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What’s in Your Hamburger Meat?

Ammonia? Cheap filler?

If you saw or read the recent gross-meat news story that ABC broke on Wednesday, we’re here to tell you that not all hamburger meat has the “pink slime.”
Gerald Zirnstein, former United States Department of Agriculture scientist, told ABC that “70 percent of the ground beef we buy at the supermarket contains something he calls ‘pink slime.

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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.

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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Another one! New brewery to open in Sunriver

Area’s newest brewery will open in Sunriver this summer

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.

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Not Again: California pair goes missing in snowbound Southern Oregon

In shades of Kim tragedy, California pair goes missing on remote Oregon logging road

*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.

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City Club to Take on East-West Divide

This week the City Club of Bend will attempt to tackle the Eastside vs Westside divide in what should be an interesting and far reaching conversation, rife with geographic stereotypes.

It doesn’t take long for new arrivals to figure out that Bend is divided into two towns. It’s a story of have and have-nots, but also one of values— cross and road bikes versus motorcross bikes, if you will.

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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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