Check out Bend's Josh Dirksen on Fuel TV's "Firsthand," a series that profiles the lives of athletes from all sorts of fun sports.
Josh Dirksen on Fuel TV
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Patterson’s Golden Parachute
Mike Patterson - felon. After two years of intermittent verbal and physical abuse at the hands of her husband, Mike, things came to a head at Mary Patterson's home on the evening of November 5.
Mike, who was at the time Redmond's city manager, had threatened to move out of the couple's home. Mary decided to hold him to it. The news didn't sit well with Mike who was prone to violent outbursts in the past.
After exchanging words, Mike, an athlete who played in a recreation tackle football league, pushed his wife backwards toward their wine cabinet. Mary stumbled and fell. But the fight didn't stop. She ended up pinned with her back to the kitchen counter. She was scared of what might happen next - and for good reason. In the past year, Mike had hit her hard enough in the face to swell her eye shut, and on another occasion shoved her into a hotel bathroom hard enough to dent the wall.
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Bachelor Charity Event: Neither a Bang nor a Fizzle
The totals are in for the first phase of Mt. Bachelor's new charity event replacing Free Ski day, and while they aren't as bad as critics warned they're not nearly as good as the resort predicted.
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Thoughts on Inauguration Eve
The inauguration of Barack Obama almost scares us - not because we didn't support him (we did, enthusiastically) or because we don't have confidence in him, but because the expectations are so high.
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Is Central Oregon Experiencing “Shrinkage”?
The Bulletin's top business story this morning is about how many people are moving into Central Oregon and how many are moving out. Predictably, the spin is upbeat.
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Getting Kicked by the Kicker
State Economist Tom Potiowsky had bad news, better news and bad news for the state in his report to the Oregon Legislature yesterday.
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Clean Pipes
Bachelor got their pipe cut just in time for this weekend's Enter The Dragon competition. The park crew has really been putting in the hours to make all our jumps nice every day, and they groomed the pipe two days in a row which is a first.
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Still Punk: Twenty years of doing things the Guttermouth way
Who’s up for a jog?On a Friday morning, Guttermouth front man Mark Adkins talks for more
than an hour over the telephone from his home in San Clemente, Calif.
about, politics, honesty, distance running, guitar down strokes, Hot
Topic stores, paddle boarding, real estate values, self-imposed racial
segregation and several other topics related or un-related to punk
rock. Adkins is funny, knowledgeable and courteous, but is also
supremely confident in his opinions. In a strange way, the Guttermouth
front man is punk rock and anti-punk rock all at once.
The 42-year-old Adkins is known for his boisterous stage antics and his
practice of gently (and sometimes not so gently) harassing his
audience, but he's also deftly intelligent and in supreme physical
shape. He says that after our conversation he's going to run between
eight and 10 miles. How punk rock is that?
But it seems that Adkins has struck a balance after 20-plus years of
playing in Guttermouth and gladly celebrates his two decades in punk.
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We Don’t Need No Steenkin’ Flower Baskets
The Downtown Bend Business Association wants to force business owners who don't belong to it to pay for it anyway, and that has longtime downtown merchant Duncan McGeary hopping mad.
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Walden in the Spotlight
For a minority-party congressman from a rural backwater, Greg Walden is getting a lot of ink these days.