MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

We are delighted to host Sisters Sisters Leadership Book Club discussing Rising Strong by Brene Brown. Facilitated by Stefanie Siebold, Leadership Coach & Co-Owner of PIQue Coaching and Jenn Masse, Leadership Coach & Owner of Conshy Coaching.

Looking to grow personally and professionally, alongside a community that values thoughtful conversation? This book club is for individuals who want to reflect, connect, and take action. We’ll meet every two weeks to dive into the book Rising Strong by Brené Brown, and more importantly, explore how its ideas show up in our real lives.

This isn’t just about reading, it’s about rising strong as a community.

Click here to learn more and register!

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

About Close To Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door:

We know nature is good for us: studies show that spending time outdoors can reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and accelerate healing. And yet, in our fast paced, technology-focused world, we often forget to slow down and pay attention to the natural world around us. We consider the common species in our neighborhoods to be mundane, blinding us to the wonders and mysteries waiting to be uncovered: potter wasps building turrets out of mud and rocks to serve as nests for their young, thrushes singing in minor chords, and wild parrots teaching one another how to open garbage cans in search of food. Any backyard or neighborhood park can yield exciting new discoveries, and anyone’s observations can contribute to biodiversity research and conservation efforts around the globe.

A practicing field biologist with over three decades of experience, Thor Hanson retrains our eyes to reveal the hidden phenomena all around us in Close To Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door. Hanson takes readers on a tour of his own backyard, teaching us how and where we can reacquaint ourselves with local species. Through community-driven efforts like the BioSCAN project in Los Angeles or the iNaturalist app, anyone can contribute to scientific research that will help us learn more about the world, improve biodiversity, and even discover new species. Hanson introduces us to communities across the globe that are banding together to fight climate change and environmental degradation. For instance, one canton in Switzerland has built over 850 ponds to bring back dwindling amphibian populations. Citizens in Oklahoma City boost monarch butterflies on their long migration, planting the critical milkweeds they rely upon to feed and reproduce. And in Alaska, one homeowner’s backyard soil sample has yielded a promising new cancer drug, plus a compound that neutralizes pet odors.

 In an era of global environmental challenges, Hanson argues that hyper-local, hands-on efforts to connect with nature have never been more important. He shows readers the myriad, simple ways to improve habitats and increase biodiversity on virtually any patch of ground, whether by planting flowers, installing birdfeeders, or leaving our lawns unmowed. Moving and reverent, Close To Home provides a much-needed lesson in curiosity and community, one that reminds us to slow down and invest in the world waiting for us just outside our doors.world waiting for us just outside our doors.

Author bio:

Thor Hanson is a conservation biologist, Guggenheim fellow, and author of award-winning books including Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, Buzz, Feathers, and The Triumph of Seeds. Hanson’s research and conservation activities have taken him around the globe to study Central American trees and songbirds, nest predation in Tanzania, and the grisly feeding habits of African vultures. He served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda, where he helped establish the mountain gorilla tourism program in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. He has also helped manage a brown bear tourism project for the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska. He co-hosted the PBS Nature series American Spring Live and has appeared as a guest on many programs including Biology Support on WIRED, and NPR’s Fresh Air, On Point, and Science Friday. His popular articles and essays have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, and The Los Angeles Times. He lives with his wife and son on an island in Washington State.

Join us for a special Storytime With Sloth featuring biologist and author Thor Hanson presenting his book Escape Artist! Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

About The Escape Artist: A True Story of Octopus Adventure:

When Inky the octopus slipped out of his tank at the National Aquarium in New Zealand, his audacious escape made headlines around the world. Biologist Thor Hanson’s funny, informational text and Galia Bernstein’s illuminating, humorous pictures showcase the intelligence and curiosity of this fascinating creature. For readers who love true stories about animals. Features fun facts about octopuses and additional information about Inky’s escape.

A rock. A pot. Some sand. A light. And those same four walls, day in and day out. Inky the octopus has only ever known his tank at the aquarium in New Zealand. Understimulated and craving answers, he watches the people walk by and wonders where they go—until one fateful day when the lock on his tank is left unlatched. Inky escapes, and he miraculously makes his way into a drainpipe and out to the ocean.

