Wednesday, March 4, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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And in learning to love the
simple and mundane tasks,
we gain the skills and the
patience necessary to under-
take bigger projects.
<Yes, follow your dreams.
Pursue your passions. But
expect hardship and bumps
in the road. Expect discour-
agement. Expect failure.
And, remember, it is not
the destination that counts,
TENNIS: Squad returns
ace player from
last season
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finished with a 13-6 record.
Click said, <Drew got
more and more aggressive
with his powerful forehand
as the year went along.=
Click noted that Petterson
played basketball in the win-
ter, and Mayes and Bates
went to State in swimming,
but they all love tennis and
find a way to get outside and
work on their tennis game
when the weather permits.
Senior Colton Seymour
returns for a third year on
the varsity squad. Colton
was the Outlaws utility man
last year. He played doubles
with four different partners
and won four of five singles
matches.
<Colton has a great calm
about him that helps lead
any doubles partner he plays
with, and he never gets rat-
tled when he9s out there in a
singles match on his own,=
said Click.
Junior KJ Sweet also
returns for his third season
with the team.
<KJ had never played ten-
nis when he started with us
as a freshman and had a long
way to go, but he9s earned
two varsity letters and plays
a lot with family in the off
season to keep improving,=
said Click.
Four new players joined
the team this year: senior
Gator Haken, sophomore
Jaxson Berry, freshman
Matthew Riehle, and soph-
omore Ty Cross, a trans-
fer from Crook County.
Cross played tennis for the
Cowboys as a freshman,
but the other three players
are all new to tennis and
are giving it a try for the
first time.
<That9s the great thing
about tennis at Sisters
High School,= said Click.
<Everybody makes the team.
It9s a simple enough game
that newcomers learn and
but the journey. It is not the
finished product that is the
true reward, but the making
of it.=
Eli reminds himself often
that, <it is far too easy to wish
for the end of a hard season,
when it is the experiencing
of every moment within that
season which is the gold, and
which cultivates the char-
acter to handle the bigger
dreams.=
A link to the teaser trailer
for <The Far Green Country
2: At Road9s End= may be
found with the online version
of this story at www.nugget
news.com.
improve quickly, and every-
one will contribute to varsity
success.=
Currently, the Outlaws
have 11 players on their ros-
ter. They are hoping for a few
more as they need 12 players
to field a full varsity match.
The Outlaws will open
their season with a match at
home against Ridgeview on
Monday, March 16.
Obituary
Allen Lee Lompa
May 16, 1930 – February 21, 2020
Allen Lee Lompa, <Big
Al,= was a devoted husband,
father, brother, grandpa, uncle
and friend. He died peace-
fully in his sleep three months
before his 90th birthday while
in the compassionate care of
the Hospice House staff at
Partners In Care, Bend.
Al was born and raised in
Hollister, California, to Mary
and Emile <Snake= Lompa.
He met the love of his life in
1952, Bonnie Rae Brooks,
and they married on March
1, 1952. They raised their
three sons, Bob <Tony,= Dave
and Steve in the Santa Cruz
area. He enjoyed watching
his San Francisco Giants and
949ers and fishing for salmon
in the Monterey Bay. A hard
worker all is life, retirement
allowed Bonnie and Al to do
what they loved 4 travel!
Not only did they spend many
summers fifth-wheel camping
in the Camp Sherman/Sisters
area, they also, to name a
few places, floated through
the Panama Canal, slept in
a thatched roof hut in Costa
Rica, and enjoyed many visits
to Branson, listening to music
legends.
Relocating to Central
Oregon 17 years ago, Al and
Bonnie have resided at the
Bend <docked cruise ship,=
Whispering Winds, for the
last 5 years. It is there that Al
enjoyed the company of many
close friends, skiing and dog
sled rides at Mt. Bachelor,
and B-I-N-G-O!
He leaves behind his lov-
ing wife, Bonnie; their three
sons Tony (Katie) of Sisters,
Dave (Julia) of Soquel,
California and Steven (Juliet)
of Walnut Creek, California;
and three grandchildren,
Emaly, Charley and Kendall.
He is proceeded in death by
his parents, Mary and Snake,
and his sister, Barbara.
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