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Wednesday, June 1, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
New greenhouse is shaping up
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Back in February 2014, a
massive snowstorm hit Sisters
Country, dropping nearly
three feet of snow in a couple
of days. The greenhouse at
Sisters Middle School, where
students learned about plant
life, couldn’t handle the load.
It collapsed in a pile of bent
and twisted metal and plastic,
never to rise again.
But the community of vol-
unteers who cared about the
greenhouse, from teachers
to seed-to-table advocates to
the Sisters Science Club and
Sisters Kiwanis weren’t about
to let the greenhouse die an
ignominious death.
After determining that it
would better serve students
if located at Sisters High
School, a volunteer crew
began making preparations
for building a new, improved
greenhouse. It hasn’t been
easy. Insurance money only
covered a portion of the new
greenhouse, which required
a much more robust design,
capable of withstanding the
kind of snowfall that killed its
predecessor.
The school district had
a little bit of money to
contribute.
“The rest of it came from
photo by david hiller
The greenhouse is structurally finished.
community donations,” said
Kiwanian and project leader
David Hiller. “We’ve had a
brand-new family move into
town and they’ve been very
generous.”
A slab was poured and the
parts ordered for a custom
greenhouse. But there were
the kind of complications you
get when you try to mix a
custom design with standard-
ized parts: difficulties getting
the parts to match the plan —
or the plans to match the parts
as the case might be.
Greenhouse technician
Steve Leitzel took it upon
himself to come to Sisters
from Salinas, California, to
get the project lined out.
“He was exceptional,” said
Hiller. “He worked all day.”
With Leitzel’s expertise,
a volunteer crew was able to
get the structure up.
“It’s structurally finished,”
Hiller told The Nugget.
Trenching was to get
underway this week for wir-
ing and utilities, and the
greenhouse is slated to be
finished and operational by
September 1, so that stu-
dents can begin using it for
their science classes and their
seed-to-table curriculum.
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