Inky’s story is all true—there really was an octopus who escaped the National Aquarium in New Zealand and returned to the sea, becoming a viral sensation. Award-winning author and biologist Thor Hanson’s rhyming text is funny, engaging, and informative and highlights the innate intelligence of octopuses. Galia Bernstein’s vibrant, tentacle-filled artwork is the perfect complement, capturing Inky’s curiosity, intelligence, and resourcefulness.

Author bio:

Thor Hanson is a conservation biologist, Guggenheim fellow, and author of award-winning books including Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, Buzz, Feathers, and The Triumph of Seeds. Hanson’s research and conservation activities have taken him around the globe to study Central American trees and songbirds, nest predation in Tanzania, and the grisly feeding habits of African vultures. He served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda, where he helped establish the mountain gorilla tourism program in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. He has also helped manage a brown bear tourism project for the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska. He co-hosted the PBS Nature series American Spring Live and has appeared as a guest on many programs including Biology Support on WIRED, and NPR’s Fresh Air, On Point, and Science Friday. His popular articles and essays have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, and The Los Angeles Times. He lives with his wife and son on an island in Washington State.

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

The Pause Button is an informal monthly gathering for poets and poetry enthusiasts! We will gather around the big table and take a moment to pause for poetry exploration. Bring a poem or two to share - poems can be written by you or by another poet. We will listen, discuss, and do a little writing with a writing prompt.

Free and open to writers of all levels of experience. No need to sign up, y’all just come!

5:30-6:30 on first Mondays.

Join Partners In Care for our first community book club! This book club is free and open to anyone in the community and will be held the second Wednesday of each month from 10 – 11 am at Paulina Springs Books.

Partners In Care will provide books to everyone attending. October’s book will be There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak.

If you are interested, kindly RSVP so the appropriate number of books can be ordered! You can RSVP by calling the Book Club leader Bethany Benefield at (541) 706-0567 or by emailing communityevents@partnersbend.org

Bethany Benefield, the book club leader, is the Partners In Care Transitions Coordinator for the Redmond and Sisters communities, where she is dedicated to supporting medically fragile folks and their families. With a background as a licensed Community Health Worker and a B.S. in Social Entrepreneurship, she is passionate about promoting equity and empowering others. Outside of her work, Bethany enjoys spending quality time with her husband and two children, nurturing her lifelong love of reading, and sharing her enthusiasm with those around her.

About Partners In Care:

Partners In Care has been serving Central Oregon for over 45 years as the region’s leading and most trusted nonprofit hospice, home health, and palliative care provider, redefining hope for our community since the beginning.

We provide care to communities throughout Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties. Our largely mobile workforce of over 200 employees serves patients and their families in a 10,000 square mile area. Nearly 200 local volunteers work with Partners In Care in fundraising, resource coordination, and other areas of community support.

As the name Partners In Care suggests, our multi-disciplinary team not only serves patients with life-limiting illness and families during a most difficult time, but it’s also a valuable partner with other community resources and organizations, coordinating compassionate care and meeting a broad spectrum of care needs for many population segments.

About Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey from Alaska to Argentina

Explorers Kristen and Ville Jokinen met and fell in love while scuba diving in Vietnam. Ville then left his native Finland to join Kristen in Oregon and together they embarked on a life-changing two-year cycling adventure covering 18,000 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina. Despite never having cycled further than around the block, they persevered unrelenting, punishing rain and wind, altitude sickness, dog attacks, bike accidents, and countless flat tires to cycle between the ends of the earth. Kristen and Ville believe that kindness connects us to our shared humanity. They held babies, attended quinceañeras, drank pulque, played soccer, and visited schools. People in Mexico, Central America, and South America invited them into their hearts and homes, allowed them to camp in their fields and farms, and acted as personal tour guides. Kristen and Ville are love on wheels, and who doesn’t need a little more love in their lives?

Author Bio:

Venturing from the farm to the great unknown, Kristen set out to experience the world as a hungry, young nomad with nothing but a backpack and a solid pair of shoes. Traveling light and always on the move, she found time to study and learn new skills along the way, at one time working as a wild land firefighter, a teacher, a real estate agent, and eventually an international speaker and author. 

