Partners Doug Ritchie and Jim Prehoda opened Vitela Health of Central Oregon at the beginning of January in the plaza next to Cascade Lakes Brewery. With a passion for creating a healthier community, the two men brought the first commercial Bod Pod to Bend to provide the most accurate body composition measuring system available.

Tribal Workforce Joins Construction Team for New Broadband Hub

One of the many positive spin-off benefits flowing from the building of the new Warm Springs Telecom’s central office and customer service center on tribal lands was the opportunity to employ local people on the project, says Kirby Nagelhout Construction Company Project Manager Hodge Kerr.

FWhile family businesses are responsible for more than half the jobs in the U.S., a lot has changed in their world over the past few years. With less revenue and a tight economy, many business owners have had to lay off numerous employees and increased their own hours just to keep the company doors open. And in the family owned business, founders have had their plans put aside and foregone an expected retirement; some family members have joined the company to keep it afloat (or just to keep working if they were laid off from another job) and others who thought their time had come to head the company now realize that it might be another ten years before that occurs.