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Union
declines
St. Charles’
request to
halt strike
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Boneyard Beer bought
by Deschutes Brewery in
landmark acquisition
Hospital had made it a
condition for bargaining
BY SUZANNE ROIG
The Bulletin
BY MICHAEL KOHN
The Bulletin
B
oneyard Beer, one of Bend’s
scrappy upstart beer makers, has
been acquired by crosstown ri-
val Deschutes Brewery. The deal
is expected to help Boneyard expand
its capacity to can beer, a process that
proved challenging during the pandemic.
Financial details of the acquisition
were not disclosed because both com-
panies are privately held, said Gary Fish,
founder of Deschutes Brewery Inc. Bone-
yard Brewery owner Tony Lawrence will
retain ownership of the Boneyard pub on
Division Street in Bend.
While both companies compete in
the craft beer market and both are based
in Bend, the similarities end there. De-
schutes Brewery is considered an old
hand in the craft brew market, estab-
lished in 1988. It remains among the 10
largest craft brewers in the country by
sales volume. Its label and image con-
jures up bucolic scenes of pure moun-
tains and rivers. Boneyard Beer, founded
in 2010, is more skull and crossbones, a
brash upstart perhaps best known for its
RPM IPA with a lineup that also includes
Skunkape, Hop a Wheelie and Notori-
ous IPA.
The union representing 156 techni-
cians, technologists and therapists at
St. Charles Bend rejected an offer to
return to the bargaining table with the
hospital administration because it in-
cluded a request to cancel the planned
walk out for Thursday.
Sam Potter, the external organizer
for The Oregon Federation of Nurses
and Health Professionals, said the
union would agree to return to the
bargaining table, however, if the hospi-
tal agreed to a strike delay.
“We are more than happy to come
to the bargaining table with a media-
tor,” Potter said in an interview. “We’ve
offered to bargain every single day,
mediator or no. But (the hospital’s)
one condition to come to the table is
to call off the strike. Anyone familiar
with negotiations knows this is a farce.
We would be coming back to the table
having given up every single piece of
leverage.”
The hospital and the union have
met 28 times over the course of more
than a year. The workers voted to form
a union in September 2019.
The strike is currently set to begin at
8 a.m. Thursday. Had the union agreed
to cancel the strike the union would
have had to start the process all over
again, including taking a strike vote of
its members and issuing a 10-day no-
tice of intent to strike.
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Redmond man
gets prison in
fatal car wreck
Scrappy Boneyard
beer, taproom shown
above, will soon have
access to Deschutes
Brewery’s canning
capabilities and
distribution network,
production facility
shown at right.
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
Over three police interviews, Devin
Lee Cooper blamed everyone but him-
self for causing the 2019 wreck on
U.S. Highway 97 that claimed the life
of 19-year-old Sara Ann Edwards of
Redmond.
He blamed the drivers he said never
yield to people from his neighbor-
hood.
He blamed the driver of the concrete
truck who struck Edwards’ vehicle.
Ryan Brennecke/
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Cost of new Redmond park could double for parking, bathrooms
The cost of Redmond’s first
new neighborhood park in 15
years may double, as the city
parks department’s plans get
more ambitious.
The long-planned Quartz
Park — which will be built on
the southern end of the Dry
Canyon, off SW Quartz Ave-
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nue — has grown in scale as
the planning process has con-
tinued, said Annie McVay,
manager of Redmond’s parks
department.
Community surveys from
fall 2020 indicated that the pub-
lic wanted two things at Quartz
Park that weren’t included in
initial plans: a parking lot and
restrooms, McVay said. But
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those two items resulted in cost
estimates jumping from $1.5
million to between $2.7 million
to $4 million.
“It’s not that it’s over-budget,
we just (initially) estimated not
fully knowing what was going
to be in the park,” McVay told
The Bulletin on Tuesday after-
noon.
In the current plans, Quartz
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Park will be nearly 8 acres.
A typical Redmond neigh-
borhood park is between 3 and
5 acres, McVay said. But unlike
those other parks, which are
typically crammed into tight
spaces, Quartz Park has much
more open space to grow, due
to its location at the mouth of
the Dry Canyon.
Quartz Park will serve a part
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of south-central Redmond that
doesn’t have a community park
nearby. The closest city parks
— Hayden Park and Baker
City Park — are about a mile
and a half-mile away. And both
are much smaller.
“The south (end of Red-
mond) has grown pretty dra-
matically, and that is one area
we could definitely use more
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parks,” McVay said.
Mayor George Endicott
agreed that Quartz Park will be
in a great location. He noted
that there are multiple apart-
ment complexes that will soon
be built nearby, including a
massive development off SW
Canal Boulevard about a half-
mile away.
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