C8 The BulleTin • Sunday, april 4, 2021
Sunriver
Continued from C1
Timm Schimke, director of
the Deschutes County Solid
Waste Management, says there
are other challenges related
to the enclosures, which must
conceal from view trash and
recycling containers.
“Most enclosures in the
community are sized for cur-
rent trash collection volumes
and are too small to add a recy-
cling cart,” said Schimke. “This
will require expensive enclo-
sure modifications that many
homeowners either cannot
make due to space limitations
on the property or do not want
to make due to the expense.”
A poll revealed that just 58%
of residents have an enclosure
that would accommodate a re-
Ella Dean
Continued from C1
“I said ‘Daddy, can you
show me how to work the
camera?’ Because I was fas-
cinated with it. And he said,
‘Be smarter than the camera,
kid.’ And I guess for the rest
of my life I’ve been trying to
be smarter than the camera,”
Johnson said. “I kept work-
ing with it, and I have never
stopped.”
In 1987, she was hired by
The Oregonian, initially in
photo sales. But she kept
showing the photo editors her
work and pushing for assign-
ments. In 1992, she officially
became a staff photographer
and one of the first three par-
ticipants in the newspaper’s
new Minority Residency Pro-
gram, which aimed to bring
greater diversity to the news-
room.
“It was the best education
cycling bin and 72% said they
would not modify their en-
closure at their expense. More
than 90% of residents said they
use the recycling facility.
Side yard pickup of recycla-
ble materials is not allowed.
Residents either go to the re-
cycling center or travel 8 miles
south on Highway 97 to the
Southwest transfer station run
by the county.
Construction of a recycling
center is not yet a done deal.
The Sunriver Owners Asso-
ciation board has authorized
a vote in July of the owners to
expend funds from the associ-
ation’s reserve account to build
the center. Approval of 60% is
required to use the funds.
James Lewis, General man-
ager of the association, said
a final cost is yet to be deter-
mined. A survey conducted
by the association suggests
the price tag could be around
$750,000 for the new center
but Lewis said that estimate is
two years old and the associa-
tion is working on a more de-
finitive cost.
If the facility is approved,
said Lewis, a significant
amount of the overall costs for
the facility can be recouped
through a three-party agree-
ment with Deschutes County
and Cascade Disposal, which
services 88% of the residences
in Sunriver. Cascade Disposal
serviced Bend customers, in-
cluding picking up curbside re-
cycling in Bend, until Republic
Services took it over recently.
Lewis is an advocate for the
new center, saying that growth
in Sunriver has overwhelmed
the existing facility. He adds
that it needs to move to a dif-
ferent site to avoid conflicts
with other users of the public
works yard. The new facility
would have more efficient traf-
fic flow, better landscaping and
lower height bins for ease of
customer use.
Phil Torchio, founder of the
Broomsmen, a plastics recy-
cler in Bend, said a recycling
center in Sunriver makes sense
and has the potential to be a
cleaner source of separated re-
cycling materials compared
to home pickup. But Torchio
cautions that good planning is
needed.
“If the drop-off point is
mismanaged it will become
extremely costly to maintain
and promote as a green expe-
rience,” said Torchio. “If recy-
cling is a priority to the com-
munity, and the costs of this
service are fully understood
and supported, then it will be
successful.”
But the management of the
current facility has been a real
problem, said McConnell, who
goes there monthly to drop off
items. The bins are not moni-
tored, he said, so much of the
material that goes in them is
not recyclable.
“There is no attempt to fix
that problem, which is what
most people are upset about
when they go there,” said Mc-
Connell. “People are not happy
that others are not recycling
properly, and there hasn’t been
an attempt to change that be-
havior. There isn’t any control
over it.”
Ed Pitera, who resides in
Sunriver for about a third of
the year, says the best solution
in Sunriver is to let residents
pay for the option that best
suits their needs. That could
mean a smaller-sized recycle
center for some and home pick
up for others. The proposal to
construct a new facility isn’t ef-
fective, he said.
