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It all started when she was
feeding the animals on the
farm and turned her back on
one of the rams.
“Next thing I know, I went
flying through the air, landed
on the rock wall, rolled down
off the rock wall, and started
crawling away and had a feel-
ing I should look behind me,”
Caward recalled. “And I look
around behind me and the
sheep is on top of the wall
coming down on top of me
head first, and I just thought,
‘I am dead, dead, dead, dead.”
At this point, Caward curled
up in a ball on the ground
with the expectation that she
would be killed by the animal,
but then Sheba vaulted off her
back and took the ram down
and hung onto its nose until
Caward could escape.
As a young woman work-
ing on a farm every day, she
quickly forgot the back injury
and went on with her life.
It wasn’t until a decade later
that her doctor discovered she
had actually broken her back,
and gave her a choice between
back surgery and eventually
winding up in a wheelchair,
she said. Caward chose sur-
gery, which kept her back in-
jury at bay for a good 19 years,
she said.
She said she loves the peo-
ple who come to visit the rock
garden. She loves talking to
people, but she envisions liv-
ing on a piece of land with
some friends where she could
perhaps raise animals, sleep
in, and enjoy her later years.
“Enjoy yourself, it’s later
than you think,” Caward said,
invoking the inscription on
the Statue of Liberty rock
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Although homelessness
may be less visible in Red-
mond than in larger cities
such as Bend, it is an issue that
has grown quickly — along
with the city population and
housing costs.
“This is not about a build-
ing,” Wysling said. “This is not
about a renovation. This is
about hope.”
The inn will act as a tem-
porary place where residents
can find immediate stability
and be pointed toward per-
manent housing. Shepherd’s
House and Oasis Village are
two more transitional shelters
planned for Redmond, each
one trying to fill a wide gap in
current services.
“It’s a Band-Aid,” said James
Cook, a community advocate.
“Everyone in a shelter is still
considered homeless.”
Without permanent afford-
able housing, Cook said that
the issue will continue to grow
and homelessness will become
a bigger problem in Redmond.
Bethlehem Inn program
director Tara Feurtado seems
an immediate need that the
inn can help fill. Feurtado said
five individuals had already
reached out for help on Thurs-
day’s opening night.
“Our individuals are a part
of the Redmond community,”
she said. “The face of home-
lessness is all of us.”
Brandon Stutzman, a pho-
tographer and documentary
filmmaker from Redmond, is
one such face. As a child, he
lived at the former hotel that
has now been turned into the
Bethlehem Inn. This time,
however, he was there helping
deliver $14,500 to the inn —
after he ran 100 miles and did
1,000 pull-ups in 33 hours on
the Dry Canyon Trail in April.
Stutzman is planning an
even more audacious goal to
help raise more money and
awareness for the Bethlehem
Inn — aiming to raise $30,000
while running 200 miles and
doing 2,000 pull-ups and
2,000 push-ups along the De-
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structure her grandfather
made.
Kaisha Brannon, the real es-
tate agent helping Caward sell
the property, has a personal
connection with the rock gar-
den and wants to see it go to
the right buyers.
Brannon said her grand-
parents and parents visited
the rock garden, and grow-
ing up, it was a special place
she would go see as a kid.
Now, her own children are ex-
ploring the garden while she
shows the place to prospective
buyers.
“I was super excited when
I got the phone call, because
I do know the Petersen Rock
Garden really well, and I do
know how important it is to
the community and to Cen-
tral Oregon, so ultimately this
is very dear to my heart,” she
said. “It’s not necessarily about
the real estate transaction for
me. It’s very much about help-
ing Susan and finding the
right person that is going to be
the new person that takes care
of the property.”
While there is no way to
know what the future owners
will do with the property once
they buy it, Brannon said she
is doing her best to vet buy-
ers to ensure the rock garden
winds up in the right hands.
Brannon added that the
rock garden is open to the
public during the selling pro-
cess, and Caward hopes peo-
ple will still come visit at this
time.
Kelly Cannon-Miller, the
executive director of the De-
schutes County Historical
Society, said the historical so-
ciety stands ready to provide
research and background to
whoever ends up buying the
beloved rock garden.
“I hope the person who
buys it is ready to take it on
and loves it the way people
have loved it over the years,”
Cannon-Miller said. “It defi-
nitely has a community mem-
ory attached to it. Folks who
grew up going there want to
go back and see it and remem-
ber family visits.”
Cannon-Miller explained
that back in its heyday, the Pe-
tersen Rock Garden accom-
modated thousands of tourists
in a given year driving up and
down U.S. Highway 97, which
back then was mainly referred
to as The Dalles-California
Highway.
At the time, during the
1940s and ‘50s, visitors could
visit the rock garden’s mu-
seum, which still stands to-
day, and could take a swan
boat ride on the pond or grab
a bite in the diner in addition
to exploring the rock garden.
Having lunch and contemplat-
ing life outside on the lawn
surrounded by peacocks and
Petersen’s art was a popular
pastime for visitors, Can-
non-Miller said.
“Between 1935 and 1952,
Rasmus (Petersen) was always
still building and changing
it, so it had that changing at-
traction element to it as well,”
Cannon-Miller said of the
rock garden.
Petersen’s art was influenced
by both his childhood grow-
ing up in Denmark, combined
with his experience home-
steading and farming in Or-
egon, a combination compli-
mented by his irreverent sense
of humor and his contempla-
tion of nature, Cannon-Miller
added.
Petersen died of a heart at-
tack inside the museum on the
property in 1952 at the age of
schutes River Trail in August.
For those interested in shel-
tering at the Redmond Bethle-
hem Inn, Feurtado said to call
organization’s shelter in Bend
and ask for help in Redmond.
The organization will work
same-day intake and each per-
son will be handled on a case
by case basis.
After 3-5 days at the inn, in-
dividuals will talk with a case
manager about their specific
situation and what would be
most useful to help them se-
cure a more permanent resi-
dence. Intake days are Tues-
day, Thursday and Friday.
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A 300-pound quartz crystal is on
display in the museum at the Pe-
tersen Rock Garden.
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This hand-built fireplace can be
found in the museum at the Pe-
tersen Rock Garden.
69 and is buried in Redmond
Memorial Cemetery.
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A replica of the Statue of Liberty stands at the Petersen Rock Garden
near Redmond.