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The Nugget
Vol. XXXX No. 19
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Hailstorm hammers Sisters Country
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Sisters Country was
treated to a spectacular light
show on Thursday night —
but it came at a price, espe-
cially for those living in the
Cloverdale area.
“It sounded like the whole
rodeo stands was given rocks
and (were) throwing them on
the roof,” said Marcus Peck,
who lives a few miles east of
Sisters.
The sound of rocks on the
roof came from golf-ball-
sized hailstones that dropped
from the clouds as a cold
front moved in to replace the
warm air that had graced the
region for a couple of days.
When The Nugget con-
tacted Peck, he was at Sisters
Auto Body & Paint getting
a repair estimate on a truck
full of dents, with a damaged
windshield and “every piece
of plastic … hammered.”
Peck noted that a plas-
tic shed on his property got
News Editor
Residents of the Tollgate
subdivision will have to go
for about four days without
running water while isola-
tion valves are replaced on
the water system that serves
the nearly 400 homes in the
development west of Sisters.
In a letter sent to home-
owners, the Tollgate Property
Owners Association said,
“This project is being done
because approximately 50
years ago, the contractor for
Brooks Resources did not
install the underground power
lines to code as they placed
them in conflict with our
water lines. Their improper
installation has caused a life-
threatening hazard for our
Inside...
Sisters
takes art
celebration
into own
two hands
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
illuminating the world in
an eerie purple light as the
thunder rolled, rumbled and
Sisters will launch into its
annual two-day celebration of
the visual arts on Friday, May
12 and Saturday, May 13.
My Own Two Hands acts
as a fundraiser for the pro-
grams of Sisters Folk Festival
(SFF) — but it has become a
significant community event
in its own right, featuring a
parade, an art stroll, a free
community gathering at The
Belfry on Friday evening and
an art party on Saturday night.
Each year, the celebration
has a theme, which artists
See STORM on page 23
See ART on page 30
PHOTO BY CAT CONNER
Sisters was treated to a spectacular light show on Thursday night. Unfortunately, it was accompanied by
damaging hail.
hammered as well.
“It looked like Swiss
cheese,” he said. “It looked
like someone took a shotgun
and shot holes in it. It was
Tollgate will undertake
major water project
By Jim Cornelius
PRE-SORTED STANDARD
ECRWSS
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
utility workers.”
The project will begin
Monday, May 15 at 1 a.m.
and is expected run through
Thursday, May 18. Water
supply is expected to be shut
off for approximately four
days and the electricity will
be shut off sporadically dur-
ing those working hours.
Residents are advised to
turn off the circuit breaker
on their house main panel for
their water heater.
According to the Tollgate
board of directors, a potable
water truck will be place in
the lot adjacent to the ten-
nis court to serve residents.
Tollgate management also
recommends that residents
draw water for hand-washing,
See TOLLGATE on page 29
quite a storm.”
Thunderstorm cells started
rolling across Sisters at about
9:30 p.m., with sheet light-
ning flaring constantly and
Students launch weather balloon
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
Sisters High School
chemistry classes launched a
weather balloon last week in
what has become an annual
experiment.
Two classes of chemistry
students, teachers and volun-
teers came out to the Sisters
Airport Wednesday morning
to launch the weather balloon.
They started by attaching their
payloads and blowing up the
balloon. Students put together
a “payload” (attached to the
bottom of the balloon with
a parachute) with various
experiments and items on
it — things such as moldy
bread, fruit, fabric, sea mon-
key eggs, pond water with
algae and various other items
in petri dishes on one surface
that was then weighted down
on the balloon.
PHOTO BY CEILI CORNELIUS
Balloon expert Steven Peterzen helps students get their weather balloon
ready for launch.
The point of creating a
payload is to see how all of
these various items react to
sunlight and altitude in the
atmosphere.
Each class did their own
weather balloon launch,
so there were two separate
launches.
Student teacher Jackson
See WEATHER on page 22
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Hike ................................... 8 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Obituaries ....................... 24 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Sisters Naturalist ..............15 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32