee in the raw
wilderness of Alaska, where
he made his own clothes,
hunted his own food, and ran
a sled team with 18 dogs.
“I had a dream when I was
8 or 10 years old, to go the
wildest wilderness I could
find,” he recalled. “I just
wanted to go into a really
wild place and to be there.”
That dream eventu-
ally brought him to Central
Oregon, where he has built
furniture out of juniper, as
Rocky Mountain Furniture
Products, for 30 years. He
was attracted to juniper,
McGregor says, because the
round forms of the natural
product were more interest-
ing to him than traditionally
milled productions.
Brent’s appreciation for
the character revealed in
juniper trees is revealed in his
photography of the glacial
cave systems he explores.
Exploding with light and
form, the pictures remind one
of the best photographs of
exploding nebulas in space,
and his work has recently
been featured at Maptia.
com’s “46 Places To Fill You
With Wonder For 2016,” an
anthology of “the most tal-
ented photographers on the
planet.”
McGregor’s team, Glacier
Cave Explorers, has com-
pleted three expeditions to
the Sandy Glacier on Mt.
Hood since 2014, mapping,
photographing, and record-
ing the constantly changing
conditions inside 7,000 feet
See mCgRegOR on page 28
SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR
Sisters Area Photography Club
2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., Sisters Library
community room. 541-549-6157.
Al-Anon Monday, noon, Shepherd
Sisters Area SketchUp Users Group
of the Hills Lutheran Church •
Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild
2nd Wednesday, 7 p.m., Earthwood
Wednesday, 6 p.m., The Episcopal
4th Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For
Timber Frame Homes. 541-549-0924.
location information: 541-549-2072.
Church of the Transfi guration.
541-549-8737 or 541-549-1527.
Sisters Astronomy Club 3rd
Central Oregon Spinners and
Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.
Alateen Thursday, 7 p.m., The
Weavers Guild 4th Saturday, 1 to
Episcopal Church of the
3 p.m. Sisters Library. 541-639-3217.
Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays,
Transfi guration. 541-549-1527.
12:30 p.m., The Pines Clubhouse.
Central Oregon Woodworkers
Novices welcomed. 541-549-9419.
Alcoholics Anonymous Thursday &
Guild 1st Monday. 541-610-9022.
Sunday, 7 p.m., The Episcopal Church
Sisters Cribbage Club Tuesdays,
East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th
of the Transfi guration • Saturday,
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Ray’s Food Place
Wednesday, September-June, Stitchin’
8 a.m., The Episcopal Church of the
community room. 541-923-1632.
Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.
Transfi guration • Monday, 5 p.m.,
Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
Friends of the Sisters Library Board
of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.
• Tuesday, noon, Big Book study,
of Directors 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m., Location information: 541-549-1193.
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church • Sisters Library. 541-977-8285.
Thursday, noon, Sober Sisters Women
Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to
Meeting, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Heartwarmers (fl eece blanketmakers)
8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at
1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870.
Church. 541-548-0440.
Hall. Just bring scissors! 503-880-5832.
Authors Support Group 2nd Friday,
Sisters Parent Teacher Community
10 a.m., Sisters Area Chamber of
Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday, 1 to 3rd Wednesday, 3:15 p.m., Sisters
Commerce. 541-588-0081.
4 p.m. 541-549-1028 or 541-548-3304. Elementary C-wing. 971-570-2405.
Black Butte Macintosh Users Group
Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.
Military Parents of Sisters 2nd
3rd Thursday, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Sisters Thursday, 5:30 p.m., 17549 Knight Rd., Location information: 541-279-1977.
Library community room. 541-549-1471. Bend (Plainview area). 541-388-9013.
Sisters Rotary Tuesdays, noon,
Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club
Aspen Lakes Lodge. 541-977-6545.
Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters
Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., Black Butte
Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.,
Sisters Trails Alliance Board of
Ranch community room. All welcome;
Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-408-5594.
Directors 2nd Wed., 5:30 to 7 p.m.
partner required. 541-595-6236.
The Pines Clubhouse. 541-719-8822.
SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings
Celebrate Recovery Thursdays,
& Enrichment) Wednesdays, 1 to
Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon,
7 p.m., Westside Church-Sisters
4 p.m. at SPRD. 541-549-2091.
Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123.
Campus. 541-389-6859.
BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS
Central Oregon Council on Aging
Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters
Community Church. 541-678-5483.
Three Sisters Irrigation District
Board of Directors 1st Tuesday,
4 p.m., TSID Offi ce. 541-549-8815.
Three Sisters Lions Club 2nd
Tuesday, noon, Ray’s Food Place
community room. 541-419-1279.
VFW 8138 & American Legion
1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters
City Hall. Service offi cer available.
541-903-1123 or 541-549-1132.
Cloverdale RFPD Board of Directors
3rd Wednesday, 7 p.m., Main Station,
George Cyrus Rd. 541-548-4815. See
the agenda at www.cloverdalefi re.com.
Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD
Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday,
5 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 541-549-0771.
Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Drills
Mondays, 7 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall,
301 S. Elm St. 541-549-0771.
CITY & PARKS
SCHOOLS
Sisters City Council 2nd &
4th Thursday, 7 p.m., Sisters City Hall.
541-549-6022.
Sisters Park & Recreation District
Board of Directors 1st Tuesday,
6 p.m., SPRD building. 541-549-2091.
Sisters Planning Commission
3rd Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Sisters
City Hall. 541-549-6022.
Black Butte School Board of
Directors 2nd Tuesday, 5 p.m.,
Black Butte School. 541-595-6203.
Sisters Christian Academy Board
of Directors 2nd Thursday, 8 a.m.,
RE/MAX Revolution offi ce at Outlaw
Station. 541-549-4133.
Sisters School District Board of
Directors One Wednesday per month,
SSD Admin Bldg. See schedule at www.
sisters.k12.or.us. 541-549-8521 x4011 .
FIRE & POLICE
Black Butte Ranch Police Dept.
Board of Directors Meets monthly.
541-595-2191 for time & date.
Black Butte Ranch RFPD Board of
Directors 4th Thursday, 9 a.m., Black
Butte Ranch Fire Station. 541-595-2288.
This listing is for reg
scheduled meetings; ularly
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