“Spending $600,000 to
$750,000 for a building to tem-
porarily store recyclables for
on average one or two nights
seems crazy,” said Pitera. “I
would rather see the hauler’s
excess profits go to programs
that draw more households
into the recycling world. Con-
venient low or no-cost home
pickup of recyclables is one
such approach.”
I’ve ever gotten,” Kelly said.
“Every day was learning, not
just about being a photogra-
pher, but about people and en-
gaging with life.”
She worked at The Orego-
nian until 1993, covering ev-
erything from Rose Festival
queens to house fires, to a visit
by President Bill Clinton.
“The reason that I left The
Oregonian was to have Nicole,
so it’s come full circle,” John-
son said. “It’s like a rebirth,
what Nicole is doing, because
(the salon) was a foundation,
but she’s taken her creativity
and said, ‘I’m going to put it in
this direction,’ and we’re super
proud of her.”
When she was a child, Rose
also helped at the salon, just
like her mother.
“I loved going there on
Saturdays because it was so
packed and it just felt like one
big family reunion,” Rose said.
“There would be times where
I would be walking from Port-
land State and somebody ran-
domly would come up to me
and say you look so familiar,
who are you?
“And all I had to say was
‘I’m a Dean.’
At the time of the photo
that was featured in her moth-
er’s book, Rose was 9 years old
and getting her hair chemi-
cally straightened. At about
age 16, Rose decided to go nat-
ural and grow back her curls.
Today, Rose sees more Black
women embracing their tex-
tured hair and looking for nat-
ural hair care products.
“I think people are tired
of being judged,” Rose said.
“This is who I am and I’m
not going to change for
you because your standard
of beauty is different from
what my standard of beauty
is. Whether it’s bald or hav-
ing short hair or long hair
or curly hair or wavy hair,
we’re finally showing our true
selves.”
The Ella Dean line of hair
oils for textured hair includes
“No Time for Flakes,” a dan-
druff control formula made
from cedar wood essential
oils, “Honor Thy Crown”
with cucumber and pumpkin
oils, “So Long Itch” with va-
nilla and prickly pear, and her
most-popular product, “Look
But Don’t Touch,” made from
pomegranate, Indian goose-
berry, mustard and water-
melon oils.
“Instead of using shea but-
ter, coconut oil and castor oil,
why not introduce my audi-
ence to pomegranate oil, on-
ion oil, passionfruit oil, spin-
ach oil? Different oils that we
usually don’t see on the mar-
ket,” Rose said. “I knew this
was my chance to add a new
twist to the natural hair care
industry.”
Rose clearly has a flair for
brand-building. While her
full name is Nicole Rose John-
son – her middle name was
a tribute to her great-grand-
mother – she’s marketing her-
self as CEO and founder of her
new business as simply Nicole
Rose.
And the company name Ella
Dean is a more lyrical short-
ening of her grandmother’s
name, Gloria Ella Dean, who
was the second generation to
manage the salon.
Rose hopes to someday see
her line expanding into sham-
poos and hair creams and be-
ing sold at larger retail and
beauty chains.
“I definitely want Ella Dean
to go to the next level, and my
other goal is to possibly own
my own hair salon,” she said.
For now, Rose makes her
product batches herself after
working her full-time job at an
HR company.
“I knew I still wanted to
work in the beauty industry.
The salon definitely gave me
that push,” Rose said. “I just
said you know what, I’m going
to go for it, I’m going to stop
discouraging myself and just
see what happens.”
Mother and daughter are
sure Gloria Ella Dean would
love her namesake collec-
tion, but she is unaware of her
granddaughter’s company as
she battles dementia. The Ella
Dean website has an option to
round up on orders and make
a donation to the Alzheimer’s
Association in her honor.
“When I think of Ella Dean
and the salon, I think of family
and warmth and friendliness,
and that’s what I want my cus-
tomers to feel,” Rose said.
Want to try Ella Dean? The
line is sold online at elladean.
com and is available at Port-
land juice bar and wellness
store, Drink Mamey at 1615
N.E. Killingsworth St.
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