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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LACROSSE: Event drew
thousands to Sisters
over weekend
Garbage rates set
to climb in Sisters
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— handling everything from
scheduling to traffic control
and trash pick-up. He also
noted the presence of Sis-
ters Fire District ambulance
crews, who provided medi-
cal assistance for players in a
sport that is subject to bangs
and bruises, and twisted
knees and ankles.
“It’s a massive volunteer
effort to pull this thing off,”
Hughes said.
The Sisters athletes them-
selves help with setting up
the event.
While SALI is a prestige
athletic event and an
economic shot in the arm
for Sisters, perhaps its
most important role is in
supporting the SPRD-run
lacrosse program.
“This is, realistically, a
$20,000 fundraiser for the
lacrosse program, that makes
lacrosse affordable for (Sis-
ters) families,” Hughes said.
“Lacrosse is a really expen-
sive sport, with all the gear.
We’ll provide (players) with
everything they need from the
ground up for them to play.”
This year, at the last min-
ute, the league in which Sis-
ters plays imposed a new
rule requiring helmets for
female players as well as for
the boys. SPRD was able
to cover the expense of the
helmets with a $7,000 grant
from the Oregon Community
Foundation.
LETTERS
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
City Council has
approved a request from
High Country Disposal
(HCD) to increase their
garbage rates for both resi-
dential and commercial
accounts. The request is due
to an increase in landfill
tipping fees by Deschutes
County from $50 per ton to
$55 per ton.
For residential customers
in Sisters, the rate increase
will result in an additional
87 cents, or 3.9 percent,
per month for the 32-, 64-,
and 90-gallon cart services.
Recycling and yard-waste
debris services will remain
free of charge. Even with the
proposed increase, the City
of Sisters garbage services
remain among the lowest in
the area.
For commercial cus-
tomers, HCD requested a
realignment of rates regard-
ing the 64- and 90-gallon
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carts and one-yard contain-
ers, one time per week.
The rates charged for these
services are not propor-
tionate to other rates, to
encourage proper service-
level selection. This com-
mercial rate increase will
result in an average $3.88,
or 9.5 percent, increase per
month.
The rate increase will
affect City managed
accounts that the City main-
tains. However, the rate
increase will also affect the
five percent monthly fran-
chise fee that HCD pays
to the City of approxi-
mately $2,400 for fiscal
year 2017/18. The fran-
chise fee increase has been
included in the FY 17/18
budget.
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