“It’s incredible seeing our clients go through the process and see them grow and take back their lives, to get the tools to be where they need to be.” — Emma Anderson Emma Anderson enthusiastically declares it was Saving Grace that brought her to Bend. Five and a half years ago, she was fresh out […]
Richard Sitts
Richard Sitts grew up in the midwest, mostly in Kansas. After earning a journalism degree from Kansas State University, he worked in various capacities at newspapers in Kansas, New York, New Mexico, California and Colorado, before arriving in Bend several years ago. Highlights included working as a bureau reporter covering the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Ariz., copy editing and writing stories for the Albuquerque Tribune, and serving as editor for a group of four weekly newspapers in central California. Once, between journalism jobs in Houston, he worked as the assistant stage manager at an old school, burlesque dinner theater. The second show every night, the dancers performed topless, as he moved curtains and props, and operated the dry ice fog machine.
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Remembering the Master of Space and Time
A tribute to Leon Russell
As I came of rock ‘n’ roll age in southeast Kansas in the early 1970s, Leon Russell became the first rock ‘n’ roll artist to whom I felt any kind of a connection. That’s because he was an Oklahoma boy who happened to be from Tulsa, a mere 90 miles south of the small town […]
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Bee Well
Backyard beekeepers buzzing along
Tumalo Bee Academy is led by long-time local beekeeper Stephen Harris, who has been working with bees in Central Oregon for about the past 40 years. His business card reads, “Saving the honey bee one new beekeeper at a time.” The goal of the bee academy is to educate and encourage as many new beekeepers […]
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Boss Baptism
Thirty-eight years on E Street
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the Moda Center in Portland on March 22, but I won’t be there. It’s a troubling notion, kind of like breaking it off with a significant other after a 38-year relationship. It’s not you, Bruce, it’s me. It’s not a permanent breakup–the timing just wasn’t right […]
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Get Yer Dawg On!
Canine brew is too good for cats
When Dawg Grog, the liquid canine vitamin treat, first hit the local market two years ago this month, it brought to my mind a question: Would cats like it? Dawg Grog inventor Daniel Keeton says the elixir—comprised of brewers wort (malted barley water) from Boneyard Brewery, vegetarian K9 glucosamine, trace mineral supplements, and Oregon mountain […]
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OLD TIMERS: The 1980s
Jim Fields, owner of Fields Farm, located on the east side of Bend, has seen the neighborhood surrounding his approximate 10 acres transform from a rural landscape into urban living space. The earthy island of greenery and compost piles is now bordered by houses that have overtaken what were once fields and orchards. Just across […]