Wednesday, June 19, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
QUILTS: Multiple
homes are on annual
tour for Quilt Show
EAGLE SCOUTS: Only
two percent achieve
highest ranking
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quilting guild, Martin decided
in 2005 to purchase her own
long-arm quilting machine
to ensure the quality of the
quilting. To help pay off the
machine, she said she began
quilting for other people.
Martin retired from her
pediatric practice in 2008 but
filled in on a temporary basis
at the Benton County Health
Department until 2015. She
and her husband have owned
a home in Sisters since 2003
but moved over full time in
2013.
She and her husband are
both now retired, he having
successfully defeated cancer.
Martin is not one to remain
still for long.
<I am doing exactly what I
want,= she said proudly. That
includes hiking, biking, knit-
ting, quilting, weaving, and
spinning.
Martin has entered quilts
in the Sisters Outdoor Quilt
Show over the years and has
had sponsored quilts dis-
played in local stores. This
year, a large number of her
quilts of various sizes and
styles will be seen displayed
on the fence surrounding the
garden at Seed to Table on
July 11.
A native of Sisters, Audrey
Tehan founded the Seed to
Table program in 2013 on her
family9s farm. A graduate of
Southern Oregon University
with a degree in environmen-
tal studies, focusing on poli-
tics and conservation biol-
ogy, Tehan believes firmly
in growing food using prac-
tices that sustain both natural
resources and the community.
For over a dozen years,
Tehan has focused on involv-
ing children in education out-
side the classroom. At Seed
Bruce Kemp gave a talk on
the values scouting instills in
the boys.
<Becoming an Eagle Scout
is a highly prestigious honor
and is achieved by only about
2 percent of those who begin
in the scouting program.
Along with completing a
broad range of outdoor hik-
ing, camping and survival
activities, he has gained
extensive knowledge and
completed tasks in a wider
range of areas that prepare
him to help his fellow men.
He has committed to living a
life with moral integrity as he
commits himself to his duty
PHOTO BY TIM TOTH
Audrey Tehan strikes her own American Gothic pose. She will host the
quilts of Jill Martin in the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show’s annual garden tour.
to Table, students are pro-
vided with hands-on expe-
riential education by being
involved in growing healthy
food, learning to live healthy
lives, and connecting with
others around them.
In six short years, the pro-
gram has established at least
10 distinct programs, from
their K-6 field-trip series,
which includes 12 farm
field trips for every student
between grades two and six,
to the four-season greenhouse
and agriculture program at
Sisters High School.
There are programs for
adults as well and several
special social events includ-
ing Art in the Garden work-
shops and the Fall Harvest
dinner, which serves about
200 people.
Seed to Table works in
collaboration with local
healthcare providers to offer
their Fresh Food Farmacy in
which food is used as medi-
cine, helping people improve
their health by improving
their eating habits or by
reducing food insecurity,
ensuring participants have an
abundance of fresh vegeta-
bles for six months. The cost
of the program is subsidized
on a sliding-fee scale based
on income.
While admiring Martin9s
quilts, visitors to the garden
will also be able to see first-
hand how Tehan9s program
can produce 30,000 pounds of
organic produce on an acre-
and-a-half of land. Besides
providing produce for over
200 families during the grow-
ing season, the garden also
provides fresh produce for
school lunch programs and
Central Oregon food banks.
In its 22nd year, the tour
is presented by the Sisters
Garden Club, which gives
the proceeds from ticket
sales to support the work of
other community non-profits,
including Seed to Table.
Tickets for the tour of
five special Sisters gardens
and homes are $20 (chil-
dren under 12 free) and may
be purchased at the Sisters
Chamber of Commerce and
The Gallimaufry.
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to God, his country and his
fellow men, < Kemp noted.
In addition to their award
from the Boy Scouts, Ren
Broomhead presented each
scout with a knife handcrafted
by Mac McKibbin, a former
resident of the area who has
been making these traditional
gift knives for the local Eagle
Scouts for many years.
Scoutmaster Liddell con-
cluded the program with a talk
and a slide presentation high-
lighting many of the scouts9
often-humorous adventures
and accomplishments.
<I love the scouting pro-
gram and how it teaches boys
leadership skills, outdoor
skills and builds confidence.
It has been a fantastic expe-
rience for me to spend time
with the boys in the scout-
ing program over the last six
years,= he said.
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