Wednesday, February 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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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
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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-
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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.