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