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28 Wednesday, May 8, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon LAS CAFETERAS: Band will perform at free celebration on Friday Continued from page 3 and Hispanic community and represent the breadth of the theme9s intention of belong- ing,= said Tisdel. Before they take the stage Friday night, Las Cafeteras will teach two workshops in the Sisters schools. The first will be at Sisters High School and will be a music-focused performance where the band will present their music through a storytelling lens and share their unique relationship to the music they write and produce. This will include a short video, questions to the audience, as well as sharing their story coming from an immigrant community with low resources in Los Angeles. <The band will share many varied cultural influences that help shape and create an even stronger music and band iden- tity,= explained Tisdel. The second workshop will be at Sisters Middle School. The band plans to share their music, traditional instru- ments, and how they are a mix of many cultures. <Las Cafeteras believes songs have a message and can tell a story that shows how our perceived differ- ences actually make us more similar. Through their teach- ing they9ll show how music can help everyone feel that they belong,= added Tisdel. A question-and-answer session will be provided for students at the end of the workshop. According to Tisdel, that kind of focus reflects the long-held social advocacy role folk music has held in society. <Their music speaks to the immigrant experience of living in America while trying to be fully embraced. At this time, it9s important for people to be outspoken about inclusion for everyone, so everyone feels like they belong regardless of gender, race or anything else that has kept them apart.= SFF has reached out to the Hispanic Coalition with a per- sonal invitation to come cel- ebrate music that will be sung in both Spanish and English. District Community Liaison Suriana Iverson will translate information about My Own Two Hands activities into Spanish. The band9s emphasis 4 to build bridges instead of walls 4 informs their music and their outreach activi- ties. Having performed and taught across the country including the Smithsonian in Washington D.C., Las Cafeteras is opening doors to relationships that can flour- ish through the shared love of music and art. The band will share many varied cultural influences that help shape and create an even stronger music and band identity. — Brad Tisdel <We would like to share their culture and heritage with all community members so that people from all back- grounds are celebrated and fully embraced in our commu- nity and beyond. Celebrating community that9s authentic where human beings can share an experience, that9s what it9s all about,= said Tisdel. <As an organization cel- ebrating culture, we want to bring diverse music and people to our community and celebrate their unique back- grounds and heritage,= said Tisdel, <We9re doing that more and more with the festi- val as well.= ...we want to bring diverse music and people to our community... — Brad Tisdel To learn more about My Own Two Hands visit www.sistersfolkfestival. org/my-own-two-hands/. To learn more about Las Cafeteras visit their website at www.lascafeteras.com. Serving Sisters Since 1976 oing on g t e g o t Need We’ve ? s t c e j o r spring p ing you need! th FREE got every Local Delivery Lumber • Hardware • Paint Fencing & Decking • Doors & Windows ows Hours: M-F 8 to 5, Sat. 8 to 4:30, Closed Sundays 440 N. Pine St. • 541-549-8141 • www.hoyts.net PHOTO PROVIDED Sisters Fire Chief Roger Johnson (third from left) has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the Oregon Fire chief’s Association Sisters salutes... " Roger Johnson, fire chief for the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District, was elected to serve as a Director of the Board of the Oregon Fire Chief 9s Association on May 2. The Oregon Fire Chiefs Association (OFCA) is made up of fire-service personnel at all levels, and provides opportunities for its membership to attend train- ing and conferences through- out Oregon. The Association encourages and supports its membership through their evolvement with many com- mittees and task forces. Some examples of commit- tees that the OFCA mem- bers are involved in are: Legislative, Wildland, and Fallen Firefighter Memorial. Chief Johnson will provide his leadership and vision to support the fire service throughout the state of Oregon. " Karen Keady, who owns and operates Essentials Skin Care & Spa in Sisters, is pro- filed in the May/June edition of the Associated Skin Care Professionals publication Skin Deep. The magazine is a prestigious publication for the esthetician trade, with an international readership. Keady9s profile is on page 80 of the print publication and can be found online at http://www.ascpskindeep- digital.com/i/1101652-may- june-2019/82?. Court: Part of sentence law unconstitutional PORTLAND (AP) 4 The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that the state is violating the U.S. Constitution when it sentences juvenile offenders to life in prison without consid- ering their youth. The court in its 2-1 ruling Wednesday, April 17, found that the state is in conflict with the Eighth Amendment when juveniles convicted of aggravated murder are sen- tenced without taking into account that youth offenders are developmentally different than adults convicted of the same crime, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. <We conclude that the imposition of life imprison- ment on juvenile offenders without individualized con- siderations of youth by the sentencing court, is uncon- stitutional under the Eighth Amendment,= Judge Bronson James wrote for the majority. The ruling stems from the case of Justin Link, who was convicted of aggravated mur- der for the March 2001 death of Barbara Thomas. She was killed near Redmond, Oregon, by her teenage son and four of his friends, including Link. Link was sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 30 years in prison. He was given the possibility of applying for parole after serving the man- datory minimum sentence. The appeals court has vacated that sentence. Link is set to be resentenced. The ruling is part of an effort to bring the state in line with a 2012 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled it is unconstitutional to sentence juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole if that is the only option available to judges or juries. For juveniles convicted of aggravated murder, the state currently has two options: life without the possibility of parole, or a minimum sentence of 30 years in prison. On the minimum sentence, defen- dants have to prove they will be rehabilitated to eventually get the possibility of parole. <It considers whether a person 8is likely to be9 reha- bilitated at a future date, not whether the individual was less blameworthy due to their youth at the time of the offense,= James wrote in the ruling. <What the provision does not consider is immatu- rity at the time of the offense, nor how such immaturity less- ened the culpability or blame- worthiness of the defendant.=
