Janice Garceau is the director of Deschutes County Health Services, and Ashton Varner is a diversity, equity and inclusion strategist who also chaired the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access Committee that the Deschutes County Board of Commissioners dissolved in early February. The Source spoke with Garceau and Varner about the effects of that decision on […]
Going Forward After Dissolving a DEI Initiative
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‘Wrapping Arms and Resources and HeartsAround Communities'
Jordan Kent is vice president of Bend Pride Coalition, the nonprofit organization that produces Bend’s Summer Pride. Ruth Vernotico is the founder of SUS, a local nonprofit working to increase visibility for 2SLGBTQIA+ people through print media, community engagement, education and celebration. In a conversation with the Source Weekly for our Women’s Issue, the two […]
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A Healing Practice for Women
It was 2008. I was in college working toward my math degree at San Jose State University in California. During the weekdays, I worked as a math tutor to help make some extra money while putting myself through college. I was always told I was good at math. That might have been the only thing […]
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Brewing Equality
In 2021, the Brewers Association, a craft brewing industry group, released the results of a demographic audit of U.S. breweries, revealing that almost a quarter of brewery owners were women, yet less than 3% of breweries were fully woman-owned. Here in Central Oregon, there is one fully woman-owned brewery: Spider City Brewing. The Bend operation […]
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The Medicine Cabinet Within: Hot Springs Healing
The experience of soaking in mineral-rich hot springs is one that not only inspires deep relaxation and a sense of internal unwinding, but in many ways also supports greater health and vitality. For millennia, Native Americans and other Indigenous and ancient peoples, including the early Greeks, Romans and Egyptians, have soaked in hot springs that […]
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Ensuring Safety for Immigrant Survivors
At Saving Grace, we believe that every survivor of intimate partner and sexual violence deserves safety, support and a pathway to healing — regardless of where they come from or what language they speak. But for many immigrant women in Central Oregon, seeking help isn’t just difficult; it feels impossible. Immigrant women in our community […]
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Snow, Sparkles and Celebration: Winter PrideFest Returns
Snow, sequins and celebration: Winter PrideFest is back, and bigger and bolder than ever. Since 2018, OUT Central Oregon has hosted the vibrant festival to honor Pride, inclusivity and a shared love of the outdoors. From March 6-9, the festival transforms Central Oregon into a winter wonderland of LGBTQ+ joy, featuring skiing, dancing, snowshoeing, comedy […]
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Central Oregon’s Bluegrass Scene Unites
Austin Quattlebaum plays what he calls “weird-grass. More accurately, it’s probably indie folk with a bluegrass edge,” he explains. He’s been performing in Bend for over a decade — often with James Rossi on fiddle, Josiah Payne on mandolin and Mark Karwan on bass — and always had the desire to create a local bluegrass […]
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Horoscope Week of February 27, 2025
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Octopuses have three hearts, each with a different function. Every one of their eight limbs contains a mini-brain, giving them nine in total. Is there any doubt, then, that they are the patron creature for you Pisceans? No other zodiac sign is more multifaceted than you. No other can operate with […]
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Letters to the Editor 02/27/2025
Guest Opinion: Public Lands Are Under Attack Like Never Before Between funding freezes, budget cuts, firing thousands of federal public lands employees and legislation and regulations to weaken bedrock environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Antiquities Act, the Trump administration and Congress have wasted no time in their […]