Redmond

Yeah, so I am the executive director at Brightside Animal Center.

We're located in Redmond, Oregon, which is pretty central Oregon.

Yeah, so we adopt out usually around 1,500 animals per year.

This year, I think it's going to end up being a bit more.

He's a third-generation Central Oregon small business owner, and he's a community leader who knew how to bring people together.

And as the chair of the Redmond School Board throughout the pandemic, he built consensus to implement the science of reading.

He oversaw budgets, contract negotiations, and bond oversight.

He focused on delivering results for students and families.

He's been a longtime supporter of local nonprofits, veterans, and community organizations, and he and his wife, Allie, are raising four daughters in Redmond, giving them a deeply personal stake in Oregon's future.

And now as a candidate for Oregon House District 53, he's bringing real-world business experience, proven leadership, and commitment to practical solutions to Central Oregon.

Please welcome to the show, Michael Summers.

I also am a father of four girls.

Yeah.

Not immediately close to Antelope and where Rajneeshpuram is, but if you go from Antelope about another 18 to 20 miles or so back towards a town called Madras, Madras, Terrebonne, Prineville, Bend, and Redmond.

There are vineyards in those areas.

In fact, they've made an application to the federal government for an AVA called Deschutes, a Deschutes AVA that'll have a lot of those wineries in it.

Proverbs chapter 9 verse 10 reads, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

At the Feast of Tabernacles in Redmond, Oregon, where we were, the festival coordinator, Mr. Slocum, began the first evening by talking about the fear of the Lord, then led into the second service, the first service on the first day, And he read Deuteronomy 14, 23, where the last part of that verse describes the Feast of Tabernacles.

And it says that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always.

The Feast of Tabernacles itself is an exercise, a reminder.

Yes, they have.

I live in Redmond, Oregon, which is right next to Bend.

Don't blame guns.

The blame is all our governors.

We don't know how many are injured and we don't know how he got into the school.

And I don't know that they're going to tell you that on this press conference.

We also know that this is going to be really hard for Bend and Redmond and Lapine and all of Central Oregon because it all feeds into Bend.

And so we need to be praying for those people.

And, uh, about a year after that happened, our lease was up in Bend and our rent was gonna double.

Uh, so it didn't really make sense to stay in Bend, so we've recently just moved to Redmond, Oregon, uh, where rent's a little bit more affordable and-

and-We're not running a tasting room right now.

We're just kinda getting set up and are gonna be focusing on more special events, doing some paired beer dinners, and, uh, distribution in our ale club.

Um, and we kept all the equipment and are keeping our process.

And even though we've been on a bit of a hiatus, I've been, uh, keeping our house culture going that, you know, has been in use since the brewery started in 2011.

So we're, you know, the brewery's gonna change, and we're gonna have a change in our water profile a little bit moving to Redmond, but we're keeping our unique process.

I like that.

Right.

And so I always, I love to hear the story about what became, how you became a duck and the process, you know, what got you down to Eugene from Redmond?

Yeah, there's a couple of things.

My story is definitely, you know, I don't think there's many that have had the same path as me.

basketball was definitely my worst sport, but it helped me probably the best with my feet, you know, being a big guy, so I would, basketball actually probably saved me, to be honest, but, you know, baseball, I kind of, you know, I had two cousins that ended up having really good baseball careers, and so maybe I was dumb to go after football, if I would have known that could have played out the way it did, but I chose football, and football was my love, and And so I kind of made a decision to sit out a couple seasons.

So I actually sat out the 1998 football season and the 1999 football season, and I gained 50 pounds.

Worked at a titanium casting plant there in Redmond, Oregon, that my dad was the head millwright at.

And I just worked my ass off, to be honest with you, for a couple years, and I put on 60 pounds.