Something to Chew On: Finding Fresh Local Food
Walking into Agricultural Connections this past week, I was an inexperienced outsider, invited on a tour of a facility that connects local farms to a larger network of restaurants, grocery stores and individuals. It was the first part of a gathering of like-minded individuals from around the Pacific Northwest who run facilities like Agricultural Connections,…
The Third Act: Play It Again, Sam
This year, on Father’s Day, I attended an unforgettable concert. It was held, of all places, at an assisted living facility specializing in memory care. A friend of mine now resides there, a preventative decision made after months of thoughtful conversations between him and his grown children as together they weighed other options: living on…
Horoscope Week of July 21, 2022
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author Laurie Sheck writes, “So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, and outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses.” While that’s an experience we all have, especially you Cancerians, it will be far less pressing for you in the coming weeks. I foresee you…
The Library Debacle is the New Mirror Pond
Picture this: A city gets nearly $200 million in bond funds. Two years after the vote that ushered it in, little has been accomplished. There’s no solid location for the project in question. The people involved in the decision making can’t even agree on what the project should be. And so the money sits while…
BodyMind: Parking Our Pain
Previously, we wrote that the brain instantaneously parks emotional overloads in our tissues. While these continuously broadcast a state of emergency to every cell in our body, we can use the mindbody connection to evict that troublesome content. Today’s focus is on how all that relates to pain. Forget supercomputers and Artificial Intelligence, the human…
Letters to the Editor 07/21/2022
RE: Tripping Over the Details News, 7/14 Congrats to 25 years – I moved here well before you guys or KPOV arrived which was long overdue. I want to respond to the two articles regarding psilocybin. While yes it was voted to make it legal, there still is more work that needs to happen regarding place,…
Legal Help Wanted
On July 13 Oregon’s Public Defense Services Commission convened to take the first steps on plans to reform Oregon’s public defense system. As of July 8, there were 39 unrepresented people incarcerated in Oregon jails and 65 out-of-custody people who’ve been arraigned without representation. Anyone charged with a criminal offense who proves an inability to…
More Executives Out at St. Charles
St. Charles Health System eliminated two executive positions on Friday, just three days after its CEO and president, Joe Sluka, announced his resignation. The nonprofit hospital system says it’s eliminating the two positions to cut costs as it reports a loss of $17.5 million in the first quarter of 2022, according to the Oregon Health…
Redmond Recreation
On July 12, Redmond City Council approved two ballot measures that would create and fund a five-year levy to create a recreation center. The $48 million facility would have an eight-lane lap pool, a lazy river, water slide, a gym, bouldering wall and more. The facility would sit on 10 acres Redmond Area Park and…
Noticias en Español
El viernes, el sistema de salud de St. Charles eliminó dos puestos directivos, solo tres días después que el presidente y director ejecutivo (CEO), Joe Sluka, anunciará su renuncia. El sistema hospitalario sin fines de lucro comenta que está eliminado los dos puestos para reducir costos ya que reporta una pérdida de $17.5 millones durante…
State of the Union: Abortion
The right to an abortion is protected in the Oregon constitution—and for us, the abortion restrictions that came with the repeal of Roe and Dobbs mean more demands on the clinics that now provide services not just for Oregonians, but those in neighboring states like Idaho where “trigger laws” went into place following last month’s…
Jess Ryan Band’s New EP Capturesthat Live Feeling
In 2019 the Jess Ryan Band released its debut album “Fractured”—which Ryan shared was a lifelong dream. Now the band is back with its followup EP, “Take A Seat,” that will celebrate its official release at the Volcanic Theatre Pub on July 23. This time around the band took on a totally new approach to…
Living the High Life
It’s a common occurrence for passengers flying into the Redmond airport: the second the white-capped peaks of the Cascades come into view, people not in the window seats are poking their heads around, trying to find a good place to see those beauties in their up-close majesty. It doesn’t much matter how long you’ve lived…
Where’s Caldo?
I recently visited Fall River, a sleepy fishing town on the Rhode Island border whose long-established Portuguese community has made it the capital of Portuguese seafood in North America. There, amid the wine-sauced littleneck clams, the grilled cod, scallops moçambique and Portuguese paella, I found a bowl of kale potato soup that almost stole the show. It…
Bird Flu + Backyard Flocks
I was quite literally arranging to bring a new hen into our flock when the news broke: Bird flu. For me, bringing in a new hen will have to wait. When it comes to breakfast, there’s nothing quite like a fresh egg or two, plucked that morning from the coop of your very own backyard flock.…
The Athletic Club of Bend opens its intimate outdoor venue this weekend
The Athletic Club of Bend has been a favorite summertime pop-up venue for Central Oregonians for the past 29 years. This year the venue hosts its “Clear Summer Nights” concert series where Central Oregonians will see some familiar faces and young talent. On the bill this year are legendary singer LeAnn Rimes, Bend favorite Michael…
Golf Clap
When brilliant British (and Australian) filmmakers who cut their teeth in comedy are given somewhat free reign to tell stories on a larger scale, we get beautiful things. And so many of the new guard of British writers and directors come from goofy and humble beginnings. I don’t think this is a secret, but “Paddington”…
Rewild and Restore
The sale of the native plant Wintercreek Nursery to the nonprofit Worthy Garden Club this month has many implications for conservation projects throughout the West, as well as for the volunteers and stewards in the art of land restoration. “The purchase of the nursery is something Roger [Worthington] and I discussed before I took this…
2022 Stihl Timbersports U.S. Championship
While most of us can’t drop our plans this weekend and buy plane tickets to Little Rock, Arkansas, to watch timber athletes live, we can tap into a live stream and support two Oregonians competing in the Stihl Timbersports U.S. Championship July 22-23.Local athletes David Green and Katelyn Page will test their skills against some…
