Sisters car wins at
Concours d’Elegance page 5
4-H participants show
at county fair page 8
City of Sisters has new
project coordinator page 20
The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 32
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Sisters
Town Hall
focused
on climate
change
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Permit No. 15
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Coach
lawsuit,
ethics
complaint
dismissed
A leap for the prize...
By Sue Stafford
By Jim Cornelius
Correspondent
Editor in Chief
The consensus among the
approximately 80 citizens
who attended last week9s
town hall regarding House
Bill 2020 and carbon emis-
sions was <Do something!=
State Sen. Cliff Bentz-(R)
of Ontario and Rep. Daniel
Bonham-(R) from The Dalles
told those assembled in the
FivePine Conference Center
on Monday, July 29, that they
wanted to hear from their con-
stituents their thoughts and
ideas about carbon emissions,
A federal lawsuit filed by
former Outlaws coach Nik
Goertzen against a Deschutes
County judge involved in a
series of legal actions regard-
ing his 2012 removal from his
coaching position has been
dropped and an ethics com-
plaint against the judge has
been dismissed.
Goertzen had twice been
named league Coach of the
Year for girls soccer before
Principal Joe Hosang ended
his tenure in 2012. Goertzen
See TOWN HALL on page 19
PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER
Benny, a high-energy Labrador makes a grab for glory in Deschutes County Fair competition as his athletic
trainer Brian Fowler of Sisters looks on. See story page 10.
Firefighters still see
accessibility problems
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
Despite a stark lesson
learned last year when three
houses and several outbuild-
ings went up in flames, not
all local residents have taken
on the work Cloverdale
Fire Chief Thad Olsen and
other emergency officials
say is critical: Homeowners
must do their part to make
their properties defensible,
and they must be prepared
for a crisis to hit with little
warning.
<We aren9t going to com-
mit firefighters to houses that
are not defensible,= Chief
Olsen told The Nugget last.
<Basically, what we9re asking
is, give us a fighting chance.=
Inside...
That still holds true 4
and Cloverdale is still see-
ing houses that can9t be
defended. Olsen told The
Nugget last week that they
are hearing from UPS and
Fed/Ex drivers about drive-
ways that aren9t cleared. If
a delivery truck can9t make
it up a driveway, a fire truck
can9t, either.
The fire district recently
sent out a flyer to remind res-
idents of requirements:
Access roads shall have
an unobstructed horizon-
tal clearance (trees, limbs,
brush and large rocks) of
not less than 20 feet wide,
and an unobstructed verti-
cal clearance of 13.5 feet.
See FIRE ACCESS on page 18
See LAWSUIT on page 29
Sisters photographer honored
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
Sisters photographer Jay
Mather is being recognized
for his work in Cambodia
during a time when the coun-
try was in turmoil. His work
will be featured in the Visa
Pour l´Image International
Festival of Photojournalism
near Paris in September.
Mather visited the coun-
try in 1979 when the com-
munist Khmer Rouge regime
had slaughtered 1.7 million
people 4 21-24 percent of
Cambodia9s population.
Mather and reporter Joel
Brinkley went on the lines of
the refugee camps reporting
and photographing the cri-
sis in the surrounding areas.
The Louisville (Kentucky)
Courier sent Mather and
Brinkley alongside doctors
PHOTO BY JAY MATHER
Jay Mather’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs from Cambodian refugee
camps in 1979 will be shown at an international photojournalism festival.
to document the brutality
inflicted upon the Cambodian
people, as well as treat the
sick and starving refugees.
Mather heard of the chaos
happening after seeing a CBS
special report on one Dr. Ken
Rasmussen, a Louisville phy-
sician at the time who went
to Cambodia looking after
the refugees. CBS had done
a report on what he had been
See MATHER on page 23
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Sisters Naturalist ............... 7 Announcements ................12 Bunkhouse Chronicle ........17 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Obituaries ......................... 8 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................28-32