Outlaws runners picking
up the pace page 6
Hand-written letters
connect students page 11
World music comes
to Sisters page 23
The Nugget
Vol. XL No. 40
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Beer fest got folks hoppin’ in Sisters
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
The crisp fall air was fra-
grant with fresh hop aromas
all around Village Green
Park, attracting hundreds of
folks to the eighth annual
Sisters Fresh Hop Festival on
Saturday.
The event was presented
by Three Creeks Brewing
Company.
It’s that time of the year
when brewers delight in
rubbing sticky, leafy cones
between their fingers, pick-
ing apart the petals to reveal
a bright yellow oily pollen.
For beer drinkers it’s the time
when they get to sample the
short-lived product in its pur-
est form. And that is fresh
hops from the bine. Fresh hop
beers, also known as wet hop
beers, are typically brewed
with hops that are picked and
in the brew kettle within 24
hours.
Beer lovers, music lovers,
and food lovers all had a place
were flavors for everyone’s
taste. Folks even got a chance
See FESTIVAL on page 30
See FIRE REHAB on page 20
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
whole day of live music by
The Brothers Reed.
From fresh hopped pale
ales to imperial IPAs, there
Rehab
planning
underway
for Milli
Fire area
The Milli Fire that
scorched a 24,079-acre area
west and southwest of Sisters
and inundated Sisters Country
with smoke for weeks is fully
contained. It left behind a
wounded landscape. Now
comes time for the landscape
to heal.
The Forest Service
reports that a Burned Area
Emergency Response
(BAER) Team has reviewed
the fire area and made sev-
eral recommendations for
rehabilitation and recovery
of the fire area. Some of that
area burned at high intensity;
Beer-lovers learned about the nature of fresh hops at the Sisters Fresh Hop Festival last weekend.
at Sisters Fresh Hop Festival,
which featured 26 Oregon
brewed fresh hop beers on
tap, local food carts, and a
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Rescuers help lost hiker Students ‘fired up’ by museum visit
on Tam McArthur Rim
By Jim Anderson
Correspondent
Search and rescue person-
nel assisted a 39-year-old
Redmond woman who got
lost last week while hiking
on Tam McArthur Rim.
The Deschutes County
Sheriff’s Office reports that
911 dispatch received a non-
emergency call from Vanessa
Collier at about 4:39 p.m. on
Wednesday, September 27.
Collier reported that she had
been hiking for about 2-3
hours on the Tam McArthur
Rim trail near Broken Top
and was lost. Collier advised
she was dressed for the
weather, had food and water,
but her shoes were wet.
Collier’s cell phone battery
at the time of call was at 25
percent.
The call was lost and
dispatch received a 911 call
Inside...
from Collier who reported
her cell phone battery was
now 20 percent, but she
had a portable charger that
would be able to extend
the battery’s life. Collier
was patched through to a
Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office (DCSO) Special
S e r v i c e s D e p u t y, w h o
attempted to help orient her
as to her whereabouts as well
as made a plan to pick her up
at the Broken Top Trailhead
south of her current loca-
tion. The cell reception at
Collier’s location was poor
and attempts to text Collier
additional maps or extraction
routes were unsuccessful.
Approximately one hour
later, dispatch received a 911
See HIKER on page 25
In light of all the fires
that took place this last sum-
mer, and the controlled burns
slated for fall and spring,
Sisters Middle School is
again sending the fifth-grade
students off to the High
Desert Museum (HDM) on
different days to learn what
fire is all about from supervi-
sor Carolyn Nesbitt and her
staff.
The title of the program
was “Fired Up,” and she did
exactly that to every one of
the students in Tanya Young’s
fifth-grade class. One of her
students, Zach Thies, said,
“We talked about the ‘fire tri-
angle’ of fire, also we talked
about low, high, and crown
fires.
“One more thing we talked
about was how slopes affect
PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON
Teacher Tanya Young discussed fire behavior with her students as they
watched their experimental tree burn.
fire. We did experiments to
show how the fire triangle
worked by adding and tak-
ing away the oxygen. Then
we did experiments on how
the slope of a fire affected its
See MUSEUM VISIT on page 31
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Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Obituaries ....................... 22 Classifieds ..................26-28 Stars Over Sisters ............ 29