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The Nugget get News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon Vol. XLII No. 27 Since 1978 www.NuggetNews.com P OSTAL CUSTOMER PRE-SOR PRE-SORTED STANDARD ECRWSS U.S. POSTAGE PAID Sisters, OR Permit No. 15 Buy Y Your Tickets Now! bit.ly/SistersRhythmBrews bit.ly/S Wednesday,July Wedne 3, 2019 Ritter rocks Sisters... Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band turned in an incendiary performance in support of Sisters Folk Festival’s ‘Connected By Creativity’ campaign. Sisters Sis g gains ‘age- friendly friendly’ s status By Sue Staf Stafford Correspondent Corr On June 1, 2019, the City of Sisters was accepted Cit as a member of the World Health Organization9s Global Network for Age-Friendly Cities and Communities. (See rela related story on page 27) Membership reflects the City9s commitment to listen to the needs of their aging pop population, assess and moni- tor their age-friendliness, and wo work collaboratively with old older people and across sec- tor tors to create age-friendly PHOTO BY CEILI CORNELIUS See ‘AGE-FRIENDLY’ on page 26 Featured quilters share Man rescued after fall on South Sister a decade of creativity By Jodi Schneider Correspondent Betty Anne Guadalupe and Susan Cobb have been a quilting duo for a decade. This year they are the fea- tured quilters for the 44th Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS). In 2018 Cobb was com- missioned to create the raffle quilt for SOQS, and Guadalupe was the featured machine quilter at SOQS in 2010. <We call ourselves the eclectic quilters,= Cobb told The Nugget. Cobb took her first and second quilting class in 2009 at The Stitchin9 Post from Lawry Thorne. <I learned everything I needed to know as far as making a quilt,= Cobb said. See QUILTERS on page 18 Fireworks dangerous for Sisters Even though it9s been relatively wet and mild in Sisters Country so far this summer, fireworks still pose a wildfire threat. They are illegal in Sisters9 subdi- visions and everywhere on the National Forest. See FIREWORKS on page 38 Inside... Rescuers airlifted a 31-year-old Redmond man off the mountainside after he fell on an icy stretch of trail on South Sister last week. According to the Deschutes County Sheriff9s Office, 9-1-1 Dispatch received a report of an injured hiker on the South Sister climbing trail on Tuesday, June 25, at approximately 9:57 a.m. The injured hiker, iden- tified as Blake Ettestad, had reportedly fallen on a steep, icy portion of the trail approximately 4.5 miles from the Devil9s Lake Trailhead at about 8,100 feet. Ettestad had lost control on the ice, fallen and slid into a tree, sustaining a non-life threatening injury, which kept him from being able to continue. Ettestad had been hiking with a small group of friends who stabilized him as best as they could and called 9-1-1. Two Deschutes County Sheriff9s Office Deputies and 10 DCSO Search and Rescue volunteers responded to assist. Life Flight was contacted and assisted by flying four of the DCSO SAR volunteers to PHOTO COURTESY DCSO Rescuers bundled up an injured hiker and hauled him via sled to a landing area where Life Flight was able to retrieve him and fly him to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. the closest available landing area at approximately 7,550 feet. The four SAR volunteers then skinned up the trail to Ettestad9s location, arriving at approximately 1:17 p.m. Ettestad was further stabilized and packaged into a Cascade rescue sled for transport. With thunderstorms pass- ing through the area, five additional DCSO SAR volun- teers began hiking up the trail from Devils Lake Trailhead in case Life Flight was not able to return. Life Flight was able to return and meet the four DCSO SAR Volunteers, who had transported Ettestad back to the landing area. Life Flight then transported Ettestad to St. Charles Hospital in Bend. <The Deschutes County Sheriff9s Office would like to thank Life Flight for their assistance with this rescue,= Lt. Bryan Husband, Search and Rescue Coordinator, stated. <Without their assis- tance, the response time to Ettestad9s location would have been considerably lon- ger, potentially leading to fur- ther medical problems.= Letters/Weather ................ 2 Announcements ................12 Quilt Show .................. 19-22 Crossword ....................... 33 Property Guy .................... 37 Meetings ........................... 3 Entertainment ..................13 Obituaries ....................... 25 Classifieds ..................34-36 Real Estate ................. 37-40