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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Oregon Badlands Day of Action
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Badlands Brewery Crawl, an effort by the Oregon Natural Desert Association to raise awareness to get the Badlands east of Bend designated as a Wilderness Area. Now, ONDA is pushing April … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Online
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BB King and Lynyrd Skynyrd in July
Picked this up via KTVZ: Blues legend BB King and classic rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd will be playing the Les Schwab Amphitheater this year, on July 6th and 10th, respectively. KTVZ reports that the King concert will cost $39 for general … Continue reading
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Bouncing off the Wall
Monday I took the kids over to Bouncing off the Wall (meeting some friends with their kids), and I have to say, while I’m still a little skeptical over the long-term viability of such a place as a business, for … Continue reading
Posted in Kids
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Press Release: Women’s Wine Dinner
The Jackalope Grill and WineStyles present a Women’s Wine Dinner on Monday April 7 at 5:30pm. The evening features a special four-course meal paired with wines. Carol DelMonico, a certified life coach, and writer Linden Gross will speak briefly on … Continue reading
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COWPU meeting, April 1
The title says it all. Though if you’re unfamiliar, "COWPU" stands for Central Oregon Web Professionals Usergroup. The meeting is indeed on April Fool’s Day. Topic: Make Your Site Go Faster with Web Caching (by Ricardo Newbery) Location: McKay Cottage … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, Meetings
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5 things
The local economy—the implosion of it, along with the housing market, more specifically—is becoming an issue. This weekend the Bend Economy Blog ran a great post: 5 Things Bendites Should Do Now. What can Bend do now? Well, maybe we … Continue reading
Slow week
Apologies for the slow week around here; I’ve had some other stuff come up that have, shall we say, taken a certain amount of precedence for my attention elsewhere. But, the week’s over, I have next week off for spring … Continue reading
Posted in Hack Bend
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Badlands Brewery Crawl
This came in as a press release and seems like a cool event, even though it’s the first time I’ve heard of a brewery crawl in a grassroots campaign like this. They’d welcome people from the media, too. (Incidentally, the … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Environment
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St. Patty’s pub hopper guide
Here we go again. This may be a perennial favorite: The St. Patrick’s Day pub guide! This time around, I’m also noting when a place has a specific St. Patty’s thing going on (I’ve bolded the name and included a … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Beer, Holidays
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The actual size of pint glasses
In The Source this week, H. Bruce Miller explores the size of pint glasses at the "Big Four" breweries in town—literally taking a measuring cup in and pouring his beer into it to see exactly how much beer each place … Continue reading
Posted in Beer
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Last year in March…
A year ago, in March 2007: JC’s had their grand opening in their expanded space. (Their Wildfire beer started pouring the following month.) I let you all in on how to dig up information on local property. I published a … Continue reading
Posted in History, Retrospective
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Press Release: Young Professionals Network, March 19
Next Event: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at the Renaissance Homes Design Center 5:30-7:30 p.m. This month, the Bend Chamber’s Young Professionals Networking (YPN) event will be hosted by Renaissance Homes. Attendees will enjoy beverages, food, door prizes, networking games and … Continue reading
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Kids Mountain Bike Camp from Cog Wild
I got this from Melanie over at Cog Wild and it sounds pretty cool: Kids Mountain Biking Camp for mountain bikers between the ages of 8 and 16. Camp will include developing riding confidence for cross country and downhill biking, … Continue reading
McMenamins St. Patrick’s Celebration
Ah, March is the month of that eminent beer drinker’s holiday, St. Patrick’s Day, and McMenamins has two days of celebration scheduled for it this year. On Saturday, March 15th, is their Day One. Free (as in, no cover or … Continue reading
Fundraising auction tomorrow
Late notice, I know, but I only just saw this myself via Kina (in Baker City, no less): The Dara Hatcher Foundation Fundraising Auction: Tuesday, March 11, 2007, 5-8 p.m. Deschutes Brewery, Brewing facility & Mountain room 901 SW Simpson … Continue reading
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