Local Students Participate in National School Walkout
Students at Bend Senior High participated in the nation-wide school walkout on March 14. Students spoke out for gun control and read the names of the students killed in the Parkland, Florida school shooting in February.
Happy St. Paddy’s Day! Here’s your Potato
W hat’s more Irish than leprechauns, top hats and green beer? Potatoes, of course. This St. Patrick’s Day, the High Desert Food & Farm Alliance and Casad Family Farms are getting in the Irish spirit and donating potatoes to NeighborImpact, which provides food to people in need in Central Oregon. According to a release from…
Cartoon Oregon: Only Slightly Better Than Real Oregon
Props to Travel Oregon for, as one Source reader puts it, “breaking the Internet” with a video that’s a gorgeous, magical rendering of our fair state. So what do we want to do today, kids, watch Japanimation-ish vids, or go play outside #inBend? And of course, mad props to the people who made it —…
Suspect in Missing Woman Case Dies
Bryan Michael Penner died this morning at St. Charles Medical Center of an apparent suicide, says the office of District Attorney John Hummel. According to that office, Penner was the sole suspect in the disappearance of Sara Gomez. According to a Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office press release, another inmate found Penner Sunday night. Rescue teams rushed to…
A Look Inside Bend’s New Warming Shelter
Ask an advocate for the homeless population in Bend—or a person experiencing homelessness—about one of the top needs for our community, and you’re likely to hear “warming shelter” at the top of the list. Advocates have long lamented the fact that there’s no low-barrier warming shelter for people when the weather dips below freezing. At…
Check Your Smoke Alarms
Don’t forget to spring your clocks forward this coming Sunday, March 11. And while you’re doing that, it’s a great time to check your smoke alarms. The Oregon Fire Marshal is urging people not just to change the batteries in the life-saving—although irritating when the batteries die—alarms because of the technological advances in smoke alarms…
Senator Ron Wyden Stops by the Source
Ron Wyden, one of Oregon’s two Democratic Senators, answered a few questions from the Source’s staff before heading to his Town Hall Friday night at Pilot Butte Middle School in Bend. Here are a few of the things Wyden had to say. On Net Neutrality: “It’s really important for a community like Central Oregon, where…
Grow Woes
In 2014, Oregon voters approved Measure 91 to legalize recreational marijuana, with 56 percent statewide support. Deschutes County was closer, at only 51.9 percent. Break that down even further and an urban-rural divide emerges. In Bend, Redmond and Sisters—the county’s three incorporated cities—55 percent supported legalization. In the unincorporated, rural parts of the county, only…
Bang Bang
I would call “Death Wish” insensitive, but that would be an insult to people born without senses. Instead, “Death Wish” is more of a thoughtless fart in a car full of idiots; eyes twitching, nose burning, you taste something foul, but no one’s confessing to the stench. Now all you have is a directionless rage,…
Tokin’ Women: A shout-out to women in cannabis
March is Women’s History Month, or as Presidente Cheetolini might ask, “The who what now? Really? A whole month, huh?” Women’s contributions to cannabis, past and present, are—brace yourself—often overlooked, ignored or forgotten. And as this is a plant that 99.5 percent of us will actively seek out in its female form, that’s not acceptable.…
They All Float
Pennywise didn’t just make up most of the anthemic punk rock I listened to in high school. They had my middle school years covered also. In the early 1990s, Epitaph Records was already legendary for releases of Bad Religion and NOFX records, single handedly saving the slowly dying Southern California punk rock scene. By 1993,…
“Backdoor Revolution”
According to an article in Realtor Magazine, a recent study by the National Association of Home Builders found 53 percent of those surveyed said they would consider the possibility of buying a small home. According to the report, more than half of millennials and Generation X members are open to the idea of living in…
McKenzie Bridge: Blue Pool and beyond
I first heard about McKenzie Bridge when I dated someone from there. He didn’t think I knew it, which maybe I didn’t, but living in Oregon since I was 11, I’d definitely driven through. For me and other Bendites, heading west often involves an Oregon Ducks football game in Eugene—meaning passing through the tiny towns along…
Mitchell: Exploring the Painted Hills
Relatively new to Central Oregon, I was open for suggestions as to where to venture on a day trip outside of Bend. Mitchell, which offers scenic views, trails and historic buildings, seemed right up my alley. When my boyfriend and I drove down on Thursday of last week, it was snowing and the plows hadn’t…
Paisley: All you need in Oregon’s Outback
Likely to greet you when you roll into Paisley, on Highway 31: a flock of inquisitive sheep—or perhaps a herd of cattle, ready to drop their early-spring calves. The incorporated town of Paisley boasted 372 residents, according to stats released by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2016, and locals here like it that way. Come…
Spray: A journey through time
My wife’s family has been camping in Spray since before she was born. She’s run the half marathon during the town’s big Memorial Day fiesta, trained to chase a greased pig in the rodeo, and has watched an outhouse get tipped over to remove a large rattlesnake coiled up in the corner. If this vignette…
Whim Chill Factor & Full Meddle Jackie
A guy I know through mutual friends finally asked for my number, claiming he’d like to see more of me. I was elated, but he never called. After a month, I gave up hope, feeling puzzled and, honestly, kind of hurt. Why do men get your number if they’re never going to call or text?…
Crosstitutes
When Haley Stendahl’s grandmother taught her to cross stitch, she may not have imagined the vision her granddaughter would have: taking a traditional, primarily female medium and turning it straight up onto its head. Stendahl’s collaboration with longtime friend Briony Deege has resulted in the empowering and often hilarious cross stitch art they create under…
