Sisters students
celebrate poetry page 5
MOTH tickets up for
“quick draw” page 11
The Nugget
Vol. XXXIX No. 20
Sisters woman is running
for coffee page 27
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News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Sisters gets set to celebrate the arts
Sisters will launch into its
annual spring celebration of
the arts this weekend.
My Own Two Hands
(MOTH), the annual fund-
raiser for Sisters Folk
Festival’s educational pro-
grams, begins on May 13,
with a parade, art stroll and a
free community celebration at
The Belfry in Sisters.
O n S a t u r d a y, M a y
14, Ponderosa Forge and
Ironworks will be trans-
formed into an auction and
party venue.
Started 15 years ago,
MOTH is an event with two
purposes: raise funds for arts
and music programming in
Sisters Country, and bring the
community together to cel-
ebrate the arts.
T h i s y e a r ’s t h e m e ,
“Connection,” has produced
an inspiring collection of art
donations.
The community celebra-
tion begins on Friday with
a lively parade of students,
teachers, musicians and com-
munity members, showcasing
their art as they march down
Hood Avenue. The parade
begins at 4 p.m. on the east
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Rick Allen
will be
interim city
manager
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Two Hands Art Stroll, from
4 to 7 p.m. The art will be
Rick Allen of Madras, for-
mer interim city manager in
La Pine and Madras, will be
Sisters’ interim city manager.
Pending successful contract
negotiation and completion
of a background check, Allen
will hopefully be available for
work by mid-May.
Sisters City Council
selected him from a field of
three candidates.
He brings with him a
wealth of experience in the
public sector, which has cre-
ated a broad network of rela-
tionships. Allen’s résumé
describes him as “a successful
business entrepreneur with
a significant background in
the public sector in managing
See ARTS on page 29
See ALLEN on page 19
photo by Jay Mather
Charlie Moen, 8, a second-grade student applies some finishing touches to the River Celebration installation on
the Sisters Elementary School fence. My Own Two Hands supports the arts and music education outreach of the
Sisters Folk Festival.
end of Hood and concludes at
Pine Street.
Hood Avenue will be
closed to traffic for about 45
minutes for the parade.
Following the parade,
the community can view the
art at the official My Own
Teams swarm Sisters for SALI
Sisters combat pilot
joins return to Vietnam
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
By Craig Rullman
Correspondent
Richard Hartnack of Black
Butte Ranch, a Marine avia-
tor during the Vietnam War,
recently returned from an
historic trip to Vietnam with
fellow veteran pilots from the
Marines, Navy, and U.S. Air
Force. They enjoyed a rare
and moving opportunity to
meet and reconcile with their
former adversaries from the
Vietnam Air Force.
Hartnack, who flew 220
combat missions with Marine
Fighter Attack Squadron 115
as a Radar Intercept Officer
in an F-4B Phantom II, began
Inside...
his journey back to Vietnam
the same way he started it in
1969 — in San Francisco.
In 1969, First Lieutenant
Hartnack and his wife spent
his last few days stateside
touring the city.
In 2016, they were met
by 42 members of his fam-
ily, and took the opportunity
to celebrate his father’s 100th
birthday.
Hartnack told The Nugget,
“I joined this group of vet-
erans when a member of my
squadron, Charlie Tutt, who
had become the chief pilot of
Delta Airlines, decided to put
See VIETNAM on page 14
Teams from all over
Oregon and Idaho swarmed
into Sisters this past week-
end for the Sisters Annual
Lacrosse Invitational (SALI)
tournament, held on Saturday
and Sunday, May 7-8.
Seventy-two teams were
in attendance this year, which
calculated out to approxi-
mately 1,500 athletes. Add
to that parents, siblings, and
grandparents, and the total
number estimates to easily
over 5,000 people.
This year consisted of
boys’ teams from third and
fourth grade through high
school.
“We are looking at the
photo by Jerry baldock
Tyler Friend scores against the Central Oregon Stud Muffins in SALI action
last weekend.
possibility of an additional are at capacity with the fields
girls’ tournament, and/or the we have between the high
possibility of adding girls school and middle school.”
teams to SALI,” said Liam
Hughes added, “The
Hughes, Executive Directory SALI tournament is the
of SPRD. “The issue is we
See SALI on page 9
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