On Your Own Time adds to an already strong year of releases for the Bend producer/musician Sometimes you hear a voice for the first time that immediately latches on to you one that you can t help but be thoroughly impressed by. It s not something that happens every day, nor can you quite predict when it will happen, but it happened when I first heard a KENZI song. Based in Bend, KENZI is the musical project of Spencer Mackenzie Brown, originally born in Kansas. A Central Oregon resident for the past seven months (he first moved to Oregon in 2016, with stops in Hawaii and the East Coast in between), Brown happily calls Bend home.
Illustration by Joey Mauck Special thanks to this week s cover artist Joey Mauck. You can check out more of Mauck s work like Santa has a Sidecar at maukillustration.com.
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By Nicole Vulcan
The Christmas Tree That Almost Killed Us
A local couple reflects on what went wrong after getting a ride out of the wilderness by
Deschutes County Search and Rescue I poured steaming hot chocolate into a thermos and grabbed a few metal camping mugs. My sister Lori had just moved in with us after leaving Los Angeles, and we were taking her out to cut down her first Christmas tree. Lori, her eight-month-old golden retriever, Mochi, my husband Jim and I were headed into the woods off China Hat Road, an area we know well after years of hiking, mountain biking and tree hunting.