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The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 17
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News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
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Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
PHOTO BY JAY MATHER
The first full moon of April — called the “Pink Moon” — shone over the Three Sisters, beckoning to early-rising photographers.
Public to weigh in
on growth issues
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
With Sisters9 growth a
common topic of conversa-
tion around town, a public
meeting on Thursday, May
2, 5:30 p.m., at City Hall will
be of interest to everyone,
whether a proponent or oppo-
nent of growth.
City staff will be on hand
to provide information about
the findings of the draft
Housing and Residential
Land Needs Assessment
(HNA) and answer questions
(see sidebar, page 17).
The assessment compares
the current inventory of
available lands for residen-
tial building to the projected
housing needs by 2039,
according to Portland State
University population esti-
mates of 2.6 percent growth
each year. The estimated
housing units are based on
potential entitled units of
remaining parcels. State law
mandates that all cities have
a 20-year supply of buildable
lands.
Sisters9 inventory of
buildable lands is impacted
by the number of acres of
See GROWTH on page 16
Sisters man
arrested for
encouraging
sex abuse
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
As Sisters Country enters
the season of spring burning,
the specter of the destruc-
tion of the mountain town of
Paradise, California, looms
like a pall of wildfire smoke
over the community.
While Sisters is well-
schooled in the terrible effects
of massive wildfire, the
Inside...
A TON OF TRASH
A 32-year-old Sisters man
was arrested on Thursday,
April 18, on charges includ-
ing encouraging sexual abuse
of a minor.
Bend Police report that
the department was provided
information pertaining to Jon
Beavert, who was allegedly
seeking a sexual relationship
with a juvenile who resides in
Bend.
See ABUSE on page 29
Sisters enters burning season
community is better prepared
than many to face the threat.
That is, in large part, thanks
to a long campaign of thin-
ning and prescribed burning
around vulnerable parts of
Sisters Country to build resil-
ience and to give firefighters a
chance to make a stand.
Prescribed burning mim-
ics the historical role of fire in
the ponderosa pine forests of
Sisters Country, cleaning out
Earth Day participants
collected over
underbrush and small growth
that chokes overgrown for-
ests, making them less
healthy and fueling explosive
wildfires.
<We9re working on build-
ing resilient forests,= Sisters
Ranger District Assistant
Fire Management Officer
Jinny Reed told The Nugget.
<We9re trying to go back to
See BURNING on page 23
Earth Day cleanup volunteers gathered trash
at Zimmerman Butte west of Sisters on April 20.
PHOTO PROVIDED
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
Fort-five adults and 10
children collected over a
ton of trash during the Earth
Day Community Cleanup
last Saturday organized by
Mandee Seeley of Sisters
Park & Recreation District.
With supplies donated
by SOLV and three dump-
sters provided by the Sisters
Ranger District, 136 bags of
trash are no longer littering
Sisters and the surrounding
forest.
Zimmerman Cinder Pit
yielded the largest collec-
tion of trash, including a dis-
carded electric dishwasher,
picked up by Mandee9s
husband Ryan and their
two children. The residents
of the Clear Pine subdivi-
sion collected trash from the
20 acres surrounding their
neighborhood and brought in
See TRASH on page 29
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Announcements ............... 10 Kids in Print .................13-14 Crossword ....................... 24 Real Estate .................28-32
Meetings ........................... 3 Entertainment ..................11 Obituaries ........................15 Classifieds .................. 25-27 Paw Prints ........................31