The Nugget
Vol. XLI No. 28
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Family
quilts hold
Sisters
Country
history
PRE-SORTED STANDARD
ECRWSS
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Timeline
uncertain
on transfer
of preserve
Honoring a legend...
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
The making and giving of
quilts has a long history here
in Sisters Country. On July 14,
during the 43rd Annual Sisters
Outdoors Quilt Show, two
historic quilts loaned by the
Deschutes Historical Museum
in Bend will be exhibited by
the Three Sisters Historical
Society in the community
room of the Sisters Library.
One of the earlier families
to come to Sisters was John B.
and Elizabeth Berry Fryrear,
for whom a local road is
PHOTO BY LYNN WOODWARD
Family and friends gathered in Sisters on Saturday to celebrate the 90th birthday of naturalist, educator,
and columnist Jim Anderson. Colleagues from OMSI days, teachers, and nature enthusiasts shared
limericks and listened to stories from a master raconteur.
See FAMILY QUILTS on page 36
See PRESERVE on page 28
Cougar and bear
visit Sisters
By Jim Anderson
Correspondent
Quilters are not the only
ones visiting Sisters this sum-
mer. Several reports indicate
that our local apex predators
have been dropping by, in and
around town.
According to the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife (ODFW) there are
more than 6,000 cougars, aka
mountain lion, and 25,000 to
30,000 black bear running
loose throughout Oregon.
One of each has recently
turned up in Sisters, and oth-
ers have been sighted nearby
— which could mean con-
flicts with the fast-growing
human population of Sisters
Country.
Just days before the news
of the in-town cougar sight-
ing, a couple living in the
eastern part of Sisters came
upon two very fresh piles
of bear scat in their back
Inside...
Plans to transfer Wildhaven
Preserve north of Sisters from
The Nature Conservancy
(TNC) to the U.S. Forest
Service are still operative —
but the timeline has become
less immediate.
TNC Director of
Stewardship Derek Johnson
told The Nugget last spring
that the organization intends
making a donation of the
160-acre preserve in Stevens
Canyon to the U.S. Forest
Service in order to “move
resources into places where
they can have more impact.”
yard and called the Oregon
Department of Fish and
Wildlife in Bend to alert them
to the new visitors.
Number-one on the list
of prey for cougar are mule
deer; for black bear it can
be animals or plants — but
either way it can lead to trou-
ble in town if residents don’t
stay away from them (and not
feed them).
The City of Sisters
recently passed an ordinance
making it illegal to feed mule
deer anywhere within the
city limits. Not only are the
deer an annoyance, browsing
homeowners’ landscaping,
but their concentrated num-
bers in town could attract
their chief predator, cougar,
which no one wants in their
backyard.
Protecting humans from
large wild predators — such
as mountain lion and bear
See PREDATORS on page 38
Featured artist finds comfort in quilts
By Jodi Schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Liz Weeks displays
one of her favorite quilts.
PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER MCNAMEE
Sisters resident and 2018
Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show
featured quilter Liz Weeks has
fond memories of the crazy
quilted robes pieced together
by her grandmother over 50
years ago. All those free-
flowing shapes were made
from scraps of fabric that
were left over after her grand-
mother sewed ballet costumes
for nieces and maybe a tie or
two of her husband’s — or
just any remnant fabric that
was available.
“She crazy-quilted bath-
robes for everyone in the
family,” Weeks said, smiling.
“She must have made 10 in
all, and I saved four of them.
It’s called that because when
it was really popular in the
1800s they called it crazy to
do. Crazy quilts are the earli-
est American quilt style.”
Weeks says she has always
See QUILTER on page 39
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Naturalist ............... 7 Entertainment ..................13 Obituaries ....................... 27 Classifieds ..................32-34
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Sisters Salutes .................15 Crossword ........................31 Real Estate .................35-40