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A few hours before this issue was headed to press, we got the word that Deschutes County would be experiencing something of a backslide in its reopening. The county moves from Moderate Risk back to High Risk— which allows only 25% occupancy in restaurants and other public spaces—as of Friday, April 9. Crook and Jefferson counties, meanwhile, remain in the Lower Risk category.

What will that mean for venues and other places that were hoping to move forward, not backward? That’s the big question, and one we’ll try to answer in our digital version, the Cascades Reader, which comes to readers every morning, bright and early. For now, enjoy this print edition, filled with plenty of news, entertainment and an events calendar that remains a moving target, every day that this pandemic wears on. Have a great week, Central Oregon!

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We’ve All Sacrificed. Now’s the Time to Set a Course for Oregon’s Live-Event Industry.

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hen people think of Oregon, among the first things that come to mind—along with our mountains, waters and trees—is the cultural wealth our state provides. From festivals such as Oregon Shakespeare in Ashland, to Pickathon near Portland, to concert venues such as McMenamins’ Edgefield in Troutdale, or the Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend, chances are, as an Oregonian, you’ve traveled to one of these landmark venues and have made lasting memories.

During an isolating year when many of us have described ourselves as being lanky saplings in need of a good dose of water, it is the memory of better days ahead that have kept us going. Our local, state and federal governments have asked us to stay home, wear masks and even shutter some of our businesses, all for the promise of those better days to come.

Recently, we’ve also, in large numbers, signed on to get a vaccine that didn’t even exist a year ago.

By and large, most of us have complied, thinking that if we do all of those things, we’ll prevent our hospitals from becoming overwhelmed, we’ll manage to keep Oregon’s death rate down, and one day soon, we’ll see more normalcy return. Here in Deschutes County, we’ve done that exceptionally well and have exceeded the vaccination rate even of other counties in the state.

All along, authorities have dangled the carrot of ‘better days to come’—of the return of our beloved cultural and social gatherings, of the reunification of families and the restoration of Oregon small business— as the motivation to keep sticking things out. As it stands now, our local hospital is not overwhelmed.

Our death rate has plummeted. Kids are back in school full time, without any massive calamity.

With that in mind, you might imagine the great frustration currently being experienced by Oregon’s liveevent producers, who have to contend not just with the goalpost-moving experienced by the rest of the state, but also, for their industry in particular, having no goalposts at all. At this point, there is no plan forthcoming from the Governor’s office as to when and how live-event productions can resume in Oregon—even as states such as Colorado move forward with concerts at big outdoor venues like Red Rocks, where they’re currently planning for shows for 2,500 or fewer this season. California announced this week it would likely end its restrictions by June 15.

Meanwhile, this past week, liveevent producers met with representatives from Gov. Kate Brown’s office, hoping to work with state leadership to craft a reopening plan for the summer. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated, reopenings run smoother when the industry in question gets to give input.

The group, which included representatives from the Les Schwab Amphitheater and others in Bend, said they were dismayed to find that not only was the governor’s office not interested in working with them, but that there was no reopening strategy yet in place. In a world where everyone is looking at each goalpost in hopes of a future of normalcy, there are no goalposts for that industry.

“Members of the group signed a letter to the Governor advocating for a sensible strategy for reopening prior to the March 31 meeting. The Governor’s team has not responded to this letter, nor was it addressed in the March 31 meeting. Questions submitted by attendees of the meeting addressed the development of benchmarks that can be used to design a path to reopening. Meeting participants were told that there was no strategy, and that the Governor would not be pursuing any input from the industry,” reads a press release from the group.

Members of Oregon’s events industry know—as they mention in their press release—that they would be among the last to reopen. All this year they have known theirs, a “non-essential” industry, would take massive hits, but that by seeing the public follow guidelines, there would one day be an end.

But if they have no idea of how and under what conditions they can reopen, it will undoubtedly lead to fewer people chasing the carrot. In other words, if more of us no longer believe that following guidelines will lead us to the cherished outcome, then it’s highly likely that more of us will stop following guidelines.

Oregon’s live-event producers attended a meeting this month in good faith, ready to work with our state government to chart a path forward for their industry. It is critical for the health of Oregon’s economy for there to be one—and critical for the spiritual health of Oregon’s people to know that that path will someday lead back to the gatherings which make life worth living.

The Source Weekly’s sister company, Lay It Out Events, is also a liveevent producer.

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Letter of the week receives $5 to Palate! protective and safety gear from COVID and chemicals in fields and factories.

Change the Fair Labor Standards Act to include farm and field workers with overtime, living wages and safe working conditions.

Entitle all people to health services, education, unemployment, the right to unionize and social security.

Grant migrants, irrespective of race, color, ethnicity or place of birth, the right to be included in this country as decent human beings.

This is my plan for decency and humanity. This is not who we are but it is who we could become.

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RE: KEEPING THE HOME FIRES BURNING, NEWS, 1/22/20 I want to congratulate Laura Brauns on the superb article “Keeping the Home Fires Burning.” This is the sort of comprehensive investigative reporting that The Bulletin abandoned a long time ago.

I wrote a proposed tree protection code for Bend, which has not been well received by the city staff. It frustrates me that Bend is attempting to address the housing shortage by feeble measures such as eliminating the requirements for off-street parking, cutting trees, eliminating the requirements for green space. We need much stronger solutions to the problem, and I don’t see them coming from the city council.

You indicated in the article that you would have a subsequent one on vacation home rentals. Have you published it? (I apologize if I missed it, only started subscribing a few months ago). I contacted the city several months ago to get a comprehensive list of VHRs, was told they didn’t have an exact number!

Bend has an entrenched bureaucracy that resists any serious changes. For example, several months ago I was listening to the NLA meeting and someone from the

city was asked about the effect of short term rentals on our housing problem. She said that the staff had done a “study” which showed that they didn’t make a difference, because if these units had been on the market for rent or sale as housing, they would have so increased in value that being part of Bend’s housing inventory would not have made a difference.

I contacted her to get a copy of the study. She told me that it wasn’t really a comprehensive study, that some of the staff had just looked at the issue.

—Karon Johnson

LIFE VISIBLE ON THE HORIZON This past fall, I became one of the thousands of Deschutes County residents to contract the coronavirus.

Thankfully, I fully recovered. However, it was a thoroughly sickening and unpleasant experience for my 25-year-old self.

Feeling what this disease can do gave me a new respect and sympathy for the severe pain and suffering being felt by thousands of fellow Oregonians and millions of Americans. It also made me hopeful and anxious for the arrival of a vaccine that would protect vulnerable groups, and ultimately everyone.

Now I have heard the skepticism of many towards vaccines, and I’ll admit that vaccines are not perfect. There is a potential for uncomfortable, or even more severe side effects in a sliver of the population. But when it comes to vaccines, it’s all about balancing risk and benefit. In the

case of COVID-19, it’s unquestionable: the risks of the vaccine are absolutely dwarfed by the severity and potential harm that this disease inflicts upon people.

Months after being sick, I am heartened to see the federal government, states, private enterprise and the healthcare system churning away full throttle to help bring an end to this pandemic.

The dedication of manufacturers, doctors, pharmacists, healthcare distributors and other personnel is laudable and deserving of our thanks and praise.

Healthcare distributors, in particular, are playing such an important role to coordinate the delivery of all medical supplies and vaccines across the country, helping doctors, pharmacists and nurses to administer them into our arms as quickly as possible.

A return to pre-pandemic life is visible on the horizon, and I encourage everyone, especially the most vulnerable, who are willing and able, to get vaccinated when they are eligible.

—Matt Carlson

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My plan for migration is the ultimate in simplicity: Focus on humanity not exclusion and enforcement.

Reunite families.

Discontinue deportation.

Eliminate ICE, Border Patrol, Homeland Security.

Employ employees from those federal agencies to build and repair infrastructure and schools, work on environmental projects including water, air, soil, fisheries and habitat.

Honor government contracts only if corporations agree to dismantle the wall, clean up the environmental devastation they have created and pay reparations to migrants for their suffering.

Eliminate privatized prisons, internment camps, cages for babies.

Arrest border vigilantes for their crimes against migrants.

End the failed, racist war on drugs.

Welcome migrants who have been impacted by devastating trade policies, exploitation of workers and resources in their countries by USA corporate greed and control.

Re-negotiate the agreements with Central American countries to allow safe third country migrant passage.

Honor national and international laws for migrants seeking asylum.

Streamline the citizenship application process.

Eliminate laws punishing undocumented migrants for working to survive.

Grant citizenship to migrants brought into this country as children.

Release all migrants incarcerated for not being white.

Arrest employers for withholding wages, providing dangerous living and working conditions, threatening and assaulting workers and failing to provide

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Deschutes County expands eligibility requirements and speeds ahead with vaccinations, while Oregon still lags behind other states

By Hanna Merzbach

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n April 5, frontline workers and their families, people over 16 with underlying health conditions and people living in multigenerational homes become eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Oregon. Deschutes County was one of 23 counties, including Crook and Jefferson, that expanded eligible groups ahead of the state.

After gaining approval from the Oregon Health Authority, St. Charles Health System began sending invitations on March 31 to newly eligible Central Oregonians who pre-registered at centraloregoncovidvaccine.com. Last week, 3,000 members of this group—deemed “Phase 1B Group 7” in the state’s vaccine rollout—received their first shot at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center.

In order to start vaccinating this group early, counties had to have available appointment slots and have made sufficient attempts to invite already eligible groups to get the vaccine. According to Morgan Emerson, a Deschutes County spokesperson, the county had sent invitations to all 8,844 people who were pre-registered from the previous group, Phase 1B Group 6. When they still had available appointment slots, they expanded to vaccinate Group 7.

“We’d felt we’d done quite a bit of communication out to our community, encouraging people to pre-register over the past two weeks, to make sure that everyone who is interested is able to have that opportunity,” Emerson said.

Group 6 became eligible for the vaccine in Deschutes County March 22, a week before they were eligible statewide.

This group includes adults ages 45 to 64 with underlying health conditions, individuals experiencing houselessness, people living in low-income senior housing, pregnant people over 16 and some frontline workers, including migrant and seasonal farm workers, wildland firefighters and food processing workers.

Now, all frontline workers, defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are eligible to get the vaccine, along with any family members living in the same household. The state also expanded what is considered an underlying condition, in line with CDC recommendations, including current and former smokers, people who are overweight instead of obese and Type 1 diabetics.

Central Oregon will still prioritize giving vaccines to previous groups if they pre-register online. Emerson said, for example, if an 80-year-old registers, they will be prioritized over frontline workers.

“It’s been an effective way to make sure that community members have an easy place to go and aren’t needing to scramble to grab a spot online at a

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certain time,” she said.

Deschutes is one of at least 10 Oregon counties that exceeded the statewide average of more than seven in 10 seniors vaccinated, said Oregon Health Authority Director Pat Allen at an April 2 press conference. As of March 31, 82% of county residents over 65 had received at least their first dose, and a total of 55,880 county residents had received at least one shot.

Oregon’s vaccination strategy As of press time, Oregon had vaccinated over 1.25 million people, ranking 33rd in the country in the percentage of the population that has received at least one shot (31%). This is a percentage point behind the national average. Both California and Washington rank above Oregon, giving at least one dose to 34% and 32% of the population, respectively.

Oregon officials have attributed the shortcoming to inequities in the vaccine allocation process. According to Oregonian/Oregon Live reporting, Allen directed the governor’s office on March 28 to “start raising a ruckus” over the apparent inequities. Officials subsequently contacted the CDC and the Biden administration to get a better understanding about why Oregon’s doses per capita seem to be falling short, but have yet to release more information.

“Oregonians should know that we will move heaven and earth to make sure that we are getting our fair share,” Gov. Kate Brown said at last week’s press conference.

All Oregonians 16 and over will be eligible for the vaccine statewide starting April 19, Gov. Kate Brown announced on April 6.

Allen of OHA explained that since 15 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine were spoiled at a manufacturing plant last week, Oregon’s allocations have suffered. The state had expected to receive about 100,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccines per week in April, but with this disruption, Oregon may not start receiving those doses until May. “We may need to temper our hopes of having enough doses to vaccinate all Oregonians over 16 by late May and bump that expectation back a couple of weeks,” Allen said.

Both California and Washington recently moved up their timelines so all residents 16 and over become eligible on April 15, four days ahead of Oregon. In Idaho, the general population became eligible on April 5. Brown explained that Oregon is waiting longer to make vaccines available for the general population in order to first prioritize vulnerable groups and center equity in the state’s vaccine strategy. The state is relying on

Luke Foster gets the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center on April 2. As of April 5, over 62,000 shots had been administered at that location, county officials said.

work by its COVID Vaccine Advisory Committee, which advised OHA on its vaccine sequencing plans and aimed to ensure the communities most affected by COVID are included.