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Join us for a monthly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every 2nd Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

About Keeper of the Clearing: A Woodland Adventure of Friendship, Courage and Discovery (Young Adult Fiction):

Keeper of the Clearing began with a simple question Jan Wood saw on a poster in her doctor’s office: Are you an owl, a turtle, or a tiger? That sparked something within her and bloomed into a fable filled with wonder, warmth, and the timeless wish that every child might discover their own way with clarity, compassion, and courage. 

Keeper of the Clearing is written for a time like this—where the world feels noisy, divided, and uncertain. It’s a woodland fable about listening deeply, acting wisely, and finding courage in unlikely places. 

In a forest unraveling from confusion and conflict, three unexpected travelers—Owl, Turtle, and Tiger—are chosen to search for a new way forward. What they discover isn’t a map, it’s something far more enduring: the strength that comes from walking together, with kindness and care.

This is a story meant for the young and the not-so-young. A compass—not to lead you somewhere new, but to remind you where you are—and who you truly are—is enough.

Author bio:

Jan Wood is a mother of five and grandmother to thirteen. She’s a longtime mindfulness practitioner who believes in the power of imaginative stories to speak truthfully to the heart. Jan lives in Eastern Oregon with her husband, Larry; her beloved dogs, Luna and Fiona; and two curious cats, Pookie and Boo—who often supervise her writing from the dining room table.

Gail Neufeld, Jan’s sister, is the illustrator for Keeper of the Clearing and a lifelong artist. Gail has worked in a variety of creative mediums over the years including painting, knitting, crocheting, pottery, and quilting. Her whimsical and folk-art-inspired style brings the world of the book to life in a way that resonates with readers of all ages. Gail lives in Redmond Oregon with her always entertaining mini dachshund, Penny. 

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

We are excited to host PSB Fiction Book Club! Third Mondays from 5:30-6:30 pm.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

Join us for a 90 minute Sunday afternoon nature writing workshop with Cat Tadlock!

About Nature’s Voice: Exploring The Wisdom of the Natural World and Inside Ourselves as Part of Nature:

Nature’s Voice is a nature writing workshop intended to facilitate a deepening of connection to self and to the natural world. Develop your voice and perspective as a writer, and explore your place and role as a part of the natural world. We will explore nature themes inspired by the book Just Add Nature by Rebecca Frank, through the use of creative journal writing prompts, free writing and sharing our voices and perspectives on the natural world.

Course text: Just Add Nature by Rebecca Frank. 
Please read: Chapter 1 Getting Closer to Nature prior to class.

About Cat Tadlock:

Cat Tadlock has a deep passion and respect for the creative arts as tools for healing and unlocking our inner wisdom. Teaching people how to unlock their creative potential, find their voice, and connect to their inner wisdom through creative and nature writing is her passion. She has both a Masters in English Literature and a Masters in special education and has worked teaching writing, English, and various other subjects from kindergarten through university in settings all around the world. She enjoys sharing her passion, knowledge and experience with both youth and adults and offering creative writing class for ages 10-13 , 14-17 as well as adults 18 and up. 

Suggested donation: $25. Scholarships available. Please contact Cat at 541-690-9545 or email Info@sapphirefarms.us for info and reserve your spot.

About Hot Dish Confidential:

Join George Sorensen’s culinary revolution and be prepared for an unforgettable journey of flavor, camaraderie, and adventure.

George wants to learn how to cook, Not just cook, but to prepare a truly great meal. He recruits a group of amateur gourmets to come to his little Minneapolis bungalow, prepare a meal together, and show him the ropes. George embarks on a year-long gastronomic journey from goose to rattlesnake. He samples the delights of wild mushrooms, the flavors of the oceans, and a Charles Dickens Christmas with a mouthwatering pheasant pie. Along the way there will be wine, lots of wine.

Join George on a culinary journey that will transform your taste buds and ignite your passion for cooking. As a bonus, you might even find yourself earning a blue ribbon for your homemade jam at the Minnesota State Fair or stumbling upon your future wife amidst blooming apricot trees.

