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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 4 - Opinion 5 - Mailbox 6 - News Community Freedge – A new initiative is taking a grassroots approach to supporting those experiencing food insecurity.

Hanna Merzbach introduces the concept of community fridges.

St. Charles Strike – In the midst of a pandemic, a dispute between techs and their employers at St. Charles may put some workers on the picket line.

12 - Feature Women's Issue – This issue is packed with stories of women doing great things—and that includes our Woman of the Year, Community Hero, Young Hero and more.

Meet these incredible changemakers in Central Oregon.

17 - Source Picks 18 - Sound 19 - Calendar 23 - Culture Resources for Women, LGBTQ people – In honor of the Women’s Issue, we’ve rounded up some of the local orgs doing work to support women and non-binary individuals in Central Oregon.

25 - Chow 27 - Screen 29 - Outside Sheroes, Part One – Too often, females get subordinate status when it comes to sport. Our new “Sheroes” feature aims to put women and non-binary athletes where they belong: front and center.

34 - Astrology 35 - Puzzles 36 - Smoke Signals 37 - Advice 39 - Real Estate

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Last year, the Source Weekly—which has long had a Women’s Issue coinciding with International Women’s Day— joined forces with the Bend Chamber’s Women of the Year awards, for one giant event. Quite literally the night of the awards banquet, I arrived a little late due to the fact that I’d written a breaking news story about the arrival of COVID-19 in Oregon. Little did we know that the Women of the Year awards would be the last time many of us would be in a room with that many people, and just how royally COVID-19 would upend all of our lives.

This year, with the Chamber focused on supporting businesses through this time, the Source has taken on the Women of the Year awards on its own once again—but not without the support and buy-in of the community. The first step came through a nomination process that anyone in the community could take part in. Then, the honorees from the past four years were invited to help narrow down the nominees—and finally, the past two Source Women of the Year, Jesse Durham (2020) and Erika McCalpine (2019) stood by me to decide the winners. It was truly a community effort, and I thank everyone who took part.

Our winner this year may come as no surprise to those who know her. In the same way that none of us knew what havoc 2020 would bring, I don’t think Morgan Schmidt had any idea of how her “little idea” to create an online space for pandemic support would change her, and so many others’ lives. Enjoy the issue, and congrats to all the honorees!

OPINION Between Supporting Working Mothers and Passing the Equality Act, the Work Toward Gender Parity Continues

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very year, the Source Weekly puts out its Women’s Issue, typically coinciding with International Women’s Day on March 8—a day that celebrates “the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity,” as described on the International Women’s Day website.

The issues around equal pay, access to reproductive healthcare, outdated models of family caregiving and more are still salient in modern times—and during this pandemic, we have once again been reminded of how women’s work is often set aside or de-prioritized when times get tough and families are forced to make hard decisions about whether to have a mother continue to work, or to stay home and care for children. We honor and recognize the many mothers, grandmothers and other caregivers who have been forced out of the workforce this year, and who have gone on to become in-home teachers, never-ending dish-doers and emotional caretakers of families ravaged by the pandemic.

When faced with limited child care (for those who’ve kept their jobs) or furloughs and layoffs (for those who haven’t) families with children have been forced to make impossible choices this year— and it disproportionally falls on women to bear the burdens. By one estimate, at least 3 million women have dropped out of the workforce over the past year.

While employers have struggled too, this phenomenon has also reminded us that employers can and should do more to support working parents by way of flexible schedules or even on-site child care.

In Central Oregon, some of our largest employers, such as St. Charles Health System, the City of Bend and Bend-La Pine Schools could pave the way by offering child care services in-house. This was a community need before the pandemic, and it’s only gotten more dire.

This call for gender parity goes beyond one gender, too—which is why, as a new administration gets to work in Washington, D.C., it’s critical for Congress to pass the Equality Act. Already passed by the U.S. House, the bill—introduced in the Senate by our own Sen. Jeff Merkley, among others— would ban the discrimination of people

based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

As described by the Human Rights Campaign, “The Equality Act would amend existing civil rights law— including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Jury Selection and Services Act, and several laws regarding employment with the federal government—to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics. The legislation also amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination in public spaces and services and federally funded programs on the basis of sex.”

“Additionally, the Equality Act would update the public spaces and services covered in current law to include retail stores, services such as banks and legal services, and transportation services.

These important updates would strengthen existing protections for everyone.”

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in June that the protections afforded to people under Civil Rights Act of 1964 also apply to LGBTQ individuals, the Equality Act would put those protections into codified law, and also ultimately expand the protections. Some might say that the Supreme Court ruling was enough—but without a specific law, it would be easier for a less-welcoming administration to strip those protections. And since the Equality Act imposes those protections beyond government and into the realm of, “public accommodations,” it would be much tougher for a bakery, for example, to refuse to sell a cake to a couple based on their sexual orientation.

With it codified into law, we may also see less of the churlish and hurtful behavior demonstrated by the likes of Georgia’s Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who posted an anti-transgender sign in the hallway of her Congressional office—right across the hall from another lawmaker with a transgender child. We wish we didn’t have to see such childish behavior from a member of Congress, yet here we are.

This past year has taught us that for every stride and advancement made in social or political spheres, it can be terribly easy to slide back. Whether in the home or the workplace, the battles for gender parity continue.

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cheap alcohol aimed at children; they are making high-end products marketed to adult connoisseurs. Teenagers and binge drinkers are not reaching for mixed-culture wild ales and heirloom ciders. Large out-of-state and international producers are able to absorb this kind of tax increase while maintaining budget pricing, so in reality this tax increase will only hurt small, local, family-run breweries and cideries.

HB 3296 would not only hurt Oregon’s breweries, wineries and cideries, it would also harm the hop farmers in the Willamette Valley, micro-malting operations like Madras’ Mecca Grade Estate Malt, tank fabricators like Portland’s Pinnacle Stainless and Portland Kettle Works, yeast laboratories like Wyeast Labs in Hood River, mobile packaging companies like Portland’s Vice Canning and more. Oregon’s breweries, wineries, cideries and associated industries provide thousands of jobs to Oregonians that HB 3296 puts in direct jeopardy despite Oregon Recovers’ unrealistic claims that “... an alcohol price increase will actually increase the overall number of jobs, while the number of jobs in alcohol-related fields would decline by an amount too small to measure…”

Oregon’s breweries and wineries not only provide jobs, they provide meeting places for their communities. They are leaders in environmental stewardship and dedicated philanthropists. Oregon-made beer and wine is part of the fabric of this great state.

In the end, HB 3296 is not about addiction recovery, it is about neo-prohibitionist groups trying to stamp out the state’s homegrown beer and wine industry for good. Let your legislators know by going to donttaxmydrink.org/petition/.

— Zach Beckwith, Head Brewer, Bend Brewing Company & Treasurer, Central Oregon Brewers Guild

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

I’m really disappointed in last week’s Opinion piece. Calling out and vilifying someone who makes a totally valid point, simply because she prefers to remain anonymous is inappropriate. The idea of expecting consequences for the mindless stupidity of participating in a super-spreader event during COVID times seems totally appropriate. And I definitely don’t think that teenagers are too young to understand the concept of personal responsibility and accountability, while recognizing that their millennial parents themselves probably don’t embrace that idea. It is no wonder that they lack the ability, or inclination, to instill that in their kids. That aside, these entitled brats jeopardized the health and safety of the community at large and caused the school to delay classes for a week. They threatened the health of responsible classmates, teachers and their own families. And they contributed 50+ more reported COVID cases to Deschutes County, which keeps local businesses closed. There SHOULD be “consequences.” And since you have this platform, maybe you should add the term “personal responsibility” to your own lexicon.

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the displacement of tenants, and rent hikes to remove tenants is on the rise.

I spoke with a business this week that was forced to liquidate and move on from owning their own business at this time due to such short notice of eviction from their Maker’s district landowners.

Sure, let’s assume there were other decisions weighing into shutting their business down, but I would reckon that ANY local business would be pushed to their limits if they only had 60 days to find a new commercial space in Bend that could suit their needs.

—Paul Trendler, via bendsource.com

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Oregon is known the world over for its IPA and pinot noir. Oregon-made beer, wine and ciders are the living embodiment of the state’s agricultural and industrial bounty and the state’s enduring pioneer legacy. Oregon House Bill 3296, speciously named the Addiction Crisis Recovery Act, would, in no uncertain terms, decimate the state’s world-renowned breweries, wineries and cideries and the multitude of associated businesses that rely on the industry.

Proponents of HB 3296 claim that, “This is not a beer tax campaign—it’s a public health effort to reduce harmful alcohol consumption and end Oregon’s addiction crisis,” yet the proposed 3000% increase would make Oregon’s excise tax rate 45% higher than Tennessee’s, which is currently the highest in the country.

The proposal would raise excise taxes on beer and cider from the current $2.60 per barrel (31 gallons) to a ridiculous $72.60 per barrel. The majority of the state’s 200+ breweries and cideries are small, family-run businesses that operate on tight margins and have already been decimated by restaurant and bar closures from the ongoing pandemic. For a small producer making 1,000 barrels a year, their state excise tax bill would go from $2,600 per year to $72,600 per year, on top of federal excise taxes, and every other business-related tax that breweries and cideries already pay.

Supporters of HB 3296 like to claim that this bill is “for the children” and aimed at curbing underage drinking, or as Mike Marshall of Oregon Recovers claimed on KTVZ, “Teenagers have less money to spend on alcohol, so the minute you raise the price they are going to buy less, and the same is true for binge drinkers.” The reality is that Oregon’s breweries and wineries are not making

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‘Take What You Need, Give What You Can’

Bend Community Fridge aims to fight food insecurity and food waste one fridge at a time

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mid rising food insecurity due to the pandemic, one grassroots effort has gained momentum: free food refrigerators, or “freedges.” In public spaces from New York to Los Angeles to Portland, these community fridges have sprung up, and soon Bend will join the club.

“We’re helping fight food waste along with food insecurity,” explained Carolyn Abernethy, 22, who launched the Bend Community Fridge project in January.

The fridges, which function much like a tiny free library, are run by the motto, “Take what you need, give what you can.”

The first Bend fridge will be located outside the Cosmic Depot in Bend.

Community members have already helped fundraise and committed to donating a fridge and stocking it with fresh food. The fridge will be accompanied by a small pantry and shelter, though the details of when it will be ready for visitors are still being decided.

Abernethy wants the fridge to be open to everyone, no questions asked.

“It’s not just for the homeless population,” she said. “There’s college stu-

In Oregon, this crisis may be even more widespread. A recent report from Oregon State University estimated that one in four Oregonians are struggling to put food on the table, and these rates are even higher for communities of color and single mothers.

Abernethy, who moved to Bend two years ago, is no stranger to food insecurity. She grew up less fortunate and often depended on nonprofits for food.

“I’ve seen how helpful it is personally,” she said. “It’d be nice to return the favor.” In search for potential fridge hosts to supply space and power for a fridge, Abernethy spent over a month reaching out to businesses to no avail.

She was close to giving up when Cosmic Depot stepped forward.

“I love to use my business as a vehicle for social change,” said Christy Nickey, owner of Cosmic Depot, who is excited to provoke dialogue around community health.

Other businesses were not as optimistic. Many didn’t want to host because of the kinds of populations they thought Courtesy of Cosmic Depot

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Carolyn Abernethy is spearheading the Bend Community Fridge project after being inspired by similar initiatives across the county.

with the pandemic. Advocates argue that unlike food banks, community fridges are available 24/7 and are mostly anonymous. But others worry that this model may not be sustainable and may not follow proper health and safety protocols.

Abernethy said volunteers will routinely clean and restock the fridge and cited the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act as legal protection for food donors against liability—though this law technically only protects donors when they are giving to nonprofit organizations. Bend Community Fridge is not yet a nonprofit, though Abernethy said it’s a possibility.

Both Family Kitchen and the Giving Plate, two free food staples in town, saw an increase in demand for meals throughout 2020. But it’s difficult to estimate the current level of food insecurity in Bend, with many pop-up organizations now

working on hunger along with established agencies, and an increase in SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits and food-bank assistance during the pandemic.

“It could be that we do have higher food insecurity, and yet that’s been mitigated by a higher service level,” said Chris Kramer, a pastor at Nativity Lutheran Church, one of Bend’s food banks. Still, Abernethy hopes to fill any remaining gaps in addressing food insecurity and plans to ultimately have multiple fridges to meet needs across Bend. She is on the hunt for more businesses to host and volunteers to power the operation.

She noted, “Hopefully, after getting the first fridge up and running, more businesses will see that it’s a successful project and be more willing to volunteer and offer their time and services.”

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Cosmic Depot will host the town’s first community fridge outside its location in northeast Bend.

dents skipping meals and single parents trying to feed their kids.”

Abernethy works at Cornerstone Valley, a Redmond group home for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She was inspired to start her own community fridge when she saw them popping up across the country. There are now about 160 fridges across 28 states compared to about 12 fridges pre-pandemic, according to the database Freedge.

This grassroots effort comes at a time when the food insecurity crisis is dire. According to an analysis by Feeding America, by the end of 2020, one in six Americans, or 50 million, were projected to be food insecure, lacking financial resources for food at the household level.

it could draw to their business, Abernethy said. Others suggested focusing on building up existing organizations, rather than creating a new one.

“From my perspective, the best way for us to empower those experiencing food insecurity in our community is by building up the agencies that are doing the work already and have established themselves,” said Renee Staley, executive director of The Giving Plate.

Abernethy didn’t reach out to any of Bend’s food assistance providers because she wants to focus more on the “mutual aid aspect” than the “charity aspect,” she said. Mutual aid is all about building networks of people to help one another from the bottom-up, and these initiatives have exploded nationwide

Community members in Eugene opened several community fridges last year to combat food insecurity in Lane County.

