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18 Wednesday, March 21, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Students help raise a house in Sisters There seems to be some- thing about Sisters that draws students from Minnesota for Collegiate Challenge Week. This year’s visiting group hailed from Sage Academy in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. They are the seventh group from Minnesota to come to Sisters and help the local Habitat, Marie Clasen, Habitat’s Family Services Manager said. They worked on Becky Conner’s future home and helped with con- crete footings for Bear and Mary Gray’s home. After four days of the youth filling trenches and sinkholes, helping to install siding and assist- ing to pour concrete foot- ings, Construction Manager Darleene Snider couldn’t have been more appreciative of their hard work. “I was extremely and pleasantly surprised. You guys accomplished a lot. It was an absolutely awesome week,” she told the students on their last day. The youth were in Sisters as part of Habitat for Humanity’s Collegiate Challenge Program. High school and college students around the nation spend their spring break helping build homes alongside future Habitat homebuyers. Two of the students involved in the service week were exchange students; Giorgio Angelo Runtuwene is from Indonesia and Ricky Clarot from Italy. They had fun helping out and getting asked a lot of questions from Habitat volunteers. Over the course of the four days, the questions went both ways as the students learned about construction. “I’ve learned that blueprints aren’t blue,” Junior Haley Morgan said laughing while waiting for the concrete truck to arrive. But in all serious- ness, she and fellow class- mate Mercedes Magill talked about how much it meant to them to work as a team and get to know the Habitat families and the construction volunteers. “Dennis is great! He’s my new grandfather,” Magill miller I R R I G A T I O N Spring Start-Ups Residential Irrigation Backfl ow Installation & Testing Landscape Lighting Dog & Horse Waterers Underground Field Irrigation Call C ll t today! d ! 541-388-0190 LCB#8234 — 3 Sisters and Cook — Contracting I will return your call Remodels Carpentry Painting — Sisters-owned Si t S d — 46 years experience Licensed & Insured Ed Cook 540-454-2040 CCB#212871 PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK A work crew from Sage Academy in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, came to Sisters to help build a home. said about long-time volun- teer Dennis Mills, who was teaching the kids how to lay out and assemble a stone patio. Another highlight for Magill was seeing Snider run the job site. “It’s great to see a woman in charge,” she said of Snider, who has been con- struction manager for three years. Magill was grateful for the opportunity to learn new skills; skills, she said, that many young women are not given the chance to learn. Social Studies teacher Kelly Crampton said one of the reasons they picked Sisters was because many of the kids had studied the Oregon Trail history in her class. During their time off, the group hiked Peterson Ridge Trail, the Metolius River Trail and visited Sahalie and Koosah Falls. Hosting the students is a community effort, Clasen said. They slept at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, were able to take showers at Sisters Athletic Club, an anonymous donor donated $100 for the group to have dinner, Habitat volunteers provided lunch each day, and they were gifted tickets to see Darlingside at the Sisters Folk Festival winter concert. The students were very grateful for the generosity, and several talked about coming back to stay. “You can come back any- time,” volunteer John Milne told the kids as the volun- teers and students said their goodbyes. Miller Irrigation Efficiency is the watchword at Miller Irrigation. 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Avoid dry spots on your landscape, save water and help your plants and grass thrive with a profes- sionally designed and installed system from Miller Irrigation. 3 Sister s and Cook For Ed Cook, there are three aspects of any job: the agreement, the presentation of the work and the handshake. And for him, the handshake is everything. His handshake is his integrity and your guarantee of a job well done, for the price agreed upon and the schedule determined. The word is getting out about 3 Sisters and Cook Contracting — about that high level of integrity, about reliability and attention to detail. That’s an ethic that Cook’s father instilled in him from an early age, and one that carried him through a long and distinguished career in building restoration in Virginia. Now that he’s in Sisters, Ed is handling modest-sized projects from remodels to painting that he can handle himself. He never cuts corners, and he believes the best value in the long run is in quality. He’ll back that up with hat he values most: his handshake.