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SHS yearbook program on a roll page 4 Reed Rainey will take the field as new baseball coach page 25 Keep your pets safe this holiday season page 29 The Nugget Vol. XL No. 47 P OSTAL CUSTOMER News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon www.NuggetNews.nom Wednesday, November 22, 2017 Nothing extreme about winter forecast below normal. On September 14, the Climate Prediction Center issued a La Niña watch. It stated there was a 55-60 per- cent chance of a La Niña to develop during the fall and winter 2017-18 season. At See FORECAST on page 38 See HURTLEY on page 35 The Three Sisters have donned their winter blankets. Odds are on a nool winter, partinularly nhilly in Denember and February — but nothing in the forenast is extreme. Correspondent As if on cue, the arrival of September’s autumnal equinox brought with it an abrupt change in the weather. Earlier in the month the heat and smoke of summer was still in play as temperatures soared into the 90s. Then, on September 19, the snow level dropped to 5,500 feet and blanketed the central Cascades with its first snow- fall — thanks to a shot of chilly air from the Gulf of Alaska. And just like that, the summer of 2017 was history. Citizens question new school bus facility By Sue Stafford Correspondent A new transportation facility is slated to replace the aged bus barn housed at Sisters Elementary School. Monies received from a state matching grant to the district will fund the project, utilizing approximately half of the $4 million windfall. There is general agreement among Sisters School District personnel and the commu- nity that a new transporta- tion facility is needed. What seems to be open to scrutiny by some community members is the location and safety of the planned facility. According to site plan documents submitted by the school district to the City of Sisters planning department, the enclosed area, most of it in chain-link fence, is 270 feet in length from west to east and 175 feet wide from north Inside... to south. The metal building is 10,356 square feet, larger than the current 10,160 square foot Sisters Park & Recreation District (SPRD) building, and 38 feet high at the highest point. It would face in toward the student parking lot. The site plan shows removal of 23 ponderosa pine and juni- per trees along the southern edge, including some in the Hyzer Pines disc golf area, to be replaced with a chain link fence. The gated compound would be situated 310 feet from the scenic McKenzie Byway, Highway 242, with the backside and bus parking area clearly visible from the scenic byway. The traffic flow for student drivers, visitors to SPRD and its bike and skate parks, the disc golf course, deliveries, See BUS BARN on page 35 The cool and wet weather continued through October, with the temperature bot- toming out at 18 degrees F on Halloween morning as snow continued to fall in the mountains. The first half of November saw normal tem- peratures, but rainfall was more than 0.75 of an inch Sisters man badly hurt in horse wreck Sisters-area horse trainer Chad Hurtley suffered seri- ous head and facial injuries on Tuesday, November 14, when a horse he was working with either kicked or stepped on him in a round pen. According to Hurtley’s friend Beth Lynn Matanane, Hurtley was working a big draft cross horse in a round pen, preparing to go out on a trail ride with another PHOTO BY CEILI CORNELIUS By Ron Thorkildson PRE-SORTED STANDARD ECRWSS U.S. POSTAGE PAID Sisters, OR Permit No. 15 Local trails volunteer honored By Cody Rheault Correspondent Local resident and avid Forest Service volunteer Gary Guttormsen was awarded the annual Dr. David L. Paulsmeyer Memorial Award for Excellence in Service on November 9 at a dinner and awards ceremony for volunteers from the Deschutes National Forest. Discover Your Forest, in partner- ship with the United States Forest Service, presented Guttormsen with the prestigious award for his years of service to the community. The Paulsmeyer Award is named after former volunteer Dr. David L. Paulsmeyer, and awarded to only those who have shown exemplary performance and dedication. This is the first year it has been awarded. Working an average of over 500 hours a year, Gary is no stranger to the outdoors. He is an avid user — but a more passionate volun- teer — stemming from an inspiring upbringing. His earliest memories of his love for the outdoors started at an early See GUTTORMSEN on page 36 PHOTO BY CODY RHEAULT Gary Guttormsen has logged nountless hours doing the hard work of building and maintaining trails anross Sisters. Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituaries ......................... 6 Movies & Entertainment ....11 Crossword ........................31 Real Estate .................35-40 Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ............... 10 Holidays ..................... 13-22 Classifieds ..................32-34 Sisters Salutes ................ 38
