Wednesday, September 25, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
IN PRINT
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om Camp Sherman
the middle school students of Black Butte School
Student reporters interviewed
ed Leon and S
Sylvia Foster about their long
life in Central Oregon. These photos accompanied a 1978 Ruralite article.
The Snowstorm
of 1970
By Joseph Yoder
In 1970 there was a huge snow-
storm and everybody was snowed
in. It snowed 58 inches in one
night. The roads were not plowed.
Leon Foster said, “The whole com-
munity was in desperate straits.”
Leon managed to drive to
Hoodoo. He drove a John Deere
crawler from Hoodoo to Camp
Sherman in a snowstorm to plow
the roads.
There was so much snow that
when Leon drove back to Champ
Sherman, Sylvia could only see the
smokestack of the crawler. Leon
said, “There was so much snow
that I used up most of my diesel.”
After this he was the town hero
because he plowed all of the resi-
dents’ roads!
Planes, Horses, & Automobiles
The Fosters’ Hobbies
By Scott Henderson
During our interview with Sylvia Foster, she told
us about her horse. She and her family lived next to
Black Butte School. They lived next to the modern-
day fishing pond; the school was just a short walk
through a meadow.
Her kids had to cross a creek to get to school. They
walked on a board across the creek.
The family horse was an appaloosa. He would
follow the kids to school across the creek, but the
board was only 12 inches and the horse had really big
hooves. One day his foot missed the middle of the
board he was standing on.
“He went in upside down into the creek,” said Leon.
Then he came up sputtering.
On very nice days, the students of Black Butte
School would work outside. One time a plane landed
in the river because they thought that it was the pave-
ment. But everyone was okay that was in the plane
and on the ground.
Another day, “There was a problem with a car in
the river,” said Sylvia. Then the school went down to
the river to watch and do their Spanish lesson. “They
had their tablets and pencils, and they were still doing
their work, but they
were watching
what was happen-
ing,” she said.
“It was unpre-
dictable,” Sylvia
said of Black Butte
School in days gone
by. “You never knew
what to expect.”
By Makiha Matayo Vance (Ki)
When we interviewed Leon he told us
how he likes to fly-fish, and how he didn’t
do it a lot because he was always busy
doing chores at the resort.
His wife Sylvia said, “I asked for a fly
rod for my birthday and I got one.” Sylvia
also had a straw hat that fell off when she
was fishing. While she was still fishing she
was trying to get her hat out of the water,
but when she picked it up it was full of
water. She put it on and all the water went
down her shirt.
Sylvia said, “I never really had time to
do hobbies,” but now she knits and cro-
chets and “things like that, typical old-
lady things to do.”
Merry, Messy Christmas
By Jojo Souza
The Black Butte School winter perfor-
mance has been going on for decades,
and it is a tradition. Leon and Sylvia told
us about one of their memories of the
winter performance.
During one of them, the Santa, Fred
Beamer, had a couple drinks too many
and got drunk. He knocked over the
Christmas tree. It had all the ornaments
and all the lights on it.
“It was a big mess” said Leon and
Sylvia’s son, Mark Foster.
“If there was a party everybody was
invited,” Sylvia said.
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