Wednesday, September 23, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters salutes...
" Dave Johnson, DVM,
wrote: I commend Tate
Metcalf and his staff of
the Sisters Athletic Club
with excellence in operat-
ing the Club with compe-
tence, astute cleanliness/
sanitation, and exceeding
the Oregon criteria during
COVID-19.
As a member, it is a
pleasure to use your facili-
ties and personally wit-
ness the compliance by
your members and staff
in following your well-
explained COVID-19 cri-
teria. Particularly note-
worthy is mandatory mask
wearing, one-way traffic
flows, separation of mem-
bers using the facility along
with your staff9s pleasur-
able approach for enforce-
ment of these special health
safety measures.
You manage our club
with safety, sanitation,
cleanliness, health, flow
patterns of members, dis-
tancing, installation of clear
plexiglass barriers in front
of reception counters, as
well as other positive meth-
ods. A notable example is
the reservation system of
one swim lane per person
per hour. The staff provides
exceptional guidance and
methods for ease of com-
pliance. This protects mem-
bers using the swimming
facility and locker areas.
Sisters Athletic Club
is an illustrious example
for other athletic clubs,
fitness clubs, and health
clubs to emulate. The State
of Oregon is fortunate to
have your leadership with
managing a health club dur-
ing this pandemic.
As a career commis-
sioned officer of the US
Public Health Service,
I am pleased to provide
you my full endorsement
of your health practices
and especially during this
COVID-19 pandemic. You
are clearly adhering to the
top recommendations by
esteemed health leaders
such as Anthony Fauci, MD.
" 24/7 Sports listed
Sisters High School grad-
uate Thomas Arends,
Oregon, Director of Player
Personnel in its list of
<College football9s rising
stars: The 30Under30 for
2020.= The citation reads:
The Ducks have gone
from dormant power to
Pac-12 favorite under
Mario Cristobal9s direction,
and the recruiting depart-
ment is a huge reason why.
Arends helps lead a recruit-
ing outfit that9s produced
back-to-back No. 1 over-
all classes in the Pac-12,
including a 2019 group that
finished seventh nationally,
the best class in Oregon
history. Before returning to
his alma mater 4 Arends
started his career as associ-
ate director of player per-
sonnel under Chip Kelly 4
Arends worked at Baylor.
He helped the Bears put
together their 2018 class,
which finished 29th nation-
ally despite some diffi-
cult circumstances as a
program.
Thomas Arends9 mother,
Susan, and father, Phil, both
reside in Sisters.
Rotary Club offers
‘mega raffle’ fundraiser
Winners for 12 prizes
totaling $3,000 in value will
be drawn October 31 in the
Rotary Club of Sisters9 Mega
Raffle. The Mega Raffle is
in support of Rotary Club
service projects in Sisters
Country that include Books
for Kids, Sisters High
School Scholarships, Sisters
Park & Recreation District
(SPRD), Family Access
Network (FAN), Adopt-A-
Road, Operation School Bell
and more.
Only 500 tickets will be
sold.
Donations to Rotary Club
are $10 per ticket and tickets
can be obtained by calling
541-301-0300. Among the
prizes are a three-night stay
at a luxury Oregon beach
house; a $250 case of wine
from Cork Cellars; a $450-
value family photo pack-
age; dinners; and five $100
certificates good at Sisters
retailers.
For more information and
description of prizes visit
www.sistersrotary.org or call
541-301-0300.
FIRES: Climate,
management, lifestyle
are all factors
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through prescribed burns
and careful logging will help
prevent forests that cover
vast tracts of the American
West from threatening cities
with fire.
But whether that would
have spared towns is less
clear. Strong winds sent
flames racing down the
western slopes of the
Cascade Range into small
towns like Detroit, Oregon,
wiping them out.
<In a wind-driven event
at 30 miles an hour, where
you9ve got embers flying
far ahead of the actual flame
fronts and flame lengths
being much greater than
normal, is thinning going
to really be enough to stop
a home from burning in an
inferno like that?= Gersbach
said.
Millions of dollars are
spent on tree thinning and
brush clearing every year
in Western states, though
many argue more needs to
be done. But scaling up the
costly, labor-intensive work
as more people move into
mountains and forests has
many challenges.
Forest thinning helped
save the town of Sisters,
Oregon, from a wildfire in
2017. But out of 30 mil-
lion forested acres state-
wide, prescribed burns have
been used on only roughly a
half-percent a year, Gersbach
said.
In Washington state, a
prescribed burning program
hasn9t yet begun on state
lands, said Department of
Natural Resources spokes-
man Thomas Kyle-Milward.
The state helps manage
deliberate fires on thousands
of acres of federal lands each
year.
Many places don9t have
the capacity or the money
to do the work, said John
Bailey, an Oregon State
University professor of tree
growth and fire manage-
ment. There are no longer
enough mills to handle sal-
vageable timber, whose
proceeds can help offset the
costs of forest thinning.
<Sometimes I feel like
we are making progress
at increasing the pace and
scale of resilience treat-
ments, but largely, the same
issues are at play, and prog-
ress has been slow,= Bailey
said. <More folks are prob-
ably 8on board9 to the ideas,
but implementation is
hard.=
And as more people
move into rural areas or
build vacation cabins in the
woods, prescribed burning is
less of an option.
<Where you have lots
of people living on small
Where you have lots
of people living on small
acreages close together,
and you’ve got houses
and barns and sheds
and corrals and fences,
it’s very difficult to do a
prescribed burn.
— Jim Gersbach
At least 10 people have
been killed in Oregon.
Officials say more than 20
people are still missing,
and the number of fatalities
is likely to rise as authori-
ties search. In California,
24 people have died, and
one person was killed in
Washington state.
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acreages close together, and
you9ve got houses and barns
and sheds and corrals and
fences, it9s very difficult
to do a prescribed burn,=
Gersbach said. <You9ve got
a lot of things that, if that
fire for some reason escapes,
you9re almost immedi-
ately into someone else9s
property.=
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p.m. Bring your cool or vintage car for the free Friday car
show. For more information call Eurosports at 541-549-2471.
Sisters Area Sisters Arts Association Artist Studio
Tour 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free self-guided tour of 26 private
artist studios. Go to www.sistersartsassociation.org/
sistersstudiotour for more information.
Paulina Springs Books Virtual Event Books In Common
Regional Literary Event Series with Craig Johnson
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BooksinCommonNW.com.
Sisters Area Sisters Arts Association Artist Studio
Tour 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free self-guided tour of 26 private
artist studios. Go to www.sistersartsassociation.org/
sistersstudiotour for more information.
Fir Street Park Sisters Farmers Market 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Every Sunday: fresh local produce and more. Pre-order and
details at sistersfarmersmarket.com.
Paulina Springs Books Virtual Event Books In Common
OCT Regional Literary Event Series with Maxim Loskutoff
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