A week ago, Mary Medrano opened her first solo exhibition in Central Oregon at the Rotunda Gallery in the Barber Library on the COCC campus. The exhibit is called Feathered Tales, featuring a series of 30 mixed-media paintings that Medrano created during the past six months. Finding inspiration in the natural world, Medrano uses painting […]
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Growing Up
COCC celebrates 50 years on the butte
When Ron Bryant first enrolled at Central Oregon Community College back in 1955, he chose the college for the same reason many students do today. “It was within driving distance and it was affordable,” recalls Bryant, a Redmond attorney who previously chaired the COCC board and now serves as the college’s legal counsel. “I wanted […]
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Power to the People
COCC president Dr. Shirley Metcalf serves as a role model for women and minorities
If Dr. Shirley Metcalf had led with her personal motto—”it’s all about the people,” a turn of phrase by way of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s book It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership—it might have come off as a shtick. Instead, Dr. Metcalf, the fifth president of Central Oregon Community College […]
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Who Am I In This World?
An interview with U.S. Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco was catapulted into the national spotlight when President Obama selected him as the fifth Inaugural Poet of the United States, following in the footsteps of such great writers as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou. Blanco wrote “One Today,” which he read at Obama’s Inauguration in January of 2013. Not only was Blanco the […]
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OLD TIMERS: Bend Historical Timeline
Bend Historical Timeline 1920s- Population: 5,415 June 1920- First airplane crosses Cascades March 1922- St. Charles opens on “water tank hill” July 1922- First car drives up Pilot Butte May 1928- Frank T. Johns, national leader of the Socialist Party and candidate for president, drowns in Mirror Pond in attempt to save drowning boy April […]
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Safety in their Sights
Schools respond to shootings with more cops, guns
In the wake of the most recent mass shooting—this time in Isla Vista, Calif., near the University of California at Santa Barbara, where Elliot Rodger allegedly killed six people including himself—the ripple effects are coursing through the nation’s consciousness. While “active shooter events,” as the FBI calls them, have been a part of our social […]