Wednesday, April 15, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
TOUR: Garden club has
historically used event
funds to award grants
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which have helped beautify
our town while enhancing
our natural surroundings and
educating our children about
the importance of the natural
world.
The garden tour was the
brainchild of Sisters Outdoor
Quilt Show founder Jean
Wells Keenan in 1998, when
she approached the garden
club about offering gar-
den tours to the participants
enrolled in her Quilters¾
Affair classes during Quilt
Show Week. Thus, was born
the original Annual Quilt
Show Garden Tour. That
initial effort raised $4,000
for the garden club which
promptly returned it to the
community.
From that day to this, the
money raised by the tour
has gone to support fulfill-
ing grant requests from local
nonprofits and schools that
are focused on gardening and
the natural world. Money
has been given in support
of the Sisters Elementary
School Garden Club and
greenhouse, middle and
high school greenhouses and
garden programs, Sisters
Community Garden, Sisters
Library landscaping, City
parks, Deschutes Land Trust,
Camp Caldera, Sisters Rotary
Club, Upper Deschutes
Watershed Council for work
with Sisters students, Barclay
Memorial Park, Central
Oregon Veterans Ranch, and
Seed-to-Table.
The tour provides a diver-
sion from classes and an
opportunity for visitors and
locals alike to experience
the homes and gardens in
the Sisters area, while admir-
ing more quilts belonging
to the garden club members
and the homeowners. Wells
Keenan was made a Lifetime
Member of the garden club
in appreciation of her help
and encouragement with the
tour. Her own garden has
been part of the tour several
times.
Homes were added to the
tour starting in 2000. Since
then, other features have
been incorporated such as
raffles for quilts and the sale
of yard art by local artists.
An additional stop on the
tour has been at the Sisters
Community Garden where
lunches prepared by garden
members have been available
for purchase to help fundrais-
ing for the garden. A three-
salad lunch has included
homemade bread or rolls
and desserts. Visitors are
invited to eat in the garden
while enjoying the view of
the mountains and the quilts
hanging on the garden fence.
Last year, 195 lunches were
gone in an hour-and-a-half.
With no garden tour this
year, the community garden
will not be offering their
lunch.
Doctor seeks dog from biting incident
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
The doctor treating the
man who was bitten by a
loose dog on the Peterson
Ridge Trail at the south end
of Sisters on March 25, is
hoping the owner of the dog
comes forward.
Without knowing the his-
tory of the dog, the victim is
left with worries about pos-
sible disease.
Dr. Eric Wattenburg told
The Nugget last weekend that,
while the possibility of rabies
is remote, it is a looming con-
cern as long as the status of
the dog involved remains in
question.
Dr. Wattenburg said that
in cases where a dog who
has bitten a person is identi-
fied, it can be quarantined for
a period of 10 days and its
behavior observed to warn of
any sign of rabies.
“Or,” he said, “if you have
evidence that the dog¾s been
vaccinated, it¾s pretty much
case closed.”
With the dog¾s identity
and status unknown, the bite
victim is faced with a deci-
sion whether to pursue treat-
ment on a preventative basis.
And that treatment is unpleas-
ant and expensive.
<It¾s thousands of dol-
lars, risky injections,”
Dr. Wattenburg said. <It¾s
taser-type device and pointed
it at him and told him he
needed to »get the (expletive)
out of here¾.=
This is very
serious and it can
be life-threatening.
— Dr. Eric Wattenburg
The runner contacted the
sheriff¾s office and depu-
ties responded to investigate.
Bailey said that deputies con-
firmed that the runner exhib-
ited two dog bites, one of
which broke the skin.
Sheriff ¾s deputies are
investigating the identity
of the women and the dog
involved.
Dr. Wattenburg hopes that
the dog owner will come for-
ward so that the question of
the dog¾s health status can be
resolved and the bite victim¾s
health concerns can either be
addressed or put to rest.
As of Monday, April 13,
the dog owner had not yet
been identified.
Anyone with information
who can help deputies located
and contact the women
involved is asked to call the
non-emergency dispatch line
at 541-693-6911.
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multiple injections over many
different weeks.”
Dr. Wattenburg noted that
rabies can lie dormant in a
person for weeks, months
or even years, and once it is
established, it¾s fatal.
“This is very serious and
it can be life-threatening,” he
said.
The Sisters man was
reportedly running on the trail
when a medium-sized black
dog ran past him and bit him
on the calf. According to an
account provided by a friend
of the runner, the man fell to
the ground and threw rocks at
the dog to scare it off.
Two women described
as being in their 50s to 60s
approached and according to
Deschutes County Sheriff¾s
Office Public Information
Officer Sgt. William Bailey,
“were not cooperative with
providing information” to
the victim. One woman was
wearing a dark coat, the other
a white coat. The runner did
not have a mobile phone with
which to take photos.
The victim reported that
he was bitten a second time
as he turned to run back down
the trail.
Bailey told The Nugget
that, according to the victim¾s
report, “There was a verbal
confrontation between them
and the dog bite victim. One
of the women (pulled) out a
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