The Nugget Newspaper


Vol. XXIII No.29 - Deschutes County, Oregon

Last update: August 04, 1999

Sisters Guide

Sisters Schools

The Printed page

Sisters Chamber

Hot Rods rumble through town

Sunlight blasted off chrome. The rumble of 600 horsepower V-8s echoed down the main drag. Shine was so deep, you could drown in it. Welcome to the High Desert Rod and

Custom Car Classic show in Sisters. Over 160 cars were on display, from gas gulpin' firebelchin' monster Chevrolets to whisper quiet 1940 Plymouths with skinny tires, original

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Senior care center slated for Sisters

Construction of a 40- to 50-bed assisted living center for seniors is tentatively scheduled to break Randy Scheel, who will own and operate the facility with his wife Vicki, hopes to have the doors open by next July.

Randy Scheel said the center will occupy Lot 1 and Lot 2 in the New Sisters Village development, west of Pine Street and south of Cascade Avenue. Purchase of the lots was to have been completed on August 3.

The two-story facility will occupy 32,000 square feet. Construction and furnishing will run about $3.5 million, according to Vicki Scheel.

"The Heritage at Sisters Village" will provide care for residents able to be "totally independent," as well as those needing fairly intensive assistance, said Vicki Scheel.

"It will run short of full nursing

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Cache Creek fire rages west of Sisters
A lightning-caused fire in the rugged terrain of the Cache Creek drainage west of Sisters erupted Monday
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Saboteur spikes fee station

A Sisters Ranger District employee found a collection of syringes with hypodermic needles inside the steel canister of one of the district's newly installed "iron rangers" while he was collecting trail park fees on Sunday, July 25, off Forest Road 12, just east of Suttle Lake. The fee collection stations were installed earlier this season "to make it more convenient
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Sewer funds secured

Bulldozers will push dirt next spring, building Sisters' long-awaited sewer. Sisters Mayor Steve Wilson signed the paperwork on

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Author reads at Village Green
Nationally-known story-teller and best-selling author Philip Gulley will read stories from his latest book
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Hearing set on school land zoning
Deschutes County will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, August 17, at 7 p.m., to consider a plan amendment
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