Volleyball squad names
six all-leaguers page 7
ASPIRE mentors help
students navigate future page 8
My feathered foster
son, Part II page 15
The Nugget
Vol. XLII No. 47
Major
project
planned in
Sisters
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
“Freaky Friday”...
Sisters
continues
growth
spurt
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
A complete applica-
tion for a Master Planned
Development (MP#19-01) has
been received by the City from
Threewind Partners regard-
ing property located behind
and beside Bi-Mart, between
McKinney Butte Road and
West Hood Avenue.
The development, on 7.48
acres, will include approxi-
mately 50 multi-family units,
28,000 square feet of com-
mercial area, and supporting
site infrastructure. The appli-
cation has been forwarded to
PRE-SORTED STANDARD
ECRWSS
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
Sisters, OR
Permit No. 15
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
The Sisters High School choir and band programs staged the musical “Freaky Friday” last weekend, to an
enthusiastic response from good houses. (See story, page 11.)
See PROJECT on page 30
The city of Sisters contin-
ues to grow at a very rapid
pace, according to statistics
released last week by Portland
State University. Sisters9 pop-
ulation as of July 1 stood at
2,985 4 up from a revised
2018 number of 2,725, a 9.5
percent increase.
Brendon Buckley of
Johnson Economics told the
Sisters Planning Commission
last February, <You are grow-
ing very fast and changing
fast, and I know I don9t need
to tell you that.”
Buckley reported in that
February meeting on the draft
results of his firm9s Housing
See GROWTH on page 20
Sisters man found
after missing alert
Honoring stalwarts of the trails
Jim Fisher of Sisters
was located safe at approxi-
mately 6 a.m. on Saturday,
November 16, in the Sisters
area after authorities put out
a bulletin that he had gone
missing.
Fisher, age 89, was
believed to have left his resi-
dence on North Songbird
Street on foot, sometime
after 10 p.m. on November
15. Local people and authori-
ties raised concerns due
to his age and the fact that
Fisher is known to have
hearing loss and memory
issues.
Fisher contacted a resi-
dent in the 16000 block of
Perit Huntington Road in
Sisters Trails Alliance
Board Chair Catherine
Hayden told two of STA9s
most valued board members
to “Take A Hike” last week.
In STA9s world, that phrase
carries a very different mean-
ing than it does in everyday
slang: It9s an invocation to go
forth and enjoy the fruits of
many years of labor.
Gary Guttormsen, Chuck
H u m p h r e y s a n d G r e g
Vandehey were feted during
PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS
STA9s Toast the Trails event STA board chair Catherine Hayden honored Gary Guttormsen and Chuck
at Cork Cellars on Tuesday, Humphreys for stellar service as they step off the board of directors.
November 12, as the orga-
nization celebrated their Country. The trio is stepping Vandehey9s work as secretary
extraordinary efforts to build, down from the STA Board of of the organization, noting
maintain and enhance a net- Directors.
work of trails across Sisters
H a y d e n p r a i s e d
See TRAILS on page 24
Inside...
Sisters and sought shelter
from the temperatures. The
resident immediately con-
tacted Deschutes County
911. Deschutes County
Sheriff 9s Office depu-
ties responded and verified
that the subject was Fisher
and he was transported by
EMS to the hospital for
evaluation.
Fisher is well-known in
Sisters. His career was with
the Oregon Department
of Forestry, and he served
for several years in the
1990s as manager of the
Sisters Area Chamber of
Commerce. He also served
as a freelance writer for The
Nugget.
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Announcements ................12 Sisters Naturalist ..............15 Gift Card Directory ............21 Classifieds .................. 27-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Entertainment ..................13 Happy Thanksgiving ..... 16-17 Crossword ....................... 26 Real Estate .................29-32