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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Furry
Friends
Foundation
to relocate
By Jim Cornelius
Editor
For more than a decade,
the Furry Friends Foundation
(FFF) has operated out of
the offices of The Nugget
Newspaper.
Now that publisher and
FFF founder Kiki Dolson has
sold The Nugget, she is look-
ing for a new location for the
nonprofit. (See related story,
page 1.) Furry Friends helps
families keep their pets in
their homes by operating a
pet-food bank, and providing
spay/neuter sponsorships and
assistance with emergency
medical needs to families in
financial hardship.
Dolson plans to continue
operating the nonprofit — and
looks forward to doing even
more to help local families
and their pets.
“I think it’s going to be an
opportunity to really increase
the services we offer, but I
need a location desperately,”
she said.
For more information,
v i s i t w w w. f u r r y f r i e n d s
foundation.org. To con-
tact Dolson regarding Furry
Friends, email info@furry
friendsfoundation.org.
MULLEN: Nugget
staff remains on
the job in Sisters
Continued from page 1
experience. I think they’re
going to bring something
to the newspaper with their
broad experience that I
couldn’t.”
Louie Mullen, who lives in
Buffalo, Wyoming, said that
he and his father, Tom, were
drawn by the quality of the
newspaper and the vibrancy
of the Sisters community.
“Sisters is a fantastic
place,” he said. “The local
ownership that is here is a rep-
resentation of how people feel
about their community. Small
businesses are the backbone
of this country, and that gets
lost on the national plane. All
you have to do is go down
Cascade Avenue and look
right and look left and you see
that people care about their
community.”
Mullen noted that the paper
will continue to be operated
by the local staff — some of
whom have been working for
The Nugget for more than two
decades.
“It’s the best-looking
paper… the editorial content
is great — and local. The staff
is fantastic,” he said.
Dolson said that the high-
light of her tenure as publisher
has been “working with my
staff and developing those
long-term friendships, and
creating a product that was so
well-received by the Sisters
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staff); I’ll miss the day-to-day.
I really enjoyed it. It’s always
been fun being ‘in the know,’
but also a huge responsibility.
“Sisters is such an
involved, vital community,”
Dolson continued. “The news-
paper has always been the
voice of this outspoken, active
town. There is always some
controversy; the sign of an
involved, caring community.
When I and my then-partner,
Erik Dolson, first owned the
newspaper, in 1982, the big
controversy involved the busi-
nesses and dumpster pads.
Yes, Sisters has changed.”
Dolson recalled Sisters
as it was in the early 1980s
— much smaller and very
intimate.
“The chamber office back
then was in the president’s
place of business. I remember
making huge wreaths to hang
throughout the town in Toby
and Eva Poole’s barn. I think
Toby and Glen Miller went
out and cut a whole tree down
for us to use.
“I remember the activ-
ists Nancy Zirkle, Betty
Marquart, Dorro Sokol and
Cliff Clemens — all passion-
ate about this community. I
think about Bill and Jan Reed,
who were so instrumental in
developing Sisters into the
town it is now… The commu-
nity has grown so much since
then, with the revitalization
of the downtown core, public
restrooms and even a splash
pad!”
She said that she is grati-
fied that the Mullens share
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Louie Mullen and his father, Tom Mullen (not pictured), are the new
owners of The Nugget Newspaper.
the sense of responsibility
she always felt in community
journalism.
“I am honored to have
been a part (of Sisters’ devel-
opment) and I am glad the
Mullen family shares the
same sense of importance and
responsibility a small-town
newspaper plays in the com-
munity,” she said.
Leith Easterling, who has
worked for The Nugget for 26
years, recalled starting in 1991
with no computer experience
at all, when weekly paste-up
was still done with X-ACTO
knives and wax.
“(It was) a three-person
staff for quite a while,” she
said. “Long hours; late hours
— but, always excited, always
loved the outcome. I always
loved working for the news-
paper. (Dolson) has always
been a great boss and a really
good friend…You don’t stay
with somebody for 26 years
if you don’t really like some-
body and love your job. You
just don’t. So that really says
something about her — and
about the newspaper.”
Dolson plans to stay in
the Sisters community and
will continue to operate Furry
Friends Foundation, which
helps pets remain in their
homes by operating a pet-food
bank, and providing spay/
neuter sponsorships and assis-
tance with emergency medical
needs to families in financial
hardship (see related story,
page 20).
She expressed deep appre-
ciation for Sisters:
“I just want to thank the
community for embracing
the newspaper for the past 35
years, and I also want to thank
the business community that
has been so supportive, also,
these past 35 years.”
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