Wednesday, July 22, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Featured Volunteer 3 Liz Weeks
Sisters Country birds
By Douglas Beall
Correspondent
The Green-tailed Towhee
[pipilo chlorurus], with its
distinctive rust crest, is a
somewhat secretive ground-
nesting bird. On occasion a
Towhee uses porcupine hair
to line its nest, where it lays
four to six pale blue, heav-
ily spotted eggs which hatch
in 11 to 14 days. The chicks
will begin foraging in 11 to
14 days. This Towhee will
protect its nest by raising its
tail and skittering off mim-
icking a ground squirrel to
distract predators.
As a ground forager,
it spends most of its time
on the ground or in thick
cover, scratching about
industriously in the leaf lit-
ter, often under Manzanita
so it may go unnoticed.
But its catlike mewing call,
which it often gives from a
brushy perch, is one of the
quintessential sounds of the
shrublands of the east slope
of the Cascades.
The Green-tailed
Towhee is the smallest and
only entirely migratory
towhee. Their scientific
name roughly translates to
<colorful chirper.=
A group of Towhees
are collectively known as
a <tangle= or a <teapot= of
Towhees. For more Green-
tailed Towhee images,
visit http://abirdsings
becauseithasasong.com/
recent-journeys.
By Kema Clark
Correspondent
PHOTO BY DOUGLAS BEALL
The Green-tailed Towhee.
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Liz Weeks has been vol-
unteering at the Kiwanis
Food Bank (KFB) for over
six years 4 and has no plans
to stop.
<Every one needs help
sometimes,= Liz says. <It9s
very satisfying to assist our
clients in getting the food
they need. I want all our cli-
ents to feel welcome and
understand we can help.=
Before the COVID-19
crisis, Liz volunteered at the
KFB every Thursday for the
five hours they were open.
<I enjoyed getting to know
our clients, finding ingredi-
ents they needed to cook in
the kitchen, or finding food
they could cook outside,= she
said.
During the disruptions of
the COVID-19 shutdown,
the Food Bank had to shift
its mode. Clients parked out-
side and got a menu and order
number, choosing 35-40
items. Weeks was one of the
volunteers who then filled
their shopping cart.
Liz has also volunteered at
the Tigard overnight shelter,
Portland9s Potluck in the Park
and the Boys and Girls Club.
At one Central Oregon wom-
en9s prison, she taught quilt-
ing for two years, and has
continued to help by accept-
ing donations to be delivered.
Former Food Bank
resource officer Tom Hespe
said Weeks is one of the
<hearts= at the Kiwanis Food
Bank.
<Liz is very dedicated
and very honest with feed-
back or suggestions. During
PHOTO PROVIDED
Liz Weeks serves the Sisters community through the Sisters Kiwanis
Food Bank.
the cold winter months, the
big pots of baked beans pre-
pared for brunch by Liz were
greatly appreciated by all our
clients.=
Like Liz, about 50 per-
cent of the Food Bank vol-
unteers are community vol-
unteers, not members of the
Kiwanis Club.
The Kiwanis Food Bank
is fully stocked now. They
encourage anyone who has
food or supplies to give as
much as they can to other
Sisters nonprofit organiza-
tions or to other Central
Oregon Food Banks.
Volunteer Opportunities
Does your Sisters-area organization need
volunteers? Let The Nugget know so we can share
your opportunities with the citizens of Sisters. Email
the details to lisa@nuggetnews.com.
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