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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Sisters Mainline Station is
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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
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– All You Need Maintenance –
Pine needle removal, hauling,
irrig., mowing, edging, raking,
moss removal, weeding, pruning,
roofs, gutters, pressure washing
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Closing shifts available.
Apply at 620 N. Arrowleaf Trail.
701 Domestic Services
999 Public Notice
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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
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Refs Avail. Call Emilee Stoery,
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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!
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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.
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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
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incredible love & for 25 years of
epic adventures
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Call Karen Kassy at 541-549-9941