The Nugget
Vol. XLI No. 20
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News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
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Agencies to
hold active-
threat
training at
schools
create the art. And 3rd and 4th
grades created flying drag-
ons,” Williams said.
The middle school stu-
dents designed cardboard
airplanes connecting “Take
Flight” with remembrances
of old-fashioned hand-held
Police and first respond-
ers will be operating in and
around two Sisters schools on
Saturday in an active-threat
drill.
Sisters-Camp Sherman,
Black Butte Ranch and
Cloverdale fire districts per-
sonnel are planning to partici-
pate with local law enforce-
ment including Deschutes
County Sheriff ’s Office,
Deschutes County 911, Ore-
gon State Police, Black Butte
Ranch Police and the Forest
Service in a joint training exer-
cise Saturday, May 19 at Sis-
ters middle and high schools.
The active-threat exercise
will allow each agency to
simulate what their role would
be in the event of an active
shooter event at local schools.
See ARTS on page 29
See TRAINING on page 30
Sisters youths
paraded on Hood Avenue in
celebration of the arts last Friday.
PHOTO BY JODI SCHNIEDER MCNAMEE
Arts celebration brings Sisters together
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
With shakers, tambou-
rines and drums in hand, the
Americana Project students
paraded up Hood Avenue on
Friday kicking off the 17th
annual My Own Two Hands
(MOTH) celebration of the
arts featuring student-crafted
art on this year’s theme,
“Take Flight.”
The parade is produced by
Sisters Folk Festival (SFF)
and supports the Americana
Project and affiliated pro-
grams of SFF.
Directly following behind
the banner were students of
Sisters Elementary School,
excitedly showing off their
colorful dragon masks. Art
instructor Karen Williams
coordinated their projects for
this year’s parade.
“Preschool through sec-
ond-grade made hats with
flying objects on them using
symmetry and texture to
Wilderness restrictions Swinging the hammer for Habitat
comment deadline near
By Craig F. Eisenbeis
Correspondent
Time is short for the pub-
lic to weigh in on a U.S.
Forest Service reservation
system that could severely
limit future use of wilder-
ness areas in local National
Forests.
If implemented, the sys-
tem would affect all wilder-
ness areas in Sisters Country.
Last month, citing increas-
ing user pressure and dwin-
dling resources, the Forest
Service published notice of
a 30-day comment period
for the “Central Cascades
Wi l d e r n e s s S t r a t e g i e s
Project,” which would affect
wilderness areas in the
Deschutes and Willamette
Inside...
National Forests.
A portion of the notice
reads, “The Central Cascades
Wilderness Strategies Project
was undertaken last year
with an overarching goals
(sic) of reducing recreation-
related impacts and preserv-
ing the wilderness charac-
ter of the following: Mount
Jefferson Wilderness, Mount
Washington Wilderness,
Three Sisters Wilderness,
Waldo Lake Wilderness, and
Diamond Peak Wilderness.
Sharp increases in the num-
ber of visitors to some of
these areas is (sic) putting
pressure on resources, and
causing crowding and degra-
dation of natural conditions.
See WILDERNESS on page 31
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Women’s Build workers contributed to three home projects in Sisters last week.
Last week more than
fifty local women, includ-
ing teams from First Inter-
state Bank, US Bank and
YouthBuild, worked on three
homes in Sisters Habitat for
Humanity’s Village Mead-
ows neighborhood as part of
National Women Build Week
hosted by Sisters Habitat for
Humanity and Lowe’s.
The women, and some
men, painted, landscaped,
installed cabinets and
caulked during the Women
Build Week which started
11 years ago through Habitat
International to encourage
women nationwide to devote
at least one day to help build
decent and affordable hous-
ing in local communities.
See BUILD on page 24
Letters/Weather ................ 2 City Snapshot .................... 6 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 25 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Sisters Salutes ................ 24 Paw Prints ....................... 25 Real Estate .................28-32