“We know that communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic,” Brown told reporters. “(Group 7) is more diverse, and we want to make sure that these vulnerable Oregonians get access to the vaccinations and are prioritized in our vaccination strategy because they’re more vulnerable to the disease.”

The push for vaccine equity So far, the state has failed to proportionately vaccinate Latino Oregonians in particular, compared to white residents. Six percent of the state’s shots have gone to the Latino population, which makes up 13% of the population and over 25% of COVID cases statewide.

This is an improvement from March 10, when only 4% of the state’s shots had gone to Latino communities.

Oregon health officials hope to combat these inequities through federally qualified health centers, often connected with communities of color. On March 5, the state granted these health centers the flexibility to vaccinate all of their patients, regardless of age.

One of these health centers, Mosaic Medical, serves patients across Central Oregon and has gone beyond state eligibility requirements to vaccinate people with limited English proficiency, people who are low income and people identifying as a member of a minority population. Their vaccine supply is

limited to a couple hundred doses a week, so only their patients and people signed up through partner organizations are given slots.

But they could see more doses soon.

As a part of the federal government’s equity strategy, Mosaic Medical was invited to receive more shots and is set to receive over $4 million from the recently passed American Rescue Plan to support vaccination efforts.

“It’s a very specific, targeted effort at people of color, and most people of color in Central Oregon are Latino immigrants,” said Brad Porterfield, executive director of the Latino Community Association, one of Mosaic’s partners.

Porterfield attributes the low vaccination rates among Latinos to the age requirements in the first eligible groups, with the majority of Latinos tending to be younger in Central Oregon and nationwide. He said with fewer age restrictions and more targeted outreach efforts, he hopes vaccination rates among Latinos will continue to rise.

Central Oregonians can pre-register to get the vaccine at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center in both English and Spanish. Spanish interpreters are available on site, and remote interpreters are provided virtually for all other languages.

How to get the vaccine Find out if you’re eligible at getvaccinated.oregon.gov Pre-register at centraloregoncovidvaccine.com Find pharmacy appointments at vaccinefinder.org

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Noticias en Español El Condado de Deschutes amplía los requisitos de elegibilidad y apresura las vacunaciones mientras que Oregon todavía se encuentra por detrás de otros estados Por Hanna Merzbach Traducido por Jéssica Sánchez-Millar grupo incluye a adultos de 45 a 64 años de edad con condiciones de salud preexistentes, personas desamparadas, personas que viven en viviendas para personas de la tercera edad de bajos ingresos, personas embarazadas mayores de 16 años y algunos trabajadores de primera línea, incluyendo a trabajadores agrícolas migrantes y de temporada, bomberos que combaten los incendios forestales y trabajadores de la elaboración de alimentos.

Ahora, todos los trabajadores de primera línea, definidos por los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC por sus siglas en inglés), son elegibles para recibir la vacuna, junto con cualquier familiar que viva en el mismo hogar. El estado también amplio lo que se considera una condición preexistente, de acuerdo con las recomendaciones de la CDC, incluyendo a las personas que fuman o que fumaban antes, personas con sobrepeso en lugar de obesas y personas diabéticas que sufren Diabetes Tipo 1.

El Condado de Deschutes es uno de por lo menos 10 condados en Oregon que excede el promedio a nivel estatal de tener más de 7 de cada 10 personas de la tercera

edad ya vacunados, dijo el Director de las Autoridades de Salud de Oregon, Pat Allen, durante una conferencia de prensa el 2 de abril. Al 31 de marzo, 82% de los residentes del condado mayores de 65 años habían recibido por lo menos su primer dosis y un total de 55,880 residentes del condado habían recibido por lo menos una vacuna.

El esfuerzo para la equidad Hasta ahora, el estado no ha vacunado de manera proporcionada a los habitantes Latinos de Oregon específicamente, comparado con los habitantes de raza blanca.

El seis por ciento de las vacunas del estado han sido para la población Latina, lo cual constituye el 13% de la población y más del 25% de casos de COVID en todo el estado. Esta es una mejora con lo que respecta al 10 de marzo, cuando solo el 4% de las vacunas del estado habían sido dirigidas a las comunidades Latinas.

Funcionarios de Salud de Oregon esperan combatir estas desigualdades a tráves de centros de salud calificados a nivel federal, a menudo vinculados con comunidades de color. El 5 de marzo, el estado concedió a estos centros de salud

la flexibilidad de vacunar a todos sus pacientes, sin importar su edad.

Uno de estos centros de salud, Mosaic Medical, atiende a pacientes a lo largo de la zona centro de Oregon y ha ido más allá de los requisitos estatales de elegibilidad para vacunar a las personas con dominio limitado del idioma inglés, personas de bajos ingresos y personas identificadas como miembros de una población minoritaria.

Su abastecimiento de vacunas está limitado a unas doscientas vacunas por semana, así que solo sus pacientes y personas registradas por medio de organizaciones asociadas se les otorga espacio.

Pero pronto pueden tener más dosis.

Como parte de la estrategia de equidad del gobierno federal, Mosaic Medical fue invitada para recibir más vacunas y está programada para recibir más de $4 millones de parte del Plan de Rescate Estadounidense, recientemente aprobado para apoyar los esfuerzos de vacunación.

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l 5 de abril, los trabajadores de primera línea y sus familias, personas mayores de 16 años con condiciones de salud preexistentes y personas que viven en hogares multigeneracionales serán elegibles para recibir la vacuna contra la COVID-19 en Oregon. El Condado de Deschutes fue uno de 23 condados, incluyendo los condados de Crook y Jefferson que ampliaron la elegibilidad de grupos con antelación del estado.

Después de adquirir la aprobación de parte de la Autoridad de Salud de Oregon, St. Charles Health System, comenzó a enviar invitaciones el 31 de marzo a los habitantes de la zona centro de Oregon recién elegibles que se registraron previamente por medio de centraloregoncovidvaccine.com. La semana pasada, 3,000 miembros de este grupo - considerados en la “Fase 1B Grupo 7,” en la implantación de vacunas del estado – recibieron su primer vacuna en los terrenos de la feria y expo del Condado de Deschutes.

El Grupo 6 llegó a ser elegible para recibir la vacuna en el Condado de Deschutes el 22 de marzo, una semana antes de que fueran elegibles a nivel estatal. Este

FEATURE Explorer was a secret CIA ship that the agency didn’t want to acknowledge existed). Never one to roll over, Martinez filed a lawsuit against SOCOM and the Defense Department in June 2020.

Just in time for Sunshine Week, Martinez got his records—a single page of a veterinary examination, almost completely redacted except for the dog’s name and the single letter “M” for gender. Conan’s breed and color were even blacked out, despite the fact that photos of the dog had already been tweeted by Trump.

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The Pharaoh Prize for Deadline Extensions: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Illinois

RECOGNIZING THE YEAR’S WORST IN GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY Compiled by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock News Illustrations by Caitlyn Crites

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he day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare: “Biden is making transparency cool again.”

This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates.

Freedom of Information—the concept that government documents belong to and must be accessible to the people— has never not been cool. Using federal and local public records laws, a single individual can uncover everything from war crimes to health code violations at the local taqueria. How awesome is that? If you need more proof: there was an Australian comic book series called “Southern Squadron: Freedom of Information Act”; the classic anime Evangelion has a Freedom of Information Act cameo; and the Leeds-based post-punk Mush received 7.4 stars from Pitchfork for its latest album, “Lines Redacted.”

OK, now that we’ve put that down in writing we realize that the line between “cool” and “nerdy” might be a little blurry. But you know what definitely is not cool? Denying the public’s right to know. In fact, it suuucks.

Since 2015, The Foilies have served as an annual opportunity to name-andshame the uncoolest government agencies and officials who have stood in the

way of public access. We collect the most outrageous and ridiculous stories from around the country from journalists, activists, academics and everyday folk who have filed public records and experienced retaliation, over-redactions, exorbitant fees and other transparency malpractice.

We publish this rogues gallery as a faux awards program during Sunshine Week (March 14-20, 2021), the annual celebration of open government organized by the News Leaders Association.

This year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is publishing The Foilies in partnership with MuckRock News, a nonprofit dedicated to building a community of cool kids that file Freedom of Information Act and local public records requests. For previous year’s dubious winners (many of whom are repeat offenders) check out our archive at eff.org/issues/foilies.

And without further ado…

The Most Secretive Dog’s Bollocks: Conan the Belgian Malinois Back in 2019, what should’ve been a fluff story (or scruff story) about Conan, the Delta Force K9 that was injured while assisting in the raid that took out an Islamic State leader, became yet

another instance of the Trump administration tripping over itself with the facts. Was Conan a very good boy or a very good girl? Various White House and federal officials contradicted themselves, and the mystery remained.

Transparency advocate and journalist Freddy Martinez wouldn’t let the sleeping dog lie; he filed a FOIA request with the U.S. Special Operations Command, a.k.a. SOCOM. But rather than release the records, officials claimed they could “neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records,” the much dreaded “Glomar response” usually reserved for sensitive national security secrets (the USNS Hughes Glomar

With COVID-19 affecting all levels of government operations, many transparency advocates and journalists were willing to accept some delays in responding to public records requests.

However, some government officials were quick to use the pandemic as an excuse to ignore transparency laws altogether. Taking the prize this year is Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, who invoked the Old Testament in an effort to lobby the Illinois attorney general to suspend FOIA deadlines altogether.

“I want to ask the average Chicagoan: Would you like them to do their job or would you like them to be pulled off to do FOIA requests?” Lightfoot said in April 2020, according to the Chicago Tribune, implying that epidemiologists and physicians are also the same people processing public records (they’re not).

She continued: “I think for those people who are scared to death about this virus, who are worried every single day that it’s going to come to their doorstep, and I’m mindful of the fact that we’re in the Pesach season, the angel of death that we all talk about is the Passover story, that angel of death is right here in our midst every single day.”

We’d just note that transparency is crucial to ensuring that the government’s response to COVID is both effective and equitable. And if ancient Egyptians had the power to FOIA the Pharaoh for communications with Moses and Aaron, perhaps they probably would have avoided all 10 plagues—blood, frogs, and all.

The Doxxer Prize: Forensic Examiner Colin Fagan In July 2020, surveillance researcher and Princeton Ph.D. student Shreyas Gandlur sued the Chicago Police Department to get copies of an electronic guide on police technology regularly received via email by law enforcement officers around the country. The author of the guide, Colin Fagan, a retired cop from Oregon, did not agree that the public has a right to know how cops are being trained, and he decided to make it personal. In a final message to his subscribers announcing he was discontinuing the “Law Enforcement Technology Investigations Resource Guide,” Fagan ranted about Gandlur for, “attacking the best efforts of Federal, state, and local law enforcement to use effective

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The Redaction Most Likely to Make Your Bubbe Weep: Federal Aviation Administration When General Atomics proposed flying a new class of drone over the San Diego region to demonstrate its domestic surveillance capabilities, Voice of San Diego Reporter Jesse Marx obviously wanted to learn how it possibly could have been approved. So he filed a FOIA request with the Federal Aviation Administration, and ultimately a lawsuit to liberate documentation.

Among the records he received was an email containing a “little vent” from an FAA worker that began with “Oy vey” and then virtually everything else, including the employee’s four bullet-pointed “genuinely constructive thoughts,” were redacted.

The Government Retribution Award: City of Portland, Oregon People seeking public records all too often have to sue the government to get a response to their records requests. But in an unusual turnaround, when attorney and activist Alan Kessler requested records from the City of Portland related to text messages on government phones, the government retaliated by suing him and demanding that he turn over copies of his own phone messages.

The Most Expensive Cover-Up Award: Small Business Administration In the early weeks of the pandemic, the Small Business Administration awarded millions of dollars to small businesses through new COVID-related relief programs—but didn’t make the names of recipients public. When major news organizations including ProPublica, The Washington Post, and The New York Times filed public records requests to learn exactly where that money had gone, the SBA dragged its feet, and then—after the news organizations sued—tried to withhold the information under FOIA Exemptions 4 and 6, for confidential and private information. A court rejected both claims, and also forced the government to cough up more than $120,000 in fees to the news organizations’ lawyers.

The Secret COVID Statistics Award: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Seeking a better understanding of the toll of COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic, journalists in North Carolina requested copies of death certificates from local county health departments.

