The Nugge
Nugget
Vol. XLIII No. 10
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Families
celebrate
Screen-
Free Week
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ECRWSS
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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