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Roads Less Traveled

FALL GETAWAYS, CENTRAL OREGON ADVENTURES and more

The Ochocos DOG -FRIENDLY BACKCOUNTRY in your BACKYARD

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p. 84 THE RIDE TIME Come fall, Camp Sherman and Sisters are a road biker's paradise with routes to suit every rider.

TABLE of CONTENTS

FALL 2016

Features 74

WORDS OF WISDOM

Tragedy and turmoil led a Warm Springs native to find her voice. As the state's official poet, she's helping others find theirs. BY M ARY HINDS

THE PRICE OF PRESERVATION

Amid a wave of redevelopment and downtown revitalization, Redmond works to preserve its history, brick by brick. B Y J . WA N D R E S

SHOULDER SEASON ITINERARY

Explore Sisters backroads on two wheels; Soak up solitude at Crane Hot Springs; Tee up a local golf vacation.

ON THE COVER A rider enjoys an open road on SnoPlanks' new, crafted-in-Bend, Cheater longboard. Photo by Lane Pearson

B Y S E B A S T I A N F O LT Z & N I C K R O T U N N O

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Departments 31 EXPLORE Exploring the Ochocos: Dog friendly trails beckon explorers with golden meadows and whisper-quiet canyons. 49 COMMUNITY Bend's alpine pioneers. Keeping it local with our Ambassadors. Building better citizens in the boxing ring. Helping families regroup. 57 HOME The manufactured home of your dreams—no really. Hard-to-find goods to tie the room together. Granite. Oh, sweet granite. 67 VENTURES The answer to the modern bike quandary. Five Talent's CEO and chief instigator on the intersection of tech and politics. Bend's booming brew business. p. 57 IF YOU BUILD IT How Dale and Veronica Partridge pieced together their dream home.

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Contributors Editor's Letter Ambassadors Page Scene & Heard

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Front Deck BEND NEWS | Mt. Bachelor's Cloudchaser to debut. Deschutes fish passage project. (p. 23-24) CENTRAL OREGON | Warm Springs' pioneering drone research. Prineville's affordable housing strategy. (p. 26) BOOKS | Dudley's shortlist (p. 28)

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ART & MUSIC

FOOD & DRINK

ARTIST PROFILE

102

GOOD EATS

104

WHEELS

106

DATEBOOK

110

DINING GUIDE

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WORDS and PICTURES

Contributors

SEBASTIAN FOLTZ

Prior to returning to Bend, Sebastian Foltz spent three years working for a newspaper company with publications in Breckenridge, Colorado, South Lake Tahoe, California, and other mountain destinations, covering a range of topics from Olympic snowboarders to outdoor news and the environment. When not writing or shooting photos, Foltz—a recently unretired raft guide—is an avid mountain biker, skier and whitewater kayaker who has spent the last six years working on turning those pursuits into writing assignments. For this issue, Foltz covered the growing longboard skate scene and road biking around Sisters.

MARY HINDS Mary Hinds grew up in Oregon on a sheep farm outside of Newberg and wrote her first (and favorite) story for her dad. After studying journalism at Northwestern University, she traded tall buildings for trees and returned to the Pacific Northwest in search of mountains and stories. She found both in Bend. Freelancing for publications from Portland to Pennsylvania, Mary enjoys writing about interesting people, beautiful places and bicycles. In this issue, she traveled to Warm Springs to learn about the life and literature of Oregon’s poet laureate Elizabeth Woody.

SARA FREEDMAN Sara has a master’s degree in writing from Portland State University and her work has appeared in numerous Northwest publications. She enjoys ’90s indie rock, small town parades, dive bars, local cookbooks, Shakespeare festivals and road trips with her trucker husband, Ian. Her great-grandparents moved to Powell Butte in 1915. For this issue, Sara hunted down the perfect winter libation and talked with MountainStar nursery about their crisis intervention work with families.

MIKE HOUSKA Bend-based photographer Mike Houska specializes in shooting for a varied list of commercial clients in the recreation, hospitality, health care, manufacturing and publishing industries. Mike never tires of exploring the “nooks and crannies” of Oregon as well as much of the western U.S., Canada and beyond. His photos of the Ochoco Mountains appear in the Explore section. More of his work can be viewed at doglegstudios.com

NICK ROTUNNO Nick Rotunno is a freelance writer based in Sunriver, where he lives with his photographer-wife, Kayla, and two lovable mutts. Nick has written for several newspapers in the Pacific Northwest (most recently The RegisterGuard in Eugene), as well as various magazines and websites. He loves to tell stories about the landscapes and people of Central Oregon, whether on foot, cross-country skis or from the seat of a bike. For this issue, Nick basked in the solitude of Eastern Oregon while bathing in the Crane Hot Springs near Burns.

AMY CASTANO Primarily a fine art photographer, Amy is typically drawn to the urban landscape. You’ll often find her in an alley or under a bridge looking for just the right shot. Amy is an active member of the Bend arts community, whether her own work is on exhibit or she is supporting other artists of all shapes and forms.

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FROM the EDITOR

Our Team Anniversaries

are personal affairs, usually marked over a candlelight dinner or a glass of wine. But in the case of Bend Magazine, it’s cause for a bit of office-wide celebration, as this issue marks the one-year anniversary of a dream realized. Over the past twelve months, Bend Magazine has established itself as the preeminent lifestyle magazine in Central Oregon. It’s been a great ride so far, but in many ways the journey has just begun. In the first four issues of the magazine, we’ve explored backcountry powder stashes and illuminated Bend’s challenging growth from the perspective of planners, locals and newcomers. We’ve investigated the fragile balance between the area’s agricultural economy and the river that gives it life. We’ve gotten close and personal with the reclusive business genius who helped to revolutionize modern surfing, but is choosing to spend his golden years ranching in remote reaches of eastern Central Oregon. Yet there are so many trails left unexplored. So many fascinating personalities waiting to be discovered. That’s the nature of being a storyteller in Central Oregon, where a dynamic population is always pushing the boundaries of sport, art, business and philanthropy. These are your stories and this is your magazine. Whether you’re a newcomer living on Bend’s west side or multi-generational farmer working the land in Madras, Bend Magazine’s goal is to capture life through the eyes of Central Oregonians. We’re here to challenge, inform and entertain, sharing your passion for the place that we all call home. With that in mind, we approached the issue with a specific goal of looking beyond the usual haunts. What we came back with are great stories from all corners of Central Oregon. We ventured to Warm Springs for an intimate conversation with Oregon’s newest Poet Laureate, Elizabeth Woody, a Warm Springs native who has challenged the boundaries of literature with her unflinching portraits of reservation life and the legacy of domestic colonialism. We thank her for sharing her story and her passion for place. In Redmond, we found how the city is working to preserve the living history of its mid-century architecture even as a new wave of growth beckons. We looked to the eastern horizon and answered the call of adventure in the Ochocos, where we found dog-friendly trails snaking through seldom-traveled wilderness areas and, ultimately, mountaintop solitude. It’s been a great adventure. Thanks for coming along with us. We look forward to more travels together. Cheers, Eric Flowers, Editor

Publishers HEATHER HUSTON JOHNSON • ROSS JOHNSON Editor in Chief ERIC FLOWERS • Creative Director ANOUK TAPPER Editor at Large AMANDA STUERMER Production Manager KELLY ALEXANDER Account Executives RONNIE HARRELSON, FLETCHER BECK, JON TAPPER, LISA LEAHY Contributing Writers MARY HINDS, SEBASTIAN FOLTZ, ANDES HRUBY, STEPHANIE BOYLE MAYS, NICK ROTUNNO, SARA FREEDMAN, LEE LEWIS HUSK, KELLY KEARSLEY, J. WANDRES Contributing Photographers AMY CASTANO, BENJAMIIN EDWARDS, ERIC FLOWERS, DUNCAN GALVIN, MARY HINDS, MIKE HOUSKA, HEAVEN McCARTHUR, TIMOTHY PARK, JILL ROSELL, KAYLA ROTUNNO, TYLER ROWE, LANE PEARSON, MIKE PUTNAM, JON TAPPER, PAULA WATTS, NATE WYETH

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Local AMBASSADORS PART OF OUR MISSION

at Bend Magazine is to create conversations and develop relationships in our increasingly diverse community. In an effort to help us build more and better bridges around Central Oregon, we have enlisted the help and expertise of community, business and thought leaders who have agreed to serve as ambassadors of Bend Magazine. They are our eyes and ears around the region, helping us gather story ideas that capture the rich fabric of Central Oregon’s communities. These ambassadors will also serve as a gateway to the magazine, giving community members and readers another way to share their story ideas and inspiration with Bend Magazine. In the meantime, we’ve gathered tidbits of #bendknowledge from some of our initial crop of ambassadors to help you live local.

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Know someone who would make a great ambassador? Send us an email at amanda@oregon-media.com Have a question for one of our ambassadors? tweet us @bendmagazine.com with

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What books should every Central Oregonian read?

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If about Central Oregon, then I recommend Jackman and Long’s The Oregon Desert…a classic; Jarold Ramsey’s collection of poems: Think Like a Canyon; and Ben Percy’s short story collection Refresh, Refresh, many of which take place in Central Oregon, as do the essays in Where the Crooked River Rises, which I authored.

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Ellen Waterston, Literary Ambassador

What cultural events should Central Oregonians have on their calendars this fall?

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October promises to offer a compelling mix of events celebrating the power of ideas and innovation in Bend. BendFilm is one of my favorite events of the year, every year. And of course, I’m biased toward Bend Design Conference, an event that brings together an amazing group of collaborators and presenters to celebrate design thinking and design doing.

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Cassondra Schindler, Cultural Ambassador What makes a great hike?

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The adventure and the reward. Sometimes the adventure means getting lost or hiking on an overgrown trail through five-foot manzanita—and the reward comes in many forms—a vista view, discovering historical remains or just sharing a ‘we made it’ beer with someone.

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Garrett Hampton, Trails Ambassador What advice would you give amateurs or beginning runners?

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Stand confidently in whatever stage you are in—own it, embody it and have fun with it. From beginner to Olympian, we are all, at the end of the day, not competing against others or even ourselves. We are running, and competing, alongside ourselves, in the context of a big full life, throughout transitions, childbearing, career, aging.

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Lauren Fleshman, Running Ambassador What should every visitor to Camp Sherman know?

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Mother Nature has provided us a very amazing and special place. Please explore, but tread lightly.

Roger White, Camp Sherman Ambassador

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MT. BACHELOR

bend Cow's Face Gets a Lift

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We aren’t sure if Mt. Bachelor officials intentionally named the high speed lift after a "My Little Pony" character, but we are giving them props for it anyway. Cloudchaser, as the lift and the pony are known, is expected to debut in time for holiday break at Mt. Bachelor, opening up more than 600 acres of new east-side terrain, including lower Cow's Face area.

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ADU Applications Soar Whether you call them mother-in-law flats, garage apartments or just an eyesore, secondary housing properties, or Accessory Dwelling Units, are here to stay in fast-growing and housing-challenged Bend. A recent easing of restrictions on the construction of such units has resulted in a surge in building as property owners seek to cash in on the demand for rental housing in Bend’s airtight market. “There just isn’t anything available,” said Victor Chudowsky, city councilor. “Our vacancy rate is .4 percent, which is essentially zero. So this one way to try to add more housing at the lower end of the cost spectrum.” According to figures from the city of Bend Community Development Department, Bend planners have received more than sixty applications from homeowners seeking to add an Accessory Dwelling Unit, or ADU, since permit requirements were relaxed in March. During the same period last year, the city

New Lift to Debut at Mt. Bachelor

received fewer than a dozen applications for ADUs. Under the new guidelines, homeowners wishing to get a permit are required to pay an $800 application fee, down from $2,600 under previous guidelines. Property owners are also no longer required to go through a conditional use permit process that requires notification of neighbors prior to city approval. A public input process was also removed.

While locals are familiar with the chutes, glades and secret powder stashes tucked below Cow’s Face, the terrain has not been easily accessible. When conditions and operations converge, the skiing and riding can be without equal, but so is the hike out. Frequent winter storms result in less than predictable operation of Summit chair, and Rainbow chair remains a last resort for many locals. The Cloudchaser lift should resolve those access issues, opening a significant swath of moderate terrain to families and younger skiers. It should also help spread out crowds during the peak visitor days over winter and spring

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Deschutes Fish Get A Pass DON’T EXPECT TO SEE Chinook salmon rolling in Mirror Pond, but a landmark deal between irrigators and the state of Oregon is bypassing one of the long-standing barriers to fish migration on the Deschutes. Work could begin as soon as this winter on a fish passage at the North Canal Dam near the Riverhouse hotel in Bend. When complete, it will allow native fish to move freely between the Upper Deschutes River

and downstream habitat as far north as Terrebonne. If successful, the $1 million-plus project will help restore the historic connection between hundreds of miles of fish habitat and reunite populations of native redband rainbow trout. The result, say biologists and conservationists, will be a native fish population better capable of withstanding the stresses of drought and disease that can sometimes decimate healthy watersheds. “When you take two isolated populations and put them together, it’s like having more depth on your bench in sports,” said Ryan Houston, executive director at the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council. “Really it’s about genetic diversity and resilience of the population.” The fish passage is expected to help the highly sought after redbands of the upper and middle Deschutes basin migrate up and down the river to adjust for the changing conditions brought on by irrigation demands, including historically low winter water levels.

break, particularly around Sunrise, where lift lines can grow painfully long. “The capacity of that entire area is going to be completely improved,” said Stirling Cobb, Mt. Bachelor’s director of communications. In addition to the roughly six miles of new groomed terrain opened by Cloudchaser, Mt. Bachelor is shortening the Rainbow chair, cutting the ride time from almost thirteen minutes to just about eight minutes. Lifts aren’t the only things being tweaked. West Village Lodge is getting a makeover with an expanded patio that will stretch from the Clearing Rock area across the front of the building. The slopeside staircase will be removed with access points moving to either side of the building.

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10 Barrel Brewing Co. is hitting the road with Teton Gravity Research this fall on their ski and snowboard film premiere tour. Check us out in a city near you to party, compete in the rail jam for cash and new skis or boards, and Pray for Snow!

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SCHOOLHOUSE TALKS

Drone Home

Affordable housing in Prineville is going old school. Recent plans to turn the former Ochoco Elementary School in Prineville into an affordable housing complex were given the go-ahead from the city planning commission in July and, depending on financing, construction could start as soon as Spring 2017. Here is a look at the numbers behind the project.

WARM SPRINGS UAV TESTING CENTER GETS OFF THE GROUND

 70 years: time period Ochoco Elementary School operated, from 1945 – 2015.  $600,000: price Housing Works, Central Oregon’s housing authority, paid to purchase the school in February 2016.  29 units: number of housing units created after converting classrooms into studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.  less than $600: projected rent for the units, depending on size.  less than 1 percent: current rental vacancy in Prineville.

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Sisters Movie House Changes Hands THERE’S A NEW OWNER behind the scenes at the Sisters Movie House. In August, entertainment industry executive Andrew Kaza purchased the four-plex from former owner Lisa Clausen, who opened the theater in 2005. A native Oregonian, Kaza grew up in Beaverton and is no stranger to the film industry. Beginning in 2007, he worked for Odeon Cinemas in Europe where he aided the cinema chain in converting more than 2,000 screens across seven countries from film to digital projection within three years. After his time as an executive consultant with Odeon in London, Kaza started looking for an entertainment-oriented investment in Oregon; the Sisters business caught his attention. Housed in a red barn-shaped building, the theater is one of several independently owned cinemas in the area. It has attracted a local following by screening a variety of genres, including feature, foreign, animated and indie films. “I was immediately impressed with Sisters Movie House when I first came upon it,” Kaza told Bend Magazine. “We love great films—and SMH has historically played a great mix of blockbusters alongside independent movies, which makes it both a big challenge and lots of fun to program.” Despite the theater’s shift in ownership, Kaza claimed not too much will change. However, there have been a few small “tweaks”—such as the addition of Backporch Coffee products.

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After months spent renovating a former gaming commission building, a new unmanned aerial systems training center at Kah-Nee-Ta Resort lodge is set to open in October. Warm Springs Ventures, the department in charge of economic development on the reservation, broke ground on the project that includes meeting rooms, briefing space and seventeen computer simulation stations for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle pilots. One of three FAA-approved UAV test sites in Oregon (the only one located on a reservation), the tribes received $1 million in funding from Business Oregon and the state's revolving loan fund for the testing center. “Warm Springs has 1,000 square miles of test range with a variety of terrain involved,” said Aurolyn Stwyer, business development and marketing manager for Warm Springs Ventures. “People coming to the test range love being close to Bend and Portland [and in a place] where they can fly, test and train all in one location.” UAVs developed at the facility will assist in fire management, search and rescue, agriculture and power line surveillance. Stywer also described future UAV opportunities at Kah-Nee-Ta, such as pilot training courses and an enclosed drone amusement park.

"People coming to the test range love being close to Bend and Portland [in a place] where they can fly, test, and train all in one location." -AUROLYN STWYER, WARM SPRINGS VENTURES

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Honoring Adelsheim's Stake in the Chehalem Mountains Our brand new 2014 Chehalem Mountains Pinot noir celebrates the pioneering spirit of Adelsheim and our deep roots in the Willamette Valley wine community. Visit our scenic tasting room to experience Breaking Ground. Or purchase this introductory release through our website or at select retail locations and restaurants.

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FALL storylines

Tom Beans of Dudley’s Bookshop and Café offers a glimpse of his fall must-read list.

I LOOKED INTO MOONLIGHT BROKEN BY SILVER SHADOW AND BLACK BRANCHES. I EXPECTED AN ANIMAL, PERHAPS AN OWL ROOSTED, BUT IT WAS THE OLD EYAK INDIAN UP IN THE BOUGHS OF THE SPRUCE. HIS FACE WAS OBSCURED, BUT I KNEW HIS SPARE FRAME, BLACK HAT ATOP HIS HEAD.

If Edward Abbey’s ‘Desert Solitaire’ made you wish you could go back in time to be a park ranger in the '60s, Temperance Creek may make you wish you could be a sheepherder in the early '70s of Eastern Oregon. By following a man she barely knew into the backcountry of Eastern Oregon’s own Hells Canyon, Royes embarks on a journey that in the telling brings us closer to a vanishing way of life and her own personal challenges in forging a relationship with a man who would one day be her husband. In their willingness to say yes to adventure and to each other, they have lived an authentic life we should all be so lucky to have. Reminiscent of the best of Pam Houston and Rick Bass, Royes has penned a memoir worthy of repeated reading.

