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Effective Time Management
By Monica Wheeler
Abundant Life Coaching
Time is one of the world’s most precious commodities.
We are always researching ways to create more of it, to
manage it wisely and to not waste a single second. I am
no expert on managing time wisely, but I was once the
authority on how to best waste it.
When my daughter was in preschool, I had a lot of time
on my hands. There were only so many walks I could take
her on or hours at the playground and preschool was only
a few days per week. I was stuck at home with a
four-year-old and a house to take care of, so I became
entrenched in the great American time waster—soap
operas.
I would also fold clothes and cook while doing this,
but really, what a complete waste of time. I could have
written another book in those hours that I wasted away
watching the pathetic and superficial lives of fictional
characters.
I am much better now and get a lot done on a daily
basis, but I don’t spend much time watching “bad”
television. If I do watch television, I tend to choose
something educational. If you ever start complaining
about not having enough hours in the day, take an
inventory on just how many hours you spend watching
meaningless sitcoms or the depressing news, playing
mindless video games, or surfing the net. It may be
more than you think.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe has a perfect quote, “We
always have enough time, if we but use it all right.” I
believe this is true. We have enough time to accomplish
whatever is necessary in this world, but that may mean
getting up a little earlier, going to bed a little
later, or skipping that Seinfeld rerun or hours at the
local neighborhood bar and grill.
With that being said, it is equally important to take
time to just “be”. Not every hour needs to be
productive. I get a lot of recharging done on my daily
walks or soaking in the tub. I do my best thinking at
these times. As the world gets faster and faster, you
need to pace yourself and slow down. Take yourself out
of the “rat race” once in awhile for self reflection and
peace of mind.
Praise shouldn’t always be given to those who get the
most done in an hour, but to those who become the most
in an hour. And that is the most productive use of time
management there is.
If you want more individualized coaching I can be
reached at 541-383-2464 or by emailing
coachmonica@hotmail.com.
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Cascade Telecommunications Announces Buy Back Program
Cascade Telecommunications, Inc., an industry
leader in telecommunications, has launched a Buy
Back Program, a new component of the Current
Technology Assurance Plan
(C-TAP). The Buy Back Program embedded in C-TAP
gives Cascade Telecommunications the ability to
offer cash back to a customer for their existing
communications system. By taking advantage of
this unique opportunity, companies will enjoy
all of C-TAP’s benefits, while reinvesting the
money they receive from Cascade
Telecommunications and their strategic partner
GreatAmerica Leasing Company, back into their
business. Information: 388-5158 or
www.cascadetel.com.
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New Valet Service Begun From Newport Avenue to
Downtown
Bend
Valet has begun a new valet parking service from
Newport Avenue to downtown Bend. The business
will provide curbside pickup and delivery of
vehicles on Newport across from N.W. Brooks
Street. Information: 610-9200 or
www.bendvalet.com.
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Homes, Businesses joining Blue Sky Program
Over the past year, Bend and its community of
businesses and residents have demonstrated a
strong commitment to renewable energy. Pacific
Power’s Blue Sky renewable energy program
provides an easy way for individuals, business
owners and even city governments to support
renewable energy. Eight percent of homes and
businesses in Bend are currently enrolled in the
Blue Sky program. The annual renewable energy
purchases of these 125 businesses and 2,916
residential customers make a big difference,
equal to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by
35,409 tons each year. To learn more about how
your business can support renewable energy visit
www.pacificpower.net/bluesky.
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Sun Country Opens Whitewater Rafting Season
Sun Country Raft Tours has opened its 29th
season of whitewater rafting adventures.
Optimal river flows and wonderful spring weather
have initiated the opening date. Trip offerings
range from three-hour adventures to all-day
excursions on the Deschutes, North Umpqua and
McKenzie rivers of Oregon. For more information
on Sun Country Tours, please visit us online at
www.suncountrytours.com or phone us at
541-382-6277 or outside Central Oregon at
800.770.2161. As always, waterproof splash gear
is provided to ensure comfort on chilly days.
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Tower Theatre Has New Ticket Office Hours
The Tower Theatre has established new ticket
office hours to better serve the public. New
hours are now from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
weekdays. Ticket purchases and information on
upcoming shows and productions can be obtained
by calling the ticket office at 317-0700.
