Seattle woman wins
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Girls cross-country wins
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The Nugget
Vol. XXXIX No. 38
Quilters push themselves
to the edge page 17
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News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Habitat celebrates 25 years of building
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Twenty-five years ago
Sisters Habitat for Humanity
founder Hort Hammond knew
that some folks in Sisters
needed affordable housing,
so he organized Habitat for
Humanity in Sisters.
Habitat is dedicated to
more than building homes;
it’s about building commu-
nities, and building oppor-
tunities for families to help
themselves.
On Sunday, September
18, Habitat celebrated their
25th anniversary of building
homes with groundbreakings
followed by a dedication cer-
emony for their 60th home,
all at N. Desert Rose Loop in
Village Meadows.
During the first ground-
breaking for Sharyn Benson,
emcee Chuck Harper, board
member for Sisters Habitat,
introduced Sisters High
School construction class
teacher, Tony Cosby. Cosby
told the guests that his stu-
dents will help with the con-
struction of Benson’s house.
He and his students have
Correspondent
Enrollment in Sisters
School District is falling short
of the projected number of
students this fall, a decline
that would reduce the amount
of funding from the state.
Superintendent Curt Scholl
said during the September
7 school board meeting that
projections called for about
1,109 students districtwide.
He emphasized that was a
preliminary look because
records requests had not been
received from students who
might be attending a different
district this fall.
Inside...
County
nixes
airport
discussion
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
gives them the opportunity to
give back to the community.
It’s one of the most successful
things I do in my program.”
The Deschutes County
Board of Commissioners
canceled a discussion of
issues related to Sisters Eagle
Airport that had been set for
September 19.
In an email sent out
to interested parties on
Wednesday afternoon, County
Community Development
Director Nick Lelack said:
“The Sisters Eagle
Airport will not be sched-
uled for the Board of County
C o m m i s s i o n ’s ( B o a r d )
Monday, September 19 work
session due to the pending
uncertainty of the proposed
mapped boundaries. Once
the Oregon Department of
Aviation (ODA) formally
schedules a public hearing
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photo by Jerry baldock
Habitat For Humanity and Marla Brinkman, with daughter McKenna, break ground for their new home.
been working with Habitat
for quite a few years building
walls for houses.
“My students build walls
for houses at the high school,
and then we load them up on
School enrollment
falling short
By Steve Kadel
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However, the picture
became more clear in an
interview on Wednesday,
September 14, when Scholl
said enrollment is down by 30
students. If that holds, the dis-
trict would lose about $7,000
in funding for each of the 30
children, although the exact
amount depends on factors
unknown at this time.
“It depends on the entire
number of students in the state
and a lot of variables,” Scholl
said. “Potentially (the revenue
loss) could be a couple hun-
dred thousand dollars or more.
Losing kids doesn’t help us,
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a flatbed truck and run them
over. Then we have our wall
raising day. It’s such an excit-
ing time and it’s a great expo-
sure for them to learn how to
frame the walls. But it also
Hemp growing in Sisters Country
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
A small hemp crop is
growing east of Sisters, pio-
neering what may become a
significant agricultural indus-
try in the region.
The operation drew atten-
tion last week as helicopters
were brought in at night for
frost abatement. The rotors of
a helicopter stir the air enough
to prevent frost from forming
on plants. The noise from the
choppers over the Cloverdale
Road area and landing to
refuel at Sisters Eagle Airport
in the early morning hours
raised some ire among neigh-
bors, but grower Matt Cyrus
told The Nugget that the aerial
operations are over.
photo provided
Industrial hemp may be a viable crop in Sisters Country.
Cyrus said that the heli-
copters were brought in as a
short-term frost-abatement
method.
“(We) anticipated that it
would only be a couple of
nights,” Cyrus said, noting
that he instructed pilots to
try to avoid flying right over
people’s houses. “We’ve used
it probably 10 times as much
as we anticipated.”
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