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 By Ceili Cornelius PRE-SORTED STANDARD ECRWSS U.S. POSTAGE PAID Sisters, OR Permit No. 15 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