May 2013 Sunriver Scene

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SUNRIVER SCENESUNRIVER OWNERS ASSN.VOLUME XXXIX • NUMBER 5P.O. BOX 3278SUNRIVER, OR 97707

A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSOCIATION

MAY • 2013

The Men’s Club luncheon will feature

two guest speakers who will chronicle stories

of the World War II B-17 ‘Flying Fortress’

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Nature Center ............... 8Love Wine Inc. ............ 10Calendar ..................... 13Women’s Club ............. 18

SROA News ................. 22Public Safety ............... 30Classified .................... 37Commentary ............... 38

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The Second Tern Thrift Shop, the major revenue generator for the Sunriver Nature Center & Oregon Observatory, celebrates 25 years

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New summer tennis programming staff features local talent, touch of international flair

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Pool closure timed to inconvenience as few as possible

SROA magistrate retiring after 19 years of service

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SHARC’s indoor pool will close for warranty work beginning 10 a.m. Mon-day, May 27. The pool is scheduled to reopen Monday, June 10. The closure al-lows for repair of pool expansion joints.

“We are doing warranty work,” said Shawn Cannon, SROA Recreation Director. “We did a one-year warranty inspection of all the pools and found minor leaks in expansion joints in all the bodies of water. The outdoor pools were already fixed.”

Cannon said the May 27 through June 10 closure of the indoor pool “are the only times that don’t impact scheduled activities in early May and the summer crowds. Monday, Memorial Day, is a departure day for the majority of guests. I don’t think most people will even know the work is occurring.”

SHARC’s regular summer hours of operation will be in effect beginning May 25. This means that SHARC’s outdoor general recreation pool will be open at 6 a.m. for lap swimming,

water fitness classes will be offered as scheduled and open swim at 10 a.m., weather permitting.

The outdoor hot tub will remain open.

Fixing the poolsCannon said SHARC aquatics techni-

cian staff noticed the pools were using more water than necessary. “They per-

formed bucket evaporation tests to con-firm their observations and then worked directly with The Pool Company, Inc., who hired a leak detection company to verify our suspicions.”

Water was found to be leaking through the pool expansion joints. Expansion joints allow a pool structure to expand

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Mick Basford of The Pool Company, Inc., installed injection ports into the expansion joints of the outdoor pools at SHARC in April. He then injected epoxy resin through the ports to seal the joints through which water had been leaking.

Reid Arthur is the professional in charge of SROA’s 2013 tennis pro-gram. He brings 12 years experience and a contagious enthusiasm that grew adult and junior tennis participation at programs he coached and managed in Duxbury, Mass., Indian Wells, Calif., and Hailey, Ida.

Arthur grew up in Southern Oregon and spent 10 summers in Sunriver. He captained the tennis team at Gonzaga University where he finished as the number one singles and doubles player.

“Our lessons and clinics are custom-ized for each client. We offer several op-tions including cardio. Players hit a ton of balls, get a great workout, study court position and have a great time. We offer ‘Stroke of the Week’ in which we work on forehand, backhand, serve or volley strokes. It’s a full dissertation in which we explain the swing, the best grip, and

steps to get from point A to B. We a l so o f f e r ‘Live Ball,’ all point and situational point play which ex-plains where should you be on the court in cer-

tain situations, moving as a team and serving and volleying. This is a more advanced tactics class that requires a little higher level of play.”

Under Arthur’s guidance, Sunriver Tennis will offer a “stay and play” format for families. “Monday through Friday you show up at 9 a.m. with your child. You both play at the same time,

conclude at the same time and get off the court before it gets too hot in the afternoon.”

Arthur plans a “Saturday Morning Smash” that gives players of all ages and abilities opportunities to play several sets of mixed singles and doubles matches after a short morning drill. “It’s hugely popular wherever we stage it and just $25 – making it a fun weekend program for all the residents or guests.”

Franco Castejon will run day-to-day operations as the on-site director. Castejon brings 15 years of experience coaching all levels — from total begin-ners to players that have reached the pro ranks. Castejon holds a master’s of tennis management, teaching and train-ing from Valencian University in Spain.Assistant coaching staff

Pete Muncey, a Massachusetts native, spent the last three summers working

alongside Reid Arthur at The Valley Club where junior program participa-tion more than doubled. Muncey was a Top 10 junior player in Massachusetts and will compete for the University of Chicago this fall.

Bryn Oliveira of Bend worked at Sunriver Tennis last year, and this year will spend time on the court helping with the junior and adult programs. Oliveira is a history major at Lewis & Clark College where she made an im-mediate impact on the court, helping the team to a Top 15 NAIA national ranking.

A “meet the pro” event is tentatively scheduled June 8. The full Sunriver Ten-nis adult and junior clinic program starts June 17. Private lessons and clinics are available starting June 8. Call 541-593-5707 to make reservations. Information: www.sunrivertennis.com

Reid Arthur

Retirement prompts review of SROA Rules & RegulationsBy Brooke Snavely

If you ever received a violation for failing to remove noxious weeds or lad-der fuel, failure to paint your Sunriver home or cutting trees without a permit, you probably dealt with Sunriver magistrate Jim Bergmann.

Sunriver’s first and only magistrate since the position was cre-ated in 1994, Berg-mann has announced he will retire when a replacement is hired. In response, the SROA Board of Directors held a first reading April 20 on proposed changes to Sunriver’s Rules & Regulations that clarify the role and responsibilities of the Sunriver

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• May 3 at the Sunriver Compost Site (Lake Penhol-low)

• May 3-11 at Knott Landfill in Bend (closed Sunday)

• May 3-4, 10-11 at the Westside Collection Site in Bend

• May 17-18 at Deschutes County Transfer Sites: Negus Transfer Station in Redmond; Northwest Transfer Station in Cloverdale; Southwest Transfer Station in La Pine.

FireFree reminds you to take a look around your property in the “home ignition zone” where glowing embers can ignite spot fires and vulnerable areas like decks, patios and fences that can spread flames

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• Keep gutters and roof val-leys free of pine needles and leaves.

• Do shrubs and weeds pro-vide a path of fuel for fire to reach your trees or home?

• What can catch fire on your deck or patio or near your fence?

• Move wood piles at least 20 feet away from your home and other ombustibles.

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continued from page 1and contract in response to temperature changes. Without expansion joints, the pool structures would crack.

In April, The Pool Company, Inc., the original builder of the pools, sent their construction manager to seal the expansion joints in the outdoor pools, which were drained in prepa-ration. Mick Basford drilled a series of holes about four inches deep into the joints about 18 inches apart. Into these holes he installed injection ports and through them injected an epoxy resin.

“The epoxy resin is hydro-philic, it reacts with water by expanding and curing. It expands to fill the expansion joint and forms a flexible,

rubber-like seal, which allows the expansion joint to expand and contract as it is designed to do.”

Basford said he removed the caulking around the expan-sion joints and could see the epoxy expanding and filling the joints. He said the repairs were “textbook.”

Three expansion joints in the lazy river and one in the general recreation pool underwent this treatment.

Basford will be back May 29 to seal the indoor pool’s one expansion joint.

“There will be some folks inconvenienced but, hopefully, the weather will allow people to enjoy the outdoor pool while the indoor pool is closed. The good news is we found the leaks, and we are getting them fixed,” Cannon said.

For more information, call 541-585-5000, www.sunriver sharc.com

The Sunriver Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of the 2012 Business of the Year and Organization of the Year awards at its March 21 annual meeting.

Sunriver Brewing Company was awarded Business of the Year for its impact on the local restaurant scene as well as its charitable presence.

“As Sunriver’s first brewhouse, it not only filled a niche in Sun-river’s long list of amenities for both visitors and residents alike, it immediately wove itself into the fabric of our Sunriver commu-nity,” said Dennis Smeage, chamber president. “It’s been generous in its support of Sunriver’s many charitable events, including the Art Faire, Fly Fishing Festival, Sunriver Anglers, Sunriver Nature Center & Oregon Observatory and Music Festival. Its owners and staff participate in the La Pine and Sunriver Chambers of Commerce, Citizens Police Academy and local recycling efforts.”

“Last year, New Generations, our long-time day care center in the business park, was facing closure due to lack of money. Sunriver Brewing’s owners stepped in, guaranteeing payment of the lease on their space, making personal donations to cover day-to-day expenses, and offering to serve on the New Genera-

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Magistratecontinued from page 1magistrate. Owners may re-view the proposed changes at www.sunriverowners.org and submit comments before the second hearing June 15 when the changes may be approved.

The board also voted to eliminate a Sunriver Bylaws requirement that the magistrate be a Sunriver owner.

Having a magistrate makes it convenient for owners to respond to violations and re-ceive due process. Recipients can pay one half the amount of the schedule fine prior to the date of the hearing; appear at the hearing to acknowledge the violation but provide an explanation in mitigation; send in a written explanation with the full of the amount of the scheduled fine prior to the hearing date; or contest the violation by requesting a special hearing.

One of the ironies of Sun-river’s Rules & Regulations is that the owners association has a difficult time enforcing fines on those who aren’t owners, e.g. guests and visitors. Even so, Bergmann said visitors paid almost 90 percent of the fines assessed for motor vehicle mov-

ing violations.Illegal parking violations, on

the other hand, were offen-sive. “Visitors felt their week-end spoiled because they had no idea they’d done anything wrong.” The situation was rem-edied by eliminating multiple “No Parking” signs and post-ing “No Roadside Parking in Sunriver” signs at the entrances.

Bergmann has managed to track down certain guest of-fenders who thought they could ignore their fine.

He recalled a “wild fraternity Christmas party at a home to which the police department responded three times in one night. At 2 a.m., they issued a couple of citations. A guest paid her fine but the member did not. I sent a copy of my fine letter to the fraternity’s house manager suggesting he encour-age the member to pay and noting the police report about alcohol at the party although the university prohibited alco-hol at any fraternity function on or off campus. The fine was paid promptly.”

In lieu of a fine, some viola-tors are allowed to perform community service. One young man accepted commu-nity service at the nature center for a bicycle violation. After a

morning working in the garden, he was posted to take tickets of persons wanting to walk the nature trail. At days end, he told the nature center staff, in exasperation, “Some people just don’t want to follow the rules!” He had learned a lesson.

“When I took the job, SROA general manager Mike Levine told me ‘No one will invite you to parties.’ In reality, at only one party did somebody object to receiving a fine, and that individual could have bought everyone on the SROA Board of Directors twice.”

Bergmann said the enforce-ment process was never meant to be an income-producing activity. Indeed, most years less than $8,000 in fines is col-lected. The goal is compliance with rules that maintain and enhance Sunriver’s quality of life, environment and property values

“I’ve enjoyed it,” he said. Be-ing the magistrate “…has been a great opportunity to identify things that need fixing.”

Bergmann, who retired from a legal career with Union Pacific Railroad in 1990, said he is looking forward to fully retir-ing and having time to travel, ski and pester his children and grandchildren.


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Club hosts Sunriver Fly Shop ownerA fly fishers guide on how to

approach our local lakes will be the topic of the Thursday, May 16, 7 p.m., Sunriver Anglers meeting at SHARC. Sunriver Fly Shop owner, guide and local resident Bob Gaviglio will share some of his 22 years experience on this area’s waters. This is one program where attendees will definitely want to take some notes.

As a fly shop owner, Gaviglio is constantly being asked, “what fly is hot,” or “what fly should I use?” Gaviglio says fly selection is only one small part of the challenge. There are specific areas where fish concentrate in each of the local lakes. He will share what to look for in terms of depth, natural cover, likely food sources, timing of hatches and temperature implications.

Gaviglio has specific recom-mendations regarding fly rod weights, different lines for specific lakes as well as leader and tippets. Gaviglio will share some of his favorite Central Oregon lake flies since he has personally developed more than a dozen fly patterns that are cur-rently being marketed. Among

his most recognized patterns are the South Twin Special, Lady Di, the Rufus pattern and the up and coming Electric Leech. All have proven themselves in recent years. Expect to see several of his favorite fly boxes at the presentation.

For some additional informa-tion, take a look at the shop’s website, wwwsunriverflyshop.com and check out the spe-cialty flies and look for updated fishing reports as the season progresses. Facebook fans can check the shop out as well at Sunriver Fly Shop. If you are a face-to-face type person, drop in to the shop located at the entrance to the Business Park

Meetings of the Sunriver An-glers Club are open to all (men and women) who are interested in learning about angling and conservation opportunities in the Sunriver area, and to meet others with similar interests.

For information about the club and the current newsletter, visit www.sunriveranglers.com. Additional questions can be directed to club president Dave Schmerber at 503-851-7761, [email protected].

The Klassixs Ayre Band has been entertaining Sunriver and the surrounding commu-nities for the past four years. Launching their fifth year at the May potluck the Ayre Band, now sponsored by Ac-tive Care Physical Therapy, will be featured several Fridays throughout the summer in The Village at Sunriver.

“Working with the members of the Klassixs Ayre Band has been the most fun I have had in

years,” said band director Bert Simmons.

The May 8 potluck is your last chance until October to enjoy the great entertainment, fantastic food and neighbor-hood company, so plan to come. The potluck will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Great Hall. Wine, beer, and mixed drinks can be purchased during the social time beginning at 6 p.m. Leave your favorite bottle of wine at home. No outside al-

coholic beverages are allowed due to liability insurance issues.

All residents from Sunriver, Crosswater, Caldera Springs and surrounding neighbor-hoods are invited. Sign up at the SROA office, SHARC, Marketplace, or at [email protected]

Participants must bring an entrée or salad to serve 10 to 12 people. Please remember to bring your own place settings. The cost is $5 per person ($15 for families of three or more people). Late cancellations can be made at [email protected] or by calling Bob Burroughs at 541-593-6692.

The potlucks are a great way to meet and welcome your

newer neighbors and get to know area residents. Requests for seating with friends can’t always be accommodated, but will be attempted when pos-sible.

If you are interested in join-ing the potluck committee, talk to the committee member

seated at your table or one of the greeters or other commit-tee members you meet at the potluck.

Believe it or not, the commit-tee is a great way to make new friends, and members have just as much, or even more fun, as potluck attendees.

Car wash to raise funds for Three Rivers School graduation night

The Three Rivers School eighth grade class is holding a car wash and bake sale to raise funds for its promotion activities. The car wash and bake sale will be held Saturday, May 25, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., across from Three Rivers School in the Sunriver Business Park. Just follow the signs.

Help support local kids as they “grow-up” from middle school to high school. Donations are welcome.

Contact Nola Horton-Jones, 541-420-3725.

Sunriver Library May events

• May 7, 14, 10:30 a.m. Family Fun Story Time: For ages 0-5 with an adult. A fun and interactive story time with stories, songs, rhymes and crafts aimed at getting your child ready to read.

• May 7, 3:30 p.m. LEGO Block Party: Start with a little inspiration, and then build away. The sky is the limit. This is a drop in program, and kids are welcome to arrive at any time. This program is best for ages 6 and up.

• May 15, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Teen Game Day: Play Wii games, including Just Dance, Super Smash Bros., and more, plus card and board games. Staff in room; free and open to 10-17 year olds.

• May 31, 10-11:30 a.m. Know Digital Books: Learn to access the library’s e-book col-lection on your e-reader, tablet, or other mobile device.

• May 11, 1-2 p.m. Write Now: Enjoy creative writing but dislike how the process is oftentimes a solitary activity? Write Now is a library program where attendees will be able to brainstorm, play word games, and enjoy the written word in a casual setting. Perhaps you will be able to get a great idea for that next story or poem you have been meaning to write.

All Deschutes Public Librar-ies will be closed May 31 for Memorial Day. Information: 541-312-1086.

With their third success-ful show behind them, the Sunriver Stars Community Theater continues to grow and improve along the way.

“O.Henry,” the Stars’ April production, brought with it a doubling of cast members and the addition of dinner theater, with a catered dinner by Coun-try Catering. The commu-

nity theater also debuted their brand new lighting and sound systems and incorporated nine new stage units that attach to the existing system at SHARC.

“The new lighting system al-lows us to enhance each scene,” said Victoria Kristy-Zalewski, stars founder and artistic direc-tor. “Before, all we could do was turn the overhead lights at SHARC on or off. Now we can really set the mood. The body microphone and mixer system we invested in, allows the actors

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to add nuance to their voice and still be heard by all in the audience. It will really be use-ful in our upcoming musical, ‘Jungle Book’ when we balance the children’s voices with the musical soundtrack. Last but not least, the additional stage units give us the room to add more interesting sets and will prove invaluable when we choreograph large dance rou-tines in our upcoming summer show.”

All of this was possible due to local sponsors.

The Second Tern donated use of furniture as set pieces. That same furniture is back in the shop for sale but now has a little more history attached. HammerTime again donated lumber and building materials to extend the backdrop and many local patrons of the arts donated funds to help purchase the new equipment.

“The stars are living their mission statement. They are striving to improve as they entertain us and continue to meet their goal of giving 100 percent of their ticket sales to scholarships for local children’s programming,” Kristi-Zalewski said.

Information: 541-593-4150, www.sunriverstars.org

It’s time to celebrate mothers and the return of spring at the Sunriver Artists’ Gallery. The gallery has some great splashes of color along with another Second Saturday reception May 11, 4-7 p.m. Bring mom to the party and watch closely for clues to what she’d like for Mother’s Day. All of the artists will be there to share refresh-ments. This month’s four fea-tured artists have been with the gallery long enough to develop significant followings and are showing new pieces.

Susan Harkness-WilliamsSusan Harkness-Williams’

custom gourd art and jewelry have always been a favorite of gallery patrons. Between the two mediums, Harkness-Wil-liams has an incredible breadth of expression. She brings her archeology interests to the art studio when creating each of the pieces. Travels to places like Sienna, Italy, to serve as an illustrator for found Etruscan archeology treasures of the day, add to the depth of her artistic skill set.

Although her artwork is found nationwide in selective private galleries, Harkness-Wil-liams is extremely successful here in her own neighborhood

Celebrate mom at Artists Gallery Sunriver of Central Oregon. You have likely seen her covered in all of the local press, or perhaps you have browsed her vessels or wearable art jewelry at the High Desert Museum.

Shirley C. CheckosShirley Checkos is an award-

winning oil painter whose art demands attention.

The artist’s deep connection with wildlife is immediately obvious when viewers gaze into the eyes of the subjects in her wildlife paintings. Viewers are amazed at the almost “high definition” details in her pieces. Be astounded by her painting of a regal male lion watching over his pride or a female gi-raffe taking care of her baby, or maybe an African elephant leading its herd or a humming-bird tasting a flower’s sweet nectar. The artist has traveled to Africa to view the animals in their natural habitat, adding a layer of compassion for nature’s creatures.

Also an accomplished por-trait artist, Checkos’ endur-

ing connection to nature is expressed through the eyes of her subjects, conveying the graceful and quiet moments of human life.

Diane MiyauchiPottery artist Diane Miyau-

chi knows that art is important to every aspect of our life. In keeping with that knowledge, Miyauchi creates functional pottery. That means that Miy-auchi makes fine art designed to be used and to delight every day. Maybe a trio of multi-sized bowls, all with a shinny black on the outer surface and each with a bright primary color on the inside, would look stunning holding fruit on your kitchen counter. Or perhaps you would like a beautifully designed pie plate or serving dish that will ultimately become a family heirloom. Mixing bowls and small bowls with a handle that are just right for making salad dressing are often stuffed with a recipe that would be a perfect

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Sunriver Resort Lodge Betty Gray Gallery presents a fine art exhibit featuring oil landscapes by Janice Druian and oil figura-tive paintings by Vicki Shuck. Mike Smith’s watercolor and oil paintings appear in the lower gallery.

Druian and Shuck will be present at a reception in their honor 5-7 p.m. Friday, May 24. The exhibit opens May 16 and continues through June 27.

Druian, of Bend, presents oil landscapes reflecting the beauty of the Central Oregon Cascades. Inspired by Edgar Payne’s dramatic paintings of the Sierra Nevadas, Druian captures the drama of the sunset and sunrise on Mt. Bachelor, Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Washington

and Broken Top as well as on the shimmering aspens of the Cascades.

The artist lives overlooking the Deschutes canyon with an encompassing vista of the Cascades and Ochoco moun-

tains, witnessing daily the rich visuals of the high desert light. She paints the variety of this intense light in expressionistic realism with highly contrasting light/dark values in a vivid, yet realistic palette.

Druian took a masters in art education at the University of Oregon under noted artists La-verne Krause and Frank Okada. Her continued studies included a concentration on plein air

and landscape with well-known contemporary painters John Poon, Morgan Samuel Price, Joshua Been, and her personal mentor, Jean LeGassick and others.

Her art appeared at the sev-enth annual (2013) Plein Air Invitational in Borrego Springs, the Yosemite Renaissance XV at the Museum at Yosemite National Park, and Expressions West (2011) at the Coos Art Museum. St. Charles Hospital recently added two of her works to their permanent collection.

Vicki Shuck’s interest in figu-rative imagery began during her

Three oil and watercolor artists on display at Sunriver Lodge

Janice Druian, Mt. Bachelor from Sunriver, oil on canvas

Mike Smith, The Dog Who Could Talk to Horses, pastel

Vicki Shuck, Passing By, oil on canvas study in art at Oregon State University in the mid-’70s. Departing from figurative for some years, she created illus-trations from sacred texts for publishers.

In 2007, the artist returned to figurative art with small, expressionistic oil paintings of everyday scenes such as café patrons, rodeos and horses, dogs, and other groups of people. This exhibition marks her broadening focus on larger scale works. She notes that her secular imagery continues her devotional work, celebrating the spiritual nature of life.

Widely recognized artist Mike Smith returns to the Betty Gray Gallery after an 18 month sabbatical with a show of his whimsical images of family pets and “people, places and animals I love.” His works appear in collections globally including Hollywood personal-ity David DePatie, originator of the Pink Panther cartoons.

Sunriver Resort invites the public to visit the exhibition at the Lodge, open all hours.

Billye Turner organizes exhi-bitions for Sunriver Resort and provides additional information at 541-382-9398.


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By Martha DeuchlerIn these difficult economic

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The SRWC’s 13-member philanthropy committee fo-cused on organizations primar-ily requesting funding for basic needs (shelter, health, food, clothing and education) of families and children residing in the Three Rivers and south Deschutes County area. The following organizations were awarded grants:

• Care & Share to purchase canned protein for distribution to families.

• Families and Communities Together, La Pine scholarships for Giggles Program.

