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Originally Posted by Phil Yearout
Hey, Bend, Oregon! I have a niece and a nephew there, and their folks just moved there last summer.
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Originally Posted by Fred Preston
Last I spent time in Bend was 50 years ago when Louie Selkin, the Deschutes County District Attorney at the time, hired me as the County's first deputy DA. Things are a little different now.
Semper Fi
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Phil;
Bend used to be a great place to live when I was a kid and there were only ten thousand people here the two big mills and several smaller ones kept people in beans and deer hunting and fishing, the best you could hope for, supplied the meat. Now we boast that we have nearly eighty-one thousand no mills and the fishing and hunting are poor at best. So much for progress. We meet many people that want to move here but we tell them they had better bring lots of money as a small house will set them back $350,000 to $500,000 the taxes are high and the wages low.
Fred;
I knew Louie Selkin, nice guy, he was voted out because he didn't know how to run a good campaign for office. We've had several since him some pretty good some not so. Sorry I don't remember you, I was with Bend P.D. for twenty-five years, retired in 1999.