Sisters youths earn
black belts page 7
Science Club project
educates page 20
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Vol. XXXIX No. 17
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Learning the crafts of early America...
Ballots out
for school
bond
measure
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Mayor Chris Frye told The
Nugget Monday morning that
the Sisters City Council con-
tinues to work toward resolv-
ing the status of City Manager
Andrew Gorayeb.
The council held a fourth
executive session on the mat-
ter early Monday morning
and left without a resolution,
despite having scheduled a
special meeting at which an
announcement was expected.
“At the end of the (execu-
tive session), it was apparent
that a couple of ‘I’s’ needed to
be dotted and ‘T’s’ that need
to be crossed before we can
say anything,” Frye said.
He said that he expects
that Council will be able to
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Chuck Tucker guides a student in using a traditional tool during a session at Earthwood Homes in Sisters.
See CITY on page 26
Ballots will start appear-
ing this week in Sisters mail-
boxes, as the school district’s
proposed $10.7 million bond
measure goes before voters.
The general obligation
bonds would cost taxpayers
approximately 41 cents per
$1,000 of assessed valuation
— or about $123 per year for
a home assessed at $300,000.
Funds would be allocated
for installation of security
systems; safety and ADA
improvements; facility and
site improvements includ-
ing HVAC renovations and
parking lot repairs; athletic
facilities improvements; and
refinancing of full faith and
credit obligations used for
earlier capital improvements.
The proposed bond has
See BALLOTS on page 27
Building moved to rodeo grounds
Golfers ring in
spring with tournament
The Central Oregon
Shootout has become a tra-
ditional way to ring in the
spring season in Sisters
Country. This year, its 364
participants experienced just
about everything a Sisters
Country spring has to offer
— except snow: A little bit
of wind, a little bit of rain, a
little bit of sunshine and tem-
peratures that hovered just
between brisk and chilly.
And they enjoyed 54 holes
of fine golf at the three partic-
ipating golf facilities: Aspen
Lakes, Black Butte Ranch’s
Big Meadow course, and
Eagle Crest Resort.
Aspen Lakes Director of
Golf Rob Malone noted that
Inside...
the 364 golfers exceeded the
300-golfer subscription for a
full tournament, which dem-
onstrates the growing popu-
larity of the event. He said
everything went smoothly for
the three-day tourney.
Not long ago, the Central
Oregon Shootout was a small
tournament that was barely
a blip on the Central Oregon
golf radar. After 14 years of
development, it is now the
second-largest golf tourna-
ment in Central Oregon.
The two-golfer team tour-
nament features one round
of scramble, one round of
best ball and a final-round
Chapman spread over the
See GOLFERS on page 28
Early Sunday morning,
a moving crew hauled a
2,400-square-foot structure
from Cloverdale Road up
Highway 20 to the Sisters
Rodeo Grounds.
The Cloverdale Rural Fire
Protection District donated
the now-surplus fire station
structure to the Sisters Rodeo
Association, which will use
the building for storage for
the time being, according to
Rodeo Association President
Glenn Miller.
This re-purposing of
the building will save the
Cloverdale Fire District the
cost of demolition and debris
removal prior to construc-
tion of a new fire station
building.
The rodeo offered a state-
ment on the donation: “With
PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
The Cloverdale fire department donated a building that was moved to
Sisters Rodeo Grounds on Sunday.
a little help from our friends,
we keep making improve-
ments. It will be nice to have a
place to store our equipment,
some of which has had to tol-
erate the extremes of our cli-
mate.” On Monday morning,
April 25, the Cloverdale fire
board of directors and fire
chief of the district broke
ground on a new apparatus
building, which is paid for
through bond funds approved
by voters last year.
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Announcements ................12 Bunkhouse Chronicle ....... 16 Obituaries ............... 22 & 23 Classifieds ..................24-26
Meetings ........................... 3 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Sisters Salutes .................17 Crossword ....................... 23 Real Estate .................28-32