Within days, officials from the state Department of Health and Human Services reached out to county offices with guidance not to provide the requested records—without citing any legal justification whatsoever. DHHS did not respond to reporters’ questions about why it issued that guidance or how it was justified.

Some local agencies followed the guidance and withheld records, some responded speedily, and some turned them over begrudgingly—emphasis on the grudge.

“I will be making everyone in Iredell County aware through various means available; that you are wanting all these

When attorney and activist Alan Kessler requested records from the City of Portland related to text messages on government phones, the government retaliated by suing him and demanding that he turn over copies of his own phone messages.

Among other things, the City specifically demanded that Kessler hand over all Signal, WhatsApp, email, and text messages having to do with Portland police violence, the Portland police in general, and the Portland protests.

Runner up: Reporter CJ Ciaramella requested records from the Washington State Department of Corrections about Michael Forest Reinoehl, who was killed by a joint U.S. Marshals task force. The Washington DOC apparently planned to produce the records – but before it could, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Department sued Ciaramella and the agency to stop the records from being disclosed.

death records with their loved ones private information!” one county official wrote to The News and Observer reporters in an email. “As an elected official, it is relevant the public be aware of how you are trying to bully the county into just giving you info from private citizens because you think you deserve it.”

The It’s So Secret, Even the Bullet Points Are Classified Award: Minnesota Fusion Center Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are always overzealous in claims that disclosing information will

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harm national security. But officials with the Minnesota Fusion Center took this paranoia to new heights when they claimed a state law protecting “security information” required them to redact everything— including bullet points—in documents they provided to journalist Ken Klippenstein.

And we quite literally mean the bullets themselves.

Fusion centers are part of a controversial program coordinated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to facilitate the flow of homeland security intelligence among agencies. Each fusion center is maintained by a state or regional agency; in this case, the Minnesota Bureau So top secret that even the bullet points were redacted. of Criminal Apprehension.

Klippenstein tweeted that the agency wouldn’t provide document majors become colonels.” titles or any other information, all the The Centers for Disease Control and while adding the dreaded black redac- Prevention seems to love to juke its FOIA tion bars to bulleted lists throughout stats. As the nonprofit advocacy organithe records. But if officials redacted zation American Oversight alleged in a the bullet points in earnest, we wonder: lawsuit last year, the CDC has been syswhat is the security risk if the public tematically rejecting FOIA requests by learns whether Minnesota homeland claiming they are overly broad or bursecurity officials use the default bul- densome, despite years of court decilet points or some more exotic style or sions requiring agencies to work in good font? Will the terrorists win if we know faith with requesters to try to help them they used Wingdings? find records or narrow their request. The CDC then categorizes those supposedly The Cat Face Filter Award: overbroad requests as “withdrawn” by Federal Bureau of Prisons the requester and closes the file without having to provide any records. So those Kids these days—overlaying cat faces FOIAs disappear, much like the violent on their videos and showing the Bereau crime reports in “The Wire.” of Prisons how it should redact media The CDC’s annual FOIA reports show sought by FOIA requesters. That was that the agency’s two-step juke move is the message from an incredulous feder- a favorite. According to American Overal appeals court in March 2020 after the sight, between 2016 and 2019, CDC BOP claimed it lacked the ability to blur closed between 21 to 31% of all FOIA out or otherwise redact faces (such as requests it received as “withdrawn.” those of prisoners and guards) from sur- CDC’s closure rate during that period veillance videos sought through FOIA was roughly three times that of its parby an inmate who was stabbed with a ent agency, the Department of Health screwdriver in a prison dining hall. and Human Services, which on average The court wrote: “The same teenag- only closed 6 to 10% of its FOIAs as withers who regale each other with screen- drawn. After American Oversight sued, shots are commonly known to revise the CDC began releasing documents. those missives by such techniques as inserting cat faces over the visages of The Save the Children (in a Hidden humans.” The judge made clear that Folder) Award: although “we do not necessarily advo- Louisville Metropolitan Police cate that specific technique,” the BOP’s Department, Kentucky learned helplessness to redact video footage is completely .

The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department’s Explorer Scouts proThe Juking the FOIA Stats Award: gram was supposed to give teenagers a Centers for Disease Control chance to learn more about careers in law enforcement. For two LMPD officers, “The Wire,” the classic HBO police though, it became an opportunity for drama, laid bare how police depart- sexual abuse. When reporters asked for ments across the country manipulate more information on the perpetrators, data to present trends about crime the city chose to respond with further being down. As ex-detective Roland absurdity—by destroying its records. The Pryzbylewski put it: “Juking the stats ... case against the city and the Boy Scouts Making robberies into larcenies. Making of America is scheduled to begin in April. rapes disappear. You juke the stats, and Continued on p. 11

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legal processes to save innocent victims of horrible crimes and hold their perpetrators accountable.”

Fagan included a photo of Gandlur, his email addresses, and urged his readers to recruit crime victims to contact him, “and let him know how he could better apply his talents”—one of the most blatant cases of retaliation we’ve seen in the history of the Foilies. Fagan has since rebounded, turning his email newsletter into a “law enforcement restricted site.”

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The Eric Cartman Respect My Authoritah Award: Haskell Indian Nations University, Kansas When Jared Nally, editor-in-chief of The Indian Leader, the student newspaper at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, started putting questions to his school’s administration and sending records requests to the local police department, he got a lot more than he expected: A directive from his school’s president demanding he cease his requests in the name of the student paper and henceforth treat officials with proper respect, lest he face disciplinary action.

“Your behavior has discredited you and this university,” Haskell Indian Nations University President Ronald Graham wrote. “You have compromised your credibility within the community and, more importantly, you have brought yourself, The Indian Leader, Haskell, and me unwarranted attention.”

Graham’s aggressive tactics against the college junior quickly rallied support for the student journalist, with the Native American Journalists Association, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and Student Press Law Center all calling for the formal directive to be rescinded.

The school ultimately did back down, but the efforts left Nally shocked.

“As a student journalist, I’d only been doing it for a year,” he told Poynter in an interview. “When somebody in authority says things like that about you, it really does take a hit. … I’d say I’m recovering from the gaslighting effects, and feeling like what I’m doing really is every bit a part of journalism.”

The Power of the Tweet Award: Donald J. Trump Secrecy nerds know that classification authority—the power to essentially mark some documents as secrets

"No redactions?!" He's not serious, folks. There will be redactions.

exempt from disclosure—resides with and is largely at the discretion of the president, who can then designate that authority as needed to agency personnel. So one expected upside of a looselipped president with an undisciplined social media habit was the ability to use the Tweeter-in-Chief’s posts to target otherwise inaccessible FOIA requests.

Case in point: Trump’s Oct. 7, 2020, tweet: “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!” Hard to argue there’s ambiguity there. But when BuzzFeed News’ Jason Leopold flagged that order in his ongoing lawsuit for the materials, that’s exactly what the Department of Justice did. Based on their investigations, DOJ lawyers told the court, the posts “were not self-executing declassification orders and do not require the declassification of any particular documents.”

The court ultimately bought the argument that you can’t take what the then-president tweets too seriously, but Trump declassified other materials related to the FBI’s investigation... on his last day in office.

The 30 Days of Night Award: Hamilton County, Tennessee It’s hard to imagine a more benign request than asking for copies of other public records requests, but that’s exactly what got Hamilton County officials in Tennessee so spooked they started a mass purge of documents. The shred-a-thon started after Chattanooga Times Free Press reporter Sarah Grace Taylor requested to examine the requests to see if the county’s policies for releasing materials were arbitrary. Originally, the county asked for $717 for about 1,500 pages of records, which Taylor declined to pay in favor of inspecting the records herself.

But as negotiations to view the records commenced, records coordinator Dana Beltramo requested and received permission to update their retention policy to just 30 days for records requests. After Taylor’s continued reporting on the issue sparked

an outcry, the county revised its policy once again and promised to do better.

“What we did today was basically try to prevent the confusion of mistakes that have happened from happening again,” said Hamilton County mayor Jim Coppinger. In other words, it’s all just a big misunderstanding.

The Handcuffs and Prior Restraints Award: Chicago Police Department and City of Chicago, Illinois In February 2019, a swarm of Chicago police officers raided the wrong apartment with their guns drawn. They handcuffed the resident, Anjanette Young, who was completely undressed, and they refused to let her put on clothes as she pleaded with them dozens of times that they had the wrong house. Young sued the city in federal court and filed a request for body camera footage of the officers who invaded her home. The local CBS affiliate, CBS 2, also requested the body camera footage.

The Chicago Police Department denied both requests, despite a binding ruling just months earlier that CPD was required to turn over body camera footage to people like Young who were involved in the recorded events. Young ultimately got the footage as part of her lawsuit, and her attorney provided them to the media. The city’s lawyers then took the extraordinary step of asking the court to order CBS 2 not to air the video, a demand to censor speech before it occurs called a “prior restraint.” The judge denied the city’s request.

The city also sought sanctions against Young’s attorney, but the city withdrew its motion and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the request “ill-advised” in a letter to the court. The judge decided not to sanction Young’s attorney.

The Thin Crust, Wood-Fired Redactions Award: U.S. State Department Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hosted plenty of controversial meals during his three-year tenure. There was the indoor holiday party last December and those bizarre, lavish “Madison Dinners” that cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars, including

The Self-Serving Secrecy Award: Niagara County, New York Money talks. The New York legislature knew this when it passed the Ethics in Government Act in 1987, which required, among other public transparency measures, elected officials in 50,000 person-plus municipalities to complete financial disclosure forms each year. The public should be allowed to see who our leaders may be particularly keen to hear.

Sixty-one of NY’s 62 counties generally accepted that the disclosure forms, created for public use in the first place, were meant to be disclosed, according to the New York Coalition for Open Government. Back in 1996, though, while everyone was presumably distracted watching the Yankees or “Independence Day,” Niagara County found a quick trick to keep from sharing its officials’ finances: they made it illegal. By local ordinance, the records were made secret, and the county proceeded to reject any requests for access by claiming that releasing the information would be a violation of the law.

This local law prohibiting access was itself, of course, a violation of the law, but Niagara County managed to keep it on the books for more than two decades, and it may have gotten away with it had it not been for the work of the NY Coalition for Open Government.

In February 2020, the NYCOG, represented by the University at Buffalo School of Law Civil Rights & Transparency Clinic, sued Niagara County, alleging its ordinance was unlawful (because it was). This past fall, a court agreed. Five months later, in January 2021, the county began releasing records, ones that should have been available for the last 30+ years.

The Foilies were compiled by Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Investigations Dave Maass, Senior Staff Attorney Aaron Mackey, and Frank Stanton Fellow Naomi Gilens, and MuckRock News Co-Founder Michael Morisy and Senior Reporter and Projects Editor Beryl Lipton, with further writing and editing by Shawn Musgrave. Illustrations are by EFF Designer Caitlyn Crites.

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The Courier-Journal in Louisville first asked LMPD in mid-2019 for all records regarding the two officers’ sexual abuse of minors. Louisville claimed it didn’t have any; they had been turned over to the FBI. Then the Courier-Journal appealed, and the city eventually determined that — well, what do you know — they’d found a “hidden folder” still containing the responsive records — 738,000 of them, actually. Not for long, though. Less than a month later, they’d all been deleted, despite the ongoing request, a casualty of the city’s automated backup and deletion system, according to Louisville.

At the end of 2020, the Courier-Journal was still fighting the city’s failure to comply with the Kentucky Open Records Act. “I have practiced open records law since the law was enacted 45 years ago, and I have never seen anything so brazen,” Courier-Journal attorney Jon Fleischaker told the paper. “I think it an outrage.”

more than $10k for embossed pens alone. And while we know the full menu of Pompeo’s high-class North Korea summit in 2018 in Manhattan—filet mignon with corn purée was the centerpiece—the public may never find out two searing culinary questions about Mikey: What are his pizza toppings of choice, and what’s his go-to sandwich?

On the pizza angle, the State Department let slip that Pompeo likes it thin and wood-fired, in emails released to NBC correspondent Josh Lederman.

But the list of toppings was far too saucy for public consumption, apparently, and redacted on privacy grounds. Same for Pompeo’s sandwich of choice, which the State Department redacted from emails released to American Oversight. But we still know “plenty of dry snacks and Diet Coke” were on offer.

