Wednesday, May 11, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
SALI: Event brings
thousands to Sisters
each year
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Brown expected to
win primary
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largest fundraiser of the
year for lacrosse in Sisters.
Fundraisers like this help fill
the gap between what parents
pay for their children to play,
and the actual cost of run-
ning the program. Without
events like this, and all the
people that work hard to pull
them off, costs would get too
high for many families to
afford.”
This year’s event required
128 individual volunteer
shifts, in addition to the
volunteers on the Lacrosse
Advisory Committee and
SPRD staff, who have been
working together for months
to make this tournament
happen. Some people took
multiple shifts, but Hughes
estimated around 60 indi-
viduals worked on the tour-
nament, not counting the
vendors.
Sisters High School’s var-
sity squad played a total of
four games, and were unable
to post a single win. On
Saturday, the Outlaws fell 8-4
to the Central Oregon Stud
Muffins.
Sisters came back to
make it a close first half, but
struggled in the second half.
By Andrew Selsky
Associated Press
photo by Jerry baldock
A young Outlaw makes a shot in lacrosse action on Saturday.
Sisters’ second game ended
in a 13-3 loss to McNary. The
Outlaws were physically and
emotionally tired, especially
after all their hard work to
help prepare for the tourney.
On Sunday, the Outlaws
lost 3-2 to Ridgeview in
overtime. It was an exciting
game that was close the entire
way. Both teams fought hard,
and the Outlaws suffered
the loss in the Braveheart
overtime.
Their last game of the
tourney was a 7-4 loss to
West Albany. The Outlaws
played their strongest first
half of the tournament, and
it was exciting for fans to see
such a hard effort from their
team. Unfortunately, due
to numerous penalties, the
Outlaws played the major-
ity of the second half a man
down.
Coach Eric Wentzel said,
“Sisters put on a great tour-
nament, and with parents and
players’ help, made it very
successful. All of the Sisters
teams put forth a great effort
during their games. It was
awesome to see players for
different ages cheering each
other on.
“Many of the teams that
come to SALI in the younger
age groups (eighth grade and
below) are select travel teams,
so we get a chance to face
some tough competition.”
SALEM, Oregon (AP)
— Gov. Kate Brown, a
Democrat who inherited the
governorship after her pre-
decessor quit amid a federal
investigation, appears to be
so confident that she’ll win
the May 17 primary that she
has barely campaigned.
Experts agree, predict-
ing an easy win for Brown,
a former secretary of state, in
both the May 17 primary and
the November election in this
predominantly democratic
Western state.
Brown
has
five
Democratic rivals — a ICU
physician, an environmental
engineer, a home care worker,
a Walmart employee and a
truck driver. Few Oregonians
have ever heard of them.
Running for the
Republican nomination are
four candidates, including
businessman Allen Alley,
who unsuccessfully sought
the Republican nomination
for governor in 2010, and
Salem oncologist Bud Pierce.
“She should win her
job outright in November,”
Benjamin Gaskins, assistant
professor of political science
at Lewis & Clark College
in Portland, Oregon, said of
Brown.
The governor lists raising
the minimum wage, guar-
anteeing paid sick leave for
workers, increasing educa-
tion funding by 9 percent
and signing in a law that
will eliminate coal power in
Oregon as among her major
accomplishments.
The leading Republican
contenders are busy bicker-
ing with each other over their
conservative creds.
“Alley and Pierce
accuse each other of being
Democratic Party lackeys,”
Gaskins said. Alley was a
deputy chief of staff to a
former Oregon governor, a
point made fun of in a Pierce
campaign video. For his part,
Pierce testily announced:
“Regardless of what Alley
said in his political ads, I have
never endorsed ‘Obamacare’
...”
The winner of the
November election will
serve out the two remaining
years of former Gov. John
Kitzhaber’s term.
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