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Wednesday, February 8, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Lone burkey vulbure
sighbed in Sisbers
By Jim Anderson
Correspondent
A turkey vulture (TV)
went sailing over Highway
20 just north of the Bend/
Sisters Garden RV Resort at
9:25 a.m. Sunday morning.
There’s a good chance this
may be a record for the ear-
liest a TV has come back to
Sisters. It was in for a rude
awaking with all the snow.
The arrival on that windy
morning was really no sur-
prise. Oregon Birders On Line
(OBOL) has been talking
about the presence of turkey
vultures on the west side all
winter. One was reported cir-
cling over Highway 99 south
of Corvallis on January 11.
The next day four TVs were
reported close to Fern Ridge
Reservoir near Eugene. Then
on January 22, another was
reported near Prospect, and
one more the same day from
near Portland.
There’s a good chance the
one sighted Sunday morning
got caught at too high an alti-
tude and was blown over the
Cascades.
PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON
Adult turkey vulture takes wing.
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Hoodoo supporbs adapbive skiers
By Bunny Thompson
Correspondent
Hoodoo Ski Resort is
having a banner year, thanks
to heavy winter snowfall.
As they always do, they are
extending the joys of the
slopes to all skiers.
Hoodoo is a supporter
for Oregon Adaptive Sports
(OAS) and OAS Alpine
Adventures in Eugene. The
OAS Alpine Adventures
program is a collaboration
between Oregon Adaptive
Sports and the City of Eugene
to provide adaptive ski and
snowboard opportunities for
people with disabilities in the
Willamette Valley area.
The Alpine Adventures
program has been one of the
longest-running adaptive ski
programs in the Northwest,
and has enabled hundreds of
adaptive ski and snowboard
experiences over the years.
Oregon Adaptive Sports had
its beginnings in 1996 when
Jack Alexander, a retired
biologist with the U.S. Forest
Service, gathered a number
of dedicated volunteers to
begin a grass-roots adaptive
program aimed at sharing
their love of skiing and the
outdoors with people with
disabilities who needed assis-
tance on the mountain.
Both of these programs
are adaptive alpine ski/snow-
board and cross-country ski
programs helping people with
many different types of dis-
abilities. Skiers are matched
with trained volunteer ski
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Hoodoo supports Oregon Adaptive Sports.
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using the appropriate adaptive
equipment and techniques.
Hoodoo donates the lift
tickets to OAS for the many
volunteers working with OAS
and OAS Alpine Adventures
and provides a room to store
equipment and space for par-
ticipants and volunteers to get
ready for their ski day. They
also provide space in their
upstairs fireplace room for
special OAS programs.
Each year OAS sponsors
their annual Heroes in Sisters.
This event is held over the
weekend and is one of OAS’
largest and most popular
events of the winter. The pur-
pose of the event is to honor
Pacific Northwest veterans
with permanent physical dis-
abilities and their families,
and to have a great time ski-
ing and snowboarding — at
no cost to the veteran and
family members.
“Hoodoo is a gracious
host,” said Pat Addabbo, OAS
program manager. “We love
going to Hoodoo.”