The Nugget
Vol. XLIII No. 4
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Shootout!...
District
to tighten
policies on
coaching
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Permit No. 15
Sisters
history
and art on
display
By Jim Cornelius
By Helen Schmidling
Editor in Chief
Correspondent
B r i t t a n y a n d To m
Niebergall continue to coach
varsity girls basketball at
Sisters High School, and the
District will revise its hiring
protocols and coaching prac-
tices and policies in an effort
to ensure that all student ath-
letes have a positive experi-
ence in their sports.
Those were the out-
comes of a five-hour hear-
ing before the Sisters School
Board on Thursday, January
16, addressing an investiga-
tion into concerns of several
Sisters parents regarding
coaching in the Sisters High
School girls basketball pro-
gram. The investigation was
conducted in response to a
It9s not the New Hampshire
Primary, or even the Iowa
Caucus, but voters in Sisters
Country are heading to the
little ballot box in the Sisters
Library. Voting ends on
Friday, January 24. The results
will determine this year9s
People9s Choice Awards at the
library9s Annual Art Exhibit,
sponsored by the Friends of
Sisters Library. Results will be
announced during a reception
in the library from 6 to 7:30
p.m., with hors d9oeuvres and
beverages, coinciding with
the Sisters Arts Association9s
Fourth Friday Artwalk.
Across town, the Artwalk
starts at 4 p.m., so folks will
have plenty of time to look
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Reese Moore drives for Outlaws 5th grade boys during Sisters Shootout. The annual event offers fun and
competition for youth basketball players from across the region.
See COACHING on page 26
See HISTORY on page 24
Sisters has a new Eagle Scout
Remembering Sisters
woman at sentencing
By Jim Cornelius
Editor-in-Chief
Judge Wells Ashby told
a packed and solemn court-
room on Tuesday, January 14,
that no sentence can <prop-
erly honor Jenny Cashwell
or square the ledger on her
death.=
Alan Peter Porciello, 37,
shot and killed Cashwell after
a date on January 12, 2019,
in his apartment in Bend.
Porciello pleaded guilty to
second-degree manslaughter
in the killing, which occurred
when, as he told police, he
was <being facetious, acting
like I was going to shoot her,
and accidentally did.=
On January 14, the
judge sentenced Porciello
to nine years in prison with
12 months of post-prison
Inside...
By Jim Anderson
Correspondent
supervision. Any firearms and
ammunition that he possessed
are to be forfeited and he is to
have no weapons of any kind
after release.
In a statement to the
court, Porciello said, <I take
100 percent responsibility,
because I broke the cardinal
rule of gun (handling)& I am
so very sorry, from the bottom
of my heart.=
Family and friends of
Cashwell did not speak at
the sentencing hearing 4 but
many people in the Sisters
community wrote letters to
Judge Ashby describing the
impact Cashwell had on their
lives. The judge told Deputy
District Attorney Dan Reesor
that he had read <every
single one.=
See CASHWELL on page 24
Letters/Weather .........................2
Meetings ....................................3
When an Eagle Scout can-
didate gets it into his head
that he wants to do a com-
munity project, get out of his
way 4 or be prepared to give
him a hand.
Austen Heuberger, a
Sisters High School junior
member of Boy Scout Troop
188 was hiking around on
the common area of Junipine
Acres where he lives when
he thought, <Gee whiz,
there9s no information about
the boundaries of the prop-
erty, places for wildlife
viewing, seasonal closures or
historical notes around here.
I wonder if the residents of
Junipine would like to have
some kiosks along here and
make this a trail&=
He consulted with
Gretchen Matos who, in part-
nership with her husband,
Announcements ........................ 10
Entertainment ...........................11
PHOTO BY ERIC LIDDELL
Austen Heuberger standing next to one of the three kiosks he built and
installed on Junipine Acres common areas for his Eagle Scout project.
Gary, are part of the Common
Area Committee of Junipine
Acres, and they lit upon an
idea to create an informational
kiosk, and away they went.
<When we moved to
Focus on Health ...................13-20
Crossword ................................ 27
Junipine Acres (north of
Sisters) we knew we had
found a special place. Land,
beautiful ponderosa pines
See EAGLE SCOUT on page 25
Classifieds .......................... 28-30
Real Estate ......................... 30-32