• Family Assess Network to provide scholarship support for summer campers.

• Grandma’s House to pur-chase supplies for life skill classes.

• Healthy Beginnings to sup-port early childhood screenings in La Pine and Sunriver.

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en for support of kitchen, pantry and produce programs.

• La Pine Park & Recreation Foundation to help launch elementary level program for the “Hub.”

• New Generations Early Childhood Development Cen-ter to establish a nursery/infant care program.

• Volunteers in Action opera-tional support for staffing the South County office.

• Newberry Habitat for Hu-manity partial support for funding a new house in La Pine.

• Sunriver Owners Associa-tion for Fast Camp scholarships and enrichment activities.

• Sunriver Music Festival to help fund in-school music pro-grams at Three Rivers School and La Pine schools.

• Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory to purchase digital microscope, create interactive creature cave and support out-reach scholarships.

• Three Rivers School partial support for Artist-in-Residence program and purchase supplies.

• Volunteers in Medicine to provide care for seven unin-sured, low-income clients from south Deschutes County.

• Healing Reins to purchase vaulting equipment to be used in riding program.

Sunriver Women’s Club honors 2013 grant recipients

The Sunriver Women’s Club distributed more than $40,000 to nonprofit agencies at the annual Giving Luncheon April 16.

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the Nancy R. Chandler Visit-ing Scholar Program are again collaborating to bring the next lecture series in the program “How Did We Get Here? Hu-man Origins, Evolution & Mi-grations II” to Central Oregon.

This series of lectures cov-ers a wide range of topics as scientists from a number of in-stitutions bring their expertise from cutting edge research to bear on a topics ranging from microbiology of oceans to the evolution of our solar system as we explore how we got where we are today.

Cost is $10 per lecture ($8 nature center members). Stu-dents are free at the door with student ID on space available basis.

Topics in the series include:• “Extreme Outliers: How

the Smallest Cells in the Ocean Change the Planet” with Dr. Stephen Giovannoni, Depart-ment of Microbiology, Oregon State University. May 17, 6:30 p.m. Hitchcock Auditorium, Pioneer Hall, COCC Bend

• “The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood” with Dr. David Mont-gomery, Department of Geol-ogy, University of Washington. June 7, 6:30 p.m., Hitchcock Auditorium, Pioneer Hall, COCC Bend.

• “Blackberries in July: A Biologist’s Search for Personal Meaning” with Dr. Tom Titus, Research Associate, Depart-ment of Biology, University of Oregon. Sept. 21, 6:30 p.m. Pozzi Education Center, Sunriver Nature Center.

• “Dead Fish Don’t Lie I: Archeology of Herring in the

Northwest” with Dr. Madonna Moss, Department of Anthro-pology, University of Oregon. Exact October date TBA, 6:30 p.m. Pozzi Education Center, Sunriver Nature Center.

• “Dead Fish Don’t Lie II: 13,000 Years of Fishes and Humans in the Columbia Ba-sin” with Dr. Virginia Butler, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University. Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m. Pozzi Educa-tion Center, Sunriver Nature Center.

• “How Did We Get Here? Clues from the Solar System” with Z. Nagin Cox, engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. Date, time and location TBA.

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By Jennifer Curtis, lead naturalist

It’s that time of year again. Spring has finally returned and with it the re-appearance of warm weather creatures. Signs of spring in Central Oregon, and Sunriver in particular, are tell tale. Over the time I have spent working at the nature center, I have started to notice these signs, many of which find me stopped on the side of the road, smiling and talking to myself with excitement, because my favorite time of year has returned.

Here are some of the fauna that you can look for as spring rolls on:

In mid-February, I was on my way to the nature center and looked off toward the wetland area across the street. I immediately stopped the car and jumped for joy (as much as I could in my car with my seatbelt on!) at the sight of the first red-winged black birds. The males return in February to set up their territories by sing-ing and harassing each other, marking their ground for the return of the females, arriving in March.

It seems like the next sign of spring are the cute little Beld-ing’s ground squirrels (and their babies) popping their heads out of the burrows. They quickly find the birdseed that the gray squirrels and Douglas squirrels have so lovingly kicked out of our bird feeders.

Even though the trees lack their green leaves and the daffo-

dils have barely started to poke through the frozen ground, the birds start to return. In come the white- and gold-crowned sparrows, evening grosbeaks, Western tanagers, barn swal-lows, and many others.

Someone once told me that spring does not truly start in Central Oregon until the turkey vultures return. Well, something must have perished nearby the nature center in recent days. There have been a dozen vultures flying low and high in the horse pasture across the road, sometimes booting one another from their feast on the ground.

The return of spring also brings the osprey back from their wintering grounds in Cen-tral and South America. These birds can be spotted diving in the rivers and lakes after their fishy meal.

Finally, the deer head back from the east to graze on our luscious golf courses and beauti-ful “deer resistant” flowers that we thought we’d try to grow just one more time.

With the return of summer resi-dents and visitors and the influx of summer time crit-ters, the instances of human/animal interactions in-crease substantially. This means that you might be the

one to find a baby bird on the ground, an injured deer, or an injured songbird or raptor. The

good news is that the staff at the nature center is specially trained to help you with these situations.

We are a strong resource in the community for wildlife questions and concerns. Com-monly asked questions range from what do I do if I find… “a baby bird,” “an injured deer,” “an injured raptor” or “I just saw a bird just hit my window.” These, of course, are only a few of the many different questions we get asked every summer. You can also look to our brand new website, www.sunriver naturecenter.org, for quick an-swers to these questions.

We are also a resource to help identify what kind of bird you saw or what kind of plant you found on your hike. Don’t hesitate to call us, we usually

have an answer, but if we don’t we have many resources to help us figure it out. It also helps to bring in a photograph or a plant specimen so that we can accurately identify the animal or plant.

Feel free to call or stop by the nature center, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through May 24. Starting May 25, we transition to our sum-mer schedule, open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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By Jay BowermanIn the early 1980s, as

Sunriver prepared for “transi-tion” of local control from the developer, Sunriver Properties, to the Sunriver Owners Asso-ciation, the nature center was going through its own transi-tion. As a division of the resort but with major responsibilities to the SROA, the nature center needed to find a way to contin-ue to serve its many functions within the community follow-ing transition. Incorporating as a nonprofit entity proved to be the only path that would ensure the independence to serve all parts of the community.

In 1985, Sunriver Properties pledged a 3-year grant that provided approximately 20 percent of the nature center’s operating budget, allowing the nature center time to find and develop new sources of revenue to replace the developer’s con-tribution. We started holding an annual weekend rummage sale that generated some of the needed funds, but also required considerable staff time and organization. After each rum-mage sale, there were piles of merchantable items that had to be disposed of.

Sherl Willard, acting lodge manager, probably planted the first seed for the thrift store when he described the thrift store in Ketchum, Ida., where he’d previously worked at the

ski resort. With the end of the 3-year

grant approaching, we located a vacant 200-square foot space in the back of the Sunriver Business Park that was avail-able for a nominal rent. With Kim Parker, mother of then nature center manager Dave Danley, serving as volunteer advisor, Jay and Teresa Bower-man opened the Second Tern Thrift Shop in May 1988, op-erating Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon. Jean Crowell’s arrival boosted the volunteer team to three. As word gradually spread, increasing numbers of donors, shoppers and volunteers ar-rived. By the end of the year, the Second Tern averaged $200 a day in sales, bringing in enough money to replace the grant that had ended.

When our unheated space was needed for another busi-ness, the mall management provided us a new site on the second floor. Moving furniture up the stairs and then back

down again after a sale was a challenge, but the thrift store flourished. As more customers came, we added an hour in the afternoon. Within a year, we needed more space and moved to a larger but unheated first-floor shop space that faced the Three Rivers school location.

It was soon clear that the Second Tern was serving multiple needs within the community. Sunriver area residents needed a place to dispose of still-useful items, and a lot of people in the area were happy to find qual-ity items at bargain prices

and without having to travel to Bend and beyond. The Second Tern became a catalyst that helped change the area from a closed community surrounded by “outsiders” to a broader in-tegrated community that soon included a public school, library and several churches.

All the while, the Second Tern continued to grow. Dona-tions, numbers of shoppers and volunteers, and hours of op-eration all increased as demand grew. Revenues rose steadily at a rate between 10 and 20 percent each year.

When we outgrew our space in the business park, Jim Mont-gomery offered us a much larger space at an attractive rate in the building that now houses the Base Camp Grill and con-venience store. After just two years, we outgrew that space. The Second Tern had become a necessary and permanent part of both the nature center and the greater community.

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Nature center May schedule

• May 4, 9-11 a.m.; May 25, 9-11 a.m. Bird Walks with Tom Lawler. No charge, donations gladly accepted. Call 541-593-4394 to sign up.

• May 18, Armed Forces Day: Free admission to the nature center and observatory for veterans and active duty service men and women and their families.Spring hours

Nature center: Tuesday–Sat-urday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Ad-mission: $3 adults, $2 children (ages 2-12), members free.

Beginning Memorial Day weekend the nature center will be open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. $4 adults, $3 children, mem-bers free.

Observatory: Wednesday and Saturday for night sky viewing from 8-10 p.m. Admis-sion: $6 adults, $4 children, members free. After May 15, night viewing hours shift to 9-11 p.m. Open Saturdays for free solar viewing 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The observatory is also available for private star parties, a great experience for families and friends. $120 for one hour; $185 for two hours.

the land and Reg Crowell, a retired architect, drew up plans for the 3,000 square foot building that now houses the thrift shop. A capital campaign raised much of the money, but for the only time in the nature center’s history, it obtained a commercial loan to complete construction. Within two years, that debt was retired by two generous gifts, one by Millie Stannard and another in mem-ory of Gino Kenworthy, one of the great volunteers for whom the Second Tern had become a favorite place to be.

Recognizing that even the existing land would soon be inadequate, one of the nature center’s long-time volunteers and supporters purchased the adjacent lot and donated it to provide much-needed parking.

From two hours on Satur-days, the Tern has grown, and

is now open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Friday and Saturday (winter) and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (summer). In addition, a large cadre of volunteers now works Tuesdays sorting, pricing and rearranging things throughout the shop. More than 50 volun-teers, cultivated and organized by volunteer coordinator Gail Beeson, keep the Tern hum-ming with activity. A volunteer council helps Beeson develop policies and handle questions and issues that inevitably arise.

There is always room for and need of good volunteers, and the Second Tern provides a wonderful and rewarding environment in which to make a positive contribution to the community and to the nature center.

If you have questions or are interested in volunteering, call Gail Beeson at 541 593-3367.

Jean Crowell, then president of the nature center, break ground on the Second Tern building in July 1995.


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By Julie JohnsonIt may seem an odd time of

year to think about it, but now is the perfect time to plan your next trip to wine country. Many of the wineries come out with their newest wines in the weeks approaching Memorial Day weekend.

Why?In part, because the wines

are ready, and in part, because Memorial Day marks the start of wine tasting season for many. The longer days and better weather leaves many people seeking out a great bottle of wine on the way to the coast or to Central Oregon. The sea-son unofficially runs through Thanksgiving weekend, when a lot of people seek out the per-fect wine for Christmas dinner and the ideal bubbly to ring in the new year. In between is La-bor Day – the last of the holiday wine tasting trifecta.

During these three holiday weekends, many wineries hold special events, complete with wine pairings and live music. Some wineries that are almost never open for visitors, such as Patricia Green Cellars in Newberg, will throw open their doors and offer tastes of their

most select wines. For the pleasure of the tast-

ing, you generally pay higher tasting fees (generally between $10-$20, whereas regular tast-ings run between $5-$15) and you have to fight the crowds for time at the tasting table.

If you don’t want to fight the crowds, plan early and try to go during off weekends. If there is a place you absolutely want to taste and it’s only open during one of the major holiday tasting weekends, then plan to be there when the winery first opens, so that you can avoid the rush.

Caves of luxurious wineOne of the wineries that will

be releasing new wines dur-ing May is Archery Summit. Tucked in the hills around Day-ton, Archery Summit is a high-end purveyor of quality Pinot Noirs. The winery owns five vineyards totaling more than 120 acres of fine Pinot grapes that allow the female (yes, I said female — rare, I know!) winemakers to craft some of the most luxurious wines the area has to offer.

The winery, founded in 1993, is built into the side of a hill overlooking the valley.

Located in Dayton, Archery Summit is a high-end purveyor of quality Pinot Noirs.

The main building leads right into the Archery Summit caves, which are carved into the volca-nic hillside. The caves, located 40 feet underground, provide insulated storage for the wine, which is allowed to age at natu-rally constant temperatures in French oak barrels.

The end result is a comple-ment of extraordinary Pinot Noirs that allow the grapes — and the elements that can impact their taste — shine through in each bottle.

For example, the 2010 Ren-egade Ridge Estate Pinot Noir comes from the Renegade Ridge vineyard, which is in Jory soil (a red clay found in the Willamette Valley) on the winery’s only east-facing slope. The grapes grow in morning sun, but aren’t subjected to the intensity of the afternoon heat. This allows the grapes to retain more acidity and minerality than the winery’s other vine-yards, which results in a smooth and fresh Pinot that is earthy,

spicy with a hint of raspberries.By comparison, the 2010

Red Hills Estate Pinot Noir is from a mature vineyard that is planted volcanic soil that forces the vines to work hard to grow and thrive. The resulting wine is also earthy, but it tastes of brown sugar and nutmeg with a soft finish. The wine is so lush that it would pair well with a pork dish.

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But Archery Summit isn’t known just for its Pinot Noirs. It also produces an amazing rosé that sells out year after year. Pro-duced from Pinot Noir grapes, the Vireton Rosé is light and crisp and a perfect complement to a dinner in which turkey or other poultry dish is the main attraction. The next release of Vireton Rosé is expected on

May 18, 2013, when the winery will also release its Pinot Gris. The difference is that the rosé is available to the general public. The Pinot Gris, produced each year in an egg-shaped concrete structure, is made in such small quantities that it is only avail-able to wine club members.

Rex Hill: Of Pinots and Chardonnay

I have a confession: I don’t tend to like Oregon Chardon-nay.

There have been a select few I have recommended, but by and large, I don’t like the Oregon-grown variety. I like Chardonnay, in general, so I was surprised when I discovered that I didn’t like most grown in Oregon. They taste like blue cheese to me. And while some might like the taste of blue cheese, I doubt very many would find a wine that tastes of blue cheese all that appealing.

While my taste buds might have a unique interpretation of local Chardonnays, there may be a very good reason for the wines to taste a little off. Most of the limited Chardon-nay cultivated in the state are actually from California stock. Because it is a warmer climate, California-sourced vines can have a hard time fully develop-ing in Oregon, which can affect taste.

But in certain, warm years, the Chardonnay can fully de-velop and ripen, allowing for a developed and robust wine.

2009 was one such year. And

it just happened to be the final year Rex Hill, a vineyard and winery located just outside Newberg, Ore., harvested its old Chardonnay vines before they were pulled to make room for cool-climate Chardonnay vines selected specifically for Oregon.

All I can say is the resulting wine is one heck of a send off.

The 2009 Rex Hill Chardon-nay is light, bright and well balanced. It is succulent and deep, bringing hints of lime and peaches to the palate. Un-like a lot of California wines, it is neither buttery nor oakey. It is simply a crisp, full and fruity wine that could easily be enjoyed while watching the sunset from the front porch or with a light dinner.

The downside with the wine is the price point — at $78 a bottle, it is a stretch to imagine enjoying it as just an everyday wine. Instead, it’s one that most people would want to hold onto for a special occasion. Thank-fully, the wine can be stored and enjoyed through 2017, so there is plenty of time to find that perfect celebration to pop the cork.

If $78 a bottle is too steep to

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consider, even for a celebration, you can always opt for the A to Z Wineworks Chardonnay, sold at many stores around the state. In 2007, A to Z Wine-works purchased Rex Hill, strengthening both brands. The 2011 Chardonnay from A to Z is similar in characteristics — light and approachable, tasting of citrus and tangerine — but without quite the same level of complexity. But at about $14 a bottle, it is definitely easier on the wallet.

Of course, Rex Hills isn’t known just for its Chardonnay. It also has several Pinot Noirs. One of my favorites is the 2010 Rex Hill Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. The wine’s first aroma is earthy with hints of tobacco and coffee, but it tastes of cherries and pomegranate. The wine is still young, but very drinkable. It will taste even better, though, if you are will-ing to hold onto it for another year or two.

And while many vintages often taste completely differ-ent from one year to the next, the 2011 Rex Hill Willamette Valley Pinot Noir, which is just starting to be released, is just as promising as the 2010. The wine is already showing a complexity that is unusual for such a young wine and it tastes of cherry, as well as a hint of blueberry.

These are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Rex Hill Pinots. To try these and more, visit the tasting room just east of Newberg.

Read more about wine on Julie Johnson’s blog at www.love wineinc.com. A former news-paper journalist and editor, Johnson is a freelance writer and integrated communications pro-fessional living in McMinnville.


Contact the chair if you have questions about a committee

or the projects they are currently working on

SROA Committees

SROA Board of Directors Bob Nelson, president [email protected]

Community Planning & Public Affairs Jane Boubel, chair [email protected] Chris Christensen, co-chair [email protected]

Covenants Scott Hartung, chair [email protected]

Design Ann Byers, chair [email protected]

Election Kathie Thatcher, co-chair [email protected] Jayne Meister, co-chair [email protected]

Environmental Rae Seely, chair [email protected]

Finance Bob Wrightson, chair [email protected]

Nominating Al Hornish, chair [email protected]

Public Works Richard Jenkins, chair [email protected]

Recreation Janet Baker [email protected]

SROA committees are always in need of volun-teers. Interested in joining? Contact the chair.

These groups meet regularly, same time, same place

Group Gatherings

MondaysLadies Lunch and Bridge 11:30 a.m., The Meadows at the Sunriver Lodge Sign up at the Marketplace Alcoholics Anonymous7:30 p.m. Pozzi building at the Sunriver Nature Center TuesdaysCouples Bridge 6 p.m. Crescent Room, SHARC Sign up at the Marketplace Info: 541-593-9397

WednesdaysSunriver Rotary 7:30 a.m., Hearth Room at the Sunriver Lodge Info: 541-593-7381

Sunriver Yoga Club 8:45 a.m. All levels welcome Crescent Room, SHARC Info: 541-598-7203

Knitting Group 6-9 p.m. Styxx and Stones Village at Sunriver Info: 541-593-3132

ThursdaysLe Cercle Francais 8:30 a.m. Cafe Sintra Info: 541-550-1459

Duplicate Bridge 6 p.m., First, second & fourth Thursday, Hosmer at SHARC Info: 541-593-9397

ChurchesCatholic

Holy Trinity Mass: 9:30 a.m. Thursday; 5:30 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m. Sunday. Cottonwood Road across from the Marketplace. 541-593-5990, 541-536-3571 www.holyredeemerparish.net Rev. Theo Nnabuga

Non-Denominational

Community Bible Church at Sunriver 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship; 10:45 a.m. Coffee Fellowship; 11:15 a.m. Bible Fellowship Hour. At Beaver and Theater drives. (541) 593-8341 www.cbchurchsr.org Pastor: Glen Schaumloeffel

Sunriver Christian Fellowship 10 a.m. Sundays at Holy Trinity Church, Cottonwood Road. Episcopal & Lutheran tradi-tions. 10 a.m. Sunday school, ages 4-12. 541-593-1183, www.sunriverchristianfellowship.orgPastor: Nancy Green

may 3 Friday Design Committee --------------------------------------- SROA Admin, 10 a.m. 7 Tuesday Magistrate --------------------------------------------------- SROA Admin, 8:15 a.m. Citizens Patrol ---------------------------------------------- SROA Admin, 3:30 p.m. 14 Tuesday Nominating Committee ------------------------------- SROA Admin, 3 p.m. 16 Thursday Finance Committee ------------------------------------- SROA Admin, 8:30 a.m. 17 Friday SROA Board Work Session ----------------------------- Fire Station, 9 a.m. Design Committee --------------------------------------- SROA Admin, 10 a.m. 18 Saturday SROA Board of Directors Meeting ------------------ SROA Admin, 9 a.m. 21 Tuesday Public Works Committee------------------------------- SROA Admin, 3 p.m.

june 4 Tuesday Citizens Patrol ---------------------------------------------- SROA Admin, 3:30 p.m. 7 Friday Design Committee --------------------------------------- SROA Admin, 10 a.m. 11 Tuesday Nominating Committee ------------------------------- SROA Admin, 3 p.m. 14 Friday SROA Board Work Session ----------------------------- SROA Admin, 9 a.m. 15 Saturday SROA Board of Directors Meeting ------------------ SROA Admin, 9 a.m. 18 Tuesday Public Works Committee------------------------------- SROA Admin, 3 p.m.

Visit the online calendars at www.sunriverowners.org for event info, meeting agendas and minutes

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Sunriver Area Chamber of Commerce newsSunriver Magazine available

The 2013-14 edition of the Sunriver Magazine is hot off the press and being distributed throughout Oregon and in Sunriver.

The magazine serves as Sun-river’s primary visitors guide as well as the Sunriver chamber’s member business directory. The new magazine has been increased to 112 pages and contains extensive information about recreation, attractions, events and services in and around Sunriver.

Of the 30,000 copies print-ed, most are being distributed through Travel Oregon’s nine state welcome centers, includ-ing Portland International Airport. Locally, the magazine is available at the Sunriver Area Chamber’s visitor center in building 13 in The Village at Sunriver. Most lodging units in Sunriver also have copies. Out-of-towners can order a

copy of the magazine by go-ing to the chamber’s website at www.sunriverchamber.com and following the instructions on its Visitor Information page.

Swings for Strings player registration opens

Player registration is open for the Precision Body & Paint Swings for Strings golf tourna-ment being held June 2 at the Woodlands in Sunriver.

The popular golfing event,

presented by Sunriver Resort, features 18 holes of golf with cart and range balls, a Nike Demo Day, par 3 challenges on the holes and a barbecue lunch. A reception follows with complimentary craft beers from Sunriver Brewing Company, wine and snacks, awards, prize drawings and a performance by Sunriver Music Festival schol-arship winners. The fee to enter is $125 per person.

Players can register by going to www.sunriverchamber.com or calling 541-593-8149 or 541-593-9310. The deadline is May 24. Swings for Strings benefits the Sunriver Music Festival and the Sunriver Area Chamber of Commerce.