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Noticias en Español La oficina del alguacil del Condado Deschutes (DCSO por sus siglas en inglés) elige las cámaras corporales Después de varios meses de probar varias opciones tecnológicas, los agentes de la oficina del alguacil del Condado Deschutes comenzarán a usar cámaras corporales a principios de mayo. DCSO comenzó a probar los sistemas de cámaras corporales y el vehiculares en noviembre, durante 30 días, cada agente probó dos marcas de sistemas de cámaras a la vez, comentó el departamento en un comunicado. Al final, DCSO optó por quedarse con el sistema de cámaras Safe Fleet- Coban, los mismos sistemas que utilizan la policía estatal de Oregon, las patrullas del estado de Washington y el departamento de policía de Seattle.

Los agentes de DCSO comenzarán a usar las cámaras a partir de la semana del 3 de mayo, con sistemas de cámaras vehiculares instaladas en fases posteriores del proceso. La política del departamento con lo relacionado a las cámaras corporales y vehiculares estarán disponibles ya que esté finalizadas en su página web: sheriff.deschutes.org.

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El refrigerador comunitario en Bend tiene como fin combatir el desperdicio e inseguridad de alimentos Por Hanna Merzbach Traducido por Jéssica Sánchez-Millar

Con la creciente inseguridad de alimentos debido a la pandemia, un esfuerzo común ha cobrado impulso: refrigeradores de alimentos gratuitos o “freedges.”

En espacios públicos desde Nueva York a Los Ángeles y a Portland, estos refrigeradores comunitarios han surgido y pronto la ciudad de Bend se unirá al club.

“Estamos ayudando en la lucha contra el desperdicio de alimentos, así como con la inseguridad de alimentos,” explicó Carolyn Abernethy, de 22 años, quien lanzó el proyecto de Refrigerador Comunitario en Bend (Bend Community Fridge) en el mes de enero. Estos refrigeradores, los cuales funcionan básicamente como las pequeñas bibliotecas gratuitas, son regidos con el lema, “toma lo que necesites, aporta lo que puedas.”

El primer refrigerador estará localizado fuera de Cosmic Depot en Bend.

Los miembros de la comunidad ya han ayudado con la recaudación de fondos y se han comprometido a donar un

refrigerador y a surtirlo con alimentos frescos. El refrigerador estará acompañado por una pequeña despensa y cobertizo, sin embargo, los detalles de cuándo estará listo al público siguen por verse.

Abernethy quiere que el refrigerador esté disponible para todos, sin cuestionar a nadie. “No solo es para los habitantes sin hogar,” comentó Abernethy.

“Hay estudiantes universitarios que se saltan sus comidas y hay padres solteros intentando alimentar a sus hijos” Abernethy se inspiró en comenzar el proyecto de tener su propio refrigerador comunitario al ver como surgían a lo largo del país. Hoy en día hay 160 refrigeradores a lo largo de 28 estados en comparación con los 12 refrigeradores que había antes de la pandemia, según la base de datos de Freedge.

Estos esfuerzos comunitarios llegan en un momento en que la crisis de inseguridad de alimentos es grave. De acuerdo a un análisis de Feeding América (alimentando a America), para fines de 2020, se proyectaba que uno de cada seis norteamericanos, o 50 millones, sufrirían inseguridad de alimentos y carecerían de recursos financieros para alimentar el hogar. Un reciente informe de la Universidad del estado de Oregon calculó que uno de cada cuatro habitantes de Oregon están teniendo dificultad para llevar alimento a la mesa y estos índices son aún más altos en las comunidades de color y en las madres solteras.

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implementar el uso de las cámaras corporales es un paso importante para acrecentar la confianza de la sociedad y la transparencia de nuestras operaciones,” declaró DCSO en una rueda de prensa del 26 de febrero. “También sabemos que el implementar los sistemas de cámaras viene con un costo para los habitantes del condado Deschutes. Basado en los resultados de la prueba, el despacho del alguacil piensa que la decisión de elegir Safe Fleet – Coban permite al despacho del alguacil implementar sistemas de cámaras corporales y vehiculares de la manera más responsable desde el punto de vista fiscal” Con las cámaras, en teoría, operando a todo momento, almacenar y manejar todos los datos recopilados representa una gran parte del gasto en general – al igual que el trabajo de redactar información y difuminar los rostros de las personas antes de compartir la grabación con el público.

DSCO es su propio departamento, separado de la ciudad de Bend, pero para el equipo del departamento de policía de Bend se estima que el costo del personal y los profesionales de tecnología, junto con el almacenamiento de datos ascienden aproximadamente a los $900,000.

Una encuesta en el 2020, del departamento de justicia de los Estados Unidos de los oficiales estatales, encontró que en casos donde se usó la grabación

de la cámara, localizada en el tablero, se utilizó en una queja de mala conducta, el oficial fue exonerado el 93% de las veces.

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Oregon Senate Republicans Will Show Up to Floor Sessions this Week, Leader Says Senate Minority Leader Fred Girod downplayed the seriousness of a no-show that halted Senate business last week, calling it a “protest” of Democratic leadership.

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enate Republicans in Oregon plan to return to floor sessions this week, after stalling the chamber by refusing to attend last Thursday.

Senate Minority Leader Fred Girod, R-Lyons, said Monday that his 11-member caucus had gotten what it wanted from denying Democrats a quorum required to conduct business: Attention to wide-ranging complaints about Democratic leadership.

“I don’t like using it. I honestly don’t,” Girod told OPB. “But what do you do when things are that bad and you feel like it’s your only option to be heard?”

When the Senate convenes again on Wednesday, Girod said he expects his members will be in attendance.

And while he said that could change under certain conditions, he declined to elaborate.

“We plan on being there,” he said.

“Let’s just leave it at that.”

Quorum denial—where a minority party refuses to grant the majority enough members present to conduct any business—has long been seen as a last-ditch “nuclear” option in Oregon politics. But with Democrats gaining wide majorities in both chambers beginning in 2019, it’s become a go-to for Senate Republicans.

The caucus fled the state in both the 2019 and 2020 legislative sessions in

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order to block Democrats from passing a bill that would have curbed carbon emissions. In 2020, with both Senate and House Republicans absent, the one-month short session sputtered to a close with just two bills moving to the governor’s desk.

Girod insisted Monday that last week’s action was not a “walkout” in that mode.

“A walkout to me is when I’m in Nevada or Arizona or some other state,” he said. “This was a protest. It just was a protest of what’s happening in this building.”

When they refused to attend last week’s session, Republicans made a list of demands that Girod conceded are not likely to come to pass. They said that Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, needed to immediately return all students to in-person instruction, prioritize seniors for vaccines, and commit to not raising taxes or closing out tax breaks. Girod also raised concerns about accessibility to the legislative process while the Capitol is closed off to the general public during the pandemic.

Girod said that he had received no answer from Brown, but that his members would not continue denying a quorum until their demands were met. He downplayed the seriousness of the party’s tactic, noting that the Senate agenda last week was relatively sparse. Girod Bryan M. Vance / OPB

Democratic members of the Oregon Senate stand in the mostly empty Senate chambers at the Oregon Capitol in Salem on Thursday, June 27, 2019. On the eighth day of a walkout by Republican senators, Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney adjourned the session shortly after it began, due lacking the required number of senators to meet a quorum.

Sun glints off the pioneer atop the Oregon Capitol building in Salem on Saturday, June 29, 2019.

repeatedly characterized it as not showing up for 15 minutes of planned action.

“It’s not like we did any permanent harm to any certain bill,” Girod said. “We did serve notice to the governor that, by gosh, she needs to open up the schools.”

The maneuver by Senate Republicans didn’t only catch Democrats off guard. House Republican Leader Christine Drazan, R-Canby, said Friday she’d been surprised by the move, but that she understood it.

“It might be less about whether it’s a winning strategy,” she said. “It’s maybe more about it’s the only strategy that they have available to elevate their concerns.”

One thing Girod and his fellow Republicans have done: given new energy to proposals to change the state’s quorum requirements.

Under the state’s Constitution, both chambers of the Legislature require two-thirds of members present in order to pass bills and complete other tasks.

Democrats are shy of that threshold by two members in the Senate, and three members in the House.

But Democrats are considering trying to change that math. Under a resolution introduced in the Senate, Oregon voters would decide in 2022 whether to change the state’s quorum threshold to

a simple majority, a standard in many other states.

That resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 4, has yet to be scheduled for a hearing this year. But that appears likely to change.

“Oregonians will hold Senate Republicans accountable and responsible for walking off the job,” Senate Majority Leader Rob Wagner said in a statement Thursday. “There will be consequences for their breach of the public trust. We will advance new rules and laws that will deter future walkouts and provide accountability for all elected officials who refuse to show up for Oregonians.”

Wagner is the chair of the Senate Rules Committee, where SJR 4 currently sits.

Asked about the Republican no-show, House Speaker Tine Kotek on Monday voiced support for changes to quorum rules.

“We cannot normalize the behavior of people walking off the job,” Kotek said. “It was bad in 2019 when this happened. It was bad in 2020. It’s deplorable that it’s happening now, again, in the middle of a crisis. ... I’m hoping it was a one-off because there’s no rhyme or reason to it.”

This story has been reprinted through a partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting.

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Around 150 technical employees at St. Charles Medical Center plan to walk off the job on March 4, hoping to settle an ongoing contract dispute with their employer. Representatives from the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, along with attorneys for St. Charles met in federal court March 2, after St. Charles filed a suit against the union in an effort to keep workers from striking.

Technical employees—which include therapists, technicians and other technologists at the hospital—have been negotiating with their employer for higher wages and working conditions they call “disrespectful” for over a year. The employees joined the OFNHP union in 2019 and began negotiations soon after.

“This unit of frontline caregivers has been bargaining their first contract for more than a full year, and the hospital has yet to agree to critical provisions about pay and other working conditions,” the OFNHP described in a Feb. 23 release. “In addition, the hospital broke federal labor law by unilaterally changing pay for some healthcare professionals. Over the weekend of January 31st and February 1st the techs held an informational picket at the hospital with mass participation. On December 3, 2020, the hospital canceled bargaining and only agreed to return to the bargaining table following that picket.

After subsequently agreeing to mediation, management canceled all future bargaining when they were given notice of a strike.”

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Representatives from St. Charles believe the strike notice was unlawful.

“The National Labor Relations Act requires that when a first contract is being negotiated the union must provide at least 30-days’ notice of the contract dispute to state and federal mediation agencies so the dispute may be resolved without a work stoppage,” said Rebecca Berry, vice president of Human Resources for St. Charles in a release March 1. “As a result, we believe the strike notice is unlawful and the NLRB [National Labor Relations Board] is now investigating that issue.”

But on March 2, the judge denied St. Charles’ injunction, saying the court did not have the authority to issue the injunction, due to the fact that the issue is under review by the NLRB. “We had hoped the courts would give us additional time to get back to the bargaining table with the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals so that we could reach a contract agreement without an impact to our patients,” said Aaron Adams, president of St. Charles Bend in a March 2 release. “We are disappointed in the outcome but will continue our preparations to hire and onboard replacement workers and minimize disruptions to our patients and community.”

Union representatives believe St. Charles is putting all of Central Oregon at risk by being “unwilling to negotiate a settlement in advance of the strike date.”

“So far the hospital has not shown their ability to fill vacancies created by the strike with replacement workers, meaning that it is uncertain how they will operate the hospital come Thursday,” the union wrote Courtesy OFNHP

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in a March 2 release. “Right now, the employees are planning to walk off the job Thursday morning, unless the hospital returns to the table and settles the contract in the preceding hours. The strike was authorized by 94% of the medical therapists, technicians and technologists at St. Charles, an unprecedented number.”

Community members are planning to join union members on the picket line at St. Charles Medical Center at 10 am on March 4. Financial support for striking workers has also been set up via a GoFundMe fundraiser, titled “OFNHP Cares – Member Hardship Relief Fund.”

Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Selects Body Cams

By Nicole Vulcan

Techs at St. Charles have been negotiating for over a year for a new contract.

Deputies with the Deschutes County Sheriff ’s Office will begin wearing body cams starting in early May, after several months of testing various options for the technology. DCSO began testing body-worn and in-car camera systems in November, with each deputy testing the two brands of camera systems for 30 days at a time, the department stated in a release. Ultimately, DCSO opted to go with the Safe Fleet- Coban camera systems—the same systems in use by Oregon State Police, the Washington State Patrol and the Seattle Police Department.

DCSO deputies will begin wearing the cameras starting the week of May 3, with in-car camera systems installed in later phases of the process. The department’s policy around body and in-car cameras will be available to see on its website at sheriff.deschutes.org when it’s finalized.

“The Sheriff ’s Office knows implementing the use of body-worn cameras is an important step in enhancing public trust and the transparency of our operations,” DCSO stated in a Feb. 26 press release. “We also know implementing the camera systems comes at a cost to the residents of Deschutes County. Based on the results of the testing, the Sheriff ’s Office believes the decision to choose Safe Fleet - Coban allows the Sheriff ’s Office to implement body-worn and in-car cameras systems in the most fiscally responsible manner.”

With cameras, in theory, operational at all times, storing and managing all the data gathered represents a big part of the overall expense—as does the work of redacting information and blurring out people’s faces before sharing body cam footage with the public.

DSCO estimates the cost for all of the body-worn and in-car camera systems at $750,000 over a five-year period, said Sgt. Jayson Janes, public information officer for DCSO, which includes maintenance and camera upgrades. “As far as storage, we have just purchased additional storage for our office which will include storage for the camera data.

This cost was around $19,000. We are also planning for an additional full-time employee,” Janes told the Source. “The specifics of the job description is still being worked on, but this person will assist with the release of camera footage for court, public records requests, and the redaction of video footage.”

A U.S. Department of Justice survey of state officers in 2002 found that in cases where dash camera footage was used in a misconduct complaint, the officer was exonerated 93% of the time.

