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2019 Poetry Contest
People entered over 400 poems into the 2019 Source Poetry Contest—a grand representation of the breadth of creativity in our community! We extend our thanks to the first round of judges—students in the low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at OSU-Cascades, and the second round of judges—local poets including Kit Stafford, Irene…
Bend Winter Warming Shelter Opening Soon
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Work Center will house up to 48 men and women per night this winter, filling part of the need for an emergency warming shelter in Bend. The Homeless Leadership Coalition has been working with local shelters and area nonprofits to find a temporary space for Bend’s unhoused since early this…
Why Yes, You Can Ski on Black Friday
Bust out your ski wax and get your boots dusted off, because it’s nearly time once again to hit the slopes at the home mountain. Mt. Bachelor announced this morning that it would be opening some of its runs the day after Thanksgiving, on Fri., Nov. 29, after getting over 20 inches of snow since…
Snow Worries, Brah
Well, it wouldn’t be the holiday season without big piles of snow, would it? To help manage the roads and make sure driving conditions are safe, the City of Bend sent out a press release this morning stating they’ve called out contracted services to support road cleanup. To help make things easier for road workers…
Bobcat Bludgeoning Raises Concerns
A bobcat kitten was recently bludgeoned to death after wandering into a Eugene school, leading to statewide backlash and a widespread concern for Oregon wildlife.
Axe and You Shall Receive
A group of people getting drunk and throwing sharp, potentially lethal objects?! Sounds like a pretty horrible combination. But not to John Heylin, the mastermind behind Unofficial Logging Co., the hatchet-throwing bar set to open in downtown Bend sometime in December. Stupid, maybe… but not horrible. “I love stupid ideas,” said Heylin during an interview with…
Bend Park and Recreation District Looks to Fill Board Vacancy
Effective November 19, Bend Park and Recreation District announced the resignation of board member Lauren Sprang. Sprang was originally elected to the board in in May of 2017—which means BPRD is looking for someone to fill the vacancy for her term, ending on June 30, 2021. “My time serving on the board has been a…
Free Will Astrology—Week of November 21
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Cecilia Woloch asks, “How to un-want what the body has wanted, explain how the flesh in its wisdom was wrong?” Did the apparent error occur because of some “some ghost in the mind?” she adds. Was it due to “some blue chemical rushing the blood” or “some demon or god”?…
A Tax on Reading
Editor’s note: In honor of this week’s Poetry Issue—paying homage to local whizzes of the written word—I reached out to Tom at Dudley’s, asking him to write a piece that would detail a concern he shared with me this fall, thereby connecting national policy to what’s happening in your local bookshop. Benjamin Franklin, the first…
Letters to the Editor
Editor’s note: As you might glean from past editor’s notes, a lot goes on here behind the scenes. One of those behind-the-scenes tasks this week: Deciding what to do about the Facebook News platform—the new feed that requires news outlets first to register and then have stories be vetted by other journalists before their material…
Tournament of Side Dishes
Thanksgiving meals are pretty epic—and all are unique in their own way. Even just writing about a nice Thanksgiving spread is making me hungry. For many, turkey serves as the base of the meal. But what would Thanksgiving dinner be without an array of side dishes? Over the past week, we pitted 16 side dishes…
Owyhee Canyonlands Have a Chance!
Oregon’s two senators, Sen. Jeff Merkley and Sen. Ron Wyden, have taken the land conservation bit in their teeth and are running with it to protect the Owyhee Country from rack and ruin. The two Democratic senators have co-written a bill named the “Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act.” In doing so they have…
Q & A With COCC’s New President
Dr. Laurie Chesley started this summer as Central Oregon Community College’s sixth president. She’s a first-generation college graduate from Michigan and has held a range of leadership positions in diverse educational settings, from community colleges to four-year liberal arts institutions. Chesley sat down with the Source Weekly to talk about her leadership. Source Weekly: What…
Recession Proof?
