Wednesday, July 5, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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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.
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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.
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