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City Club of Central Oregon Announces 2nd Annual Conversation of the Year Award Winner
Bend, OR (April 24, 2019) The City Club of Central Oregon announced Tuesday, at an evening reception for its members and guests, that the “Rethinking Government: Bend Charter Review” is the winner of its second annual “Conversation of […]
Member Spotlight: Erika McCalpine, OSU-Cascades
Erika McCalpine is a business instructor at OSU-Cascades, and a is a past speaker at City Club’s November 2018 Forum titled: Politics, Sex & Religion – How to have difficult conversations without being difficult. She’s also […]
Reflections From April’s Forum: Wildfire! A Real-Time Simulation
April’s forum started with a spark and ignited into a full-blown wildfire simulation demonstrating how multiple organizations work together to protect our region. A unified command, making unified decisions!
If you missed the forum, we’ll be posting […]
“Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.”
“A lot of problems would disappear if we talk to each other instead of about each other.”
“Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.”
“Conversation is the most difficult thing in a democracy – and also the most important.”
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