The Pavilion is open for ice skating

Ice skating season is once again open at The Pavilion on the corner of Colorado and Simpson Avenues, as the facility posted on Facebook today. Ta da! The 2018-19 ice season has officially begun! Check schedules regularly as there may be modifications during this week’s warm spells. We’re excited see … Continue reading

Sunriver SHARC five year anniversary

Sunriver’s SHARC aquatic center has their five-year anniversary coming up, on Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and 21, which is also their soft opening for the year. We’re celebrating SHARC’s fifth anniversary. Join us for a day of activities and live music. Admission is just $5 along with the donation of … Continue reading

Celebrate Troy Field – community picnic

Spotted on the 4th of July: (Community picnic/potluck, Wednesday, July 6th, 4 to 9pm. Bring your own food, blanket, non-alcoholic beverages, cornhole games, and all musical instruments (even banjos!) welcome! bendblockparties@hotmail.com)

Shakespeare in the Park this weekend

I missed the boat on blogging about this earlier—bad blogger! bad!—but this weekend Lay It Out Events’ Shakespeare in the Park returns for its second year and is featuring the play “Much Ado About Nothing” in Drake Park tonight, and in Sunriver at the SHARC on Sunday. Lay It Out … Continue reading

Butler Market Park in progress

Bend Parks and Rec is beginning the process for designing a new “Neighborhood Park” on the corner of Butler Market Road and Brinson Boulevard in northeast Bend, Butler Market Park. And they’re opening the process up to community involvement: Since our strength lies in our community we would like the … Continue reading

Online registration for Bend Park and Rec

I got this nice little note to pass along to all those parents who register their kids for activities through Bend Park & Recreation District. Big News! …..Bend Park & Recreation District is opening up summer registration for their recreation programs online on March 17th for district residents and April … Continue reading

The Great Pumpkin Hunt

Jen posted the other day a short bit about the Trust for Public Land‘s pumpkin hunt, but didn’t have the full details yet. Those details were sent out today, which I received in a press release: The Trust for Public Land will hold “The Great Pumpkin Hunt” on Saturday, October … Continue reading

Pumpkin Hunt (and yes, there’s no pumpkin festival)

After reading some of the comments on the pumpkin patch post, it’s no wonder that this caught my eye on the Bend Parks & Rec Facebook page… It’s true, no pumpkin festival from us this year. Trust for Public Land will be having a pumpkin hunt at Miller’s Landing on … Continue reading

Pine Nursery Park opening, Wed. August 4th

Picked this up via Twitter: This Wednesday [August 4th] at 5:30pm come celebrate the grand opening of Pine Nursery Community Park. There will be kite flying, biking, a fishing demonstration, baseball and an ice cream social. The Pine Nursery Park is located in Northeast Bend, just east of Purcell (officially … Continue reading

Ruff Wear demo and fitting event

Lindsey with Ruff Wear writes in to let us know about an event coming up this Saturday: To celebrate the opening of the new off-leash dog park at Riverbend Beach in Bend, Oregon, Ruff Wear is hosting a demonstration and fitting event for our Big EddyT and PortageT lifejackets. Come … Continue reading