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Wednesday, September 5, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 9 Spruce/ up schools greet stu/ents By Jim Cornelius News Editor PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK Samantha Silva makes a dig vs. Crook County. The Outlaws played in a tournament and a pre-season game last week. Outlaws face/ tough competotoon at tourney By Rongi Yost Correspondent The Lady Outlaws fin- ished fifth out of the 12 teams that attended the Mt. View Tournament held on Friday, August 31. Sisters opened pool play a bit slow against South Albany, but finished well and took the first set 25-20. The Outlaws hung onto the momentum as they started the second set, quickly went up 6-0, held the lead, and sailed to a 25-13 finish. The lead changed several times in the third set, both teams battled for every point, and unfortu- nately the Outlaws came up short in a close game, which ended in a 23-25 loss. Sisters posted 19 kills in the match, with Sophie Silva leading the squad with seven kills. The Outlaws fell short by one point, 26-27, in their next match against a tough Mt. View team. Mt. View took the momentum with them into the second set, the Outlaws struggled with their passes, and lost the set 17-25. Sisters settled down and came out swinging in the third set, went up 5-0, didn’t look back, and crushed the Cougars 25-14. Sisters had 33 kills in the match, again led by Silva, who recorded nine. Sisters wrapped up pool play and made it to the Gold Division seeded sixth. They faced a very good Silverton squad, struggled to find a rhythm in their passing game, and lost in two close sets, 24-26, and 19-25. Silva had eight kills in the match, and Kendra Sitz added six. After their loss to Silverton, the Outlaws wanted to finish with a win in their final match of the tour- nament against Pendleton. They regrouped, refocused, came ready to play, and won both sets, 25-13, 25-15. Sisters posted 21 team kills, led by Greta Davis who tal- lied seven and Silva, who added five. The Outlaws finished the day with 28 serving aces and 94 kills as a team. Coach Rory Rush said, “The girls played well today. This tournament was about playing tough competi- tion, and learning and find- ing chemistry. It was a great opportunity for us to work out some kinks as we get ready to head into league play. Every practice, every match, we continue to improve.” A cut above Thanks to the support of Sisters Country voters and some additional financial good fortune, Sisters stu- dents are returning to school with considerably improved facilities. Sisters Middle School is the last of the three schools to undergo renovation funded by $10.7 million in voter- approved bonds, augmented by a $4 million state grant. The school district decided last year that the construc- tion work at SMS would be too disruptive to conduct dur- ing the school year, so it was scheduled for this summer. It is now wrapping up. “I’m feeling more and more confident about open- ing,” said Sisters Schools Superintendent Curt Scholl in an interview last month. “I think we’ll have 95 percent of it done when student show up.” Construction project man- ager Brett Hudson told The Nugget that the SMS work is under budget — even with some additional work being added to the scope, including a paint job. SMS was allo- cated a $2.9 million budget and the project has come in at $2.8 million. “We’ve added a lot of site work, concrete work… I was able to patch additional asphalt,” Hudson noted. Good timing in the bond market and the extra $4 mil- lion from the state allowed the district to set aside $1 million as a fund to cover deferred maintenance. “We’ve started to budget that out over the next five years,” Scholl said. Hudson noted that the dis- trict is already seeing savings from improved heating and cooling systems, and from high-efficiency lighting. He noted that Reed Stadium’s lighting is now reduced to four poles, all for less than what one pole used to require in output. The light diffu- sion from the stadium light- ing has also been cut, reduc- ing the impact outside the stadium. Scholl said he would like to see high-efficiency light- ing in the school gyms. Additional projects may be feasible. Scholl noted, “we’re tracking right now to have $1.9 to $2 million left after the middle school.” That means that the dis- trict can pursue construction of a transportation facility in the area of the high school, replacing the cramped and outdated bus barn at Sisters Elementary School. A pre- vious plan for a new bus barn including some vo-tech space located in the high school parking lot proved the rest ! controversial and was with- drawn. The current idea is to build a transportation facility somewhere in the area of the SPRD headquarters, accessed off of Highway 242. The school board has already allo- cated $1.5 million for such a project. The facility would enable the district to consolidate its equipment, provide storage and a larger, more functional facility for maintenance of the fleet. Hudson said he expects to have a site plan ready for approval in early 2019. The district is looking at another piece of good news going into the 2018-19 school year: Enrollment is looking to be up by about 20 students. SSD has bumped along with essentially flat num- bers for several years. Since state funding is allocated on a per-student basis (and funds from bonds can’t be used for operations) additional student enrollment is key to a healthy operating budget. Scholl says that, while numbers always fluctuate, especially at the beginning of a school year, the district is looking at K-8 enrollment of 650 and high school enroll- ment of 450. 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