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Wednesday, April 12, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Powerlifting event a hit in Sisters
and Prineville took top hon-
ors in the two-day meet, with
Sisters’ own Level 5 Barbell
Club taking second place.
Coach Ryan Hudson of
Level 5 reported that Sisters’
20 lifters set 26 new state
records and made 34 personal
bests on their way to 18 gold
medals, one silver, and one
bronze.
In powerlifting, ath-
letes squat, bench-press and
deadlift. They get three tries
at each lift, with their top
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score taken for each event.
Strength athletes from five
The combined top scores of
states converged on Sisters
all three events make up the
High School last weekend for
lifter’s total, which deter-
what turned out to be the larg-
mines placement in the com-
est sanctioned powerlifting
petition. Team scores are
meet ever in Central Oregon.
an aggregate of individual
Some 105 athletes com-
scores.
peted in the USPA Oregon
(Totals for the Sisters lift-
Outlaw Open. High Desert
ers are available with the
Power Team from Redmond
online version of this story at
w w w. n u g g e t
news.com.)
“ T h e
highlight of
the event
was Conrad
Kiefer’s 600-
pound dead-
lift,” Hudson
said. “There
may have been
others that I
don’t know
about, but the
first ever from
someone out
of Level 5
Barbell Club
or Sisters
PHOTO BY JULIE TADLOCK High School.”
Hudson
Conrad Kiefer’s 600-potnd deadlift impressed Level 5 owner Ryan Htdson and Tony Gonzalez
noted that,
who looked on.
By Jim Cornelits
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Cenobia Gonzalez of Sisters sets Oregon State record in sqtat competition
with 243.6-potnd lift.
with runners from the
Peterson Ridge Rumble
and lifters from the Oregon
Outlaw Open hitting town,
there was a significant ath-
letic shot in the arm for the
local economy.
This was the first time
Hudson hosted an event at
Sisters High School — a nec-
essary move to accommo-
date the number of registered
lifters.
“That was a bit of an
experiment,” he said. “And it
was a huge success.”
The coach said he heard
many compliments for the
venue, from the weight
room to the commons area
where the event was held,
and which offered plenty of
space for competitors and
spectators.
“It was just a great vibe
and atmosphere for that kind
of event,” he said.
Athletes were eager to
sign on for more, and Hudson
says he definitely plans to
make the tourney an annual
event.
HEALTH BILLS:
Rules would protect
pot customers
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abortions, birth control and
other reproductive services at
no extra cost to the enrollee. A
first hearing and possible vote
is also in store for Republican
Rep. Julie Parrish’s week-old
proposal, House Bill 3428,
which would fold government
employee health plans into
the state’s Coordinated Care
Organizations, potentially
solving the bulk of the state’s
upcoming budget shortfall.
Senate Bill 863, which
would ban legal pot shops
from keeping logs of their
recreational marijuana cus-
tomers’ personal information
in their internal databases, is
set to make its way to Gov.
Kate Brown following an
expected vote by the House
chamber on Monday. Should
Brown sign it into law as is
expected, pot retailers will
have 30 days to destroy any
paper trail they’ve been keep-
ing of their customers’ names,
birthdates, addresses, driver’s
license numbers or even the
recreational pot products
they’ve purchased on certain
dates. Businesses would also
be banned from such record-
keeping in the future. SB 863
is designed to shield pot users
from risks of being exposed
should federal drug agents
step up enforcement of the
marijuana prohibition.
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