This Friday and Saturday, the 26th and 27th, the Tower Theatre is hosting a special lighthearted show as their annual fundraiser: the Bend Follies. It’s a skit-based, comedy and variety type show featuring Bend’s own business owners, personalities, and celebrities having fun on stage. It sounds like a lot of fun and if you’re a fan of the Tower or ever been to a show there you should check this out. Here’s the description: The … Continue reading →
Every year Summit High School chooses a “sparrow” from the Sparrow Club to sponsor and raise money for medical bills. This year’s sparrow is familiar to our family so it hits much closer to home. Katie Hinton danced alongside my daughter at Central Oregon School of Ballet for several years before quietly quitting some time ago. Devon (my daughter) also left ballet in the last year so we didn’t hear much about Katie until she … Continue reading →
This Friday the 22nd, Whole Foods is hosting a special “Silent Auction Brewfest” from 4 to 7pm to benefit the Whole Planet Foundation: not only will you get to drink great beer, but you can bid on many donated items during the auction—it will be “loaded with beer-tastic awesomeness, including a few barrel room tours, memberships, dinners, and much more.” For $5 you’ll get admission to the event along with a commemorative glass and five … Continue reading →
Tomorrow, Sunday the 3rd, Redmond’s Straw Hat Pizza is hosting a fundraiser for the Redmond Ricochet, a 12U girls softball team, from 4 to 9pm (closing). Here’s the Facebook event page. Straw Hat is donating 30% of proceeds during that time to the team, so if you’re needing pizza for the Super Bowl tomorrow—or wanted someplace to watch the Super Bowl—make sure to check it out, you’ll be helping to donate to a good cause. … Continue reading →
Want to hear some good music Saturday night? Friends of Music is putting on its fourth annual “For the Love of Music” benefit. Proceeds go to funds for Summit High School’s music department to help with such needs as uniforms, travel expenses, student scholarships, and instruments. What’s on tap for the evening, you ask? How about a little group called 3 Leg Torso? I had never heard of them, but their “About” on Facebook sounds … Continue reading →
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