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U Magazine Table of Contents

Contributors .........................................................................................6 Textured Stories....................................................................................7 In Their Own Words ......................................................................... 10 The Scent of the Past .........................................................................12 Memory Food for the Holidays .......................................................16 The Art of Simple Sauces .................................................................18 What We’re Reading..........................................................................20 Nature Inspired ..................................................................................23 Healthy from the Inside Out ...........................................................26 Cranberry Creations .........................................................................28 Falling for Alpacas ............................................................................32 An Alpaca Christmas........................................................................35 For Their Future ................................................................................36 Painting Her Passion ........................................................................39 Shoes with Roots ................................................................................42 How will YOU Wear it? .....................................................................44 Garden Calendar ...............................................................................46 Gifts for the Gardener .......................................................................47 Gifts for the Pets .................................................................................50 From the Heart & Hands .................................................................52 Wire Fraud and other Faux La Las .................................................54

Editor’s Note Despite not having grown up in Central Oregon, I still feel connected to and intrigued by the area’s history, by the people who first called this place home. Perhaps my childhood on the western Bodyside Copy of the state wasn’t so far removed.

I grew up riding horses bareback along a spiderweb of trails through acres and acres of U.S. Forest Service land. I helped my friend up the road tend to her chickens and goats. My family spent many weekends every fall out cutting wood for the winter. The tiny town of Gales Creek had farms and ranches spread across the landscape. It was, even then, reminiscent of the old West.

Sometimes, as a child, I would imagine and play that I was living in the old West. Now, as an adult looking back, and as a parent watching my own children play, I realize how important it is to keep our history alive, to record and capture the true essence of what life was like, before.

The value of Lynda Lanker’s book and art collection titled “Tough

by Nature: Portraits of Cowgirls and Ranch Women of the American West” goes far beyond its visual appeal. The work of the Des Chutes Historical Museum in digitizing audio interviews from the area’s early pioneers is deeply commendable.

While we keep moving forward, it’s important to remember where we’ve been, to honor our history. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine what things were like. My own children stare at me in wonder when I tell them about the Christmas my family spent snowed in with no power and how my mom had to make our holiday feast on top of the wood stove. The story is something they love to hear over and over, they love to imagine it.

Sharing my past with them, I believe, is one of the best gifts I can give my children. I believe this, because something I treasure more than anything else, is when my mom shares her past with me.

— Kari Mauser

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Cover photo of artist Kimry Jelen by Kevin Prieto.

Published: Saturday, December 12, 2015

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KIMBERLY BOWKER grew up in Central Oregon under the shadow of the Cascade Mountains and between the scent of the ponderosa pines. She currently spends her time teaching and writing, exploring stories of the heart and discovering how our lives intertwine. You might find her sipping a pint of craft beer at a local pub, or out on the trail strolling beneath the sky.

ZACK HALL is freelance writer based in Bend and a former staff writer for The Bulletin. He has lived and worked in Central Oregon for nearly 10 years. When not writing about the virtues of Central Oregon or the region’s array of world-class golf courses, he can usually be found chasing his daughter around the house or a little white ball around a patch of emerald-green grass.

LAUREN DAVIS BAKER is a freelance writer and editor. She is the former owner of Flying Changes magazine, a publication for Northwest sporthorse enthusiasts. She relentlessly pursues the sport of dressage, with more enthusiasm than talent. Depending on the season, she also cycles with the Bend Bellas; shares a pint with the Beer Angels; or trails behind her husband on Phil’s Trail.

An avid crocheter and origamist, JOHN CAL worked as a baker, head chef, ukuleleist and Sno-Cat driver before settling into writing. He enjoys filling his time with yoga, postcard writing and collecting bowties. John also collects candy from around the world — he has a 100-plus specimen collection (and counting) — and lives in Bend with his dog, Hank.

Enthusiastic and outgoing, BRIDGET MCGINN enjoys meeting new people and sharing their stories. She spends her days working as a marketing and advertising professional, making photos or documentary films and spending time with her family. She may also be seen being dragged along the end of the leash of her newly adopted beagle puppy.

Creative wordsmith, media relations specialist and sponsorship coordinator, BEN MONTGOMERY brings years of experience in messaging and community journalism to The Bulletin’s Special Projects team. Ben’s favorite beer is Silver Moon Brewing’s Hob Knob IPA, and he enjoys exploring Central Oregon with his wife and two little girls.

DAMIAN FAGAN is a freelance writer and COCC Community Learning instructor. He enjoys birding and botanizing while hiking in Central Oregon’s wild lands. He lives in Bend with his wife, Raven, and their big nutty dog, Thielsen.

MIKE WILSON, of Bend, is a digital publishing specialist for ESPN’s Stats & Information Group. Working remotely, he edits and produces content for all of ESPN’s platforms and helps manage a Twitter account with more than 1.2 million followers. Previously, he worked at The Oregonian (2000-11), The Register-Guard (2000) and The Bulletin (1990-2000).

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STORIES The High Desert Museum showcases the work of artist Lynda Lanker, honoring the women of the American West.

by Kimberly Bowker, for The Bulletin Special Projects / Photos by Kevin Prieto

Lynda Lanker traveled the American West for almost 20 years. She drove long country roads, turning at mile posts and bumping over cattle guards, to navigate unfamiliar terrain and open spaces. The artist journeyed into the heart of the land to meet the women who shaped the West, and those whose lives have been shaped by it.

The ranch owners and cowboy poets, great-grandmothers and champion bull riders, conservation leaders and National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame honorees, all greeted Lanker with generosity and openness. They invited the artist onto their land to share a moment, and a life story, that Lanker translated into historic art.

“They are very authentic people,” Lanker said. “You don’t have a bad hair day out there – you have bigger things to think about, closer to the bone; life and death and water and animals and weather. I felt like I was coming home.”

The portraits Lanker created resulted in a book and art collection titled Tough By Nature: Portraits of Cowgirls and Ranch Women of the American West, now on exhibit at the High Desert Museum.

Stunning artwork in various mediums and sizes capture the truth of these real western women. Lanker traveled through 13 states over 19 years to witness a spectrum of ages, experiences, and moments – sharing the strength and heart of the West through the unguarded faces and voices of its women.

“Portraits have always fascinated me,” Lanker said.

“I think of the possibility of evoking the presence of an individual on a piece of paper, and it still excites me.”

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The gazes of these women are hewn in strokes of charcoal, graphite, acrylic, oil pastel, stone lithograph, and the once-popular egg tempera. In addition to portraits, the exhibit includes educational displays outlining the process of selected mediums, as well as some of Lanker’s artistic process. Each piece is also accompanied with the woman’s life story and a quote from her own experience.

Faith Powell, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the High Desert Museum, encourages people to spend time reading the stories. The coming together of artwork and storytelling makes this not a standard exhibit, she explained, and the inclusion of many mediums lends the many perspectives of these women.

“You can see a difference in the painting,” Powell said. “It makes you feel like you are standing with the woman, and not just looking at a picture of her.”

Such intimacy derives from the time and care of Lanker’s own journey. Born in Kansas City and raised in Wichita, Kansas, the artist drew her first portrait at age 13. After earning a degree in art education from Wichita State University, she taught middle school art. In 1974, Lanker married Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker, and the couple soon moved to Eugene, where Lanker still watches the yellow maple leaves fall as the seasons change.

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to paint a portrait of Bill Bowerman, cofounder of Nike Inc. She spent time with Bowerman, then in his 80s. She saw the lab that built prototype shoes, and the waffle iron that molded the first waffle shoe sole.

Nothing, though, was really jumping out to Lanker for her to paint. Then, Bowerman told the artist that he would love to show her his cows.

They visited his land on the outskirts of Springfiled, and Lanker could see where his

women ranchers. The artists soon began traveling around Oregon and, with the help of Lanker’s husband, realized that their project needed to be bigger. Brinton agreed, but she was not at a place in life to travel, so she gave her blessing to Lanker to continue their work on her own.

Lanker was nervous. She was apprehensive to travel, and frightened to think that she could come home with photos and interviews devoid of a heart or kernel that would inspire

“Portraits have always fascinated me. I think of the possibility of evoking the presence of an individual on a piece of paper, and it still excites me.” heart truly was at that time of his life. The Fossil-raised businessman wore a beat up cowboy hat and blue workshirt, calling the cows “his girls.”

Lanker composed the portrait of him in his old workclothes and his cowboy hat.

“That’s who he was,” Lanker said, reflecting on the importance of listening to the essence of a person in order to capture it in a portrait.

A fellow artist and friend, Elizabeth Brinton, saw Lanker’s portrait of Bowerman, and had an idea. The Baker City-born Brinton suggested collaborating with Lanker to create a collection of landscapes and portrait of

her to work for a year on a single portrait. She was city-person, and would have preferred to spend all day in her little studio. But Lanker did it anyway, and was blown away by the women and what she learned.

After initiating contact with the women, she would travel and spend about two days with each of them.

“I would try to let them show me their life,” Lanker said. “Drive me around their place in the truck, show me their closet, what they usually wear. I would listen and hang out with them and have dinner with them.”

On the second day, Lanker would bring her

TOUGH BY NATURE If you would like to visit …

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 History of Women in the Pacific Northwest In conjunction with the exhibit Tough by Nature: Portraits of Cowgirls and Ranch Women of the American West, Washington State University Professor Emeritus Dr. Sue Armitage will discuss the ways that “the famous, the forgotten and all the women in between” shaped their communities and the history of our region.

camera and take photographs of the woman in the morning and evening light. The women were naturals, unafraid of the exposure.

“They show you the person they wish they were if they are posing,” Lanker said about some who pose for portraits. “Sometimes it takes awhile – it takes awhile to relax and then you start to see who they are. But the ranchers and women didn’t do that – they were right there. They didn’t have the surface veneer to get rid of, because I think life had already done that.”

Lanker’s own journey to portray these women required commitment, just as these women are committed to the land and the West. Lanker began the project by interviewing Oregon ranch women, who hold a rich local history. Cattle ranching east of the Cascades largely became established in the 1860s, and reached its peak a few decades later. Women played a significant part of that history, too.

Oregon ranch women shared with Lanker their own connections to life and the land.

“Our whole idea is that everything has an importance, and you have to take care of everything,” said Gerda Hyde, born in 1930 and owner of a multi-generational ranch near Chiloquin.

“The outdoors is my cathedral,” said Kate Jordan, who grew up on a ranch and was interviewed in Mount Vernon.

“Our lives have become stronger facing

adversity head on. Ranching women have learned this through the years,” said cattle ranch owner Lois Stevenson of Eugene.

Such stories are incredible examples of fortitude, said Sandy Cummings, director of communications at the High Desert Museum.

It is an important way to show the community the strength of the women of the West, and to hear their voices so as not to be forgotten.

“Lynda is committed to this with a passion,” said Cummings. “Nineteen years of gathering stories and creating the works. She herself is a great inspiration showing her dedication to something she was so passionate about, and sharing the stories was something that meant a lot to her.”

The collaborative effort between Lanker and more than 50 western women offer the community and the world a way to remember and celebrate history. The book, which sold out at the museum the first night the exhibit opened, is available online at Amazon and OSU Press.

The artist viewed the project as a historic document, representing a certain time, a certain place, and certain individuals – capturing the truth and essence through art and storytelling.

“I was there, I saw these people,” Lanker said. “Here’s what they said to me, and here’s what I would like you to see of them.”

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In Their Own Words The Des Chutes Historical Museum embarks on a never-ending oral history project.

by Zack Hall, for The Bulletin Special Projects photos courtesy of Des Chutes Historical Museum

Central Oregon history springs to life even though the 62-yearold audio is grainy and sped up to make both voices sound high pitched.

Kessler Cannon, then a wellknown broadcaster for KBND, introduces Kate Rockwell, a famed vaudeville singer and dancer who settled in Central Oregon, by her well-known nickname “Klondike Kate.”

Rockwell stops Cannon to correct him.

“I think I am better known here in Bend as ‘Aunt Kate,’” interjected Rockwell, who was 70 at the time of the interview.

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executive director, said of the Rockwell interjection. “Just being able to hear their voices is just a totally different experience.”

Cannon-Miller and a small army of volunteers are just beginning to unearth such gems, in this case 43 interviews of some of Bend’s pioneers by Cannon that are being digitized and then distributed through the Deschutes Public Library System’s web site for all to enjoy.

And that is just part of a neverending project to both discover and to record the oral histories of this region.

PHASE ONE The oral history project began four years ago when Denny Douglass, a longtime volunteer for the Deschutes Pioneers Association, helped rally a halfdozen volunteers four years ago in cooperation with the Des

Chutes Historical Museum, to begin the process of interviewing some of the living pioneers of Central Oregon.

The result was about a dozen oral histories of area residents all with interesting and important stories to tell, said CannonMiller.

“Sometimes you need just the right person in the right spot at the right time, and Denny was that person,” Cannon-Miller said.

Such was the beginning of a three-phase project for the Museum to gather and organize oral histories — a project that with enough support from interested volunteers will never end.

Oral histories, Cannon-Miller added, that can help tell the story of Central Oregon for generations to come.

“Hearing a human voice telling a story just always has that level

of connection that is just deeper,” Cannon-Miller said.

the president of the Deschutes County Historical Society. “(The Cannon interviews) work so well for the library because we can wrap our heads around it as a project and we can use OverDrive … to push that out.”

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JUST THE BEGINNING Using digital recorders to interview oral histories from around the region is but one, everlasting phase. (And one that Cannon-Miller hopes the community will participate in by recording their own family members using mobile technology from StoryCorps, a nonprofit with a mission to record the stories of everyday Americans.)

Area residents will soon easily experience the fruits of the early portion of the project in the form of digitized versions Cannon’s

interviews.

Those interviews, which include notable names such as O.B. Riley, Rockwell and others, were professionally edited into interesting and radio-friendly clips for air on KBND. And the Des Chutes Historical Society had long ago transcribed the interviews.

