A4 THE SPOKESMAN - TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2022
Music
Kiah and Redmond.
With the plethora of live music at
Cotton, who helped organize the
area breweries and 52-show lineup
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series and is the director of Open
at Hayden Homes Amphitheater,
as a “nerdy skater kid who grew up
Sky Radio, thinks there’s sky-high
including artists such as Bob Dylan
in the suburbs,” never felt like she fit potential for High Desert Music Hall and Jack Johnson, Cotton believes
in and channeled much of her anx­
and the future of music in Redmond “we are in the midst of what I would
iety into playing guitar. She started
and Central Oregon.
predict is a record-setting season for
“ [High Desert Music Hall] could be live music in Central Oregon.”
playing 20 years ago but has slowly
been building music into a full-time a nationally known venue with help
Tower Theater and Hayden
career over the last 13 or 14 years.
from the community” Cotton said
Homes Amphitheater in Bend may
“I feel like I’m just getting started
“There’s a strong base of music
have their own advantages, High
in a new phase and chapter in my
lovers in the area,” he said, adding
Desert Music Hall has a unique edge
life,” she said, adding that she’s “peel­ that he thinks High Desert is the nic­ — which can attract higher profile
est theater of its kind in the region.
ing back the layers of who I am.”
acts and larger crowds.
“This is a new chapter? Kiah said
»The High Desert Music Hall will host Cascades Radio Hour's music series.
“A lot of new things happening.”
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This seems to be the case for both
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The owner of Petersen Rock Garden is reviewing an offer to purchase the roadside attraction south of
wRedmond, her real estate broker said.
Petersen
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At this point, Brannon said,
the potential buyers will have
to engage in their own due dil­
igence and research into the
property, a process that could
take months.
Brannon said while the deal is
not closed and the possible buy­
ers have yet to actually buy the
property, the seller is accepting
backup offers to be considered
in case the current potential
buyers pull out of the deal.
Annette Perry, co-chair of
the Petersen Rock Garden Pres­
ervation Association, a newly
formed nonprofit organization
whose mission is to preserve the
rock garden, said the associa­
tion is both pleased to hear there
is a potential private buyer and
ready to help the new buyer in
anyway.
“We almost feel it is a blessing
that there is an outside buyer”
Perry said “Because just start­
ing out as a new nonprofit, and
us knowing the property and
us having experience in a lot of
different areas...we know this is
a huge task, and having a pri­
vate buyer will allow our group
to step in and focus on what our
mission is.”
At this point, Perry said the
preservation association hopes
to hear from the prospective
new owners of the rock garden
and is willing to lend a hand in
any way it can.
“We are staying true to our
mission,” Perry added “We
would love to help whoever
owns it We can’t wait to hope­
fully meet them at some point
when they are ready to talk to
people and find out what assets
... we can help them with.”
Growth
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call volume.
“Our goal right now is to
put personnel first,” he said
Currently, Redmond Fire
& Rescue only has about two
firefighters per fire engine in
each shift, below the national
standard of three firefighters
per engine. Mooney hopes to
eventually exceed that mark
and have four firefighters per
engine at all times.
Currently, Redmond Fire
& Rescue employs 54 peo­
ple who fill round-the-clock
shifts. Many currently work
48 hours on followed by 96
hours off.
But, with the lack of staff­
ing, the department has been
asking employees to pick up
overtime shifts. If no one vol­
unteers for the extra hours,
they can become mandatory
— forcing overtaxed employ­
ees to come in on scheduled
days off.
“Right now we do have
some mandatories that are
coming out,” Mooney said.
“We’re trying to address that.”
It has been hard just to at­
tract applicants. In the past,
Mooney said that 1,000 peo­
ple would apply for one fire­
fighter position. Now, it’s more
like 30.
The fire service used to be
super competitive, Mooney
said. But, there’s been a shift in
the last five to six years.
“It’s hard to say why? he
said
Salaries and government
pensions continue to increase,
but so do training require­
ments and the daily drain of
the job can be taxing both
physically and emotionally.
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Lt. Curtis Chambers places a body camera into a docking station at
the Redmond Police Department in 2019.
Those pros and cons of the
job are true for police officers,
too. The Redmond Police De­
partment has also had a diffi­
cult time matching the num­
ber of police officers required
for the ever-increasing num­
ber of Redmond residents.
“Everyone’s feeling the
growth,” said Police Chief
Devin Lewis.
Currently, the department
is short two positions. Accord­
ing to Lieutenant Jesse Pe­
tersen, a spokesperson for the
department, they will need to
Another issue holding them
back from adding personnel
is the lack of adequate office
space. Currently, 64 employees
are crammed into a space of
13,000 square feet.
But with the passing of a
May bond to build a new po­
lice station, Chief Lewis is
hopeful about increasing the
number of department staff.
St. Charles, one of the larg­
est employers in Redmond,
is also seeing shortages in its
emergency room staff. The
hospital has 11 open posi­
tions in Redmond alone, 10 of
which are for registered nurses
and one for an emergency
room technician.
“We have to stay staffed
24/7,” said Hillary Forrest, St.
Charles’ director of human
resources. “So we’ve been us-
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On July 5, the Redmond
Chamber of Commerce
& Visitors’ Bureau an­
nounced all first, second
and third place winners of
the 2022 Redmond Fourth
of July Parade. Five judges
inspected and selected each
winner by category includ­
ing commercial, children’s,
animal/mounted,
organi­
zation and individual cate­
gory winners.
“With patriotic col­
ors, flags and decor,” said
Amanda Joe Luelling, the
events director for the
Chamber of Commerce
in a release. “It was obvi­
ous the love for our coun­
try and our freedom runs
deep in our community.”
The following is a list of
winners announced by the
Chamber of Commerce:
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