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    Wednesday, August 1, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Expanding alcohol sales
during Ducks games
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FIRE: Couple plans
to rebuild lost
home after fire
Continued from page 1
EUGENE (AP) — The
University of Oregon will
expand alcohol sales inside
Autzen Stadium this football
season.
Beer and wine will now
be sold at general conces-
sion stands, the university
announced this week. Those
beverages have long have
been available in the stadi-
um’s executive seating area
and at the Moshofsky Center,
the indoor practice field next
to the stadium that serves as a
game-day tailgating venue.
Students of legal age will be
able to buy alcohol, but can’t
take it to the student section.
In other changes, the uni-
versity will extend the hours
for pregame tailgating and
require spectators to carry
their items in clear bags when
entering the stadium. Those
who leave the stadium during
a game won’t be allowed to
re-enter.
Matt Carmichael, the uni-
versity’s police chief, said
the re-entry prohibition is
intended to cut down on
unruly behavior.
“Eliminating re-entry at
football games creates a safer
football environment, plain
and simple,” he said in a news
release. “Historically, too
many fans leave the stadium
at halftime and consume addi-
tional alcohol during the rela-
tively short break. They often
return to the stadium and have
the intoxication effects really
hit them in the second half.”
Fans appeared generally
supportive of the changes,
although some questioned
if safety is the primary
motivation.
“They say it’s a commit-
ment to safety, and there’s
probably some truth to
that,” Matthew Dunn, a sea-
son-ticket holder, told The
Register-Guard newspaper.
“But it does seem like it’s a
cash grab when it coincides
with the fact that they will be
selling alcohol inside the sta-
dium now. It just seems like a
way they’re going to make a
bundle of money.”
Jimmy Stanton, an athletic
department spokesman, said
he didn’t have an estimate
on how much additional con-
cession revenue the depart-
ment will receive. He said
they haven’t budgeted for a
windfall because extra costs
will eat into what’s earned.
The university, for instance,
plans to boost the number of
OLCC-licensed alcohol moni-
tors in the crowd from about
30 to more than 100.
The Ducks open their sea-
son September 1 with a home
against Bowling Green.
Stephen Berry of Canby
said he believes the re-entry
policy will help maintain the
stadium’s energy for the entire
game. Many fans now leave
the stadium at halftime and
are slow in getting back, an
option they no longer have.
got to get out! The house is
on fire!”
Russell saw that the
garage was full of smoke and
that fire was at the back of the
house.
“We (she and her husband)
each grabbed keys,” she said.
“We had two vehicles and
we were able to get those to
safety.”
Chief Olsen credited wild-
land firefighting crews from
ODF and the Forest Service
for keeping the brush fire
from spreading while struc-
ture firefighters concentrated
on quelling the fire in the
buildings.
“They really kept the
fire from spreading to more
houses,” Chief Olsen said.
“ODF protected one house
whose fence was on fire;
otherwise they were within
seconds of losing their house,
too.”
Because of the wildland/
structure crew teamwork,
Olsen said, firefighters were
able to keep the blaze con-
tained to the area it had
already consumed by the time
they arrived on scene.
There were no injuries of
either residents or firefighters
in the incident — all the more
remarkable given that fire-
fighters battled the blaze in
temperatures that hit 96 or 97
degrees. Thirty-five firefight-
ers had to engage the blaze
because they could only work
PHOTO COURTESY KYLE WATTENBURG
A fire destroyed a home and several outbuildings on Thursday.
in short shifts in their heavy
turnouts before being relieved
to cool down. Olsen said that
Bend Fire Department sent
out a rehab trailer where fire-
fighters could get out of the
heat, and neighbors turned up
with water.
The state fire marshal is
investigating the cause of
the fire, though Chief Olsen
acknowledged that so much
damage had been done that
it will be difficult to pinpoint
the cause. He said that the
fire may not have started as
a brush fire and may have
started in or around the
garage of the home that was
destroyed.
Russell told The Nugget
that she has no idea what
might have sparked the blaze.
Multiple agencies assisted
in the battle, including
Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire
Department, Black Butte
Ranch Fire Department, ODF
and the Forest Service, the
Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office and the county road
department.
Russell expressed her
gratitude for all their efforts
(see Letters to the Editor,
page 2).
She said that their insur-
ance company has found
her and her husband tempo-
rary housing and that they
will rebuild the home that
they built on the property in
2004, after purchasing it in
1987.
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