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22 Wednesday, April 1, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon MASKS: Freshly laundered masks were delivered on Saturday Continued from page 1 online video instruction was provided. Their labor produced 390 masks as of noon on the fifth day, which fell last Friday. On Saturday, they delivered 350 freshly laundered masks to The Lodge in Sisters, a senior living facility. This week, 30 will go to the office of Dr. May Fan in Sisters. Ten will be delivered to Our House, an adult foster home in Sisters. Medical profes- sionals at all three facilities will use the masks to help protect patients, staff, and residents. Shepherd noted, <When we started, few healthcare providers in the region were formally encouraging pro- duction of homemade masks. That quickly changed. Now, healthcare providers like the St. Charles Health System have published preferred designs. In the space of the same week in which we built the 5 Day/500 Mask network, vigorous self-organizing Forest Service halts prescribed burning The Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and Crooked River National Grassland have announced that all prescribed fire igni- tions have been postponed until further notice. <In consideration of the seriousness of the COVID- 19 pandemic locally and in our region, all burning will be suspended at this time,= said Kassidy Kern, USFS Public Affairs Specialist. <The safety and health of our communi- ties are our highest priority. Potential smoke impacts to the public are considered in all prescribed fire and wild- fire management. <This decision to tem- porarily postpone ignitions will prevent any effects from smoke that might further worsen conditions for those who are at risk in our com- munities, while reducing exposure for employees who might not otherwise need to travel, and creating social dis- tancing for resources working on a fire.= Keep up with prescribed burns in Central Oregon by visiting: www.centraloregon fire.org. regional networks supporting home-based production have blossomed, mostly through social media.= It is important to note that do-it-yourself masks made from home will not replace the heavy-duty, N95 surgical masks. The all-cotton masks created by Shepherd and his team will be given to health- care providers. They won9t be made for patients or as preventive measures for the general public. Age Friendly Sisters Country (AFSC), a non- profit organization that responds to the needs of the aging population by improv- ing services for all, helped the mask-making initiative by getting the word out to Sisters Country. Board member John Griffith told The Nugget, <Lots of community vol- unteers have been making masks both for St. Charles via the Central Oregon Emergency Mask Makers, and through Pete Shepherd9s callout to Sisters to make 500 masks.= East of the Cascade Quilters Guild also put the word out that masks were needed. Diane Tolzman said, <Gilda Hunt and I are the co- leaders of the guild and our goal is to provide informa- tion to our members on the different opportunities avail- able for them to make a dif- ference in our community by making fabric masks.= The guild has 60 active members and over 20 of them, along with their fam- ily and friends, have made over 300 masks that were donated to several different groups: Partners in Care, provides home health and hospice services; St. Charles Health System; Central Oregon Emergency Mask Makers, distributes masks to local medical organizations; Harmony Farm Sanctuary for the volunteers who care for the animals; and Shepherd9s group, the 5 day/500 Mask Challenge. Valori Wells, co-owner of The Stitchin9 Post, donated fabric to Central Oregon Emergency Mask Makers. Tolzman added, <With the shelter-in directive we are not able to meet as a guild, so this is a perfect way to share our passion with others as a group. 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