Tickets and information are also available
online at
www.towertheatre.org.
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Fortune 500 java juggernaut, Starbucks, Inc.,
found Tim Underwood Productions of Bend to be
the perfect conduit/connection to provide audio
production for a recent Web site promotion
titled “I am Starbucks.” The promotion, which is
currently spotlighted on the Starbucks Web site,
features brief audio biographies of several key
members of the global Starbucks family.
Underwood used a phone conference bridge
connected to his recording console to obtain
voice recordings of three distant Starbucks
employees. Bend radio personality and voice
talent Ron Alvarez provided the English
voice-over translation.
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PEOPLE
Mary Anderson, deputy district attorney
for Deschutes County, has been nominated as a
candidate for the National Traffic Safety Award
for Prosecutors. She is the lead lawyer on the
Person Crimes Team for the prosecutor’s office
for Deschutes County’s District Attorney’s
Office.
Wendie Hohman is the May Student of the Month at
Sortor Bushido Kai Karate. She is the operations
manager at D.A. Davidson and a purple belt
student. She is being recognized for her
eternally positive attitude, supportiveness of
her fellow students and the ferocity with which
she attacks her martial arts training.
Greg Phillips, manager of the Bend Municipal
Airport, has earned accreditation as a certified
member of the American Association of Airport
Executives. He has been the Bend Airport manager
for three years and has more than 20 years
experience in aviation and airport management.
Barry Miller has been appointed the new
president of Shelton Turnbull. He has more than
20 years of success in leading medium-sized
companies in the printing and packaging
industries, and has a master’s degree in
management from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Simon McCauley has been hired as customer
service manager at Shelton Turnbull. He has 15
years of experience in the print industry in
Germany and the United Kingdom in customer
service and print procurement.
Shana Slegges, MPT, MDT certified at Healing
Bridge Physical Therapy, attended the Center
Foundations “Current Concepts of the Knee”
course, an overview of current surgical
techniques coupled with appropriate
rehabilitation strategies following surgery.
Information: 318-7041.
Ann Golden Egle, Master Certified Coach and
owner of Golden Visiions Success Coaching, is
the second Oregonian to qualify and be accepted
as a member of the World Business coach
Association. Contact: 385-887,
ann@gvsuccess.com or
www.GVSuccess.com.
Three new providers have joined Central Oregon
Pediatric Associates: Kim Wollmuth, M.D.,
Linda Steiner, M.D., and physician’s
assistant Joeth Ryan, PA-C. Wollmuth is a
graduate of Oregon Health Sciences University
and completed her pediatric residency at the
University of Arizona. Steiner graduated from
University of Iowa College of Medicine and is
certified in pediatric and neonatal advanced
life support. Ryan has a master’s degree from
the University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center’s Child Health Associate/Physician
Assistant Program and has 14 years’ experience.
Jim Birtola and Ruben Garmyn of
Prudential High Desert Realty recently were
named winners of “Top of the Rock,” The Pinnacle
Award, and the Chairman’s Circle Diamond Award
for top residential units in the Unite States
for 2006 by Prudential Real Estate Affiliates,
Inc., a Prudential Financial, Inc., company,
during a sales convention held in San Diego.
Phyllis Mageau has joined NorthWest Crossing as
a real estate broker. She will work with the
team in selling new homes within the
neighborhood. She has nearly 20 years of real
estate experience.
Daniel Schuette of Community First Bank has
completed the Chartered Retirement Plan
Specialist Professional Designation Program. He
heads up Community First Investments.
Herb Arathoon and Brenda Kerr have been
hired at Compass Commercial. Arathoon has
extensive experience in managing large shopping
centers and office buildings. As Property
Manager, he will oversee at least 16 properties.
Kerr is responsible for the daily management of
a portfolio of commercial properties, responding
to tenant questions and coordinating repairs and
maintenance.
Scott Steele, AIA, LEED AP, President of Steele
Associates has been selected as one of 1,000
people to receive the Al Gore Climate Project
Training. In April, he joined other lecture
trainees in Nashville for a two-day program. To
schedule a presentation from Steele, call
382-9867.
Diana Haffner, formerly vice president of sales
for the Bend Chamber, has joined Hire Calling,
Inc., to manage its Bend office at 61383 S.