Hole sponsors get free playerBusiness sponsors of holes at

the June 2 Precision Body & Paint Swings for Strings golf tournament will receive one

tions Board of Directors to help strengthen the organization. New Generations will continue to serve low income families in need of quality day care thanks in large part to our winner of this award.”

The Organization of the Year award was presented to the Sunriver Music Festival.

“The festival has been around the Sunriver area for 36 years but it continues to evolve in remarkable ways. While it brings outstanding classical and contemporary music to the ears of thousands of patrons each year, it also reaches out into the community to share the wonderful wealth of music

with our younger generations,” Smeage said.

“From purchasing musical instruments for local schools, to bringing professional musicians into the classroom to interact with young students; from drum workshops for elemen-tary students, to jazz orchestra concerts for entire student bodies and from scholarships for classical music students to pops concerts for all to enjoy, this organization believes that good music is the nectar of life for people of all ages.”

The chamber changed how businesses can be nominated to receive business of the year rec-ognition. This year, applicants were permitted to nominate themselves.

“Who better knows an orga-

nization or a business than the people who live it day to day?” Smeage asked.

The chamber also decided to add an Organization of the Year award to direct attention and awareness to Sunriver’s many outstanding nonprofits.

In an effort to remove politics from the decision, the chamber board of directors gave the award selection responsibilities to an ad hoc committee made up of Sunriver community members.

“This committee of three deliberated long and hard over the nine applicants for these two awards. It was not an easy task, for all the applicants were excellent and worthy of receiv-ing high praise for their work,” Smeage said.

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This is an excellent way to gain exposure and to treat clients and customers to an enjoyable day of golf.

For information on sponsor-ing a hole, go to www.sunriver chamber.com or call 541-593-8149 or 541-593-9310.

May after hours at Village Bar & Grill

Village Bar & Grill will host the chamber’s business after hours May 21, 5-7 p.m. The restaurant will serve drinks and appetizers during the event and give away gift cards in the door prize drawings. The event is free and open to the public and provides outstanding network-ing opportunities for attendees.

Information: 541-593-8149.

Additionally, winter outer-wear was collected and dis-tributed to Rosland School in LaPine.

With this year’s giving, SRWC accumulative grant awards since 2000 approaches the $400,000 mark. In the past few years the primary fundrais-ers have been the annual dinner dance, Buy a Brick, and the

Sunriver Art Faire. The fourth annual Art Faire will be held in The Village at Sunriver the second weekend in August.

These grants would not be possible without the support and generosity of the Sunriver and south county residents and businesses in supporting the fundraising activities of the SRWC.

Our sincere gratitude to the community for making these grants possible.

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Sunriver Resort has agreed to become the title sponsor for the May 20-27 Central Oregon Beer Week (COBW).

In addition to other events throughout the week COBW is excited to work with Sunriver on the week’s “Grand Finale Bash” to be held at the resort’s new beer garden. Adjacent to the Lodge, this new family friendly amenity offers sweep-ing views of the golf course and Mt. Bachelor. Patrons at the Grand Finale Bash, to be held on the evening of Sunday, May 26, will enjoy food, live music and, of course, great local craft beers. Admission to the Bash is free, and it is open to resort guests and the public.

COBW events:- Grand Opening, presented

by Worthy Brewing, May 20.- Brews & Bands, presented

Sunriver Resort partners with Central Oregon Beer Week; hosting finale bash

Plato once said, “He is a wise man who invented beer.” With more than 20 breweries in Central Oregon, Deschutes County is obviously full of wise men and women.

Throughout the month of May Deschutes Public Library offers Know Beer, a series of programs, tours and tastings highlighting the beer culture, breweries and brewers that have made Deschutes County the beer capital of the West. Besides sampling local beers and touring local breweries,

series participants will have several opportunities to expand their beer knowledge. Experts in all things beer, including a local home brewer, the plant manager from the OSU brew-ery and a local Cicerone (beer expert) add their expertise to the series.

All programs are free and open to adults who are at least 21 years of age.

The art of home brewing• May 5, La Pine Public

Library, 2 p.m. & May 9, East Bend Public Library, 6 p.m. Tony DeBone has been brew-ing beer for six years and in that time has never done the same thing twice. DeBone will talk about brewing your own beer in five-gallon batches using supplies available locally and will provide an introduction to extract brewing vs. all grain. Contact Tina, 541-312-1034, [email protected]

Central Oregon beerscape• May 8, Downtown Bend

Public Library, 6 p.m. Central Oregon has one of the highest brewery-to-resident ratios in the country. Worthy Brewing CEO Chris Hodge explores

Libraries offer beer programing

by Broken Top Bottle Shop daily.

- Comedy/Variety Show, pre-sented by Deschutes Brewery, May 22.

- Tap Takeover and Fire Pit

Party, presented by Crow’s Feet Commons, May 23.

- Mt. Bachelor third annual Brewski, May 25-26.

- Grand Finale Bash, present-ed by Sunriver Resort, May 26.

Central Oregon Beer Week promotes the region’s thriving craft beer culture by sponsoring a eight-day regional festival that attracts tourism, fosters knowl-edge of our regional brewing

heritage, and serves as a show-case for area breweries, restau-rants, pubs and others with ties to the beer community.

Information: www.central oregonbeerweek.com

how Central Oregon became a craft beer Mecca, and brings along a few of Worthy’s brews for tasting. Contact Tina, 541-312-1034, [email protected]

A sour investigation• May 13, GoodLife Brewing

Company (70 SW Century Dr., Bend), 6 p.m. Delve into U.S. and Belgian Flanders-style sour beers with Jeff Clawson, Pilot Plant/Brewery Manager and faculty member in the De-partment of Food Science and Technology at OSU. Contact Liz, 541-312-1032, [email protected]

Beer, barley and beef • May 18, East Bend Public

Beer tasting events

These tastings are part of the library’s Know Beer month of programming, which features more than a dozen talks, tast-ings and tours. All programs are free and open to the adults who are at least 21 years of age.

Phat Matt’s •May 8, Redmond Public

Library, 6 p.m. Join Greg An-derson, VP of operations for a tasting and discussion about their beer. Space is limited; registration is required.

Three Creeks Brewing •May 22, Sisters Public Li-

brary, 12 p.m. Zach Beckwith, head brewer at Three Creeks Brewing Company covers the

basics of making beer. Space is limited; registration is required.

Boneyard Beer• May 29, Downtown Bend

Public Library, 6 p.m. Join Boneyard brewmaster Tony Lawrence as he talks about his approach to brewing in the boneyard, where much of the equipment used was given a second life after being pulled from use elsewhere.

Sunriver Brewing• May 30, Sunriver Area Pub-

lic Library, 5 p.m. The compa-ny’s brewmaster presents a talk about the brewery’s approach to beer making. Sunriver Brewing opened its doors in 2012 and soon began brewing their own.

Register for the tastings by calling 541-312-1032.

Library, 2 p.m. Local ranchers Rob Rastovich and Bob Borlen talk about their collaborative partnership that uses “beer water” to water fields and “beer mash” to feed cows. Contact Liz, 541-312-1032, [email protected]

The alchemy of glassware• May 20, 2013, 6 p.m. Crux

Fermentation Project (50 SW Division Street, Bend). Not all beer glasses are created equal – nor are they “one shape fits all.” Find out from Lisa Morrison why glassware is important and how aroma plays a key role in how your beer tastes.

Participants must be 21 or older. Contact Liz, 541-312-1032.


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May 13, Myster: Butterflies of the Grand Canyon by Margaret ErhartMay 20, Fiction: Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine BrooksMay 27, Travel Essay: The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell

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Book Club Discussions • 6:30 p.m.Free and open to all. Light refreshments served

Sunriver Books Author EventsJane Kirkpatrick • May 4, 5 p.m.

William Dietrich • May 25, 5 p.m. Bob Welch • May 18, 5 p.m.

Jane Kirkpatrick will give one of her fascinating presentations on her latest novel, One Glorious Ambition: The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix.

And don’t miss Jane’s annual benefit walk for the Newberry Habitat for Humanity on May 5, 11:30 a.m. The scenic 3.1 mile route starts and ends at Sunriver Books. Tickets are $10 per person.

William Dietrich presents The Barbed Crown, the latest in his Ethan Gage series of historical fiction.

Bob Welch presents Cascade Summer, a memoir of his 452-mile hike across Oregon along the

Pacific Crest Trail.

Jennifer Shortridge & Erica Bauermeister • May 11, 5 p.m.

The double feature stars authors Jennifer Shortridge and Erica Bauermeister, who

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Signature Imports is on the move into the new building 6 in the village. Located just across retail row from their current location, the new retail space offers room to expand and showcase merchandise that the owners purchase dur-ing their travels.

John and Elizabeth Bokish are in their 30th year of busi-ness, 20 years in Sunriver. They said they are “cheered by the positive changes and optimistic outlook at the village.”

The opportunity to delve into handcrafted furniture,

display detailed textiles and showcase the artisans’ work prompted the move to the much larger space. Newly purchased merchandise from Indonesia, Mexico and Guate-mala, as well as items from an upcoming trip to Nepal and Thailand, will be filling up the new space.

Along with the move comes a business name change to West of the Moon, a name pre-viously used in their boutique gallery on the Oregon coast.

The business philosophy of direct trade will continue

by purchasing directly from artisans and small family busi-nesses, creating bonds and increasing standards of living while respecting and honoring their customs and traditions.

The Children’s Fund will continue to accept customer donations that are combined with the owners’ contributions and of which 100 percent go directly to support children in countries where the Bokishes travel.

“We are excited by the de-sire for Signature Imports to continue to grow and carry

items that visitors and locals want. They offer many unique and one-of-a-kind handmade items, not available in most retail businesses,” said De-nease Schiffman, operations manager for The Village at Sunriver. “As a long-time ten-ant we feel very fortunate to have them continue to develop their business here in the vil-lage. We look forward to their move into our new building 6 in early summer.”

For more information, call 541-593-8819.

The Sunriver Men’s Club will hold its next luncheon Tuesday, May 14 at Crosswater Grille.

Prior to the luncheon, the club will host a “candidate faire” for candidates for the SROA Board of Directors elec-tion this summer.

The luncheon speakers will be Dick Tobiason and Mike Pungercar, who will chronicle stories of the famous World War II B-17 Flying Fortress, honoring veterans who served and promoting this summer’s B-17 tour which will be at the Bend Municipal Airport May 21. Sunriver area men and women are welcome. The luncheon is $20 per person and reservations are required. The deadline for signing up is 8 p.m. May 12.

The menu is a choice of spa-ghetti with Bolognese sauce, grilled chicken Caesar salad, or stuffed acorn squash. Dessert, a homemade brownie with pep-permint ice cream, is included. Beer and wine are extra.

Doors open at 11:15. Board candidates will be available from 11:15 until noon to meet with voters in an informal set-ting. The luncheon begins at noon, followed by the program.

Dick Tobiason is a retired Army LTC, Master Army Avia-tor with 440 hours of combat flying in Vietnam. Among his awards are 15 Air Medals, Bronze Star with Valor device and a Purple Heart. During his second tour he helped re-patriate 27 American POWs in South Vietnam.

Tobiason is the chairman of the Bend Heroes Foundation that created the Bend Heroes Memorial, Bend Parade of Flags, WWII Veterans Historic

Highway (all of Highway 97 in Oregon) and the Honor Flight programs covering all of Eastern Oregon and the greater Port-land area. He is rated in single and multi-engine fixed wing and helicopters, gliders and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School.

Mike Pungercar is the direc-tor of South Willamette Valley Honor Flight.

Pungercar is a WWII his-torian with his focus on the history of the Eighth Air Force

and its role in the Air War over Europe in World War II. He is the author of “The Promise Kept,” a book about the Eighth Air Force with his focus on the 91st Bombardment Group (H). The 91st flew B-17s for all of their combat missions. His fa-ther was a radio operator on a B-17G completing 30 missions over Germany.

Pungercar is a member of the 91st Bomb Group Memo-rial Association, and a current board member of the 8th Air

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Force Historical Society - Or-egon Chapter, and a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association.

To reserve a seat at the lun-cheon, use the sign-up sheets

posted at the Marketplace or in the foyer of the SROA office. Reservation may also be made by email to Sunriver.Mens [email protected]. Please in-clude your menu choice.


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The Friends of the Sunriver Area Library are pleased to present an exhibit featuring painting by Bonnie Junell and jewelry/metalwork by Judy Clinton. The public is cordially invited to view this exhibit dur-ing the Library’s regular hours.

Bonnie Junell was born in Portland, and lives in Vancou-ver, Wash. with her husband and son. Growing up in a family of artists, Junell’s grand-mother and aunt, both estab-lished juried artists, were al-ways painting. Their influence prompted Junell to start draw-ing as a young child, and led to her first oil painting class at the age of eight. From that point on, she was hooked on paint-ing. Following high school, Junell attended art school, and holds a bachelor of arts degree

from the Downtown Portland Commercial Art School and has studied watercolor and drawing classes through Portland Com-munity College.

To help pay her way through art school, Junell took a job with Nordstrom, which led her on a long detour into the world of fashion. After 31 years with Nordstrom, Junell retired to spend more time with fam-ily and to further her lifelong desire to pursue her art.

“As an artist, you look at everything with an artist’s per-spective. When you look at clouds you think about shape, color and light,” said Junell.

Junell’s work can be seen in galleries throughout Oregon and Washington, including the Artists Gallery in Sunriver and the Heritage Gallery in

Vancouver. She is a member of Oil Painters of America and Northwest Oil Painters Guild.

Judy Clinton is from Madi-son, Wis., where she completed a master of science degree in art (art metal) with a minor in geology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Like Junell, after completing her schooling, Clinton found her art being sidelined for her ca-reer, and for almost 40 years, Clinton was diverted into scientific illustration. You can see her work in several geology books and in the “National Audubon Society Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals.”

Clinton recently returned to

her personal artistic passion: art metal or metal smithing.

“The construction of three-dimensional objects is always fascinating and intriguing. Learning a new technique and combining it with other techniques gives me a sense of discovery and fun,” said Clin-ton. “I am fascinated with us-ing different metals in a piece, by asymmetry and geometric

Judy Clinton

Bonnie Junell

shapes, and with the contrast of smooth and patterned sur-faces.”

In addition to her artwork, Clinton volunteers with the Deschutes LandTrust, the Citizens Advisory Committee at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, and the Osher Lifelong Learn-ing Institute. She loves to be outside, whether hiking, cross-country skiing, gardening, or riding her BMW.

The exhibit opens April 30 at the Sunriver library, and will continue through June. The li-brary is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday.

For questions about the li-brary, contact 541-312-1080. A portion of sales from the library gallery directly benefits the Friends of the Sunriver Area Library, and helps the Friends’ efforts to fund special programs at the library.

Gallerycontinued from page 5use for this piece of art.

Although Miyauchi’s pot-tery is very functional (it can be placed in a microwave or dishwasher) and be used daily for a multitude of tasks, it is still a beautiful piece of art that can be displayed when not in use.

Miyauchi’s work almost flies out of the gallery because it has a price point that makes art af-fordable to everyone.

Stella Rose PowellOne of the gallery’s most

popular artists, Stella Rose Powell is somehow able to convert her high energy, quirky personality into amazing pieces of jewelry. And the really excit-ing thing is that the style of

her pieces is always evolving. Powell’s latest passion is hand forged copper cuffs with fired patinas. With spring in the air and the anticipation of sum-mer, the warm hues of copper are reminiscent of sunny days and hot desert nights. All the colors are created with a torch, and the textures are roll printed from various materials.

Each piece is one of a kind because the process is not a science, but art. It is the inher-ent properties of the metal that bring out the beauty. Powell coaxes the process along using heat, cold water and salts.

At the end of this process, each piece is carefully protected from the air with a special coat-ing giving it lasting beauty and a finished look.


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hot-tub, never rented, turn-key furnished. $519,000

#18 Virginia Rail, Sunriver. Single level 3 bdr/2.5 bath 2,200 sqft newer home is fur-

ily room and a 2 car garage. Too many updates to list, great rental property. Turnkey furnished $352,000.

#4 Mulligan Lane, Sunriver� is large home has over 3,500 sqft of living space, 3 bedrooms/3.5 baths, 3 car garage. � is is an amazing value, great quality, never rented. $599,000.

#2 Ribes, Sunriver.� is lot is located on a small street in the north end of Sunriver and is the last buildable lot. All the homes in

ings and hot-tub. Priced at $429,000.

#2 Camas Lane, Sunriver. � is single level 1,492 sqft 3 bedroom/2 bath home 2 car garage. and a hot-tub. � is is great rental property close

ings and hot-tub. Priced at furnished & Great rental history. Priced at $559,000

#11 Lupine Lane, Sunriver. � is lot is located in the back of the lane close to the bike

this area are very nice newer homes. $209,000.

#5 Meadow House 2 bdr/ 2ba 1,230 sqft, nicely furnished, located close-in

to Fort Rock park. Turnkey furnished $324,900.

#7 Little Court Lane, Sunriver.� is close-in 3 bdr/2ba home has 1600 sqft of living space #7 Little Court Lane, Sunriver.� is close-in 3 bdr/2ba home has 1600 sqft of living space

# 2 c Aquila Lodge townhouse20% share, 3br/2.5ba and 1,892 sqft. � ese units are

build. Close to the SHARC. Priced at $165,000.

#10 Trophy Lane, Sunriver.� is 3,800 sqft 3 bdr / 3 full baths & 2 -1/2 baths, 2 o� ces, large kitchen and dining area, with views of the golf course. One owner & never rented. $749,000.

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While the quote focuses on women, we could substitute people for women. In doing so we would be addressing the many people who have made this a successful year for the Sunriver Women’s Club. Be-cause of you, we celebrated 16 nonprofit organizations that serve south Deschutes County residents by awarding more than $40,000 in grants to them at the April Giving Luncheon.

At the annual meeting we approved changes to our by-laws and elected new officers. The by-law changes included adding an appointment of an art faire director to the board, adjusting the fiscal year to coordinate with the art faire schedule and standardization of some of the language.

Newly elected officers will be installed at the May 21 lun-cheon. We welcome the new leadership: Co-presidents Carol Cassetty and Bonnie Rosen; treasurer, Stephanie Nelson; recording secretary, Jan Bull; corresponding secretary, Nancy Foote; membership, Nan-cy Fischer; communication, Marcia Schonlau; program, Joan Lewis, philanthropy, Ann McGranahan; nominating co-

chairs, Nancy Farnham and Pam Morris-Stendal.

We thank the outgoing 2012-2013 officers and com-mittee chairs. With hard work, laughter and commitment they demonstrated that “women ...change the world every day.” It is time to celebrate the end of a year and welcome new beginnings.

With affection and gratitude,–Nancy Farnham and

Pam Morris-Stendal, SRWC co-presidents

May luncheonOur final luncheon before

the summer break is May 21, 11:30 a.m. at Crosswater. Of-ficers for 2013-2014 will be installed. Come find out about the 65 artists, complete with slides of their work, juried into the fourth annual Sunriver Art Faire Aug. 9-11. Three of the jurors, Helen Brown, Karen Bandy and Sandra Miller, will be there to explain the jury process. Learn how you can become involved in this com-munity affair. SROA Board of Directors candidates will also be introduced.

Menu choices include Asian chicken salad with mango and

fried wonton strips, grilled chicken Caesar or vegetarian stuffed squash. Dessert will be a house made chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream and rasp-berries. Cost is $18.

Please RSVP by May 17 to [email protected] or call Nancy Foote at 541-593-1337 with your luncheon choice. Any cancellations after May 17 may be asked to pay for their lunch.

Gourmet groupThe International Gourmet

Dinner Group is made up of singles and couples who meet three times a year at a hostess home. Everyone has an op-portunity to bring a dish to correspond with the menu.

The average dinner has eight to 10 people depending on seating availability. It’s a great way to get acquainted, make new friends and have fun. Call Elreta Humeston at 541-598-7332 for information.

MembershipNew members are welcome

any time. If you participate in our activities, we expect you to be a member. Annual dues are $20 for an active membership

and $30 for an associate and are 100 percent tax deduct-ible. For more information, contact Nancy Fischer at nancy [email protected] or 541-593-7458.

Hearty/Soft Soles hikes

• May 14, Ann’s Butte. Lead-ers: Pam Morris-Stendal ([email protected]) and Melodee Munckton ([email protected]). Meet at the Holy Trin-ity Church parking lot at 9:15 a.m. to carpool. There will be two hike choices both about 1.5 hours. Soft Soles will take an easy walk around the base of Ann’s Butte passing through pine and manzanita. Hearty Soles will hike a short, but steep, trail to the butte’s sum-mit.

• May 30, HS/SS – Black Rock Hike at Lava Butte: Leaders: Anita Lohman (541-593-2171) and Patty Klascius. Meet at Holy Trinity Church at 10 a.m. to carpool to Lava Butte, where we will enjoy a talk from the forest ranger at the Lava Butte center. The hike begins at the 6,200 year old lava flow that came out of the side of Lava Butte. We will

have lunch with a spectacular view of the Cascades and the nine square mile lava flow. After lunch the hike continues on the Black Rock trail to the Deschutes River for a total trip of 4.5 miles one way. For a shorter hike, some may wish to turn around after lunch and head back to the Lava Butte parking lot (2.5 miles). This hike is suitable for both Soft Soles and Hearty Soles. Please contact Anita Lohman to in-dicate which hike you will do. Bring soap for Care and Share, camera, lunch, water, park-ing permit (forest, senior or Golden Eagle pass), bug spray and $1 for your driver.

• June 2, Heaven Can Wait cancer walk: Please join the women of Sunriver (husbands are welcome to register and walk, too) for this fun annual event of good friends, yummy food and great exercise. Pro-ceeds go to the local Sara Fisher Breast Cancer Project. Meet at 8 a.m. in back of the Mar-ketplace and carpool to Drake Park where the 5K walk/run starts and ends. Cost is $25. Register online by May 30 at www.heavencanwait.org


connectionsNews and insight from Sunriver Resort

State of the Resort with Tom O’Shea“Resort enhancements and community outreach are the signifi cant areas of focus at Sunriver Resort this spring,” summarizes Managing Director Tom O’Shea regarding the Resort’s 2013 initiatives. Over a three-year period, the resort is investing $10 million into property enhancements and upgrades to provide guests with an even more memorable experience.

