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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
YODER: Building
relationships is key
aspect of position
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that was the aspect of the job
in which she thrived.
“I was always doing
development,” she said. “It’s
just what I liked to do,” she
said.
Within a couple of years,
the organization had grown
enough to allow her to tran-
sition into a position as full-
time development director,
where she worked with spon-
sors, donors and members of
the organization’s member-
ship program, Sisters Folk
Arts Circle.
“I really enjoy taking care
of all the people who make
the work of Sisters Folk
Festival possible,” she said.
The key aspect of the job
is relationship-building, and
Yoder has built relationships
that transcend simple finan-
cial support of a nonprofit.
“I’ve met so many won-
derful people that I consider
my dear friends, and that’s
been a huge blessing,” she
said.
Being a “basically shy
person” in an extroverted
position might have been
more of a challenge for Yoder
if she did not find it so easy
to ask individuals and busi-
nesses for their support of
Sisters Folk Festival’s music
events and educational out-
reach programs.
“What the folk festival
organization is doing is so
worth it,” she said. “It’s not
hard to ask when you believe
in what you’re doing.”
And, she said, her succes-
sor will soon discover that
“the people you get to work
with and take care of are
wonderful people.” They are
generous, support music and
arts and education and “are a
heck of a lot of fun,” she said.
During her tenure, Yoder’s
passion for building personal
relationships with sponsors
and donors has helped the
organization grow and estab-
lish itself as a non-profit
with solid financial footing.
She looks with consider-
able satisfaction on what she
has helped the organization
become and said she will
miss “being a part of it. Being
associated with Sisters Folk
Festival is something to be
proud of.”
And she will miss her
colleagues, who have sup-
ported her through thick and
thin, including helping her
through a breast-cancer crisis.
The festival organization and
community were “supportive
… understanding and loving
during the toughest time of
my life,” she said.
The music that the fes-
tival introduced her to has
helped her, too. She recalls
a winter concert by Scottish
folk music legend Dougie
MacLean. “I got to meet
Dougie MacLean and have
a beer with him,” she said.
“That was awesome.” And
when she desperately needed
strength and fortitude, it was
to his music that she turned.
“(It) just had a huge, huge
impact on me,” she said. “I
listened to him when I was
going through my cancer
stuff, because he had a lot of
Man accused
of shooting
friend on
camping trip
PHOTO PROVIDED
Katy Yoder is saddling up to head down new trails in life.
ballads about strength.”
Yoder is leaving the
Sisters Folk Festival orga-
nization stronger than when
she came to it — and she
isn’t going far. She’s look-
ing forward to attending the
festival and other concerts
as a patron, indulging in her
expanded musical horizons.
SFF has begun its search
for a new development
director. Those interested
in learning more about the
position can visit www.
sistersfolkfestival.org/join-
the-sff-team. Questions
about the position should be
directed to Ann Richardson,
m a n a g i n g d i r e c t o r, a t
ann@sistersfolkfestival.org.
Katy Yoder will be the
first to tell candidates that the
position is a great deal more
than a job. As she saddles up
for the challenges of develop-
ing a new career as a writer,
she can look back on a trail
that took her in some unex-
pected directions and showed
her territory she’d scarcely
dreamed of. And she can sum
things up with a mixture of
smiles and tears:
“It’s been a good ride,
that’s all I can say.”
EUGENE (AP) —
Authorities say a charge of
second-degree manslaugh-
ter has been filed against
an Oregon man accused of
fatally shooting his friend
during a camping trip.
Sgt. Carrie Carver of
the Lane County Sheriff’s
Office says Steven “Troy”
Moody, Joshua Montez and
their families were together
Friday night at the Mona
Campground in Blue River.
Montez told authorities he
was awakened in the middle
of the night by loud noises he
thought might be gunfire.
According to Carver, the
42-year-old Junction City
man said he retrieved his gun
and fired when he saw a per-
son cross through the camp-
ground. Carver says Moody
died at the hospital early
Saturday. He was 48 and
lived in Eugene.
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