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ay attention to issues around local social justice, pandemic support, activism or homelessness issues this year and very likely you’ll see at least one name repeated in all those spheres: Morgan Schmidt. A pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Bend, Schmidt made a name for herself in 2020 by founding Pandemic Partners, a Facebook group aimed at supporting those who needed help and offering a place for those who wanted to help to do so. That alone was enough for at least a dozen community members to nominate her for the Source’s Woman of the Year award—but Schmidt has also done much more. During the summer of wildfires, Schmidt helped organize a “smoke shelter” at her church, allowing those who live outdoors or in temporary dwellings some relief. The site later served as a temporary winter warming shelter when freezing weather arrived earlier than the planned space was ready for.

Schmidt was also resident cheerleader and crowd organizer during the summer’s impromptu protest that surrounded two buses containing Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees—where you might have seen her among those on the front line, facing off against federal agents. All of these activities made Schmidt a natural choice for Woman of the Year—and our panel of past Woman of the Year honorees agreed.

Learn more about Morgan Schmidt, in her own words:

“Pandemic Partners started of course in response to realizing coronavirus would be a reality for us here in the United States about mid-March of 2020.

It kind of came out of a desire to not just worry about what happens to worship on Sundays, but how do we continue to be a presence of love and to serve our neighbors. And kind of on a whim

I thought, maybe if we start a Facebook group where people can connect and help each other, that could be kind of a cool platform. And so Pandemic Partners was born, and it was this really simple premise of, if you need help, make a post and ask for help. And if you can help, comment and connect with that person in a safe way and help them out.

I couldn’t really believe the way that we kind of grew overnight—3,000 people joined this movement of kindness in the first 24 hours, I think. And a year later, we have about 12,000 members that are continuing to just practice this radical kindness toward their neighbors.

And we started to call it “crowdsourcing kindness,” where someone can ask, and you know, we can’t fix huge systemic issues, but we can do what neighbors are meant to do and look out for each other.

That kind of surprise growth—I mean, I’m not a Facebook connoisseur or social-media savvy, but I didn’t realize the power that kind of energy for love and kindness—that kind of community buy-in—and so really started opening doors for Pandemic Partners as a group and myself as kind of the curator of that space to be involved in some other advocacy work here in Bend. I was shocked to be invited to some pretty big tables; to have conversation around equality and social justice on a grander scale not specific to COVID, but we know that the COVID pandemic has highlighted things that have kind of been in the mix in our community for a very long time—pandemics of poverty, epidemics of racism and the mix of climate change, you can say. So it’s been such an honor to be in the position where, in the last year, I have met just some of the most amazing human beings in our community who are

doing incredible work. I feel like a child in their presence, just learning from them and becoming aware of some of these people who have been working hard for so long for justice, and so that our whole community flourishes. And for whatever reason, Pandemic Partners has given me a platform to not only connect with these people, but highlight, elevate their work and try to get them some more support.

I keep expecting us to run out of steam. I keep expecting it to just be like a fleeting run—do people really want to help? I don’t think that energy ever goes away. I think we just sometimes run out of ideas, or don’t know how to help, and so through Pandemic Partners we’ve got a really cool way of saying, hey, you still got that energy? Here’s where you could put it. Here’s tangible ways you can actually help your neighbor.

There’s part of me that sometimes worries that it’ll become less glamorous to care. There’s part of me that worries, as we go back to whatever we’re going to use for “The New Normal,” that we’ll start to forget this magic that we tended to, of caring for one another, this going out of our way to advocate, practice radical kindness. I think we all know that in the grand scheme of “normal life,” it can move fast, be really insular. We can be more and more separated—which is ironic in a COVID time, where we’re told to physically distance, in a way I think that’s made us more connected and care for one another. And it’s been an experience of solidarity—not one I would wish on any of us. But I think as we get caught back up in the normalcy of life and the everyday freedoms that we all miss desperately, that it is easy to kind of forget that this work needs to continue. It’s easy to forget that there’s not an on-off switch; it’s just

always on. The work of justice, the need for kindness continues.

The whole reason I was at First Pres in the first place is that they have been in Bend a long time, advocating for justice for a long time, and they’re willing to try crazy ideas around that. So I’ve really been so honored to have the support of our church, of our board, of the community at large for the most part—you know, can’t speak for everybody—but by and large, I think it’s been a really powerful way for folks even within our church community, but then of course beyond who might be stuck at home, who might be limited in how much they could physically go out and do to help somebody, they have ways of now connecting and making some things happening. It’s really exciting. I think it’s been energizing and life-giving.

There’s a group of us that formed Clergy for Justice of Central Oregon this past summer. That’s a group of us from all over the place within Central Oregon denominations who—many of us have experienced being a clergy presence in protest environments, and knowing that that’s more of a new thing for Bend this past year. It’s happened before, but certainly not to the extent that I think we’ve seen last year. It just became really important to us to accompany those leaders as activists and those folks who might be new and coming out for the first time. So, you know, we had conversations around, ‘What does it mean for us to model non-violence, to model that peacemaking posture, to model kindness and love that we hope we’re showing up to give support to you?”

WATCH: Video of Morgan Schmidt talking about her work with Pandemic Partners and more, which accompanies this story

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“We know that humanity is extremely diverse, and we’ve got this social structure that kind of accepts certain categories of people and a very binary way of looking at human beings. But human beings are way more diverse than that.

There are a lot of people who are transgender, gender non-binary, gender diverse in some way and don’t fit into binary social constructs. Some people will identify in a variety of ways. Some people are seeking gender affirmation to help ease gender dysphoria, which is a severe extreme reaction to one’s incongruence—that sense of incongruence in their bodies. Other people are transgender or gender non-binary and know that there are things they want to do to make their bodies more congruent with how they feel inside, without having that extreme gender dysphoria. People can do it with name changes, with pronoun changes, with dress changes and makeup, and ways they present themselves.

People can also do it by initiating hormones, and that’s where we step in. We can do hormone therapy.

Planned Parenthood is all about promoting and protecting and securing access for people to sexual and reproductive health, and we have broader reach than I had when we were at the County, so I’ve been able to launch much more into—of course, what everyone knows Planned Parenthood for, which is abortion care, which is a very, very small percentage of what we do—but also, we launched gender-affirming health care in 2016 in the Portland area. And in 2018 I got to take on that role of launching it here in Bend. We weren’t sure what the

My favorite part is the day when people come in for their initial visit and we talk, we just get a summary of their journey up to that point, what they’re seeking, what their goals are, who they have for support, are there any safety concerns for them and just giving a general sense of their overall health and well-being. And then I say, ‘OK, well, what pharmacy would you like me to send these hormones to,’ and they say, ‘Are you kidding me? This is today?’

People break down in tears. People are overjoyed—have huge smiles on their faces. It’s so amazing to be part of that journey for somebody to be able to offer that without barrier, without

“People are calling us for gender-affirming care services from all over the state of Oregon, which has been incredible to be able to open that service up, and see that it’s a need of a service that was missing in our health care system.”

—Carrie McGuigan numbers were going to look like—who was going to need our services, and it’s been easily well-utilized I feel like because we have limited barriers to get to our services and our care, people are able to access us. We’ve been able to serve our local community, and then with the pandemic, we really developed our telehealth capabilities, and now we’ve been able to do outreach with the entire state. People are calling us for gender-affirming care services from all over the state of Oregon, which has been incredible to be able to open that service up and see that it’s a need of a service that was missing in our health care system.

judgement. Without question that is my favorite moment in those visits.

We also partnered with local partners and at around the same time Mosaic Medical was also doing a huge shift in making sure that their services were transgender friendly—also have partnered with them to create a safety net for transgender gender non-binary folks in our community.

They offer a wider range of primary care services, which is great and they offer care for pediatrics in gender-affirming care.

We’re only 18 and over.

There are several organizations locally, within Bend. Out Central Oregon, we have a transgender health coalition. The

pandemic kind of made the whole thing crash a little bit, but we’re just trying to create a website—which we’re still, you know, we’ll probably get back to that— with Mosaic, with other independent partners in mental health and voice therapy, other independent primary care providers and create a website so people could come to Central Oregon, find that website and figure out who’s supportive. And that can be part of people’s support system when they move here or while they’re living here.

The qualities I admire in leadership are vulnerability and humility. To be able to see what’s going on around you, make sure you can help get more vulnerable marginalized people at the table, and empower them also to be at the table, and to be representing, so that all voices can be heard. I think so often people call this identity politics. Politics is identity. All of our identities go into creating who we are as we represent ourselves and fight for ourselves and advocate for ourselves and try to challenge the institutions and the systems that were established a long time ago to favor only certain parts of our community.

I decided to go into nursing after I spent three years in West Africa living in Ivory Coast doing health education work with the Peace Corps. That was kind of my big entrée into—the world had opened up and I realized diversity in the world was just vast. I came back, and I had been working with international Planned Parenthood there, and doing a lot of work with women, helping them get access to birth control. I came back and went into nursing, did a whole lot of nursing in the hospital setting, and realized I need to get back to my love of public health. I got my nurse practitioner degree in 2010.

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arrie McGuigan, nominated by a co-worker, is a Family Nurse Practitioner working at Planned Parenthood’s Bend Health Center. Carrie worked at Deschutes County reproductive health and sexually transmitted infections clinic for seven years before joining the Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette Bend Health Center Team in 2018. Carrie’s passion and advocacy for nonjudgmental health care in underrepresented communities made her a great fit at Planned Parenthood. It was this passion coupled with organizational support that allowed the Bend Health Center, under Carrie’s leadership, to launch Gender-Affirming Care for the first time ever.

Here’s what McGuigan had to say about her life and her work, in her own words.

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I’m working on an honor’s thesis focused on social media and the Black Lives Matter movement. I also work at a trail company and equestrian center in Sunriver, and I work in the winters at Cascades Academy coaching the Mock Trial team.

As I was watching this (Black Lives Matter) go down over social media, I was stuck in my house, I had the spare time and I was watching different people with different interpretations of what was happening. And there’s folks on both sides supporting and not supporting the movement, and one thing that I found particularly frustrating from my own personal experience was that there was very clearly a binary there. There were two sides to this; you were for it or you were against it, and it was just butting

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heads constantly. If you believed one side you were wrong by the other side, and there wasn’t any discussion.

So, what I’m trying to research is, can we have conversations via social media about these types of things—BLM is one of the bigger ones, but any political thing, there’s just such a binary. And so what I want to do is look into, under what circumstances can we actually talk about it? Is it even possible or are we so focused on our own narratives and don’t even care about the other side, that’s not a possibility. And if that’s the case, how do we appropriately handle that?

Outside of the animals I work with— they’ve been a part of my life forever and it’s something that I’ve always been really passionate about. Music is another one for me. And the natural world; I’m very passionate about the environment and doing what I can to do my part toward offsetting some of the damages we’re doing.

I’ve had my challenges. I’ve had difficulties with one of my biological parents that I’ve gotten through, and you know, just the general difficulties of just growing up, especially during a time when there’s a lot of societal stress, environmental stress, political stress. Right now, the world is difficult, but the way I’ve always got through everything is first of all talk about it. Find someone you trust. Talk about your issues. I know a lot of people like to just hold it deep in their soul and not express it to anyone.

Talk about it and seek the positive. It’s

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so easy to get wrapped in negative, especially when it’s like all the news puts forward when you turn on the TV. There’s a lot of negativity, and it’s easy to get into the mindset that that’s all there is.

It gets stressful, and then you get stuck.

There’s so much positive.

You’re seeing political cultures collide, and so something that worries me is with social media and us being able to put ourselves in this bubble of just only

seeing our own perspectives—what other problems is that gonna cause? And are we gonna be able to reach an equal ground with each other? But I’m also seeing so much good happening that is just spreading awareness and attempting to educate.

I was shocked to be nominated, let alone to get this, and so I’m really humbled and honored and excited to let people into my nerdy brain.”

a person who can help make change in the world and not sit back and wish that I could have done something and it’s really what I work and strive for to make this world a better place for my children.

I was with Central Oregon Diversity Project, but I’m not with that organization anymore. But while with that organization I hosted a school supply drive which was able to help over 45 children. After that I also did a costume Halloween drive, so children could have costumes.

where I sell candles. I make candles and oils, soap bars.

I always tell myself I want to be for others what I needed when I was a child, when I was a teenager. I wanted to be a resource. So, that means… being someone that can inspire others and be a resource for many others.

I hope that they [her children] can live in a world where race, sexual orientation or gender or any of that stuff doesn’t even matter. Where they can wake up and ask somebody, ‘Hey, what’s your name?’ And that literally be the only

“I hope that that’s one of the things that I hope that I can teach them as being their mother is, you know to always stand up for what you believe in.

Fight for what you are passionate about.”

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erstin Arias was nominated by a handful of people in two categories: Woman of the Year and Community Hero. While our panel of past honorees ultimately selected other nominees for the three awards we’d set out to give, we couldn’t let Arias go unrecognized.

Over the past year, Arias has been activated in the community through her initial work with the Central Oregon Diversity Project, and eventually on her own as the year progressed. As an artist and a mother of three, the caring commitment she’s extended toward children, families and those struggling with the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism this year deserved recognition.

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Here’s more about Kerstin Arias, in her own words.

“My name is Kerstin. I will be 25 on Sunday. I was born and raised in Wichita Falls, Texas. I moved here to help my mom run an opiate addiction recovery clinic where then I started college at COCC. I started a family here, where now I have three boys—one that’s 12, one that’s five, an 11-month-old and our pet dog.

I consider myself an activist. I love my community. I love working with and for my community and serving my community. And yeah, I want to be

I organized a holiday dinner for families, which was able to help over 120 families. We partnered up with Food 4 Less, and we were able to give out certificates.

