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Juniper Ridge plans refined
further; open house for public
in April
At a presentation at Wednesday’s
Bend City Council meeting, the
New York-based consulting firm
that is doing master planning
for Juniper Ridge – Cooper,
Robertson and Partners – showed
councilors a refined version of
preliminary plans they presented
to the council last month. The
1,500 acres would include two
retail “town centers,” with
residential areas around the
centers. The public will have a
chance to comment on the plans
on April 4, when the consultants
will hold an open house to show
off their plans. In other
action, the council voted to
spend nearly $1 million to begin
building a maintenance facility
for Bend Area Transit at the
city’s public works complex just
south of Pilot Butte.
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Want to be a Bend city
councilor? Here’s how
During Wednesday’s meeting, the
Bend City Council agreed to an
appointment process to fill the
vacancy left by John Hummel, who
resigned on March 1. Interested
individuals should fill out a
city application and return it
to City Hall no later than 5
p.m. on March 21. The council
will interview applicants on
March 30. Applicants must be:
Qualified electors under the
Oregon Constitution and be
residents within the city limits
of Bend for at least 12 months
prior to taking office. The
individual appointed to this
vacancy will serve until Dec.
31, 2008. The city council is
the policy and contract review
board for the city of Bend and
serves as the Bend Urban Renewal
Agency, the urban renewal board
for the city. Applications will
be available at City Hall,
located at 710 NW Wall Street,
and can be downloaded from the
city’s web site at
www.ci.bend.or.us beginning
Monday, March 12. For more
information, contact City
Recorder Patricia Stell at
388-5517.
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Chackel, Hollern honored for
community service
Bend Chamber Board Chairman
Chuck Chackel, the owner and
chief executive officer of
Combined Communications, Inc.,
and Brooks Resources Chairman
and CEO Mike Hollern were
recently honored with “2007
Greatness Awards” by the Special
Olympics Oregon 2007 State
Winter Games. The group said
Chackel’s “locally owned media
group reflects his passion for
supporting the community through
its many sponsorships and
support of philanthropic and
charitable efforts in Central
Oregon.” Hollern, the group
said, “ranks as one of Oregon’s
outstanding executives and
philanthropists. His
contributions, both
philanthropic and civic, to his
Central Oregon home are too
numerous to list entirely. …”
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Opinions varied on update of
state “bottle bill”
Our most recent survey question
was, “Should Oregon’s ‘bottle
bill’ be expanded to include
most drink containers and raise
the deposit on each container to
a dime? Opinions were mixed.
Some responses:
“Absolutely we should revise the bottle bill. If all
glass, metal and plastic
beverage containers had
deposits, there would be less
trash on the side of the roads.
And raising the deposit to 10
cents would give more incentive
to return containers. The
highways are starting to look
like they did pre-bottle bill.”
“Instead of adding additional hassle and cost to
merchants and consumers, why not
instead get rid of the bottle
bill and expand mandatory
curbside recycling? The bottle
bill made much more sense in
1971 before the days of curbside
recycling.”
“The legislation would be much more palatable if the
additionally recommended cans
and bottles could be readily
recycled at local stores to
reclaim the dime deposit, as can
be done with some cans and
bottles. However, there are many
bottles and cans for which we
pay a nickel deposit today that
cannot be recycled at local
grocery stores to recoup the
current nickel deposit, and
adding to the list would be
unacceptable.”
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“Hope for a Healthy Oregon” tour
coming to Bend Saturday
Oregon senators Alan Bates and
Ben Westlund are traveling the
state to talk about legislation
they have introduced and how
they expect it to lower health
care costs, cover everyone and
increase accountability for
health care dollars. Their “Hope
for a Healthy Oregon” tour is
coming to Bend on Saturday, and
will be held from 10 a.m. to
noon this Saturday in classroom
E at St. Charles Medical Center,
2500 NE Neff Rd. The public is
invited. Questions?
josh@politicalstaffer.com,
tel. 503-508-5868 or
www.hopeforhealthyoregon.com.
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Daylight savings time coming
early this year
Because of an energy bill passed
by the U.S. Congress and signed
by President Bush, daylight
savings time comes three weeks
earlier than usual – in this
case, 2 a.m. this Sunday, March
11. Standard time will return at
2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4. Hawaii
and Arizona do not follow
daylight savings time, but the
entire state of Indiana now will
observe it as part of the new
legislation. About 70 countries
in the world observe daylight
savings time.
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This week’s survey question
Does early daylight savings time
make any difference to your
company? Please e-mail your
responses to:
jeff@bendchamber.org.
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