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Wednesday, June 8, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters Country birds
By douglas Beall
Correspondent
You may hear the “buzz-
whistle-chirp” before you
see an Anna’s hummingbird
(Calypte Anna).
They talk from perches
often inside dense shrubbery
where insects are caught en-
abling this hummer to win-
ter over in Oregon. It was
named in the 19th century
for the Italian duchess Anna
De Belle Massena.
The female does all the
nest-building, using willow,
thistle, and small feathers
which are bound together
by spider webs. They then
begin incubating two white
eggs for 16 days and feed
the nestlings for 20 days be-
fore they leave the nest.
Anna’s hummingbird’s
internal temperature is
steamy 107 degrees, and
when the external tempera-
ture turns cold the hum-
mer enters a state of torpor
where the heart and breath-
ing rate slow and their inter-
nal temp. may fall to as low
as 48 degrees.
Hummingbirds held
a unique place in Native
American lore; some leg-
ends had the hummers
piercing the sky to bring
rain and then become stars.
A flock of hummingbirds is
known as a “glittering,” a
“bouquet,” a “shimmer” or
a “tune.”
photo by douGlas beall
anna’s hummingbird.
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By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
The staff at Melvin’s Fir
Street Market — all 26 of
them — are happy folks these
days. With the completion of
a major remodeling project,
they now have a whole lot
more space to work in.
“It’s like you can breath
now,” said Sandee Herburger
as she prepped food for the
lunch crowd in an expansive
new kitchen. “Heaven.”
The kitchen is 500 square
feet bigger than the old,
cramped quarters in which the
staff had to turn out sandwich-
es, soups and the other fresh,
ready-to-go items Melvin’s
is known for. Overall, the re-
model added 972 square feet.
The other additional space
is for storage and receiv-
ing, and it means proprietor
Melvin Herburger can order
on a bigger scale and pass the
commensurate savings on to
customers.
In fact, the remodel — as
nice as it is for staff — will re-
ally end up serving Melvin’s
customers.
“We’re going to try to ex-
pand our menu a little bit,”
Melvin said.
That will likely mean pre-
prepared dinners that custom-
ers on the go can take home
with them and get going in a
hurry — a healthy alternative
to some other fast options.
“It’ll help with our cater-
ing,” he said. “Mostly it just
means being more efficient.”
Melvin added three new
SPORTS
INJURIES
photo by JiM cornelius
an expansive new kitchen allows more movement and more menu options.
retail positions in anticipation
of increased activity thanks to
the remodel, and his foresight
was borne out.
“We’ve seen some increase
already and we’ve only been
into it a week,” he said.
The parking lot was also re-
surfaced as part of the project.
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