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Central Oregon’s CASA chapter was recently picked by Mt. Bachelor for the mountain’s Fourth Annual Charity Ski Week fundraiser, and if you act now you can support CASA and ski for cheap.
Sunriver is getting it’s own brewery!
In what will be about the 15th brewery in the area to receive federal approval to brew, Sunriver Brewing Company plans to open this summer.
The owners are keeping extremely silent on the details, and declined to release information about the size of the brew system, the identity of the brewmaster, the styles of beers to be produced or the pub’s menu.
It easily could be!Minneapolis duo Aaron & The Sea released a free EP last year for their song “Deja Vudu”, and along with it, this shadowy, edge of your seat style video. I have it on good authority from a couple people, that you shouldn’t watch this just before you go to bed.
At lunchtime on a recent Wednesday afternoon, 20 elementary school children file out the door of the Tumalo Community School and into a mobile trailer with the words, “Child Evangelism Fellowship” emblazoned on its side. After some brief chatter, the students take their seats, dig into their hamburgers and stare expectantly at the adult at the front of the room, who quickly grabs their collective energy and attention by leading them in what has become a familiar song for the group.
So after the climbing community gave the Bureau of Land Management the business for its “emergency closure” of the popular crack climbing spot, the BLM rescinded and is now calling the closure “voluntary.” See? Sometimes government agencies do listen.
Even if winter never showed, the rest of us had a great time at WinterFest. That goes especially for the Source staff—we got to spend most of the weekend in the Bent Lounge, 20 feet from the only bar at the festival serving hard drinks.
Hands down, 5 Fusion and Sushi Bar in downtown Bend has the best sushi around.
My problem: little kids at home mean dinners out are rare and, until recently, that’s put this restaurant mostly off limits for me.
*Update: Klamath County Sheriff’s Office reports that the missing California pair was located and rescued from a remote area of Siskiyou County, Calif.
In a case that bears an eery familiarity to the nationally publicized plight of the Kim in family in 2006, a man and woman from California are thought to be lost in the Siskiyous after apparently choosing a dangerous route through the snowbound Southern Oregon mountains.
Living in Central Oregon I am always reminded of my old stomping grounds in Switzerland. What Sparks Lake is to me here in Oregon, Seealpsee was in my old country.
On the surface, Rubber might just be your average film about a sentient tire that rolls around a small desert town and kills people with its psycho-kinetic powers, but underneath the clichéd premise is a film about the nature of the medium itself. The film opens with a monologue explaining that all films are essentially governed by the laws of suspension of disbelief, and as soon as the viewer loses the ability to do so, then all films are basically filled with things that happen for no reason (like why E.
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