After that I did a Christmas toy drive, which was able to help over 100 families with their kids and their parents, which was really awesome. We were able to have the kids take a picture with Santa. It’s just really, really cool. It made me really happy while following all precautions and you know, with COVID happening.

I also just started my own business

question they should have to ask somebody to get to know somebody and want to be their friend. And just live in a world that is full of peace and love and unity for they no longer have the fight—for any of the things that we as people are still having to fight for as our rights. Yes, and you know, obviously to have a great, successful wonderful life and to use their voices and I hope that that’s one of the things that I hope that I can teach them as being their mother is, you know to always stand up for what you believe in. Fight for what you are passionate about.”

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Soulful blues and upbeat rock make for a fun weekday evening on the patio at River’s Place. Enjoy the sunny spring weather with good times and live music! Wed., March 3, 5-7pm. River’s Place, 787 NE Purcell Blvd., Bend. No cover.

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The weekly concert series continues with two local artists and plenty of fun. Join the Bunk + Brew crew for live music, heated igloos and lots of good eats and brews. Fri. March 5, 5-7pm. Bunk + Brew Historic Lucas House, 42 NW Hawthorne Ave., Bend. No cover.

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Climate change is a process that negatively affects many species and increases extinction rates. Learn more about the several species that can be allies to those trying to reduce climate change and its harmful impacts. Thu., March 4, 5:30-6:30pm. facebook.com/ events/843293692921577. Free.

KNOW WILD: CENTRAL OREGON BIOREGIONAL HERBALISM UNDERSTANDING THE PLANTS AROUND US

Join clinical Herbalist Holly Hutton as she shares her knowledge of the plants in our region and their properties. Get to know how to harvest and use simple plants as medicine. Fri., March 5, 2-3pm. deschuteslibrary.org/calendar/event/61493. Free.

SATURDAY 3/6

Worthy Brewing is bringing live music back to the patio with local favorites Toast & Jam this weekend!

Grab a friend and beer and head over or stay in and catch the livestream on their Facebook page. Sat., March 6, 5:30pm. Worthy Brewing, 495 NE Bellevue Dr., Bend. No cover.

MONDAY 3/8

BUILDING POWER AND CHANGE FOR NATIVE PEOPLE WITH SAVANNAH ROMERO

IllumiNative is an initiative that is using several tools to disrupt native invisibility and toxic misconceptions or biases that persist throughout American society.

Savannah Romero will discuss how IllumiNative is using research, narrative, and culture change strategies to meet this goal. Mon., March 8, Noon-1:15pm. cocc. edu. Free.

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AUTHOR! AUTHOR!: NICHOLAS KRISTOF & SHERYL WUDUNN THE LAST AUTHOR CHAT IN THIS YEAR’S SERIES

New York Times reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn share more about their upcoming book and past coverage. The pair received a Pulitzer Prize for their work on covering China’s Tiananmen Square movement. March 4, 7pm. dplfoundation.org/author-author. $25.

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WORLD MUSE UNCONFERENCE CELEBRATING WOMXN AND YOUTH

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The images are extreme close-ups of pieces of rock that give the viewer a look at the inside of these cosmic rocks. Sat., March 6, 9-5pm. High Desert Museum, 59800 S. HWY 97, Bend. Free with museum admission.

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end pianist/composer Julie Hanney has been involved with music for decades, doing everything from being a piano teacher to being a published composer and professional musician who just released her third solo piano album. The album, titled “Where the Ocean Meets the Sky,” is made of 14 softly crafted piano songs that really capture a moment of peace—an offering Hanney thought would be beneficial not only to her, but others throughout the past trying year.

“Where the Ocean Meets the Sky” is a dedication to Hanney’s late mother, who passed away in 2020. Hanney says the feeling of peace and relation to the ocean was inspired by her mom, for whom she originally wrote a memorial poem which would eventually share the same name as this album.

Source Weekly: How long were you working on making the album and what is your process like when working on a new song?

Julie Hanney: I spent most of 2020 working on this album. Once COVID happened and my work rhythm switched to being at home nearly 24/7, I was able to spend more time writing, refining and recording. For me, every song I write has a unique creation process. Sometimes I will be journaling and a melody will pop in my head and I have to go to the piano to figure out what I heard. Other times I will just be noodling around on the piano and two chords will suddenly sound really good together, and then that leads to a melody, and then a whole song just flows from there. Sometimes I just have a snippet of an idea that I record on my phone and then I refine it

into something later. Occasionally in the middle of the night I will “hear” something in my mind and have to get out of bed to write it down.

SW: When incorporating the theme of the ocean into the album, what were some things you focused on when playing? When I listen I really get this overwhelming sense of peace, almost like calm waters across the horizon.

JH: Wow, thank you for saying that.

I definitely thought about the peace that I feel when I’m walking on the beach. There is such a unique, peaceful and yet powerful energy there with the rolling surf, the ever-changing tides and the way the sun hits the water. And of course, where the ocean meets the sky. That beautiful, spacious horizon is breathtaking.

SW: With the album being dedicated to your mother, do you feel a special connection to this project in ways you haven’t before?

JH: I definitely do. My mom passed away in January of 2020 and she loved the ocean and lived by it for many years later in her life. When she passed away my siblings and I all recalled how important the ocean was to her. For her memorial service I wrote a poem called “Where the Ocean Meets the Sky” that is about how she continues to live in the great beyond. I then wrote several of the songs on this album with her in mind. It was definitely part of my grieving and healing process. And 2020 was a year of loss and change for so many people, it felt like I was writing this album for everyone who needed a bit of peace and healing.

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4 Thursday Bridge 99 Brewery Thursday Trivia Night

at Bridge 99 Bundle up and join us for trivia outdoors at Bridge 99. Fire pits, heaters, food trucks and brews are on the ready. Win gift cards. Please continue to properly distance and mask up please! Subject to cancellation with poor weather. 6-8pm. Free.

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The Ultimate Oldies Show A locally-pro-

Bunk+Brew Historic Lucas House

Bunk+Brew Presents: Sunday Trivia Night!

Brainiacs & whizkids - Join us this Sunday in The Yard @ Bunk+Brew at 6:00p for a fun-filled night of trivia! Assorted categories will test your knowledge and one group will be crowned the Kings/Queens of knowledge in The Yard!

Free. Groups of 1-4. Prizes awarded throughout the night! 6-8pm.

River’s Place Trivia Brunch Edition! Yummy new brunch options from the food trucks and of course Mimosas from the tap house. Free to play and prizes to win! Due to state mandate, seating is strictly outside. Come early and grab a seat at one of our many heated and fire pit tables.

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Bunk+Brew Historic Lucas House High Desert Nights @ Bunk+Brew -

Live Music with Tyson Vandenbroucke + Profit Drama! HDMC and Bunk+Brew present a weekly Friday night concert series featuring Bend’s best local artists! Heated and covered igloos, bonfires, and heaters available for you to enjoy the night in comfort! Food & beer also available! Free + All ages Come lively up your Friday at The Yard @ Bunk+Brew! 5-7pm. No cover.

Sisters Sisters Songworks 3.0: An Intimate Virtual Writing Retreat Sisters Songworks is an intimate and intensive virtual writing retreat celebrating and exploring the art of songwriting in community. 6pm. $175.

6 Saturday Bunk+Brew Historic Lucas House

Bunk+Brew Presents: Saturdays in the Yard with Mystic Jake - Live Music! Live music originals by Mystic Jake - an impromptu fusion of country blues, tribal beats, and healing electronic energy presented through original tunes by Jake Soto and fantastical rhythm arrangements

by Jhana and Bob Morris. Heated and covered igloos, bonfires, and heaters available for you to enjoy in comfort. 5-7pm. No cover.

Worthy Brewing Spring Sessions: Toast & Jam Duo Join us for music on the patio with Toast & Jam or watch the stream on the Worthy Facebook page! 5:30pm. No cover.

Initiative Brewing Tuesday Night Trivia in Redmond Tuesday Night Trivia in Redmond!

New start time at 6pm at Initiative Brewing. It’s UKB Trivia outdoors on the partially sheltered patio with gas fire pits. It’s free to play with prize cards to win! Event is on each week, weather permitting, so dress warm! Please mask-up and keep distance. Free.

10 Wednesday Worthy Brewing Spring Sessions: John Shipe Join us for music on the patio with John Shipe or watch the stream on the Worthy Facebook page! Gushing reviews surround Shipe’s multi-genred Americana work. His last two projects — Yellow House and Villain — charted in 6 countries on 3 continents. 5:30pm. No cover.

MUSIC Sunriver Music Festival’s Young Artists Scholarship Auditions Tune in, advanced

music students of Central Oregon, this is for you!

Sunriver Music Festival’s Young Artists Scholarship applications are due April 15th and auditions will be June 4-6th. To qualify, students must be a permanent resident of Central Oregon and perform at an advanced level. Mondays-Sundays. Through April 15. Contact: 541-593-1084. information@ sunrivermusic.org. Free.

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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. Stories, anecdotes, chart information, interview clips and trivia complement the recognized, the long forgotten and the seldom heard rock’n’soul records of that memorable period. Fridays, 6-8pm. KPOV, 501 NW Bond St., Bend. Contact: mikeficher@gmail.com. Free.

DANCE Community Dance Break! Time for a break-

with some lightness, joy, play, and connection in your day. Come dance! Be inspired by others, the music, the energy. Wednesdays, 12:30-12:40pm. Contact: 541-948-7015. soulinmotionbend@gmail.com. Free.

Soul in Motion Sunday Gathering Drop

down from the commotion of your mind and be lead by your heart, hips, and feet in mindful movement and dance. 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: 541-9487015. soulinmotionbend@gmail.com. $20.

FILM EVENTS Mountainfilm on Tour-Bend: Second Show 2021 will be a new virtual experience fea-

turing two weekends of spectacular films. Check out Mountainfilm’s inspiring program from the comfort of your own home — wherever you are, at a time that works best for you! Each program will be available for a 3-day window. Fri, March 5, Sat, March 6, Sun, March 7 and Mon, March 8. Contact: 541-385-6908. priscilla@envirocenter.org. $10-$50.

Vintage Ski Film in the Alley Join us outside in the alley for a fun evening of vintage ski films!

Button up your favorite ski suit and come on out!

Serving up beer, wine, hot cider, cocoa, tea, fresh hot theater popcorn and, of course, the best old ski films you need to see! Thursdays-Fridays, 6:30pm.

Through April 1. Tin Pan Alley, Off Minnesota, between Thump and the Wine Shop, Bend. $15-$30.

Virtual: Backcountry Film Festival Calling all ski bums, backcountry adventurers, thrill seekers and winter enthusiasts! Get ready for goosebumps as you “Ooh!” and “Ahh!” at the impact and importance of our winter wildlands through this collection of short films. The sixteenth annual Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival will be available to watch in Central Oregon beginning February 20th, and running through March 13th in our first-ever virtual screening experience. All proceeds will go to support the efforts of Discover Your Forest. Feb. 20-March 13. Contact: 503-840-8170. amy.jensen@discovernw.org. $20-$60.

ARTS & CRAFTS “A Still Moment” Group Show at Tumalo Art Co. Rest. Breathe. Be quiet. Our artists in-

terpret the theme, “A Still Moment”, for the March group show at Tumalo Art Co. Many subjects and genres—still life, landscape, figures, animals and more. March 5, 10am-7pm. Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr., Ste. 407, Bend. Contact: 541-3859144. art@tumaloartco.com.

Exploring Possibilities Art show of Exploring

Check out the Deschutes Public Library's "Know Wild" virtual series, including one all about wolves in the West, Tue., March 9th from 6-7pm.

Possibilities To explore the inward significance of Art. To the Imagination of our artists with the examination of their mediums. The connection they share with you as you explore their Art. Come explore at hood Avenue Art. Sisters art gallery. Mondays-Thursdays-Sundays, 11am-4pm. Through March 23. Hood Avenue Art, 357 W Hood Ave., Sisters, Sisters. Contact: 541-719-1800. info@hoodavenueart.com.

PRESENTATIONS & EXHIBITS Building Power & Change for Native People with Savannah Romero

Savannah Romero will discuss how IllumiNative is using research, narrative, and culture change strategies to disrupt invisibility and toxic misconceptions about Native peoples within diverse sectors of American society. March 8, 12-1:15pm.

Contact: 541-383-7257. cgilbride@cocc.edu. Free.

Collaboratives: You Take The Good & The Bad For good reason, forest collaboratives

have been widely celebrated. However, as collaboratives get increasing social, political, and legal clout, many are beginning to raise serious concerns. Especially conservationists. Therefore, it’s equally important to recognize their shortcomings and the importance of preserving other avenues that allow the broad public to provide meaningful input into decisions made on our public lands. facebook.com/pielcuo March 7, 10:30am-Noon. Free.

Exhibition Opening: Cosmic Microscapes: Seeing into Rocks from Oregon and Space Join us for the opening

day of the exhibition Cosmic Microscapes: Seeing into Rocks from Oregon and Space. This exhibition blends art and science to reveal the breathtaking beauty of meteorites—rocks from space! University of Washington geochemist and meteoricist Dr. Tony Irving and photographer Neil Buckland combined forces to create extreme macroscopic, panoramic photographs of meteorite slices just 30 microns thick. March 6, 9am-5pm. High Desert Museum, 59800 S. Highway 97, Bend. Contact: 541-3824754. bburda@highdesertmuseum.org. Free with Museum admission.

Forever 21? Trump’s Attacks on Eastern Oregon For over 2 decades large trees and old

growth in Eastern Oregon have been protected by the Eastside Screens. The rules were meant to be a placeholder for more comprehensive protections. In 2020, the Trump Administration began a process to remove and weaken these protections that have enhanced wildlife habitat, water quality & quantity, soils, carbon sequestration and more. facebook.com/pielcuo March 5, 1-2:30pm. Free.

