Homelessness
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Can’t Camp Here

Bend City Council adopts a policy for the removal of houseless camps on public right of ways. With shelters at capacity, where will they go?
Avatar photo by Jack Harvel

The Bend City Council unanimously approved a new policy on campsite removals for camps in City right of ways at its meeting June 2. The Council tailored the conversation to one of the City’s most visible camps, on Emerson Avenue. On Monday social service providers received the notice to engage with camp residents to prepare […]

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Year-Round Shelter Opens

Seventy individuals can find shelter at a converted warming shelter with new City and non-profit funding
Avatar photo by Jack Harvel

Shepard’s House is receiving funding from NeighborImpact and the City of Bend to convert its warming center into a full year-round shelter. The location at 275 NE Second Street will open on June 1 and have the capacity to house 70 individuals. It will run seven days a week from 6 pm-7am and will be a […]

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Letters to the Editor

Guest Opinion: Restoring Salmon
The Source Staff

Guest Opinion: Restoring Salmon A recent guest opinion told Source readers we should consider “feasible alternatives” for salmon reintroduction above the Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Project—the facility Portland General Electric and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs co-own and operate near Madras. But the alternative suggested would not meet the goals of the reintroduction project: […]

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Transit Station Rankles Neighbors

Neighborhood group says they’ve seen little progress on crime, safety and traffic flow generated by the Hawthorne Avenue Station
Chris Miller

Members of the business community and people who live around Cascades East Transit’s Hawthorne Avenue Station voiced their displeasure to the Bend City Council on May 1 about problems they feel aren’t being addressed at Hawthorn Avenue bus station just east of Third Street in Bend. People spoke about crime, transients, buses blocking driveways and […]

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Families First

Bethlehem Inn provides crucial services for the community in its new building
Jaclyn Brandt

Known as one of the few homeless shelters in Bend, The Bethlehem Inn has become a pivotal place to help families get back on their feet. The Bethlehem Inn began their Transforming Lives Together fundraising campaign only a few years ago, but since then they have raised more than $8.3 million. The money has gone […]

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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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Measure 102: Vote Yes

Removes restriction for govt. affordable housing projects
The Source Staff

It’s no secret that many Oregonians are struggling with being able to afford housing. While housing costs have skyrocketed in recent years, wages have not kept pace, forcing people to spend a larger share of their income on housing. In the interest of curbing homelessness and improving outcomes for our most vulnerable people, Oregonians should […]

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