What is Wump?
When stay-at-home orders first began, I started noticing a new graffiti tag showing up all over the west side of Bend. The tag? Wump. A new wump catches my eye almost every time I go out to walk the dog, and I shout it out every time it catches my attention. The tag is pretty…
Source Weekly Update Podcast 6/17/20
In this week’s podcast: Investigating a knee-on-neck incident in Deschutes County, Central Oregon Pride goes virtual and zero cases of COVID-19 found in the OSU TRACES study. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 6/17/20
Pandemic School Year
This fall, local students may go back to their brick-and-mortar schools, but COVID prevention protocols will begin the minute they step on the school bus. Some students may not come to campus at all. To start, teachers will wear masks, students will stay 6 feet apart and no more sharing crayons or geometry tools. Some…
Zero COVID-positive cases found in OSU Study
Last month, a group of field teams working with Oregon State University fanned out across Bend to test households for COVID-19. They tested 615 people in Bend, and no one tested positive. The Team-based Rapid Assessment of Community-Level Coronavirus Epidemics, or TRACE study, is led by a group of researchers at OSU who want to…
Deschutes County Sheriffs Investigating Knee-on-Neck Incident
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s office announced Monday that it is investigating an incident that may have involved sheriff’s deputies placing a knee “on or near a woman’s neck” as they were arresting her. The incident looks like it happened last year, DCSO stated. According to the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, an image is “circulating on…
Apocalypse Right Now
At 156 minutes, “Da 5 Bloods” is messy, frenzied, vital and astoundingly timely. He draws a perfectly straight line from the Vietnam of the 1970s to the Black Lives Matter movement of today and releases a howl of frustration, pain and rage throughout every second of the film’s runtime.
Walking the High Desert: A Mountain is Pretty Sure to Figure
Part three of our serial excerpts of Ellen Waterston’s new book, “Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail. In this excerpt, we begin part one of Chapter 4. A Mountain is Pretty Sure to Figure One of the “highs” along the Oregon Desert Trail, at sixty-three hundred feet, is Pine…
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Bend’s Small Business Survival 🎧 [with podcast]
Check out the latest episode of the Source’s Weekly’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer. This week our guest is Ben Hemson, the City of Bend’s business advocate. Listen now or download wherever you get your podcasts. We’ve also started creating videos of our interviews which you can watch below or…
Pearl’s Puzzle – Week Of June 18
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Man Charged with Endangering Participants at Bend Protest
During the Black Lives Matter march in Bend on June 6, officials say David William Hart tried to pass his Jeep through a crosswalk while marchers were still walking through. The march went from Farewell Bend Park, through the Old Mill District and to the courthouse, followed by a vigil for George Floyd in Troy…
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Turning the Page, Playing the Game ▶ [with video]
Tom Beans, the owner of Dudley’s Bookshop and Cafe in downtown Bend, has been thriving as a result of recent retail restrictions. “Last I checked, 80% of my business was coming from curbside pick-up, and the other 20% was coming from online sales,” he shared. “Over the past few days we’ve seen huge surges in…
Senior Year, Baby! Sort of…
This year has been weird for everyone. The way businesses operate has been, and probably will remain totally different. But there’s one group of people who in particular are facing strange times: the graduating class of 2020. Not only are many seniors leaving behind what they know, but they’re taking a step in life that…
Free Will Astrology—Week of June 11
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to novelist Octavia E. Butler, “Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you’re afraid and full of doubts.” That’s what I wish for you in the coming weeks, Gemini: positive obsession. It’s also what I expect! My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you will…
Letters to the Editor 6/10/20
Editor’s note: Black Lives Matter. Thanks for reading, —Nicole Vulcan, Editor GUEST OPINION: Include More Diverse Voices In City Government With Paid Childcare The 2020 national reckoning with police brutality and systemic racism has laid bare the need of our governmental institutions to listen better and include more of us in the work of government.…
They’re Baaaack!
When I rolled into Bend on my Harley in 1951, I didn’t know a Pandora moth from a monarch butterfly. It wasn’t until 1986 that they both entered my life, but the first to arrive was the moth; the monarchs came later when my wife, Sue, started monitoring the butterflies at Lava Beds National Monument…
Racism with a Smile ▶ (with video)
Riccardo Waites is the head of the newly formed Central Oregon Black Leaders Assembly, which already has 220 members as of June 9. He formed the group in response to his experiences of racial discrimination while living in Bend for the last 20 years, as well as the desire to create a cohesive political movement…
Bend Police to Get Body Cams
The Bend City Council discussed a proposal to spend $100,000 on police body cameras at the city budget committee work session on June 3. The cameras cost anywhere from $200 to $1,200, but camera maintenance and data storage is something the department must include in its budget for the new program. The proposal comes at…
Some Want You to Believe Protesters are “Outsiders.” Don’t Believe Them.
O ver the past several weeks, peaceful protesters have gathered not once, nor twice, but at least six times in various cities around Central Oregon, showing up to protest the death of George Floyd and other black individuals at the hands of police or private citizens. Demonstrations like this are happening not just in big…
May the Source Be With You
Hello you magnificent Oregonians and welcome to another entry into the May the Source Be With You canon, where I share some of the pop cultural things that are keeping me going as of late. We seem to be stuck in the middle of an episode of “Black Mirror” where everyone on Earth is trapped…
Phase 2unes
With a little more leeway following Deschutes County’s approval for Phase Two reopening, people are starting to see live music popping up once again. But some of the new guidelines might only work for certain venues, and they might only work for specific artists as well. On June 5, the Volcanic Theatre Pub opened for…
Forward Progress and Upward Trends after May’s Real Estate Reports
The past several months have been ones filled with uncertainty, fear, scarcity and a host of other emotions; all of which had a huge impact on the markets. The stock market tumbled, the real estate market experienced a massive downturn in new inventory and pended transactions, unemployment skyrocketed and the political divide over COVID-19 and…
Endless LOL
My roommates have a text thread that includes all three of us. They chat on it all day long, and it’s driving me absolutely insane. We all live together and work at home, so I don’t see the need to keep texting nonstop. I turned off notifications for the group text, but that doesn’t mean…
An Ode to the Unsung Torta
There is no doubt that the taco—the glorious, portable, munchable taco—is one of the best culinary developments in history. But look further down the menu at many Mexican food spots—beyond the enchiladas (yum) and burritos (always an easy choice) and tamales (delicious) and you’ll often find the tortas, those combos of meat and beans and…
Backyards for Beer Geeks
When tasting rooms, pubs and large outdoor events were shut down in response to COVID-19, Central Oregonians did not have to go without their beloved beer for long. Some breweries began offering curbside pickup; others began delivering. But what about the fate of the annual, highly-anticipated Bend Brewfest, Central Oregon’s premier beer festival and esteemed…
