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Wednesday, March 16, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Fire district honors volunteers
The Cloverdale Volunteer
Fire Fighters Association
banquet was held Saturday,
March 12, at the Sisters
Rodeo Clubhouse to honor
the volunteers and mem-
bers for their dedication and
service.
Fire Chief Thad Olsen
and Training Officer Michael
Valoppi spent most of the
evening speaking of the fire
district volunteers who served
their neighbors of the district
in the year of 2015.
Lt. Clinton Weaver was
awarded the Volunteer of
the Year Award. Spencer
Cashwell, an officer trainee,
was awarded the Deputy
Chief John Thomas award,
for his dedication and com-
mitment to the fire district.
Firefighter Derrick Clark,
one of the newest firefighters
in Cloverdale, was voted as
Rookie of the Year.
One of the highlights of the
evening was when Holly Rose
Davis, of Sisters, a leukemia
survivor, presented awards to
the Cloverdale members of
the Sisters Country firefight-
ers team, who helped raise
over $26,000 for the Scott
Firefighter Stair Climb which
benefits the Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society.
Tom Barrier, a past volun-
teer and board member, was
given the Don Johnson Award
for Community Service, for
his role in the fire district as
well as the time spent work-
ing with veterans in Sisters
Band of Brothers. Cloverdale
Board of Directors President
Jerry Johnson received rec-
ognition for his five years of
service to the board.
Officer Trainee Spencer
Cashwell and Firefighter Josh
Rodke both received a letter
of commendation for spend-
ing an hour and a half of their
time — in freezing tempera-
tures — trying to repair a
water line that a community
member was working on,
just before being transported
to the hospital with a cardiac
event.
Lt. Clinton Weaver also
received a letter of commen-
dation for his over 300 hours
volunteered in developing the
district’s new fire engines,
which should arrive in the
district within the next two
months.
Firefighters Sam Seller
and Jesse Gardner received
certificates for their five years
of service. And Firefighter
John Downs was awarded
for 100 percent attendance at
21
Community rallies
for Logan Miller
photo provided
leukemia survivor Holly davis
presented awards to Cloverdale
firefighters who participated in the
Scott Firefighter Stair Climb.
weekly fire drills.
“Many of [the] constitu-
ents of the district do not
realize that we are a mostly
volunteer organization, with
only two paid personnel,”
Chief Olsen commented. “We
thank all of our community
neighbors for their support,
not only of the bond mea-
sure, providing much-needed
upgrades to apparatus and sta-
tions, but their constant sup-
port of our volunteers who
are providing the best service,
with pride, for their friends
and neighbors.”
Some 30 members of the
Sisters community gathered
at The Cottonwood Café
on Sunday evening to raise
funds for the family of Logan
Miller.
The $100-a-plate fundrais-
ing dinner raised $3,000 to
help defray medical expenses
associated with Miller’s treat-
ment and recovery.
The Sisters High School
student 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. Since
going home to the family
ranch east of Sisters, Logan
has been tending to his lambs,
resting, and doing physical
therapy.
Jennifer McCrystal told
The Nugget that she was
moved as a mom to “do
something” to help out —
as were the many folks who
came out on a rainy Sunday
to enjoy the dinner.
Logan himself was on
hand, greeting well-wishers.
photo by Jim corNelius
logan Miller met with well-wishers
at a fundraiser.
“I think it’s pretty cool,”
he said of the event. “I’m
really happy to be here.”
While he’s happy to be
out of the hospital and back
home, he’s impatient to get
on with the next step of his
treatment.
“I can’t wait ’til they get
this fixed,” he said, gestur-
ing to the side of his head
where a portion of his skull
was removed. That removed
structure will be replaced
with a polymer piece created
on a 3D printer. Logan was
expecting to go in for scans
this week to get that process
going.
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The greenhouse at Sisters High School is being
rebuilt by Sisters Kiwanis and Sisters Science
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