The recent land trade between Sunriver Resort and the Sunriver Owner’s Association (SROA) has allowed a 30-acre transfer for the SROA to grow its amenities along the river between the Marina and Mary McCallum Park, and opened the door for expansion of other amenities and facilities. In exchange, deed restrictions from the main core of the Resort have been removed, allowing Sunriver Resort to unite the outlets that comprise the Main Lodge Village. The land exchange also included the former “South Pool” area, which is being beautifully landscaped and converted into a gathering space for Resort guests.

A renovation project of Sunriver Resort guest rooms, slated for completion by spring of 2014, is currently under way. In preparation for the 2013 summer season, Sunriver is updating all lodge guest rooms with new furniture and decor. Several additional improvements are on the horizon for 2014 and beyond.

Sunriver Resort is also committed to community outreach, with a focus on South County schools and other local and regional nonprofi ts. Kelsey Card, Human Resource Manager, and Josh Brown, Director of Landscaping, from the Resort, proudly dedicate weekly work hours to community projects. Among these include the Finley Butte project, which involves renovating a collection of baseball and softball fi elds for use by young athletes in La Pine.

signature events rhythm on the range july 5 - 6, 2013 sunriver marathon for a cause august 31 - september 1, 2013 traditions holiday celebration november 22, 2013 - january 1, 2014celebration of chocolatefebruary 2014

upcoming resort eventspga professional national championship june 23 - 26, 2013 wings and wheels july 27, 2013 run for the birdsjuly 28, 2013ghost tree invitational august 23 - 24, 2013 pacifi c amateur golf classic september 21 - 26, 2013

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Good Works: Community GivingSunriver Resort is dedicated to being a strong partner in the community by supporting local nonprofi t organizations and causes.

This winter, Sunriver Resort contributed $4,200 to La Pine High School with proceeds from the Run for Chocolate 5K held in February at the Resort. The La Pine High School Athletic Department and Future Business Leaders of America Club (FBLA) were equal recipients of the proceeds, allowing FBLA club members to participate in a regional competition held this spring in Portland.

Through their annual United Way of Deschutes County Workplace Campaign, Sunriver Resort and its employees raised $8,200 in 2012 to support more than 30 local social service programs. Sunriver Resort Managing Director Tom O’Shea presented a check for a matching donation to local charity New Generations of Sunriver in a reception held at the Resort.

“I am deeply proud of our Sunriver Resort employees and their sizable collective donation the United Way’s Workplace Campaign,” said Sunriver Resort Managing Director Tom O’Shea, “I am even more pleased to have an opportunity to donate a matching contribution to New Generations, and the children who keep our community vibrant.”

Sunriver Resort’s fi rst major tournament of the season is the 46th Annual PGA Professional National Championship June 23 – 26 at Crosswater and Meadows. The tournament will be televised on the Golf Channel. Spectators are welcome free of charge to view 312 PGA pros play four rounds of during this third visit to Sunriver Resort by The PGA since 2001.

Six hundred volunteers are needed for the event. For $25, volunteers receive a golf shirt, hat, and lunch. Those who volunteer three or more rounds will receive a complimentary transferable certifi cate for a free round of golf (includes green fees and cart) at Meadows or Woodlands course. For more information, contact Volunteer Chairperson Ryan Davis at [email protected].

August 26 – 29 the best junior golfers in the world will be playing the Meadows and Woodlands courses in the American Junior Golf Association’s Sunriver Junior Open.

The Pacifi c Northwest Golf Association Team Championships for men and women will be played September 16 – 20 on the Meadows and Woodlands courses.

The Resort will host 50 teams for The Ghost Tree Invitational on August 23 – 24. Guests are welcome to participate in the golf tournament and enjoy a special dinner created by local chefs.

From the KitchenBy: Chef Fabrice Beaudoin Sunriver Lodge Executive Chef

Spring has arrived, and with it comes the desire to add some lighter fare to our menus. Try this special smoothie from Chef Fabrice for a sweet spring treat.

Servings: Four10-ounce smoothies 1 large Gala apple, chopped 1 large Bosc pear, chopped 1 banana, chopped 10 oz orange juice ½ cup cucumber, chopped ½ cup spinach ¼ cup grapes 4 tbsp honey 4 tbsp lemon juice 2 tbsp chopped almonds

Instructions: 1. Combine all ingredients in a blender. 2. Blend on low until ingredients are combined.3. Garnish with chopped almonds if desired.

Caldera Springs: New General Manager“As Caldera Springs continues to grow as a vibrant community, we view the appointment of a General Manager to oversee the entire operation as a key strategic decision,“ said Sunriver Resorts’ Managing Director, Tom O’Shea. Although the General Manager position is new to Caldera Springs, the new General Manager is no stranger to Sunriver Resort. Krista Miller has been a vital member of the Sunriver Resort Management Team for nearly 20 years, most recently as the Director of Resort Operations for the past four years.

As General Manager of Caldera Springs, Krista will have direct oversight for Resort Operations, Property Management, and management of the Homeowner’s Association. “We are very excited that Krista has accepted the leadership role at Caldera Springs,” said Tom. “Her relentless attention to customer service and focus on community engagement qualify her as the ideal candidate to lead the community of Caldera Springs into the future.”

Krista looks to ensure that the quality of services and amenities at Caldera Springs match the high caliber of the community. She is committed to strengthening community relationships and involvement. “I want to know every single owner,” said Krista. “I want Caldera Springs’ owners to consider me a resource. I genuinely want to be a part of their lives.”


Tourism Update: COVA 2013By: Alana Hughson President & CEO, Central Oregon Visitors Association

The Central Oregon Visitors Association (COVA) continues to set aggressive goals for regional tourism development, and 2013 is already shaping up to be one of the most ambitious and successful campaigns in the organization’s 42-year history.

With a recent physical move to new administrative offi ces, a satellite Visitor Information Center at the Ticket Mill, three major cooperative marketing programs planned, and a feature television program targeting leisure travelers in the greater San Francisco Bay Area in the works, COVA is leveraging additional funding to make its dollars work harder and smarter in 2013.

COVA is preparing to embark on the second year of its successful Sunriver cooperative marketing program, which leverages private funding to strengthen existing marketing efforts. A cooperative partnership between COVA, Sunriver Resort, the Sunriver vacation rental managers and The Village at Sunriver focuses on generating awareness and visitation from the San Francisco Bay Area, a target market for the past three years at COVA.

As the region’s reputation for outstanding golf continues to grow, COVA is also set to deploy two new cooperative programs targeting golfers in 2013, including leveraged partnerships with the Central Oregon Golf Trail and the creation of the Central Oregon Legends Collection. The Central Oregon Golf Trail —a consortium of 26 of the region’s courses — has joined forces with COVA and has committed to marketing the region to golfi ng audiences nationwide as a destination for golfers and their families.

With this and many other initiatives being executed for Central Oregon, COVA’s efforts in regional tourism development remain in the forefront of our vision. Collaboration with the Rural Tourism Studios and the Regional Cooperative Marketing Program initiatives are partnerships between COVA and Travel Oregon, keeping Central Oregon top of mind in the statewide tourism arena. With a position on the Oregon Tourism Commission, COVA understands the value and importance of leveraged marketing partnerships.

We appreciate our partnership with Sunriver and our regional partners. It is the collaborative work of us all that will most effectively leverage tourism resources and utilize tourism as a key industry to diversify our economic base.

Golf: Season Opens With Full Tourney ScheduleSunriver Resort, one of the country’s most scenic golf destinations, has more golf tournaments than any property in the Northwest. This year, the Sunriver golf season is abundant with fi rst-class tournaments. The season began with Sunriver Resort golf courses coming on line in April, beginning with the opening of Crosswater, followed by the Meadows, Woodland and Caldera Springs.

Sunriver Resort Managing Director Tom O’Shea, and General Manager Scott Ellender with members of the New Generations Board of Directors.

Krista Miller, General Manager

Owner Spotlight: Meet the SmithsIn a 30-year journey that includes several real estate transactions, Randy and Barbara Smith will soon take the leap to becoming seasonal residents in the area. Here is their story:

The Smith family fi rst discovered Sunriver from a co-worker who had rented a home here. They heard about the extensive bike trails and sunshine, and thought it would be a perfect vacation spot for their young family.

Their fi rst rental experience was 1980 at a Cluster Cabin - the rustic detached units on Sunriver’s south end. They loved Sunriver from the start. Their two children learned to bike here because their home in Seattle was positioned in an area too steep for their fl edgling cyclists.

The vacations to Sunriver continued year after year. Why Sunriver, instead of other destinations closer to home? “There is nothing like Sunriver,” said Barbara. “It offers better summertime activities - more variety. And a superior ski area to anything near home. Being close to Bend is great - shopping, restaurants and cultural activities so close.”

The Smith family rented many different properties over the years - homes on various lanes, Cluster Cabins, Quelahs and Meadow Houses. In the late 80’s they purchased a vacant lot to “have a foothold in Sunriver,” according to Randy. “We were convinced that values would go up over the long term.”

They eventually purchased a larger lot, and then set their sights on a Meadow House, having rented at the Meadow House complex and noticing a sign on a front meadow unit. “We called Sunriver Realty and wanted to see Meadow House 33. The unit needed some upgrading, but we saw the possibilities right away.”

The Smiths purchased Meadow House 33 in 2007 and immediately starting working on a major renovation. This unit not only has an amazing southern view of the golf course and Great Meadow, it now has an interior that is equally impressive. The transformation is amazing - new windows, trim, paint, fl oor surfaces, fi replace, kitchen, bathrooms and elegant furnishings.

That brings us to today, and to Caldera Springs. The Smiths are now completing construction on their new home on Trailmere Loop. Randy recently retired from Wells Fargo, and he and Barbara plan to spend half the year in Central Oregon. They realized that they would need more room than they had at their Meadow House, as well as a garage. They’ve kept their Meadow House, which is managed by Sunriver Resort and is available for rent for guests to enjoy the vision and hard work that the Smiths used to transform the condo into an ideal vacation home.

Randy says, “We’ve always been happy working with Sunriver Realty. Their people are receptive, helpful and professional.”

Do you have an owner story to share with us? Email [email protected] with your unique experience!

Trainer’s Corner: Spring Golf Fitness By: Jason Kern Certified Personal Trainer, Sage Springs Club and Spa

Golf season has arrived at Sunriver Resort, but are you ready for that fi rst round of the year? Prepare for a great season with some golf-specifi c strength and conditioning, focusing on legs, hips, core and shoulders.

Exercises for golf can be organized into two categories: range-of-motion exercises, which improve the motion at specifi c joints, and strengthening exercises, which train numerous muscles to coordinate their efforts to move more effortlessly through a specifi c movement pattern.

Performing these exercises will have you in great shape when it is time to hit the golf course, but remember: Practice doesn’t make perfect, Perfect Practice does!

RANGE-OF-MOTION EXERCISESStanding trunk rotations – Start with this movement to loosen up the back and hips. Hold a golf club on the handle with the club head sticking up straight in the air. Perform 8-12 rotations to each side; rest for 30 seconds; repeat 2 times.

Lunge with twist – Like the trunk rotations, hold a golf club straight in the air to create a minimal amount of resistance. The lunge does not need to be deep, simply step forward with either leg, hold the split stance position and rotate away from the forward leg. Perform 8-12 repetitions on each leg (alternating legs); rest for 45 seconds; repeat 2 times.

STRENGTHENING EXERCISESScapular stabilization – A tall posture is important for improving the rotation necessary for the golf swing, this exercise will help improve and straight posture through the shoulders. Stand arms-length from a wall. Put your hands on the wall at shoulder height and about shoulder width apart, like doing a push-up. Bend elbows and lean your body weight in toward the wall. Hold for three to fi ve seconds and return to starting position. Perform 10-15 repetitions; rest for 30 seconds; repeat 1-3 times.

Standing wood chop – A great exercise for integrating the movements of the hips, back and shoulders. This exercise requires the use of a medicine ball or dumbbell. If using a dumbbell, hold it straight in front of you positioned horizontally with both hands around the edges of the weight. Slowly raise and lower in a fl uid motion. Perform 10-15 repetitions; rest for 30 seconds; repeat 1-3 times.

Randy and Barbara Smith, owners of Meadow House 33

Ski Into Spring!Along with a terrifi c ski season with 350” of snowfall accumulation, Mt. Bachelor has announced its 2013 Springtacular Season jam-packed with events and parties every weekend. With daily operations until May 26, Mt. Bachelor will offer the most spring terrain and one of the longest winter seasons in North America.

Springtacular Season Passes ($99-$169) valid every day April 1 through closing day on May 26 are now available. From the Springtacular Celebration kick-off weekend held in April, through the Gerry Lopez Big Wave Challenge, Deschutes Brewery Concert Series, BrewSki Beer Festival, Pond Skim Championships, and more, Mt. Bachelor turns into a spring skiing playground through Memorial Day weekend.

Expansion is not only contained to the 2013 season, but to the whole ski resort. Forest Service offi cials recently approved Mt. Bachelor’s plan to add a new Eastside Express chairlift, which will open 1,200 additional acres of terrain on the sheltered southeastern fl ank of the Resort’s lower mountain. It’s been nearly 25 years since new terrain has been developed at Mt. Bachelor. With the expansion, the next 25 years are certain to be world-class.

Sunriver Resort guests can also enjoy the spring skiing conditions by taking advantage of the Resort’s “Bragging Rights” package available throughout the month of May. The package allows guests to ski in the morning and golf in the afternoon – a perk of living in the high desert that Sunriver residents have enjoyed for decades.

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From the board room: Simply Sunriver

April SROA board meeting summary

Without a doubt, Sunriver is a world-class destination resort and residential com-munity. In the past several years, there have been dra-matic improvements in the quality and number of our amenities and activities all aimed at maintaining Sun-river’s premier status.

SHARC is the most nota-ble of these improvements but there are many others. The Vil-lage at Sunriver has arisen from it’s neglected past to become the center of the community. The village has a charming mix of retail shops, services, restaurants, bike and ski rental companies, a well-stocked gro-cery and real estate and prop-erty management companies. Well over half of the village has been either totally remodeled or new construction including the iconic skating rink. The village now features its own train that is enjoyed by many of our youngest visitors. (OK, some of us oldsters also join our grandkids, but extracting your-self from the cars when the ride

is over does present a sometimes humorous challenge.)

T h e Su n r i v e r Resort has continued to develop its proper-

ties in dramatic fashion. Cer-tainly, the lodge and its sur-roundings remain iconic. The Resort has also totally rebuilt both the marina building and the riding stables. It maintains three championship caliber golf courses that regularly host regional and national competi-tions. The Sunriver Airport is the busiest privately operated airport west of the Mississippi River.

Also within Sunriver are several dozen tennis courts, two pickleball courts, aquatic facilities at Sage Springs, Mav-ericks and SROA’s North Pool. We have a number of parks, playgrounds, playing fields and basketball courts. Our revered

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The Sunriver Owners Associa-tion (SROA) Board of Directors regular meeting was held Satur-day, April 20.

Board members present: Dave Jendro, Patty Klascius, Richard Wharton, Chris Christensen, Bob Wrightson, Pat Hensley, Greg Froomer, Roger Smith. Ab-sent: Bob Nelson. Staff present: Bill Peck, Hugh Palcic, Brooke Snavely, Becki Sylvester.Treasurer’s report

As of March 31, 2013 (unau-dited/estimated)

Revenues………….645,913Expenses………….574,109Surplus (deficit).........71,803

Owners forum-No owners spoke.

Association operationsAdministration: Preparing for

the retirement of the Sunriver Magistrate and the search for and training of a replacement. Organizing work of the Infra-structure and Amenities Master Plan task force. Monitoring warranty work on SHARC items and capital improvements.

Accounting: Completed anal-ysis of fundraising/gaming rules and discussed with recreation department. Laid out a plan to monitor and coordinate in the event SROA needs to register with the U.S. Department of Justice. Continuing to analyze recreation revenue models. Stud-ied impacts of health insurance reforms on the organization and presented findings to the SROA

board and finance committee.Communications: Promoted,

documented and produced a promotional video of the Sunriver Mudslinger. Designed and launched two new web-sites: SunriverSharc.com and SunriverStyle.com in support of the “Travel Less, Play More” marketing campaign. With Zolo Media produced and began air-ing 15-second commercials on Central Oregon TV channels. All marketing materials direct interested parties to Sunriver-Style.com for additional infor-mation.

Community Development: The Village at Sunriver architect and construction team sched-uled an April 24 neighborhood meeting at SHARC to present and obtain feedback on their future phases of development. The 2013 paint survey is under way. Contractor registration is consistent with activity seen last year.

Environmental Services: Mailed notification post cards regarding ladder fuel reduction work on commons this sum-mer. Mailed ladder fuel reduc-tion non-compliance advisory letters. Performed spring grass seeding project at SHARC and continued planning Arbor Day activities.

Information Technology: Met and negotiated with Bend-Broadband on a TV solution for SHARC and obtained SROA

board approval on a 3-year contract. Selected new digital signage software for use on SHARC monitors. Installed new server for SHARC fitness equipment that permits access to Internet based applications. Installed a document manage-ment server and new email soft-ware at SROA. BendBroadband switched SROA to a new fiber optic circuit which changed the external IP address for the phone system, outgoing emails and weather webcams. Staff scram-bled to restore connectivity.

Public Works: Restored the Sunriver Mudslinger course to previous conditions 48 hours af-ter the event was staged. Cleaned and prepared tennis courts for summer use. Identified sections of roads and paths to be rebuilt, issued requests for proposals and vetted the responses enroute to awarding bids. Began expanding the SHARC dining patio, add-ing shade structures and adding parking.

Recreation: Based on the suc-cess of the inaugural Sunriver Mudslinger, which attracted 345 participants, scheduled the second annual second mud run on March 23, 2014. Cleaned the lazy river, waxed the water slides and power washed the indoor and outdoor pool decks. Operated the outdoor pools for nine days during Oregon spring break. Held well-attended spring break events including a teen swim night, egg dive and duck race events.

Board actions-Received a Nominating

Committee announcement of the 2013 board candidates. The candidates are Richard Whar-ton, Mark Murray and Mike Gocke.

-Approved the minutes of the March 15 work session.

-Approved the minutes the March 16 regular meeting.

-Approved the March 31 financial report.

-Approved sending a letter to Deschutes County requesting extension of the public com-ment period on a proposal to change the ratio of overnight accommodations to residential units from 2 to 1 to 2.5 to 1 in destination resorts.

-Assigned staff to research costs of converting the two tennis courts adjacent to the playground at Fort Rock Park to six pickleball courts and make a recommendation at the May meeting.

-Appointed Bill Peck, Chris Christensen, Mark Smith, Patti Gentiluomo, Roger Smith, Herb Dix, Scott Hall, P.J. Beaty and Joe Patnode to a Pathway Master Plan task force for the purpose of preparing a pathway master plan for Sunriver.

-Appointed Jamie Kendellen, Richard Wharton, Tony Cunha, Mike Gocke and Bill Peck to the Asset Transfer Feasibility task force to research the pros and cons and feasibility of transfer-ring the SROA fire station to the Sunriver Service District.

-Approved resolutions 2013-003 and 2013-004 amending agreements with the Sunriver Service District for Bike Patrol services and enforcement of SROA Rules and Regulations. Both amendments include cost escalator clauses of three percent per year or at a rate equal to the Consumer Price Index.

-Held a first reading of pro-posed changes to the Sunriver Rules and Regulations, Section 1.01, 1.02, 1.04 and 4.02. The revisions describe the function and duty of the Sunriver magis-trate. The proposed revisions are posted to the SROA website for review during the 60-day com-ment period. See story page 1.

-Approved Resolution 2013-005 amending SROA’s bylaws. The amendments allow hiring of a magistrate who is not a property owner in Sunriver.

-Approved Resolution 2013-006 ratifying and approving the property exchange between SROA and Sunriver Resort Limited Partnership.

The meeting adjourned at 10:43 a.m.

The next SROA board work session is Friday, May 17, 9 a.m., in the SROA administration building, 57455 Abbot Drive. The regular board meeting is 9 a.m., Saturday, May 18 in the SROA administration building.

Approved minutes of the meetings are posted, as available, on the SROA website at www.sunriverowners.org

pathway system is extensive and well maintained. With our proximity to the Deschutes River, many mountain lakes and millions of acres of na-tional forest, fishing, hunting and water sports opportunities abound.

Yet, as attractive as these ame-nities might be, the real appeal of Sunriver becomes apparent when you get away from the developed areas. It is some-thing that is too often taken for granted but magical in its power. It is only when we slow down that we can experience the true essence of Sunriver, our natural environment.

From a personal perspective, Sunriver reveals itself when I walk our dog in the evening. It is then that things slow down. At first, I experience the peace that comes with the quiet that the night brings. The more I listen, the more I hear. It might be in the hush of a breeze blow-ing through the pines. It may be the haunting calls of owls. Our senses are heightened and our imaginations soar. The more

you listen, the more you hear, the more you wonder.

One can frequently hear the howls of coyotes. Usually their sounds come from a distance and several directions. It is a dis-tinguishing sound of the high desert and can lead to flights of fantasy recalling the days of the “wild west.”

The Deschutes River pro-vides endless opportunities to observe, to listen and connect. Whether it involves just watch-ing the river currents twist and rise and then become glass, or in witnessing the rise of a hungry trout, it is always time well spent. Waterfowl feed and preen or skim the surface on gently beating wings.

Your continued patience will often be rewarded as you see an osprey catching it’s dinner or a beaver emerging from its den or river otters frolicking at water’s edge. A moonlight float down the river can be a truly awesome experience.

If terra firma is more to your liking, spend some quiet time near the Great Meadow. There

you can see deer, seasonal visits of elk, coyotes, ground squirrels, hawks, eagles, the occasional porcupine, and horses running to their pastures. Listen to the song birds or simply gaze upon the majesty of snow-touched mountains.

The best thing of all is that we can enjoy Sunriver’s natu-ral environment in solitary moments as well as in shared discoveries with family and friends. In Sunriver, we have both the nature center and the observatory and nearby is the High Desert Museum. All are open to the public and all are unique, valuable and friendly resources.

So, yes Sunriver is an active and fun place to be, offering a wide variety of manmade amenities. But it’s essence and magic remains in its spectacular natural environment. It is sim-ply Sunriver.

Take a look at SROA’s new-est website, www.sunriverstyle.com, for ideas on how to dis-cover all that Sunriver has to offer.


