Blissful Spoon’s Gluten-Free Goodies
Have food allergies or follow a special diet? The Blissful Spoon has gluten-free, vegan and paleo treats just for you. “We started Blissful Spoon out of a love of cooking good food,” said owner Miki Bekkari. “When we moved to Bend from Australia this year we wanted to start something new that appealed to both…
NLA Moving Forward
With the Oct. 17 City Council check-in looming, the newly formed Neighborhood Leadership Alliance is working on what it may present as projects it can have signed off by the Bend City Council. One objective of the 2017 to 2019 Council Goals: to modernize and professionalize how City government operates by increasing the capacity of…
Schools to Change Boundaries
If there’s anything more emotion-inducing than seeing your little one go off to kindergarten, it may be knowing that this may be the last year she’ll go to that school. Changing school boundaries can be a heated issue, no matter what grade level. School boundary changes can even become a political touchpoint, pointing out divisions…
Call for Submissions: 2018 Source Poetry Contest
It’s time to submit your poems in the 2018 Source Poetry Contest! A partnership with OSU-Cascades’ MFA in Creative Writing Program Win prizes! Read with professional poets! And if you win first prize, get your very own critique with OSU-Cascades MFA program director and McSweeney’s poet, Dr. Emily Carr! How to enter: -Submit up to…
Outstanding Student Athletes
As part of the Source’s Back to School issue, we reached out to area high school athletic directors to see who the best and brightest of Bend are—both on and off the field. Dalton Payfer-Lockling Mountain View High School The senior plays both sides of the ball and special teams. He’s basically on the field…
NKOTB
According to the U.S. Census, Bend’s population grew by an estimated 3,408 people between July 2016 and 2017, reaching an estimated 94,520 people. In the 2018-19 school year, 72 students were approved to transfer to a school within the Bend-La Pine School District, while 41 were approved to transfer outside of the district. That’s more…
Gluttons for Cinema
As someone who’s been involved with BendFilm since its inaugural year, I’m definitely not the person to look to for a completely unbiased look at the festival. There have been films I’ve acted in, written and screened at the fest, and I’ve met some of my cinematic heroes smoking cigarettes in Tin Pan Alley. All…
Lost and Found
David Kim’s 16-year-old daughter Margot is missing. She’s a good student who takes piano lessons, helps her classmates study and has a seemingly open relationship with her father, who’s still reeling from the death of his wife. David doesn’t talk to Margot about her departed mother; instead filling their time chatting about the latest episode…
Products We Didn’t Love
Having this platform to share canna-centric news, viewpoints and historical insight is a great privilege. It also means being besieged with new products for review, and that can be… problematic. What seems awesome to the team that produced the item/product in question is sometimes not viewed with the same enthusiasm by those asked to test…
High Levels of Satisfaction
Over the last week, several people have brought up influential post-rockers El Ten Eleven. People are stoked about this show and, clearly, I’m a little late to the party, as the duo has been releasing music together since 2002 and have six self-released albums. Better late than never, I spoke to Kristian Dunn, the band’s…
Mrazek Trail
There are certain trails in the hundreds of miles of singletrack in Central Oregon that become popular not because of any one thing in particular. Maybe it’s the great views or the awesome features. Some trails hold a certain je ne sais quoi; elements that come together to form a perfect union, a vibe and…
Pick’s Sisters Folk Festival Picks
Last week, we gave you a sneak peek of this year’s Sisters Folk Festival lineup. This week, we’re back with Pick’s Picks — Sisters Folk Festival edition. Gangstagrass — Hip hop meets bluegrass? Yes, that’s a thing and is more successful than you might think. Emmy-nominated outfit Gangstagrass features MC hip-hop beats in sync with…
Perspective from the Chair of the Septic to Sewer Advisory Committee
Hello! I am Bethann Bicknase, Chair of the 11-member Septic to Sewer Advisory Committee. I volunteered to serve on this committee because my home backs to 27th and, when the Southeast Interceptor was constructed, the Bend City Council was looking for citizens with finance in their background to serve on a citizen committee to make…
Digging Deeper
Travis Ehrenstrom has been a part of the Central Oregon music scene since age 14, attending Sisters High School and taking part in the Americana Project. He remembers playing shows with Mark Ransom and Leif James and other Bend music scene strongholds from a young age, and now continues to evolve as an indie folk-rock…
Free Will Astrology—Week of September 6
