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The Nugget
Vol. XXXIX No. 13
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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
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Sisters
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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
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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