OnlyCanned Food 4 Fun FREE DaysCome to SHARC May 18-19 for an outdoor soft opening weekend to ben-efit Care & Share, a local food bank serving the greater Sunriver commu-nity. Bring two, nonperishable food items per person for free admission for the day. Open swim 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Outdoor pools, lazy river, water slides and the tubing hill will be open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. You can also support the 12 Months of Giving at SHARC by bringing an additional five, nonperishable food items to be entered into a drawing to win 10 SHARC passes ($250 value).

Meet the TrainerSHARC welcomes Rebound Physical Therapy’s new personal trainer Jason

Kern. Learn about the new personal training and complimentary fitness classes he will be providing to SROA members.

In the Hosmer room Saturday, May 11 at 10:30 a.m.; Monday, May 13 at 10 a.m. and Wednesday, May 15 at 5 p.m.

Sip and PaintFriday, May 17, 4 – 6:15 p.m. in the Crescent room. Let Bonnie Junell guide you as you create your own masterpiece. No previous art experience necessary. $45 includes all supplies, wine & snacks. Must register prior to event – call 541-593-4382 or stop by the Artists Gallery in the village.

Golf FitnessThursday, May 23, 4–5:30 p.m. in the Dillon room. Maximize power, improve consistency and reduce injury in this FREE golf swing biomechanics and fitness clinic presented by Marcus Ainsworth, Titleist Performance Institute Medi-cal Professional and Physical Therapist at Rebound Physical Therapy.

Healthy Lunch & Lecture

Wednesday, May 29, 11:30 a.m. Join us for a complimentary lunch while learning how to take better care of yourself. Bend Memorial Clinic is pleased to present this free lunch and lecture by Dr. Kathleen Antolak talks about travel medicine and how to prevent ruining a vacation by illness or tropical disease. Reservations required by the Monday prior to the luncheon date by calling Emily at 541-585-3145 or email [email protected].

Health Care Reform Friday, May 31, Pringle room, 4-5 p.m.Alan Zalewski will discuss the coming changes in health care under the Patient Protection Afford-able Care Act that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2014.Free and open to all.

Tennis Tournament Volunteers NeededFor June 13-16 Summer Solstice tournament. Call or email Emily to see how you can help. Call 541-585-3145 or email [email protected]

Lifeguard training at SHARCFive-day courses of Red Cross lifeguard training. Participants must attend all five classes in a course. Cost: $150, which includes manual, certifica-tion and potential employment opportunities at SHARC or other aquatic facilities. Registration available at www.sunriverowners.org>Online Office>SROA Job Openings. Information: 541-585-3145May 11, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; May 14 & 16, 4 to 8 p.m.; May 18 & 19, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Fireside ChatFriday, May 3, 4-5 p.m. in the Hosmer living roomRalph Berry returns to discuss plants that attract beneficial insects to your garden.

Ambassador meeting Thursday, May 16, 4- 5 p.m.in the Hosmer living roomMonthly meeting for all SHARC ambassadors. Come and meet the other volunteers and learn about all the exciting volunteer opportunities at SHARC. New ambassadors will have the opportunity to attend an orientation immediately following the monthly meeting.

Fireside ChatFriday, May 17, 4–5 p.m. in the Hosmer living room with Michael Ranieri, who will present photos and talk about revisiting Asia by sea and land.

Have you renewed your SROA member ID card?

You can update your existing card by calling the HOID office (open daily 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) at 541-585-3147 and pay with a credit card, using your ActiveNet account and updating online at www.sunriverowners.org, or stopping by the HOID office at SHARC.

Card renewal is $50 per member. When you update your card you will receive your 2013 guest passes (20 passes per property).

SROA members benefit by shopping locallySROA members can pick up a shop local card from the HOID office at SHARC when they renew their SROA ID card. Discounts are offered by many eateries and merchants in The Village at Sunriver.

Notice of Election and Annual Meeting

of the

Sunriver Owners Association Membership

An election of the membership of the Sunriver Owners Association will be conducted by mail to

elect three (3) members to the Sunriver Owners Association Board of Directors.

Closing date of the election will be Saturday, August 10, 2013 at noon.

Results will be posted at the SROA office and announced at the annual meeting,

Saturday, August 17, 2013 atSunriver Resort.

Kathie Thatcher Jayne MeisterElection Committee Election CommitteeCo-Chair Co-Chair

Request for Proposals NoticeThe Sunriver Owners Association (SROA) is seeking request

for proposals relative to the design and plans for a proposed park and marina on the newly acquired SROA property adjacent to the Sunriver Marina and Hola Restaurant in Sunriver. The closing date for any proposals to be considered is Friday, May 10, 2013 at 12 p.m. All interested parties are encouraged to view the RFP document on the SROA website at www.sunriverowners.org.

On April 20, the SROA Nominating Committee announced the names of three candidates who will stand for election to the SROA Board of Directors in the association’s 2013 annual election.

H. Richard WhartonRichard Wharton is a full-time resident completing a three-year

term on the SROA Board of Directors and willing to serve again. His work experience includes increasing responsibility for the design, development, and operation of defense electronic systems. He was CEO of a privately held financial management company. Wharton has extensive volunteer experience in Sunriver having served on and chaired the SROA Long-range Planning Committee, the Telecommunications Task Force and the Finance Committee. He is an elder of the Community Bible Church, and a nine-year member of the Sunriver Music Festival.

Mark W. MurrayMark Murray will be a full-time resident as of this summer. His

work experience includes as principal in MC Murray Consulting LLC serving local government and education entities. The past few years he assisted the Crook County School District with their business management and updated financial policies for the David Douglas School District. He served as budget director for the Port-land Public Schools, as budget manager for the City of Morgan Hill, Calif., was chief administration officer, chief financial officer and budget officer for the Portland Development Commission and financial planning director for City of Portland.

Mike GockeMike Gocke is a nonresident owner but may move to Sunriver

full-time within six months. His past experience includes four years as a controller and 35 years in a certified public accounting and consulting services environment. Gocke has experience in accounting, tax, financial planning and auditing, litigation and business development. He is a part time instructor of taxation at Pacific Lutheran University.

Gocke’s Sunriver experience includes service on the SROA Fi-nance Committee, member of the potluck committee, as a volun-teer with Habitat for Humanity, Care and Share and LT Rangers.

Editor’s note: The June Scene will include candidate statements. The July Scene will include a comparison of the candidates’ responses to a series of questions. Video interviews of the candidates will be posted to www.sunriverowners.org in July. Ballots will be mailed July 10 and must be returned by 12 p.m. Aug. 10.

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By Shawn Cannon, SROA Recreation Director

We have just completed a full year of SHARC facility operations; granted, we staged the opening over a six-week period, which culminated with our grand opening Memo-rial Weekend last year. With a year under our belt, we better understand our operations, the various impacts that the differ-ent seasons bring and the needs and wants of our members. I’m proud to say we have adjusted our operations to meet the demands along the way and we are in process of making more changes to improve summer operations.

As I write this, the patio overlooking the outdoor pools is being expanded. Seating capacity of the patio will ac-commodate 40 more patrons at a time. Also under way is the

Lessons learned from a full year of SHARC operationsinstallation of five more shade structures around the pool, 100 more seats in the grass area and an additional trash enclosure. Additionally, we are adding more than 20 parking spots and moving the bulk of our employee parking off-site in July and August, which will provide even more parking availability.

We expect busy days at SHARC this summer but our hope is these changes will cre-ate an added level of service and accommodation for everyone.

Although we would love to be able to act on all the recommen-dations we receive and find the perfect balance between all our users, we do have one particular area at SHARC that continues to be a bit of a no-win situation at the moment. The owners-only fitness area has been a very popular and well-utilized amenity, and tends to be the area we get the most requests and feedback from owners. Al-though we have implemented a few adjustments since opening, I thought I’d share a bit more about the challenges in pro-viding additional services and equipment in this space.

When Commercial Fitness Equipment consulted on de-sign and use of the space, they

used their data from facilities around the globe, their expertise as leaders in fitness equipment engineering and trends in the industry when making recom-mendations for the cardio and strength equipment that was ultimately selected to be in the fitness area. Additionally, they took into account impending ADA compliance requirements that went into effect this year. We also have Rebound Physi-cal Therapy, whose space needs were mapped out in the original building drawings and is limited to what is currently afforded to them in the fitness area besides their private office space. They, too, have felt the pinch of the limited space as their business has grown over the past year.

From there, we get to the most challenging aspect of the fitness area… balancing the de-sires of our diverse users. For the sake of understanding the var-ied types of requests, of which many are delivered as demands, here is an abbreviated list: TVs on the walls, rowing machines, jump ropes, more floor space, kettle balls, sand bags, squat rack, bench press, spin bikes, stretching table, abductor/ad-

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Q: In April the SROA Board of Directors named Hugh Palcic as your replacement as SROA gen-eral manager when you retire in September. How is the transition being managed? All at once or are you handing off responsibilities gradually?

A: As has been the case for some time, Hugh is being included in much that I’m do-ing. Remember, Hugh already has 15-years of management experience with SROA. With that said, he will be intimately involved in every upper level management decision going forward. Some tasks that have a life beyond September, Hugh has already assumed much of the responsibility for, e.g. 2014 budget, SHARC policies, fees and recreation access programs. While he is certainly capable of taking the reins tomorrow, there is a lot on SROA’s plate that will undoubtedly keep both of us quite busy until I retire in September. We are both working very hard to not only accomplish all that needs

to get done before I leave, but to also ensure a smooth and seam-less transition of administrative responsibilities.

Q: What happens to Coffee with the GM meetings after you leave?

A: Actually, due to lack of inter-est, I’ve decided to cancel all future meetings. It will be up to Hugh to decide if he wishes to continue something of this nature when he takes over in September. In support of our association’s effort to be open and transparent, I sched-uled these meetings so owners would have the opportunity to get their questions answered straight from the horse’s mouth. Surprisingly to me, there has been little interest in this type of informal get together.

Q: You addressed the Economic Development of Central Oregon

Board of Directors at their April 11 meeting at SHARC. What is SROA doing to support local busi-

ness and economic development?

A: Even though Sunriver Owners Association is a non-profit corpo-ration, like EDCO it plays a vital role in helping the local business commu-nity be successful and grow. SROA not only maintains

the community’s infrastructure (roads, pathways and common areas), it also maintains and makes available to tourists and the general public: SHARC, a year-round tubing hill, North Pool, 26 tennis courts, 34 miles of pathways, two basketball courts, several parks and play-grounds. SROA also spends marketing dollars to promote all that Sunriver has to offer, and to attract residents and visitors alike. Our marketing theme is “Sunriver Style.” It’s Sunriver/

community-focused and our 2013 budget is $100K. That money is being spent locally on a multi-media campaign aimed at the local market designed to capitalize on marketing dollars being spent by other entities outside central Oregon and the state.

Please check out the follow-ing SROA sponsored/supported websites:www.sunriverowners.org www.sunriverstyle.com www.sunriverSHARC.com www.sunrivertennis.com www.sunrivermudslinger.com

Q: In January, several property managers told the SROA Board of Directors they will not participate in the Large Scale Recreation Access Agreement in 2014, an arrangement through which their guests get into SHARC and utilize the SROA tennis courts without paying gate fees. That agreement was a significant source of revenue for SROA. How will the associa-tion function without it?

A: SROA will not do without

Owners are welcome to submit questions to be

answered in this column. Email to

[email protected] by the 12th of the month.

recreation access revenue; it will just require a different rec-reation access program model. Remember, the property man-agers (PMs) said that they will continue to support SHARC, they just couldn’t participate in a recreation access program that required them to guarantee their share of the revenue. This year’s 33 percent increase to the large-scale property manage-ment companies and uncer-tainty regarding future increases were also at issue.

To facilitate a fresh look at our long standing recreation access programs and avoid any misgiv-ings, I will not be involved in the process of determining the appropriate 2014 user fees and rental access programs for our recreational facilities. This is now a job for the next admin-istration, forced upon them by the PM’s demands for a new system. Several board members along with key staff are already diligently working on what a

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Jack Kiekel, left, received the Order of the Hammer award from Dick Arnold, president of Newberry Habitat.

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Levy will appear on the May 21 ballot. The current local option levy of $0.23/$1,000 (23 cents per $1,000 assessed value) expires June 30. The revised local option levy reduces the current rate and extends funding for another five years. The revision reduces the levy tax rate to $72 per year instead of the current $78 per year for a property worth $200,000.

April 30 is the deadline to register to vote in Deschutes County. Ballots will be mailed May 3 and are due back at the Deschutes County clerk’s office by 5 p.m., May 21.

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new recreation access model will look like in 2014. This will be a part of the 2014 budget process which will begin about the time I retire in September. Albeit optimistic, it is my sin-cere hope that when the 2014 budget is adopted in December it will include recreation user fees and programs that will be satisfactory to all interested parties.

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By Mike BeesonFourteen years ago, Rev. Jack

Kiekel retired as pastor of an American Baptist church, and he and his wife Beve moved to Sunriver. Not one to sit around, Kiekel started looking for some-thing to do. “When I came here, I wondered to myself, would there be life after retirement?

I became aware of Newberry Habitat for Humanity, and somebody drew me in.”

Before long, Kiekel was asked to become a member of the Newberry Habitat managing board, which at the time was entirely composed of Sunriver residents. Between learning to build affordable housing

Sunriver resident Jack Kiekel receives Habitat for Humanity awardfor hard-working southern Deschutes County families, raise funds and plan for the future, he had his hands full. Several years later, Kiekel real-ized it was time to re-think his game plan. “It took some creativity when I couldn’t climb roofs any more. I began to make cinnamon rolls for the work crews and found other things I could do.”

One of the “other things” Kiekel’s ministry background prepared him for was taking part in dedication ceremonies that occur when a new Habi-tat home is completed. This function involves the work crews, the managing board, the family receiving the home

and their family and friends, and it makes for a substantial celebration. Kiekel said it’s an opportunity to remind people that Habitat for Humanity is a Christian organization. “It’s a chance for me to make it kind of a God-centered experience. We’re going to have prayers,

and that will always be present. We’ll be in big trouble if it isn’t.”

Kiekel says the time and effort Newberry Habitat for Human-ity volunteers put into their work springs from a desire to build community.

“If you have eyes to see and hearts to feel, you can find ways to serve one another. If you don’t, you just might as well be a grape that’s dried up and be-come a raisin. I don’t want to be a raisin. If you’re just working as a matter of conscience or guilt or whatever, you’re not going to get past a six or seven on the reward scale. The fervor and energy isn’t there, it’s simply fulfilling an ob-ligation. But to help others in a very profound and concrete way is an actualization of spiritual stuff. It’s a boomerang. You give


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As this issue of the Scene went to press, this year’s Art Faire jurors were making final decisions on the 121 artisans who applied to be in the fourth annual Sunriver Art Faire, Aug. 9-11 in The Village at Sunriver. The jurors’ decisions will be an-nounced in early May.

There will be more than 65 booths in this year’s faire. That means more than 50 artists may be disappointed not to be invited to attend. The compe-tition for a booth has become more intense each year, and the jurors’ job is not an easy one.

Volunteering their time as judges this year are four capable women: Karen Bandy, Helen Brown, Sandra Miller and Mary Lou Zeek.

Karen Bandy has been in-volved in art since childhood. Bandy graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in art education, taught art in a Eugene public school for three years, then began a career in jewelry design and manufacture. After working for others for almost four years,

Bandy and her husband moved to Bend where she opened her design studio in 1987. Bandy continues to design beautiful jewelry in addition to fuel-ing her newfound passion of painting.

Watercolor painter Helen Brown, of Sunriver, earned a master of arts degree and spent 15 years teaching French in the U.S. and Australia. An outdoor enthusiast with an art-focused life, her paintings have been juried into local and national shows, and she continues to explore the limits of her aque-ous medium. Brown has won numerous awards from the Watercolor Society of Oregon and the Gold Rush National Art Exhibit.

Sandra Miller is a former high school specialist art teacher in Australia and Canada. When she retired, she became a self-employed art gallery owner and frame shop owner in Bend from 1980 to 2006. She received the Governor’s Art Award in 2001. She is now an art consultant.

Mary Lou Zeek, of Salem,

began her career in 1975 as a studio potter until opening of the Mary Lou Zeek Gallery in 2001, her contemporary arts and craft gallery. The primary focus of the gallery has been to push the limits of gallery art in unexpected ways and “share” shows with the community. By building artist partnerships that go beyond her gallery door, Zeek has produced a creative formula for success, which requires a level of passion, time and risk-taking.

The “art of judging” requires some different perspectives said judge Helen Brown. “All the artists submitted such creative and interesting work; it was hard to pare it down to only 65 artists. Focusing on the basic principles of design made my decisions easier.”

Karen Bandy said she looked for “quality and consistency in the artwork, and if something was new and interesting that was a bonus. I also looked at photos of the booths to see if they were professionally put together and backed up the

Jurors decide who gets invited to 2013 Art Faire

The work of 2013 Sunriver Art Faire jurors Helen Brown, left, and Karen Bandy, right.

work.”The Sunriver Art Faire sin-

cerely thanks the jurors for their time and expertise they are contributing to the event. Be sure to check out the results of their judging on our website www.sunriverartfaire.com later in May, when pictures of the

juried art will be added. Make plans now to join the

fun. Faire dates are Aug. 9-11 in The Village at Sunriver.

In addition to the beautiful artwork, there will be a wide variety of professional enter-tainment, activities for children and a food court.

The Village at Sunriver will come alive with fun family activity Memorial Day weekend during Kids Day Saturday, May 25 and Dog Day Sunday, May 26.

The fifth annual Kids Day in May event will be the biggest one yet. The event will take place May 25 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will include games and activities that appeal to all age groups. Kids will be able to get up close with their favorite animal at a petting zoo, jump to their heart’s content on inflatable bounce houses, get their face painted, ride a kid-friendly train, takes tours of fire trucks, ambulances and police cruisers and meet firefighters and police officers.

Kids Day in May is organized by and benefits New Generations Early Childhood Development Center, located in the Sunriver Business Park. New Generations has been providing childcare and early education services to local children and families for nearly 20 years.

Dog Day in May is a popular event with local and traveling dogs, and their human companions. Professional dog trainers will host a dog show. Enter your dog into the amateur show. Numerous dog-related vendors will be on hand offering a range of canine products and services. The Humane Society of Cen-tral Oregon will offer dogs for adoptions so families can bring home a new companion. Dog Day in May takes place May 26, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Kid’s Day and Dog Day in May are two events families will not want to miss,” said Ryan Smith, Manager of Alpine Enter-tainment. “Please join The Village at Sunriver for these two great family events, shopping, dining and quality entertainment over the weekend.”

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Operationscontinued from page 24ductor machine, lower the mirrors and more.

Some have gone to the extent of suggesting that we remove a majority of the machines to be replaced by the use of a ball and free weights for similar such exercises. Others have offered to purchase their desired pieces of equipment so that it can be available for them and others. While that is a very generous and seemingly reasonable solu-tion on some level, we simply could not allow that without causing a myriad of additional conflicts between users.

Please know I do not make light of these requests and sug-gestions as I can relate to the comfort of my own workout equipment preferences and can identify with the benefit that these requests would pro-vide to the users. I know I’m reluctant to use a machine I’m not familiar with, but I have a couple suggestions on how to get the most from the SHARC fitness area:

First, come see one of our managers in the Recreation Department to provide fa-miliarization training on the equipment.

Second, Rebound Physical Therapy offers three fitness classes a week that are free to our members with their 2013 ID card and uses different equipment in a group setting.

Lastly, Rebound recently hired Jason Kern who provides personal training services. He can assist in setting individual owners up on a customized workout plan. Jason serves as an excellent resource for learn-ing alternative exercises that provide the same results as a piece of equipment that may not be currently available in the SHARC fitness facility.

We look forward to seeing you at SHARC during our second year of operations.

Cannon can be reached by email at [email protected]

Rotary Club fundraiser approachesCome join neighbors and friends at the Sunriver Rotary Club’s

wine raffle auction and dinner being held at SHARC. Tickets to the May 18 event are $75 per person and can be purchased at the Bank of the Cascades in Sunriver. At the bank ask for Jeff Lude-man or call 541-330-7570. Event and raffle tickets can also be purchased from any Rotary member.

Sunriver Rotary Club members would like to thank Benning-ton Properties, Mid State Electric Cooperative, B & B Diversi-fied Materials, Wilderness Garbage, StoneRidge Townhouses, AmeriTitle and U.S. Bank for their donations to the wine raffle auction and dinner.

“With their donations we are closer to reaching our goal for our community,” said Dana Stanley, Sunriver Rotary Club public relations representative.

By Jonathan KahnoskiSpring will soon be here, and

with it Sunriver’s Pacific Crest Weekend Sports Festival, sched-uled for June 28-30. Full-time residents may despair the crowds disrupting their forest tranquil-ity, but this annual event does much good for the community and beyond.

This will be the 17th time athletes from around the world come to compete in events like the Tour de Crest bike tour, full and half marathons and Olym-pic triathlon and duathlon. Visit www.racecenter.org/pacificcrest for the complete schedule of events.

Annual Pacific Crest Weekend Sports Festival beneficial to the community

The Pacific Crest event was founded by Jon and Carol Atherton of AA Sports, known for managing Hood-to-Coast and the Portland Marathon, Larry Browning of Discover Sunriver Vacation Rentals and Don Patch.

The first Pacific Crest was held in 1996 with about 175 participants competing in a half-triathlon, half duathlon, full and half marathons, and the Kids’ Splash, Pedal-n-Dash. The swim event was held at Crescent Lake and the bicycle event was held on Highway 58, which proved to be too dangerous. In year five, the swim event was moved to Wickiup Reservoir, safer because of its warmer water, and is still held there. However, local fisher-men complained they could not use the boat ramp at Gull Point. A joint effort by the U.S. Forest Service, race officials, Central Oregon Visitors’ Association and U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) resulted in federal money funding an upgrade of the ramp and enlargement of the parking lot, long-sought improvements.

Event participation grew within a few years to 3,500, causing Browning to enlist other Sunriver Vacations partners – Sunray, Village Properties and Mountain Resort Properties – as additional sponsors.

