The SpokeSman • WedneSday, march 9, 2022 P3
Habitat for Humanity looking for AmeriCorps members
From a press release
Bend-Redmond Habitat for Human-
ity has been awarded four AmeriCorps
construction crew leader positions and
is looking for motivated, qualified can-
didates to serve locally in August.
Habitat AmeriCorps members
serve full-time, paid stipend posi-
tions for 10.5 months, helping to meet
the housing needs of communities
and low to moderate income families
across the United States.
Bend-Redmond Habitat for Hu-
manity members will help the organi-
zation provide more affordable home-
ownership opportunities in both
Bend and Redmond.
In effort to do their part to address
the housing crisis in both cities, Hab-
itat is working to build 15 homes this
coming service year. Over the course
of one service year, Habitat Ameri-
Corps Construction Crew Leads will
coordinate, direct, educate, recruit
and support construction volunteers.
“We have big goals to build and
serve up to 15 families and we can’t do
it without partnerships such as this.
Our local community is committed
to helping us transform lives through
affordable homeownership opportu-
nities but having the onsite support
at our construction sites is extremely
valuable to us,” said Susan Makris,
construction volunteer coordinator.
FLASHBACK
This week in history: Neither a boom town nor a bust
the hangar up to specifications
without total rebuilding. Lantz
said the proposal was expected
to include provisions for mov-
ing the center columns and re-
doing the roof.
The Spokesman
100 Years Ago
March 9, 1922 — Three
soldiers buy farms near Red-
mond
Three ex-soldiers from Mal-
heur County were this week
located on the Deschutes valley
farms, one at Terrebonne and
two at Powell Butte.
H.W. Gould of Vale closed
Monday with the James J. El-
linger estate, represented by
Frank T. Redmond, for the
purchase of the Williar farm
at Terrebonne, which was re-
cently accepted in trade by the
estate. The place comprised
40 acres of irrigated land. The
consideration was $4,000.
Jack Schumway and John
McKenzie, both of Vale, Sat-
urday bought the 120-acre ir-
rigated farm of Joel Elliot at
Powell Butte.
25 Years Ago
75 Years Ago
March 13, 1947 — Trials
underway for choosing radio
for city
First trials of a two-way ra-
dio system for Redmond po-
lice, fire department, first aid
car and other city units were
being made yesterday, with a
temporary antenna set up in
the penthouse of Redmond ho-
tel and a mobile unit installed
in an automobile.
Four makes of radio systems
are to be demonstrated before
the city decides on which to in-
stall. Yesterday a Motorola out-
fit was used, and later General
Electric, RCA, and Philco units
Submitted photo
Redmond police department’s drug education program is in full swing, with the arrival last week of a special
kit, complete with imitation Marijuana plant and other simulated drugs, a slide program and special charts.
Assistant chief Robert Kent, left, is heading the program, which was made possible through donations from
Deschutes VFW Post 4108, represented by commander Bob Williams and others.
will be used.
Yesterday trials were made
with a new type of very high
frequency transmission. Suc-
cessful two-way conversions
were held from all points in
town, from the pumping plant
in the Deschutes Canyon
above Cline Falls, from Teth-
erow bridge, and from behind
Cinder Butte. The hotel pent-
house was used only as a tem-
porary central location for the
experiment. If a permanent
installation is decided upon the
siren tower at the city hall will
probably be used for the main
antenna.
50 Years Ago
March 8, 1972 — Han-
gar construction temporary
halted
Construction on the seven
unit T-hangar at Roberts Field
has been stopped.
George Simpson, city build-
ing inspector, issued a stop
work order last week after it
was discovered that the build-
ing did not meet specifications
for being square and level, ac-
cording to Curt Lantz, Red-
mond Airport Commission
chairman.
Lawrence Construction Co.
of Vancouver, Wash., currently
is preparing a proposal to bring
March 12, 1997 — Neither a
boom town nor a bust
A bank and a business plaza
in Terrebonne? What’s next,
sidewalks?
Whoa, not so fast. Terre-
bonne is a Community that
has experienced, for better or
worse, precious little of the un-
relenting growth that mush-
roomed Deschutes County’s
population in the 1980s and
90s.
No one in Terrebonne
seems to mind that growth
has passed by their rural com-
munity six miles north of
Redmond. Some old timers
who have spent most of their
lives in Terrebonne say a lot of
things have changed over the
years, but they acknowledged
that the town’s growth is a rip-
ple compared to the sea change
that’s transformed much of
Central Oregon.
“It hasn’t changed drasti-
cally; it’s gotten a little more
congested around,” retired
construction worker Fred
Dexter says, sitting on the tail-
gate of his pickup. Waving
his hand towards the neigh-
borhood west of Highway 97,
which runs through town a
block from his home, Dexter
adds, “When we came back
here from Nevada in ’63, there
wasn’t anything up over that
way.”
Still, Terrebonne is a town
that has aged more than its
growth, but that could change
— drastically — by the end of
the century. One of the most
controversial Central Ore-
gon growth issues in the 90s
is whether a destination re-
sort should be allowed next to
Smith Rock State Park, in Ter-
rebonne‘s backyard.
Resort or no, business
growth is stirring in Terre-
bonne. A self-storage and
U-Haul rental center, a branch
of the Prineville bank going in
a vacant lot that will become
Smith Rock Business Plaza,
and expansion of La Siesta to
add a lounge in the Mexican
restaurant don’t constitute a
boom, but it’s progress.
Sidewalks, though, are re-
garded as an encroachment on
Terrebonne’s rural character
that residents want preserved.
County planners required
Wayne Robinson, who opened
Smith Rock self-storage last
year, to pay $42,000 for wid-
ening B Street and putting in
Terrebonne’s first sidewalk and
curb along the block in front
of his business, located across
the street from Terrebonne El-
ementary School.
The county has developed
a street improvement plan for
Terrebonne that proposes add-
ing more sidewalks and other
urban amenities.