Wednesday, October 13, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Sisters’ Roundhouse
Foundation is growing
By Sue Stafford
Correspondent
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOCK
Central Oregon Textiles was one of the vendors who demonstrated their high-quality work on-site at
Sisters Harvest Faire.
Sisters is home to a unique
private family foundation
that began in 2002 with
a focus on supporting a
creative economy in Sisters.
Today, almost 20 years
later, that same Roundhouse
Foundation has grown 4
in assets, in programs and
partners, in staff, and in
geographic reach.
Founder, trustee, artist,
and local Sisters resident
Kathy Deggendorfer, in
collaboration with her
mother, Gert Boyle, the
matriarch of Columbia
Sportswear, established the
Roundhouse Foundation with
the original desire to focus on
supporting ideas and projects
that created positive change.
The programs they9ve
supported, like the Sisters
Folk Festival9s Americana
Project in local schools,
celebrate creative problem
solving, and allowing creative
people, like Americana
Project founder Brad Tisdel,
to serve as positive mentors
for children. Creative people
were also encouraged to be
important forces in creating
new economies.
The purchase of the former
Multnomah Publishing
building on Adams Avenue
led to the establishment of
See ROUNDHOUSE on page 22
Harvest Faire draws a horde to market
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
For two generations, the
Sisters Harvest Faire has
offered a celebration of the
season, a celebration of
handcrafted excellence in a
plastic world, and a celebra-
tion of the community of
Sisters.
This year9s Faire felt
especially celebratory as
the crowds of market-goers
returned after a year hia-
tus forced by the COVID-
19 pandemic. Shoppers
strolled among the stalls of
dozens of vendors 4 many
of whom have been regulars
at the Faire for as long as
20 years. Judging from the
burdens they carried back
to their vehicles parked all
across Sisters, they weren9t
just looking.
The juried artists are
noted for the quality of their
goods, and shoppers find
unique items of art, décor,
or food and drink to take
home with them. Many of
them find their way under
a Christmas tree in a couple
of months9 time.
The Sisters Harvest
Faire is held across several
blocks of Main Avenue in
Sisters, around Fir Street
Park, where Dry Canyon
Stampede played on the
stage on Saturday, with
Bill Keale performing on
Sunday. Demonstrations of
glass-blowing, textile-mak-
ing, metal arts, and more
lend an educational aspect
to the Faire.
<It was awesome,= said
Jill Neal, whose <Wild
(Tasteful) Women= and
other works of art were
on display in her tent.
<[Saturday] it was wall-to-
wall bodies in here. It was
like old-home week.=
Neal closed her gallery
in Sisters and has scaled
back on doing shows, focus-
ing on a continually grow-
ing online business. But the
Sisters Harvest Faire will
stay on the schedule, she
said. She plans to be back
See FAIRE on page 21
Sisters bridge players
are back in action
By Craig F. Eisenbeis
Correspondent
After a year-and-a-half
pause brought on by the
pandemic, the Sisters Bridge
Club is up and running again.
Organizers want to get the
word out and are interested in
recruiting 4 and mentoring
4 new players.
The local organization
has been playing bridge in
Sisters for more than 40
years. Some of the people
who have played in the past
have migrated out of the area,
and snowbird lifestyles are
also creating plenty of room
for newcomers.
To help players who are
out of practice, such as those
who may have played a little
in college 4 or aspiring
players who have never
played at all 4 the club
will be offering free bridge
lessons.
The only requirement for
participation is that players
See BRIDGE on page 14
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to affect gatherings, please contact individual organizations for current meeting status
SISTERS AREA MEETING CALENDAR
East of the Cascades Quilt Guild 4th
Wednesday (September-June), Stitchin’
Post. All are welcome. 541-549-6061.
Sisters Area Photography Club
2nd Wednesday, 4 p.m., meeting
at Sisters Community Church.
Al-Anon Mon., noon. / Thurs., 10 a.m.,
541-549-6157.
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church. Go Fish Fishing Group 3rd Monday,
Sisters Area Woodworkers
541-610-7383.
7 p.m. Sisters Community Church. All
1st Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m. 541-231-1897.
ages welcome. 541-771-2211.
Alcoholics Anonymous Thurs. &
Sisters
Astronomy Club 3rd
Sun., 7 p.m., Episcopal Church of the
Heartwarmers (fl eece blanketmakers)
Tuesday, 7 p.m., SPRD. 541-549-8846.
Transfi guration / Sat., 8 a.m., Episcopal 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 1 p.m., Sisters City
Church of the Transfi guration / Mon.,
Hall. Materials provided. 541-408-8505. Sisters Bridge Club Thursdays,
12:30 p.m., Email: sistersbridge2021@
5 p.m., Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran
Hero Quilters of Sisters Thursday,
gmail.com.
