The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 25
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Celebrating
Sisters’
roundabout
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
A ride to the crest on a bluebird day...
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
At last week9s official rib-
bon-cutting ceremony for the
Highway 20/Barclay round-
about, Tumalo artist and sculp-
tor Danae Bennett-Miller told
those assembled that it was
<quite an honor= to have her
design chosen for the artwork
in the center of the roundabout.
She <felt a responsibility to
adhere to the guidelines= for
the project. The theme for the
artwork is <a journey through
the passes is a journey through
a land of contrasts,= which is
beautifully illustrated with the
two contrasting sides to the
installation.
Correspondent
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Conditions were perfect for the annual Sisters Park & Recreation District Crest the Cascades ride on
Saturday. Dozens of riders took Highway 242 up and over the summit. The highway opened on Monday.
Charlie Kanzig, counselor
at Sisters High School, is
retiring after this school year
after nearly 35 years work-
ing with students. Kanzig has
been in and out of Sisters in
his career but was happy to
have completed his career at
Sisters High School as the
counselor for the past four
years after a brief interlude
working in South Korea.
Kanzig began his career
as a language arts teacher for
seventh- and eighth-graders
at St. Mary9s grade school in
Stayton, Oregon. He gradu-
ated from the University
of Oregon with a degree in
English education, having
originally entered U of O as
a journalism major.
<I realized at that time it
was really hard to be a family
man and a journalist; it was
a very different world then,=
said Kanzig.
So, he went the education
route instead. He realized
Inside...
Where does one start a
conversation about growth in
Sisters? That was the ques-
tion last week when City
Manager Cory Misley agreed
to sit down with The Nugget
and unpack the topic of local
growth.
There are some in Sisters
who would like to pull up
the drawbridge and keep any
more newcomers from set-
tling here. Another element is
aggressively seeking to bring
more living-wage jobs to
See GROWTH on page 10
Long-time counselor
retiring from schools
Correspondent
Facing
Sisters’
growing
pains
By Sue Stafford
See ROUNDABOUT on page 31
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going into teaching that he
wanted more transferable
skills, and a lot of his friends
at the time were counselors.
<I always liked the idea of
being a counselor and I felt
like I would really fit that
job,= he said.
Kanzig attended Lewis
and Clark College, received
his basic counseling degree,
and got a job right away at
Colton Middle and High
School, a combined sev-
enth- through 12th-grade
school, as the sole counselor.
Counseling became his main
focus versus teaching after he
got his degree.
<I still love to lead and
teach, but counseling was
more of an interest and fit
what I wanted to do,= he said.
He worked from 1987
until 1994 at Colton, and
then a job opening at Sisters
schools became available.
He then worked for Sisters
schools from 1994 until
2013.
See KANZIG on page 30
es Class of 2019
Sisters celebrates
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
A rocking rendition
of Queen9s <We are the
Champions= by members
of the Sisters graduating
class of 2019 highlighted the
commencement ceremony
for Sisters High School on
Friday, June 14, in the gym-
nasium packed with faculty,
family, and friends.
Prior to the rocking per-
formance led by graduating
senior Tyrell Beatty, Principal
Joe Hosang briefly welcomed
everyone before turning the
attention to the jazz choir,
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
directed by Rick Johnson, in a Wyatt Hernandez described the support he received from his peers at
moving national anthem.
Sisters High School during a commencement speech on Friday, June 14.
All of the speeches for
this year9s ceremony came because of all of you,= he friendship.=
from students. Associated said. <Whether it was Kendra
Hernandez will attend
Student Body President Wyatt (Sitz) being my voice when I Willamette University in
Hernandez started things was too embarrassed to speak Salem.
off and spoke from the heart or the Cook twins (Mia and
Delia Hoyt shared the next
about how supported he felt Ellie) always checking in on speech as one of four valedic-
by his classmates after suffer- me or even Luka Perle help- torians and a salutatorian who
ing a significantly debilitating ing me with English when chose to string together their
concussion during his fresh- I couldn9t even read. You messages, each with an indi-
man year.
guys showed me love and vidual theme.
<There were many days compassion when I needed
Hoyt, who will attend
that I did not want to get out it the most, and you taught
of bed, but I made it through me so much about caring and
See GRADUATION on page 22
Letters ............................... 2 Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 At Your Service.............15-19 Classifieds ..................26-28
Weather ............................. 2 Sisters Salutes .................. 6 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32