Senator Wyden: Candidates should make tax returns public!
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has called on all Presidential candidates to release their tax returns for public scrutiny by introducing legislation to require disclosure of tax returns. “Since the days of Watergate, the American people have had an expectation that nominees to be the leader of the free world not hide their finances and personal tax returns,” said…
Old Stone Performing Arts Center
There are some serious changes that are happening in Bend. New businesses are popping up everywhere! Just look around. What about a revamping of a business that has been around since before Bend was even Bend? I’m talking about the Old Stone Church, or as it is now called The Old Stone Performing Arts Center…
Hold the Door
Spoilers for this week’s “Game of Thrones” throughout: Last Sunday’s “Game of Thrones” brought the death of a fan favorite character who seemed too pure not to make it at least to the end of the journey. As Bran’s erstwhile packhorse and best friend, Hodor has been carrying the crippled kid since Season One, it…
A Prize-winning Slate of Authors Announced for the Fifth Season of the Library Foundation’s Author! Author! Literary Series
May 24, 2016 (Bend, Oregon) — With the announcement of the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s fifth season of Author! Author!, there can be no question that the popular literary series has hit its stride. The stellar line-up includes three Pulitzer Prize winners and one Pulitzer finalist, and all four authors have made significant contributions to…
75 Years of Smoke Jumpers, High Desert Museum Exhibit Opens 6/4
Submitted by the High Desert Museum A SMOKEJUMPER’S LIFE – PARACHUTE INTO A WILDFIRE Exhibit highlights the history of smokejumpers and wildfires in the Northwest BEND, OR—For more than 75 years, specially-trained women and men have been jumping out of airplanes and parachuting into remote wildfires. Smokejumpers: Firefighters from the Sky is a new exhibit at the High Desert Museum which…
Four-day Chinook season open 5/28 to 5/31 on Lookingglass Creek
Submitted by Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife LA GRANDE, Ore. – Lookingglass Creek, a tributary of the Grande Ronde River at Palmer Junction, will open to fishing for hatchery spring Chinook salmon Saturday, May 28 through Tuesday May 31. The open area is from the Moses Creek Lane Bridge (County Road 42) upstream to…
COCC Nursing Orientation: 6/1
Submitted by COCC Orientation Meeting for Nursing Students in Bend 5 p.m. on June 1 Room 155, Boyle Education Center, COCC Bend Campus COCC OFFERS NURSING PROGRAM ORIENTATION IN BEND Central Oregon Community College is offering a nursing program orientation session from 5 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, June 1, in Room 155 of the…
Bend Fire Dept. Seeks Support Volunteers
Submitted by Dave Howe, Bend Fire Dept. Battalion Chief, Public Information Officer Become a Bend Fire Department Volunteer! The Bend Fire Department is looking for community-minded people who would like to become long-term members of a great organization, as a Support Volunteer. The Bend Fire Dept. is looking for people with all types of backgrounds, talents and…
Owyhee Canyonlands Ecologically Important
Submitted by Brett Dickson, Conservation Science Partners A study commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trust, a nonprofit think tank found that Southeastern Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands are one of the most ecologically important unprotected places in the western United States. Safeguarding the area “presents a significant opportunity to conserve key elements of native biodiversity and ecological…
Letters 5/18-5/25
Single Track Trail Riding Etiquette It seems to me that trail riding etiquette needs to be emphasized, now that single track bikers are out in number. This issue becomes all the more important as the lower trails become seasonally crowded, but the same issues apply to the upper trails. I ride at an intermediate plus…
Oregon Adaptive Sports Athletes Race Pole Pedal Paddle
The annual Pole, Pedal, Paddle is a part of Bend’s outdoor DNA. Organized by the Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation, this year’s multi-sport event—the 40th annual—will take place on Saturday, May 21. Last year the number of participants was down from previous years because of a lack of snow, resulting in a shortened Nordic event.…
Swanky & Sustainable
There is a certain kind of raw edge and hip vibe that is synonymous with food carts. Bangarang opened its mobile doors the first week of April, created by Dave and Amy Bodi, a husband and wife team joining talents to create a food cart that focuses on locally sourced high end dishes. “For us…
Liquid Poetry
Paul Arney, head chemist at The Ale Apothecary, treats the local movement seriously. Very seriously. “As far as I know, I’m the only brewer in Oregon who can truly say they only use ingredients grown in Oregon,” he said over some beers at his Cellar Joint. This is the barrel aging facility he and fellow…
High Desert Museum
Open 'til Dark is a 1930s dance at the High Desert Museum with a live jazz band, dance lessons and tastings from Oregon Spirits Distillers. It's a rare way to pass a Friday evening, with admission just $7 ($3 for members), and a chance to dance and explore the museum and its latest exhibits after…
Growing Apart Together
