A Near-Fatal Crossover Crash on 97

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Recession Refugees: COCC scrambles as laid-off workers turn to the classroom

Mike Bookey

Archie Hamilton, a 45-year-old student at Central Oregon Community
College, describes himself as a dislocated worker. He’s spent most of
his adult life in the wood industry, primarily as a mill worker, but
his last job was with Bend’s Host Industries building motor homes and
campers. Last summer, when gas prices peaked out and the economy
nosedived, Hamilton, went to the Oregon Employment Department to apply
for benefits and to find work using the state’s iMatchSkills jobs
database, only to discover that there were only 200 job openings posted
across the state.

"I was told at the unemployment office that all of the skills I had
were really tough to match with a job," Hamilton said. "I had a friend
who had gone back to school in addiction studies at COCC and he talked
me into filling out forms for grants and applying to get into school."

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Bend is Killing it.

Intern

So someone at Fuel TV is really liking Bend. In the recent installment of "Snowboard Diaries," a documentary style show that follows some of the best riders in the world through a winter season, they tail Hampus Mosesson, and Jacob Wilhelmson as they film for their new production company Actionhorse Films.

Posted inCulture

Steep and Cheap: Skiing Hoodoo under the lights

Mike Bookey

Adam Sather shreds it up under the lights.Nightlife in the winter can sometimes seem one-dimensional. The music
scene grows a bit stagnant; the bar crawl can bring on fits of déj vu.
Most of winter's allure derives from the prospect of hitting the
slopes, and it's an activity that many of us partake in regularly.But even with as much skiing as we do, night skiing is a pastime mostly unfamiliar
to us Bendites. Mt. Bachelor being so close, most of us would probably
rather hit the hill early the next day than make the trip to Hoodoo,
Ski Bowl or Mt. Hood Meadows.
Like most great ideas, my decision to
drive to Hoodoo was made on a whim. A particularly nasty
day-after-Christmas storm and low visibility sent us home early from
Mt. Bachelor still hungry for a few more turns. With the snow still
falling, we loaded up the car, popped in our clear lenses and took off
to Hoodoo's opening night. About an hour later we pulled into the
parking lot, quickly threw on our gear and rushed off to meet our
friends who were already enjoying the heavy and steady extra-light
snowfall.

Posted inOpinion

Barbarians in the Badlands

Mike Bookey

Assuming they're able to read, some of the morons who get their jollies
from trashing the natural landscape might have read that the Badlands
wilderness bill is about to get passed and decided to get out there and
do more damage while they could.

David Eddleston, organizer of the
group Friends of the Badlands, sent us a report from the battlefront
last week. According to him, he and other "Fobbitts" patrolled the area
on Jan. 8 and found signs of "recent incursions from both quad ATVs and
powered dirt bikes at various points."
Signs marking the area
as closed to motor vehicles had been blasted with gunfire. "Oddly, a
locker had been dragged approx 200 meters into the Badlands and
securely installed on a rimrock ridge. And that had also been used as a
target," Eddleston added.

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