With the rise of COVID-19 came the rise of misinformation. Scientific facts became topics of debate. โOne of my residents is heart broken that the country he fought for in WWII can’t manage to wear a mask for his safety.โ One of the most controversial topics in the current climate is mask wearing: should we […]
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March for Students Downtown Bend became a sea of red on May 8, as local families and Bend-La Pine Schools’ staff members โ all wearing red โrallied together in support of appropriate state funding for public education. Participants marched together in camaraderie to the downtown Bend-La Pine Schools’ Education Center. The joyful rally of approximately […]
Creating Beauty From Hardship
Veronica Ramos isn’t a counselor. By day, she works in accounting for Bend Parks and Recreation District. She dreams of one day opening a halfway home for women transitioning out of human trafficking. For now, though, she’s focusing on a new support group for women survivors of sexual abuse โ something she’s passionate about, as […]
Creating Smiles for 20 Years: Kemple Memorial Children’s Dental Clinic
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of five children between the ages of five and 11 years old has at least one untreated, decayed tooth. The statistics aren’t much better for children between the ages of 12 and 19 years old, with one out of seven suffering from an untreated […]
The War Wages On
The United States is being crippled by a growingโyes, growingโopioid crisis. There was a staggering 21 percent surge in drug overdoses in 2016, the last time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released official figures on record, with 64,070 deaths attributed to drug overdoses in the U.S. Of those, 75 percent were from opioids. […]
An uptick in tick-borne illness
Stories about Central Oregon tick encounters are popping up all over social media. Last month, Kaylin Landry, who studies social sciences at Oregon State University-Cascades, described her tick confrontation by posting, “Guess who had her ‘Oh god, that was a tick that fell off my neck and into my cleavage!’ virginity taken today?” Landry explained, […]

