The Wonderful World Of Waffles
Waffles are eaten the world over and have been around in some form or another since ancient times. There are many, many varieties of waffles, including Brussels, rolled, Liège, Belgian, Hong Kong grid cake, pandan, Korean croffles, Italian Gofri, galettes, stroopwafels, even Hawaiian hotdog waffles! Waffle parties, also known as wafel frolics, were quite popular…
Teachers Union Continues Bargaining with Full-Day Sessions
The Bend teachers’ union attended another bargaining session with the Bend-La Pine Schools district on Mon., Oct. 30. The bargaining was followed by a rally and a march through downtown Bend. The Bend Education Association will continue contract negotiations but its leaders are hopeful it will come to an agreement with BLPS after its next…
LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Alpinist Graham Zimmerman 🎧
Source Publisher Aaron Switzer chats with Alpinist Graham Zimmerman on this podcast episode. Zimmerman is a renowned alpinist whose work has propelled him into conservation advocacy, holding leadership roles in nonprofits such as the American Alpine Club and Protect Our Winters. He’s a world-class mountaineer who has received several awards, including the Piolet d’Or, the…
“Homeless Consultant” Hired by Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Faces 19 Charges in Multnomah County
On Monday, Oct. 30, self-described “homeless consultant” Kevin Dahlgren was indicted in Multnomah County on 19 charges. According to the indictment, Dahlgren is facing seven charges of theft in the first degree, seven counts of identity theft or aggravated identity theft and five counts of official misconduct in the first degree. Dahlgren is facing the…
High Desert Food & Farm Alliance Awards Nine 2023 On-Farm Efficiency Grants
High Desert Food & Farm Alliance (HDFFA) announces awarding this year’s On-Farm Efficiency Grants. Through this competitive grant program, HDFFA awarded nine farms and ranches in Central Oregon a total of $26,861 to implement innovative projects that promote greater efficiencies in time, water usage, crop yield, and more. The recipient farms range in size from…
Local McDonald’s of Bend, La Pine and Sisters Celebrate 50th Anniversary
A local family-owned McDonald’s franchise invites the community of the Greater Bend Region to a fun-filled celebration to commemorate the year their family opened the first McDonald’s east of the Cascades on November 13, 1973. Local McDonald’s Owner, Scott Acarregui, is a third generation Owner Operator whose grandfather, Bill Bloom, opened the first McDonald’s at 2048…
i4Education Re-imagines And Rebrands Central Oregon Educator Talks
Central Oregon’s nonprofit i4Education organization has announced that it is rebranding and expanding the region’s TED-Ed talks and master class for presenters. Over the past two years, i4Education, the innovation arm of the High Desert Education Service District, has hosted and led two highly successful Central Oregon TED-Ed talks and trained 20 speakers using the…
Climate Change And Human Migration With David Wrathall, Ph,D.
David Wrathall, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University will share the findings from his role as a lead author of the UN’s latest climate assessment on November 14 at COCC in Bend. Wrathall researches human migration in response to various climate change hazards, including sea level rise,…
Southern Crossing Neighborhood Association November Board Meeting
The next Southern Crossing Neighborhood Association board meeting is Thursday, November 16th at 5 p.m. All neighhbors in the Southern Crossing area are welcome to attend board meetings, which are held via Zoom. Email register@bendscna.org by noon the day before the meeting to request a Zoom invitation. If you would like to request time on…
8th Annual Central Oregon Fill Your Pantry Event
The eighth annual Central Oregon Fill Your Pantry event will be Saturday, November 11th from 11am to 3pm at the OSU-Extension parking lot at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds. Fill Your Pantry (FYP) is a yearly bulk-focused farmers market created to increase food security and resilience in Central Oregon by encouraging the community to load up…
COCC’s Turkey, Toddler Trots Bring Fun And Scholarship Funding
Central Oregon Community College (COCC) is holding its annual Turkey Trot fundraiser, a 5K run/walk, at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4, at the Bend campus’s track, preceded by the free Toddler Trot. Free to COCC students, the Turkey Trot event is $15 for preregistered participants (plus $2.50 in online fees) and $20 for those…
Two People Stranded and Rescued in Same Mission
Search and rescue crews helped two unrelated individuals during the same mission on Oct. 26 in the Jeff Park wilderness area in Marion County, after both people got stranded due to snow conditions. In two separate incidents, 23-year-old Australian mountain biker Jack Robbers and 28-year-old Canadian hiker Sanja Tesic were stuck just miles apart due…
A Return for Aina Kauai Style Grill
The Aina Hawaiian food truck is coming back! Look for the Aina “lunch wagon” to make a new appearance at the Deschutes Brewery Tasting Room at 901 SW Simpson Ave. in Bend in the very near future. Owner Ian Vidinha says the original food truck is being spiffed up to reappear for lunch service, Tuesdays…
Watch the Tricks, and the Treats
As Halloween approaches, neighborhoods across Central Oregon are adorned with festive, spooky decorations. From the eerie glow of jack-o’-lanterns to cobweb-draped porches, this whimsical holiday is celebrated through creative displays. Our spirited designs don’t stop on Oct. 31; they transition into joyful fall and winter holiday décor. However, there is a frightening side to some…
FERC approves Pipeline Expansion through Pacific Northwest
Despite much opposition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved a gas pipeline expansion that will run through the Pacific Northwest, including Central Oregon. TC Energy, a Canadian energy company, asked FERC to allow it to pump an additional 150 million cubic feet per day through the pipeline. The Gas Transmission Northwest Xpress project, which…
