Ex-Bend Chamber Pres Drops out of Council Race

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Ex-Bend Chamber Pres Drops out of Council Race

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Former Bend Chamber President Mike Schmidt announced today that he is dropping out of this year’s Bend City Council race just a few weeks after announcing his candidacy.
Schmidt, who came to Bend from California to replace controversial ex-Chamber President Gary Peters, charted a new more progressive direction for the chamber before splitting ways with the Bend business group.

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Innovation Theatre Works Opens Performance Facility in Bend

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With the fate of 2nd Street Theater still up in the air (although there’s rumors of a potential buyer for the location) there’s some good news to be had in the local theater world today with the announcement just minutes ago that Innovation Theatre Works will be opening a theater facility.
Most know Innovation for their productions of Driving Miss Daisy and the Frank Sinatra tribute My Way, both of which were performed at the Tower Theatre.

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There are No Trilobites in Oregon: Well, maybe…

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Now that I’ve reached that “ripe old age” of over 80, I find myself enjoying fossils more than I did years ago. Do you suppose someone’s trying to tell me something? Be that as it may, for more years than I care to remember, I’ve heard the old axiom, “Some day, someone will find a trilobite in Oregon.” Well, maybe.
One place to look is in the fossil-bearing Permian limestone of Coyote Butte near the Nevada border in southeast Oregon. “Hold on,” you say, “We have a Coyote Butte along China Hat Road, southeast of Bend.” Sorry, that’s a cinder cone, no trilobites there, it’s volcanic in origin and several millions of years to young.

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