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The Nugget
Vol. XLIII No. 5
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Cub Scouts revel in Pinewood Derby
By Chloe Gold
Correspondent
The racing action was hot Friday
night at Sisters Community Church,
as Cub Scout Den 139 and friends
and family gathered in the fireside
room for their annual Pinewood
Derby and potluck.
A few weeks prior, each scout
had been tasked with designing and
building their own derby car4with
a few requirements. Each derby car
had to weigh less than five ounces
and be built mainly by the scout it
belonged to. In reward for all their
hard work, each scout received a
medal, and could also win a trophy
for best design or fastest car.
The excitement from the scouts
was evident as they played with their
derby cars and their friends while
watching the official timer, Steve
Hunt, finish setting up his track
system and timer in the church9s
Fireside Room.
Hunt said the four-lane ramp the
scouts would use was about <33 feet,
give or take a foot or two.=
It wasn9t just the scouts who were
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Permit No. 15
Project
to require
cutting
trees
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
The robust Cub Scout Pack
139 staged a lively Pinewood
Derby in the Sisters Community
Church Fireside Room.
See SCOUTS on page 31
Some 500 trees will need
to come down to clear an
existing power-line corridor
in Camp Sherman.
A proposed project in
the recreational area west of
Sisters will establish a 20-foot-
wide corridor and upgrade
131 poles along 13 miles of
Central Electric Cooperative
power line right-of-way across
National Forest land.
The project will, in part,
mitigate against the dan-
ger of the kind of fire that
occurred in November 2018
in Paradise, California, when
high winds caused PG&E
power lines to malfunction,
See TREE CUTTING on page 24
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Public hearing set
on major project
New planner in place at City Hall
S i s t e r s c i t i z e n s c a n
weigh in on a major devel-
opment project slated for
the west side of town on
Thursday, February 20,
at 5:30 p.m. at Sisters
City Hall.
The Sisters planning com-
mission will hold a hearing
on the master plan for up to
50 multi-family units cover-
ing approximately 26,800
square feet of building area
and approximately 26,800
square feet of commercial
space and supporting infra-
structure behind the cur-
rent Three Winds Shopping
Center.
The proposed Dollar
General store between
McKinney Butte Road
and Bi-Mart is not part of
Nicole Mardell, the City9s
new principal planner who
joined the staff in December,
became familiar with Sisters
as a facilitator for the Sisters
Country Horizons Vision
Project while she was a mem-
ber of the Deschutes County
Project Management Team.
<Through that process I
found a deep appreciation
for the community here, the
history that led to the Sisters
we see today, and the shared
goals for the future,= Mardell
said. <When the opportunity
arose (to apply for the plan-
ner position), it provided a
great alignment of my goals:
to work for a smaller city
where a planner9s duties have
a great deal of variety, while
also working for a city that I
Inside...
this MPD. The site plan
for that building and park-
ing lot is part of a separate
application.
Public oral or written
testimony is invited at the
hearing at 520 E. Cascade
Ave. A copy of the applica-
tion, all documents and evi-
dence submitted by or for
the applicant, and the appli-
cable criteria and standards
can be reviewed at Sisters
City Hall at no cost. Copies
are available. Files associ-
ated with the project can
be viewed by visiting the
Community Development
Department9s project web
page at www.ci.sisters.or.us/
community-development/
page/threewind-master-plan-
mp-19-01.
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
care for deeply.=
A g r a d u a t e o f t h e
University of Minnesota
with a Bachelor of Science
in Urban Studies, Mardell
previously worked for
Deschutes County in long-
range planning (policy) and
current planning (develop-
ment review). Prior to that,
she worked for St. Louis
Park, Minnesota, a suburb in
the Twin Cities area, where
she focused on safe routes to
school, active transportation
planning, and infill develop-
PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD
ment projects.
Mardell has always been Nicole Mardell is the most recent
interested in interdisciplin- addition to the City of Sisters
ary fields 4 areas where she planning staff.
could understand a bit about a family friend told me about
variety of other things with a the Urban Studies program at
bigger picture in mind.
the U of M, which was very
<I was initially interested small but had a dedicated
in working in the renew-
able energy field until a
See PLANNER on page 29
Letters/Weather ................ 2 Obituary ...........................11 Entertainment ..................13 Kids in Print ................ 22-23 Classifieds ..................26-28
Meetings ........................... 3 Announcements ................12 The Ranger’s Corner ......... 19 Crossword ....................... 25 Real Estate .................29-32
