16 Holidays in Sisters
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Young Life hosts
tree hunting expedition
— By Bill Bartlett —
Have a candy-coated
Holiday with see’s candies!
Come by the
Kiwanis See’s Candies
Trailer in the Ray’s
Food Place Parking
Lot to order!
Monday-Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m.
Saturday, November 20 through
Friday, December 31 (While supplies last)
Watch for Hoodoo Opening
p
g Date!
Rent or buy skis and snowboards, and purchase
Hoodoo lift tickets or season passes!
G et
OUTDOORS
for the
HOLIDAYS!
All over town you can spot cars and
trucks with trees strapped to the roof or
truck bed, fresh from being hunted and cut
in the woods. This has been a Sisters tradi-
tion for as long as there has been a Sisters
— even before. By now folks know you need
a $5 permit to harvest a tree on public lands.
You can save as much as $170 against the
current Lowe’s or Home Depot price for a
12-foot fir.
Trekking into the forest to find that perfect
tree is a family affair with rewards greater
than the tree itself. Young Life of Sisters
has made it even easier with some added
benefits. Last weekend from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. and this weekend (December 4 and 5)
at the same time, the 80-year-old organiza-
tion allows visitors to come to Kalamataca
Ranch on McAllister Road, the first left past
the entrance to Black Butte Ranch heading
westbound.
Kalamataca is not a tree farm. It is,
however, an 80-acre spread full of natural
Christmas trees. Once your trophy is bagged,
you are treated to hot cocoa and the chance
to sit around a fire roasting marshmallows.
There is also homemade chili with corn
bread, including gluten-free options.
Young Life has made it impossibly easy.
Even if you don’t have a saw or rope, they
will supply it. They issue a no-charge per-
mit in exchange for a simple waiver. The
yellow-colored permit attaches to the tree
as evidence that you didn’t poach it. They’ll
even cut the tree for you and bring it back to
the car park if navigating the terrain is a bit
much. That’s a hard deal to pass up.
While there you can make your own
greenery swags or centerpieces. At the craft
table make a peanut butter or pinecone bird
feeder.
What Young life really wants you to do is
have fun, the old fashioned way.
There’s a good chance you’ve heard about
Young Life, or at least the name. In over 100
countries the organization has interacted with
two million lives. 348,000 kids are involved
weekly in the founder’s mission to introduce
adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them
grow in their faith.
They have multiple programs for middle
(WyldLife) and high school (Young Life)
students and teen moms. Best known are
their summer camps. There is the week-long
family camp at Trails West in Colorado and
regionally, Washington Family Ranch in
Antelope, Oregon. (For more information
about Young Life programs in Sisters, call
Shannon Miller at 206-356-0972.)
When The Nugget went to Kalamataca
— whose name is derived from combining
the initials of the owners, Kevin and Laurie
Adams and their children Matt, Tiffany and
Christopher — we were greeted by families
from as far as Prineville, Powell Butte, and
Bend. We trailed the Oak family — mom and
dad, Rena and Johnny, Halle and Rylan, 12
and Cleo, 9.
They typified the many enthusiastic
adventurers as we headed up the ridge in
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Open Sunday-Wednesday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday-Saturday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Youth gathered
round a firepit to
roast marshmallows.
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Sisters Apothecary
Since she opened her doors in June, Sheree
Vance has been gratified at the public response to
Sisters Apothecary.
ew
“I love it that it’s everybody’s favorite new
store,” she said.
And it’s no wonder. Sheree curates her offer-
d enthu-
ings carefully, and she’s knowledgeable and
siastic about every hand-picked product in the store
ecary
— from popular cocktail infusions to U.S. Apothecary
and Dani lines of skincare products, to winter candles.
The men’s section is continually growing, and there’s an
-leaf and single-ste
expanding selection of Ayurvedic and essential oils; Tea Forté loose-leaf
single-steep
teas; bath elixirs, soothing salts, and lotions; honey tonics from Mickelberry Gardens ou
out of
Portland, and more. Everything Sisters Apothecary offers makes a wonderful gift for well-
being, comfort and quality Sisters living.
The experience of shopping at Sisters Apothecary is enjoyable — you can explore and
find all sorts of products to enhance your life, and the lives of those on your gift list.