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Wednesday, March 11, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon CHANGE: Families can affect single-use plastic change Continued from page 7 The answer is to keep work- ing, solid and steady. Maybe a more realistic and compas- sionate City Hall will come into power. If not? No worries. Oregonians are rumbling toward a statewide ban. For me, tackling my own family9s SUP levels is a chal- lenge. We phased out dispos- able cutlery long ago. We try to bring our own containers for takeout food or leftovers. Every so often, something irresistible is only available in a clamshell, and I buy the darned thing. We wash and reuse 8em, but honestly, how many clam- shells does one family need? I also can9t seem to kick my Terra Chips habit. Right now I9m experimenting with ways to transform the crinkly silver packaging into bows for giftwrap. How can I get the food manufacturers to invest in reusable packaging? I mean, if you can9t fight City Hall, you sure as heck can9t fight Corporate America! Right? Bzzzt. Wrong. A few weeks ago I called up Newport Avenue Market in Bend, the employee-owned corporation that now owns Melvin9s here in Sisters. I didn9t plan to pester them about plastics; I was seeking sup- port for our farmers9 market. But I got chit-chatting with a nice guy named Joe, who turned out to be the general manager. I mentioned that Newport seems to put a lot of stuff in SUPs. <We just had a presenta- tion about that today!= he exclaimed. Yep, they were already on it. I figured I9d push my luck. <My son loves your smoothies,= I said, <but I feel so guilty about those dispos- able cups, we hardly ever buy them anymore.= There was a pause. <We don9t have glasses for smoothies at Melvin9s?= <Not that I9ve seen.= Another pause. <I think we can do some- thing about that,= Joe said. Yesterday my family popped into Melvin9s to try their new sushi rolls, made on-site every morning. (I must say, irrelevant to this article, they were quite delicious.) I wandered back to the kitchen and asked, <Are smoothies available in real glasses?= Yes, they are, a cook named Amber said. I told her of my phone conversation. <Joe?= she said. <He brought these glasses here himself a couple weeks ago.= Wow. No hunger strike. No jail time. One phone call. That9s all it took to encourage a local business to take posi- tive action. Change is possible. It takes patience and persistence. And the gumption to make one phone call. PHOTO PROVIDED Casting for Recovery will hold a fly-casting retreat for breast-cancer survivors at Lake Creek Lodge in September. A fundraiser set for March 16 supports the endeavor. Cancer group to host fundraiser Casting for Recovery Oregon North, a self-funded organization which holds free weekend fly-fishing retreats for breast-cancer survivors, will hold a fundraising din- ner and auction on March 16 at Lake Creek Lodge in Camp Sherman. All monies raised will enable 14 breast-cancer survi- vors to attend the sixth-annual fly-fishing and healing retreat free of charge. The 2-1/2 day retreat will be held September 27-29 at Lake Creek Lodge. Casting for Recovery9s healing outdoor retreats are for women with breast cancer, “The one thing I don’t leave up to luck is me haircut!” Call Jeff Today! PHOTO BY TL BROWN Amber Webb, a cook at Melvin’s by Newport Avenue Market, holds a shiny, reusable smoothie glass. Jeff, Theresa, Ann, Jamie, Shiela, Terri, Shanntyl, Brittany 152 E. Main Ave. | 541-549-8771 10% OFF Roller Shades* *Offers available on ALTA Window Fashions, exclusively at Best Vue Blinds. Offers expires May 31, 2019. FREE cordless top down bottom up upgrade with purchase!* Visit our Sisters showroom at 141 E. Cascade Ave. #202 541-588-6201 A division of Lakeview Millworks 15 or visit our website BestVueBlinds.com at no cost to the participants. CfR9s retreats offer opportuni- ties for women to find inspira- tion, discover renewed energy for life, and experience healing connections with other women and nature. The retreats are open to women with breast cancer of all ages, in all stages of treatment and recovery. For women who have had surgery or radiation as part of their breast-cancer treatment, the gentle motion of fly-casting can be good physical ther- apy for increasing mobility in the arm and upper body. The dinner and auction will start at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 16. Tickets are $75 per couple, or $40 per per- son, which includes wine and dinner. For more informa- tion about the event and auc- tion items, visit the Facebook page. To purchase dinner tick- ets or to donate, visit https:// castingforrecovery.org/nor.