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The Nugget
Vol. XLIII No. 45
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News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Sisters
students in
grades 4-6
may return
to school
soon
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
School
grapples
with online
behavior
It’s a catch...
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
Sisters students in grades
4-6 may be returning to in-
person learning as early as
November 10, joining grades
K-3 which have been in
school for five weeks.
That possibility arises in
the wake of Governor Kate
Brown9s October 30 press
conference regarding adjust-
ments to health metrics in
Oregon.
Sisters students would still
be considered to be following
a <hybrid= model, since stu-
dents will attend Monday-
Thursday and take part in
online learning on Fridays.
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PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Fly-fishing on the Metolius River is challenging. A pair of fishermen took advantage of beautiful autumn
conditions for a successful day of catch-and-release.
See SCHOOL on page 6
The challenge of distance
learning took an ugly twist
as some seventh- and eighth-
graders at Sisters Middle
School recently experienced
three separate incidents of
students using racially and
sexually charged language
during classes being con-
ducted through Zoom.
Families first heard of the
incidents through an email
letter from principal Alison
Haney that was followed later
by a second letter that clari-
fied, to some extent, what had
taken place.
The initial letter focused
on the acts being racist in
nature and was strongly
worded, including refer-
ring to the incident as an
<assault.= The second letter
See ONLINE on page 12
Arts get a financial shot Volunteers install kiosk at trailhead
in the arm in Sisters
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
By Jodi Schneider
Correspondent
Sisters arts organiza-
tions got a significant finan-
cial shot in the arm from the
Oregon Cultural Trust.
Coronavirus Relief Fund
Cultural Support (CRFCS)
grant awards totaling $25.7
million are being distrib-
uted to 621 organizations
across Oregon. These funds,
approved by the Emergency
B o a rd o f th e Oreg o n
Legislature in July, were allo-
cated to the Oregon Cultural
Trust to support cultural orga-
nizations facing losses due to
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last Wednesday Cate
O9Hagan, co-chair of the
Inside...
Deschutes Cultural Coalition,
a program in partnership with
Oregon Cultural Trust, dis-
tributed relief fund checks
for the arts in Sisters outside
on the steps of Sisters Art
Works.
Funding went to the
Sisters Folk Festival
($194,998), Sisters Outdoor
Quilt Show ($10,205), Sisters
Rodeo Association ($32,798)
and Silent Echo Theater
Company ($4,630).
O9Hagan, known for serv-
ing over two decades as exec-
utive director for Arts Central
in Bend, helped decide how
to allocate the funds that
recently flowed into the
See ARTS on page 8
In last Saturday morn-
ing9s chilly temperatures
and bright sunshine, eight
local Sisters men 4 all
members of both Sisters
Area Woodworkers (SAW)
and Sisters Trails Alliance
(STA) 4 gathered at the
Peterson Ridge (PRT) trail-
head to install a handsome
new informational kiosk
they constructed last week.
Kris Calvin, owner of
Earthwood Timber Frame
Homes, was the foreman on
the project and provided his
homebuilding workshop and
equipment for construction
and installation of the kiosk.
Calvin designed it last
See KIOSK on page 18
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Local woodworkers have built a kiosk to grace the new trailhead opened
several months ago for the Peterson Ridge Trail.
Letters/Weather ............... 2 Fit for Sisters .................... 5 Entertainment ................. 11 Hike .................................13 Classifieds ................. 20-22
Meetings .......................... 3 Announcements ...............10 Sisters Naturalist ............. 11 Crossword .......................19 Real Estate ................ 22-24