Wednesday, January 10, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Ski Inn comes down
By Jim Cornelius
Editor
On a blustery day in early
December 2013, at about 2:20
p.m., a heavy gust of wind
uprooted a towering ponder-
osa pine that stood next to the
Ski Inn on Cascade Avenue
in Sisters, sending the trunk
crashing through the front of
the restaurant.
By some miracle of good
fortune, nobody was seriously
hurt
Mike Smith of Sisters was
eating at the counter when the
tree came through the roof.
He said, “Just boom! Like a
bomb went off. (Stuff) just
flew everywhere, blew me off
my stool.”
Smith reported that there
were about a dozen staff and
patrons in the restaurant; all
escaped serious injury.
The iconic old-time
Sisters restaurant never got
up and running again. The
site became something of an
eyesore along Sisters’ main
thoroughfare.
In the summer of 2016,
a handful of guerilla artists
“jean bombed” the building
in the run up to the Sisters
Outdoor Quilt Show, wrap-
ping the building in a “quilt”
of jeans. The art whimsically
gussied up the damaged and
decrepit building — for a
while. But, as denim does,
the art installation eventually
faded.
Last year, the site’s new
owner, Jim Yozamp, heeding
the concerns of Sisters citi-
zens, painted the building to
make it less of an eyesore.
And on Tuesday morning,
Yozamp brought in a demo-
lition crew headed by Gerry
Tewalt to finally take the old,
damaged building down.
Yozamp, owner of PacWest
Builders, LLC told The
Nugget that information on
what will be built on the site
will be available as the plan-
ning process gets underway.
PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
A landmark met its fate on Tuesday morning.
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A giant ponderosa came down in a windstorm, damaging the building — but injuring no one.
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