This Saturday, March 16, Dakota’s Brick Shop (LEGO store) is hosting a live LEGO build contest at Mountain View High School from 5:30 to 8pm. The official page is here. Join us for a night full of fun and creativity featuring exciting creations from local LEGO builders! Your votes will … Continue reading
This year Deschutes County celebrates its centennial! The County was formed back in 1916 (the same year the two big sawmills opened on the river and statewide prohibition took effect) out of the western part of Crook County, the last of Oregon’s counties to be established. So all year long … Continue reading
For the second year in a row Sisters’ Three Creeks Brewing is holding their annual Homebrew Invitational, a brewing competition for which the winning homebrewer will get to be an “honorary Three Creeks brewer” and have their winning beer commercially brewed on the Brewery’s 10-barrel pub system. And, the entry deadline … Continue reading
Faith, Hope and Charity Vineyards over in Terrebonne is hosting their third annual Amateur Wine & Beer Makers’ Competition next month, on Sunday, April 19, and have the call out now for beer and wine makers to enter. Here are the details: We are hosting our 3rd Annual Amateur Wine & … Continue reading
The Source Weekly is currently holding a contest to win free tickets to Saturday night’s Ghost Tree Dinner on the Range event—just leave a comment naming a celebrity you’d wish to see attend the dinner, and you’ll be entered for the chance to win. If you’ve never heard of the … Continue reading
The Des Chutes Historical Museum is once again hosting their annual Summer Shootout Marble Tournament coming up on Saturday, the 22nd: day full of marble tournament and free play, along with lawn games and other activities, and the Museum will be free that day. From the pres release: Marble competition … Continue reading
Update: Commenter Charlie M. won the tickets! Thanks to all for participating! As usual, I’ve got 2 tickets to Ignite Bend going on this Thursday night, March 7, that I’m going to give away here on the blog—if you missed your chance to snag a couple tickets a couple weeks … Continue reading
A quick note to reveal the winner of the Ignite Bend 9 ticket giveaway I was running was commenter Jen! Congratulations, tickets are on your way!
Ignite Bend 9 is taking place tomorrow night (Wednesday the 17th), and if you missed the ticket rush when they became available back on the 5th (easy to do since they sold out in 15 minutes!) then I’ve got some lucky commenter covered right now: I’ve got a pair of … Continue reading
Boy, you’d think I’d have been on top of this one but frankly, it hasn’t been well advertised anywhere that I’ve seen: this year’s Bend Fall Festival includes a homebrew competition by Deschutes Brewery—with a twist: it’s a competition for fresh hop (or “harvest”) beers only! This is the first … Continue reading