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Member Spotlight: Blair Garland, OSU-Cascades
Meet City Club member Blair Garland from OSU-Cascades. He’s new to Bend and charged with engaging with the community. Watch his Q&A!
The 2018 Wildfire Season: What has been done (and what can we still do) to reduce our risk?
With wildfire season upon us, City Club would like to continue the conversation from our March 2018 forum, which featured the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project (DCFP) and their forest restoration efforts in the Deschutes National Forest. […]
Reflections from July’s Forum: It’s Branding Time in Bend
This month’s forum complemented City Club’s forum in August 2016, which featured Visit Bend’s president, the City’s economic development director, and the state’s regional economist. A link to that program is here: https://cityclubco.org/past-forums/. Our July […]
“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.”