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Wednesday, August 17, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
COuNTRy FAIR:
Proceeds go to church
outreach programs
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her cheek.
At 11:30 a.m. a group
of square dancers from the
Central Oregon Round-up
added to the festivities at the
fair while spectators clapped
along.
Every August more than a
hundred square dancers from
all over the Pacific Northwest
head into Sisters for the
Central Oregon Round-up
festival. Regional caller
Kippin Parret from Bend
enjoys being a caller for the
round-up during the weekend
festival. And this year Parret
asked for volunteers from the
crowd to come up and join
the fun.
“The first year here at the
Country Fair we did a flash
mob dance, and everyone
photo by Jodi Schneider McnaMee
charlotte Donaldson enjoyed hula
hooping around the country fair.
liked the dancing so much
that they invite us back every
year as volunteer entertain-
ment,” Parret said.
Ten-year-old Lily Smith
from Grants Pass has been
square dancing since she
was five. Lily’s grand-
mother, Lorri Macintosh, is
the recording secretary for
the Oregon Federation of
Square and Round Dance
Clubs.
“This is a lot of fun, and
I am enjoying square dancing
here in Sisters,” Smith said.
Parret is trying to get
more youth involved, so he’s
blending in contemporary
music.
“If square dancing is to
survive, some of us old callers
are going to have to change it
up and use some more mod-
ern music,” Parret said. “We
need some new music to get
younger kids involved and
keep them entertained. The
kids like some of the old mel-
odies, too, but we are now
bringing in more contempo-
rary music that’s out on the
radio.”
Yo u n g
Charlotte
Donaldson from Berkeley,
California, enjoyed herself
as she hula hooped her way
around the country fair with
her face painted like a tiger
cub.
“We’ve been coming
here for years, and we love
Sisters Country Fair,” said
her mother, Sarah Donaldson.
“Charlotte even won the
11 a.m. cake walk.”
Donaldson won a choco-
late cake from Sisters Bakery
and shared it with the fire-
fighters and some of the vol-
unteers at the fair.
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FIREWISE: Defensible
space is key to fire
protection
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photo by Jodi Schneider McnaMee
Square dancers entertained at the country fair.
Sisters-Camp Sherman
RFPD had one fire engine,
an ambulance, and a brush
truck on display for folks to
see, and they got a chance to
climb on board.
Firefighter Damon Frutos
was on hand to educate chil-
dren and adults about fire
safety.
“We are educating people
about what is on our trucks to
protect them,” Frutos said.
At noon firefighter
Hayden Jones demonstrated
how fast firefighters can
change into their protective
gear.
Over at The Country Store
you could find the best good-
ies from homemade walnut
fudge to Nana’s Coffee Cake,
a packet of ingredients from
a secret recipe that volunteer
and church member Adrienne
Brown puts together every
year.
Brown grew up enjoying
her grandmother’s (Nana’s)
delicious homemade coffee
cake.
“After my grandmother
died she took the recipe with
her. And it took me three
years to resurrect the recipe
by experimenting,” Brown
said. “But I came up with it
again and I sell Nana’s coffee
cake here at the church and
the Sisters fire station.”
Lots of hungry folks
waited in line for the smoked
St. Louis spareribs or a vari-
ety of hotdogs that Café
Transfig offered.
Little folks were able to
express their creative side
at Craft Corner and the Kid
Zone area, where anything
was possible with chalk
drawing, a bubble machine,
a bouncy castle and other
games with prizes.
the water supply to assist
firefighters in the event of a
blaze.
Such a scenario is not the-
oretical. In 1992, the Squaw
Flat fire swept across the
hills nearby, burning 1,000
acres and taking five homes,
and in 2013 the community
had a close call with the
Mustang Flat fire, which was
suppressed by quick action
by firefighters, including sev-
eral tanker runs just over the
rooftops of local homes.
“That was a scary moment
for our community,” said
Sisters Fire Chief Roger
Johnson.
By becoming “Firewise,”
Squaw Creek Canyon Estates
— along with other residen-
tial areas in Sisters Country
— do not assure that they
will never have such a scary
moment again, but they do
give themselves a much
higher probability of surviv-
ing the storm that is always
on the horizon in a fire-
adapted landscape.