Shop Local! Market Madness and Bizarre Bazaars
The holidays are a busy time. Scheduling travel, preparing large meals and spending time with family is understandably a lot to take on for anyone. In between all the to-dos it can be easy to forget there are only a few weeks until Christmas. For all the hustling done over the next month, here is…
LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Artist Teafly 🎧
On this podcast episode Source Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer has a candid, uplifting conversation with the incredibly talented Artist Teafly. A Bend-based artist and illustrator, Teafly has illustrated Source Weekly covers over the past two decades. Teafly is also the author of the new book “So…You Have a Little Brain Cloud” – an illustrated journey exploring mental…
Oregon Community Foundation Awards $4.7 Million To 203 Nonprofits: $293,000 To Central Oregon
Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) is awarding $4.7 million in new community grants to 203 nonprofit organizations throughout the state. Communities in 33 Oregon counties will benefit from these grants, with nonprofit organizations providing arts, cultural, educational, equity, health, housing and human services support to Oregonians. OCF’s Community Grants program is the longest running grantmaking initiative…
$12.2 Million In State Funding Awarded For Deschutes Basin Water Conservation & Flow Restoration Projects
The Deschutes River Conservancy announces the allocation of grant funding from the Oregon Water Resources Department (OWRD) for four pivotal water conservation projects in Central Oregon. These grants, secured through the OWRD 2023 Water Project Grants and Loans funding cycle, underscore the Deschutes Basin’s collaborative commitment to restored rivers and increased water resilience for future…
Bend Chamber Invites Businesses To Take Transportation Fee Survey
The Bend Chamber invites all businesses to take a brief survey regarding a potential Transportation Fee from the City of Bend. This would be a new recurring fee on utility bills that would be used to pay for transportation maintenance and improvements, according to the City. The City Council plans to vote on the fee…
$500,000 To Harney County For Brownfield Cleanup
Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden have announced that Harney County has received $500,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to clean up hazardous materials at the two-acre former Lincoln School site in Burns. “This funding is a major win for Harney County’s natural resources, community member’s health, and the local economy,”…
Holiday Dough Fundraiser Back For 2023 Season
Mid Oregon Credit Union invites the community to participate in its 10th Annual Holiday Dough fundraiser, supporting local charities that provide food and other needed items to individuals and families experiencing financial challenges during the holiday season. “So far, we’ve had astonishing participation from our smaller, rural branches, and we’re on track to beat last…
Bend-Redmond Habitat For Humanity Announces $50K Matching Gift
Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity announced a $50,000 matching gift campaign thanks to a donation from the TallTreeTrust. This is the second year of their matching pledge, which will match community donations up to $50,000 per year over three years. The TallTreeTrust was established to support environmentally sustainable work in Central Oregon, ensuring that generations to…
Environmental Groups Fight Approval of Northwest Pipeline Project
Only one month after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a gas pipeline expansion, running through the Pacific Northwest and Central Oregon, environmental groups opposing the decision filed a request for rehearing. The Nov. 22 request for rehearing was filed by Oregon organizations, Rogue Climate and Columbia Riverkeeper, urging FERC to reconsider its approval of…
Bend Sustainability Fund Awards Local Projects
Tourism tax dollars are again at work providing funds for local parks, arts and other projects. On Nov. 14, the Bend Sustainability Fund awarded grants to eight local projects, giving out $700,000 in total. The grant winners, receiving funds ranging from $16,582 to $300,000, will carry out local, sustainable experiences that have garnered community support…
The Audacity of the Oregon GOP Calling Out Teacher Walkouts
Members of the Oregon GOP are calling it a “dangerous precedent” — this notion of teachers, paid to do a job, walking out in protest. Considering this talk of a “dangerous precedent” is coming from the members of the party that this year convened the longest-ever legislative walkout in Oregon history, we are amused. Some…
A November to Remember
November is always a weird time of the year when it comes to the movies being released in theaters. Studios don’t usually start rolling out the films they think have a good chance to win some Oscars until December and they’re saving the real dumpster fires for January, so November ends up being where they…
Source Material: Sunshine In My Pocket
With the clouds looming over Bend, I’ve found that my appreciation for moments of sunshine has increased exponentially since my arrival here. It can be a little too easy to feel disheartened or overwhelmed by the early sunsets; I promise you, you’re not alone. However, even with the colder weather and darker evenings, I still…
Shepherd’s House traslada temporalmente los servicios ofrecidos durante el día a una locación sobre la calle 2/Franklin
The Lighthouse, un centro de atención y apoyo para personas sin hogar en Bend, se trasladó temporalmente a una nueva ubicación para permitir el acceso a servicios ofrecidos durante el día por un proyecto de renovación. Lighthouse Navigation Center trasladó sus servicios a las antiguas instalaciones de Blue Dog RV sobre la calle 2 y…
El Condado de Deschutes contempla un nuevo campamento recreativo
Por primera vez en más de cuatro décadas, el Condado de Deschutes busca establecer un nuevo campamento a cargo del mismo condado. En una reunión del 15 de noviembre, consultores de ECONorthwest and Environmental Science Associates entregaron un estudio de viabilidad de campamentosy a los comisionados de Condado de Deschutes, recalcando tres áreas principales para…
Sell Now, or After the Holidays?
