Listen: Source Weekly Update 3/18 🎧
The crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people is growing and has reached epidemic levels for women and girls. Here is what’s being done and what challenges advocates face. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 3/18
Strike Ends at St. Charles
Technical employees at St. Charles Medical Center went back to their jobs on Monday, after representatives from St. Charles and Oregon Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals came to an agreement to end the strike and re-ignite contract negotiations. The employees—which include therapists, technicians and technologists working for the health systems—joined a union in late…
Listen: A New Vision for Redmond with City Councilor Clifford Evelyn 🎧
For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast we talk with Redmond City Councilor Clifford Evelyn. Evelyn won an insurgent victory in 2020 through a campaign of connecting with local business owners and others in the community, despite the constraints of COVID-19. Evelyn talked about how his message resonated with people who want to see more…
Listen: Source Weekly Update 3/11 🎧
What effects did 2020 events have on trails in Central Oregon? Learn how COVID-19, wildfires, and stay-at-home orders are affecting recreational use in 2021, and find out about implementation of an online, limited-entry permit system from the Forest Service. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 3/11
‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ Author Comes to Central Oregon
One of the benefits of the pandemic (yes, there are a few benefits…) is that previously inaccessible experiences are now open and there for many more people. With virtual museum tours, zookeeper talks or free online courses, the many ways to expand our minds has certainly increased. One such opportunity is coming soon to our…
Young Climbers on Keeping Competitive During COVID-19
Mira Capicchioni (15), Moxie Hovorka (14), and Shae McCarl (12) are three junior competitive and outdoor climbers from Bend who train at the Bend Rock Gym through the Bend Endurance Academy. Since the BRG is currently closed because of COVID, I was curious as to how else COVID has been impacting their training. Here’s what…
Get Out There, Get Moving, Do Good
Looking for a little challenge to get up and moving this spring? Oregon Adaptive Sports is keeping its annual Ski For All fundraising campaign alive with a 24-day challenge for the entire community. Normally held as a one-day skiing or boarding extravaganza, this year’s event will look a little different. From now until March 28,…
Grammy Awards Preview
It’s that time of the year again—music’s biggest night! This Sunday, the 63rd Grammy Awards will take place, highlighting some of the best in music from 2020. There will be performances from Taylor Swift, Post Malone, HAIM, Brittany Howard, Bad Bunny and many, many more. Other than an impressive lineup of performers, there are of…
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Those seeking tasty morsels of sweetness while adhering to a gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, keto, Whole30, low sodium and low-sugar diet will find a cornucopia of offerings to their liking at Bend’s Blissful Spoon. Whether by visiting the new dine-in headquarters on Newport Avenue, by ordering energy bites online or by finding their granola blends…
Deschutes Brewery and Boneyard
I’ll admit when I heard about the acquisition of Boneyard by Deschutes Brewery I thought “WHAT?! NO, WAIT, I don’t know….” How will this change Boneyard? Will it remain the hardcore, “white whale” brewery that I know and love? Will people flock from all over the country just to get a sip of a delicious…
Why Are You Here?
Those who read my last message, “Right on Time,” in the Source Weekly, know Wendy and I recently arrived in Bend after living 50 years in Flagstaff, Arizona. The reason we are here is simple on the surface: our daughter, Jessie, our son-in-law, Jesse, our grandchildren and a miracle housing opportunity. That’s it! We were able…
New Streams in the Ether
There are so many different streaming services that it’s kind of stupid. Between the subscriptions I pay for and the ones I have borrowed from others, I have Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBOMax, Disney+, AMC+, WWE Network, Hoopla, Kanopy, Shudder, IFC Films Unlimited, Peacock, Sundance Now and Hulu. Hell, I even had Quibi back when it…
Smart Home Buying
The state of the current housing market is moving at a frenzied pace. Homes are going pending instantaneously with upwards of 20 or more offers, and the fear of missing out is forcing buyers to make rash decisions. It’s become routine to hear about all contingencies being waived, homebuyers accepting homes “as is” and sales…
Free Will Astrology—Week of March 11
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The bad news is that the narrow buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea is laced with landmines. Anyone who walks there is at risk for getting blown up. The good news is that because people avoid the place, it has become an unprecedented nature preserve—a wildlife refuge where endangered…
Smear Pressure & Ancestry Dot Bomb
Smear Pressure I’m a college sophomore, and my boyfriend is a senior. He’s a football player, and other girls have crushes on him. Recently, he was with his guy friends at a party. A girl came over and said I’d slapped her across the face. I’ve never even met her! Why would she do this?…
Post Fires, a Broken Pacific Crest Trail
It’s been a little over one week since the start of the official Pacific Crest Trail hiking season on March 1, and according to Scott Wilkinson of the PCT Alliance, only approximately 75% of the normal number of long-distance permits have gone out. Fire on the Pacific Crest Trail in Oregon Perhaps one of the…
In 2020, Messes and Crowds Defined Many Forest Trails
Many are happy to see 2020 in the rearview mirror. With a raging coronavirus pandemic, a contentious election, devastating wildfires, a crashing economy and stay-at-home orders, it was a no-brainer that when the light turned green, explosive recreational use would follow. Recreating and being out in nature was about the only game in town, so…
Letters to the Editor 3/11/21
Editor’s note: Over the past year we’ve spent a lot of time looking at the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic—but that’s just one of the challenges Oregonians have faced this year. In this week’s feature section, two contributors offer some perspective on how events over the past year—including wildfires, tourism and a lack of volunteers…
Noticias en Español
Muchos están felices de ver el año 2020 en el retrovisor. Con una embravecida pandemia de coronavirus, una polémica elección, incendios forestales devastadores, un derrumbe económico y los mandatos de quedarse en casa, era obvio que cuando dieran luz verde, se presentaría el uso explosivo de las zonas de recreo. Las actividades de recreo y…
Oregon Democrats eye evictions, foreclosures, homelessness in 2021
Before the COVID-19 pandemic upended our lives and before the wildfires devastated our state, Oregon was already in the midst of a housing crisis. Now, it’s worse. For years, housing issues in the state legislature were considered more of an afterthought; issues to be tackled primarily at the local level. But in more recent history,…
Why Redistricting Matters and How You Can Take Part
Just when you thought we’d put aside politics for a while—so soon after an emotional and contentious 2020 presidential election—more intrigue is ahead. Every 10 years, following the U.S. Census, the lines defining districts for state House and Senate, along with U.S. Congressional Districts, have an opportunity to be redrawn based on shifts in population.…
