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Wednesday, October 2, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Share your historic treasures in Sisters By Sue Stafford Correspondent The Three Sisters Historical Society (TSHS) office, located at 204 W. Adams Ave. #117 (Sisters Art Works Building), will be <history central= on Saturday, October 5, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. TSHS invites the pub- lic to bring their old photos of Sisters and its residents, Sisters-related artifacts and memorabilia, and stories of historic Sisters to their Sharing Day this Saturday. One such donation recently received was a set of three branding irons... Photos, news clippings, and other paper items will be scanned and returned to owners immediately. If there are too many to scan in an hour, appointments can be made for a later date. Artifacts and other items will be photographed by Cliff Edgington, descendant of early Sisters settlers. Stories will be recorded for later transcription. There will also be a genealogy help desk for those working on their family trees and history. For items too large or frag- ile to move, arrangements can be made for representatives of the historical society to come to where they are located. If October 5 is not convenient, an appointment can be made for another time. To make special arrangements or an appointment call Karen at 415-637-7186. The digital copies of pho- tographs and printed materi- als, as well as Sisters-related objects, will be catalogued into the TSHS database and shared (if agreed) in the soci- ety9s future online virtual museum. Outright donations will also be accepted but will be stored until TSHS can dis- play them properly. One such donation recently received was a set of three branding irons that were used for marking cattle at the Lazy Z Ranch in earlier days. The three sizes were for calves, yearlings and heif- ers and bulls. The irons were donated by Asa DeForest of Sisters. His grandparents, John and Leona Albert, lived on the ranch for 25 years, where John was the ranch 15 Oregon could consider temporary vape ban PHOTO PROVIDED Set of branding irons, donated by Asa DeForest to the Three Sisters Historical Society, were used by his grandfather, John Albert, ranch foreman on the Lazy Z Ranch for 25 years. The largest Z was for heifers and bulls, the middle size for yearlings, and the smallest for newborn calves. foreman when it was a work- office on Saturday will be ing cattle ranch. They lived in able to peruse the books and the now-green house located family files in the office. The on the south side of Highway Board hopes to welcome a 20, between the Sisters Movie big crowd of visitors who House and the old barn. want to help bring Sisters9 Visitors to the TSHS history alive. SALEM, Ore. (AP) 4 State health officials have told Gov. Kate Brown that banning vape sales for half a year could help stem the vap- ing-related illness crisis that has killed two Oregonians and sickened at least two. The Oregonian/ OregonLive reports the <mor- atorium= would bar sales of nicotine, tobacco and can- nabis vape products, both in brick-and-mortar stores and online. The proposal was one of six the Oregon Health Authority submitted to Brown Friday after she demanded a list of ideas from the agency Thursday. The agency said that officials could also make it easier to get help quitting nicotine and launching an education campaign aimed at getting people to not vape. The agency also proposed asking the federal government to regulate vaping products, and asking doctors to keep reporting potential cases.
