My Country 'Tis of Thee: Take time to remember our wild heritage

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My Country 'Tis of Thee: Take time to remember our wild heritage

Source Weekly

The early stunning vistas of beautiful America gave rise to some of the best known and most evocative writings, song and poetry of this wide and sweeping land, a land to the earliest of inhabitants and those who came after, of wildness, diamond-blue skies and waves that tumbled onto golden, unsullied beaches.
“America the Beautiful” contains some of those soaring words:
“O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain!”
The Wilderness Act of 1964 recognizes wilderness, “.

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A Job Well Done

The Source Staff

    Every so often a Bend citizen comes up with an idea that he or she feels will benefit the community and sets about their task quietly and effectively. They work the system the right way not making demands or braying in the press but with civility, working in an organized fashion making sure that the most minor details are taken care of properly.

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Dealing With the New “Slacker” Economy

The Source Staff

The Wall Street Journal has published a first-rate piece on Bend's economic debacle, using it as a microcosm for what's going on nationally.
The story (pretty long, but well worth reading) begins by describing anecdotally how the collapse of Bend's economy has created “slack” – a gap between the economy's productive capacity and what's actually being used:
“A year and a half of recession has left local manufacturer Bright Wood Corp.

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DJ Barisone is Leaving Town

The Source Staff

After years of providing the backbeat to some of Bend’s best parties, DJ Barisone told me this morning that he’s leaving Bend for Portland, where he will continue to pursue his DJ career.
Just last month, Source readers voted Bryan Barisone “Best DJ” in our annual Best of Central Oregon issue, a distinction he’s definitely earned.

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