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LET’S TALK ABOUT RURAL FOOD SECURITY WITH JILLIAN HISHAW

Jillian Hishaw takes the virtual stage to chat about the work she’s doing to reduce food insecurity in farming communities. She will also bring inspiration for how all of us can support our ranches, farms and neighbors in our local community. Thu., April 8, 6-7pm. eventbrite.com/e/ lets-talk-about-food-security-with-jillian-hishaw-tickets-145355348761. Free, donations encouraged.

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Get your tickets early for this season of outdoor films from Tin Pan, following the theme of city-destroying, crowd-pleasing retro monsters. Each week will be a surprise pick honoring the cinema of Japan while you enjoy these beloved retro classics of the genre. Thu., April 8, 7pm. Tin Pan Alley, between Thump and the Wine Shop. $30.

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Head on down to River’s Place patio for six decades of covers and hits from Derek Michael Marc and Michael Shane. Thu., April 8, 6-8pm. River’s Place, 787 NE Purcell Blvd., Bend. No cover.

FRIDAY 4/9 ZOOM AUTHOR SPARROW & JASON CHINCHEN EVENT: BELOVED KYLA HIGH DESERT NIGHTS AT BUNK + BREW Get cozy on the outdoor patio with live music, fire pits BEASTS BY and plenty of good brews. Expect upbeat originals and MICHELLE classic covers from this dynamic duo of local artists.

Fri., April 9, 6pm. Bunk + Brew Historic Lucas House, NIJHUIS 42 NW Hawthorne Ave., Bend. No cover.

A HISTORY OF THE MODERN CONSERVATION MOVEMENT

As humans realized their actions were resulting in Submitted mass extinctions of species, a movement was born to protect and save those parts of the wild. Science journalist Michelle Nijhuis explores the history of the movement and early battles to save species. Thu., April 8, 6-7pm. roundaboutbookshop.com/event/zoom-author-event-belovedbeasts-michelle-nijhuis. Free.

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SPRING SESSIONS: MARK RANSOM & PAT PEARSALL IN-PERSON OR LIVESTREAMED

Join the Worthy crew and two local artists for a weekend evening of mellow tunes and community. Mark Ransom is a guitarist, songwriter and the founder and creative director of the Bend Roots Revival. Sat., April 10, 6-8pm.

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Get dancing down at General Duffy’s this weekend with a Countryfied and Shannon Bex mash up. Unique country swing tunes with Shannon’s R&B twist. Sat., April 10, 6:30pm. General Duffy’s Waterhole, 404 SW Forest Ave., Redmond. $15.

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AN EVENING WITH PETE KARTSOUNES AT THE BROWN OWL

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Tue., April 13, 6pm. The Brown Owl, 550 SW Industrial Way, St. 120., Bend. No cover.

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Debbie Schlenoff of the Lane County Audubon Society and Aimee Code of the Xerces Society discuss the unique needs of bee species that inhabit Oregon and go in to detail about the alarming decline in bee species. You’ll learn about everything from pollinator-friendly gardening to community science, and much more. Wed., April 14, 4pm. zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN_p_JblpbESL2J9JclHScWqg?e. Free.

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ive music is about to return with authority at the Volcanic Theatre Pub. Next week, on April 20 and 21, local reggae stars Indubious will hit the stage on consecutive nights to celebrate the release of the band’s new album and the return of Volcanic.

Finally, things are starting to feel right again in the Central Oregon music scene.

Titled “The Bridge,” Indubious’ album is set to drop on April 9, giving fans enough time to pick up the lyrics before the two release parties.

This is a big moment for both Indubious and Volcanic, one that is creating a lot of hype. Founder Evton Burton notes how much Indubious has missed live shows, and the raw energy that comes from being face to face with the crowd. He knows everyone has missed it—so the excitement is palpable. And it’s also probably why both nights sold out so fast.

“We started with one night, and we didn’t know it was going to sell out so fast. My friends were calling me saying they couldn’t get any tickets! So then we hit up Derek (Sitter, Volcanic Theatre Pub owner) and asked if we could do a second night. And then that one sold out in 12 hours!” says Burton. “There’s a combination of things happening here.

People are really hungry for music. People want to support Volcanic and people

want to support Indubious. It’s kind of the perfect storm.”

Recorded in Burton’s home studio, “The Bridge” was made through the unfortunate development of the COVID-19 pandemic. What was meant to be a busy summer of touring instead turned into a busy five to six months of creating, which was a blessing in disguise for the band.

“A few weeks after everything got canceled nationwide, we found ourselves with no shows. At first we were like, ‘This sucks…’ Then after a few days, we were like this is an opportunity.

To A, have some time off and relax, and B, to make some new music.”

With 13 songs and a tracklist filled with, as Burton puts it, “bucket list features,” “The Bridge” is shaping up to be a huge collection of music from Indubious. Burton tells me the themes behind the album stem from larger ideas about life and the beyond, and he also says that this is Indubious’ best work yet.

“The Bridge is a portal between the physical reality and the realm beyond.

Music is a portal through which we can experience and feel these higher energies. And the Portal is made active through the vibration of love.”

“The Bridge” will be out through Easy Star Records on April 9. Find it on your favorite streaming site and keep your eyes peeled for physical copies around town.

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Cocktail Cabaret “And The Award Goes To...” An intimate, live two-night event featuring

Gold of the Caliphs: Medieval Islamic Coins A curated an exhibition on medieval

Redmond High School Jazz Band Join Ben

Let’s Talk About Rural Food Security with Jillian Hishaw High Desert Food

Central Oregon’s preeminent voices performing Academy Award nominated and winning songs.

April 9, 7:30-9:30pm and April 10, 7:30-9:30pm.

Tower Theatre - Bend, 835 NW Wall Street, Bend.

Contact: 541-317-0700. info@towertheatre.org. $20.

Lawson, the director of Redmond High School’s jazz band, for music, memories and the meaning of being a part of a jazz band. April 11, 4-4:30pm. Contact: 541-312-1032. lizg@deschuteslibrary.org. Free.

Sunriver Music Festival’s Young Artists Scholarship Auditions Sunriver Music

Festival’s Young Artists Scholarship applications are due April 15th and auditions will be June 4-6th.

Mondays-Sundays. Through April 15. Contact: 541593-1084. information@sunrivermusic.org. Free.

The Ultimate Oldies Show A locally-pro-

duced, syndicated, weekly, thematic two-hour radio show highlighting the music, artists, producers, musicians and cultural touchstones of the late 1940s through the late 1960s. Fridays, 6-8pm. KPOV, 501 NW Bond St., Bend. Contact: mikeficher@gmail.com. Free.

DANCE Community Dance Break!Come dance! Be

inspired by others, the music, the energy. No dance skills necessary! Be sure to register beforehand.

Wednesdays, 12:30-12:40pm. Contact: 541-9487015. soulinmotionbend@gmail.com. Free.

Silver Swans: Adult Ballet ClassThis is an

open level ballet-based class for 35+, where the instructor adjusts for all ages, abilities, and agility.

Fridays, 8:45-9:45am. Through June 18. Academie de Ballet Classique, 162 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend.

Contact: 541-382-4055. dance@abcbend.com. $56.

Soul in Motion Sunday Gathering Some facilitation to help you tune in, letting your body lead your way! A great way to connect more soul-fully with yourself and others. Everyone welcome!

Sundays, 6:30-7:45pm. Contact: 541-948-7015. soulinmotionbend@gmail.com. $20.

FILM EVENTS Retro Japanese Monster Movies

We’re introducing our NEW theme for Thursday night films in Tin Pan Alley - Retro Japanese Monster Movies! April 8, 6pm. Tin Pan Alley, Off Minnesota, between Thump and the Wine Shop, Bend. $30.

ARTS & CRAFTS 4th Friday Artwalk Showing the multi media paintings of Sandy Dudko with her great use of colors and imageries of trees. Mondays-Sundays, 11am-5pm. Through April 25. Hood Avenue Art, 357 W Hood Ave., Sisters, Sisters. Contact: 541-7191800. info@hoodavenueart.com.

Birds of Sunriver Come learn about the birds you see around your feeders, during walks and in the waterways around Sunriver. April 14, 4pm. Sunriver Homeowners Aquatic & Recreation Center, 57250 Overlook Road, Sunriver. Free.

PRESENTATIONS & EXHIBITS Join Oregon's Poet Laureate Anis Mojgani for an evening of virtual reading and conversation this Wed., April 7 at 6:30pm, COCC.edu.

Bring Back the Pollinators: What you can do to help support bees You’ll learn about everything from pollinator-friendly

Islamic coins at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. Tuesdays-Saturdays, Noon5pm and First Tuesday-Saturday of every month.

Through Aug. 14. Contact: 503-370-6855.

and Farm Alliance is honored to welcome Jillian Hishaw to the (virtual) stage as she talks about the work she is doing in farming communities to reduce rates of food insecurity. April 8, 6-7pm. Free, donations encouraged.

ONLINE: 1981 Casablanca & Contemporary Morocco In this virtual presentation Dr.

Mahmood Ibrahim, Professor Emeritus of History, will highlight aspects of Moroccan history as a way of explaining the 1981 Casablanca riots. More information: deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/event/61492 April 14, 6-7pm. Contact: 541-312-1029. laurelw@ deschuteslibrary.org. Free.

Red Planet Mars Mars and Earth have much in common. This lecture will be given by Jim Todd, Director of Space Science Education at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI). April 13, 7-8pm. $5.

Scalehouse Voices presents Daniela Repas: The Still Line of a Movement Join

us for an inspiring conversation with Daniela as she discusses process, strategy and storytelling as modular units of her work in a talk titled The Still Line of a Movement. April 8, 6-7pm. Free.

WORDS Call for Submissions: Central Oregon Book Project Central Oregon Book Project

is a collection of voices and stories from Central Oregon. The project was funded by a Kickstarter campaign in the fall of 2020, to honor the land and our stories within it. April 1-May 31.

Classics Book ClubWe will discuss House

Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday. Please visit roundaboutbookshop.com for Zoom info. April 14, 6-7pm. Contact: 541-306-6564. sara@roundaboutbookshop.com. Free.

Current Fiction Book Club We will discuss The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri. Please visit roundaboutbookshop.com for Zoom info. April 7, 6-7pm. Contact: 541-306-6564. sara@roundaboutbookshop.com. Free.

Nonfiction Book Club We will discuss A Life on

Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough. Please visit roundaboutbookshop.com for Zoom info. April 9, 1-2pm. Contact: 541-306-6564. sara@roundaboutbookshop.com. Free.

Not Your Average Book Club On April 12 we

will discuss The Other Americans by Laila Lalami.

Please visit roundaboutbookshop.com for Zoom info. April 12, 6-7pm. Contact: 541-306-6564. sara@ roundaboutbookshop.com. Free.

A Novel Idea 2021 Quilt Show Using the book as inspiration and using fabric as their medium, these artists create one of a kind quilts that both delight and illuminate the book in unexpected ways. April 7, 6-6:30pm. Contact: 541-312-1032. lizg@deschuteslibrary.org. Free.

Poetry Together: A Conversation and Reading with Anis Mojgani, Oregon Poet Laureate Join us for an evening with

Oregon Poet Laureate, Anis Mojgani. Mojgani is the author of five books of poetry and is a two-time National Poetry Slam champion. April 7, 6:30-8pm.

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What if we could help those that help others? Together We Can! Healing Reins Therapeutic Riding Center April B-days – Axel th Fjord turns 31! – April 22 @ 3:30p Gals’ Night Out – Mom Day Event May 7 @ 5p

Think Wild Baby Season Baby Shower – April 25 1-4pm Help think Wild raise funds to care for injured and orphaned baby wildlife

Beulah’s Place At-Risk Kids Need Food/Housing At-risk homeless teens need food and housing now! Help keep these kids safe.

Shepherd’s House Ministries Project S.H.A.R.E. Volunteers We are looking for 25 new volunteers for project S.H.A.R.E. mobile outreach.

MountainStar Family Relief Nursery Keep Kids Safe Campaign Help strengthen our communities vulnerable families and keep kids safe.

Deschutes River Conservancy Virtual RiverFEST – April 22 @ 7pm 1 hour online experience that blends inspiration, entertainment and fundraising.

Saving Grace SAAM and Take Back the Night Shattering the silence around domestic violence and sexual assault.

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Virtual Event: Writers Writing - Poetry Playshop “I Remember” “I Remember-”

High Desert Corvette Club Our purpose is to plan and conduct safe social activities and events that promote enjoyment of Corvettes. Due to COVID, please check our website for meeting details: highdesertcorvettes.org. Contact: 909-9947500. 1991highdesertcorvettes@gmail.com. TBD.

