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Wednesday, August 3, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Fall sports deadlines looming
The fall sports season is on
the horizon; many sports reg-
istration deadlines at Sisters
Park & Recreation District
(SPRD) are nearly here.
Both the youth soccer (pre-
school through fourth-grade)
and youth football registra-
tion deadlines are Saturday,
August 6. In tandem with the
registration deadline, SPRD is
running skill assessments for
kids on Saturday, August 6,
and Saturday, August 13.
Skill assessments are
being widely adopted by park
and recreation districts across
the country to help facilitate
youth recreation.
According to Program
Coordinator Kelly Crowther,
“I’ve been using skill assess-
ments for a few seasons now,
and they have been a good
way to get an idea of how
many teams we’re going to
have and get coaches involved
in the process of making the
teams. It does take an hour
or so out of people’s week-
end and summer, but I like
the assessments because we
get people thinking about the
upcoming season, and it helps
create more balanced teams
when there is a good turnout
at assessments.”
Soccer assessments will
run during the morning at
Sisters Elementary School,
and football assessments will
be run during the afternoon
at the Sisters Middle School
fields. Practices and games
will be at these same locations
when the season begins. The
first week of practice starts
August 29, and kids will be
practicing twice per week,
with games on Saturdays
beginning September 10.
Sponsors and coaches
are still being sought for
soccer and football. Last
year, revenue from spon-
sors helped SPRD redirect
funds for program equipment
including soccer nets, goalie
gloves, cones, jerseys, and
many other miscellaneous
equipment needs. Sponsors
get their company logo on a
team’s jersey for the season.
Coaches are also needed for
all the soccer divisions and
the youngest flag football
division. Contact SPRD for
more information on sponsor-
ing or coaching a team.
Expanding on the suc-
cess from last year’s flag
football jamborees between
Sisters and Prineville, this
year SPRD has worked to
include Madras. There will be
three flag football jamborees
this year: one each in Sisters,
Madras, and Prineville. This
cooperative league will be
extending into other sports
seasons as well, including
basketball.
Volleyball is another sport
beginning with the start of
school. Sixth-grade volleyball
has a registration deadline of
Friday, August 15. The sixth-
graders will pull together
a single team this year to
enter into the Bend Park and
Recreation league. The season
for sixth-graders is similar to
the seventh- and eighth-grade
season, which runs September
through October. Practices for
the sixth-graders will be dur-
ing the week, with games on
the weekend. Seventh- and
eighth-grade girls will prac-
tice and play games dur-
ing the week against area
schools including Burns, La
Pine, Warm Springs, Culver,
Jefferson County, and Three
Rivers.
New additions to this
year’s fall programs are a
middle school- and high
school-aged mountain bik-
ing program and a pre-season
youth basketball program
for grades 2 through 4. The
mountain biking program
will be coached by Thomas
Wilkinson, who coached the
spring mountain biking series.
Mountain biking will run
September through October.
Kids will ride the pump track
at SPRD, along with local
trails. The pre-season youth
basketball program will be
coached by Nate Dachtler.
This basketball program is a
prelude to league play which
begins in January and will
focus on giving kids a chance
to play basketball after soccer
and football season ends. Pre-
season basketball will start in
November.
While fall sports are begin-
ning shortly, SPRD is still
taking registration for sum-
mer sports camps including
basketball, soccer, golf, ten-
nis, and an outdoor survival
camp.
For more information
about SPRD programs, visit
www.sistersreceation.com or
call 541-549-2091.
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Bend author K. Hamilton
has released a debut novel,
a contemporary Western
titled Three Corner Rustlers.
Inspired by true events,
Hamilton combines the ele-
ments of a classic Western
with the 21st century. A book
reading and signing will be
held Sunday, August 7, from
3 to 5 p.m. at Dixie’s, 100 E.
Cascade Ave. in Sisters. Hors
d’oeuvres and refreshments
will be served. This event is
free and open to the public.
In the novel, paths intersect
and twist from Silicon Valley
to Colorado, to the wide-open
spaces of the high desert of
the Three Corner country of
Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada.
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her childhood home; C.J., an
ex-con whose life is changed
by an unusual mentor; a wild
mustang named Rio; plus a
criminal network of cattle
thieves, Federal agents, and
a rancher whose livelihood
is threatened. The journeys
of these characters are woven
together in this modern-day
tale to surprising conclusions.
Hamilton conceived the
idea for the novel in 2009
after reading articles from
the Bend Bulletin about cat-
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country where Idaho, Oregon,
and Nevada come together.
Around that time, she also
saw the documentary “The
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John Zaritsky, about a tem-
pestuous mustang paired with
an inmate.
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cast of favorite characters
and decided the story of
the inmate, who only got a
moment with ‘his’ horse, was
unacceptable and worked him
into my story,” said Hamilton.
After fine-tuning her work
with an editor and finding a
publisher, Hamilton released
it through Dark Planet
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will be available in the fall.
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