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Barrio opens for business

Sangria flowing in old Gatsby’s location.
The Source Staff

Barrio Restaurant and Tapas Bar opened for lunch today to a crowd of folks happy to try new things or get their fix of old faves from the restaurant’s precursors, food carts El Sancho and Soupcon, which used to sit on the corner next to Blacksmith Restaurant.
The owners of the carts, Steven Draheim and Joel Cordes, both classically trained chefs from Bend, are focusing their Spanish-based menu on tapas, or small plates that are to be enjoyed with friends along with beverages, generally of the alcoholic variety.

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Feel That? Your precinct may have shifted…

Thousands of Deschutes County voters will soon learn that they will be casting a vote in a different precinct in local elections and may have a different representative in Salem thanks to last year's redistricting legislation.
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Thousands of Deschutes County voters will soon learn that they will be casting a vote in a different precinct in local elections and may have a different representative in Salem thanks to last year’s redistricting legislation. More 39,000 residents either switched precincts or moved House and Senate districts.

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Touching the Void: Sensory deprivation tank entrepreneurs find there's plenty of interest in nothing

Neuro Float and Float On join together to make Oregon one of the largest areas for people to use deprivation floating in the West Coast.
Eric Flowers

After the door closes, it's not the darkness, but the quiet that strikes me – that and the fact that I'm totally naked, floating on a bed of Epsom salt in a contraption that looks like what would emerge if my bathtub impregnated my washing machine.
I'd rather be in a slope-side hot tub – that's my idea of relaxation. Instead, I'm in a windowless, seven-and-a-half by four-foot, fiberglass sensory deprivation tank. As such, I'm part of one of the newest trends in wellness and relaxation, dubbed “floating” by its proponents.

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Cool Whychus River Re-route Video

Cool time lapse video provided by Deschutes Land Trust showing how crews used 10,000 cubic cards of dirt, rock and debris to restore Whychus Creek (formerly Squaw Creek) to its original flood plain channel through Camp Polk meadow.
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Cool time lapse videos provided by Deschutes Land Trust showing how crews used 10,000 cubic cards of dirt, rock and debris to restore Whychus Creek (formerly Squaw Creek) to its original flood plain channel through Camp Polk meadow. The event which occurred on Tuesday is the culmination of 15 years of collaborative restoration work that involved multiple groups and public agencies and spearheaded by the Deschutes Land Trust, Upper Deschutes Watershed Council and the Forest Service.

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