Zoom Author Event: Beloved Beasts

by Michelle Nijhuis Acclaimed science journalist

REDI News & Brews REDI News & Brews is an annual networking and investor outreach event that showcases the work REDI does for the Redmond community and Centra April 14, 4:30pm. Initiative Brewing, 424 NW Fifth St., Redmond. $5-$20.

This deceptively simple prompt loosens memory and propels spontaneity. Krayna Castelbaum hosts. April 11, 9:30-11:30am. Contact: 541-3121063. paigef@deschuteslibrary.org. Free.

Michelle Nijhuis traces the conservation movement’s history. Please visit roundaboutbookshop.com for Zoom info. April 8, 6-7pm. Contact: 541-306-6564. sara@roundaboutbookshop.com. Free.

ETC. Preventative Walk-In Pet Wellness Clinic The Bend Spay and Neuter Project offers

vaccinations, deworming and microchips at our walk-in wellness clinic. Saturdays, 9am-2pm.

Bend Spay & Neuter Project, 910 SE Wilson, Suite A1, Bend. $10-$30.

Spring Cleaning at the Miller Ranch

Using the latest cleaning techniques from 1904, help us clean the bunkhouse and root cellar, and get an up-close look at what it takes to get ready for summer. April 10, 11am-3pm. High Desert Museum, 59800 S. Highway 97, Bend. Contact: 541-382-4754. info@highdesertmuseum.org.

VOLUNTEER Call for Volunteers - Play with Parrots!

Volunteers needed at Second Chance Bird Rescue! Located past Cascade Lakes Distillery, call for hours and location. Contact: 916-956-2153.

CASA Training to Be A Voice for Kids in Foster Care Free online training to become

a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in foster care in Central Oregon. Saturdays, 9am-12:30pm. Through May 22. Contact: 541-3891618. training@casaofcentraloregon.org. $0.

Volunteer Central Oregon Board Fair At this free, online event, forty Central Oregon nonprofit organizations will be offering opportunities for community members to serve on their boards of directors and leadership committees. volunteercentraloregon.org April 14, 4-6pm. Contact: 541-280-5757. betsy@betsywarriner.com. Free.

Volunteer Opportunity Seize this opportunity; volunteer at Mustangs To The Rescue.

Please call and leave a message. Mondays-Sundays, 9am-6pm. Mustangs to the Rescue, 21670 McGilvray Road, Bend. Contact: 541-330-8943. volunteer@MustangstotheRescue.org.

Volunteer with Salvation Army The

Salvation Army has a wide variety of volunteer opportunities for almost every age. Ongoing.

Contact: 541-389-8888.

GROUPS & MEETUPS #areYOUintheblastzone 350Deschutes is joining a national week of action with the #BuildBackFossilFree coalition to escalate the demand for President Joe Biden to be a real Climate President by stopping all new fossil fuel projects. April 1-9.

Bird Walk With Sunriver Nature Center Join Tom Lawler, expert local birder and nature photographer, to discover the rich bird habitats of Sunriver.

Saturdays, 9am. Through May 1. Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory, 57245 River Rd., Sunriver. $10.

Central Oregon Commemorates the Shoah and Celebrates Israel Congrega-

Presented by

tion Shalom Bayit, in conjunction with Chabad of Central Oregon, Temple Beth Tikvah in Bend and The Havurah, invites everyone to join together and observe jointly the ‘’Week of T’kumah” (Revival).

April 11, 4-5:30pm. Contact: 541-668-6887. Secretary@JCCOBend.com. Free.

Drive Thru Health Care Career Fair - Pilot Butte Rehabilitation Center Entry Level

Take part at WhatIfWeCould.com

and seasoned healthcare opportunities available.

April 13, 11am-3pm. Pilot Butte Rehabilitation Center, 1876 NE Hwy 20, Bend. Contact: 541-213-0714. cbene@regency-pacific.com. Free.

FAMILY & KIDS Amelia’s World Puppet Show Join Amelia

Airheart Monkey & Miss Hannah for a fun & uplifting interactive zoom puppet show! Message ACORN School of Art & Nature on Facebook to request the zoom link. Fridays, 4-4:15pm. Contact: facebook.com/acornartandnature/. Free.

Baby Ninja + Me Cuties (10 months-24 months) plus adult will bond and have a blast during this unique yoga and ninja warrior class!

Wednesdays, 11-11:45am. Through June 2. Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend. Contact: 541-241-3919. info@freespiritbend.com. $99 per Child.

Born to Dance By combining playtime and dance, this pre-ballet class enhances your child’s imagination through the world of dance. Saturdays, 9:15-9:45am. Through June 19. Academie de Ballet Classique, 162 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend. Contact: 541-382-4055. dance@abcbend.com. $47.

Cascades Teen Theatre Spring Classes Classes include, playwriting, cre-

ative writing, audition skills, backstage, and a One-Act Agatha Christie performance class.

Mondays-Thursdays, 4-6pm. Through April 25.

Cascade Theatrical Theatre, 148 NW Greenwood, Bend. Contact: 541-389-0803. teentheatre@cascadestheatrical.org. Free.

Fantasy Ballet - An Online Ballet Class for 4 to 6 Yr Olds This fantasy-themed ballet

class is designed to cultivate your child’s creativity, individuality and artistry while discovering ballet terminology and culture of discipline.

Mondays, 2:40-3:20pm. Through June 14. Contact: 541-382-4055. dance@abcbend.com. $89.

Foster Parent Orientation This two-hour class covers the basics about being a foster parent and working with the Oregon Child Welfare program. Second Tuesday of every month, Noon-2pm. Through June 8. Contact: 541-2313291. centraloregon.fostercare@dhsoha.state. or.us. Free.

Happy Hip-Hop This vibrant class utilizes

the latest dance moves for dancers to express their individuality to craft their own hip-hop style. Fridays, 2:50-3:35pm. Through June 17. Academie de Ballet Classique, 162 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend. Contact: 541-382-4055. dance@abcbend.com. $54.

Intro to LEGO Robotics Open to 4th-5th graders. Build a LEGO robot and program it to perform exciting missions. Tuesdays, 4-6pm.

Through May 4. BendTECH, 1001 SW Emkay Dr, Bend. Contact: 541-382-4682. info@campfireco. org. $100, financial assistance available.

Junior Shredder Four Week Camp

The goal is to work on skills and get out for fun rides each week! Wednesdays, 3pm. Through Sept. 1. Seventh Mountain Resort, 18575 SW Century Dr., Bend. Contact: cierra@ladiesallride.com. $175.

Kids Ninja Warrior Class Unique to Bend, your kids (age 6-10) will gain amazing abilities through obstacle course training, climbing and fitness conditioning, and team motivation in our Kids Ninja Warrior classes. Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30pm, Wednesdays, 6:15-7:15pm and Thursdays, 5-6pm.

Through May 27. Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend.

Contact: 541-241-3919. info@freespiritbend.com. $99 per child.

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Kids Ninja Warrior Half-Day Camp Drop-

off the kids (age 6 - 12) on Wednesday afternoon’s after school for Half-Day Ninja Warrior Camps, they’ll get their energy out and their exercise in!

Wednesdays, 1:30-4:30pm. Through May 26. Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend. Contact: 541-241-3919. info@freespiritbend.com. $99 per child.

Learn to code your own program using Scratch, a block-based visual programming language ideal to grow basic skills and create fun programs and games. Wednesdays, 4-6pm. Through May 5.

BendTECH, 1001 SW Emkay Dr, Bend. Contact: 541-382-4682. info@campfireco.org. $100, financial assistance available.

Nano-Ninja Class Kids (age 4-5) will love

making ninja warrior buddies as they develop fundamental coordination skills through obstacle-based gymnastics and climbing challenges in this 6-week series. Wednesdays, 5-5:50pm and Thursdays, 3:30-4:20pm. Through May 27. Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend. Contact: 541-241-3919. info@freespiritbend.com. $99 per child.

Ninja Elite Class Kids (age 8 - 12) come

increase your athletic performance through the exciting sport of Ninja Warrior! Tuesdays, 5-6pm.

Through May 25. Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend.

Contact: 541-241-3919. info@freespiritbend.com. $99 per child.

Ninja Night It’s Parent’s Night Out- that’s right come drop off your kids (age 6 - 12) for 3 hours of fun in our super-rad indoor Ninja Warrior play space. timed races through our amazing obstacle course! Saturdays, 6-9pm. Through May 15. Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend. Contact: 541-241-3919. info@freespiritbend.com. $22 per kid.

Teen Girls’ Empowerment Group Connect with others and build mind-body-heart strength during these challenging times. IWed, April 7, 3:30pm, Wed, April 14, 3:30pm. Blissful Heart ~ Yoga Barn, 29 NW Greeley Ave., Bend. Contact: 928-864-7166. onalee@unfurlbecome.com. Sliding scale $160-$320.

Teen Volunteer Club Teens On Fire, where

teens give back to their community by identifying a cause they care about and planning a service project to help address it. Sundays, 4-6pm.

Through May 30. BendTECH, 1001 SW Emkay Dr, Bend. Contact: 541-382-4682. info@campfireco.org.

Sliding scale pricing $200-325.

FOOD EVENTS Join La Pine A La Cart Calling all foodies, master chefs and more. Join the La Pine A La Cart food cart lot! Call Denny at 541-706-1965. Fridays.

Through May 28. La Pine A La Carte, 51555 Morrison St, La Pine.

BEER & DRINK Apres Ski Special at Zpizza Tap Room

Slice of premium pizza & beer- only $5! Thur-Sun, 4-6pm. Zpizza Tap Room, 1082 SW Yates Drive, Bend. Contact: 541-382-2007. bendsales@peppertreeinns.com. $5.

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Brew Day! An opportunity to witness the

sights and sounds of the brewing process. This Wednesday we’ll be brewing a Kolsch and a new experimental IPA using Pahto hops! April 7, Noon1pm. Crux Fermentation Project, 50 SW Division St., Bend. Free.

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Cross Cut Warming Hut: Locals’ Day!

Every Tuesday enjoy $1 off regular size draft beverages. Tuesdays. Cross Cut Warming Hut No 5, 566 SW Mill View Way, Bend.

Growler Discount Night! Enjoy $2 off growler

fills every Wednesday at Bevel! Wednesdays. Bevel Craft Brewing, 911 SE Armour Rd. Suite B, Bend.

Contact: 831-245-1922. holla@bevelbeer.com. Free.

Locals’ Night Monday is the day to be at Silver

Moon Brewing! We offer $3 Pints of our core line up beers and $4 pours of our barrel aged beers all day. Mondays. Silver Moon Brewing, 24 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend.

Locals’ Day Come on down to Bevel Craft Brew-

ing for $4 beers and cider and $1 off wine all day.

Tuesdays. Bevel Craft Brewing, 911 SE Armour Rd. Suite B, Bend. Contact: holla@bevelbeer.com. Free.

ATHLETIC EVENTS 2021 Salmon Run Be part of the 2021 race

season with a true Bend tradition, kicking off the season in style with all new courses at the beautiful Pronghorn Resort. April 10, 8am. Pronghorn Resort, 65600 Pronghorn Club Drive, Bend. $35-$99.

Bend Area Running Fraternity The group

Stretch and flow this week with in person and virtual yoga classes being offered throughout Central Oregon.

10, 8am. Contact: 503-481-0595. michelle@ceilingunlimitedhealthcoaching.com.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Ayurveda Health at Home: Creating Balance & Vitality Unlock your full health,

vitality & happiness. Balance mental, physical & energetic well-being, boost immunity, and improve vitality through Ayurveda: the oldest approach to medicine. Live via Zoom April 10, 1-2:45pm.

Contact: 541-550-8550. namaspayoga@gmail.com. $20 pre-reg // $25 day-of.

will run, maintaining social distance, along the Deschutes River! Mondays, 5pm. AVID Cider Co. Taproom, 550 SW Industrial Way, Bend. Contact: bendarearunningfraternity@gmail.com. Free.

Bend Pilates Bend Pilates is now offering a full

The Big Butte Challenge The Big Butte Chal-

Capoeira: A Perfect Adventure The Brazilian art form of Capoeira presents opportunities to develop personal insights, strength, balance, flexibility and musicality by tapping the energy of this rich cultural expression and global community.

Text 541-678-3460 for location and times. Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays, 6pm. $30 intro month.

lenge safely brings people together to accomplish one common goal: to reach the summit of 5 Buttes in Central Oregon. March 20-May 31. $20 per race.

CORK Saturday Long Run We will meet

outside Thump Coffee on York Dr. in Northwest Crosssing. We will have a 5 - 8 mile option. Whatever your pace and distance, we hope you’ll join us!

