THE SPOKESMAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2022 P5
Calendar
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showing off their creations; 4-7 p.m.;
free; Downtown Redmond, Fifth,
Sixth and Seventh streets, Red-
mond; visitredmondoregon.com.
Rubato: An evening of east-
ern European Klezmer music;
6-10:30 p.m.; free; High Desert Mu-
sic Hall, 818 SW Forest Ave., Red-
mond; highdesertmusichall.com or
541-527-1387.
Best of Craft Beer Awards 2022:
Celebrate and promote the best
of the best in brewing around the
world; Deschutes County Fair &
Expo Center, 3800 SW Airport Way,
Redmond; beerawardsplatform.
com or 541-548-2711.
Saturday 3/5
Cheyenne West & Kurt Silva: The
country duo will perform; 5-8 p.m.;
$15.00 online; Faith, Hope and Char-
ity Vineyards, 70450 NW Lower
Valley Drive, Terrebonne; faithho-
peandcharityevents.com or 541-
526-5075.
JuJu Eyeball & Superball: These
Bend based bands will be bring-
ing a night of Beatles songs & 70’s
bell-bottom rock; 8 p.m.; $5.00
Cover; High Desert Music Hall, 818
SW Forest Ave., Redmond; high-
desertmusichall.com or 541-527-
1387.
Best of Craft Beer Awards 2022:
Celebrate and promote the best
of the best in brewing around the
world; Deschutes County Fair &
Expo Center, 3800 SW Airport Way,
Redmond; beerawardsplatform.
com or 541-548-2711.
Sunday 3/6
Sunday Brunch and Karaoke:
Join for brunch and Karaoke;
10 a.m.-3 p.m.; free; General Duffy’s
Watering Hole, 404 SW Forest Ave.,
Redmond; facebook.com/Gener-
alduffys or 541-527-4345.
Best of Craft Beer Awards 2022:
Celebrate and promote the best
of the best in brewing around the
world; Deschutes County Fair &
Expo Center, 3800 SW Airport Way,
Redmond; beerawardsplatform.
com or 541-548-2711.
Monday 3/7
Redmond Bicycle and Pedestrian
Advisory Committee Meeting:
A regular meeting will be held;
4-6 p.m.; free; Redmond City Hall,
Online; redmondoregon.gov or 541-
923-7710.
Planning Commission Meeting:
A regular meeting will be held; 4:30-
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JuJu Eyeball & Superball will per-
form at the High Desert Museum
on Saturday.
6:30 p.m.; free; Redmond City Hall,
Online; redmondoregon.gov or 541-
923-7750.
Open Mic: First timers to pros, ev-
eryone’s welcome to sing up for
open mic; 5:30-7:30 p.m.; free; Gen-
eral Duffy’s Watering Hole, 404
SW Forest Ave., Redmond; gener-
alduffys.com or 541-527-4345.
Tuesday 3/8
Writers Writing — Quiet Writ-
ing Time: Enjoy the focus of a quiet
space with the benefit of others’
company; 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.;
free; Redmond Public Library, 827
SW Deschutes Ave., Redmond; de-
schuteslibrary.org or 541-312-1050.
Bingo: Play Bingo and Win Prizes;
11 a.m.-3 p.m.; General Duffy’s Wa-
tering Hole, 404 SW Forest Ave.,
Bend; facebook.com/Generalduffys
or 541-527-4345.
Using Nature as a Model for For-
est Management — The case for
ecological forestry: This class will
introduce you to basic principles of
forest ecology in the Pacific North-
west, and how these principles can
be translated to active management
practices that yield diverse forest
products and ecosystem services;
3-4:30 p.m.; free; OSU Extension
Service, 3893 SW Airport Way, Red-
mond; extension.oregonstate.edu
or 541-548-6088.
Virtual City Council Meeting:
A regular meeting will be held;
3:30 p.m.; Redmond City Hall, On-
line; redmondoregon.gov or 541-
923-7710.
Trivia Wednesdays: Go with a
team or team up there to play gen-
uine UKB Trivia live and possibly win
gift certificates; 6:30-8:30 p.m.; free;
Initiative Brewing, 424 NW 5th, Red-
mond; facebook.com/InitiativeBrew
or 541-527-4380.
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Plans are for the Junction Roastery and Social Club to have a coffee roaster in the cafe.
Junction
The Junction
Roastery and
Social Club can
seat 50 people
indoors and has
two outside pa-
tios for more.
