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Seniors enjoy Easter bonnet contest page 5 Festival presents two Boston bands page 7 The Nugget Vol. XXXIX No. 13 Students create fish art for mural page 10 P OSTAL CUSTOMER News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon www.NuggetNews.com Wednesday, March 30, 2016 6,000 eggs snatched up in minutes By Jodi Schneider McNamee Correspondent It’s all over in minutes. Hundreds of warmly dressed eager egg hunters from infant to 11 years old turned out for the 38th annual Sisters Easter Egg Hunt at Creekside Park. The Easter egg hunt is co-sponsored by the Sisters-Camp Sherman and Cloverdale fire depart- ment volunteer associations. Earlier Easter day volun- teers hid 6,000 plastic eggs throughout the park on grass, pine needles, behind trees and bushes and then divided out areas for each age group. “This year we have a couple of thousand more eggs and had over 20 vol- unteers helping to hide all of them,” said Sisters-Camp Sherman firefighter Graham MacDonald, who organized the event. The Easter Bunny arrived on the scene early with his basket of goodies, greeting enthusiastic kids before the traditional egg hunt began. Sisters resident Spurge Cochran has tirelessly por- trayed the Easter Bunny for PRE-SORTED STANDARD ECRWSS U.S. POSTAGE PAID Sisters, OR Permit No. 15 Sisters selected for U of O project By Sue Stafford Correspondent while some were marked for a special prize. The City of Sisters has been presented with an opportunity to participate in a cutting-edge pilot project conducted by the University of Oregon’s award-winning Sustainable City Initiative, utilizing UO students and faculty. Over the past six years, the Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) has collaborated with one large Oregon city each year. Students worked on city- identified, real-world projects that furthered already identi- fied city goals. “With the traditional model, cities partner with SCYP for an academic year. Cities benefit from between 40,000 and 80,000 hours of work by UO students and fac- ulty members from a variety See Egg huNt on page 30 See proJEct on page 22 Photo by Jerry baldock Five-year-old twins Brooklyn & Madison Moffit smiled with the Easter Bunny on Sunday. 38 years. At exactly 1 p.m. the siren blared and crowds of kids fanned out across the park scouring the grounds and fill- ing their baskets with yellow, blue, orange, red and green plastic eggs filled with candy Starry Nights welcomes Golden eagle cam is up and running back Karla Bonoff By Jim Anderson Correspondent Starry Nights comes full circle when renowned singer- songwriter Karla Bonoff makes her return to the Sisters stage for her sold-out show on Sunday, April 3, at The Belfry. “Starry Nights Presents An Evening with Karla Bonoff” marks her fourth Starry Nights appearance. She was Starry Nights’ very first performer when the event debuted in February 1997, and also performed in 1998 with J.D. Souther and most recently in 2002. The event is a Inside... benefit for the Sisters Schools Foundation and will raise funds for classroom and co- curricular programs at Sisters elementary, middle and high schools. Over the years, Starry Nights has contributed more than $1 million to the Sisters Schools Foundation. “We are thrilled that Karla is making her way back to Sisters for Starry Nights,” said co-founder Jeri Fouts. “She was the first artist we thought of when Starry Nights was just an idea, and See KArlA BoNoFF on page 21 Sisters Country is blessed with people who are always ready to pitch in, and get the job done. That’s why the free cam streaming the life and times of a golden eagle nest is up and running again this year. To view it, visit www. GoldenEagleCam.com. As anyone who has set up this kind of system will tell you, it isn’t easy, and it does cost money. The money part is being taken care of by the East Cascade Audubon Society (ECAS), based in Bend. President of ECAS, Ken Hashagen, lives in the Photo by Jim anderson Jim hammond, chief technician, and leslie lawrence tuning up the golden eagle cam that’s now up and running. Sisters area and — being the birder he is — knows how exciting it is for anyone to open up their computer at breakfast-time and be able to watch a golden eagle feeding See EAglE cAM on page 14 Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituaries ......................... 7 Announcements ................12 Real Estate Showcase ..15-18 Classifieds .................. 27-29 Meetings ........................... 3 Sisters Saver ....................11 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Crossword ....................... 26 Real Estate .................29-32
