Central Oregon top real estate awards announced
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) The Central Oregon Association of REALTORS® (COAR) will present the 2021 EnCOAR awards on June 7th at Tetherow Resort. The EnCOAR awards represent those members that have given back to the association through volunteer work, are very involved in the community, respected among their peers and represent REALTOR spirit.
The 2021 EnCOAR awardees are:
REALTOR of the Year: Debbie Martorano, RE/MAX Key Properties
Rookie of the Year: Megan Zampko, Pacwest Realty Group
Affiliate of the Year: Amber Wilson, Umpqua Bank
COARPAC Cup Small Office: Desert Sky Realty
COARPAC Cup Large Office: Windermere -Redmond
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State University System Chancellor Marshall Criser III said Wednesday that the presidential search process at Florida State University should continue, despite a Board of Governors member s suggestion to halt the process.
Criser’s letter was in response to an email Tuesday from BOG member Alan Levine. Levine raised concerns about a letter sent last week from Belle Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
In her letter, Wheelan cautioned Board of Governors chairman Syd Kitson that forwarding the name of Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran as a presidential candidate could threaten FSU’s accreditation status since it would pose a conflict of interest.
A Piece of the Puzzle
A Redmond hotel will soon become the city s first year-round shelter thanks to funding from
Project Turnkey, the statewide initiative to convert hotel and motels into housing Amid rising housing costs and stagnant wages, Central Oregon s homeless population is growing, and shelter beds are in short supply. But, this June, at least 25 shelter beds will be added to the mix, as Bend-based nonprofit Bethlehem Inn uses state funding to convert a motel in Redmond. On April 27, Bethlehem Inn received a $2.7 million grant to acquire and convert Redmond s 37-room Greenway Motel. The grant is a part of Project Turnkey, a $65 million statewide initiative to convert up to 20 hotels and motels into housing for people displaced by the 2020 wildfires or people who are homeless. The Redmond motel one of 12 projects funded thus far will shelter unhoused individuals and act as the city s first year-round shelter.
A Tale of Two Rentals
Whether it s raised your rent or your home value, the housing crisis in Central Oregon is palpable. These stories tell the tale of renters struggling to find housing and how one group of neighbors fought back against short-term rentals Bend and all of Central Oregon have been in a housing crisis for years a crisis that has only gotten worse as the pandemic unfolded. These are the stories of those seeking housing or those looking to preserve the housing Bend does have. Jack Harvel
Not for rent Dwayne Tayles moved to Bend in 1968 when he was just six years old. He remembers graduating from Bend High School when the sign welcoming people to town listed a population of 9,500. He remembers -40 degree winters and hunting on land where there are now million-dollar homes.