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🦃Who's Open for Dining on Thanksgiving? - By Eat Drink Bend

📰Local News - What’s a Happening?

📰Shepherd’s House Celebrates One Year Anniversary

⚖️DAWNS House founder Dawn Holland pleads not guilty to 8 counts of aggravated theft; March trial date set

🅿️Proposed Bend parking code brings changes to EV spaces, RVs, and commercial vehicles

🚶‍♀️‍➡️🚶More car-free areas in Bend? Business owner says it needs to be done the right way

🚲Bend Bikes holds gathering and memorial bike ride to mark World Remembrance Day for Road Traffic Victims 🎦

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Thanksgiving is just around the corner, but not all of us are looking forward to a day full of cooking. We've got some of the best places you can eat out, get takeout, or grab a ready-to-heat meal kit this Thanksgiving Day!

Who's Open for Dining on Thanksgiving?

Newbie Hawkeye & Huckleberry Lounge is just one of many restaurants serving up a fantastic prix fixe menu on Thanksgiving.

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Shepherd’s House Celebrates One Year Anniversary

Shepherd's House Ministries€™ Redmond Center has been open for one year Friday.  Shelter director John Lodice says in that time, they’ve served over 50-thousand meals with over 14-thousand overnight stays. Of the 400 different people they’ve served, more than a hundred have moved to a more stable situation. The public is invited to a first-anniversary gathering Friday at the Redmond Center on South Highway 97, from noon to 2 P-M.

DAWNS House founder Dawn Holland pleads not guilty to 8 counts of aggravated theft; March trial date set

 The founder of DAWNS House, a Bend nonprofit that provides housing for women recovering from addiction, pleaded not guilty Friday to eight counts of aggravated first-degree theft, accused of stealing more than $300,000 from the organization.

A March trial date was set for Dawn Holland, 52, who participated by phone in the brief plea hearing before Deschutes County Circuit Judge Randy Miller. He set a three-day jury trial for March 12 and a trial readiness hearing for March 4.

Holland was arrested in May on 10 Class B felonies, accused of stealing the money from DAWNS ((Directly Assisting Women Newly Sober) House since 2019, the year she was named the Bend Chamber’s Woman of the Year. She was taken into custody at the Bend Police Department on an outstanding warrant and released from jail that day after posting 10% of her $50,000 bail.

Proposed Bend parking code brings changes to EV spaces, RVs, and commercial vehicles

The City of Bend announced Friday plans to update its parking code to be “more modern” to meet the city’s current and future needs. The changes would affect electric vehicle parking spaces, vehicles that stick out too far and vehicles that are unable to move on their own.

In a news release, the City said the changes would not change current regulations in existing parking districts or the three-day parking limits outside of parking districts. I also does not create new parking districts or increase paid parking. 

The City highlighted these changes to the code.

• Requiring that a vehicle parked in a space designated for alternative vehicle refueling (e.g. an electric vehicle) be actively engaged in refueling.

• Prohibiting a vehicle with protrusions (like RVs with pullouts) from blocking the sidewalk or travel lane.

• Prohibiting commercial vehicles that weigh more than 26,000 pounds from parking between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. in districts zoned residential.

• Prohibiting any vehicle or structure that isn’t designed for or capable of self-propulsion (including trailers, recreational vehicles, campers, motor homes or snowmobiles) or is not connected to a vehicle designed for or capable of self-propulsion from parking on a street or off-street parking facility.

• A new process for creating parking districts and district-specific management plans in areas that have a demonstrated need.

• Clarifying the distance required to move a vehicle when a parking time limit is reached outside of parking districts.

• Clarifying how parking citations, immobilization, and tows are handled.

The public can review the code at this link. Comments will be taken through Dec. 3. The City Council will consider the new code on Dec. 4. 

If adopted, the changes would happen later in 2025, the City said.

More car-free areas in Bend? Business owner says it needs to be done the right way

The City of Bend is exploring the idea of creating more people-centered, walkable spaces downtown, such as Brooks Street Alley. The goal is to create a pedestrian and bike zone stretching from Drake Park through downtown to Juniper Park.

Multiple ideas are being floated including such as car-free streets for walking only or streets with limited car access.

The City heard feedback from the public at an open house Friday.

“And so we’re really hoping to get the community input of ‘Do you like these street types? There’s four new ones that we’ve identified. Do you like tweaks of what you’d like on these different street types, and where do you want to see them in Bend?’” the city's core area project manager Allison Platt said.

Downtown business owners have concerns about the idea of closing off streets to car traffic. Outside In owner Angela Salido said she embraces progress and isn’t necessarily against the idea as long as it’s done correctly and with community feedback.

Salido noted that a similar project west of the Cascades was a detriment to business.

“As we’ve seen, unfortunately, what happened in our neighboring city of Eugene, this happened and now a ton of local businesses went out of business. People just quit coming to the area and it’s actually become very populated by houselessness. It’s no longer a community space," Salido said.

She also noted that downtown businesses are very hesitant about taking away parking when a spot is already difficult to come by. Salido hopes the city would add parking elsewhere before creating walkable areas.

At this point, the City is still exploring the idea and no final decision will be made any time soon.

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