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28 Wednesday, October 25, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon C L A S S I F I C E D L S A S S I F Metolius Lawn Maintenance Cleanup, lawn care, pruning, hauling, etc. 541-508-9672 AJ's PROPERTY CLEANUP Lawncare • Thatching • Edging Aerating • Hauling Debris Licensed & Insured 541-279-0139 • 541-306-0761 All Landscaping Services Mowing, Thatching, Hauling... Call Abel Ortega, 541-815-6740. Sisters Mainline Station is currently hiring for F/T and P/T Cashiers and Gas Attendants. Health insurance provided, 401k after one year! Apply in person at Railway & Hwy. 20. Sisters Park & Recreation District seeks Preschool Aide. $10-12/hr. DOE. For details and to apply visit www.SistersRecreation.com. Questions? Email Valarie Selig at sprd.ses@sisters.k12.or.us – All You Need Maintenance – Pine needle removal, hauling, irrig., mowing, edging, raking, moss removal, weeding, pruning, roofs, gutters, pressure washing & much more. Lic/Bonded/Ins. Austin • 541-419-5122 Subway in Sisters: All positions available! Full- & part-time. Closing shifts available. Apply at 620 N. Arrowleaf Trail. 701 Domestic Services 999 Public Notice – CUSTOM HOUSE CARE – TLC for your Home, Business or Rental Cleaning in Sisters, Black Butte Ranch & surrounding areas. Let us sparkle your home for a fresh start! Call to schedule an immaculate home cleaning. Lic-Bonded-Ins. Refs Avail. Call Emilee Stoery, 541-588-0345 or email customhousecare@earthlink.net PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICE On 10/26/2017 at 1 p.m., the entire contents of units #A-43, A-45, A-52 & C-19, belonging to Michelle Anderson, Tiffany Adrian, Dakota Cole and Terry Gillette, will be sold to the highest bidder. The high bidder(s) must remove the contents within 3 days. Sale takes place at Sisters Rental, 506 N. Pine St., Sisters, OR. 541-549-9631 BLAKE & SON – Commercial, Home & Rentals Cleaning WINDOW CLEANING! Lic. & Bonded • 541-549-0897 Snow Removal Public Contracting Bid The Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District will receive sealed bids, 801 Classes & Training attention: Fire Chief, PO Box A D V E R T I S E H E R E ! 1509, Sisters, Oregon 97759 or Do you offer lessons, classes or hand-delivered to 301 S. Elm St. workshops ... Yoga? Piano? until Wed., Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. for Drawing? Swimming? Or... snow removal of parking and JUST $2/line the first week, access areas; additional option $1.50/line for repeats. And it for snow accumulation removal goes online at no extra charge! on roofs. Bidders must be 541-549-9941 capable of conforming to the specifications as provided by the 802 Help Wanted District. Please pick up bid Part-time Janitorial cleaning process papers at the main fire a govt. building in Sisters, station or download them online 5 days per week. Flex hours. at www.sistersfire.com. If interested, call 503-207-3694. All questions relative to this bid – TIRE TECH – shall be directed to Captain Davis Towing, Pay DOE. Apply Thornton Brown at in person at 188 W. Sisters Park 541-549-0771. Dr. M-F, 9 to 5, ask for Kathleen. The District reserves the right to MONTE'S ELECTRIC is now reject any or all bids, to waive hiring experienced Journeyman any informality in the bid proposal and to make awards in Electrician. Hiring Bonus & the best interest of the District. Benefits! Call 541-719-1316. Newly-minted citizen... Charges brought teen for fire By Andrew Selsky Associated Press SALEM (AP) — A 15-year-old boy who alleg- edly started a wildfire by tossing fireworks along a hik- ing trail in Oregon’s scenic Columbia River Gorge, with the blaze causing evacua- tions, the closing of an inter- state highway and causing ash to rain down on Portland, has been charged with sev- eral offenses, authorities said Thursday. He’s charged with reck- less burning, depositing burning materials on forest lands, criminal mischief and recklessly endangering other persons, Hood River County District Attorney John Sewell said in a statement. The boy, from Vancouver, Washington, was not named. The fire that started September 2, and which con- tinues to smolder, burned 76 square miles (197 sq. kilome- ters) of forestland, devastat- ing beloved day trails around dozens of crystalline water- falls in Portland’s backyard. Witnesses had seen the boy, who was with other youths, tossing fireworks off the trail. A fire quickly started, strand- ing dozens of hikers who had to retreat into a safe area and wait out the night before being evacuated the next day. Flames leapt from the trees on the gorge’s steep slopes, and winds carried sparks across the broad Columbia River, starting another fire on the Washington state side. Interstate 84, a major east- west corridor that runs along the Gorge, was shut down, and communities like nearby Cascade Locks, which depend on visitors to inject money into the local economy, suf- fered a severe setback. The fire removed veg- etation, underbrush and tree roots that support the Columbia River Gorge, and now authorities expect land- slides and rockslides with additional rain. The Historic Columbia River Highway and State Trail was damaged by fire and rockfall and remains closed. The uncontained por- tion of the fire is in steep ter- rain, and fire managers do not expect it to spread further, authorities said. The charges came after a criminal investigation by the Oregon State Police assisted by U.S. Forest Service investigators. As the fire took such a toll, many enraged commenta- tors on news media web sites called for charges to be filed, and for the boy’s family to pay some of the millions of dollars in costs to fight the fire. “What happens next is for the courts to decide,” said Michael Lang, conservation director for Friends of the Columbia Gorge, a group ded- icated to protecting the area. “Friends of the Columbia Gorge is focused on efforts to heal the land, trails, and com- munities affected by the fire.” The boy was caught due to the efforts of a hiker, Liz FitzGerald of Portland, who said she saw a boy toss a smoke bomb into a ravine as girls with him giggled and another boy took video with his cellphone. FitzGerald con- tinued up the trail and then looked back, saw smoke was growing, and decided to run back to the parking lot and warn others. “I passed the teenagers at that point,” FitzGerald told Willamette Week newspa- per. “It was a smaller group of maybe seven or nine. Just as I was passing them I said ‘Do you realize you just started a forest fire?’ and the kid said, ‘Well, what are we supposed to do about it now?’ And I yelled over my shoul- der ‘Call the freaking fire department!’” After she got to the park- ing lot by the Eagle Creek Trailhead, she told a law enforcement officer what she had seen. He stopped a van carrying some of the group of youths as they attempted to leave in a van. The fire was one of the worst to hit the U.S. West dur- ing a particularly intense fire season. No idea what to get them? Honor them with an ad in the The Nugget! Birthday? Anniversary? Graduation or Special Occasion? T A H T S ’ O H W ? L R I G Y P P HA e Com e Celebrat Karen’s ! Birthday A way to share with the Sisters com munity how special th ey are! Love is Life’s Gre Adventure… atest l! Saturday, Decem 7 be p. r m 6 . a i c o S e i P a 5 & It’s Drop in between The more pie the of Hood & sha Fi re. r • Corner can Eurosports bring one to you e, fav have a merrier! If you gether! to it t u p u o y lp e h n a We c FREE! Design services are PHOTO BY CONRAD WEILER Sue Keenlyside, originally from the UK, celebrated her new status as a U.S. citizen with a party put on by her fellow water aerobics class members at Sisters Athletic Club. Th ank you, Ann , incredible love & for 25 years of epic adventures . Call Karen Kassy at 541-549-9941
