Wednesday, February 8, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
HEALTH FAIRE:
Students learn by
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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
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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
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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)
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on activities, stimulating
visuals and social interac-
tions that excite and ignite
every student,” Johnson told
The Nugget. “It’s a time
and place where the teach-
ers can step back and let the
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EMS students can demon-
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teaching their ‘patients’ how
to do it themselves. A time
and place where seventh-
and eighth-graders can feel
an anxiety-free connection
with the high school, while
older students demonstrate
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and confidence that the
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“When the high school
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of service, and desire to do
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