Sometimes you don’t need a book that provides perspective on the world or offers insight into the human condition. Sometimes it just needs to be fun. Dark Matter fits that bill and then some. “Are you happy with your life?” are the last words professor Jason Dessen hears before being knocked unconscious. Upon awakening and making his way home, he finds another version of himself already there and having dinner with his family. Welcome to Crouch’s theory of multiple universes, come to life. Dark Matter is a sci-fi thriller that gets its hooks in you and doesn’t let go until the breathtaking finale. Along the way you’ll ponder paths not taken and ask yourself how far you would go to get back the ones you love.

TEMPERANCE CREEK by Pamela Royes

DARK MATTER by Blake Crouch

TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD by Eowyn Ivey

In the winter of 1885 Colonel Allen Forrester leaves behind his new wife Sophie to lead a small band of explorers into the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness of the Wolverine River valley. What they find challenges both the body and the spirit. Meanwhile Sophie, waiting for her beloved’s return in Vancouver, must contend with the constraining expectations of a Victorian age woman, the kind of woman she definitely is not. Creatively told through the journals of Allen and Sophie and interspersed with news clippings, art, and photos of the era, Ivey has written a novel of beautiful, sometimes breathtaking prose infused with an overarching atmosphere of American Indian mythology. Her first novel, The Snow Child, was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize and this one may be even better. Whatever accolades she receives for this work are well deserved.

ADVENTURE JOURNAL QUARTERLY

The heyday of literary journals may have passed, but that doesn’t mean they’re gone altogether. One of my new favorites is Adventure Journal. Issue One included work by Craig Childs (House of Rain, The Secret Knowledge of Water) and his search to rediscover an Anasazi pot found five years earlier and a profile of B. C. mountain biking. I inhaled the entire issue in one huge gulp. Issue Two is even better, highlighted by Terry Tempest Williams’ (The Hour of Land) story of the heartbreaking last day with her beloved dog, the ethics of disclosing secret spots on social media and a bizarre Cold War-era mystery you have to read to believe. Taken as a whole, AJ is avoiding the adrenaline/stoke side of outdoor pursuits and asking us to look inward. Light on ads, heavy on content and incredible photography, the AJ tagline couldn’t be more appropriate: “The Deeper You Get, The Deeper You Get.”

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“ I didn’t want to be a patient anymore. I wanted to be an athlete again.” ~Geoff Babb, brain stem stroke survivor

In 2005, Geoff Babb had a brain stem stroke. A 30-year veteran wildland fire fighter, Geoff was very active before his stroke. After months of rehabilitation, he started riding at Healing Reins. In the beginning, two volunteers were required to hold him on the horse. Now Geoff’s new normal is that he is able to ride independently. “When I am on a horse, I feel a lot of freedom ... that I can move.” Dita Keith, executive director of Healing Reins, said the partnership with St. Charles helps the equine therapy center accomplish its mission. “We are able to help people like Geoff realize their dreams,” she said.

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The Ochocos Unleashed

Like much of Central Oregon, the Ochocos were born from a violent past that includes massive mudslides, volcanic eruptions and storms that left the land piled with ash up to 1,000-feet deep. Today, it’s a place of secluded canyons, dancing creeks, whispering meadows and open forests that invite exploration. The only thing missing is the crowds. WRIT TEN BY ERIC FLOWERS P H O TO G R A P H S B Y M I K E H O U S K A

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Perhaps the most well-known and popular destination in the Ochocos, Lookout Mountain is just a short drive east of Prineville and also the tallest peak within the range. There are several access points, beginning with an eight-mile trail near the Ochoco Campground on County Road 123. Those looking for a shorter route with more direct access to the summit can continue southeast to Forest Road 42. From there, a jeep track winds to the Baneberry Trailhead and the historic Independent Mine site where three different routes meet to lead you to the summit. The multi-use trails get foot, horse and mountain bike traffic throughout the spring, summer and fall seasons. But on a recent weekday excursion that spanned more than five hours on the trails, we encountered not a soul. Still, it’s easy to see why locals have added Lookout as a go-to destination. Even in midsummer the trails were in superb biking condition, thanks to the abundance of shade offered by towering old-growth fir and pine trees. Where small springs pop up, the landscape turns verdant with ferns and grasses more closely associated with the McKenzie River area than the far eastern edge of Central Oregon. While we were able to push, pull and sometimes carry our bikes to the summit, the trail is more suited to hiking over the last mile or two. At the summit, hikers are rewarded with expansive views over thousands of forested acres stretching miles westward. On the horizon, the peaks of the Cascades rise in a stately formation, glaciers clinging stubbornly to their sides. “It’s the crown jewel of our trail system,” said Drew Peterson, a recreation foreman with the Ochoco Ranger District. We couldn’t agree more.

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Dog-friendly Rating: 3/5 As with all trails within the Ochocos, there are no leashes required for dogs. However, opportunities for water are limited to the few springs on the trail. Precipitous ledges at the Summit also require owners to keep a close eye on pets. Trail Notes: While the seclusion is nice, it also means that hikers and bikers need to be prepared for all eventualities in the backcountry as cell phone service is spotty and help may be slow to arrive. But for those who have endured overfull campgrounds and jammed trailheads all summer, the Ochocos are the perfect antidote. For bikers, Lookout offers an attractive destination as an easy two-car shuttle. Simply drop the second vehicle at the trailhead near the Ochoco Campground, then proceed to the upper trailhead off Forest Road 42. From the top, it’s a roughly eight-mile downhill screamer back to the shuttle car. For bikers wanting a more traditional cross-country experience, the OchocoRound Mountain Trail offers an extended ride with plenty of climbing and descending.

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Dog-Friendly Rating: 3/5 This four-mile, out-and-back trek is an ideal length for a family outing. However, as one of the more heavily visited trails in the area, it's a good idea to keep your dog close to hand to minimize conflicts. Trail Notes: Steins Pillar is believed to be named after Major Enoch Steen, a civil war veteran and early explorer. His name was often misspelled as “Stein”. In the case of Steins Pillar, the misspelling stuck, as did the possessive grammatical error. Steens Mountain outside of Burns also bears his name, albeit correctly spelled.

Steins Pillar

One of the most iconic and photographed features within the Ochocos sits just a few miles east of Prineville. Located just north of Ochoco Reservoir, Steins Pillar soars roughly 300 feet from the forest floor, looming like a sentinel over Mill Creek. While easily observed and photographed from Forest Road 33, which parallels Mill Creek, intrepid explorers can access a trailhead from a dead-end spur road. From there, hikers and their companions have a two-mile hike to the base of the basalt column pillar. A geological anomaly, Steins Pillar is evidence of the area's violent volcanic past and the subsequent eons of erosion that stripped bare the surrounding soil and left the solid pillar standing as a

About Dogs and the Ochocos There are currently no leash restrictions in place at any time in the Ochoco National Forest, including the Wilderness areas. However, rangers encourage visitors to bring and use leashes to minimize conflicts between trail users. Leashes also prevent dogs from harassing wildlife and vice versa. “We understand that dogs are members of people’s families and we take their safety into consideration. In the end the more responsible dog users will be rewarded with a better experience,” said Drew Peterson, recreation foreman for the Ochoco Ranger District.

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Just a few miles beyond Steins Pillar is the southern access for Twin Pillars. The trailhead is located at the entrance to Wildcat Campground on the edge of the Mill Creek Wilderness. While much of the wilderness area was severely impacted by a wildfire in the late 1990s, not all was lost. In some respect the wildfire has helped to reveal views of the surrounding landscape, including better sightlines to the namesake Twin Pillars. This area is also a great place to visit when fall colors begin to emerge. “The great thing about the Ochocos is that they actually feature a lot of fall foliage, not in comparison with the East Coast, but we have lots of aspen and larches,” said Drew Peterson, Ochoco National Forest recreation foreman. The Mill Creek Wilderness is also a good window into the devastation that can be caused by wildfire, whether sparked by nature or humans, and the slow but steady recovery in an otherwise healthy ecosystem. Like other places in the Ochocos, Mill Creek Wilderness is short on crowds and long on solitude. During a recent visit, we spent the night at Wildcat Campground with the camp host as the only other occupant. We locked our rigs at the trailhead, but the only real danger was a cougar that had apparently been sighted recently in the area. We didn’t see any signs of the big cat, but we did flush a grouse and spotted a healthy wild trout that was idling in a small pool alongside the trail. Most impressive though were the massive Ponderosas spared by the wildfire. These stately trees have reached full maturity with trunks four and five feet in diameter. These are the few remnants of giants that drew lumbermen to the region a century ago, providing fodder for sawmills in Bend and Prineville. Today those mills are idle and the trees that were spared the saw comprise a commodity of a different sort. 27 27 Twin Pillars

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Dog-friendly Rating: 5/5 An abundance of water and plenty of room to roam make this a great spot for an extended hike with your dog. The fact that it gets light traffic minimizes the potential for conflict. Trail Notes: The Twin Pillars trail is accessible by northern and southern trailheads. The namesake pillars are located closer to the northern trailhead near Bingham Springs. Because most of this trail lies within the Mill Creek Wilderness, it is minimally maintained. There are no bridges to assist with stream crossings, of which there are several. However, water levels are lowest in fall, making this less of an issue.

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Bend joins the So-Cal longboarding tradition. SINCE ITS birth on the beaches and boardwalks of California circa 1960, skateboarding, and skate culture, has been intertwined with surfing, its more Zen-like cousin. With the explosion of longboarding over the past decade, it's no surprise that Bend, with its strong "board" culture, has been an early adopter. Whether commuting, cruising or going full downhill daredevil, longboarding has emerged as another way to experience Central Oregon. “It certainly beats walking,” said Grace Seelye of The Longboard Store. The Bend-based company is located in the Old Mill and was founded by her parents Scott and Jennifer Seelye. With fewer younger riders picking up skateboarding (the sport has largely seen declining participation for the past several years at the 17 and under level), longboarding is a bright spot for the industry in general. Graying riders ready to hang up their park boards transition easily into longboarding. That makes it a natural fit for Bend’s slightly older and more active population. “It's more popular than ever,” said SnoPlanks snowboard and ski company co-founder James Nicol. “It's a great way to get from point A to point B.” His company, also out of Bend, added longboards to its lineup this summer using leftover materials from their snowboard and ski manufacturing.

“It was awesome,” he said of the first year of production. “We couldn't build them fast enough.” Board designs were done in collaboration with renowned surfer, and longtime Bend resident, Jerry Lopez. Less expensive than a bike and easier to bring along, longboard-riding has a lower skill- and risk-level barrier to entry than skateboarding. Unlike a traditional skateboard, a longboard is easier to balance and turn. “There's not a lot of a learning curve,” said Nicol. “It's very user friendly.” “It's a smoother comfortable ride,” said Jennifer Seelye. But don't expect to get into it by picking up a rental at a local shop. “It's not really a rental thing. You kind of just have to go buy one,” said Nicol. Typically, entry level boards start around $130. SnoPlanks' new board retails for $249. Getting on a board for the first time? Longboarders recommend the Old Mill and the Drake Park area, with their paved recreation paths, as a solid place to cruise.

OCTOBER 10/15 Skyliners Ski Swap The annual gear sale and pre-season stoke fest finds a new home this year at Bend's Ice Rink Pavilion. 10/16 SD’s Down & Dirty Half and Dirty 10K Trail run through the Deschutes National Forest course offers cooler weather and a chance to view Central Oregon Fall colors. 10/29 5th Annual Monster Dash Halloween run through Drake Park benefitting Younity’s bullying prevention programs. Courses include a 5K, 10K and Little Monster Miler; costumes encouraged. 10/29 – 10/30 Halloween Cyclocross Crusade Thousands of racers compete in two days of ghoulish, gritty racing for all categories on the National Championship course through the Old Mill District, hosted by Deschutes Brewing. NOVEMBER 11/05 Happy Girls Sisters Trail Half Marathon and Road 5K Female teams of all ages and skill levels test their strength along Peterson Ridge or a 5K road race through downtown Sisters. 11/12 Bend Ale Run Race through the foothills on Bend's west side and finish in NorthWest Crossing for the Bend Ale Festival. 11/24 Bend Thanksgiving Classic Timed 5K, 10K and family-friendly Gobbler Walk through the Old Mill District benefitting Girls on the Run of Deschutes County. 11/24 I Like Pie Run/Walk Footzone’s annual untimed race featuring food donations for Neighbor Impact and lots of pie for the afterparty. DECEMBER 12/03 Canyon Rumble Frozen Half/10K/5K Multi-distance trail though Willow Canyon in Madras benefitting the the MADras Runners Jack Watts Memorial Scholarship. 12/02 Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis Annual fun run's 5K and 1 miler kick off the downtown Bend Christmas parade. 12/11 Annual Christmas Paddle Locals deck the boats in this annual float down the Deschutes through the Old Mill District in a parade of lighted canoes and kayaks.

12/31 Run Into the New Year The annual New Year’s Eve race begins at 11:30pm, so bring a headlamp. Proceeds benefit the Bethlehem Inn and the Bend High Walking Club. A lone rider enjoys an open road on SnoPlanks' new, locally made Cheater longboard .

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Carl, your dad was an MTB racer around here. Did he directly influence you to get in the sport or was that something you decided that you wanted to pursue? Carl Decker: Living in Bend and growing up in my family, that was a foregone conclusion. The pinnacle of the lifestyle around here is to make a living riding bikes, at least for me. And my dad he was so into biking before people were into that. He rode his bike across the country when he was 20 years old—on a Schwinn. People didn’t do that stuff. Growing up in my family, living in this place and doing what I always wanted to do [was the dream], but I didn't think I'd ever be able to do it. I was told by people that I couldn’t do it, but I just kind of got lucky.

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Sporting Lives A S TO L D TO B O B W O O D WA R D

end is recognized as a great place to cross-country ski and mountain bike and home to locals who are competing at the highest level in both sports. On the mountain bike, Carl Decker has carved out an outstanding career that includes a world single-speed championship, several world all-mountain championships (downhill and cross-country results combined over two days). He has completed arduous, self-supported, off-road tours. Just recently, he was crowned U.S. Single-Speed National Champion. A former Bend High cross-country running star, Decker races bikes professionally for team Giant. While not a pro racer, Tim Gibbons has immersed himself in competitive crosscountry skiing on the collegiate level as the former leader of Dartmouth College’s women’s ski team. He also served as a physiologist with the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Recently he served as co-curator of the well-received “Winter Comes” exhibit of Oregon’s ski history at the Deschutes Historical Society.

So when you came to COCC was it to ski and become a ski racer? TG: Skiing was a big part of it because COCC had such a nationally prominent program for a community college. Back then community colleges had sports programs. But it was also how you could have a great instructor and small class sizes. Carl, when you decided to go pro as a mountain bike racer, did you feel people in the community were more supportive or skeptical? CD: People have always been supportive—the people that get it. I was going to school wearing mountain bike race T-shirts, thinking that was the coolest clothing that you could wear. There were like six guys that thought that was cool. But around here there was such a big community of outcasts like us.

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Above: Bend Magazine invited two notable natives to our riverside deck for a chat about the Bend sporting life and their common (or not-so-common) experiences. Bob Woodward (left) sat down for a conversation with Tim Gibbons (middle) and Carl Decker (right) on a (hot!) summer day.

Tim, your dad was an early adopter when cross-country skiing started to become popular, dragging you as a kid every weekend to Mt. Hood. Was it his influence or something else that motivated you? Tim Gibbons: It was literally every weekend, from November to the first week of May that we were skiing. One weekend in high school, I decided that I wanted to hang with my buddies in Beaverton [rather than ski]. It was the most boring weekend I ever spent. So I realized: I love being outdoors; I love skiing. My brother and I, we literally would explore on alpine skis the trails from Timberline to Government Camp, or we would explore the Barlow Trail on our cross-country skis.

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When you first came here, Tim, cross-country was really taking off. You got in on the ground floor of the boom. TG: Exactly. And the college was a big part of that. But it was also Sunnyside Sports and their races. Of course, nationally and internationally cross-country took off [as well]. It was fun to be part of that, but it was also fun to explore and be part of something growing in Bend. Carl, who were the people who influenced you growing up in Bend? CD: Well, my dad to some degree. I learned a lot from him, even into my professional days he gave me some nice perspective. But it was people like you [Woody]. I remember you being at Ashland and being the emcee at bike races and making it into a fun event. It wasn’t a road race that’s super intense and everybody is fighting against each other. It was you fighting against your bike and the terrain and rejoicing that you made it through to the other side. That’s been the nature of mountain biking, that its man against hill instead of man against man—to some degree. I looked up to Paul Thomasberg a lot in that transition from being a kid to being a pro that was probably the guy that I could learn the most from.

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At what point did you decide to become an actual pro? CD: I think in bike racing, “actual pro” is a very gray area. It’s not like baseball where it’s, "I turned pro and then... I bought my mom a house in Malibu!” I turned “pro” and much like these other fringe sports, I delivered pizza for several years of transition until I didn’t have to have a job, or my job was racing bikes. I turned pro in 1998 and I stopped delivering pizza in probably 2004. You’ve taken different paths, but you’ve both gone away and come back. What’s been the draw of Bend and Central Oregon. CD: It’s obvious for anybody that lives here, but you do have to go away at some point to realize what you’ve got. It didn’t take long living in Portland and opening the drapes and seeing no sun for the thirtieth or fourtieth day in a

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“You have parents who watch and appreciate the sports lifestyle. It’s not whether you liked it, it’s just what we did as a family.” row. I’d get tears in my eyes when I’d open the blinds those first few years in college. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a thing. Tim, you went off to Dartmouth and coached the Dartmouth team and then went to work for the U.S. Olympic team in Colorado. What brought you back? TG: You know, the mountain biking in Colorado is fantastic and around Colorado Springs is great, but you have to drive close to two hours to get to snow. When I can go for a run or a mountain bike ride within five minutes, or in ten to fifteen minutes I’m on snow at Meissner, or in twenty to twenty-five minutes I'm at Bachelor, not many places can say that. That’s the lure that brings you back. What about futures? Carl what are you expecting? CD: I’m doing a little bit of coaching, which I didn’t expect to like as much as I do. In a year I can give people seven years of knowledge. I work with Giant developing product and making bikes better, but I still love racing bikes and still holding on for grim death at the age of 41. But I’m still learning stuff. Parts of me are getting worse and parts of me are getting a little bit better.

