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14 Wednesday, January 8, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Nugget adapts to printing changes HEAVY WINDS: Precipitation was below normal Sisters woman arrested after crash in Redmond Continued from page 1 After decades of print- ing on The Bulletin9s press in Bend, The Nugget is adapt- ing to changes. The Bulletin9s press shut down operations at the end of November. Plans are to shift to printing at the Central Oregonian in Prineville (which is also now printing The Bulletin). In the interim, The Nugget is printing in Wenatchee, Washington. In order to accommodate earlier press times and a six-hour shipping window, The Nugget is required to be especially strict in adher- ing to deadlines (see page 2). <Our goal is to maintain the level of quality our readers and advertisers have come to expect,= said Nugget Editor in Chief Jim Cornelius. <Web printing is a complicated pro- cess and there are not many facilities that do the work. It takes time and skill to get things right.= The Nugget is continuing to work with Northwest Web Press, the commercial printing arm of The Bulletin. <This has been a major transition for them, and we especially appreciate the work Holly Rouska has done to ensure that The Nugget gets into our readers9 hands on time and looking good,= Cornelius said. Recycling down in Oregon, advocates blame plastic By Erin Ross Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM (AP) 4 Oregon is not very good at recycling, and it9s getting worse, accord- ing to a new report. Overall recycling rates in the state have steadily declined for the last several years, even as the amount of waste generated per person in the state has grown. The report, published Thursday by the group Environment Oregon, uses data released yearly by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. It finds that Oregon faces major barriers to meeting its recycling goals. Nationally, recyclable plastics are being replaced with lower-value plastics. In Oregon, poly- styrene (the flaky, foam-like material used in single-use coffee cups) isn9t recyclable, and a proposal to ban it state- wide failed last year. This doesn9t mean that Oregonians aren9t passionate about recycling. The biggest barrier to recycling in Oregon is structural: less of the mate- rial placed in recycling bins can be repurposed by domes- tic facilities, and export- ing recyclables to countries like China has become more difficult. <The bottom line is, we need to take more of these products out of the waste stream,= Celeste Meiffren- Swango, the state director of Environment Oregon, said. It9s not just an Oregon problem, it9s a national 4 even global 4 issue. For years, recycling in the United States has relied on Asian countries to take our waste. Many countries, finding that arrangement unprofitable, have started incinerating the recycling, dumping it in landfills, or simply stopped accepting recyclables from the United States altogether. the low temperature below 32 degrees. There were three days when the high tem- perature stayed below 32 degrees. Precipitation totaled 1.80 inches during December, which was 0.17 inches below normal. Measurable precipi- tation 4 at least .01 inch 4 was received on 10 days with the heaviest, 0.90 inches, reported on December 13. Precipitation in 2019 totaled 14.86 inches, which is 1.33 inches above normal. Since October, the water- year precipitation at Sisters has been 3.71 inches, which is 1.17 inches below normal. Snowfall totaled 1.5 inches with at least one inch of snow reported on 1 day. The heaviest snowfall was 1.5 inches reported on December 1. The outlook for January from NOAA9s Climate Prediction Center calls for below-normal tempera- tures and near-normal pre- cipitation. Normal highs for Sisters during January are 40.6 degrees and normal lows are 22.8 degrees. The 30-year normal precipitation is 1.89 inches. A Sisters woman was arrested for DUII and reck- less driving after a crash in downtown Redmond that damaged several vehicles. O n F r i d a y, J a n u a r y 3, shortly after 3 p.m., Redmond Police officers and Redmond Fire & Rescue per- sonnel responded to a multi- vehicle crash at the intersec- tion of SW 6th Street and SW Cascade Avenue in down- town Redmond. According to Redmond Police reports, a Toyota 4Runner side-swiped a parked Ford pickup on NW 6th Street near NW Greenwood Avenue and then continued driving south. The 4Runner entered downtown Redmond, a 20-mph zone, at speeds reported to be close to 50 mph. The sidewalks were filled with afternoon shop- pers and diners, with much of the on-street parking spaces occupied. Police report that the 4Runner swerved to the left and rear-ended a parked GMC Terrain. 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