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Building Confidence, Character and Grace

โ€œThe Little Mermaidโ€ swims onto a high school stage in Redmond

A Disney classic, โ€œThe Little Mermaid,โ€ will be center stage in Redmond this November.ย  Ovation Performing Arts is putting on the production. The non-profit primarily serves homeschooled families and describes itself as a Christian-based organization. Jonathan Shepherd and his wife have run OPA for the past decade, developing young actors from around Central Oregon. For […]

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Strength in Silks

A dozen Lava City Cirque girls perform in a movie filming in Texas

Lava City Cirque is celebrating its first anniversary at the north end of Bend off O.B. Riley Road with some exciting achievements. One of its students, 11-year-old Margot Tatum-Ling, won the national championship in the Intermediate 2 competition at the Aerialympics Kansas City, MO in July. Three other students won first place awards. Altogether, Lava […]

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ELSEWHERE Will Be the Place to Be

A sober-movement connected to Bendโ€™s creative and wellness community

A new festival is debuting in October thatโ€™s meant to feel like a calming retreat. Even the name, ELSEWHERE, conveys transporting one to another place. Organizer Alyssa Reyes describes it as a nomadic gathering in Central Oregon blending music, art, movement, ceremony and connection. โ€œThe event is going to bring together about 30 or so […]

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Bend Community Contra Dance

Keeping tradition alive, no experience needed

Contra dance is a form of folk dancing originating in the 17th century from a variety of dance styles in England, Scotland, France and more. Itโ€™s a social dance that one can attend without a partner, although the dancers form couples in long lines the length of the dance hall. Couples then progress up and […]

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The Big Re/Think

A movement to secure a future for arts and culture in Oregon

This fall, arts and culture leaders across Oregon will unite to launch a movement to build a more sustainable, resilient cultural arts core. Called The Big Re/Think, the challenge is being led by the Cultural Advocacy Coalition Foundation, which is a nonprofit advocacy organization that lobbies state lawmakers on behalf of arts, culture, history, heritage […]

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Veo: a (Near) Crash Course in Responsible E-Bike Ridesharing

A new rideshare program dropped 227 class-2 e-bikes across Bend. In Veoโ€™s debut month, 3,700 local riders have ridden 35,000 cumulative miles. We were among them.

For a period in July, my relationship with two wheels turned upside down.  There, parked in the grass outside the Source office, I spied a new Cosmo-e, one of 227 e-bikes distributed by Veo throughout Bendโ€™s streets since July 10. I was aware that Veo, a micromobility rideshare company, had contracted with the City of […]

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Books for Reluctant Young Readers

There’s a book out there for every interest

Back-to-school season is almost upon us, and you may have a reluctant young reader in your family. We know reading is not a favorite pastime for everyone, but our booksellers are here to assist. While we canโ€™t force books on people (although I may be guilty of that with my friends and family), we can […]

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Best Local Farm

Boundless Farmstead

While the โ€œBest Local Farmโ€ category may be new, David and Megan Kellner-Rodeโ€™s Boundless Farmstead is going strong in its eighth season of growing food. After about a half-decade of learning the ropes on their 20-acre mixed vegetable farm just north of the Badlands, the Kellner-Rodes seem to be hitting their stride.ย  With more than […]

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Best Tattoo Artist

Chase Tafoya

Chase Tafoya lived all over California before making Bend his home in 2012. Heโ€™d visited his parents, whoโ€™d just moved here, loved it and relocated three weeks later. โ€œBend is such an artist town,โ€ Tafoya says. โ€œFrom the arts and entertainment, the entrepreneurial spirit, to the recreational sports; the people who live here are all […]

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