Filthy Rich Food
“I may start working with a pop star,” Miranda Holladay said. “I meet her tonight to see if she wants me to be her eating disorder companion.” “Seriously?” I replied. My friend, whose name I’ve changed to protect her privacy, lives in Los Angeles, where she’s met a lot of celebrities while working in the…
Spring Equinox Potluck at Boundless Farmstead
Spend an evening on the farm to celebrate spring and honor the earth. Boundless Farmstead’s first potluck is March 18. Owner Megan French says she and partner David Aleksander conceived the event “to bring awareness to things like spring and fertility, agriculture, the sunlight returning and how to care for the earth a little bit…
Brilliant Osage
The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “August, Osage County,” opens at the Cascades Theatre Friday. The 2008 play, upon which the 2013 film starring Meryl Streep was based, delves into the personal lives of the Weston clan as they come together at their Oklahoma homestead after the mysterious disappearance of an elder family member. We sat down…
Expansion for Bethlyn’s Global Fusion
Chef Bethlyn Rider started Bethlyn’s Global Fusion as a food truck, and in the span of a few years, the restaurant has outgrown two brick and mortar locations. Rider is expanding the current westside location into the adjacent space previously occupied by High Desert Printers. Rider said, “We have outgrown our current space. It’s very…
Little Libraries That Could
Call Alice Staley the fairy book-mother to Bend’s Head Start programs. The retired educator and grandma recently learned that most of the city’s low-income families didn’t have a single children’s book in their home—a sobering statistic that didn’t sit well with the former Montessori instructor. Instead of trying to figure out how to transport Head…
A River of IPA
Riverbend Brewing Company, located a bit north of downtown along the parkway, made its first batch of beer back in September 2013. By Bend standards, that means it’s been around practically forever. And now, thanks to one of Central Oregon’s most expansive pale-ale and IPA programs, the brewery’s sports pub is now far more than…
Free Will Astrology week of March 8
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to my assessment of the astrological omens, you’re in a favorable phase to gain more power over your fears. You can reduce your susceptibility to chronic anxieties. You can draw on the help and insight necessary to dissipate insidious doubts that are rooted in habit but not based on objective…
Natural World
In the entire U.S. of A. there’s only one Golden Eagle nest being monitored by webcam at this time, and it’s right here in Sisters Country. And thanks to the East Cascades Audubon Society, which is paying to have the images streamed around the world, landowner Leslie Lawrence, who watches over the camera equipment, and…
Letters to the Editor
Gun Control Candidate Trump stated since he carries a pistol, he would have shot the assailant in that nightclub multiple shooting. Now that he is President, and his powers have increased, he says he would have subdued the Florida shooter, even if unarmed. (He will soon add a cape to his usual business suit.) So…
Protesting an Apartment Complex is Energy Best Used Elsewhere
Even in Central Oregon, people become victims of human trafficking and intimate partner violence on a regular basis. Students at local schools pose credible shooting threats against their schools. Kids live in poverty. People remain homeless. But beyond the really heavy stuff, what’s sure to draw the ire and raise protest among locals? The prospect…
Greetings From Small Towns
Wide open spaces. Friendly cafes. And more animals than people, by far. Head east, west or south of Bend and the artisanal coffee shops and overcrowded beer bars fade away, making way for landscapes, livestock and a different way of life. This week, Source staffers set out beyond our own corner of the world, exploring…
String Theory
Bastuscheck has been working with young musicians since moving to Bend in 2009.
The Leaflet – Spring 2018
It’s a Green Revolution. Imagine this pastoral scene: a sea of green, swaying in the breeze, happy workers carefully tending their crops, meticulously nurturing each tender leaf. Fueling it all: solar panels, LED lights and maybe even a wind generator. This is not a utopian dream; for some growers in Central Oregon, it’s a sustainability…
Talkin’ With the Law
In light of recent proposed changes to cannabis policy in Deschutes County, the Source sat down with Sheriff Shane Nelson to talk pot. Source Weekly: Have you ever smoked marijuana? Shane Nelson: I do not discuss personal questions. I was opposed to Measure 91—recreational marijuana legalization—and educated citizens on my view. SW: Do you object…
Weed Reads
HELLO THERE! Do you enjoy reading? How about reading about cannabis? I ask because if you’re reading this column (or if it’s being read to you by a service monkey using typing-to-speech-recognition software), it seems like you might enjoy some books on cannabis. I certainly hope so, because this week’s column is about four of…
Shatter and Live Resin
Truth: I’m primarily a flower guy, with the occasional foray into resin and old school hash. This isn’t to say I’m anti-hydrocarbon-based extracts, but I don’t dab on the daily, or even weekly. But if I did, I would include the product line of concentrates from the forward-looking folks at Bend-based Lunchbox Alchemy. Having gained…
Growing Green
Imagine grandmother’s bountiful flower garden in mid-spring. Now imagine it again, but put it indoors, add Star Trek-level technology and turn those daffodils into cannabis plants. Justin Clapick and Travis Busack are the founders of Deschutes Growery in Bend. They’re the current tenders to grandmother’s “special” garden, growing cannabis professionally since 2010. Part farmers, part…
CBD Relief for Fido
Have you ever heard your dog whine in pain or cry while teething? What about the sad (be it adorable) howl when they don’t want to be left alone? It can be heartbreaking, so you’ve probably wondered what you can do about it. There’s a solution: CBD oil—and dogs can use it too. Here are…
