Kristin Gyford, a busy Licensed Social Worker, mom and entrepreneur teaches about bulk cooking as a way to deal with food budgets and time constraints while serving healthy and delicious, locally sourced meals everyday! Come learn how to bulk cook for a week of meals and snacks! Central Oregon Locavore’s "Locavore Food School" program hosts…

Join The Juniper Group Sierra Club for the annual Holiday Party & Pot Luck (and Food Drive!) From the Juniper Group newsletter.... Bring a favorite main or side dish, appetizer, salad or dessert to set on the table (yum!), plus your beverage of choice (we'll provide the nonalcoholic kind). New members, we want to meet…

Fleet Feet Sports is offering 10% of all sales on this day for all Volunteer Connect supporters who show the graphic above. Show it using your Smart Phone or print it and bring in to Fleet Feet on the 17th. We hope you'll take advantage of this chance to give back with this fun holiday…

Discover Your Forest, in collaboration with the Deschutes National Forest and Mt. Bachelor Ski Area, will begin their annual interpretive snow tours in the next few weeks. Beginning December 19, 2015 visitors to the Mt. Bachelor Ski Area can go on a snowshoe tour with a ranger, ski or snowboard Mt. Bachelor slopes with a…

Come play poker with fun folks while supporting Bend Area Habitat! Every Monday at 6:30 p.m. Jake's Diner 2210 NE Highway 20, Bend Oregon $5 Suggested donation per play

On Wednesday, December 23rd, Fleet Feet Sports in Bend has agreed to donate 10% of purchases made to Camp Fire Central Oregon when you show the Shopping Day Pass at the register. So whether you have a little last-minute Christmas shopping to do, or you're simply out shopping just to enjoy the season, don't forget to…

Come play poker with fun folks while supporting Bend Area Habitat! Every Monday at 6:30 p.m. Jake's Diner 2210 NE Highway 20, Bend Oregon $5 Suggested donation per play

Come play poker with fun folks while supporting Bend Area Habitat! Every Monday at 6:30 p.m. Jake's Diner 2210 NE Highway 20, Bend Oregon $5 Suggested donation per play

From http://www.vanishingbees.com/synopsis/  Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives. Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Commercial honeybee operations pollinate crops that make up one out of…