Source Weekly Update 10/21/21
New food carts for Bend and Sisters, and health workers out of a job after the vaccine mandate, all found in this week’s Source Weekly Update podcast. Source Weekly – Bend, Oregon · Source Weekly Update Podcast 10/21/21
An Annual Fall Ritual: Raptor Migration
Each fall, birds of prey wing their way southward across Oregon during their annual migration or winter movement. Some come as far away as the Arctic and one, the Swainson’s hawk, departs from its breeding grounds across North America and heads for the highlands of Argentina, although some small populations winter in Florida, Texas and…
Landowners Help Conserve Wildlife Habitat
Wildlife conservation has often been associated with large tracts of state or federal land. Private lands, often in agricultural or forestry operations, also play a key role but the owner may have conflicting interests between land use and wildlife habitat. For some private landowners in Oregon, these lands are enrolled in agricultural or forestry tax…
Letters to the Editor 10/21/21
Editor’s note: Lots of ink gets spilled in this region talking about how resources such as land or water are used. Farmers downstream often lose out to farmers upstream when it comes to water use—and those farmers sometimes complain that the people using water closer to Bend aren’t even “real farmers.” Farmland comes with its…
Healing Bend’s Schools
A survey from the local Restorative Justice and Equity group revealed a shocking number of students at Bend-La Pine Schools and Central Oregon Community College experienced racism inside the classroom. In response to the shooting death of Barry Washington, Jr., RJE recently held a press conference, aiming to shine a light on the discrimination local students…
Noticias en Español
St. Charles Health Systems anunció que para el día lunes, día en que la gobernadora Kate Brown pusiera en efecto el mandato de vacunación para los trabajadores de servicios de salud y las escuelas, la mayoría de sus empleados estaban completamente vacunados contra COVID-19. El sistema de salud reportó que el 93.5% de sus proveedores…
Watering Warm Springs
A press conference in Warm Springs laid out how the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act would improve tribal water resources. Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley were joined by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Bryan Newland at the press conference Oct. 15. “In the bipartisan infrastructure bill, we have $11 billion dedicated to tribal infrastructure…
Hummel Among Finalists
Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley announced Deschutes District Attorney John Hummel is one of seven candidates to become the next U.S. Attorney for Oregon. If selected, President Joe Biden would appoint Hummel to represent Oregon in federal cases and be the chief prosecutor in the state. Hummel is the only candidate of the seven…
Unvaxxed and Off the Job
St. Charles Health System announced most of its employees were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Monday, when Gov. Kate Brown’s vaccine mandate for school and health care workers went into effect. The health system reported that 93.5% of its caregivers were fully vaccinated, with 51 caregivers recently receiving their first shot. About 4,300 caregivers…
An Independent Governor May Be Just What Oregon Needs
It’s still a year away, but the buzz around Oregon’s gubernatorial race is already heating up. With Gov. Kate Brown termed out, a handful of candidates on each side of the political aisle have come forward, including House Speaker Tina Kotek, former Republican gubernatorial candidate Bud Pierce and even part-time Yamhill County resident Nick Kristof…
The Third Act
Kate Bowler in her book “No Cure for Being Human” says, “Everybody pretends you die only once. But that’s not true. You can die a thousand possible futures in the course of a … life.” I so get that, don’t you? As we live, who hasn’t had to die to the loss of loved ones,…
A Hike for Every Day of the Year
Sometime in 2015, personal trainer and outdoors-lover Jess Beauchemin came across a web forum that posed a question she found intriguing: Did anyone on the forum have a hiking photo for all the days of the year? Being a regular hiker, Beauchemin used that prompt as the seed of the book she’s putting out this…
The Boogeyman is Real
My older brother got me into horror movies—not as a thing we could share and enjoy with each other, but as a defense mechanism that helped harden us to the crappy childhood we were sharing together. He needed horror like a fish needs water and would spend most of his paychecks ordering accurate and limited-edition…
Having Fun With It
The last city The Wood Brothers played a live show in before the initial pandemic shutdown was right here in Bend, after having to cancel its originally scheduled gig in Washington state. This led to the Domino Room playing host for the last-minute show. Now almost 600 days later, the Grammy-nominated trio is making its…
Authentic Indian Food with Pure Indian Spices Served Up at Anita’s Kitchen
“This is Indian food made with love and praise—divine food.” That’s how Anita Chopra describes what’s happening at her new food cart in Bend. Anita’s Kitchen opened a few months ago and so far, according to owner Chopra, there has been a “really good” response to her gourmet Indian food, as she refers to it.…
Two New Ventures for Chulitas; New Food Truck Pod in Sisters
Chulitas, the mobile cart that made a splash this year serving up Mexican-style aguas frescas in Bend, has plans to expand upon its success. Chulitas’ owners Olivia Carrasco and Edgar Tapia plan to open up two food carts in the coming months, they announced on Chulitas’ Instagram page this week. In November, Chulitas will open…
Portland Chocolate Company Pops Up in the Box Factory
A popular Oregon chocolatier has set up shop in the Box Factory through the holiday season. Moonstruck Chocolate is the company launched in 1993 by Dave and Sally Bany—daughter of Columbia Sportswear’s late chairwoman Gert Boyle. While the company closed many of its cafes outside of Oregon in recent years, it’s branching out in Bend this…
Happy Girls is a Half-Marathon/5k Scenic Run
Beautiful views and fresh air are two widely abundant things when discussing a town like Sisters in Central Oregon. Mix in a bit of running and proper health and safety guidelines and out comes the 2021 Happy Girls Sisters Run. Participants can choose between a half marathon that navigates through the Peterson Ridge trail system,…
Three Flower Strains, #inBend
Being curious about how good local budtenders’ suggestions can be, I recently hit up three different local dispensaries to try out three different strains they recommended. Potheads across the globe can agree that smoking in a comfortable and secure environment makes getting stoned a whole lot less stressful. Literally chillin’ outside in the freezing cold…
Is the Market Cooling for Fall?
As the leaves continue to turn and create a smattering of fall colors across the landscape, there is plenty of chatter about changes in the real estate market. Is it cooling? Are buyers still out there—especially this time of year? Are prices coming down? In years past, it has been very typical for the market…
Venus Envy
Venus Envy I got a boob job two years ago. My best friend, seeing the results, wanted one, too. When she realized she couldn’t afford it, she started making snide comments about women who get them. Recently, a guy was hitting on me at a party, and she started flirting with him and asked, “Do…
Free Will Astrology—Week of October 21
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Self-help author James Clear describes a scenario I urge you to keep in mind. He speaks of “a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two.” Clear adds…
