Sculpin in Whychus
Creek? page 9
Commemorate eclipse
with fabric postcard page 21
Volunteers say good-bye
to Sisters page 28
The Nugget
Vol. XL No. 29
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Sisters welcomes array of classic cars
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Folks ready to rev up
the weekend strolled down
Main Avenue checking out
the kaleidoscope of colorful
classic cars that rolled into
Sisters for the ninth annual
Glory Daze Car Show on
Saturday. The event was
presented by Sisters Park &
Recreation District (SPRD).
Classic car restoration is
an art form in its own right,
blending science, mechanics,
and design.
And from muscle cars to
roadsters to rat rods to pick-
ups there was something
for everyone’s taste. Highly
polished engines that spar-
kled and rainbows of col-
ored paint that shimmered
kept enthusiasts busy all day
searching for their favorites
among the best.
Martin Hansen’s “Blue
Beast,” a 1967 Plymouth
Belvedere GTX, had a crowd
of folks gathered around
rod.”
Hansen has owned the car
See HOT RODS on page 30
See ACCIDENT on page 26
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
have really loved blue,”
Hansen said, laughing. “With
a 440 engine, this car was
considered a gentleman’s hot
Wrecks
bring
scrutiny
to street
corner
Two collisions in recent
weeks at the intersection of
North Pine Street and Barclay
Drive in the Sisters Industrial
Park have drawn scrutiny to
the intersection.
In both cases, drivers
failed to stop at the stop sign
on Pine Street, causing col-
lisions with cars traveling
through on Barclay Drive.
The accidents were serious,
with vehicles flipping over,
though they did not cause sig-
nificant injuries.
City of Sisters Public
Works Director Paul Bertagna
told Deschutes County Patrol
Rich and Marlayne Eliff from Eatonville, Washington took Best of Show and Best Paint honors with their ’57 Buick
Special Estate Wagon Street Machine.
to gawk at his blue vintage
muscle car with a matching
blue interior.
“The original owner must
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Permit No. 15
Local agencies prepare Horseback rider rescued after fall
for eclipse impacts
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
Traffic has been very
heavy through Sisters this
summer, as travelers take
advantage of a strong econ-
omy and cheap gas to enjoy
some travel. Imagine a week-
end Sisters traffic bottleneck
multiplied by… well, nobody
really knows how much.
That undefined-yet-pre-
dictable scenario is preoc-
cupying local agencies from
the Oregon Department
of Transportation to the
Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office to the Sisters Fire
District and the City of
Sisters. Representatives of
those agencies and more met
last week at City Hall to dis-
cuss contingency plans for an
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expected influx of visitors to
witness the solar eclipse on
Monday, August 21.
While the majority of
eclipse-related events will
be concentrated in the area
of Madras, which features
the area’s longest period of
totality, Sisters is a gateway
into Central Oregon and will
likely see significant traffic
impact as well as people opt-
ing to view the event from
here.
Current surveys and mod-
eling project that each day
from Thursday, August 17
through Monday, August 21
will be about equal in terms
of volume. That’s mixed
news from the standpoint of
emergency services — it’s
See ECLIPSE on page 20
A 72-year-old Eugene
man was life-flighted to St.
Charles in Bend on Sunday,
after a horse wreck on the
Pacific Crest Trail.
On Sunday, July 16, at
about 10:10 a.m., Linn County
Sheriff’s Office Search and
Rescue was notified that a
man had had fallen off a horse
on the Pacific Crest Trail
about 1.25 miles north of the
intersection on Highway 20
near Ray Benson Snow Park.
Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office Search and Rescue
was requested to assist Linn
County SAR based on the
proximity of the SAR teams
to the incident.
There were currently two
DCSO SAR members and
a friend hiking the PCT on
their way to summit Three
Fingered Jack. After receiv-
ing the request for SAR
resources, they turned around
PHOTO PROVIDED
Search and rescue personnel brought 72-year-old Melvin Van Cleve out of
the woods after he was seriously injured in a fall from his horse.
to make initial contact with
the fallen rider. In the mean-
time, one Linn County SAR
deputy, two Forest Service
officers, Sisters Fire District
personnel, nine Deschutes
County SAR volunteers
and one DCSO SAR deputy
responded to the incident.
The fallen rider, Melvin
See RESCUE on page 29
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Naturalist ............... 9 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Obituaries ....................... 19 Classifieds ..................24-26
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Sisters Salutes ................ 16 Crossword ....................... 23 Real Estate .................28-32