Church / Big Book study, Tues., noon,
1 to 4 p.m. 541-668-1755.
Sisters Caregiver Support Group
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church /
Citizens4Community, Let’s Talk
3rd Tues., 10:30 a.m., Village Green
Gentlemen’s meeting, Wed., 7 a.m.,
Park. 541-771-3258.
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church / 3rd Monday, 5:30 to 8 p.m. RSVP at
Sober Sisters Women’s meeting, Thurs., citizens4community.com
Sisters Cribbage Club Please call for
details. 541-923-1632.
noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran
Military Parents of Sisters Meetings
Church / Step & Tradition meeting, Fri., are held quarterly; please call for details. Sisters Habitat for Humanity Board
noon, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran
of Directors 4th Tuesday, 6 p.m.
541-388-9013.
Church. 541-548-0440.
Location information: 541-549-1193.
Oregon Band of Brothers – Sisters
Sisters Kiwanis Thursdays, 7 to
Black Butte Ranch Bridge Club
Chapter Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m.,
8:30 a.m., Brand 33 Restaurant at
Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m., BBR community Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-549-6469.
Aspen Lakes. 541-410-2870.
room. Partner required. 541-595-6236.
Prayer Shawl Group 2nd & 4th
Sisters Parent Teacher Community
Central Oregon Fly Tyers Guild
Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Call for
2nd Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. at Sisters
For Saturday meeting dates and
location: 503-819-1723.
Saloon. 541-480-5994.
location, email: steelefl y@msn.com.
SAGE (Senior Activities, Gatherings Sisters Parkinson’s Support Group
Central OR Spinners and Weavers
& Enrichment) Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. Meeting by Zoom.
Guild One Saturday per month, Jan.
to 4 p.m. at Sisters Park & Recreation
541-668-6599.
thru Oct. For schedule: 541-639-3217.
District. 541-549-2091.
Sisters Red Hats 1st Friday.
Location information: 541-279-1977.
Sisters Aglow Lighthouse
Council on Aging of Central Oregon
Senior Lunch Tuesdays, noon, Sisters 4th Saturday, 10 a.m., meeting by
Sisters Rotary 1st and 3rd Tuesdays,
Community Church. 541-480-1843.
Zoom. 503-930-6158.
Noon, Aspen Lakes. 541-760-5645.
BOARDS, GROUPS, CLUBS
Sisters Speak Life Cancer Support
Group 2nd & 4th Tues, 1-2:30 p.m.
Call for location: 541-410-9716.
Sisters Trails Alliance Board 1st
Monday, 5 p.m. Sisters Library.
Public welcome. 808-281-2681.
Sisters Veterans Thursdays, noon,
Takoda’s Restaurant. 541-903-1123.
Three Sisters Irrigation District
Board of Directors 1st Tuesday,
4 p.m., TSID Offi ce. 541-549-8815.
Three Sisters Lions Club 2nd
Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Spoons
Restaurant. 541-419-1279.
VFW Post 8138 and American Legion
Post 86 1st Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.,
Sisters City Hall. 541-903-1123.
Weight Watchers
Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. weigh-in, Sisters
Community Church. 541-602-2654.
SCHOOLS
Black Butte School Board of
Directors 2nd Tuesday, 3:45 p.m.,
Black Butte School. 541-595-6203.
Sisters School District Board of
Directors One Wed. monthly, SSD
Admin Bldg. See schedule online at
www.ssd6.org. 541-549-8521 x5002.
CITY & PARKS
Sisters City Council 2nd & 4th
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Sisters City Hall.
541-549-6022.
Sisters Park & Recreation District
Board of Directors 2nd & 4th Tuesdays,
4:30 p.m., SPRD bldg. 541-549-2091.
Sisters Planning Commission
3rd Thursday, 5:30 p.m., Sisters
City Hall. 541-549-6022.
FIRE & POLICE
Black Butte Ranch Police Dept.
Board of Directors Meets monthly.
541-595-2191 for time & date.
Black Butte Ranch RFPD Board of
Directors 4th Thursday, 9 a.m., Black
Butte Ranch Fire Station. 541-595-2288.
Cloverdale RFPD Board of Directors
3rd Wed., 5:30 p.m., 67433 Cloverdale
Rd. 541-548-4815. cloverdalefi re.com.
Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD
Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday,
5 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall, 541-549-0771.
Sisters-Camp Sherman RFPD Drills
Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Sisters Fire Hall,
301 S. Elm St. 541-549-0771.
This listing is for regular
Sisters Country meetings;
email information to
lisa@nuggetnews.com