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Wednesday, February 22, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
AWARDS: Dinner
celebrates active
Sisters citizens
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Hermans was tearful
herself.
“We live in such a great
community,” she said. “So
many great people. I’m just
really humbled. I don’t know
what to say.”
Sisters Park & Recreation
District was presented with
the Chamber’s Pioneering
Award for its work serving
the community — from youth
to seniors — with a vari-
ety of programing. Shannon
Rackowski, who works at
SPRD, was honored individu-
ally as Volunteer of the Year.
Jeanette Pilak, executive
director of the Sisters Outdoor
Quilt Show, presented the
award.
“This person gives 600
percent all the time. They give
joy; they give passion…”
Rackowski, visibly
stunned by the honor, told the
assemblage that she often has
friends from the Coast ask her
when she’s returning home.
But she feels at home here.
“I couldn’t have found
a better second home than
Sisters,” she said.
Non-Profit of the Year
went to the Three Sisters
Lions Club for its charitable
outreach work in the Sisters
community, supported by
a holiday bazaar featuring
locally made handcrafts and
a yard sale that people can
spend days perusing.
When we work
together, incredible
things can happen.
— Greg Willitts
Paulina Springs Books
earned the customer-service
award for creating a welcom-
ing space where people can
browse books and games and
take in cultural events featur-
ing authors from across the
region. Owner Brad Smith
saluted long-time store man-
ager Sue Tank as “The face of
Paulina Springs.”
Citizen of the Year hon-
ors went to City of Sisters
Public Works Director Paul
Bertagna. Chamber Executive
Director Judy Trego said
she got exhausted just read-
ing out a list of the tasks
Bertagna undertakes to make
Careful out there...
PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
Public Works Director Paul Bertagna (center) shared his Citizen of the Year honor with his crew. Pictured here are
Josh Stotts and Gus Johnson.
Sisters look good and function quick to share credit with his between his family’s business
smoothly.
parents, Bill and Zoe Willitts.
— which is marking its 10th
Bertagna was quick to
“This award is really my anniversary — and the Sisters
spread the credit.
parents’,” he said.
community at large.
“This is pretty cool,” he
The vision for the FivePine
“What we sell is the town
said as he was handed his campus, which started with of Sisters, and it’s an incred-
award. “But I’ve got to give it Sisters Athletic Club, then ible town to sell,” he said.
up for our public works crew. grew to include Shibui Spa,
He noted that the relation-
They bust their ass and they Sisters Movie House and ship is a model for what can
do a great job.”
Three Creeks Brewing Co., be done when people share
Greg Willitts accepted the was Bill’s. He was unable to goals and efforts.
Business of the Year award for attend due to illness.
“When we work together,
FivePine Lodge & Conference
Greg Willitts also cited incredible things can happen,”
Center, though he, too, was the symbiotic relationship he said.
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