Source Weekly Update 11/11/21 🎧
In this week’s podcast: The City of Bend moves forward with a houseless village, and vaccines for kids are approved. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update 11/11/21
Vaccines OK’d for Kids
Local health care providers started vaccinating children ages five to 11 against COVID-19 on Monday, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the vaccine had met safety and efficacy standards in a clinical trial with about 3,000 children. The authorization is only for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Neither the AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine…
Source Weekly Update — 11/4/2021 🎧
News about River’s Edge Golf Course, a new clinic and housing development and a new building for the Latino Community Association in this week’s Source Weekly Update Podcast. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update — 11/4/2021
Who Pays and How Do Real Estate Commissions Work?
All too often there is confusion on how real estate brokers get paid and who pays them. Many buyers and sellers know that real estate is a commission-based profession, yet all too often there is confusion about how and how much real estate brokers are compensated. The vast majority of real estate brokers work for…
Noticias en Español
La Asociación de la Comunidad Latina (LCA por sus siglas en inglés) marcó este año el Día de los Muertos con la inauguración de sus nuevas instalaciones, en donde sus dirigentes sueñan con expandir el programa más allá de lo que la organización ha visto hasta ahora. El 2 de noviembre, LCA marcó el día,…
On Crowd Nine
On Crowd Nine I’m a 43-year-old woman in my second marriage with a man who’s also on his second marriage. We are both determined to make this marriage our last! We have a scheduled date night. We make sure sex happens weekly. I’d like to know whether there are other things we can do to…
After a Recent Rollout in Bend, Bodycams are Doing Their Job
In 2020, the Bend City Council, in a split decision, voted to fast-track a police bodycam program the City had been planning for several years. With police accountability a major topic at the time, speeding up the implementation of the bodycam program made sense. Still, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz warned that bodycams wouldn’t tell…
Squash Spaghetti
This grumpy farmer who lives in the foothills brings the most amazing produce to market. I call him Mr. Sunshine. His blustery attitude practically dares marketgoers to buy his vegetables each Saturday. But his regular customers chuckle at the vibes and focus on the produce, which is usually much more inviting than his attitude, and…
The New World of Bike Racing
It’s 3 pm on a Saturday in June and Molly Cogswell-Kelly was on her second attempt of the mountain bike race called the 10 Barrel Riding Solo Series. She had a week to put in her best time. The race course included Ben’s, Voodoo, Phil’s Trail, KGB and Marvin’s Garden—all part of the Phil’s Trail…
Bend’s Bitter Truth: Bitter Ales Warrant Rediscovery
You’d never know it based on the scant bitter offerings on tap (or, way better, on cask) around Central Oregon, but decades before craft breweries became IPA factories, most microbreweries served ESB. It’s safe to presume that today’s beer drinkers know what an India Pale Ale is—which is to say, a beer completely defined by…
A Flood of Art
Back in 2013, local artist and owner of Bright Place Gallery Stuart Breidenstein came up with an idea: Make art accessible and affordable… and help artists sell it. A lot of it. That idea became the 20-Dollar Art Show, where locals could pick up art—and a lot of it. Artists who didn’t always have the…
KPOV Gifted with Historic Donation
Christmas has come early for Central Oregon’s community radio station, KPOV 88.9 FM, in the form of a monetary donation that far exceeds many folks’ most optimistic dreams. KPOV staff, DJs, volunteers and board members gathered Oct. 27 in the station’s cozy downtown studio to accept the gift from the estate of the late Marjo…
Latino Community Association Opens Empowerment Center
The Latino Community Association marked Día de los Muertos this year by breaking in a new facility, where its leaders dream of expanding programming far beyond what the organization has seen so far. On Nov. 2, LCA marked the day, also known as Day of the Dead—the early-November celebration that honors peoples’ dearly departed—with a…
No Cause, No Problem
On Sept. 23 Paul Parrish got a letter from his landlord telling him that he’d have to evacuate his home the day before Christmas Eve or face eviction from his single-wide trailer in Sunriver. The U.S Army veteran lived there for 13 years, and watched it gradually sink into disrepair as the now 50-year-old home…
Free Will Astrology—Week of November 4
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To encourage young people to come to its shows, the English National Opera has offered a lot of cheap tickets. Here’s another incentive: Actors sing in English, not Italian or French or German. Maybe most enticing for audiences is that they are encouraged to boo the villains. The intention is to…
Letters to the Editor 11/04/21
Editor’s note: This issue of the Source Weekly has a little bit of everything that makes a weekly like ours so fun to read: Lively letters from readers, an opinion piece on an important current issue (in this case, police accountability), a feature that tells the real tales of locals dealing with a widespread issue…
Weigh in on Proposed Lemon Gulch Trail
Central Oregon is famous for its beautiful and technical mountain biking trails. Wanting to add to the scenic yet challenging options available, the Central Oregon Trail Alliance proposed a new 50-mile trail called Lemon Gulch to the U.S. Forest Service in 2017. Now, four years later, the trail’s construction is being halted by a small…
Downstairs Doctors
Mosaic Medical opened Conners Medical Center, its newest clinic, on Tuesday on Tuscon Way on Bend’s east side. The clinic will replace Mosaic’s former clinic across the street, and will be open to patients on Monday, Nov. 8. The facility will also be a retail pharmacy offering discounted medication in participation with the federal 340B…
Still Scary After All These Years
I am what you might call a daredevil. Sometimes I remove the tags from mattresses. I may have jaywalked. I wear brown all year. And, this is a thing that’s possible, I watch horror movies all year round, not just in October. A scary movie watched in October is actually just as scary if you watch…
East Coast Bagels Come to Bend
Two Bendites originally from the East Coast have opened a New Jersey-style bagel cart in Bend. Mimi’s Bagels is the creation of Frank Anello and Charlize Peters, who moved to Bend about four years ago and quickly found that they were missing the hand-rolled, boiled bagels that they’d grown up enjoying. Anello is a fourth-generation…
Source Material
On Oct. 30, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame held its 36th induction ceremony. The performer category this year included the likes of Tina Turner, Carole King, The Go-Go’s, Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and Todd Ludgren, along with several others in different categories. As the years go on, the list of inductees for this honor…
Staying the Course
In April, Wayne Purcell announced the sale of River’s Edge Golf Course to Pahlisch Homes to develop the land as housing. Severe and immediate backlash followed. The River’s Edge community spoke out through yard signs, online and in person at a tense town hall where Dan Pahlisch futilely attempted to assuage the opposition to the…
