Marc Vogel has carved out a nice life for himself. The native San Franciscan is a private chef, but he's not chained to the kitchen of, say, a movie star or a land baron who demands truffles and eggs at 4 in the morning. He's a traveling toque blanche who cooks by invitation only for royalty, presidents of foreign countries, corporate chieftains and owner chefs at marquee restaurants worldwide. On the road seven to eight months ... [full story]

Robin Henderson, Psy.D., Director of Behavioral Health Services for Cascade Healthcare Community, was recently elected to the governing council for the American Hospital Association’s Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services.   Dr. Robin Hender, Psy.D. of Bend, Oregon In her role on the council, Dr. Henderson will represent hospitals throughout the nation to help provide better guidelines for providers of mental health services nationwide. She will serve a three-year term, and will be participating in the federal legislative ... [full story]

West Coast Representatives, Senators Urge House and Senate to Fund Disaster Aid for Salmon Fishers U.S. Congressman Peter DeFazio and several other representatives and Senators yesterday introduced legislation in the House and Senate that would provide $60.4 million in disaster aid for the commercial salmon fishers and communities hard hit by the virtual closure of the coastal salmon fishing season. They also sent a letter to House and Senate leadership requesting their assistance in getting ... [full story]

Oregon employers are now required to report fatal work-related motor vehicle accidents to Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under recently updated safety and health rules that took effect on January 1. Motor vehicle accidents nationally represent one-quarter of the total for workplace deaths. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, motor vehicle deaths on the job rose 2 percent in the United States during 2005. Motor vehicle accidents have been the leading ... [full story]

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials announced earlier this week the agency has awarded a monitoring contract to MaxDepth Aquatics, Inc. of Bend, Oregon to oversee monitoring of Diamond Lake throughout the year. Joseph Eilers, principal scientist for this project and owner of MaxDepth Aquatics, and a team of engineers and scientists will monitor water quality and document recovery of zooplankton and bottom-dwelling organisms that will support the future trout fishery. A hydrodynamic model ... [full story]

Bachelor Butte Internal Medicine, located on Bend's Westside, is a medical practice that puts many common complaints of doctors’ appointments to rest and improves the patient-doctor relationship.  Many of the common reasons patients dislike visiting a doctor’s office are related to how they must spend their time waiting.  At Bachelor Butte Internal Medicine (BBIM), time is managed from a patient's point of view, which is difficult to achieve in a typical medical office. Currently, many ... [full story]

The Les Schwab Tire Centers Board of Directors announced recently that the company will provide a grant of $50,000 to help support the continued economic health and prosperity of the Prineville and Crook County community. The funds will be earmarked for multi-year support of a new, local economic development program being developed by a private-public partnership that includes the Prineville/Crook County Chamber of Commerce, area businesses, Crook County, the City of Prineville and Economic Development ... [full story]

For Mireille Gingras, the road to China's up-and-coming life science community is very much a two-way street. Unlike many U.S. biotechs and pharmaceutical companies that are setting up shop there to take advantage of cheap research labor and manufacturing, Gingras' San Diego-based Huya International is working with Chinese universities and fledgling biotechs to license promising Chinese drug candidates and bring them to the U.S. for further development.   TOP STOP - Scott Southwood, a scientist at ... [full story]

Strictly Organic Coffee Company made two big business decisions recently; to open a retail shop at 6 SW Bond in Bend and to begin buying Blue Sky renewable energy from Pacific Power. For seven years, Strictly Organic has maintained a loyal, wholesale customer base by selling Certified Fair Trade and Organic coffees to consumers, restaurants and grocery stores. Now the company is greening its power as well as its beans.   Strictly Organic Coffee Company is located ... [full story]

Elliot Saks is a first-generation New Yorker, second-generation merchant prince in the luggage trade, purveyor of travel bags to A-list movie and TV stars - but he'd give up his fame and fortune in the baggage business in a heartbeat for a Mets uniform and a spot in the lineup as a starting pitcher. "I tried out for the Mets three times and at 49 years old, I'm still trying," he says. Instead, he hangs ... [full story]

Horizon Family Solutions, nationally-recognized as one of the most effective family-focused educational consulting and child rights advocacy firms in the United States, welcomes Deb Carstens as the Bend, Oregon Regional Director. Deb has been working behind the scenes for several months and will now be joining HFS full time as of January 1, 2007. HFS is an Educational Consulting organization with over 10 years experience in educational consulting and preparing intervention plans with families for ... [full story]

ODS Will Share Space with Western Title & Escrow Company The ODS Companies (ODS) recently announced that it has secured property in Bend to develop a new multi-use office building. ODS signed a Memorandum of Understanding in mid-December with joint venture partners Gerding/Edlen Development Company and Western Title & Escrow Company to purchase the property from owners George Slape and Al Owen. The site, an undeveloped parcel of land located in the Old Mill District ... [full story]

Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) recently earned nine awards for its color printers and multifunction products from two leading independent test and research organizations - bringing its total number of worldwide product awards this year to 208. In its 2007 Color Copier Guide, Better Buys for Business, a leading industry authority on office imaging equipment, awarded five top "Editor's Choice" designations to the Xerox WorkCentre™ 7132, WorkCentre 7655 and WorkCentre 7665 color multifunction systems, along with ... [full story]