Amanda Stuermer has been producing events, creative projects, and cultural travel experiences for over two decades. She is the Founder of World Muse and Muse Conference and London Editor for Origin Magazine. She has recently co-produced a series of documentary films and her writing has been featured in Origin, Mantra, and Outside Magazines. Source Weekly – Bend, […]
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Central Oregon Pets 2023
It’s not just the humans who live the good life in Central Oregon! The pets of the region like to have a good time, too.
Inside this edition of Central Oregon Pets, you’ll find plenty of evidence of the good life. In our story on catios on page 29, we chat with a local couple who spends their entire working life ensuring cats have a sunny place to relax outdoors. In our annual Central Oregon cutest pets contest featured on […]
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Pet Photo Contest
Cute pets of Central Oregon
It is not an understatement to say that running this Cutest Pet photo contest is one of the joys our staff looks forward to all year. This year, Central Oregon Pets launched a new online platform allowing readers to vote for their favorites. We got over 800 entries from over 400 pet parents; then, over […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Little Bites: Thanksgiving Dinner is Served! Restaurants that will cook for you on Thursday
While many of us are going to be slaving over stoves, stuffing, brining or the always fun deep-frying our butterball turkeys this Thursday, there are options for those who don’t feel like sticking their hands in the cavity of a 20-pound bird or cutting up the neck to stew some gravy. For all of you who would rather have a skilled chef prepare your fixins, here’s a list of restaurants serving Thanksgiving Dinner, courtesy of Visit Bend.
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Critical City Services
It’s time to find the money—and that doesn’t mean yet another bond During the past election season, several City Council candidates ran on a platform that the financial woes the City of Bend faces (potholes, general road improvements, support for septic-to-sewer transitions, a new Urban Growth Boundary) could be solved through more judicious spending. The […]
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Picks 1/25-2/1
Thursday 26 GATHERING— Green Drinks 2017 Expo An event filled with conscious folk, the Environmental Center is kicking off the 2017 round with a fun-filled, informative event with beer from Boneyard and provided snacks. Come mingle with likeminded folk while supporting green businesses. Remember to carpool and bring your own cup. // 5-7pm. Old Stone […]
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Picks 10/12-10/19
Thursday 13 & Friday 14 Bend Venture Conference STARTUPS–Ready to launch your business? Need some capital to get going? You’d better not miss this one. Bend Venture is the place to be for early- and growth-stage companies who want to show off their hot ideas and connect with the angel investors who will fund them. […]
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DO NOT SPIT ON MY CAR
We recently visited Bend for the Film Festival and very much enjoyed ourselves, with one small exception.
We parked our Ford in the public parking structure, only to find when we returned on Friday night that it had been spat upon, apparently in retribution for our Obama 2012 bumper sticker.
I understand that whoever did this was passionate about politics, something I have always shared.
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THE SOURCE ROCKS, BUT ‘ONE DAY AT A TIME’ DOESN’T
After living in Bend for a year and a half, I recently stopped through on business. I love the town, the people, and all the outdoor beauty the area offers.
One of my favorite things about Bend is without question, The Source.
From the first time I read it, I knew it would be a cover-to-cover great time for me to enjoy all the stories, community news, the updates on all the music and arts, presentations, and great things goings on around town.
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Battered by a Storm of Reality
The hard-core climate change deniers, living inside their comfortable bubble of delusion, will continue to dismiss the evidence as they have for the past 40 years. They’ll say that Sandy was just a freak weather event.
Seeing is believing, they say. If that’s true, there shouldn’t be anybody left in America who doesn’t believe global climate change is for real after seeing what Superstorm Sandy did to the East coast.
Coastlines from New England to Virginia battered. Millions without power. New York City’s subways flooded. More than 110 people dead. Property damage estimated at $30 billion and climbing. All this makes Sandy the second most devastating storm ever to hit the United States, behind Hurricane Katrina in 2005.