The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 36
Missing
rider found
dead on
Cline
Buttes
Searchers found the body
of Chad Hurtley after an
extensive search in the Cline
Buttes area west of Sisters on
Monday.
Hurtley was reported miss-
ing on Sunday, September
1, after his horse was found
on Cline Falls Road. Hurtley
had left his home near Cline
Falls Road around 10:30 a.m.
on horseback. He regularly
rode from home into the Cline
Buttes area for a few hours
and then returned home.
Deputies assisted by SAR
volunteers searched into the
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Legacy of fire...
Festival is
a ‘family
reunion’
for many
artists
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
PHOTO COURTESY CENTRAL OREGON FIRE INFORMATION
A small lightning sparked blaze is burning in the Mt. Washington Wilderness — in the area of other burns
(see story, page 8). Approximately 50 percent of the Sisters Ranger District has been hit by wildfire in
the past two decades, leaving scars that actually protect from the spread of other fires.
The recent news that the
City of Sisters is conducting
a site-plan review on a poten-
tial Dollar General Store near
Bi-Mart has led some in the
community who dislike the
idea to call upon the planning
commission to determine
what kind of business is best
for Sisters.
Planning Commission
Chair Jeff Seymour said,
<Certainly, the commission is
sensitive to what the public is
saying. We live here, too, and
we see it.=
However, he and Planning
Commission Vice Chair Cris
Converse noted that the com-
mission works within strict
legal parameters.
Seymour said that the
planning commission acts as
<a quasi-judicial commission
that reviews land-use applica-
tions and applies the existing
Development Code to those
applications to determine
Inside...
This year9s Sisters Folk
Festival brings back many
musicians who have played
the festival multiple times and
have become part of the Sisters
music community. Among
them are Martyn Joseph, Ellis,
Johnsmith, Beth Wood, Keith
Greeninger and Dayan Kai,
and David Jacobs-Strain.
Jacobs-Strain has per-
formed in Sisters countless
times since his first appearance
at the Sisters Folk Festival
See FAMILY on page 16
How the planning
commission works
Editor in Chief
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
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See HURTLEY on page 14
By Jim Cornelius
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
Gratitude, faith help Sisters couple
By Carol Statton
Correspondent
if those projects are viable
based on that code.=
The commission 4 by
law 4 cannot discriminate
and say that a certain business
that meets code requirements
can9t come to Sisters.
<Law does not allow us to
discriminate against a particu-
lar business,= Converse said.
<We can only look at and
really discuss the existing
application that is in front of
us,= he said. <We can9t change
the code (on the fly) and we
can9t change the application.=
The matter at hand is
a site-plan review on a
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 resi-
dential 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
On December 11, 2018, in
little more than a split second,
life changed dramatically for
Larry and Terry Hardin. The
Hardins were just beginning
their newly planned <snow-
bird= status down south when
Larry suffered a tragic fall
from a camp chair.
What should have been
the beginning of a winter
spent in the warmth and
sun of Southern California
instantly became something
completely different. The
next five months would be
spent between three different
hospitals spanning two states;
hospitals that would become
home and provide necessary
care and encouragement.
Fundamentals of faith, family,
friends and focus would carry
them through.
They say lightening never
strikes twice, but science and
Larry know a different truth.
Five years previously, Larry
found himself undergoing
See PLANNING on page 24
See HARDIN on page 19
Letters/Weather ............... 2 Seed to Table .................... 8
Meetings .......................... 3 Announcements ...............12
PHOTO BY CAROL STATTON
A fall has left Larry Hardin paralyzed, but he continues to look for good —
and find it.
Commentary: Transforming the
terrible secret of suicide ......15
Entertainment .................13 Classifieds ................. 25-27
Crossword ...................... 24 Real Estate .................27-32