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24 Wednesday, April 13, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Featuring student art... CITy: Improvements underway at Creekside Park Continued from page 3 photo provided Sisters middle School students Adrienne Steffen and Brody Duey have their art featured on the spring Voters Pamphlet for Deschutes County. County Clerk Nancy Blankenship visited the school last Friday to present the students in Norma Pledger’s class with awards for their efforts. HABITAT: Acquisition is part of Whychus campaign Continued from page 1 own and manage the prop- erty for its highest ecological and educational benefit. This agreement provides a clear path forward toward that goal. Now we just need to raise the necessary funds via The Campaign for Whychus Creek to ensure we’re in position to realize that initial vision.” Rimrock Ranch is an inte- gral part of the Land Trust’s larger conservation efforts on Whychus Creek. The Land Trust has protected eight miles of Whychus Creek and more than 2,200 acres of adja- cent floodplains, wetlands, and forests. The Campaign for Whychus Creek will help the Land Trust purchase, pro- tect, and care for important wildlife habitat on Whychus Creek, including those found at Rimrock Ranch. The Land Trust hopes to raise the remaining $1.9 million in pri- vate fundraising by the end of the Campaign in June 2017. C the Land Trust’s goal for The Campaign for Whychus Creek, launched in the fall of 2014, is to finish protect- ing the highest-quality wild- life habitat along Whychus Creek, ensure the permanent stewardship of those lands for generations to come, and engage the community along the way. In the first year- and-a-half of the Campaign, the Land Trust protected two new parcels of land along Whychus Creek. They acquired the 480-acre addi- tion to Whychus Canyon Preserve in October 2014 and the 58-acre Aspen Hollow Preserve in April of 2015. For more information on Deschutes Land Trust, call 541-330-0017 or visit www. deschuteslandtrust.org. Living in Sisters — How to Get Involved. • Restrooms, like those located at Fir Street Park, will be installed this summer at Clemens Park in the south- east corner of the park. • The City is seeking a volunteer to fill a vacancy on the Parks Advisory Board. The applicant may be a high school student who has time to attend 4 p.m. meetings the first Wednesday of each month or an adult resident of Sisters Country. Applications are available on the City website, www.ci.sisters.or.us, under Living in Sisters — How to Get Involved. • The possibility of install- ing shade sails at Fir Street Park, which currently lacks any kind of shade at all times of the day, is being investi- gated by the public works department. • Public works wants to remind everyone that road construction season is com- ing up and asks citizens to be mindful of equipment and workers on the city streets and roads. Please give them a “brake.” • Drive by Creekside Campground and take a look at all the improvements made by public works to the Locust Street side of the campground, in response to almost two years of meet- ings and public hearings con- ducted by the Parks Advisory Board. They have enlarged and extended the earthen berm and planted 25 large blue spruce trees on it to help screen the campground from the adjoining neighbor- hood. The old exit has been removed and the existing entrance has been widened to allow for both entering and exiting from one location. Several camping sites located next to Locust have been removed and several others have been shortened to reduce the size of motorhomes able to use those sites. • The online reserva- tion system for Creekside Campground is performing well. The number of phone calls to the City regarding reservations has been greatly reduced, saving staff time. There are already 1,400 nights reserved, and reserva- tions only started March 1. • ODOT is moving for- ward on the planned round- about for the intersection at Highway 20 and McKinney Butte Road, by Ray’s Food Place and the Best Western Ponderosa Lodge. Right- of-way work is underway and ODOT plans to hold focus-group meetings, start- ing with the businesses closest to the roundabout. They will also be engag- ing the community, much as they did on the Cascade Avenue project. Construction is projected to begin in 2017. • The Army Corps of Engineers is beginning a two-year study of the Carver Lake moraine dam, which is located above Sisters in the Whychus Creek watershed. They will be making pre- sentations to the community regarding the study and why it is being undertaken. • City Council is prepar- ing to adopt a resolution sup- porting the Speak Your Peace Sisters Civility Project. They are joining a number of other local businesses and organi- zations in this community- wide effort. • In May, a grand open- ing will be held to celebrate 1.1 miles of accessible trail on the Peterson Ridge Trail near the new scenic over- look. It is the first ADA trail in the Sisters Ranger District and was funded by a grant from the National Forest Foundation. Sisters Trails Alliance assisted in its con- struction and is providing signage and benches. • Work on an update to the Transportation System Plan will begin in July and the City will be looking for citizens to serve on the committee. • Infrastructure improve- ments on Hood Avenue have been completed. The under- ground power and irrigation systems are all on the City grid now. The ADA ramp replacements are complete and repaving should be com- plete this week. The Sisters Arts Association is work- ing with Travel Oregon and the Chamber of Commerce to create an arts district on Hood. • The Deschutes County Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Committee has an open- ing for a representative from Sisters. If interested contact Wendy Holzman, wendomere@gmail.com. The Garden Angel 541-549-2882 A natural approach to lawn care Cleanups • Fertilizing Aeration • De-thatching • LCB#9352 N ING SE RV ICE A E L S Specializing In: Window & Screen Cleaning Home & Rental Cleaning CALL FOR YOUR FREE ESTIMATE! JEFF BLAKE • 541-549-0897 I NSURED , L ICENSED & B ONDED This ad sponsored by The Nugget Newspaper in support of Deschutes Land Trust.
