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Wednesday, January 13, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Commentary...
COCC professor earns
prestigious award
City of Sisters bulletin
By Cory Misley
City Manager
Central
Oregon
Community College
(COCC) English profes-
sor Stacey Donohue, Ph.D.,
was selected to receive
the Modern Language
Association9s 2020 Francis
Andrew March Award, a
national postsecondary
honor that recognizes distin-
guished service to the profes-
sion of English.
Donohue was to receive
the award at a January 9 vir-
tual ceremony.
Named for the nation9s
first postsecondary English
professor, who taught at
Lafayette College, the
Francis Andrew March
Award honors the English
scholar and teacher <who
accepts responsibility for
strengthening the life and
work of departments, the
field and the English studies
community considered as a
whole.=
Past recipients have
included scholars from such
institutions as Stanford
University and Smith
College.
<It is highly unusual for
a community college pro-
fessor to receive the Francis
Andrew March Award,= said
Annemarie Hamlin, Ph.D.,
instructional dean at COCC.
<In the 33-year history of
the award, Stacey is only the
third recipient from a com-
munity college.=
The MLA9s member-
ship is largely comprised
of four-year colleges and
universities.
<Stacey shares the roster
with eminent scholars and
leaders from Ivy League
institutions and major public
universities, and her work
has been every bit as essen-
tial to the organization as the
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Stacey Donohue of COCC
received the Modern Language
Association’s 2020 Francis Andrew
March Award.
work of those luminaries,=
Hamlin said.
Donohue, a faculty mem-
ber at COCC since 1995, has
served the discipline through
leadership, mentorship and
participation with organiza-
tions such as the MLA 4
including as a national teach-
ing institute facilitator 4 for
many years.
<She9s helped shaped the
discipline on the local and
national landscapes,= said
Hamlin.
In 2018, Donohue
received the Association
for Women in Community
Colleges9 College Excellence
Award and its Carolyn
DesJardins Leadership
Award.
As we welcome 2021,
it is important to remem-
ber the simple things to be
thankful for in life.
Even one of the essen-
tial components of both our
physical health and eco-
nomic livelihood can some-
times be overlooked. The
City is responsible for the
planning, financing, con-
struction, and maintenance
of the water system that
provides some of the best
municipal drinking water
anywhere. Everything from
homes, schools, businesses,
and firefighting require
clean, reliable, and adequate
water pressure and volume
constantly at the tap. We are
very fortunate for the qual-
ity and quantity of our water
natural resource. At the
same time, it has taken, and
will continue to take, strate-
gic investment and steward-
ship by the City year after
year to sustain this service
and resource.
The City Council at the
beginning of every calendar
year establishes goals and
key projects for the upcom-
ing fiscal year (July 1-June
30). The Council contin-
ues to prioritize and invest
in essential infrastructure,
which among other projects
currently includes designing,
drilling, and constructing
the City9s fourth municipal
water well (Well 4).
The City has three wells
pulling water from aquifers
deep below us and serv-
ing the system from mul-
tiple locations. The City9s
Public Works Director, Paul
Bertagna, has led the way on
keeping the water system as
one of our top priorities to
keep up with demand. In the
City9s 2017 Water Master
Plan, Well 4 was originally
anticipated for construction
later this decade in fiscal
year 2027/28. Due to growth
and increasing demand, the
City moved Well 4 to this
fiscal year to ensure excel-
lent redundancy in the sys-
tem with an additional 33
percent pumping capacity
totaling 4,050 Gallons Per
Minute (GPM).
At the January 13 City
Council meeting, the
Council will review and con-
sider approval of a $713,317
contract for the construc-
tion of Well 4 Phase B. You
may have seen a well drill-
ing rig on City property near
the Creekside Campground.
That work was for Well 4
Phase A that consisted of
constructing, developing,
and testing a municipal
water supply well in the
volcaniclastic and basalt
formations typical in the
Deschutes Basin. The well
depth ended at 293-feet with
200-feet of 16-inch casing
and 100 feet of 12-inch liner
assembly.
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David Poole wrote:
I would like to thank
Three Sisters Backcountry,
and especially their
employee, Johan.
On December 19, 2020,
I was out in the Three
Creeks area with my son,
who was scouting for his
late-season elk tag. We
ended up on a backroad
and got stuck in the snow.
We were unable to get free
and broke our tire chains in
the process.
Johan with Three
Sisters Backcountry came
to our aid and gave us a
ride out to some friends
who were waiting for us.
It was very kind of Johan
to come get us as he took
time away from his busi-
ness to help us.
This work included
drilling, casing, screen-
ing, grout seal, develop-
ing, and testing as required
for a complete 1,500 GPM
well. Phase A is success-
fully complete. The Phase
A and Phase B estimate for
Well 4 was $1,200,000 bud-
geted through the City9s
Water System Development
Charge (SDC) Fund. SDCs
are paid when new con-
struction connects to the
system so that growth pays
for growth. The total cost
for Well 4 is contracted to
be $1,200,037 with Phase
B construction anticipated
to start in February and sub-
stantial completion within
150 calendar days.
A heartfelt thank you to
Cris Converse, daughter of
Dorro Converse Sokol, an
icon of the Sisters commu-
nity, who donated a substan-
tial water right to the City on
behalf of her mother. Also, a
special thanks to the City9s
Public Works Department
who keep everything flow-
ing 24/7/365: Paul Bertagna,
Troy Rayburn, Gus Johnson,
Doug McIntosh, Josh
Stotts, Tod Milburn, Travis
Quimby, Jackson Dumanch,
and Robin Bentz (recently
retired).
If you would like to learn
more about this project you
can visit the City9s website
www.ci.sisters.or.us and
view the staff report in the
Council meeting packet.
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