Source Weekly Update 8/5/20 🎧
In this week’s Source Weekly update: A man dies at Bend’s new high school, a local Fred Meyer employee charged with harassment after allegedly shoving a Trump supporter, and two Bend first responders test positive for COVID. All in this week’s Source Weekly Update. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 8/5/20
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Get Your Art on the Wall ▶ [with video] (con versión en español)
Call for artists: Spanish-speaking artist wanted for Franklin Underpass mural; artists wanted for Black Lives Matter museum exhibit.
Loss and Loneliness at Local Long-Term Care Facilities
A COVID-19 outbreak at a local nursing home was related to six recent deaths.
Pearl’s Puzzle – Week of Aug. 3
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Our Restaurant Guide Winners Dish on their Fave Dishes ▶ [with video]
Last week, the Source put out its annual Restaurant Guide, in which we named a Restaurant of the Year and gave a tied Rookie Food Cart of the Year award. After we interviewed each place last week, we still wanted to know more! So we asked each of the owners what they would choose as their…
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Tourism in the Time of COVID: Kevney Dugan, CEO of Visit Bend 🎧 [with podcast]
For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast, we talk with Kevney Dugan, CEO of Visit Bend, the destination marketing organization for the City. Dugan worked in the fly fishing industry before coming on as the group sales manager for the agency 10 years ago. He was then promoted to President, taking over for Doug LaPlaca.…
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Life in the ‘Badlands’ ▶ [with video]
Locals might have seen him playing around the Central Oregon scene for years in Precious Byrd and alongside other local bands, but now we’re getting a deeper look at Casey Parnell as a solo artist. On July 10, Parnell released his debut solo album, “Badlands.” The project is a 10-track mix of rock, pop, country…
Pandemic or Not, the (Radio) Show Must Go On
Things were going well for McKenzie McCulloch in his young radio career. First, he completed an internship at Central Oregon’s community radio station, KPOV, and was four years into hosting his own show, “Ken and the Kindred Spirits,” airing Sundays, where he goes by his radio name, Ken McKenzie. Then Bend Radio Group hired him…
Hesitating Buyers?!
Just as there are a kaleidoscope of people, there are also varying types of homebuyers. Some are decisive, knowing what they want and ready to make an offer as soon as an ideal home comes along. Others need to move in a timely manner due to a new job or to be closer to family…
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hide
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hide I’m a 30-year-old gay man with a new boyfriend. He is a total social butterfly: the kind of person who shows up to a bar on a random Friday night and just happens to know 10 people there. I, on the other hand, don’t love being super social. It’s not…
After Two Positive Tests, Lessons Learned
For Aaron Christenson, co-owner of Jackson’s Corner and Parrilla Grill in Bend, the threat of COVID-19 and its repercussions became all too real when one of his employees tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-July. He said he immediately shut all of his restaurant locations down and mandated employees get tested prior to reopening. “None of…
Black is Beautiful
A new brew is making appearances nationwide, and it comes with a mission. According to blackisbeautiful.beer: “Black is Beautiful is a collaborative effort to raise awareness for injustices people of color face daily and raise funds for police brutality reform and legal defenses for those who have done wrong. “As much as we want this to…
No Live Music? Look to the Streets.
As local shows continue to be postponed, venue seating is limited, and COVID-19 cases go up, being a local musician is proving to be one of the hardest jobs to bounce back from in this pandemic era. To the local music lover, the horizon is looking gray. However, to the jobless but ever so optimistic…
What We Lose When We Lose Live Music
Reporting on COVID-19 has become a numbers game: How many cases? How many deaths? How many people unemployed? How many ventilators? How many hospital beds? But lost within these statistics are the emotional and social costs of forced isolation. Music events and festivals were the first on the chopping block when the COVID-19 pandemic began,…
Reminiscing on Bend’s Music Scene
If there is a “Bend sound,” what is it? How do local music fans play into the scene? And where do local music makers like to play most? As part of this week’s feature on the Central Oregon music scene, I checked in with some local musicians to answer these questions and more. [page] Name:…
From the Stage to the Construction Site
The year 2020 hasn’t exactly been a walk in the park for most. For artists, musicians, event coordinators, “theatre people” and the like, the rapid spread of COVID-19 means a lack of employment as well as a major cultural void. Michalis Patterson, one of Bend’s local musicians, works behind the scenes in the music industry…
Free Will Astrology—Week of July 30
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Notice what no one else notices and you’ll know what no one else knows,” says actor Tim Robbins. That’s perfect counsel for you right now, Leo. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your perceptiveness will be at a peak in the coming weeks. You’ll have an ability to discern…
Letters to the Editor 7/30/20
As journalists, we are among those rare breeds who choose to go into chaos and unrest when others are steering a clear path away. Such was the case this past week when I ventured to Portland to see the protests there for myself. People said I was brave for doing so. Others questioned whether a…
Keep it Suttle
The Suttle Lodge & Boathouse has been hosting a variety of socially distanced, outdoor events since the start of summer. “We like to slow things down a bit and let people relax and enjoy the weather, great food and delicious drinks,” said Alana Kambury, director of sales and community development. The Lodge’s Back Deck is…
The Governor’s Guidance is Enough. We Don’t Need Other Public Entities Creating a New Playbook.
Every morning, we, like so many others, wake up and wonder, “what’s going to change today?” What new guidelines will we fall under? Will today be the day a loved one gets sick? Will it be a day when the virus trends move downward? We, like so many others, know that we are not in…
No Such Thing as a 'Free Lunch'
Just about everyone who reads, watches or listens to nature stories is familiar with the plight of monarch butterflies in the western U.S. Their numbers have dropped from millions to thousands in the last 20 years for a variety of reasons—mostly wrapped around habitat and their food plant, milkweed. There I was over at Clarno,…
Peterson Ridge has a new trailhead—with parking and bathrooms
Sisters’ Peterson Ridge trail system has a new access point for people arriving via motor vehicle. Those who’ve visited the trails probably remember the drill: Get to the trailhead early, or risk wandering the residential streets of Sisters looking for parking. That routine officially goes by the wayside this week, as the Deschutes National Forest…
Broken Pipes, Broken Promises
As the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs try to manage one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the state, thousands of people who live there don’t have usable tap water and can’t flush their toilets. The situation has been going on for more than a month, but it’s not the first time a boil-water…
I Made it a Blockbuster Night
The most meta moment of my life happened this past weekend, and it was amazing. I went to the world premiere of “The Last Blockbuster,” a movie that I’m in, about a dying form of entertainment, shown at a pop-up drive-in movie theater, which is in itself a dead form of entertainment, during a global…
