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Health & Fitness 2022
What’s your health and fitness goal for 2022? Try something new? Explore a place or activity that you’ve long wanted to try? Or maybe you’re just looking to spruce up your diet and get healthier in the new year. To help you prep for those scenarios and more, let our 2022 Health and Fitness Issue…
A Slam Dunk Interview
For decades, the Harlem Globetrotters have been touring the world and showing off their grade-A basketball skills. Just in time for their game at the Deschutes County Expo Center in Redmond, the Source Weekly managed to land an exclusive interview with one of the Globetrotters world renowned basketball stars, Max “Hops” Pearce, who joined the Globetrotters…
Giving Big with Central Oregon Gives
The food pantry The Giving Plate has a dream of creating a free community food store in Bend’s Makers District—and after a successful run as the top-earning nonprofit in the Central Oregon Gives campaign, the nonprofit is one step closer to achieving that goal. The Giving Plate emerged as the top earner among 80 nonprofits…
Bend’s Cost of Living: 4th-Fastest Increase in the Nation
By this stage, Bend is used to being on top-10 lists, top-five lists and much more when it comes to analyses of the fastest-growing cities in the nation. Less frequently, however, do we get to quantify how that growth is impacting quality of life. Most in Central Oregon have heard the tales of little ol’…
Pole Dance, the Sport
If you thought pole dancing was just about pretending you’d chosen a career as an exotic dancer, think again. Two Central Oregonians brought their athleticism and expertise to Bologna, Italy, in December for the Pole Sport & Arts World Federation’s World Pole Art Competition. Shannon Daily, who placed third in two categories in Worlds, is a…
Hearing from Survivors
Stroke Awareness Oregon is a Bend-based nonprofit, co-founded by local real estate professional Lawnae Hunter following her own stroke, along with co-founder Dr. Steve Goins. The nonprofit has a mission to educate community members and to eliminate the disability and death that can result from strokes. Recently, SAO created a book, “Just Say ‘Yes’ to…
Great Nordeen Ski Race 2022
The 2022 ski season in Central Oregon is in full swing. As the snow continues to fall, winter-style events are on the docket, including the 19th Annual Great Nordeen Ski Race happening on Jan. 23. The event will feature both a Nordic ski and fat tire bike race leaving from Mt. Bachelor. The Nordic ski…
Food as Medicine
If you’ve ever spent time in a hospital, you’ve probably noticed the tepid platters of irony known as hospital food. In these facilities, where patients receive the best care that modern medicine can offer, the importance of food is often overlooked. Only mom can make mom’s chicken soup. But more nutrients and fewer empty calories…
Honey Don’t Reemerges with “Threadbare”
Bill Powers and Shelley Gray moved to Central Oregon from Colorado in late summer of 2014. Earlier that year also marked the release of the pair’s second album as Honey Don’t, “Heart Like a Wheel.” And that was also the last Honey Don’t album to be released—until now. On Friday, Jan. 14, the third Honey…
Strategies for the First-Time Homebuyer in Central Oregon
It’s no secret that first-time homebuyers in Central Oregon are going up against numerous challenges in seeking their first homes. Historically low levels of inventory, along with people seemingly “lined up” to move here, have caused home prices to jump drastically in the last two years. These soaring prices, low inventory and huge demand have…
Free Will Astrology—Week of January 13
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer wrote a meditative book about moss. It was her response to questions she had been wondering about: Why has this inconspicuous plant persevered for 350 million years? While so many other species have gone extinct, why has moss had staying power through all the Earth’s climate…
Needy Gonzales
I’ve saved some of your columns about how women evolved to seek successful men who seem commitment-minded (more likely to stick around and provide). I’ve noticed that women in pop culture (movies and books I’ve read) constantly choose the bad boy (the “jerk”) over the guy next door (the “nice guy”). This doesn’t seem to…
Saturday Morning Dance Party, Sans TikTok
It’s 9:30 on a Saturday, and rather than my usual routine—snuggling up with a French press and a fresh fantasy novel—I’m doing a few stretches in anticipation of my first in-person fitness class since, well, what we all lovingly refer to as the “before-times.” “If you’re worried that everyone is looking at you, they’re not,”…
Increase Our Daily Smiles: One smile is worth more than we can imagine. More are even better.
I just finished my morning prayers and dance-exercise routine. A soft smile has found its way onto my face, which, for whatever reasons, wasn’t there when I first opened my eyes. Smiles are often not there as we make the transition into the daylight. My daily mind-body-spirit practice predictably exposes a few gems of light that…
If You’re New Here: Cross Country Skiing in Central Oregon
Maybe you came to Bend knowing that it was an outdoor-sports gathering point, thinking you’d someday be part of the legion of snowboarders and skiers who make weekly pilgrimages to Mt. Bachelor or Hoodoo for that coveted powder. And while that’s still a worthy endeavor, the cost, skill and general crowd-surfing necessary to take regular…
Everywhere You Go, There You Are
Leda Caruso lives near Boston as a professor of comparative literature, we assume living a life of deep regret and unhappiness. We don’t really know, though, because we are getting to meet Leda on the first day of her vacation at a seaside rental in Greece. She’s alone on this vacation and not terribly friendly…
Exercise in the Age of COVID
During COVID-19’s initial spread in spring of 2020 gyms were one of the first things to close as the country sought to understand the novel virus. Gym owners at the time were anxious to open back up and worried about running afoul of government mandates. “I just basically sat at the front desk all day…
Letters to the Editor 1/13/22
It’s the second week of January—have you ditched your resolutions yet? Yeah, yeah—we know that resolutions can come and go, but for many people, the start of a new year is still a time when they’re trying to form new habits and get inspired—and that’s where our Health and Fitness issue comes in. This week,…
Noticias en Español
El dispensario de alimentos Giving Plate tiene un sueño de crear una tienda comunitaria de alimentos gratuitos en el distrito productor de Bend—y después de una exitosa carrera como la como la organización sin fines de lucro con mayores recaudaciones en la campaña Central Oregon Gives, dicha organización está más cerca de cumplir ese objetivo.…
