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Wednesday, November 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Volunteers build ‘Fences For Fido’
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
PHOTO PROVIDED
Joe Craven and The Sometimers will play a benefit for Cascade School of
Music.
Joe Craven to play
benefit for music school
Year-round
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visual artist, actor/storyteller,
music festival emcee, direc-
tor of RiverTunes and Vocali
Voice Camps, and a co-direc-
tor for the Wintergrass Youth
Academy, Joe’s musical
knowledge is impressive and
his gift of gab unprecedented.
Joe’s love of performing
has put him in many musical
genres and alongside many
musicians including Stephane
Grapelli, Jerry Garcia, David
Lindley, Howard Levy and
Alison Brown. He is a musi-
cal madman with anything
that has strings attached: vio-
lin, mandolin, tin can, bedpan,
and with anything that might
work as a drum or rhythm
instrument.
“Everything Joe touches
turns to music,” says man-
dolinist David Grisman. No
one who saw Joe wring a
percussion concerto from his
garbage-bag raincoat during
a downpour at the Strawberry
Music Festival could disagree.
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Joe Craven, longtime per-
cussionist and violinist for
the David Grisman Quintet
turned award-winning music
educator, will be inspiring,
entertaining and encourag-
ing Central Oregon students
on November 6, 7, 8 as well
as performing a concert with
his trio, The Sometimers, as a
benefit for Cascade School of
Music.
The concert will be
November 8, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
at the Unitarian Universalist
Church, 61980 Skyline Ranch
Rd. in Bend. Call the Cascade
School of Music (541-382-
6866) for tickets: $15 for
adults and $5 for students.
Seating is limited.
The Cascade School of
Music provides a variety of
individual and group educa-
tion opportunities for youth
and adults.
A multi-instrumentalist,
award-winning creativity
educator, museum curator,
Martha Nordbusch hates to
see a dog on a chain.
Rather than simply com-
plain about it, though, she
joined up with an outfit that
fixes the problem — Fences
For Fido. She’s now the out-
reach coordinator for the
statewide nonprofit, which
builds fences for dog yards —
for free.
“I just went, ‘Oh, my
gosh, I’ve gotta do this!’”
the Prineville resident said
of discovering Fences For
Fido. “They fix the problem.
It makes everybody happy.
It makes the dog happy; it
makes the property owner
happy; it makes the neighbors
happy.”
On Saturday, a crew of
nine volunteers was busy
at a residence at a home in
Squaw Creek Canyon Estates,
where a boxer-pitbull mix
had been kept on an able run-
ner — and occasionally ran at
large.
“ S h e ’s b e a u t i f u l , ”
Nordbusch said of the dog.
The dog now has a nice,
chain-link-fenced yard,
replete with an insulated
doghouse. All at no charge
to the dog’s owner. That’s
how Fences For Fido works.
There’s no financial threshold.
“All you have to do is have
a dog that meets our qualifica-
tions,” Nordbusch said.
Dogs on a chain or runner
qualify, as do dogs who are
confined to a small kennel.
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over. Sometimes a resident
requests a fence; sometimes
police responding to a nui-
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An all-volunteer crew built a panel fence for a resident of Squaw Creek
Canyon Estates. The dog now has a yard and a doghouse to live in.
a dog that’s on a chain, you
can let Fences For Fido know
and their volunteers will take
the initiative to approach the
dog owner with a proposal.
Sometimes they’re rebuffed
initially, but most homeown-
ers come around quickly
to the idea of a dog fence
with no cost and no strings
attached.
It can take a bit of time
to get materials together and
organize a work party.
“This summer we were
$
two months out,” Nordbusch
said. “But now we’re down to
about three-weeks wait time.”
All the materials are
acquired through donation —
and manning donation tables
at events is a way to volun-
teer if you don’t want to build
fences.
For more information on
Fences For Fido, visit www.
fencesforfido.org. You can
request a fence though an
online application or offer to
volunteer.
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