Attention handymen and handywomen.
The Bend Community Center is looking for volunteers to help with a chicken coop and greenhouse raising project this weekend, which also happens to be Earth Day.
If you're into taking an easy winter mountain bike ride, seize the moment and head out to the Maston Allotment where the riding of late has been excellent. Get out there soon as the continued dry weather and winds are already starting to turn some sections of the trail from hardpack into loose sand.
When I recently blogged about the cyclocross nationals, a reader posted a response adding something to the affect that why haven’t people considered using the roads alongside the various canals as possible bike passageways. That idea drew other positive responses including one from Bend City Councilor Jody Barram praising the idea and also questioning why nobody had done anything about it.
Attempting to catalog the events of 2012 thus far proves to be somewhat of a challenge.
Women and children experiencing domestic or sexual assault related violence will soon have a new place to get help.
It’s called the Bend Crisis Center and Saving Grace, Central Oregon’s primary resource for people experiencing such violence, will open the location in the coming weeks.
Another casualty of the troubled journalism industry announced defeat today. Oregon Capitol News, an online news site devoted to political and investigative reporting in Salem, said today that it will shut down immediately, according to a news release.
Holy S are things happening with restaurants downtown! Sit down, ‘cause you’re going to need to focus for all this.
First, Tart will close its doors this weekend on the corner of Bond Street and Minnesota Avenue.
Barrio Restaurant and Tapas Bar opened for lunch today to a crowd of folks happy to try new things or get their fix of old faves from the restaurant’s precursors, food carts El Sancho and Soupcon, which used to sit on the corner next to Blacksmith Restaurant.
The owners of the carts, Steven Draheim and Joel Cordes, both classically trained chefs from Bend, are focusing their Spanish-based menu on tapas, or small plates that are to be enjoyed with friends along with beverages, generally of the alcoholic variety.
For those of you not keeping score, South Korea has an amazing track record for making not just good movies, but excellent ones. Actually, they might have the strongest output of any other country in the world right now, including the USA.
A roadblock was thrown in the path of the bankruptcy proceedings of founder and manager of the Blacksmith Restaurant, Gavin McMichael, earlier this week when one of his creditors objected to the bankruptcy.
James Orsillo, owner of Amalia’s restaurant in downtown Bend, claims he loaned McMichael money for his restaurants, including the Blacksmith, Bourbon Street and Gatsby’s, based on McMichael’s representations of the financial health of the restaurants that were not accurate, according to an objection filed by Orsillo earlier this week.
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