Deschutes County to Appoint New La Pine Park and Recreation District Board Members
On Oct 9, all five members of the La Pine Parks and Recreation District Board resigned. The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners outlines the process it will use to fill vacancies on the board following the resignation. According to a press release, Oregon state law requires that the Board of County Commissioners promptly fill the positions if the governing body’s membership is fully vacant.
The selection process Commissioners approved includes requesting interested residents to submit a letter of interest and a resume to lapineparks@deschutes.org. The application period begins on Oct. 15 and closes on Sunday Oct. 20. The following Wednesday, Commissioners will conduct interviews and make direct appointment to all five positions. Those appointed to the board will serve until the term expires June 30, 2025. According to Central Oregon Daily, the resignations took place after months of tension between board members and parents.
—Julianna LaFollette
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Bend Community Shows Up to Support Local Effort to Acquire Resort
Residents, community stakeholders and local officials joined Mt. Bachelor Community Inc. Oct. 12 in support of the organization’s efforts to purchase the ski resort, which its parent company,POWDR, intends to sell. The event commemorated MBCI’s seventh week of operation and celebrated a fundraising campaign that raised over $40,000.
Because of community fundraising, MBCI is engaged with Miller Nash, who supported Willamette Valley Vineyards’ recent initial public offering. “Our organization understands the gravity of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and is actively meeting with community stakeholders and prospective investors to discuss and advance our bid to acquire Mount Bachelor,” said MBCI Co-Founder Chris Porter in a press release.
—Julianna LaFollette
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$1.50
– Cost of the top-rated doughnut in Brian Yaeger’s latest rankings of local offerings. From the Chow story, “Bend’s Best Autumnal Doughnuts.”
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“Had we got a sustained west wind I wouldn’t be talking to you from my home here… It’s a game of Russian roulette with a community and a fire.”
-Crescent area resident Rob DeHarpport, from the Feature story, “Summer on the Edge of a Fire.”
This article appears in Source Weekly October 17, 2024.
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