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A Community Thread: Dan McGarigle, Pine Mountain Sports

Pine Mountain Sports

A Community Thread: What does community mean to you? Dan McGarigle: Long story short, where we—especially these days—we follow headlines, we turn on the news, we're bombarded by media from all over the world.

By Joshua Langlais Apr 17, 2019

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A Community Thread: Jesse Locke

How making a film in Palestine broadened his perspective

A Community Thread: What concerns you or gives you pause? What gives you a heavy heart?

By Joshua Langlais Mar 27, 2019

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A Community Thread: Shimiko Montgomery

Valuing family; fostering relationships

Joshua Langlais is a local photographer and the creator of A Community Thread, a project for which he interviews folks on the subject of community, its importance and how we function as individuals within it. This is an excerpt from his interview with Shimiko Montgomery from March of 2018.

By Joshua Langlais Feb 20, 2019

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River Warrior

Fighting to keep our waterways flowing

Tod Heisler might as well have river water running through his veins. He was recently hired as the director of the Rivers Conservation Program within Central Oregon LandWatch, and before that he led the Deschutes River Conservancy for 15 years.

By Richard Sitts Feb 6, 2019

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A Community Thread: Shanan Kelley

Building community, one interview at a time

Editor's note: Joshua Langlais is a local photographer and the creator of "A Community Thread," a project for which he interviews folks on the subject of community, its importance, and how we function as individuals within it. We featured Langlais' journey to this project in the Dec. 20 issue—quickly realizing the project would be great fodder for a Source Spotlight.

By Joshua Langlais Jan 16, 2019

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What If We Could?

New organization aims to make volunteering more accessible

Volunteering or giving back to the community can feel good—but involves enough barriers that for a lot of people, it doesn't happen very often.

By Caitlin Richmond Jan 2, 2019

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Chop Local

Longtime Bendite lives for firewood and the Blazers

When setting up an appointment to talk with 92-year-old Virgil Brunson, he made two things clear: One, our meeting cannot interfere with his firewood gathering, and two, it absolutely cannot be during a Portland Trail Blazers game. If he and his partners are delivering a cord of firewood, they make sure to be done and home in time for tipoff.

By Richard Sitts Dec 12, 2018

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