City Club Creates Conversation — Everyone Wants to be Heard

BY LINDA ORCELLETTO — CITY CLUB OF CENTRAL OREGON ON OCTOBER 19, 2021 Cascade Business News When it comes to creating conversation in Central Oregon, City Club of Central Oregon plays an essential role in helping our communities have dialogues about critical issues. City Club [...]

City Club, The Bulletin Partner to Host Informed Conversations, Solutions Workshops

Bend, Ore. (September 30, 2021) Two Central Oregon institutions are reimagining how change happens in the region. The City Club of Central Oregon is partnering with The Bulletin, Central Oregon’s daily newspaper, to host informed conversations that move the needle on important issues [...]

City Club of Central Oregon Announces Kim Gammond as New Executive Director

Bend, OR (September 8, 2021) The City Club of Central Oregon is pleased to announce the selection of Kim Gammond as its incoming Executive Director. Ms. Gammond will bring her extensive experience in community engagement, her understanding of local topics and leadership abilities [...]

City Club of Central Oregon elects new board president and new board members

Bend, Ore. (November 3, 2020) Members of City Club of Central Oregon elected Blair Garland as board president and three new board members. Garland will serve a one-year term as board president, following Gwenn Wysling, who served in this leadership role in the [...]

Continue the Conversation: Bend’s Urban Core

Allison Platt, Senior Planner with the City of Bend, answers additional questions from the August City Club Forum on Bend’s Urban Core. To stay up-to-date on the City of Bend’s Core Area Project sign up for the mailing list at bendoregon.gov/corearea [...]

Continue the Conversation: Managing our Waste in Deschutes County

The average Central Oregonian produces 2,700 pounds of garbage a year! With our increased population predictions, Deschutes County's Knott Landfill Recycling and Transfer Facility is expected to be full by 2029. During the July forum, we heard about the pros and cons [...]

Continue the Conversation: The Future of Higher Education – College at a Crossroads

Higher education is at a crossroads. During the May forum, we heard directly from students planning to attend college express their excitement for a career as well as concerns of affordability. Reduced state funding and an ever-changing employment landscape continuously challenge the [...]

Continue the Conversation: Regional Resiliency – Planning for a Successful Future

February’s City Club forum tackled the hefty subject of resiliency. With record-breaking attendance and such a broad topic, you can imagine we had a plethora of unanswered questions afterward. We looped back around with Scott Aycock (Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council), Eric Corey [...]

Continue the Conversation: KIDS & CARE. Central Oregon’s Child Care Crisis

January’s forum discussed the ‘childcare desert’ that Central Oregon has become. The speakers, Kara Tachikawa (Inspire Learning Centers), Ryan Combellick (Hydro Flask), and Carolyn Eagan (City of Bend), showed statistics and discussed challenges and opportunities.  A couple of ideas brought up in [...]

Your Role in Suicide Prevention

In April 2017, City Club hosted a forum called “Zero Suicide – A Community’s Call to Action.” As National Suicide Prevention Month ends, we revisit this important topic in our community with a true account from City Club Member Lisa Dobey, Executive Director [...]

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. As with any good topic, 75 [...]