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8 Big Ways You Can Help Our Waters

A trip to the Pacific Ocean is more than four hours away by car. But our day-to-day decisions can make an impact on ocean health
by Andy Brack

The ocean is big – really, really big.* It’s so “vastly hugely mind-bogglingly” big you may not think it needs your help. But consider the daily global degradation from pesticides, detergents, sewage, plastic (33 billion tons of it annually), oil spills and dumping. On top of that, add how warming seas are causing habitat destruction […]

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Multiple Motels

The City purchased the Rainbow Motel and plans to convert it into temporary housing
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The Bend City Council authorized the purchase of the Rainbow Motel at its regular meeting Jan. 19, saying the property has potential as a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness as well as longer-term goals. It’s the second motel the City is converting into a shelter after receiving $2.97 million in state grant funding to […]

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Winter Nature Nights: Learn About the Natural World from the Comfort of Home

Annual Deschutes Land Trust series kicks off in January
by Sarah Mowry

By about the end of January, many Central Oregonians start dreaming about warmer temperatures, longer days and the arrival of spring and more time outdoors. But alas, as most of us know, spring won’t be here until June—OK, maybe May—so we have to dream about spring while making it through the rest of winter that […]

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Apocalypse When?

Emergency management officials are planning for the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake — in Redmond, Oregon
by Jaclyn Brandt

Oregon’s beauty was created largely by the state’s rocky past: thousands of years of volcanic eruptions, wildfires and numerous large earthquakes. Although those dangers seem to be very much in the past, many continue to be real dangers. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a constant threat to the area, and after a 2015 New Yorker article […]

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Child Care? Child, Where?

Cracks in Central Oregon’s child care market deepen as COVID causes several facilities to close
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Several of Central Oregon’s child care centers closed their doors as the region experiences record-high COVID-19 cases, causing parents to scramble to find alternative care. The latest surge is exacerbated by Central Oregon’s lack of available childcare. A 2019 study from Oregon State University found that only 20% of children in Deschutes County had access […]

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Vamonos Climbing, Skiing and More

An interview with the new program coordinator for Vamonos Outside, Wesley Heredia
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In late 2021, Vamonos Outside—the local nonprofit with a mission to connect, engage and inspire Latinx families & community into the outdoors—announced it had hired a new program coordinator, Wesley Heredia, to help connect with the community and to further the group’s mission. The Source Weekly connected with Heredia to talk about the new role. […]

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Chicken Husbandry and the Perfect Scrambled Egg

If you aspire to keep hens, don’t let me discourage you. The eggs are of incomparable quality, and the byproduct is rich manure that’s like steroids for your garden.
by Ari Levaux

I‘ve raised a lot of chickens. Probably hundreds. For eggs, not meat. I give them the best lives I can, including a generous retirement plan when they reach a certain age, with free room and board, yet they rarely arrive at those emerald pastures. Precious few have lived long enough to die in their sleep. […]

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Health & Fitness 2022

From pole dancing to cross country skiing, have fun and get out of your comfort zone with our Health and Fitness issue!
by The Source Staff

What’s your health and fitness goal for 2022? Try something new? Explore a place or activity that you’ve long wanted to try? Or maybe you’re just looking to spruce up your diet and get healthier in the new year. To help you prep for those scenarios and more, let our 2022 Health and Fitness Issue […]

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A Slam Dunk Interview

An Interview with the Harlem Globetrotters’ go-to dunker
by Charlotte Ferguson

For decades, the Harlem Globetrotters have been touring the world and showing off their grade-A basketball skills. Just in time for their game at the Deschutes County Expo Center in Redmond, the Source Weekly managed to land an exclusive interview with one of the Globetrotters world renowned basketball stars, Max “Hops” Pearce, who joined the Globetrotters […]

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Giving Big with Central Oregon Gives

Giving Plate earns top fundraising honor in annual & nonprofit giving campaign
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The food pantry The Giving Plate has a dream of creating a free community food store in Bend’s Makers District—and after a successful run as the top-earning nonprofit in the Central Oregon Gives campaign, the nonprofit is one step closer to achieving that goal. The Giving Plate emerged as the top earner among 80 nonprofits […]

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