Talk a little bit about the family and support network and what that did to allow you both to develop personally and professionally. Carl: I was lucky to come up in a family that was based around sports and cycling specifically. The Decker family we had our own Team Decker T-shirts. That’s just what we did. The luckiest day of my life was the day my dad got transferred from the Oregon Coast to Bend with the state police. From then on my future was in motion. There was a huge community here that helped push me. As you get older do you have a different perspective about how much your parents put into that? CD: Oh yes. My parents made huge sacrifices for that. My dad worked his (butt) off all winter and banked all of his vacation time so we could go to these mountain bike races. And it was a very valuable asset this vacation time. And a lot of people would want to go to Hawaii and drink beer and relax, but we were charging out to races and doing these adventures. Most people would need a vacation from their vacation when they got back. Tim, how about you? TG: Very similar to Carl. Both parents were teachers and educators and had winter vacation and summer vacation. We were whitewater rafting and climbing mountains. We were fly fishing, cross-country ski racing. So every other weekend in the winter we would road trip to a race. That’s not what families did. So in talking about the sacrifice, that was also the adventure. My parents are still alive; dad is 92 and mom is 86. They are avid sports fans. They watch soccer; they watch track and field. They watch college sports, but none of the professional sports. They’ll watch every minute of the Olympics. So you have parents who watch and appreciate the sports lifestyle. It’s not whether you liked it, it’s just what we did as a family.

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about healthy eating are so common in America, they are known to even infiltrate the ranks of Olympic-caliber athletes. One Bend woman, however, discovered that some of the world’s most delicious—even decadent— foods radically improved her health. These foods also helped a friend become one of the fastest women on the planet. Now the two have written a book about it. Run Fast Eat Slow, released in August and packed with nourishing recipes, chronicles how great food allowed one to become a mother; the other, a champion. Elyse Kopecky and Shalane Flanagan had been roommates as well as cross-country and track teammates at the University of North Carolina before graduating and moving to Portland to work for Nike—Kopecky as a digital marketing producer, and Flanagan as a professional runner. Kopecky’s career took her throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia, and she pursued cooking classes wherever she landed. It was in Switzerland where she started blogging about her eye-opening culinary discoveries. “In Gruyeres, outside of Geneva, there are the most amazing farmers’ markets, with butchers whose ground beef is full fat—there are no other options—and the butter, the cheeses. I was eating better than ever, enjoying indulgent foods that in our country are thought to be ‘bad’ for you,” said Kopecky (over a cup of local chocolate chai at a Bend bakery). “Not only was I not gaining weight, I was healthier and stronger than ever before. It was a game changer.”

She quit her successful marketing career and left Switzerland to study at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City. After completing the culinary program and returning home to her husband in Portland, Kopecky became pregnant, though she had been told by doctors that she'd have fertility problems because of her athletic amenorrhea condition. Kopecky also reunited with Flanagan in Portland at a barbecue at Flanagan’s home. She saw that the successful runner, who had by that time won the bronze medal for the 10,000-meter finals at the 2008 Olympic finals in Beijing, had in her refrigerator sugary, low-fat yogurt, which Flanagan thought was good for her. “We got so fired up, talking about how there’s so much misinformation and how so many female athletes are suffering from detrimental fad diets pushed on them,” said Kopecky. That night, the idea for Run Fast Eat Slow was born. Flanagan changed her diet, eating millet pizza, ham, and fig quiche, wild salmon sweet potato cakes and other dishes they were developing for the book. That racing season, she hit her racing weight while she was enjoying food more than ever, and recovering faster from grueling twentyfour-mile training runs at 6,910 feet. She went on to run a personal record in the marathon in her hometown of Boston, set the 10K American road record and qualified for the summer Olympic marathon team in Rio. Kopecky fulfi lled her dream of moving to Bend in January with her husband, Andy, and daughter Lily, 2.

Run Fast Eat Slow co-author Elyse Kopecky offered a few tips for better health through indulgent nourishment: COOK

Outside of training, getting in the kitchen and cooking is the single greatest tool for athletes of all levels to perform at their best. That means making things from scratch. A lot of people think cooking is opening a jar of marinara and boiling frozen broccoli. That is preparing, not cooking. The more you cook, the easier it gets. You can get a gourmet meal on the table in fifteen minutes, if you have high-quality ingredients.

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Healthy eating is so much more than kale juice. There is so much nourishment in local, grass-fed meat, cultured dairy, eggs, whole grains and seasonal ingredients.

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One afternoon a week, I make big batches of things that can be reused. In fall, on a Sunday I’ll roast a big tray of veggies, or a whole chicken, and use the leftovers in soups or salads and use the bones for broth. You can make quinoa, or faro, and add a vegetable that is in season for a hearty grain salad. Vary it during the week by doing meat on the grill to go with it, or top it with a fried egg.

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Indeed, this town’s name says it all, errebonne means “good earth” but it wasn’t always that way. In the earin French and this little town ly twentieth century, two railroad bartwenty-four miles north of ons, James J. Hill of the Great Northern Bend lives up to its name. Autumn is a and Edward H. Harriman of the Union prime time to venture here and take in Pacific, were engaged in a battle to the beauty and promise of adventure. build a railway to Bend. At that time, In fact, this one-square-mile area of the town was called Hillman, but the Deschutes County draws visitors from W R I T T E N B Y C AT H Y C A R R O L L massive amount of money, time, enaround the globe. ergy, and human lives involved in this The star of the show has long been notorious mad rush to the finish did not sit well with the townspeople, Smith Rock State Park, with its towering, sunset-hued canyon walls so they voted to change the name to Terrebonne in 1911. and trails that beckon some of the world’s best climbers, but that is just The area began to draw attention again starting in the 1980s when the beginning. Alan Watts of Bend pioneered sport climbing at Smith Rock. One clasBucolic family farms welcome visitors year-round, though fall sic route, Chain Reaction, became the most photographed route in the pumpkin patch celebrations are a highlight. Head to local wineries to ’80s and helped spread the love for sport climbing around the globe. In sip the bounty of the grapes harvested in this Mediterranean-meets1986, the route To Bolt or Not to Be became America’s first 5.14 route desert climate. The Crooked River, which winds below the windand remains one of the hardest routes to this day. carved spires of Smith Rock, is the place for year-round fly-fishing.

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Smith Rock State Park: Misery Ridge Trail rises to a prime spot for catching nerves-of-steel climbers on Monkey Face, hundreds of feet above the valley floor. Steelhead Falls: A twenty-foot plunge waterfall in a secluded section of the Middle Deschutes River.

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DD Ranch and Central Oregon Pumpkin Co. at Smith Rock Ranch: Enjoy corn mazes, hay rides, a petting zoo and more. Smith Rock Climbing School: Learn the basics of climbing, improve your skills, or do a guided climb. Middle Deschutes and Crooked rivers: Wet a fly in these revered, but less trafficked trout streams. Redmond-based Fin and Fire is a great source of local knowledge and gear. Crescent Moon Alpaca Ranch and Boutique: Shop locally-made alpaca blankets and clothing and visit the farm for a tour of this Alpaca refuge.

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Panacea at the Canyon: This forty-acre luxury tent resort and spa offers a solar-powered oasis, prompting guests to truly unplug and reconnect with nature to nurture their mind, body and spirit. Yoga and labyrinth meditation are among the offerings here.

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Faith Hope and Charity Vineyards and Maragas Winery: Sip big reds or crisp whites. Terrebonne Depot: Savor dishes made with local ingredients in a century-old train depot with views of Smith Rock and the Cascade Range. Alternatively, order a picnic-basket lunch to go and take it on your adventure.

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The sound of children’s laughter is often heard echoing past the dual zip lines and over a climbing wall replica of Smith Rock’s Monkey Face, just two of the seventy play items at Hope Playground in Redmond. Hope was designed to encourage interactive play for people of all abilities and ages. “It’s a great asset for Redmond, and an excellent way to draw attention to our town because it’s the largest inclusive playground in the Northwest,” said Charlie Rucker of the Redmond Chamber. Behind the grassroots project is a group of Redmond moms who saw their dream for this inclusive playground become a reality last year. Today the 450-person capacity playground is both a destination and a point of civic pride for this booming bedroom community. Volunteers were integral to the completion of the playground—located in Sam Johnson Park—as was the $750,000 in donations, grants and in-kind labor.

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entral Oregon has a long history of Nordic and alpine skiing, but none is older or more influential than the Skyliners ski club. Born out of a rescue effort in the Three Sisters area in 1927, Scandinavians Nels Skjersaa, Nils Wulfsberg, Chris Kostol and Emil Nordeen founded Bend’s first ski club. Fostering a love for the outdoors, the club put skiing, tobogganing, skating, hiking and mountain climbing on the map in Central Oregon. Skyliners built its first winter playground at McKenzie Pass in 1928. When the club started arranging annual competitions in 1929, athletes from the Pacific Northwest and Canada congregated on the area. Skyliners’ top skiers, including John Ring, Olaf Skjersaa, Ole Amoth, and Arved Iverson held their own against Hjalmar Hvam and John Elvrum of Cascade Ski Club, and Ole Tverdahl of Seattle Ski Club. In 1931, Skyliners became one of the founding members of the Pacific Northwest Ski Association. A diminishing snowpack and a wish to build a larger ski jump prompted Skyliners to relocate its headquarters to the Tumalo Creek area, in the mid-1930s, where the only paved road still bears the club’s name. Like many extracurricular clubs around the country, Skyliners went into hibernation with the outbreak of World War II. It wasn’t until the early 1950s that Skyliners resumed regular activities. With the establishment of a ski center at Bachelor Butte (now Mt. Bachelor) in 1958, the club made its final move.

From the new base west of Bend, head alpine coach Frank Cammack was instrumental in developing Skyliners’ next generation of top athletes, including Kiki Cutter, the first American to win a World Cup race. Others, including, Karen Skjersaa, Sherry Blann, Mark Ford (father of World Cup racer Tommy Ford) and Mike Lafferty competed at national and international tournaments. After almost sixty years as an independent organization, Skyliners was integrated into Mt. Bachelor Ski Education Foundation (MBSEF) in 1986. Its legacy lives on in the ski and outdoor culture that is so deeply imprinted on the DNA of Central Oregon today.

Clockwise from top left: Four Scandinavians (left to right): Chris Kostol, Nels Skjersaa, Nils Wulfsberg and Emil Nordeen. The ski jump at Skyliners’ McKenzie Pass headquarters—the jump hill was expanded several times with a taller starting platform to accommodate longer jumps. As much a social club as an outdoors club, Skyliners arranged dances at the Hippodrome (where the Deschutes Public Library stands today) complete with in-house orchestra. Editor's Note: The Heritage Page is a product of the Deschutes Historical Society, a nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to the preservation and celebration of Central Oregon's early history.

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ichard Miller's amateur boxing gym produces a powerful punch of integrity. Miller, now a middle-aged community champion (instead of the middle-weight one), still looks like a fighter. When Miller moved to Bend twelve years ago, he saw a void in the athletic fabric and created Deschutes County Rocks, an amateur co-ed boxing club. In doing so, Miller contributed something unusual on Greenwood Avenue: an all-volunteer staff that relies on donations, raffles and exhibition shows to cover the gym’s costs.

Every Coach has golden rules they live by. What are yours? I guess the first one is respect your team. Everyone has something to give. I’m not in charge; I have four fulltime volunteers, including my wife. The team is the driving force to become what we want to achieve. Your ego is the most dangerous thing about you. That’s how fights happen. I don’t want them to fight. I want them to learn. Learning includes doing well in school. Nothing below a C. Did the male athletes just allow the women (there were five in attendance) to proceed before them? I want my boxing team to be regarded as

having the best manners wherever we go and whenever we travel. I’m often on the road with two-dozen kids, traveling to other states to compete. Last year we traveled twentyseven times. We always win if the officials come up to me and say: your team has impressive manners. But we also win a lot even against the east coast slicks. It might sound archaic, but I don’t like cell phones. Eye contact is important in our sport. I have my team look each other in the eye at dinner and look out the window when we travel. Ladies do go first around here. It’s a sign of respect. You volunteer hundreds of hours of your time, you strain to pay the rent and make sure the kids who want to compete never carry the financial burden. Why? I grew up in Rock Springs, Wyoming. There wasn’t a lot to do if you didn’t like riding horses. The movie theater was our social moment. Two weeks in a row I got in a fight and was kicked out. A few weeks went by without a word from my dad. Then one day he came home from work and said, ‘Put on your sneakers and gym shorts.’ I found myself at the local middle school in line with seventy middle school-age boys. When they let us inside, he was sitting there with a panel of old timers and there were training stations, gloves, bags and gear all over

the gym. My dad smiled and said, ‘Now you're going to learn something else but brawling.’ That’s why I do it. This is not about hitting. This is about controlling your anger, fear, rage and obstacles we come up against every day. I do it because I know what it did for me. I’m leaving a legacy. What more can a person want than to change a life—especially a kid’s. Can we talk about about the “C” word? What about Concussions? I want to talk about it. There are so many misunderstandings. This is amateur boxing. Ironically, amateur boxing is not even in the top twenty-five sports that cause concussions. We have gear that is designed specially to absorb impact, not create it. We have intense monitoring systems. We only go three rounds. If there is even a doubt you’ve been hit inappropriately there is a mandatory thirty days’ suspension. Our concussion protocol is higher than soccer, football, lacrosse and skiing. There's a basic principal of being a good coach that is often overlooked: my goal is to retain my players and keep them healthy. Why would I want anyone on my team to get hurt?

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Why did you create a boxing gym in downtown Bend? We are not all built the same. Bend is great and offers a lot to kids but I kept asking myself: Where are the kids who don’t fit in the box? Where are the kids who can’t afford to ski or pay the hefty fees for club athletics? I know what boxing did for me and I wanted to offer that to both the east and west sides of town. At Deschutes County Rocks you don’t have to be the fastest, biggest or most skilled to get a scholarship. You just have to show up, respect the rules and make a commitment.

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f you are the parent of a baby or toddler, you know the stress of the sleep-deprived early years. When there is a lack of food, unemployment, a struggle with mental illness or drug and alcohol dependence, the stress can become overwhelming. Before young families reach a breaking point they need a pressure relief valve. Enter MountainStar Family Relief Nursery, a Central Oregon nonprofit that prevents child abuse before it happens by helping families in crisis. There are twenty-eight relief nurseries in the state of Oregon and MountainStar

operates three of them—in Bend, Madras and Prineville. The relief nursery model supports families in a number of ways. Children who are three and younger come twice a week to a therapeutic classroom, a safe and relaxing space designed to boost healthy development. When the children are in the classroom, parents have time to go to the grocery store, seek out services or simply get a break. Staff members also make regular home visits and offer parent coaching. Families are connected to community resources. And there is an emergency food pantry

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“I love working with the little ones, they're just so precious.” and a cabinet stocked with diapers for parents in immediate need. For those without a family safety net, such as a parent or grandparent, MountainStar acts as a surrogate of sorts. The holistic program is working. Ninety-eight percent of the children enrolled remained free from confirmed cases of abuse and neglect. “Parents tell me they can really talk to us—that we listen,” said MountainStar Program Director Jeanna Darnell. “For some parents, this is the first time they've ever had anyone on their team.”

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Roberta Maestas is the safety net specialist at MountainStar and is the first point of contact for families wanting to enroll in the program. She visits each family at their home for intake, putting parents at ease with her warm smile. Maestas moved to Bend to retire after working for twenty-one years as a juvenile probation officer in Salem. But retirement didn't last long. "I love working with the little ones,” she said. “They are just so precious.”

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Beer Budget, Champagne House Dale and Veronica Partridge swapped Southern California for Central Oregon and then took a house plan from standard to special with imagination and sweat equity. W R I T T E N B Y S T E P H A N I E B OY L E M AY S P H O TO G R A P H S B Y PA U L A WAT T S

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ntrepreneur and social-media maven Dale Partridge and his wife Veronica were ready to abandon the stress and congestion of California’s Orange County— then Dale visited Bend on a business trip in 2013. Within the year, the couple had moved to an apartment on the west side. Dale had started a new business (StartupCamp), and the two began searching for a more permanent home in earnest. “We looked at sixty properties,” said Dale. “And we came back and bought the first one we looked at,” added Veronica. They assessed the property as “dirt and an old house,” but it had stunning views of the Three Sisters. Seven

acres offered peace and tranquility after the stress of Orange County. They decided to build their own house. The couple visited a number of design-build firms before choosing Adair. “While some of the other companies had great design staff,” explained Dale, “they also charged more for it and that was the part we wanted to do ourselves.” In the end, the Partridges built their 3,217-square-foot home for $200,000. “Good design does not require money,” he said. “It requires thought; you need to choose the right things. Design is about your eye.” “One of the ways our business has changed is the number of options that we now give

homeowners,” said Lori Jeter, a home ownership counselor with Adair who worked with the Partridges. “We encourage people to take part in the process and get what they want in their house. It’s a big investment and they need to be happy.” Working with Adair’s Mt. Rainier model, the Partridges turned the den into the dining room and opened it to combine with the great room and kitchen. In the great room, they added a brick fireplace with a woodstove insert inspired by Pinterest (where they each have more than 700,000 followers), opted for nine-foot ceilings and a smooth (rather than orange peel) finish on the walls. At the back of

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“It’s all about value. There should be value in everything. We wanted value for our home and we want to show the people who visit us here their value. ”

Neutral Zone A white and neutral décor throughout the house unifies the rooms and provides a foil to other design features such as the blackboard wall between the great room and kitchen.

Viewer's Choice At the back of the house, they chose six-foot windows and added decks to the first and second stories to better enjoy the mountain views.

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Reclaimed Glory A wood wall in the dining room was created from the remnants of the original home’s siding.

the house, they chose six-foot-tall windows and added decks to the first and second stories to better enjoy the mountain views. Because of their many followers on Pinterest, Instagram and other social media, the two were given sound systems by Sonos and hardware and lighting by Schoolhouse Electric in exchange for their promotion. But Dale is also a self-described “YouTube contractor” and, with his father’s help, he tiled the kitchen backsplash and, solo, installed the lights hanging above the kitchen island in a beam that he sanded and stained. The beam’s color echoes a wood wall in the dining room created from the remnants of the original home’s siding. Dale designed the walnut and I-beam mantel for the fireplace. The home exudes tasteful repurposing throughout. The dark brown leather couches were trucked from their home in California. Other elements from their California home include re-chromed lights over the dining table, which came off a 1950s cruise ship and the white deer head mounted on the dining room wall. A white and neutral décor throughout the house unifies the rooms and provides a foil to other design features such as the blackboard wall between the great room and kitchen. “We don’t use credit cards and for a long time we only had one car,” said Dale, who stressed the importance of frugality while also noting that he believed in hiring people for their expertise. In the backyard, he established the lawn from seed (“It’s easier to start a business than grow grass in Central Oregon,” he quipped), but hired HD Landscape for the rest of the landscaping and, when the couple decided to convert the upstairs loft to a combination office and guest room, they enlisted Tony Roberts of Refined Wood Elements LLC. “I could tell he was a guy with a million ideas going around in his head,” said Roberts, who framed the doorway and built the bed, desk and cabinetry in the revamped space. “It’s all about value,” said Dale. “There should be value in everything. We wanted value for our home and we want to show the people who visit us here their value. We want to have this home be about hospitality and healing and restoration.”