Saturdays, 9am. Through Aug. 28. Thump Coffee Downtown, 25 NW Minnesota Ave., Bend.

CORK Thursday Run Join us for a run from

3-5 miles. Thursdays, 6-7:30pm. Cross Cut Warming Hut No 5, 566 SW Mill View Way, Bend. Free.

Horse Butte Trail Race: 10 miler Great views of the high desert and mountains can be had especially on the way back in from the aid station. April 11, 9am. Horse Butte, Billadeau Rd, Bend. $45.

Planet Fitness Home Work-Ins Planet

Fitness is offering free daily workouts via livestream!

Valid even for those without memberships! Visit the Planet Fitness Facebook page for more details. Free.

Redmond Running Group Run All levels

welcome. Find the Redmond Oregon Running Klub on Facebook for weekly run details. Thursdays, 6:15pm. City of Redmond, Redmond. Contact: rundanorun1985@gmail.com.

Wings Out Virtual 5K Training GroupYou’ll get the plan, support, and FUN you need to get back to feeling great in your body. Your instructor is a certified health coach and running coach. April

schedule of classes through Zoom! For more information visit bendpilates.net/classes/. $20.

Coaching Group Clarify your goals - internal or external, immediate or long term, self or other focused. Learn new skills, techniques, and insights to make it happen! Led by Diana Lee, Meadowlark Coaching. Mondays, 6-7:30pm. Contact: 914-9802644. meadowlarkcoaching@yahoo.com. $15-25.

Dream Interpretation Group Facilitator Michael Hoffman has been interpreting dreams for the past 35 years. Every other Tuesday, 6-7:30pm. Contact: 541639-6246. michael@naturalwayofbeing.com. Free.

pregnancy discomforts and tensions & prepare your body for birth. Saturdays, 10:45-11:45am.

Through April 24. Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend.

Contact: 541-241-3919. info@freespiritbend.com.

Registration $72, Drop-In (if space allows) $20.

Sexual Abuse Support Group The primary focus of the group is to develop a support system to share and work through issues related to sexual abuse. Call or text Veronica at 503-856-4874. Tuesdays, 6-8pm. Through June 29. Free.

Tai Chi for Health™ created by Dr. Paul Lam This two-day per week class is appropriate

for anyone who wants a slower Tai Chi class or those dealing with chronic health conditions. For information call: 541-639-9963 Mondays-Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30am. Contact: 541-389-5015.

The Vance Stance/Structural Reprogramming In this series of two-hour classes in

posture and flexibility. Thursdays-Noon, Mondays, 12 and 6pm and Wednesdays, 6pm. Through May 5.

EastSide Home Studio, 21173 Sunburst Ct., Bend.

Contact: 541-330-9070. vancebonner@juno.com.

12 classes/$180.

Thriving with Diabetes Synergy is offering a

4-week group class program to help adults with Type II Diabetes lower HbA1c, decrease complications, and have a better quality of life. Saturdays, 9am-Noon Through April 24. Contact: 541-3233488. info@synergyhealthbend.com.

Total Core Yoga 4-Week Series Each week learn about one part of your core, including the anatomy and subtle body energetics, and then strengthen, stretch, stabilize and focus on that area. Tuesdays, 9:15-10:30am. Through April 20.

Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend. Contact: 541-2413919. info@freespiritbend.com. Registration $72, Drop-in (if space allows) $20.

Health with Ayurveda: Creating Balance & Vitality Amid Life’s Storms Ayurveda, the oldest approach to medicine and health care, can help unlock your full health, vitality, and happiness. April 10, 1-2:45pm. Contact: 541-550-8550. namaspayoga@gmail.com. $25 / $20 pre-register.

In-Person Yoga at LOFT Wellness & Day Spa Tuesdays: Vinyasa with instructor Kelly

Jenkins. 5-6pm. Thursdays: Foundation Flow with instructor Kelly Jenkins. 5-6pm. Loft Wellness & Day Spa, 339 SW Century Drive Ste 203, Bend.

Contact: 541-690-5100. info@loftbend.com. $20.

Prenatal Yoga 4-Week Series This in-studio

Yoga Mama 4-Week Series In this class, we will work to reduce common “mom” tensions, while increasing core strength and rebalancing your hips! Sundays, 9:15-10:30am. Through May 2.

Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend. Contact: 541-2413919. info@freespiritbend.com. Registration $70, Drop-In (if space allows) $19.

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he first three months in Bend have been the best time of our lives!

To be honest, I’ve been known for hyperbolic pronouncements in my day, so let me break it down for you. I’ve had a great life. A rewarding career that hopefully won’t ever end. Loving family and dear friends. Relatively good health.

Wise teachers. Many trips down into the Grand Canyon. Rock climbing adventures, too many to count…a great life.

But living on basically the same property as our family here in Central Oregon, with Livi and Lyza, our grandkids, skipping back and forth multiple times a day, takes life to the moon. Wendy and I pinch ourselves, tear up regularly and say, “Is this really happening?” We feel awe nearly every time we look out the window and see their home up the hill.

Since graduating from high school, I have lived between 300 and 2,000 miles away from family. Wendy, the same. Family contact has mostly been by phone my whole adult life, except for the occasional heart-warming, but insufficient visits. Departures are always sad, with tears, long hugs and always planning for our next reunion.

When our own children grew up, they hit the road and found places roughly the same distance away. We lived in Flagstaff, Arizona, and they moved off to Oregon, Idaho and Colorado. Miles-andmiles-away has been the family tradition.

We were all living our dreams just like our grandparents who made their way out of Eastern Europe to America in the early

1900s to escape persecution. Freedom seekers. Pioneers. Adventurers. These are all deeply fulfilling life paths, for sure, but the built-in cost for all this has been family separation.

Not anymore. Finally!

We have been soaking up the delight of our new family-compound life—loving every joyful teardrop. How long can paradise last? How long does any high last? It is a question worth pondering. All of us know, by now, that no feeling, whether soul-soothing or soul-wrenching ,lasts forever. Life is more ephemeral and much more interesting than that.

And then it happened…our perfect, joy-filled Bend life began to slip away.

Jessie’s lingering abdominal pain led to an emergency appendectomy. Bless you, health care workers. You are life savers! The surgical procedure went well but post-surgery did not. Lasting fever.

Searing pain. Endless nausea. Weakness. Day-after-day-after-day… Anxious children. Pain medicines that caused more toxic side effects than relief.

Heaven came tumbling down to Earth, but still we felt blessed to live close together and help however we could. We provided many dinners. Drove the girls to school. Supervised at the trampoline site. We became the support team even with all the COVID-19 precautions lurking, if not always strictly honored.

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preacher, fix-anything-genius who ventured to Central Oregon with Grandmother 60 years ago, peacefully passed away at home. He was surrounded by his entire loving family—a truly great man who touched more hearts and souls than could ever be counted. Sadness seeped deeply into our lives. All this, while Jessie was recovering from surgery.

Two gatherings followed.

People came from all over to view dear Allen at the Madras mortuary. The following day, an outdoor service was held for family members and a few others. It was the most inspiring going-away gathering I have ever attended. Everyone agreed.

Relatives and friends told stories, played music and spoke of Granddad’s lasting impact. I’m crying now. What an honor to have known you, dear Granddad. Songs

were sung as he was lowered into the earth in his simple pinewood coffin.

It was a joyful and equally painful celebration.

The family loaded up in the back of Granddad’s pickup and headed slowly back to the farm to speak more words of praise, say more prayers, sing more songs and eat a meal fit for the king.

Heaven? Absolutely, this was heaven.

Two days later, nearly the entire family was slammed by COVID-19. They are still struggling nearly two weeks later.

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f you’re going to open a business during a global pandemic, it might as well be a food cart. Call it a truck, a cart or even a lonchera—but whatever you call it, among those who have taken the plunge during this tough year are two spots located along Bend’s Greenwood Avenue. Burrito Sunrise, located outside the Domino Room, and El Taquero, located adjacent to Colima Market, both opened in the past year— and both offer something that has made me come back for more.

Birria for Central Oregon at El Taquero El Taquero, which opened in July 2020, offers a number of items that lovers of Mexican food might recognize, including tacos with carne asada, chicken, al pastor or birria—the tender, stewstyle meat originally developed in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Order a taco or two and be delighted by the dark-yellow, hand-made corn tortillas that come with every taco at El Taquero. I ordered an asada version and was not disappointed—but what has me dreaming of excuses to pedal my bike by again is the birria.

Served in a number of different ways at this cart, I ordered it ramen style. El Taquero’s Ramen Birria features Asianstyle ramen noodles bathed in the birria’s hearty consommé, along with plenty of beef (traditional birria is often made with lamb, but beef is popular, too), lime, salsa and onions. For those looking for something off the beaten path, yet comforting in all the right ways, this is it.

The birria is a family recipe owners Hansel Chavez and Hannah Cain learned from Chavez’s mother, who owns the adjacent Colima Market and another market in Madras. With birria so popular

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in Cain and Chavez’s home state of California—and especially so in Southern California, where Chavez hails from— they wanted to bring those flavors to the forefront here in Central Oregon.

“We really wanted to bring that Mexicali vibe,” Cain told the Source about the birria. “We have a handful of other meats, but that’s what we wanted our specialty to be.”

El Taquero also makes other creative mashups, including the Birria Pizzadilla with three layers of tortilla, birria and cheese, as well as Quesotacos, featuring hand-made tortillas fried with melted cheese and the meat of your choice.

Oh, and don’t even get me started on the aguas frescas. This week it was Agua de Sandia—watermelon water, my absolute fave. Like other carts in Central Oregon, the couple shares their daily specials and aguas frescas flavors on social media, where patrons are enticed to see the items on offer that particular day.

As a family owned and operated business—Cain and Chavez are currently the only two working in the cart—the focus is on keeping things traditional, and ensuring that everything is made fresh, the day it is sold.

As Cain put it, making everything fresh “changes the flavor of our food so drastically.” With that focus on day-of preparation, getting there early might ensure you get to try the food at all.

With spring bringing warmer weather, El Taquero tends to sell out of most items by day’s end.

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Ramen Birra from El Taquero: The best of two worlds.

There’s something about the hash browns in Burrito Sunrise’s breakfast burritos that is utterly delightful.

Breakfast burritos worth leaving for work early for Burrito Sunrise happens to be on my morning bike-commute to work—and I say it with utmost love that I sorta wish it wasn’t. I mean, how is a person supposed to stay alert after consuming one of these babies before the workday even starts?

It’s not hard to identify Burrito Sunrise’s truck, now parked along Greenwood Avenue (it was in another location at Fitness 1440 before moving in early March). Not only is it bright yellow— but most mornings, at least a handful of people are milling around along Greenwood, waiting for their dose of breakfast-burrito goodness. Advertised as “California-Style Breakfast Burritos,” these are burritos worth leaving for work a little early, so that you can get your fix and get on with your day.

Heck, it might even mean you can skip lunch—though since they’re open until 1pm every day but Sunday, you could eat it for actual lunch, too.

Burrito Sunrise’s offerings include a few noteworthy items. Its menu is stacked with breakfast burritos in every variety, all starting with eggs, hash browns, salsa, sour cream and grilled onions. The Plain includes the above items, plus chipotle black beans, bell pepper and salsa verde for a vegetarian offering. The Hog features ham and bacon, and then there’s the Tri-Tip, the Chorizo and The Bird, with cilantro-lime chicken. The Hog is delicious, with extra-smoky ham and bacon, but

what stood out for me was the hash browns, cooked on the flat-top grill in bacon fat, Burrito Sunrise’s staff told me on a recent visit. That treatment results in a creamy texture with just a hint of crispiness on the outside. The Tri-Tip is a bit of a departure from your standard breakfast burrito—but I mean, why not have a little steak in the morning?

Burrito Sunrise’s salsas are also stellar, also with a hint of creaminess, and coming in a variety of levels of spice. For the lover of salsa and spice, I suggest trying them all.

The secret, owner Devin Kennedy said, is emulsification, using vinegar and oil.

“I blend them up, so they turn into more of a sauce than salsa,” he said.

“Then I add garlic and onions in greater amounts than a Mexican-style salsa—which is what makes it California style.” Kennedy, who grew up in California, went to culinary school in 2004, and moved to Bend about three years ago, says he’s loving his new location and his customers. His plans for the future?

Keeping things simple and consistent with a solid four or five menu items— which, if my cravings for the goods in that bright-yellow truck are any indication—seems to be working out quite well for everyone involved.

