Central Oregon Veterans Outreach
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Vet Village Opens

After years of development, houseless veterans will begin moving into a village-style shelter this week
Avatar photo by Jack Harvel

About five houseless veterans will move into the Central Oregon Veterans Village this week, with about 10 more to come once the shelter is fully completed. A ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday ended the three-year-long process to get the shelter built. Bend Heroes Foundation conceived of the project and Central Oregon Veterans Outreach will manage the […]

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What If We Could?

New organization aims to make volunteering more accessible
Caitlin Richmond

Volunteering or giving back to the community can feel good—but involves enough barriers that for a lot of people, it doesn’t happen very often. Rys Fairbrother is trying to make the process easier for people Central Oregon through his organization, What If We Could. His one-man operation partners with nonprofits in Central Oregon to help […]

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Bend Fire Collecting Warm Clothes

People can drop off unneeded clothes at any of the five fire stations
Chris Miller

The City of Bend Fire Department has a way for people to get into the Christmas Spirit early this year, by donating unneeded winter clothing to help out the less fortunate. This fall marks the third year that Bend Fire and the Deschutes County Rural Fire Protection District No. 2 have collected winter clothes during […]

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Camping at Juniper Ridge

Local officials wrestle with what to do with people living on publicly owned land
Chris Miller

Traveling along the bumpy, dusty roads that weave through the property owned by the City of Bend and the Central Oregon Irrigation District, you might see remnants of tents, tarps, a few cars and piles of household items. You’ll also see creative engineering—a house made out of tarps and old crates and a greenhouse full […]

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Source Spotlight: Helping Vulnerable Vets

Kathy Skidmore and JW Terry of Central Oregon Veterans Outreach
Avatar photo Richard Sitts

T he words on the marquee outside Central Oregon Veterans Outreach pretty much say it all: NEED CANNED FOOD TENTS TARPS PROPANE COLD WEATHER GEAR. COVO is ramping up for its busiest time of year—the winter months—when veterans and others are most in need. At COVO, no one is turned away, and as Executive Officer […]

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Our Picks 1/7-1/15

The Source Staff

thursday 8 The River They Saw FILM—In the 1860s, photography took a big technical leap forward, and amazingly some of the original photographs of the Columbia River still exist. OPB strings together the changes in its flow, its fish, and its people in documentary film to tell a great story. 6 pm. High Desert Museum, […]

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