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The Nugget
Vol. XL No. 30
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Dog days of summer...
Mayor
under
scrutiny
over rant
PRE-SORTED STANDARD
ECRWSS
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
Owner
traps own
long-lost
cat at
Suttle Lake
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
A Facebook video post
showing Sisters Mayor Chuck
Ryan taunting a neighbor from
his porch created a stir online
last week, before the woman
who posted the video took it
down.
She now faces a misde-
meanor charge for making the
recording.
The approximately 31-sec-
ond cell phone video was
taken by Robin Lewis Kane
and shows Ryan standing on
his porch in a Sisters neigh-
borhood on Sunday evening,
July 16, repeatedly calling
Kane a “nutjob” in a falsetto,
sing-song voice, mocking
her for having no friends and
suggesting that she “write
another letter to The Nugget”
— an apparent reference to an
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
PHOTO BY CAT CONNOR
The creek’s a great place for a dog to be when it hits the high 90s. Just ask Bailey.
See RYAN on page 22
See CAT on page 30
A hot week on tap
for Sisters Country
Sisters is getting the
kind of weather people day-
dreamed about when we were
buried under three feet of
snow and looking at a ther-
mometer stuck at nine degrees
last winter.
Temperatures are sup-
posed to hover in the low-to-
mid-90s through the week,
possibly peaking out near 100
degrees next weekend, under
sunny skies. That will doubt-
less send many locals and vis-
itors to Whychus Creek, the
Metolius River or local lakes
to cool off.
Folks dipping into the
Inside...
There are three camp-
grounds on Suttle Lake,
located 13 miles west of
Sisters in the Deschutes
National Forest — a total of
100 campsites. Sherwood
residents Neal and Tammy
Andrade enjoy camping at the
South Shore area with their
two cats, Hamilton, a shy
3-year-old gray and white cat,
and Sweetpea, a 10-year-old
female calico.
“Sweetpea has come
camping with us many times.
She never strays too far away
on her leash,” Neal Andrade
told The Nugget. “This was
the second time we had taken
Hamilton camping with us.”
But this time Hamilton,
waters should bear in mind
that Whychus and the
Metolius are both power-
ful, rushing streams in many
places — and the water is
very cold, no matter how hot
the day is. Be aware of poten-
tial hazards — like dangerous
currents — before heading
out onto or into the water and
avoid using drugs or alcohol
during water recreation.
The Red Cross notes
that if a child goes missing,
check the water first. Seconds
count in preventing death or
See HEAT on page 19
sraining to handle volatile liquids
Firefighters and training
staff from Cloverdale and
Sisters-Camp Sherman fire
districts met in the Sisters
High School parking lot on
Monday evening, July 17,
to train on some of the most
dangerous aspects of their
profession.
The training was designed
to refresh old hands and train
newer recruits on the correct
and safe methods of attacking
and extinguishing fires that
are burning flammable liq-
uids or gases for fuel — such
as propane or gasoline.
Trainers and training
props were provided by
the Oregon Department of
Public Safety Standards and
PHOTO BY STEVE HUFFMAM
Cloverdale and Sisters fire district personnel took training on handling
flammable liquids and gases last week.
Training (DPSST). Trainers
from the Black Butte Ranch
and Redmond fire districts
assisted the instructors from
DPSST. Props consisted of
a propane tank, a gas meter,
See TRAINING on page 25
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