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S U N R I V E R
S C E N E A NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSOCIATION
JUNE 2023
VOLUME XLVI • NUMBER 6
After more than four decades and treating thousands of patients, Dr. Dan Skotte has decided to retire his practice and transition Sunriver’s High Desert Family Medicine to Summit Health. Community members are invited to attend a ribbon cutting from noon to 2 p.m. Monday, June 5 at 57067 Beaver Drive. Skotte said he has been fortunate to work with and take care of many people in Sunriver during his time in practice at High Desert Family Medicine. “My top priority, as I prepare for retirement, was to ensure the community that has enriched my life would have access to the highest quality care available in the state of Oregon,” Skotte said. “I am very excited that Summit Health will take over operations of the clinic and bring consistent specialty care services to the community for the first time.” Summit Health will open June 5 and offer full-service primary healthcare, point-of-care testing and laboratory services for all ages to community members in Sunriver, Gilchrist, La Pine and the south county area. Clinic hours will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Over time, Summit Health’s clinic in Sunriver will expand operations with weekend hours, radiology services and introduce specialty care services like cardiology, pulmonology and neurosciences to the community. The clinic will continue to offer same-day walk-in visits as well as pre-scheduled appointments for primary care. Justin Sivill, Summit Health Turn to Summit, page 3
Pathway tunnel wins award Crews work on final pathway paving for the Abbot Drive tunnel at Circle 1. The tunnel was completed ahead of schedule and is now open.
Public Works Director Mark Smith, left, and Brian Marcum of Marcum & Sons, with the Oregon Excellence in Concrete award for the Fort Rock Park tunnel.
SROA NEWS – The pathway tunnel near Fort Rock Park received a first place award in the Oregon Concrete & Aggregate Producers Association and Oregon Chapter of American Concrete Institute Excellence in Concrete. The Excellence In Concrete awards program is as a way to recognize projects that use concrete in extensive or innovative ways. The tunnel was entered in the “bridge” category and placed first over all other entries across the state. The project was submitted by Knife Turn to award, page 8
Pastor retires from Sunriver Christian Fellowship Sunriver Christian Fellowship will be entering a new era with the retirement of the Rev. Canon Nancy Green, who has led the church in one form or another for 31 years. A special service will be held on her last Sunday preaching on June 4. Originally from New England, she attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., studying African studies and international relations. After graduating, her keen interest in politics led her to work on several major political campaigns. Finding herself disenchanted with the political process, she was uncertain about her future. She visited with the rector of the Episcopal Church in which she had grown up. Together, they shared a prayer experience where Green felt the presence of God telling her she was a beloved child, had purpose in God’s divine economy, and needed to figure out her purpose.
The prayer experience led her to Andover-Newton Theological School in Newton, Mass., in 1974 to study the intersection of God and the human psyche, particularly what happens when God powerfully enters a person’s life.
Quickly, she fell in love with the intellectual pursuit of how God has moved through time, but it was when she became a seminarian-in-training for an Episcopal congregation that she became enamored with hands-on ministry. She started a ministry for women who were separated or divorced in a church culture that lifted up Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus as the heralded model for marriage. Green started a weekly support group for women who no longer fit that model but were still God’s beloved. Opening to the wider community, this ministry grew and answered a need of both prayer and shared community support for women and children. This experience moved Green to start the process for holy orders of the Episcopal Church at a time when women could not yet be ordained as priests. However, by the time she graduated in Turn to Pastor, page 3 SUNRIVER SCENE SUNRIVER OWNERS ASSN. VOLUME XLVI • NUMBER 6 P.O. BOX 3278 SUNRIVER, OR 97707
Summit Health acquires High Desert Family Medicine
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