Allergy levels are high, but pine
pollen is not to blame page 17
Sisters Dance Academy marks
10 years on the hardwood page 25
Cowboy Court Apartments
to open this summer page 38
The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 23
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Sisters gets ready to Rodeo
Sisters Rodeo is geared up
for some great competition
this week, with a huge num-
ber of competitors in every
rodeo event, including world
champions and barnstorming
rookies.
There will be 35 bareback
riders, 55 saddlebronc riders,
52 bull riders, 49 tie down
ropers, 53 teams of team rop-
ers, 46 steer wrestlers and 90
barrel racers.
There are 24 Wild Horse
Race teams to kick off rodeo
action in a flurry of dives,
dust and bucking rides. Five
teams are from Arizona, one
team each from California,
Wyoming and Montana, two
from Washington and 13 from
Oregon.
Wild horse racing is
growing in rodeos in the
West, with several rodeos in
the Rocky Mountain states
wanting to add them to their
events. Butch David of Warm
Springs, the district presi-
dent of the Wild Horse Race
Association, is excited about
Lightning
storm does
damage in
Sisters
Christmas event. Timber
Moore won Rodeo Rapid City
A late-afternoon lightning
storm that moved through
Sisters Country on Tuesday,
May 28, struck and damaged
three structures and surround-
ing trees.
The first incident was
reported at 2:54 p.m. when
a homeowner on Peterson
Burn Road reported a smoke
odor in the main house on her
property. A second structure
on the property, an Airbnb
that was occupied by rent-
ers at the time, also reported
a direct strike to their struc-
ture, that reportedly knocked
everything off the walls.
Initial arriving units found
two structures with obvi-
ous damage to both due to
See RODEO on page 8
See LIGHTNING on page 30
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Volunteers have gotten Sisters Rodeo Arena into shape for the Biggest Little Show in the World.
the surge of the sport and the
number of teams coming to
Sisters.
Tie down roping adds
some royalty to the mix
of 49 competitors. Cooper
Martin won St. Paul Rodeo
during the 2018 Cowboy
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Permit No. 15
Ranger shares plans for Outlaws jazz band tops in state
USFS headquarters
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
The U.S. Forest Service
has a long history in the city
of Sisters. And it looks like
that history could be even
longer due to some changes
in Forest Service plans for its
proposed new administrative
site.
The total 67 acres owned
by the Forest Service on either
side of State Highway 20 at
the northwest end of town
has been the subject of years
of speculation, dreaming, and
concern about what would
happen to the property when
the Forest Service announced
it was selling the property
and moving its new Sisters
Ranger District headquarters.
Inside...
The first plan was to build
a new building across Barclay
Drive on Forest Service prop-
erty and sell off the rest. The
second plan was to sell all 67
acres with its current zoning
as a single parcel, and build
new headquarters west of Rail
Way off Highway 20. After
deciding to break up the prop-
erty into sections to enable
separate sales, the 18 acres
north of Barclay sold to a
local party who plans to build
light industrial buildings.
When the City and ODOT
sent a letter to the USFS indi-
cating an interest in the East
Portal (the triangle of land
bounded by Highways 20
and 242, and Hood Avenue),
The Sisters High School
Jazz Band brought home
first-place honors from the
Jazz Band State Finals held
at Mt. Hood Community
College on May 18.
Band Director Tyler
Cranor recognizes a signifi-
cant accomplishment for the
young musicians.
<That is the first state title
since 2003 and the first since
we were a 4A school,= he said.
Bands at the festival are
judged by a three-judge
panel on musicality, qual-
ity of sound and stage pres-
ence. The band played three
pieces: a shuffle tune titled
<Out of the Doghouse=;
an original arrangement of
Duke Ellington9s, <Concerto
for Cootie,= and a contempo-
rary Latin number, <Coconut
Champagne.=
See JAZZ BAND on page 23
PHOTO PROVIDED
See USFS on page 39
The Sisters High School Jazz Band is a state champion.
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Salutes .................. 9 Entertainment ..................13 Obituaries ..................28-29 Classifieds ..................32-34
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Sisters Naturalist ............. 19 Crossword ........................31 Real Estate .................35-40