City of Bend Seeks Input for Street Safety Project
The City of Bend will hold an open house on Aug. 22 from 4-6pm, inviting the community to learn more about the Franklin Avenue Safety Project. The project aims to improve access for walking, biking and rolling on Franklin Avenue, between Harriman Street and Fifth Street.
The open house will give community members the opportunity to learn about the project, share their input and ask questions. The City is designing more accessible bike and pedestrian routes throughout the community. Creating safer connections and improving the transportation system by focusing on safety are City priorities, according to a press release.
—Julianna LaFollette
Bend-La Pine School to Recycle Old Textbooks
Bend-La Pine Schools recently adopted the "Really Great Reading Curriculum," a new elementary curriculum presenting the challenge of responsibly disposing of old materials. There is currently no local recycling market for hard-bound textbooks, so at the end of last school year, students, custodians and other staff sent the district's hard-bound books to a company that processes wastepaper, which diverted about 66 cubic yards of books from Knott Landfill in Bend, according to a press release.
—Julianna LaFollette
- The length of the Pacific Crest Trail. From the News story, "The Increasing Complexity of 'Thru-Hiking' the Pacific Crest Trail."
-Ellen Waterston, from this week's Culture story, "Bend's Ellen Waterston Named Oregon Poet Laureate."