Since the sixth year, between 4,000 and 5,000 athletes have

competed. They come from all 50 states and the District of Co-lumbia, a number of Canadian provinces and foreign countries as close as Mexico and as far away as Europe and Asia. Ac-cording to statistics Browning has gathered, the athletes are an interesting mix: 78 percent are college graduates and half of those have a master’s degree. Roughly 60 percent are ages 35 to 54, and 11 percent are 55-64. Just over 70 percent are married, and 67 percent have a household income of $75,000 or more. While 72 percent first heard about Pacific Crest by word of mouth, most are very likely (75 percent) or somewhat likely (21 percent) to return, and almost all are “very likely” (80 percent) or “somewhat likely” (17 percent) to recommend the event.

The real Pacific Crest sto-ry is its economic benefits to Sunriver. Using the 2012 event as an example, 4,708 athletes registered. Of these, just fewer than 10 percent identified them-selves as local. The remainder came from 39 states and three countries. On average, each par-ticipant brought two additional people, making a total of 12,771 visitors to Sunriver. Only 27 percent of these lodged in Bend for two to three days. The other 73 percent found lodging in Sunriver and stayed three to five days. In total, they accounted for

about 14,000 room nights.Travel Oregon estimates each

visitor spends $124 per day for lodging, food and activi-ties. Taking the approximately 11,500 non-local participants and guests staying for an average of three days, Central Oregon saw roughly $4.278 million in economic impact, almost 75 percent of that in Sunriver.

To organize and hold the Pacific Crest, AA Sports pays a number of local agencies for a variety of services. In 2012, they paid a total of $25,838 to Sunriver Owners Associa-tion ($1,000), Sunriver Police Department’s Citizens Patrol ($5,974), the Sunriver Fire De-partment ($7,514), the La Pine Rural Fire Protection District ($1,850) and the Deschutes National Forest Service ($9,500).

AA Sports recruits hundreds of volunteers to manage the activities. The company donates $20 for each volunteer work shift to the charity designated by that volunteer, association or sports team. In 2012, those donations totaled $29,596. Over the previous 16 years, AA Sports has contributed more

than $300,000 to local charities through the volunteer program. In addition, all proceeds from the Kids’ Splash, Pedal-n-Dash event are donated to the Sunriver Care for Kids Foundation. The foundation receives more than $5,000 annually.

The event’s charitable impact goes beyond Sunriver. Some par-ticipants form “Teams in Train-ing” to train for Pacific Crest at home. Each team member must solicit sponsors, whose money goes to the Leukemia & Lym-phoma Society. The record dona-tion probably was several years ago when a 50-person Team in Training from Washington, DC raised more than $250,000.

Charities being sponsored at this year’s Pacific Crest include: Team in Training, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society – Or-egon, SW Washington, Idaho & Montana chapter; St. Jude’s Heroes; Three Rivers Care for Kids; Heart Rhythm Founda-tion; Team Defeat MS; The Cole William Larsen Foundation and Legs for Lauren.

Event sponsors encourage pledge contributions to one of the listed charities.

Pacific Crest seeks volunteers Organizing and hosting a major athletic event like the Pa-

cific Crest Weekend Sports Festival, with ten or more events spread over three days, is a huge undertaking. The folks at AA Sports are the professional event organizers who manage the marketing, the logistics (all the food, T-shirts and run-ners numbers, port-a-potties and other supplies don’t just happen by themselves), and pre-event registration of several thousand participants.

However, to make the event a success, those professionals need volunteers – lots of volunteers. In fact, AA Sports recruits over 600-plus volunteers to set up and monitor the courses and finish lines for the different events, work at aid stations, serve at the food and drink stations, and assist participants with last-minute registration and picking up race packets. Of course, there is all the clean up after the events.

In addition to the fun of being part of a great event, vol-unteers can raise money for their favorite charity. AA Sports donates $20 to the charity designated by the volunteer for every five-hour shift that volunteer works. Last year, those donations totaled $29,596. Athletic teams, clubs and associa-tions are encouraged to volunteer, and volunteers are welcome to work more than one shift.

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This event is intended for personal document shredding and prescription drug disposal, not for business or company disposal.

No advance document sort-ing is necessary as the shred-ding equipment can destroy paperwork with paper clips

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Far too often we see natural and manmade disasters unfold on national television and our only comfort seems to be the fact that it isn’t happening here. However, in so many of those communities affected by disaster, they probably thought the same thing; it can’t happen here.

The Sunriver community is undoubtedly one of the safest, most peaceful communities anywhere and probably is not high on terrorists’ lists. How-ever, there are natural risks such as the threat of wildfire, heavy snows and thunderstorms, as well as threats beyond natural occurrences, such as train de-railments,

On Tuesday, April 16, the community tested its response to a large-scale emergency. A train car was reported derailed on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad tracks behind Butternut Lane and leaking what was believed to be LP (propane) gas. The good news is that there was no derailed train car, no release of chemi-cals, but emergency crews re-sponded as though these things had happened.

Designed to test the Sunriver Emergency Operations Plan (a strategic, all-hazard response plan to disasters) and the ser-vice district’s Emergency Op-erations Center (EOC), the event was considered a success.

The EOC, located in the fire department’s training room, included key partners who would be part of a real emer-

Drill helps Sunriver prepare for the worst

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Crews in the field determined the nature of the mock emergency (an overturned and ruptured railroad tanker car), identified the chemical released (propane) and the appropriate responses to protect the public (they evacuated residents closest to the incident, and told others a little farther away to shelter in place).

gency incident management team, including: Sunriver Fire and Rescue, Sunriver Police, Sunriver Service District Board of Directors, SROA, Sunriver Resort, American Red Cross, Deschutes County Emergency Management, Eugene Fire Department Hazardous Mate-rials Team, Deschutes County 911, Oregon State Police, Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Office, ODOT and the Village at Sunriver.

As the drill unfolded, mem-bers of the operations center team took their seats and im-mediately began assessing the reported disaster on the tracks. Fire engine 221 and Sunriver police officers responded to the incident; just as they would in a real train derailment. Once firefighters and police officers arrived on scene they identified the product released, estab-lished a response plan, evacu-ated residents and assessed actions to take to mitigate the

leak of propane gas.While police were busy evac-

uating those in the path of potential harm, and firefighters were working with hazard-ous materials specialists from Eugene, the team back in the EOC was assessing and coor-dinating resources that would be needed in the event of a real emergency. The EOC team practiced its ability to work together to provide the appro-priate resources and response to the incident.

Meanwhile, the police of-ficers and members of the Sunriver Citizen Patrol con-ducted an evacuation of the area and tested the department’s newly updated evacuation plan. Firefighters consulted with their partners from the Eugene Fire Hazardous Materials team to identify what areas would be affected by such a leak of haz-ardous material and determine what their response would be.

To add authenticity, the com-

munity’s siren and emergency notification system blared di-rections throughout Sunriver, followed by calls from the reverse 911 system to those af-fected. The drill started about 11:30 a.m., and concluded about 2 p.m.

What does all this mean for Sunriver? The community is

well prepared with an outstand-ing team of professionals who are ready to respond and man-age disasters that could happen. However, practice does truly make perfect and the team will continue to conduct drills each year so that we’re prepared and ready for whatever may come our way.

As favorable weather condi-tions return to Central Oregon, fuels specialists with the Forest Service are preparing for spring prescribed burns. Prescribed fires, often completed in con-junction with thinning and mowing, reduce hazardous fuels that may decrease future wildfire intensity and allow for more effective containment. Fire managers and ecologists also use prescribed fire to im-prove forest and rangeland health and protect the quality of watersheds and wildlife habitat.

Prescribed fires are ignited

when predicted weather pat-terns and fuel conditions will minimize smoke impacts to air quality and public health. All prescribed burns are completed in compliance with the Oregon Department of Forestry smoke management plan.

The following prescribed burns are being considered for implementation this spring across the Deschutes and Ocho-co national forests:

Bend–Fort Rock Ranger District

South Bend – 326 acres ½

Prescribed burns planned near Sunriver, around Central Oregon mile west of Horse Butte on the southeast side of Bend. This project could begin early April and will be highly visible to area residents.

Extra and Nut – 670 acres 10 miles northwest of La Pine within and adjacent to the Prin-gle Falls Experimental Forest

Dilman – 62 acres 8 miles west of La Pine along Forest Road 44 (south Wickiup Res-ervoir Road)

Sua CT – 167 acres 2 miles west of Sunriver along Forest Road 41 (Conklin Road)

Katalo – 92 acres 6 miles west of Sunriver along Forest Road 45 (Sunriver-Mt. Bachelor Road)

Mix – 43 acres 19 miles east of La Pine near Willow Butte

Fuzzy 4 – 125 acres southwest of Cabin Butte along Forest

Road 18 (China Hat Road)Fuzzy 11 & 298 – 533 acres

southeast of Coyote Butte along Forest Road 1820

Fry - 107 acres on Skyliners Road, 7 miles west of Bend

Oz 1 – 12 acres ½ mile south of the High Desert Museum

Oz 6 – 40 acres 1 mile north-west of Sugar Pine Butte along Forest Road 9720

Oz 8 – 61 acres adjacent to the eastern side of Sunriver along county Highway 40

Crescent Ranger DistrictHammy – 150 acres on Ringo

Butte along Forest Road 6210Jig – 172 acres 1 mile west

of the Cascade Lakes Highway along Forest Road 4652 (near Wickiup Reservoir)

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Weiser Units – 97 acres split between two units west of Highway 58 near the Cascade Estates subdivision

Sisters Ranger DistrictMetolius Basin Steward – 170

acres cooperatively burned with the Deschutes Land Trust; 1 mile southwest of Metolius Meadows on Forest Road 500 in the Metolius Preserve

Sisters Area Fuels Reduction NW – up to 400 acres between Highway 242 and Forest Road 300 near Cold Spring Camp-ground

McCache North – up to 650 acres off of Forest Road 1014 near Graham Butte

1425 – up to 800 acres off of Forest Road 1425 in the

Metolius BasinGlaze Forest Restoration – up

to 160 acres in the Glaze For-est Stewardship area, between Forest Roads 330 and 300, adjacent to Glaze Meadow

Ochoco National ForestCoyote Hills – 400 acres

east of Haystack Reservoir in the Crooked River National Grassland

East Maurys – 2200 acres on the east end of the Maury Mountains

Squirrel Ridge – 275 acres along Mill Creek near Wildcat Campground

Zane – 500 acres east of Big Summit Prairie and Black Mountain

West Maurys /Florida creek – 400 acres on the West end of the Maury Mountains near Florida Creek

In all cases, the areas around the burns will be signed to in-form motorists of the prescribed fire activities and people recre-ating in or traveling through the area should use caution as smoke may affect visibility and travel.

If motorists encounter smoke as a result of the burning, they should slow down, turn on headlights, and proceed with care.

Patrols and mop-up activities will occur during and following ignitions and night patrols will occur on an as-needed basis, depending on conditions.

Individual media releases will be sent out prior to each burn providing more information on the type of burn, the location and information on any road or area closures.

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Sunriver Service District Managing Board April meeting summary

Candidates sought for Sunriver Service District Managing BoardThe Nominating Committee

of the Sunriver Owners Associa-tion is looking for candidates for two Sunriver Service Dis-trict Managing Board positions. The individuals selected for these positions will take office Sept. 1, and serve a three year term.

Position openings• Position 3 – Sunriver Prop-

erty Owner: Nominees must be a Sunriver property owner

in good standing; however the nominee does not have to be a permanent resident.

• Position 4 – District Elector: Nominees must be a Sunriver property owner in good stand-ing, permanent resident in Sunriver, and a registered voter in Precinct 16 of Deschutes County.

Summary statement:Successful candidates must

have demonstrable leadership

skills based on past experience and achievement. Candidates are required to bring a broad perspective and willingness to seek solutions, preferably through consensus. The indi-viduals are expected to work energetically, with enthusi-asm, and integrity to help the Sunriver community move forward on important issues facing the Sunriver Service District Managing Board and community as a whole.

Preferred Characteristics:• Demonstrated leadership skills based on past experience and achievements• Ability to work collaboratively to address complex issues and effectively problem solve• Involved in Sunriver area organizations• Exhibits collegiality and tolerance of different perspectives• Effective listening and communication skills• Consistently acts in good faith and the best interests of the organization• Effectively works with others and in teams

If you are interested in a position on the Sunriver Service District Managing Board and meet these qualifications, or know of someone who might be interested who meets these qualifications, please call or email any member of the nominating committee listed below. Applications may be obtained from the Sunriver Owners Association (SROA) office or by calling 541-593-2411. Applications must be returned to the SROA office by 4 p.m. Friday, June 7, 2013.

Thanks in advance for your help in identifying potential candidates to govern the Sunriver Service District.

Katie Hall, co-chair [email protected] 541-306-0114Al Hornish, co-chair [email protected] 541-593-5962Jim Adams [email protected] 541-593-1817Teri Jendro [email protected] 541-593-0232Gail Manary [email protected] 541-593-9312Jack McDonnell [email protected] 541-593-7680Barbara Wade [email protected] 541-593-6408

n Define your defensible spacen Remove flammable vegetation and brush around your homen Reduce shrubs under nearby trees and trim lower tree branchesn Keep grass and weeds cut lown Clear wood piles and building materials away from your homen Keep your yard and roof cleann Keep address signs visiblen Choose fire resistant roofing materialsn Be prepared to respond to wildfire

Wildfire can strike quickly and without warning. Most homes are lost to wildfire when falling embers smoulder and ignite vulnerable areas around your home.

It’s quick. It’s simple. It’s everyone’s responsibility.

For FireFree guidelines specific to Sunriver properties, contact the SROA Environmental Department at 593-1522

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The Sunriver Service District Managing Board met April 18. Board members present: Debra Baker, Ron Angell, Bob Wright-son and Jim Wilson. Absent: Bob Nelson. Staff present: Marc Mills, Art Hatch.Public input

-There was none.Financial report

(As of March 31, 2013, un-audited)

Resources…...........5,550,254Requirements….....2,791,382Police Wages & Benefits...1,027,682Materials/Services…..131,452FireWages & Benefits…1,270,099Materials/Services.….131,452Bike Patrol….………..41,210Non-departmental….131,220Board actions

-A planned introduction and

discussion with the district’s new legal counsel did not oc-cur because the attorney, Mark Amberg, accepted a full-time position with the City of Port-land. Director Angell said a new search for another legal counselor would begin im-mediately. In the interim, the district can seek legal advice from Deschutes County.

-Approved the minutes of the

March 14 regular meeting, as amended.

-Approved the minutes of the March 25 special meeting.

-Approved payment of $11,730 to SROA for admin-istrative and fleet maintenance services rendered in March.

-Approved payment of $5,281 to Deschutes County 911 for data network connec-tion, licensing, support and maintenance services.

-Approved amendments to the employee handbook requir-ing employees use paid sick leave before vacation leave.

-Approved the final draft of the 2013-2018 strategic plan.

-Approved the police depart-ment’s 2012 annual report.

-Approved the fire depart-ment’s 2012 annual report.

-Approved giving the ad-ministrative assistant a $1,050 bonus and increasing the hourly pay from $18.72 to $20.06.

-Approved purchase of two police vehicles and equipping them for service at a cost not to exceed $66,000.

-Discussed officer Evan Ken-nedy’s participation in the 250-mile long Police Unity Tour bike ride May 10-13 through New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. Kennedy is taking vacation time off to participate but will wear his Sunriver uniform at a ceremony to officers who fell in the line of duty.

Chiefs’ reportsFire-The department responded

to 38 incidents in March in-cluding 21 emergency medical service calls, three motor vehicle accidents with injuries, three building fires, three hazardous conditions and five false alarms.

-Participated in the Sunriver Mudslinger by providing wa-ter in the mud pits, an aerial shower for competitors to rinse off at the finish line and medical support.

-The department has agreed to participate in a Sunriver Music Festival fundraiser by auctioning off staff to perform manual labor, i.e. provide fur-niture-moving services.

-Chief Hatch is making presentations to community groups about a voluntary reg-istry which seeks to identify individuals who would require assistance in the event of an emergency or evacuation.

-Five candidates entered the reserve firefighter training acad-emy in March. Four remain enrolled.

-Chief Hatch is working with

a land use attorney to rezone the training facility site near Lake Penhollow.

-Multiple agencies partici-pated in the April 16 emergency operations drill. The scenario was a derailed train leaking propane that forced hundreds of people to shelter in place in their homes while hazardous materials crews responded. Chief Hatch said the responders correctly identified the chemi-cal involved, took the appropri-ate protective actions and that the emergency command center operated smoothly. A review of the drill identified several procedures that could be done better.

Police-In March the department

investigated 152 incidents, fol-lowed up on 95 and issued 22 case numbers; made 15 arrests; provided 332 on-property as-sists, 37 off-property assists and 257 public assists; issued 359 traffic warnings and 21 traffic citations. The department in-vestigated 29 Sunriver rules and regulations incidents and issued 23 warnings and six citations. Issued 79 warnings of pathway violations.

-Officers continued working on their 40-hours of annual in-service training, including study of the Prison Rape Elimi-nation Act. Chief Mills said the law addresses how individuals placed under arrest are treated by police officers.

-In a noteworthy call last month, officers Ethan Kennedy and Tiffany Hughes responded with the Sunriver Fire Depart-ment to a fire alarm call on Fairway Drive. Chief Mills said that, upon arrival, the officers discovered the house had been vandalized and the contents of a fire extinguisher discharged inside the home. They swept the scene for clues and were able to provide evidence that led to the arrest of an individual who was apprehended by the Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Office the next day for break-ing into an RV. The evidence was a handprint left on a wall that showed a bleeding cut on the suspect’s right pinky finger. The individual apprehended in the RV break in had a matching wound.

-A notice to vacate prem-ises was issued to a resident on Timber Lane. Three citations about dogs running loose have been issued to the same address. Chief Mills said the next step is for the property manager to request the Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Department deliver


Citizen Patrol

March 2013Houses checked 49 Public assistance 33 Special Projects 5

Sunriver Police log Selected log entries from the Sunriver Police - March 2013

SCMC = St. Charles Medical Centerr&rs = rules & regulations rP = reporting Person BaC = Blood alcohol ContentUtl = Unable to locateDUii = Driving Under influence of intoxicants

3/2 report of two missing subjects. rP stated the subjects were supposed to show up around 10 p.m. the duo were later located. their vehicle had gotten stuck in the snow and they had to hike until they got reception on their phones. they were reunited with their family.

3/3 report of a female walking along Beaver Drive at 11 p.m. it was determined she had been involved in a verbal domestic. She was given a courtesy transport.

3/4 report of damage to the interior of the garbage enclosure area of a home on Goldfinch lane.

3/4 assisted Bend PD by conducting a drug influence evaluation on a subject they had in custody for DUii. it was determined that the subject was under the influence of a controlled substance and unable to operate a vehicle.

3/5 rP at Beaver ridge Condos did not know how to shut off the jets in her Jacuzzi tub so she called 911. Counseled on the proper use of 911.

3/5 individual on tamarack lane was cited for two dogs at large.3/7 report of two dogs at large in the area of tamarack and timber. Utl.3/7 located a female at her residence on Brant Drive with an outstanding

misdemeanor warrant. She was taken into custody and lodged at DCJ.3/8 Contacted a Sunriver homeowner on Golden eagle lane regarding her dog

barking. Verbally warned.3/9 loud screaming heard from area near the police station. an officer located

the source at one of the ranch Cabins and advised renters of rules and regulations.

3/10 Welfare check at ranch Cabins on a male attempting to flag down traffic. He said his “friends” left him in Sunriver. an officer provided him with a courtesy transport back to Bend.

3/10 a Cascade natural Gas employee reported finding a plastic baggie con-taining a small amount of marijuana. Marijuana placed in evidence.

3/12 report of theft by employee at a location on overlook road.3/12 assisted SrFD with a gas leak on Juniper lane.3/12 report of two suspicious males flagging down cars near circle 1. Utl3/12 assisted DCSo on Cooper Drive with a missing jogger. Subject was

located at the entrance to Sunriver.3/12 rP on Virginia rail reported something walking of the roof at 1 a.m. that

didn’t sound like a raccoon. Utl anything suspicious.3/13 report of a customer at the Marketplace Store dropping a baggie of mari-

juana while shopping. Video footage and vehicle description ultimately led to the suspect being located and cited for possession.

3/14 Conducted a traffic stop on Century Drive on a vehicle for multiple traffic violations. the driver was arrested on an outstanding misdemeanor war-rant and transported.

3/16 off duty officer located two juvenile females lost on lake road. trans-ported them to their residence.

3/18 rP on rogue lane reports suspicious damage to her screen door which occurred the previous week. the rP had already fixed the screen and there was no damage to document. it is unknown what or who caused the damage.

3/18 Verbal dispute over dog being on rP’s Five iron lane property. located the individuals in question who admitted to being in the wrong. all parties were advised to avoid future confrontations and the dog owners were warned to keep their dog off others’ properties.

3/20 During a traffic stop on Cottonwood, a passenger consented to a search of his clothing and a small amount of marijuana was found in his pocket. He was cited for possession.

3/20 assisted SrFD with a gas leak at Beaver ridge Condo.3/21 During a traffic stop on S. Century Drive a marijuana pipe was discovered

and the owner was issued a citation for a controlled substance.3/22 DCSo requested assistance on a DUii. the driver of the vehicle con-

sented to and failed field sobriety tests, was taken into custody.3/23 report of a theft from a Pole House.3/23 report of a missing subject who went for a walk. Subject was located and

reunited with family.3/23 Conducted a traffic stop on Canoe Camp road on a vehicle for failure to

signal. the driver was cited for DWS and driving uninsured. a passenger was arrested for probation violation and transported to DCJ.

3/24 reported burglary at residence on Mt. adams lane. tVs and household items were taken.

3/27 rP reported finding a juvenile on tan oak lane. the juvenile had become disoriented when it got dark and wandered in the wrong direction.

3/28 traffic complaint of a vehicle driving all over the road on Beaver Drive. officer stopped the vehicle and transported the driver to Bend due to an urgent medical need.

3/29 rP reported her daughter was chased by two dogs running loose on tamarack lane. the owner of dogs was issued a citation.

3/30 Conducted a traffic stop on Cottonwood road for failure to signal and failure to drive within lane. Driver was arrested for an outstanding felony warrant, DUii, possession of controlled substance, DWS and possession of marijuana.

3/30 Parking complaint on Coyote lane. officer advised the renters of r&rs.

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DCJ = Deschutes County JailSFSt = Standardized Field Sobriety test DCSo = Deschutes County Sheriff office SFD = Sunriver Fire DepartmentoSP = oregon State PoliceDWS = Driving While Suspended

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Q: An emergency drill was held April 16 in Sunriver. What was the premise and purpose of the drill? What was learned?

