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Our Picks for 10/6-10/16 Bend Film, Valiant Thorr, and more

Source WeeklyOctober 6, 2010April 11, 2025

BendFilm
thursday-sunday 7-10
The annual festival will, for the seventh year in a row, take over Central Oregon screens with a ton of independent features, documentaries, animated films and shorts, in addition to other events and parties. Hit up the Culture section for more on the festival. For a complete schedule, visit bendfilm.org.

Opinion

Upcoming Election Events

Source WeeklyOctober 6, 2010January 25, 2025

Fri. Oct. 8
Bend Business PAC City Council Candidate Forum

The forum is presented by the Chamber of Commerce PAC and will focus on business-oriented issues.

Opinion

Measures 71-76

Source WeeklyOctober 6, 2010January 4, 2023

Measure 71
Would have Oregon legislators convene annually each year to tend to the state's business, as opposed to every other year. – Yes.

Opinion

For Bend City Council: Mark Capell

Source WeeklyOctober 6, 2010May 4, 2023

It's not the money, or the free food (yes councilors are still provided meals before their meetings) and it certainly isn't the prestige that attracts people to the job of city councilor. The long hours, late meetings and the scrutiny of an entire city aren't terrific incentives either. But we still manage to get a few city councilors who are willing to serve simply because they believe in keeping Bend a great place to live while helping the city meet the growing challenges of the 21st century.

Opinion

For Bend City Council: Chuck Arnold

Source WeeklyOctober 6, 2010May 30, 2025

The Bend city council is a non-partisan board, but be assured, it has its ideological divides. That's why the race for Bend City Council Seat 7 is so important this year. The seat has been held by former Mayor Oran Teater since his controversial appointment to the seat two years ago when the council deadlocked on a successor to Chris Telfer. Since that time, Teater has helped cement the conservative majority on the city council, a block that includes realtor Tom Greene, Mayor Kathie Eckman, and attorney and former Greg Walden staff member Jeff Eager.

News

Golden Opportunities: Economic downturn has a silver lining for conservation causes

Eric FlowersOctober 6, 2010January 4, 2023

Short of busking on the street corner with an upturned hat to collect spare change, Ruth Williamson is doing just about everything she can to ensure that the public secures the last major piece of undeveloped real estate along the Deschutes River in Bend, a nearly five-acre parcel just downstream from the Colorado dam.

Opinion

Mount Bachelor Academy Gets a Pass

Source WeeklyOctober 6, 2010August 31, 2024

The stories coming out of Mount Bachelor Academy were shocking. Kids being deprived of sleep, cursed at by other students and staff members, being made to take part in humiliating “role-playing” exercises – including, in at least one case, having to perform a “lap dance” for another student.
The stories were bad enough, and apparently credible enough, for the state Department of Human Services to order the high-priced private school shut down in November 2009.

Opinion

Flaming Frat Pranks, Seegers vs. the Reagan fan club, gun play and more

Source WeeklyOctober 6, 2010June 2, 2023

Jeez, Sorry for Partying
If you're in a college fraternity, there are a few activities in which you will almost certainly find yourself involved. You will consume beer by placing the keg tap directly in your mouth as your “bros” hold your feet up in the air. You will clothe yourself exclusively in T-shirts celebrating parties you and your “bros” have previously facilitated. And, if you're really, really lucky, you and/or your “bros” will douse a couch in lighter fluid and light it aflame as you stand awestruck in its glow with a smile on your face and a Busch Light in your hand.

Opinion

Vote Yes on Measure 76: Rivers and parks deserve our support

Source WeeklyOctober 6, 2010November 29, 2023

What have you done for your local parks, rivers and wildlife recently? Not much opportunity to help? Here's a perfect chance for you to do something truly meaningful for these things we all cherish. In November, you can vote “yes” on Measure 76.

Opinion

Texas Crack Was Ignorant

Source WeeklyOctober 6, 2010July 5, 2024

As a New Yorker, who has lived in Texas for many years and then moved to Bend two years ago…I found Jim Anderson's little “comment” (The Natural World, 9-29) about Texas offensive. It certainly had nothing to do with your subject matter. Texas, nor Texans may not be your cup of tea (java) but it is just this type of Texas bashing that infuriates me because it is usually done out of little/no knowledge regarding the state or its people. It comes from a place of insecurity or ignorance of the people or the state. I love living in Bend….it was chosen….but some of the thinking is backward and uneducated when it comes to the rest of the world.

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