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The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 28
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Hiker
rescued
after bad
tumble
on PCT
Airport fly-in celebrates America
By Jodi Schneider
Correspondent
A helicopter, a gyrocop-
ter and many planes buzzed
overhead and the engines
of vintage hot rods and drag
racers roared at Sisters Eagle
Airport on Thursday, July 4,
as hundreds of Sisters resi-
dents and visitors showed up
to celebrate a power-packed
Independence Day for the
7th annual Wings & Wheels
Fly-in & Car Show.
The weather was perfect
4 blue skies without a hint
of wind as people of all ages
lined up for pancakes that
Sisters Rotary Club provided
for those early risers attending
the event.
Sisters Eagle Airport is
celebrating 83 years this year
4 originally built and opened
by George Wakefield in 1936.
The morning kicked off
with a heartwarming flag
drop brought in by Skydive
Awesome, coupled with
the playing of the National
<He made really unique
hot rods out of quality cars,=
Hall said.
Right next to the 1932 Ford
Coupe was Bill Leininger9s,
1933 Chevy Coupe, also
built by Hall9s grandfa-
ther. Hall and Leininger met
A hiker traveling alone
on the Pacific Crest Trail
about two miles north of the
Rockpile Lake area tumbled
about 50 feet while crossing a
steep snow-covered section of
the trail on Sunday, June 30,
at about 6 p.m.
Jefferson County Sheriff9s
Office Search and Rescue
Coordinator Sgt. Dave Pond
reported that, <the subject lost
footing and tumbled about 50
feet until he hit a tree, stop-
ping his descent. He was
located by two other hikers
who were able to get him back
on the trail and call 911.=
The Jefferson County
See FLY-IN on page 23
See RESCUE on page 27
PHOTO BY CODY RHEAULT
Drivers brought cars of every stripe out to test their mettle in drag races at Sisters Airport.
Anthem.
More than a dozen small
aircraft were on display, along
with over 40 vintage cars of
every description, with heli-
copter rides by Leading Edge
Aviation.
Many were there to admire
flying machines that went
back to the 1930s. Others
took a trip down memory lane
browsing through vintage
vehicles.
Bill Hall stood proudly
next to his black 1932 Ford
3-Window Coupe equipped
with suicide doors and a run-
ning board that his grandfa-
ther built over 65 years ago
(see related story, page 7).
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Airport hosts university Quilters rise to challenge in Sisters
science project
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
A test flight for a project
measuring electrical conduc-
tivity in connection with thun-
derstorms was to launch via
balloon from Sisters Airport
early this week.
The joint effort of the
University of Washington
Earth and Space Sciences pro-
gram and DigiPen Institute of
Technology tapped the exper-
tise of Sisters resident Steven
Peterzen, who has conducted
balloon launches for science-
related projects all over the
world.
<It9s in his back yard;
that9s why we9re here,= said
University of Washington
Professor Michael McCarthy,
Inside...
who was leading students in
the project.
The 80-by-90-foot balloon
will carry a 72-pound payload
of atmospheric measuring
instruments to an altitude of
130,000 feet over the Pacific
Ocean. The instruments set up
by University of Washington
students will measure elec-
trical conductivity. The crew
from DigiPen is responsible
for the telemetry and data
transmission.
<We9re using basically a
satellite phone link,= Jeremy
Thomas explained. <We9re
sending the data basically as
text messages.=
Those messages will come
at a rate of one per minute.
See BALLOON on page 21
Among the more than
one thousand quilts that will
be on display on downtown
shops at the Sisters Outdoor
Quilt Show on Saturday,
July 13, will be a set of quilts
designed around the theme of
<Bountiful Life.=
Volunteer firefighters from
the Sisters-Camp Sherman
Fire District will turn out
at 7:30 a.m. on Quilt Show
Day to hang the 29 quilts of
the 2019 Stitchin9 Post Quilt
Challenge.
At the top of the array
will be a quilt crafted by Fern
Inman, who works four days a
week at Stitchin9 Post.
<It9s called Patriotic Rose,
and I think it9s indicative of
See CHALLENGE on page 26
PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
First-time quilter Wendy y Bachmeier depicted the Parable of th
the Sower in
her quilt-challenge entry.
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Announcements ................12 Kids in Print .................15-16 Obituaries ........................21 Classifieds .................. 29-31
Meetings ........................... 3 Entertainment ..................13 Quilt Show ...................17-20 Crossword ....................... 28 Real Estate ................. 31-36