Wednesday, January 10, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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DID YOU KNOW: Aitken
building is still in
commercial use
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PHOTO PROVIDED
Liam Hughes has led SPRD for the past four years.
HUGHES: SPRD board
will determine next
steps for district
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opportunity that I cannot pass
up,” Hughes stated. “The Park
and Recreation Department in
Pendleton has a large array
of parks, a recreation center,
and a swimming pool. I am
excited for the opportunity
to work with facilities like
these and be able to deliver
great services to the citizens
of Pendleton.”
SPRD recently announced
plans to seek a 15-cents-
per-$1,000 local-option tax to
support its programs.
Hughes said that he is
proud of the district for
expanding programs, espe-
cially for adults and seniors,
while continuing to focus on
the youth of the community
(see Letters to the Editor,
page 22).
“If I had one thing I am
most proud of, it has been
how our staff have united
behind the mission of rais-
ing money though fundrais-
ers and grants, so that we can
keep our services available
and affordable for the people
of Sisters Country,” he said.
Hughes came to Sisters
from the Newport Parks &
Recreation District.
Hughes is a native of
Essex, England. He left there
at 16 “chasing the dream of
being a basketball player.”
That dream first took him
to Modesto, California, where
he attended high school, then
to Oregon State University
and a year at Western Oregon
University.
NBA dreams didn’t quite
come true, but Hughes had no
desire to return to the UK.
”Once I moved to Oregon,
I never wanted to go back,”
he said.
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Your Authentic Representation
purchased from a Portland
saloon, had an antique mar-
ble counter backed by a large
mirror.
George made his own ice
cream in five-gallon batches,
using rich whipping cream,
and turning the crank by
hand. Grace’s huckleberry
topping and George’s ice
cream brought people from
Bend and Redmond just for
the frozen treats. The ice
cream was kept frozen in a
special room with sawdust-
insulated walls, filled with ice
that George chopped himself
from ponds he had flooded
during the winter.
Civic activities kept
George busy as he served for
more than 20 years as secre-
tary of the Squaw Creek (now
Whychus) Irrigation District.
He worked to promote com-
munity projects like the
construction of sidewalks in
town.
Although he had little time
for it, George loved to fish
and people conferred with
him about where to find the
best fishing holes and what
PHOTO COURTESY DESCHUTES COUNTY HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION
The Aitken building is the current home of Drawstrings of Malibu.
lures to use. For a number of
years, George was a member
of the Oregon Fish and Game
Commission and worked to
see that local streams were
kept stocked with fish.
It was George who sug-
gested Wizard Falls on the
Metolius River would be a
good location for a fish hatch-
ery and supported its con-
struction. When the hatchery
was completed in 1948,
four years after his death,
it was dedicated to George
Aitken.
After George’s death,
Grace served for 16 years as
the Sisters librarian, begin-
ning in 1947. She died in
1975 in Madras.
Information from “That
Was Yesterday,” Wilson and
Scott, and Ancestry.com.
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