Christian Heeb is a new contributor to the Bent blog and his photographs, along with some backstory on the shot, will be appearing here regularly beginning with this post. Heeb, a Bend-based photographer who travels the world, shooting photos for magazines including National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Geo Saison and more.
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Pictures From Yesterday’s Snowpocalypse
On Monday night, we all went to bed thinking that we’d wake up to some drizzly rain. Instead, we all woke up to SNOWPOCALYPSE 2011. Or, as the Source Staff coined it yesterday, after losing power, then going to three different staffer’s houses due to further power outages, then finally coming back to the Source offices and finishing the paper at 2 a.m., the SNOWCLUSTEREFF.
Here are some photos from yesterday’s dump:
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Why the Source Weekly Should Have Won Last Week’s Trivia Bee
Last week, three source staffers – Mike Bookey, Ban Tat (Sales) and myself competed in the Education Foundation’s annual Trivia Bee at the Tower Theatre.
We were robbed.
Below are three reasons why the Source team should have taken home the trophy:
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Valentine’s Day: Staff Picks
I’m just gonna say it. Valentine’s Day confuses the hell out of me. The day that may or may not have been created by a greeting card company seems to have become a day of mandatory gift giving. If you’re single, you’ll probably have to endure a day full of couples making out in front of you and having bouquets of roses meant for your coworker being delivered accidentally to your desk. If you’re in a relationship, you probably didn’t do it right, so just apologize already.
My Valentine’s Day usually involves ignoring the grand gestures everyone else around me seems to be receiving, then fighting with the person I told not to get me anything because he didn’t get me anything, then getting drunk.
This year, I’ve resolved to do it better. So I asked my coworkers what their plans are. If all else fails, there’s always the Hoff.
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Live Music Pick: Y La Bamba
Portland’s Y La Bamba play Bend’s Old St. Francis Feb. 16th.
It’s getting easier to find great live music in Bend these days. Still, there are shows that get scheduled that definitely rise above the rest and are must see performances.
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Di Lusso Bakery Cafe in Downtown Bend Closes
Di Lusso, the popular downtown bakery and coffee shop abruptly closes.
On my way downtown this afternoon (to pump some iron, of course) I noticed a printed sign on the door of Di Lusso Bakery Cafe explaining that yesterday was the popular coffee shop and bakery’s last day in operation.
The sign cites “unforeseen circumstances” as the reason for the abrupt closure and offers some heartfelt thanks for the years of patronage their customers had provided them.
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Da Pack: A Sunday afternoon on the sidelines with the Packers
The time I made it onto the sidelines at a Packers game by pretending to be a doctor.
In the afterglow of the Green Bay Packers win at last weekend’s Super Bowl, I started thinking about how I came to being of those “once a Packer fan, always a Packer fan” people.
It began when I first got interested in pro football at age 10. My dad, a Wisconsin Badger through and through, loved the Packers with equal passion. Then, some 13 years later, fate put me on the sidelines on December 14, 1963 with the great Packer team quarterbacked by Bart Starr.
How I came to be on the sidelines started innocuously with an invite from my pal, Dr. Ed Washburn, to help him out during the high school football games at San Francisco’s old Kezar Stadium, then the home of the 49ers and host to all the important city league high school games. Washburn was the official head physician for all high school games played at Kezar.
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Buddy Wakefield is Back in Bend
Slam champion Buddy Wakefield takes the stage at COCC.
Two time individual World Poetry Slam champion Buddy Wakefield will be giving a free performance on Thursday, February 10th starting at 7pm in the Hitchcock Auditorium at COCC.
Last fall Wakefield, with his athletic frame and troubling, expressive eyes, ushered forth both tears and a standing ovation as part of the Revival tour that stopped over in downtown Bend.
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Bend Park & Recreation District Seeks Dogs to Help With Geese Control
Bend Park & Recreation District seeks volunteers with dogs to assist with goose management efforts this spring and summer.
The latest news in the ongoing Bend goose-control epic finds the Bend Park & Recreation District seeking volunteers with dogs to assist with goose management efforts this spring and summer.
As you may recall, the great goose debate has been an ongoing topic of interest in Central Oregon. After years of discussion of how to deal with Bend’s goose overpopulation the park district decided to take lethal measures in 2010. Park employees rounded up hundreds of geese that had stopped migrating and they were given a lethal dose of CO2 gas.
The goose genocide prompted an overwhelming response from the community on both sides of the debate, which played out in The Source Weekly’s Mailbox. Not only that, the story made national news and even spurred a goose memorial to peacefully recognize the fallen birds.
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Oregon Drug Bust of the Week: A U-Haul Full of Pot
Oregon police nab a guy driving a U-Haul packed with 30 pounds of marijuana.
This week’s Oregon Drug Bust of the Week takes us over to Roseburg where on Sunday Oregon State Police stopped a U-Haul moving truck on I-5 and later found about 30 pounds of marijuana hidden in the back.
Police arrested Donald J.