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Vol. XLII No. 27
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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