Citizens4Community is marking a milestone. After five years of growth as an all-volunteer organization, we’re looking to hire our first Executive Director. Candidates are invited to apply between today (Oct. 1) and Oct. 29, 2020.

A newly developed, four-part Zoom-based learning series, “What does it mean to be white in America?” is set to start Oct. 29.

Try joining us for the next Let's Talk! These monthly small group discussions encourage respectful and robust conversations.

Sisters Country has been selected to join the statewide Community Website Partnership (CWP). This achievement follows months of discussions with local Community Builders—meetings that helped us gauge local interest and develop the support necessary for this collaborative, community-wide website.

We’re so appreciative of you—our Sisters Country heroes. Your support for C4C's recent SHS Class of 2020 Street Banner & Keepsake Project could mean the start of a new tradition, and it will definitely lead to more collaborative opportunities involving local youth this year.

A MESSAGE FOR OUR NEW SHS GRADUATES:

We’re proud of you and we hope you all liked your Class of 2020 street banners! The banners will only be up for a few more days. So it’s a great time to find yours & take a picture with it!

We know the Covid pandemic has cast a shadow over what should be a special time for our graduating seniors and their families. In a close-knit, rural community like Sisters, it somehow seems extra sad to miss out on opportunities to celebrate accomplishments and important milestones together.

Looking for an upbeat—literally upbeat—way to spend your extra time at home? C4C encourages you to check out the acclaimed Low Bar Chorale’s weekly, virtual “Oh Solo Low Bar” sing-alongs on Facebook Live.

It can be difficult to keep track of all of the Covid-19-related information sites. So, here in one place, are links to several resources that we've learned of (or have been using ourselves) that might help you, too.

C4C has said from the day we launched our website back in 2015 that, “We’re All in This Together.” And that’s especially true now. …

C4C has said from the day we launched our website back in 2015 that, “We’re All in This Together.” And that’s especially true now. …

A crusade of noble intentions has been underway in Sisters Country. Homebound residents are crafting hundreds of facemasks to help shield healthcare workers and others from the coronavirus. …

In case you missed it when it aired recently on Central Oregon Daily News…Enjoy this video, “Sisters Strong,” by talented local filmmaker Cody Rheault. The piece features insight from Sisters small-business people who are suffering under the shadow of Covid-19 but are nevertheless hopeful.

Pete is a retired attorney. Weekly he donates his time to serve as a volunteer judge in courtrooms in neighboring counties. Sewing is not a hobby for him. He's going to sew this week, however, because he believes it's a necessity. Pete feels strongly that he needs to help our medical professionals have one more barrier against COVID-19. Pete is asking for your help.

We care about our fellow residents’ health and safety, so C4C has decided to postpone our scheduled group event in March. We have temporarily shifted the topic for that March 16 Let’s Talk to April 20, and we’ll let you know if that date changes again.

Last fall, more than 200 people participated in the free Let’s Sing, which followed the 4th Friday Art Stroll in downtown Sisters. We appreciated our partnership with the Sisters Arts Association to promote both events.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our recent outreach survey and focus groups. Congratulations go to the people who submitted a survey and who won a gift certificate donated by one of these local businesses:

…Twenty-two community members joined in the evening to reflect on a topic that relates directly to a priority noted in the Sisters Country Vision Action Plan. As participants arrived for the talk they were asked to consider three questions (posed in English and Spanish): “What does it mean to be welcoming?” “What does ‘community’ mean to you?” and “When we say ‘all,’ who do we mean?”

C4C can’t resist a friendly and robust community discussion—especially a good discussion that grapples with competing and thoroughly compelling perspectives. And that’s exactly what this month’s Creativity, Culture & Faith event is on track to deliver.