Category: Local

How Do You Handle Bend’s Roundabouts?

If you’re looking for something to give to your out-of-town friends that will help them manage the city’s foreseeable 10,000 roundabouts, print up and give them this handy guide.

On a side note, Chris sent me a high-resolution version of this formatted to fit a tri-fold brochure. I’m going to print up a few of them on some tri-fold card stock here and run them through our color laser printer here at the office. If you want to pass them around, feel free to download the ten-megabyte 600-DPI PDF here (on my server, as I didn’t want to kill Chris’ site — and no, zipping the file didn’t decrease the file size enough to make it worth the trouble).

If you need a brochure, and are out in the Sunriver area, let me know and I’ll print one up for you!

January 24, 2006

Somebody Had Some Serious Munchies

I think the picture in this story says it all:

KLAMATH FALLS – Two Klamath Falls 19-year-olds and two juveniles were arrested by Oregon State Police, who found about $1,000 worth of stolen chips, beef jerky, sunflower seeds and dip stuffed in their car’s trunk and rear seat. The trooper allegedly caught the four unloading snacks from the second of two delivery vans they stole.

That’s some serious munchies, man…

Thanks Barn for the link.

January 17, 2006

Want To Make A Few Bucks?

If anybody locally is looking for work, read on, as I’ve gotten wind of a few jobs (some freelance, some full time) around here that might interest some folks.

  • The company I work for is looking for a full-time front desk reservationist. It’s a fast-paced vacation rental company in Sunriver (it’s actually fairly slow right now, but we’re trying to get people on and trained before it gets crazy later this year). The people here are great and a fun bunch to work for. It’s a small, family run company, and the sooner we hire somebody, the sooner I can quit working the front desk and get to the rest of my projects [grin]. Anyway, to copy our Bulletin ad copy, you must be able to prioritize, have outstanding communication skills, strong work ethic, exceptional customer service and basic computer knowledge. Must be willing to work weekends. Shifts will vary from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. $9.00 hour, will vary based on qualifications. Complete application at Sunray Vacation Rentals, 56890 Venture Lane, Sunriver, OR 97707, or mail resume to P.O. Box 4518, Sunriver, OR 97707. You may also e-mail resume to [email protected].
  • Another Sunriver vacation rental company (who shall remain nameless right now, but I’m good friends with the owner and it’s a company we work with quite a bit) is looking for a marketing/Web person. They’re not looking for a die-hard computer geek, as they have that, but they’re looking for a person who knows a lot about Web and print marketing and design, and can troubleshoot minor technical issues if need be. If you’re remotely interested, e-mail me at [email protected] and I’ll put you in contact with the right people.

January 17, 2006

There’s A Robber On The Loose

A ski-mask robber made a couple stops last night, and, reading the story, it looks like he may have been involved in other robberies in the past. But I think the crime will be easily solvable as I think Chris has found an undesputable pattern in the robberies: it’s all about the fake cheese.

January 17, 2006

“I Paid $60 for These Stupid Chains And They Don’t Even Work!”

We got a bit of snow locally last night (man it feels good to be able to link someplace again — thanks, Barney!). I came to the office and there was about five inches on the ground with a sheet of ice underneath, and the tourists around here were panicking, many of them were worried they wouldn’t be able to get out of their driveways on the last day of this holiday weekend (it’s not that awful — just take it slow).

But the most entertaining thing I’ve seen in a while has to be a little sedan I followed out of Sunriver. When you’re exiting Sunriver’s main entrance, there’s a ever-so-slight incline and people frequently slip a bit there as the stop sign is at the top of the slope. I came up behind a car with chains on that was really struggling to get out of there, front wheels spinning away.

There was just one slight problem: His chains were on the back wheels, and he was in a front-wheel drive car.

The license plate was from California, and I’m sure the guy has never driven in this kind of weather before, but I’m sure he’s swearing up a storm.

January 16, 2006

Sweet Cargo Van For Sale

If you’re in the need of a cargo van to haul around your stuff, I don’t think you can get any better than the one Simone has for sale. The quick specs:

Model: 4×4 Ford E250 Cargo Van (four-wheel drive conversion done by Quigley Motor Company)

Year: 1997

Miles: 118,000

Color: White

Engine: Triton V-8, 5.4 liter

Transmission: Automatic w. Overdrive

Freebies: 4 Thule roof racks, worth $400, and a set of nice American Racing Aluminum Alloy 17″ rims that fit the van.

Price: $15,000 $14,000 obo

The thing is in great shape, and well worth the price for a workhorse. E-mail Simone for more information, or check out the pictures on her site.

(And if you do e-mail her, tell her you saw the ad on this site, so she knows I sent her the traffic, as I’m trying to help her unload the van.)

January 14, 2006

Raffle To Win 2006 Red Porsche Boxster for a Great Cause

Central Oregon Battering And Rape Alliance (COBRA) is an (unfortunately) vital organization that does much-needed work for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in the tri-county Central Oregon area and they need your support. They’re holding a raffle to win a brand new, 2006 Porsche Boxster from Carrera Motors here in Bend.

Tickets are $45 and they’re only selling 2000 tickets, so you’ve got a pretty good chance of winning. The drawing will be held on February 14th at 5:00 pm at Carrera Motors (who is helping us sponsor the raffle). You do not need to be present to win, you do not need to live in Oregon to win, but you must be 18 years or older to purchase a ticket.

For more information, contact COBRA at (541) 382-9227.

Thanks Cheryl for the information!

Editor’s Note: If anybody reading this wins, they have to drive me to work in the thing a couple times, just for fun. I think that notice in the official rules somewhere, right?

January 11, 2006

I Am Snarky Bend

He lies, I Am Snarky Bend.

(Inspiration)

January 11, 2006

KTVZ Debuts New Site

It’s at NewsChannel21.com (Barney says ktvz.com will redirect there, too, when they get the email address at that domain all setup properly so that when they move things it doesn’t bulldoze them).

Thoughts? Quick impressions (I’m nursing a bit of a cold, so can’t really dig through it too much) are that is obviously far better than their site before (which wasn’t really a site), the design isn’t half-bad, and it doesn’t have any annoying pop-ups like other local media outlets. So…so far so good.

Meanwhile, I’m going to get some Nyquil and go to bed, but feel free to discuss….

January 10, 2006

Anybody Have A Hookup On A Good Bend Home Rental?

My sister and brother-in-law are apparently getting booted out of the place they’re renting in the Providence subdivisions in Northeast Bend. The owner of the home has decided that he’s going to sell it, and he’s probably going to be asking far too much for them to be able to afford to buy it from them. He’s given them 30 days to get out of there, which means they have to move somewhere else.

Looking on RentBend (will be looking at the Bulletin later tonight), there’s just not a lot out there for median income folks who are renting but need a three-bedroom (or larger, as they have three kids) with a pet-allowed (they have a cat) home. Their credit is recovered after a bankruptcy many years ago, but Bend’s home prices and the interest rates are certainly not supportive of folks who make normal wages (unless you were lucky enough to get in before the boom like my wife and I did). You can’t buy a home for less than $220,000 here, unless it’s on wheels.

Anybody have some leads on a private homeowner who is looking for some renters, and might be open to a rent-to-own arrangement? Contact me at utterlyboring [-at-] gmail [-dot-] com.

January 9, 2006