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Wednesday, March 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
POSTER: Statue
and guitar both
date to the 1880s
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PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
Pavement work is currently underway on t2e Barclay Drive side of
Hig2way 20 near BiMart and Ray’s.
ROUNDABOUT:
Work to be done by
Memorial Day
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During the period of con-
struction, there will be a
variety of detours for motor-
ists around the construction
area so that access to and
from Sisters to the west will
SCIENCE FAIR: Event
includes hands-on
activities
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finding one amazing exhibit
after another. There’s always
such an electric excitement
as parents, kids and commu-
nity members discover the
wonders and importance of
science.”
Healthy living and green
energy programs will have
displays from greenhouse
gardening to organic veg-
etables in our Seed-To-Table
program. The planetarium
will be set up and students,
teachers, and astronomy vol-
unteers will be on hand to
explain the night sky. A 3-D
printer will be there to aston-
ish your imagination with
fascinating possibilities and
new innovation.
The 2017 Design,
Construct, Compete (DCC)
Challenge will feature a
never be completely shut
down. Installation of the art-
work and landscaping for the
roundabout will occur after
the construction is complete.
The $3.2 million proj-
ect is designed to improve
safety, mobility, and access at
the intersection of Highway
20 and Barclay Drive.
Construction of the round-
about improvement is to be
completed by Memorial Day.
mousetrap car competition
for elementary school stu-
dents and a catapult compe-
tition for middle and high
school students. Registration
forms and a $25 check are
due by March 2 for the cat-
apult competition. Rules
and registration forms for
the catapult competition are
available for download at the
Sisters Science Club website,
www.sistersscienceclub.org.
Elementary school students
can register to compete in the
mousetrap car competition at
the Science Fair.
Rules for the Science Fair
SciArt contest are also avail-
able at the Sisters Science
Club website, and entries must
be submitted by March 8.
The success of the Sisters
Science Fair depends on its
many volunteers willing to
help set up, answer questions
and steer visitors in the right
direction. If you’d like to vol-
unteer to help at this year’s
Science Fair, contact Barbara
Bott at bottb1@gmail.com.
here with this uniquely
American instrument. And
the music became known as
‘folk music,’ for the folks
who wrote and played it. The
songs often celebrated liberty,
and over the years have also
become known for protesting
injustices.”
Sisters was designed to
resemble a Western town of
the 1880s, the same period as
Lady Liberty and the parlor
guitar.
“As today’s America
searches for common ground,
there might be some here —
in songs written by and for
the people,” adds McGregor.
“How fitting that our little
festival grew up here, and that
today ‘all the town’s a stage.’”
McGregor’s poster image
title, “For You and Me,” hails
from one of the most famous
folk songs in America, “This
Land is Your Land,” written
by Woody Guthrie.
During the 1940s Guthrie
became one of the promi-
nent songwriters for the
loosely knit folk group called
Almanac Singers. They took
up social causes such as union
organizing, anti-fascism,
peace, and just plain fighting
for the things they believed
in the best way they could:
through songs of political pro-
test and activism.
A decade later, the
Almanacs re-formed as The
Weavers, the most commer-
cially successful and influen-
tial folk music group of the
early 1950s.
Guthrie also traveled all
over the country, and the
Pacific Northwest was one of
his favorite spots in the nation.
This year marks the 22nd
anniversary of the Sisters
Folk Festival and the 17th
year that McGregor has been
commissioned to paint origi-
nal artwork for the annual
SFF poster image that attracts
thousands of people to the
three-day music festival.
“Dennis came to me in
2000 and volunteered to paint
an image for SFF, and he also
wanted to help with the music
aspects for the festival. He
was one of two instructors
we brought in as guest artists
for the very first Americana
class,” said Brad Tisdel, SFF
creative director.
Some feedback from
Sisters folks regarding the
2017 poster image:
“I think the image is
magnificent. There is some-
thing about blue that’s peace-
ful and honest. The image is
strong, patriotic and brings us
all together and that’s what
we need now,” said Helen
Schmidling, Sisters Gallery
manager.
“Dennis captures the feel-
ing and the vibe within our
community and in our coun-
try, and I think he’s done that
in a way that represents diver-
sity, inclusion and acceptance
for everyone,” said Tisdel.
“I think that’s the value
of the SFF. We want to be
diverse culturally and we
want to be diverse musically
and we want to be accepting
and unifying. That creates an
opportunity for solidarity,” he
added.
Katy Yoder, developmen-
tal director for SFF, was on
hand to share her excitement
with The Nugget.
“I think that this is a pow-
erful message for solidarity.
And I’m really happy to see
that because it’s what we
need.”
Tisdel divulged that SFF
has 17 acts confirmed, with
The East Pointers as the
encore artists.
McGregor’s original art-
work for the poster is dis-
played in Sisters Gallery &
Frame Shop on Hood Avenue.
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