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Aime Maxwell, Jasmine are this year s Soroptimist International of Bend Live Your Dream Award recipients
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) Soroptimist International of Bend is pleased to introduce the two winners of the annual “Live Your Dream Award” for 2021. Each woman will receive $2,000 that she can use to further her educational pursuits.
The recipients are chosen with much thought given to their circumstances, challenges, intended goals and financial needs. Both of this year’s winners have demonstrated determination, persistence, purpose and grace while dealing with personal challenges.
Jasmine, a single mother of two, moved to Central Oregon after accepting a position as a Community Engagement Coordinator for a non-profit organization that deals with childhood trauma.
Cloverdale Fire District to seek local option levy Tuesday, February 9, 2021 12:18 PM The Cloverdale Fire District Board of Directors voted unanimously last week to place a local option levy on the May ballot to fund enhanced emergency medical and fire response for District residents. The Cloverdale District lies in the rural lands east of Sisters.
The levy would have a tax rate of $1.35 per $1,000 of assessed property value (not market value) for a period of five years. For every $100,000 of assessed property value, the cost would be $135.
According to the District, funds from the levy would be used to ensure two paid firefighter-medics will staff the main station 24 hours a day, seven days a week. At least one of the two on duty would have paramedic advanced life support training. Paramedics with advanced life support skills bring a level of emergency medical help on scene that was once only available at a hospital.
The child care shortage in Central Oregon worsens amidst pandemic Sarah Bystrom is a sales director and working mother of a family of four in Bend. She and her husband are raising two boys one 3 years old and another age 20-months. On a workday, Bystrom leaves the house at 7:20 am to drop her youngest son at his daycare in northwest Bend and her older son at preschool in northeast Bend. She then starts work at 8:10. At noon, she picks up her older son from preschool. Once home, he ideally takes a nap, and then at 3 pm she picks up her younger son.
7 Redmond Proficiency Academy students receive prestigious art honors
REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) –– Seven Redmond Proficiency Academy students have won 14 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for 2021.
The awards are the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative teens. They recognize a variety of artistic mediums such as writing, painting and photography each year.
RPA junior student Evelyne Anderson, one of the school s winners, said Thursday she’s happy that she got honorable mentions for her work. She is planning on working her way up to a bigger recognition.
“The honorable mention isn’t the highest award you can get, but it’s just really fun to see your art be validated in that way,” Anderson said. “Senior year, I’m hoping to go all out with a photo shoot and really have a distinct vision, and maybe shoot for earning a gold key or something like that.”
Redmond Proficiency Academy students win Scholastic Art & Writing Awards honors
REDMOND, Ore. –– Seven Redmond Proficiency Academy (RPA) students recently won 14 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for 2021. The awards are the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative teens, each year recognizing writing, painting, ceramics and glass, photography and a variety of additional artistic mediums.
“I’m very proud of this year’s award winners,” said Ethan Steltzer, visual arts teacher at RPA. “My students have obviously had a difficult school year of distance learning, so it is refreshing to see them producing fantastic artwork and maintaining some normalcy during an anything but normal year.”