“A lot of the people in those interviews in 1953 were around when the county was being formed in 1916, or their parents were around and brought them here,” Cannon-Miller said. “It’s pretty remarkable to reach back and hear their voices.”

In a joint project between the Deschutes Public Library and the Museum, the original reel-toreel recordings have been sent to an out-of-state company that specializes in digitizing old audio.

Once that digitizing project is complete, preserving the recordings for future generations, those recordings will be posted for download on the library’s website in early 2016 using the same OverDrive software that allows library patrons to download e-books and audiobooks.

“It’s a lot of familiar names to folks who have lived in Bend awhile or anyone who is interested in Central Oregon history,” said Nate Pedersen, community librarian for the Deschutes Public Library and

More time-consuming will be digitizing and transcribing a collection of about 150 cassette tapes from Central Oregon Community College interviews done in the 1970s and 80s. The long-form interviews — many by Joyce Gribskov, a local historian who used the interviews to write the book “Pioneer Spirits of Bend” in 1980 before her death in 2014 — last between 45 minutes and three hours each.

The interviews are all housed in the Museum, and include interviews by such local luminaries as Clyde McKay and Dutch Stover. But the project will be painstaking, needing hours of time and rich attention to detail from a team of volunteers.

“That project still has treasures waiting for us to be able to find and do,” Cannon-Miller said. “But it is a tall order.”

HISTORY WITH VALUE Unearthing the Cannon interviews has been a thrill for the volunteers and staff members who have had the chance to listen to the original recordings,

Cannon-Miller said.

“Usually we can’t wait to hear what is on them, or hear a certain person’s voice who you have heard so much about,” CannonMiller said.

More than that, though, Pedersen believes that the Cannon interviews could prove popular for ordinary Central Oregon residents with an interest in the region’s history.

“I think it is intrinsically cool to be able to listen to someone while driving down a road that is named after them,” Pedersen said.

And if interest remains there is a fair chance that the library will stay involved as a vehicle to distribute the region’s oral histories, Pedersen added.

The project is indeed ambitious and time consuming. But in the end, it will prove to be a benefit for generations of Central Oregonians.

“If you can get to the point where you digitize not only the audio recordings but the transcriptions, and make it findable and searchable online, then you really open avenues for research from people around the country,” said Pedersen. “That’s the current wave in terms of what historical archives and museums are hoping to do with these types of collections. And the Des Chutes Historical Museum is no different.”

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The Scent of the Past Create a lasting treasure of culinary memories with a legacy recipe book.

by Lauren Davis Baker, for The Bulletin Special Projects Special recipes connect us to our lives. The simple smell of something simmering on the stovetop can take us back in time, as scent is so closely linked to our memories and our emotions. Food doesn’t just fuel our bodies, it brings us together as families, and it transcends generations. Whatever the holiday, food is an integral part of our celebration.

This year, instead of bickering about politics or making small talk about the weather as you fill your plates with all of your family’s traditional indulgences, take some time to reminisce about all the holidays you’ve spent together. Chances are you will quickly find that many of your memories are centered around food — the scents of holiday cooking, the tastes of those feel-good recipes.

As you savor the smell, texture and taste of the special dishes as you chew, it will inevitably trigger memories and conjure feelings and emotions that are as vivid as when you first experienced them.

As humans we are designed to form and focus our memories around food.

To hold on to our memories is to preserve and pass on our family recipes, they are our legacy.

Capturing all those culinary memories can be as simple as creating a family cookbook.

“The holidays are the perfect time to plant the seed for a family cookbook,” said artist and author

Mary Marquiss. “You have all these gatherings around food and it’s a nice thing to talk about — unlike politics or religion, no one gets offended.”

Marquiss was inspired to create her first family cookbook with her sister, following the death of their parents.

Family members all contributed recipes along with short stories that illustrated why a certain meal, why that particular recipe, had special significance to them.

One recipe Marquiss contributed is her mother’s “Special Green Beans,” and she included a simple note that reads: “Mom did a wonderful thing with green beans, and we never tired of them done this way.”

As she compiled the family recipes and stories, Marquiss added photos and whimsical illustrations to the collection, resulting in a book that the entire family now treasures, a tribute to their family’s legacy.

Connie Druliner began making cookbooks to preserve and share her grandmother’s recipes, which Connie Druliner enjoys granddaughter, Reese.

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making gingerbread people with

her 4-year-old

were handwritten on index cards.

“These were tried and tested recipes,” Druliner said.

By adding in her mother’s recipes as well as her own, she effectively connected her children and grandchildren to several generations of family cooking traditions. She went on to create cookbooks specifically for her grandchildren, written in a childfriendly format.

Whether you want to create something to cherish from your past, or if you are inspired by the idea of creating something you can pass on, legacy recipe books are the perfect way to do both.

No matter what motivates you to get started or which direction your book takes, there are many ways to put together a legacy recipe book.

Depending on your personal style, technical ability, and time constraints, you can build a book yourself or hire a service to do the work for you, once you’ve collected the recipes.

One approach is to think in terms of scrapbooking. Like photo scrapbooks, a family cookbook can be an intimate creation pieced together one page at a time, taking time to cut and paste different things that capture the spirit of each recipe. Adding art and photos, along with little stories that add a personal touch, promises to result in something you and everyone else in your family will cherish.

Add a special touch to your

legacy recipe book with photos of the cooks at work, the holiday table, and the dish itself. For instance, a cake recipe will be more endearing if you capture and include a photo of a handful of grandchildren helping to make it.

Illustrations can also bring your pages to life.

“Even if you’re not an artist, you can draw a carrot,” Marquiss encouraged.

She used simple line drawings with a touch of color to give her cookbook a warm and welcoming feel.

Food stamping is another great way to add artwork and is especially fun if children are participating in the book’s creation. Using firm vegetables such as broccoli and mushrooms, brush on a little acrylic or poster paint and dab veggies on your page to create playful patterns and borders.

Consider including recipes in their original format — perhaps eloquently scribed on an index card or maybe scribbled on a torn piece of grocery sack — to reflect both the era and personality of each cook. For example, your grandmother’s cheesecake recipe will be even more memorable if you include the original, well-worn recipe card she gave you, written in her hand and maybe even smudged and stained.

Get your family involved by soliciting their favorite recipes, stories, photos, and illustrations. Short, food-related memories will make your book more personal and fun. With each recipe, mention its origin and acknowledge the cook.

Aunt Lucy’s Enchiladas are a Marquiss-family favorite.

“It is so good you just want to throw

a fit,” the text accompanying the recipe reads.

You can invite extended family members to add recipes of their own, making them feel included and incorporating their food traditions into your family. Druliner said she is excited to be including a recipe from her daughter-in-law’s great-grandmother in the family archives, along with its Austrian origin.

Once your pages are complete, you can use a color photocopier to seamlessly join your work, or you can scan them and save them electronically as PDF files, which can then be easily shared by email or saved to a flash-drive or disc.

Various office-supply stores offer this service for an affordable fee.

If your style dictates a more polished look, then instead of scrapbooking, you can type out each family recipe, using a consistent font and format for each type of dish.

There are even online services that provide templates, allowing you to create a book that has the look and feel of a professional cookbook.

Even if you don’t consider yourself creative, or if you don’t have extra time to commit to creating your family’s legacy

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recipe book, there are several services that will scan, format, bind, and print your book for you. You can expect to pay about $3.00 per page for scanning and formatting. Once the pages are complete, the expense of printing and binding varies and your personal taste and style will dictate the ultimate cost, which can range from about $11 - $37 and more per book.

Black and white is less than color, but can lose some of the character captured in photos and illustrations.

And while binding choices change the price, how you choose to bind your book is not just a cost decision. A perfect bound book, the most expensive option, makes a lovely keepsake but is actually less useful during cooking, when you want pages to lay

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open and flat. Spiral binding is more economical and gives you the option of laminating your pages, to protect them from kitchen spills. A three-ring binder is most affordable and lets you add new recipes any time.

Price will also vary based on the number of books your print, with a volume discount often kicking in if you print more than 20 books.

Another way to capture your family’s legacy recipes is to organize them on recipe cards, a fun option for people whose memories are connected to the little cards that might’ve been stuffed here or there, or stored in a box on the counter at grandma’s house. If putting them into book format takes away from the nostalgia you feel, then instead, scan the cards themselves and then print, cut, laminate and store them in a

vintage recipe card box.

No matter which direction your project takes, organizing all your materials in a threering binder as you collect them promises to make the process more manageable. Slip recipes into plastic sleeves and use divider tabs to separate recipes into categories such as appetizers and main courses or by who the recipe came from.

Finally, your recipes do not need to be gourmet, healthoriented, or awe-inspiring.

Many legacy cookbooks are a collection of comfort foods, reflecting the way we really live, without trying to impress.

“Our family recipes might not be the healthiest, but they are favorites,” Druliner said, adding that she considers cooking her “love language.”

Many of her family’s most important memories, Druliner added, started in the kitchen.

Preserving and sharing those memories is a way to celebrate and pass on those special moments in life.

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Interior Design Mistakes Everyone Makes

We all need a little push once in a while when it comes to finding our personal style. It’s easy to go to a friend’s house and love their kitchen remodel. Or visit a hotel while traveling and want to re-create that spa-like feel in your own home. But when it comes down to actually moving on these design decisions, you freeze. We’ve learned some very helpful lessons through trial and a lot of error. Here are a few helpful tips.

Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Setting a Budget.

This is truly the only place you can start with any home project.

All of those binders and room layouts that you have so carefully put together need to relate to how much you want to spend.

Budget is the first conversation we have when beginning a project with a client. It is important for us to know if your idea of a nice sofa is $1000 or $5000. Set a budget and stick to it.

Don't Just Eyeball It. Who has time to measure, right?

Wrong! That’s usually how you end up with barstools that are too tall for the island or a polka dot wall full of a lot of holes from trying to hang your family photos.

I keep a tape measure in my car at all times. Stick it under the seat so you know it’s always there. On any mission, draw a picture and put some numbers down. How tall is the underside of your island? How big is the wall that you want to display

those seven photos on? You won’t end up wasting time going back to exchange goods. Or have the stress of fixing things like holes in the wall.

are picking out your backsplash tile or new bedding, make it a point to write down what you want and what you need. Then compare those two things with the trend or style. Oftentimes we like things that won’t work in our space. Break apart the elements and there is sure to be a piece or pieces that work together with your style and life.

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Balance Style and Trends for a Timeless Design.

When it comes to your personal style or trends that are sweeping the showroom windows around town, there are usually two categories people fit into. There are those who just want this particular look and really would be happy with it for the rest of their lives. And there are those who want the flexibility to change that style with the seasons or just because. We have found that it is common for people to have a little buyer’s remorse when following trends so tightly. It’s a game and retailers want you to buy now and then again in a couple of months. And then again in a year! Whether you

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MEMORY FOOD FOR THE HOLIDAYS When it comes to family traditions, food is at the heart of every celebration.

by Ben Montgomery, for The Bulletin Special Projects

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When you consider the alternatives, a traditional bread stuffing recipe is about as simple as it gets: butter, onion, celery, dried bread crumbs and a mix of herbs and spices, all bound together with some broth and maybe a couple of eggs.

And yet two years ago, my mom was on a mission. The holiday stuffing she traditionally made for us each Christmas morning, she decided, didn’t quite pass muster. It was still a fine recipe, sure, but it was missing a little something.

It was missing her grandma.

“My grandmother always grew this herb at her home — it was a German herb, I think — just so she could have it in her dressing every year,” said my mom, Margie Montgomery, who lives in Redmond but grew up as part of a large Catholic family on a small Iowa farm. “It was a family tradition on her side to put it in the dressing. She couldn’t find it anywhere around that time, so she grew it.”

This tradition dated back to the early 1900s, at least — likely earlier when you consider the distance between five generations. And yet years later, during the late fall of 2013, Mom found herself on a treasure hunt of sorts. Armed with her laptop and long list of family members, she reached out with questions for several siblings and cousins about this secret herb.

Turns out it was Bohnenkraut, also known as summer savory.

“Our stuffing that year tasted more like what I was used to when I was growing up,” Mom said.

“It took me back to the last time I had it which was the last time I went to Mom and Dad’s for Thanksgiving … oh, at least 20 years ago?”

That, of course, is the power of food — a kaleidoscope of senses that, when mixed with tradition involving those you care for most, can transport you through time, through generations, connecting you to people you may have never met but whose existence were precursors to your own.

Conditions for such culinary time travel tend to peak during the Holiday Season, when meals themselves often include traditional fare, cherries picked from multiple family trees, blended with newer dishes and desserts that held up along the way. Turkey or ham, mashed potatoes or candied yams, pumpkin or pecan … these decisions are largely based on the familiar.

On our histories.

“Holiday meals are gatherings of the whole family — one of those memories you hold onto for life,” said Bette Fraser, a.k.a. “Chef Bette,” owner of The Well Traveled Fork in Bend. “I think you hold onto certain dishes because they

“Holiday meals are gatherings of the whole family — one of those memories you hold onto for life. I think you hold onto certain dishes because they were given to you by somebody you loved and who loved you in return.” – Chef Bette Fraser were given to you by somebody you loved and who loved you in return.”

Case in point: canned cranberry sauce.

“My son-in-law has to have the jelled cranberry from the can which, to me, isn’t even a food group,” Fraser said. “But that’s what his mother served, and he loved his mother and his mother loved him. When you look at it that way, it makes perfect sense.”

Fraser recalls holiday meals with her family that included a mix of traditional Norwegian and Czech dishes, two cuisines she assured me would likely never find their way onto the same table under most other circumstances. But during the holidays?

“Rules don’t apply on the holidays,” she said.

That might explain the dish I grew up knowing as “German stuffing,” a meaty concoction with apples and raisins that always had a spot on the holiday buffet table at my grandparents’ house.

Each year, this dish that I loathed triggered that familiar sense of Christmas nostalgia for my aunts, uncles and grandparents.

“I think it’s great — I love it!” my mom said. “It’s like blood sausage. If it’s something you grew

up with, you don’t think it’s odd or unusual. It’s not until you take it to someone else’s house, or invite someone new to the gathering, that you find out it might be a little different.”

