Outlaws capture baseball
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Davis wins bike in
veterans raffle page 15
Sisters Habitat hosts sixth
annual Women Build page 19
The Nugget
Vol. XXXX No. 20
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Stroll, parade kicked off arts weekend
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
This past Friday Sisters
turned out for the annual My
Own Two Hands parade and
art stroll. The event, started
17 years ago and then called
“Painted Strings,” has devel-
oped into a two-day event/
fundraiser for the Americana
Project and arts programs in
the schools and other out-
reach programs of Sisters
Folk Festival
The parade and art stroll
kick off the weekend through
town. Art- and music-lov-
ers strolled through town
to the various art galleries
and viewed some of the art
pieces that were donated by
various artists for Saturday’s
fundraising auction. Along
the way, they got to listen to
some great local music.
“One of the things I love
about the community is the
connection with everyone
here. It’s great knowing the
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City
manager
candidates
bring deep
experience
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
“This event means so much
to us because most of Sisters’
The citizens of Sisters will
get a chance to get acquainted
with the candidates for the
city manager position at a
meet-and-greet on Monday,
May 22, from 5 to 6:30
p.m. at FivePine Lodge &
Conference Center. Citizens
will have the opportunity
to provide feedback to the
selection committee. Light
refreshments will be served.
The four candidates come
from near and far, with a
wide variety of experience.
See AUCTION on page 29
See CANDIDATES on page 24
PHOTO BY ROB KERR, COURTESY SISTERS FOLK FESTIVAL
Artists donated to the My Own Two Hands art auction, which raises funds for the programs of Sisters Folk Festival.
artist gallery owners and
coming in and saying hello
to the people you know dur-
ing this event,” said attendee
Greg Weiland.
Sisters Gallery & Frame
Shop co-owner Helen
Schmidling told The Nugget,
Seeking enhancements Sisters hosts thousands for lacrosse
to Whychus Creek
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Representatives of the
Upper Deschutes Watershed
Council (UDWC) met with
the City Parks Advisory
Board (PAB) at their May 3
meeting to discuss a project
to consolidate and improve
the approach to Whychus
Creek where it runs through
Sisters between the Creekside
Campground and Creekside
Park.
That stretch of the creek
is bounded by the Locust
Street bridge on one end and
the Highway 20 bridge on
the other. In between there
is erosion of the creek bank
and multiple unofficial points
of access to the creek. In
the middle is the pedestrian
Inside...
bridge that carries foot traffic
across the creek between the
campground and the park.
Included in the grant for
the new campground restroom
building was $10,000 ($5,000
from Oregon Parks and
Recreation (OPRD) matched
by $5,000 from the City) for
repair and improvement of
the creek bank in the camp-
ground. After careful study,
it was apparent that sim-
ply planting some new trees
would not solve the issues
with the creek.
There are City sewer
lines attached to the bridges.
The one on the Locust Street
bridge is on the upstream side,
leaving it vulnerable to dam-
age from ice flows and large
See CREEK on page 30
They came from as far
away as British Columbia, in
helmets and pads and wield-
ing netted sticks, to play a
game created by the native
peoples of North America.
Sixty-nine teams from Idaho,
Washington, California,
Oregon and that squad from
BC — ranging from young-
sters in the third grade to high
school athletes — partici-
pated last weekend in SALI,
the Sisters Annual Lacrosse
Invitational.
Families tagged along,
filling Sisters with diners and
shoppers in between games.
“We’ve got to be pulling
about 5,000 people to town,
I’d guess,” said Liam Hughes,
executive director of Sisters
Park & Recreation District
(SPRD), the sponsor and
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Players from third grade through high school from across the Pacific
Northwest converged on Sisters for the annual SALI Tournament.
organizer of the tournament.
The tourney serves up
approximately 150 games
on eight fields during the
weekend, with champion-
ship games played at Reed
Stadium, which is currently
undergoing renovation
Hughes noted that
more than 50 volunteers
worked many hours to pull
together the complex event
See LACROSSE on page 20
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituaries .........................4 Sisters Salutes ................ 10 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Bunkhouse Chronicle ......... 6 Announcements ................12 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32