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Editor’s note: Joshua Langlais is a local photographer and the creator of A Community Thread, a project for which he interviews folks on the subject of community, its importance and how we function as individuals within it. This is an excerpt from his interview with Ashlee Davis in May. Ashlee is a middle school counselor […]
After 40 years of serving the public through the National Forest Service, John Allen, Deschutes National Forest supervisor since 2007, retired June 21. Allen said he started as a summer seasonal employee when he was in college at the University of California, Berkeley. After getting his degree in forest management, Allen said he worked for […]
Joshua Langlais is a local photographer and the creator of A Community Thread, a project for which he interviews folks on the subject of community, its importance, and how we function as individuals within it. This is an excerpt from his interview with Erika Spaet, a Lutheran pastor coordinating and curating Storydwelling (bendstorydwelling.org), an emerging […]
Bend is growing exponentially in population, and while Deschutes County may be more urban than surrounding areas, Central Oregon is still predominantly rural—and lacking in some of the services afforded to bigger metro areas. While some may lament the lack of dependable public transit, or lack of affordable housing in relation to the job market, […]
A Community Thread: What does community mean to you? Dan McGarigle: Long story short, where we—especially these days—we follow headlines, we turn on the news, we’re bombarded by media from all over the world. I don’t believe that those things actually affect us as much as the community around us—how we engage it, how it […]
A Community Thread: What concerns you or gives you pause? What gives you a heavy heart? Jesse Locke: I would say people who don’t look outside themselves. I feel like I’m a searcher and I surround myself with people like that. What concerns me is bullshit and small talk. Those things—I have no real place […]
Joshua Langlais is a local photographer and the creator of A Community Thread, a project for which he interviews folks on the subject of community, its importance and how we function as individuals within it. This is an excerpt from his interview with Shimiko Montgomery from March of 2018. Shimiko, like many of us, has […]
Tod Heisler might as well have river water running through his veins. He was recently hired as the director of the Rivers Conservation Program within Central Oregon LandWatch, and before that he led the Deschutes River Conservancy for 15 years. His 30 years of conservation experience began with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., […]
Editor’s note: Joshua Langlais is a local photographer and the creator of “A Community Thread,” a project for which he interviews folks on the subject of community, its importance, and how we function as individuals within it. We featured Langlais’ journey to this project in the Dec. 20 issue—quickly realizing the project would be great […]
Volunteering or giving back to the community can feel good—but involves enough barriers that for a lot of people, it doesn’t happen very often. Rys Fairbrother is trying to make the process easier for people Central Oregon through his organization, What If We Could. His one-man operation partners with nonprofits in Central Oregon to help […]
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