A: The premise and purpose of the drill was to test ourselves and part-ners on organization and response to an emergency or disaster in our community. On duty personnel and our respond-ing partners did not know the specifics of the disaster until the drill began. On duty police personnel responded as if a real disaster was occurring. In the minds of our personnel the disaster was real and duties were seriously carried out.

We all learned that we have things to train on. Examples for the police department include: Having binoculars in patrol vehicles to observe “hazmat placards” from a distance, and setting up more public educa-tion about “sheltering in place” along with providing maps to responding partners.

Q: What happens if voters don’t approve the Deschutes County 911 Service District local option levy on the May 21 ballot? How might Sunriver be impacted?

A: Deschutes County 911 will have to spend contingency money to maintain operations. This will eventually create a

orders to leave.-Chief Mills said the new po-

lice vehicles are all wheel drive Ford SUV police interceptors with 6-cylinder engines that are pursuit-rated but should get better mileage than the two V8 Chevy Tahoes they replace. They will be purchased after July 1 in the new fiscal year, equipped in Salem and put into

service.The meeting adjourned at

3:46 p.m. to executive session to discuss pending litigation and negotiations with the fire-fighters union.

The next meeting of the SSD Managing Board is Thursday, May 16, 3 p.m. in the Sunriver Fire Station training room, 57475 Abbot Drive. Approved meeting minutes are posted, as available, at www.sunriversd.org

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situation in which emergency services agencies may have to pay a fee for dispatch services or figure out ways to dispatch ourselves. The current 911 could

possibly become an emergency call center if this happens and emergency response agencies would be forwarded calls for response.

Q: What’s the latest on consideration of buying the fire sta-tion from SROA and consolidating the police

and fire in that building?A: SROA and SSD are work-

ing on feasibility studies to de-termine costs and potential cost savings. It was just talked about at the joint meeting between SROA and SSD on April 19.

Q: Including the months you served as interim chief, you’ve been in charge of the Sunriver Police Department more than a year. What are the most significant changes during your tenure?

A: No. 1 is our officers engag-ing our community in positive, interactive ways while con-tinuing to provide quality and professional law enforcement service.

Our management has been

tasked with being more in-volved with our officers and the community. The sergeants should be seen in the commu-nity not just at the office. They are also tasked with making sure we are following and living up to our mission, vision and values, which can be found at www.sunriversd.org/policepage. htm.

Philosophy has changed and our vision statement states it: “The Sunriver Police Depart-ment is a reliable and profes-sional law enforcement organiza-tion that provides public safety and security that is tailored in a highly ethical and competent way to the Sunriver Service Dis-trict community and visitors.”

“The Sunriver Police Depart-ment is committed to deterring, protecting and defending our community while fostering the highest value of respect.”

“The Sunriver Police Depart-ment will bring innovative and effective public safety to our citizens, thus creating a sense of safety in our community. We will be accountable for our actions, work in partnership with other public service orga-nizations and support, as well as provide, continued education for our community and ourselves.”

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By Paul J. GriecoSpring is the time for rebirth

and renewal. This spring in particular is promising to be no-table because of several changes being made in the style and methods of play in the Sunriver Men’s Golf Club (SRMGC).

Engendered by the results of the 2013 member survey and the board’s (and Sunriver Resort management’s) willingness to comply with members’ wishes, there will be a concerted focus on faster play, some different tee box set-ups, competitive formats, new wrinkles in weekly individual games and more sponsored lunches for members (four this year compared to two last year).

Speaking of renewal, resort maintenance crews have done yeomen’s work in getting both courses ready for play this season. Simple “walkabouts” around the Meadows and Woodlands courses show that they both look terrific with

fairways and greens that are already appearing in prime shape. Too, many will be ex-cited when they see the changes to Meadows’ number three hole, where much of the vegetation, small trees and shrubs have been removed from the turn of the dogleg (the snag is still there), allowing for a shot over the corner. Until now, a stymied player had no option but to “punch out” away from the dogleg and still had a mid-to-long iron to the green.

The single biggest disap-pointment with the SRMGC play days (as a club, we are not alone in this department) is “slow play.” In the member survey a whopping 76 percent of respondents reported that would like to play in four hours and 15 minutes or less. Robert Hill, SRMGC club president and Greg Cotton, competition

director, met with resort man-agement to review the survey results and discussed some solu-tions. While players themselves are most often responsible for

pace of play, resort policy also has an impact, such as when the number of “A” and “B” four-somes stacked onto tee boxes becomes a hindrance. Resort management is aware and will try to manage this scenario as well as possible.

Pace of playThe SRMGC itself is engag-

ing in a continuing education program to encourage faster play by encouraging “ready”

Sunriver golf: Changes to the normal ‘course’ of events

Women’s golf planning fun summer The season opened this year with Member Appreciation Day

April 19. The first weekly play day was April 24. Central Oregon Women’s Team Golf has its first match May

28 at Black Butte Ranch. The Sunriver team is comprised of six SWGA members with lowest handicaps who are available and qualify. The team’s first opponent will be Crooked River Ranch.

In addition to weekly play day competition two tournament events will take place in the 2013 season. The partners’ tourna-ment is a two-day event scheduled for July 10 and 17. The club championship is also a two-day event played in consecutive weeks Aug. 14 and 21.

Senior Women’s Golf is a popular group. There is a waiting list to join and there is an age requirement of 50 years young. May 14 is the first event hosted by Widgi Creek Golf Club.

Visitation events are held at various Central Oregon golf courses and SWGA will host one time during the season. Bend Country Club will host on May 22.

The Sunriver Women’s Golf Association invites women golfers of all levels to join us for fun friendly golf opportunities. Anyone interested in information regarding membership requirements should contact Shenny Braemer by phone 541-593-4423 or email [email protected]

golf, an oft-misunderstood term. It is not rushing, but rather being aware of position (on and off the greens) and being mentally and physically ready to hit one’s shot as soon as your playing partners have

hit and not waiting until they’re done to begin one’s prepara-tions.

Examples of ready golf included having each player hit his shot before helping someone look for an errant ball and spending no more

than five minutes doing so; by requiring riding in carts only on official play days (at no cost to Crosswater members who might be playing in SRMGC events); by teeing off from the appropriate box at the starting time instead of leaving the stag-ing area at the starting time; having a playing partner (who may have putted out or is near-

est the hole) rake a sand trap after a greenside bunker shot, allowing the bunkered player to putt or chip; and making it everyone’s responsibility to help partners keep pace through encouragement and gentle reminders.

Tee it ForwardAnother initiative, especially

dear to the USGA, is “Tee it Forward.” This was proposed several years ago not only to speed up play but to make golf more enjoyable for older golfers who no longer have the distance off the tee they may once have had, and for higher handicappers who would prefer not to compete from back tees (whites, tournament blue/white combo). Teeing it forward gives golfers an opportunity to reach more par fours and fives not only in regulation, but also allows for approach shots with shorter irons.

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Golf’s a hard game to figure. One day you’ll go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink. — Bob Hope


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accepted paper

accepted plastic

tin & aluminum

corrugatedcardboard

glass

unaccepted paper

unaccepted plastic

When trash is found in the recycle bins, the load ends up in the landfill and NONE of it recycled!

Newspaper

Mixed paper & junk mail

Paperboard

And what comes with it - coupons, flyers, etc.

Paper, envelopes, white and colored paper, paper bags, computer paper, tin can labels, wrapping paper (no foil or ribbon), shredded paper (strips only, no confetti). Put shredded paper in a paper bag only and staple shut to avoid litter

• Plastic bottles & tubs 6 ounces or larger• Rigid plastics, such as yogurt, butter tubs, sour cream and cottage cheese containers• Nursery plant pots 4 inches or larger• Plastic buckets 5 gallons or less

• Plastic containers smaller than 6 ounces• Bags and film• Clear, rigid plastic fruit/veggie clamshells, bakery containers and salad containers• Foam, Styrofoam, bubble wrap or blister packaging• Bottle and tub lids• Cups, plates or utensils• Food contaminated items• Trays• Toys or tools• Biodegradeable/compostable plastics• Plastics that contained hazardous substances, such as motor oil, pesticides or fertilizers

Cereal/cracker/shoeboxes (discard liners), soda and beer cartons, paper egg cartons, paper towel tubes. Magazines, catalogs and phonebooks

Cans, jar lids, clean foil, TV dinner trays, beverage cans. Rinse clean. No need to flatten or remove labels

Flatten all cardboard boxes. No wax/slick coated cardboard or food contaminated items (eg: pizza boxes, take home containers)

Clear and colored glass bottles and jars only, rinsed clean. Labels are okay. No window glass, mirrors, etc.

Paper ream wrappers, tissue paper, slick or wax coated cardboard, candy wrappers, snack food bags, frozen food boxes, paper cups/plates/towels/napkins or pet food bags

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A nationwide survey in 2012 resulted in an 83 percent re-sponse that the golfer used more lofted clubs than usual into greens, an 85 percent response that the golfer had “more fun” and 93 percent said they would like to Tee it Forward again.

To this end, the SRMGC is introducing a “red/white” combination tee format this year for players who volunteer, with appropriate slope and rat-ing from the Oregon Golf As-sociation (OGA). Introduced to the whole field on opening day (April 24), it will be volun-tary thereafter during flighted events on an experimental basis

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until June 1, at which time the Tee it Forward initiative will be evaluated for efficacy.

New competitive formatsTo make weekly events a little

more equitable and fun, a few new wrinkles have been added to this year’s menu of formats.

One notable change is the addition of a second-place prize each week for low individual net and low individual gross scores, in order to recognize those who played very well but were not the ultimate winners.

There will also be two new “skills challenges” – one will be “closest to the hole” on the second shot of a short par four; the other will be “longest putt holed” on a designated hole, no

matter how many shots it took to make it to the green. Two KPs will be replaced by the two new skills challenges.

Volunteers needed June 23-26 marks the third

visit to Sunriver Resort by The PGA of America’s showcase event for PGA Professionals.

The championship will bring a field of 312 to Sunriver, utilizing both the Crosswa-ter Club and Meadows golf course that hosted the 2001 and 2007 National Champi-onships. Crosswater is ranked by “Golf Digest” as one of America’s Greatest 100 Public Golf Courses.

For those who would like to volunteer as a driver, a walking

scorer, caddie or many of the other fun jobs on or off the course, please download and fill out a volunteer form at www.sunriver-resort.com/pdf/PGA2013_volunteerform.pdf

Sunriver Golf Men’s ClubClub rates are the same as

last year at $55 for the season, of which $31 goes to the OGA membership, which includes handicap maintenance and tracking, including oppor-tunities to play in numerous statewide competitions.

While there is official play most Wednesdays, many of the members also play with other SRMGC members on other days of the week for fun and friendship.

Official events are played with other area clubs, including Crosswater, and statistics for each player are tracked cumu-latively for the season, posted online weekly, with rewards given in a large number of categories across all skill levels.

New members are welcome. Sunriver residency is not a re-quirement. Find the SRMGC online at www.srmensgolf.com. Apply for membership using the Annual Membership Registration tab.

For more information email SRMGC president Robert Hill at [email protected] or go to www.srmengolf.com

Grieco is secretary of the SRMGC and can be reached at [email protected]

yourself and you get life back,” Kiekel said.

“Even if I ended up in a re-tirement home and all I had to look forward to was breakfast, then waddle back to my room and wait for lunch, that would be hell. But if I could be in that home and find out peoples’ birthdays and send them cards – there’s lots of things you can do to make a difference in the world, but it ends up making your life richer. To me that’s what volunteering does, it isn’t

a one-way give. It boomerangs back and makes life richer.”

In an interesting example of “what goes around comes around,” a number of years ago Kiekel was a prime mover in the creation of an award called the “Order of the Hammer,” a plaque which recognizes extraordinary work done by a volunteer. This year the New-berry Habitat managing board presented The Order of the Hammer to Jack Kiekel.

Information about Newberry Habitat for Humanity is avail-able by calling 541-593-5005.

Awardcontinued from page 25Celebrating its 17th year, the

Sunriver Dance Academy will present “Ballet in the 100 Acre Wood” and “Dance Safari” at its annual recital Sunday, June 2, 3 p.m., at the La Pine High School Auditorium. All academy students will perform and the show will feature the “South County Dance Crew,” a 12-member group of hip jazz dancers. This newly organized performance group, under the direction of Heidi Drake, most recently performed at the Bend Spring Festival. Also included

will be Sunriver’s own “Little Hipsters,” Oregon’s only youth belly dance troupe, directed by Sara Jo Slate. Tickets and information may be acquired by calling (541) 593-8404.

“Ballet in the 100 Acre Wood,” based on Winnie the Pooh stories by A.A. Milne, was created by Sara Jo Slate with choreography by herself, Judie Sandell and Lexie Cook. Three Rivers kindergarten student Lily Clark stars at the lovable stuffed bear. The “Dance Safari” portion of the show features

tap, lyrical, hip jazz, and belly dance segments. The adult tap class will perform “Warthog Rhapsody” from “The Lion King.” The show is family friendly with music to please all ages.

The Sunriver Dance Acad-emy offers creative and profes-sional instruction for all ages in ballet, hip jazz, lyrical jazz, belly dance, and tap.

Information: www.sunriver dance.com or contact SDA director Judie Sandell at 541-593-8404.

Sunriver Dance Academy annual recital set for June 2


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By Deon StonehouseMay is full of entertaining

author events to suit a variety of interests. Author events are free with refreshments served with the exception of Jane Kirk-patirck’s Newberry Habitat for Humanity walk (tickets for the walk are $10). Sign up to attend any of the events by contacting Sunriver Books & Music at [email protected] or 541-593-2525 or stop by the store.

Saturday, May 4 at 5 p.m., Jane Kirkpatrick will give a presentation on “One Glorious Ambition; The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix.” Thank heavens for zealots, the true believers who look on a wrong and have the chutzpah to believe they can make a difference. As a mere child Dix trudged for miles through winter snow to reach her grand-mother’s house in an appeal to help her siblings. As a teenager she opened a school. Her life changed when she agreed to teach a Sunday school class to a group of women incarcerated in a Massachusetts prison. The conditions in which debtors

and the insane lived rocked her to the core, so she set out to change it. Jane Kirkpatrick worked in the field of mental health and writes this story with passion.

Committing to effecting positive change is something Kirkpatrick practices in her own life. Every year she donates time to lead a walk here in Sunriver benefiting Newberry Habitat for Humanity, which helps deserving families pur-chase affordable homes. Join Kirkpatrick Sunday May 5 at 11:30 a.m., for a 3.1-mile walk beginning at Sunriver Books & Music, proceeding to the Lodge, across the meadow with a view of Mt. Bachelor and returning to the bookstore. Tickets are $10 with all the proceeds benefiting Newberry

Five high-profile authors scheduled to visit Sunriver in May

Habitat for Humanity.Saturday, May 11 at 5 p.m. is

a double feature with Jennifer Shortridge and Erica Bauer-meister giving presentations on their latest books.

“Love Water Memory” by Jennie Shortridge is inspired by a real incident in the Pacific Northwest. Set in San Francisco and Seattle, the story delves into the lives of three main charac-ters. Lucie stands confused and alone in the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay. She does not have a name to give her rescu-ers; she has no clue as to her identity or her home. Grady, her handsome fiancé, papers their Seattle neighborhood with posters and pesters the police in three states trying to find his missing love. The nightly news ends his search with an account of an amnesiac patient in San Francisco. The Lucie he finds in the psych ward bears little resemblance to the resplendent woman he has loved for the past decade. Helen is alone at the end of her life, worried that she needs to atone. As the three sto-ries come together, the reader is drawn ever deeper toward the secrets of the past.

“The Lost Art of Mixing” by Erica Bauermeister continues characters from “The School of Essential Ingredients.” Sen-suous prose is a hallmark of Bauermeister’s writing. Isabelle

is sinking into dementia; her housemate Chloe, a sous chef at Lillian’s restaurant, keeps things on even keel but Isabelle’s daughter worries about the near future. Finnegan shows up one day out of the blue, takes a job as a dishwasher and yearns for a closer relationship with Chloe. Al, Lillian’s accountant, is in a loveless marriage, his wife’s disappointment and anger are moving from simmer to boil at a frothy pace. Lillian’s relation-ship with Tom is taking a few unexpected turns on the bumpy road to love. All their stories converge in a novel that is sure to leave the reader feeling good.

Saturday, May 18 Bob Welch will discuss “Cascade Summer,” his memoir of hiking the Ore-gon portion of the Pacific Crest Trail. Welch and his brother-in-law Glenn Peterson planned to walk 452 miles across Oregon. Along the way Welch reflects on Judge John Breckenridge Waldo, an avid outdoorsman and advocate for wilderness

Two book clubs focus on the Grand Canyon

May has excellent selections for book clubs, two of the choices focus on the Grand Canyon. Book clubs meet Monday evenings at 6:30 at Sunriver Books & Music, Building 25 in The Village at Sunriver, with refreshments served. Everyone is welcome. Book clubs are a great way to meet others in the community passionate about reading.

May 13 the Mystery Book Club discusses “Butterflies of the Grand Canyon” by Marga-ret Erhart. In 1951 two women scientists, Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, travel to the Grand Canyon at the behest of natu-ralist Louis Schellbach to aid in unraveling a mystery that goes back to a rafting trip the women took through the can-yon in 1938. The story is told from different perspectives, giving it richness and shroud-ing the central plot in mystery. Erhart mixes real and fictional characters.

Clover and Jotter were bota-nists and the first two women to successfully float the Colo-rado through the Grand Can-yon led by legendary river rat Norman Nevills. Chief park naturalist Louis Schellbach and park superintendent HC Bryant are also real characters. Butterflies dance throughout

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the story, with most of the char-acters in hot pursuit of flying beauties with gossamer wings.

May 20 the Fiction Book Club discusses “Caleb’s Cross-ing” by Geraldine Brooks. Ca-leb Cheeshahteaumuck crossed over from his native culture to the white man’s world becom-ing one of the earliest graduates of Harvard University. His story is narrated by Bethia Mayfield, a fictional character. She meets Caleb when she is a young girl while gathering food away from the colony. The two children cross cultural barriers to form a secret friendship that will last their lifetime despite consider-able pressures of their respec-tive clans. Caleb is the son of a chief and nephew of a shaman, neither would approve of his friendship with the little white girl. Bethia is the daughter of the local minister and grand-daughter of a magistrate. Her

people view the natives as sav-ages. Yet understanding grows between the two youngsters that bridges their differing cultures to offer glimpses of common ground and under-standing.

May 27 the Travel Essay Book Club discusses “The Ex-ploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons” by John Wes-ley Powell. In 1869 Powell, a Civil War hero who lost his arm at the battle of Shiloh, set off into the unknown. He would be the first white man to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. It must have been a fearsome prospect. Back in 1869 the river ran wild and free deep below the canyon walls, unfettered by dams that now drain its ferocious power. Powell’s goal was to explore the canyon and map this last uncharted bit of the west. It is an amazing journey.

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who was heavily involved in protecting the Cascade Range and Crater Lake. Welch’s excel-lent adventure may inspire you to hit the trail.

Saturday, May 25 William Dietrich will give a presentation on “The Barbed Crown,” the latest in his Ethan Gage series. Dietrich is a Harvard educated, Pulitzer Prize winner. His time as a reporter at the Seattle Times (we always enjoyed his columns) honed his ability to research and create excellent historic fiction. Ethan Gage last saw his beautiful bride being carried out to sea, gripped by a violent wave in a storm. Na-poleon is to blame and Ethan is nursing a grudge. He packs his young son off to the care of a couple in America and heads

to France with vengeance in his heart. Ethan’s anger and grief fit in fine with the plans of spy-masters, they want Napoleon assassinated. A canny smuggler outfoxes the French ships, sail-ing into dangerous waters to deliver Ethan and his fellow spy (naturally a beautiful woman

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spy). Imagine Ethan’s surprise when he finds his gorgeous, ex-otic wife alive and accompanied by the son he left in America. Now what is he supposed to do? Kill Napoleon? Dietrich tells a rousing good story, blending action, adventure and humor with real incidents of historic significance including the crowning of Napoleon and the Battle of Trafalgar.

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By Dr. Wendy Merideth If you are allergic to juniper

you likely felt miserable last month when juniper pollen dispersed into the air. Pine follows shortly, blanketing everything with fine yellow dust. Grass pollens show up late spring to mid-summer. Weed, sagebrush and rab-bitbrush pollens join the fun in late summer. Pollens are virtually inescapable. People with seasonal allergies show symptoms of sneezing and watery eyes, but allergic pets have skin problems.

Dogs and cats typically have allergy symptoms such as rashes, scratching, chewing, licking, and ear infections. Veterinarians refer to this condition as atopic derma-titis. The offending allergen is either inhaled or lands on the skin. The pet’s immune

response triggers histamine release, which is incredibly irri-tating. Symptoms can escalate quickly, causing redness and itchiness in the armpits, flanks, feet and ears.

Your veterinarian can di-agnose seasonal allergies by ruling out other more easily treated causes of itchy skin including parasites, food al-lergies, ringworm, bacterial infections, and other maladies. After taking a detailed history and examining your pet, they can narrow down the list.

If your pet is diagnosed with allergic dermatitis, one of the first things you should do is replace heating and air-conditioning filters often. High efficiency particulate air filters (HEPA) are also recom-mended. When the pollen in-dex is high and the wind is up, minimize outdoor exposure.

Pets can suffer seasonal allergies, tooWashing your allergic pet of-

ten during pollen season helps get the pollens off their skin. If your pet primarily licks his paws, then rinsing them with cool water after playing out-side can provide some relief.

Atopic dermatitis is difficult to cure. The only chance for a cure is immunotherapy which is 60-70 percent effective.

Fortunately there are many options for keeping our pets comfortable.

Mild cases may be managed with omega-3 fatty acids and antihistamines. This combina-tion appears to have a syner-gistic effect in reducing irrita-

tion in the skin. Cases where animals are uncomfortable and actually injuring themselves in attempts to relieve their itch require corticosteroids or immunomodulatory medica-tions.

Your veterinarian can de-vise a treatment plan to help manage your pet’s allergy symptoms. Even if a cure isn’t possible, he or she can help increase your pet’s comfort by decreasing the unpleasant effects of allergies.

