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Wednesday, November 1, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon CLASSIFIEDS – 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 – Sisters Oregon Guide – Pick up your copy at the Nugget! 802 Help Wanted Need help on small farm close in to Sisters, including raking pine cones/needles, weed-whacking, pulling weeds, mowing, etc. Call 503-880-1134. – HOODOO JOB FAIR – Saturday, November 4 • 10 a.m. Now hiring for winter positions. Apply today at Hoodoo.com Subway in Sisters: All positions available! Full- & part-time. Closing shifts available. Apply at 620 N. Arrowleaf Trail. MONTE'S ELECTRIC is now hiring experienced Journeyman Electrician. Hiring Bonus & Benefits! Call 541-719-1316. 999 Public Notice The Sisters Ranger District is currently advertising a contract for snow removal to Three Creek Lake Sno-Parks. Go to https://www.fbo.gov and search solicitation number 1204GG18Q001 for information. Bid Packet due November 8. Contact Sisters Ranger District for additional information. Transgender inmate settles lawsuit over medical care Redmond superintendent bans classroom pets REDMOND (AP) — When an Oregon superinten- dent heard of another school district being sued recently for an incident related to an animal, it prompted him to recall his own district policy on animals. The Bend Bulletin reports Redmond School District Superintendent Mike McIntosh, during a school board meeting last week, said the district’s insurance doesn’t cover class pets. So McIntosh updated the district’s practice to match board policy, which allows only for service animals and animals on a temporary basis related to curriculum to be allowed in district facili- ties. Classroom pets are not allowed. School board policy says teachers are considered the owners of class pets, some- thing McIntosh says most teachers didn’t realize until recently. Aid-in-dying law turns 20 PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act is now 20 years old. Voters approved the aid- in-dying proposal in 1994 and it then survived a repeal effort. The law that took effect October 27, 1997, made Oregon the first state to make it legal for a doctor to pre- scribe a life-ending drug to a terminally ill patient of sound mind who makes the request. It took more than a decade for another state to follow. The Oregon Health Authority says more than 1,100 people used the law to die through the end of 2016. The median age was 71, and most suffered from cancer. The patient must swallow By Gillian Flaccus Associated Press PORTLAND (AP) — The Oregon Department of Corrections has settled a law- suit filed on behalf of a trans- gender inmate who said she was denied medical care. 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