C4C is excited to announce a new board member—Lane Jacobson, owner of Paulina Springs Books—who will be helping us encourage a culture of bridge-building within Sisters Country.
C4C sponsoring facilitation training
Community volunteers can improve their skills and confidence to collectively address issues and opportunities through a January 30 Citizens4Community workshop.
From 5 to 8 p.m. at the Sisters Fire Hall Community Room, located at 301 S. Elm St., Sisters residents can gather for a free light meal and instruction from professional facilitator Terry Buchholz, who will help attendees build their practical facilitation skills.
Workshop to reach 'Across the (Political) Divide'
In the spirit of election season, Citizens4Community is sponsoring an "Across the Divide" workshop 4-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30 at City Hall. They are currently recruiting 12-15 people who identify politically as Red (conservative) and 12-15 who identify as Blue (liberal).
The workshop is designed to help people on either side of the divide understand and value their differences, while co-existing alongside one another, resulting in development of empathy for each other and mutual conversation.
C4C seeks to help ease political divisiveness
Have you found yourself concerned about the political divide in our country? Are you interested in finding ways to work together to create solutions—like our Founding Fathers did—based on ideals this country was established on?
Do you want to be open to understanding the other side and valuing what they contribute to our democracy?…Or think a solution may be found in relationships and communication skills?
Hurray for a Successful Fiesta
Citizens4Community—working with the Sisters Latino community and several key sponsors, supporters and partners—presented Sisters’ first community-wide Fiesta de Independencia on Sept. 16. Held on Mexican Independence Day, the celebration offered Sisters Country a great opportunity to gather and make new friends while enjoying delicious food, festive music and folkloric dancing.
C4C In the News...Let's Celebrate, Sisters
Community Quilt Signals Sisters Values
C4C in the News...Let's Dance, Sisters
'Footloose at the Fire Hall' promises fun
By Sue Stafford
Published Aug. 7 in The Nugget Newspaper
(We are ever-appreciative of writer Sue Stafford and the Nugget News staff for helping to get the word out about C4C’s all-community events. —The C4C Team)
Are You Ready to Get Rhythmic?
Rhythm & Song In the Park is fast approaching. And we're wanting to offer a shout out to our great partners in this event, including Earthtones NW, SPRD, the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District, Melvin's by Newport Avenue Market, Ford Family Foundation, and community musicians including Maggie Johnson, on flute; Cameron and Tree, on gongs and singing bowls; Kirk Olsen on African guitar; Shannon Mokuahi Rackowski, with traditional Hawaiian instruments and dance; Katie Cavanaugh on Native American flute; and Annemarie Crosier, with African drum, song and dance.
Quilt and Quilt Web Page Debut
The 2018 SISTERS COUNTRY QUILT made its debut today (July 14) at the SISTERS OUTDOOR QUILT SHOW. If you weren't able to see the quilt in person, you can visit it at the DESCHUTES COUNTY FAIR or one of C4C'S UPCOMING COMMUNITY-WIDE EVENTS. Also, check out our webpage dedicated to the quilt, HERE. The page highlights the quilt's story and features the 180-plus sentiments written on the quilt.
C4C In the News...Let's Find Our Beat, Sisters
Help Us Design Two New 'Play' Date Events
C4C welcomes your ideas and input as we develop two new local events intended to build community and connection through rhythm, song and dance. Please join us at 5:30 p.m. May 24 for a dynamic planning meeting at Sisters City Hall. Your knowledge and support will help shape the vision for these new summertime events and bring them to life.
In The News: C4C Helps Convene Community Conversation About How Sisters Can Better Serve All Ages
C4C in the News...Age Friendly Sisters
Community Gatherings Will Help Shape Sisters Country
Civic engagement is a C4C cornerstone. So we’ve been partnering with Sisters Country Horizons to help promote broad participation in the visioning project. …
This week, Horizons is launching a series of public meetings. We urge you to attend one or more of these events and to invite your friends and neighbors along, too. Your input will help shape what Sisters Country will look and feel like for years to come. It’s the perfect time to engage…
C4C's 'Community Through Arts' Quilt Project Comes Together
The Sisters Country—Our Values, Our Vision—signature quilt that many of you helped create has moved into the quilting stage. During the past couple weeks, the quilt—which features more than 180 local sentiments—was sewn together. Seeing the squares brought together, each square with its own unique feel and message, has been very rewarding and exciting. The quilt offers such a nice metaphor for community. Thank you again to everyone who inked their values and visions—and even their sketches—onto the quilt.
Check Out Your New ‘Horizons'—the Visioning Project Website, Survey
You helped make Citizens4Community's recent visioning and quilt-signing booths a success. Special thanks to our volunteers and to Ray’s, Sisters Library and Suttle Tea for hosting these four events. Stay tuned for updates as the Community Values & Visioning Quilt comes colorfully alive and as C4C helps present a visioning event focusing on senior issues next month (April 25).
In the News: C4C Helps Kick Off Outreach for Sisters Country Visioning Effort
C4C supports Sisters Country Horizons planning, outreach
Citizens4Community is pleased to be helping with outreach efforts for the local visioning initiative—Sisters Country Horizons. This is an exciting time for our community. And it's a great time to engage, because conversations held during the next several months will impact local planning for years to come.
Sisters Country initiative to capture the community voice, plan for the future
A group of agencies and nonprofits, led by the City of Sisters, is embarking on a visioning and planning initiative to help determine what kind of community residents want Sisters Country to be in 5, 10 and 20 years.
The Sisters Country Horizons initiative will officially launch with a regional survey of residents in mid-March. Following several months of community outreach, visioning and planning work, a Vision Action Plan is expected to be released in late 2018 or early 2019.