Source Weekly Update Podcast 7/1/20 🎧
In this weeks Source Weekly update were focusing on Redmond: why Redmond’s economic recovery is looking stronger than Bend’s, how Central Oregon’s tourism-driven economy is responding to COVID, and new innovative ways Redmond is keeping the fourth of July festive while adhering to COVID restrictions. All in this week’s Source Weekly Update. Source Weekly -…
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The Long Slog Back to Baseline 🎧 [with podcast]
Adapt. Evolve. Support. These words were a common theme among Redmond’s small business owners who have turned towards one another and the City of Redmond for support during the darkest economic times in a nearly a century. Jon Cruz, along with his wife Katie, owns HIIT Logic, a boutique gym that hosts small workout classes…
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Pay Your Bail or Rot in Jail ▶ [with video]
In Oregon, if someone gets charged with a crime, they have two choices. One, they could pay their bail, which usually costs anywhere from a few hundred to many thousands of dollars. Or two, if they can’t pay, they are forced to go to jail for up to 60 days while they await their trial.…
It’s Time to Up Your Mask Fashion Game: Face Coverings Now Required Indoors in Oregon
Earlier this month, Gov. Kate Brown mandated the wearing of face coverings in public indoor spaces for eight Oregon counties. As of July 1, that mandate extends to all of Oregon—including people right here in Central Oregon. “I do not want to have to close down businesses again like other states are now doing,” Brown…
The Stars Have Beckoned Us: Part Four of “Walking the High Desert”
In the last edition of our excerpts from Ellen Waterston’s “Walking the High Desert: Encounters with Rural America Along the Oregon Desert Trail,” the author began to describe one wonder of the High Desert Trail: Pine Mountain Observatory. She continues musing on the stars in Part 4, our final installment of the book. But how…
A Push to Rename the Bend VA Clinic After Bob Maxwell
Representative Greg Walden (R-OR2) introduced legislation Thursday to name the Bend Veterans Affairs Clinic after WWII veteran and Bend resident Bob Maxwell. Prior to passing away in May 2019, Maxwell was the oldest medal of honor recipient in the nation—Maxwell’s medal being signed off by Franklin Delano Roosevelt two day before FDR’s death. Maxwell was…
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Mental Health Crisis Intervention 🎧 [with podcast]
For this week’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast our guest is Holly Harris, the crisis services manager for Deschutes County. She’s worked in the behavioral health field for 17 years with a primary focus on the intersection of criminal justice and mental health. Right now, she’s working to get the Deschutes County Stabilization Center up and…
Letters to the Editor 6/25/20
Editor’s note: This week’s calendar—long a popular portion of our newspaper—is starting to look more like its “old self,” filled with events, meetups and happenings from around the region. While the calendar is not going to include any big events anytime soon, the fact that there are any at all gives us a sense of…
Now Open: Crosscut Warming Hut No. 5
Crosscut Tap House, also known as Crosscut Warming Hut No. 5, opened May 22 south of the Box Factory in Bend. The new food cart pod and tap house was set to open April 15, but that got delayed six weeks due to coronavirus shutdowns. It opens at 11am daily, with closing times fluctuating. The…
Now Open: Cabin South
Cabin South, opened by the popular westside bar, Cabin 22, has finally announced its grand opening. The bar on Bend’s south side was originally intended to open in April but got delayed due to COVID-19. Located in the Brookswood Meadow Plaza on Amber Meadow Drive, Cabin South has a bar and grill, lottery, front and…
Youthful Voices in the Black Lives Matter Movement
This past weekend, hundreds of people descended on Prineville for a peaceful protest along the town’s main drag, coming together to show solidarity with other Black Lives Matter protests nationwide—but also to stage a big showing in a town where at least one local Black resident, Josie Stanfield, has said she’s experienced pushback and threats…
Dreaming On
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Trump administration’s bid to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which offers deportation protection to people brought to the country as children. Following the court ruling—which only denied the bid on procedural grounds—the Source checked in with a local woman and DACA recipient,…
Closing the Book on Juniper Ridge
Not a single tent remained at Juniper Ridge Monday morning, the first day the land was officially off limits to campers and hikers. The city-owned land in northeast Bend was where dozens of people lived in tents and cars, at least a mile from the nearest store. For years, the City of Bend left the…
“Defunding” the Police for the New Crisis Stabilization Center
Much has been said this month about the notion of “defunding the police.” While the term “defund” suggests zeroing out police budgets, what it more frequently means is choosing to place less money into police budgets, and more into support services such as mental health and crisis support teams. Varying reports show figures regarding how…
There’s Always Next Year
The world of sports has mostly been put on hold since the breakout of COVID-19. There have been some international soccer games without fans, and the NBA appears to be gearing for a restart in Orlando, but even large events like the Olympics have been pushed back until next year. Closer to home, the USA…
Outdoor enthusiast weighs in on adventuring in an electric car
Many organized events like races and competitions are off for the summer—but exploring at the helm of your own car, bike, motorcycle or other adventure mobile is still definitely on. For those looking to lower their footprints while they’re doing it, this event may help out. The Environmental Center is hosting a series of live,…
Flesh And Bleh & It’s Not You. It’s Meh
Flesh And Bleh I started dating someone who is super close to his family (talks to his mom and/or dad daily, sometimes multiple times). I have a perfectly good relationship with my family, but we talk a few times a month, not a few times a day! I’m uneasy that being in a relationship with…
The Quality and Quantity of A24
The older I get, the more I need to feel something from the movies I watch. Don’t get me wrong, I still love a good disposable comedy or an almost instantly forgettable horror flick, but it’s comforting to feel like the two hours you gave a movie was reciprocated somehow. Like your time was taken…
The Return of Juno
The owner of Juno Japanese Sushi Garden in Bend opened her first restaurant in the Century Village Shopping Center back in 2013. She closed shop in 2018 and took a break before looking for a new location, which she happened upon after meeting the owner of The Podski, the outdoor food cart lot on Arizona…
From Canceled Shows to Online Debuts
In February 2019, I spoke with Central Oregon artist Alicia Viani about getting ready to record her debut album in Nashville. Since then, a lot has happened. Originally, Viani planned to release the self-titled record in April with a show at The Belfry… until the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. Now, it’s been a little over…
Summer Strains
Amid the ongoing stress of a global pandemic, summer has arrived. Some days that might mean hitting it hard on the water or trails. Other days, it might mean coping with lingering stress and worry about finances or physical and mental health. At Bend’s cannabis dispensaries, budtenders dole out a lot of emotional support while…
Redlining: The U.S. Heritage of Inequality in Homeownership
Fifty-two years ago, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The Act prohibited the discrimination on the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, color, sex or national origin. Title VIII of this Act is known as the Federal Fair Housing Act, later amended in 1988 to include the prohibition of…
The Rock Box
I’d seen it around town on numerous locations, but I’d never had the guts to hop onboard. Could I hop onboard? WTF was this giant painted contraption, rolling through the streets of downtown Bend, blaring electronica and captained by a mysterious man in a sequined cap? The Rock Box, of course. Think “The Magic School…
Free Will Astrology—Week of June 25
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?” Author Diane Ackerman asks her readers that question, and now I pose the same inquiry to you—just in time for your Season of Transformation. “We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors,” Ackerman says.…