For the record, blood sausage never (thankfully) found its place as part of the Montgomery holiday dinner spread. What made the cut — our annual staples of the season — are traditional to the point of boring: stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, dinner rolls and a veggie or two, all surrounding a turkey that may or may not be a little dry (depending on who you talk to).

Yet, we wouldn’t eat any other way on Christmas day. It’s the power of “memory foods,” Fraser calls it. After all, our memories, and the foods and smells and textures that trigger these memories, are what dictate our holiday menus year after year.

These little triggers — these fleeting moments of sentimental pleasure — are why we leave lumps in our potatoes, why cranberries come from a can, and why every once in awhile, a recalled flavor or aroma will compel us to dig deep into family history so we might recreate a particularly cherished memory.

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The Art of Simple Sauces The secret to success lies in first embracing simplicity.

by Zack Hall, for The Bulletin Special Projects Part of the deal I made with my wife to become a work-at-home writer is that I would take over more of the cooking duties.

That was fair enough. After all, I suddenly had tons of flexibility and I always enjoyed cooking, even if I possessed rudimentary skills.

With my cooking came a problem: I tended to limit myself in the kitchen. That was fine when my cooking was occasional. But when my time in the kitchen became regular my lack of skill was exposed with too many nights of casseroles, tacos or easy pastas.

My sauces, if you could call them that, were always bought prepackaged.

Then this fall, a bounty of tomatoes came from the backyard garden thanks to our unusually warm September and October.

Trying hard not to waste a tomato, I decided to try my hand at making some homemade sauces.

I was shocked. Not just with how delicious (and healthy) my favorites like chicken parmesan could be, but just how easy it was to whip up a decent sauce. The key, though, was to finally take a chance on venturing outside my cooking comfort zone.

With the holiday season upon us, a season of once-a-year gravies and red, fruity sauces, it is time again to get past my intimidation. So I enlisted the help of Wendie Every, a foodie herself and owner of Every Idea Marketing, the company behind the creation of Newport Ave. Market’s holiday guide, Shindigs.

What makes a great sauce?

Before you head to the grocery store to buy a jar of unhealthy and not-quite-delicious gravy, it might behoove you to remember that fresh, natural ingredients are often the keystone to great cooking.

“I like to create recipes from real food.

I’ve made plenty of mistakes over the years, but I’ve learned to just jump in and try new things,” Every said.

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MAPLE BROWN SUGAR SAUCE

Served over yams as a delicious side dish or over warmed brie as a crowd-pleasing appetizer, Maple Brown Sugar Sauce adds decadence to any holiday menu. It adds that sweet, sort of holiday taste to an otherwise plain yam. The extra calories are worth it.

“This is one of our guests’ favorite dishes at our holiday parties,” Every said.

TURKEY GRAVY

homemade cranberry sauce, a maple brown sugar sauce that can be served over yams or brie, and of course, turkey gravy.

These are all simple by design, and meant to be helpful during the holidays to get you past your own intimidation. And with a little risk-taking and confidence, just about anybody can be successful.

“These are good choices, because there aren’t a lot of ingredients and the instructions are simple. However, guests will be delighted by the taste and impressed with your creativity,” Everysaid.

CRANBERRY SAUCE

No holiday table would be complete without the brilliant, rich burgundy color provided by the cranberry sauce or jelly. It gives you a little zing of sweet, tartness that pairs great with the turkey, but far too often the sauce comes from a can. Cranberry sauce is a breeze, needing just fresh cranberries, some water, a little sugar, a couple of oranges, and salt. Be brave and try making your own.

There always seems to be stress about making the perfect turkey and gravy. The funny thing is that turkey gravy is not particularly difficult to make, but rarely does a home chef have a chance to practice it. It’s not that hard, but you do need to pay attention.

Start with a high-quality turkey for the best results. Drippings from the turkey are the key for a flavorful gravy. One must take care as to what falls to the bottom of the pan, being sure to not let those drippings burn.

Adding a touch of water when needed as the turkey roasts will help prevent burning. Also, the turkey should be cooked slowly at a lower temperature to reduce the risk of burning.

If the drippings burn on the bottom of the roasting pan, then the gravy is going to taste burned.

If the bird is fatty, allow the drippings to cool, the fat will separate and raise to the top. Remove the excess fat, and then you are ready to make your gravy.

Be patient while making the gravy and don’t over salt. And remember one important truth: there is never enough gravy. You want to make sure it’s not too thick or too watered down, but has lots of turkey flavor.

Cranberry sauce, turkey gravy and a sweet, decadent maple brown sugar sauce? Sounds like the holidays to me. All I need is some guts to give it a try.

Holiday Cranberry Sauce Makes 6-8 Servings 4 cups fresh cranberries 1 cup water 1-1/4 – 1-3/4 cups sugar (depending on how tart you like your sauce) 2 oranges

Juice both oranges and set the juice aside.

Cover and cook over medium-low heat until berries burst and the sauce thickens, about 15-20 minutes. Stir in the orange juice and discard the orange zest. Remove from heat and let cool. Place the sauce in a serving dish and chill for four hours — WE.

Salt Wash and discard any cranberries that are overripe or soft. In a saucepan, combine cranberries, water and sugar.

With a peeler, remove three wide strips of orange zest and add to the saucepan, along with a pinch of salt.

Turkey Gravy Drippings from roasted turkey 4 cups low-sodium chicken or turkey broth Salt and pepper

Whisk the paste slowly for a few minutes and allow it to cook until a nice golden brown. The perfect brown color is the secret to great gravy.

Be careful not to burn the drippings while roasting your turkey. Add about 1 cup of water to the bottom of the roasting pan and carefully watch; add additional water as needed to keep from burning.

Slowly pour in the chicken or turkey broth while whisking to combine.

Let the gravy cook and thicken over medium-low heat for 5-10 minutes, while continuing to whisk. If the gravy thickens too much, add more broth and whisk again.

1/2 cup flour

When the turkey is done, pour all the drippings from the roasting pan into a bowl and allow the grease rise. Remove the excess grease with a spoon and pour the remaining drippings into a large skillet. Heat the drippings over medium heat and sprinkle with flour.

Maple Brown Sugar Sauce Makes 1 cup 1/3 cup unsalted butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup water 1/3 cup pure maple syrup Salt 1/2 tsp vanilla 1/8 tsp fresh ground nutmeg Melt butter in a saucepan, add brown sugar, water, maple syrup, and a pinch of salt. Mix well. Heat to a boil over medium heat, reduce the heat to low and simmer for 3-4 minutes.

Add vanilla and nutmeg and continue to simmer for another minute and remove from heat.

Whisk to create a paste and add more flour as needed. The consistency should not be too greasy or too dry.

Season the gravy to taste with a little salt and plenty of pepper. Serve the gravy piping hot with buttery mashed potatoes. Now that’s a crowd pleaser!

— WE

To use with Brie – continue to simmer sauce an additional 2-3 minutes, until it is reduced by half and thicker.

While sauce is reducing, bake a wheel of high-quality brie at 350 degrees for five to seven minutes. Please on a serving dish and pour enough sauce over the top until it runs over the sides.

To use with yams - Cut four to five yams into halves and boil in salted water until fork tender. Cool and peel. Slice each piece in half again and place in a buttered baking dish.

Pour the sauce over and bake for 15-18 minutes in a 350 degree oven. – WE.

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What We’re Reading As 2015 draws to a close, The Bulletin Special Projects and advertising staff, along with our freelance writing team, took a look back at some of the books we’ve read over the past year.

Here is a selection of what we’ve read that we found particularly memoriable, books we connected with or enjoyed so much that they made our “Top 15 of 2015” list. We hope you find something here that piques your interest and sends you on your next reading journey.

The Signature of All Things

All The Light We Cannot See

Moving Target

chosen by Kimberly Bowker

chosen by Lauren Davis-Baker

chosen by Michelle O’Donnell

by Elizabeth Gilbert

An epic novel of discovery, care, and timeless truth, The Signature of All Things follows the life of botanist Alma Whittaker.

Set in the 1800s, each detail of Alma’s world feels breathtakingly real and vivid. I spent my days wondering what was next for this heroine.

The story, rendered by Gilbert’s lyrical words, serves as a beautiful reminder that life doesn’t unfold how we expect to, but rather exactly how it is supposed to. This captivating account is an invitation for us, as Alma’s father advised her, to “go find out.”

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

chosen by Martha Rogers

“Olive” is my standout book this year simply because it was such a pleasant surprise. Not normally a fan of short stories I kept passing over this little yellow book in my neighborhood little library despite its Pulitzer Prize and other award shout outs.

Strout constructs her stories with raw honesty and intense emotion around everyday people we all recognize and identify with. Olive is front and center in all her irrational sensitivities. Even now, with the book long finished, I find myself still thinking of her.

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by Anthony Doerr

This Pulitzer prize-winning novel tells the parallel stories of two children caught up in the horror of World War II: one a blind French girl; the other a German boy whose skills have drawn the attention of the Nazis, forcing him into their service. Their lives converge in occupied France, as the girl attempts to flee from danger and the boy is forced closer to the front lines.

Doerr deftly weaves together a story of two lives forever altered by war.

HIs lyrical writing style is a joy to read, drawing us into a tale of love, self-preservation, and survival. This is a book to savor.

Vagabonding

By Rolf Potts

chosen by David Clewett

Vagabonding is all about taking time from your normal life to experience the world. And while several years of travel is not justifiable for most people, this book teaches the independent spirit so that it can be applied for a week-long getaway or even a weekend. Potts’ travel advice is applicable for anyone who enjoys the exploration of the outdoors and it pairs nicely with the Central Oregon lifestyle.

by J.A. Jance

A fast moving entertaining thriller, with great character developement. Jance writes mystery series with a central continuing character. This gives you a chance to really get to know that character and emotionally connect with the story lines. This book was a super read and deals with current technology while still following the “Who Done It” genre.

Visions of Sugar Plums

by Janet Evanovich

chosen by Bonnie Burns

Though I read a lot of books, I have to admit to a guilty pleasure. Sometimes you just need to lighten up at the end of the day.

Prolific Janet Evanovich has provided me with many light moments and silliness that make me laugh out loud. The Stephanie Plum series is about an inept bounty hunter who manages to bring ‘em in somehow with oddball, death-defying adventures. Her quirky characters are well-developed and you can’t wait to see what happens next in her even more quirky plots.

Never a dull moment with Stephanie Plum.

The Boys in the Boat

The Forest Feast

chosen by Damian Fagen

chosen by Julie Cockburn

by Daniel James Brown An incredible story about perseverance, overcoming huge odds and personal demons.

My father-in-law grew up as a stump farmer in Western Washington so I related to the characters through who he was. Also, I went to the University of Washington and rowed those same lakes and lived with several former crew members. My wife spent a year on women’s crew, so I know the pain and training that goes into competing, weigh-ins and conditioning.

Great book and a story that has waited to leave the dock for a long time.

Motive

by Jonathan Kellerman chosen by Lori Lamont

This is one of those can’t put down murder mysteries that Jonathan Kellerman is so good at. I’ve been reading these for years and this one did not disappoint! Another great addition to the series with psychologist Alex Delaware and his homicide sidekick Milo Sturgis. What happens next will keep you turning the pages to the very end to see who did it!

The Striker

by Monica McCarty chosen by Pat Lynch

The Washington Post says: “McCarty’s gift lies in writing strong characters into wildly entertaining and often unexpected scenarios.” She incorporates a lot of research for her 12 Highland Guard novels that cover a span of nine years beginning in 1305.

During this time Robert the Bruce is trying to gain the Scottish throne, taking it away from the English King. He has gathered an elite secret fighting force, the Highland Guard, where each character is a specialist in warfare.There is a constant battle between a warrior doing his sworn duty and keeping the love of his life. Sometimes I’ll read until midnight, wanting to know what happens.

by Erin Gleeson

Mouthwatering recipes, stunning photography, and whimsical illustrations make The Forest Feast an absolute pleasure to read. I loved every detail, from the visual layout of the recipes, to the simple preparation techniques, to the author’s relatable story of her search for personal and professional fulfillment, which she finds through food. Written in an everyday, approachable style, it will appeal to beginning cooks and seasoned pros alike, vegetarian or not, and will certainly occupy a prime spot on my cookbook-shelf for years to come.

My Descent Into Death

By Howard Storm,

chosen by Tara Marsh

In the summer of 1985, Storm was an art professor and a bitter atheist, who, while on a class trip to Paris, suffered a perforation of the stomach and “died” while waiting for emergency surgery.

In this book, he shares his horrifying account of a trip to “hell,” which he claims was more real than anything he’d experienced while alive. The story takes a beautiful turn when Storm is rescued and lifted into the presence of beings of indescribable light, beauty and overwhelming love. Storm was returned to his earthly body, but his life was forever changed.

This is a must read for anyone who believes in life after death or has ever lost a loved one and wonders where they are.

A Wall of White

by Jennifer Woodlief chosen by Nancy Phillips

A story of heroism and survival that recounts when a major avalanche hit Alpine Meadows ski resort in Lake Tahoe in 1982. The book resonated with me because I was living there at the time of the disaster, and knew some of the ski patrol people involved in the dramatic rescues.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by marie kondo

chosen by Bridget McGinn

The relentless sanity exposed by Kondo in this deceptively mild-looking book made me grit my teeth at times (because it was so darn logical) but in the end it was exactly what I needed to hear to allow me to let go of the junk cluttering my home. I’m an expert at holding on to unnecessary stuff, so Kondo’s voice of reason forced me to acknowledge many truths, such as: I actually do not need to hold on to that mysterious electrical cord that goes to nothing I can identify. Oh, and her tips on folding laundry are revolutionary and very zen.

My pajama drawer is now a work of art.

Beautiful Ruins

by Jess Walter

chosen by Karen Kenlan

A story that goes back and forth in time, who can’t like someone who dreams of putting a tennis court on the edge of a cliff above a little fishing village in Italy?

