Community Garden Featured in Bend, Oregon Newspaper

Today's Bend Bulletin featured the new NorthWest Crossing Community Garden in its "At Home" section. The garden, which was founded last May, features more than 50 garden plots which are all being "grown" by NWX residents and businesses. Photo is also from the Bulletin.

Here are a couple of excerpts from the article that give a little more information on the garden:

The garden features 59 raised, 5-by-10-foot cedar planting beds with drip irrigation and is enclosed by an 8-foot-high wire fence. The beds have built-in seats around the perimeter, so sitting while weeding and tending the garden is convenient and comfortable. A water feature and a birdhouse, surrounded by blooming flowers, adds to the peaceful atmosphere, and the two picnic tables in the shade invite people to sit and enjoy the setting.

The community garden was built and is owned by West Bend Property Co., the developer of NorthWest Crossing, and is being managed by the Oregon State University Extension Service Master Gardener program. The NorthWest Crossing garden is one of two community gardens in Bend managed by OSU Master Gardeners. The garden at Hollinshead Park in northeast Bend has operated for more than two decades.

For the full article, visit The Bulletin's Web site.

Munch N Movies Line Up Announced

We proudly host Munch N Movies in Compass Park each summer, and we are excited to announce a great Movie Line-Up for 2010! Family-friendly movies on an impressive 40x20' screen, food vendors, pre-movie entertainment and more! Is there a better way to spend a Central Oregon summer evening?

August 13: Cloudy w/ a Chance of Meatballs

August 20: Monsters vs Aliens

August 27: UP

September 3: Wizard of Oz

See you there!

summer has sprung

One of the things that clearly marks summer for me is the sound of giggles and roars from the neighborhood kids as I sit outside on my patio as the sun sets. It is so reminiscent of my childhood and the fond memories I have of playing Capture the Flag and Kick the Can late into the evenings of July and August. Kids truly have abandon as they run circles around the yard or in the park and squeal as their sibling or friend intercepts them with a friendly tickle or "tag, you're it!" I just love it! Then as quickly as they come out to play, they disappear into their homes to settle into bed, and the calm, serene peacefulness of the beautiful central Oregon nights takes over. Bliss.

BUILDER magazine Features NorthWest Crossing

We were so pleased to be featured in a recent issue of BUILDER magazine, a national trade publication that provides information to the home building industry. The article, entitled “Tree-Lined Green: NorthWest Crossing in Bend, Ore. Takes sustainability beyond building green”, covered many of the features of the place we call home such as retention of mature trees, community design and more.

BUILDER magazine is a monthly magazine published by Hanley Wood Business Media. It was launched in 1979. It reports on construction industry related technologies, economics, management, business opportunities, architectural design, and sales and marketing. It mainly focuses on builders, contractors and more. www.builderonline.com

One heck of a Hullabaloo!

Hullabaloo week at NorthWest Crossing was fabulous! It started with the neighborhood summer concert series "Twilight Tunes" at Compass Park, then the USA Cycling Junior Road National Crit races, and ended with a rockin' concert by Jonatha Brooke. The NorthWest Crossing residents really provided a warm welcome and rolled out the red carpet for the Junior racers and their families, in addition to 1000s of visitors who descended upon NorthWest Crossing Drive for the third annual street festival that is now an official kick off to summer! Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the sunshine, the warm weather, the summer season and the community!

USA Cycling Road Nationals at NorthWest Crossing

It has been so much fun to watch the cyclists ride through NorthWest Crossing practicing for their road races and the crit this week. I stopped by the starting line this afternoon and was lucky enough to see the Women's 15-16 yr age group take off on their race from Summit High and through Tetherow. WOW - it is really spectacular to have USA Cycling here in Bend, and here in NorthWest Crossing. I encourage all of you to step outside tomorrow to watch the juniors whiz through the neighborhood. Come cheer them on....they are our future USA riders that we could be watching in France in a few years! Not bad.

sun and sprouts

Well, Mother Nature has decided to join the summer party and shed some sunlight! Thank you, Mother Nature - we so much appreciate you. The combination of my proscrastination and the cooler weather over the last 6 weeks has not been kind to my community garden plot. But to our surprise, we do have SPROUTS! I feel kinda maternal about it. In fact, I am so proud I took a photo. Not quite as cute as my four month old nephew, but cute in a vegetable type of way.