The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 46
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Schools focus on honor for veterans
By T. Lee Brown
Correspondent
On the Friday before the
holiday weekend, veterans
were honored at an assem-
bly presented by Sisters
Elementary School (SES).
The respectful, educational,
and emotionally moving
assembly was professional in
its presentation and sincere in
its gratitude.
<I9ve never been more
honored as a veteran than
here,= David Vaux said of
Sisters.
He moved here a little
over a year ago, shortly
before the SES Veterans
Assembly of that year. He
enjoyed it greatly.
<And then I spent three
hours crying,= he said.
SES Principal Joan
Warburg thanked service
members for giving of their
lives and time.
<We don9t take that
lightly,= she said.
Then the school9s music
teacher, Sara Miller, took
the stage, leading students,
veterans, and others in the
audience in the Pledge of
Allegiance and singing the
<Star Spangled Banner.=
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PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Sisters Elementary School staff and students welcomed veterans for a special celebration on November 8.
A slideshow celebrated
veterans who are related
to SES students, with pho-
tos submitted by fami-
lies. Andres Nieto, Andy
Levesque, William Dixon III,
Brian Hale, Reese Miller and
many others: each service
member9s photo was shown,
along with information about
their service and which stu-
dents they were related to.
Kids sang, <We are proud
of our veterans 4 proud of
you all. You are patriots and
heroes who answered the
call.= As they sang, <Thank
you, thank you,= fourth-grade
leadership students turned
and sang to the seated veter-
ans, and also used the sign
language for <thanks.=
See VETERANS on page 28
A neighbor in the
Crossroads subdivision a few
miles west of Sisters noticed
smoke rising from debris near
a house on Graham Court last
Sunday morning. As the fire
began to consume a fence, he
reported the fire to Tim Craig,
deputy chief of Sisters-Camp
Sherman Fire District.
Two fire trucks and a
smaller emergency vehicle
could be seen at the site, along
with at least four personnel.
They subdued the fire with
apparent ease.
<In this case I wasn9t wor-
ried about evacuating the
neighborhood or anything;
there wasn9t a wind up 4
but that9s not to say a small
fire can9t take out one or two
houses,= said Craig.
See FIRE on page 30
Sisters Fire crew travels Two Outlaws are state champions
across the pond
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
By Ceili Cornelius
Correspondent
Sisters-Camp Sherman
RFPD EMT firefighters Pat
Burke and Damon Frutos just
returned from an exchange
program with Hampshire
County Fire and Rescue in
southern England.
Hampshire County is one
of the most densely popu-
lated areas in the world.
This urban landscape and
area were new for Burke and
Frutos because they were
both trained and work in
rural environments.
Burke, engineer medic
with SCSRFPD, went on
the exchange for the experi-
ence and to learn more about
rescue and firefighting. The
Inside...
exchange program started
in 2015 as a way to share
cross-organizational knowl-
edge. The exchange with
the two departments started
with a conversation between
the Hampshire Fire Chief
and Station Manager David
Hodge and Sisters Fire Chief
Roger Johnson at a confer-
ence in Portland five years
ago. They found the con-
versations they were having
about the different types of
firefighting in different areas
to be very beneficial. They
thought it would be inter-
esting to actually have the
two sets of fire lines do an
exchange.
The program is in its
See EXCHANGE on page 22
The OSAA Cross Country
State Championships turned
out to be historic for Sisters
High School runners Ella
Thorsett and John Peckham
4 and for the boys9 team.
Before the day was done
the Outlaws had two indi-
vidual champions and a sec-
ond-place team trophy for the
boys team.
No Outlaws runner had
ever claimed the individ-
ual title in cross-country,
but freshman Ella Thorsett
changed that with a record-
PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG
breaking run in a blistering Ella Thorsett turned in a blistering time to earn the Outlaws first individual
time of 17:43.
state title in cross country.
About an hour later, John
Peckham became the second could happen that we end up
Peckham entered the meet
Outlaw to complete the feat. with two individual champi- as the favorite, but Thorsett9s
<Amazing,= said Coach ons, but the way they did it
Josh Nordell. <We knew it was truly amazing.=
See CHAMPS on page 20
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