The Boy Who Spoke to the Earth

by Chris Burkard and illustrated by David McClellan chosen by Kevin Prieto

A visual journey by one of my favorite photographers, this is a story that carries a profound message in limited words. Through the tale of a young boy who asks the Earth where he can find happiness, Burkard is able to take the reader along with the boy as he journeys to some of the landscapes that make the Earth most proud — the ocean, the cliffs, the forest, the desert, the mountains and the top of the world.

An epic tale written for children, but easily enjoyed by all ages.

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CARING FOR OTHERS

by Nancy Webre, for The Bulletin

Parent Care: Making the Best of the Holidays The holiday season is upon us. For most of us, this is a time of celebration and making memories with family and friends. But for some, particularly seniors, the holidays can be a difficult time due to loss of health or independence. For many elderly, holidays are not a time of celebration and joy but may serve as a reminder of how lonely they may be, or of the absence of friends, spouses, or siblings who have died. In fact, the holidays can actually bring on feelings of isolation and loneliness.

What can families do to help reduce loneliness and feelings of depression around the holidays? We are all busy and stressed during the holiday season. However, by simplifying and focusing on what really matters, you can be supportive and make a difference during this time. The following tips may help to enhance your loved ones’ holidays.

• Listen, understand, and empathize. Put yourself in their place. Talk about memories of loved ones and acknowl-

edge losses. Listen to them reminisce.

It’s okay to take time to cry and express feelings. Be aware of signs of depression—is your loved one withdrawing or not engaging in activities?

• Set aside differences. Grievances should be left till another time. Try to accept family members even if they do not live up to all of your expectations. • Plan ahead. Make plans early but be flexible if changes in those plans need to be made. • Include older relatives in holiday festivities in the community, church, or other social events. Simplify traditions to help reduce stress. Be conscious of a person’s physical and mental limitations and accommodate accordingly. For example, keep parties small as large crowds can often be overwhelming to a person with dementia and memory issues. Remind your loved ones of how important they are as a part of your family celebrations. • Engage

Nancy Webre, BS, MS CEO/Owner Geriatric Care Manager

Locally Owned & Operated Since 1982. State Licensed & RN Supervised

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in regular phone contact, particularly if parents are distant. This will help them to feel they are thought about and loved. • Give the gift of time. Your time is the most valuable gift you can give to your elder loved ones during the holidays. Plan oneon-one time. Involve them in simple activities, such as listening to holiday music, cooking traditional baked goods, or decorating their home with cherished ornaments. Do what you can without stressing yourself.

The holidays can be a very stressful time for everyone, especially if we are worried about family obligations and responsibilities. The best thing adult children can do for their elderly parents or loved ones is to reach out and make sure that they are acknowledged and provided with a sense of self-worth.

NATURE INSPIRED Drawing on her own life experiences, one Bend entrepreneur finds satisfaction in sharing her secrets.

by Mike Wilson, for The Bulletin Special Projects / Photos by Kevin Prieto Sherry Raymond-Coblantz will never have to worry about having members of animalrights groups demonstrating against her business.

Raymond-Coblantz, owner of Sher-Ray Organic Cosmetics, wouldn’t think of testing her products on animals. Instead, she has used her own body as a guinea pig.

Beginning when she was 8 years old, Raymond-Coblantz has exhibited an entrepreneurial spirit, from selling worms on piers in Racine, Wisconsin, and in Santa Monica, California, as an elementary school student to working in interior design and real estate as an adult in South Florida.

Now 76, she produces organic skin-care products and sells them at the Tumalo Mall in Bend. Her products are the fruition of a driven, inquisitive woman who has a fervent passion for her work. She has turned her intense interest in the palliative properties of such oils as sea buckthorn seed, sacha inchi, black cumin seed, coffee arabica seed and others into two patents for her formulas and recognition as a 2014 professional woman of the year from the National Association of Professional Women.

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“I educate women on how to take care of their face and their skin,” said Raymond-Coblantz.

“I want people to take better care of their skin. They can’t do it with chemicals.”

She has come to that conclusion through honest effort, both theoretical and practical. She has done research – she said she consulted 20 books on Cleopatra in seeking the secrets to the Egyptian ruler’s having “the most beautiful, wonderful skin of all time” – and she has put her products to the test.

On herself.

“I took little slices of my skin and put it in a petri dish and then put it with different substances to see what it did to the skin,”

she explained. “At any one time, I probably had a couple of hundred petri dishes that I was using for experiments.”

“She’s a scientist at her core, and now she’s bringing these amazing products to the world to share,” said Jill Landry, a friend and a client of RaymondCoblantz’s who lives in Portland.

Landry, who has an extensive background in the consumer-products industry, said Raymond-Coblantz’s motivation differs from those of large commercial cosmetics manufacturers.

The Bend businesswoman cares about more than a shortterm fix, Landry said.

“It’s good today, and it’s good

for the long haul,” she explained, referring to Raymond-Coblantz’s product line.

Raymond-Coblantz said she remembers that as a teen-ager she had awful skin, was allergic to “everything” and found no help from commercially available products.

there after graduating. Her father, an engineer, had access to a laboratory in the area.

“Can I please use your lab to make my own skin products, because I’m breaking out from everything, and I don’t know what to do,” she recalled asking him. “I made my own formulas

“She’s a scientist at her core, and now she’s bringing these amazing products to the world to share.”

— Jill Landry One of her first experiments in using natural products came when she lived in Temple City, California, a town known for its camellias. She was hired to work in a greenhouse, planting camellia seeds.

“They felt so good in my hand,” she said, recalling how she would place seeds in cheesecloth, pound the seeds and place the mixture against her skin. “And I loved the way it felt. I think that was my first experience with doing my own things with skin.”

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from then on my whole life.”

Raymond-Coblantz lived in Miami for the bulk of her adult life, working in interior design and in real estate – while also producing skin-care products for her own use.

“I never stepped out of my house for 40 years in Miami without having my own sunscreen on,” she said. “I never really thought about selling them. It’s only been in the last five, six, 10 years at most, that people recognize organic as good instead of weird.”

Raymond-Coblantz might have stayed in Miami – and never launched her professional

skin-care product line – without the intervention of one of her design clients.

At the time, RaymondCoblantz had been widowed for three years, and her client asked her if she was ready for another relationship. The client’s husband had a fraternity brother, and even though he lived on the other side of the country, she thought RaymondCoblantz should meet him.

With her mom in a nursing home in South Florida, though, Raymond-Coblantz was lukewarm to the idea.

“He called me, and we talked,” she recalled. “And he came 4,000 miles on a blind date. Five months later, we were married.”

When Raymond-Coblantz said she didn’t want to live in Seattle or Portland, her new husband, Ron Coblantz, mentioned that he had skied at Mount Bachelor and said the nearby town of

Bend seemed nice.

“They have sunshine 300 days a year,” Raymond-Coblantz, the longtime South Florida resident, recalled her husband saying.

They moved to Bend in July 2008 and bought the first house they looked at.

Events at Ron Coblantz’s 50th reunion of his eighth-grade

“She’s a perfectionist in whatever she does.

She doesn’t take any shortcuts.”

— Tracy Shinkle class proved a springboard to the launch of Sher-Ray Organic Cosmetics.

“I’m his third wife and everybody knows I’m his third wife,” Raymond-Coblantz said,

adding that her husband’s friends at the event chided him for robbing the cradle.

When she informed them that she is actually three years older than he, the reaction was one that validated all the work and dedication she had applied to taking care of her skin over the years.

“The women wanted to know who my cosmetic surgeon was,” Raymond-Coblantz recalled.

She replied that it was merely the use of her own serums that kept her skin looking young and vibrant.

“That’s how my business was born,” she added. “I had 20 ladies who wanted my serums.”

In her business, RaymondCoblantz applies the same dedication to creating the best possible products as she always has.

“She’s a perfectionist in whatever she does,” said Tracy

Shinkle, a client and a friend of Raymond-Coblantz’s, who lives in Bend. “She doesn’t take any shortcuts.”

And she still doesn’t. Her insistence on top-quality products extends to the bottles she uses for packaging. The biophotonic violet glass bottles, when kept in the light, she said, make the molecules of the product move around, thus producing the actions of a preservative without anything synthetic being added to the products. Without these bottles, she said, her products would have a shelf life of only three to four months.

“She does it for a love of the product and her passion for the product,” Landry added. “The stories she has about people who have tried everything – it’s amazing.”

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Healthy from the INSIDE OUT A look at 10 foods that promote healthier, more beautiful skin.

by Lauren Davis Baker, for The Bulletin Special Projects

There are a lot of great reasons to take care of your skin, beyond wanting to maintain a youthful look. Your skin is the biggest organ on the body and its well-being directly affects your health by helping to ward off infection. Here in Central Oregon, our skin is challenged by exposure to the elements: sun, wind, and low humidity. You can help protect your skin from the inside out by adding antioxidant and nutrient-rich foods that help your skin cells to heal and regenerate.

To make the job easier, Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist Lori Brizee of Central Oregon Nutrition helped us compile a list of delicious, skin-healthy foods you’ll want to add to your diet. For best results, combine these foods to dose your skin with a balance of

protein, carbohydrates, fruits, and veggies in every meal. Having the right nutrients available can help minimize damage to your skin and promote a healthy glow. We’ll also show you which of these foods can be applied topically, as an alternative to commercial moisturizers.

Your skin is a long term investment. You want it to look great and hold up to the demands of your day-to-day life. Nourish it daily with whole foods, keep it protected from the sun, and hydrate it both inside and out to help regenerate cells, promote healing, and prevent infection. It’s not that hard with so many delicious options for adding vitamins, nutrients, and antioxidants to your diet. Eat well and feel good about your healthy choices.

#1 CRANBERRIES

#3 YOGURT

Whole cranberries are like tasty little vitamin pills with the added benefit of antioxidants and anthocyanin, which work to reduce the skin-damaging effects of free radicals. Add them to salads, holiday stuffing, or make an easy-tofix relish that’s both healthy and delicious.

Yogurt is a terrific source of protein, calcium, and probiotics — which are good for your gut. Bypass the sugar-loaded flavors, some of which contain more sugar than Twinkies according to a 2014 article published by Huffington Post. Instead, opt for plain yogurt and add fresh blueberries and bananas, nuts, and a touch of honey to maintain the integrity of what should be a healthy food.

#2 SALMON Protein is essential to help your skin to heal itself, so include it in your daily selfcare regimen. Salmon’s healthy fatty acids can help keep your skin supple and moisturized. It’s also a good source of selenium and vitamin D. Whether you grill, bake, or poach, salmon can be used as a main dish or to top a salad or pasta.

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#4 AVOCADOS

#7 ALMONDS

Go green for a skin-soothing dose of Vitamin B6. Avocados are a great source of healthy fat, which should make up about 35% of your diet. Toss into salads, tacos, or your next omelette to add rich flavor you can feel good about.

(Mashed avocados also make a fine moisturizing mask when applied topically — just don’t answer the front door after you’ve applied it.)

Your skin will love almonds for providing a tasty dose of vitamin E. It’s a potent sun blocker, which can help to prevent damage from UV exposure. Add a healthy crunch to yogurt, salads, and pastas on a regular basis.

#9 GARLIC & ONIONS Garlic, onions, leeks, chives, and scallions are all members of the ‘Allium’ family. While adding flavor to any meal, they help the liver eliminate toxins and carcinogens — improving your body’s ability to heal and regenerate skin cells.

#6 SPINACH While all leafy greens are good for you, spinach is especially rich in nutrients and skin-saving antioxidants.

It’s a great source of vitamins, B, C, and E and is loaded with potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and omega-3 fatty acids.

Feel virtuous as you use it in salads, sandwiches, or saute’ with a little onion and olive oil for a healthy side dish.

#10 OLIVE OIL Olive oil is a good source of vitamin E (our sun-blocking friend) and has been shown to lower rates of heart disease.

Use it instead of butter when sautéing vegetables for great flavor and lower fat. (Olive oil makes an effective facial moisturizer. Add a few drops of your favorite fragrance if you don’t want to smell like a salad.)

#5 SWEET POTATOES

Not just for Thanksgiving any more, sweet potatoes are packed with beta-carotene, an antioxidant that helps your skin to ward off the aging effects of sun, wind, and time.

It’s also an excellent source of carbohydrates. Try to have carbohydrates make up at least 40% of your diet, more if you’re an athlete. Mash, bake, or roast with onions and herbs for a healthy and delicious alternative to your standby potato, the russet.

#8 BEANS & LENTILS An excellent source of protein, especially for vegetarians, beans and lentils help reduce cholesterol while adding in skin-friendly antioxidants, folic acid, and potassium. Your choices are many, including soybeans, lentils, chickpeas, peas, kidney, navy, pinto and black beans.

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Cranberry Creations With a pinch of imagination and a dash of inspiration, fresh cranberries can be incorporated into a variety of holiday delights.

by Lauren Davis Baker, for The Bulletin Special Projects / photos by Kevin Prieto In a season that sometimes suffers from an overload of sugary sweetness, cranberries offer a note of contrast. Bright and bold in color and taste, the cranberry requires the careful addition of sugar to soften its tart flavor without overwhelming it. Added to salads, side dishes, desserts and sauces, this colorful Native American berry is fun and easy to cook with.

In addition to color and flavor, there are plenty of health benefits to adding whole cranberries to your diet. While providing fiber, antioxidants, and phytonutrients, cranberries also help to protect your skin from damage and aging caused by free radicals. Additionally, studies have shown that cranberries can help to protect the liver and cardiovascular system in addition to preventing urinary tract infections (UTIs) and some forms of stomach ulcers.

While whole cranberries contain significant quantities of vitamin C, manganese, and fiber, it’s important to note that it requires a full cup of cranberries to attain any significant benefit.

“No one is going to eat a whole cup of unsweetened cranberries,” said Lori Brizee, a registered dietitian with Central Oregon Nutrition Consultants in Bend. “If you’re

“The apples brown to a cappuccino color as they bake. The cranberry garnish makes for a nice contrast,” Garling said.

