Sisters woman raising
bucking bulls page 9
SHS grad to dance
in London page 10
Bachata performer to hit the
stage at Fir Street Park page 19
The Nugget
Vol. XL No. 28
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Quilt show entertains thousands
Firefighters
mop up
blaze west
of Sisters
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Beginning at the break of
dawn on Saturday, 500 volun-
teers hung over 1,400 quilts
transforming Sisters into the
largest outdoor quilt show in
the world.
“Storytellers” was the
theme for the 42nd annual
quilt show, and the 2017
poster created by Sisters art-
ist Dan Rickards. And over a
thousand handcrafted vibrant
quilts that blanketed Sisters,
all a colorful exploration
of patterned artistry pieced
together, told a story.
Rickards’ poster features
an oversized open storybook
of colorful quilts resting on
a table with Sisters’ stunning
scenery in the background.
“Every quilt tells a story,”
said Rickards. “And I took
it very literal when I came
up with the idea to create an
18th-century-looking story-
book of quilts.”
The storybook depicted
in his original artwork came
to life as a three-by-four-
foot leather-bound book that
Rickards designed.
The giant book featuring
and watched SOQS board
member Jan Tetzlaff turn the
A fire was reported before
1 a.m. Sunday morning burn-
ing just off Forest Service
Road 11 (Indian Ford), west
of Sisters.
The fire was stopped at
approximately five acres
through line construction and
burnout operations conducted
between the fire and Forest
Service Road 11.
Area officials noted that,
early on, the fire had active
fire behavior, including group
torching due to downslope
winds.
Mop-up and patrol of the
fire continued throughout
Sunday and into Monday.
Response to the fire included
Sisters-Camp Sherman,
Cloverdale and Black
Butte Ranch fire districts
as well as Forest Service
firefighters.
See QUILT SHOW on page 29
See BLAZE on page 19
PHOTO BY GARY MILLER
Avid quilters study every detail of the 1,400 quilts displayed in Sisters on Quilt Show day.
actual quilts that “spin a
yarn” was created by selected
artists.
Folks stepped up to the
huge book displayed on a
custom handcrafted wooden
stand on Saturday in the
courtyard of The Open Door
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New law allows rescue Sleepy driver hits horse statue
of dogs, kids in hot cars
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Your vehicle can quickly
reach a temperature that puts
your pet or child at serious
risk and possible death, even
on a day that doesn’t seem hot
to you. And cracking the win-
dows makes no difference.
Hot car deaths are a con-
sistent problem.
Every year, hundreds of
dogs suffer and die when their
pet parents make the mistake
of leaving them in a parked
car — even for “just a minute”
— while they run an errand.
More than 36 children die
Inside...
in overheated cars every year
in the United States. 718 chil-
dren left in vehicles have died
of heatstroke since 1998.
Authorities cited a
Redmond man last week for
child neglect after he left his
four-month-old baby in a
hot car while he went into a
Home Depot store in Bend.
Bend Police say officers
responded to a report at about
11:30 a.m. Wednesday that
an infant had been left unat-
tended inside a vehicle in the
parking lot.
The caller told authorities
See HOT CARS on page 30
An 18-year-old driver
escaped injury when he fell
asleep at the wheel early
Friday morning, July 7, and
crashed his pickup truck into
the plinth of the equestrian
statue on Cascade Avenue at
the east end of Sisters.
According to the
Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office, deputies were dis-
patched to a report of the
wreck at 5:22 a.m., where
they found 18-year-old
Skylar Doss of Clinton,
Missouri, in his white 2005
Ford Ranger.
“Upon arrival deputies
contacted the driver, Skylar
Doss, who was alone in
See CRASH on page 19
PHOTO PROVIDED
An 18-year-old driver hit the horse at the east end of town after falling
asleep at the wheel early Friday morning.
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