Author Bio:

George Sorensen has written books about freelance writing and a history of an army unit in Montana who tried to replace the horse with the bicycle, titled: Iron Riders. For years he wrote marketing communications and documentation for 3M, Nike, Boeing and other companies. He helped launch new products to market including PostIt Notes and worked with NASA on the Mars Program. Now he writes novels and non-fiction books. George lives in the Pacific Northwest.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

The Pause Button is an informal monthly gathering for poets and poetry enthusiasts! We will gather around the big table and take a moment to pause for poetry exploration. Bring a poem or two to share - poems can be written by you or by another poet. We will listen, discuss, and do a little writing with a writing prompt.

Free and open to writers of all levels of experience. No need to sign up, y’all just come!

5:30-6:30 on first Mondays.

About Miscalculated Risks: Attacked, Crippled, Paralyzed, Drowning, Unconscious and Freezing in The Wild (Just Not All at Once)

Michael Cooper was compulsively drawn to perilous places. It nearly got him killed over a half-dozen times. In its action-packed, often-comical pages, Miscalculated Risks recounts how Cooper’s increasingly dangerous ventures far into wilderness landed him in dire situations: mortally wounded in a Mexican jungle, twenty roadless miles from the nearest medical facility. Half-drowned and severely hypothermic on an isolated Oregon river, shooting sixty-nine miles of rapids during a weeklong blizzard. Deathly sick and out of water in sun-scorched desert . . . Retelling the near-fatal adventures in Cooper’s own words, Miscalculated Risks introduces a mix of unforgettable characters: the superhuman mill worker and the ADHD-tormented tax assessor, Cooper’s quirky cohorts on over thirty mountaineering ascents. And the charismatic hippie, offbeat national park ranger and reckless journalist who join Cooper on thirteen daring expeditions on foot through five trackless deserts—including to places where nobody in recorded history had gone before.

Author bio:

Michael Cooper’s journalism career spans four decades and over five hundred articles written for seven pro-audio magazines and Wired. A noted authority on music production and sound for film, he has served as recording engineer on projects featuring Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt and former weekend anchor of ABC World News Barry Serafin, and worked with Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Ashley Cleveland. A Contributing Editor for Mix magazine (and formerly for Electronic Musician), his spare time has been devoted to backpacking, climbing, hiking, skiing and rafting eight thousand miles in the wilds of North America—grist for the harrowing stories recounted in Miscalculated Risks: Attacked, Crippled, Paralyzed, Drowning, Unconscious and Freezing in The Wild (Just Not All at Once). He lives with his wife in Central Oregon.

For more photographs and video of Michael’s adventures, visit his website: https://michaelcooperadventurer.com.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Exciting news for little booklovers: join us for a new weekly storytime event, Storytime with Sloth! Featuring books and songs and coloring time every Saturday at 10 am. Free and open to all. Kids of all ages are welcome!

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

Join Partners In Care for our first community book club! This book club is free and open to anyone in the community and will be held the second Wednesday of each month from 10 – 11 am at Paulina Springs Books.

Partners In Care will provide books to everyone attending. October’s book will be There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak.

If you are interested, kindly RSVP so the appropriate number of books can be ordered! You can RSVP by calling the Book Club leader Bethany Benefield at (541) 706-0567 or by emailing communityevents@partnersbend.org

Bethany Benefield, the book club leader, is the Partners In Care Transitions Coordinator for the Redmond and Sisters communities, where she is dedicated to supporting medically fragile folks and their families. With a background as a licensed Community Health Worker and a B.S. in Social Entrepreneurship, she is passionate about promoting equity and empowering others. Outside of her work, Bethany enjoys spending quality time with her husband and two children, nurturing her lifelong love of reading, and sharing her enthusiasm with those around her.

About Partners In Care:

Partners In Care has been serving Central Oregon for over 45 years as the region’s leading and most trusted nonprofit hospice, home health, and palliative care provider, redefining hope for our community since the beginning.

We provide care to communities throughout Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties. Our largely mobile workforce of over 200 employees serves patients and their families in a 10,000 square mile area. Nearly 200 local volunteers work with Partners In Care in fundraising, resource coordination, and other areas of community support.