Topped with ice cream, whipped cream, or creme fraiche, even pie-loving guests will be tempted to try something new.

Roasted cranberries also work nicely in sauces, such as a balsamic reduction drizzled over pork tenderloin.

“Cranberry works really well with the rich flavor of meats like duck,” Garling said.

For a cranberry drink that isn’t loaded with sugar, Brizee mixes one ounce of unsweetened cranberry juice with seltzer water, served on ice. Add a wedge of lemon or lime for a low calorie holiday drink. “It’s festive, refreshing, and not soda,” Brizee said.

If you’re ready to jazz up your holiday cooking, the cranberry is here to help. With its cheery color and healthy antioxidants, you can feel good about including it in your diet if you keep the sugar to a minimum. And if you have whole berries remaining, string them with popcorn to create a colorful edible garland for your backyard birds.

looking for vitamin C, oranges are a more viable option. That being said, they are still good food.”

Brizee tosses fresh cranberries into fruit salads, letting sweeter fruits such as apples and melons offset the berry’s tang.

“I’ll also add cranberries to rice pilaf, at the end of the cooking process to add pizazz,” Brizee shared.

Fresh cranberries also give color and crunch to turkey stuffing and can be added to brussel sprouts as they go into the oven, lightly drizzled with maple syrup.

Jackelope Grill’s owner and chef Tim Garling particularly likes cooking with cranberries.

“They offer a tart counterpart to all of that holiday sweetness,” he said.

Garling roasts cranberries with sugar, orange zest, and a touch of cinnamon to make a colorful relish that makes a delicious accent to traditional turkey. Add sliced almonds or macadamia nuts to give your cranberry dishes extra crunch.

Garling also uses roasted cranberries to top his baked apple dessert, filled with marzipan and a touch of dark chocolate.

Roasted Cranberries courtesy of Tim Garling, Jackelope Grill This quick and easy dish will liven up any holiday table. You can use it as a side dish, in sauces, as a relish with meats, or to top desserts. Add cardamon to vary the flavor and/ or slivered almonds or macadamia nuts for crunch.

Method: 1.

Rinse cranberries and mix with sugar, orange zest, and a dash of cinnamon in a bowl.

2.

Generously butter a sheet pan. Pour the cranberry mix onto the pan and cover with aluminum foil.

3.

Heat oven to 350 degrees F and cook until cranberries get soft and caramelize, about 1 hour.

4.

Remove from pan while cranberries are still warm. If cranberries are too tart for your liking, add a tablespoon or two of sugar while berries are still warm.

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Baked Apples with Cranberries & Marzipan courtesy of Chef Tim Garling, Jackelope Grill Serving: 1 Apple per person A piece of dark chocolate hidden in the core of each apple makes this dessert a knockout. It’s easy to make and a terrific alternative to pie. Chef Garling prefers the Spitzenburg apple, but you can substitute Honeycrisp or Fuji apples if these aren’t available. The cranberry topping adds color and a tart contrast to the sweet mix of apple, marzipan, and chocolate.

Ingredients: 1 apple per person Marzipan Roasted cranberries (see previous page) Butter Dark chocolate Vanilla ice cream

Pork Tenderloin with Balsamic Cranberry Reduction

Method: 1.

Wash and dry apples, then cut out and remove the core of each apple using a paring knife or corer. Leave the bottom 1/2 inch of each apple intact.

Serves 4

2.

This meal is simple enough to make for a weekday family dinner, yet elegant enough for a holiday gathering. The tangy mix of cranberries, balsamic vinegar, and rosemary makes this sauce memorable.

Fill each apple with a square of dark chocolate and stuff the remainder of the core with marzipan. Top with a dab of butter.

3.

Place in a baking dish, fill the bottom of the dish with about an inch of boiling water, and bake for 35 minutes in a 375 degree F oven, until apples are brown and soft when pierced with a fork.

4.

Remove from oven and top with roasted cranberries and vanilla ice cream.

Ingredients: 8 to 10 oz pork tenderloin 1 1/2 T butter 1/4 cup chopped onion 1 T chopped fresh rosemary 2/3 cup low-salt chicken broth 3/4 cup roasted cranberries (see previous page) 1 2/3 T balsamic vinegar Method: 1.

Melt 1/2 T of butter in a heavy, ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat.

2.

Sprinkle pork with salt and pepper and sear on all sides, about 2 minutes per side.

3.

Place skillet with pork in 450 degree F oven. Roast about 10 minutes or until center of meat registers 155 degrees F.

4.

On stovetop, melt 1 T butter over medium-high heat. Add onion and rosemary. Saute until onion softens, about 3 minutes.

5.

Add broth, roasted cranberries, and balsamic vinegar. Whisk about 2 minutes.

6.

When pork is cooked, remove from oven and scrape any juices from skillet into cranberry mixture. Boil until sauce has reduced enough to coat spoon thickly, about 6 minutes.

7.

Slice pork and serve with sauce. Garnish with fresh rosemary and roasted brussel sprouts.

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Cranberry Cocktails Recipes courtesy of Jackie Harrison, Brasada Ranch For a glass full of cheer, add cranberries to your holiday cocktail menu. Cranberry liqueurs bring out the bright flavor of cranberries and are easily mixed with your favorite spirit. Cranberry-infused vodkas are also popular — especially when mixed with a touch of orange or lime. To counter their tartness, Jackie Harrison — bartender at Brasada Ranch — suggests blending cranberries with sugar and spices and simmering to create a flavorful simple syrup, which can be blended into a variety of fun and festive cocktails. In all cases, float a few cranberries on top of your cocktail for a festive touch.

Cranberry Spice Simple Syrup

Spiced Cosmo

Cranberry Simple Syrup

Vanilla Cranberry Sparkle

Ingredients:

Ingredients:

Ingredients:

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

1 ½ oz. vodka

1 cup sugar

1 ½ oz. vanilla vodka

2 cups water

¼ oz. fresh lime juice

1 cup water

1 oz. cranberry simple syrup

4 whole allspice berries

2 oz. cranberry juice

½ cup fresh or frozen cranberries

Club Soda or Gingerale

4 whole cloves

1 ¼ oz. cranberry spice simple syrup Method:

Method:

Bring sugar and water to a boil. Add cranberries. Transfer to a crockpot and let simmer for 4 -6 hours.

Shake vodka and simple syrup over ice, and strain into a martini glass.

Top with Club Soda or Gingerale and garnish with fresh cranberries.

2 cinnamon sticks 1 small piece of fresh ginger

Method:

1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries

Shake all the ingredients over ice, and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with fresh cranberries.

Method: Bring sugar and water to a boil. Add spices and cranberries. Transfer to a crockpot and let simmer for 4 -6 hours.

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Falling for Alpacas At Crescent Moon Ranch in Terrebonne, every member of the alpaca herd has its own quirks, making each a gentle, furry reason to smile.

by John Cal, for The Bulletin Special Projects / photos by Kevin Prieto

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We all know what sound a cow makes. As children we were taught how to whinny like horses, and bleat like sheep. (Yes, those are the correct terms for those two sounds.) Even the most unwaveringly stern among us could recognize the sound of a clucking chicken or a turkey’s gobble. But what does an alpaca sound like?

A South American livestock staple, the alpaca has been growing in popularity in the United States for decades now. And still, as a farmyard standard, the finer details of the alpaca remain veritably unknown to most of us.

“They’re such a wonderful animals with really distinct personalities,” said Joe Nelson, one of the original owners of Crescent Moon Ranch in Terrebonne. “And they’re pretty quiet,” he continued with a laugh.

The ranch -- originally started in 1996 on San Juan Island in Washington by Joe, his wife Diane, and Jerry Dunne, Diane’s brother -- moved to Oregon in 2002.

Before getting into alpacas, the trio had worked in the restaurant industry for more than 35 years, but faced with retirement, they had no interest in slowing down.

While looking into several options as to what to do with the rest of their lives, and after wrestling with multiple bouts with both happenstance and careful research, they simply, as Joe puts it, “fell into alpacas.”

“We started with 30 bred females,” recalled Joe. “We just bought that first ranch in San Juan, and we were open.”

After some early stumbling and educated guesswork, the ranch really started to make waves in 2005, when they set the record for the highest selling alpaca of all time, a record which stands today. In a time when most stud males were selling for $50,000 to $60,000, that day Crescent Moon Ranch acquired ‘4 Peruvian Legacy’ for $165,000.

“The whole place erupted. Everyone was on their feet,” said Joe, reflecting on that day more than 10 years ago. “It was exciting for us. It put us on the map. Everyone in the alpaca world knew our farm. They called us the Three Musketeers.”

That purchase created the foundation for Crescent Moon Ranch’s quality breeding program, a legacy that continues to this day thanks to the owners’ passion and dedication.

“It’s one of those things that you don’t know you’re going to love until you’re in the middle of it,” explained Scott Miller, Diane’s

son, who along with his wife Debbie took the reigns at the ranch last year when the Three Musketeers finally decided to pursue retirement after 20 years in the alpaca business.

In their retirement was opportunity for the next generation of the family. Scott and Debbie had been a part of the ranch since 2001, and upon joining the business that year they studied alpaca fleece and physiology in Altiplano, Peru, gaining certification from the International Alpaca Judging School.

“For most people, alpacas aren’t even on their radar, but then there’s this immediate

the country promoting the Crescent Moon Ranch’s breeding program, taking over the family ranch inspired them to slow down and focus on the business at home.

“I can’t believe how lucky I am to get to work from home, to get to interact with these animals every day,” said Scott. “My stress each day is essentially non-existent.”

Scott and Debbie have always considered themselves hard-working, career-oriented people.

Like the Three Musketeers before him, Scott had worked in the restaurant industry prior to alpaca farming and also earned a

attraction when you see them. You’re intrigued. You’re curious,” Scott said.

“Scotty was a little dubious at first taking over,” Joe confided. “But, he’s so excellent at what he does. He now knows more about everyone’s animals than they do. He and Diane know so much about the genealogy, he studies it. He’s keeping one of the finest herds in the nation.”

It’s that mix of love and knowledge that make Scott and Debbie so good at what they do. After more than a decade traveling

bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of Washington in 1981. But now all of his dedication and hard work goes into his animals.

“They give back,” he said. “All my efforts are returned ten-fold, and I love trying to raise a better and better alpaca.”

It still remains a family business, with Scott and Debbie sharing ranch managing duties and animal care while Debbie’s daughter, Rachel, works in the on-site ranch boutique.

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an old potato cellar at the edge of the ranch and offers guests a chance to explore all sorts of products made from the completely hypoallergenic alpaca fleece — from knitted hats and scarves to sweaters and scarves and even some unexpected items.

And then there are the animals themselves.

Guests to the ranch can wander about on selfguided tours, viewing the alpacas and even interacting with them in their various stages of development.

“Everyone has a name,” shared Debbie, who had just finished tending to a 3-day-old newborn that dawdled at her feet. “All of them are DNA tested,” added Scott. “They’re all registered.”

“By naming and watching them, we understand who they are. They all have different personalities,” Debbie continued.

One such character, Wilkinson, for instance, often appears to get his head carelessly caught in farm fencing.

“Concerned people come into the shop all the time frantically telling us about an alpaca stuck in the fence,” said Scott with a laugh, adding that passers-by have even been known to pull off the highway to alert them to the situation.

Sometimes, he added, people leave the boutique once they finish shopping and then end up rushing back in with the startling news.

“And I know immediately that it’s Wilkinson,” continued Scott. “He’s so curious, and has decided that he likes the grass on the other side of the fence, and he’s too busy grazing to notice that what he’s doing is concerning others.”

“Others are stressed, some are easy going.

They run in a herd, but each is an individual, and they all approach life as individuals,” he added.

Still, don’t be fooled by Scott’s seemingly relaxed attitude toward his stock. Crescent Moon Ranch is one of the best show-quality alpaca farms in the country.

“We’ve always specialized in show-quality breeding stock,” explained Scott. “It’s about being a conscientious breeder. It makes happier animals, and happier animals make better quality fleece. ... We have a lot of peers in the industry, but more important than that is we want to produce the best quality fleece that we can.”

He even wants more people to join the alpaca family.

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An

Alpaca Christmas

Gloves

Many kinds of knit and woven gloves, mittens, and wrist warmers are available in an array of colors and styles, but we suggest you check into the leather work gloves by Choice Alpaca. Made from cowhide, but lined with alpaca silk, and filled with alpaca fiber for insulation, these gloves are both elegant and completely durable. ($70)

Stuffed animals

Mini alpacas, teddy bears, bunnies, horses, and more. A line of plush toys made of 100 percent natural fibers is available for the young and the young at heart. Handmade in Peru by Kind Hide, these toys are the perfect holiday keepsake. ($10 & up)

by John Cal, for The Bulletin Special Projects / photos by Kevin Prieto

SWEATERS, SCARVES, HATS, KNITWEAR OF ALL KINDS, AND SOCKS, CRESCENT MOON’S #1 SELLERS ALL WOULD MAKE EXCELLENT GIFTS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, BUT WHILE YOU’RE THERE, CHECK OUT SOME OF THEIR MORE UNUSUAL GIFTS. YOU MAY FIND SOMETHING WONDERFULLY SURPRISING THAT WOULD BE THE PERFECT WAY TO SHOW YOU CARE.

Yarn

Perfect for knitters, crocheters, or the craftsman on your list. Crescent Moon carries a large variety of yarn, including skeins from their own animals. The fleece is processed locally in the Northwest before being spun into 26 all-natural, un-dyed colors. Each skein also comes with a picture of the specific alpaca it was sheared from, making it a wonderfully personal gift. ($20/skein)

Soap

Mecates A luxurious but completely prac-

tical gift for equestrians. These 4-strand mecates are 100 percent alpaca fiber and come in colors from Rose Greys to Deep Blues to natural blacks, browns, and camels. ($120 - $150)

With alpaca fiber being an excellent natural exfoliant, Crescent Moon has several options of felt and fiber covered soaps. Certified organic and infused with essential oils in scents such as ‘Fresh Milk & Shea,’ ‘Aloe & Cucumber,’ and ‘Lavender & Chamomile,’ the soaps are also available unscented for those who have extra sensitive skin. ($10)

Nonprofit Spotlight

by Zack Hall, for The Bulletin Special Projects / Photos by Kevin Prieto

For Their Future

The Alyce Hatch Center and the state’s early intervention program work together to help children with disabilities.

