Wednesday, April 21, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Celebrating 75 years
through collaboration
By Emme Shoup & Janel Ruehl
Guest Columnists
The Sisters Country
Vision is a community-led
vision project, first created
with extensive community
engagement in 2018, which
continues to incorporate
new community-led proj-
ects. At the heart of imple-
menting this community
vision is supporting and cel-
ebrating inter-community
collaboration. As Sisters
turns 75 this year, though
we can9t have a big celebra-
tion due to COVID-19 regu-
lations, local organizations
continue to find creative
ways to highlight Sisters9
unique history and enduring
small-town atmosphere.
In partnership with the
Sisters Area Chamber of
Commerce, Three Sisters
Historical Society, The
Nugget Newspaper and
other partners, the City
of Sisters is coordinat-
ing projects and events
that commemorate its 75th
Anniversary. The City9s
event posters are popping
up in businesses9 win-
dows, and the blue banners
throughout downtown high-
light significant historical
moments, landmarks, and
people.
If you9d like to learn
the story behind those
iconic photos, there will be
many opportunities to dig
into Sisters9 history and
Celebrate 75!
Explore the history of
Sisters downtown by fol-
lowing the self-guided
walking tour brochure and
the historic plaques on
buildings, which serves
as an abbreviated ver-
sion of the Sisters History
Museum9s guided tours.
The Three Sisters Historical
Society (TSHS) and the
City9s RARE AmeriCorps
volunteer, Emme Shoup,
developed the brochure to
highlight 18 historic loca-
tions. A community part-
ner grant from the Vision
Implementation Team (VIT)
helped TSHS add 13 new
historical plaques this year.
You can find the brochure at
the Museum, or digitally on
the City of Sisters9 history
webpage.
As you enjoy the historic
walking tour, you may soon
notice a new mural popping
up later this June.
On the west wall of
the Sisters Habitat for
Humanity Thrift Store, the
mural will highlight imag-
ery from the beginnings
of Sisters through cur-
rent times,= shares Dennis
Schmidling of the Sisters
Art Association (SAA).
This project has been
a significant collabora-
tive effort, with TSHS
providing the visual narra-
tive of Sisters history, and
the SAA working with the
anonymous donor and the
artist, Steve DeLaitsch, to
gift the mural to Habitat for
Humanity.
Coming later this
spring, TSHS with C4C
(Citizens4Community)
will be hosting a Murder
Mystery Virtual Event to
tell the story of a gold-hun-
gry murderer, A. J. Weston,
of Sisters in 1920. The
Historical Actors Guild of
Sisters will be re-enacting
and directing the story,
which is set to be filmed
on the second floor of the
Sisters Saloon Restaurant
by the talented Sisters
Middle School student and
videographer, Jack Turpen.
More event details will be
announced later this spring!
As a Tree City, Sisters
celebrates Arbor Day every
year at the end of April.
This year, the City of Sisters
is getting 75 ponderosa pine
seedlings from the USFS
nursery and gifting them to
the Sisters Middle School
<ECoS= outdoor education
class. Each student will be
given seedlings to plant in
the Sisters area!
The Vision Implemen-
tation Team is also excited
to sponsor the 2021 Com-
munity Champion Awards
in May. Community mem-
bers can nominate any indi-
vidual, business, or orga-
nization as a Community
Champion. A total of eight
winners will be announced
in early June, and each will
receive gift certificates and/
or products from local res-
taurants and businesses
of Sisters Country. Each
individual prize is approxi-
mately a $100 value, and
each business/organization
prize is approximately a
$200 value. Your nomina-
tions help to support our
local businesses who have
been impacted by the pan-
demic and related stress-
ors in the past 12 months,
as all gifts are purchased
by the VIT (not donated).
Nominations open May
1: visit www.sistersvi-
sion.org to learn more and
nominate your Community
Champion.
Whether you9re a tourist,
a newcomer, or a long-time
Sisters resident, one thing
that can bring us together
is the history of the place
we all love. As the city and
region grows, the Sisters
Country Vision strives to
create a more Connected
Sisters by embracing its
<Small-Town Atmosphere=
through increasing oppor-
tunities for face-to-face
contacts, and visitors-to-
locals connections and
commerce.
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Event focuses on wolf interaction
T h e Wo l f We l c o m e
Committee will continue
its discussion of wolf and
human interaction in the
region with Rick McIntyre
and Kira Cassidy in partner-
ship with Paulina Springs
Books on Wednesday, April
28 at 6:30 p.m.
They will follow that
public event with a discus-
sion of the newly published
book, <Yellowstone Wolves:
Science and Discovery in
the World9s First National
Park,= which both McIntyre
and Cassidy contributed to,
on Wednesday, May 12 at
6:30 p.m.
To bring the discussion to
home territory, the committee
invited John Stevenson, Wolf
Specialist for Oregon with
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Services, to discuss wolves
in the local region and their
possible future here. That
discussion will take place on
May 26 at 6:30 p.m.
<As human animals, we
can learn a lot from wolves9
cooperation, and can live in
balance with other humans
and species,= said Wolf
Welcome Committee co-
founder Susan Prince. <As
wolves re-populate Central
PHOTO PROVIDED
Wolves are returning to a role in the natural landscape across the West.
Oregon, now is the time to
reevaluate how we choose
to coexist on our beautiful
planet. Not only are humans
harming each other, at a hor-
rifying rate, but other species
as well. Since 1970, wildlife
populations have declined
by two-thirds (68 percent),
according to World Wildlife
Fund9s 2020 report.
Specifically, humans con-
tinue to persecute wolves,
the committee argues. Now,
without protections pre-
viously afforded by the
Endangered Species Act, it is
much harder to enforce con-
servation guidelines.
In February, five wolves
mysteriously died in north-
eastern Oregon.=
<This is very unsettling
news for a species that is only
just beginning to recover in
Oregon,= Kathleen Gobush,
Northwest program direc-
tor at Defenders of Wildlife
said in a news release.
<Predators, particularly
wolves, are often the target
of ruthless persecution, and
the killing of one wolf, not
to mention five, appears to
follow a growing pattern of
grave concern.=
In the same month, in the
space of 60 hours, hunters in
Wisconsin killed 216 wolves,
about a quarter of that state9s
estimated wolf population,
exceeding the state9s legal
hunt quota of 119 animals.
To register for any or all
of the events, email wolfwel-
comecommitee@gmail.com.
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