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Wednesday, July 4, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon EVENTS: Luau is expected to proceed — without its leader Continued from page 1 Hughes was the executive director. It was scheduled this year for Saturday, July 21 on Main Avenue. It is now cancelled. The Home Brew Fest, scheduled for Saturday, August 18 in Creekside Park, was established in 2017, organized by SPRD and its volunteers in partnership with Sisters Kiwanis and Sisters Meat and Smokehouse. It is also cancelled. According to the SPRD website, “Due to lack of vol- unteers, participants, and other concerns, we are can- celing the Sisters Glory Daze Car Show for 2018. We apol- ogize for this inconvenience, please stay tuned for a 2019 date. All current participants will be refunded.” Former SPRD adult pro- gram coordinator Shannon Rackowski, who was still a member of the staff in January when Hughes left for Pendleton, had made all the arrangements and scheduled the special events for the year. When Rackowski ten- dered her resignation in April, she and the board of direc- tors agreed that she would contract with SPRD to lead her senior exercise classes so the program could continue. She also contracted to do the food for the GNW Running Camp in June and to coordi- nate the Crest the Cascades, the car show, the Homebrew Fest in August, the luau, the Happy Girls Run, the shuttles using SPRD vans for the Quilt Show, and the senior excur- sions for the SAGE program. Upon Garrett’s arrival in Sisters in April, Rackowski said she sat down with him and reviewed all the plans that had been made and were in place for the rest of 2018, to help familiarize him with the events and the year’s calendar. According to Rackowski, local car enthusiast Mick Hunter was lined up to serve as chairman of the car show again this year. T h e r e a r e d i ff e r i n g accounts as to why Hunter chose not to participate this year — or whether Garrett had met with him. Hunter is on vacation and couldn’t be reached for comment on Monday. Garrett indicated Hunter “had retired and would be vis- iting family in another state, and he might have been train- ing others to take his place.” When contacted by The Nugget to confirm the can- cellations and determine the reasons for them, Garrett responded. “I learned in May that no volunteers or staff had been assigned to the event (car show). In June, despite my efforts, I couldn’t pull it together. Rather than have a subpar event, it’s better to not do it. Likely, it would have been just me and six registrants.” The new executive direc- tor also cited input from participants, judges, and the public indicating the car show needed more entertainment and better awards. “We’ll take a break and assemble a new show,” he said Garrett indicated he had been approached by a new car club in Bend that might like to be involved. He also said he had reached out to try to increase sponsorship and the number of participants — looking at including adven- ture vans and vehicles — but he couldn’t pull it together in a month. Incoming board chair Jeff Tryens reported, “The key volunteers were not as engaged … there were not many registrants.” The board had instructed Garrett that since the event had been advertised, they wanted him to see if he could pull it together. “By the end of June, it was on him to make the call,” Tryens said. Tryens pointed out events 19 like the car show are really a side event for SPRD, not part of its principle mission. “ We d o it for people w h o d o n ’t have kids in our programs or don’t par- PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK t i ci p at e i n SPRD’s cross-country running camp was a big success. our adult classes,” Tryens said. believes that former executive Garrett expressed “dismay director Hughes was a home- at the fact the event had been brewer and expert on the sub- advertised and there was no ject. He and several volun- support. I was trying to do teers ran last year’s event. what I could. I sincerely apol- “I don’t drink and I know ogize for that.” nothing about home-brew- According to Garrett, the ing. The volunteers want to Homebrew Fest had switched wait for next year,” Garrett dates several times for 2018 reported. and then it turned out it was He went on to say that scheduled for the same week- Sisters Kiwanis, one of the end as the Bend Brew Fest, which runs August 16-18. He See EVENTS on page 25 CELEBRATE THIS 4th of July! Be Safe, Designate a Driver We sell American made tires! DAVIS TIRE 541-549-1026 Serving Sisters Since 1962. 188 W. Sisters Park Drive | In Sisters Industrial Park across from SnoCap Mini Storage.