At first glance, the Alyce Hatch Center looked like most any other preschool.

The outdoor playground was being enjoyed by smiling children. The facility’s institutional interior was splashed with color.

There were pictures and words cut from paper hung neatly from the walls. And a multi-purpose room on the north end of the school was filled with fun-looking equipment that any 4-year-old might enjoy.

But a closer inspection revealed something different. More than just the ramps that lead up to it, the playground equipment was designed to be used even by children in wheelchairs. The contents of the multipurpose room — the rope swing hanging from the ceiling or the unique piece of equipment meant to lightly compress the body of a child, a comforting feeling for some

children on the autism spectrum — were for more than just to entertain a preschooler.

“Everything has a very specific purpose,” said Andy Kizans, the president of the Alyce Hatch Center’s board of directors, while giving a tour of the multi-purpose room.

“It’s not like ‘Here are some fun toys just to

play.’ Everything is brought to teach specific movements here.”

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the Center houses represent a copacetic private-public partnership that has endured since 1985.

“We’ve always had really good working relationships,” said Carla Hunt, who has served on the Alyce Hatch Center board for 24 years. “Always.”

The cause could hardly be a better one: to offer special education at no or little cost to young children (from birth to age 5) in Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties with an aim to accelerate their educational paths.

“Our mission is to help each child reach their greatest potential and be ready for kindergarten both socially and academically,” said Diane Tipton, executive director of the early intervention program. “Our goal is to have children graduate from special education or need less intensive services by the time they enter kindergarten.”

“I am just really impressed as a parent that we have the Alyce Center available and we have those services available for our kids and our community. It gets them going in the right direction to be a success immediately in school and later in life.”

— Chris Key

A successful program

The goal is lofty, but far from unreachable for the state-funded early intervention program.

About 17 percent of children in the early intervention program do not need special education when they reach grade school, according to Tipton. And 5 percent do not need any service at all once they reach kindergarten.

And that is precisely the point of intervening at such a young age.

“There are a lot of children who will be in special ed for the rest of their (education),” Tipton said. “But what we do know is that once a child enters special education for (kindergarten through 12th grade), about 80 percent stay in special ed. And we would really rather them go through here and not enter in the first place, if possible.”

The program is open to any Central Oregon child who is developmentally below their age level, either physically or mentally. And it works to improve cognitive, communication, motor, social and behavioral, and life skills.

The program relies on referrals — many

from area pediatricians, but also from parents themselves — and a free, in-depth evaluation process from the program’s staff (among them are occupational therapists, autism specialists, teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing and teachers of the visually impaired).

Identifying all the children in the area in need of help is not always simple, said George Cocores, a behavioral specialist who runs the program’s evaluation team. But the success and longevity of the program has helped.

“It’s getting easier and easier,” Cocores said.

“People get to know us and we get referrals.”

Many of the children who enter the program are taught either at home or in the area’s conventional daycare facilities. But the 3- to 5-year-old children who would benefit most from a more specialized instruction find their way into the Alyce Hatch Center (there are roughly 80 students there now) to get frequent help from the Center’s Master’s Degree-level specialists.

It’s that team of specialists that proved so valuable to Chris Key’s son, Ashton, who is now in first grade. Born with a rare disease that left him without irises, Ashton entered the preschool program at age 3.

As with all children in the program, Ashton was individually assessed and his education was subsequently tailored specifically to his needs.

That led him to not only vision therapists, but also speech and language specialists, Key said.

“We were amazed by the amount of time and effort and the number of people who come together just to take care of his education and his development needs,” Key said. “We are definitely appreciative.

“I am just really impressed as a parent that we have the Alyce Center available and we have those services available for our kids and our community,” added Key, who joined the Alyce Hatch Center board in 2011 as a way of saying thanks to the program. “It gets them going in the right direction to be a success immediately in school and later in life.”

A special partnership

Named after Alyce Hatch, a communityminded samaritan who supported many endeavors including a preschool for developmentally disabled children before her death in 1984, the customized Center has housed the Early Childhood Development program at very little cost to the state program.

The motivation of the Alyce Hatch Center is simple.

“So that they have the ability to take their money and apply it to the program,” Kizans said. “It’s a unique relationship here. Some people say ‘I don’t want to donate money because they’re state funded.’ Yeah, the program is state funded, but not the facility or all the equipment. So that is the role we play.”

The Alyce Hatch Center — which is funded by donations, volunteers, and grants, when possible — plays the role well.

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“Our mission is to help each child reach their greatest potential and be ready for kindergarten both socially and academically. Our goal is to have children graduate from special education or need less intensive services by the time they enter kindergarten. — Diane Tipton The board — which also helps fund the Family Resource Fund and Family Aid Fund, which help individual families with disabilities — remains in constant contact with program staff to learn if it has needs outside the annual budget. That includes mostly equipment and updates and some of the maintenance of the facility, like the playground that was recently renovated.

“The answer is always ‘Yes,’” Kizans said.

“For instance, there is a special $2,000 walker that is needed for certain children. … That is something we can go ahead and buy them.”

Sometimes the Center must get creative to preserve resources. Perhaps it uses volunteer labor when available to build a new fence. It might enlist the help of an inmate crew for landscaping.

The idea is to save as much money as possible so it can be used to benefit the

children of the program.

And the reward comes later.

“It really is cool to see those 18 and older kids (who went through the program) who have really made it,” said Hunt, who was a friend of Alyce Hatch. “They are living in an apartment by themselves. We have one who comes into the office here and brings eggs because he raises (chickens) and sells them to everybody.

“It’s just really cool to see how they can become part of society. They are part of your community.”

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Painting Her Passion

Through bold, vibrant and colorful strokes, artist Kimry Jelen captures spirit on canvas.

by Bridget McGinn, for The Bulletin Special Projects / Photos by Kevin Prieto As a child growing up in Albany, artist and horse trainer Kimry Jelen, 48, routinely wandered away from her family at county fairs to visit the pony rides. They would find her there, standing and staring at the ponies in admiration. As a youth she did everything possible to be around horses, including mucking stalls in trade for riding lessons.

“Since day one I’ve had a magnetic draw toward horses,” said Jelen. “I can’t seem to live without them.”

Along with horses, Jelen has always loved art. She, along with her brother and a large

assortment of cousins, spent long summers together, much of it creating art.

“I can remember being 6 years old and my grandmother, who was an artist, teaching me how to use a paintbrush properly and with respect,” said Jelen.

Her father’s structural engineering drawings were also a creative influence for Jelen, and she attended fashion design school in California as a result of his desire for her to find a career that she could have a “real” job in. After graduating, she worked in the outdoor clothing industry for 12 years at organizations

including O’Neill and Nike, moving up and down the coast between Oregon and California.

Until one day she had a moment of truth.

“I finally realized my true calling was art and horses,” said Jelen. “I decided to quit the corporate world and moved to Montana to become a cowgirl.”

Jelen worked on ranches in Montana and New Mexico and became a professional horse trainer, settling in Central Oregon 15 years ago. She and her partner of 10 years, artist Dennis McGregor, share five acres just outside of Sisters. Each has their

own studio and creative space, situated just a few hundred feet apart.

“We help and encourage each other to be the best that we can be,” said Jelen.

Last year Jelen was invited to show her artwork as part of the World Equestrian Games. She was one of six artists invited, and the sole American. With the support of McGregor and countless other friends and supporters, Jelen was able to complete a crowdfunding campaign to raise the funds necessary to ship her artwork to France for the event.

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“At one of my shows a man commented that after viewing my paintings he could finally understand his wife’s passion for horses.

When I can touch someone with my artwork like that I find it very rewarding.”

experience of learning how much support I have,” said Jelen.

“I come from a background without much money, and I have learned to work hard for everything. To ask for help and then actually accept it was a really big thing for me.”

Jelen hired a shipping company to custom crate and ship more than 40 pieces of her artwork to Caen, France. The World Equestrian Games exhibit featuring her work was viewed by more than 500,000 people and resulted in amazing international exposure for the artist. Jelen has since been featured in several magazines and garnered additional commissions for her paintings.

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from Jelen to help support her trip to France. Rowley also traveled with her, and was pleased to see her friend’s paintings stand out.

“All the artwork was beautiful, but most of it was much more traditional with lots of greys and browns,” said Rowley. “Kimry’s color just popped against the contrast. Hers stood out as very brave.”

Locally, Jelen’s work is shown at Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop, and manager Helen Schmidling said that there has been an increase of interest in Jelen’s work over the last year.

“Kimry has a very colorful, unique style that a lot of people like,” said Schmidling. “And her recognition with the World Equestrian Games really gave a boost to the popularity of her work locally.”

The gallery carries original

work by Jelen as well as giclees (prints) and notecards.

Schmidling said that she is delighted that Jelen’s work is gaining a greater audience.

“She knows horses, and her work reflects that,” said Schmidling. “She can portray a horse in just two or three lines, and you would know it was a horse and you would know it was Kimry’s horse.”

Jelen’s ability to translate the spirit or essence of a horse onto the canvas has resulted in numerous commissions. She recently completed her largest painting to date, a six-foot wide, eight-foot tall painting of a horse commissioned by Black Butte Ranch that hangs in their new Lakeside Bistro.

On a more personal level, Sisters resident Dottie Ashley recently asked Jelen to paint a portrait of her husband’s Appaloosa, Dakota.

The painting was intended as a surprise birthday gift for her husband, Eli, and the result was beyond her expectations.

“Kimry came out and interviewed Dakota and they got along famously,” said Ashley. “She has this super connection with horses and she allowed herself to sink into this and surround herself with feeling. Not only did she get his spots right, but she got his whole personality right. She has great intuitive skills — she develops a connection with the animal and allows that to come through her brushes.”

The painting now hangs in the most prominent position in their home, and Ashley has continued collecting Jelen’s work, impressed with her ability to interpret the essence of the animals she paints.

“At one of my shows a man commented that after viewing

my paintings he could finally understand his wife’s passion for horses,” said Jelen. “When I can touch someone with my artwork like that I find it very rewarding.”

While horses remain her primary passion, Jelen has a soft spot for any living creature.

“I love to paint all animals,” said Jelen. “I’ve done dogs, cats, llamas, a raven, lots of bunny rabbits, frogs, mice — basically all critters.”

The natural world, including aspen, birch, flowers and mountains also capture her attention, although she has found that the painting might evolve into a different, although not unexpected, direction.

“I will start painting a landscape or a mountain and eventually the top line of the mountain turns into the top line of a horse,” said Jelen.

Jelen recalls a pivotal experience that took place more than 17 years ago during an anatomy drawing class when she was captivated by the familiar line between the shoulder, waist and hip of the female model lying on her side.

“I couldn’t get that out of my head and I went home, got canvases and started painting like crazy,” said Jelen. “That week I painted five horse paintings, some of my most inspired work.

I came to the realization that my passion for horses is what it is, and that I needed to recognize the talent that I was given and just go with it.”

Jelen’s process of creating art is extremely personal, and involves a deep connection with her subject matter, be it a horse, another animal or even a landscape. Her goal is always to work through an emotional lens to reach a place of positive energy.

“I try to focus on a moment I’ve experienced, or an intention,” said Jelen. “It might be something that I wish could have gone better or

something going on in the world that is depressing. I try to create a more positive experience by bringing compassion and setting intention.”

She paints in layers — emotionally and literally — continuing to add paint until she feels the image reaches completion. She works on several paintings at once, moving from canvas to canvas. On any given day she might have as many as ten paintings in process at one time.

“I just keep revisiting,” said Jelen. “I don’t do sketches, I just have a vision or an idea and then I stumble around on the canvas.

It can take awhile for me to complete a painting.”

For her next project, Jelen plans to reach out to horse trainers that inspire her to interview them, and then to paint horses that they have trained.

“These are trainers I admire and respect,” said Jelen. “And my goal is to help spread the word about people doing humane, kind horse training and supporting good sportsmanship.”

As interest in Jelen’s work continues to increase, she has found that she is drawn more toward the studio and away from her other love of horse training.

Her new project will help to blend her two interests together. Jelen also appreciates that through her painting she is able to extend her impact.

“My intention and what I keep coming back to, is for the animals and nature to have a voice through my voice,” said Jelen. “As a trainer I was able to impact the owners of the horses I trained, but as a painter my voice reaches more people.”

To learn more about Kimry Jelen and her artwork, visit www. kimryjelen.com. To view her work locally, visit Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop, 252 W. Hood, Sisters, OR. U Magazine | December 2015 | 41

Wendy Weems on her horse Brick

Shoes with Roots The sisters behind Y Knot Branded bring inspiration from their cowgirl past to the design of their fashion footwear.

by Mike Wilson, for The Bulletin Special Projects The lightbulb moment for Wendy Weems occurred at a year-end awards banquet for her husband’s cutting-horse circuit.

Weems watched a woman walk in to the banquet, and the entrance made a lifealtering impression on her.

“Her outfit cost probably $2,000,” Weems said, “and she had flip-flops on. And I thought, ‘We’ve got to do something about this issue.’

It was a great outfit until you got to her feet.”

Weems had been considering going into one of various business ventures she had been mulling over. And her sister, Kelly Beall, had been producing designs for shoes that broke the mold for Western-inspired footwear. That mismatched outfit at the awards banquet was the spark for Weems – who soon told Beall that her creative concepts now had a financial underpinning, the missing element in turning the drawings into tangible products: Weems was going to be Beall’s business partner.

Wendy Weems and Kelly Beal

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Weems, 51, of Sisters, and Beall, 52, who lives near Salem, teamed in 2013 to form Y Knot Branded, a footwear company that sells Western-inspired shoes suitable for dressy occasions.

