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joining the Phish shows the only Oregon dates on this year’s tour. Shay Reitan, an employee at the Tourism and hospitality profes› Mill Inn Bed & Breakfast on NW sionals call what’s happening this Colorado Avenue, remembers the week compression: a piling up of spring day when the band Phish special events coupled with a re› a nnounced it w ould play t w o sulting dearth of vacancies among dates in July at the Les Schwab nearly 2,000hotel and motel rooms Amphitheater. in Bend and 3,000 more elsewhere The Bulletin
She watched as empty spaces
in Deschutes County, not includ›
on the online scheduling program for the 10-room Mill Inn filled in one by one. "I was sitting here and literal› ly watched this thing book (the rooms) in an hour," Reitan said.
ing vacation rentals. Professionals note, too, that summer has another It/a months remaining.
"We really see that compression through the middle of August," said Alana Hughson, president It was no isolated incident. and CEO of the Central Oregon Peak tourism season in Cen› Visitors Association. "Coming into
Tourism’s impact onthe local and regional economy Deschutes County tends to draw its largest number of tourists during the summermonths of July and August. Bend is coming off a record summer in 2014, andtourism revenue is poised to grow even higher this year. MONTHLY TRANSIENTROOM TAX COLLECTIONS $1,200,000 .----.--.--› -
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this small Andean nation. He’s been a television star
for more than 30 years, the minister of tourism,
the secretary general of the Andean Community
Since 2013, Ehlers has of Buen Vivir, which
roughly translates to "good living" or, as he prefers, "well-being." With astaff of 3, a$2 million annual budget and a direct line to President
Rafael Correa, Ehlers has the task of trying to in› crease the nation’s sense of contentment.
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The pot industry’s pesticide problem By Kristen Wyatt The Associated Press
DENVER
Microscop›
ic bugs and mildew can destroy a marijuana oper› ation faster than any police
scientists have any reliable
pany’s headquarters on Bend’s north side. Customers in Redmond, Sisters, Terre›
research to help fight the infestations. As legal marijuana moves from basements and backwoods to warehouses
bonne, Black Butte Ranch and Prineville were
and commercial fields, the
tween a truck and a utility pole near the com›
without all services, while customers in Bend and Sunriver lost their BendBroadband phone
mold and spider mites that once ruined only a few
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plants at a time can now
Cindy Tomlinson, associate manager of public relations for parent company TDS Tele›
quickly create a multimil› lion-dollar crisis for grow›
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around 4:30 p.m. Tomlinson said the company began hearing
ers.Some areturning to
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the truck snapped the pole near the intersec› tion of Empire Avenue and Nels Anderson
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Road at around 6 a.m. She said estimates of
how many customers lost services were not available Monday but that the outages affected nearly every BendBroadband customer out›
A 40-year low for startups in Oregon
side of Bend and Sunriver. Crews spent much of the day at the site of
the truck accident, Tomlinson said, splicing together the fiber optic cables that were dam› aged in the morning. T he service i nterruption p r ompted t h e
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spokesman David House said the Bend offices alsoexperienced a briefpower failure around
By Greg Stiles
the time of the crash. "If we don’t have network connections with our computers, we can’t do business," House
Medford Mail Tribune
MEDFORD
said. Tomlinson said it’s not yet clear why damage to a single utility pole would cause such wide› spread interruption to services and that Bend› Broadband crews would begin investigating BendBroadband operates on a "case-by› casebasis"when considering providing cred-
been the State Secretary
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BendBroadband customers across Central
time presi› at 69, Ehlers is embarking on what might be his most ambitious job yet: making the country happier.
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Oregon lost cable, Internet and phone services Monday morning, the result of a collision be›
that question once repairs are completed.
Ehlers
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crop has been illegal for so long, neither growers nor
and a two› dential can› didate. Now,
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2014
Source: Central Oregon Visitors Association
shut down DMV offices in Bend, Redmond, Prineville and Madras at noon Monday. ODOT
QUITO, Ecuador For decades, Freddy Ehlers has been ubiquitous in
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from customers who lost service shortly after
By Jim Wyss
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$600,000›
com, reported allservices were restored at
Ecuador is putting a premiumon happiness
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raid. And because the
ventional wisdom suggests getting married later in life reduces the risk of divorce. But if you wait too long, the risk starts to rise. A3
EDITOR'5CHOICE
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increase in transient room tax revenue
• Accident temporarily cuts service tomanyBendBroadband customers inCentral Oregon, and shutsdown 4 DMVoffices By Scott Hammers
Michael Bolton yes, that Michael Bolton is trying to save Detroit. bentibulletin.corn/extras
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$1,000,000 .
tral Oregon is here, and this week the week of the 17th of August, seems like the dimax, with a mul› things will lighten up a little bit."
tiday horse show and cycling races
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ups and entrepreneurs with an eye on opportunity. So it came as an unset› tling surprise this spring
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A crane holds a broken utility pole as BendBroadband employees, background, work to restore internet, phone and cable service after a truck hit the pole at Empire
the recessionary dedines are over, but that not much progress has been made in terms of regaining lost ground," wrote Josh Lehner, a senior economist at the
Economic Analysis Office.
See Startups /A5
Avenue andNels Anderson Road, near the company's headquarters,on Monday.
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