there is an older gentleman who rides his adult tricycle up and down 27th street…he’s always decked out in a hi-vis vest and tall flag in the back.

coming home from work yesterday there had been an accident just north of the high school on 27th…and i saw an adult tricycle, with a flag, on the side of the road and a car with the windshield smashed in.

i’m going to be soooo sad if it’s the amazing elderly tricycle dude…(well, i guess it’s sad regardless…). anyone know what happened?? or know anything about the tricycle guy?????

🚨 Collector's: This One's For You!🚨

Prepare for a day packed with excitement and nostalgia. Whether you’re a fan of trading cards, video games, or just looking for a fun out day with the family, this is the place to be!

🗓️ When: Saturday, April 12th, 2025
📍 Where: Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center
🕘 Time: 9am - 4pm
🚪 Admission: $10. Ages 13 and under are FREE.

🎟️ Get Tickets 🎟️ https://tickets.centraloregoncardshow.com/events/centraloregoncardscollectiblesshow/1462438

✅ 100 Vendor Tables ✅ Showcasing the best in Pokémon, Sports Cards, Magic the Gathering, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh, Lorcana, video games, comics, LEGO, vintage toys & so much more!

🎁 Raffle Prizes 🎁 A variety of treasures up are for grabs! Including the latest hard to get Pokémon products, an original Nintendo system bundle and more! Don’t miss out on your chance to score something special.

⭐ Special Guest ⭐ Melanie Kohn, best known as the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in the classic Peanuts cartoons of the 1970s, including Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown, and the beloved feature film Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown!

🎮 Free Gaming Area 🎮 Play against others in a variety of casual video game stations.

🔁 Trading Tables 🔁 Swap, sell, or buy with fellow collectors. Bring your items and join the trading fun!

🖍️ Kid Corner 🖍️ Dedicated space with activities to keep the little ones entertained.

Whether you're a seasoned collector or just starting out, this is the event you don’t want to miss! Gather your friends, bring the family, and make memories at the Central Oregon Cards & Collectibles Show.

📍 Where: Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center
🗓️ When: Saturday, April 12th, 2025
🕘 Time: 9am - 4pm
🚪 Admission: $10. Ages 13 and under are FREE.

🎟️ Get Tickets 🎟️ https://tickets.centraloregoncardshow.com/events/centraloregoncardscollectiblesshow/1462438

Got a new 150-500mm lens i want to try out.

Bring yourself, your dog, kids with or without a sign. Let’s Get Loud!

• Bend - 12:00 - 6:00pm Peace Corner, Greenwood & Wall See r/GGinBend excellent previous Reddit Post
• Redmond - 2:00pm Highland Ave. and 6th. In front of Joann’s
• Sisters - 11:00am N. Larch and E. Cascade (Hwy 20)
• La Pine - 12:00pm 97 & 1st near Taco Bell
• Madras - 12:00pm 97 and 26
• Prineville confirmed - 12:00pm 3rd and Elm (Pioneer Park) Thanks r/CPSue for confirming this.

Why: Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. We are fighting back!

They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.

On Saturday, we're taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off!

This mass mobilization day is our message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Alongside Americans across the country, we are marching, rallying, and protesting to demand a stop the chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country.

A core principle behind all Hands Off! events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

Check out handsoff2025.com for more information.

This protest is in coordination with Indivisible Sisters, Indivisible Redmond, Vocal Seniority and Bend Action Coalition

Note: If you believe in free speech and the 1st amendment please upvote this post.

Hi, I am looking for leads on a lawyer specializing in malpractice. I am a Bend resident but the medical event occurred at an Alaskan hospital. Any info is appreciated!

A lot of local businesses are staring into the abyss with all the exciting tariff news.

But the weather is lovely today! Come down for First Friday Art Walk from 5-8pm. At Expedition Club, mention this Reddit post and you get 25% off anything in the store, excluding original art and telescopes. However, I do have bundle deals available for telescopes and they all come with a free lesson and support. We might not carry them for awhile if the tariffs take hold, so if you were thinking about getting one, maybe now is your chance.

Here’s Downtown Bend’s announcement for tonight:

“We’re excited to invite you to a special First Friday celebration tomorrow from 5-8 PM, featuring a "Youth Art Takeover" theme! This event highlights the creative talents of our young artists, and we can’t wait to showcase their work and celebrate their contributions to our vibrant downtown. An awards ceremony will also be held on Friday, April 4th at 6:30 pm at the Commons Café courtyard

As part of the festivities, we’ll be hosting "Chalk the Block"—a community-wide art activity where over 20 buckets of chalk will be set up throughout downtown. We encourage everyone, young and old, to grab a piece of chalk and create your own masterpiece on the sidewalks of downtown Bend. It’s a fantastic way to express your creativity while adding to the lively atmosphere of the evening.

Additionally, look out for balloons displayed outside participating businesses. These businesses are joining in the celebration of youth art, and we’re thrilled to have their support in making this First Friday event a true community effort.”

