Young entrepreneurs
pursue passions page 7
Circle of Friends welcomes
new associate director page 19
The Nugget
Vol. XXXIX No. 10
New U.S. flag flies at
Sisters Library page 30
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Injured
youth
making
strong
recovery
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
DA:
Woman
charged
for theft
An entertaining Mr. SHS...
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
Sisters High School student
Logan Miller was involved in
a serious auto accident on icy
roads on January 6. Miller was
in the hospital for six weeks,
with a severe head injury
requiring life-saving surgery.
Logan was able to go home
on February 22.
Logan has had endless
amounts of support through-
out his remarkable recov-
ery. Bracelets reading “Stay
photo by Jerry baldock
Mr. SHS candidates displayed their talents on stage in the fundraising pageant. See story, page 11.
Student art on display
at Sisters Library
Correspondent
March is Student Art
Exhibit Month at Sisters
Library and Sisters’ next gen-
eration of artists is marching
ahead, inspired by ancient and
contemporary arts.
The Computer Room
blasts color, with Clay War-
burton’s 4th grade students’
bold abstract paintings based
on Japanese kanji, logo-
graphic Chinese characters
used in the modern Japanese
writing system. Each symbol
represents a word, such as
“cow” or “fire” or “tree.” A
haiku, a 17-syllable poem in
three lines (5-7-5), accompa-
nies each painting, and gives
a clue to identify the kanji:
For a “fire” kanji:
Black and burning wood,
Warms my house in the
winter.
Inside...
The Deschutes County
District Attorney’s Office
announced on Tuesday morn-
ing that Cheryl Waldron
of Bend was arrested after
being indicted by a grand
jury on 27 felony counts of
Aggravated Identity Theft,
Aggravated Theft in the First
Degree and Forgery in the
First Degree. Waldron was
employed since 1999 as a
bookkeeper and office man-
ager with Sisters company
Robinson & Owen Heavy
Construction. Robinson &
Owen Heavy Construction
has been contracting private
See eMBezzleMeNt on page 23
See logaN MIller on page 29
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Melts a s’more … Yummy.
For a “cow” kanji:
Loves to eat green grass
Juicy steaks on barbecues
Brown, black with white
spots.
Warburton explained that
four years ago, on a trip to
Japan, he became fascinated
by the symbols in the written
language. A Japanese friend
drew out some simple kanji,
which Warburton brought
to his classroom. For this
project, each student picks
a kanji, and then writes the
haiku, which as a riddle, can-
not use the actual word. Then
creativity continues with big
sheets of black paper and bold
colors. Kanji and haiku intro-
duce Sisters youth to a larger
world. About half of the kanji
paintings are hung in the
library and the other half are
See StudeNt art on page 31
Firefighters take on stair challenge
Fourteen local firefighters
from the Black Butte Ranch,
Cloverdale, and Sisters-Camp
Sherman Fire Districts trav-
eled to Seattle last weekend to
participate in the 25th Annual
Firefighters Stairclimb spon-
sored by the Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society.
This year, Sisters Country
firefighters were able to raise
over $25,000 for this worthy
cause, thanks to the kindness
and generosity of the commu-
nity and visitors.
As of Monday morn-
ing the team of firefight-
ers was in 10th place for
fundraising among teams
from over 300 different fire
departments.
Firefighters competed
with more 1,900 other fire-
fighters from six countries
and 26 states for time in the
69-story climb.
Last year this event
raised over $2,000,000 for
the Leukemia & Lymphoma
Society. The funds raised are
photo provided
local firefighters raised $25,000 for cancer research.
used to fund research to fight
blood cancers and to assist
families with quality-of-life
issues while fighting these
diseases.
Efforts to find a cure have
borne fruit in recent decades.
In 1960, the most common
type of leukemia had a 3 per-
cent cure rate among chil-
dren. Today the cure rate is at
90 percent.
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituaries ....................6, 25 Movies & Entertainment ....11 Focus on Health ...........13-21 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ............... 10 Bunkhouse Chronicle ........12 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32