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16 Wednesday, February 28, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Wednesday, February 28, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon The people behind The Nugget... Jess Draper starts every week at The Nugget with a blank slate. That’s both the challenge and the pleasure of working as a produc- tion designer for a weekly newspaper. Draper, who started work- ing at The Nugget in 2005, puts the whole thing together each week — the news sto- ries, the ads, the photos — and presents a cohesive, attractive, useful package. “I collect the pieces and present it,” she said. “I enjoy the challenge of making it all fit and bringing it in an attrac- tive form to the readers.” “It’s Jess’ design work that really makes The Nugget come alive,” said Editor in Chief Jim Cornelius. “She enhances the way we tell Sisters’ story every week. Every week when I stack the paper on a rack I’m proud of it — and that’s because Jess makes it look so good.” In addition to producing the paper, Draper also designs ads for clients (and sells them when needed), handles The Nuggetʼs IT needs and does web design — an area where she hopes to devote more energy this year. “I have lots of plans for ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR BY JESS DRAPER Some ‘kids’ from Jess’ old farm days now hang in her office at The Nugget. Jess Draper updating our web presence,” she said. Draper wears a lot of hats — and her colleagues say she wears them well. “She’s crazy good at everything,” said Nugget bookkeeper Erin Bordonaro. Newspaper work wasn’t the career Draper initially envisioned for herself. “I went to school to be a computer animator,” she recalled. “I decided I didn’t want to live in L.A. and do the video game thing.” She settled down in Central Oregon, where she worked in web design and served a stint at The Bulletin. She was drawn to The Nugget because she liked the idea of living and working in a small town, and the job offered a variety of tasks and challenges instead of one set function. “News is exciting! And the variety in every week keeps it interesting,” she said. And she values the role of The Nugget in the community. “It’s worth reading every week. There’s interesting sto- ries. It’s exciting and impor- tant to me that it’s a common thread that we all have here in Sisters,” she said. The perishable nature of Now you can help Whispers from the past By Sue Stafford Correspondent PHOTO BY ANNEFISCHERPHOTOGRAPHY.COM Nugget graphic designer Jess Draper with her family at Suttle Lake. newspaper work is both dis- concerting and fun for those who put it together. You put in the effort to create some- thing interesting and useful — knowing that after a week’s life, it’s essentially gone. “My husband lights the fire with it,” Jess says with a smile. But that means that every week is a new project, a fresh start, a place to express cre- ativity, and a new opportunity to serve readers and advertis- ing clients. It’s never dull. Draper’s creativity extends well outside the office. “Recently I got the paints 17 back out and I’ve been water- color painting with my daugh- ter,” she said. Draper has three children: Daisy (11), Dugan (9) and Daphne (1). “I enjoy doing a variety of arts and crafts with the kids,” she said. “The projects I do with my son, Dugan, aren’t as pretty as what Daisy and I do — but cardboard boxes and duct tape make cool stuff, too!” She also enjoys time with her family exploring Sisters and “engaging the kids with the beauty that God has sur- rounded us with.” Sisters’ designation as a gateway between the high desert and the Cascade mountains stems from its earliest beginnings. Two wagon roads that crossed the Cascades in the 1870s intersected where the town of Sisters would eventually grow up. Early forays into the area were made by Captain John C. Fremont in 1843 and later in 1855 by Lt. Henry L Abbot as part of the Pacific Railroad Survey Party. In 1865 Captain Charles La Follette and 40 men from Company A left Fort Yamhill in Polk County to establish a military camp near the junction of the Santiam and McKenzie wagon roads to protect the travelers from hostile Indians. When it was determined there was no need for the camp, known as Camp Polk, it was abandoned on May 24, 1866. Around 1870, Charles Hindman and his family established a homestead near the abandoned Camp Polk. The ranch covered 280 acres, which for centuries was a camping site for Indians traveling through the area. Hindman later applied for a post office which was estab- lished March 18, 1875. In October of 1874, the J.B. Claypool family and two other families came east over the Santiam Pass from the Willamette Valley. They first camped at Cache Creek before moving to an area northeast of present- day Sisters, known as Squaw Flats, and became the only inhabitants in that area. They came in contact with natives as they returned to their homes in Warm Springs. The Indians had long used that area as a camping ground on their annual migration. Hundreds of natives set up camp around the white set- tlers, but no harm came to them. Homesteading was primi- tive in the 1870s. Prineville was the only settled com- munity in Central Oregon. There was no direct mail ser- vice prior to 1875 and mail sent to the The Dalles could sit for months before making its way to Sisters Country. The Claypools had relatives in Prineville who, in one instance, walked their mail over to them. D a v i d W. C l a y p o o l PHOTO PROVIDED Downtown Sisters in 1895 with freight wagon in front of the general merchandise store. acquired land in 1879 near Indian Ford Creek (origi- nally Bull Creek), and built a small log cabin, which was removed in the late 1960s by the Indian Ford Ranch Company. On the other side of pres- ent-day Sisters, in the south- east corner of what became the current Black Butte Ranch, E.A. Graham built a homestead on land con- taining a spring-fed creek. Because of their location, the Grahams provided accom- modations for sheepherders, cattlemen, and general travel- ers who utilized the Santiam Wagon Road. More homesteaders and settlers began arriving in the vicinity of Sisters within a few years. During the 1880s, a number of families settled in Sisters including the Cobbs, the Persons, the Fryrears, the Taylors, and the Wilsons, with even more arriving in the 1890s and early 1900s After 1880, Sisters became the settlement through which sheepherd- ers and, later, cattlemen drove their livestock from grasslands around Shaniko, Antelope, and Grizzly up into the Cascades for sum- mer grazing and back down in the fall. Sisters was the spot where the herders could restock supplies. In those days, there were in excess of 50,000 sheep in the moun- tains above Sisters during the summer, representing nine large sheep ranches. In July 1888, the post office at Camp Polk was dis- continued and moved to the John J. Smith store located about three miles south of Camp Polk and named “Sisters.” People living in the area were asked to sub- mit possible names for the new post office. Jacob N. 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