Know Wild - Central Oregon Bioregional Herbalism Learn about local

plants’ medical properties and ethical harvesting. Clinical Herbalist Holly Hutton shares her in-depth knowledge on plants in our bioregion and their herbal properties, including their ethnobotanical history. This program will be available to watch on-demand beginning March 5th at 2:00 p.m. March 5, 2-3pm. Contact: 541-312-1029. laurelw@deschuteslibrary.org. Free.

Know Wild - Wolves in the West Learn about the wolf’s natural history, biology, and society & their history of eradication up to today’s current management programs with retired wolf biologist Dick Thiel of the International Wolf Center. This is a live Zoom webinar. Register here for the link: zoom. us/webinar/register/WN_uT9gy-0zSVqLrjkbK_ uqzw Recording will be available after March 11.

March 9, 6-7pm. Contact: 541-312-1029. laurelw@ deschuteslibrary.org. Free.

Observatory Nighttime Visit Seek the stars

at the nation’s largest publicly accessible observatory. One-hour sessions include night sky viewing through various telescopes with staff astronomers, a guided constellation tour, meteorite displays, and an educational presentation. Capacity for each session is limited. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7-8pm and Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8:30-9:30pm. Through March 13. Sunriver Nature Center & Observatory, 57245 River Rd., Sunriver. $20.

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River’s Place Bobby Lindstrom Bobby and his band bring you soul-inspiring blues and rock. Enjoy this beautiful weather with some live music! 5-7pm. No cover.

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CALENDAR PIELC 2021: Making Sense of Oregon’s 2020 Fire Season Oregon’s 2020 fire

season was the most extreme and destructive in the state’s history. Now, six months after the historic Labor Day Fires, the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) is hosting a panel to discuss the implications of the 2020 fire season for wildfire policy and forest management. March 6, 3-4pm. Free.

Resilient You! An 8 Week Class; Ignite Your 12 Spiritual Powers and Create a Radiant Life! Learn how to harness the

12 Powers of wisdom, love, strength, faith, imagination, order, understanding, will, power, zeal, release, and life itself in order to free yourself from suffering and to thrive in this world!

Mondays, 5:30-7pm. Through March 29. Contact: 541-390-8244. janeyhiatt@gmail.com. $75.

Wildlife as Allies in the Fight Against Climate Change Though climate

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change is negatively affecting many wildlife species and exacerbating the extinction crisis, there are a number of species that can be allies in our fight to stop climate change. Species like beavers and sea otters, to name a couple, are not only critical keystone species, but are integral to sustaining healthy ecosystems. March 4, 5:30-6:30pm. Free.

World Muse Unconference

MUSE UnConference will offer a variety of opportunities to break things down, from daily practices, to film screenings, performances, panel discussions, interviews, and a workshop session. museunconference2021.squarespace.com. March 4-7. $1-$200.

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Zach Filkins at Box Factory Local artist

Zach Filkins will display his artwork in our Box Factory Breezeway beginning February 1st March 26. Pieces will be available for purchase and a percentage of proceeds will go towards The Giving Plate. Feb. 1-March 26. Box Factory, 550 SW industrial way, Bend.

WORDS Author! Author!: Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn New York Times report-

ers Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn received a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square movement. Their most recent book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, follows, in part, the lives of some of the people Kristof grew up with near Yamhill, Oregon. March 4, 7pm. $25.

Current Fiction Book Club On March 3rd we will discuss A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom

by John Boyne. Please visit roundaboutbookshop. com for Zoom info. March 3, 6-7pm. Contact: 541306-6564. sara@roundaboutbookshop.com. Free.

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we will discuss The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by VE Schwab. Please visit roundaboutbookshop.com for Zoom info. March 8, 6-7pm. Contact: 541-3066564. sara@roundaboutbookshop.com. Free.

Out of This World Book Club On March

10th, we will discuss Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline. Please visit roundaboutbookshop.com for Zoom info. March 10, 6-7pm. Contact: 541-3066564. sara@roundaboutbookshop.com. Free.

Virtual Poetry Slam A virtual open

mic and poetry slam to uplift voices and ideas of those that are historically unheard. Register in advance if you’d like to secure your spot, or just show up and step up. To register in advance, please contact Paige M. Ferro at paigef@deschuteslibrary.org. March 10, 6-7:30pm. Contact: 541-312-1063. paigef@deschuteslibrary.org. free.

ETC. Fjällräven Bend Spring/Summer 2021 Launch Party! Get an exclusive sneak peek at

our Spring/Summer 2021 collection by booking an appointment between March 5th and 7th to shop instore. Every pre-booked appointment receives a gift with purchase! Fri, March 5, 11am-6pm, Sat, March 6, 11am-6pm and Sun, March 7, 11am-6pm. 830 NW Wall St, 830 Northwest Wall Street, Bend. Free.

Passion, Drive, Bravery: The Life of Jessi Combs In 2019, professional racer Jessi

Combs, who is included in the exhibit Daredevils, set a new land speed record in Oregon’s Alvord Desert. Tragically, she died while setting this record. The Jessi Combs Foundation has gone on to honor her legacy. March 3, 6-7pm. Contact: 541-382-4754. info@highdesertmuseum.org. Free.

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

vaccinations, deworming and microchips at our walk-in wellness clinic. No appointments necessary, first come first served. Saturdays, 9am-2pm.

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

VOLUNTEER Call for Volunteers - Play with Parrots! Volunteers needed at Second Chance Bird

Rescue! Friendly people needed to help socialize birds to ready for adoption, make toys, clean cages and make some new feathered friends! Do you play a musical instrument? Come and practice for the birds! Located past Cascade Lakes Distillery, call for hours and location. Contact: 916-956-2153.

Volunteer Opportunity Are you a Jack/Jill of all trades? There’s everything from small engine, fencing, troubleshooting in a barn/rescue facility that require TLC repairs. Seize this opportunity; volunteer at Mustangs To The Rescue (MTTR).

MTTR is a 501 C3 organization located in Bend.

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 Salva-

tion Army has a wide variety of volunteer opportunities for almost every age. We have an emergency food pantry, we visit residents of assisted living centers and we make up gifts for veterans and the homeless. Ongoing. Contact: 541-389-8888.

GROUPS & MEETUPS CASA Information: Be A Voice for Kids in Foster Care Have you thought about becom-

ing a CASA volunteer? Join us at one of our weekly one hour free Zoom informational sessions where you can learn more about advocating for children in foster care in Central Oregon. Thursdays, Noon1pm. Through March 18. Contact: 541-389-1619. training@casaofcentraloregon.org. Free.

Cribbage Cribbage group meets each Monday at Abby’s in Bend. Start promptly at 6PM. For more info please contact Rick @ 541-530-1112 Mondays, 6-9pm. Through March 29. Abby’s Legendary Pizza, 1115 Northeast Third St., Bend. Contact: 541-530-1112. becca65432155@gmail.com.

Fresh Tracks Virtual Silent Auction

Fresh Tracks is an online silent auction supporting the Central Oregon Avalanche Center and their mission of increasing avalanche awareness, education and safety in Central Oregon! Fri, Feb. 26, Midnight and Sun, March 7. Contact: info@ coavalanche.org.

High Desert Corvette Club Our purpose is to plan and conduct safe social activities and events that promote enjoyment of Corvettes.

We also contribute annually to local non profit organizations. Due to COVID, please check our website for meeting details: highdesertcorvettes. org Second Tuesday of every month, 6-7:30pm.

Contact: 909-994-7500. 1991highdesertcorvettes@ gmail.com. TBD. Intro to Beekeeping with Tumalo Bee Academy’s Master Beekeeper-Stephen Harris This is a free introductory session hosted

by Schillings Garden Market that will provide an overview of the entire Tumalo Bee Academy program and introduce you to your instructor Stephen Harris. Sat, March 6, 1-3pm. Schilling’s Garden Market, 64640 Old Bend Redmond Highway, Bend. Contact: 541-323-0160. BreannaS@ schillingsgardenmarket.com. Free.

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LWV Deschutes First Thursday: Affordable Housing Study We are currently holding

Poetry Workshop: Inspiration to Completion Take a poem (or three or four) from

inspiration to completion. Learn techniques that will help generate ideas, begin the writing process and shape it into what you want. Meets 3/9 & 3/16.

Registration required. March 9, 5:30-7pm. Contact: 541-383-7270. ceinfo@cocc.edu. $39.

FAMILY & KIDS Amelia’s World Puppet Show Join Amelia

Airheart Monkey & Miss Hannah for a fun & uplifting interactive zoom puppet show! All ages welcome, 3 & under please be accompanied by a sibling or parent/caregiver to assist with interaction. Message ACORN School of Art & Nature on Facebook to request the zoom link. Fridays, 4-4:15pm. Contact: https://m.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!

Each of these classes will include soft obstacle ninja warrior courses, yoga and fun. 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.

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: 541241-3919. info@freespiritbend.com. $99 per child.

Kids Ninja Warrior Half-Day Camp Dropoff 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.

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.

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Teen Girls’ Empowerment Group Ages

13-18. This group promotes confidence, calm, and friendship. One pay-what-you-can spot available for BIPOC. Nonbinary teens drawn to this offering are welcome. Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30pm. Through April 14. Blissful Heart ~ Yoga Barn, 29 NW Greeley Ave., Bend. Contact: 928-864-7166. onalee@unfurlbecome.com. Sliding scale $220-$420 for 8 weeks.

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Teen Volunteer Club Join Camp Fire Central

Oregon’s high school 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.

Wednesday Nature Days Join Camp Fire Central Oregon after school on Wednesdays! Filled with time outdoors, fun challenges, art, games and songs, Nature Days support youth in exploring their sparks, practicing social skills, creating connections, building community, and gaining confidence.

Wednesdays, 1:15-6pm. Through March 17. Sons of Norway Hall, 549 NW Harmon Blvd., Bend. Contact: 541-382-4682. info@campfireco.org. $35/day.

BEER & DRINK

10 Barrel’s “wizard staff” 12-pack kit is perfect for busting open on a sunny afternoon after a full day of adventure. Pick yours up at the Eastside 10 Barrel while supplies last!

Cross Country Ski Classes with The Suttle Lodge Cross country ski lessons + apres

Apres Ski Special at Zpizza Tap Room Apres Ski Special at Zpizza is happening Thur-Sun on our outside heated patio! Slice of premium pizza & beeronly $5! Happy Hour with 18 taps and big -screen TVs. Show your Mt. B lift ticket, finish your epic day on your way down from the mountain with us from 4:006:00pm. Thur-Sun, 4-6pm. Zpizza Tap Room, 1082 SW Yates Drive, Bend. Contact: 541-382-2007. bendsales@ peppertreeinns.com. $5.

Mastondon Trail Race A relatively flat course, this race is a good early season race to see how the engines running without too much demand on the early season legs. March 7, 9am. Tumalo, downtown, Tumalo. $45-$50.

Cross Cut Warming Hut: Locals’ Day!

Planet Fitness Home Work-Ins Planet Fit-

ski package at The Suttle Lodge March 6 and 7pm and March 7. The Suttle Lodge & Boathouse, 13300 Hwy 20, Sisters. $95.

Every Tuesday enjoy $1 off regular size draft beverages. Come by the Warming Hut and hang out by the fire. See you soon, Bend! Tuesdays. Cross Cut Warming Hut No 5, 566 SW Mill View Way, Bend.

ness is offering free daily workouts via livestream!

Visit the Planet Fitness Facebook page for more details. Ongoing, 4-5pm. Free.

Growler Discount Night! Enjoy $2 off growler

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

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 Come on down and join the local

family all day every Monday! 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

Brewing for $4 beers and cider and $1 off wine all day. Outdoor dining is open now! Tuesdays. Bevel Craft Brewing, 911 SE Armour Rd. Suite B, Bend.

Contact: holla@bevelbeer.com. Free.

ATHLETIC EVENTS Bend Area Running Fraternity The group will

run, maintaining social distance, along the Deschutes River and then receive discounted drinks from the cidery after the run! Mondays, 5pm. AVID Cider Co. Taproom, 550 SW Industrial Way, Bend. Contact: bendarearunningfraternity@gmail.com. Free.

CORK Thursday Run Join us for a run from

3-5 miles. Stay afterward for a drink and food. All ability levels welcome along with friendly on leash dogs. Thursdays, 6-7:30pm. Zpizza Tap Room, 1082 SW Yates Drive, Bend. Free.

Redmond Running Group Run All levels

HEALTH & WELLNESS Bend Pilates Bend Pilates is now offering a

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

Capoeira: A Perfect Adventure The Brazilian art form of Capoeira presents opportunities to develop personal insights, strength, balance, flexibility, musicality, voice, rhythm, and language 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.

Chanting Workshop with Jenni Peskin

Chanting is the easiest way to move the mind from its busy chatter into stillness and peace. Beginners especially welcome Live via Zoom from the comfort of your homr. March 6, 1:30-3:30pm. Contact: 541-550-8550. namaspayoga@gmail.com. $40.

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Getting Started With Essential Oils Bend Heard about essential oils but do not know

where to start? Join us for this free workshop to learn how to get started safely. Fridays, 7pm and Sundays, 10am. Through May 30. Riverhouse on the Deschutes, 3075 N. Highway 97, Bend. Free.

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

Kelly Jenkins. 5-6pm. Limited to five participants.

Thursdays: Foundation Flow with instructor Kelly Jenkins. 5-6pm. Limited to five participants. Schedule online or give us a call to reserve your spot!

Tuesdays-Thursdays, 5-6pm. Loft Wellness & Day Spa, 339 SW Century Drive Ste 203, Bend. Contact: 541-690-5100. info@loftbend.com. $20.

Livestream Pre + Postnatal Yoga Classes This class is designed to help pregnant

ladies and recently postpartum moms (6 weeks 1 year) safely strengthen and stretch their bodies, relax the mind, reduce discomfort, and improve postpartum recovery. Sundays, 10:30am. Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend. Contact: 541-797-3404. info@freespiritbend.com. $9.