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Whoever wins, we also kinda win too, I guess.

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help to see those other ones first because there are things that carry over, like Millie Bobby Brown’s character Madison Russell and Kyle Chandler as her father Mark, plus there’s the group Monarch that oversees whatever’s going on with the Kaiju—but don’t worry if you don’t have a chance to get caught up. The first 20 minutes might be a bit confusing, but once the giant lizard and the mad monkey start throwing punches then the plot doesn’t really matter that much anyway.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a ton of plot. Way too much of it. In fact, for the entire runtime, three different movies are going on: Brown teams up with her platonic best friend and a conspiracy theory obsessed podcaster (played by the

film stealing Brian Tyree Henry) to figure out why Godzilla has started randomly attacking things; Meanwhile, Alexander Skarsgård and Rebecca Hall team up with King Kong to, I shit you not, take a magnetic spacecraft to the center of the Earth to find a weapon that might kill the God of Zillas. And then the third movie is just Godzilla and Kong throwing down every time they get near each other.

This is a messy and ridiculous movie.

Whenever it slows down to deal with plot, the film almost loses the thread completely, but with Wingard’s eye-melting visuals, the genuine excitement of seeing these two icons of cinema kicking the hell out of each other earns a lot of goodwill, if not from everyone, as least from me. There’s

barely any character development and most of the dialogue is pretty cringey, but it’s still an extremely fun movie to either watch on HBOMax with the family or go to one of the few open theaters left to socially distance your way through a blockbuster. You should know what you’re getting yourself into with “Godzilla vs. Kong” just from the name, so if giant monsters fighting is your thing, then you’ll be delighted.

If you need all the other stuff like character and motivation and subtext, maybe sit this one out. I’ll take your seat.

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emember in “Lethal Weapon” how Mel Gibson would bet his co-workers he could get himself out of a straitjacket with no help? So then he would dislocate his shoulder and get out of the straitjacket, but then have to put the shoulder back into place by banging it into a filing cabinet or something?

It’s a pretty iconic scene and one I’ve remembered in great detail ever since I was a kid.

Imagine my thrill of surprise when halfway into their giant climactic fight in “Godzilla vs. Kong,” the giant ape gets his arm dislocated and resets it by banging it back into place. The only difference is that there are no filing cabinets that size, so he USES A SKYSCRAPER to knock it back in! Finally, being a dorky ass kid with no friends in middle school is starting to pay off!

But if your brain says to you “Hey man, why would a giant ape reset his shoulder like he’s in a 1980s buddy cop comedy?

His brain wouldn’t have the capacity to Mel Gibson his way out of a situation,” then this is not the movie for you. This is director Adam Wingard (“The Guest” and “Death Note”) basically mashing all of his action figures together and seeing what looks the coolest. I watched this movie a few days ago and I’m not sure that I can accurately describe the plot, but I sure as hell remember the visuals.

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ying on the table at Heal Grow Thrive Medicine, looking up at the familiar origami crane mobile in each treatment room, I’m immediately set at ease. As a mediocre athlete trying to get to the bottom of chronic neck and back pain, licensed acupuncturist Ileana Bourland was recommended to me by a local yogi. Bourland’s coffer of healing arts are expansive, expert and anchored in the oldest of healing sciences: Oriental medicine and Ayurveda.

“We have a motto here at HGTM: We do it for the patient,” explains Bourland. “We work with people to accomplish their goals in healing, whether that’s to improve stress and anxiety, pain relief or optimizing athletic performance. HGTM started as a question: What is needed to reach a state of happiness, health and well-being? First, we work together with our patients and their health care team to help them HEAL, strengthen, flourish, GROW, bloom and THRIVE! Even the simplest acupuncture treatment can help with stress and zen you out.”

Licensed over 20 years ago with a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine from the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Texas Health and Science University, she opened her Bend practice in 2010. She also completed Ayurveda training at the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and in southern India.

Humbly referring to herself as a retired athlete, Bourland understands how local recreationalists and professional athletes can push themselves to the max and with that comes injuries.

“Most serious athletes are either coming on or off an injury. So, it’s important to tend to the chronic injuries as well as the acute ones. We use athlete-specific acupuncture, electro acupuncture, cupping, gua sha, massage, far infrared, herbal plasters, herbs and nutraceuticals.”

One of her favorite therapies for athletes is gua sha, also known as Graston, IASTM, coining, spooning or scraping.

“This is a way to release fascial adhesions, muscular tension and the myofascial layer. Normally, we would see red marks, or petechiae, in an injured or tense area [after scraping].

The petechiae is a great sign that the fascial adhesions are breaking apart.

People who regularly receive cupping or gua sha will notice fewer and fewer red marks as tissues heal.”

If Bourdland happens to overdo it in her sport of choice, (as an

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athlete emeritus, she enjoys hiking, cross country skiing, anything outside with a dog, yoga, Pilates and barre), she has the luxury of a close-knit team of healers surrounding her.

“Liz Larsen is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist who specializes in sports acupuncture. She is currently in Whitfield Reaves’ Sports Medicine Apprenticeship Program. Shayla Thompson has a very dynamic and palpatory style that focuses on trauma...

Plus, my husband is a strength and fitness coach, so I’m lucky to have him as a resource for functional training and at-home workouts.”

Her top health tip for Bendites? Mind your “hamstrings and IT bands. A foam roller should be handed out to every new Bend resident.” Bourland also suggests saturating in the fresh air, clean water, sunshine, mountains and amazing community Bend has to offer.

Some heal through medicine; some through protest. With a focus on heart-centered awareness, it’s no surprise when asked about her own “sheroes,” Bourland names Malala Yousafzai, the Pakastani human rights and education activist for women and children.

Her dream professional-athlete client? She says she’d love to work on former New England Patriot quarterback and local, Drew Bledsoe. So, if anyone reading can hook this up… just saying.

Bourland’s favorite at-home therapies for athletes Contrast Therapy: An easy way to help any kind of injured tissue, especially less-vascular areas like tendons. Alternating heat and cold for 20-25 minutes, five minutes each, increases circulation to the area and acts like a pump.

Always end with heat.

Topical: Mahanarayan oil, a warming ayurvedic medicated oil for joints and muscles, contains the famous yang tonic, ashwagandha.

Nutraceutical: BCQ contains boswellia, curcumin and quercetin, an herbal anti-inflammatory that does not damage the liver and kidneys.

Bendites have a new place to work out indoors, with the opening of the long-awaited Larkspur Community Center: Home of the Bend Senior Center. Bend Park and Recreation District held a ribbon-cutting ceremony April 2, and the Center officially opened April 5. Larkspur, located in east Bend off 15th Street and Reed Market Road, once only housed the much-smaller Bend Senior Center. Now, attached to the original facility is a 5,000-square-foot warm-water pool that features a current channel, hot tub and bubble benches, as well as a unique pool lift for those accessing the water in a wheelchair. The upstairs of the Center includes a walk/jog track, an 8,000-square-foot fitness center and several fitness rooms with maple-sprung floors. Due to COVID restrictions, the Bend Senior Center portion of the building is currently closed for social activities—though fitness classes remain open.

With the opening of Larkspur comes a temporary closure of the fitness rooms at Juniper Swim and Fitness Center in midtown Bend, where an indoor pool renovation project is currently underway.

Juniper’s indoor/outdoor 50-meter pool remains open. BPRD plans to reopen the other facilities at Juniper in mid-June.

Since COVID restrictions remain in place, BPRD recommends people make a reservation for classes and other activities at both facilities. Reservations can be booked up to 15 minutes before an activity takes place, with drop-in slots available by checking in with welcome desk staff.

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Chinese herbal formula: Shao yao gan cao tang for muscular pain and cramping.

Food: Consume fruits and veggies for their Vitamin C content necessary for the production of collagen; and bone broth for collagen.

The fitness center includes an indoor walking/jogging track, as well as fitness equipment users can sync with an app to track fitness data.

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Redmond Drafts City Code for Pot Businesses

Hub City leaders plan for a future when marijuana is federally legal

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et’s be double-extra clear here: Running a marijuana dispensary is still illegal in the City of Redmond—but in the event that the federal government changes its policy around that, the Hub City may be ready.

On April 6, the Redmond City Council was scheduled to meet in a special meeting to go over the newly drafted city code covering marijuana businesses. When Oregon made marijuana legal in the state back in 2015, voters in Redmond “opted out” of allowing recreational marijuana businesses to operate within the city limits. People can still grow pot at their own homes and consume the stuff on private property—but they have to go to places like Bend or Madras, both which “opted in,” to buy it.

While discussions have come up at recent meetings of the Redmond City Council about the prospect of revisiting the opt-out, so far, that has yet to materialize. But with more discussion happening at the federal level about relaxing the listing of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug—which currently puts it on par with heroin and cocaine as it pertains to the Controlled Substances Act—Redmond leaders wanted to be ready. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is working now on a new federal marijuana reform legislation package, along with Oregon’s Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).

This week, Schumer told reporters he would move forward on marijuana legalization, “with or without” the support of President Joe Biden, who’s said he’s “studying the issue.”

Should marijuana be removed from the Schedule 1 list, Redmond drafted Time, Place Manner Regulations for marijuana businesses that include retail, production, laboratories, processing and wholesale businesses.

While still in draft form, as of April 1, the regulations are similar to those adopted in other cities. The draft rules would ban marijuana businesses from running mobile businesses or homebased businesses. Marijuana businesses would be barred from operating within 250 feet of a school or other public facility, as well as licensed child care and day care facilities. The draft rules also include some rules around air filtration and ventilation that lean toward the subjective, stating “the standard for judging ‘objectionable odors’ shall be that an average, reasonable person with ordinary sensibilities after taking into consideration the character of the neighborhood in which the odor is made and the odor is detected.”

In written comments presented at the City Council meeting on March 23, Councilor Clifford Evelyn wrote, “I am an advocate for dispensaries in Redmond. When this topic is mentioned, it immediately turns into a full-blown debate with the opposition making it clear they have no intentions of really having a meaningful discussion on the topic. This is in spite of the fact many of the citizens in Redmond want it.”

The two-page working draft document is available to view on the City of Redmond’s website. The Redmond City Council was scheduled to discuss the rules Tuesday, just before press time.

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At my boyfriend’s recent high school alumni gathering, it came to light that he had bullied a student (holding his head in the toilet, etc.). We’ve been together for almost two years and have discussed marriage. However, I’m truly unsettled that he was capable of committing such awful acts. It makes me feel that I no longer truly know who he is. He claims he’s an entirely different person and could never do such a thing today.

How much weight should I give this?

—Disturbed Comforting sayings like “The meek will inherit the earth” (as in, “Someday, you’ll be Elon Musk!”) are of little comfort while the meek are being given swirlies in the girls’ bathroom.

You’re wondering whom you’re with: the good man you were considering marrying or the aging version of a teenage tyrant who made the little guy his personal kickball. Figuring that out starts with diving into the psychology of a bully.

Unfortunately, our current understanding of bullying is based on flawed and incomplete research, which is likely why many bullying interventions fail and sometimes even make things worse for the bullied.

Psychologist Dan Olweus’ widely used (but problematically incomplete) definition of bullying is: “aggressive ... intentional ‘harm-doing’” in an interpersonal situation where there’s “an imbalance of power,” meaning a stronger person goes after a weaker one.

This definition leaves a vitally important question unasked: what benefit might bullying have for the bully? It seems kind of basic to ask that; unfortunately, most social science research neglects any consideration of our evolved psychology and thus merely describes psychological and behavioral effects.

Evolutionary psychology researchers, on the other hand, look to figure out a behavior’s function, current and ancestral: Why do people behave this way now? (What’s the benefit?) And why might this behavior have evolved? (How would it have helped ancestral humans survive, mate, and pass on their genes?)

Accordingly, evolutionary developmental psychologist Anthony Volk refined Olweus’ definition to reflect that bullying isn’t simply “harm-doing” to the weak.

It’s goal-directed harm-doing: harm-doing in pursuit of social and material benefits.

Research finds bullies are rewarded for their verbal and physical beatdowns with increased “access to physical, social, and sexual resources”: more perks, greater popularity and social cred, and more

chicks (for guys who bully). Bullying is a way to create powerful social alliances (like high school cliques), and there can be an “offense is the best defense” motivation in coming off as a scary bruiser: a keep-away sign to other bullies seeking targets.

Bullying is linked with personality traits reflecting a willingness to exploit others for personal gain. However, personality researcher Brent Roberts, in studying individual differences in personality change, observes that personality traits can be considered “outcomes, not predictors (as they are typically viewed).”

