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Home is Where the Art is ▶ [with video]
In 2006, the City of Redmond’s Community Development Department created the Redmond Committee for Art in Public Places, geared toward introducing art into select public locations and ultimately enhancing community identity. The committee is made up of volunteers; nine Redmond residents who were appointed by the mayor and approved by the Redmond City Council. RCAPP…
Source Weekly Update 7/8/20 🎧
In this week’s Source Weekly Update were focusing on the grey area connected to wearing masks in public. Later, we’ll talk about Bend’s tourism and the role it has been playing during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the economic impacts the city of Bend is facing due to the pandemic. All in this week’s…
A Love Your Neighbor Recap ▶ (with video)
Last week, the Love Your Neighbor project held its second-ever forum. Love Your Neighbor shares the experiences of people of color in Central Oregon, launched in 2019 by the Source Weekly and Erika McCalpine, program lead in business administration at OSU-Cascades. WATCH: In this video, Love Your Neighbor project co-founder Erika McCalpine and panelist Marcus…
Bend Park & Recreation Camp Leader Tested Positive for COVID-19 in late June; Seven Campers Self-Quarantined
A staff member working with campers a Bend Park and Recreation District summer camp tested positive for COVID-19 in late June, park district officials confirmed Saturday. BPRD officials learned of the case June 25, BPRD Executive Director Don Horton told the Source, after the staff member reported the positive result to a supervisor. The camp took…
Hospitalizations Tick up at St. Charles
This past week, Oregon saw its highest-ever daily number of positive cases of COVID-19, at 374 cases in a single day, on July 2—even exceeding the early days of the pandemic. In Deschutes County, the number of new cases has trickled in—around one or two a day over the past several weeks. But in keeping…
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Former Bend Mayor: Jeff Eager on Local Government 🎧 [with podcast]
For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast, we talk with Jeff Eager who is a business attorney and former mayor of Bend. He shares his perspective on the coronavirus lockdowns, the protests against police brutality and the need for competent leadership in the wake of a worldwide pandemic. He attributes increasing polarization to the media’s focus…
Pearl’s Puzzle – Week of June 29
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Local Mask Force
Local businesses and makers band together to bring masks (now mandatory in Oregon) to the people of Bend.
City Picks New Bend Police Chief
Bend City Manager Eric King has chosen Mike Krantz as the new chief of the Bend Police Department. Krantz was the assistant chief at the Portland Police Bureau, the largest department in the state, where he’s served for 27 years. He starts the new job August 10. Chief Jim Porter retired Thursday after 29 years of…
New on the Redmond Scene
Eqwine Wine Bar has just opened a brick-and-mortar location in Redmond. The new wine bar is located in a renovated vintage house on SW 4th street downtown. You might recognize the name, having been a mobile wine trailer, converted from a horse trailer, that still makes the rounds in Central Oregon. Eqwine will feature a…
The Altar of Pizza
Between the bright, vaulted white ceilings of the restored 1912 church and the creamy, caramelized discs of wet mozzarella on the pies, it’s tough to say whether the atmosphere or the food is more of the attraction at Grace and Hammer Pizzeria, tucked along SW Cascade Avenue in Redmond. But for Owner-Manager Pio Valensin, the…
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We’re Watching You ▶ [with video]
Officers in the Redmond Police Department have been recording themselves for 20 years. Before the City of Redmond bought body cameras for the police in 2017, the officers recorded videos and audio on CDs and VHS. Today, the officers’ body cameras are made by WatchGuard and sync with their dashboard cameras through WiFi. While the…
Home Away From Home
Opening a brand-new restaurant is no small task; opening a brand-new restaurant the day before statewide pandemic-fueled closures is a challenge no one was prepared for. David Fenech, co-owner of Vine-N-Tap on the outskirts of downtown Redmond, had already compiled a team of compassionate and skilled professionals with the combined potential to pull through any…
Look How Well They Play Together!
It seems like a decade ago that we were bearing witness to the repeated Republican walkouts within the Oregon Legislative Assembly. In reality, that most recent round of hapless Republican posturing happened only back in March. Way back then, after yet another walkout over legislation intended to slow the effects of climate change, we and…
A Different Kind of Parade
Gatherings and events for this year’s Fourth of July will be much different than they have been in years past. Both of the popular Old Fashioned Festivals in Redmond and Bend have been canceled, and get-togethers in backyards will be smaller than usual. However, the Redmond Chamber of Commerce aims to keep the spirit of…
Gray Butte for the Win
Redmond is near so many great trails that are practically begging you to come hike on them. For quick trips just outside of town, there are trails at the Crooked River Grasslands and the always-popular Smith Rock—but one gem remains a favorite getaway trip: Gray Butte, located just northeast of Terrebonne. Starting among juniper trees,…
Get ready for adventures out east with Boots, Bikes and Boats in Eastern Oregon
Yes, coronavirus is still among us. But no, that doesn’t mean the trails and lakes of Central Oregon are any less busy this time of year. For those ready to check out some more remote locales, this online program could be ideal. “Boots, Bikes, and Boats in Eastern Oregon” is geared toward those looking to…
Tin Pan Theater is Ready for Visitors
A few weeks ago, I was afraid the magic of the theatrical experience had died for me. I went to the lovely Odem Theater Pub to see a movie and I completely failed to get caught up and swept away by the experience like I normally do. Odem is a wonderful space, so I thought just…
Live Music in Redmond
Concerts are beginning to happen on a smaller scale in Bend again, but what about our neighbors to the north in Redmond? Virtually, things heated up last week as Music on the Green kicked off on June 24 with a performance from Olivia Knox. This year’s series will run into September and be performed through…
Free Will Astrology—Week of July 2
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some readers wish I would write more like Cormac McCarthy or Albert Camus or Raymond Chandler: with spare simplicity. They accuse me of being too lush and exuberant in my prose. They want me to use shorter sentences and fewer adjectives. To them I say: It ain’t going to happen. I…
Multiple-Offer Scenario
Buying a new home is always a journey, from start to finish, and sometimes the competition can be fierce. Imagine searching for the perfect home and eventually identifying the “one,” only to discover that two or three other buyers are in love with the same property. In the current Central Oregon market, having multiple offers…
Letters to the Editor 7/2/20
Editor’s note: This week in the life of a weekly newspaper editor: Co-hosting our latest Love Your Neighbor forum, with a panel of Black Central Oregonians. (Catch a follow-up video interview with some of the panelists on our website this week.) And in preparation for the Redmond issue: Strolling the streets of the Hub City…
Doom Raider & Undercover Smother
Doom Raider I think the guy I recently started dating might run in the same circles as my ex. (He’s said a few things that led me to think that.) This terrifies me because I really do not like my ex and don’t want there to be any overlap in our lives. I keep having…
