When Karli Foster walks into Townshend’s Tea House for her interview with the Source, she is dressed in the uniform of one of the front counter employees of Cafe Yumm. Since she is the co-owner of the Bend Yumm, one would think she would be in civilian clothes, but Foster doesn’t work that way. “I […]
Women’s Issue 2014
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Not Your Stereotypical Gun-toting Grannie
Helen On Wheels rolls deep
The first three plays written by Cricket Daniel evoke a feeling more than they inspire emotion. The feeling of watching an 8-10 pm sitcom block with family, sprawled out on the couch, after a giant dinner. Her characters are archetypical with flashes of heart, but mostly serve as joke delivery machines and to accentuate the […]
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Women’s Issue 2014
What does it mean to be the Source Weekly’s Woman of the Year?
Considering qualities like impact and inspiration, the Source asks our advisory committee what it means to be the Woman of the Year—in this particular year, and in this particular place. The 2014 advisory committee was: Jodie Barram City of Bend Councilor Cassondra Schindler Communication Strategist Becky Johnson Vice-President, OSU-Cascade Amanda Stuermer Founder at World MUSE […]
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A Peek Into Our Thought Process
Community input and advisory commitee suggestions help us pick our Woman of the Year
On the very same morning in early March that four prominent local women—a college vice-president, a city councilmember, a community organizer, and a youth advocate—gathered in the offices at the Source, President Barack Obama convened a roundtable with elected women representatives—senators and congressional representatives from California to Florida. Our meeting was an advisory committee; the […]
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Generations of Joy
Bend’s dance matriarch passes the torch
When Carolyn Brant moved to Bend in 1974, it was a sleepy town half the size it is today. There was no Arts and Culture Alliance, no Deschutes Brewery, and Mt. Bachelor didn’t even have a summit chairlift. ”You couldn’t find a dance event to go to,” Brandt recalls. “It just didn’t exist.” To that working […]
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Creating Change
Young activist takes a stand for fairness
For Moey Newbold, activism is a family tradition. The 24-year-old Outreach & Communications Coordinator for Central Oregon LandWatch says she learned from a young age the importance of basic fairness as she watched her family members engage in the political process, and heard them talk about the work being done by her now-boss Paul Dewey, […]
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Keep on Rolling
Designer turns challenges into opportunities
Like most college students, Colleen Dougherty did not think much about the ability to put one foot in front of the other, or the basic mobility that youth provides to jump and hop around; that is, until a car accident resulted in severe nerve damage and mobility limitations. After having her life physically altered, Dougherty, […]