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n his shop in northeast Bend, Jorma Nagel waxed poetic about granite. “There are a lot of materials, but granite is the real thing. It has the beauty and uniqueness of natural stone, and the depth of time.” And, he adds to further bolster his case, “since the recession, the price of granite has actually gone down." “We can, and have, put granite just about anywhere,” explained Nagel, owner of New Era Granite. Nagel recently completed an installation with a kitchen wall of bookmatched granite in AJ brown and a black granite island counter. Other unusual projects have included an interior wall with a window of honey-colored onyx, and a house with all the window trim—including that for the skylight—made of granite. Not every job is that large; more diminutive projects have included the counter of a 30-inch vanity and cutting 2-inch by 2-inch squares for an artist’s project. “We can do anything you want with granite, except bend it,” he said.

While Nagel gets most of his materials from Portland (“a lot of places left Bend during the recession,” he explained), much of the granite itself comes from Brazil, China and off the coast of Japan. Nagel often encourages his customers to go to Portland to pick out their stone in person, because it is much easier to see granite’s patterns and depths in a whole slab—rather than in a showroom sample. Once the granite is chosen, a template is made to the project’s dimensions. With the template complete, the granite is lifted by a five-ton crane to a bridge saw. “We try to keep lifting to a minimum within the shop,” explained Nagel. “Granite is very heavy, probably twenty pounds a square foot and it needs to be carried so it won’t collapse from its own weight.” Sinks are cut out and pieces are cut to the template, along with special features if a client has requests. Nagel has integrated drain boards into counters, cut backsplashes in the silhouette of the Cascades and

“can sandblast any design you want into stone.” Edges are also finessed at this stage. “Everyone wants a flat squared edge now because it’s a more modern look—ten years ago everyone wanted a fancy edge like a curved ogee.” Whatever the trend, however, a simple rounded shape provides the strongest edge. Once cut, the stone is polished into one of three finishes: high shine, antique or leather, or honed. “Polishing may be the most difficult part,” said Nagel. “It takes about a year-and-a-half of training before someone can polish without being supervised. It’s a real art and some people just can’t do it.” The final step is installation, which is also tricky because of the weight and size of the pieces. Once installed, however, Nagel is confident in his product. “It took more than a million years to make,” he said, “and it’s going to last for a lifetime in your house.” Most of Nagel’s business is by word of mouth. His advertising has been limited to a counter in a Tour of Homes house and sponsoring his daughter’s soccer team. “About 25 percent of my business is remodels; the rest is new construction for custom homes. I love it when homeowners come straight to me. We do things the oldschool way. I like to see people’s reaction when they see the finished work.” FALL 2016 \ b e n d m a g a z i n e . c o m

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Two-Wheeled Entrepreneurship The Robert Axle Project rode a simple solution to a common bike commuting problem to international success. I N T E R V I E W B Y K E L LY K E A R S L E Y

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years into their entrepreneurial adventure, Chris Kratsch and Katy Bryce still joke that they accidentally created a company. “We always look at each other and ask ‘We’re doing this?’” says Kratsch, co-founder with his wife Bryce, of The Robert Axle Project. The Bend startup makes “thru axles” for connecting trailers to modern bikes. The couple’s business was born out of necessity. They bought new mountain bikes in 2012, and quickly realized that they couldn’t attach their bike trailers. Their surprisingly simple solution has since grown into an international company that sells products in 35 countries.

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Kratsch and Bryce are passionate about biking. In 2003, the couple biked 2,400 miles on the Great Divide Trail from Canada to Mexico. They have designated motor-free weekends. “We’ll ride out to the Cascade Lakes and camp,” said Kratsch. He is a long-time Central Oregon Trail Alliance volunteer who has spent hundreds of hours maintaining local mountain bike trails. BOB trailers—the same company that makes the ubiquitous threewheeled BOB strollers—have been crucial component of all their adventures.

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Kratsch and Bryce use them to haul their camping gear and pull trail maintenance equipment. But their newer carbon frame bikes had 12 millimeter thru axles, which attach the wheel to the bike frame, unlike the older quick-release skewers. That made connecting the BOB trailers temporarily impossible. Kratsch called BOB and the bike manufacturers, but didn’t get anywhere. “I worked at a machine shop at the time, and I realized I had the resources to make something myself,” said Kratsch. His replacement axle worked so well that friends were soon asking if they could buy them. Thinking others probably had the same issue, Bryce, a writer and marketer, put up an e-commerce site.

Going all in

The pair named their company The Robert Axle Project, a tongue-in-cheek reference to their beloved BOB trailers. Within weeks of their site going live, they received an order for 100 axles from a large bike parts distributor in Switzerland. The business took off from there. “Now nearly half of our orders come

from Europe,” said Kratsch. Long-distance bikers like themselves seek out the after-market axles, which can be used with any brand trailer. But the bulk of their orders

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come from people pulling kid trailers. The bike manufacturers have shown no interest in tackling the problem. As a result, The Robert Axle Project created the solution that has become the industry standard. While it’s a small market, the Bend-based company has a virtual monopoly. It sells direct to consumers from its website, to bike shops, and parts distributors and recently partnered with a trailer company. The business grew 400% last year, and is slated to grow another 200% this year. Being in bike-crazy Bend turned out to be a boon. “We have so many bike shops here," said Kratsch. “Not only were they supportive, but I was able to ride around town and measure the axles of nearly every bike on the market.” He used that information to build an online tool for consumers to determine which size axle they need. The startup was also part of Bend Outdoor Worx (BOW), an accelerator for outdoor gear companies. Kratsch quit his job in 2015 to run The Robert Axle Project full time. Bryce continues to do the company’s marketing. Devoting more time and energy to their business has definitely cut into the couple’s own long bike adventures, but Kratsch said it’s worth it. “It’s exciting to see how far we can push this,” he said. “We’re helping others find adventure, and we’re finding our own through growing a business.”

Avid bikers, Kratsch and Bryce took 63 days to ride the Great Divide Trail from Canada to Mexico.

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Cleaning up your Plate: OREGON GREEN PRODUCTS BRINGS DISPOSABLE GREENWARE TO BEND WHEN OWEN MITZ moved to Bend in 2007, he went out to a restaurant and came back with a business idea. “We went to a place to eat, were served Styrofoam cups and saw that there was very little being done. It wasn’t our original plan, but plant-based products became our focus,” said Mitz. After thirty-five years in the technology field, Mitz and his wife became interested in disposable dinnerware when they volunteered to help with a church bazaar in Maryland in 2006. Tasked with serving 1,000 meals in a day, they researched compostable plates, cups and utensils for the event. Upon coming to Bend, Mitz realized there was a market for such products in his new hometown. Oregon Green Products was born. Starting small and growing slowly, Mitz bought products made with recycled paper and polylactic

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acid, a bioplastic often made from plants that can break down in ninety to 180 days. At first, Mitz said he struggled to convince local purveyors to go greener with their paper and plastic—and pay up to 15 percent more than they would on regular products. “It’s a dollars and cents thing; restaurants make money on nickels and pennies, which makes this decision [to go green] difficult. For me, growth was a matter of making connections.” Teaming up with Strictly Organic Coffee in 2011, Mitz helped the shop go 100 percent compostable, and others followed, including Sparrow Bakery and Village Baker. From 2012 and 2015, Oregon Green Product’s net income increased by 70 percent and the company distributes between 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of products per month to local businesses and nonprofits. The company offers roughly sixty different environmentally friendly items based on

demand, ranging from cups and cleaning supplies to plates and toilet paper. No surprise in caffeine-loving Central Oregon, the most popular product by far is still coffee cups. Moving forward, Mitz said he hopes to expand his business from food services to hotels, restaurants, theaters and management companies.

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Brewers Tapping Bend's east side IF BEND HAS EMERGED as the craft brewing capital of Oregon with more breweries per capita than either Portland or Seattle, then the industrial area off Empire has emerged as the heart of this booming industry. While not as a chic as downtown Bend or the westside, where many breweries opt to locate tasting rooms and pubs, the area around Empire, previously known as a mashup of industrial and high tech business, has flourished as breweries flock to the area. At present there are at least eight companies with production facilities located in the warehouse and commercial area that roughly stretches from Boyd Acres to 18th Street on Bend's northeast side. Crux Fermentation Project is one of the more recent additions to the industrial area. Earlier this year, the company moved a chunk of its commercial production as well its bottling and canning operations to the former IdaTech building just south of Empire. Partner and co-founder Paul Evers said the company has kept the expansion relatively quiet. Even so, the move has allowed Crux to expand its barrel aging programs while creating a home for its administrative staff who were previously housed in temporary offices on the pub property. It's also allowed the company to keep the focus of the original bre-

whouse on experimentation and innovation, said Evers during a recent tour of Crux 2, as the company refers to the space. “This is more the manifestation of the original dream,” said Evers, during a walk-through of the barrel aging room, which is stacked floor to ceiling with oak barrels of artisan ales that will age for as long as two years. Breweries aren’t the only ones seeing opportunity in the area. Humm Kombucha is moving its production facility east of the parkway to the northeast industrial zone. There are several components to this wave of migration and expansion, said Roger Lee, of Economic Development of Central Oregon, whose agency has identified brewing as one of the key growth industries in the region. First and foremost is a public hunger for craft brews and other libations, particularly those with a Bend pedigree. But what’s driving the cluster around Empire is the ready access to sewer service in a town that is in many places strained to meet demand. “They’re there because of the sewer capacity. Breweries have gotten wise to this. Instead of trying to put a square peg in a round hole. They say, ‘Where do you want me? I’ll go wherever,’” said Lee.

BY THE NUMBERS While much attention has been given to the housing and transportation woes that accompany Central Oregon’s recent growth spurt, overshadowed is the region’s very strong economic performance as of late. The numbers tell a clear story of a region on the rise.

unemployment Deschutes County’s unemployment rate as of June 2016. Down from a high of 12.6 percent in 2011.

ranking Bend-Redmond’s ranking among all small metro areas nationally for key economic benchmarks, including short-term job growth in industries such as technology and medicine.

jobs Bend-Redmond’s ranking among all metro areas. Job growth last year was at more than 6 percent.

tech Number of software-related jobs in Central Oregon.

1.5million

space The total combined square footage of all Central Oregon’s data centers, including Facebook and Apple in Prineville.

The average annual salary of data center workers. Source:EDCO

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Five Talent’s CEO on what it takes it make it in Bend and how tech companies are working together to make this the most liveable city in America.

reston Callicott is your classic go big or go home personality. For example, the CEO of Five Talent and his wife visited Bend for the first time ever on a Friday in 2003—they bought a house here twenty-four hours later. Callicott started several companies in the Bay Area, and for the past six years has helmed Five Talent, doubling the software development company’s revenue annually for nearly his whole tenure. Recently Callicott has turned his energy toward tapping Bend’s tech and startup community to participate in the city’s civic issues. He helped rally dozens of tech companies to sponsor the Bend Livability Project, and he’s made strategic asks since then for support on other community projects. We sat down with Callicott to learn more about Bend’s tech industry and why he thinks it’s important that tech and startups get involved. When did you realize you wanted to live and work in Central Oregon? I had been commuting from here to the Bay Area every day for more than seven years. I kept trying to spin up our startups in Bend; the investors would like the idea, but they didn’t want us to start it here. One weekend I was driving with the kids down Wall Street downtown and I told my wife that our most recent startup had been funded, but that the investors wanted it based in Silicon Valley. From the back seat, my daughter points out the window and says “Daddy, if you worked at that hot dog stand, I could see you every day.” I knew then that I needed to figure out how to fully be in Bend. I joined Five Talent a few months later.

For many years, investors challenged the notion that you could build a tech company here. Has that sentiment changed? Before if you wanted to live here, you either had to create a business or bring something with you. The concern from investors was whether you could find enough talent and was it close enough to keep an eye on. In the last four years, we’ve seen enough companies start, get funded and be successful. Now they’re attracting talent and spinning out their own startups. Suddenly we’re pollinating our own ecosystem and people are realizing that you can move here and get tech jobs. So I do think it’s changed. I see so many bright minds and great ideas. And the exciting part is that’s just the surface—there’s so much more going on that we haven’t heard about.

You’ve rallied the tech community to sponsor the Bend Livability Project and support other community initiatives. Why do you want tech to be involved? I want Bend to be the most livable city in America. There’s a massive sense of new ideas and innovation brewing here to facilitate that goal and I think we should take advantage of it. It’s not just tech, but innovators. There are so many entrepreneurial people who moved to Bend for the same reason, the lifestyle. So they have a vested interest in helping the city navigate its growth. In addition, they are used to finding creative solutions for problems, and they move fast. The tech/startup community often avoids getting involved with government and politics, but this stuff—from affordable housing to transportation—affects all of our daily lives. When one of your employees can’t find housing, then it’s suddenly your issue, too. What current private or public initiatives are you working on? I’m on the Bend 2030 executive board, which created MOVEBend, a group dedicated to transportation issues. We’re supporting the OSU bike share program and trying to bring zip cars to Bend. I’m also committed to supporting entrepreneurs and businesses here. To that end, I’m on the board of Opportunity Knocks (OK), I mentor one entrepreneurial OK group and I am a member of another OK group. I mentor and meet with new startups all the time, and I’m in the process of starting another one right now.

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Warm Springs’ Elizabeth Woody on life, loss and becoming the state’s poet laureate.

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Warm Springs on a cloudy day in early April, Elizabeth Woody saw her cell phone light up on the passenger seat. Recognizing the number, she pulled her dusty silver SUV off to the side of the road and picked up, wondering why they would be calling her—she hadn’t worked with them in years. The unfamiliar voice on the other end introduced himself as Adam Davis, executive director of Oregon Humanities; he told her he had good news. After reviewing her nomination and submitted writing samples, the statewide selection committee was ready to nominate Oregon’s next poet laureate. Appointed by the governor, the poet laureate position is presented to a single author who has made a significant contribution to the state’s literary canon. The recipient spends two years promoting poetry across the state through the written word, as well as their presence at literary events. The committee thought Liz was the right person for the role. “She has some national presence; when she was selected I heard from people around the country congratulating us on her appointment,” said Davis. For Woody the nomination came at a time when personal events were overshadowing her professional life. “I was surprised, delighted, honored—and very hesitant to accept,” she remembers, her face filling with emotion. “My first thought was of my mother.”

Beginnings Sitting on a small gray sofa in her mother’s house in Warm

Springs, Woody tilts her head to slip on a pair of earrings, pale discs that dangle playfully against strands of her long black hair. While her face shows fatigue from months in mourning and a recent bout of bronchitis, her eyes still light up when she laughs. Tribal masks with hollow eyes watch over a bookshelf filled with picture frames, hints of Woody’s heritage that color her work and inspire her actions. Amid statuettes of Jesus and a Buddha, the visage of her great grandma Charlotte Edwards Pitt stares off into the distance wearing two long braids, her neck adorned in beads of the Wasco tribe. Portraits of Woody’s grandparents, Elizabeth and Lewis Pitt, sit alongside a snapshot of a smiling Woody with her sister Jolene and aunt Lillian Pitt that was taken at the American Book Awards when she was a finalist. In all these photos, one person is missing. Observing tribal traditions for mourning, Woody has removed all photos that include her mother and, for a year, she won’t even speak her mother’s name. Surrounded by her heritage, Oregon’s newest poet laureate pays tribute to the lives and landscape that have shaped her literature by sharing her words and connecting with communities, one small town at a time. Born in Ganado, Arizona in 1959, Woody moved to Central

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Oregon when she was four years old to her mother’s childhood home in Warm Springs, fifteen miles north of Madras. Created by treaty in 1855, the Warm Springs Reservation is home to the descendants of the Wasco, Walla Walla and Paiute tribes that unified as the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in 1938. As a child, Woody lived with her grandparents in a house near Madras where she and her sister grew up with a strong sense of connection to the Central Oregon landscape. “Some things have changed, but mostly what I loved about growing up here was going outside,” she recalled. “My grandparents would take us on these long drives to the lava beds and the start of the Metolius River, which now is all a big park but back then it wasn’t anything. We were involved with people who were hunters, fishers and who gathered food, people who knew this land well. It’s the land that became ‘home’ to me.” After hearing family stories on these long drives, five-yearold Elizabeth started telling stories of her own, written and illustrated on paper with her grandfather’s fountain pen and organized in a three-ring binder. As a teenager, Woody’s interest gravitated toward images instead of words; she clocked countless hours in the darkroom at Madras High School trying to build up a portfolio for photography school and actually failed an English class. To her, classic literature lacked relevance. That was until a troupe of Shakespearean actors from Ashland performed at Madras High. The scenes were improv, not Shakespeare, but one Hispanic actor caught her attention by making an effort to involve Native students. “I think that opened a door in Liz’s mind,” said Kim Stafford, a Portland writer and longtime family friend, relating the experience. “It made her think that ‘someone like me could do art’ and now she can open doors for other people because she has a bigger sense of what it’s about.” In 1978, at end of her senior year, Woody’s English teacher asked her to enter a contest to attend the first Oregon High School Writers Workshop held at Lewis & Clark College. Never having written a poem before, she went home that night and wrote two because, as she explained it, she wanted to meet a living author. That summer, Woody got her wish and was chosen as one of four students to study creative writing with Sandra McPherson and James Welch at the weeklong workshop where she learned to play with words and lyrical rhythms, and discovered her own—previously unconsidered—path. “When I was in high school, I wanted to be a photographer. My mom wanted me to go to law school, my uncle wanted me to go into natural resources and my aunt wanted me to be an artist,” she said with a laugh. “I could have chosen a lot of different ways to go, but writing seemed to be the thing that happened—the positive in my life came from writing.”