This time every year, homeowners who are planning to move have a decision to make: sell now or wait until after the holidays? Some sellers with homes already on the market may even remove their listing until the new year. But the truth is, many buyers want to purchase a home for the holidays, and…
The Third Act
On Veterans Day, nearly 3,000 flags lined the main streets of towns across central Oregon with Redmond, aka Flag City, USA, in the lead with 1,600 stars and stripes placed by volunteers hours before that city’s parade began. Throughout the region, the best of hometown parade pageantry was on full display: high school bands, Girl…
Q & A With One Loaf Founder/Baker Jessica Dunaway
It’s another story of one thing leading to another. Jessica Dunaway’s husband John challenged her to bake some sourdough bread. She did her research and started baking. Before you know it, she had baked enough bread to share with friends and family. Everyone was impressed, and One Loaf, a domestic micro-bakery, was born. As Jessica…
You Better Run
I Like Pie This Thanksgiving, Nov. 23 at 7:30am in the heart of the Old Mill District, Cascade Relays will provide runners, and families with extra energy in the morning, a 1.5 mile and 5k option run/walk for a chance to earn those delicious dinner calories during this year’s “I Like Pie!” run. Cascade Relays…
A Love Letter to a Unique Ingredient: Smoked Vermouth
E ven as someone who does most of his cocktail drinking at home, equipped only with my limited bottles and unlimited whimsy, I’m really digging Bend’s boom in cocktail bars and revamped menus. For starters, they provide experiential research, which explains my attempts at homemade shrubs, syrups, extracts and infusions. From housemade fruit-infused vodkas to…
Rock ‘n’ Roll for Waterways
This Domino Room music event on Saturday, Dec. 2, 7pm will feature an explosive lineup of amazing music from local bands Fractal and Watkins Glen to help spread awareness and raise funds for the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council and its mission of restoration, preservation and promotion of clean and accessible water sources in Central Oregon.…
‘Tis the Season to Give Books
Maybe you love to give books, have already pre-ordered signed copies of bestsellers and chosen your favorite reads for everyone on your list. Maybe you celebrate the Icelandic Jolabokaflod tradition of exchanging books on a cozy evening and settling in for a night of reading, gourmet chocolate, fluffy socks and your favorite hot toddy. Maybe…
Horoscope Week of November 23, 2023
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was charismatic and forceful, but also hot-tempered and prone to rude behavior. The writer Goethe, his contemporary, said “his talent amazed me,” and described him as an “utterly untamed personality.” Beethoven seldom lived in one home for very long and loved to sing at the top…
The Impact of Buying Local
Everyone knows what it means to shop local, but for small business owners, the act of buying at local businesses is becoming more and more essential. As Bend and Central Oregon grows, so do the number of businesses and rent prices, making owning and keeping a small business running that much harder. Peter Askew, owner…
Letters to the Editor 11/23/2023
Let’s Protect Owyhee Canyonlands as a National Monument Thank you Source Weekly for your recent editorial, “After His Bluster About the Owyhee, Rep. Bentz Should Probably Talk to his Compatriots in the Senate More Often.” I applaud U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley working with many local ranchers and environmentalists to create Malheur County…
From A6 to Studio 6000, Collective Gives People Another Place to Shop Local for Art
This week’s “Shop Local” cover by Sage Flannery began its life inside a studio in Sisters, where the Studio 6000 printmakers’ collective has set up shop since 2019. This weekend, on Nov. 25, the members of that collective will hold their first-ever public art sale and show, offering one more opportunity for people to “shop…
From Cheese to Beer: Crux and Rogue Creamery Team Up
It’s like a marriage of two things locals love most: craft beer and award-winning cheese. Bend-based Crux Fermentation Project and Rogue Creamery of Central Point have teamed up to create a limited-edition, lambic-style ale, made using products from Rogue Creamery’s world-champion blue cheese, Rogue River Blue. “Two years ago, Crux Fermentation Project, a craft brewery…
Observing Raptors
Raptors are perhaps the most charismatic and venerated avian species in the world, and Oregon’s high desert is a great place to see them. The term “raptor” or “bird of prey” is defined as a bird that kills and eats other animals for food. Hawks and owls both meet the definition, but most owls are…
Clarifications Proposed for Bend’s Camping Code
The City of Bend revisited its camping code at a Nov. 15 meeting of the Bend City Council, providing data, identifying trends and offering up suggestions for the recently implemented city code regulating, “unsanctioned camping on City rights-of-way.” Among the items discussed at the meeting, Sherri Meisel, health and safety compliance coordinator with the City…
