Ethan Maffey (“Listen Outside the Box,” August 23) overlooked an independent radio jewel: classical station KWAX-FM (Redmond 88.5, Bend 98.9, Sunriver 90.9, and heard worldwide at kwax.com). In an unpretentious, no-fuss format, KWAX DJs like Catriona Bolster and Rocky Lamanna serve up the riches of classical music 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The University of Oregon holds KWAX’s license, but music-loving listeners and Oregon business underwriters completely fund the station.
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Reject Fluoride Propaganda
Since reading the news of Portland considering adding fluoride to their water, the local editorial in the other paper in town again sounded the call for that to happen in Bend. If you look up fluoride info from Dr. Hardy Limebeck of Toronto, Canada you would find a dentist, biologist, and head of the school for preventative dentistry at the University of Toronto tell you the latest science. If you look up Cathy Justice, you would find out what happened to her horses and dogs after just a few years drinking the fluoridated water from the city of Pagosa Springs, Colorado a city that no longer flouridates [its] water.
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Reaching Out to Central Oregon Vets
The Central Oregon Veterans Outreach get this week’s Glass Slipper.
The media and pop culture celebrate them as “heroes,” but for America’s veterans the compliment sometimes rings hollow.
Besides often having wounds (physical or mental) to deal with, they face the everyday struggles of trying to get by in the worst economy since the Great Depression. And the federal government has done disgracefully little to help.
On the local level, Central Oregon Veterans Outreach – a private, non-profit organization – is doing what it can to bridge the gap between what veterans need and what the government does. Founded in 2005, its efforts include providing food and clothing to homeless vets, transporting veterans to the Veterans Administration hospital in Portland for medical care, and running “Home of the Brave,” a transitional housing facility.
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What lies beneath: GOP ambitions beneath the Mitt Romney façade: A report from the Republican National Convention
A full review on the RNC given by Nathan Dinsdale.
I had a decision to make. I’d been in Tampa for all of 15 minutes, and I was already late for something, anything, everything—a white rabbit with OCD, searching for Mad Hatters.
Of course, I knew that the real Republican National Convention would occur far from the klieg lights and sound bites of primetime. It’d be found in closed-door meetings, invitation-only events and the visceral experience of witnessing the awkward, painful birth of history in the making.
The week before the RNC began, that manifested itself in the creation of the official GOP platform. According to a Washington Post account, proposed initiatives included returning to the gold standard, safeguarding against Sharia law, loosening gun regulations, building a new border fence and excluding female soldiers from combat duty.
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Citizens Unite!: The Source Weekly’s 2012 Election Guide
A lot of people believe that we’re at a pivotal time in our political history. We’re inclined to agree. It seems that Americans are drifting to opposite poles both politically and socially. For that reason, it’s crucial that voters know who they are sending to city hall, the statehouse and the White House. The problem, of course, is that even as it appears we are more polarized, it’s harder and harder to know just what candidates stand for on either side of aisle. Between scripted debates, focus group-tested talking points and “fair and balanced” reporting, it’s hard to cut through all the bullshit.
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The Source Staff Summer Album Picks
Were you too busy river floating, pub cycle pedaling and high desert camping to keep up with all the fantastic albums released this summer? No sweat—we’ve got you covered.
Here are a handful of records released this summer that deserve a little love before you close the book on the season.
Unearth / Grasscut / Label: Ninja Tune
Sitting squarely between the worlds of pop and orchestral electronic music isUnearth, the sophomore album from Brighton UK duo Andrew Phillips and Marcus O’Dair who record together as Grasscut. Unearth incorporates ambient guitar and well composed classical electro-movements that when paired with Phillips’s ice-cold and sometimes auto-tuned pop vocals become air conditioning for your ears. Songs like “Stone Lines” and “Reservoir” are perfect for soaking up an afternoon breeze while the more upbeat tracks “Pieces” and “From Towns and Fields” are good for that sexy nighttime pool party. The influences of European electronic music are all over Unearth, and are a welcome respite from the dark grinding beats that currently dominate the genre.
ETHAN MAFFEY
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BendFilm Releases 2012 Lineup: Fall festival offers more venues than ever before
We met with Orit Schwartz, BendFilm’s festival director and all around great gal, last week and she assured us that this year’s slate of indie films, documentaries and shorts is tops.
Bust out the popcorn and get yourself some tickets! BendFilm is just around the corner. We met with Orit Schwartz, BendFilm’s festival director and all around great gal, last week and she assured us that this year’s slate of indie films, documentaries and shorts is tops. Stay tuned to the Source for all BendFilm news, events and previews leading up to the big weekend, Oct. 11 through Oct. 14. Here’s our exclusive look at the lineup.
OPENING NIGHT FILM
Ethel
This deeply personal look at Ethel Kennedy is a revealing portrait told through interviews with members of her family. Directed by her Emmy-Award winning
daughter, Rory Kennedy.
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Look To Redmond for: No-Kill Blueprint
Emma Clifford’s opinion letter in the August 16th Source (“Bend Can Do Better By Its Animals”) struck a chord with me and many other readers of the Source magazine – as plans for ‘no-kill’ (or ‘high-save’) already do exist within pockets of our Central Oregon community.
Since December 2008, the blueprint for a ‘no-kill’ solution began at Humane Society of Redmond (HSR) with new shelter leadership determined to move this small, scrappy and often-overlooked shelter out of the dark ages and into the light with an approach to sheltering more consistent with community values. The shelter was reborn around a new mission that values every community animal who enters the shelter as deserving a chance to leave the shelter with a secure future.
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Albom’s Albatross
I see that Mitch Albom is coming to Bend in September. He’s promoting a new book and I’m guessing he’ll spend a fair amount of time telling people how important he is.
Mitch and I were in the same union (Newspaper Guild Local 22) back in 1995 when his employer, the Detroit Free Press, demanded concessions from union workers and forced them out on strike. My employer, the United Auto Workers union, provided material support to the Detroit newspaper strikers, as did our Guild unit in the UAW’s Public Relations Department.
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Smoked Out, Again
The smoke management program gets this week’s Boot.
Central Oregonians like to brag about their clean air, and most of the time the bragging is justified. Last week, though, somebody driving into Bend might have thought he’d taken a wrong turn on I-5 and ended up in Los Angeles.
A yellowish-brown pall hung over town, so thick at times that you could barely make out Pilot Butte through the gunk, much less the Three Sisters and Mount Bachelor. Things got so bad on Sunday morning that the state Department of Environmental Quality briefly listed Bend’s air quality as “unhealthy” – the worst rating. And incredibly, the smoke in Prineville was almost six times as heavy.