Sunriver Veterinary Clinic, 56815 Venture Lane, is open Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (541) 593-8128.

COCC hosts Cinco De Mayo celebration

The public is invited to at-tend a Cinco de Mayo celebra-tion 6-11 p.m. May 4, in the Campus Center at Central Oregon Community College.

The event will feature tra-ditional Mexican food, games and crafts, folk and Aztec danc-ing and music by DJ Luna.

The suggested donation is $10. All proceeds go to a schol-arship fund to help COCC Latino program students in the community.



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By Kelly WinchIt’s been a while since we’ve

taken a look at the real estate market in Sunriver. I spend a great deal of time educating buyers and sellers on market trends. In an effort to provide accurate information I have provided data from our local Multiple Listing Service. I believe it important to see the recent history as we approach the cusp of a rebound.

The drop from 143 sold homes to 72 between 2007 and 2008 was downright shocking. That’s almost a 50 percent de-crease in one year. There was nothing normal about it, and set the market up for a long recovery period. It’s nice to see the Sunriver market has made a steady increase in this area over the past five years and that we are back to 2007 numbers.

When looking at the median sales prices we don’t see such a harsh decrease in price until

2008–2009. I point this out be-cause the drastic price decrease lagged behind the number of sold properties by a year. Now let’s fast forward to last year. The number of sold properties jumped up almost 46 percent to 143. The median price hasn’t caught up yet. However, if the trend holds true and the prices follow, we could be in for an in-crease in home prices this year.

The average time a home is on the market has also dropped steadily over the past three years. This is important because it gives sellers a more realistic timeframe to sell their home. It also lets buyers know that they better not wait too long to pull the trigger or the house they like may not be available. Sounds like a healthy real estate market, doesn’t it?

Let’s take a broader look at the real estate market. We all hear and read that the na-tional market has picked up

significantly. Furthermore, the Central Oregon real estate market is continuing to thrive in most areas, including Bend and Redmond. Inventories are low, which has buyers ea-gerly looking for properties. February 2013 prices in Bend increased by 16 percent over 2012, while the home prices in Redmond have gone off the charts with more than a 45 per-cent increase. Sunriver has typi-cally followed the Bend market by 12-15 months. This is just another statistic that shows me that the Sunriver market is poised for positive numbers across the board in 2013.

The Sunriver inventory re-mains low, but active, with 92 homes for sale (at the time this article was written) and 25 homes pending. I believe the Sunriver real estate market is in a “sweet spot.” Buyers are still able to find homes well below the highs of 2005-2007, and for sellers the market is on the brink of a surge. All statistics point to a busy and successful spring and summer in Sunriver

I would be remiss not to mention the continuing improvements to Sunriver. For anyone who didn’t visit Sunriver last summer you may not recognize the place. The addition of the SHARC (aquatic and recreation center)

and extensive remodel of The Village at Sunriver has created a buzz among visitors. These improvements can only help the real estate market.

It feels good to report such positive statistics. If you are interested in some specific data

please let the editors know and we will pull them together in a future article.

Winch is a broker with Cas-cade Sotheby’s International Realty in building 5 inThe Vil-lage at Sunriver. 541-390-0398, [email protected]

Three Rivers School fundraiser Mark your calendar for the annual Spring Round Up & Auction,

a fundraiser designed to support additional programs, materials, technology and opportunities for Three Rivers School students and staff.

The event will be held Saturday, June 1, 4:30–10 p.m. at SHARC. Tickets cost $25 per person if purchased by May 15; after that, tickets will be $30 per person. Ticket prices include dinner, drinks, dancing and the opportunity to participate in live and silent auctions.

The success of this event depends on auction items donated by supporters and purchased by guests. If you’d like to donate an item for the auction, volunteer to help, or purchase tickets, please contact the Three Rivers PTA at [email protected].

The Oregon Department of Justice and the Oregon State Police (OSP) are warning citi-zens to be on the alert for two police impersonation scams that have recently surfaced — the counterfeiting con and the unpaid traffic scam.

Counterfeiting cons

In this con, scammers call claiming to be an officer con-ducting an investigation of counterfeit money. They ask you to withdraw cash so that they can “inspect” it. The bogus

officer then disappears with your cash.

The police do not need your money to investigate a coun-terfeit crime ring, the Oregon State Police and the Oregon Department Justice warn. “We would never approach a citizen to assist us in an investigation of this type,” said OSP spokesman Gregg Hastings.

Unpaid traffic scams

Scammers claiming to be with the Oregon State Police

Police impersonation scams

Turn to Scams, page 38


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in a nutshell

classifieds

meetings & gatherings

commentary

The SROA Homeowner ID office is located at SHARC!

Open daily 8 am to 5 pm • 541.585.3147You can also renew your SROA homeowner ID card

online at www.sunriverowners.org

Renew current SROA ID cards (with bar code on the

front) online by logging in and selecting Owner ID Card Renewal under the Online Office menu.

Submit a classified ad via our website at www.sunriverowners.org and click on Sunriver Scene in the main toolbar.

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Too beautiful to litter. Help us keep it clean. ~Thank you

got defensible space?

It’s YOUR responsibility to protect your Sunriver home from the threat of wildfire!

PLEASE MOVE woodpiles at least 20 feet away from your structure or to your farthest property line.

NO permit is required to remove bitterbrush within 15 feet of your structure or to thin lodge-pole seedlings (4 inches or less in diameter) to six to eight foot spacing on your property.

Questions? Call SROA Environmental at 541-593-1522


commentary

Chorus of OneSCeNe OPiNiON POliCy

To support a free and open exchange of information and ideas, the Sunriver Scene welcomes letters to the editor up to 250 words, and Chorus of One submissions up to 450 words, on topics of relevance to Sunriver. All letters are subject to editing for brevity, grammar, clarity, civility and legal concerns. Opinions expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the Sunriver Owners Association.Letters to the editor must be signed and include contact information which we may use to verify authorship or clarify questions. Letters will run as space allows.Letters of a personal nature or attacks on individuals will not be published.Letters perceived as advertising for a company, product or a candidate will not be published.

How to submit: Email: [email protected]. Write the letter in the body of the email, or attach it as a Word document. Mail: Typewritten letters can be mailed to Sunriver Scene, P.O. Box 3278, Sunriver, OR 97707.Deadline: The 15th of the month (e.g. March 15 for April issue). We accept one letter per person per month.

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Sunriver Owners Association website to...Receive SROA news alerts • Update your mailing address Pay maintenance dues • Check on weather/road conditions

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Find a contractor • Learn about mountain pine beetle and noxious weeds Register for summer camp, swim and tennis lessons • Reserve a parkCheck the calendar for a meeting or event ... and much, much more!

Are you “in the know” about Sunriver?Do we have your current e-mail address?

There are occasions when the Sunriver Owners Association sends out mass emails through our secure online database to

inform members of important news and happenings in Sunriver. But we can only do this if you have registered on the SROA

website and provide us with a current email address. It is also important to remember to update this information

should you change your email address.

Sunriver Property Owners

Help keep our pathways safe!

Sunriver Pathway Rules

• Helmets required for riders and passengers under 16 years of age. (state law)

• Ride or walk on the right-hand side of pathway. Pass safely on the left after giving an audible warning (bell, horn or voice).

• Walk cycles through tun-nels.

• No skateboards, roller skates or roller blades.

• Pedestrians and people walking bicycles have right of way on paths and at road crossings. People riding bi-cycles must yield to vehicles at road crossings.

• Ride at a safe speed on surfaced paths.

• Headlights and reflectors required from dusk until dawn.

• Pets must be secured in bas-kets or trailers;� do not ride with leashed pets alongside.

• Smoking and littering pro-hibited on paths, roads and common areas.

The wisdom of the new SROA general managerHerb Adelman, Sunriver

I look forward to our new general manager, Mr. Palcic. In a previous posi-tion at Sunriver he exhibited consider-ably more business sense than did the SROA Board of Directors with respect to Mr. Harder and his proposal of a few years ago to tear down the mall and replace it with a mixed residential (500 units) and commercial develop-ment. This proposal, including the sale to Harder at a bargain price of some of our land, was enthusiastically endorsed by our then board, and by ten or so past board chairmen. They, despite considerable evidence to the contrary, thought Mr. Harder was our “friend” and a person to be “trusted.” In a letter and other communications to all of us they strongly urged us to support the Harder proposal.

Mr. Palcic, in at least one document,

expressed different and wiser views. As I recall the background, (I did not retain the document Mr. Palcic wrote), Mr. Harder was urging the board to let him proceed without Design Committee review and supervision. Harder thought our procedures cumbersome and unnec-essary, and stated he could be “trusted.”

Mr. Palcic was of a different view. He stated in substance that Harder and his team, in the course of extensive dealings with the community in developing his project, seldom if ever did what they promised. In Mr. Palcic’s view there was no reason to trust Harder and company.

In fact, Harder shortly went bankrupt, and was indicted by the United States government for running a Ponzi scheme which defrauded a large group of retir-ees, including a few Sunriver owners, of about $400 million of retirement sav-ings. Harder is awaiting trial on serious

criminal trials. No one can predict with any certainty what the result of the trial will be, but I can, with considerable as-surance, state that I would not care to be in his shoes.

Mr. Palcic had Mr. Harder “right.” Our then board, and about 10 previous board chair people, were remarkably naïve and obtuse.

Carry on the good work, Mr. Palcic, and I hope the present board may learn something from the foolishness of their predecessors.

In the coming months I will be dis-tributing detailed material on the Harder fiasco and like foolishness on the part of our board.

My hope is to persuade the commu-nity that our governance is in a number of important ways quite unsatisfactory, and that serious thought should be given to how it can be improved.

are also placing pre-recorded phone calls to Oregonians telling them they owe $154 for unpaid traffic tickets. These calls, which begin with a siren sound, are fraudulent and should be ignored.

OSP first got word of the scam in March, when a citi-zen reported getting a call from a restricted number. An automated voice identi-fied himself as “Alex James Murphy with the Oregon State Police.” The caller stated a “bench warrant” had been issued on an unpaid speeding ticket issued on Interstate

205. The pre-recorded call gave further instructions to get a Green Dot Mon-eyPak reloadable debit card and place $154 on the card, then call back another phone number with a 203 area code and provide the Green Dot MoneyPak card number and security code to pay the cita-tion and avoid further legal action.

In November 2012, OSP received complaints from citizens regarding similar tele-phone calls from individuals claiming to be OSP troopers demanding money in ex-change for dropping criminal charges or clearing arrest warrants. Two similar cases

involved callers using titles of “officer” and “deputy.”

OSP or any other legiti-mate law enforcement agency does not call citizens seeking payment for outstanding traffic citations or to demand money from citizens under any circumstances.

If someone believes they are being scammed regarding an alleged unpaid traffic citation they should ask the collec-tor (caller) for information specific to the alleged unpaid traffic citation (court case number, date of ticket, ve-hicle license, location of viola-tion, etc.) If the call receiver wants additional detail about the debt or to verify what the

caller is telling them, they can call the OJD collections hotline at 1-888-564-2828.

According to Geoff Dar-ling, Chief Investigator for the Financial Fraud Sec-tion of the Oregon Depart-ment of Justice, Green Dot MoneyPak cards and similar cash-load cards have been the focus of scammers around the country to defraud unsus-pecting people.

Contact the local police department, sheriff ’s office or Oregon State Police if you be-lieve you have been contacted by scammers. Scam victims should also call the Oregon Department of Justice at 1-877-877-9392.

Scamscontinued from page 36


commentarySolarium: Letters from our readers

From the editor’s desk: Marketing the community in ‘Sunriver Style’By Brooke Snavely

Business practices come home to roostJules Kalbfeld, Sunriver

I used the Solarium as a place to vent my frustration over the property manag-ers’ “Low Rent: High Volume” business strategy in three letters that were written between July 1999 and March 2006. All of those letters had a common theme – namely that the property managers have never taken into account the owners’ high cost of providing and maintaining quality rental units and all of the Sunriver amenities that are attached to them.

In one of those letters, I expressed the notion that “It doesn’t take much talent, imagination or work to sell a valuable product for a fraction of its worth, nor does it exhibit a sense of responsibility to the Sunriver community as a whole.” In another letter, I characterized the property managers’ business strategy as inadvertently “turning the treasure that is Sunriver into the Wal-Mart of destina-tion resorts.” In the third letter, I demonstrated that the cost of renting the most expensive house in Sunriver was essentially equal to or less than renting a room in the cheapest hotel or motel in the Bend area on a per-person, per-night basis. All of those letters also pointed out the possible negative impact of their strategy on other Sunriver business.

Now that owners have found more equitable returns on their investments by renting their homes independently, the property managers have suddenly become concerned over the future of Sunriver as a quality destination resort community and are looking to SROA to regulate independent owner rentals.

It’s interesting, even flattering, to see how the property managers have adapted my seven- to 14-year old concerns over the direction in which they were taking Sunriver to their opposition to independent owner rentals. The fact is they set the stage and wrote the script for their own current decline in business.

Do we need a motorboat slip?Joan and Bill Sifferle, Sunriver

Many people have told me that one of their greatest experiences while staying at Sunriver, was their trip down the river in a canoe, kayak or raft. They talked about observing wonderful scenery, hearing beautiful bird sounds, and seeing wildlife as they floated down the calm river.

We are really concerned that the proposed river access with a boat slip will destroy much of this. We occasionally have to put up with a motorboat that comes from up river, but do we really want to encourage more motorboats? Perhaps some people like rocking in their wakes, but we don’t. Perhaps some people enjoy their noise, but we don’t. Some people might even like the colors from the oil and gas on the surface, but I doubt that most people do.

There are so many places in Central Oregon where people with motorboats can go, and so few where those of us who want to get away and enjoy a more quiet life, can go. Do we have to spoil this wonderful section of the river?

I would have no problem if the designers were to put a locked pole or gate there, so that in an emergency, officials could put a motorboat in, but this should be an exception.

Please, let’s leave this section of the river as one of Sunriver’s treasures.

Bend-La Pine schools ballot measureSusan McCoy, River Meadows

The Three Rivers School PTA formally supports the Bend-La Pine Schools bond issue on the May 21 general election ballot.

Designed to protect our community’s investment in our schools and facilities, if approved the bond measure would authorize Bend-La Pine Schools to sell $96 million in bonds to fund capital projects, including the construction of two new schools to address continued enrollment growth (one elementary school, one middle school) and 138 other safety, maintenance, technology and classroom addition projects across the district. Because the school district is retiring and refinancing existing bonds, tax rates will not go up even with the addition of this new bond.

Included in the proposed bond would be the addition of a band room at Three Rivers School (estimated at $175,000) as well as a variety of crucial maintenance projects at our school. TRS was fortunate to have completed a major expansion of our school in 2011 (new middle school wing and gym and improved parking facilities) as a result of a past bond issue and the generosity of Bend-La Pine District residents.

We hope that voters will continue to support the needs of our students.

Support La Pine Fire District levyConrad Ruel, Three Rivers

Residents of La Pine Rural Fire District: (that is all of you south of Sunriver into north Klamath County) we need your support for measures 9-89 and 9-90 to renew tax levies.

This is not a tax increase! These measures keep what we have and replaces old equipment as needed.

Be assured that your fire chief, Mike Supkis, is very frugal and considerate of district taxpayers. Feel free to call him if you have any concerns. (541) 536-2935.

Editor’s note: Conrad Ruel serves on the La Pine Rural Fire Protection District Board of Directors.

A year ago SROA had no difficulty publicizing the opening of SHARC. It was new and newsworthy and virtually every news organization wanted the story. SHARC got front page coverage in the Bulletin, “Best Place to Make a Splash” recognition from The Source Weekly, countless mentions in the Newberry Eagle and lots of radio and TV news cov-erage in Bend and Eugene. SHARC made a splash on social media, too, earning positive reviews on Portland parenting websites, among others.

But we, the Sunriver Scene/SROA Communications Department staff, un-derstand that the new car smell will most likely fade over time. In other words, if the association wanted to maintain the public’s interest in SHARC, and increase awareness of all that Sunriver has to of-fer to day visitors, weeklong vacationers and year-round residents, it will need to launch and sustain a creative marketing campaign to do so. From that premise the “Sunriver Style” marketing campaign was born.

We started by building new, user-friendly, visually appealing websites. SROA’s existing website, www.sunriver owners.org, is fine for members who

are familiar with it but first-time visitors quickly get mired in its multiple layers of homeowner association documents.

Sunrivermudslinger.com was first out of the chute. We needed a website to promote the inaugural mud run, provide informa-tion to potentially interested participants and prove to ourselves that staff has the ability to construct dynamic digital mar-keting materials. Based on the nearly 350 participants in the inaugural event, it’s safe to say the Mudslinger marketing was successful.

Next up was Sunrivertennis.com. This site plugs Sunriver’s terrific tennis facilities and programs (both SROA’s and Sunriver Resort’s), events, tournaments, player pairings, schedules — everything some-one might want to know about tennis in Sunriver in one place, attractively packaged, easy to navigate, quick to comprehend.

SunriverSHARC.com followed under a similar premise. We needed a website dedicated exclusively to SHARC, its operat-ing hours, amenities, programs and special events. The three initial websites were not just important in confirming staff ’s abili-ties, but also in forming the foundation for our umbrella or master website yet to come.

Sunriverstyle.com is that umbrella website and I’m happy to announce that it too has been launched. The polish and effectiveness of this newest website was critical as this site is central to our ongoing multi-media marketing campaign. All our marketing points to Sunriverstyle.com. The website is a clearinghouse of information about Sunriver that shows no favoritism

to any one restaurant, retailer, lodging or recreation service provider. Mavericks gets the same billing as SHARC. Vil-lage Bar & Grill has similar exposure as Sunriver Brewing Company.

This month, Sunriver Style TV com-mercials begin airing on The Food Net-work, Fox News, CBS, NBC and The Weather Channel throughout Central Oregon. These 15-second spots show diners “Refueling” in local restaurants, shoppers “Hunting & Gathering” in the village, baristas creating “Art Exhibits” on lattes and showcasing the nature center and observatory.

Print ads that extol the Sunriver Style through clever word play juxtaposed against iconic images have started ap-pearing in select publications. “Salad Bar” shows a herd of elk munching in the meadow. “Rush Hour” shows five bicyclists cruising on the pathway. “Mass Transit” shows people kayaking on the river and “Rest Stop” depicts a woman sitting on a bench reading a book. We believe these Sunriver-centric interpretations of every-day phrases will motivate anyone to come check out this beautiful place that has a sense of humor.

SROA is marketing Sunriver Style be-cause Sunriver needs to be promoted; all of Sunriver, not any one part of it. Other entities are — and have been for some time — taking care of specific interests that are also important to Sunriver. It is our intent to supplement those individual efforts with our campaign approach.

We also think it’s time to invite Bend and

Redmond for a day of discovery. And from various discussions with stakehold-ers in Sunriver, we’re not alone in this thinking. Our research suggests a stun-ning percentage of Central Oregonians don’t know that Sunriver is open to the public, and whole lot more don’t even know Sunriver exists or what it is. We also believe folks looking for that perfect place to call home need to know what Sunriver offers.

To the best of our knowledge, the last effort to market Sunriver in its en-tirety, regardless of ownership, was by the developers of Sunriver and that was more than 40 years ago. Why is SROA marketing holistically? Because it can, and perhaps should. The association is a not-for-profit organization, doesn’t need immediate returns on investments and is looking for the long-term, community-wide benefits of raising awareness about Sunriver.

Even in this day and age of instant communications, that takes time.

Sunriverstyle.com promotes Sunriver.


9 Antelope, SunriverImmaculate cozy furnished retreat features 2 beds, 2 updated baths, inviting Wood Stove in the Great Room, Remodeled Kitchen with breakfast bar & hardwood cabinets, Loft Master, spacious private Sun Court with Hot Tub, Vaulted Ceiling with Sky Light. $204,000 MLS# 201301086Michael Diven, Broker(541) 948-9974

8 Meadow House, SunriverWonderful Sunriver retreat and very close to the Village Mall and the new SHARC. With a hot tub it also has great rental potential. Newer floor coverings, interior paint and counter tops make it look fresh and the large fireplace makes it cozy. $249,000 MLS# 201205877Rob Norem, Broker (541) 480-1356

4 Witchhazel, SunriverReverse living home, 3 bd/2 bth, 1430 sq.ft. Highlights: desirable flr plan, 3 deck areas, great room w/ many windows, tile in entry, kitchen & bthrms, mstr w/ deep jetted tub & walk-in closet, ceiling fans, wood burning frpl, newer roof & furnished. $299,000 MLS# 201300369Cheryl Tronson, Principal Broker (541) 977-0262

5 Camas, SunriverCozy Sunriver cabin in central location. Easy access to the SHARC, SR Village & Fort Rock Park. Home remodeled in 2002. Currently on SR Resort rental program, sold furnished. 4 bdrms, 2 baths, large deck, hot tub, circular paved drive, single garage. $339,000 MLS# 201302438Phil Wolfe, Broker (541) 420-0211

4 Ollalie, SunriverThis single level, 3 bdrm, 3 bth home is located in the peaceful & quiet north end of Sunriver. Beautiful back deck & hot tub for relaxing. New roof & updated interior paint. Outstanding rental history! Comes fully furnished & ready to enjoy! $349,000 MLS# 201208417 Marcus Schwing, Broker (541) 593-4954

11 Wallowa, SunriverA vaulted great room & inviting fireplace wel-come you to 11 Wallowa Loop. Kitchen, master suite & hot tub on the main floor with additional guest rooms & bath downstairs. Furnished & ready to use with deep double car garage & large lockable storage. $395,000 MLS# 201208351Bryce Jones & Nola Horton-Jones(541) 420-4018 | (541) 420-3725

56166 Sable Rock Lp (273), Caldera SpringsExciting new Caldera Springs home, backs to Sable Rock park & water features. Carriage house doors, granite counter tops, extensive use of rock and travertine, hrdwd flrs, huge loft/bonus rm, lrg pantry, mud rm/utility rm, oversize triple garage. $859,900 MLS# 201205401Janet Reynolds, Principal Broker (541) 480-1026

10 Bunker, SunriverAstonishing quality in this single level Sunriver GC home! Located adjacent to the 3rd tee on Woodlands Golf Course it is an incredible home. Built to the highest standards. This 3 bdrm (all suites) residence is stunning! Over 120’ of fairway frontage.$945,000 MLS# 201204202 Scott Malk, Broker (541) 593-7905

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