Erin Foote Marlowe

Bend City Council Candidate Doug Knight is facing possible revocation of his engineering license after an investigator with a state licensing board found he did not tell the truth on a license renewal form.
Knight, who has held an engineering license in Oregon since 1997, was informed July 9 by the board of its intent to revoke his license and assess two civil penalties, totaling $2,000, according to a letter sent to Knight by the board.
The board, called the State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying, found that Knight had lied about taking 30 units of continuing professional development courses after a random audit of his most recent renewal paperwork, according to a legal notice of intent drafted by the board this summer.

By Wednesday, the city of Bend hopes a construction crew will begin the heavy work needed to lay a 30-inch pipe across two channels of Tumalo Creek and down Skyliners Road.
It will be the first step in completing the city’s controversial surface water improvement project, and one that opponents and many city council candidates running for election this fall say is reckless and could end up costing the city millions of dollars.

St. Charles hospital in Bend has hired a firm to begin recruiting nurses in the event of a strike by members of the Oregon Nursing Association who work at the hospital, said a hospital official.
“We have a responsibility to our community to continue providing high quality care no matter what the circumstances,” wrote Lisa Goodman, communications coordinator for St. Charles in an email Tuesday.
The decision comes in the wake of stalled bargaining and mediation sessions between the ONA and hospital administration as they work to hammer out a new three-year contract. Patient care and the role of nurses in the hospital are at the heart of the conflict, rather than wages or benefits.

Back in 2010, it looked like Brian Douglass and his Smith Rock Race Group were the answer to the prayers of the people that ran Girls on the Run.
The young girls self-esteem program needed help running its second annual Turkey Trot benefit race on Thanksgiving in the Old Mill. Douglass offered to manage the race for free. And together they made over $10,000 for the program after the successful event.
But what’s happened since then has been, in a word, ugly.
Douglass now claims the race belongs to him because he registered ownership with the state and says that proceeds should go to feed the hungry—not Girls on the Run.

If you circled the last weekend of September on your calendar and dedicated it to Bend’s homegrown music festival, you should make other plans.
Bend Roots Revival has been cancelled due to issues related to traffic and development at Century Center, where the seven-year-old festival was to have taken place.
“It’s unfortunate,” said Century Center owner Dave Hill.
Ongoing disputes between Century Center and its neighbors—like Nosler bullet factory and residents—are complicated.

A local group has a new request of the Bend parks and recreation district. It’s not a new dog park. Not a disc golf course. Not a new stretch of trail. It’s a million dollars. Cash, please.
The United Senior Citizens of Bend made this unusual request of the district last week and it’s not one the district can easily put off. The group of senior citizens, which boasts between 400 and 500 members, says the district and the city of Bend swindled them out of $925,000 to build the Bend Senior Center on Reed Market Road, marginalized their programs and left them nothing to show for a 10-year partnership.
“We had an identity,” said the group’s longtime president, Virginia Reddick. “We lost that identity—we literally disappeared into nothing.”

Pegi Malnik’s scenic property just east of Bend appears to be the perfect setting for a bed and breakfast. Her 2.5 acres boast a small pond, a gazebo covered in hop vines, a fire pit for roasting marshmallows and a pasture filled with wildflowers and honeybee boxes.
The guests who’ve stayed at her “B and B Reimagined” for between $70 and $86 a night, love it, too, saying on the room rental website Airbnb.com that her property is “top notch” and she is the “perfect hostess.”

On Saturday night, June 24, Shane Munoz had been drinking.
The brown-haired, brown-eyed, 33-year-old who’d lived in Bend most of his life was hitting up a few places downtown.
He’d been to the M and J Tavern and then to Silver Moon, according to staff there. After he was served a pint at the brewpub on Greenwood Avenue, he talked to people throughout the bar whether he knew them or not, said staff. Shortly after eating food off another patron’s plate, Munoz was asked to leave.
According to staff at the Moon, Munoz stumbled off into the night amicably, apparently leaving behind his bike, which was still locked up there in the morning.