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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 7 Forest Angeline’spBakerypmarksp20pyearspinpSisters Service turns By Jim Cornelius child’s red wagon. In 1996, the owner of Northern Lights decided to to email for Sometimes, a small turn in move back to California. “They wanted to know if the road can set your course I just to take over the for the rest of your life. NEPA project Angeline Rhett didn’t start space,” wanted Angeline recalled. She decided to go for it, back in the mid-1990s notification out to be a baker and an entre- got some scrap materials from preneur. She was a seasonal Hoyt’s to do a little remodel- News Editor The Deschutes National Forest is migrating to notifi- cation by email for updates on projects requiring National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis. This new system gives the public direct control over which mail- ing lists you are subscribed to and immediate electronic access to project documents. You may now go online to sign up for electronic notifica- tions by email or, if you wish to remain a postal subscriber, submit your postal informa- tion by sending a letter to Lauren DuRocher, Deschutes NF, 63095 Deschutes Market Rd., Bend, OR 97701. To sign up for email notifications, go to: http:// www.fs.usda.gov/main/ deschutes/land management/ projects and find the “E-mail Updates” section. For more information call Lauren DuRocher at 541-383-4721. worker fighting fire and try- ing to find a path to a career in cartography. But because she wanted to stick around Sisters for a while she made a couple of small, “temporary” moves that turned out to have some momentous consequences — and led to the establishment of what has become one of Sisters’ signature businesses. To stay in Sisters, “I pretty much worked eight trillion jobs,” she told The Nugget. That included Mountain Supply, Seasons, J-Bar-J and Hoodoo. There was a little bakery in town owned by a couple of snowboarders. It was never open, so Angeline leased some counter space from them and began to make sandwiches and good- ies to take to merchants stuck behind their counters in local businesses. She became a bit of a fixture, walking around town carrying a basket full of yummy stuff, or pulling a ing, and on January 7, 1997, she opened for business. “I opened it myself and seriously thought, how hard could it be?” she said. She soon found out that bakers’ hours are early and entrepreneurs’ hours run late. She needed to hire some help. “I was busy from the start,” she said. She had a hit on her hands, but Angeline wasn’t planning on making a career out of being a baker. “For the first few years, I didn’t think this is what I’d be doing, that I’d be staying,” she said. “I never thought that I’d actually stay here.” But as life does, things happened. She got married in 1999. In 2000, she remodeled and expanded the bakery and opened a courtyard, where she could indulge her passion for live music. “Once I expanded, I was kind of committed,” she said. PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS Angeline has been creating healthy and tasty baked goods for 20 years. “I started thinking of my busi- ness as a career.” That meant getting serious about learning to operate a small business, and Angeline took COCC courses that helped her learn to control her numbers, set goals and plan. She also grew more and more committed to provid- ing healthy — and tasty — options for folks in Sisters. She’s a significant employer in Sisters — eight on staff through winter and as many as 20 in the summer- time. She has enjoyed seeing staff move on to “live cool lives.” And she’s worked hard to maintain the balance nec- essary to leading a cool life herself. “At 20 years, I’m just kind of creating my perfect day,” she said. “I like to go down to The Belfry (the music venue she created out of an old church) and sand the floor. I also like to make some food at home and read a book, so I’m trying to figure it out. I’ve got it pretty good.” She also recognized that it is the Sisters community that has given her unexpected career wings. “I would never have stuck with this if it hadn’t been in this community,” she said. “This community has really kept me here and kept me in the game and kept my feet on the ground.” Angeline’s Bakery & Café is located at 121 W. Main Ave.