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The Nugget Vol. XLI No. 31 P OSTAL CUSTOMER News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon www.NuggetNews.com Blues festival rolls into Sisters this weekend On Thursday, folks in Sisters will see stage struc- tures start to go up on the Village Green and at Sisters Art Works on Adams Avenue. The work crews will largely be made up of teenagers work- ing through Heart of Oregon YouthBuild. They’ll be setting the stage for two days of blues music in the inaugural Sisters Rhythm & Brews Festival, Friday and Saturday, August 3 and 4. Organizers Jennifer and Joe Rambo have set out to make their festival a unique offering for Sisters. There won’t be any Wednesday, August 1, 2018 It’s hot outside – slip and slide! Correspondent PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK Kids in Sisters didn’t find anything to complain about on the hottest days of summer (so far) last week. A little water and something to slide on and their day was made. If dusty trails and dry weather weren’t enough, the two kilometers up Hoodoo Butte to complete the 13.1- mile half-marathon provided a tremendous athletic chal- lenge to everyone who fin- ished the third annual Run to the Top trail run, put on by the Sisters Kiwanis Club on Saturday, July 28. This year’s event also included a 5-kilometer race on the Hoodoo property. At just after 8 a.m., about 80 brave runners toed the line at the Corbett Sno-Park park- ing lot and then headed down the dusty course that wended its way along Forest Service roads as well as the Cross- District trail on the way up to Hoodoo. Parts of the course were in such deep dust that runners likened it to running up a sand dune. Inside... A 75-year-old woman hail- ing from Tillamook County was found safe Saturday evening, after being reported missing with her dog by her husband from Creekside Park in Sisters. Roberta Siegmann was reported to have memory issues. Her husband, Gerry Siegmann, who was a vendor at the Antiques in the Park fair, called the sheriff’s office at about 6 p.m. to report his wife missing when he real- ized she was gone from the city camp. Sheriff ’s deputies were See FOUND on page 10 Hoodoo race challenges runners Correspondent Missing woman found in Sisters By Ceili Cornelius See BLUES on page 20 By Charlie Kanzig PRE-SORTED STANDARD ECRWSS U.S. POSTAGE PAID Sisters, OR Permit No. 15 Stefan Weeber of Portland, running the race for the sec- ond time, described the course as “Interesting, and a definite challenge.” He went on, “I really enjoyed the course, it’s super nice. It feels remote and far different from running in Portland with the different landscape, dry air and sand.” Weeber finished in sec- ond place after a mix-up in which the top three runners were misdirected by a volun- teer, who pointed them in the direction of last year’s course. The top three official win- ners for men included Doug Mc Lucas (1:49:58), Weeber (1:52:26), and Garrett Ping (1:54:44). Women’s top three were Angelina Salerno (2:00.52), Laura Grasle (2:11:21), and Amy Peterson (2:12:48). Prizes included season See RACE on page 31 Firefighters quell fast-moving blaze By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief Firefighters battled the heat of a summer day as well as the heat of flames on Thursday, July 26, as they knocked down a fast-moving blaze that destroyed several structures, including a home in the Sun Mountain subdivi- sion east of Sisters. Chief Thad Olsen of the Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District told The Nugget that the initial report on the fire came in just before 1:30 p.m. as a small brush fire. The Cloverdale and Oregon Department of Forestry fire crews that responded knew as soon as they left the station that they were going to be dealing with a lot more than that. “As soon as they left, they knew they had a large col- umn of smoke,” Chief Olsen said. “We just started adding resources.” Abetted by stiff breezes and hot temperatures, the fire PHOTO COURTESY KYLE WATTENBURG Cloverdale firefighters saved a chest with valuables from an outbuilding lost to a fast-moving fire last Thursday. was on three different proper- ties when firefighters arrived, and several structures were involved. The fire destroyed a garage and a home and sev- eral outbuilding on one prop- erty at 67018 West St. and a detached garage on another property. A boat and an RV were also destroyed by the flames. Homeowner Carolyn Russell escaped uninjured, along with her husband Hurshel. “Our neighbor Cheryl pounded on the door,” she told The Nugget. “I opened the door and she came in with great vigor and said ‘You’ve See FIRE on page 29 Letters/Weather ................ 2 Hike ................................... 8 Entertainment ..................13 At Your Service............ 22-25 Classifieds ..................34-36 Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Obituaries ........................17 Crossword ....................... 33 Real Estate ................. 37-40
