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Wednesday, October 9, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Temporary ban on some vaping products in Ore. AUTHOR: Dinner offers chance to break bread with writers Continued from page 3 writers before me, anyone who was rooted to a particu- lar ground,= he said. <When asked why he wrote specifi- cally of Dublin, James Joyce said, 8because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world.9 It9s what Eudora Welty meant by, 8One place understood helps us to under- stand all places better.9 <At the end of the day, as an artist, you9re trying to do two things: elicit some sort of emotional response and illuminate some aspect of the human condition. As humans, for all the time we spend try- ing to search out our differ- ences, I9m constantly struck and awed by how similar the experiences are that hold us together.= Lane Jacobson, owner of Paulina Springs Books in Sisters and an organizer of the Sisters Festival of Books, became friends with Joy when he managed an independent bookstore in North Carolina. <Anyone who knows or follows me understands that I9m a huge advocate of inde- pendent bookstores and the booksellers who make those places something so special,= Joy told The Nugget. <So there9s one in Chapel Hill, North Carolina called Flyleaf that I9ve visited on every book tour. During that time, I9ve gotten to know and love a lot of those booksellers. One in particular, though, became a good friend and that9s Lane Jacobsen. Unfortunately the Old North State has lost one of its greatest booksellers to Oregon, but lucky for y9all he9s running one of your local Indies now. When he told me he was leaving we made a plan to get me out there. Somehow or another, he found a way to make it happen and I9m overwhelmingly grateful.= As the blog Hillbilly Highways points out, Joy9s <The Line That Held Us= is a book about choices. The choice that Darl makes to 19 By Andrew Selsky Associated Press PHOTO BY ASHLEY T. EVANS David Joy’s Appalachian noir has won him international acclaim. He will be featured at the Sisters Festival of Books on October 19. hunt on private land while the owner is out of town. The choice he makes to shoot at what he thinks is a feral hog. The choice he makes to pull his best friend Calvin into things when he discovers that it was a person, not a hog, he shot. The choices that man9s brother, Dwayne, makes in reaction to his brother9s killing&= Those choices are doom- laden and feel inexorable. The propulsive nature of Joy9s storytelling and the compul- sive actions of his characters reflect the compulsion Joy feels as a creator. <Honestly, I feel like that compulsion is absolutely inexplicable. I don9t know why stories come to me,= he said. <Maybe it9s a desire to better understand the world, to feel out what it means to be human. What I do know is that it9s an inignorable feel- ing. It feels almost terminal, like if I don9t get the words out then it9ll be the end of me.= Joy9s passion for his writ- ing is matched by a pas- sion for rugged landscapes and fly-fishing waters. He is the author of the mem- oir <Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman9s Journey.= The Nugget asked if he was going to get some fishing in during his trip to Sisters Country, and he replied: <Well, by god, if some- body will take me! At the very least I9d love someone to take me out in the woods and show me the landscape. That9s my greatest joy.= David Joy is one of six featured authors who will attend an author9s dinner on Saturday, October 19 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The three- course meal prepared by Depot Café will be served at Paulina Springs Books and will feature dining with six of the festival9s authors 4 Joy, Kim Stafford, Joe Wilkins, Kelli Estes, Meaghan O9C o n n ell an d M eg an Griswold. There are a few $100 tickets still available for that event, which includes the choice of one book from one of the authors. Tickets and more informa- tion about the Sisters Festival of Books are available at www.sistersfob.com CHECK OUT THIS WEEK’S NUGGET INSERTS! Bi-Mart Hideaway Expedition Pack Frame $49.97 Snack Size Bagged Candy Regular $3.79, now $2.99 each! Ball & Kerr Canning Jars 25% off! Ray’s Food Place 6 pk. Coca-Cola Beverages 2 for $5 Healthy Choice Canned Soup (selected) 15 oz. $1.99 Fresh Green Asparagus $2.49 per lb. SALEM (AP) 4 Oregon9s governor ordered a temporary ban Friday on the sale of fla- vored vaping products amid an outbreak that has sick- ened more than 1,000 people nationwide4and killed two in Oregon. Several other states, including Washington, New York, Michigan and Rhode Island, have also imposed temporary bans. The illnesses first appeared in March, with symptoms including short- ness of breath, fatigue and chest pain. Most who got sick said they vaped products con- taining THC, the marijuana ingredient that causes a high, but some said they vaped only nicotine. Gov. Kate Brown9s order imposes a 180-day ban on all flavored vaping products and on the sale of other sources or additives as they are identi- fied in cases of vaping-related lung injuries or deaths. <The safest option for Oregonians right now is to not use vaping products of any kind. Until we know more about what is causing this illness, please, do not vape,= Brown said. The Oregon Health Authority had asked Brown for a six-month ban on sale and display of all vaping products, including tobacco, nicotine and cannabis. The agency also urged Oregonians to stop using all vaping prod- ucts until federal and state officials have determined the cause of the illnesses. The Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association said it was very grateful the gover- nor did not implement a com- plete ban on cannabis vaping products, like Massachusetts did. The group told its mem- bers that technical questions and issues need to be worked out and that it will try to <ensure the government acts responsibly and makes evi- denced-based decisions that do not needlessly harm the legal cannabis industry.= Brown also called on state agencies to develop plans within 90 days for consumer warnings, product testing, and disclosure of the ingre- dients of vaping products. Brown also directed state agencies to develop propos- als for long-term solutions for consideration by the Legislature, which convenes early next year.