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Wednesday, September 21, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Runners set out to ‘Crush Cancer’
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
More than 150 runners
turned out at Faith Hope
& Charity Vineyards on
Saturday with a mission:
to crush cancer like a wine
grape.
The fourth annual 2016
Crush Cancer 5k, 10k & Half
Marathon Event kicked off
on a pleasant fall morning
at the vineyard off Lower
Bridge Way.
Proceeds from the race
benefit Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center.
“Our daughter-in-law
Summer got cancer five-
and-a-half years ago,” vine-
yard owner Cindy Grossman
explained. “She got her
treatment at Seattle Cancer
Institute. We learned so much
about Fred Hutch.”
The
organization
researches new ways for
early cancer detection,
develops effective treatments
with fewer side effects, stud-
ies how to prevent cancers
from growing in the first
place, and much more. Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center provides research and
information that benefits
many people in the Pacific
Northwest, including local
photo by Jim cornelius
runners head out on the Crush Cancer half-marathon.
medical facilities. For more
information visit FredHutch.
org.
Previous years’ events
raised $3,000 to $4,000, and
this year’s was expected to
exceed those numbers.
This was the first year
for the half-marathon. The
course was all off-road,
wending its way through the
farmland and canyons east of
Sisters.
Dozens of volun-
teers helped the event run
smoothly. Wine club mem-
bers helped check runners
in, and made sure they got
their goodies and plenty of
food and water when they
finished. Course volunteers
were provided by the Oregon
Youth Challenge program of
the Oregon National Guard.
“They’re awesome,”
Grossman said. “this is our
fourth year using them.”
The weather was perfect,
the views magnificent and
spirits high as runners —
many of whom were dedi-
cating their run to someone
who has battled cancer —
tested themselves, know-
ing that their efforts are
bringing their community
one step closer to crushing
cancer.
Council to appoint
temporary member
The Sisters City Council
has a limited-duration City
Council position opening due
to former mayor Chris Frye’s
move outside city limits.
This Council appointment
would be to finish out the term
of the former mayor ending at
the first regular City Council
meeting in January 2017.
The limited duration
appointee would be ineligible
to continue serving on the City
Council at the end of the term
unless they had already regis-
tered to run in the November
2016 General Election. Any
of the three candidates in the
November election could be
appointed.
The appointee would not
be appointed mayor. The
entire City Council will vote
on that decision.
The City encourages
interested parties to apply
by submitting an applica-
tion to City Recorder Kathy
Nelson by September 30.
Candidates must be a quali-
fied elector within the mean-
ing of the state constitution
and have resided within city
limits during the preceding
12 months. Applications may
be found on the home page
in the announcements section
of the City’s website at www.
ci.sisters.or.us or at the recep-
tion desk in City Hall located
at 520 E. Cascade Ave.
Regular Council meet-
ings are held the second and
fourth Thursdays of the month
at 7 p.m. Workshops are held
on the second and fourth
Thursday of the month at 5:30
p.m. All meetings are held at
City Hall.
For additional information
contact Nelson by email at
knelson@ci.sisters.or.us or by
calling 541-323-5213.
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