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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Discover the Diff erence
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Principal Broker
541-420-9997
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Licensed in the State of Oregon
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Broker
541-588-6614
chris.scott@cascadesir.com
Licensed in the State of Oregon
999 Public Notice
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
OF THE STATE OF
OREGON FOR THE
COUNTY OF DESCHUTES
In the matter of the estate of:
Gary Kent Rodgers, deceased.
Case No. 20PB05520 Notice to
interested persons. Notice is
hereby given that the undersigned
has been appointed as the
personal representative of the
Estate of Gary Kent Rodgers. All
persons having claims against the
estate are hereby required to
present their claims, with proper
vouchers attached, within four
months after the date of first
publication of this notice, as
stated below, to the personal
representative at:
Mark G. Rodgers
20925 Hilltop Pl.
Bend, OR 97703
or claims may be barred. All
persons whose rights may be
affected by the proceedings in
this estate may obtain additional
information from the records of
the
court,
the
personal
representative at the address set
forth above.
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