Livestream Yoga Flow Classes This all levels livestream yoga flow class is built around sun salutations and creative sequencing to build heat, endurance, flexibility and strength. Tuesdays-Thursdays-Saturdays, 9:15-10:15am. Free Spirit Yoga + Fitness + Play, 320 SW Powerhouse Drive, Suite 150, Bend. Contact: 541-797-3404. info@freespiritbend.com. $9.

The Vance Stance/Structural Reprogramming Tired of being in pain? Get to the

root of why you are tight & suffering. In this series of two-hour classes in posture and flexibility.

Wed, March 3, 6pm, Thu, March 4, Noon, Mon, March 8, 12 and 6pm, Wed, March 10, 6pm. Noon.

EastSide Home Studio, 21173 Sunburst Ct., Bend.

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

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MEETUPS Mommy & Me Breastfeeding Support Group: This monthly meeting has two locations and times to meet, including one in downtown Bend and in Redmond. A little group full of moms, babies and experts to help you connect with your little one and each other. facebook.com/MommyandMeBreastfeedingSupportGroupStCharlesBend Wild Women Full Moon Circles: A women-only group hosted by the practitioners at Blissful Heart Wellness Center. This is a chance for women in the area to connect with each other virtually with new themes and topics each month. blissful-heart.com/event-page Teen Girl’s Empowerment Group: Blissful Heart also recently started a new group for teen girls to connect with each other and build mind-body-heart strength. Meeting Wednesdays throughout the spring. blissful-heart.com/eventpage/teen-girls-empowerment

OUT Central Oregon LGBTQ+ Support Group: This group meets once a week for a six-week series. There is limited space in each series and scholarships available for those who can’t afford the cost. Best for youth 11-13 years old looking for meaningful conversation and connections. outcentraloregon.com Connect W: Business Networking for Women: This group of business-focused women hosts several events throughout the year. Get to know your fellow businesswomen at lunchtime mingles, cocktail connections and monthly meetings. connectw.org Virtual Muse Club: A virtual monthly meeting for young-changemakers in our community. All Muse Club members also have the opportunity to participate in the annual Seen & Heard Project, the Muse Youth Summit and contribute to Teen Muse, an online magazine to feature the writings and artwork of local youth. theworldmuse.org/muse-clubs.

Central Oregon Bitterbrush Broads: A Central Oregon specific subgroup of the grassroots organization known as Great Old Broads for Wilderness. The group meets up to complete wilderness-based activities including walks, stewardship projects, education and more. greatoldbroads.org/directory-of-broadbands/oregon-central-oregon-bitterbrush-broads League of Women Voters First Thursday Luncheon: League Board members discuss current issues and invite local experts to be host speakers. Meetings will be virtual until in-person gatherings can resume. lwvdeschutes.org

Central Oregon has plenty of options for teens, moms and more to get together, find some community and make a difference.

NONPROFITS Saving Grace: Services for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, designed to help them with healing and empowerment. Professionals and community members can also participate in training sessions to help identify abuse and know how to respond. Saving Grace provides counseling, emergency shelters, advocates, chatlines and more. saving-grace.org DAWNS House: Providing support to displaced women recovering from addiction, with structured and supportive housing. There are three houses in the Central Oregon area, and it is one of only two public sober living facilities for women in the region. dawnshouse.org Grandma’s House: Safe and stable shelter for pregnant young women,

providing resources and support so that each young woman can become self-sufficient and provide for herself and her child. Services include case management, resources and job and educational support. grandmashouseofco.org World Muse: Inspiring others to create change and lead. World Muse focuses on supporting and uplifting women and youth who are creating positive change in their world. Membership supports their youth programs, BIPOC scholarships and other events. theworldmuse.org There are so many more nonprofits that provide services for vulnerable populations in Central Oregon. Browse all our nonprofit listings on our Give Guide at bendsource.com.

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fter a continually uncertain year, finding some peace and belonging is more important than ever. In honor of Women’s History Month and our annual women’s issue, we looked to our own Central Oregon community of women for inspiration.

An abundance of groups, nonprofits, and leaders are creating space for women, non-binary individuals (and all people) to find support and connection. For those who are new or just craving some more interaction after a long and isolating pandemic experience, these local groups might offer just the thing you need. For those looking to get involved and support essential services, this is a great place to start!

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Cross-Eyed Cricket Watering Hole opens in the former Maverick’s country bar

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ack in the before-times, most would have thought nothing of sidling up to a crowded bar or squeezing in next to a total stranger for a Saturday-night dance party. These days, those are #goals to return to for almost any bar owner— not the least of whom are the owners of Cross-Eyed Cricket Watering Hole, who recently remodeled and revamped the former Maverick’s Country Bar and Grill into a refreshed gathering spot, complete with a new dance floor. Line dancers and Western-swing enthusiasts, this will one day soon be your place to return to your before-times glory.

Long known as the spot to go in Bend for country dancing or even a foray on a mechanical bull, Maverick’s owner Mike Hayes teamed up with Garrett Wales and Mike Moor—the pair behind Life & Time and Vida Y Tacos on Bend’s west side, and formerly of 10 Barrel Brewing—to re-envision what a country bar looks like.

The trio painted the exterior and brightened up and remodeled the interior, turning the former bar area into a new, more inviting dance floor seen right upon entering the space. Outside is a patio and a bar window that opens and closes depending on the weather— similar to one at the original 10 Barrel on Bend’s west side.

Cross-Eyed Cricket opened for business Feb. 16—though as of yet, scheduling events like line-dancing night isn’t allowed under pandemic restrictions. The space offers three food concepts, ordered at a pickup window: The Slick Willie’s Fried Chicken menu offers brined and air-dried fried chicken in buckets, or served in sandwiches, such as the Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwich served with jalapeno slaw. When I stopped in for lunch, the crispy yet juicy chicken tenders on the Spicy Chicken Sandwich didn’t disappoint—and fortunately for everyone involved, came with a healthy dose of napkins.

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‘Menu of the Year’ funds scholarships for COCC

A new dance floor is the prime attraction for the new watering hole on Brinson Blvd.

Cross-Eyed Crack Burger is another menu concept, made up of, you guessed it, burgers, fries and onion rings (I also tried those, and they were perfectly cooked with just the right amount of crispy bite). The staff also recommended the “Out N In” burger, a double-patty, double-cheese burger served with a special “super sauce.” Also coming soon is a third menu concept, Chaco’s Outpost, which will offer tacos and other favorites.

And just in case you’re out on a Saturday night and really want to impress your date, Cross-Eyed Cricket is also serving up desserts by way of its Loddy Doddy Ice Cream Party menu, offering massive ice cream shakes and more.

The Birthday Cake Shake comes with cake ice cream, topped with actual birthday cake, and, for the adults, a topping of whipped ice cream vodka. Wales and Moor also plan to open a full-fledged ice cream shop, also called Loddy Doddy, on the west side of Bend by summer 2021.

Those who remember Maverick’s also likely remember one of its most distinguishing features: the mechanical bull lauded by generations of wannabe Central Oregon rodeo stars. Will it be back?

“The mechanical bull has been in hiding for a long time, and it will be Courtesy Garrett Wales

back in event capacity,” Wales told the Source. “The problem with that thing is, it’s like a full-scale professional one; it’s got to be bolted to the floor and has a huge footprint. We’ve got it out of storage, we’re building a huge trailer to put it on, so we can bring it in for special events or rodeo weekend, or concerts.

We want to do a lot of concerts.”

Wales said the goal—guidelines permitting—is to do a series of concerts in summertime, ideally utilizing the bar’s parking lot to allow for more room to bring in bigger acts. The team is also planning a smaller stage for indoors.

“It’s unabashedly a country bar, but if country is not your thing, you’re still going to have a blast here.

Good food, it’s going to be a lot of fun, really high energy—it’s how we like to do everything.”

For Wales, a country fan himself, part of the inspiration for the CrossEyed Cricket came from his own desire to see places where small or mid-size country acts can gain a following.

“There’s the fairgrounds or maybe there’s a country show every now and again, but no one is playing Mike and the Moonpies or those other underground, independent artists—they really don’t have an outlet here,” he said.

Even the name of the bar has country-music roots; Wales said it was gleaned from the Eric Church song, “Pledge Allegiance to the Hag,” whose lyrics go: “There’s a little dive on a dead-end road Called the Cross-Eyed Cricket Waterin’ Hole Where you can hear the sound of a steel guitar An’ get loud, an’ rowdy on PBR…” Cross-Eyed Cricket Watering Hole

The Spicy Fried Chicken is just one of food items at Cross-Eyed Cricket.

20565 NE Brinson Blvd, Bend 541-382-4270 Open daily 11am-11pm On Instagram @crosseyed.cricket

Every year, the Central Oregon Community College Foundation holds its Meal of the Year gala—a big event that helps raise funds for COCC students.

With the pandemic putting a wrench in most plans, this year, the event has been rebranded as the “Menu of the Year,” and allows people to take part in activities you might normally find at a fundraiser—only from the comfort of a screen.

A live “Cook-Along” lets participants follow along as a chef from COCC’s Cascades Culinary Institute walks you through preparing a four-course meal for four people—with the meal kit delivered to your door. A “Wine Grab,” similar to the popular “Wall of Wine” at in-person events, lets participants pull a mystery bottle from the COCC’s Foundation’s private estate collection. And the “Your Home, Your Haven” raffle puts people in the running for a $15,000 home improvement gift certificate.

“COCC scholarships are such an important component of the fundraising landscape in Central Oregon,” said Daisy Layman, chair of the COCC Foundation board. “Particularly now, with the economic impacts of COVID affecting so many students here in our region.”

Students at COCC garnered $1.72 million in scholarships for the 20212022 school year, including some $345,000 raised through last year’s Meal of the Year.

The 2021 Menu of the Year is open through March 31, or until the items are all sold out. People can visit menuoftheyear.org to learn more about the fundraiser and to bid on items.

Second Life and Time Coming to the East Side

Life and Time, the popular drive-thru on Bend’s west side serving “FreeRange Fast Food,” is planning a second location on Bend’s east side. Garrett Wales, co-owner of Spin the Kitchen Enterprises, which owns Life and Time, Vida Y Tacos and co-owns the new Cross-Eyed Cricket Watering Hole in the former Maverick’s location, told the Source that the new Life and Time will be located in the business complex on the corner near NE Neff and 27th Avenue. The new location will not have a drive-thru, like the original location, and is slated to open in mid-2021.

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SCREEN The Stories We Don’t Hear Indie Womxn Film Festival launches, virtually

By Jared Rasic

here’s not a day that goes by that I don’t realize my privilege being a cis white male writing about movies in an industry where most of the executives and filmmakers look like me—and even more of the critics look like me. My voice is not a marginalized one.

So whenever there’s an event focused on the voices of women, BIPOC and any others that are marginalized by this system, I’m always very excited to talk about them, even though I know I’m not the most diverse choice to do so.

With that said, in celebration of Women’s History Month, BendFilm, Scalehouse and World Muse are partnering to bring us the first annual Indie Womxn Film Festival, a four-day curated virtual event consisting of narrative films, documentaries, shorts, panels and much more, all focused on sharing women’s stories. Indie Womxn Film Festival is guaranteed to inspire powerful conversations, new trains of thought and entirely new ways of viewing diversity and inclusivity in the film industry while inspiring new voices to be heard.

Along with the powerful Alfre Woodard film “Clemency” and the remarkable boating documentary “Maiden,” the festival is also bringing back the 2020 BendFilm Festival Best in Show award winner, “Warrior Women,” an absolutely astounding documentary about some of the indigenous women who fought for civil rights in the 1970s. One of the directors of the film, Dr. Elizabeth Castle, will be part of a panel discussion with Madonna Thunderhawk and Pixie Lighthorse, two of the film’s subjects.

Castle explains how she became involved with “Warrior Women.”

“In 1998, I met my first ‘warrior woman’ when I was interviewing Native women activists in the Red Power Movement for my doctoral dissertation. I had a standard-definition crappy DV video camera, I was on my own and I sat down to ask these women ‘their stories,’ and each oral history changed me just a little more.”

Stories like these are in danger of going away forever when we don’t give their authors a chance to share their voices. “These stories were so much bigger than me or any kind of research or analysis I might do and that they had to reach the world and change it in the same way the stories changed me,” explains Castle. “Our film is the tip of the iceberg in a larger collaboration of non-extractive, community-based relationships and activism working toward a shift towards a matriarchal worldview.”

The main program of the festival is the “No Man’s Land” Film Series, with a post-film discussion with U.S. Ski Team athlete Laurenne Ross. The “No Man’s Land” main program is a woman-focused outdoor adventure and activism compilation of shorts that features climbing, ultra-racing, biking, skiing and just about every other outdoor activity known to woman.

Alexis Martin, a local BIPOC outdoorswoman and photographer, will be one of the people featured on the panel for the “No Man’s Land” Film Series.

“Being a BIPOC photographer and outdoorswoman right now during this time is EXHAUSTING,” says Martin.

Thank you to Central Oregon’s essential workers!

On behalf of Central Oregon Community College, I want to extend our deepest thanks to Central Oregon’s essential workers. You have helped keep our communities safe, healthy, fed, educated, housed and more during the ongoing pandemic. We will be forever grateful for your resilience, courage, generosity and service to your neighbors in need.

Dr. Laurie Chesley President, Central Oregon Community College

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“It’s overwhelming, exciting and sad all at the same time. The world is assuming we are using our color or gender as a way to amplify nonsense and it’s quite the opposite and just ignorant for anybody to say. We are getting recognized so much after this past year and because of the Black Lives Matter movement.”

