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The Search for a Candy Factory

Finding a home rental can be tough in Bend—and the trend continues in commercial kitchens
Lisa Sipe

If the availability of commercial kitchen space is an indication, Bend likes its sweets, treats and eats. A combination of the popularity of locally made food products, food trucks and the legalization of marijuana are making it tough to find a commercial kitchen space in Bend. It’s not tough to see why; in the last […]

Posted inCulture

Mind Your Music

Drumming class beats an unlikely path to inner peace
Howard Leff

We’re three music students, in the middle of Bend, in the middle of Oregon, but our rhythm’s planted firmly in West Africa. To be more precise, we’re inside instructor David Visiko’s home studio, part of which is filled with exotic-looking drums. The three students, Linda Balsiger, Judy McAlpin and I, sit in a neat row […]

Posted inCulture

Canada to Cascadia

Fashion designer taps into roots for inspiration
Howard Leff

Alicia Renner started bonding with her natural surroundings almost immediately, by planting trees as a teenager in northern Alberta and British Columbia—generally known to the rest of us as the Canadian wilderness. As the trees grew, so did her dedication to creating fashion in the form of handmade clothes and accessories. Renner moved to Bend […]

Posted inNews

Landmark Disability Rights Settlement

ODOT to make street crossings safer across state highway system
Avatar photo Magdalena Bokowa

It all stemmed from the power of protest. Jordan Ohlde, a Bend man confined to a wheelchair, is one of eight plaintiffs who, along with the Association of Oregon Centers for Independent Living (AOCIL) brought a landmark case against the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to make state street crossings safer. For Ohlde, who suffers […]

Posted inSpecial Issues & Guides

Invasion of the Californians

Modern Times leads a small march upon Oregon
Kevin Gifford

Since well before 1971, when Gov. Tom McCall famously told tourists, “For heaven’s sake, don’t move here to live,” Oregon has engaged in the oddly addictive pastime of taking Californians’ money while blaming them for whatever malady currently affects the state. What happens, though, when the march from down south begins to creep onto Oregon’s […]

Posted inNews

April Anxiety

Oregon Ducks head to their first Final Four since ’39
Howard Leff

Ten years after the Great Depression, deep into FDR’s second term, the University of Oregon Men’s Basketball team, which ran the somewhat novel (for the times) fast-break offense, wound up in the first-ever Final Four. They would go on to win the national championship – beating Ohio State, 46-33, on March 27, 1939. This was […]

Posted inCulture

Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon

Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

Last week, the author of the recently-released book, “Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon,” Eli Boschetto, rolled into Bend for a talk at Roundabout Books. The book is one of several installments broken down by location (Oregon, Washington, etc.), with book sections further broken into “manageable sections” that people can do in a few days […]

Posted inOpinion

A New Path Forward for Health Care

The GOP health care bill ended up on the cutting room floor… what’s next?
The Source Staff

Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate dealt themselves a political blow this month when they rolled out the American Health Care Act and then killed it before it could reach a vote in the House of Representatives. There were a great many concerns about the plan: the proposed deregulation of the private health insurance […]

Posted inFood & Drink

Get Your Garden On

Spring is here, time to prep
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

There may be the occasional flake flying, but still, the time for prepping the garden is upon us. For those with established gardens, you may even be seeing the first tendrils of life springing up from the soil. For the rest of you, there’s plenty of help out there to get your garden growing—or to […]

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