Wednesday, December 25, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon C O M M U N I T 3 Y Burglary suspect nabbed in Sisters A 26-year-old man was arrested Wednesday night after he allegedly broke into an occupied residence in Sisters. According to the Deschutes County Sheriff9s Office, at about 8:07 p.m., law enforcement was dispatched to a report of a burglary in progress near the 1600 block of Perit Huntington Road at the east end of town. A deputy arrived and spotted a man walking in between two houses in the neighborhood. The man was identified as 26-year old Stephen Calhoun of Redmond. He was alleg- edly intoxicated, and the dep- uty detained him. Additional deputies responded to the residence, along with assistance from the Black Butte Police Department and the Oregon State Police. Law enforce- ment personnel surrounded the home and all the residents of the home were evacuated. The homeowners believed there was still someone in the residence as law enforcement arrived. PHOTO BY JODI SCHNEIDER Brenda Simpson, senior product development lead from Lonza Pharma & Biotech (formerly Bend Research), poses with Inventerprise winners from Sisters Christian Academy. See SUSPECT on page 10 Students earn Inventerprise awards Sisters charity provides Christmas to 3,200 kids Sisters charity World9s Children is providing Christmas to 3,200 children on December 25. All of the children live in orphan- ages in India, Ethiopia and Guatemala. Each year World9s Children collects funds for Christmas through- out the year and then wires whatever money it has col- lected to each of 29 orphan- ages, with a combined 3,200 kids. Every child gets one gift, typically a new arti- cle of clothing, and a Christmas feast is cooked. Christmas dinner in the India orphanages doesn9t include turkey or ham, as it would in the U.S., but is comprised of rice and a special curry sauce. This year several donors did something for the chil- dren that had never been done before. One man in California had 700 greeting cards made with a picture of Santa and Mrs. Claus on the front. He hand-wrote a personal mes- sage on each card as though from Santa. All the chil- dren in five orphanages will receive a card on Christmas morning. See CHIRSTMAS on page 10 By Jodi Schneider Correspondent Students at Sisters Christian Academy earned awards for their proposals on how to clean the oceans as part of the 28th annual Inventerprise Science Contest Challenge. Brenda Simpson, senior product development lead from Lonza Pharma & Biotech, presented awards to six students at Sisters Christian Academy. The contest is sponsored by Bend Research, which is now a part of Lonza Pharma & Biotech, with support from Bend-La Pine Schools, Central Oregon Community College and the Riverhouse on the Deschutes. Central Oregon students had the opportunity to address the crisis created by the mas- sive accumulation of dis- carded plastic based on this year9s competition problem statement: