The Nugget
Vol. XLIII No. 44
Sisters man
arrested
after
vehicle
pursuit
A 27-year-old Sisters man
was arrested after an early
morning vehicle pursuit west
of Redmond on Thursday,
October 22.
According to the
Deschutes County Sheriff9s
Office, a deputy observed
a 1985 blue and green
Chevrolet truck driving west
bound on Highway 126 near
NW 101st St., just west of
Redmond, at approximately
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News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
It’s getting contentious...
Ballots can
be dropped
at City Hall
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
A couple of young bucks locked horns in a field near Sisters last week. Whatever the issue was, it
probably wasn’t political.
Voters who didn9t get their
ballot in the mail by Tuesday
this week should drop off
their ballot in a secure drop
box to ensure that it will be
counted. There is a drop box
in front of City Hall.
Ballots can be dropped off
there until 8 p.m. on Election
Day, November 3.
The Deschutes County
Clerk9s Office is report-
ing a strong turnout, with
36.77 percent of ballots
already returned as of Friday,
October 23.
Locally, five people are
running for three open seats
See ARREST on page 5
See VOTE on page 10
Planner will help
shape Sisters’ future
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
<I9m not here by
accident,= Sisters9 new
Community Development
Director Scott Woodford told
The Nugget. A look at his
resume certainly confirms
that statement.
Woodford was born in
the Midwest but grew up in
Summit County, Colorado,
home to Breckenridge,
Copper Mountain, and
Keystone ski resorts. He is
a graduate of the University
of Colorado with a Bachelor
of Environmental Design
with an emphasis in Urban
Planning.
He and his family like to
ski, mountain bike, river raft,
and camp. When consider-
ing looking for work out-
side of Colorado, Woodford
said Oregon, particularly
Central Oregon, was one of
very few options after liv-
ing in Colorado. Woodford9s
wife is an elementary school
music teacher and they have
three children, two boys aged
16 and 14, and a girl aged 12.
Besides his busy work sched-
ule, Woodford finds time to
coach his kids9 soccer teams.
The Woodfords moved
to Bend almost eight years
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ago when Scott took a job
with the City of Redmond,
where he worked as the
senior planner for over seven
years. Over the past year he
worked on their comprehen-
sive plan update. An update
of Sisters9 plan is one of his
first projects here in Sisters.
He already knows and has
worked with the consultant
chosen by Sisters to facilitate
the comp plan update. He is
fully acquainted with Oregon
land-use laws, which differ
from most states.
Before moving to Oregon,
Woodford worked for well
over a decade, both in the
public and private sectors,
on land-use planning and
managing complex projects.
He has extensive experi-
ence working in Colorado
resort communities like
Aspen, Steamboat Springs,
and Summit County. He is
very well acquainted with
the issues now facing Sisters
4 benefits and challenges of
tourism, traffic and transpor-
tation, retention of commu-
nity character, lodging and
short-term rentals, affordable
housing, preserving history,
and responsible growth.
<In small towns, details
See PLANNER on page 16
BBR woman marks 100 years
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
As Ruth Peterson sat in
her comfortable Black Butte
Ranch home one week before
her 100th birthday, her sec-
ond husband, Jim Gibbons,
92, said that when he met
her for the first time she was
playing tennis at age 72 and
<didn9t look a day over 39.=
The couple just celebrated
their 10th anniversary.
Ruth (Anders) Peterson
was born October 30, 1920
in Wisconsin, the second of
three children, all still liv-
ing. Longevity certainly
runs in the family. She
comes from good genes.
Peterson9s mother, an immi-
grant from Austria-Hungary,
lived to be 100 years old.
Her sister Margaret will be
102 in December, and her
<younger= brother Robert
is 96.
<I expected to live to be
100,= she said.
Peterson, who moved to
Black Butte Ranch with her
first husband <Pete= Peterson
in 1991, though not surprised
at her long life, believes stay-
ing active, making friends,
and keeping her faith have
contributed to keeping her
going.
Peterson has lived through
the Great Depression,
survived World War II,
PHOTO BY CHARLIE KANZIG
Ruth Peterson and her husband, Jim Gibbons. Peterson turns 100 on
October 30.
witnessed tremendous
changes and now lives on in
the midst of a pandemic.
She recalls as a child
having a hand-cranked
wringer washing machine
at their home in the suburbs
of Milwaukee and how the
milkman would deliver his
wares by horse and wagon to
an insulated box in front of
their house in the wee hours
of the night.
<The iceman also deliv-
ered to our home and as chil-
dren we would scoop up the
chips of ice to suck on that
he made from cutting the
ice into the right size for our
family.=
The generosity of a
grandfather helped fund
her college education at
Marquette University in
Milwaukie, which she
reached by streetcar. World
War II broke out during her
senior year and she remem-
bers that when Pearl Harbor
was attacked, her previously
boring sociology professor
<really came to life and kept
us up to date about the war.=
She also recalls it being
a scary time and asking
her mother, who had lived
through World War I, <What
do you do during a war?=
Her mother responded,
<You just keep going on until
See 100 YEARS on page 17
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