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The Nugget
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Sisters
looks to
craft a
vision of
the future
People’s Choice...
ByKSueKStaffordK
Correspondent
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Sisters is getting set to
embark on a project to envi-
sion its future.
Steven Ames and
Ruth Williamson of NXT
Consulting Group of Bend
made their initial presentation
to City Council outlining a
“visioning” process.
Ames likened the vision-
ing exercise to “fixing the
roof while the sun is shining.”
It’s better to look at where
we currently are as a city and
where we would like to go
when things are going well,
See KVISIONK on page 19
Sisters takes on
suicide prevention
ByKCharlieKKanzig
Correspondent
A distressed family mem-
ber takes her own life, leav-
ing the survivors to grapple
with tormenting what-ifs,
horrible guilt, paralyzing
helplessness and incompre-
hensible grief.
Family and friends ask,
“Could I have done more?
Did I miss some warning
signs? Did they try to tell me
and I dismissed their com-
ments? Did they tell anyone
their plans and no one spoke
up?”
Suicide, long an almost
taboo subject, is the cause
of death for approximately
38,000 Americans in a given
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year and rates among minors
continues to grow, accord-
ing to the Center for Disease
Control. The rate of suicide
among teenagers has more
than doubled since 2007,
according to the same source.
The time has come to
address the topic head-on,
says Sisters Middle School
counselor Brook Jackson.
That is why he and other staff
members from the Sisters
School District are working
to do everything possible to
help prevent suicide locally,
including the hosting of a
community presentation, as
well as assemblies at Sisters
Middle School and Sisters
See KSUICIDEK on page 22
Students to go to Belgium for science
ByKJimKAnderson
Correspondent
Three Sisters High School
chemistry students — seniors
Ethan Ferwalt, Ashonte Hull,
and junior Amy Hills — have
been selected, through a com-
petitive process from world-
wide applicants, to join a
group of students in Brussels,
Belgium, to send near-space
experiments up in an atmo-
spheric balloon.
The three students
designed their experiment
during chemistry classes this
last fall, and then chose the
option to enter it in the Asgard
Balloon Project. They were
selected. The students plan to
travel to Belgium (assuming
they can raise the appropriate
funds) with one or two of their
parents to attend this science
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event in late April, 2018.
Last spring, the SHS chem-
istry classes were conducting
near space atmospheric bal-
loon experiments, mentored
by Sisters resident Steven
Peterzën of the ISTAR Group
— a firm that offers a multi-
tude of support for science
and technological research in
See KBELGIUMK on page 24
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