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14 Wednesday, April 25, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Interim fire-safety manager in place in Sisters Gary Marshall, fire safety manager for the Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD for the past four years, has taken a job with Deschutes County Fire District #2 as executive director. Marshall officially started with Fire District #2 on April 2, but will have some duties at Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD that will overlap. “My past five years here at Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District as an elected director and as the fire-safety manager have been some of the best in my career,” Marshall said. The fire district will hold a civil service testing process to hire a permanent replace- ment for the part-time position within the next six months. While a testing process is being prepared, the fire chief has appointed Doug Green, a current City of Bend Fire Department employee who lives in Sisters. Green will work one day a week for the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District and continue to work full time for the City of Bend. POLLINATORS: Sisters is key player in helping monarch butterflies Continued from page 3 Fire Chief Roger Johnson said, “We are very fortunate to have someone with Doug’s background and experience available to keep things mov- ing forward during this time...” Green has lived in the Sisters community for almost 30 years, and his family has been in Central Oregon since the early 1900s. Prior to mov- ing to Sisters, Doug received a bachelor’s degree in land-use planning from Oregon State University. After college, he was drawn back to Central Oregon and worked for the City of Bend planning depart- ment. At that time, he went back to school and received a degree in fire science and his paramedic certification. Green has spent the last 20 years working as a fire- fighter/paramedic and as a fire inspector. As an inspector he handled all plan reviews and inspections of projects and construction within the Bend Fire Department’s jurisdiction. He also filled the role of wild- fire mitigation manager. to enhance student reading and writing skills and will demonstrate how to bring the innovative monarch instruc- tion into the classroom regardless of the subject being taught. Werts and her students began the Sisters Community Monarch Conservation Project in 2016 by studying about monarchs and then rearing monarch caterpil- lars and releasing the resul- tant butterflies after tagging them. The decline of the mon- arch butterfly is an indicator of the peril facing all pol- linators. Twenty years ago, there were an estimated one billion North American mon- arch butterflies. Today there are about 33 million of the orange and black beauties. 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Werts’ students have been trying to do something to help improve that statistic. They have created monarch waystations, first with six boxes, then 12, and are now on their way to 30. One of their tagged but- terflies was discovered in Southern California, having traveled over 800 miles from Sisters. The story of this well-traveled butterfly, has been recorded on blogs all over the world. Local author Jean Nave helped the stu- dents create a book about the travels of their butterfly, who they named Journey. The City Parks Advisory Board is contributing to the welfare of local pol- linators by creating a new native plant-restoration garden, which will contain native nectar-producing pants like milkweed to help revive the local monarch population. Nave, Werts, and local naturalist Jim Anderson have appealed to the City to moderate some of their maintenance practices to support integrated pest man- agement with reduced use of pesticides and insecticides harmful to pollinators. Homeowners in Sisters can do their part to help the pollinators, and especially the monarchs, by planting native milkweed and nectar plants, as well as allowing dandelions and clover, some of the first food sources for pollinators in the spring, to grow in lawns. Eliminating the use of insecticides and pesticides that are lethal to pollinators is an important step. Everyone who attends the May 5 migration celebration will go home with a packet of local milkweed seeds to plant in their yards. Monarchs lay their eggs on the milk- weed, which is also a food source. On Saturday, April 28, Paulina Springs Books will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day by featuring the middle school students’ book, “Journey’s Flight,” as the focus for the day’s activi- ties. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. some of the students will be available to talk about researching and writing the book. Both events are free to the public, and no registration is necessary. Hair 911? Who ya gonna call ? The Hair Caché ! 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