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The Nugget
Vol. XL No. 43
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Red sky at morning...
City taking
a look at
vacation
rentals
PRE-SORTED STANDARD
ECRWSS
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Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
Saving
homes
from
fires
By Sue Stafford
By Andrew Selsky
Correspondent
Associated Press
The City of Sisters, like
many cities across Oregon, is
taking a hard look at regula-
tion of vacation rentals.
The discussion on vaca-
tion rentals by the Planning
Commission continued at
their October 19 workshop,
after they received a map pre-
pared by City staff on which
all 41 vacation rental proper-
ties were marked.
SISTERS (AP) —
Lightning started a forest fire
one August afternoon near
this Oregon tourist town,
and it was spreading fast.
Residents in outlying areas
evacuated as flames marched
toward their homes.
Just a few months earlier,
the U.S. Forest Service and
a group of locals represent-
ing environmental, logging
PHOTO BY JEFF OMODT
Sisters was treated to a spectacular sunrise last week as a front moved into the area, brining soaking
rain over the weekend. Sisters is in for a nice week of Indian summer this week.
See RENTALS on page 29
See FIRE PROJECT on page 24
City mulls truck route,
intersection options
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
A public open house will
be held sometime in the next
month to present possible
solutions to traffic issues at
the Locust/Highway 20 inter-
section by Sisters Elementary
School, the intersection of
Highway20/Highway126,
and a possible improved truck
route along West Barclay
Drive. The public will be
invited to comment on the
options.
The Technical Advisory
Committee that has been
reviewing possible refine-
ments to the Sisters TSP,
is made up of Sisters resi-
dents and City staff, rep-
resentatives of the bicy-
cle/pedestrian interests,
Oregon Department of
Transportation, and Kittleson
& Associates Transportation
and Engineering/Planning
firm.
Inside...
At last week’s meet-
ing, the technical commit-
tee reviewed and discussed
a conceptual layout for a
Barclay Drive alignment
between North Pine Street
and Camp Polk Road that
would increase drivability
for trucks in and through
the industrial park. The four
curves on Barclay, three of
which have smaller turning
radii than ideal for 35-mile-
per-hour traffic, would be
realigned to the ideal 510-feet
with minimum right-of-way
acquisition required. There
would be two 13-foot-wide
travel lanes and the addition
of a 14-foot turn lane in the
center.
Disagreement surfaced
regarding a proposed separate
10-foot bike/pedestrian path
running parallel to Barclay.
Pat Thompson, owner of
Sisters Rental and former
See TRAFFIC on page 30
Habitat breaks ground on new home
A few years ago during a
winter blizzard, Sisters resi-
dent Becky Conner was driv-
ing to work when she spotted
a man stranded on the side of
the road next to his broken-
down car. That man was
Tony Cosby, Sisters High
School construction teacher.
“You never know where
that little act of kindness
leads,” Conner said last
week.
At the time, she didn’t
know Cosby, but they
stopped for treats at
Angeline’s Bakery; she
dropped him off at the high
school and she headed on to
work at Suttle Lake.
Little did Conner know
that this fall Cosby and his
construction students would
be building the walls of her
future Sisters Habitat for
Humanity home.
“I’m excited about this
continued opportunity. It’s
the highlight of my high
school year to come out and
stand the walls with the stu-
dents,” Cosby told Conner
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Becky Conner breaks ground on her future home in Sisters.
and her friends and family
during Habitat’s ground-
breaking celebration on
October 17.
Cosby’s students have
built walls for Habitat homes
for five years.
The building of the two-
bedroom, one-bath home will
be dedicated to the memory
of long-time volunteer Bob
Harris. One of Harris’ last
projects with Sisters Habitat
was preparation for the foot-
ings of the house. Harris died
in September. He started
See HABITAT on page 23
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Paw Prints ....................... 10 Movies & Entertainment ....13 Sisters Salutes ................ 18 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Sisters Naturalist ............. 18 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32