As whispers of the next economic downturn grow to a roar in the national news, two regional economic experts believe Central Oregon will not be “bulldozed” this time around. A host of insulating factors—like sustainable job creation in the professional sector, and an unmet demand for affordable housing—may combine to shield the region from a…
A Home Energy Score is a Win for Bend
In early December, the Bend City Council will consider whether to approve the Community Climate Action Plan—a series of recommendations aimed at reducing fossil fuel consumption in the city by as much as 70%, from current levels, by the year 2050. It’s an ambitious plan; one that comes with a set of voluntary recommendations and…
Vicious Recycle & Driving Miss Crazy
Vicious Recycle I’ve started dating a guy that an estranged friend of mine was engaged to and dumped 25 years ago. She completely broke his heart. She’s been engaged eight times, married five, so I hardly think he was special. But some of my girlfriends think it’s not cool and say I’m breaking “girl code.”…
Get off the Couch and Curl
The closest many people have gotten to the sport of curling is by watching matches during the Winter Olympics on TV, maybe thinking “I think I can do that.” With the opening of The Pavilion ice rink in 2016 and the founding of the Bend Curling Club, that distance from couch to ice has narrowed.…
The Sound and the Führer
Almost every time I get hyped up for a movie, I walk out disappointed—especially if the hype gets to me months before a movie comes out. I have all that time to marinate in my expectations, and I always imagine something much grander than what I get. When I heard that Taika Waititi, the beautiful…
Skate School Gets its Own Mural
The work of a world-traveling mural painter can now be found in Bend, at the skate school Bearings Skateboard Academy. John Pipes—who typically signs his murals under his professional moniker, Pipes Dreams—completed three pieces now on permanent display at BSA. According to Gabe Triplette, owner and coach at BSA, he and Pipes are longtime friends…
Prescription Pot
Over the years of writing this column, I’ve gotten to meet and interview a lot of great people. One of my all-time favorite subjects to spend time with is Elvy Musikka, who I profiled in 2017 for being one of the last remaining Americans approved to receive cannabis from the federal government for medical conditions.…
The Sound of Home Comfort
Best known for its strings and on-point harmonizing, the Virginia-based band The Steel Wheels released “Over the Trees,” its seventh full-length album back in July. The release marks its first album as a five-piece, with the addition of percussionist Kevin Garcia, who had been touring with the band over the last couple years. We called…
Thanksgiving Day Dining
Cooking is my love language. It brings me a deep sense of purpose and allows me to share recipes I’ve curated with people I cherish. Every year, my family and I brainstorm holiday menu ideas and assign side dishes to those who’ve proven their mirepoix-making skills—that is until five years ago. I became so irate…
A Friendly Tone
Grace Caston is a Bend-based singer/songwriter with a powerful yet delicate voice. Her debut EP, “Home,” showcases a certain finesse as Caston dips in and out between harmonies with ease. Set to release to the public on Nov. 23 with a show at Spoken Moto, “Home” is a record that should be immediately added to…
Local Novelist gives Historical Women a Voice
“Women’s history must be invented… both uncovered and made up.” – Virginia Woolf Envisioning the wild, wild West leads to very specific imagery: dusty trails, tumbleweeds and rugged, leather-clad cowboys patrolling the countryside on horseback. Men certainly take the spotlight when it comes to historical depictions of the Old West. Author and longtime Bendite Jane…
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
“I don’t like dark beer.” Anyone who’s ever spent enough time in a brewpub or taproom has heard those words. Of course, “dark beer” runs the gamut from hoppy Cascadian dark ales and crisp, malty dunkel lagers all the way to robust, roasty imperial stouts. Dark beer is not some monolithic beer style; dark describes appearance,…
Home Energy Score
The City of Bend’s Climate Action Steering Committee has been diligently working on the Community Climate Action Plan, which will help guide the City—and the community—in pursuit of goals to reduce fossil fuel use by 40 percent by the year 2030 and by 70 percent by the year 2050. The Bend City Council will soon…
