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.
<We started as re-enact-
ment players when (show
promoter) Richard Esterman
invited us to try it out for The
Wild West Show,= he said.
James Hawkins, a.k.a.
Tetherow Tex LaRue, is one
of the original re-enactment
players and loves the humor
that9s added to each script.
This year new re-enactors
joined in on the fun, includ-
ing a few Sisters locals.
Sisters resident Tom Barrier
and his family of five, Taylor,
14; Lyric, 10; Rhythm, 8;
Titon, 6; and Harmony, 5, all
participated in skits.
See WILD WEST on page 23
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Health & Fitness ............8-11 Entertainment ..................13 Elder Abuse Commentary . 16 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 Obituaries ........................15 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32