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As a young boy, Dr. Jeff Cooney was fascinated by birds of prey and the freedom and power they represent. “I would walk around the meadow in Sunriver and lay down and watch them soar over my head,” he recalls. The year he turned 12, Cooney met longtime local naturalist Jim Anderson. “He was so […]
The reason that Sparrow Club USA nonprofit exists, and the reason that 23-year-old Michael Leeland says he is alive today are one in the same—a generous 7th grader named Dameon and a sick baby named Michael. Back in 1992, Dameon helped Michael Leeland’s father Jeff in the adaptive PE class he taught in a suburb […]
We were proud to launch the “Give Guide” last year as an opportunity to introduce local nonprofits to our readers, to highlight the important work they do, and also to encourage you to give money and time to support our community. It was a huge success. And this year, the number of nonprofits involved with […]
Among holiday traditions growing up, each December my mom would gather all the solicitations she had received from the previous 11 months from various nonprofits, from the mega-national organizations like the Red Cross to the local nonprofits that were staffed by volunteers and run out of some board member’s kitchen. She would pile all the […]
Source Weekly: What is your background? How did you come to the Boys & Girls Club? Derek Beauvais: I started at the Boys & Girls Club in 2000 as a Club kid. As a member I would spend a couple nights a week at the Club playing basketball. Club staff later reeled me in as […]
It’s buzzing inside the Cascade School of Music building on Monday afternoon. The pitter-patter of feet up and down the narrow hallways, the din of a dozen practice rooms, some with one-on-one lessons, some with groups of three to six students hammering away on keyboards, bowing violins or crashing sticks on symbols. When I sit […]
Brad Chalfant moved to Central Oregon for the same reasons many young, outdoor enthusiasts do—to be a ski bum. And, for the past two decades, he has been trying to preserve the natural charms that first attracted him here—not to mention, actually expanding the number and acreage of such areas. When Chalfant first moved to […]
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