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Shame on the Bend Downtowners. They completely misled us into paying $5 to get into NOTHING! My friends and I stood in a long line and handed over our $5 each for the privilege to walk through a filthy, sweltering hot tent ONLY to pay more if we wanted a beer or food, AND we couldn’t get anywhere near to watch the wienie dog races.

Why didn’t they just ask us to donate $5 to the Downtowners? We would have been quite happy to support the effort in exchange for a fun afternoon, BUT to rip us off like they did was beyond dishonest!

Marylou Hansen

This article appears in Oct 2-8, 2008.

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Downtowners Pulled a Fast One

by Eric Flowers, The Source - Bend, Oregon
October 1, 2008

<h1>Downtowners Pulled a Fast One</h1> <p class="byline">by Eric Flowers, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />October 1, 2008</p> <p>Shame on the Bend Downtowners. They completely misled us into paying $5 to get into NOTHING! My friends and I stood in a long line and handed over our $5 each for the privilege to walk through a filthy, sweltering hot tent ONLY to pay more if we wanted a beer or food, AND we couldn&#039;t get anywhere near to watch the wienie dog races.</p> <p>Why didn&#039;t they just ask us to donate $5 to the Downtowners? We would have been quite happy to support the effort in exchange for a fun afternoon, BUT to rip us off like they did was beyond dishonest!</p> <p>Marylou Hansen</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/downtowners-pulled-a-fast-one-2131930/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=14300&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/downtowners-pulled-a-fast-one-2131930/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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