There are so many misconceptions about BIPOC adventurers that it’s genuinely frustrating, she said. “Let’s get this straight,” said Martin, “we have always been out there climbing, snowboarding, skiing, surfing, and whatever outdoors and taking photos, the recognition just wasn’t there because of how we look.

Doing so in the area I’m in is intimidating. Just because of history and the present. The guard is always up and it’s sad it

has to be. I don’t let it stop me though, I enjoy the outdoors as much if not more.

The way I look should not matter. But yet, here we are.”

Indie Womxn Film Festival 2021 will be the first of many, celebrating the art, ideas and voices of womxn that have been left marginalized for far too long. While the festival is virtual this year, it will still inspire discussions between families, friends and absolute strangers, celebrating diverse female voices from the safety and comfort of their own homes.

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Kerry Sheehan is a TikTok sensation with a ski obsession

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hero definition, via Webster’s Dictionary: A woman admired or idealized for her courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities; a heroine.

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, Kerry Sheehan, Mt. Bachelor ski instructor and nanny, has seen exponential progress in her Woodward park skills this season. Skiing at Willamette Pass since the age of three, at 26 she’s just begun learning boxes, rails, 360s and flips — now with 23,000 followers tracking her gains on TikTok. Sheehan’s fanbase began to build last March during quarantine.

“It was a slow build over time with followers, and apparently people really like watching me progress in the park—those videos do really well,” she said. “Recently I reached 5,000 followers which was a milestone, and then I ended up having a video of one of the ski patrol dogs go viral overnight and I woke up to 23,000 followers. It has been wild trying to navigate what to do now.”

Some may ask, why learn park at 26?

Originally scared away at 16 by a mansplainer and concussion, Sheehan shares, “This year something clicked in my brain

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choice. For me, it was an easy transition and I still prefer working with younger kids in my fourth year as an instructor. I love bringing people into this sport and encouraging people to push themselves.

I love seeing the moment click in kids’ heads when they realize skiing is fun and not this big scary thing.”

“Eileen Gu, who is 17, and just won three medals in the X Games, has people telling her she only won because she was a girl, and that, to me, tells you everything you need to know about how girls can be treated in this community.”

—Kerry Sheehan that I needed to do a 360 off of drops— but as I got in the park to practice and started learning more tricks and different styles of skiing, I started to really like it. Now I love taking park laps!”

Though her freestyle park vids maybe the initial clickbait that draws followers to Sheehan’s TikTok account, her audacious joy for mountain life is what keeps them coming back for more.

“I love that moving to Bend I have met so many rad skiers and snowboarders, and suddenly I have a huge community of people who share my love for this sport. It’s just the world I’ve always wanted to be a part of,” beams Sheehan.

She adds, “I was a preschool teacher in Eugene before I moved to Bend, so instructing preschooler ‘rippers’ at Bachelor worked out great. That age demographic is not most instructors’ top

Sheehan’s favorite scary childhood ski memories? “I have vivid memories of the bad times. Falling off a lift, losing my skis in the trees and struggling as an 8-year-old to put them back on and getting carsick on the drive.”

As an adult, Sheehan sometimes does battle with villains like internet trolls and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Of the internet haters, “It’s highlighted the very real sexism that still exists in this sport. It was my first time getting viral hate messages though, and it did feel discouraging.”

Not willing to swallow the kryptonite, Sheehan handles naysayers with tact and mountain class, noting, “I think calling them out is the best thing we can do. I saw a lot of hate messages on other girls’ pages just trying to better themselves at their sport and it’s wild to me. I think we

need to stop complimenting girls who ski as ‘really good for a girl.’ I think that’s incredibly limiting and we all are guilty of doing that. Unfortunately, that thinking leads into how we treat professional women athletes in any sport. Eileen Gu, who is 17, and just won three medals in the X Games, has people telling her she only won because she was a girl, and that, to me, tells you everything you need to know about how girls can be treated in this community.”

The upshot to putting yourself out there on social media? Tons of supporters. “I love the people I have connected with through TikTok. I feel like I have friends to go ski with in [Lake] Tahoe, Utah, and New Zealand now. Some of the girls who are really great park skiers have been giving me tips and encouraging me on my journey which has been amazing!

I’m so honored to be thought of us a shero. I hope that I can continue helping girls get into the park, try a new trick or try whatever terrain they want. I hope I can continue helping people get into this sport without judgement and making it a space for women to push themselves.”

A true renaissance heroine of the time, after the lifts stop running, you’ll find Sheehan in front of her live audience as a cellist and co-singer-songwriter in the local band Lassen. Look for performance listings as spring blossoms and the number of patrons vaccinated increases.

Editor’s note: This column marks the start of a monthly feature in the Outside section, highlighting the achievements of female and non-binary athletes in Central Oregon.

Know somebody who went above and beyond during a crisis in the last year? Sunriver Resort’s “For the Love” campaign, is looking for community heroes who deserve a well-earned break. The campaign aims to gift a getaway experience for those nominated as heroes by the community. The relaxing two-night stay is the perfect way to say thank you to those who left their mark this past year. It’s an ideal location to recuperate after a tough year, with plenty of outdoor activities and good eats.

The resort has already announced several winners in past weeks, but the campaign is going strong for another six weeks, so get your nominations in now!

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was so kind to me, and a great role model. She watched me get in over my head and helped me both technically and emotionally, helping me to succeed,” said Van Patten. Abegg’s skill as educator and coach resonated with Van Patten, as did others such as professional rock climber Emily Harrington, and Shelma Jun, organizer of the first women’s-only climbing festival, in Bishop, California.

After returning from Patagonia, Van Patten briefly thought about looking for a career job. “I wanted to be an actuary and use my math degree, but hated the idea of working in an office,” she says.

Instead, she took a job at a local climbing shop, where she could work enough to survive, but also climb. Frustrated by the lack of control in developing climbing programs, Van Patten took her experiences and vision, inspired by Jun’s success with Flash Foxy, a women’s climbing community that hosts women’s-only climbing events and festivals across the country, and along with partner Carey DeVictoria-Michel, started She Moves Mountains, an educational-based business whose mission is to create educational space for women (cis, trans) and gender minorities.

“There were very few opportunities for women to learn climbing craft from women, and although there are plenty of lessons and clinics available nationwide, the instructor base is very male dominated,” says Van Patten. “I wanted women to Jules Jimreivat

When not teaching or practicing piano, Lizzy Van Patten is out there reaching for new heights.

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Looking ahead to the route above, Lizzy Van Patten climbs to live and lives to climb.

learn from women and provide an alternative opportunity for women to learn and thrive in the outdoors.” As women are significantly underrepresented in the guiding industry, Van Patten saw another opportunity. “By teaching women-specific rock climbing and backpacking clinics and creating mentorship opportunities, we hope to increase the number of confident female rock climbers and guides.

Inclusivity is another area in which (we) pushed our mentorship programming, (giving) marginalized, and people of color easier access,” she says.

Her motivations and insights in creating more and better leaders in the outdoors are paying off, as many of her recent new guide hires have come directly from the mentoring programs of SMM. “At the core, we are just better at our curriculum. We are teaching less, but teaching more effectively. Limiting the topics and participant numbers, and focusing on creating more independent climbers,” she says. “We know that there is a lifetime of learning to explore and (we strive) to give our students the resources to continue their journey without us.”

COVID-19 put most of SMM’s programming on hold, but it also gave Van

Patten time to make necessary adjustments. “We were closed for a year and I ended up paying my guides for all the days they were contracted for when programs were canceled. I sold branded items to make some money, and was blown away to see how many people were supportive of our programming,” she said. “It’s been difficult to balance keeping the company solvent, running the website, social media, fundraising and maintaining my own athletic pursuits in climbing, but I did get to practice playing the piano more and that was nice.”

Pro File: Instagram: @lizzyvanpatten, @she_ movesmountains Proudest climbing moment: First ascent of 5.13 trad line Make Me Sanguin Favorite book – “Becoming,” by Michelle Obama Favorite movie – “Zoolander” (while giving us her best “Magnum” imitation) Spirit Animal – “Never thought about it...cat? I love cats?”

Bucket list trip – “Karakoram range.

It is so vast and wild, it scares me, making it quite attractive.”

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ike many who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, Lizzy Van Patten was exposed to the outdoors through hiking and camping. While attending school in Washington state, she came across a book on hiking routes.

“I was a math and political science major, and thought it a cool idea to do 25 of the (recommended) routes by my 25th birthday,” recalls Van Patten.

On one such hike she saw Mt. Baker up close for the first time. “I was immediately inspired by it,” she said. After watching the movie, “180 South,” about adventuring in Patagonia, she set her sights on climbing.

“So, one day I walked into the offices of the American Alpine Institute, pointed to a picture hanging on the wall and said, ‘How do I climb that?’” She immediately signed up for a 10-day immersive climbing course. “That was the beginning of my climbing journey,” she remembers.

Upon success in gaining her first real summit, climbing the classic Beckey Route on Liberty Bell in the North Cascades, Van Patten knew she had found her calling. “For a long time, I was looking for something to complete myself, and sitting on that first summit was the missing piece,” she said. “I went out and bought (all the gear she needed) and headed to Squamish, the Bugaboos, then bought a one-way ticket to Patagonia.”

While in Patagonia, she met her first climbing mentor, Jenny Abegg. “Jenny

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An Oregonian’s book about moles inspires a look at what these creatures are all about

By Jim Anderson hind limbs and short, powerful forelimbs with large paws adapted for digging.

No, moles are not blind, but they do have limited eyesight, so with that handicap they follow their nose. Anything that poses a threat or might be food is sensed by that exquisite nose. For a mole, that organ is everything.

The soil they displace in making their tunnels creates a very obvious mound.

Like it or not, just about everybody who talks about them wants to kill them.

That, dear friends, is what I would like to change—the continued idea that moles are somehow evil and should be removed from the face of the earth.

Unfortunately, many mole descriptions state they are gnawing pests, but moles are better known for being burrowing animals that feed on worms and other invertebrates, not plants.

There are four species of moles that can be found throughout the Northwest, including Oregon. They are the Townsend’s mole, Broad-footed mole, Coast mole and the Shrew mole.

Not one of them possesses a threat to human life and limb—unless you happen to stumble into one of their tunnels and twist an ankle. Unlike some Courtesy Steve Groenert Ellerhoff

Holy mole! This book has all the dirt on our subterranean friends.

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A Broad-footed mole shows off its strong forelimbs adapted for digging.

reptiles, moles do not possess venom of any kind. Unlike the gopher, who also goes tunneling under our lawns and gardens, hijacking our veggies, moles don’t go out of their way making life miserable for humankind.

Those of you who spend time out in the garden may have met up with them. In this part of the country, I have found only one species: the Broad-footed variety.

Now, is it a mole or gopher that’s bothering you and making tunnels in your garden? Positive identification is crucial for deciding what to do.

Tunneling moles make volcano-shaped mounds of soil without an obvious entrance. You should consider putting up with moles; everything they do in your garden is helping you, especially ridding you of insect pests.

Gophers make asymmetrical mounds, and often have a visible “plug” for their door. They eat roots, bark, carrots, beets and other garden plants. Voles, also known as meadow mice, use the tunnels of both moles and gophers. They eat plant parts and carry diseases that are bad news for humans.

You can prevent some problems by using ½-inch mesh hardware cloth on the bottoms of raised beds. And if you’re planting new trees or shrubs, form a hardware cloth basket around their root balls for protection.

If you must remove moles, voles or gophers, trapping is the most reliable method. Use a trap that’s the proper size for the animal you have and set it carefully, following all label directions.

Once caught, handle dead animals with a plastic bag on your hand. Turn the bag inside out over the animal, tie the

bag shut and put it in the trash to avoid possible flea or tick transmission. (This is especially true for ground squirrels; they are known carriers of the flea that transmits the Bubonic plague) While snakes, raptors, cats and other predators may help reduce mole and gopher problems, “snake oil” is not likely to. Repellents, vibrators, noisemakers, smoke bombs, gas cartridges and predator urine are also unlikely to deter small mammals. Also, never use poison baits, also called rodenticides. They can be particularly dangerous to pets, children and other wildlife. They’re less reliable than traps and are deadly to the world we live in.

I first encountered moles when I dug into a few of their tunnels in the cow pastures of Tillamook. I never did study them closely, however, and it wasn’t until my wife Sue trapped one unintentionally in her garden that we reacquainted ourselves with this fascinating creature.

Without a doubt—for me—the most exciting part of Ellerhoff ’s book is what he presents on the marsupial moles of Australia. In the early ‘70s I went to the bush with a family of aborigines in North Australia. I wanted to spend time with the native people whom I have loved since I read about them in mystery writer Arthur Upfield’s “Boney” books.

If I had known about the marsupial mole when I was feasting on other marsupials on the shores of the billabong with those wonderful people, how much richer would have been my time.

It would have been so grand to have gone mole-searching with Daphne, the 12-year-old daughter of my host.

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ven though I’m nearing the end of my sojourn here on this beautiful earth—our home away from home—I still appreciate fresh new experiences to keep me young.

Such was the case when I entered Tsunami Books on Willamette Street in Eugene. I was so taken by the way the books were laid out, and the welcoming spirit of the employees, I decided to give the store a couple copies of my book, “Tales from a Northwest Naturalist.”

That was greeted by a big grin from everyone, and one of the guys behind the counter, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, after thanking me for my books, said, “I wrote a book on moles. Would you like to have one?”

“You bet,” I said, and the next time I came in he handed me his book, “Mole.”

It is the most wonderful treatise on moles I have ever had the pleasure of reading.

Ellerhoff takes us on a jaunty journey into the life of moles around the world.

So, without a moment to lose, let’s go underground…

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In accordance with your current astrological potentials, I’m inviting you to meditate on those queries. And if you discover there’s anything lacking in the joy you bring and the joy you find, now is a very favorable time to make corrections.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): At age 11, the future first President of the United States George Washington became the “owner” of ten slaves. A few years later he “bought” 15 more. By the time he was president, 123 men, women, and children were struggling in miserable bondage under his control.

