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The Nugget
Vol. XL No. 32
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Small
brushfire
threatens
home near
Sisters
Sisters-Camp Sherman
Fire District made a swift
response early Sunday morn-
ing for a reported residential
structure fire that turned out
to be a small brushfire threat-
ening a home north of the
Squaw Creek Canyon Estates
area.
Neighbor Kimberly
Boggio called 911 at 3:34
a.m. after her husband noticed
the fire. First units were on
scene by 3:50 a.m. and dis-
covered brush and a snag
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Sisters
resident
competes
in Special
Olympics
Smoky sunset...
By Erin Borla
Correspondent
PHOTO BY GARY MILLER
Heavy smoke from wildfires as far away as British Columbia have hazed the air of Sisters Country over
the past week. There’s little to recommend the phenomenon — except some spectacular sunset skies.
See FIRE on page 29
Inside...
Local resident Lizzie
Affonso celebrated a great
achievement last month
by attending the Special
Olympics State Games to play
golf.
Lizzie, 33, living with
Down syndrome, grew up
in Stockton, California, and
moved to Bend in 1995 with
her mom, Sandy. In 2001, they
both moved to Sisters where
See AFFONSO on page 21
Protect your eyes
during solar eclipse
Once the preparations for
heavy traffic and a massive
influx of visitors have been
taken care of, folks in Sisters
will be turning their eyes to
the sky to take in the total
solar eclipse that is set for
Monday morning, August 21.
Safety should be the top
priority while viewing the
eclipse.
Sisters is close to, but
not IN, the “path of total-
ity,” so the eclipse will not
be complete from any Sisters
Country vantage point. That
means there will NEVER be
a point during this eclipse
event at which it’s safe to
look at the sun with the
naked eye.
According to NASA,
“The only safe way to look
directly at the uneclipsed
or partially eclipsed sun is
through special-purpose
solar filters, such as ‘eclipse
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Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
glasses’ or hand-held solar
viewers. Homemade filters
or ordinary sunglasses, even
very dark ones, are not safe
for looking at the sun; they
transmit thousands of times
too much sunlight.”
Several shops in Sisters
are carrying eclipse glasses.
To make sure what you have
is safe, verify that the glasses
are certified compliant to the
ISO 12312-2 international
safety standard for such
products.
NASA offers the follow-
ing safety tips:
• Always inspect your
solar filter before use; if
scratched or damaged, dis-
card it. Read and follow any
instructions printed on or
packaged with the filter.
• Always supervise chil-
dren using solar filters.
See ECLIPSE on page 19
Livestock club in top form at fair
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
With its unique sights,
sounds and smells who can
resist the annual Deschutes
County Fair? For many, just
talking about the fair can
conjure up memories that
instantly take us back to our
childhood.
The Deschutes County
Fair is run by the local fair
association with big support
from 4-H volunteer lead-
ers. And for 32 years Pam
Mitchell has been leading the
Cloverdale Livestock Club
— long before her own chil-
dren were able to participate.
The fair has been a key part
of her life since the fourth
grade when she became a
4-H member.
“I have only taken one
year off from 4-H, and that
was after graduation. I felt so
out of place that I went back
to helping lead the club and
have been at it ever since,”
PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER MCNAMEEE
Faith Keeton with her steer at the Deschutes County Fair.
Mitchell told The Nugget.
4-H is one of the larg-
est out-of-school youth
programs in the nation. It
encourages participants to
learn by doing. Through
See 4-H CLUB on page 23
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituaries ......................... 5 Announcements ................12 Paw Prints .......................20 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Of a certain age ............... 10 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32