Inspirations Unsnapping the latches on the worn black case, Woody

uncovered the old Royal typewriter. Carefully placing it on the kitchen table, she tapped a key with one finger as a smile spread across her face. Pretty soon she was clicking away until—DING! She laughed as the carriage reached the end of a row, clearly tickled to bring out the tool she used to type her first manuscript. It’s a relic that she hadn’t touched in years. Splotches of whiteout still speckled the machine’s front, leftover evidence of past revisions. Tucked in back is a memo made in her mother’s handwriting to an attorney, a reminder of her mother’s activism and the politics that percolate into Woody’s poetry. “My grandfather was a translator, secretary treasurer and one of the co-authors of the first tribal council. So Indian rights and tribal treaties—that’s what we grew up talking about at our kitchen table," Woody said. “This is what we learned in the home, in my home. Not everybody has that, but my family lived in that climate.” A destitute alcoholic during her and her sister’s childhood years, Woody’s mother turned her life around through social activism. She became a counselor for the Native American Rehabilitation Association in the 1970s and pushed for American Indian freedoms across the state, writing grants to build sweathouse treatment centers in Corvallis and supporting fishing rights struggles on the Columbia River, including the imprisonment of David Sohappy during the 1980s. Trips to the library to research court cases from microfiche and typing up notes for her mom taught Woody to research her questions and write about them. After studying at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 1980 to 1983, Woody returned to her mother’s typewriter in Portland and started reworking her school assignments into a manuscript,

written over coffee and conversations. “I would type draft after draft, then we would go to a little café around the corner and get a cup of coffee for 25 cents,” Woody remembered. “We’d sit for hours and hours; I would read her the poems and she got it. She understood this whole universe of poetry because it came from my roots, which were her roots, too.” Many of the poems in Woody’s first book, 1988's Hand into Stone, centered around the Columbia River and American Indian culture, including the loss of tribal fishing areas at Celilo Falls, near The Dalles. (Celilo was one of several historically and spiritually significant spots lost when the lower Columbia dams altered the landscape.) This debut book, which went on to win the American Book Award in 1990, almost almost never was. In 1987 as she was finishing writing, the briefcase containing her first manuscript was stolen in northeast Portland. “Maybe a week later the police called me, I went in to the police station and there was my briefcase stuffed with these papers, covered with great big cop boot prints and gravel holes—I wish I had saved it,” Woody said with a laugh. “I had said when I lost it: ‘If this ever comes back I will submit it; I will quit holding onto it.’” And she did just that. Hand Into Stone gained Woody national attention and was reprinted as Seven Hands Seven Hearts, along with another writing collection called Luminaries of the Humble, originally released in 1994. In addition to writing three books in six years, she also earned a bachelor's degree in humanities from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 1991 and continued to write numerous poems, as well as short stories and essays. Although personal and rooted in her tribal upbringing, Woody’s words also speak to a larger audience. “One thing I find in her writing is that I need to surrender some of my habits of the rational and get ready for the mythical,” said acclaimed writer Kim Stafford, describing Woody’s works. “It’s ‘look close and you will see’ rather than ‘let me tell you what it’s all about.’ She makes you work for the mysterious, it’s not all spelled out in neon and requires patience. It’s more challenging than some writing, but she’s not showing off, not even showing–she’s singing,” said Stafford. Speaking with an honesty that is sometimes considered harsh, Woody recalled audience members walking-out at early readings and claims her writing was “not in its time.” If some found her words abrasive, there is a reason: her works tell the realities of American Indian life, including poverty, homelessness and domestic violence.

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E “It’s not a manifesto, not a call to arms—what I’m writing about is life,” Woody said of her style and subject matter. “I love complexity; I think that’s what I want to communicate about my experience as I get older. I don’t care if people like it; I do it for people who need my work.” One of those people is her. Once, Woody called her aunt, artist Lillian Pitt, on the phone to read a draft. “She would call me and read her new poems,” remembered Pitt. “One time I was exhausted and I said ‘Oh honey why can’t you write happy puppy poems?’ And she never forgot that. But Liz is intellectual, very intelligent and she feels things very intensely.” Pitt went on to explain that while Woody’s writing has known success, she has known great tragedy: her mother’s alcoholism; a house fire when she was thirteen; layoffs when she was a professor in Santa Fe and most recently, her mother’s death. In some ways the tragedies and tumult fed her creativity. “She went through that, kept it all to herself,” Pitt said. “A person does need help to get through traumatic experiences like that. I think her writing has been part of that process.”

Homecoming

The news came last September, after Woody had received

a call from her mother complaining about pain. Studying X-rays of her mother’s lungs that day at the doctor’s office, Woody said the tumors looked like dark little berries on her lungs. “You don’t have pneumonia,” the doctor told them. The diagnosis had arrived suddenly, but Woody didn’t hesitate to put her life on hold to come to her mother’s side. With an M.A. in Public Administration from Portland State University, Woody has lived the last eighteen years in Portland, where she directed the Indigenous Leadership Program at Ecotrust, a nonprofit environmental organization, and developed programs at Oregon Health & Science University as well as the Meyer Memorial Trust. As soon as she learned about the cancer, she moved back to Warm Springs to care for her mother, who was gone just weeks later on October 1. The loss left Woody, her sister and all of Warms Springs to mourn for a mother and counselor who could’ve gone to Harvard (Woody’s mom applied and was accepted to the school in 1973) but instead returned and devoted the last years of her life to helping the people of the reservation. For Woody, the traditional yearlong process of mourning means she won’t gather first fruits or attend celebrations and powwows. But even in sadness, she said the memory of her mother helped her answer the call to accept the poet laureate position, which she illuminated with a story. “When I was a girl, we would go with my mother all over Oregon and Washington—she wanted us to see everything and everybody,” said Woody. “We supported Grande Ronde when they had their first powwow and all they had was a cassette deck.

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“Our uncle Leslie Thomas was the emcee and they only had four dancers, these little kids. But mom said ‘It’s really important. These people need our support. They need to be recognized as who they are.’ We told her ‘But mom there’s nobody here!’ and she said ‘So? You get out there and dance!’” The message of outreach and solidarity stuck with Woody and in some ways inspired her most recent undertaking. As Oregon’s poet laureate, Woody is tasked with making more than twenty appearances and presentations at literary events across the state. Her goal is to reach beyond the writing centers in Portland and Eugene to rural communities like the one she came from. “I felt like I had to pay homage to that spirit of going and supporting people and looking—just looking,” said Woody. “How many people go to these places and spend any time, or have the ability and capacity to try and build some bridges for them?” In her proposal for the position, Woody outlined a plan to cultivate relationships with border towns, reservations and rural communities. She aims to support the humanities in smalltown schools and libraries by sharing the support that she has experienced. Despite the high school career counselor who discouraged her from going to college, Woody cites many more mentors who have encouraged her to write, including teachers, writers, tribe members and one Madras shopkeeper who was happy to hear she had become a poet. “The community has always been supportive,” said Lillian Pitt about the impact of the arts on places such as Warm Springs. “The elders have said to us, ‘Keep doing it. By letting people know our culture, it lets them know we’re still here.’” Walking onto the porch of her mother’s yellow house, Woody listened to the world in Warms Springs—crickets and bees, dogs barking, and the faint sounds of Shitike, her favorite creek in the world. Off in the distance stands Mt. Jefferson, its summit capped in clouds. Tomorrow, she will return to Portland but will travel back each week to connect with people in places that are important to her. In a few months, when the fires have died down and the wooden fence posts around the cemetery have been replaced, Woody will wait for her mother’s spirit to return in the form of an animal, to assure her and her sister that she’s okay. But that evening, she crossed the highway into the Museum at Warm Springs to attend an opening for her Aunt Lillian’s art exhibit. Passing under the inscription TWANAT (meaning “to follow the ancestors”), she walked through the doors and watched friends and family sing and dance until it was her turn. The gathering went quiet as she stepped up to the microphone and began to read in a clear and calm voice. Evidenced by the hush, the group seemed intent on hearing what she had to say.

Preserving the Past

In the Present Tense

Redmond discovers that leveraging the best of the last century may be the cornerstone of the next hundred years. WRITTEN BY J. WANDRES AND ERIC FLOWERS

he photo shows Brynn Hyson, age 9, and Sage Smith, 5, holding out signs that read, “THIS PLACE MATTERS.” The children are standing outside Patrick’s Professional Building, on Deschutes Avenue, adjacent to Centennial Park in Redmond. Brynn and Sage were among dozens of people who took part in a 2014 event sponsored by Redmond’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to showcase properties that have historic value. They are also part of an evolving conversation about the role of history in Redmond’s future. Designed by the Portland firm of Roald and Schneider, the medical/dental building opened in 1942 and served as Redmond’s first modern hospital until 1952. According to Commission chair Judy Fessler, Patrick’s (as it is sometimes called) is among Redmond’s few remaining commercial examples of Art Moderne design, a style that evolved out of the high-style Art Deco period of the 1920s and

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1930s. Also known as Streamline Moderne, the style reflected austere economic times. Decorative flourishes and sharp angles were replaced with aerodynamic curves. Decorative wood and stone were replaced by cement and glass, with smooth stucco surfaces painted in light earth tones. In Redmond the adoption of the Art Moderne style was less about austerity than it was a reflection of the city’s early Twentieth Century ambitions to be recognized as a modern city that refused to be overshadowed by its neighbor to the south. The future of Patrick’s Professional Building, and other historic structures, comes up frequently at meetings of Redmond’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. The properties and the players change, but the questions remain the same. Which historic structures should be saved and restored? How could the structure be repurposed to benefit the community? Who should pay for their preservation—and at what cost? These are particularly important questions

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not just in Redmond, but across Central Oregon—where a second building boom in the new century has prompted concerns about preserving and re-utilizing what remains of the last century. The issues swirl within the emerging urban cores of Central Oregon’s fastgrowing cities, where pressure to redevelop is most intense and where the oldest properties are clustered. Now owned by a Bend neurosurgeon, the Patrick’s building sits across from the impressive Centennial Park in downtown Redmond. Named to honor Vernon Patrick, a longtime pharmacist at Redmond’s CentWise Drug Store, the aging and vacant Patrick’s Professional Building needs a major renovation. Last year, the owner floated the idea of demolishing the building so the property could be developed as a food cart pod, similar to Bend’s popular pod “The Lot” (off Galveston Avenue). At the urging of city officials and Deschutes County Historical Society, he has held off razing the building. For now, the future of the past hangs in limbo.

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PAST AND PRESENT Neglected and proposed for demolition, the Patrick's building is at the center of the debate over preservation. Just blocks away, businesses have leveraged historic values in a wave of dowtown revitalization.

Striking A Balance

Former mayor and current county commissioner Alan Unger knows the building well. His father was a longtime physician in Redmond and Unger once worked as a subcontractor in the Patrick’s building. Unger recalls crawling beneath floors and behind walls when the building was previously remodeled from medical to office space. These days, it is neither. Construction debris is piled from the floor nearly to the ceiling and presses against the entry door. Outside, weeds have grown high. The signage reading “Patrick’s Professional Building” has faded against the brown stucco. Unger said he takes a pragmatic view of the building’s value. While it would be nice to see it preserved, the cost of repurposing the building may be prohibitive. Unger said he could see the site being redeveloped with an architectural nod to the past, such as repurposing the signature aquarium glass on the northeast corner. “It’s an old structure that has a lot of

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challenges. And it’s limited in its size. I guess you look at the corner that has historical significance with its glass bricks. That to me is what has value,” said Unger. Kelly Cannon-Miller is executive director of the Deschutes County Historical Society. She considers these issues every day. “In the mid-Twentieth Century the historic preservation movement was all about saving and ‘freezing’ properties. That is, keeping them as they were—museum relics of their place in history,” she said. Preservationist leaders today, she notes, have begun to ask: “How many historic house museums can you have?” Now, she said, preservation “is about giving historic property continued and extended new life that is relevant to the community.” Examples of so-called adaptive re-use abound in Bend, ranging from the publicprivate Tower Theatre renovation and revitalization to the redevelopment of the former Brooks-Scanlon mill as the Old Mill

New Redmond Hotel (circa 1930)

shopping district. In a sense, Bend has found a way to turn its history into an asset that has helped anchor redevelopment. A decade-and-a-half after the first shops at the Old Mill opened their doors, the redevelopment wave has spread north to Colorado Avenue where the former Mill Quarter has rebranded into the hip Box Factory—complete with food carts, microbrewing, a cider company and bike tours. Just down the road, under the shadow of the iconic mill smoke stacks, one of Bend’s hottest breweries, Crux Fermentation Project, put down stakes in a largely untapped industrial area. Crux choose to convert a former auto transmission shop into its home base. While its building isn’t historic, the brewery is bounded on nearly all sides by elements of Bend’s bygone mill days. Other businesses are following suit, breathing life into an area that has sat largely idle since Bend’s timber days. A similar phenomenon is unfolding in Redmond, where a combination of public

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“(The hotel) is a major catalyst. You can’t just create that kind of foot traffic.”

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and private investment in the downtown area has spurred a wave of new business and development. Today the city owns the better part of a three block area that stretches from Centennial Park, just north of the current city hall, west to the former Redmond Union High School. It’s a hub of activity and part of a grand civic vision that marries public buildings and open spaces with a pedestrianand business-friendly vision for downtown, according to Chuck Arnold, Redmond’s economic development manager. Preserving Redmond’s architectural history is an important part of that mission, said Arnold. The city is in the process of completing a major milestone in that effort with the multimillion-dollar remodeling of the Redmond Union High School building that soon will become the new home of Redmond’s city hall. With its massive windows and stone columns, the building will be the major feature in a civic mall that includes Centennial Park on the east side. Both Cannon-Miller and Arnold see the Patrick’s building as a historic and architectural asset in that plan. “Patrick’s is in an area of Redmond that’s being reinvented. Even now, people say the building looks ‘cool.’ When they learn more about its past and potential, they get excited; they become invested in the value of its future,” said Cannon-Miller. “You create value by getting the community to buy into your vision. If they see the value of, say, Patrick’s as a resource that could serve Centennial Park next to it, then adaptive reuse of the building becomes valuable and the community will work to support its restoration,” she said. Neglected as it has been, Arnold sees the Patrick’s building as an important part of Redmond’s story as told by its Art Moderne structures. These buildings went up at a time when the airfield was being constructed and Redmond was emerging as a true city. The architecture reflects the town’s aspirations and ambitions at time when Redmond was taking flight literally and figuratively. “We wanted architecture that was big, bold and beautiful,” said Arnold.

Investing in the Past

Redmond’s population had yet to reach 1,000 people by 1930. When the New Redmond Hotel, at SW 6th and Evergreen, opened in July 1928 it was billed as “ … the height of modern sophistication. Luxury, beauty, comfort and convenience—all are combined in this magnificent structure, the forerunner of greater success for Redmond.” A period photo shows just three automobiles parked along the street in front of the hotel. By the 1990s, SW 6th Street was clogged day and night with local and noisy truck traffic. Traffic volume decreased after the Highway 97 bypass around downtown Redmond was completed, setting the stage for a downtown revitalization that has played out in the form of new restaurants, retails shops and breweries. The Redmond hotel is part of that trend with a successful cocktail bar, sushi restaurant and tea room. Tucked in between those shops is the hotel lobby, partially restored and total empty—a museum that is available by appointment only. The forty-eight rooms above remain much as they were when the hotel closed more than a decade ago. The building was purchased in 2005 by Bend developer and hotelier Brad Evert. The city of Redmond put out a Request for Proposal to redevelop the property. According to Heather Richards, Redmond’s former director of community development, Redmond would be a public partner in the project, and offered a package of grants and loans. A Portland-based couple that operates a small boutique hotel in Hillsboro put in an offer in 2014, but was not able to secure financing. Owner Evert said the hotel remains for sale and believes that it can be a cornerstone of Redmond’s ongoing downtown revitalization. “The hotel has great potential. It just requires someone with a younger mindset than me. I’m trying to get retired, and it’s a big project,” Evert said. Arnold intimated that another prospective buyer may be in the wings for the hotel that would allow it to open as a boutique destination. At this point the city has roughly $500,000 available in loans and incentives to help sweeten the pot. While some are skeptical, Arnold said it’s not a matter of if, but when, a deal comes together. Revitalizing the hotel is important for the city, not just as a matter of historic posterity, but as an engine of economic development in downtown. “(The hotel) is a major catalyst,” Arnold said “You can’t just create that kind of foot traffic.”

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The Patrick’s building isn’t the first historically significant property to face the chopping block. Before the city intervened, the future of Redmond’s original high school was not as bright as its past. Built in 1922 in a style described as “American Utility,” its brick-face façade with eight Doric columns suggests a temple of learning. The high school and several auxiliary buildings occupied two square blocks between Evergreen and Deschutes avenues from 9th to 11th streets. When Redmond’s growing population required a bigger high school, Union High became the junior high; then the Evergreen Elementary School until 2012 when the building outlived its usefulness as a school. Historic advocates worried that the building would be razed and a symbol of Redmond laid to waste. “It’s a very iconic building for Redmond and I would argue maybe the most iconic,” said Mayor George Endicott, whose father graduated from Redmond Union in 1938. He wasn’t the only one who felt that way. A citizen panel brought in to review the possibility of saving the building was nearly unanimous in its decision to acquire the building before it faced a potential wrecking ball. At the time, the city of Redmond was already deep into the design work on a new and muchneeded city hall building. But the opportunity to repurpose the original high school and do right by history was too good to forego, said Endicott. In the end, the cost difference between repurposing Redmond Union and building from scratch turned out to be a wash. “Yes, there were some decisions that had to be made, but there were never compromises,” said Endicott, adding that the city staff was brought into the process to ensure the building met its needs. He cited the success of Redmond’s Wild Ride Brewing that has flourished in a remodeled lumber yard building on 5th Street as evidence that Redmond’s downtown buildings are ripe for repurposing. As Redmond planners and preservationists look forward, they are now doing it with an eye toward incorporating, rather than overcoming history. City staff working on the Redmond Historic Landmarks Commission have looked at ways to leverage the city’s architectural

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history as a tool for marketing and economic development, similar to what has happened in Bend. In the coming months the city is expected to move forward a process that will work with citizens as well as state and federal historic planning officials to identify properties that tell Redmond’s story, said Scott Woodford, a city planner who serves as the liaison to the Redmond Landmarks Commission. It’s an approach that would eschew the traditional one-off historic property listings or the sweeping historic districts that can prove cumbersome for property owners and planners. Instead, Redmond would attempt to connect architecturally- and historicallyrelated commercial and residential properties in a checkerboard format that best captures Redmond’s transformation from a whistle stop town to a major population center in Central Oregon. If successful, community leaders and business owners alike would be able to cash in on Redmond’s historic cache. “It’s just another feather in the cap of the city as we try to attract new business and families,” said Woodford. Challenges remain, however, and not everyone agrees about which properties can or should be preserved. The current city hall building, for example, was once listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is remembered by longtime residents as the original Safeway store. Depending on who you ask, it’s also another example of the Art Moderne theme. Still, it is slated for demolition as part of the city’s redevelopment plans. In its place: an indoor arcade and amusement park to complement the active space at the adjacent Centennial Park. Judy Fessler, among others, is still fighting for its preservation. While it may not be a pristine example of Art Moderne architecture, it’s part of the city’s story. People just need to take the time to listen, said Fessler. “We’re not in a museum. This is living history,” she said. “These walls really do talk around here.”

“We’re not in a museum. This is living history. These walls really do talk around here.”

- JUDY FESSLER

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BEST of the

SHOULDER SEASON FROM CYCLING TO SOAKING TO RESORT LIVING, THERE IS PLENTY TO CELEBRATE AFTER SUMMER HAS ENDED.

