Source Weekly Update Podcast 4/25/2019
The Source Weekly Update podcast! This week, hear an audio version of our stories on Dredging Mirror Pond, Bike Trail Memoirs and Gomper’s Distillery Grand Opening, from our April 26, 2019 edition.
Redmond Affordable Housing Project Raised From the Ashes
In November of last year, Bend beat out Redmond for the state’s pilot program under House Bill 4079 that allows cities to use non-traditional urban growth boundary expansion to increase the supply of affordable housing. On April 16, Gov. Kate Brown in effect reversed Redmond’s defeat by signing House Bill 2336—crafted to reverse an unforeseen…
COCC Receives Grant for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Electric vehicle owners in Redmond and Madras can look forward to eight new public charging ports at Central Oregon Community College campuses, through the help of a Pacific Power grant program. Ten projects across the Pacific Northwest recently secured grants from Pacific Power, through a program that launched in late 2018 to help local organizations…
Earth Day Events
Earth Day is here! In honor of the big day, here’s a curated list of some Earth Day events to check out this weekend and beyond. SATURDAY 4/20 Earth Day Fair & Parade Downtown Bend’s Earth Day Fair & Parade is a celebration for the whole family. Along with the parade, enjoy live music,…
Regional Roundup
PERS Plan Would Limit Tax Rebates, Affect School Retirement Benefits Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has released her long-awaited plan to tackle the state’s financially troubled public pension system. The governor’s proposal, made public Friday, includes a long list of ideas to raise around $3.3 billion over the next 16 years to shield Oregon schools from…
It Ain’t Easy Brewing Green
Beer and cannabis have been informally linked for generations. With the growing legalization movement and general mainstreaming of cannabis culture, the relationship has become formalized. From early hemp beers to modern CBD- and terpene-laden IPAs, cannabis and beer together has become more than a novelty and is poised to be a trend. It comes as…
Sustain the Future
You know, if everyone liked the same stuff, the world would be so unbearably boring. Most people are so divided nowadays that even if they agree on the symptoms, they’ll argue intensely over the disease. I’ve seen people lament climate change in the same sentence while mocking global warming which, as far as I can…
Source Suggests These Books
“Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming” Edited by Paul Hawken “Drawdown” gathers a broad coalition of thought leaders in research, science, policy and business to present 100 solutions to a warming world. The beauty of this is these aren’t far-flung ideas for expensive and experimental technologies, but ways for which…
Now Our Watch Begins
*SPOILERS AHEAD* It’s only been 595 days (or 14,280 hours if you’re counting) since we last visited Westeros, but who’s counting? We’re entering into the eighth and final season of the bleakest show ever to capture the popular zeitgeist and this premiere is bringing everything round full circle. “Winterfell” is the calm before the storm…
Just “The Commons”
Crow’s Feet Commons bike/ski shop is moving to Northwest Crossing in September and plans to launch in the fall, but you can still hang out and order coffee, beer and wine and listen to live music at the cafe. “The Rademacher house and the Riverfront Plaza has become a community hub through the hard efforts…
Kosher Kush and Halal Hashism
I recently spoke with a practicing Muslim friend who eschews all cannabis and alcohol. He asked about CBD, and the potential value it might have in addressing a condition with which he deals. He could treat it with pharmaceuticals, but wants to avoid their side effects and find something more in keeping with the other organic…
Charity Chowder Cookoff
Who makes the best chowder? Decide after tasting 3-ounce samples of chowder from 20 different restaurants at Greg’s Grill. To quench your thirst, Deschutes Brewing will be pouring all day. Bring your kiddos for the bounce house and enjoy live music. Tickets are only available at the door, no presale, and crowning this year’s best…
Record Store Day 2019
Somewhere in the pantheon of the best holiday rankings, Record Store Day is up toward the top. Not only is it a nostalgic practice for some, but it’s a great way to support an industry that most probably figured would be dead by now. RSD happens twice a year – once in April and once…
Artist Fact Sheet: Andy Frasco & The U.N.
