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Oregon Adaptive Sports Athletes Race Pole Pedal Paddle

The 40th annual PPP expects 3,000 competitors
Brian Jennings

The annual Pole, Pedal, Paddle is a part of Bend’s outdoor DNA. Organized by the Mt. Bachelor Sports Education Foundation, this year’s multi-sport event—the 40th annual—will take place on Saturday, May 21. Last year the number of participants was down from previous years because of a lack of snow, resulting in a shortened Nordic event. […]

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Rethinking City Council

The Source Staff

Though City Council duties, meetings, committees, and hearings require 45 to 55 hours per week to fulfill, Bend City Councilors are considered volunteers, have no administrative support staff and receive no benefits. The archaic notion of an unpaid mayor and city council is not in step with the times within the paradigm of the exponential […]

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The Monarch Miracle, Part Two

Jim Anderson

Since the recent story I wrote on the plight of the monarch butterfly in which I encouraged the residents of Central Oregon to create monarch waystations, I’ve been reminded by more than one person that I left out a couple of salient facts about the life history of monarchs: time and metamorphosis. Thus, regarding the […]

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Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

The journey of Cat Addison
Brian Jennings

Oregon has thousands of miles of hiking trails, but the granddaddy of them all is the Pacific Crest Trail which stretches a total of 2,659 miles. It is one of three major long-distance trails in America. In Oregon, it covers 460 miles and offers what many argue is the best wilderness experience along its entire […]

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Side Notes 5/18-5/25

Angela Moore

Firefighter Community Assistance Program on Pause The Bend Firefighters Association created the Bend Firefighter Foundation (BFFF), which includes several nonprofit organizations and projects, one of which is the Community Assistance Program (CAP). This program allows firefighters to spend up to $200 to aid an individual in need, and this may include anything from cough medicine […]

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A More Livable Bend

Bend Livability Project engages community in creating change
Avatar photo Erin Rook

Bend’s growth is inevitable. Draft projections from Portland State University predict that the city’s population will surpass 130,000 in 20 years. With this in mind, in what way the city grows is both a subject of deep concern and an opportunity for the community to help shape the future. The inaugural Bend Livability Project is […]

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Dear Tenant, You Must Vacate the Premises

Many fear homelessness awaits them
Sherron Lumley

In a quickly gentrifying neighborhood in northwest Bend, just a few blocks from Newport Avenue Market, the 44 people who call the Fireside Lodge Condominiums home will soon be without a basic human need: shelter. Bend’s affordable housing crisis is no longer down the road somewhere in the distant future for them. As market values […]

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House Committee Votes to Require Women to Register for Draft

Congress will decide on “Draft America’s Daughters Act of 2016”
Sherron Lumley

In December, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter lifted all gender-based combat restrictions. Now, the U.S. House Armed Services Committee has voted 32 to 30 for an amendment to the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which if passed by Congress, would require women age 18 to 26 to register for conscription for the first time in […]

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Picks 5/11-5/18

The Source Staff

Thursday 12 Mexican Gunfight MUSIC—Described as a combination of blues grit, country lyricism and gospel, this band has been making beautiful music together for a few years now. The members have played with multiple Northwest groups over the years and have only become more impressive for it. 7 p.m., McMenamins Old St. Francis. 700 NW […]

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