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Wednesday, March 22, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
City of
Sisters
seeks
budget
committee
members
The City of Sisters is
accepting applications for
an “in-city” volunteer to
serve on the Sisters Budget
Committee to fill vacated
positions.
The four-year terms
expire in July 2020. The
budget committee advises
the City on matters pertain-
ing to the budget. The bud-
get committee typically
meets between two and five
times in May and consists
of five members appointed
by the mayor, with the con-
sent of the Sisters City
Council.
Applications can be found
on the City website at www.
ci.sisters.or.us or at Sisters
City Hall, 520 E. Cascade
Ave. Applications will be
accepted until 5 p.m. on
Friday, March 31.
Send applications and
résumés to: City of Sisters
(Attn: Joe O’Neill, Finance
Officer), P.O. Box 39,
Sisters, OR, 97759. For more
information contact Finance
Officer Joe O’Neill at 541-
323-5222 or at joneill@
ci.sisters.or.us.
MCDONALD: Career
in library came
as a surprise
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library books hand-to-hand
from the old library to their
new home.
McDonald used to plan
the Christmas parties for the
volunteers and their spouses,
and she decorated the library
for the holidays. She particu-
larly remembered several
birthday celebrations she
planned for Bermel, with
the help of the volunteers
and Sisters Rotary. On one
such occasion, residents each
brought one single flower to
the library and their com-
bined efforts created a huge
birthday bouquet.
On Bermel’s 50th birth-
day, instead of flowers,
everyone brought a black
balloon and Bermel’s cousin
sent a funeral bouquet for the
occasion.
“I love to plan parties
and weddings,” McDonald
admitted, as she talked about
her role of doing the library
displays and decorations.
This time, others are plan-
ning the party to honor her.
During the earlier years,
when McDonald was work-
ing part-time to assist
Bermel, she also worked
at a number of local busi-
nesses, some of which no
longer exist — the old Sisters
Floral, the Sisters Market,
the Easy Stop (in the former
Leithauser’s grocery loca-
tion which later became the
drug store). She also worked
at The Hen’s Tooth, in an
Construction of the
roundabout at the
intersection of US 20 and
Barclay Drive/McKinney
Butte Rd. is underway.
In order to complete the
Barclay side of the roundabout,
Barclay Drive is closed for an
approximate 4-5 week period.
The majority of work will occur Monday
through Saturday during daytime hours.
Traffi c on US 20 will remain open, and
work will not provide signifi cant delays
for traffi c except for the detour of Barclay
Drive. Travelers trying to access Barclay
Drive should follow signed detour routes
using Pine Street. Additional information
about closures and detours will be
posted when applicable.
antique store, and at the gas
station/health-food store.
When McDonald and her
husband, Keith, moved to
Sisters in the mid-1970s, the
population was around 500
people. They bought their
property out near the rodeo
grounds where they lived
with their two sons, both of
whom were honored for their
athletic prowess.
Their older son, who
attended Redmond High
School, was named the
Defensive Player of the Year
in football and received hon-
orable mention for State. He
went on to a career in the
Navy, now retired in Florida
and working as an EMT
and pursuing his paramedic
certification.
Their younger son, a grad-
uate of Sisters High School,
was chosen the Athlete of
the Year and named all-
conference in wrestling,
football, and baseball. He
lives in Redmond and works
as a journeyman plumber.
McDonald was a member of
the Sisters School Board the
year the lights were installed
on the football field (1993).
McDonald’s sons have
provided them with four
grandchildren, two of whom
live in Redmond. She smiles
as she recounts her sons’ dis-
belief when she and Keith
built themselves a new house
on their property after both
boys left home.
Crafts of all varieties have
filled McDonald’s hours out-
side the library. She has spent
different periods of time as
a knitter, spinner, and quilt
topper. She enjoys porcelain
dolls and antiques, as well as
gardening.
A native of Roseburg,
McDonald is the second of
five children, born to a fam-
ily with deep pioneer roots
in southern Oregon. When
her father died of cancer
when McDonald was 11
years old, and her young-
est sibling was a year-and-
a-half, her mother was left
to raise five children on her
own.
After a year in community
college, McDonald had no
idea what field she wanted
to pursue, so she decided to
forego the scholarship avail-
able to her. She had always
known she wanted to be a
homemaker and a mother.
As to her eventual career
with the library, no one
was more surprised than
McDonald.
“If anyone would have
asked, I would have said my
sister was the one who would
work in a library,” she admit-
ted. “I was too busy being
outside to read books.”
When queried about what
made her decide to retire,
McDonald said her doctor
had encouraged her to leave
a year ago. She has lived
most of her adult life dealing
with the challenges of fibro-
myalgia, following surgery
for the removal of a tumor,
and leaving her to deal
with pain and fatigue for 40
years.
Sisters Library Supervisor
Zoe Schumacher is going to
miss McDonald. When she
came to the Sisters Library,
Schumacher explained, she
inherited the entire staff
already in place.
“I haven’t known
library life without Sandy,”
Schumacher said. “When
she leaves it will be like I am
missing an appendage.”
As for McDonald, she
says, “I will miss the people
the most – seeing them.”
There is one momento
she plans to take with her.
When co-worker Linda
Kurtz retired last year, she
bequeathed to McDonald the
old library “fine can” that
was used for collecting fines
for overdue books.
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