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Winter 2 2019
Pages 14-20
The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 3
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Sisters
supports
family
of slain
woman
Sworn in...
Teen vaping
is local and
national
issue
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
After years of seeing ciga-
rette smoking rates decline, a
new nicotine phenomenon has
taken hold in the United States
through a clever marketing
and manufacturing strategy
by companies like Juul, result-
ing in a wave of teenage users
who may not have any real
comprehension of the health
dangers involved.
Welcome to the world of
vaping, the common term for
using e-cigarettes.
Vaping devices are also
common for ingesting mari-
juana products, but this article
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
New City Councilor Michael Preedin and returning Council President Nancy Connelly were sworn in at the
Sisters City Council meeting last week. Returning Councilor Richard Esterman was out of town for the
meeting and was sworn in earlier.
See VAPING on page 21
Inside...
Friends and family of
Jenny Cashwell are mourning
her death this week and rally-
ing to support her two young
children.
Cashwell, 37, was killed
Saturday afternoon at the
Cedar West Apartments in
Bend. The incident remains
under investigation. Bend
Police reported on Sunday that
they took Alan Peter Porciello,
36, of Bend into custody on
charges of Manslaughter in
the First Degree and Unlawful
Use of a Weapon.
Cashwell lived east of
Sisters and worked at Fullhart
See CASHWELL on page 8
Drawing offers chance
to win coveted tickets
<Starry Nights Presents An
Acoustic Evening with Lyle
Lovett and John Hiatt= was a
quick sell-out, but Ray¾s Food
Place is offering a chance to
win a pair of tickets and other
prizes. Visit the Starry Nights
display at Ray¾s in Sisters and
enter to win tickets, CDs from
the artists, a <locals gift bag=
and other local gift cards.
The drawing will be held on
Friday, January 25, at noon.
<We are thrilled to con-
tinue our support of the
Sisters Schools Foundation
through Starry Nights= said
Ray¾s Food Place manager
Jeff McDonald. <We have
been there since day one
because we know the impor-
tance of the Foundation and
what it affords the students
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Permit No. 15
Look for total lunar eclipse in Sisters
By Jim Hammond Vice-chair, Sisters Astronomy Club
in our community through
our schools. Our kids have
an array of things available
to them that they otherwise
might not. What a unique and
invaluable event this is!=
The concert takes place
on Tuesday, January 29, as
Lovett and Hiatt team up for
a performance at Sisters High
School to kick-off their 2019
tour. The artists are donat-
ing their time to support pro-
grams and activities at Sisters
elementary, middle, and high
schools.
Doors open at 6 p.m.,
with Sisters High School
Americana, Jazz Choir, and
Jazz Band students perform-
ing, complimentary hearty
The glare of a full moon will be tempo-
rarily darkened when earth¾s shadow falls
upon the face of our only natural satel-
lite on Sunday evening, January 20.
The celestial event is a total lunar
eclipse 4 a super blood moon one
at that 4 to be conveniently staged
in the evening hours here in Sisters
Country.
Because the moon¾s orbit is
tilted at about five degrees with
respect to the orbit of the earth
around the sun, we enter an <eclipse
season= approximately every six
months, and during this time there will
be two or three solar or lunar eclipses
visible at some places on the earth. Right
now we are in one of those seasons. Last
week there was a partial eclipse of the sun vis-
ible in parts of northeastern Asia and barely vis-
ible from southwestern Alaska.
On Sunday night, January 20, a total eclipse of the moon
See TICKETS on page 21
See ECLIPSE on page 29
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Photo of total lunar eclipse taken
January 31, 2018 by Richard Lighthill
from his observatory in La Pine.
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Salutes ................ 10 Announcements ................12 Fit for Sisters ....................13 Classifieds .................. 26-27
Meetings ........................... 3 Bunkhouse Chronicle ........11 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32