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Check out the latest episode of the Source’s Weekly’s “Bend Don’t Break” podcast hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer. This week our guest is Deschutes County Commissioner Patti Adair.

She held the fate of the county in her purse as she drove a paper copy of the region’s reopening application directly to Salem last month. We talk hogs, rodeo queens, saw mills and ranchers.

Or watch the full interview on YouTube:

This article appears in May 27 – Jun 3, 2020.

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New Podcast: Keys to the County with Patti Adair 🎧

by Laurel Brauns, The Source - Bend, Oregon
June 3, 2020

<h1>New Podcast: Keys to the County with Patti Adair 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by Laurel Brauns, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />June 3, 2020</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">C</span>heck out the latest episode of the Source's Weekly's "<a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/keys-to-the-county-commissioner-patti-adair-in-the-time-of-covid" target="_blank">Bend Don't Break</a>" podcast hosted by our publisher Aaron Switzer. This week our guest is Deschutes County Commissioner Patti Adair.</p> <p>She held the fate of the county in her purse as she drove a paper copy of the region's reopening application directly to Salem last month. We talk hogs, rodeo queens, saw mills and ranchers.</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/keys-to-the-county-commissioner-patti-adair-in-the-time-of-covid" title="Keys to the County: Commissioner Patti Adair in the time of COVID" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Keys to the County: Commissioner Patti Adair in the time of COVID</a></div> </p></div> <p> Or watch the full interview on YouTube:</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://www.youtube.com/embed/QSeYyLJLDrQ </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/new-podcast-keys-to-the-county-with-patti-adair-12607458/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=32465&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/new-podcast-keys-to-the-county-with-patti-adair-12607458/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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