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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
All Saints
Day event
will benefit
Sisters
Kiwanis
Food Bank
Sisters Episcopal Church
of the Transfiguration will
offer an All Saints Day
blessing and an opportunity
to help the Sisters Kiwanis
Food Bank.
As with many local
events, the Halloween
Parade through downtown
Sisters will not be held this
year. The <admission= for
the parade has been canned
food for the Food Bank and
a substantial amount was
raised.
The Episcopal Church
was pondering this news
along with All Saints Day,
which falls on Sunday,
November 1.
The church decided
to host a drive through to
receive an All Saints Day
blessing and an opportunity
to donate to the Kiwanis
Food Bank. There will be a
site to collect non-perishable
food, paper goods, pet food,
and financial donations to
benefit the Food Bank and
the community.
Visit the Episcopal
Church
of
the
Transfiguration on Sunday,
November 1, from 2 to
4 p.m. Stay safe in your
car, drive through, receive
a blessing, and drop off
donations.
The church is located at
68825 Brooks Camp Rd.
by the intersection with
Highway 242.
For more information
call 541-549-7087.
HALLOWEEN: Health
officials caution about
traditional activities
Continued from page 3
want to be able to provide a
way for kids to enjoy the hol-
iday in a safe manner.=
The Sisters Elementary
School (SES) Halloween
parade normally finds hun-
dreds of costumed kids wind-
ing their way throughout all
classrooms, with music blast-
ing over the intercom. Then
each classroom explodes into
a flurry of Halloween fun.
Some students at SES
have been able to attend
school in-person this fall,
dependent on COVID guide-
lines issued at the State level.
These kindergarten through
third-grade (K-3) students
will experience a COVID-
conscious version of the
school9s annual festivities.
The parade will be held
outside, only for in-person
students. <We will maintain
our six feet of separation and
still enjoy seeing one anoth-
er9s costumes,= an announce-
ment read. Classroom parties
will follow.
<With the cohort con-
cerns, we can9t bring the
distance-learning students in
for something that is not aca-
demic in nature,= said SES
principal Joan Warburg of
other students. <We may be
able to look at something vir-
tual that encompasses all of
our fourth-graders.=
Delaney Sharp, head
teacher at Black Butte School
in Camp Sherman, said the
tiny district was trying to fig-
ure out Halloween plans. The
school9s parent-teacher orga-
nization discussed <orga-
nizing some outdoor games
that could be safe for that
Saturday afternoon,= Sharp
said. <They are also trying
to organize a simple trick-
or-treat time= for local Camp
Sherman kids only.
Sharp said that if the
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we provide a safe
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school9s families gather for
Halloween, it will be vol-
untary, not an official BBS-
sponsored activity. <Overall,
I would just say everyone is
working to find a way to cel-
ebrate the holiday out here,=
he said, <while also being
mindful of being safe and not
contributing to any unneces-
sary spread of the virus.=
Meanwhile, back in
Sisters, <the City never
played much of a role in the
past,= said City Manager
Cory Misley of the town9s
Halloween activities. <It was
just sort of an organic thing.=
During this season,
Misley asked citizens to
<continue to do more of the
same= 4 meaning, take the
same precautions that have
helped local businesses and
residents during the pan-
demic. Those precautions
include <wearing masks,
social distancing, sanitiz-
ing, and avoiding groups and
close contact.=
Because the City of
Sisters doesn9t employ its
own public health officials,
<we9re going to amplify
and reiterate the mes-
sages that are coming from
Oregon Health Authority and
Deschutes County Public
Health.=
Misley noted that the
City of Sisters <has not gone
above and beyond either
of them.= In other words,
PHOTO BY TL BROWN
A young girl from Las Vegas delighted in the corn maze at Smith Rock
Ranch. Gianna was in Central Oregon visiting her grandmother.
the City doesn9t intend to
ban Halloween activities,
and <we won9t be doing
enforcement.=
Health authorities warn
against high-risk activities.
That means no traditional
trick-or-treating where treats
are handed to children going
door-to-door. Indoor par-
ties, haunted houses, and
trunk-or-treating from cars
are all discouraged by health
authorities.
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Activities with lower risk
include visiting a pump-
kin patch, trying a modi-
fied version of trick-or-
treating, and having socially
distanced costume parties
outdoors.
The library will offer
spooky crafts, and The
Lodge in Sisters will feature
drive-through treats. For
more ideas, see <Alternative
Halloween Activities= on
page 9.
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