It’s been said that Bend has 300 days of sunshine annually, but Central Oregon is a true four-season climate. While summer and winter tend to get all of the attention from locals and visitors alike, autumn can be an incredible time in Central Oregon. Family calendars chock full through summer are miraculously cleared of appointments, engagements and travel. Also gone are the crowds who have filed back to the valley or Puget Sound. Inner tubes have been deflated and paddleboards stowed for the season. For many locals that means it’s time to get out and enjoy their own backyard while there is still time. Before you start pining for powder days, get outside and take advantage of some of the good crisp weather. We’ve spotlighted adventures, activities and getaways in the Sisters area, at Crystal Crane and within the golf community that are all perfect for a fall itinerary. Sisters to Smith Rock

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Mckenzie Pass

Dee Wright Observatory

Loop to Loop

Cycling from Sisters to Smith Rock

WRIT TEN BY SEBASTIAN FOLTZ

MCKENZIE PASS The thirty-mile, out-and-back ride from Sisters culminates at the historic Dee Wright observatory lookout, a one-of-a-kind structure carved out of solid lava rock by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps, some eighty years ago. The intrepid explorer will also find distinct remnants of the 1860 wagon trail that was similarly carved out of the unyielding lava beds and remains largely as it was when the route was abandoned in the 1920s. While it gains roughly 2,100 feet of elevation, the climb is spread gradually throughout the ride, particularly on the final eleven miles. “For someone who is comfortable riding on roads and can handle a hill, it's great ride,” said Alex Phillips, Oregon Parks & Recreation Department bicycle recreation specialist. From Sisters, the ride cruises past horse ranches and into a thick forest of tall Ponderosa pines. The real climb begins roughly four miles in, but continues at a steady, manageable rate. The final five miles open up with views of the expansive lava fields. Mount Jefferson looms in the distance. Boyd suggested continuing on an additional five miles of rolling highway to Scott Lake, before the pass begins the lion share of its 3,600-foot decent to the McKenzie River Valley. “That section, in both directions, is just fantastic,” he said.

METOLIOUS RIVER/CAMP SHERMAN If climbing isn't your thing, consider the Metolius River/Camp Sherman area. Formerly designated a Scenic Bikeway by the state, the region has a hidden gem quality, especially in the fall. “It's a beautiful area. People love riding there,” said Phillips. With the crystal-clear headwaters of the Metolius, historic Camp Sherman and a variety of roads are scattered through Ponderosa pine forest, offering loops from three miles to around twenty miles with options for thirty-mile plus rides. There's something for everyone with minimal elevation gain and occasional mountain vistas. “We tell people September and October are the best months to be here,” said Camp Sherman Store owner Roger White. “Everything lines up perfectly. Once we start into fall the colors start and the weather gets even better. Traffic drops off a lot. Come the start of school, there will be a lot less people.” Boyd agreed. “There're some beautiful colors there,” he added, describing fall. “There's nothing going on. You're pretty much by yourself.”

SISTERS TO SMITH ROCK The lesser known Sisters to Smith Rock Scenic Bike Ride also makes for a great fall ride. Less prone to fall colors, the route from Sisters east through Terrebonne gives a taste of the High Desert without the blazing summer heat. “People don't tend to focus on it, and it's spectacularly beautiful,” said Phillips. “A lot of people think it's all downhill one way. It's really not. It's a lot of rolling hills.” The thirty-seven-mile route (one-way) fluctuates within a range of 660 feet of elevation gains and losses. Phillips recommends it as a great introduction to bike touring, with camping options on either end of the route. Boyd also suggested shortening it to an outand-back by turning around where the route crosses the Deschutes River, a little more than halfway through the ride. With its high desert climate, this route remains a solid option through much of the winter and long after snow has begun to fall on the Metolius area and McKenzie Pass.

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Brisk mornings, less traffic and changing leaves make fall in the High Desert an ideal time for both road and mountain biking. You don't have to travel far from Bend to be the only person on a road or trail. It’s what makes the fall shoulder season a favorite time among local riders. “To me, fall in Central Oregon is the nicest time,” said Brad Boyd, owner of Eurosports bike shop in Sisters. “Cooler temperatures, less wind; I'm always amazed how quiet it is.” While in spring you might still be waiting for snow to melt at higher elevations, and summer heat can make riding a bear, the right fall day is without equal. With that in mind we're focusing on the Sisters area and offering up three fall road rides that you don't need to have Tour de France-level conditioning to enjoy.

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ALONG THE WAY Each of our three fall rides offer a variety of stops and sites along the way. Consider starting your day in Sisters with a morning coffee at Sisters Coffee Company or breakfast at Sisters Bakery. For additional ride information visit Brad Boyd's Eurosports bike shop in town or nearby Blazing Saddles bike shop. Boyd, a longtime area resident, offers a number of beers on tap for post-ride celebration in the shop's beer garden. In the summer, the shop hosts a number of food carts, which Boyd said may remain open on weekends through the fall. Three Creeks Brewery, just outside of Sisters on the way to Bend, also makes a solid option for a post-ride bite and brew.

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Mann Lake, Steens Mountain

ITINERARY: STEENS ROAD TOUR What to do between soaking sessions at Crystal Crane? Well, there are plenty of recreational opportunities in Harney County, a place short on crowds and long on scenery. Before you head out, stop for breakfast at the Crane Store & Café on the outskirts of Crane, a few minutes from the hot springs. Try the biscuits and gravy—you won’t be disappointed, but you will be stuffed. Fuel up the car and take a long drive on the East Steens Tour Route, where opportunities for camping, hiking and wildlife viewing abound. From Crystal Crane, take Oregon 78 to the Fields-Denio road and turn south. Soon the rugged fault block of Steens Mountain, rising to nearly 10,000 feet, will come into view. Stop at Mann Lake for camping or fishing, or check out the table-flat Alvord Desert a bit farther south. At Fields, head north on Oregon 205 to take in the gentler west side of the Steens. A drive up the steep Steens Loop offers spectacular views in all directions, as well as scenic hiking trails and fishing holes on the Donner and Blitzen River. Keep your eyes peeled for mule deer and California bighorn sheep. Autumn is a great season in the Steens—the mountain is known for its fall foliage. Keep driving north on 205 to arrive at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a haven for migratory birds. The refuge headquarters is still closed following last winter’s armed occupation, but the roads are open. Bring binoculars and scan for sandhill cranes and assorted waterfowl. The tour wraps up in Burns, just two hours from Bend.

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Soak it Up

PHOTOS K AYL A ROTUNNO

Crystal Crane Hot Springs The clouds gathered in the east, a roiling dark mass just beyond the horizon, one of those fast-moving, open-country storms that occasionally come sweeping across the Eastern Oregon landscape in dramatic fashion. A handful of bathers, enjoying a soak in the 102-degree pond at Crystal Crane Hot Springs, watched the distant storm surge across sagebrush plains. Bolts of lightning arced toward the earth and lit up the night. Elsewhere overhead, the day’s last sunlight faded from the western sky. Soon the coyotes would begin to howl and the stars would show their brilliance. It’s all part of the natural scene at Crystal Crane, a high-desert oasis about twenty-five miles east of Burns along an arrow-straight stretch of Oregon 78. With its therapeutic soaking pool, private tubs and quintessential Harney County ambiance, the resort is a fine rest stop for the weary traveler. “It was very relaxing,” said Josh Sims, of Bend, who was packing up his campsite on a recent sunny morning. “If I’m traveling a long distance, I see if there’s a hot spring in the area. It’s very convenient, especially in the middle of nowhere.” Sims had watched the lightning storms the previous evening, immersed in the bath-like water after a long day of driving. “You feel good, stuck in a pool, and hearing coyotes in the background and lightning in the hills,” he said. Not far from Steens Mountain, the Ochocos and the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Crystal Crane Hot Springs offers a variety of overnight lodging options. Pitch a tent or park an RV at one of several campsites. Rent a poolside cabin or a single room. Overnighters can cook their meals in a shared kitchen, then head over to the springs for a nighttime soak.

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WRIT TEN BY NICK ROTUNNO

Denise Kryger and her husband, Dan, purchased the Crystal Crane property in 1997. They expanded the soaking pond, improved existing structures and added more lodging—including a Plains-style teepee with a hot tub inside. “The teepee is one of our biggest hits,” Kryger said. “It’s a wonderful little unit to rent.” The main soaking pool is really a small pond, bordered on one side by a grassy marshland where ducks often swim. Hot water pours from several spigots. The pebbled bottom gently slopes to a depth of seven feet, but it’s shallow in most spots, perfect for wading or reclining near water’s edge. For a luxurious experience, reserve one of the private bathhouses. Inside a quiet room, with a rustic metal tub full to the brim, it’s not hard to kick back and forget about the world—if only for an hour. In addition to soothing weary muscles, the Crystal Crane water also contains healthful minerals such as calcium, sodium, silica and magnesium. Hot springs are good for the soul, sure, but they're good for the skin, as well. “It makes your skin feel so smooth,” said Kryger. “It’s a wonderful feeling with that water.” On clear nights, the stargazing is spectacular. Planets glow and shooting stars flare. Far from a major city, light pollution is almost nonexistent at Crystal Crane, and there’s nothing quite like floating on your back in a warm pool, watching the universe swirl high above. Open year-round, Crystal Crane is a popular stopover for hikers, bird-watchers and autumn hunters. Travelers from across the United States and the world visit the hot springs, Kryger said. “We meet the best people here; it’s incredible," he mused. “[Crystal Crane] is still quite remote, and yet we have all the amenities to go with it.”

Pronghorn

Handicapping Sheet

Fall can be memorable for all the wrong reasons. Sudden and dramatic changes in weather conditions necessitate preparedness. Make sure you have these on your checklist: • Fleece hat • Waterproof pants • Light rain jacket/windbreaker • Gloves • Waterproof golf shoes • Light layers that can be added or removed If you’re playing after the permafrost sets in, you’ll also want to consider bringing short tees that can hammered into frozen ground. (Seriously, it’s a real thing.)

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Crosswater

Tetherow

Fall Golf Getaway

Bargain Retreats and Staycations

WRIT TEN BY ERIC FLOWERS

Avid golfers know that the best time to play golf is whenever there is room for a backswing. That is to say that real golfers don’t let weather or seasons determine if or when they play. For the rest of us though, there is a sweet spot. Perhaps a mid-summer afternoon or a perfect late spring weekend when winter storms seem a distant memory appear ideal. In Central Oregon, though, autumn is the underrated season. It’s a time to savor what remains of summer as if it were the last sip of wine from a bottle found deep in the cellar. Come October, months of mercury-popping heat give away to mild days. It’s a time when you want to linger in, not flee, the midday sun. Tourists have scattered like the smoke from the wildfires and a quiet settles over the region’s trails and fairways. The days are made more perfect because there are so few of them and they aren’t always predictable. Knowing winter is around the corner makes it all the better. “Fall, for me, is one of the best times to play golf in Central Oregon,” said Rob Malone, Aspen Lakes director of golf. “It’s cool in the morning. It’s beautiful and crisp and normally blue skies.” There’s also another incentive to get out after Labor Day—the shoulder season is chock full of bargains. Whether you are a local looking to play 18 holes on one of the region’s award-winning courses or a visitor looking for a stay-and-play resort experience, there is a destination to fit just about any itinerary and budget. If you want to play golf at any of the premier destinations, without paying top shelf prices, now is the time. But don’t wait too long. Winter really is just around the corner. GUYS' STAYCATION Summer may be the busy season here for local golf courses, as evidenced by the $80 greens fees, but it’s also the busy season for locals who pack their calendars with road trips, hiking, camping and exploration. Golf is usually put on the back burner for busy moms and dads and others who choose to spend their time somewhere other than the practice green. As kids return to school and weekends are freed, resorts are looking to pull in locals to fill tee sheets and overnight rooms. Now is the time to round up your golf buddies that you’ve blown off all summer and schedule a mancation. Here are a couple of itineraries: A guys’ weekend doesn’t necessarily have to entail a stay at fancy lodge or resort room. Creating your own home base also gives you the flexibility to choose from a variety of golf courses. We recommend grabbing somewhere centralized that will let you spread out, but also somewhere bendmagazine.com

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that offers a kitchen for meal prep and snacks, ideally with a barbeque on site. (Bonus if you can find a place with a hot tub.) McMenamins cottages make an attractive option with the soaking pool and fire pits for evening gatherings, but your best bet might be a vacation rental. Like resorts, they are also looking to fill rooms in the shoulder season and deals abound. In terms of golf, we recommend looking into some of the courses that consistently rate high with locals and visitors, but drop their rates in the shoulder season. Our shortlist includes Aspen Lakes near Sisters, which offers some of the best views and most enjoyable golf in the region. In Bend, Widgi Creek—which always offers a great evening special—will drop rates come October. Tetherow will also be open until the end of October and offers one of the most memorable experiences in Central Oregon. It’s also one of the few courses in the state

to make the illustrious Golf Digest Top 100 list. If a resort stay is in the cards, Black Butte Ranch with its two golf courses and wide range of home rentals is a perfect option. The resort's newly upgraded pools and gym facilities located at the main lodge. Two award-winning golf courses, including the recently renovated Glaze Meadow, mean you never have to leave the property to get your fill of fairways. There’s even fly-fishing on the resort lakes, as well as on the nearby Metolius River. “The first few weeks in October are spectacular,” said Jeff Fought, director of golf at Black Butte Ranch. “Not only do the rates drop, but you have a September feel of being a little colder in the morning and then getting up to 75 degrees.”

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Brasada

COUPLE’S GOLF RETREAT Here’s a secret: many women don’t really care much for golf. Yes, there are exceptions, but at the recreational level, golf is still heavily geared toward men. What many girlfriends and wives do like is a fourstar weekend stay at a resort that includes all the amenities. We’re not suggesting that you drag your golf-hating partner to a resort in hopes that she will whittle the day away with spa treatments while you play 36 holes. However, this is a great time to at least try to have the best of both worlds: quality time together with something for him and her. Conversely, for women looking to surprise their partners with a (possibly romantic) weekend staycation, you could do worse than booking a couple nights at Pronghorn, Sunriver or Brasada. This will make for great leverage when you later suggest that you two book a couple’s yoga retreat. With its three 18-hole golf courses, including the renowned Crosswater course, Sunriver has long been a mecca for golfers but it’s also so much more. Upgraded dining and fitness facilities have helped Sunriver reassert its position as a top destination resort, not just in Central Oregon but the entire West. If one or both of you truly can’t get enough golf, consider Sunriver’s $79 per night package that includes unlimited golf at Meadows and Woodlands as well as one round per day at Crosswater. Fall is a perfect time stroll the property or cruise the bike paths. Rent a kayak and slip down the upper Deschutes from the Sunriver marina, the resident wildlife will be your primary companions. In Bend, Tetherow's recently completed fifty-room luxury hotel offers a compelling option. While the golf course is slated to close to the public at the end of October, the resort will offer some of the best combination of golf and off-course amenities to be found anywhere—and likely at a bargain. Additionally, a few tweaks to the notoriously challenging layout have made the course more playable for average golfers. “This year specifically the course is in the best shape of Tetherow’s history,” said Ryan Kalilo, assistant golf professional at Tetherow. Looking east there are two very attractive options whether traveling as a pack or a pair. Pronghorn and Brasada will both offer play throughout the fall and early winter, as conditions allow. Additionally, they both feature four-star amenities, including spa treatments and fine dining in settings that are simply stunning. If you have a flexible schedule, Pronghorn’s midweek stay and play deal is a great option. Just a bit farther up the road in the rural hamlet of Powell Butte is Brasada, a once-hidden gem that has now twice been named the best resort in the Pacific Northwest by Condè Nast Traveler magazine. Shoulder season packages and deals abound at the property, which offers dining, golf, recreation amenities and off-site itineraries.

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Artists rely on their tools to help them transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Whether it’s a deer hair paintbrush in the hands of a master landscape painter or a chisel in the hands of a sculptor, tools are an essential part of the process. But what happens when a tool becomes art? That’s the case with the work of Preston Thompson, a master guitar maker from Sisters who crafts handmade acoustic guitars. These one-of-a-kind instruments are sought the world over by amateurs, professionals and collectors for their combination of tone and craftsmanship. page 99 >>

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If You Ain’t Got that Swing… DEPENDING on the week, Central Oregon can feel like a musical oasis or a sonic desert. For jazz fans, unfortunately, it’s more of the latter. Whether avant garde, Bebop or swing, Jazz tends to be confined to clubs in larger cities such as Portland, Seattle and San Francisco. For several years though, there has been one very notable exception—the former Jazz at the Oxford series in Bend, now the Mt. Bachelor Jazz at the Riverhouse series. The string of performances by world renowned jazz musicians and Northwest legends such as Mel Brown kicks off in October with the return of the Portland-based Mel Brown Septet. A legendary drummer whose career has included collaborations with everyone from Stevie Wonder to George Harrison, Brown be-bops into Bend October 28-29 for a two-night stand with his septet. Expect a packed house and performances that will be second to none from his band that includes the talented tenor sax player, Renato Caranto. The series continues in November with jazz piano giant Benny Green on Nov. 1819. Late December brings the Alan Jones Sextet, which takes the stage Dec. 23-24. Series producer Marshall Glickman said this year's lineup holds

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7 Leon Russell | Tower Theatre 8 Voetberg Family Christmas Tower Theatre 8 Traditions Christmas Concert Sunriver Resort

tenth month OCTOBER in the high desert is time to celebrate, not hibernate. Thanks to Tenth Month, Bend’s month-long celebration of ideas and innovation, visitors and locals alike can soak up inspiration from our cultural landscape as well. Tenth Month features events that explore art, culture, film, tech and business. The month kicks off with the inaugural High Desert Mural Festival (October 2-9), bringing local artists and Bend La-Pine School District students to the streets. Next up is BendFilm Festival (October 6-9). In its 13th year, BendFilm is committed to expanding the cultural offerings of Central Oregon. “Since BendFilm is one of Bend's longest-running cultural organizations, we have a responsibility (and deep interest) in strengthening our creative community,” said BendFilm Director Todd Looby. In 2015, the Bend Design Conference (October 20-21) joined the bill. Swivel Digital Marketing Conference (October 10-11) and Bend Venture Conference (October 13-14) add digital marketing innovation and entrepreneurial growth surges to the month’s cultural calendar. "Starting with existing events like BendFilm, Swivel, Bend Venture Conference and Bend Design Conference, Tenth Month promotes the

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ONE OF BEND’S newest (and hippest) hangout spots, Spoken Moto crosses a coffee shop with a biker garage. This company of cool is housed in an old storage warehouse in the

Southwest industrial complex known as the Pine Shed and is split into two sections. Up front, guests order coffee, eight local beers and bites. The inventory in the back section houses more than seventy-five vintage motorcycles. The brainchild of owners and friends Brent Van Auken, Brian Gingerich, and Steve Buettner, Spoken Moto revved up for business in August and is gearing up to add more grub, such as Portland’s Zenners gourmet sausages, to its menu. Spoken Moto | 310 SW Industrial Way, Bend | spokenmoto.com

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IT WAS YEARS in the making literally, but Deschutes Brewery and BendDistillery have teamed up on a small batch whiskey that hit shelves in September. Dubbed Black Butte Whiskey, it’s the latest in a growing number of collaborations between brewers, distillers and vintners in Central Oregon. It’s also the most ambitious in a series of barrel aging projects undertaken by Deschutes as part of its ongoing experimentation with the beer that launched the craft brewing industry in Central Oregon, Black Butte Porter. “It was a project that had been kicked around by Jim (Bendis) and Gary (Fish) for years. Both our companies decided that we were finally ready to move beyond the experimentation stage,” said Allan Dietrich, Bend Distillery CEO. That was three years ago and the first batch is just now rolling out in a limited release with bottles available at select liquor outlets around the state and at the Bend Distillery tasting room in Tumalo. The small batch was created using Black Butte Porter as the starting point, or “wash,” distilled

and aged in American Oak barrels. “It’s stunningly dark and smooth for a whiskey that’s three years old” Dietrich said. Hopefully, said Dietrich, it’s a preview of great things to come. “This is the first of what will likely be an annually released product,” he said.