Finally, in his will, he authorized them to be freed after he and his wife died. Magnanimous? Hell, no.

He should have freed those people decades earlier—or better yet, never “owned” them in the first place. Another Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin not only freed his slaves but became an abolitionist. By my count, at least 11 of the other Founding Fathers never owned slaves. Now here’s the lesson I’d like us to apply to your life right now: Don’t procrastinate in doing the right thing. Do it now.

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Cambridhgeshire, UK hosted the first-ever Thriplow Daffodil Weekend: a flower show highlighting 80 varieties of narcissus. In the intervening years, climate change has raised the average temperature 3.24 degrees Fahrenheit. So the flowers have been blooming progressively earlier each year, which has necessitated moving the festival back. The last pre-Covid show in 2019 was on March 23-24, a month earlier than the original. Let’s use this as a metaphor for shifting conditions in your world. I invite you to take an inventory of how your environment has been changing, and what you could do to ensure you’re adapting to new conditions.

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II, the Japanese island of Ōkunoshima housed a factory that manufactured poison gas for use in chemical warfare against China. These days it is a tourist attraction famous for its thousands of feral but friendly bunnies. I’d love to see you initiate a comparable transmutation in the coming months, dear Cancerian: changing bad news into good news, twisted darkness into interesting light, soullessness into soulfulness. Now is a good time to ramp up your efforts.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Scars speak for you,” writes author Gena Showalter. “They say you’re strong, and you’ve survived something that might have killed others.” In that spirit, dear Leo, and in accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to authorize your scars to express interesting truths about you in the coming weeks. Allow them to demonstrate how resilient you’ve been, and how well you’ve mastered the lessons that your past suffering has made available. Give your scars permission to be wildly eloquent about the transformations you’ve been so courageous in achieving.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to novelist Doris Lessing, “Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who’d be kind

to me.” She implied that hardly anyone ever gets such an experience—or that it’s so rare as to be always tugging on our minds, forever a source of unquenched longing. But I’m more optimistic than Lessing. In my view, the treasured exchange she describes is not so impossible. And I think it will especially possible for you in the coming weeks. I suspect you’re entering a grace period of being listened to, understood, and treated kindly. Here’s the catch: For best results, you should be forthright in seeking it out.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling,” wrote composer Claude Debussy. In the coming weeks, I hope you’ll regard his words as an incitement to do everything you can to reach the naked flesh of your feelings. Your ideas are fine. Your rational mind is a blessing. But for the foreseeable future, what you need most is to deepen your relationship with your emotions.

Study them, please. Encourage them to express themselves. Respect their messages as gifts, even if you don’t necessarily act upon them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may never wander out alone into a dark forest or camp all night on a remote beach or encounter a mountain lion as you climb to a glacier near the peak of a rugged mountain. But there will always be a primeval wilderness within you— uncivilized lands and untamed creatures and elemental forces that are beyond your rational understanding. That’s mostly a good thing! To be healthy and wise, you need to be in regular contact with raw nature, even if it’s just the kind that’s inside you.

The only time it may be a hindrance is if you try to deny its existence, whereupon it may turn unruly and inimical. So don’t deny it! Especially now. (PS: To help carry out this assignment, try to remember the dreams you have at night. Keep a recorder or notebook and pen near your bed.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “What damages a person most,” wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, “is to work, think, and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure—as a mere automaton of duty.” Once a year, I think every one of us, including me, should meditate on that quote. Once a year, we should evaluate whether we are living according to our soul’s code; whether we’re following the path with heart; whether we’re doing what we came to earth to accomplish. In my astrological opinion, the next two weeks will be your special time to engage in this exploration.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What are your edges, Capricorn? What aspects of your identity straddle two different categories? Which of your beliefs embrace seemingly opposed positions?

In your relations with other people, what are the taboo subjects? Where are the boundaries that you can sometimes cross and other times can’t cross? I hope you’ll meditate on these questions in the coming weeks. In my astrological opinion, you’re primed to explore edges, deepen your relationship with your edges, and use your edges for healing and education and cultivating intimacy with your allies. As author Ali Smith says, “Edges are magic; there’s a kind of forbidden magic on the borders of things, always a ceremony of crossing over, even if we ignore it or are unaware of it.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to intermedia artist Sidney Pink, “The idea of divine inspiration and an aha moment is largely a fantasy.” What the hell is he talking about?! That’s fake news, in my view. In the course of my creative career, I’ve been blessed with thousands of divine inspirations and aha moments. But I do acknowledge that my breakthroughs have been made possible by “hard work and unwavering dedication,” which Sidney Pink extols. Now here’s the climax of your oracle: You Aquarians are in a phase when you should be doing the hard work and unwavering dedication that will pave the way for divine inspirations and aha moments later this year.

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50. “Never have I ___ ...”

51. Don’t settle, say 52. Looking for ice, maybe 56. Green light in Granada 59. They work InStyle: Abbr.

61. Put a curse on 62. Bloodhound’s track 63. Adhesive strip used in a 32-card game?

66. Fight for years 67. With 35-Down, Gothic architecture feature 68. It’s not a feature, it’s a bug 69. Regarding 70. The ___ (depression) 71. Comic Cenac

DOWN 1. Plants that look sharp?

2. Turkish coins 3. Graphic language?

4. It’s got all the answers 5. Hard-to-hold pencil 6. Battle command 7. Sphere of power 8. Dictionary creator Webster 9. ABBA’s genre 10. Where you’ll find NFLX, PYPL, and TSLA 11. Wearing nothing 12. Wine specification 13. Sausage flavoring 18. Violinist Zimbalist 23. “I’ve got this” 25. Minor fight 27. Senator wearing mittens in a meme 30. 4-6 roll in craps 31. “No trump,” e.g.

32. Limerick’s land 33. What mules transport?

34. Extra Crispy Tenders franchises 35. See 67-Across 36. Resets, as the odometer 40. Phrase in cooking 42. “And the ___ keep coming” 45. Pertinently 46. Purse material 48. Run into the ground 49. They’re just one thing after another 53. Catherine of “Schitt’s Creek” 54. Change beds in the nursery?

55. Use some elbow grease 56. Place to catch the big game 57. Two days before St. Patrick’s Day 58. Latvia’s capital 60. Let one’s anger fester 64. Math class mic drop 65. Give it a whack

“I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.”

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THC remains the most sought-after and prevalent cannabinoid in cannabis, followed by CBD. The 2018 Farm Bill made CBD legal(ish), and it’s now found in virtually every product imaginable, promising relief from a long list of ailments and conditions.

Yet there are numerous, lesser-known cannabinoids of which we have an expanding understanding of their sought-after effects. One such cannabinoid is CBN, found in great amounts of any cannabis plant, and is, rather, an effect of oxidation. By exposing THC to light and heat—such as a poorly sealed jar of cannabis sitting in a sunny window—the THC degrades into CBN. Older cannabis sees this happen, as well. Ever smoked a months-old (or years-old) joint found in the back of a drawer or stash box? The heavy, thick and nap-inducing effects it provides is believed to be due in part to the CBN. That effect caught the imagination and interest of Carrie Solomon and Jody Ake, the married team behind Greater Goods. Known to many Oregonians for their initial brand, Leif Goods, maker of THC-infused artisan chocolate edibles and pain-relieving topicals, Greater Goods was launched with the stated mission to “make gloriously awesome, full spectrum hemp CBD confections and tinctures to help you rebel against the negative.”

That “negative” for many manifests as poor sleep, which has been an increasing complaint during Year One of the pandemic. Some 70 million Americans have what is deemed a “sleep disorder,” and the detrimental resulting effects of not sleeping well are both physical and psychological.

Last year, Americans spent nearly $430 million for over-the-counter sleep aids, a jump from $406 million in 2019.

Greater Goods entered this market with its “CBN Evening Tincture,” described as a “2:1 ratio of ~600mg CBD to ~300mg CBN, crafted with full-spectrum hemp CBD (with trace amounts of THC) to provide a whole plant, entourage approach to wellbeing.”

Made using organic non-GMO MCT oil, it’s taken beneath the tongue, or mixed into a beverage, with a light citrus taste, and the processing doesn’t leave a “weed” aftertaste. Being that it’s within the limits of THC content for CBD products, it can be shipped nationwide.

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Portland-based Greater Goods offers a number of products, most recently including one targeting better sleep.

I’ve smoked mine (and several other people’s) share of older cannabis, and can confirm first-hand that THC and CBN together provide a synergetic effect which magically transforms me into a snoring pile of uselessness. So would the dynamic duo of CBD and CBN provide a sleep-friendly effect, minus the “intoxication” of THC, provided dose amounts are adjacent to the recommended serving size?

Testing this theory was done by a handful of friends who shared similar complaints regarding getting to/staying asleep, all of whom are women. I added myself to the test group, even though I’m a poor study candidate, having zero issues falling asleep quickly and at length—plus I come to any study unapologetically high in THC content.

Users tried the tincture as directed for several nights that they had sleep issues.

Feedback was unanimously positive, with all users reporting a beneficial night of rest with no sense of feeling high/intoxicated during the night, or groggy/hung over the following morning. However, there was an unexpected, yet not wholly undesirable effect experienced by all: intense dreaming. Not nightmares, and nothing bad, but there was a noticeably stronger involvement in, and memory of, the dreams. I experienced it several times over a fiveday period of using the tincture, but thought mine was a unique experience.

Not so much. A user reported back: “I felt like I got a deep sleep when I used it, & very vivid & weird dreams which were fun. I used to have amazingly strange dreams then a few years ago this stopped. Probably around the time of our move & all the extreme unrelenting stress which affected my sleep so much & for too long.”

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appear outside the guy’s apartment wearing the same go-go boots you do.

Morose-Colored Glasses I’m a woman in my 20s. Some stuff in my life was going really wrong, and I got depressed. I didn’t tell people, but it had to be obvious. I distanced myself from my group of girlfriends, meaning I missed birthday parties, didn’t respond to group texts, and was overall not a great friend. Still, I did what I could, like taking a friend for a spa day after missing her birthday the week before.

Weeks later, I learned she was still harboring resentment that I had Amy Alkon missed her birthday.

Don’t I deserve a bit of a break?

—Feeling Better Now On the day of your friend’s birthday, you felt like quite the party animal -- if, by “party animal,” we mean “rat lying cold and dead in the corner of the cage.”

Depression gets a bad rap. It can be a terrible, dysfunctional thing when it’s caused by brain abnormalities or persists without end. However, psychiatrist Randolph Nesse explains that human emotions, including the feelbad ones, are psychological programs that evolved to solve recurring mating and survival issues. When you’re mired in frustrating, unrewarding endeavors, symptoms of depression like sadness, hopelessness, and fatigue appear to have a function. They slow you down, plant you on the couch, and force you to rethink and change unworkable situations in your life: dump that jerk, stand up to your boss, fake your death and move to Croatia.

Sadness is also a strong social signal.

When we see someone’s sad, we’re motivated to comfort them (or at least cut them some slack). In an ancestral environment, countless centuries before apartments with locking doors, your friends would have noticed you were depressed. In a modern environment, suffering often remains hidden. In other words, it’s possible this woman and your other girlfriends assumed you were socially sloppy, inconsiderate, and a bad friend -- instead of understanding that you were a friend in need.

Take stock of the girlfriends around you and figure out whom you can trust to be real friends to you: those you can show who you really are, including all the sobby parts. Friends like that will mop up for you socially (in tactful ways) at times when your answer to, “Hi, how are you?” is likely to be: “Actually, I’m going to die alone, and then nobody will discover the body until the UPS guy comes to the wrong house and nearly keels over from the smell.”

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave. Suite 280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (advicegoddess.com).

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I’m a 31-year-old woman, and I recently started dating a guy about my age. We’ve gone on five dates, but we haven’t had sex, as I wanted to take things slowly. He’s been okay with that, but I’m quite certain he’s sleeping around elsewhere. I hate the idea of him having sex with other women. Still, we aren’t at the level of being committed, and I’m not comfortable having sex with him yet. What do you recommend I do?

—Disturbed As you see it, the free-range penis should be more like those factory-farmed chickens.

The “hate” you describe feeling at the idea of him having sex with other women is actually jealousy -- specifically, “sexual jealousy”: a stew of dark emotions (including humiliation, rage, despondency, and grief) that gets activated by the perception that a romantic relationship is at risk. Jealousy gets sneered at as some sort of pathetic emotional immaturity that’s to be avoided, a la “C’mon...be bigger than that.” That advice is like telling the police to ignore alarms going off in banks, which, sure, are sometimes false, but can be a sign there’s a cash transfer in progress -- to the duffle bags of three gun-brandishing dudes in Richard Nixon masks.

Like bank alarms, sexual jealousy has a vital function. It triggers “mate-guarding” behavior: tactics to fend off threats “to a valued romantic relationship” that could lead to “infidelity or abandonment,” explains evolutionary psychologist David Buss. Mate-guarding tactics frequently used by women include “monopolization” (like bolting oneself to a partner at a party), “appearance enhancement” (hotting up to outdo any lurking competition), and “sexual inducement” (performing “sexual favors” to keep a partner around).

In other words, the discomfort you feel is a call to action loaded into you by evolution. But evolved motivations aren’t behavioral mandates. Resolving to just suck up and ride out the discomfort seems the best way to avoid responding in ways potentially damaging to your long-term interests. Letting fear of loss drive you to have sex before you’re ready could tag you with an air of desperation and/or cause you to confuse lust with love. Being gnawed by curiosity about the competition sometimes spins even normally stable and levelheaded women into crazycakes stalkers. Tempting as it might be to know whom you’re up against, it’s best a new fir tree doesn’t suddenly

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