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Wednesday, October 10, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Cold weather shelter set for season
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
As winter draws closer,
preparations are underway for
the third season of the Sisters
Cold Weather Shelter, which
opens its doors in November
at the Sisters Community
Church Hangar annex.
Sisters Cold Weather
Shelter will be holding an
open house and volunteer
monitor training on Thursday,
October 18 at 5:30 p.m., at
The Hangar. There will be
information about the shelter,
training for new and returning
volunteers, and a tour of The
Hangar, which will be host-
ing the shelter in November
and December.
During the months of
November and March the
shelter will be open when
night-time temperatures
are predicted to be below
32 degrees Fahrenheit. For
December, January, and
February the shelter is open
every night at 6 p.m.
Services provided to shel-
ter guests include sleeping
mats and bedding, storage
bins, hot dinners and light
breakfasts with snacks to go,
hygiene items, donated cloth-
ing, and access to employ-
ment support and community
services. Activities offered
at the shelter include meals,
movies, puzzles, cards, con-
versation, and community.
The shelter capacity is deter-
mined by the fire marshal,
with most locations able to
house 25 guests.
Volunteer monitors greet
the guests, serve dinner,
and see to the guests’ needs
until lights out at 10 p.m.
Volunteers work in pairs to
help create a secure, safe, and
non-judgmental environment
for guests. Paid monitors
cover the overnight period.
Monitors are currently being
hired for the late shift.
Those wishing to vol-
unteer are invited to attend
the October 18 training.
Background checks are per-
formed on all volunteers who
serve as monitors. Those pro-
viding meals don’t need a
background check.
There are many ways
to help support the shelter.
Organizations with a facil-
ity can be a host site for a
month. Individuals or groups
can sign up to bring dinner
or breakfast. Individuals can
sign up to serve as a shelter
monitor for the 5 to 10 p.m.
shift. The steering committee
can always use people will-
ing to volunteer for a variety
of duties besides monitoring
or providing meals.
Westside Church will be
hosting the shelter in January,
the Episcopal Church of the
Transfiguration in February,
with the month of March to
be determined. Sisters Park
& Recreation District is gen-
erously offering their show-
ers during specified times to
shelter guests as they have
previously. Local Girl Scouts
have again agreed to collect
donations.
The shelter always
welcomes donations of
money and items the guests
and the shelter can use. From
now until the opening of the
shelter, Habitat for Humanity
will receive donations of
clothing, non-perishable
food, and paper products for
the shelter. The donations can
be taken to the Habitat office
above their Thrift Store at
141 W. Main Ave. between
8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
The shelter operates
under the guidance and fiscal
agency of Shepherd’s House
Ministries in Bend. They
handle the financial aspects
of all donations, grants
received, expenditures, reim-
bursements, and payroll. The
Sisters Cold Weather Shelter
Steering Committee manages
ongoing operations of the
shelter.
Monetary donations may
be sent to Shepherd’s House
Ministries at P.O. Box 5484,
Bend, OR, 97708, with nota-
tion that it is for the Sisters
Cold Weather Shelter.
To make a donation online,
visit www.shepherdshousem-
inistries.org/donate-scws.
The shelter has a Facebook
page at: facebook.com/
sisterscoldweathershelter/.
For more informa-
tion email loiskaping@
bendbroadband.com.
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BREAKING NEWS
Preedin is ready to
serve on city council
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
Michael Preedin will take
a seat on the Sisters City
Council after the November
election — one of three can-
didates who are each running
unopposed. He’ll be ready.
The Sisters designer has
been attending city council
meetings since January to pre-
pare for the job, missing only
one during that time — on his
birthday.
Preedin, who previously
served on the Sisters Planning
Commission in 2009, recog-
nizes that the Council’s pri-
mary mission in coming years
will be to manage the impacts
of growth, making sure the
City has the infrastructure
in place to accommodate the
people who wish to live, work
and play here.
“We, as a city council,
have to manage that,” he said.
“It’s a management position.
It’s not a pulpit.”
Preedin believes that the
city has done a good job in
managing its infrastructure to
this point. Continuing growth
will bring continuing pressure
— especially on housing and
traffic.
Housing affordability is a
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Michael Preedin will take a seat on
Sisters City Council.
challenge, and Preedin thinks
the City should plan on some
careful expansion to cope
with it.
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make housing more afford-
able is to have more inven-
tory,” he said.
He said he would like
to look at the possibility of
Urban Growth Boundary
expansion, perhaps to the
north and east, to bring more
buildable land into the inven-
tory. He emphasized that he
is talking about hundreds,
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