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The Bend City Council is poised to decide next week which method to use to treat municipal water from the Bridge Creek watershed.

With the Class 5A girls and boys soccer postseason set to begin, six Central Oregon teams are gearing up for runs at the state championships.Summit’s girls and boys teams earned automatic bids into the state playoffs, and both teams will host first-round games on Tuesday. The Storm girls nearly ran the table during the regular season, finishing with a 14-0-2 record to earn the No. 1 ranking in Class 5A as determined by the Oregon School Activities Association. Summit’s boys, meanwhile, went 12-1-2 and have won their past 11 in a row to land the No.

The 2013 Oregon School Activities Association cross-country state championships take place Saturday at Lane Community College in Eugene, where seven Central Oregon high schools will be represented.Summit’s girls and boys teams will be looking to win their sixth and third straight Class 5A state championships, respectively, and Mountain View will be aiming to break up the Storm’s reign.

On deckTodayFootball: Liberty at Mountain View in Class 5A play-in, 7 p. m.; Summit at Sandy in Class 5A play-in, 7 p. m.; Estacada at Ridgeview in Class 4A play-in, 7 p. m.; Culver at Central Linn, 7 p. m.Volleyball: Philomath at Madras in first round of Class 4A state playoffs, 6 p.

Jake’s Diner is taking reservations for its annual Thanksgiving meal for seniors, which provides a warm meal and entertainment to any senior who does not have family nearby and may otherwise miss out on the holiday celebration.Relying on help from the Central Oregon Council on Aging and an army of volunteers, the diner’s staff will serve a Thanksgiving meal to seniors in need every hour on the hour from noon until 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28. The event will feature performances by local musicians who are volunteering their services as well.

• The Broker Network will celebrate its grand opening from 4-7 p. m. Wednesday. The Portland-based real estate company’s Bend office is located at 505 N. W. Franklin Ave.• Bamboo Salon and Spa will celebrate its grand opening on Thursday from 4-7 p. m. Located at 405 N. E.

Economic Development for Central Oregon has hired a former executive of a Redmond company to head up economic development in the Sisters area, the agency announced Thursday.Caprielle Foote-Lewis, who is scheduled to start work Monday, will manage the recruitment of new companies and help existing ones grow, according to a news release from EDCO.

Engineers from PacifiCorp and the Oregon Water Resources Department began their inspection of the Newport Avenue Dam early Thursday, crawling along the face of the more than 100-year-old dam to search for signs of structural weakness.The inspection comes nearly a month after the discovery of a leak in the dam that quickly dropped water level to about two feet below normal.

CORVALLIS — Bend’s Joel Skotte, a reserve middle linebacker for Oregon State, suffered a concussion Friday night on the opening kickoff of the Beavers’ Pac-12 football game against USC.Skotte, a sophomore and a former Mountain View High School standout, was blocking on OSU’s kickoff return team when he met a USC defender in a helmet-to-helmet collision.