Remodeled Sisters Library Hosts Grand Opening
The city of Sisters will welcome its new and improved library on Oct. 28 after nine months of construction and six years of planning. The Deschutes County library in Sisters, according to a press release, will hold a grand opening celebration on Oct. 28 at 2pm. “We were happy to offer a small temporary space…
Affordable Housing on the Horizon
A new affordable housing community in Bend’s west side broke ground Oct. 16. In addition to current housing projects, City officials announced on Oct. 18 that they would apply for grant money to increase the development of affordable housing. Rooted at Simpson Project The new Rooted at Simpson project, developed by Housing Works and Rooted Homes…
The Third Act: A Column on Ageism and Ageing
What are your autumn memories and traditions? Making favorite soup recipes? Taking in a film festival? Bagging a deer, antelope or elk? Tailgating with friends at a football game? Fall has arrived. What a beauty, with Indian Summer prolonging outdoor playtime against a multi-colored display of foliage. It’s hard for me to imagine living somewhere…
A Citizen Initiative, Doomed Before it Started
In November 2020, a citizen initiative in Oregon got the whole country talking. Oregon voters, determined to champion a more compassionate version of addressing the drug crisis, voted in favor of Measure 110, the landmark drug decriminalization and treatment bill. It passed with 58% of the vote. What followed could be described as nothing short…
Well-Known Restauranteurs Plan Casual Tapas-Inspired Bar Downtown
It’s happening. Maybe not as fast as it happened in Portland, but it’s happening still the same. Restaurateurs Renee and John Gorham are opening a spinoff of the extremely popular Rancher Butcher Chef in Northwest Crossing. RBC is a modern steakhouse and butcher shop which the Gorhams opened in 2021 after shutting down their numerous…
Spooky Season is Upon Us
Look, I’m a fan of horror movies 365 days a year. The season doesn’t explode into fall overnight and then all of a sudden I want spooky movies and a steady drip of Pumpkin Spice whatever-you-got inside me. Nope. I want it all the time. Not the Pumpkin Spice (although it’s growing on me); just…
Bend’s Best Pumpkin Spice Doughnuts
—Beer and/or cannabis will be back on the menu next week here in Craft, but for now, beer writer-slash-avowed-doughnut-lover Brian Yaeger spins another yarn about one popular seasonal flavor. Seattle’s jolly green giant of a coffee chain has weathered years of derision for its pumpkin spice latte to the point where it’s celebrating two decades…
Real Estate Risks
The real estate market, like any other market, is cyclical in nature. It goes through periods of highs and lows, and it can be tempting for both buyers and sellers to try and time the market perfectly. However, “waiting it out” carries its own set of risks that individuals should carefully consider. Real estate, historically,…
The Benefit of Book Clubs
Earlier this year, our fiction book club discussed “Trust” by Hernan Diaz, one of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners. At the beginning of our meeting, most people indicated they didn’t like the book. But after an hour of talking about it together, we made a remarkable discovery. Reflecting on that final scene, and synthesizing what…
Halloween Is A Drag!
Options are plentiful this year if you’d like to spend a segment of the spooky season all dolled up at a drag show, because we have three (THREE!) all happening within a few nights of each other. First we have Drag Me to Hell on Friday, Oct. 27 (Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm) from…
The Halloween Haul!
For the Family: What to do with your lovely little goblins this Halloween? 2023 Pumpkin Patch at Schilling’s Garden Market Pick from a variety of gourds, mums and other specialty pumpkins until the end of October. Now until Oct. 31, Schilling’s Garden Market, 64640 Old Bend-Redmond Hwy, Bend. Free. Youth Class- Halloween Treats Have your…
Everyone’s a Barbie. No One’s Your Barbie.
If you’re dressing as Barbie for Halloween this year, no one needs to tell you how to slay it. After all, you’re Barbie and in charge of your own destiny. Loving that rollerblade costume from the beach scene, or the formal admission of Weird Barbie into Barbie Land? Your costume is only a pink dream…
A Phantom Thread
Gifted storyteller William Kennedy Hornyak will weave eerie tales and fables that promise to send shivers down your spine on Sunday, Nov. 5 at Immersion Brewing’s Barrel Room. “I want the audience to travel with me, not just hear what I’m saying. When I can do that, make that connection, the story really just feeds…
Keeping it Mega Mellow
Derek Michael Marc is a vocalist/drummer/guitarist/songwriter who also hosts the “Mellow Wednesday Acoustic Open Mic and Jam,” at Northside Bar and Grill. While music is always flowing through the streets of Bend, what sets this open-mic apart is the longevity of the event in a town with many newcomers and countless demands on people’s time.…
Horoscope Week of October 26, 2023
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Ófeigur Sigurðsson writes, “You should never do what’s expected of you; there’s always another path through life than the one before you.” I wouldn’t recommend his approach to any other zodiac sign but Scorpio. And I would only advocate it for maybe 40 percent of Scorpios 10 percent of…
Letters to the Editor 10/26/2023
Guest Opinion: The Real Triple Crown of Economic, FireFighting, and Environmental Benefits By Dominick A. DellaSala and Rick Martinson Senator Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) recently introduced “Timber Innovation for Building Rural Communities Act” claims to “build[s] much-needed federal support for that triple crown of economic, firefighting, and environmental goals.” We find it ill-advised to promote logging…