As the name Partners In Care suggests, our multi-disciplinary team not only serves patients with life-limiting illness and families during a most difficult time, but it’s also a valuable partner with other community resources and organizations, coordinating compassionate care and meeting a broad spectrum of care needs for many population segments.

About We Loved To Run:

We Loved To Run is a fearless debut novel about a women’s cross country team and how far girls will push themselves to control their bodies, friendships, and futures.

We loved running because it was who we were, who we’d been in high school, who we hoped to be in futures we couldn’t yet imagine. Strong and fast. Fast and strong.

At Frost, a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts, the runners on the women’s cross country team have their sights set on the 1992 New England Division Three Championships and will push themselves through every punishing workout and skipped meal to achieve their goal. But Kristin, the team’s star, is hiding a secret about what happened over the summer, and her unpredictable behavior jeopardizes the girls’ chance to win. Team Captain Danielle is convinced she can restore Kristin’s confidence, even if it means burying her own past. As the final meet approaches, Kristin, Danielle, and the rest of the girls must transcend their individual circumstances and run the race as a team.

Told from the perspective of the six fastest team members, We Loved to Run deftly illuminates the impossible standards young women set for themselves in spite of their own powerlessness. With startling honesty and boundless empathy, Stephanie Reents reveals how girls—even those in competition—find ways to love and defend one another.

“Pulled tense with all the beauty, strength, and desperation of youth, We Loved to Run is a stunner of a novel. This book is muscles in motion and hearts spilled out. It’s a tribute to what the body can do, what it suffers, and how it survives.”
—Julia Phillips, bestselling author of Bear and Disappearing Earth

Author bio:

Stephanie Reents is the author of The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and I Meant to Kill Ye, a bibliomemoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. She has twice received an O. Henry Prize for her short fiction. Reents received a BA from Amherst College, where she ran on the cross country team all four years; a BA from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; and an MFA from the University of Arizona. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

We are excited to host PSB Fiction Book Club! Third Mondays from 5:30-6:30 pm.

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

MTG Nights at Paulina Springs

5 pm, Booster Draft begins at 5:15pm

Come play Scrabble with us!

Beginning Sunday, November 5th, we’ll be hosting a Sunday Scrabble Club. Every Sunday at 11am, come hang out at the store, drink coffee, play Scrabble, and meet other word nerds! Boards and dictionaries will be provided and players are encouraged to use North American Scrabble Players Association Rules. Eventually, we hope to run months long leagues and tournaments with prizes!

Join Partners In Care for our first community book club! This book club is free and open to anyone in the community and will be held the second Wednesday of each month from 10 – 11 am at Paulina Springs Books.

Partners In Care will provide books to everyone attending. October’s book will be There Are Rivers In The Sky by Elif Shafak.

If you are interested, kindly RSVP so the appropriate number of books can be ordered! You can RSVP by calling the Book Club leader Bethany Benefield at (541) 706-0567 or by emailing communityevents@partnersbend.org

Bethany Benefield, the book club leader, is the Partners In Care Transitions Coordinator for the Redmond and Sisters communities, where she is dedicated to supporting medically fragile folks and their families. With a background as a licensed Community Health Worker and a B.S. in Social Entrepreneurship, she is passionate about promoting equity and empowering others. Outside of her work, Bethany enjoys spending quality time with her husband and two children, nurturing her lifelong love of reading, and sharing her enthusiasm with those around her.

About Partners In Care:

Partners In Care has been serving Central Oregon for over 45 years as the region’s leading and most trusted nonprofit hospice, home health, and palliative care provider, redefining hope for our community since the beginning.

We provide care to communities throughout Deschutes, Crook, and Jefferson counties. Our largely mobile workforce of over 200 employees serves patients and their families in a 10,000 square mile area. Nearly 200 local volunteers work with Partners In Care in fundraising, resource coordination, and other areas of community support.

As the name Partners In Care suggests, our multi-disciplinary team not only serves patients with life-limiting illness and families during a most difficult time, but it’s also a valuable partner with other community resources and organizations, coordinating compassionate care and meeting a broad spectrum of care needs for many population segments.