“I was watching Kelly draw these shoes and come up with different designs,” Weems said, recalling the buildup to their business arrangement, “and I was actually going down a different path of looking at starting something completely different and not fashion-minded in the least.

“She kept bringing me her pictures and designs, and I said, ‘You’ve GOT to do this.’”

And they did.

Y Knot Branded sells sandals, wedges, pumps and the like, with heels of up to 4½ inches befitting a night out. All of the shoes have Western touches, such as conch shells, nailheads and chaps-inspired buckle sets.

Among the company’s developments are spring 2016 products featuring fringe and

what Beall calls “very flattering” inquiries that could have a considerable impact on the product line.

“There’s literally nothing like it in the market at all,” said Libby Atkinson, a buyer at High Desert Ranch & Home in Bend, referring to the Y Knot shoes. “And that comes from a buyer’s standpoint.”

Beall said the shoes’ uniqueness is both a draw and a drawback.

“Retailers say, ‘These are amazing. Why hasn’t anybody ever done these before?’ And that’s when the resistance comes in. ‘Well, they’re so new. I don’t know if I can take the risk of bringing in a product people aren’t familiar with.’ ” If the product is unfamiliar, retailers and consumers can at least take heart in this: The Western-inspired fashion arises from who the sisters are.

Their mother, alone among her immediate family members, always exhibited a love for horses growing up, Beall says.

When her mother’s family moved from Long Island to Oregon, they traveled on a southerly route.

“Every state that they went through,” Beall said, “my mother insisted they stop and get horsehair from a horse in each state.”

Beall and Weems grew up on a small farm in Jefferson, a town with about 3,000 residents between Salem and Albany east of Interstate 5. They raised horses and showed pigs through the 4-H Club and the FFA. “It just never left our blood,” said Weems, who competes in barrel racing and made the Columbia River Circuit finals in the fall.

Cowboy’s Sweetheart

“It was something we got from our parents.

They were into horses before we came along.”

After graduating from Oregon State, Weems worked as a registered dietitian in South Carolina for several years. She left that line of work for a job in the equine business. She moved from South Carolina to Central Oregon what will be seven years ago in January.

“Our parents would take us to Central Oregon when we were little,” Weems said. “I always said if I could live in Sisters someday, I was going to do it. ” Beall has worked in the Western fashion and equipment industry for the bulk of her professional life. She has been a manufacturer’s representative for all manner of equine products and Western wear.

She likes working with the products – “It

LJ Hammack, Kelly Beall and Wendy Weems at a PBR event.

Spur of the Moment

hearkens back to the history of our country and where we came from, and it’s something I can’t imagine not doing” – and she loves the lifestyle – “My dream life is I’d never be home.

(Weems’) dream life is that she’d never leave her ranch.”

Beall handles the sales and marketing of Y Knot Branded shoes, and she has continued to work as a representative of other companies’ products. Weems handles the operation of the company, which has a distribution center in Portland where shipments and returns are processed.

Shoes are handmade in China. More than 10 retail outlets in the United States and Canada offer the company’s products, as does a shop in Australia. Weems said a company in Holland requested in November to carry

Leather Lace

their shoes, and she sees Brazil and China as areas of rich growth potential.

Their bestseller is called Cowboy’s Sweetheart, a sandal with chocolate pebble leather inlays and a silver-tone western buckle set, on a 4½-inch heel with a 1½-inch platform.

The marriage of Western inspiration and fashion footwear has struck a chord, Weems said.

The new year will mark their third anniversary in business, and Weems said they’ve heard the feedback about their products over and over in that time.

“Yes, we’re women who can stack a ton of hay and go unload 15 bags of feed, but when we go out, we want to put on a heel and a dress and look pretty.”

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How Will

YOU Wear it?

by John Cal, for The Bulletin Special Projects / Photos by Kevin Prieto Mukluks, buckskin shawls, ponchos. This is perhaps the imagery that comes to mind when considering fringe. And while fringe does have elements of the old west and Native American plains culture, its roots in fashion and function branch much deeper.

In 17th century Western Europe, fringe was being used as a finishing technique at the end of garments to prevent fabric unravelling. A few weft threads would be removed and the remaining warm would be tied or braided together into small frayed tassel-like groupings.

“We’re seeing a lot of frayed jeans with intentionally undone hems,” said Marley Weedman, stylist at Hot Box Betty in downtown Bend.

This styling is beginning to inspire fringe being used as an attached trim, like we sometimes see mixed with heavier brocade fabrics or as used in military inspired epaulettes.

Fringe also was used in 1920s flapper culture as a way to extend the length of dresses, giving them the appearance of modesty, but allowing dancers to show more skin as they moved.

“Designers are really putting fringe back on dresses. It’s not just jackets and shawls this season,” said April Lawyer, owner of Vanilla Urban Threads in the Old Mill. “They’re daring to put it in places they haven’t before, like shoes and all over every kind of accessory.”

This use of fringe on footwear is not new of course, but fringe accessories are definitely the it item of the year, allowing both the fashion forward and the fashion feeble woman to participate in the trend.

This all over fringe was the practical application for many Plains Native Americans including the Lakota and the Arapahoe who used fringe as a wicking method.

“It’s iconic, but also completely practical,” said Joanne Sunnarborg, owner of Desperado, also in the Old Mill. “You’ll see it wherever you see cowboys because it sheds water away from the body.”

In all of its permutations, fringe has been a part of fashion, and now more than ever, it’s being embraced for both its art and its function.

“I think designers are focused on its movement this time around,” Weedman added. “Which is a really fun thing to see when a garment is on.”

Whatever its practical use, fringe has always been in style.

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Fringe has been one of the biggest fashion trends in 2015, and with top designers continuing to embellish their creations with the cascading fabric ribbons, it promises to be making a statement on runways for some time to come.

For the Beginner Natalia Fringe Tank

by Nation at Vanilla Urban Threads

Easy and accessible in maroon, this muscle tank is made from a ridiculously comfortable jersey-like cotton blend. Cut loose for every body type. Great for everything from lounging around the house to a night out on the town. $89

Fringe Ankle Boot

by Liberty Black at Desperado

Daring in red suede, yes, but the classic cowboy ankle boot with definitive western inspired roots, makes this piece completely accessible, especially to the Central Oregonian woman! $299

Infinity Scarves

by Chan Luu at Hot Box Betty

The luxury of cashmere in the practicality of an everyday piece, these scarves are a great way to dabble on trend. Sometimes fashion is about doing the classics well, and in black and oatmeal, these scarves will seamlessly work their way into your wardrobe. $176

Tassel Luz Sandals

For the Intermediate

by Ulla Johnson at Hot Box Betty

These stacked brown leather stilettos come with studded brasstone closures around an ankle strap with removable fringe tassels. Wear one, none, or all four.

A great transition piece that will last far beyond trend. $443

Fringe Suede High Tops

by Vans at Vanilla Urban Threads

With shoes being the new it fringe item, so many designers are adorning the classic ankle boot with fringe. This shoe is a fun everyday alternative in suede with a sturdy rubber sole.

Available in ‘Bison’ and ‘Blanc de Blanc.’ $80

Leather Crossbody Purse

by Hobo at Desperado

Chic black leather makes the perfect backdrop for grommeted gold-metal detailing and fringe edging. It’s completely like the your favorite black purse that goes with every outfit, while also being completely daring in its fashion forward guile. $168

For the Advanced

Handmade Fringe Jacket

Roxanna Shift Dress

by Julia Chase for Abbot at Desperado

by Sea Gypsies at Vanilla Urban Threads

One hundred percent sueded fringe lines the hem of this western inspired piece in camel. Classic lines and a classic cut make the braid accents and fringe come through. $399.95

Daring not only for fringe embellished side seams, but also for a mix of three prints, all in white and navy blue. Mix with boots or tights. With long sleeve and an open mid-back scoop, this dress is for the woman who wants to get noticed. $66

Georgia Jacket

by Pepin at Hot Box Betty

This open-front jacket looks great over anything, with its leather fringe detail giving any outfit a bit of daring, intricate uniqueness that every woman craves. Each jacket is one-of-a-kind, made with the kantha technique and died indigo. It can be worn with the sleeves rolled up or left down to compliment the outfit beneath. $389

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GARDEN CALENDAR DECEMBER

If you are selecting a live Christmas tree for the holidays, be sure and follow these tips:

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If you are trying to overwinter your zonal geraniums, you can cut them back by two thirds leaving about one third of the plant intact. Then bring indoors to a garage or cooler room with a window for light and minimally water through the winter months to keep the roots from drying out. Around February or March you can begin to increase the watering and then add some fertilizer to get the plant going. Eventually place outside once warmer weather arrives.

Want to brighten up your home with some color? Force bulbs indoors during the winter months. The most commonly forced bulbs include crocus, hyacinths, paper whites, amaryllis, tulips, daffodils, miniature iris, and scilla.

Browse seed catalogs, nurseries, and the internet for seeds. Consider planting new and heirloom vegetables in the garden this spring.

Make sure your landscape plants, especially your new ones, do not dry out or desiccate this winter. If we have lots of snow, then you can enjoy the view from inside your cozy home. However if we have a break in the weather with a dry spell(3-6 weeks), where the sun is out, no snow has fallen and the ground is warmed up; you will need to drag out the garden hose and give all of your plants a deep soak. This will prevent your plants from drying out through the winter months. If we have a long, dry, sunny winter, you will want to water every 6-8 weeks.

Clean, oil, and sharpen garden tools. You can clean your tools with a bleach solution, 1 tablespoon bleach per gallon of water. Rinse thoroughly with water and dry immediately to prevent corrosion. You can also use rubbing alcohol to disinfect tools.

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Live trees can be kept inside for 3-5 days without breaking dormancy.

A tree goes dormant once a year; if dormancy is broken the tree will likely not survive the freezing temperatures of winter, once placed outside.

It’s best to plant your live tree as soon as possible after the holidays are over but this may be difficult during the winter months. Instead dig a hole the same size of the container on the east or north side of your home, and then sink the tree in the container into the ground to protect and insulate the roots during the winter months. Then, in the spring, you can take the tree out of the container and permanently plant the tree in the landscape in the best location.

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Design your vegetable garden with consideration for spacing, trellising and time of year for what crops. Grow cold crops early and late and sun loving plants during the hotter months.

Browse our local garden publications specific to Central Oregon at: http://extension.oregonstate. edu/deschutes/horticulture/garden-publications

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Hot off the presses! Check out the new Growing Vegetables in Central Oregon guide: https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/ em9128 This 25-page guide is loaded with information specific to Central Oregon.

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Mark your calendars for the Spring Gardening Seminars and Garden Market on April 16, at the Deschutes Fair & Expo Center.

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Be sure and sign up for a new year of High Desert Gardening for a color newsletter with local tips and articles on Central Oregon’s landscapes and gardening. It is available electronically or in hard copy. To check out a sample of our newsletter on line, go to http:// extension.oregonstate.edu/deschutes/high-desert-gardening-newsletter

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Gently spray your houseplants with tepid water to remove the dust from the leaves or take a damp cloth and wipe down larger leaves removing all dust.

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The national gardening craze has a lot of seed sources selling out earlier than ever. It is a good idea to order seeds early this year.

Purchase/order annual and vegetable garden seeds with 65-80 days to maturity, these are best for Central Oregon. Remember to add 14 days to the maturity date on the packet to approximate how long it will take for that plant to mature here in Central Oregon. Plants either slow down or stop growing at night due to our low evening temperatures.

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by Amy Jo Detweiler / Special to The Bulletin

Amy Jo Detweiler has been working as OSU Extension Horticulture Faculty in Central Oregon for 16 years. She provides education in home horticulture, commercial horticulture, and provides annual training for the local OSU Master Gardener™ Program. She has an MS in Landscape Horticulture from Colorado State University.

GIFTS FOR THE

gardener

by Kari Mauser, The Bulletin Special Projects / Photos by Kevin Prieto

Christmas Centerpiece

Expertly assembled in a variety of tins from those adorned with adorable snowmen to more natural and rustic designs, these bows and berries compliment the festive feeling of the holiday season. $69 Landsystems Nursery in Bend

Lemon Cyprus Tree

Why not consider the idea of a living Christmas tree this year?

And maybe, just maybe, think outside the box and pick something that’s not the typical pine or spruce. This lemon cyprus not only pops with color, but it smells nice too! $49.95 Landsystems Nursery in Bend

Winter Hanging Basket

The season brings us Christmas trees and wreaths (and centerpieces!) but at Landsystems the staff has created a wonderful array of hanging baskets bursting with a wide variety of greenery that offer a great alternative to the traditional decor.

Prices Vary Landsystems Nursery in Bend

Master Gardening Classes

Give a unique gift! Sign up a loved one to become an OSU Master Gardener volunteer. Classes are offered on Saturdays at the OSU Cascades Hall in Bend. The class of 2016 applications are available by calling 541-548-6088 or go to our website at: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/deschutes/ Not available to become a volunteer but want to take the classes? Not available on Saturdays but want to become an OSU Master Gardener. We offer on-line training, short courses or “classes only” training by going to the website at: http://pne.oregonstate.edu/catalog/master-gardener-online. For more information call the OSU Extension office at 541-548-6088.

Juniper Suet Bird Feeder with Peanut Suet Plugs

Locally made right here in Central Oregon, this natural approach to bird feeding is the perfect option for the garden. Specialy designed suet fits perfectly into the wood, giving it a seamless look and particularly enticing feeding place for all the colorful birds of the region. $27.99 feeder/ $3.99 suet plugs Wildbirds Unlimited in Bend

Granite Owls

With subtle yet distinct carving, these solid pieces of granite take on the endearing features of a favorite woodland crature. As garden statues, these owls are safe outside year-round, without worry about cracking or breaking. A fun way to keep the outside fun and festive no matter what the season!

