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C L A S S I F I E C D L S A CITY OF SISTERS NOTICE AND REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS LAZY Z RANCH MASTER From design to installation we can do it all! Pavers, water PLAN features, irrigation systems, sod, Proposals Due by 2 p.m. on plants, trees etc. October 7, 2020 The City of Sisters (City) is 541-771-9441 LCB #8906 soliciting proposals from 3 All You Need Maintenance 3 qualified land use planning, Pine needle removal, hauling, mowing, moss removal, edging, engineering, and/or architectural landscape consulting firms to raking, weeding, pruning, roofs, develop a long term Master Plan gutters, pressure washing... for the future development and Lic/Bonded/Ins. CCB# 218169 preservation of the City owned Austin " 541-419-5122 portion of the Lazy Z Ranch 701 Domestic Services detailed within the City9s Request for Proposal (RFP). BLAKE & SON 3 Commercial, Interested firms can obtain a copy Home & Rentals Cleaning of the RFP at WINDOW CLEANING! https://www.ci.sisters.or.us/rfps Lic. & Bonded " 541-549-0897 Sealed RFPs must be received by 3 T H E N U G G E T 3 Kerry Prosser, City Recorder, by hand delivery at 520 E. Cascade 802 Help Wanted Ave., or PO Box 39 Sisters, Finance Manager Oregon 97759, on or before Sisters Habitat for Humanity 2 p.m. (local time) on October 7, 20 hours/week, Starting wage is 2020. Envelopes should be $20-$25 / hr DOE. clearly marked <LAZY Z Bookkeeping, HR, budgeting, RANCH MASTER PLAN.= mortgage processing, insurance. Please provide one (1) digital Full description is at copy (no email submittals), one sistershabitat.org/about/hiring. (1) original hard copy, and ten Email cover letter, resume and (10) hard copies of the Proposal. references to The original should be marked sharlene@sistershabitat.org. <Original= and must bear an Davis Tire original ink signature by an FT & PT positions available. individual authorized to represent Pay dependent upon experience. the Proposer. Late submissions Apply in person, will not be accepted. 188 W. Sisters Park Dr. The City of Sisters reserves the Immediate positions available. right to reject proposals not in Dishwasher. Evening shifts compliance with the prescribed available Wed., Thurs., Fri. Pick procedures and requirements and up application in person at may reject any or all responses. Rancho Viejo. All requests for clarification must be submitted in writing no later than Thursday, October 1, 2020, to Paul Bertagna at: Email: pbertagna@ci.sisters.or.us Help Wanted (preferred method). Copy Troy Please send an email to Rayburn at: Email: sistersfencecompany@gmail.com trayburn@ci.sisters.or.us with letter of interest or call 541-588-2062. Wednesday, September 2, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon S S I F INTERNET: Connectivity has become more critical in pandemic Continued from page 3 broadbandnow.com, there are 14 possible providers with eight of them offer- ing residential service. Approximately 90 per- cent of Sisters residents are served by multiple wired providers and several satel- lite ISPs. According to the same source, Sisters is the 86th most connected city in Oregon, ahead of Mill City but behind Redmond, Culver, and Terrebonne. Installing cable lines in town isn9t much of a chal- lenge, where houses are on city lots and next door to each other. Running cable to individual houses on multi- acre parcels of land is some- thing else entirely. Satellite dishes are a common sight in isolated rural areas, bringing hundreds of TV channels and providing Internet service via satellite. Another option is the digital subscriber line (DSL) which runs through the stan- dard phone lines that are wired into a home. There is an advanced DSL that has come online utilizing a type of fiber optic cable that is run to a <cabinet= in a neigh- borhood, from which copper wires run to houses in the neighborhood. Fiber optic cables trans- mit data via fast-traveling pulses of light. A layer of glass called <cladding= is wrapped around the cen- tral fiber and causes light to repeatedly bounce off the walls of the cable rather than leak out at the edges, enabling the signal to go farther with no reduction in the strength of the signal. Currently, fiber is the fastest and most reliable connec- tion type, but cable Internet can also provide fast Internet speeds. Both are better than DSL and satellite Internet at consistently delivering promised speeds. It used to be that fiber was much more expensive than any of the other types of Internet, but price has come down considerably. It is usually used more by large businesses and orga- nizations. Bend Broadband offers some fiber optic cable transmission. Fixed wireless Internet uses radio waves transmit- ted by a cell tower to bring Internet connection to the user. This is different from cable, DSL, and fiber, all of which use cables or wires. The beauty of fixed wire- less Internet is that it doesn9t require any hard wires. Instead it uses an antenna located on the exterior of the house or in the attic. The antenna picks up radio signals from the closest cell tower and your ISP is then able to provide access to the Internet via a cable car- rying the signal from the antenna to the router in your home. Fixed wireless is more expensive and doesn9t scale well, so a lot more customers can9t be added on like they can with regular cable. The signal operates by line-of- sight, making hills and trees obstacles to transmission.. Elon Musk, of Tesla fame, among others, is developing low-orbit satellites that could provide Internet service. His developments are out of the theoretical stage and are cur- rently being tested. Each type of Internet ser- vice has its pros and cons and may not be available in all areas. That is what gives rise to the digital divide, which comes from lack of infrastructure and service, and expense of accessing service. In coming issues of The Nugget, the focus will be on how the digital divide impacts so many fac- ets of life; possible solu- tions; and pros and cons of choices available in Sisters Country. 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