The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 40
Burning
season
opens in
Sisters
The Central Oregon Fire
Chiefs Association (COFCA)
announced that debris burn
season is open as of October
1 for many of the local
Central Oregon fire districts.
With the recent fall weather
and precipitation received in
the area, the fire chiefs, local
fire departments, the U.S.
Forest Service, the BLM,
and Oregon Department of
Forestry (ODF) have agreed
that many areas are now safe
to enter into burn season.
However, there remains a
year-round burning ban in the
city of Sisters.
Even with the opening
of the burn season, Central
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Under the Friday Night Lights...
Sisters
Harvest
Faire marks
40 years
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Young flag football players played in a showcase during the Outlaws’ game last week.
See BURNING on page 31
Correspondent
Internationally acclaimed
author, speaker, teacher, and
healer, Central Oregon9s Jane
Kirkpatrick, will be one of
the authors headlining Sisters
Festival of Books, October
18-20.
The author of 30 fiction
and five non-fiction books,
Kirkpatrick9s works have sold
over 1 million copies, been
translated into several foreign
languages, and been awarded
numerous literary awards and
placed on a variety of best-
seller lists.
Kirkpatrick9s first novel,
“A Sweetness to the Soul,”
was named to Oregon9s
Literary 100: 1800-2000, as
one of the 100 titles published
in the last 200 years best rep-
resenting Oregon.
“I like helping people
from the distant past step
from their generation into our
Inside...
The Sisters Harvest Faire,
which marks the turn to the
fall season on the second
weekend in October each year,
marks 40 years in 2019. That9s
four decades of celebrating the
beauty, meaning and value of
handcrafted arts, crafts and
foodstuffs — in the midst of a
rapidly changing world.
This year9s faire is set for
Saturday and Sunday, October
12-13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
both days. The event, set on
Main Avenue around the hub
of Fir Street Park, features
live music from Dry Canyon
Stampede on Saturday and
Bill Keale on Sunday.
The event is the signature
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Festival will feature
bestselling author
By Sue Stafford
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own to teach us and touch us
with their lives,” the author
explained.
For 27 years, Kirkpatrick
and her husband, Jerry,
ranched along the lower John
Day River in an area known
as Starvation Point. Her
memoir, “Homestead,” tells
the story of their journey to
“rattlesnake and rock ranch”
to begin a new life.
“It was our rural 7-Eleven
since our home sat seven
miles from the mailbox and
11 miles from the pavement,”
noted the author.
Kirkpatrick grew up on a
dairy farm with her brother
and sister near Mondovi, WI,
not far from the Mississippi
River. She was surrounded
by a large extended family,
most of whom lived within 50
miles.
In 1974, after receiv-
ing her master9s degree in
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‘Hoppy’ half-marathon launched
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
Sean Meissner, the long-
time race director of the
Peterson Ridge Rumble trail
run, was in charge of a new
race on Saturday, September
28 — and afterward called
the Sisters Hop Fest
Half-Marathon and 5k a
success.
“It turned out to be a rela-
tively small, but fun event,”
he said. “People loved the
course and the weather turned
out to be pretty good after a
bit of a scare about snow in
the forecast.”
Jason Gulley, 39, of Bend
must have agreed as he made
it through the half-marathon
at just over six-minute- mile
pace to win in 1 hour 23
minutes and 42 seconds for
the 13.1-mile course that
started in the industrial park
and headed north of town
out Pine Street and as far as
Stevens Canyon.
Dustin Mangus of
Corvallis came through in
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Runners braved chilly, damp conditions for the Sisters Hop Fest Half-
Marathon and 5k.
second place (1:25:54) and
Jason Severson finished third
(1:35:06).
Lori Lacks of Bend fin-
ished first among women,
in sixth place overall with a
time of 1:49:05. Annie Winter
of Sisters placed second
(1:57:26) and Lisa Dewitt of
Bend was third in 1:59:07.
A total of 31 runners com-
pleted the inaugural course,
including Nili Magee, Lucie
Pronold and Shannon Beutler
of Sisters.
An additional 17 people
took part in the 5-kilometer
event, won by Justin Coates
in a time of 22:13.
The race took place in
conjunction with the 10th
annual Sisters Fresh Hop
Festival held at the Three
Creeks Brewing property in
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Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituaries ...................... 6-7 Announcements ................12 Sisters Salutes ................ 24 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Sisters Naturalist ............ 10 Entertainment ..................13 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32