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Wednesday, April 12, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Learn abott voltnteering for Sisters Folk Festival The public is invited to learn about volunteering for Sisters Folk Festival at a drop-in event on Wednesday, April 19 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Sisters Library. Sisters Folk Festival relies on 500 volunteers to bring world-class folk music to our town each year. The heart and soul of the event are the locals and volunteers who help make the event a reality. You’ll have a chance to meet current and lead volunteers, ask questions and sign up to help during the September event. Snacks and refreshment will be provided. To learn about the volun- teer program, visit www.sis tersfolkfestival.org/volunteer or contact Kerani Mitchell, v o l u n t e e r m a n a g e r, a t kerani@sistersfolkfestival.org or 541-549-4979. APPLICANTS: Citizens will have opportunity to weigh in Continued from page 1 are currently employed in other communities, and the recruiters don’t want to jeop- ardize their current positions by releasing any names. Jensen reported that their office received more than 40 applications from a broad range of qualified candi- dates. Phone interviews with all the qualified candidates were completed last week by Jensen’s office, and now the list will be reduced to semi- finalists. Those chosen as semi-finalists will undergo interviews, either in person or via Skype, with a com- mittee made up of some City Council members and senior City staff. Jensen indicated they are aiming to have the semi-finalist interviews com- pleted by the end of April. “The City indicated they would like to have someone in place by July 1 (beginning of the City’s 2017/18 fiscal year). We are doing every- thing in our power to meet the City’s deadlines,” Jensen told The Nugget. As the process reaches the end, the citizens will be noti- fied regarding an open house at City Hall, when they will have the opportunity to meet and talk with the finalist can- didates for the city manager position and provide input to the Council. RESTROOMS: Facility will be open for Easter egg hunt Continued from page 3 to offload the sections and place them on the foundation. The crane had to have extra metal weights piled on its platform to keep it from tip- ping as it lifted each 37.5-ton section into place. The deliv- ery and placement job took 7-1/2 hours to complete, with the first section in place by 1:30 p.m. Nicole Abbenhuis, public works operations coordinator, surmised Sisters must have a guardian angel because there was no snow and the ground wasn’t too soft for the weight of the trucks and crane. The old restroom/shower building was removed in mid- March, and a variety of mate- rials were salvaged and will be repurposed. Roofing mate- rial, insulation, can-lights, ceiling vents, and wood beams will be used in several new City storage sheds being built by the public works department. Items such as hand dryers, heaters, and a water heater will be kept as back-ups, and two hand-held showers are being donated to Habitat for Humanity. Shower benches, hooks, and automatic door locks will be able to be reused in the new building. The final price tag on the new building is about $280,000, half of which will be reimbursed by a grant from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD). That is $20,000 less than the original estimate. Public Works hopes to have the new building open for use during the annual Easter egg hunt on Sunday, April 16, held in Creekside Park and Campground. It will then be closed again until the official opening of the camp- ground on May 1. Community Development Director Patrick Davenport will be seeking a formal resolution of support from the Sisters City Council to submit a grant request to OPRD to help fund upgrad- ing the approaches on either end of the covered footbridge crossing Whychus Creek between the campground and Creekside Park. The slope of the approaches is currently too steep for wheelchairs to use. If the grant is secured, the City would be able to install an ADA-accessible path (wider and smoother than the current path) all the way from 31 the ADA parking spot in the park along Jefferson, through the park to the bridge. On the other side of the bridge, the more gradual approach would hook up to the ADA path to the restroom/shower build- ing in the campground and through to the ADA camping site. The grant application is due May 1, with a presen- tation made in Salem, and notification of grant awards in August 2017. 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