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Wednesday, June 27, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
4TH OF JULY:
Annual event funds
aviation programs
Continued from page 3
signature event, the Great
Rubber Chicken Drop, will
take place at 10 a.m. This
unique raffle-type event is
performed aviation-style.
Participants can purchase
two-by-two-foot numbered
squares which are chalked on
the runway for $5 each. The
Outlaw Aviation plane flies
over the matrix, and rubber
chickens are flung out. Each
chicken represents a specific
prize. Prizes are donated by
Sisters-area businesses, and
range in value from $15 to
$400. The person who pur-
chased the square that each
rubber chicken lands on wins
that prize.
A 50/50 raffle, helicopter
scenic rides, and tandem sky-
diving will add to the enter-
tainment. Outlaw Aviation
will have their two airplanes
and new simulator on display,
as well as popular apparel
sales.
At around 11 a.m. fol-
lowing the raffle awards,
the runway will be closed
to aircraft and taken over by
hotrods. Drag races down the
runway pits unlikely pairs of
dragsters, such as the hot-off-
the-line Tesla against a 1963
Corvette, or a Subaru vs. a
tow-truck. The fun is open
to participants in any type of
vehicle, from the family car
to the champion dragster. The
pancake grill will be taken
over by burgers for lunch
around 12 p.m.
The Rally on the Runway
event is a fundraiser for the
Sisters High School Flight
Science program, which has
grown to three classes and 52
students. The unique program
is attracting attention as one
of the only high school avia-
tion programs in the country.
While many schools offer
ground-only instruction, few
have access to flight training.
Through a collaboration
between SHS, the Sisters
Airport, and Outlaw Aviation,
Sisters students are able to
earn their pilot licenses while
in high school.
“Flight training is nor-
mally very expensive,” said
Julie Benson, co-owner of
the Sisters Airport. “This
event provides scholarship
funds for students learning to
fly. The community support
is very evident when so many
people come to the event and
participate. I’m glad to make
the airport available to bring
the community together to
celebrate the Fourth of July,
and help our students become
the next generation of pilots.”
Flight training is
normally very expensive.
This event provides
scholarship funds for
students learning to fly.
— Julie Benson
The next phase of avia-
tion opportunity for SHS stu-
dents is an “airplane build”
project. The Sisters Airport
has agreed to host a new
Career Technical Education
program where students will
build an airplane from a kit.
“It will be a hands-on class
where students will learn
metal-working and machin-
ing skills, as well as learning
how airplanes are structured.
We are trying to get all the
pieces together to offer it
starting next fall,” says Curt
Scholl, Sisters School District
superintendent. Donations
toward the airplane kit are
being sought. Details will be
available at the Rally on the
Runway celebration.
Admission to the Rally
on the Runway is free. More
information can be found at
www.SistersAirport.com, and
Facebook page “Sisters Eagle
Airport.”
WATER: Drinking
water can be affected
by algae blooms
Continued from page 18
Chapra led a team includ-
ing scientists from the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency in one of the most
comprehensive studies to
date of the interplay between
global warming and the
blooms, published in 2017.
Because they prefer warm
water, higher summer tem-
peratures and more frequent
heat waves help the organ-
isms. More frequent droughts
also cause reservoirs to be
shallower in summer, causing
them to warm faster.
And more intense rain-
storms, also conclusively
linked to climate change,
can wash more nutrients
into lakes and reservoirs,
especially from farms where
nitrogen and phosphorous-
rich fertilizers are used,
Chapra said.
In Utah, a 2016 algae
bloom in a recreational-use
lake sickened more than 100,
and when the story made
national headlines other
states reached out.
“We started getting calls
from other health depart-
ments all over the country
saying, ‘Hey, we’re deal-
ing with an algal bloom in a
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lake that has never ever had
one before,’” said Aislynn
Tolman-Hill, a spokeswoman
for the Utah County Health
Department.
Officials only recently
started carefully logging the
blooms, but they seem to
be becoming more intense,
said Ben Holcomb, a biolo-
gist for Utah’s environmen-
tal agency. “They’re starting
earlier, they’re lasting lon-
ger, and their peaks seem to
be getting bigger,” Holcomb
said. “I don’t think any state
is isolated.”
In Lake Erie, a major
bloom in 2014 caused author-
ities to warn against drinking
tap water in Toledo, Ohio, for
more than two days, cutting
off the main water source for
more than 400,000 people.
Now blooms happen
every year in Utah and Ohio.
Officials in both states say
they’ve largely been able
to stop them from toxifying
drinking water, but they can
still sicken people and pets
that go in the water, and often
hit recreation businesses that
depend on lake access.
Other blooms, including
flare-ups affecting drinking
water, have been logged in
recent years in New York,
Florida, and California.
In Oregon, officials lifted
the capital city’s drinking
water advisory after several
days, but then had to re-issue
the warning.
The water supply serves
a population of just over
150,000 in the city, along
with residents outside city
limits.
These things like
you’re seeing in Lake Erie
and in Oregon are kind
of like the canary
in the coal mine.
— Steven Chapra
Officials also warned that
dozens of other water sup-
plies could be vulnerable, and
indeed, when workers from
the city of Cottage Grove
inspected another reservoir,
they found a bloom, accord-
ing to a report by Oregon
Public Broadcasting.
Officials pointed out that
testing for the blooms isn’t
required by either federal or
state law.
Researchers say that needs
to change because blooms
are likely to become more
common, including in states
where low temperatures had
previously provided a buffer
against the blooms.
“These things like you’re
seeing in Lake Erie and in
Oregon are kind of like the
canary in the coal mine,” said
Chapra, the Tufts researcher.
“It’s going to get worse,
and it’s going to get worse in
a big way.”
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