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): By volume, the Amazon is the largest river in the world. But where does it originate? Scientists have squabbled about that issue for over 300 years. Everyone agrees the source is in southwestern Peru. But is it the Apurímac River? The Marañón? The Mantaro? There are good arguments in favor of…
Teaching Kids Emotional Intelligence
A young girl walked into Molly Carroll’s classroom, crying after recess. Carroll was getting ready to give a math test and found herself in a quandary. “Do I deal with the emotional needs of this child or the academic needs of the whole room?” said Carroll. “I saw a gap in our education system. How do…
Letters to the Editor
Un-bag Bend In May, Un-Bag Bend, a coalition of local citizens, made a proposal to Bend City Council, for a passage of an ordinance to ban single use plastic bags (those less than 4 mm in diameter). The Ordinance is meant to prevent waste, decrease environmental pollution, reduce contamination of recyclables and provide incentive for…
Source Suggests: Seeing the Big Picture
Before you stroll the streets of First Friday, check out these great reading suggestions courtesy of Dudley’s Bookshop Cafe. Then stop into the shop for a discount on the books! Once in a while a book comes along that manages to re-frame our worldview in new, unexpected ways with questions like, “Why do we fear…
Waterman Distillery is the first in Redmond
Redmond is getting its first distillery, to be located on the east side in the Jackpine Industrial Complex. Waterman Distillery, which makes the award-winning Gompers Gin, will open its Prohibition-themed distillery and tasting room later this year. “We have been looking for the appropriate property in Redmond to build our new distillery for three years,”…
Home Sales Cooling in Many Areas
Several recent reports have stated that as of July, home purchase contracts have declined for the seventh consecutive month. These are commonly referred to as pending sales. While this is true on a national level, there are exceptions, such as the West, which includes our local market. Rising inventory levels are happening mainly in markets…
More New Breweries (Again)
It’s a bit of a running joke at this point. Every time a brewery opens up in Central Oregon, the first reaction is often “Surely there’s no way this city can sustain yet another craft brew outlet.” Then, a few months later, another brewery opens. Then another, then another. It never fails. Such is the…
School Construction
School might have been out for the summer, but staff at Bend-La Pine Schools have been keeping busy over the past few months. Projects completed or underway include a new elementary school—set to open in the fall of 2019, safe lobbies and remodeling projects, as well as planning for a new high school. Funds for…
A Third Party Candidate Can Get Voters Out of the Box
Last month, the Oregon Working Families Party announced that Amanda La Bell would be running on the party’s ballot line in the House 54 race. Some have mistakenly asserted that it was the Democrats who made the effort to get La Bell, the founder and executive director of the Rebecca Foundation, on the ballot, in…
Possum Alert!
Back during the Great Depression, many people who wanted to work for a salary had a very tough time. I can remember my dad, who lost his trucking outfit in West Haven, Conn., during that time, saying to my mom, “I’m sorry mother, but I just can’t make enough money working for the WPA. I’ve…
Mock Love to Me and Pitch Slapped
My boyfriend has this irritating habit of making fun of my outfits or my spray tan. When I get upset, he says I’m being “sensitive.” I try to look cute for him, and I just don’t think it’s funny for your boyfriend to mock your appearance. Is this his issue or mine? If it’s his,…
Raising up the Community with Art
When artists decide to join together to raise awareness and money for worthy causes, often the result is maximizing inspiration in a way that can build community. Two Bend artists have worked the last few years to do just this for Healing Reins Therapeutic Riding Center, an equine therapy outreach center doing great work in…
Is Football Still King?
Across the country, traditional contact sports—including tackle football and soccer—are seeing declining participation rates in high school and among kids aged 6 to 12. Locally, soccer is on the rise but tackle football, according to data from the Bend Park and Recreation District, has been seeing a sharp decline in participation over the last 10…
Cafeteria Talk
The school year starts this week, and with it, kids will find themselves returning to school cafeterias for lunch. I still remember my elementary school lunch lady at Amity Creek Magnet School in Bend. Her name was Peggy. I’d see her every weekday, twice a day, for breakfast and lunch. The French toast sticks were…
Big Bucks to Knute’s Campaign
Nike co-founder Phil Knight recently donated $1 million to Knute Buehler’s campaign, according to an article written by the Willamette Week. Although the donation hasn’t been recorded with the Secretary of State’s office—and Buehler’s spokewoman, Monica Wroblewski hasn’t confirmed the donation—Willamette Week said Knight’s total donation is now $1.5 million for this year’s gubernatorial run. Outside…
