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Women of the Year 2021 ▶ [With Video]

Stories of women doing great things—and that includes our Woman of the Year, Community Hero, Young Hero and more. Meet these incredible change-makers in Central Oregon
by The Source Staff

A note from our editor: Last year, the Source Weekly—which has long had a Women’s Issue coinciding with International Women’s Day—joined forces with the Bend Chamber’s Women of the Year awards, for one giant event. Quite literally the night of the awards banquet, I arrived a little late due to the fact that I’d written […]

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Letters to the Editor

The Source Staff

Wildfire Recent legislation and commentary from political figures Rep. Greg Walden appear to support more logging/thinning as a panacea for wildfire and forest health. It reminds me of the same approach that Medieval doctors took to illness. If a patient was sick, the solution was to “bleed” the “bad” blood from the individual. If the […]

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Woman to Woman

Paying it forward with the Source’s Woman of the Year
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

As we outlined in the Opinion piece on page 4 of this issue, the Source’s Woman of the Year in 2019 is Erika McCalpine, a business instructor at OSU-Cascades, who moved to this community in early 2018 from Alabama. Not long after, McCalpine experienced at least one racial incident that left her feeling vulnerable—an incident […]

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Chamber announces nominees for 2018 Women of the Year

Local women nominated for Woman of the Year, Lifetime Achievement and more
Avatar photo Keely Damara

The Bend Chamber of Commerce announced their 2018 nominees for their Women of the Year Awards. On April 5, the Chamber will recognize select Central Oregon women for Woman of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Community Hero and Young Hero (Ages 14-17 and Ages 18-21) and the Lifetime Achievement Award. The nominees for Lifetime […]

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Woman of the Year: Betsy Warriner

From the ashes of Volunteer Connect rises a new phoenix: Volunteer Central Oregon. Here is the woman championing its cause.
Avatar photo Magdalena Bokowa

At first glance, Betsy Warriner is demure, soft spoken and reserved. Her thoughts are well constructed, presented in a calm tone. Meeting with the Source in her home on the banks of Mirror Pond, the woman, her life and her surroundings point to another era – one of service, solitude and simplicity. But there’s something […]

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2016 Woman of the Year: Alice Elshoff

Educator and conservationist protecting Oregon’s natural treasures
Brian Jennings

As co-founder of Friends of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Alice Elshoff’s patience with the armed occupation near Burns unraveled on Jan. 9. She had patiently watched the armed takeover of the 188,000-acre preserve, admitting that she didn’t take it seriously at first. On that early Saturday in January, however, all that changed. She fired […]

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The 2016 Women’s Issue

Women in their own words
The Source Staff

This year, the Source staff submitted nominations for the publication's Woman of the Year, searching for role models in the Central Oregon community who are exceptional in professional, civic and personal endeavors. What we found, is that there are many women in our community who fit this description today going beyond it with visionary ideas […]

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Power to the People

COCC president Dr. Shirley Metcalf serves as a role model for women and minorities
Avatar photo Erin Rook

If Dr. Shirley Metcalf had led with her personal motto—”it’s all about the people,” a turn of phrase by way of former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s book It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership—it might have come off as a shtick. Instead, Dr. Metcalf, the fifth president of Central Oregon Community College […]

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