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Their workhorse espresso
machine is a La Marzocco —
handmade in Italy.
“It takes time, for one has to
understand all the mechanics
of how that works, but also to
recognize the environment it
sits in,” said Olson. “It involves
knowing the humidity in the
building, the actual amount of
beans in the hopper, the sun-
light coming in the window.
It’s that precise.”
There are plans to put a
roaster in the cafe, so there is
fresh roasted brew every day.
And the beans will be for sale,
as well.
There are bakery items,
salads and sandwiches too,
freshly prepared at the “sister”
store Niblick & Greene’s from
Eagle Crest.
Bringing people back to-
gether in a social setting, sip-
ping good coffee and munch-
ing on healthy food, is at the
heart of the new Redmond
coffee shop.
“We want to give guests the
best possible experience,” Ol-
sen said. “That includes the
coffee, the food and the cus-
tomer service.”
Thisius, 35, and Olson, 47,
bring with them a wealth of
restaurant and hospitality
management experience.
Thisius moved to Cen-
tral Oregon in 2005. He has
a background in restaurants,
hospitality and product de-
velopmet. He has a degree
in nutrition from the Univ-
eristy of Minnesota and is a
registered clinical dietitian.
He purchased the Tumalo
Feed Company steakhouse in
2018, selling it in 2021. Since
then, he worked for Take Two
Foods and helped develop a
barista blend of plant-based
milk for coffee from recycled
barley and spent grains from
breweries.
Olson hails originally from
Washington, D.C., where he
had numerous hospitality
gigs and attended Virginia
Tech and Johnson Whales cu-
linary school. He moved to
San Diego and earned a mas-
ters in international business,
planning on opening a cof-
fee shop there and importing
and exporting coffee. But his
wife, Lauren was raised here
in Bend, and with two chil-
dren in tow, they moved to
Bend about seven years ago
to do the same with their own
family.
Olson did a stint at open-
ing and running two success-
ful Bend restaurants and at
the Brasada Ranch resort, but
really wanted to get back to
working for himself. He and
his wife purchased Niblick &
Greenes and use that for the
food offerings at Junction.
“We really want to keep ev-
erything as local as possible,”
Olson said.
“Our motto is good stuff all
the time, it’s got to be the best,”
Thisius said.
The Junction can
seat up to 50 indoors, and
there’s two patios that ac-
commodate 50 each. So, it
can hold engagement, special
events, wedding parties, beer
and wine tastings and other
large events.
The shop anchors the east
side of the art deco-style Pat-
rick building on W. Deschutes
Ave. across from the Red-
mond Police Department ad-
jacent to Centennial Park. It
houses several small business
offices, too. The building was
originally Redmond’s first
hospital in the 1940s.
Now reimagined and ren-
ovated as the Junction, both
Olson and Thisius believe that
it will help contribute to Red-
mond’s downtown growth.
“We want to be a part of the
fiber of this community and
help make a difference,” Olson
said. “The future of Redmond
is just going to be up, up and
up.”
Coffee is on from 7 a.m.
to 4 p.m. 7 days a week. For
more details, see their website
at www.junctionroastery.com
Editor: 541-633-2166,
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Students wear masks as they file into Sage Elementary School on the
first day back to school in Redmond.
Masks
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The board’s move Monday
represents a walk-back from
its defiant position earlier this
month. Its previous resolution
placed the district in legal jeop-
ardy and teachers at risk of los-
ing their state-issued teaching
licenses.
After passing the resolution
earlier this month, the district
received a letter from the Ore-
gon Health Authority threaten-
ing daily $500 fines per school.
With 13 schools, that would
amount to $6,500 in fines per
day, beginning as soon as the
previous resolution moved for-
ward.
The Oregon Department of
Education also informed the
district that it would not re-
ceive reimbursements for fed-
eral spending if it lifted masks
early, Cline said in the meeting.
“We would be racking up
substantial fines on day one,”
Cline said.
Michael Summers, who
drafted the previous resolution
alongside board chairwoman
Shawn Hartfield and stood by
its legality in the Feb. 16 meet-
ing, described the board’s deci-
sion Monday as a “win.”
Summers previously empha-
sized the importance of taking
local control back and making
masks optional earlier than
the state’s original March 31
deadline. He said in the Feb. 16
meeting that the board’s reso-
lution would put the govern-
ment “back in its lane.”
But on Monday, he said that
the date for making facial cov-
erings optional “is not the hill
I’m dying on.”
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