Roberts observes that, with age—predominantly from 20 to 40— people show “increased self-confidence, warmth, Amy Alkon self-control, and emotional stability”: changes that can be driven by an investment in “the social roles tied to one’s career, family, and community in young adulthood.”

Like Elon Musk, bullied into a hospital bed as a kid (after a gang of boys threw him down a flight of stairs), I was bullied—during the longest stretch of time in the universe: seventh grade. A gaggle of bigger, mostly older girls regularly taunted and physically attacked me. It was humiliating and horrible.

Years later, one of my tormentors saw my column and emailed me and apologized. I was surprised by how much it meant to me. It felt like justice, finally delivered—25 years after the fact. I told her I respected her for coming forward and that I forgave her. And I did—not just for her sake, but so I could finally put it behind me. The teen years are not our most Socratic time, and the fact that it was important to her to take responsibility and apologize gave me some measure of my dignity back.

To figure out who your boyfriend is now, look to his character: Is he kind, generous, and considerate? Or does he have a tendency to exploit people that you’ve maybe tried to ignore? Even a confirmed high school bully probably isn’t holding down co-workers’ heads in the toilet, but if he’s rotten to “the little people,” you should see that as a big “B is for ‘Still a bully!’”-emblazoned red flag.

You might discuss this further with him: what he did and why he thinks he engaged in this behavior. Does he express remorse—reflecting a disconnect between who he was then and who he is now? Or does he respond with anger and resentment? You might also suggest he consider apologizing. It takes a special person to do that: one who cares enough about trying to make things right that he’ll lay his ego on the line and admit to doing something terribly wrong to another person.

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ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Susan Sontag defined “mad people” as those who “stand alone and burn.” She said she was drawn to them because they inspired her to do the same. What do you think she meant by the descriptor “stand alone and burn”? I suspect she was referring to strong-willed people devoted to cultivating the most passionate version of themselves, always in alignment with their deepest longings. She meant those who are willing to accept the consequences of such devotion, even if it means being misunderstood or alone. The coming weeks will be an interesting and educational time for you to experiment with being such a person.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the 1930s, Taurus-born Rita Levi-Montalcini was a promising researcher in neurobiology at the University of Turin in Italy. But when fascist dictator Benito Mussolini imposed new laws that forbade Jews from holding university jobs, she was fired. Undaunted, she created a laboratory in her bedroom and continued her work. There she laid the foundations for discoveries that ultimately led to her winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. I foresee you summoning comparable determination and resilience in the coming weeks, Taurus.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Religious scholar Karl Barth (1886–1968) wrote, “There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.” To that perverse oversimplification, I reply: “Rubbish.

Twaddle. Bunk. Hooey.”

I’m appalled by his insinuation that pain is the driving force for all of our lyrical self-revelations. Case in point: you in the coming weeks.

I trust there will be a steady flow of songs in your heart and on your lips because you will be in such intimate alignment with your life’s master plan.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six,” wrote Cancerian author John W. Gardner. But I would add that more adult Crabs accomplish this feat than any other sign of the zodiac. I’ll furthermore suggest that during the next six weeks, many of you will do it quite well.

My prediction: You will blend lovability and strategic shrewdness to generate unprecedented effectiveness. (How could anyone resist you?)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Staring at flames had benefits for our primitive ancestors. As they sat around campfires and focused on the steady burn, they were essentially practicing a kind of meditation. Doing so enhanced their ability to regulate their attention, thereby strengthening their working memory and developing a greater capacity to make long-range plans. What does this have to do with you? As a fire sign, you have a special talent for harnessing the power of fire to serve you. In the coming weeks, that will be even more profoundly true than usual. If you can do so safely, I encourage you to spend quality time gazing into flames. I also hope you will super-nurture the radiant fire that glows within you. (More info: tinyurl.com/GoodFlames) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Physicist Victor Weisskopf told us, “What’s beautiful in science is the same thing that’s beautiful in Beethoven.

There’s a fog of events and suddenly you see a connection. It connects things that were always in you that were never put together before.” I’m expecting there to be a wealth of these aha! moments for you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Hidden patterns will become visible. Missing links will appear. Secret agendas will emerge. The real stories beneath the superficial stories will materialize. Be receptive and alert!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Jungian psychoanalyst and folklore expert Clarissa Pinkola Estés celebrates the power of inquiry. She says that “asking the proper question is the central action of transformation,” both in fairy tales and in psychotherapy. To identify what changes will heal you,

you must be curious to uncover truths that you don’t know yet. “Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open,” says Estes. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is prime time for you to formulate the Fantastically Magically Catalytic Questions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In April 1933, Scorpio-born African American singer Ethel Waters was in a “private hell.” Her career was at an impasse and her marriage was falling apart. In the depths of despondency, she was invited to sing a new song, “Stormy Weather,” at New York City’s famous Cotton Club. It was a turning point. She later wrote, “I was singing the story of my misery and confusion, of the misunderstandings in my life I couldn’t straighten out, the story of the wrongs and outrages done to me by people I had loved and trusted.” The audience was thrilled by her performance, and called her back for 12 encores. Soon thereafter, musical opportunities poured in and her career blossomed. I foresee a parallel event in your life, Scorpio. Maybe not quite so dramatic, but still, quite redemptive.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I love to see you enjoy yourself. I get a vicarious thrill as I observe you pursuing pleasures that other people are too inhibited or timid to dare. It’s healing for me to witness you unleash your unapologetic enthusiasm for being alive in an amazing body that’s blessed with the miracle of consciousness. And now I’m going to be a cheerleader for your efforts to wander even further into the frontiers of bliss and joy and gratification. I will urge you to embark on a quest of novel forms of rapture and exultation.

I’ll prod you to at least temporarily set aside habitual sources of excitement so you’ll have room to welcome as-yet unfamiliar sources.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn poet John O’Donahue suggested that a river’s behavior is worthy of our emulation. He said the river’s life is “surrendered to the pilgrimage.” It’s “seldom pushing or straining, keeping itself to itself everywhere all along its flow.” Can you imagine yourself doing that, Capricorn? Now is an excellent time to do so. O’Donahue rhapsodized that the river is “at one with its sinuous mind, an utter rhythm, never awkward,” and that “it continues to swirl through all unlikeness with elegance: a ceaseless traverse of presence soothing on each side, sounding out its journey, raising up a buried music.” Be like that river, dear Capricorn!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

In response to that sentiment, I say, “Amen!” and “Hallelujah!” Even if you will live till age 99, that’s still too brief a time to indulge in an excess of dull activities that activate just a small part of your intelligence. To be clear, I don’t think it’s possible to be perfect in avoiding boredom. But for most of us, there’s a lot we can do to minimize numbing tedium and energy-draining apathy. I mention this, Aquarius, because the coming weeks will be a time when you will have extra power to make your life as interesting as possible for the long run.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I know of four different governmental organizations that have estimated the dollar value of a single human life.

The average of their figures is $7.75 million. So let’s say, for argument’s sake, that you are personally worth that much. Does it change the way you think about your destiny? Are you inspired to upgrade your sense of yourself as a precious treasure? Or is the idea of putting a price on your merit uninteresting, even unappealing? Whatever your reaction is, I hope it prods you to take a revised inventory of your worth, however you measure it. It’s a good time to get a clear and precise evaluation of the gift that is your life. (Quote from Julia Cameron: “Treating yourself like a precious object makes you strong.”)

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ACROSS 1. Investment options 6. Thing shown off in a muscle shirt 9. Flimsily made 14. Nigeria’s capital 15. Cost of doing business 16. First thing everybody’s going to do once we’ve achieved herd immunity 17. Online combatant of all things evil on the internet 20. Sylvan ___ (electronic pop act) 21. Cashmere and angora 22. Bonus track on an expanded album reissue, perhaps 23. Cuzco 57-Down 25. Additional playing periods: Abbr.

27. Skirmishes between two 17-Acrosses?

34. Clean up in the tub 35. Storting’s nat.

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50. MMA decision 51. Cabinetmaker’s medium 53. With 68-Across, gauntlet drop by a 17-Across 60. Mash note verse 61. Strictly verboten 62. Inarticulate grunt made after a foolish comment 64. M portrayer between Robert and Ralph 65. Big name in brushes 66. “Sounds fun!”

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29. First name on a bomber 30. “America’s Drive-In” 31. Entrepreneur David who started a vacuum company 32. Metal fastener 33. Hold onto 34. Director Luhrmann 37. Sweet potato 40. Frequently, in verse 41. Jimmy Cliff’s genre 44. Betty Crocker product 46. “What? Are you deaf? Forget it!”

48. “Top Chef” judge Colicchio 49. Half of an umlaut 50. Defender’s courtroom opponent 52. Hit below the belt, say 53. Hype up 54. Pack in the overhead bin 55. Old West card game 56. Letter-shaped construction piece 57. Doubloon makeup 58. Quoits pegs 59. Sheepskin holder 60. They’re worn while going undercover 63. Scoreboard nos.

“I am Rabbit. I can be anywhere. I can be everywhere. I am outside time I am outside dimension.”

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Record high prices, low inventory, rising interest rates attractive for homebuyers. Rates have hovered around 3% and are expected to rise toward 3.6% by the end of 2021.

Buying has become more cost-effective than renting in certain locations, according to a recent study by Realtor.com. This is great news for those looking to become homeowners in the near future—especially to millennials, who now make up the largest portion of homebuyers in the U.S., based on a 2020 survey by the National Association of Realtors. These younger buyers are mostly buying their first homes, and Bloomberg says they’re not only buying “starter homes,” but that these first homes are multi-million dollar homes compared to more traditional humble first homes.

Currently because of extremely low inventory, sellers are basically able to dictate make-me-move pricing, but there’s reason to believe that there may be a change on the horizon. This will come as a result of mortgage rates increasing slightly and more inventory coming to market. During the second half of this year, expect to see an increase in mortgage interest rates and inventory with more spring-summer listings coming to market, which is expected to increase as seller apprehension is eased. New construction inventory will also assist in slowing down the rapid appreciation we’ve become accustomed to. Hopefully homes will be forced to compete with other homes, in turn being on the market longer than a day or two and slowing down escalating sales prices.

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t’s an understatement to say that the course of the previous year has been unprecedented. The world is still in the midst of a major pandemic, but the housing market has remained strong and real estate continues to be a pillar in supporting the economic bounce-back. Taking a look back to one year ago, the real estate market looked bleak as the U.S. entered into shelter-in-place orders.

Low interest rates helped drive housing sales over the past year, even dipping to record lows within recent months. Buyers dealing with ultralow inventory have driven sale prices upward drastically. The combination of these factors add up to a seller’s market with high sales prices. Thus far in 2021, the housing market continues to be very competitive for buyers who are seeing record high sales prices and homes that are simply flying off the market quickly. With the imbalance of supply and demand, the upward trend of sales prices is expected to continue. This will only soften if the demand lessens or supply increases.

With the typical busy seasons of spring and summer practically here, what are the predictions for the rest of 2021? Interest rates have increased slightly recently and are expected to continue to climb for the rest of the year, depending on the strength of economic activity. Michael Fratantoni, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association, speculates that if rates increase as expected, the refinance boom of 2020 will slow as rates will discourage refinancing, but will remain

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eople who received unemployment benefits in 2020 and filed their taxes before March 11 will receive automatic refunds on taxes they paid on up to $10,200 in unemployment.

The American Rescue Plan, which President Joe Biden signed into law March 11, gave taxpayers who earned less than $150,000 in 2020 forgiveness on taxes paid on up to $10,200 in unemployment for those who filed as single and $20,400 for couples.

But before that was signed into law, thousands had already filed their 2020 taxes.

According to the IRS, any adjusted overpayment will be refunded or applied to outstanding taxes owed, and it will start making those refunds in May. Taxpayers will not be required to file an amended return to receive that refund.

According to the IRS, it has updated its 1040 forms to reflect the exclusion of unemployment and notified tax return preparers.

About 23 million workers in the United States filed for unemployment in 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Oregon Department of Revenue announced last week it would automatically adjust state tax returns for taxpayers who already filed.

The state estimated there were thousands of people in Oregon who had already filed their state income tax returns prior to the change.

“These taxpayers have already done what they were supposed to do. They filed their tax returns on time,” department director Betsy Imholt said in a statement. “We’re going to fix those returns to make sure these taxpayers get the proper refund under the new federal law.”

Those who paid their taxes can check the status of their state refunds online on the Oregon Department of Revenue website.

The deadline for filing taxes has been extended to May 17 from April 15, the second year with an extension.

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