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Wednesday, June 28, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Gardens will be livened with quilts
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
The combination of color-
ful quilts and beautiful gar-
dens will be celebrated this
year with the 20th anniversary
of the Quilts in the Garden
tour presented by the Sisters
Garden Club on Thursday,
July 6, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Tickets for the self-guided
tour are $15, children under
12 are free. They are available
at the Sisters Area Chamber
of Commerce office, The
Gallimaufry, or at any of the
gardens on tour day. Five
gardens, two homes, and a
church will be part of the tour.
An additional stop on the
tour is the Sisters Community
Garden located at Sisters
Eagle Airport at the corner of
Camp Polk Road and Barclay
Drive. Lunch prepared by
Community Garden members
will be available for purchase
to help fundraising efforts for
the garden. Last year they
made close to $1,000 and sold
out of lunches quickly.
Visitors will be able to
enjoy their lunch sitting
among the lushness of their
surroundings while viewing
beautiful quilts displayed on
the surrounding fence.
The garden tour originated
in 1997 as an adjunct to the
Quilter’s Week classes and
activities. Quilt Show founder
Jean Wells Kennan suggested
to the Sisters Garden Club
the idea of having a garden
tour and the first annual Quilt
Show Garden Tour was held
on the Friday of Quilter’s
Affair classes. Wells Keenan
was made a Lifetime Member
of the Garden Club in appreci-
ation of her help and encour-
agement with the tour. Her
own garden has been part of
the tour several times.
The tour is the Garden
Club’s primary fundraising
event each year, with 450
tickets sold last year to both
quilters and gardeners. They
have donated thousands of
dollars over the years to local
programs that promote gar-
den and nature activities and
improve the natural habitat.
Each year their Christmas
brunch includes collecting
and donating new unwrapped
toys for the Sisters-Camp
Sherman Fire District gift
drive for Sisters children.
Last year’s tour netted
about $5,000 and their major
donation so far this year has
been funds for raised garden
beds at the Central Oregon
Veteran’s Ranch.
A new stop on the tour this
year is St. Winefride’s Garden
at St. Edward the Martyr
Catholic Church at 123
Trinity Way. The parish uses
the garden, which is visible to
worshippers through a glass
wall in the sanctuary, as a
place of quiet meditation and
occasional meetings. Within
the garden is an Urn Garden,
where loved ones may be laid
to rest.
Sisters wood carver
Chester “Skip” Armstrong
carved the 37 statues sup-
porting the roof, represent-
ing the patron saints of each
of the parishes in the Diocese
of Baker. A number of other
local artists were involved in
designing and crafting various
garden features. The garden
was dedicated in 2001 “to the
victims of terrorism through-
out the world and to those who
labor for peace and justice.”
The other gardens/homes
on the tour are located in
Tollgate; off Highway 126 just
east of town; and off Barclay
Drive above the airport. Tour
coordinator, Jane Kempvance,
described a home in Tollgate,
where visitors will be able
to view a gardening practice
using bales of straw, with a
book by the owner explain-
ing the process, available for
purchase.
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Quilts will hang in gardens across Sisters Country for a special tour.
According to Garden
Club President Larry Nelson,
another property containing
acreage will showcase the use
of natural materials for ease
of maintenance in our deer-
laden, quixotic climate.
Homes were added to the
tour starting in 2000. From
that year forward, generous
donations of the proceeds
have been made toward stu-
dent greenhouses and garden-
ing programs at the schools,
as well as toward Barclay
Memorial Park, the Deschutes
Land Trust, Sisters Rotary for
planting materials, the Upper
Deschutes Watershed Council
for work with Sisters stu-
dents, the Sisters Community
Garden, and the Seed-to-
Table program.
In its 29-year history, the
Sisters Garden Club has made
invaluable contributions to the
city through their labors, their
knowledge, and their gener-
ous financial support – all of
which have helped beautify
our town while enhancing
our natural surroundings and
educating our children about
the importance of the natural
world.
The club meets the sec-
ond Saturday of most months
at 9:30 a.m. at City Hall for
educational presentations,
demonstrations, and pan-
els. Their meeting schedule
and other information can
be viewed on their website,
www.sistersgardenclub.com.
Visitors and new members are
welcome at the meetings.
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