The Nugget Vol. XLII No. 34 P OSTAL CUSTOMER News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon www.NuggetNews.com City to enforce camping regulations during festival Wednesday, August 21, 2019 City council awards community grants Sign of the season... By Sue Stafford Correspondent By Sue Stafford Correspondent In a change to enforce- ment of longstanding City regulations regarding over- night camping on city streets in the downtown area, patrons of the Sisters Folk Festival (and other events), who were used to parking their camp- ers and RVs on city streets for the weekend, will no longer be allowed to do that 4 and run the risk of being ticketed if they do. Although longstanding City policies have prohib- ited overnight camping on PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK Autumn is in sight. The Outlaws football camp got underway last week, as young athletes prepare for another season under the Friday night lights. See CAMPING on page 21 Correspondent The City of Sisters plan- ning department is currently conducting a site-plan review for a new 9,100-square-foot retail sales establishment to be located on the south side of McKinney Butte Road directly adjacent to Bi-Mart and The Pines residential community. The store to be built has been identified as Dollar General, a national corpo- ration that has over 15,000 stores in small to mid-size communities in 44 states. In Central Oregon they have stores in La Pine and Culver with a number on the west side of the Cascades in towns like Cave Junction, Winston, and Roseburg. The property is owned by Inside... City Council voted to award 24 community grants for a total of $21,447 for FY 2019-20 to provide assistance to non-profits and for-profit entities and organizations that serve the Sisters community. Requests for grants from 27 organizations totaled close to $48,000. As part of the selection process, each councilor individually makes their selection from the grant requests of organizations to support and the amount of that support. Any group not chosen by at least three of the five councilors is auto- matically eliminated from See GRANTS on page 25 Dollar General store planned for Sisters By Sue Stafford PRE-SORTED STANDARD ECRWSS U.S. POSTAGE PAID Sisters, OR Permit No. 15 Threewind Partners, LLC, with Helmut Junge of Eugene listed as the principal. Acting as the agent on behalf of Threewind, for the purpose of preparing and processing the necessary permitting docu- ments relative to the property, is SimonCRE SDL III, LLC of Scottsdale, Arizona. Peter Krahenbuhl is their vice pres- ident of development. The architects for the project are CASCO + R/5 in St. Louis, Missouri. The subject property is located in the Highway Commercial zone, which allows for retail establish- ments, restaurants, some franchises like McDonald9s and Dairy Queen (which are not allowed in the Downtown Commercial zone), motels, See STORE on page 14 Wild West Show shoots it up in Sisters By Jodi Schneider Correspondent Last weekend, Oak Street was transformed back into the wild and woolly past of the American Wild West for the 7th annual Sisters Wild West Show. When the country was wild and young, anything could happen, and people often took justice into their own hands. The outlaws of the Old West packed their six-shoot- ers and rifles to rob banks, stagecoaches, and trains. Mick Howard, a.k.a. Mojave Mick, a Deschutes Desperados re-enactment player, served as the local sheriff ready to incarcerate the worst of them. Howard9s been in re- enactment for nine years, writes most of the skits for the troupe, and has been with the Cowboy Action Shooting Club for over 20 years. PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK Cowboys, cowgirls, outlaws and fancy ladies made Oak Street in Sisters wild last weekend.