The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 20
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Art party raises thousands for programs
By Jodi Schneider
Correspondent
Celebrating the arts in
Sisters helps make it pos-
sible for every student in
the Sisters School District
to experience art as a part
of their lives. Each year,
hundreds of people come
together to help support the
arts at the My Own Two
Hands Art Auction & Party.
This celebration is the pre-
mier art event that benefits
Sisters Folk Festival (SFF)
to continue and grow the
award-winning arts education
programming.
Enthusiasm and high
hopes enhanced the 18th
annual Art Auction and Party
hosted by SFF on Saturday
night at Ponderosa Forge &
Ironworks.
Artist and art donator
Dennis McGregor told The
Nugget, <(the) My Own Two
Hands two-day event is a
remarkable thing and I am
so proud to be a part of (it)
since its beginning. It9s con-
tinued over so many years
and grown and brought in
new people and new artists
and has benefited so many
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Permit No. 15
SPRD board
seats up for
election
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
an array of upbeat melodies,
jazzy ballads and soulful folk
tunes.
For over a decade Interim
Executive Director Debbie
Newport has volunteered as
a worker for the event along
Two positions on the
Sisters Park & Recreation
(SPRD) Board of Directors
are on the ballot in the May
21 election; one of the two is
contested.
Heath Foott is standing
for reelection to Position 4;
incumbent Peggy Tehan and
Rosemary Vasquez are con-
tending for Position 5.
Tehan has served SPRD
for 10 years and is seeking her
third full term on the board.
Through most of her tenure,
she has held the post of trea-
surer. Tehan is a Certified
Public Accountant (CPA) in
her professional life.
<I think in the position it is
really good to have continu-
ity,= she said. <Right now, we
have a great board. Everybody
on there comes with their own
knowledge base and skill
base.=
See MOTH on page 18
See ELECTION on page 14
PHOTO BY ROB KERR
Jack McGowan spots a bidder in a lively My Own Two Hands art auction at Ponderosa Forge.
students. And I know many
of them are adults now that
went through the program,
and they are better people for
it, and we9re all enriched by
that.=
SFF Board Chair Sue
Boettner added, <It is the big-
gest party and fundraiser of
the year in town, and it9s a
double-whammy because not
only do we have loads of fun,
but we help kids K-12 with
art and music!=
The Sugar Beets from
Eugene provided the eclectic
soundtrack to match the vari-
ety of art up for auction, with
Use of tree-killing
herbicide restricted
Reenactor reaches out to touch history
The Oregon Department
of Agriculture (ODA) has put
strict restrictions on the use of
an herbicide held responsible
for killing 2,100 trees along
Highway 20 west of Sisters.
ODA reports review-
ing more than 5,000 written
public comments and tes-
timony at public hearings
before adopting a perma-
nent rule signed to prevent
future widespread tree deaths
statewide. ODA investiga-
tors concluded that applica-
tions of aminocyclopyrachlor
(ACP) from 2013 to 2015 in
Central Oregon left more than
2,000 ponderosa and lodge-
pole pines dead and dying.
There are currently four
known locations near Sisters
exhibiting herbicide damage
When the guns crack and
thunder across the meadow
at House On Metolius next
weekend, Jim Stanovich will
be in the thick of the heavy
black powder smoke.
For the past 28 years,
Stanovich, of Knappa,
Oregon, has been reaching
out to touch the history of
the American Civil War 4
and to help others understand
what life was like for the sol-
diers of that terrible conflict,
which took some 620,000
American lives from 1861 to
1865.
Through the weekend of
May 18-19, Stanovich will
serve as Confederate battal-
ion commander, in charge
of the Confederate forces
among the approximately
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attributed to the use of ACP.
A logging project is cur-
rently underway to remove
the dead and dying trees
along Highway 20. According
to Sisters District Ranger Ian
Reid, that project is moving
on or ahead of schedule and
he expects that crews will hit
the completion target date of
May 22.
ODA9s permanent rule
prohibits byproducts of ACP-
affected trees from being
used in compost, mulch or
animal bedding that will be
used in compost or mulch.
The permanent rule was filed
with the Oregon Secretary of
State on May 9, 2019 and is
effective immediately.
See HERBICIDE on page 28
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
PHOTO PROVIDED
Jim Stanovich will serve as Confederate Battalion Commander at the
annual Northwest Civil War Council reenactment in Camp Sherman.
160 reenactors that will par-
ticipate in the sixth annual
Northwest Civil War Council
event. The renactment
immerses visitors in an open-
air environment recreating
See REENACTOR on page 11
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituaries ....................... 10 Entertainment ..................13 In The Pines ..................... 24 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Sisters Country Birds ........13 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................28-32