Water in our area comes from streams and aquifers. Every gallon you use means one less for fish, and one less gallon in our underground reserve for future generations.
Erin Foote Marlowe
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Deputy Editor at the Source Weekly. Mom.
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Tin Pan Theater Opens its Doors
The Tin Pan Theater will open its doors to the public this Friday where people can enjoy food and beverages while taking a trip to the past.
The owners of Tin Pan Theater will slide back the old timey metal door to their new space off Tin Pan Alley this Friday and, in doing so, revive the good old American tradition of going to the movies.
The art walkers that file in will belly up to the small handcrafted wooden bar marked by pine inlays on walnut for beer and popcorn. They'll slide into old red velvet chairs from the Hollywood Theater in Portland. They’ll grow quiet as the room is darkened by heavy black curtains sliding over large windows on the alley. They'll turn their eyes to the small screen and watch a movie.
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Design Dreams: Art meets function in local teen designer's work
Marley Weedman creates a wedding dress made out of recycled material from Sara Bella in Northwest Crossing.
The wedding dress in the corner of Northwest Crossing's Sara Bella Upcycled is white and studded with little flowers. The train is about five feet long and billows out behind the dress.
That's about where the similarities between this wedding dress and all other dresses end.
This one is made from trash. It makes crinkly noises when moved. And it wasn't designed by a fashion house – rather it's the creation of a 17-year-old girl from right here in Bend who has been quietly making a name for herself as an up-and-comer in the fashion design world
“I just feel like it's my thing,” said Marley Weedman, the primary fabric designer at Sara Bella, which makes bags, wallets and clothes out of recyclable materials like chip bags and other food packaging.
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Unions? No thanks.: St. Charles employees are part of national trend pitting worker vs. worker
An upcoming vote decides if St. Charles employees will stay a 600-member service or SEIU.
The bulletin boards inside a staff entrance to the St. Charles Bend hospital tell a story of a workplace divided.
Some flyers scream out “Vote No” in bold red letters, others appeal for a “yes” on bright canary yellow paper.
They all refer to an upcoming vote to determine whether employees, including certified nursing assistants, housekeepers and dietary department employees, should remain in the 600-member service employees international union, or SEIU, they formed last January.
It was a close vote then with union supporters winning by just a handful of ayes, a result that was unsuccessfully challenged by the hospital's administration. In the year since, union leaders and management have wrangled over a contract. They’ve had 30 work sessions and are still only about halfway through the items they must negotiate. That impasse has opened the door for a rare “decertification” vote that allows employees to reconsider whether they want a union at all.
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“And the BEAT goes on”: Youth theater seeks to fill gap in arts curriculum
BEAT gives kids and students the opportunity to fulfill their dramatic arts dream.
Parker Daines is living the dream.
He's 19. He's living in Los Angeles. He's working at a restaurant. He's doing audition after audition, looking for his break into Hollywood. He'll go to LA City College and major in theater this fall.
“It's pretty incredible,” said Daines, a former actor with Bend Experimental Art Theatre, aka BEAT. “I'm only 19 and I've already started on what I want my life to be.”
He credits BEAT with inspiring him to get here. But more than that, he said the organization provides hundreds of young people in Bend an opportunity to find themselves through dramatic arts – a program that local public schools have cut deeply in recent years. As funding has dwindled for theater programs, BEAT has seen participation among young people grow at its workshops and shows. The program has gone from offering three productions in 2006 to eight in 2012, according to the organization's director.
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Short Session Not Ideal: Legislators agree it must be re-tooled
Legislators meet in Salem for a short session.
Midway through last week, I gassed up my car, turned on the four-wheel drive and pointed myself toward the snowy Santiam Pass and Salem. It was a chance to put myself in the shoes of the legislators from Central Oregon who've made this drive almost every week since the beginning of February when the state embarked on its first crack at annual sessions.
The expectations were high – wade through 270 bills, fix a roughly $300 million budget shortfall and do it all in just 35 days.
What I found on the other side of the mountains was widespread discontent with the ability of the legislature to reach those goals in a truncated session and strong beliefs that Salem must dramatically re-tool its approach to off-year sessions.
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Central Oregon’s Most Influential Women: From every area of our community-politics, business, philanthropy, sports and the creative arts-these women are powerful examples of what it means to live strong everyday
Seven women who are most influential to Central Oregon.
Name: Chris Telfer, 62
Day job: Certified public accountant and state senator
Areas of influence: Oregon State Senator for District 27-Bend, former Bend city councilor, former chair of Bend Urban Renewal Agency, former chair of the Bend-La Pine Schools budget committee, founding organizer of numerous Central Oregon nonprofits, chair of Oregon and national Episcopal Church committees
Leadership Philosophy: It is important to be inclusive and to listen to all perspectives.
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Recovery Through Poetry: Shepherd's House poets will share their work at NOW reading
The Shepherd’s houses is changing the lives of many such as, Rick Engle, a local resident now taking part in The Nature of Words.
Until three months ago, Shepherd's House resident Rick Engle, a gray-bearded 55-year-old man of Irish and Mexican descent, was spending “every dime” on alcohol and each night hopping from one friend's couch to the next.
Finding work in the construction industry was getting harder and harder, and he knew he was getting closer to living on the cold streets of wintertime Bend. Then, one night, he chose Shepherd's House instead of alcohol and is now on the road to winning a war with his addiction.
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Gina Galdi and Guest Will go on as Tribute to Bend Theater Director Kmiec
Director of Gina Galdi and Guest, Patrick Kmiec passes away from a heart attack and the bend show will be held in his honor.
When the curtain opens on the set of Gina Galdi and Guest at 2nd Street Theater this weekend, the cast and playwright hope audiences see a seamless and hilarious Sex and the City-style take on the life of a young women starting her own wedding cake business.
They want people to go away believing the sparse, black-box set was intended to be that way and that no will notice anything could ever have been amiss in preparations for opening night.
The reality has been very different. Just two weeks ago, the director of the play, Patrick Kmiec, 63, died suddenly and unexpectedly of a massive heart attack in his Redmond home. His partner, Roger Sinclair, was to have been the play's stage manager. And the set design, which was to be based on Kmiec's vision, had not gotten underway.
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A New Beginning: Indian Head Casino gives Warm Springs chance for economic development
When it comes to quality of life indicators on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, the statistics are staggering
When it comes to quality of life indicators on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, the statistics are staggering. Alcohol, drug and sex abuse rates are high.