Source Weekly

For Dave Chun the name Kialoa represents a memory of time spent with his father. Chun saw the name on the side of a racing sailboat as a child growing up in Hawaii and it stuck with him. He didn’t know what it meant, but he liked the name and the memory he associated with it. It wasn’t until after he started making wooden paddles out of his parents’ house in Hawaii that his wife Meg found out the word meant swift, fast-racing canoe.  The story of how Dave, a social worker from Hawaii, and Meg, a teacher originally from Wisconsin, wound up in Bend is a story like many of our own. Their company, Kialoa Paddles, started as Dave’s hobby and grew out of their passion for the outrigger paddling community.

Commute Options Week-Renowned Speaker!
June 21, 2012
11:30-1pm
St. Charles Medical Center
Building a Better Bend, City Club of Central Oregon, Commute Options, Oregon Environmental Council, 1000 Friends of Oregon, Transportation & Growth Management and the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association present Richard Jackson, MD, MPH Chair of Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA.

If you’ve spent time outside in Bend when the weather is nice, you know that dogs are prevalent. People here like to get out and be active, and many of them like to bring their dogs with them. But sometimes it isn’t very practical to have your dog on a leash, yanking your arm out of the socket.
That’s where Spindrift comes in—to ease your aching shoulder and to make it easier to get outside with your dog with their new hands-free leash system. Dogs are attached to their owners at the waist, making it easier for people to run with their dogs. This new leash system also makes it easier for owners to take their dogs on trails that require dogs to be leashed.