Wednesday, December 29, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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2021 YEAR IN REVIEW
Community ponders
future of school site
A new elementary school
to replace the existing one in
Sisters is scheduled to be com-
pleted to start the 2023 school
year. That leaves the school dis-
trict and the citizens of Sisters
to answer the question: What
should be done with the prop-
erty and buildings on the cur-
rent site?
One of the first steps
of the process took place
on November 15 when
Citizens4Community (C4C)
hosted a Zoom meeting to begin
gathering input from interested
members of the community.
The 90-minute meeting was
facilitated by C4C Director
Linda Cline and board member
Jim Barnett. The purpose of the
meeting was two-pronged: to
elicit ideas about what should
be done with the property, and
to define the process in which
decisions should be made.
PHOTO BY KRIS KRISTOVICH
The Outlaws boys cross-country team stunned the field with an
outstanding second-place finish in State competition.
Planners hear case
for development in
Sisters
A project that would add
approximately 359 new hous-
ing units to Sisters got a hear-
ing before the Sisters Planning
Commission on November 10.
No final decisions were made:
Commissioners voted in favor
of continuing the hearing on the
Sisters Woodlands project to
December 2.
Local man
commemorates
Unknown Soldier
flight
Gary Yoder has lived in
Sisters Country for close to
30 years. He’s co-owner of
Black Butte Realty Group and
a retired Flight Engineer in the
U.S. Air Force. He spent 20
years as a flight crew member
on a C-141B cargo transport jet.
He was stationed at Travis Air
Force base in California. When
he retired he had over 7,300
hours flying time.
Yoder and the crew flew
with the casket containing
the Unknown Soldier from
Vietnam, from Travis AFB to
Andrews AFB in Washington
D.C.
This Veteran’s Day, Yoder
and his wife, Katy, flew to
Washington D.C. along with the
crew members, Tomb Guards,
and their families to commem-
orate the holiday. They spent
their time learning more about
the Tomb Guards and the sacred
role they play in honoring those
soldiers whose loved ones were
never able to bring them home
for burial.
Sisters holiday
events back on the
calendar
DECEMBER
SHS ski team fields
record numbers
The COVID Grinch stole
Sisters’ traditional Christmas
holiday events last year — but
now they’re back, with some
modifications.
The Sisters Area Chamber
of Commerce will host the
2021 Christmas Tree Lighting
ceremony on Friday, November
26. The Holiday Parade will be
the next day on Hood Avenue.
This year’s Sisters High
School ski team will field the
largest number of racers in
Outlaw history. Twenty-seven
racers are out for the sport; 14
girls and 13 boys. Head Coach
Gabe Chladek and Assistant
Coach Rima Givot are excited
about the upcoming season as
they start their fifth year as the
ski team coaches.
Sisters ski teams will
compete in the newly revital-
ized Emerald League of the
Oregon Interscholastic Ski
Racing Association this sea-
son. The league is made up of
schools from Eugene, Albany,
Corvallis, Philomath, Redmond,
Prineville, and Sisters. The
number of students participat-
ing in high school ski racing has
grown in the past few years and
necessitated the reformation of
the league.
Sisters fire captain
headed into
retirement
Over the past three decades,
countless Sisters area residents
have called for aid in an emer-
gency — and got a response
from Captain Thornton Brown
of the Sisters-Camp Sherman
Rural Fire Protection District.
As of December 1, Captain
Brown will hang up his turnout
gear and call it a career.
His colleagues know that
he’s leaving big boots to fill.
Brown managed the physi-
cal facilities, from the central
station to the District’s training
grounds to the outlying stations
in Camp Sherman and Squaw
Creek Canyon Estates. And
he’s helped to train countless
students and volunteers.
in what Sisters Trails Alliance
Secretary Ann Richardson
called “by far our biggest vol-
unteer work effort of 2021.”
Park opens at
McKenzie Meadows
Sisters has a new park —
and some of the people behind
it celebrated its opening last
week. In lieu of their meeting
on December 1, members of
the City Parks Advisory Board
gathered at the new McKenzie
Meadow Village park located in
the latest Hayden Homes proj-
ect in Sisters.
Elementary
school celebrates
Firebusters win
Black Butte Ranch
Lodge comes down
Black Butte Ranch (BBR)
is bidding adieu to its original
lodge, built over 50 years ago.
After several renovations it was
clear it was time to start over
and create a space and experi-
ence only possible by removing
the original structure.
The project carries a
$19.5 million price tag. Kirby
Nagelhout Construction
Company is the general con-
tractor for the project, to
be finished by Christmas
2023.
Planners give green
light to development
It’s not everyday that a heli-
copter lands on the playground
at Sisters Elementary School,
but thanks to being chosen as
winner of the 2021 Central
Oregon region Firebusters
award, the school was treated to
a visit by emergency personnel
and their equipment and vehi-
cles on December 2.
With a unanimous vote of
6-0 in favor of approval with
staff conditions, the Sisters
Planning Commission gave
a green light to the Sisters
Woodlands Master Plan devel-
opment, tentative subdivi-
sion, cottage development, and
major variance request, at their
continued public hearing on
December 2.
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