Month: March 2014

Start with a house that uses zero energy — now add community benefit into the mix. A zero-net energy home is being built in the new neighborhood of Hidden Hills in southeast Bend that also will help cancer patients. When it’s finished and sold this summer, the money will go to the St. Charles Foundation

A total of 29 people covered by the Oregon workers’ compensation system died on the job during 2013, the Department of Consumer and Business Services announced Wednesday . It’s a slight decrease from 2012’s figure of 30 deaths and continues a downward trend seen in recent years. The year 2010 marked the state’s all-time low

High Desert Chamber Music has been awarded a grant from the Collins Foundation, in the amount of $7,500. The Collins Foundation is an independent, private foundation that was created in 1947, that exists to improve, enrich, and give greater expression to humanitarian endeavors in the state of Oregon and to assist in improving the quality

An autopsy conducted Tuesday at the state Medical Examiner’s Office near Portland confirmed remains found by Hwy. 20 east of Bend on Sunday were those of a Bend woman who vanished a week earlier, police said. The remains have been confirmed to be Pivoyne Castro-Luna, 42, last seen on Sunday, March 9 and reported missing

Facebook announced Tuesday e the 21 recipients of the Facebook Prineville Data Center’s 2014 Local Community Action Grants, totaling more than $105,000. These nonprofits and schools were awarded more than $105,000 for projects that put the power of technology to use for community benefit, help improve education at all levels, and to bring people together

Jeff Newtown and Jason Worman say their longtime friend, Eric Eder, was a true fisherman. “He loved it — that was his life, that was his passion,” Newtown said Tuesday. The first day he got on a boat, he was so goofy and so out of place and so out of his element, I didn’t

Through its non-profit foundation, Sun Country Tours gave more than $20,000 in cash and in-kind donations to more than 200 organizations in 2013. The whitewater rafting company, which is preparing for its 36th season, is owned by Dennis Oliphant, who created the foundation more than 20 years ago. “It is extremely gratifying to be able

Bank of the Cascades Center at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond has just gone solar. The southeast corner of the event center roof has been outfitted with an array of solar panels that will generate approximately 84,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year. The solar power generation will offset usage at the event center,

A federal fugitive from Warm Springs is recovering from injuries under guard at St. Charles Redmond, accused of fleeing police late last Saturday southwest of Madras at speeds topping 100 mph, trying to ram a patrol car head-on, running a stop sign and striking a pickup truck at an intersection, Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins

Redmond High School head athletic trainer, Cari Wood, attended the National Athletic Trainers’ Association‘s fifth annual Youth Sports Safety Summit held last week in Washington, D.C. “This was an inspirational and exciting event to attend,” said Cari Wood from Redmond, who was representing Redmond High School and Desert Orthopedics. “Working in the trenches with high

Implemented in stages since 2001, Oregon law requires Oregon residents 12-years-of-age and older who operate powered boats of more than 10-horsepower to obtain their Mandatory Boater Education card. Failure to have a card under the above conditions might result in a $110 ticket. This card is NOT a license to operate a boat, as there

The Dalles police are asking the public for information in hopes of finding a Wasco County 911 dispatcher who disappeared over the weekend. Police said they have no evidence of any foul play in the disappearance of Travis D. Church, 23, last seen at his home in The Dalles around 9:40 p.m. on Friday, and

An injured dog found along a roadside in Jefferson County in January, apparently having been dragged by a vehicle, now has recovered from her injuries and is available for adoption at BrightSide Animal Center in Redmond, officials said Tuesday. Nutmeg, a female pit bull mix, was found by Good Samaritans on Jan. 17, the same

A large construction crane and materials needed to perform a planned reinforcement of the company’s dam in downtown Bend will be in place in time for the work to be completed next week, ahead of schedule, PacifiCorp officials said Tuesday. Addressing a leak in one of the structure’s wooden panels, which developed in October, had

Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian announced an agreement Tuesday that resolves housing discrimination allegations against the Housing Authority of Douglas County involving a manager’s refusal to allow a service dog. “Housing is a basic human need, and equal access to housing, especially for our most vulnerable citizens, is a basic

It was a debate as passionate as it was controversial. “For people with epilepsy, this is a life-or-death issue,” a woman testified before Deschutes County commissioners Monday morning. “We have enough trashy-looking places in Deschutes County as it is,” said county resident Gladys Biglor. And despite a steady parade of medical cannabis supporters pleading county

In late March, the Sisters Ranger District of the Deschutes National Forest will be hosting a Public Open House to discuss prescribed fire projects planned for 2014 near the community of Black Butte Ranch. On Monday, March 24Forest Service employees will be available at the Black Butte Ranch Community Center from 10 a.m. to noon

On March 15th, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office in partnership with Secure Shred and NeighborImpact hosted the first shredding event of 2014 at the Sheriff’s Office in Bend. A total of 328 vehicles came through the shred event dropping off documents for shredding, food and money for needy families, and prescription drugs for destruction. All

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has named Celine Burke as Big Sister of the Year for Oregon. Celine, a Big Sister with BBBS Central Oregon, and her Little Sister, Jasmine, will be considered for the national Big Sister of the Year award to be announced in June at the National BBBSA conference in Chicago.

Two young actresses from Bend are on a mission to make it to the Great White Way for a Broadway Artist’s Alliance (BAA) Summer Intensive Workshop in July of this year. Actresses Miya Corpstein ,11, and Macy Pofahl, 10, have been accepted into the Workshop and hope to expand and refine their current skills. They