Prices vary by size from $9.99 -$59.99 Wildbirds Unlimited in Bend

Tools of the Trade

Designed for style and function, this unique line of Flexrake tools are modeled after hard-to-find antiques from a time when tools were crafted by hand. Oak handles and durable carbon steel blades boast the quality that makes this brand a gardener favorite. Choose from a variety of individual options or select the boxed bypass and snipper set.

Boxed Gift Set $29.95 Individual options range $9.95- $18.95 Landsystems Nursery in Bend

Seed Sprouter

Give the gift that enables the gardener in your life the opportunity to have a continuous supply of fresh sprouts, even without a greenhouse! Botanical Interests designed this with removable tray dividers, a great way to nuture more than one variety at a time. $24.95 Landsystems Nursery in Bend

Sprout Seeds

What’s a seed sprouter without seeds? $2.99 each Landsystems Nursery in Bend

For the Little Gardeners

Boasting bright pinks, greens and blues, adorned with flowers, bugs and butterflies, kids who love to help in the garden will be thrilled to have their very own set of tools! by Melissa & Doug Bella Butterfly Cart $29.95 Spade and Rake $4.95 each gloves $5.95 watering can $24.95 Landsystems Nursery in Bend

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Corinthian Bells®

by QMT Windchimes Give the gift of music, with the 100-percent American made chimes that are hand-tuned to capture just the right sound when the wind blows. Not only will these add visual apeal to the garden, the acoustic melody they provide can be enjoyed even when they can’t be seen. $95 Landsystems Nursery in Bend

Nesting Boxes

Metal Birdbath

Crafted of multi-coloredmetal and adorned with leaves and a small bird, with a one-inch deep bowl, this is a perfect addition to any garden, and won’t crack or break in cold weather. $69 Landsystems Nursery in Bend

To have a healthy garden is to have plenty of birds living in the yard to keep the pesky bugs away. But, even when the flower beds are blanketed in snow, or covered with mulch for the winter, many gardeners enjoy having resident birds in their yard. Bird watchers and birds alike will delight in these nature-inspired, Oregon-made nesting boxes.

Birch $59.99 Lodgepole $69.99 Wildbirds Unlimited in Bend

Christmas Tree Ornaments

Everyone loves to add to their ornament collection, and these little treasures were created especially for the gardener at heart.

Prices vary Landsystems Nursery in Bend

Big Sky Carvers Collection

Featuring the delicate paintings of Oregon artist Dean Crouser, this collection will win the heart of any gardener on your Christmas list.

Scented Soap Set $14.95 Gallery Wall Art $29.95 Coffee Mug $16.95 Landsystems Nursery in Bend U Magazine | December 2015 | 49

GIFTS FOR THE

Pets

DAWG GROG

In a craft beer town, where dogs are as much a part of the community as their people are, it only makes sense that they, too, should be able to have a cold one! Made specifically as a delicious and nutritious liquid treat for your dog, Dawg Grog is hop free, non-carbonated and non-alcoholic, and it’s made right here in Bend! $4.95 Bend Pet Express Oregon Feed & Pet

by Kari Mauser, The Bulletin Special Projects Photos by Kevin Prieto

DURA-FUSED LEATHER TOYS

by Ethical Products

Made from high quality leather and double stitched for extra durability, the SPOT Dura-Fused Leather Dog toys are a great option for playtime, while still soft enough to snuggle during nap time. Available in tug-style ball/rope variety and various animal shapes. $3.95 -$6.95 Oregon Feed & Pet

ROLI

by Goli Design

A fun, interactive toy for cats and kittens alike! Each Roli is individually hand crafted in a variety of bright colors. Lightweight, durable design promises hours of entertainment. Just stuff some treats inside and let it roll! $5 Bend Pet Express

ZOGOFLEX® TOYS

by West Paw Design

Dogs love to chew and sometimes they find the wrong things to sink their teeth into, other times they somehow manage to chew up what seemed unchewable. Zogoflex toys are designed to withstand even the toughest gnawing! And that’s a guarantee. West Paw designs is so confident in their products that each item comes with a one-time free replacement, regardless of how your four-legged friend managed to mangle it! Crafted and tested in Montana, Zogoflex toys come in a variety of styles and sizes from frisbees to tugs from balls to bones. $11 -$15 Bend Pet Express 50 | U Magazine | December 2015

LEASH

by Krebs Recycle

It’s always good to have an extra leash for your four-legged friend and at Krebs Recycle designers take items that are headed for the trash and transform them into fun and useful products, such as dog leashes out of retired climbing ropes. Available in lenths and colors to suit every dog!

Prices Vary based on size/length Bend Pet Express

STRETCH FLEECE

by Gold Paw

For those cold days and nights, when you dog needs a little warm-up or some calming comfort, the stretch fleece is the perfect answer. Made in the United States from recycled polyester blended with seven percent spandex for a four-way stretch, this soft, exceptionally stretchy jacket is the one you will reach for over and over. And it comes in a wide variety of sizes for that “just right” fit. $20 - $30 Bend Pet Express

GRIP TREX

by Ruffwear

The Grip Trex dog boots set the standard in paw wear for dogs who hike, bike, run, or explore the great outdoors with their humans. These high-performance boots feature a rugged and resilient outsole lug pattern that provides exceptional traction on varied terrain and protect dogs feet on everything from cinder rock to snow and ice. A great product from a local, Bend company. $70 Bend Pet Express

DIRTY DOG DOORMAT

by Dog Gone Smart

While it might seem more like a gift for yourself, the Dirty Dog Doormat will make your furry friends’ re-entry into the house after frolicking in the snow and mud much easier for them, too! Forget wrestling around with a towel and trying to rub each paw until its clean and dry, this mat magically soaks up water (snow), mud and dirt with the wicking power of thousands of microfiber strands. Available in two sizes. $21.95 -$32.95 Central Oregon Farm & Feed

MASSAGE BRUSH

More than just a brush to keep their hair and fur under control, these specially designed brushes will keep your dog and cat coming back for more. We all know how great a massage can feel, now treat your pets to the same muscle-relaxing and rejuvinating indulgence.

Prices Vary Central Oregon Farm & Feed

BARN YARN ANIMALS

Handknit wool cat toys filled with premium catnip offer the perfect toy for your feline friends.

These bring together two of cats’ favorite things — wool and catnip — in adorable bardyard animal characters. $3 each Bend Pet Express

COLLEGE COLLAR For all you big Ducks and Beavers fans out there, why not let your best friend join in your dedicated support to your favorite team? $16 Bend Pet Express

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FROM THE HEART & HANDS Christmas is the perfect season to spend time creating, crafting and connecting.

by Damian Fagan, for The Bulletin Special Projects / Photos by Kevin Prieto

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The holidays are a great time to DIY: do-it-yourself. Homemade and handcrafted gifts get you extra points with family and friends. The thought really does count when it comes to giving a gift from the hands and heart.

What an endless list of possibilities!

Crafts, food items, artwork, dog goodies, photographs, certificates for babysitting hours, bath items, knit scarves and much, much more. Another idea works as both a gift and as a greeting — a hand-made, personal DIY card.

In gradeschool kids spend the time leading up to Christmas cutting green trees and red balls out of construction paper and gluing them onto folded cards, also made from construction paper. Every cutout goes on Flat Stanley style – glued flat onto the sheet with the red balls placed on the tree limbs.

Somewhere along the line, someone figures out to glue the folded edge of the green tree to the sheet. Flat Stanley becomes 3D Stanley and the possibilities become endless. And every parent and grandparent who receives a card saying “Merry Christmas” dusted with a glitter snowstorm absolutely loves and treasures it.

I’d like to claim that I’ve graduated past the glue and glitter stage, but that might put me on Santa’s naughty list.

However, when it comes to card making, my wife and her friends are “card years” ahead of me.

Using card stock, cut to size, they stencil and glue, stamp and scallop, to create these amazing looking cards. They have diecut machines for cutting out images or even phrases such as “Merry Christmas” or “Thank You.” There are embossers for creating raised impressions of snowflakes, trees, hearts, symbols and much more.

Sometimes cards are reprocessed — images and patterns clipped from one card end up with new life as decorative elements on another card.

One of the beautiful things about DIY cards is that anyone can make them. The options are limitless and their complexity depends on the tools of the trade, which are available at many crafting stores, including Michaels, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores and Hobby Lobby.

To find extra inspiration or ideas to get you started, simply enter ‘card making’ in the search box on Pinterest.

If there are kids or grandkids in the house, card making is a great activity to share with them. Kids love to be creative, and while stimulating their imagination, crafting cards is also a great teaching and learning opportunity. From young children practicing their

fine motor skills while drawing and cutting as well as learning colors, letters and numbers, to enhancing older kids’ spelling and writing skills, as well as their ability to express ideas and feelings through art, making something on their own instills confidence and a sense of pride in kids of all ages.

During the holidays, DIY cards are also a wonderful way to direct children’s thoughts to making someone else happy instead of focussing only on their own letters to Santa.

Furthermore, working together with your kids or your grandkids while creating and crafting is a great way to connect with them.

It’s a chance to learn a few new things about their lives as you work and chat.

The opportunity to connect is certainly not just for kids.

For my wife and her friends, as they work on their cards,

they engage in the time-honored activity of socializing. While catching up on each other’s lives, the card making is sometimes secondary to just getting together and sharing stories.

As their time winds down, each has a stack of cards that will go out for the holidays, wishing friends and family a Merry Christmas, season greetings, or even a simple hello. Some are wrapped together in bundles and given as a gift for the receivers to send to their friends and families – who doesn’t love getting a card in the mail? Some are created to be sent after the holidays, as Thank Yous.

Personalized and beautiful, each of these cards contains more than pretty images – they carry love and hope and the touch of human hands. These cards are presents in themselves, gifts from the hearts and hands of their DIY makers.

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advice Wire Fraud and other Faux La Las Not all elves working behind the scenes bring good tidings of great joy to all the people. I’m talking about the silent elves who work tirelessly in trying to steal people’s money – your money.

They hack into private computers spying on email transmissions between buyers, sellers, escrow and realtors. Wire fraud during your real estate transaction is happening more & more. I have two stories to share and some tips on how to keep your money from disappearing into the wrong hands.

Let’s take a look. I want to thank our local First American Title office for sharing these situations, along with several others, in helping educate Realtors® on how we can continue to protect our clients.

Scenario #1 A seller has two loans to be paid off with the sale of real property. The first is a bank loan; the second is a private loan. Escrow obtains payoff statements via email for both loans. At closing, Escrow pays off both loans based on the wire instructions received.

Later, the private money lender contacts escrow to find out where his/her funds went. Escrow reported that payoff funds were wired to his/ her account as per amended email instructions. The private lender NEVER SENT the second email.

Scenario #2

Buyers are looking forward to purchasing their larger home for their growing family. Their large downpayment of $250,000 to help purchase their $500,000 is ready to be wired in order to close on time.

During escrow the buyers receive an email LOOKING LIKE it is from their Escrow Officer instructing them to wire the funds to a specified account. Later (another day or later in the day) the escrow officer contacted them via phone to set up a time to sign documents & asks how they will be bringing in their funds? The buyers tells Escrow they already sent the wire per her email instructions. The E.O. never sent these instructions.

If you are as sick to your stomach as I was when I heard this story (and it’s true), read on to how these crooks ruin people’s lives.

In the first scenario, the elf (hacker) hacked into the real estate agent’s email and started monitoring conversations.

Once the hackers saw the private lender’s email they hacked into that account as well. When they saw the documentation

for wiring funds, they hit gold. That was their signal to strike and they emailed AMENDED wire instructions to the Buyers. Money? GONE. Bad Santa.

The second scenario also started with a hacked email account. They learned of the large down payment as well as the name of the settlement company along with the buyer’s email address. They created a spoof email and misdirected the buyer’s $250,000, never to be seen again.

Sadly in both of these examples the real estate agents’ email was compromised. This is not always the case, yet these emails were very likely unprotected. Thieves like to hack the easy accounts that are associated with gmail, Hotmail, AOL, etc. If you or your agent use these more popular accounts for business, set up passwords and alerts to notify you that someone has accessed your email account from a different

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computer/source. Yes it can be annoying, but so is losing $250,000 to a thief.

Another important tip for both sellers and buyers is to always, always, ALWAYS be sure you speak directly with your escrow officer regarding emailed wire instructions. If you receive an email asking you to wire funds without a phone call, STOP-DROP-CALL. STOP emailing because you are in a hurry, DROP whatever you are doing and CALL your escrow officer right away. Do NOT wire any funds until you speak with the professionals.

Did you notice that in these scenarios nothing is discussed on the phone, it is all via email. Hackers never want to talk on the phone and will tend to state they are “busy” and do not call, just email and wire the funds asap so I can go buy a Ferrari, buy illegal weapons or take my girlfriend to Australia forever.

Another tip is to be very attentive to email addresses. Hackers are adept at changing a letter here, a “.com” to a “.net” there. If the signature lines change or if

something looks different either from your realtor’s email or escrow, call and ask if they are upgrading their system. Or forward the email back to them and ask “Did you send this?”

Another dead give-away are odd messages with poor spelling, grammar and weird salutations like “Happy Christmas” or “Warmest Feelings to You.” Or they spell your name wrong! Spelling counts. If you are a bad speller then gosh I don’t know what to say here.

For other tips and ideas feel free to call me or your favorite escrow officer.

Escrow officers do not change/amend wiring instructions; however, if you never saw the original set, how would you know? In some cases you can get your money back, but it isn’t going to happen by the end of the day when the movers are ready to move you into your next house.

Be safe! I hope my next article is a little more inspiring and not so depressing ...

Cindy King has lived in C.O. since 1978 and has been a full time Realtor since 1996. Cindy has helped more than 800 families with their real estate goals both with buying, selling & investing.

From 2002-2005 Cindy served on the board and was President of the Central Oregon Association of Realtors in 2005. She has been an instructor for the association and has served on the Professional Standards Committee, as well as various committees within the association. Her 11-year-old son Nathan aspires to be a chef and they both enjoy skiing, reading and computer games (well, he likes computer games more than she!).

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