If you’ve been wondering about the renovation at Riverside Market this summer—so have we. The beloved neighborhood market on Bend’s Northwest side plans to reopen this fall, offering a fresh menu with a French twist imagined by Executive Chef Franck Bacquet. Part restaurant, part grocery, guests at the newly dubbed French Market can expect white tablecloth service in the evenings and lunchtime offerings alongside independent beers, wines, cheese and a charcuterie shop Why French? “Why not French food,” said owner Philip Lipton, who lived in France and Southern Spain in 2010. “In Europe, my wife and I discovered a variety of meats, cheeses, and produce from small farms and local growers. There is a different style to the food, shopping and restaurant dining experience in France. We wanted to bring that experience back to Bend and share it.” French Market | 285 NW Riverside Blvd., Bend | 541.389.0646

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Preston Thompson A master guitar maker romances the wood. WRIT TEN BY LEE LEWIS HUSK P H O TO G R A P H S B Y A M Y C A S TA N O

reston Thompson holds the unassembled sound board to his ear and thumps it. “I’m listening for fullness and rumble and liveliness,” he said. The master luthier, or guitar maker as he prefers to be called, is standing in the assembly room of Preston Thompson Guitars on Main Avenue in Sisters where pieces of spruce, mahogany, rosewood, ebony and myrtlewood are being transformed into resonant works of art— coveted by acoustic guitarists worldwide. Last year, Thompson and his team of craftsmen sent sixty-three custom-made

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acoustic guitars to music shops from Japan to Germany and New York to California. This year the shop is on target for 110 instruments. Prices range from $3,500 for an all-mahogany parlor model up to $15,000 for a Brazilian rosewood deluxe abalone inlaid guitar. The names of musicians with Thompson guitars include Grammy award-winners Peter Rowan and Al Petteway, international blues player Eric Bibb, flatpicker Tim May, and Seattle jazz, rock and bluegrass musician Chris Luquette. In production is a custom guitar for the 2013 International Bluegrass

Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year, Claire Lynch of Nashville. “We are proud that the word about our guitars keeps spreading,” he said. At the center of this enterprise is sixtyyear-old Thompson, a native Texan who attended the Guitar Research & Design Center in Vermont in the 1970s and, after a stint in Nashville, gained attention when the National Flatpicking Championship selected a Thompson guitar as a top prize for its winners. “It propelled the name,” he said. All Thompsons are designed and made in the style of Martin and other legendary,

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“With its powerful and immediate voice, deep resonance and protracted sustain, Thompson’s OM Brazilian model is the sort of magical guitar that one seldom encounters, especially in a newly built instrument.” —guitar magazine vintage American-made guitars of the 1930s—the golden age of acoustic, steelstring guitars. His reputation got a further boost when Charles Sawtelle and Peter Rowan, both virtuoso bluegrass musicians of the 1980s, acquired Thompson guitars. Sawtelle gave Thompson access to his collection of rare instruments, which Thompson studied and measured for patterning his own instruments. Thompson worked alone through the late 1980s, constructing “accurate period craft” guitars, first in Texas and then out of his Central Oregon shop. Then, for almost two decades, he took a hiatus—working in the resort and golf industry. In 2009, his reputation for full- and rich-sounding instruments gained momentum online, pulling him back into the craft. Thompson

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cites the Sisters rural enterprise zone and the city’s lively folk and music scene as reasons for locating his business there in 2013. The 2,000-square-foot workshop showcases the dozens of steps involved in custom-designed guitars. Some of Thompson Guitar’s twelve body types, including the delicate parlor model and the elegant 12 Fret 000 and dreadnought, hang near the front door. In an adjacent room, builders add frets, strings and finishing touches before shipping. The largest room contains piles of wood awaiting construction into fronts, backs and sides. Three guitar makers cut, glue, clamp, and inlay intricate patterns on bodies and necks. Venting ducts run across the ceiling, with tools scattered everywhere and wood shavings littering the floor. The back room

is where these works of art are sprayed with twelve coats of lacquer and then buffed into a perfectly flat, lustrous finish. It’s “one of my favorite parts,” he said. Musicians aren’t the only ones heaping accolades upon Thompsons, Acoustic Guitar Magazine wrote, “With its powerful and immediate voice, deep resonance and protracted sustain, Thompson’s OM Brazilian model is the sort of magical guitar that one seldom encounters, especially in a newly-built instrument.” High praise from the industry’s signature publication. When asked what he enjoys most about this job, the jean and flannel shirt-clad Thompson said, “I enjoy working with the guys and designing the instruments. It’s a joy when we get to see and hear musicians play a Thompson guitar.”

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ince 2015, the small kitchen at Broken Top Bottle Shop has been in the hands of Ingrid Rohrer-Downer, a chef with an outsized reputation for versatility and creativity. With extensive experience cooking for large parties as well as diners at upscale restaurants, RohrerDowner’s ethnically influenced comfort food complements BTBS’s extensive global beer selection. “Broken Top is a nice place to step back and prepare ethnic food that translates well,” she said. That love of ethnic food started when she was a youngster in Fresno where a live-in nanny from Argentina fostered in her an appreciation of seafood. After completing the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco in the early 1990s, Rohrer-Downer spent ten years with Bon Appétit Management Co., which offers on-site food service to businesses, universities and others. She started with the company in Palo Alto and later transferred to Hillsboro where the company contracted with Intel. At Intel, Rohrer-Downer oversaw Mexican, Indian, Sri Lankan, Thai, Japanese and Colombian chefs who catered to the cravings of Intel’s diverse workforce. “I sucked up as much (culinary) knowledge as possible,” she said of the time spent with chefs, who shared recipes and cooking techniques. Traditional favorites still populate the BTBS menu—house-smoked baby back ribs, the cheese-stuffed DD Ranch burger and the sesame sushi salad. However, global influences are evident around every corner. For example, the pork belly sandwich is now “the pork belly bahn mi sandwich” with Vietnamese flavor infusing each bite. The cauliflower shawarma sandwich is a burst of exotic flavors.

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“I can do high-end food, but people love comfort food,” she said. “The difference is I throw in a twist—some unusual stuff in it,” she said. With a commitment to organic and locally-grown produce and meats, Rohrer-Downer converts the weekly CSA (community supported agriculture) box into “Thursday’s tacos.” Located at the foot of Central Oregon Community College on Bend’s westside, BTBS’s groundlevel space is beneath apartments, which for safety reasons prevent it from having an open flame, hood or deep fat fryer. All the cooking is done on flat-top induction burners, ovens and outdoor Traeger barbeques. That’s where RohrerDowner’s creativity shines through. “It’s a testament to Ingrid’s skills and ability to put out large quantities of food on busy nights from such a small space,” said Jennifer Powell, who owns the restaurant with her husband, Jason. “She excels under pressure and succeeds by all measures,” said Jennifer. A compulsive cook, Rohrer-Downer, 45, says she’s always thinking about food and creative ways of preparing it. “I have a lot of food dreams,” she said, adding that at BTBS she’s able to experiment and enjoys interacting with its regular clientele. The BTBS menu has always offered vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free soups, salads, sandwiches and entrées along with meaty selections. Rohrer-Downer has been tweaking the menu to reflect her love of various cuisines of the world. The results are evident in every bite. - Lee Lewis Husk

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How did the bike come together? Bend Radio, who I do the Simmer Down hour with, already had some relations with Bend Electric Bike so I basically cold-called them and came to the shop and presented them with the idea, which was just basically talk over a burrito. I wasn’t really proposing that we get a huge project together. What was their reaction when you pitched it? Totally open to it. Sterling (McCord) and the whole crew here they basically created something that, in the end, was about a ten-thousand-dollar bike. So like in reggae music and the show, they opened up their hearts here and their time and resources that led us to come up with this bike for a virtual stranger. There were three teams that came together for this bicycle and all of them, with the exception of the sound crew, really didn’t know me previously. When did this come together? It was finally finished last fall (2015) but it took a good sixteen months going between three teams and moving the bike between two different locations and having them do the audio and the woodwork.

The COLONEL He's a one-man reggae army equipped with an electric bike and a rolling sound system designed to spread the roots reggae gospel across his hometown. Editor’s Note: Catch the Colonel’s Simmer Down radio show Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. on 92/9 KRXF. To see the cruiser in action, just listen for reggae and follow the crowd…

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How do people react to your rolling reggae show? Either you like (the music) or you don’t. It’s not polarizing by any means. But there is a small segment of the population that definitely doesn’t want to hear any kind of music playing from (the bike), and it’s a pretty far out extreme, but you have to be respectful of it and temper it. I’m not cruising around cranking the thing and blowing away neighbors.

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So that’s the how, what about the why? I guess that's a reasonable question. In this here Babylon, why would you want to listen to reggae music wherever you go on your bicycle? (Pauses) That seems like an irrational question now that I phrase it that way. Why wouldn’t you want to have a sound system on your bike that you could listen to this great music? Why? Well it sure does help me promote my Simmer Down Sounds production company. The thing is just a conversational beacon. But why did I build it? If you can bring joy to somebody, that’s why you do stuff like this. And this music that I play is joyful music. It’s music with a message and that’s what Simmer Down is.

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That’s Franken-Steen! MEL BROOKS' COMEDY CLASSIC COMES TO THE BEND STAGE

While the art of satire is mostly lost on Generation Y, adults old enough to remember the (Bill) Clinton administration will always have a soft spot for the slightly more cerebral, if innuendo heavy, comedy of Mel Brooks. Brooks' mix of social satire and slapstick has allowed his material to age and evolve in ways that most comedies could never. Case in point, the stage version of the Brooks classic Young Frankenstein that begins its run in Bend just in time for Halloween. Young Frankenstein came out in 1974, the same year as Blazing Saddles (anyone smiling?). The musical version of the cult film opened on Broadway in 2007, closed in 2009 and then went on tour. Both the movie and stage version are classic Brooks spoofs on horror films of the 1930s adapted from Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. The timing is all the more poignant with the recent death of leading man Gene Wilder, who co-wrote the film's screenplay. “The hilarious lyrics written by Mel Brooks distinguish the difference between the film and the musical and also parody musical styles from many eras,” said director Patricia West-Del Ruth. “He infuses the musical with another layer of his wickedly funny commentary that takes the original film plot storyline to a whole new level. “This musical is much more significant than people realize,” she said. “It truly embraces the elements of romantic comedy while at the same time includes social satire.”

West-Del Ruth says that the Bend production has a “dream team” behind it, including vocal director Karen Sipes, choreographer Michelle Mejaski, orchestration composer John Taylor and set designer Gary Loddo. It’s a full production with eight main characters cast locally. Sandy Klein of Stage Right Productions, which operates the theater, said the show should “wow” people. “It will be wildly entertaining,” she said, noting that the small, ninety-three-seat theater will offer a fully immersive experience, including a Transylvania beer garden. Audience members are invited to show up in costume for the Halloween performance on Monday, October 31. - Lee Lewis Husk Young Frankenstein | October 28-November 12 | 2ndstreettheater.com

recommended See more of what Bend Magazine recommends and submit your own events at BENDMAGAZINE.COM/EVENTS 10/08 SISTERS SISTERS HARVEST FAIRE Oregon-made gifts and specialty food abound at the Sisters Harvest Faire. Held along Main Avenue, this juried arts and crafts fair features more than 180 vendors and showcases handcrafted items from pottery and painting to metal art and home décor. Free. Downtown Sisters. 10/10 BEND SWIVEL DIGITAL & CREATIVE MARKETING CONFERENCE Every Fall, thought leaders from Central Oregon’s digital marketing scene gather to talk strategy, storytelling and, yes, analytics. This is a chance to drink from the proverbial fire hydrant of digital marketing knowledge. Prices vary. Tower Theatre. 10/13 – 10/14 BEND BEND VENTURE CONFERENCE As the largest angel conference in the Pacific Northwest, the BVC brings companies together to compete for funding at early or growth stages and to vie for more than a million dollars of investment capital.

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10/15 MADRAS COWDEO A rodeo for aspiring cowboys and cowgirls from all across the Pacific Northwest, the annual Cowdeo lets kids up to 14 years old compete in mini-sized events such as mutton busting, horseless roping and the chicken rabbit scramble. $3-5. Jefferson County Fair Complex.

10/22 BEND TAIKOPROJECT ALL STARS The TAIKOPROJECT blends traditional forms of drumming to create a truly American style of taiko that is hard to beat. Sit back and take in a show from the only American troupe to ever win the prestigious Tokyo International Taiko Contest. $35-55. Tower Theatre.

10/20 – 10/21 BEND BEND DESIGN CONFERENCE Presented in an interactive dialogue format, the BND DSGN conference brings together diverse input and ideas in a series of conversations, workshops, tours, and exhibits by and for creative innovators everywhere. $115. Tower Theatre.

10/22 – 1/7 BEND ANSEL ADAMS: MASTERWORKS Sometimes called “The Museum Set,” this exhibition features forty-seven photographs of nature’s scenic splendor in black and white. Shot at various locations across America, many of the prints were selected by Adams himself to represent his life’s work. $15. High Desert Museum.

10/21 – 10/23 SISTERS PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ASPENS This annual autumnal photo camp led by professional photographer Rick Schafer squeezes workshops and photo shoots into a week-long learning experience for photographers to enhance their skills and learn new

10/28 – 11/6 BEND MAELSTROM THE ZOMBIE OPERA A fast-paced hybrid of zombie movie and stage dramedy, Maelstrom tells the tale of a family trying to break out of a hospital during a zombie outbreak. Written by Reed Reimer and Bend local Benjamin Emory Larson. Oct. 28, 29, 30 and Nov. 4, 5 and 6. COCC, Pinckney Center. $20-25. FALL 2016 \ b e n d m a g a z i n e . c o m

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Back Deck datebook CLASSES Make Japanese Origami Books & Woodblock Prints IF YOU’VE EVER LINGERED over the iconic image of a Japanese courtesan or marveled at the still beauty of a paper print image of Japanese landscape, you will want to make time to experience A6 studio’s latest interactive exhibit. Start by experiencing the exhibit, “Opening Japan: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints,” that celebrates woodblock prints of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. On display through November 20, the exhibit includes prints of courtesans, kabuki actors and other subjects by master printmakers Hasui, Hiroshige and Yoshitoshi. Then dive in with a series of workshops intended to illuminate the craft behind this iconic art form. The basics can be learned in a matter of minutes and classes last about one-and-a-half hours. That means it’s easy for people to fit them into a busy schedule, according to Dawn Boone, A6 executive director. The cost is $20, supplies included. CLASS INFORMATION Origami accordion books: Learn how to “sculpt” brightly patterned Japanese papers into miniature books. Classes are Sundays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., October 9 and November 13. Origami envelope books: Make folded books of brightly-colored

Japanese paper with folded pockets perfect for tucking in a little note or paper fortune. Classes are Fridays at 3 p.m., October 14 and 18, and November 11. Courtesan and kabuki prints: Work with pre-made blocks and learn how to ink and register blocks to create a multicolored print. Participants will take home prints of courtesans and kabuki actors based on ukiyo-e images by the great Japanese masters. Classes are Sundays at 11 a.m., October 2 and 23, and November 6. - Lee Lewis Husk A6 Studio | 550 SW Industrial Way, Suite 180 | Bend, OR 97702 | atelier6000.org

recommended See more of what Bend Magazine recommends and submit your own events at BENDMAGAZINE.COM/EVENTS 10/29 SUNRIVER HALLOWEEN MYSTERY DINNER Sponsored by Portland’s Eastside Distilling, this fivecourse tasting dinner features a murder mystery meal in Sunriver’s Great Hall. Guests arrive in costume and act as characters in the whodunit, served with a side of whiskey. Sunriver Resort.

11/18 – 11/20 REDMOND HOLIDAY FOOD & GIFT FESTIVAL From holiday ornaments to handmade jewelry, finds at this holiday festival run the gamut of gifts. Browse through items from more than 120 exhibitors selling specialty foods and gourmet bites. $5. Deschutes County Fair and Expo Center.

11/26 SISTERS SISTERS CHRISTMAS PARADE An annual event that includes pets, community floats and, of course, Santa Claus. Snack on free hot chocolate and cookies and visit with Santa after the parade at the Chamber of Commerce. Free. Downtown Sisters.

11/5 POWELL BUTTE LORD’S ACRE DAY For seventy years, the Powell Butte Christian Church has hosted a day of community activities that includes a country auction, 10K run and 5K walk and live music together with plenty of homemade pie. Free. Powell Butte Christian Church.

11/19 – 1/1 SUNRIVER TRADITIONS HOLIDAY CELEBRATION Sunriver’s month of holiday events includes a turkey trot, tree lighting ceremony, and holiday marketplace as well as elf appearances and sleigh rides. Prices vary. Sunriver Resort.

10/29 REDMOND TEDXBENDWOMEN Hosted at COCC’s Redmond campus, this year’s TEDxBendWomen talks will showcase local lady voices and center around the theme “Time for What Matters.” Prices Vary. COCC Redmond Tech Center.

11/9 BEND CIVIL WAR RALLY AND AUCTION Hosted by EDCO and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bend, this rally turns tailgating, football and friendly rivalry into a fundraiser for local after-school programs. $100. Riverhouse Convention Center. 11/11 BEND VETERANS DAY PARADE Every year, thousands of spectators line the streets of Bend to celebrate the second largest Veterans Day Parade in Oregon, complete with flags, floats, military vehicles, marching bands—and even an air patrol fly-over! Free. Downtown Bend. 108

11/19 PRINEVILLE SANTA’S WORKSHOP For twenty-three years, this annual event has let children experience the feeling of giving firsthand with fun crafts they make themselves. Kids ages 3-9 can choose from more than twenty projects. $3. Carey Foster Hall. 11/25 - 12/29 SUNRIVER WARREN MILLER CLASSICS Get inspired for ski season at a showing of the 2016 Warren Miller Movie. Since 1949, Warren Miller films have put the world’s best skiers and snowboarders in places with the best powder and let audiences to salivate over the awesomeness of snowsports. $5 -$10. Sunriver Resort.