Hi 👋,

Anyone have recommendations on the best e-bike shop for purchase and service in Bend? I like the Aima bikes but am not sold on any particular brand.

Range, comfort, reliability, and weight- just the normal stuff. Would love to Ride The Rim at Crater Lake this year.

Thanks, Bendites. You’re the best. 🫶

Just to say that Dana, the owner, is lovely. I’ve organized a fiber arts meetup there three times now and Dana and her staff are so nice and accommodating. She also does all of the food truck cooking so shes a busy gal. I noticed they do allow dogs inside, but the puppers were all well behaved. At 4:45, my pint of Viscous Mosquito beer was $5! I’m rooting for Dana and hope the place thrives.

Parking was a bitch but I’ve been told as soon as the yoga class crowd leaves at 5, spaces open up.

Was just announced to employees thru email.

Y'all have come through for me in the past with really random requests. Here's another one:

I'm looking to buy maybe 400-500 stainless steel spoons to provide as part of our reusable serviceware program for Earth Day Fair vendors (and possibly other community events!). Two years ago, I went around to all the thrift stores and purchased spoons, but most didn't have many on hand. Putting this out there, in case any current or former food service businesses have extra, before I buy them from Webstaurantstore for $.10/spoon... which honestly isn't bad, but in case we can avoid redundancy.

ALRIGHT YOU PEOPLE, YOU KNOW HOW THIS WORKS. UNLOAD YOUR GRIPES ABOUT LIVING IN THE BEST TOWN IN AMERICA.

RANT: LOW EFFORT POSTS ON TOPICS THAT HAVE BEEN ASKED AND DISSECTED A FEW DOZEN TIMES. USE THE SEARCH FEATURE AT THE TOP OF R/BEND FOR IMMEDIATE ANSWERS INSTEAD OF WRITING OUT YOUR QUESTION AND WAITING HOURS FOR PEOPLE TO PROVIDE THE SAME INFORMATION AGAIN.

TL;DR below due to length

Two weeks ago my wife was referred to a specialist at Summit Health for a potentially serious health issue. We checked out the specialist online and our Dr's recommendation seemed on target. This specialist seems uniquely qualified in the issue she's dealing with. And the specialist was listed as accepting new patients on the Summit website.

We called and despite our insurance not requiring referrals Summit insisted we get one sent over before booking. That was already in the works so the scheduler's request we call back seemed reasonable.

The referral has now been sent three times. Fax numbers confirmed and reconfirmed. Summit referrals even called the Dr office directly to confirm the fax numbers.

Today we were told by the Summit referral person that they "forgot" that they weren't accepting referrals from any other system besides Summit's. Stated this policy was implemented a few weeks ago. Oh, and they still won't acknowledge the referral(s) sent.

Now with a two week delay in care (it's that kind of issue) we are starting over again.

Anyone run into this before?

TL;DR -Summit delays for two weeks before "remembering" that despite their site stating a specific specialist is accepting new patients, a policy has been in place to not accept patients referred by an outside physician

This week went by quickly over in PNWestland. Another week in our high desert paradise. Hope yours went well too. Well it's Friday again and time for another triple R. It's cold this morning so let's get going...

The BEST - These are the places that scored perfect 100s. These places are really doing a good job at keeping their kitchens clean. The places that score a perfect 100 are really going all out to do things right and they deserve your support.

5th Street Bagels (mob), Bend (3/19)

SDiego's (mob), Bend (3/19)

Taco Bell #19340 (Bellevue Dr), Bend (3/18)

Mundrelli's Italian Kitchen (mob), Bend (3/18)

Ashley's Cafe (S Hwy 97), Bend (3/18)

Cibelli's New York Pizza (South), Bend (3/18)

Cuportunity Coffee Kiosk (mob) (e), Bend (3/17)

Confluence Fly Shop (L), Bend (3/17)

Reed Pub Company, Bend (3/17)

The WORST SCORERS: Now comes everyone's favorite part of the report - the list of Rotten Restaurants who scored worse than 85. I don't post any place that scores 85 or above even if they were the worst inspections for a particular week. 85 is a solid B and I don't want to shame them.

Peng's Hunan Chinese Restaurant, La Pine, Score: 80 (3/19)

I'm going to stick these identifiers here so that when you see stuff like (mob) and (wh) you'll have some idea of what they are talking about. I'm not positive about all of these but they're probably pretty close. If you see anything I've missed or I guessed wrong please let me know.

bb - bed and breakfast?

e - fee exempt

mob - mobile

wh - warehouse

rp - recreational park

f - fixed position (a normal restaurant)

com - commissary

tf - traveler's accommodation

L - Limited Service

V - vending machines?

If you have time on your hands and want to check out the county inspection site here's the link - https://inspections.myhealthdepartment.com/or-deschutes-county

It's a very nice community resource. Kudos to the county for making it this .easy to check up on things.

Another report comes to an end and another weekend approaches. Here's your bonus video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVPUAntzOl4

Bye!

