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Wednesday, February 8, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon HEALTH FAIRE: Students learn by teaching others Sisbers salubes... • Recently Scout Master Craig Ansell and Cub Scout Pack 139 of Sisters hon- ored Sisters VFW Post 8138 with a monetary gift as part of their military outreach commitment. Bill Anttila, Commander of Post 8138, accepted the gift on behalf of the Post, and demonstrated the retir- ing of a used American Flag with a 13-fold ceremony at the event. Post 8138 would like to thank Pack 139 for their hard work, honoring veter- ans of Sisters and for their gift to the Post. • Carla Merrell wrote: We’ve all been going through so much with this historic winter. We are being pulled in directions we don’t want to be pulled in: time, money, safety, strength. We are dealing with some unknowns, and unknowns usually scare us. And we are in this together. We are communi- cating with each other in our time of need and distress. We are either giving or receiving as community, a bunch of neighbors we might know or might not know. Yet, in all this, there has been so much beauty come out of our community and most likely more to come: The many crews who’ve taken on the task of climb- ing up on snowy/icy roofs to clear them. Who wants to climb around on our steep- pitched roofs in deep snow and known ice? There is one crew I’ve heard of that sings while doing this daunting task. These folks have lists an arm long to get through of people in need. They work Year-round FIREWOOD SALES — Kindling — — — SISTERS FOREST PRODUCTS early till late seven days a week to help us beat time. It costs some serious money to get our roofs cleared of snow and ice dams, but we are warm inside our homes and not in the hospital with lots of broken parts from falling off those roofs, and we rest easier knowing those guys really took care of our needs avoiding costly and inconvenient insurance claims. Then there are the snow- plow crews. We’ve got the City of Sisters, ODOT, com- mercial plowers and many a neighbor with a snow blower helping others out. Lots of these crews have gotten stuck as they whiz through their tasks to get on to the next mile of road or driveway, and there seems to be someone who comes by (usually another plower) to pull them out and off they go again. While we sleep scores of these hard-work- ing souls are out there in the darkness getting us able to move again. Being able to move through this winter with some normalcy like getting in our vehicles to go to work or school or grocery shopping is a true gift from them to us. A shout-out to my dear neighbor, Sue, who hand- shovels our driveway and walkway while I’m laid up after surgery. It takes her hours to do this task. When it’s really coming down she’ll do it several times a Continued from page 1 PHOTO PROVIDED Pack 139 honored VFW Post 8138. day. It feels like being cud- dled in a warm blanket in my favorite chair with a mug of soup on a cold day with the best sleep ever coming on. Thank you, Sue! How about you? What stories do you have of kind- nesses being offered to you? What have you witnessed out there? An inconvenient and costly winter for sure, yet without the warmth of neighborliness it would be a bear of colossal proportions to contend with. • (This salute was submit- ted in November and inad- vertently omitted. A Nugget reader brought it to our attention) To l l g a t e B o a r d o f Directors wrote: It is with heartfelt grati- tude that the residents of Tollgate thank Benny Backfl ow Installation & Testing Winterization Nelson Horse Waterers Underground Field Irrigation Residential Irrigation Services miller I R R I G A T I O N SistersForestProducts.com LCB#8234 541-388-0190 Hair & Nails Natural & Artifi cial 541-549-6566 484 W. Washington Ave., Ste. 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