12/02 BEND COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING Local choirs sing in the season at Bend’s annual Christmas celebration where Santa himself lights up the tree. Arrive early to Drake Park for the festivities and stay to sip hot cocoa and visit with Santa afterwards. Free. Downtown Bend. 12/21 BEND A TOWER CHRISTMAS Bend’s local Christmas showcase brings favorite holiday songs, dances and stories to the stage, along with appearances from classic characters such as the Grinch and Santa in this family-friendly holiday show. $10-15. Tower Theatre. FALL 2016 \ b e n d m a g a z i n e . c o m

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MICHAEL LEHMAN walked out of his ranch house in Redmond, and into his garage to see what was hatching. Entering the incubating room, he picked up an ostrich chick the size and texture of a coconut with black eyes and bristly feathers, born just the night before. “This one we call Chuck Norris because he kicked his way out of the egg,” said Lehman. “Ostrich shell is so thick we usually have to help, but sometimes the more robust ones can break out.” A lean red meat, high in iron and low in fat, ostrich farmers had a short-lived heyday in America during an economic boom in the 1990s, when a pair of birds could sell for $30,000. Over production and a slow rate of adoption by consumers led to a crash in the early 2000s. Since then the market has been working its way back as more Americans entertain alternatives to beef. Established in 2009, Central Oregon Ostrich Ranch currently supplies a specialized market, but hopes to help popularize the niche meat and bring the big birds back. Looking for a way to turn a profit on thirty acres, Michael and his wife Danielle phased out the beef business on the family property. They bought three ostriches in 2008 from a Klamath Falls farm. At first they weren’t sure if the business would succeed. The timing was fortuitous. As one of only six farms on the West Coast, Michael said marketing has not been much of a problem. “We started at local farmers’ markets and it sold by word of mouth,” said Michael. “Every year we would harvest birds and in two weeks the whole harvest was gone. Anybody that’s had ostrich wants it, but (they) can’t get it because there’s no supply. So there’s this pent-up demand.” The company now sells the majority of its harvest to Nicky USA, a Portland purveyor of exotic meats that sells out of its ostrich supply every year. Cuts range in price from $10 to $20 per pound. For the Lehmans, it looks as though 2016 could be the most profitable year to date, with seven breeder birds hatching up to 150 chicks by the end of the laying season. Turnaround is prompt, as ostriches only take one year to reach maturity. Michael attributes a lot of the ranch’s success to its location. “Central Oregon is perfect for breeding,” he said. “It doesn’t get too cold here, we’ve got lots of pastureland and we have this business cluster of breweries that is an extremely inexpensive source of feed.” Ostriches are curious, but have low IQs that Michael said can “make a chicken look smart.” They will eat anything (including rocks, sticks and bows off his sheepadoodle’s ears), but over the years the Lehmans have learned that spent brewers’ grains provide the freshest and healthiest feed. “With incubation and nutrition, there’s a lot of science to it,” said Danielle. “We figure out what didn’t work last year and figure out what to do the next year. So we’re learning as we’re going and each year we learn a little more.” -Mary Hinds

BANGERS & BREWS BRATWURST They do one thing and they do it right. With unexpected brats such as wild boar and water buffalo in addition to the classics, this family-run business knows how to style a bun. The chimichurri is pure bliss. 1288 SW Simpson Ave. Suite A, 541.389.2050 $ bangersandbrews.com ARIANA FRENCH/AMERICAN Above all, Ariana is known for consistently serving delicious gourmet food and providing a world-class restaurant atmosphere. You’ll definitely want to make a reservation. 1304 NW Galveston Ave., 541.330.5539 $$$$ arianarestaurant.com NEW! 900 WALL AMERICAN Okay, so it isn't new, but the newly revamped 900 Wall is back in action. This busy restaurant is perfect for someone looking for an upscale dining environment with good atmosphere. This is a top spot for a cocktail and small plate at happy hour. 900 NW Wall St., 541.323.6295 $$$ 900wall.com

KEBABA ETHNIC/MIDDLE EASTERN Special diets welcome at this popular local favorite specializing in hummus, falafel, baba ganoush, kebabs, gyros, schwarmas and specials. Great patio and takeout. 1004 NW Newport Ave., 541.318.6224 $$ kebaba.com 5 FUSION & SUSHI BAR ASIAN FUSION Since opening, 5 Fusion & Sushi Bar has held a reputation as the best sushi place in Bend, but the menu doesn’t stop there. Their renowned chef creates gourmet twists on Asian and American fare. 821 NW Wall St., 541.323.2328 $$$ 5fusion.com

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Back Deck dining guide CHOW BRUNCH There is nearly always a wait, but there is always a bloody mary bar with housemade pickles. After you've had the best morning drink of your life, the food won't disappoint. All fresh, mostly local ingredients are sourced with foodies in mind. You'll just have to decide if you want to go sweet or savory. 1110 NW Newport Ave., 541.728.0256 $$ chowbend.com CASCADE LAKES LODGE PUB Eclectic Pacific Northwest pub grub is on the menu at this well-situated brewery at the bottom of the return from Mt. Bachelor. The Cowboy Up burger and salads are good pairings with Cascade Lakes brews. 1441 SW Chandler Ave., 541.388.4998 $$ cascadelakes.com

PUB Hop & Brew IN THE NORTHWEST, growler fill stations are requisite even in towns without stoplights, and Sisters is no exception. Fortunately for anyone in town who likes pizza and is looking for a way to drink beer by the taster or en masse, Hop & Brew is a pleasant treat for dine in or take out. I walked into the joint one evening when owners Ryan and Teresa Karajala were sitting with some of the staff in a corner booth, concertedly chatting and scrawling mouth-watering pizza ingredients for their new menu across a smattering of papers. Though I enjoyed overhearing their enthusiasm for menu reinvention, my caprese pizza and taster tray of beers and ciders were more than adequate. The smallest pizza was more than I could eat; the crust a happy medium between true Italian thin crust and the pillow-like dough Americans tend to prefer. “We have what everyone wants, from playing Saturday morning cartoons on the weekends during breakfast service to a place to hang for beers with the guys,” said manager Kylie Cross. “Plus, we’re open later than most places in town.” Honing in on priorities appears to be a theme at Hop & Brew, located on the eastern end of the town’s main drag. The place was formerly called Hop N Bean, a moniker that still rings true if you happen upon the place at caffeine hour, instead of pie and beer hour. Next to the espresso machine, more taps than there are mountains in the Cascades line a rustic wooden wall. Employee Mary Stewart stood behind the counter guiding customer after customer through their thirty-one-tap decision-making process with a conversant and informed ease. The vibe is casual and welcoming, with just enough tables for a small town—though there are likely wait times when tourism season peaks. I don’t foresee any complaints, though, as time becomes inconsequential when sidling up to the bar to order a taster tray is an option. Open every day | 7 a.m. – 9 p.m., 10pm on weekends | 523 Highway 20 | Sisters | 541.719.1295 hopandbrew.com

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SPORK FUSION Spork, a Bend food truck turned restaurant, is a hands-down local favorite. With bold flavors and intriguing spices, Spork elevates a fusion of Mexican, Asian and American cuisine to surprising heights. 937 NW Newport Ave., 541.390.0946 $$ spork.com STIHL WHISKEY BAR BAR, AMERICAN With the best selection of whiskey in Bend, Stihl is a place to find old-school atmosphere with quality food. Plus, its Irish coffees are served with homemade whipped cream—a warm way to end a night out in downtown Bend. 550 NW Franklin Ave., 541.383.8182 $$ find on facebook THE SPARROW BAKERY BAKERY The original Sparrow Bakery, located in an impossibly charming building in the Old Ironworks district, is known for baking of the highest caliber. If you’re looking for something savory and sweet, you’ll want to try the Ocean Rolls. 50 SE Scott St., 541.330.6321 (east) $$; 2748 NW Crossing Dr., 541.647.2323 (west) $$ thesparrowbakery.net NEW! THE MOOSE SISTERS DINER/BAR Recently migrated to Oregon via Idaho, this chef-hostess duo are actual sisters and do home cooking with a couple of surprises. While elk burgers and fried chicken anchor the menu, guests can also branch out with international dishes such as the green curry bowl. Bonus: an upstairs view of the Three Sisters makes everything taste better. 63455 N. Hwy 97, Suite 200, 541.640.8285 $ moosesisters.com

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WILD ROSE THAI The specials available on the floor-to-ceiling chalkboard wall never change, but no one is complaining. Always busy, but rarely with a wait, Wild Rose executes authentic Thai dishes to great fanfare. In addition to the recognizeable plates, the true Thai afficionado will appreciate seeing northern Thai curries and nam priks. 150 Oregon Ave., 541.382.0441 $$ wildrosethai.com BARRIO SPANISH Now located in a larger space, complete with outdoor patio, Barrio is known for its refreshing and original cocktail menu and flavorful food. Food there is best eaten tapas style. 915 NW Wall St., 541.389.2025 $$ barrio.com

DRINK Move over gin, fall is here and it’s time for the smooth, spicy warmth of whiskey. Cocktails are serious business at The Dogwood Cocktail Cabin in downtown Bend where you can choose from a large menu of handcrafted drinks. The vibe at Dogwood is woodsy hip, the bartenders are cool yet friendly, and the small plates complement the farmto-shaker ethos. As crisp fall nights begin to creep in, try the Kumquat Whiskey Smash—Dogwood's take on the Rainbow Room citrus and mint classic. Kumquats are muddled whole in place of lemon wedges, giving the bourbon-based drink a light bitterness for added depth of flavor.

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CHANTRELLE AT PRONGHORN NORTHWEST With the drive, it takes about a half an hour from Bend or Redmond until you are in the dining room at Pronghorn. The golf course and mountain views, the food, the service and the wine list make the trip more than worth your while. 65600 Pronghorn Club Drive, 541.693.5300 $$$ pronghornresort.com NEW! THE BROWN OWL AMERICAN, BAR Bend’s most recent food cart-turned-restaurant, the Brown Owl does locally sourced burgers and brews in their new nest, complete with woodcovered walls and a Northwest vibe. Sando options include The Cuban, pulled pork and a veggie burger, all perfect to try with a side of spiced double-fried fries. 550 SW Industrial Way, Suite 120. 918.906.8282 $$ brownowlbend.com

PIZZA MONDO PIZZA Consistently great downtown pizza spot. A local favorite since 1998, with stellar combos and crispy crust. By-the-slice or takeout, lunch combos, beer and wine. 811 NW Wall St., 541.330.9030 $ pizzamondobend.com EL SANCHO MEXICAN At “The Shack,” “The Shop,” or “The Cart,” you’re bound to find a good taco—and the margarita to go with it—at El Sancho. 50 SW Division St. (west) 335 NE Dekalb Ave. (east) $ elsanchobend.com

SUNRIVER SOUTH BEND BISTRO ITALIAN/NORTHWEST A Sunriver secret since 2004, South Bend Bistro blends Italian influences with Northwest ingredients and has become a fine dining destination for foodies over the years. Chef Jeremy Buck studied cuisine in Florence and incorporates his background in preparing Italian dishes, seafood and all things Oregon (think mushrooms and truffles) into the menu. Be sure to make a reservation but watch out—you might become a regular. 57080 Abbot Dr., Bldg. 26. 541.593.3881 $$ southbendbistro.com ZEPPA BISTRO ITALIAN Italian for "wedge" and located in the Caldera Springs neighborhood, Zeppa offers a slice of life within the resort. Woodfired pizzas comprise the main course, but the freshly-made salads and panini don’t disappoint. Dine out on the patio for striking views of Mt. Bachelor and don’t forget gelato for dessert. 17750 Caldera Springs Dr. 541.593.4855 $ sunriver-resort.com

SISTERS THE OPEN DOOR ITALIAN Combining an art gallery and a restaurant is not a new feat, but The Open Door does it well. The tiny dining room has the kind of charm and comfort that every restaurant dreams of, and their equally tiny menu delightfully executes its handful of Italian dishes. 303 W Hood Ave., 541.549.4994 $$ opendoorwinebar.com COTTONWOOD CAFE BRUNCH If your mantra on trips is “do as the locals do,” you'll want to eat here. Don't let the name confuse you. Formerly known as Jen's Garden, the owners refocused and revamped their eatery last spring, transforming the space into a cozy café‚ with tons of charm and delicious breakfast scrambles, crêpes and sandwiches. 403 E Hood Ave., 541.549.2699 $$ intimatecottagecuisine.com LATIGO STEAKHOUSE The plate acts as a canvas for the artistic presentation of “Upscale Ranch” food. Serving seasonal flavors with Pacific Northwest ingredients, Latigo's tasteful dishes match the opulence of the exposed wood beam dining room. 370 E Cascade Ave., 541.241.4064 $$$ latigosisters.com

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SUNRIVER BREWING BREWERY One of the most popular places to eat in the Sunriver Village, Sunriver Brewing Co. now has a second location on Bend's west side. With a full bar and award-winning brews, the patio is becoming a fast favorite of locals. Building #4, The Village at Sunriver, 541.593.3007 (Sunriver); 1005 NW Galveston Ave., 541.408.9377 $$ sunriverbrewingco.com

Back Deck dining guide THE PORCH COMFORT FOOD From the outside, it looks more like a home than a restaurant, but once you get inside and try the fare you'll easily be fooled into thinking you're at the finest of dining establishments. Whatever you order for the main dish, be sure to pair it with a side of parmesan truffle fries. 243 N Elm St., 541.549.3287 $$ theporch-sisters.com SISTERS SALOON & RANCH GRILL AMERICAN

Housed in the recently renovated Hotel Sisters built in 1912, this fresh take on a Sisters tradition provides a beefed-up menu and historic atmosphere that comes complete with the original booth tables and bar. Sink your teeth into some smoked ribs or a bison burger, then swing through the old saloon doors for a drink. 190 East Cascade Ave. 541.549.7427 $$ sisterssaloon.net ANGELINE'S BAKERY & CAFÉ BAKERY Scratch-made breakfast, lunch, and treats get a thumb's up from the vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free crowds—without sacrificing flavor. Some meat and wheat options are available. Smoothie and produce ingredients often come from the restaurant's garden. 121 W Main Ave., 541.549.9122 $ angelinesbakery.com

REDMOND DIEGO'S SPIRITED KITCHEN MEXICAN A favorite in Redmond, this Mexican Fusion joint puts its own spin on tradition. Exhibits A and B: pork carnitas ravioli and Creole barbeque shrimp. The dining experience isn't complete without a "Rules" margarita and housemade guac. 447 SW 6th St. 541.316.2002 $$$ diegosspiritedkitchen.com THAI O THAI This father-and-son duo serves the most delicious Thai food in a simple atmosphere (read: strip mall) in Central Oregon. Patrons will find all the preparations offered on a typical Thai menu in Oregon—and will find them fresh and well-executed. 974 SW Veterans Way. 541.548.4883 $$ thaiorestaurant.com

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ONE STREET DOWN CAFE BRUNCH Coffee? Check. Cozy? Check. For quality brunch, this quaint café hits the spot and serves a different benedict every day of the week. Take your pick of scrambles and sandwiches made from scratch, just like grandma's, alongside a cup of your new favorite fancy coffee. 124 SW 7th St. 541.647.2341 $$ onestreetdowncafe.com OISHI JAPANESE Japanese for “delicious,” Oishi offers an extensive menu with more than 100 items, meaning that most anything you want on a roll—they’ve got it. Housed in a corner of the old Redmond Hotel, the kitchen cooks up more than just sushi with udon noodles and rice dishes that live up to the name. 511 SW 6th St. 541.548.3035 $$ WILD RIDE BREW BREWERY + FOOD CARTS When Wild Ride decided to focus solely on brewing, they staked out some parking lot space for food carts to take up residence. Grab a pint inside while you wait for food from Food Fellas, The Jerk Kings or Wubba's BBQ Shack. 332 SW 5th St., 541.516.8544 $ wildridebrew.com

PRINEVILLE OCHOCO BREWING COMPANY PUB GRUB It's never too early for beer ... battered pancakes made with Prinetucky Pale Ale brewed a few feet from the kitchen. Stop by for breakfast, lunch or dinner and don't forget to bring your growler for a fill. 380 Main St., 541.233.0883

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BARNEY PRINE'S STEAKHOUSE & SALOON STEAKHOUSE Enjoy a grilled onion-topped charbroiled steak in a dining room decorated with artifacts that pay homage to Prineville's wild West past. Named after the founder of the oldest community in Central Oregon, Barney Prine's Steakhouse and Saloon offers an upscale dining experience with a rugged flare. 389 NW 4th St., 541.447.3333 $$$ barneyprines.com

TERREBONNE TERREBONNE DEPOT NEW AMERICAN Stationed in an historic depot that once served the Oregon Trunk Railroad, Terrebonne Depot pays homage to its state by highlighting locally-

grown ingredients. It serves a bit of everything, from burgers and pizza to hearty meat entrées of the Northwest: elk, buffalo, salmon and more. The Depot even packs to-go orders in picnic baskets for those on their way to an adventure. 400 NW Smith Rock Way, 541.548.5030 $$ terrebonnedepot.com

LA PINE HUNAN CHINESE RESTAURANT CHINESE Hunan Chinese serves up satisfying, classic Chinese fare such as sesame chicken, mu shu pork and Mongolian beef. Many say that this is the only genuine Chinese food you’ll find for miles. If you’re on the road, take-out is also available. 51546 US-97, 541.536.3998 $$

MADRAS RIO DISTINCTIVE MEXICAN CUISINE MEXICAN While the restaurant’s décor is nothing fancy, the plates here are quite the opposite. Rio Distinctive Mexican Cuisine serves outstanding chili rellenos with a beautiful presentation of colorful, spicy sausages drizzled artfully with sauce. Housed in a repurposed home in Madras, guests rave about the authenticity of the food at this restaurant. 221 SW 5th St., 541.475.0424 $$ riomadrasmexicancuisine.com THE EAGLE BAKERY BAKERY The Eagle Bakery has that warm, friendly atmosphere you love in a bakery. Owned locally by a family in Madras, this place is loved for its fresh cinnamon rolls and biscuits and gravy. It’s open only on Friday and Saturday, so be sure to stock up while you’re there. 123 SW H St., 541.475.4593 $ eaglebakery.net GREAT EARTH NATURAL FOODS BREAKFAST, BRUNCH AND DELI

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