Recently my wife turned 50 and she is not one to request birthday parties. So for her 50th it was important to me to shower her in love and celebrate her life with the most special people in her life. My hope was to have it at an event space with some good food and drinks that was intimate and also arranged that everyone would feel like they were able to interact with the guests and birthday girl while keeping the budget around $1000 for everything. With a guest list of nearly 50 people this was shaping up to be a challenge. I made a reddit post for suggestions and ultimately it was looking like the cost of decent food would limit locations and access to beverages. We were finding even for the best values in food($30/plate) we were going to struggle to have a bar and seating in our budget. We considered a friends house with a cart rental but seating and tables and the cost of beverages was pushing us significantly over the budget limit. I was ready to cook bbq at moms place and squishing the party in to limited spacing for tables and eating.

About a week after the reddit post I got a DM from a stranger who said they could provide everything we needed in our budget. I was skeptical but responded and the person gave me their private number and said to give them a call. Enter Andre, the GM at Greg’s Grill. He said he has a budget friendly menu for large parties and invited us down to the restaurant to meet and discuss the menu and the logistics. We met up with Andre and it turned out that the restaurant was slow after the new year and we were able to pick a really intimate zone in the restaurant that was against the glass looking west through the windows at the mountains and river that also had seating for 50 of us. Andre’s event menu that was specifically set up for events like ours and included ribs, a burger, a chicken sando, fish and chips and a pasta dish. The price per plate was $25. We excitedly said yes we’d love to have them host and the pressure was off. The night of the party, the staff were so kind and welcoming. We had access to the bar, a server for the party and an amazing menu that was printed out and personalized with my wife’s name. the night was amazing, they let us bring in dessert, the service was spectacular, and they nailed it! It was more than I could have ever hoped for. The guests had their choice of the 5 items on the menu and they covered their own drink bills. We had some dessert and even the staff came out to sing the birthday song including the cooks from the open kitchen. I cannot begin to express my gratitude to Andre for his and his restaurants support in celebrating my wife on her 50th birthday. If you are even considering a party, make sure to stop in to Greg’s Grill and talk to Andre about what they can do for you.

Would anyone be willing to trade 2 night one (6/5) lawn tickets for 2 night two (6/6) lawn tickets?

I have a couple night one tickets and I want to go with some friends who ended up getting night two tickets. Thanks guys!

I want to thank the extremely kind and generous person who paid for my daughter’s order today at 4pm at Dutch Bros on NE Hwy 20.
I have to share what your kindness truly meant. My daughter had just gone through the drive thru 10 minutes prior and ordered drinks for her and I. This was the first time she was paying for the drinks with her own money and was super excited to surprise me. As she walked through the front door, I had come around the corner and said “Hi!!!” which startled her and she dropped both drinks, cups broke and they ended up on the floor and walls. She felt awful and went back to Dutch. As the outside broista told her you had paid for her order, she was shocked! She proceeded to order my drink, completely forgetting about her own. Lol. She immediately called me while still in line and I told her to run up and thank you. She’s painfully shy yet wanted so desperately to thank you and I’m really sorry she didn’t. We will keep working on this shyness thing but please know how much it meant to her and I both. We promise to pay it forward next time through. THANK YOU SO MUCH! ❤️

Does anyone have recommendations on good places to work around bend? I have 99% committed to moving and have picked out an apartment but really cannot seem to find a job on indeed that fits anything suitable. I’m not super picky about the kind of work but am picky about hours/pay. I’m mostly moving to ski and would like to be free in the mornings once the season rolls around butttttt have no restaurant experience. So I see how my request is hard but curious if anyone has any industries/opportunities I’m missing where I could work later in the day shifts. I have construction management, retail, and landscaping experience and have seemingly a lot more work experience then most people coming directly out of college. Unfortunately I just can’t bring myself to move until I have a job locked down. And no I don’t want to work at Mt. Bachelor. Don’t want to spend all my off days at my work place.

I was enjoying a hot tub soak and at around midnight it went from very quiet to absurdly loud. At least two dogs. Maybe a coyote.

The sound was disturbing.

Did anyone else hear this, does anyone know what was up?

It's been open a year and apparently it's closing already.

I've been here twice it was quite good if not a bit expensive but certainly tasty.

:/

I'm an amateur photographer and have been taking photos of descansos -- those roadside memorials to accident victims you see here and there. There are a ton on Highway 97 but I am wondering if you have seen any elsewhere in and around Bend/Redmond/Prineville/Fossil/etc.?

You can see the photos I have already taken in Bend and Central Oregon at https://etpeterson.com/central-oregon-descansos/ if you're interested ... but they are kind of sad and yeah, the subject matter is sort of dark.

You can reply here or DM me locations if you know of any. Thanks!

My husband and I are looking to take his parents out for dinner this weekend. Neither of us have food restrictions so this is pretty far out of my depth.

We’ve been to Wild Rose so we’d rather not take them there again…Anything extremely flexible around town where my MIL could find some options?

I think the cabana sand is a joke 😅 but she would like to eat outdoors since it will be nice. Not really a requirement.

Thank you! 🙏