Happy Hour in the Garden
The Environmental Center 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend, ORJoin us in our Kansas Avenue Learning Garden for our ongoing volunteer work party series. In 2022, volunteers contributed over 200 hours to help keep our learning garden maintained over the growing season. We couldn’t do it without you! This event is open to all ages and gardening abilities! No experience or tools required. Beer…
Finding the Magic in Middle School Talk and Book Signing by Chris Balme
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 61980 Skyline Ranch Road, Bend, OR, United StatesThis evening community gathering is intended to support the wellbeing and growth of parents, educators, and mental health professionals. While this talk is geared toward the development of adolescence, anyone who helps to raise our children -of any age- will benefit from the brain-body science that is presented. In this talk, author and acclaimed educator…
Deschutes Land Trust Planting Parties
Camp Polk Meadow Preserve Sisters, OR, United States +1 moreCamp Polk Meadow Preserve: October 10 & 11 Roll up your sleeves and help the Deschutes Land Trust plant native plants in a recent restoration area at Camp Polk Meadow Preserve. We have been working for several years to restore the native plant community in the Hindman Springs portion of the Preserve. Volunteers will help…
Fall Repair Café at the Firehouse Community Hall in Sisters(bilingüe)
Sisters Firehouse Community Hall 301 S Elm St, Sisters, United StatesJoin us for our in-person Repair Café on Wednesday, October 11th, 5:30-7:30pm at the Firehouse Community Hall in Sisters with co-host Deschutes Public Library. Featuring a guest appearance from Kyle Wiens, co-founder and CEO of iFixit and a leader in the Right to Repair movement. Kyle and the pro-repair coalition are working on a bill in…
Deschutes Land Trust Planting Parties
Camp Polk Meadow Preserve Sisters, OR, United States +1 moreCamp Polk Meadow Preserve: October 10 & 11 Roll up your sleeves and help the Deschutes Land Trust plant native plants in a recent restoration area at Camp Polk Meadow Preserve. We have been working for several years to restore the native plant community in the Hindman Springs portion of the Preserve. Volunteers will help…
Deschutes Land Trust Planting Parties
Camp Polk Meadow Preserve Sisters, OR, United States +1 moreCamp Polk Meadow Preserve: October 10 & 11 Roll up your sleeves and help the Deschutes Land Trust plant native plants in a recent restoration area at Camp Polk Meadow Preserve. We have been working for several years to restore the native plant community in the Hindman Springs portion of the Preserve. Volunteers will help…
2023 Lava Island Fish Rescue
Sign Up for Your Time Slot HERE! Every fall flows drop in the Upper Deschutes as water begins to be stored in Wickiup and Crane Prairie Reservoirs for irrigation use next summer. When this happens, fish residing in the Lava Island side channel of the Deschutes become stranded from the main stem of the river.…
Trail Love
Ideal weather conditions for trail maintenance have finally arrived, and we are stoked to invite you to our final Trail Love of the season! Join us as we gather from all over the community to spend a day improving our trails. We'll meet at 9am at Swampy Lakes Trailhead (note this meeting location is weather dependent and is subject…
Connect Central Oregon Volunteer and Board Fair
Deschutes County Fair & Expo 3800 SW Airport Way, Redmond, OR, United StatesConnect Central Oregon invites you, your colleagues, and all OSU-Cascades students to our annual Volunteer and Board Fair on Monday, October 16th, from 4:45 to 6:30, at the Deschutes County Fair and Expo Center. Fifty organizations, from all over our region, will be offering a wide variety of volunteer and board service opportunities. Find more information about the Fair…
Garden Educator Network School Garden Tour
M. A. Lynch Elementary School 1314 SW Kalama , Redmond, OR, United StatesLet’s get together! We’ll get a tour of the school garden at MA Lynch Elementary School in Redmond from new FoodCorps Service Member Kat Rains, and you’ll hear from Redmond School District’s own FoodCorps School Nutrition Service Member, Somer Eckhert. We’ll wrap up with a group share out of one thing that you did in…