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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters has a new softball coach
players fill out information
cards. “We asked them to put
their name down, what posi-
tion they would like to play
and what they wanted to see
in their team and summarily
they want to be a strong team,
be more serious, work hard-
core together as a team.”
Smith has been involved
in a lot of softball since
the 2015 high school cam-
paign ended as his daugh-
ter, Amanda, participated
in Fastpitch Northwest’s
College Exposure program
as well as played Fall Ball for
the Washington Explosion
U-16 Team with tournaments
in Washington and California.
Amanda Smith is a 6-foot-
1-inch left-handed pitcher,
who has taken private offsea-
son pitching and hitting les-
sons. She was chosen Second
Team All-Sky-Em League as
a sophomore.
And Coach Smith regu-
larly catches Amanda’s pri-
vate pitching lessons. Another
of Smith’s daughters, Ashley,
played on the 2013 Outlaw
team.
Smith noted that practice
begins February 29, but that
new OSAA (Oregon School
Activities Association)
allows pitchers and catchers
to start two weeks prior.
“Right now my goals
are to let the girls have fun,
form a strong team, encour-
age the girls to work at their
skills and make them better
student athletes,” said Smith,
who added the coaching
staff would also be getting
By tom Mauldin
Correspondent
Dave Smith, a former
youth softball coach and
retired California deputy
sheriff, has been named
Sisters High School’s varsity
softball coach.
“I am excited and honored
to be back in the coaching
ring and to be coaching at
the high-school level,” said
Smith. “It will be a challeng-
ing one that I am looking for-
ward to.”
Smith replaces Cierra
Jones, who guided the
Outlaws to a two-year record
of 7-36 in 2014 (2-20) and
2015 (5-16). The Outlaws
won their final two games of
the 2015 season, defeating
Junction City twice, 2-1 and
3-1.
“I am really looking for-
ward to helping these girls
build confidence in them-
selves and teaching them
not to give up,” said Smith.
“The hard part is going to
be recruiting and getting the
numbers up.”
The numbers have been
an issue in recent years. The
Outlaws haven’t had enough
players to field a junior var-
sity team in three seasons.
Smith and his assistants
held an introductory team
meeting last week and are
planning a second meeting.
He said he would like to get
a roster of 15 players.
“We had 10 (prospec-
tive) softball players show
up,” said Smith, who had the
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Dave Smith.
involving with softball play-
ers at younger levels.
Smith will be assisted by
Harley Rowe and McKibben
Womack.
As a freshman, Rowe
was a starter on Sisters’
lone Sky-Em League soft-
ball title in 2010 and was a
four-year varsity starter. She
was selected All-League on
several occasions and has
travel ball experience as a
pitcher, catcher, outfielder
and infielder. She graduated
from SHS in 2013.
“I am excited that Harley
has joined the coaching
staff,” said Smith. “She will
be working with the pitchers,
catchers and infielders.”
Womack will be the
strength and conditioning
coach as well as assisting
drill stations during practices,
said Smith.
Beginning this week,
more than 2,500 families in
Deschutes County will start
transitioning to eWIC, which
will enable them to shop for
WIC food benefits using
an EBT (electronic benefit
transaction) card.
Currently, participants
of WIC, a program of the
Oregon Health Authority’s
Public Health Division,
use paper vouchers to buy
WIC-approved foods. Now,
with this new card, shop-
ping will be easier and WIC
families will be able to bet-
ter track their monthly food
balance.
Participants will also have
access to a new WICShopper
smart phone app, which will
allow them to scan a food’s
bar code to determine if it is
a WIC allowed food.
“We’re so excited to offer
a new, convenient way for
our families to shop,” said
Laura Spaulding, Deschutes
County WIC coordinator.
“With these new options,
accessing and tracking ben-
efits will be easy.”
In Deschutes County,
WIC serves more than 3,330
women, infants and chil-
dren. In 2014, these families
spent more than $2.4 mil-
lion at local WIC stores and
farmers markets on healthy
foods.
WIC provides services at
over 100 clinic sites through-
out Oregon and serves
161,000 lower-income preg-
nant women, infants, and
children under age 5. These
WIC families shop at more
than 500 Oregon grocery
stores, pharmacies, farm
stands and farmers markets,
and spend $64.7 million a
year with their WIC food
benefits.
We’re so excited to
offer a new, convenient
way for our families
to shop. With these
new options, accessing
and tracking benefits
will be easy.
— laura Spaulding
WIC has been offering
participant-centered nutri-
tion education, healthy food,
breastfeeding support and
has been serving as a gate-
way for preventative health
for more than 40 years.
Deschutes County WIC
has appointment openings
at clinic sites in Bend, La
Pine, Redmond and Sisters.
For more information about
WIC, visit http://www.
deschutes.org/health/page/
women-infants-and-children-
wic or call 541-322-7400.
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