Unfolding mysteries
at Lost Lake page 6
Sisters Movie House
has new owner page 7
The Nugget
Vol. XXXIX No. 28
Beatles cover band
to play Sisters page 13
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Permit No. 15
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Thousands flock to Sisters for quilt show Car show
set to roll
into Sisters
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
The entire town of Sisters
was wrapped in walls of
bright colors for the 41st
annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt
Show (SOQS) presented
by Kaufman Fabrics. The
plethora of quilts that spilled
across streets were hung by
over 500 volunteers begin-
ning at the break of dawn on
Saturday.
“Infinite Stitches” was
the theme of this year’s
quilt show and of the 2016
poster created by Sisters art-
ist Kathy Deggendorfer. She
was inspired to create the
poster by the hanging flower
baskets that line the streets
of Sisters during the summer.
Deggendorfer described the
flower baskets: “They are like
colorful quilts in themselves
with great mixtures of color
and texture.”
SOQS Director Jeanette
Pilak and a host of volun-
teers began putting up orange
cones before daybreak on
Saturday morning to make
sure the entire city of Sisters
would be safe.
Correspondent
Catherine (Kitty) Dawson
was born in 1875 and grew
up on a farm in the foot-
hills of the Appalachian
Mountains learning all the
required skills to run a house-
hold and raise children. When
she married Josey Jackson
(Jackie) Johnston in 1898,
she learned that the best way
to keep her family warm on
cold winter nights was sew-
ing quilts using wool and any
other scraps she could find.
Catherine Johnston died in
1941 and left a legacy of 27
unique hand-stitched quilts
Inside...
See QuIlt ShoW on page 16
See Car ShoW on page 30
photo by Jerry baldock
Quilt show visitors saw some 1,200 quilts in a range of styles.
“Each year, we get a per-
mit from ODOT to have this
large of an event which affects
traffic. We have a traffic
Heirloom quilts
exhibited in Sisters
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
and the flagging company
we hire to help route traffic,”
East Main Avenue will be
closed between Elm Street
and Cedar Street on Saturday,
July 16 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
as it becomes a concourse for
dozens of spectacular clas-
sic cars, hot rods, and pickup
trucks.
Sisters Park & Recreation
District will be hosting the
2016 Sisters Glory Daze Car
Show. This year’s event will
be held from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m., sponsored by FivePine
Lodge, Sno Cap Drive In,
Takoda’s Restaurant, Van
Handel Automotive, and 3
Sisters Shell.
The event splashes Sisters
with shining chrome and bril-
liant colors as car enthusiasts
from all over the region con-
verge to show off their pride
and joy — and earn honors in
a variety of categories.
The street closure —
which will also render Larch
that were eventually handed
down to her granddaugh-
ter, Catherine Childress of
Sisters. A part of that heir-
loom collection was dis-
played at Beacham’s Clock
Company as a special exhibit
for the Sisters Outdoor Quilt
Show.
Johnston had two chil-
dren, Joseph Virgil and Mary
Rebecca. Childress is Joseph
Johnston’s daughter whom he
named after his mother. Both
siblings inherited some of
their mother’s quilts.
“I didn’t know about all of
my grandmother’s quilts until
See heIrlooMS on page 30
communications committee
that meets to share informa-
tion that includes ODOT, the
City of Sisters, county sheriff,
Celebrating a life saved
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
“If you guys weren’t there
on April 15, I wouldn’t be
here on July 5.”
That was the message
delivered by an emotional
Ed Pond to the citizens and
first responders who literally
brought him back from the
dead on that spring day. Pond
was present at an award cer-
emony honoring the friends
and emergency personnel
who saved his life, held at
Sisters Fire Hall on Tuesday,
July 5.
Pond, 72, who lives in
Redmond, had come out to
the Sisters area to help his
friend Jim Morrell fall some
trees on his property, utilizing
photo by Jim cornelius
ed Pond, center (dark shirt) owes his life to quick-acting friends and
dedicated first responders.
know-how he gained in his
younger days as a logger. Ed
wasn’t feeling too well, and
sat down for a moment to
rest. Suddenly, he collapsed.
He was in cardiac arrest. He
was not breathing and he had
no pulse.
See CeleBratIoN on page 22
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituaries ......................4-5 Announcements ................12 Sisters Naturalist ..............15 Classifieds .................. 27-29
Meetings ........................... 3 Bunkhouse Chronicles ..... 10 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Crossword ....................... 26 Real Estate .................30-32