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Wednesday, July 5, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 11 Your Store marks 30 years in Sisters Dealing from fresh deck on social gaming By Jim Cornelius News Editor Chances are, if you’ve been to Sisters any time in the past three decades, you’ve walked through the doors of Your Store. The shop at 121 W. Cascade Ave. is a go-to spot for a T-shirt or sweatshirt commemorating the area and for Outlaw logo wear. This summer marks Your Store’s 30th year in business. The store was originally founded in Redmond by Bonnie Jacobs-Halosek and Neal Halosek with the unique selling point of having all of its inventory priced at $10 or below. The concept was high- volume, low-margin. At one time we had 30 stores across Oregon. — Catherine Hayden “We started off as a women’s boutique,” said the Halosek’s daughter Catherine Hayden, who manages the Sisters store. “At one time we had 30 stores across Oregon.” As big-box stores made inroads into small retailers’ markets, they shifted their By Sue Stafford Correspondent PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS Catherine Hayden of Your Store. The shop has been providing souvenir clothing items and Outlaws gear to locals and visitors alike for decades. focus to resort communities, The business continues to and now maintain three stores be a family affair. Catherine’s — in Sisters, Sunriver and parents operate the Seaside Seaside. store. Jake Turpin is the mas- They also took on their ter screen printer, and Cara own printing on shirts. Hudson is the business man- The most popular items ager. The family prides itself in Sisters feature the moun- on providing jobs that pay tains and print that references better than minimum wage Oregon — often souvenirs of and offer benefits. a trip to this beautiful part of Catherine says that her America. favorite part of her job is the “We offer families an design of products. At this affordable souvenir item. In time of year, the toughest part general, our best-selling item of the business is keeping up is a pull-over hood,” Hayden with demand. “We restock told The Nugget. every week,” she said. . . . g n i h t r e h o d Let h a e b r a tasty sandwich, Gr the river & n o t e g , d o a fly r all! it m o r f y a w a t Ge RE O T S N A M R E CAMP G S o H back 100 years in time... Anyone who looked could have found (social) gambling at an establishment in Sisters. They probably wouldn’t have even been shocked. It was, however, techni- cally not allowed. Last week, the Sisters City Council shuffled the deck and dealt again on that issue, approving an ordi- nance granting businesses the right to run social gaming in their establishments and for patrons to participate in the gaming. In the 1940s, Sisters had a social gaming ordinance but, when the Oregon state lottery was established in the 1980s, the old ordinances that cities had in effect were eliminated. If a city wanted to allow social gaming, a new ordi- nance was required. Sisters’ council back then held an advisory community vote which indicated that a major- ity of the citizens who voted didn’t favor social gaming. Times have changed, and there is a group of 20-35 people who regularly meet for poker upstairs at Sisters Saloon and Ranch Grill every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. Owner Aaron Okura sus- pended the games when it was discovered that Sisters had no ordinance allowing social gaming. The City drafted and Council approved an ordi- nance permitting social gaming in Sisters, join- ing the ranks of the other Central Oregon cities. The Wednesday evenings are a $20 buy-in poker tournament. Okura doesn’t run the poker games and the saloon doesn’t receive any poker-generated funds. He simply hosts the tournament. A community tradi- tion is now officially sanc- tioned by a City ordinance. Establishments wishing to operate social gaming must pay a $100 annual fee to the City for a gaming license. A lab of lov or e s Siste e r d! n w O “Peter is a perfectionist and master of his trade. He worked tirelessly on our carpets until they were immaculately clean. 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