The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 12
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
es futuristic thinking
Fair encourages
By Jodi Schneider
Correspondent
The Sisters High School
commons buzzed with excite-
ment on Saturday during the
eighth-annual Sisters Science
Fair. Students from all three
Sisters schools showed off
their educational experiments,
exhibits and demonstrations.
Students showed off their
wide range of hands-on dem-
onstrations, from a vacuum-
propelled ping-pong cannon
to lemon-powered light-
bulbs. People of all ages got
a charge as they made their
way around the maze of edu-
cational experiments.
This year, Sisters Science
Club9s treasurer Cal Allen
built an exhibit, Galileo9s
Acceleration Experiment, that
demonstrated how the Italian
physicist measured time
using a water clock. Galileo
used inclined planes to slow
down the acceleration rate
of an object under the influ-
ence of gravity to measure
the time interval of an object
in freefall.
Science fairs are a great
way for students to become
more knowledgeable about
USFS plans major
Suttle Lake project
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
Suttle Lake is one of the
best-loved and most heav-
ily trafficked areas in Sisters
Country. It is also home to an
old and decaying forest. The
combination of those two
factors has led the Sisters
Ranger District to propose
a major project to deal with
diseased and potentially dan-
gerous trees.
The District is seeking
public input on a project to
fell dangerous and/or dis-
eased trees and replant and
transplant in the area. The
project is designed to address
safety concerns and also to
promote the health of the for-
est in the area.
solar system.=
McCrystal added, <Using
our telescope, we record
when an asteroid that9s
beyond Neptune goes in front
of a star. The star blinks out
See SCIENCE FAIR on page 15
See ROAD RAGE on page 18
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Network (RECON) project.
<The point of the project
is to discover as many of the
different objects that are in
the Kuiper belt as we can,=
McCrystal told The Nugget.
<The Kuiper belt is a field of
asteroids that surround our
Road rage
incident
leads to
arrest near
Sisters
A 31-year-old Bend man
was taken into custody during
a high-risk traffic stop after
he allegedly fired shots at
another vehicle in an episode
Deschutes County Sheriff9s
Office personnel character-
ize as a road rage incident on
Sunday afternoon.
The sheriff9s office reports
that a driver called in at about
6:55 p.m. to report that she
was being tailgated by a large
white Suburban, and that the
vehicle had almost hit her car.
At the time of the call, the
suspect vehicle was following
the reporting person.
A short time later, the
reporting person said that the
Suburban had passed them,
and fired several shots at
their vehicle as they passed.
Wren Gunnarson
was fascinated by a
gyroscope at Sisters
Science Fair last Saturday.
how the world around them,
including the solar system,
works.
Sisters High School
Astronomy Club member
Delsie McCrystal participates
in the Research and Education
Collaborative Occultation
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Tehan will be Rodeo Grand Marshal
By Bonnie Malone
Correspondent
Disease including dwarf
mistletoe and a variety of
forms of rot is prevalent in
the forest surrounding the
popular lake.
Sisters District Ranger Ian
Reid told The Nugget that he
was <blown away= by the
extent of the decayed forest
conditions 4 especially in
the area of the Suttle Lake
United Methodist Camp 4
when he toured the area after
taking his position last year.
The Suttle Lake area has
become well-known among
foresters for its condition.
<It9s a place where
employees would go to train
on the various hazards and
defects in trees,= he said.
Sisters Rodeo has chosen
Sisters legendary songbird
Peggy Clerf Tehan as the 2019
Grand Marshal of the Sisters
Rodeo Parade.
Tehan, a 35-year resident
of Sisters, sang the National
Anthem at every rodeo per-
formance for 29 years. Her
pure soprano voice impressed
Rodeo President Glenn Miller,
who first asked her to sing the
anthem in 1989. She saddled
up, performing a cappella on
horseback for all but one rodeo
in the ensuing years.
During her first perfor-
mance, Peggy left her three-
month-old daughter in the
stands with Jean Wells of the
Stitchin9 Post. She laughingly
See SUTTLE LAKE on page 21
See TEHAN on page 22
PHOTO BY GARY MILLER
Inside...
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Athletes of the Month ........4 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 18 Classifieds .................. 19-20
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Obituaries ........................17 Sisters Salutes ................ 18 Real Estate .................20-24