The warmest spot at this year’s Bend Winterfest is the Bent Lounge hosted by The Source Weekly’s blog, Bent! It’s home to the only liquor bar on Winterfest grounds along with alternative sources of entertainment to further warm your loins. Stay tuned to the Bent Blog information related to the Bent Lounge and WinterFest as well as cool giveaways.
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Bend Man Arrested with 64 lbs of Pot
A 34-year-old Bend man has been arrested and charged with felony marijuana possession after a traffic stop led to massive pot seizure at a Bend storage facility.
According to police, Mark Wirges Jr.
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Jury rules Les Schwab violated wage laws
Les Schwab could be fined millions for violating Oregon wage laws
Les Schwab could be on the hook for millions of dollars in fines after a jury in Portland decided today that the company failed to appropriately compensate assistant managers for overtime work.
The Bend-based tire company pushed its assistant managers to work an average of 66 hours per week without receiving overtime pay, the jury ruled.
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BOTC Pledges a Billion in Local Lending
Bank of the Cascades announced Thursday that it is pledging to make a billion dollar’s worth of loans to small businesses and other customers in its Oregon and Idaho markets over the next three years.
New CEO Terry Zink, who recently took over the leadership of the Bend-based Bank from longtime CEO Patti Moss, said in a press release that the decision to commit to the aggressive lending strategy was based on the bank’s belief that increased lending is key to the region’s economic recovery.
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Child Evangelism Fellowship: Teaching students the “good word” during the lunch hour
Religious teachings next door to your child’s school?
I just got back from sitting in on a bible study group (20 rosy-cheeked youngsters), conducted during school hours in a trailer just a couple hundred short yards from the front door of Tumalo Community School (a Redmond public school, K-8).
The Good News Club, which hosts the bible studies, is an “outreach ministry” for the world-wide organization, Child Evangelism Fellowship (whose seal states: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations”).
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Nostrafilmus 2-10-2012
Welcome to the inaugural column of Nostrafilmus, where I predict what new movies are going to be worth your time and money in the theater this weekend. I don’t have any psychic abilities per se, but I am a film critic for The Source Weekly and Chud.
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Silver Moon Brewmaster Headed to Eugene
It seems as though Bend’s rapidly expanding craft beer industry has done nothing but import brewers over the last few years. So it was probably time that we started exporting again.
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Storms still on economic horizon
Legislature must deal with $340 million shortfall.
In case there was any doubt, officials released an economic forecast today predicting more storms on the horizon.
Even as economic indicators show Oregon’s economy is slowly growing, the state said today that job creation still remains “glacial,” according to the forecast from the state’s Office of Economic Analysis.
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A Singular Purpose: Bend's charity meal provider has quietly met the demands of a growing population
The Family Kitchen provides food for the homeless and the unemployed in a comfortable atmosphere.
At 56, John Regan is starting over – again. Next week he'll begin another job as a truck driver for a commercial outfit in Bend.
For now he's living in the back of his van. An electrician by trade, Regan hasn't done any electrical work since the housing market flamed out four years ago. Like other some unemployed workers in Bend, Regan isn't sure when he'll have a proper roof over his head again.
What he does know is that he has a place to go almost every day for a cup of coffee, a bowl of soup and hot sandwich at Family Kitchen, a non-profit meal provider that has stepped up over the past year to meet Bend's growing need for such services.
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Counterpoint: Bend owns that top 25 list
Yep, right up there with Chamonix.
National Geographic (Adventure version!), a publication which has a pretty good handle on these things, recently named Bend as one of the “World’s 25 Best Ski Towns.” Yep, right up there with Chamonix, France and Zermatt, Switzerland.