Special Issues & Guides

It’s 11:00 a.m. on a hot and sunny Monday. I pull into Rainshadow Organics farm in Lower Bridge outside of Terrebonne to meet with owner Sarahlee Lawrence, who has been hard at work since daybreak.
Potatoes are planted, Brussel sprouts and kale are coming up in the garden, and the cover crop in the big field is about to be tilled under. Two large greenhouses for growing tomatoes are getting wrapped with plastic, and two long hoop houses need to be opened up for a little air, full of carrots, beets and lettuce, which will be picked today for a market in Sisters.

Scott Holmer has always been a tinkerer. Back home in his native Minnesota he built three boats to help him navigate the land of ten thousand lakes.
So it only made sense that Holmer would eventually apply his restless mind to his first love, downhill skiing. The father of two successful racers, including a son who competed for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team, Holmer was at a race in Oregon when he first hit on the idea of taking the mystery out ski tuning.

For Dave Chun the name Kialoa represents a memory of time spent with his father. Chun saw the name on the side of a racing sailboat as a child growing up in Hawaii and it stuck with him. He didn’t know what it meant, but he liked the name and the memory he associated with it. It wasn’t until after he started making wooden paddles out of his parents’ house in Hawaii that his wife Meg found out the word meant swift, fast-racing canoe.  The story of how Dave, a social worker from Hawaii, and Meg, a teacher originally from Wisconsin, wound up in Bend is a story like many of our own. Their company, Kialoa Paddles, started as Dave’s hobby and grew out of their passion for the outrigger paddling community.

Commute Options Week-Renowned Speaker!
June 21, 2012
11:30-1pm
St. Charles Medical Center
Building a Better Bend, City Club of Central Oregon, Commute Options, Oregon Environmental Council, 1000 Friends of Oregon, Transportation & Growth Management and the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association present Richard Jackson, MD, MPH Chair of Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA.

A few years back, Ben Lewis’ girlfriend came home with a hip Chrome messenger bag. It was voluminous and durable yet simple with just one large flap, some Velcro and a couple of internal pockets.
Lewis took one look at the mass-produced bag and declared, “I can make that.”
Two vintage Singer sewing machines later, Lewis, also a part-time employee of Village Bike and Ski in Sunriver, had himself a side business. The 31-year-old now crafts messenger bags, cycling caps, laptop cases and accessory pouches for cyclists and does so locally in The Workhouse, a relatively new community art and craft space that’s situated behind The Sparrow Bakery.
“I’ll make anything that a cyclist in this town wants,” said Lewis, the sole owner and employee of Pinch Flat Designs.

If you were hanging out in the grocery line last week, you might have noticed that the Kardashian sisters are fed up with their mom, as the May 21 issue of In Touch magazine told us in all capital letters. What you probably didn’t notice was the little necklace Kourtney Kardashian was wearing—a classy gold bar etched with the name of her son, Mason, dangling from a simple chain.
It’s worth taking a closer look because the creator of this little custom piece isn’t in New York or Los Angeles. Nashelle, a custom jewelry and design company owned by a Bend mom, is located in an inconspicuous building on American Way.