Wednesday, November 23, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Redmond Airport
offers travel tips
MONARCHS: Sisters
butterfly made it to
southern California
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Werts and her class
learned all about the strug-
gle of monarch butterflies
last spring. They focused
their energy into build-
ing and planting a mon-
arch waystation at the
middle school. The group
received five caterpillars,
of which only two became
butterflies.
Both “Hope,” the female
monarch, and “Journey,” the
male, hatched on September
16. Werts, with help from
Chris Jensen, tagged both
butterflies, a process involv-
ing taking a small sticker
with a coded number and
placing it on the butterflies
wings, and released them the
next day.
“We took the male,
Journey, to the garden around
12:30,” said Werts. “We
were hoping he would pause
and fuel-up at the garden we
planted. In reality, he just
flew off. Over the baseball
field and he was gone.”
Werts’ son Kellen was
there at the release and com-
mented about “all that work
for nothing.”
Well, it wasn’t for
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PHOTO PROVIDED
Journey with his tag.
nothing.
Journey made it farther
than any other monarch has
made it in his travels from the
Pacific Northwest, and the
longest trip any tagged but-
terfly has made from Bend.
“He is the Ashton Eaton
of monarchs,” said Werts.
The students were
thrilled. Werts played the
band Journey’s “Don’t Stop
Believin’” when they came
into class to hear the news for
the first time.
There is still no news of
the female monarch from
SMS, Hope, but both stu-
dents, staff and local butter-
fly experts are thrilled with
the results from the students’
hard work.
Many have tagged thou-
sands of monarchs over their
careers and never had a result
like this.
“It’s like winning the lot-
tery,” said Werts.
Redmond Airport (RDM)
has seen a record number
of passengers in 2016, and
airport officials expect that
to continue as travelers pass
through the airport over the
upcoming holidays.
Being prepared for travel
on commercial airlines will
make for a more efficient and
pleasant journey.
The Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) and
Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) have
provided a few tips and
notices for travelers as they
prepare to take flight to visit
family and friends.
Passengers should arrive
no later than 90 minutes
prior to the boarding time of
your flight. When you have
a boarding document, pro-
ceed through TSA security
screening as soon as possi-
ble. Boarding lounge ameni-
ties include a children’s play
area, a coffee shop, a family-
friendly restaurant and a full-
service bar. The restaurant
and bar are located upstairs
on the second floor and open
daily at 10 a.m.
The curb at the termi-
nal is for active loading and
unloading only, no parking,
no waiting due to federal
regulations. Parking citations
are $50 and avoidable by
using the pay parking lot or
the cell phone waiting area.
Be prepared for poten-
tially cold, wet, snowy, icy
conditions. Consider appro-
priate outerwear includ-
ing footwear and have an
ice scraper in your vehicle.
These conditions may add
additional time arriving to
the airport.
TSA carry-on restrictions
are in effect for liquids, gels
and pastes. They must be in
containers that are 3.4 ounces
or less; those items must fit
in one quart-size clear bag,
one per passenger. Jams, jel-
lies, peanut butter and tooth-
paste are examples of gels/
pastes.
FAA restrictions are
in effect for the Samsung
Galaxy 7 Notebook and
replacements. These restric-
tions prohibit them from
being transported on com-
mercial passenger aircraft.
Visit www.flyrdm.com
for links to airlines, flight
information, TSA, FAA, and
other information.