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Bend’s Desert Sky Montessori receives $5,000 OnPoint Credit Union Community Builder Award
Desert Sky Montessori has received On Point Community Credit Union’s Community Builder Award. Learn more here.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — As the 13th annual OnPoint Prize for Excellence in Education campaign continues, OnPoint Community Credit Union announced Tuesday the five schools. including Bend’s Desert Sky Montessori, that have won this year’s Community Builder awards. The winning schools will receive up to $5,000 for a special project that positively impacts their school and community.
OnPoint also announced today the six finalists for the Educator of the Year awards. Three winning teachers (one representing grades K-5, 6-8 and 9-12) will have their mortgage or rent paid for one full year and receive $2,500 for each of their schools. The three runners up (one…
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SHOULD 400 ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND GO TO THORNBURGH RESORT?
Thornburgh Resort plans to develop 400 acres of public land by Cline Butte. Attend the public hearing TONIGHT. More details here.
THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE LANDS WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU!Next week, the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL) is reviewing a request to sell 400 acres of public land to the developers of Thornburgh Resort.
The proposed resort has drawn widespread criticism from concerned residents across Central Oregon.
Over the past year, there has been mounting alarm over the resort’s proposed water use (using up to 6 million gallons per day) and the effects on fish, wildlife, and nearby groundwater levels.
Hundreds of you have participated in multiple Deschutes County land…