One sunny summer morning not long ago, I marched across a dusty front yard in midtown Bend with a $45 rental application fee in hand. This wasn’t exactly the house I’d dreamed of living in when I knew I was moving to Bend, but it was adequate—and available, and I was going to lay down […]
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Dr. Art Markman: How to Instill Smart Habits and Make Changes that Stick
Amy Alkon HumanLab—The Science Between Us, a weekly show with the luminaries of behavioral science. Great aspirations…sucky follow-through. This describes life for a lot of us—sometimes, despite our best intentions. Best-selling author and psychologist Art Markman is going to help us out of this rut. His book we’ll be discussing on this show is Smart […]
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Bend Park and Recreation District board approves reopening of passageway at Bend Whitewater Park
Operational and education improvements have been made; design evaluation underway
Bend, Ore. – The Bend Park and Recreation District Board of Directors voted to approve a plan to reopen the passageway channel at the Bend Whitewater Park. The vote occurred at the public meeting on July 19. District staff presented information about the evaluations done after the recent closure, and recommended that the passageway channel […]
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Go Here 7/20-7/27
Prineville Bike Park Kick up the dirt in Prineville! After a combined three years of planning and construction, Prineville Bike Park officially opened this past Saturday, July 16. The bike park is the first of its kind in Central Oregon and was designed to be versatile for all types of bikes and all skill levels. […]
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When is a Park not a Park?
For the citizens of Bend, Troy Field has become a de-facto park. Soccer teams practice there, local residents exercise their dogs there, and community members gather there for picnics and potlucks. It is a major urban open space in downtown Bend and for children who live nearby, the only place to run and play that […]
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Sides Notes 7/20-7/27
We’re Number 16! Bend is accustomed to making all kinds of “Best Place To” lists: best place to retire, drink craft beer, play golf, play outside, or just plain live. But our little drinking town with a mountain problem didn’t even make the top 10 list of the Most Successful Cities in Oregon. Online career-finding […]
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Giving Back by Paying it Forward
Local teen traveling to Trinidad and Tobago with Bend Area Habitat for Humanity
Ten years ago, Kaci Jo Alderin’s family was able to purchase a home with assistance from Bend Area Habitat for Humanity. Now she is raising money so she can travel to Trinidad & Tobago this fall to help another family achieve the same goal. When Sophie Paez, ReStore executive director and a friend, first suggested […]
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The Plight of the Western Pond Turtle
In this helter-skelter age it comes as a shock (to me) when suddenly someone says, “Hey, when was the last time you saw, this—or that—animal?” And that was the case when my herpetologist pal, Jesse Short from Central Oregon Community College, sent me photos of a western pond turtle, all excited about spotting it on […]
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Letters 7/20-7/27
Vote This Way As a native Oregonian, I’ve always known that the Bend community was a dynamic, sun-filled recreational community as well as a growing economic environment. On a recent vacation, we explored the Lava Cave, walked the Lava Cast Forest loop, floated the river and played golf at nine different courses. We were blown […]
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Too Many Tourists?
Bend grapples with the seasonal influx of visitors
When Katy Bryce sat down on the front porch of her west side Bend home last month to write a blog post, she didn’t know that she was about to voice the frustrations of thousands of local residents. Bryce, a freelance writer, wrote about walking along the Deschutes River that morning, about how she’d found […]