Andy Frasco & The U.N. aren’t your typical jam band—and they’ll tell you that. Frasco previously described the group as “a punk rock band for the jam scene” in an interview with the Live For Live Music website. If you read, watch or listen to any interview with Frasco, this sentiment will make total sense.…
A Community Thread: Dan McGarigle, Pine Mountain Sports
A Community Thread: What does community mean to you? Dan McGarigle: Long story short, where we—especially these days—we follow headlines, we turn on the news, we’re bombarded by media from all over the world. I don’t believe that those things actually affect us as much as the community around us—how we engage it, how it…
Building Green
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, transportation and the burning of fossil fuels to heat and cool our homes and businesses are some of the biggest contributors to air pollution in the U.S. Local builders, schools and governments are taking aim at reducing their carbon footprints—and some are winning awards while doing it. Green Homes…
The Sustainability Issue 2019
Did you Know? Some fun facts from our Sustainability Issue: For every one almond you eat, 3.2 gallons of water is used. (From “The World’s Healthiest Nut”) 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide went into the atmosphere in 2006, just for the production of plastic water bottles (from “Climate + Education”) Zero-energy homes cost 5…
Conservation in Central Oregon
Bitterbrush Broads – Great Old Broads for Wilderness Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national nonprofit organization based in Durango, Colo. Currently, 40 Chapters of the Broads operate throughout the U.S., with four chapters in Oregon. The Central Oregon Bitterbrush Broads chapter is local to this region. The Broads are engaged in inspiring women…
Considerations When Choosing a Real Estate Broker
A real estate purchase or sale tends to be, for most people, the largest investment they’ll make in their lifetime. Who a buyer/seller chooses to represent them with such a significant transaction matters. Last year, I was working with a client who previously had his home listed for sale. Within 60 days of his contract, he…
Free Will Astrology—Week Of April 18
ARIES (March 21-April 19): French writer Simone de Beauvoir sent a letter to her lover, Aries author Nelson Algren. She wrote, “I like so much the way you are so greedy about life and yet so quiet, your eager greediness and your patience, and your way of not asking much of life and yet taking…
Who's Ready for the Bag Ban #inBend?
Has a checker ever given you side-eye for bringing your own bags, and not automatically offering to do the checker’s job by beginning to bag your own groceries? Us, too. While checkers can currently get away with that occasional side-eye because those of us bringing bags are still so few, that’s not going to last.…
Letters To The Editor
GUEST OPINION Earth Day Have you ever imagined how the climate story will be written in 2050? Will it be from a point of view of achievement or despair? Those who attended Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s excellent program on climate this month learned that U.S. government scientists knew the risk of burning fossil fuels as…
Curbside Composting Expansion?
In 2017, 181,000 tons of waste went into Knott Landfill—a 39 percent increase since 2014. While population growth and an increase in construction in Deschutes County are two factors contributing to this increase, the County expects the waste generation to increase at a rate in proportion with population growth in the future. Deschutes County’s current…
There’s Something About Marriott
I’m a married lesbian. Yesterday on the phone, my wife invited her sister to spend the night (in our small one-bedroom apartment) without asking me. When I confronted her, saying it’s OUR home, she said, “It’s my sister!” Family’s very important to her, and her sister didn’t come, so I let it go. But what’s…
Climate + Education
“The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them. … And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community.” — Carmen Martinez, former director, Oakland Public Library Don’t make the mistake of believing that…
Humans caused—and then fixed—a climate threat under a Republican president. We can do it again
Each year, we dedicate the issue that falls on Earth Day to examining issues around sustainability and the environment. The notion of sustainability is often thought of as a realm only visited by progressives—environmentalists waving a partisan banner in favor of going green for going green’s sake. But discussions of sustainability and the human impact…
Calling All Citizen Scientists
Looking for a way to contribute something toward understanding wildlife, the origin of our solar system or other scientific pursuits? A number of local groups offer a wealth of worthy citizen-scientist projects that anyone, young and old alike, can pursue. These may vary from looking at light pollution at night to counting butterflies, bees or…
Spaces where artists can connect
It interests me how creative Bend can be, and how much our artist community has grown. In many ways, it feels like it hasn’t changed much over the years—like the fact that there are still not many spaces artists can hang their work. Of course, they are plenty of privately owned spaces, but often these…
Sustainable Fire Protection
Issues pertaining to water resources, solid waste management, transportation and energy production are all quick to come to mind when thinking of sustainability issues facing communities around the globe. In Deschutes County and elsewhere in Central Oregon, planning for the long-term health of surrounding forests is also an integral part of building a sustainable future.…
Make Room in the Pantry, Root Cellar Open
The Root Cellar, formerly 123 Ramen, is open. The restaurant transformed into a small market with house-made pantry staples from Anna Witham including bone broth, kimchi, pickled onions, peanut sauce, chai, fig pickles, hot sauce, spice mixes and so much more. Dive into the refrigerated case and you’ll find a few grab-and-go bites, or order…
“The World’s Healthiest Nut”
About five years ago, Jason Thomas was on a kite surfing trip in the Philippines. It was then that he first tried the pili nut (pronounced peel-y) and experienced the powerful flavor for himself. Thomas flew back home with 10 pounds of pili nuts in his backpack and proceeded to sell them along the coasts…
