| Current News | | Women build for Habitat for Humanity | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | Jamie Audrain's Habitat for Humanity home in Timber Creek is coming along right on schedule. Volunteers turn up regularly to turn her dream into a reality, and Jamie works alongside as often as she can. Last week, on May 10-11, those workmates represented a first for the Sisters Habitat affiliate. | | Offering horses a second chance | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | Times are tough for horses. Between the pinch of hard economic times and spikes in the cost of hay, horse owners are finding it hard to take care of their animals.
Some surrender them voluntarily; some situations fall into heartbreaking neglect. | | Trail to link Sisters and Camp Sherman | | Tuesday, May 08, 2012 | | It's a long way from realization, but the first steps are underway for a proposed paved multi-use path from Sisters to Camp Sherman. | | Quick action douses
fire at Sisters home | | Tuesday, May 08, 2012 | | Firefighters credit quick action by a homeowner who spotted smoke in the kitchen and called 9-1-1 for keeping damage to a minimum in a house fire on Monday. | |
| Business | | Sisters retailers battle shoplifting | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | Shoplifting is an increasing problem for Sisters retailers.
Stores from Ray's Food Place to Common Threads to Sisters Drug Co. and many others have had repeated incidents where people - sometimes brazenly - simply take what they want and walk out. Some manage to sneak away; an increasing percentage are caught and have a date in court, which may or may not make the retailer whole. | | Watchmaker returns from Switzerland | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | With the hypnotic ticking of 10,000 watches still in his brain, Sisters watchmaker Keaton Myrick recently returned from a dream trip to Switzerland to attend BaselWorld 2012, the most important annual trade convention for the international watch and jewelry industry, held each spring in the German border town of Basel. | | Bringing 'Down Under' to Sisters | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | Oregon Outback Outfitters in downtown Sisters is bringing a little taste of Down Under to Central Oregon with its line of rugged outdoor clothing from Australia.
Their line includes shirts, jackets, vests, shorts, hats and heavy duffle bags. | | Sisters business
at a glance | | Tuesday, March 27, 2012 | • Bright Spot Juice & Java is back to extended hours, now open Monday through Friday from 5:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Sunday 7 to 11 a.m.
• Three Ponies Saddlery is relocating within Sisters. Owner David Holmes can still be reached at 541-719-0595. During his move, small items may be dropped off with Kate Aspen at Cowgirls & Indians Resale, in Town Square, with details on the work to be done. | |
| Arts & Entertainment | | Sisters Rodeo Parade entry forms available | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | Entry forms for the 2012 Sisters Rodeo Parade are now available. | | Artists display work at Ranch | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | The Gallery at Black Butte Ranch welcomed an exhibit of the art of Pate Gonzalez and her husband, Kevin Van Driesche, with an artist reception and wine tasting last Saturday afternoon. | | Naming contest underway for quilt panels | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | In the tradition of the art form, every quilt tells a story. In the case of the "Quilt for Two Rivers" project, it's more like an entire book. | | 'Muttley Crew' headed to Rodeo | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | The Coppertown Clown Bert Davis returns to Sisters Rodeo as the specialty act this June. | |
| Home & Garden | | Working with nature in your landscape | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | A big, green lawn looks mighty nice, but it isn't easy to keep one going in Central Oregon. | | Garden Club boosts renovation | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | A good greenhouse is absolutely essential to gardening success in Sisters Country (see related story, page 16). It's also essential to the horticulture education programs in Sisters schools. | | Greenhouse gardening is a must | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | Last year my family helped me build a greenhouse. It simply was the only solution to having our own fresh tomatoes, peppers, basil, etc. because trying to grow these cold-sensitive veggies in the great out-of-doors was out of the question. | | Sisters couple takes on design challenge | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | If you can design and build a sustainable home that can stand up to the harsh exposure of the remote Aleutian Islands, you can do it anywhere. | |
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| Education | | Schools | | Ten Friends reaches out to Sisters community | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | For years now the Ten Friends charity, established by teachers Rand Runco and Mark Lamont, has reached across the globe from Sisters to Nepal. | | Students get visit from 26th president | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | Teddy Roosevelt was bully for Sisters on Thursday in an early morning visit to Sisters Middle School. | | Students study science, art in wild | | Tuesday, May 08, 2012 | | Two busloads of Sisters High School biology and IEE (Interdisciplinary Environmental Education) students traveled to Janet Zuelke and Forrest Babcock's place overlooking the Wolftree Whychus Creek Discovery Outpost downstream of Deschutes Land Trust's Polk Creek Meadow. | | Sisters Middle School creates young authors | | Tuesday, May 08, 2012 | | If Mrs. Susie Werts, English teacher at Sisters Middle School, has her way, she will be unleashing nine fifth-graders, nine sixth-graders, five seventh-graders and seven eighth-graders loose into the world of writers. | |
| Sports | | Tournament draws thousands to Sisters | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | The SALI tournament (Sisters Annual Lacrosse Invitational) has grown by leaps and bounds over the past several years, and this year the tourney drew 63 teams from around the state to Sisters, which added up to over 1,200 players in attendance. Teams brought players as young as first grade all the way through high school. | | Boys golf crowned tournament champs | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | The Outlaws claimed the Sky-Em District title May 7 and 8 at Tokatee Golf Club in Blue River. | | Fullhart earns berth in state finals | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | The boys tennis team finished third at the Special District 3 Tournament held at North Bend on Monday and Tuesday, May 7-8. North Bend placed first, and St. Mary's was runner-up.
Paul Fullhart, at No. 1 singles, ended with a fourth-place finish to win a trip to the state finals next week. | | Outlaws primed for district track and field | | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | | A beautiful spring evening at the Wally Ciochetti Twilight Invitational provided the Sisters Outlaws' track and field teams with a perfect setting for tuning up for this week's Sky-Em District Championships. | |
| Health | | Learn to prepare grass-finished beef | | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 | | Any lifestyle change involves a transition period with the potential for set-backs, frustration and wondering if its all worth it. Changing food habits is no different. | | Sprouting brings seeds to life | | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 | | Name that food: It grows practically anywhere; flourishes in any climate, any season of the year; needs neither soil nor sunshine; is ready for harvest in just four days; tastes delicious raw or cooked; has no waste; and is so nutritious that it's one of the most complete foods known to man, rivaling meat in protein and citrus fruits in vitamin C, at a fraction of the cost. | | A healthy way to shop | | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 | | How you shop can have an impact on your health - your physical well-being and the condition of your wallet. A little technique in your grocery shopping can keep your basket full of good stuff and your bank account healthy. | | When communication becomes compulsion | | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 | You're in the middle of a conversation with a friend when it happens. Your hand reaches out of its own accord and picks up your phone. Something is screaming inside you, "Gotta check my email! Gotta check my email!"
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