“The Last Five Years,” at 2nd Street Theater, was written by Jason Robert Brown and premiered in Chicago in 2001, eventually moving Off-Broadway in 2002. That year the show won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics and was nominated for several more awards. Most recently, in 2014, Richard Lagravenese (“P.S. I Love…
Magic Realism Grows by Leaps and Bounds
The final award-winning literary artist featured in the 2015/16 Author! Author! series is New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman, who will speak Thursday, May 26 at Bend High at 7 p.m. The series began in October and included non-fiction, creative fiction, historical fiction and memoir authors, starting with Timothy Egan, 61, a Pulitzer Prize-winning…
Rethinking City Council
Though City Council duties, meetings, committees, and hearings require 45 to 55 hours per week to fulfill, Bend City Councilors are considered volunteers, have no administrative support staff and receive no benefits. The archaic notion of an unpaid mayor and city council is not in step with the times within the paradigm of the exponential…
Finding the Right Offering Price
Bend is a seller’s market, so buyers often wonder what is an appropriate offer on a home, particularly when competing offers are likely, which is increasingly common nowadays. This past week, the April real estate statistics for Bend were released, and according to the Beacon Report, the median sales price rose to $365,000, with a…
‘Money Monster’ a Forgettable Facsimile of the Real Beast
“Money Monster” is many things but subtle isn’t one of them. The film is well-paced, decently acted, deeply cynical and yet, unbelievably dumb, sometimes simultaneously. The script is somewhat timely while also being so specific to a fictional company and financial catastrophe that it doesn’t say quite as much about the real world as one…
Stephen Marley’s Roots in Rasta
Some roots in music reach deeper than others. Some have strong ties that burrow just under the surface, but for Stephen Marley, his roots in music would be the envy of any cotton tree in Jamaica. Stephen Marley is the second eldest son of Bob Marley and Rita Marley, but he is by no means…
Picks 5/18-5/25
Thursday 19 Inna Vision WELCOME MAUN—Reggae from Maui comes to life and to Bend when this trio of beat-loving musicians stops by on tour. This is for people who love to relax and nod to the sweet sound of music. Pandora calls Inna Vision its highest streaming Hawaiian-based reggae group and it's easy to see…
Midnight Radio
The Angry Inch slowly comes on stage, tuning instruments while the bassist banters with the audience in her thick, German accent. Hedwig’s assistant, husband and backup singer Yitzhak (played by director JoEllen Ussery) comes to the stage to say that Hedwig is in the dressing room, being a diva again and the show will start…
The Monarch Miracle, Part Two
Since the recent story I wrote on the plight of the monarch butterfly in which I encouraged the residents of Central Oregon to create monarch waystations, I’ve been reminded by more than one person that I left out a couple of salient facts about the life history of monarchs: time and metamorphosis. Thus, regarding the…
“A Moon Shaped Pool”
Radiohead’s 2016 release, “A Moon Shaped Pool,” might be its best album since “Kid A,” but without a half-dozen listens under the belt, it’s hard to judge. The group’s albums are not what they first appear, and never just a collection of new songs. Radiohead albums are meant to be experienced with headphones from beginning…
Go Here 5/18-5/25
Kids Learn to Fish The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will host a day of fishing for kids who want to learn how to angle May 21 at Pine Nursery Pond. ODFW will loan out fishing rods, reels, tackle and some bait on a first-come, first-serve basis between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Kids…
Deschutes County Will Lift Ban on Rural Cannabis
Deschutes County Commissioners last week confirmed that they will eventually lift the temporary ban on cannabis businesses in unincorporated areas of the county. After receiving recommendations from the county Planning Commission, Marijuana Advisory Committee, and the public, the commissioners have concluded what even they described as lengthy deliberations and have begun the process of adopting…
Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
Oregon has thousands of miles of hiking trails, but the granddaddy of them all is the Pacific Crest Trail which stretches a total of 2,659 miles. It is one of three major long-distance trails in America. In Oregon, it covers 460 miles and offers what many argue is the best wilderness experience along its entire…
Side Notes 5/18-5/25
Firefighter Community Assistance Program on Pause The Bend Firefighters Association created the Bend Firefighter Foundation (BFFF), which includes several nonprofit organizations and projects, one of which is the Community Assistance Program (CAP). This program allows firefighters to spend up to $200 to aid an individual in need, and this may include anything from cough medicine…
A More Livable Bend
Bend’s growth is inevitable. Draft projections from Portland State University predict that the city’s population will surpass 130,000 in 20 years. With this in mind, in what way the city grows is both a subject of deep concern and an opportunity for the community to help shape the future. The inaugural Bend Livability Project is…
