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The Nugge Nugget Vol. XLIII No. 10 P OSTAL CUSTOMER News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon www.NuggetNews.com Families celebrate Screen- Free Week PRE-SORTED STANDARD ECRWSS U.S. POSTAGE PAID Sisters, OR Permit No. 15 Wednesday, March 4, 2020 Contract will give Sisters more deputies Heavy lifting... By T. Lee Brown By Jim Cornelius Correspondent Sisters Elementary School invited students and their fam- ilies to put down their digital devices and turn off the TV for a week. Screen-free bingo cards went home, offering a plethora of activity ideas: hik- ing, baking, and playing board games among them. To cap it off, Hoodoo Ski Bowl gave families a coupon for steeply discounted lift tickets and rentals for Friday-night fun. Classrooms with good suc- cess on their bingo cards could collectively earn rewards. <I9m doing it for the extra recess,= explained fourth- grader Bennitt Hayes, five days into the experiment. He found it difficult to step away from his X-Box video gaming console. Editor in Chief More deputies will patrol Sisters in coming years under a contract that is currently awaiting approval by the Sisters City Council. In a workshop on Wednesday evening, February 26, council members weighed two contract options 4 one that would provide for a dedi- cated Sisters lieutenant and four deputies and one that would provide for a lieuten- ant and three deputies. The consensus was to go with the three-deputy option for a total annual contract cost of $771,200. The current con- tract costs the City of Sisters $661,000. Going with four deputies would boost the cost to $852,300. PHOTO BY JIM CORNELIUS Construction is well underway on a project on Cascade Avenue. Pacwest Builders have designed the new hotel and taproom on the site of the original Ski Inn, where the building was removed after a giant ponderosa pine fell on it in a windstorm in 2013. See SCREEN FREE on page 16 See DEPUTIES on page 23 Durham named Woman of the Year Artist reveals 2020 Quilt Show poster By Jodi Schneider Correspondent Local artist Dan Rickards knows there9s something mag- ical about Sisters. This year9s poster, <My Kind of Town,= created by Rickards for the 45th Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show (SOQS) captures the essence of this charming town. <There are quite a few elements that need to come through in every poster,= Rickards told The Nugget. <The Sisters mountains, a quilt, and the theme involved that needs to be threaded in.= Rickards painted the majestic Three Sisters Mountains under a bright sun as the backdrop, included the town of Sisters, along with Inside... By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief one anonymous woman wear- ing a sun bonnet. <At first, I wasn9t sure if I should have someone in the painting. But I realized it9s the people in the town during the quilt show that are such a huge part of the show, not just the quilts going up,= Rickards said. <It9s the way the town transforms with all the people here. All the reunions that happen, the families, mothers, daughters and grandparents, the sisters, and friends that get together once a year. <I have filtered through one person in a way that rep- resents all the people. I almost painted a town of people, but that element remains for a See POSTER on page 22 Letters/Weather ...........................2 Meetings ......................................3 Jesse Durham, co-owner of Sisters Coffee Co., has earned recognition as Woman of the Year from the Bend Chamber of Commerce. The annual award cer- emony was held Friday eve- ning at the Eagle Mountain Event Center in Bend. Durham described the award as <a huge honor,= placing her among women who have a major impact in the life of Central Oregon. <I think the spirit of the award is just to recognize women who are advancing in leadership and have achieve- ments and are contributing to the Central Oregon commu- nity,= she told The Nugget. She said she was taken by surprise by actually winning Announcements .......................... 12 Entertainment ............................ 13 PHOTO PROVIDED Jesse Durham has been honored as Woman of the Year by Bend Chamber. She is pictured with her husband, Michael Kirsch, and mother, Joy Durham. the award. <They started introducing (the award) bio and I thought, 8That sounds like me. That9s me!9= Obituaries .................................. 15 Crossword .................................. 17 It9s the second signifi- cant award Durham has received in recent months. See DURHAM on page 22 Classifieds .............................18-20 Real Estate ............................ 21-24