Corrections:
The 3/10 story, “Who’s Running,” listed Vikki Iverson as a Republican running in the House 55 race in the 2022 May primary, and stated that Tim Knopp was running in 2022; those details were both incorrect.
The 3/10 story, “Tots! Moves into 9th Street Village,” incorrectly stated that the business’ new pizza cart would replace its current Tots! cart at Midtown Yacht Club. The business will soon have both carts at Midtown, and one will not replace the other. We regret the errors.
PLEASE STOP the Proposed Thornburgh Resort
On Wed., March 9 the Department of State Lands had a public Zoom meeting for input to help determine if it should sell 400 acres of OUR public land to the developer of Thornburgh destination resort. Almost 300 people attended the meeting representing many concerns, including water for farming, water impact on current residential wells, the impact on area wildlife, the impact on the mule deer migration, disruption to hiking and biking trails and yes the overall environmental impact. 255 individuals spoke voicing their concerns and EVERY SPEAKER WAS AGAINST the sale of the land, not one person said it was a good idea. Additionally, more than 3,400 businesses, community organizations and individuals have signed onto an opposition letter and to date, 1,800 community members have submitted public comments, opposing the sale, into the record for the DSL to consider. In addition to being against the sale of public land to a proposed resort, I oppose the entire resort. The resort could consume up to 6,000,000 gallons of water per day for three golf courses, six artificial lakes and 1,000 luxury houses. The state and the developer emphasize that the money for the sale will go to schools, but there are many other tracts of land that can be used for school funding.
Central Oregon doesn’t need another golf resort for the affluent, we need to protect the environment and conserve water.
—Joe Craig
We live 3 miles away and supposedly have 28 acres of water rights. Last year we were cut down to water seven days on, seven days off. This year we have been warned that we might water seven days on, 14 days off. Farmers are moving away. Locally sourced produce, meat and hay will go away. Wells have been going dry the last several years. Yet somehow there is enough water for three golf courses, lakes, pools and up to 3,000 homes? And leaving the DSL land natural? Plats show roads and homes on the parcels. Plus being built next to another resort with three golf courses, lakes, pools, etc.? 2022 has a statewide drought, high fire danger, and lack of public notice since the property is surrounded by BLM is allowing this water sucking project.
—Christine Larson
Attention, Redmond Taxpayers
I love this city and its friendly caring people, but the Cascade Swim Center badly needs upgrading with a full restoration. It is used by many and is an embarrassment if compared to other facilities for the same purpose. Please, taxpayers, let’s opt for our dollars to go to making this facility a shining light in our community worthy of the great reputation we already have. We’ve spent a lot of money on our dry canyon which fulfills much of our exercising needs, but our old pool also fills those needs. Let’s treat them equally financially. Thanks !!
—Marcia Majors
RE: In the BCD, a Mess—Literally and Figuratively Opinion, 3/10
Please note that facilities and services for the houseless are being concentrated in a very small section of town, the close-in east side of Bend. The Project Turnkey motel on NE Division. The Rainbow Motel on NE Franklin. The Second Street shelter south of Franklin. The growing St. Vincent Depaul shelter at 350/362 SE Cleveland Ave. The planned 36 unit Cleveland Commons somewhere near SE 5th and Cleveland. The “now on hold” managed camp on NE 9th near Glenwood. This concentrated approach has been tried for many years in Portland (Old Town), San Francisco (Tenderloin), and Los Angeles (Skid Row). What has been the result? Obvious and glaring failure. Why are Bend City Council and city employees repeating this pattern and what specifically is being done to create a different outcome here? Additionally, please note that the cycle of poverty is frequently generational. And when government intentionally concentrates poverty in a single geographic area, it perpetuates this cycle. Where is the social justice component to the concentration of poverty that is being laid down right now in Bend? Where is the equity to the traditionally underserved sections of Bend where government is now intentionally concentrating the houseless population? Is anyone paying attention to the bigger picture of what is being done to the fabric of our entire city? Help the houseless? Absolutely. But don’t blindly do it in the same way that has failed miserably elsewhere and expect a different outcome. Disperse these facilities into all quadrants of Bend now.
—Tom Gugg
Bend is doing an awesome job trying to handle the houseless crisis with compassion, props to them! I know folks are having a hard time coming around, but these are human lives we’re talking about. If everyone would get involved, we could ease some of the fears and worries AND actually accomplish something, together.
—Mandee Seeley via bendsource.com
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do not vote for Tim knopp, Hes part of the reason why HP 2001 went through that is now cramming low income apartments in everybodys backyards, Thats now making housing an entitlement, and pretty much rezoning everything so they can put a duplex right next-door to you after they mow the house down, this is just insane!! There is just no common sense in the Democratic Party, especially the liberals, im really tired of the liberals running the state, they destroy everything they touch. we need some conservative Republicans to take over Oregon and get things back in order, the liberals have completely ruined this place.
keep your eye open for the RINOs
Tim Knopp is one of them!
Its bad enough Bend already had homeless, but they are now migrating from Seattle, Portland and Eugene, if youve been wondering why youre seeing so many, well theres your answer.
The homeless have heard about the perks here in Bend, and yes, they do talk to each other on social media, theyve been telling their Homeless friends to come to Bend.
The managed homeless campgrounds is an absurd idea that was tried in the LA and San Francisco area and it did not work at all, in fact it was a catastrophe.
Bend city Council is hell-bent on sticking these campgrounds in residential neighborhoods, that is absolutely a dangerous idea.
I work to take care of my family, pay my own bills not have to beg and borrow,
the homeless are not my problem!
as far as Im concerned they need to be rounded up and shipped out of town or all arrested for vagrancy, yes vagrancy is a law and vagrants used to be arrested, and they still should be. The population has grown and theyve gotten more and more aggressive.
Let the police do their work round them up ship him out, Liberal leadership is just enabling the problem, they are fueling the fire because of lack of common sense.
fmarcos, I invite you to move to any state that has been under Republican control for the last 30+ years. Like Louisiana, where the Murder rate is higher than almost anywhere else in the developed world and wages are so low that virtually everyone is on welfare. Or Texas, where it’s practically guaranteed that your daughter will have her first kid before she graduates high school (if she even graduates). Maybe you’d love it in Mississippi or Alabama, where public land is virtually non-existent.
Or you could just go one state east to Idaho, where Covid infection per capita (and covid deaths and hospitalizations) were more than double the rates we’ve had in Oregon because the leadership and the people refused preventive measures.
Or you could just go.