Highway 97, Suite C. She worked for the Chamber
for 10 years.
Kelly Huber and Todd Wells have been
hired at Sunriver Resort, a Destination Hotels &
Resorts property. Huber is a new convention
services manager, and formerly worked for
Seascape Resort in Santa Cruz, Calif. Wells has
been named director of corporate sales. He has
12 years of experience in hospitality sales and
convention management and most recently was
director of national sales for The Broadmoor in
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Allison Suran, PT, GCFP, and Susie Sagnimeni,
LPTA, of Healing Bridge Physical Therapy,
recently attended a course for Functional
Rehabilitation of the Cervical and Lumbosacral
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BUSINESSES
Les Schwab Tire Centers has selected the
Bend Certified Public Accounting firm of Jones &
Roth to perform an audit of the company’s
employee retirement profit sharing plan. The
audit will be led by Gary Kronmiller, a partner
and shareholder of Jones & Roth.
Cascade Bancorp has been named No.12 in the nation
among top 200 mid-tier banks by US Banker
Magazine, a financial industry trade journal.
Cascade Bancorp is the leading Northwest bank in
the survey.
Cascade Telecommunications, Inc., received the
“Platinum Award” from the Technology Assurance
Group for exceptional economic performance and
superior customer satisfaction at the group’s
recent national convention in San Diego.
Mid Oregon Credit Union began a year-long
commemoration of its 50th anniversary at its
annual meeting at the new Riverhouse Convention
Center in February.
Brian’s Cabinets has won the Central Oregon
Builders Association “Materials Supplier of
the Year” award. From a two-person shop in 1977,
Brian’s Cabinets now employs more than 106
people in Bend in two facilities totaling more
than 49,000 square feet.
Compass Commercial partners Darren Powderly, CCIM,
and Bruce Kemp, CCIM, have been contracted to
represent the commercial sales and leasing
opportunities on the first 50 acres to be
developed in Juniper Ridge. First sales are
anticipated to occur by the first quarter of
2008.
Pro-Studies, a professional career school in Bend
since 1978, has resumed live instruction
classes. They will begin in the spring term with
an accelerated real estate pre-license course.
Information: 388-1021 or
www.pro-studies.com.
ORGANIZATIONS
Sandra Mears is the new Executive Director of
the Bethlehem Inn. She holds a master’s
degree in non-profit management and has more
than 14 years of non-profit experience. She
moved to Bend from Seattle.
Central Electric Cooperative’s “Green Power”
program has been ranked eighth among the
nation’s public and private utilities, according
to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National
Renewable Energy Laboratory. Also, David
Clemens, a longtime Sisters-area homebuilder,
has been elected chairman of the cooperative’s
board of directors.
Dave Love joined Bend Area Habitat for Humanity
as Executive Director on March 26. He has
extensive experience starting, transforming and
leading organizations with a focus on assisting
at-risk youth. He most recently was director of
Windsor Mountain International, a summer
community service program.
RSVP Read Together in Bend will shop for new books
at Borders Books & Music thanks to donations
made by customers during a holiday fund drive
benefiting First Book, a national nonprofit
organization that has provided more than 35
million books to children in need.
The KIDS Center has four new board members. They
are Jeff Klein, First Vice President and
Financial Consultant at RBC Dain Rauscher, who
serve as vice chair for 2007-08; Dick Donaca, a
CPA with Callan Accounting Services; Rick
Martin, Senior Vice President of Service Lines
and Support Services for Cascade Healthcare
Community; and Dana Horner, Chief Operating
Officer of The Bend Radio Group.
EVENTS
Volunteers are needed for the 31st annual
U.S. Bank Pole Pedal Paddle, to be held on
Saturday, May 19, and the U.S. Bank Kids Mini
Pole Pedal Paddle, on May 20. Contact: 385-1999.
The Central Oregon Battering and Rape Alliance needs
stuffed animals for its annual Cascade
Children’s Festival, to be held from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 21. The festival is
one of the primary fundraising activities at
COBRA. Contact: 382-9227.
The Sterling Savings Bank Bite of Bend
will now be a two-day event, held on Saturday
and Sunday, June 16 and 17, in downtown Bend.
The event is free to the public, and sponsorship
opportunities and restaurant participant space
are available. Contact: 771-0003.
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