Source Weekly

Since it's still evident that business owners and their employees like to park close to their businesses in the downtown area – using spaces that paying customers could utilize – I think I have some possible solutions. The old Mt. Bachelor lot on Simpson and Colorado is abandoned, so I would suggest that any customers wanting to eat, shop or avail themselves of service businesses in downtown Bend park in the old Mt. Bachelor lot and be bussed to downtown Bend via a shuttle (Bend Area Transit bus).
Another alternative would be for customers to park in an Old Mill District lot and be shuttled downtown. The City of Bend would actually pay rent to Bill Smith, developer of the Old Mill District, on a monthly basis and that cost would be “eaten” by the City.

Just a quick note to all the HR managers out there who are swamped of late with applications from a record number of unemployed people, like myself. I know you aren’t supposed to ask an applicant's age and you really don’t have to when you can look at their work history and see they’ve worked every day of their life since 1970.
But I’m afraid some unfair assumptions are being made about us more mature job seekers. Like we’re “set in our ways” and you can’t train us.

I believe I’ve seen short pieces in the Source from folks thanking others for their kindness when out and about. I hope you think this qualifies, as I want to thank this individual again and publicly:
I love the Barenaked Ladies, however, buying tickets wasn’t in the cards, so I went to the concert in hopes of finding a spot to listen. I found a spot near the entrance. Just as the band came out, the most incredible random act of kindness occurred. This fellow came up with a ticket in his hand and looked up as I was standing on the rock wall.He said he’d been looking for someone to give his ticket to and I was the one! I was so speechless that I’m not sure I even thanked him! The concert was great fun and I hope he sees this and knows how thrilled I was and still am!

I think it’s great that we are all having democratic discourse regarding the geese problem across our town’s newspapers and media outlets. On both sides of the issue, all seem to agree on the fact that the geese are largely here in unnatural numbers because people feed them. Numerous articles and letters to the editor have been written asking people to adhere to common sense (that comes to most of us naturally) and not feed the ducks and geese. This, along with the letter to the editor last week by Ms. Schulz highlighting how 2 ignoramus parents helped their kids to catch frogs at a lake and drag them home in zip lock bags, made me realize that most of the people who would feed geese or suffocate wildlife in zip lock bags are either illiterate, stupid, or both and unfortunately, aren’t reading newspapers and getting the message. While I was personally in favor of thinning the geese herd, perhaps a better and more efficient campaign might just be to kill the dumb people.

I just love Bend yearround. During the summer, let’s use our signals at the roundabouts, slow down passing the visiting bike tours, please keep your dog on a leash, and please try to remember this is high fire season, so use your ashtray in your car. For all the locals, remember we have two seasons here: winter we love and only 6 weeks of summer so smile, smile, smile at the tourists.